Lavonte David: Most Underrated Linebacker In NFL History + Nebraska Stories w/ Will Compton | BWTB

Summary

Bussin’ With The Boys | Ep. 363 |

Lavonte David: Most Underrated Linebacker In NFL History + Nebraska Stories w/ Will Compton

Release: January 13, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of Bussin’ With The Boys is a mix of classic bus banter and a deep, candid conversation with Lavonte David—veteran linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Nebraska legend, and according to the boys, maybe the most underrated linebacker in NFL history. The show opens with Will Compton, Taylor Lewan, and the crew catching up after a busy travel and gambling-filled playoff weekend, regaling mishaps, hilarious moments, and friend drama. The centerpiece is a wide-ranging, real talk interview with David about his improbable football journey from Miami to JUCO, Nebraska, and the NFL, reflections on what’s left to prove, his stats vs. recognition, and classic college stories with Will. High energy, brotherly roasting, and plenty of honesty throughout.

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Key Topics & Insights

1. Weekend Recap: Gambling, Travel, & Chaos

• Celebrating wins & critiquing greed: The boys recount their recent sports betting adventures in Vegas, including big wins, ensuing losses, and Taylor’s “tunnel of chaos” (06:05).

  "It was my own greed. What are we out here chasing? ... Maybe I need to take a step back on heavy gambling when I'm there by myself."
  —Taylor Lewan, 06:05

• Wild “giveaways” and street fun: The crew did $1,000 street giveaways during their Vegas trip, making for memorable content and moments with unsuspecting fans (09:00).

• Travel logistics gone awry: Will details their cross-country college football game tour, highlighting poor communication in the crew that left them exhausted and missing good meals (17:00-29:54).

2. Nebraska & Football Brotherhood Stories

• Miscommunication with Josh Pate: The boys debate if Pate’s lack of communication about travel plans makes him a “selfish friend,” ultimately concluding the only sin is lack of communication (27:00).

• College football atmospheres: The crew gives a loving look at Nebraska, tough road trips, and football culture, even poking fun at rivalries and classic Nebraska travel meals.

3. Interview: LAVONTE DAVID

A. Early Life & JUCO Survival

• Growing up in Miami: David opens up about being a late varsity starter in a story-filled Miami program packed with future D1 and NFL talent (89:15).

• JUCO nightmares & resilience: Describes quitting on first day at Fort Scott due to “insane” conditioning, being cussed out by coaches, and almost becoming a firefighter before recommitting.

  "4 220s, 16 110s, and 2000s... On the second 220, I passed out... I just basically like, man, this—I'm gone."
  —Lavonte David, 74:17

• Self-recruiting: Reveals he ultimately reached out to schools himself, only learning as a pro about power programs who wanted him (92:55).

B. Nebraska Days & Will Compton Connection

• Climbing the depth chart: David recounts starting as a 4th-stringer in Nebraska's fall camp, only starting after a rash of injuries—including Will’s (101:33).
• Locker room bonds: The guys recall film sessions, off-field antics (catching Lavonte singing R&B), and being each other’s hype men.

C. NFL Career: Underrated Legend

• Decision on coming back (Year 15?):

  "Honestly, truly, I'm not really thinking about football. I'm not. I'm not thinking about retirement. I'm not thinking about playing. ...I took my daughter to school this morning. That felt amazing. So I'm just locked in on that now."
  —Lavonte David, 125:01

• Physical toll & pride: David highlights the grind of 14 NFL seasons, self-doubt with injuries, and not wanting to stick around if he can't play "at a high level" (127:34).

• Recognition vs. reality: Despite epic numbers (1500+ tackles, 40 sacks, 10 INTs—a feat matched only by Ray Lewis), David explains how lack of team success and his position led peers to more All-Pros and Pro Bowls than he ever received.

  "Every time I played on Sunday, I was a factor on the field...I feel like you know when people do go back and look...just shows that, you know, I was an impact when I played the game."
  —Lavonte David, 133:52

• Aspirations:

  "What would I do anything for? I’d do anything to become a first-ballot Hall of Famer, man."
  —Lavonte David, 136:26

• Legacy & Motivation: David was never “the guy” early, didn’t expect help, and always played with a chip on his shoulder.

  "I was hard-headed man...My whole thing was just, you know, I just wanted to have a 2.0 GPA to play football."
  —Lavonte David, 83:02

• Most underrated LB ever?:

  "You might go down as the most underrated football player of all time."
  —Taylor Lewan, 131:03
  Will runs through the rare combo stats, comparing David directly to Ray Lewis.

D. Classic College & Team Stories

• Will and Lavonte share stories: nicknames (“Boogie”), Miami nights, Nebraska “beep tests,” Vine video pranks, Will’s alter-egos.
• Lavonte's “boogie man” persona—a pit bull with a heart—contrasts his quiet, homebody off-field lifestyle.

E. Final Reflections & Hall of Fame Talk

• The boys and Lavonte shout out the greats (Luke Kuechly, Patrick Willis, NaVorro Bowman) and reflect on what makes a difference-maker.
• Lavonte credits the Nebraska years and coaching for shaping his mental game.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Taylor’s Gambling Come-to-Jesus:
  "Maybe I need to learn how to enjoy gambling again. Not just going in like blitzkrieg mode ... Like, let's have a little fun." (09:31)

• Lavonte on JUCO:
  "I had never lost when I was a starter... never thought I'd quit football. ...That whole process just humbled me and helped me understand how important school was." (74:17, 83:02)

• Will on recognizing 'Boogie':
  “He’s got some pit bull tendencies... I always wanted a pit bull… I got one, it was Boogie. So Boogie’s name was Boogie because, you know, a lot of reasons out there, the fellows out there that are breaking that down…” (69:01)

• On motivation:
  “Every time I played on Sunday, I was a factor on the field, and that's the only thing that mattered.” (133:52)

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Key Timestamps

• Weekend/Bets & Travel Recap: 04:06–14:46
• Nebraska game travel stories, Josh Pate drama: 17:00–29:54
• Ray Lewis & Michael Phelps incident: 30:03–36:00
• Nebraska stories / College Football talk: 36:37–48:45
• Comedy, Stand-up recap: 51:49–54:05
• Spicy “Tear Talk” & couple traditions: 59:15–62:35
• Lavonte David interview begins: 65:48
  • First meeting, early career: 66:07–73:26
  • Miami/High school & JUCO grind: 73:26–89:15
  • Nebraska days, breaking through: 99:51–116:32
  • NFL journey, proving himself: 124:41–137:08
• Hall of Fame, legacy, Kuechly/Willis admiration: 137:14–138:14

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Podcast Tone

Loyal, brash, self-deprecating, and caring. The boys joke, roast, and reminisce with real affection, switching seamlessly from jokes about gambling and bodily functions to genuinely moving sports life stories.

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Useful for Listeners

• Chronicles Lavonte David’s overlooked but remarkable football journey, and his mindset after 14 grueling NFL seasons.
• Offers inside perspective on the realities behind athletic recognition, stats, and self-perception.
• Laced throughout are laugh-out-loud moments and the camaraderie that makes Bussin’ With The Boys a unique NFL player-centric podcast.

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Final Word: If you want the raw, hilarious, and heartfelt story of one of the NFL’s most underappreciated legends—both his rise and his values—this episode delivers. “Boogie” David’s humility, competitive fire, and gratitude shine, and the bus is packed with stories only real teammates can tell.

Transcript

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[Levante David]

All right, we're good.

[Will Compton]

Be like busing with the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hanging with the fellas.

[Will Compton]

Betting on a game.

[Taylor Lewan]

No woman's gonna tell us what to.

[Will Compton]

Do and I've been over here just.

[Jared Beeman]

Drinking beer and making that noise baby.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm hanging with the fellas busting with the boys, bro. Good afternoon, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of Busing with the Boys. This is episode 363. Happy to be here. A new year starting fresh and hot. We got a lot of things to talk about in this bus industry before we get to Lante, David. But as always, new year, same presenting sponsor, which is Bus with the Boys is presented by FanDuel, America's number one sportsbook. Wild Car round is in the books. Divisional round matchups are set. We've had some crazy moments and things are just heating up from Here we're officially in playoff mode and so is fanduel. They're making things even better by letting you choose your reward. All FanDuel customers could choose between a no sweat bet or. Or a profit boost. So what are you going to do? You're going to boost the payout over. You're going to boost the pad on over. You're feeling good about, maybe use your no sweat bet and a long shot parlay. Fanduel is putting the power in your hands and the choice is yours. Make sure you head to FanDuel.comBusting on gameday to choose your reward. That's FanDuel.comBussin to choose your reward every round of the NFL playoffs. And do us a favor as well, if you're watching this show, if you could just hit that subscribe button for us, that would be masterful. That'd be extremely helpful because every time you subscribe, it helps us just get better in this world when it comes to the, the media space that we live in. Doesn't hurt you at all, but it helps us a whole lot. Sherman, did you have something?

[Jeremy Klump]

I just think the whole subscribe, resubscribe, unsubscribe thing, it really is one of my favorite parts of this podcast. It does help the podcast and I thank the fans a ton for it.

[Taylor Lewan]

It. That's massive.

[Jeremy Klump]

That was on my heart. I had to get it off.

[Will Compton]

I'm glad you got it off. Yeah, glad tier ones, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's. Let's break down the weekend. All right. Busting with the boys is very busy. Two completely different paths. The boy, Willie C. And a couple of the fellows in the back. You guys jumped over Fiesta bowl and you also went over the peach bowl. Myself, McPherson and Beeman, we went with you guys to Arizona, popped on a quick little Southwest Betty over to Las Vegas, Nevada. Had ourselves in it. A very difficult weekend. Yeah, it was a very difficult weekend. We're not gonna get too in the weeds about it.

[Will Compton]

Is Demon. Demon on a heat? Is Demon on a heater?

[Taylor Lewan]

Demon's up.

[Will Compton]

I mean, again, breaking down like Zany's last week.

[Mitch]

Demon is. He's, he's on a heater.

[Taylor Lewan]

There is. It's Demon month right now.

[Mitch]

Yeah, Zany's into the pj, into Vegas, into the biggest hit of his life. Two thousand dollar bet hit. Dude who's living ginger.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, he's a whiskey ginger savant when he's in Vegas.

[Mitch]

Dude, he was living life.

[Taylor Lewan]

He is, he's, he's got, he's got the Beatrice to show he finishes his cup, and before he puts it down, there's another one right in his hand. Like, he's got everything.

[Will Compton]

I'll have this kid here.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Operating on his life right now. He is crushing it. But, dude, Vegas, the vlog will be coming out very soon. I'm not getting too much of details. Here's what I'll say. We. It was. We won. It could have been a massive win if I wasn't being a greedy little cuck. That's the problem. That's the problem. A greedy little boy. Over. We get there, and I'm just gonna let you know right now, the minute we get there, and the first bet we put down, it was like, bam, like, solo mission and had a. A massive win.

[Will Compton]

It was like a. It was a moment to where we're not. I'm not losing this weekend.

[Taylor Lewan]

It was a moment to that. And it was. It was that coupled with. It's been two months. I'm excited. I get my first set at the table, and it's like, maybe it's just one of those. We've. We've had those weekends before. It's like, kind of can't do anything wrong here. Like, everything we do and then get murdered.

[Mitch]

Well, it started out where we thought.

[Taylor Lewan]

We couldn't do anything wrong, but then that. That time, and then it was like.

[Mitch]

Oh, maybe set the trajectory of. Of failure.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes. And it was no one's fault but mine. It was my own greed. It was my own what, like, what number we gonna hit? What, X, Y, and Z, blah, blah. Like, almost came crashing down and burning on me. It was brutal in a lot of ways. So much so. So much adversity to where I'm, like, reevaluating the way I take on Vegas. I'm a rev. Like, do I go back to only betting big with Dana and sitting with him? Tunnel of chaos. Because I put myself in about 15 tunnels of chaos this weekend.

[Will Compton]

Oh, all right.

[Taylor Lewan]

And I'm just thinking, like, what are we out here chasing? What are we doing?

[Mitch]

You want me to read the text you sent to me and Jared?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Read the time as well.

[Mitch]

At 3:26am That's a.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's That's Vegas time.

[Mitch]

Yeah, Technically Sunday morning, but Saturday night, Taylor sends me and Jared a text while he's five feet from us, but he's at the table. He goes, if we get out of here, back to sea level, I swear to God, I'll change the way I gamble. And he got above it. And then he goes, I'm not changing.

[Taylor Lewan]

The first thing I said. But, dude, I literally like even the Southwest flight home to Nashville, I'm sitting there. Jared's. By the way, me and Jared were sleepy, sleepy boys. I was too. And I tried to catch myself a little bit of shut eye, but Jared came into the middle. Okay. This is completely full flight the way Southwest is doing it now. I wasn't rocking that A1 because I checked in so late. I was like a 16. Oh. End up getting there. End up getting that cozy, boy. Southwest exit row now.

[Will Compton]

Are you still in line and get the kind of first come, first serve or is it predetermined seats? I was hearing rumors that they're still first come, first serve.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's still first come, first serve.

[Mitch]

I think it's like at the end of this month or next month is when they officially change.

[Taylor Lewan]

And also we talk about Jared and the come up. He's on Will asking that question shows the come up that Will's been on as of late, right? Doesn't even know what Southwest does anymore. That boy just kind of. That boy just kind of operated out there, huh?

[Levante David]

We.

[Will Compton]

We had the southw with New York, but once I heard that it's actually an official switch, it's kind of. It's kind of caught me, right? Caught me by surprise.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're putting your name in the transfer portal and there's a chance they can get you back, but as of right now, you just want to see what else is out there.

[Will Compton]

As of right now?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Go on a couple of visits and see what happens.

[Will Compton]

Might commit signing, maybe even sign the dotted line and then pivot and go somewhere out the way these.

[Taylor Lewan]

But on. On the flight home, I have like. I have like an upset, like a pit in my stomach to where it's like, yo, it could have ended in so many ways other than, like, the way it ended for me. Such a bad scenario that's like, I need to learn how to enjoy gambling again. Not just going in like, like, blitzkrieg mode and just going. Trying to go off 24 7. Like, let's have a little fun. What we did do this time, people will see in the vlogs. We did a bunch of giveaways, which was awesome. So we found people on the street. We went to Fremont street and we put out a little tweet. First people to come up to us has a chance to win a thousand dollars. Drunk dude. 11:00am stumbles upon us, and I'm like, you want to try to win a dad's like, yeah, his whole family's like 20 of them. They go to the wild card, legal wild card weekend every year in Vegas. And they're like, from like, New Hampshire or some like that. We go in there, buddy ends up losing, and we give him 500 anyway. But it's. We had. We had a few of those that were just absolutely awesome. We gotta get way more done with that. But for me, it's like, maybe I need to take a step back on, like, heavy gambling when I'm there by myself. Like, wait for the big guy. Wait for the tunnel of chaos. Let's get into that. Let's go back. Let's go back to what made this so fun.

[Will Compton]

So when you say maybe I need to, how strong is that? Maybe, like, where's your head actually at?

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, we're sitting here Monday recruiting, recording this intro. Not even probably. Probably 24 hours removed from being in Vegas at this point. And it's real to me to where it's like. But it's really about how do I keep the same mindset when I'm there? Because the opportunity. You know me, I'm an optimistic cat. So when I go into situations, I think this is gonna be the best case scenario for me. This is how it's gonna work out for me. And luckily, it has been in a lot of ways. But this time I just. I was Icarus, dude. I was way too close to that sun and luckily found a way to kind of land. And I just. I just don't wanna.

[Jeremy Klump]

I just.

[Mitch]

It got so bad at one point that on Saturday night, we're at the Red Rock, where we always stay and leave, and we pack all of our stuff in the opportunity that our whole crew is going to be at another location until 6am before our flight. It was a premeditated pack. Luckily, you can watch the vlog, see what happens. But we had taken all of our gear on Saturday night and left with the idea that we are not coming back. We're going to be going to the airport. And our flight was at 8am and this is at midnight. So, yeah, it. It was a lot of, like, DEFCON 1, you know, let's walk in, dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

That drive, too. It's like Dana's crew, they're all matching black BMWs. We're behind them in, like a red rock, black SUV, and we're just caravanning our way to Caesar's Palace. And I'm looking out the window, truly going through my head like, it was all going so good for you. Like, what. What made you think, like, a little Bit more would be better. And so that's where it's like, hey, can I take an opportunity to learn a lesson while still like not having the worst case scenario happen to me? Can I do that? Is that the next step is 2026, the year that I mature in my short little, you know, cards gambling career.

[Will Compton]

Or your New Year's resi was gamble more. Here we are a week later.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, a week later. That's so true. Maybe we don't change anything, Jack.

[Mitch]

We'll be back in two weeks, so check out the next vlog from Vegas that comes from ufc and we'll see if Taylor's change any of his ways.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

But Demon, we got Demon ziplining Demons. So are we, Are you guys able to talk about the. The. His two thousand dollar bet?

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Yeah.

[Mitch]

Yeah, I think so.

[Taylor Lewan]

It was like Demon was on a roll.

[Mitch]

That was really. Taylor and I pressuring Jared to gamble most of his money. We were, we were watching the baccarat board, and if you understand baccarat, you basically are reading the trend off of it. And we are like, we feel very confident about the next bet being whatever.

[Taylor Lewan]

The pattern was so clear.

[Jared Beeman]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

It was like if I wasn't. Because in this moment. Yeah. And I was like, I love to, but it seems like everything I touch turns to right now. So I'm not gonna touch it. Jack's not gonna touch it. But Jared, I swear to God, it feels like you, if you put this down right now, it's gonna work out for you.

[Mitch]

He put it down and just immediately walks out of the room.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mitch]

Couldn't handle it. It happens. He gets the, the best possible hand you can get in baccarat, which is a natural nine. And so what do me and Taylor do?

[Public Sponsor]

We start whispering.

[Mitch]

We're like, oh, no. And he walks in just like, it's all good. I didn't expect it to win.

[Will Compton]

And like.

[Mitch]

No, you had. He's like almost about to kiss Taylor on the lips.

[Taylor Lewan]

But yeah, he gave me a nice little. Nice little behind hug. Dude got a little aggressive.

[Will Compton]

Funny. So you guys bullied him in the bet in the biggest hand of his life. And then also said, we ain't touching this.

[Jeremy Klump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But also, swear to God. Yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like when you, when you're, when you're as deep in the weeds as we were, it was like, if we bet it, it for sure won't hit. Yeah. If Jared does, he's pure enough to where it happens. He's like Aladdin trying to get in the cave, bro. He can Only get in. Was it Jafar? Like, I. I can't get in. I'm not pure enough at this point.

[Jeremy Klump]

A diamond in the rough.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes, a diamond in the rough. So he. He. He made out like a bandit this weekend. Yeah, nicely. He. He handled business.

[Will Compton]

Dude, I almost hit an eight legger on Saturday.

[Jeremy Klump]

Oh.

[Taylor Lewan]

And it was all because of Clay, right?

[Will Compton]

The Puka passing, Packer playoff, Willie Parlay.

[Taylor Lewan]

And it was.

[Will Compton]

It was all I needed from it. Like, I got all the players. I got everything right. All I needed to finish was the packers money line. But I did enjoy just kind of watching the packers piss away their lead with Clay Matthews. And I was on Grock. I was having some fun.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude, the grog thing was so funny.

[Will Compton]

I've been seeing the trend. Like, put so and so. Put this photo in a bikini. Yeah, so, like, put Clay in a bikini, dude. It was just so funny.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude, I. I almost brought it up with Greg when we were film the intro when he was talking about Twitter and stuff like that. And it's so funny. My algorithm is just like, transfer portal news. Football, football, football. And it's like, wait, wait, what happened in Venezuela? It's like the craziest. Out of nowhere. And then the Grock thing is so funny. By the way, Grock did Clay. Yeah, he did that boy, right?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Except he ain't got no bulge down there.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, I said it's a front, man.

[Will Compton]

Has anyone heard from Clay? That's. That's. He's been shooting his entire life. That's steroids. Like, it's shriveled up. They're gone.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a Kendall look right there.

[Jared Beeman]

Have any of you heard from Clay?

[Levante David]

I don't think.

[Taylor Lewan]

Really?

[Jared Beeman]

He didn't respond to any of those texts in the group.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, because he failed the boys. I think we have to burn his jersey now.

[Will Compton]

I think we got a bird. I think we got to do it on the locker room.

[Jared Beeman]

We got to do it on the.

[Will Compton]

Locker room safely and responsibly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Definitely not inside.

[Will Compton]

Maybe inside, though. Just a blowtorch.

[Taylor Lewan]

Smoke us out real quick.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

How was. Tell us about the games, though, dude.

[Will Compton]

It was. It was. It was a lot of fun. However, there's some question marks I have on Josh Pace I had, which I hate to say. Oh, my God.

[Taylor Lewan]

Here's the deal, too. Is like, Josh has been nut. There's been green flags all the way. Like, we're far enough along to where it's like, damn, I can't believe we found, like, a red flag.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

At this point.

[Will Compton]

And that red flag came at 2 in the morning when we were shuttle into our hotel after the Fiesta Bowl. So we land, we go to the Miami, the Miami Ole Miss game. Which by the way, that Miami Ole Miss game was incredible. If you guys listen to our football recap show that came out yesterday with Greg, we talk a little college ball in the back end. So check that out. But watching that game, getting to see it in person and like every few seconds I'm just nudging J.P. i'm like, look at those boys on the Miami's offensive line. JP Gets me. We're trying to put in a food order, try to have some food lined up for when, when we fly to Atlanta. But so going in and planning out this trip, it was. We had to hit the game in Arizona and then fly out right after because Josh Pate was going to be doing espn. He was on first take. He was on get up. He was going to do it or he had to do it from the site of the Peach bowl from Atlanta. So the, the plan was always to, okay, we're gonna fly out after the, the Arizona game, just take a late flight, land at like 2, 3 in the morning in Atlanta. We're just gonna have to eat that because the boy Josh, he needs to do his big hits on espn. Dude's been, he's been becoming a star right in front of our eyes, as he should. The dude is a beast. He's a stud. He is the commissioner of college football. And so it was like, oh, man, that kind of sucks that we can't just stay in Arizona, sleep in, get some good breakfast, like catch the vibes, like the weather out there in walking around it like as you're going to Vegas. But we're walking around it like before we go into the game and we're just like, man, it just, it just feels so right being out here. It's cleaner, it's greener. You have all. It just felt so good and felt.

[Taylor Lewan]

So right and greener as in like healthier.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You felt healthy walking around.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're just like, it's a healthy state.

[Will Compton]

You're like, man, it's just nice being out here.

[Taylor Lewan]

The best.

[Will Compton]

But we can't, we can't after the game just go hit a hotel because the game the next day, the Peach bowl in Atlanta, is not until seven at night. Eastern time.

[Taylor Lewan]

Could have got zips too.

[Jared Beeman]

We did have actually the trip planned originally. We booked the flight. We were staying in Arizona. It had to get changed because Josh Needed to go to Atlanta again.

[Will Compton]

He had to be there on site at the Peach Bowl.

[Taylor Lewan]

Allegedly. Allegedly.

[Will Compton]

He had to be there. They wanted him on site with the backdrop and everything else.

[Taylor Lewan]

When I, when I saw what you're about to say, I wasn't even with you guys. And I was heated.

[Will Compton]

No, buddy, go ahead. We land and we get in the shuttle to rip over to the hotel in Atlanta. And again you just, this is what we signed up for this. Hey, we're road dogging it right now. Yeah, we're road dog. We're ready to go. We're flying nice. But we're, we're eating it as far as like sleep because we had ESPN the day before. It's like when we fly out on that flight, it's like 8:30, 9:00 clock at night. We land. We only get four hours of sleep before we do get up in the morning. But I've just been up, We've been up all day long, right? And so it's 2:30 in the morning, like the next day now we're flying to another cross in a couple time zones. We land and we're in the shuttle. And all of a sudden, I don't know what happens. I'm kind of just like sitting there. J.P. and I might be, we might be slap happy over a couple things. We're kind of sitting there. I hear Clump ask a question. Then I hear Josh essentially say, like, oh, no, like they switched it. Like I'm just going to be zooming in from my hotel. I say, oh, hold on, hold on, hold on.

[JP]

And also when Will says, hold on, hold on, he's still looking out the window. He's just like this. He's like, hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Will Compton]

Hold on. Repeat that for me again. You don't, you don't have to be at the stadium for your ESP for espn. He's like, no, I'm just going to be zooming in from my hotel room. And I was like, when did you learn this information? And you know, because we all, we're all like kind of like laughing now, knowing this bomb that he's just dropping on us. And he's like, he knew the information, like in the airplane flying to Arizona. And I'm thinking, buddy, we could have switched, we could have switched the operation to where we could have slept in Arizona. Yeah, like all these fantasies that we had about sleeping in. Again, we're not in a rush. We don't have to be at the Peach Bowl 14 hours ahead of time anymore. Why are you keeping this information in on us. And we're all laughing and it's, I can't even remember at that point. It's so late in the night, and we're just trying to get to the hotel and everything else. But I'm thinking, buddy, why in the hell would you not share that with the squad? We could have, we could have slept in. We could have. Good. You know, and who had zips?

[Taylor Lewan]

That's all that, that's could have had zips, dude.

[JP]

And who's the first face we see the next morning when we go down to the lobby on that big pate.

[Will Compton]

On first take arguing with a, you know, Stephen A. Cam Newton rc.

[JP]

He and RC had some chemistry, though.

[Will Compton]

Him and RC had some good chemistry. They had some good chemistry talking about the sec.

[JP]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And how it's fallen and everything that's inside of the SEC talk. But I'm looking at him, seeing him zoomed in from that hotel room across the street, just thinking, like, man, we could have. We could have. I, I, I, I don't know.

[JP]

The clip of Will watching the TV when he comes to the camera is over five minutes long.

[Will Compton]

Hate watching him on espn.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bro, that breaks my heart for you because I was. The whole week I'm talking to Clump. Like, that's just crazy. They don't just stay there. And why does he have to be on the field? I don't understand that at all.

[Will Compton]

Again, after they, hey, if that's what they wanted, and ESPN wanted him to be from the stadium 100. That was never you.

[Taylor Lewan]

If we're, if we're all homies and you're you, we're going to help your career. And like you, this is an opportunity to help your career. And this is what they want for your career to go up. We will always lean on the. Let's help our boy out for his help.

[Will Compton]

Our boy, man, let's get in the foxhole with him.

[Taylor Lewan]

But there's got to be communication. And if you don't have it, what do you have? If you don't have communication and relationship, you've got nothing. Because how do you essentially Titanic.

[Will Compton]

Would you ask him? Clump. When that, when that bomb dropped.

[Levante David]

Weird.

[Jared Beeman]

It was like a quiet ride. So I just look at him like, hey, what time you got to be at the stadium tomorrow? And he kind of started stumbling over his words. Oh, I don't even think he wanted to fully say it. And then he's like, I actually don't have to be there Tomorrow at the.

[Will Compton]

JP's point I'm like, I'm looking at the other side, but I'm just sitting there. I was like, oh, hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Jared Beeman]

He says, jp, get the camera.

[Taylor Lewan]

What breaks my heart is you guys. I said three times you could add zips. And that just, that just to me is like, bro, could you imagine watching the Fiesta Bowl, Ole Miss, Miami down to the wire, Trinidad Chambliss, last second. Could have been a penalty. Could not have been a penalty. And it's like, what a crazy game. Let's go have the greatest bar meal of our entire lives and talk about it. Only to go to a hotel, relax in a bed, know you're going to get a full eight hours, wake up, well rested for the next game.

[Will Compton]

Hey, and that was another issue is we had to leave the game early because the game again. Four league changes in the fourth quarter. Four league changes in the fourth quarter. But klumps like, hey, if we're going to get out of here, there's 20 to 30 planes trying to get out after the game. We could be sitting on the Runway for a long time to where we could be landing at. Let's just say four or five in the morning in Atlanta. So we're all communicating and decided, okay, we're going to have to step out of this amazing game that's taking place just to sit on the Runway. And we're taking off. And the last few plays, it's. There's like maybe 20 seconds left for.

[JP]

The sake of this story. The last play. What does the phone do?

[Will Compton]

Will freezes.

[JP]

Freezes on the last play.

[Will Compton]

And we're sitting there as we're taking off, like, man, we're not. We're not witnessing this. We're gonna have to be surprised whenever we get connected to WI Fi and figure out who wins and who loses. But we would have gotten to stay if we're not taking off from Arizona and had zips. And to your point about, we probably wouldn't add zips that night.

[Taylor Lewan]

What do you mean?

[Will Compton]

We could have, could have, could have.

[Taylor Lewan]

But hold on.

[JP]

The reason why we might not have been able to is because we didn't break bread with Josh one time over this weekend.

[Will Compton]

Oh, don't talk. He's right.

[JP]

Not once, man. We just want a meal with him. The best we could get was some sushi on the plane. Loud.

[Will Compton]

No Internet, no breakfast the next day, no breakfast day. Listen, no pre game meal. And Josh when he was like, hey, the Fall don't tour. The Fall Don't Lie tour. Let's Roll together. And you know, I'm telling, I'm like, hey, if I'm just meeting you in Atlanta because I don't know if I'll be able to work, there's no point in me getting a plane and going to Arizona. Like, I won't be able to work me flying to Atlanta by myself to meet you. If you're going commercial to fly to Arizona. I'm not just going to meet you in Atlanta to see one game. Like, I'll just watch it at the house. I'm like, I'm thinking we're road dogging this together. We fly together, we eat together, we sleep together, we bathe together, wash each other's back, we get in the foxhole. And he's like, that was a test. You passed. So this trip comes alive to like travel and do all this stuff, bro, he ain't eat with us not one time.

[Taylor Lewan]

One time.

[Will Compton]

He sit with us, not one time.

[Taylor Lewan]

I. I hate that I'm asking this question.

[Levante David]

Oh, no.

[Taylor Lewan]

Is Josh pay a selfish friend?

[Levante David]

No, no, no.

[Will Compton]

I'm just asking.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm just asking. No, he's not.

[Will Compton]

No, no, he's not.

[Taylor Lewan]

What I just heard is. What I just heard is way different than what a unselfish friend would do. I. So I'm just asking the question. Like, didn't break bread, Couldn't grab a coffee in the morning, Couldn't sit there and just chop it up with the boys.

[Will Compton]

Oh, not my boy. Josh in his defense, I give him a defense. On the sitting with this part, he had his wife, Savannah. Savannah rocks. Tyler. He had Tyler with him. Tyler rips. They just had press box seats. But he, as we're walking into the Fiesta bowl, he's like, I got to go down here to this gate. We had his credential to see him on the field pregame. And again we were. It was getting tight. It was getting tight. The window that we had pre game, so we weren't even going to be on the field that long. But he's like, I'm going to go get them set up and then I'm going to meet you guys. But then we didn't hear a word from him until it was like, hey, we're deciding to fly out early. And then we just saw him on the plane. So if I'm in his shoes, maybe he wanted to sit with his wife and Tyler and everything else. That's totally fine. But it comes back to what, man? In the words communication. Communication. And.

[Taylor Lewan]

And. But here's the deal. You bring up the wife and it's like, I get it. Like, you got buddies who's got it, like, handle. Savannah can hang. She can chill. She's like. She's one of the girls that can hang out with the boys.

[Will Compton]

Oh, for sure. She's talking, like, when they're up in the press box.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, yeah. Talking about the best one. And it's like, in my mind, it's like, that's. That's on Pete. Just not asking the question. Hey, so what do you guys want to do? And then kind of putting it on him. Like, hey, we came with these guys just so we all know. Like, let's just communicate. And it just falls on Pete. I love them. Listen, I love them. I love him.

[Will Compton]

That's our boy.

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I know.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's why I'm asking this question.

[Will Compton]

Is Josh for the boys?

[Taylor Lewan]

Is Josh for the boys?

[Will Compton]

I hate that even a question. He unquestionably is for the boys to Josh's.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's unquestionably for the boys. But hold on. Hey, hey. I get it. And I love. I wish I could sit there and be like, you're. There's no doubt about that. There's no doubt that Josh paid us for the boys. But the story you just told me tells me there can be, even if it is just a sliver of doubt if he is for the boys. And I'm.

[Will Compton]

This is a guy that I know is undoubtedly for the boys. And we can just learn from what.

[JP]

Happened because also, in his defense, when it came to the food, we did only eat one meal that whole trip. So really, he just didn't come to breakfast. We didn't eat lunch. We had dinner at the stadium.

[Jared Beeman]

We ordered it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. Like, we weren't like, hey, you trying to grab a bite to eat?

[Taylor Lewan]

Nothing like that.

[Will Compton]

And when we got breakfast, like, you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Guys are kind of giving out new pieces of information.

[Will Compton]

We don't want to give out the information.

[Taylor Lewan]

We had one meal.

[Will Compton]

We went and got breakfast while he was doing ESPN.

[JP]

Right?

[Will Compton]

48 hour trip.

[JP]

We had a hate breakfast.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, you guys had one meal, and you want to come on the bus? Be like, he didn't break bread with us. He didn't sit with us. And you got me in a corner being like, is he for the boys?

[Will Compton]

You're like, I can't believe, to be.

[Taylor Lewan]

Fair, we had breakfast. If you're getting just the information I'm getting. I'm thinking to myself, God damn. Hey, yeah, there's probably like three or four times you could have sat down and broke bread with the Boys, I'm thinking of a coffee break. I'm thinking of a brunch. I'm thinking of a late meal.

[JP]

Before we could have worked out with us. He didn't work out with us.

[Taylor Lewan]

Y' all worked out.

[Will Compton]

We worked out, but we also didn't offer him.

[JP]

Yeah, but at that point, we were. We were protesting.

[Taylor Lewan]

Are we.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, at that point we was protesting.

[Taylor Lewan]

Do we need a question? If. And I'll put myself in it because I'm a part of the board. Are we for the boys?

[Will Compton]

Oh, we're for the boys. Did we not get our candy asses on that flight to fly in at 2:30 in the morning in Atlanta? We're for the boys. We just wish we would have understood that information. Like, did Josh have to wake up early and grind it out on ESPN while we slept in? Yeah.

[Jared Beeman]

One part of that story that we need to set the record straight is we wouldn't have been able to get to Atlanta if we left the whole game. We had to leave because of the way the hours worked. We would have had to land in Dallas. So that's why we had to leave the game early. So it was only because we had to go to.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, but you could have sat and had zips. Could add zips and zips. What does zips do? Rips. It sets the tone. It causes all of you to break bread together. And you guys now get to be the friend that I was to you guys driving to zips, being like, I'm just telling you, man, you're about to have a great meal. Yeah. You're gonna love it. It's the perfect post playoff game meal to have.

[JP]

It would have changed the trajectory of the whole trip.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, and when I was saying we wouldn't have had zips that night, I was thinking more of like a lunch the next day. Not like, don't have zips at all. Because we're stepping foot in Arizona.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, Fair. That's.

[JP]

We're talking two times, not just once.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, no, I'm with you. I'm with you.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but me, now that all the information is out, maybe he's a little cleaner.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, next time let's do our best to start with the information.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but that doesn't make. That doesn't make for a good story.

[Taylor Lewan]

Fair.

[JP]

Maybe don't jump to conclusions so fast.

[Taylor Lewan]

At the office now.

[JP]

We had plenty more info to give you.

[Will Compton]

Tune in on the locker room this Wednesday.

[Taylor Lewan]

Man, that's Josh B. I almost wish you guys didn't tell me the last Part about only one time breaking bread. So I, I would go in the locker room with a completely different mindset.

[Will Compton]

I know, but once you start saying that, questioning, you know, like, oh, we got to give a little bit more information.

[Taylor Lewan]

But listen, if that is all the information you gave me, and it was just, wasn't just the one, it wasn't the, the, like the first part of the story you gave me, it is pretty easy to sit there and be like, there's doubt that can creep in. Is he for the boys? Is he a selfish friend?

[Will Compton]

When he hit the. Don't have to be there. I'm zooming in from my hotel room at 2:30.

[Taylor Lewan]

I was like, oh, I'm looking at notes here. There was a Ray Lewis debacle. What happened?

[Will Compton]

Oh, don't bring up the Ray Lewis debacle.

[JP]

Oh, no, because not only was it Ray Lewis, it was also Wills.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[JP]

Right to the right of him. Michael Phelps. And somebody on this bus didn't know who Michael Phelps was.

[Jared Beeman]

That's not true.

[Will Compton]

Don't look at me. I, you know, I know who Michael Phelps is. I questioned his overall athletic ability.

[Jared Beeman]

I, I, I know who Michael Phelps is, but what, it was you.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it was me.

[Jared Beeman]

Michael Phelps. Do you want to tell, you want to set the stage first of what happened?

[Will Compton]

I, I missed, I missed the part.

[Jared Beeman]

We, we wanted to meet Ray Lewis. He's on the field. We didn't get to him. So we go up to the suite. We're bummed that we have to leave early. We're not gonna get to meet Ray Lewis. We walk out of the suite door to leave. Ray Lewis is walking down the hallway right towards us.

[Will Compton]

But we didn't know that at the, at the time that this happened.

[Jared Beeman]

At the time.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we're kind of standing out there waiting. I think JP Might be like, yeah, getting, yeah, doing some of this camera. We're waiting on JP because we're getting ready to go to the elevator.

[Jared Beeman]

So I, I walk out in the hall, I see Ray Lewis, and I now I know Michael Phelps standing next to Ray Lewis. I didn't know it was Michael Phelps. I saw a guy, he looked like he was Ray Lewis's agent is what I thought. There was no security around Ray Lewis either. So I'm figuring, oh, this guy's like, walking with him. He's doesn't need security, so he's walking. But I, I see Ray. I'm like, hey, Ray.

[Will Compton]

Hang on. And by the time Clump spots Ray Lewis, I had already walked away from Clump was up, so I was like, I'm gonna go take a piss. Before we hit this long walk to the.

[Jared Beeman]

Will had to pee.

[Will Compton]

I had to pee. So I go back in on my armor.

[Jared Beeman]

Will goes back in the suite to pee. I. I'd get Ray Lewis to try to get him to meet Will. JP sees it all kind of going down from the hallway, and he just keeps going. Will walks out of the bathroom. He's gone. Raylo's just disappeared.

[Will Compton]

You're missing some great pieces of that story club. He just amazing. Like, we tried getting him to stop. He just kept walking, right?

[JP]

So Ray Lewis is coming down the hallway. Clump is like, jp, go get Will. I run into the. The suite, and I'm. I bang on the bathroom door. I said, ray, Ray, Ray.

[Will Compton]

He goes, yeah, yeah, Ray, Ray. And I'm standing there, and I'm like, I'm peeing. And then I'm like, is he with me?

[JP]

And I don't hear anything from him. I'm like, ray Lewis is coming down the hallway. Then Will starts panicking inside the bathroom, where you can say that part.

[Will Compton]

So I'm caught. I'm in the middle of pissing, and then I'm like, okay, I need to push and get this out. But as I push and get this out, I start feeling like I got to go with two. So I'm now. It's now starting to get to the surface. Doesn't break. Surface doesn't come out at all. Like, I'm not in a sharding sp spot, but I'm feeling this. I'm kind of just caught right now. I'm like, I need. And you know how slow I can be at times. I'm like, I need to wrap this up. I can't stop being.

[Taylor Lewan]

You got to pinch it off.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And then I get done, and I'm still panicking. I'm like, I can't just run out there with dry hands. He's gonna know I came out of the bathroom without washing my hands. I'm trying to wash real quick. I grabbed the paper towel, and then I run out there, and he's gone. They're like, dude, you just missed. And Clump had him stop for a second because we got. He's like, we got Will. I don't know what you said, but he's back there.

[JP]

Yeah, he looks in there. It's just me sitting there outside of the bathroom, trying to get Will out. Out. I look, make eye contact with Ray Lewis. I'm like, just be one second.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's crazy.

[Will Compton]

And then because he's like, club might have said something about getting on bus with the boys. And then apparently Phelps was like, oh, you guys don't want me on busting with the boys.

[Jared Beeman]

That's when I realized it was Michael Phelps. By the way he turns and he's like, what, you guys don't want Michael Phelps on busting with the boys? I'm like, michigan, man, we want you, too.

[Taylor Lewan]

But in that moment, Michael Phelps said, hey, you guys don't want Michael Phelps on the bus.

[Jared Beeman]

Yeah, that's what he said.

[Taylor Lewan]

He hit the third person on you. Oh.

[Jared Beeman]

And then it click right when he said it, I saw his face and it was like that moment of, oh, that's Michael Phelps. But I was so locked on Ray Lewis.

[Taylor Lewan]

You said Michigan, man.

[Jared Beeman]

Not 23 time Gold Ch.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm glad you led with that.

[Will Compton]

But so I come out and they're like, bro, you just missed Ray Lewis.

[Jared Beeman]

Just missed him.

[Taylor Lewan]

How's that?

[Jared Beeman]

I did shake his hand. Did you take afterwards, like.

[Will Compton]

No, no. I actually held until I landed in Atlanta because, again, it wasn't one that was like, coming and breaking or nothing like that. I just. I kind of had to. And then I didn't want to go to, like, on the plane because I don't know what it's going to be like.

[JP]

He was rattled, man.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I was rattled.

[JP]

He was rattled. We're all walking to the vans. He's talking about the Ray Lewis thing. Then he starts kind of like trying to defend himself. Like, to be honest, like, I've already met Ray Lewis. Like, it's not really.

[Will Compton]

And then we're all. We all go to get.

[JP]

And Will, for whatever reason, goes right around this other suburban tries to get.

[Will Compton]

In another van, too. Like, I'm talking to the camera, like, doing the vlog or whatever, talking about situation. I just go off script. I'm like, breaking into another car. Almost get in, like, where are you going?

[JP]

Is this the car? Like, nah, this one. We're all inside of it.

[Will Compton]

I got the back door already open. I was like, oh, dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

Holy, man. I'm sorry.

[Will Compton]

I know, I know.

[Jared Beeman]

Ray Lewis, Michael Phelps, open invite. Both of them busting with the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, Lewis and Michael Phelps have an open invite to bust them with the boys. Guys come whatever you want. Was. Okay. So in your guys's experience with Ray, sounds like you got him to stop and wait for Will Compton. Did he know who Will Compton was?

[Jared Beeman]

I think he did. I think he was. He realized that Will was in the bathroom and was Kind of like, I ain't waiting for this guy in the bathroom.

[Taylor Lewan]

And then that's fair.

[Will Compton]

He made a better decision than we did with Ben Stiller.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes. Okay. But the fact that you got Ray Lewis to stop and look through a door for Will made it.

[Will Compton]

Part of me was nervous, too, because we have met before. And he's like spoken to me. Like when he's had one of his speeches, he's like. He said. I forget what he said. There's something like they didn't know what to think. Five, one. And I'm like, oh, he's talking to me. A little sass me, dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bro. That is.

[Jeremy Klump]

What would be worse, the Rock Experience or the Ray Lewis Experience?

[Taylor Lewan]

But I would say it sounds like the Rock.

[Will Compton]

I would say the Rock. Yeah. Watching that back and just knowing how my boy probably felt in that moment.

[Taylor Lewan]

The Rock. The Rock situation was like this. I can look back at this, be like, this is not Will's fault. His body failed him yet again. That's. That. That's what this is.

[Levante David]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

For me, like that, that's just. That's purely 100 on me.

[Jared Beeman]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Not taking the op and like, getting too uncomfortable too quick.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[JP]

Hindsight. I should have had a deck of cards with me and just turn one over. Stall Ray Lewis.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

He started hitting them. Damn boys.

[Will Compton]

It was fun, though. And getting to be on the field before the Oregon Indiana game was a lot of fun. Stein.

[JP]

Yeah, Coach Stein. Before that, Clump did get Sketch into the room.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. Sketches over. You should have saw Klump come up out of his chair and sprint. Said, oh, was that Sketch? Yeah.

[JP]

He asked me, he said, was that. Is that Sketch outside? I said, yeah. Looked at the game, looked back, clump was gone. 10 yard shuttle would have been record setting. He's back in. Will composite or sketch? We got Will Compton in here. Will dab Sketch up. Will's like, are we live right now?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. He's doing one of those in real life. Streams. Irl. Stream Streams. Yeah. I go, are we live right now? Shout out. Busting with the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, yeah. He was live.

[Jared Beeman]

He was live.

[Taylor Lewan]

That is funny, man. I saw you guys hit the post.

[JP]

The speed, though. That's the main moral of that story club.

[Taylor Lewan]

Still got it.

[JP]

Definitely still got it.

[Jared Beeman]

They hit the workout.

[JP]

Yeah, hit the workout.

[Taylor Lewan]

What'd you all do for the workout?

[Jeremy Klump]

Anything.

[Will Compton]

Did some zone two for a good 30 minutes and then we all each kind of did our own whatever. Whatever lift we wanted to do.

[Taylor Lewan]

Nice.

[Will Compton]

I was doing legs. JP said he already Hit legs. So he's still feeling. He's like, I'm gonna get some upper body in and get some arms to show them off for when we hit that field before the Indiana Oregon game, Clump did a few different things. I saw him over there. He was hitting the dumbbell bench press. He gets up. He's fired up. He's got fog all over his glasses. Buddy was getting it in good. Good Money was getting it in.

[JP]

And then Coach Stein did roll up on you.

[Will Compton]

He said, I got a bone to.

[JP]

Pick with you, Will Compton.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Who's this smiling as he introduces himself? Because we have actually, we have a common friend, like our neighbors that I've spoken about before that are good friends of ours. They also are good friends with Coach Stein. So anytime we've went out to Oregon, they're always like, you got to meet the OC you got to meet the OC because we didn't get to last time. For whatever reason. We were there for what, a couple days. I never got to run into Coach Stein. So we were kind of connecting over that and then talking about the. The Minchi. The Minchi example.

[Taylor Lewan]

Was Minchi there?

[Will Compton]

No, he wasn't.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Levante David]

All right.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well, so what. Hey, can you put down anything about the Menchi stuff?

[JP]

There's miscommunication.

[Will Compton]

There was a. Apparently a miscommunication. Let's see through the agent.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's move on.

[Will Compton]

The agent being Eugene Lee.

[Levante David]

Let's move on.

[Will Compton]

Okay. We have to cut stuff. Okay. Don't want to cut anything. Don't want to get anything.

[Taylor Lewan]

But Eugene Lee was the miscommunication.

[Will Compton]

Eugene Lee's a common denominator. And also that stories I've heard.

[JP]

We met Jonathan Stewart. We got to see Tess Johnson again.

[Jared Beeman]

And sort was awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

J. Stu, big question. Was Eugene Lee there? Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Just be careful. Just be good athletes out there.

[Taylor Lewan]

I get it. I feel like Nebraska is in the best spot it's been in at least the last three years.

[Will Compton]

Calandria. Anthony Calandria.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, that kid.

[Jeremy Klump]

Come on, man.

[Will Compton]

Come on.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's got the juice, man. He's got the juice.

[Will Compton]

Got to FaceTime with him. Shout out JP for having that little surprise setup, but got to sit there and talk with some. With Anthony Calandria. And the dude was fired up. He stoked. He's like, we got the. It's gonna be all season long next year. I'm like, you're goddamn right it is.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're goddamn right it is.

[Will Compton]

He did sign. That's the first thing I asked.

[Jeremy Klump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Have you signed? He's like, listen, I ain't. Don't need. Don't need to come from. Yeah, from the pot. We got our guy.

[Taylor Lewan]

You got your guy. We got our multiple guys. You have multiple quarterbacks now?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Oh, Danny, Danny. Yeah. Danny Dimes. Rule was out there hitting the emojis. Use like Willie Compton Back in 20, 23 or whatever. Yeah, Rules kind of put something together, letting people know it's Danny Dimes. If you can read through the lines, This is going to be a good year. A couple quarterbacks, we hit the portal very well. Got some hogs up front. I think we're still trying to get maybe. Listen, don't.

[JP]

I think the last shout out from the weekend needs to go to Scott Van Pelt, though.

[Jared Beeman]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Bro, we got to meet Scott Van Pelt. He just walks up kind of like the Tom Brady stories you hear about him, introducing guys. He's like. He put his hand on my shoulder. Well, how you doing? I'm Scott Van Pelt. Super nice to meet you. Big fan of what you guys. He introduced himself to you because, by the way. Yeah.

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[Will Compton]

I have met him. Yeah. But he was all time. All time exchange. So, dude, we love to have you on the bus. He's like, look, we're in the world now that we're. We cross paths. And I'm like, I'm sure those stars will align. I would love to come on busting with the boys, but all time exchange with Scott Van Pelt, nothing but. Nothing but good things.

[Taylor Lewan]

Just a purist, an absolute period.

[Will Compton]

He's like, you're crushing it. The one thing you're gonna have to. You're just gonna have to deal with, like, Nebraska's not very good. He's like, look, you're gonna take hits. I love the way you take hits. He's like. And it's probably going to continue to happen because Nebraska hasn't been very good. The basketball team is phenomenal. You guys are undefeated. Still undefeated. He wasn't meaning it as like a punch kind of. Maybe he was just doing it as more of like, don't worry about the haters. You to keep having them, because until Nebraska gets back to where they need to be.

[Jeremy Klump]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but he seems like he comes off as a Rich Eisen type, very well spoken, knows when to throw a little jab in, but it's always light.

[Will Compton]

And you could tell, you could just hang with him. You just hang with them. You just kind of watch him operate because I was kind of just admiring him from afar, thinking like, yo, that's Scott Van Pelt.

[Taylor Lewan]

What a time, man.

[Jared Beeman]

Yeah, he was cool, too.

[JP]

Pete Thammel was awesome.

[Will Compton]

We had a video too, that we were about to get out that. Oh, it would have been a good one. One, but we had. As Oregon's walking through the tunnel to go out to the game they're walking through, we kind of had to battle the security on trying to like, hey, nobody can be here. Like, all right. We just kind of kept pacing around until the team was walking through the tunnel. And we got him. And I was like, let's go landing. And he kind of, like, looks. He has this possessed look in his eyes. He, like, looks over and then realizes he saw. He saw me and then, like, looks at me and was like. And then we were trying to get the video up, and first play the game was a pick six. He's like, hey, the video. Yeah, let's probably hold that.

[Taylor Lewan]

That back a little.

[Will Compton]

Let's keep that. Let's keep that one.

[Jared Beeman]

Will this caption good. And then pick six. And we're like, you know why I pick six?

[Will Compton]

I think we. We were talking about those. We were, you know.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, we. We talked about those rumors on the breakdown, the college football, the rumors of Indiana.

[Will Compton]

We were talking the, you know, a 12 club.

[Taylor Lewan]

You. You know, a little something. We don't. Thanks.

[Jared Beeman]

Allegedly.

[Will Compton]

But it's all alleged. There's. There's nothing that is proven out there, but the conversations have been picking up a little bit on the Internet.

[Jared Beeman]

The Internet is crazy.

[JP]

What I say, well, you got to go back to it.

[Will Compton]

And JP before the game was talking like, maybe I'm a little old school. Maybe this is a hot take. But he's like, we got to get the. We got to take away the headsets, the iPads. We get on the sideline. Like, we got to do away with the iPads and headsets, basically the technology of everything, and get back to some old school football. I was like, well, that's where the Connor Stallion stuff was coming up with the signs and everything else. Obviously, teams are always trying to. To figure out who signs are what, but I'm bringing that up to JP I'm like, that's actually a big reason of why the headsets came in. And now the rumors were here and again, rumors. These. There's no. Like, there's. There's. Again, this is all alleged. This is all alleged.

[Taylor Lewan]

Whatever.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's all whispers like, we don't.

[Taylor Lewan]

Want to take anything away from Indiana.

[Will Compton]

Exactly.

[Taylor Lewan]

We don't take anything away from the university.

[Will Compton]

And as I'm like looking into it because I love all like diving into all that stuff. I hate you. We're in the spot to where you can bring more attention to it. It also could be just fodder and everything else. But. But again, I've heard those whispers before it started coming out more on the Internet and again, they're just whispers and rumors and allegedly I have no fact, no basis, no nothing to back it up other than being a spectator like everybody else is.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because devil's advocate, it could really be just the haters. Yeah, there's no way they should be that good at this point.

[Will Compton]

But when those conversations, those whispers were happening after the game, I looked at J.P. i was like, yo, there's your hot take right there.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, Klump, what do you know know?

[Will Compton]

No, I don't know anything.

[Jared Beeman]

I just. I did see they have a employee. I did not actually fully fact check this, but so allegedly one of their employees is a cyber security guy.

[Will Compton]

He majored in cyber security. I want to say is he a GA or an assistant coach?

[Jared Beeman]

That that's who they're alleging is the new slippery slope. Slippery slope slippery. Again, allegedly not fact check Internet rumor.

[Will Compton]

We're spectators just like you guys.

[Mitch]

So happens that the team we're talking about just being beat the out of clumps team.

[Will Compton]

So okay, what are we doing? I was holding JP like we were all sitting there and we're kind of holding court at the end of the game. We got to sit around some Oregon fans and I was holding court like guys, we cannot allow because it's going to come. But people relating comparing Dan Laning to James Franklin. We cannot let the Danny Franklin speak to that.

[Taylor Lewan]

We can't do that.

[Will Compton]

You guys have to fight. Your fan base might. But I'm just letting you guys know this is what's going to come.

[Taylor Lewan]

We are going to.

[Will Compton]

You guys got a battle because you have a hell of a head coach. You have a hell of a head coach. And they did get their ass beat. But if you look conversations a lot of preseason around this Oregon team and when they were having success took before they took Penn State down and was at the year that they had Oregon was being seen and talked about as a team that's. That's probably one year away.

[Mitch]

So what's up with the Oregon mascot, the duck?

[Taylor Lewan]

What happened to the duck?

[Mitch]

Apparently he's just ignoring die hard lifelong fans.

[Will Compton]

Oh no.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, oh.

[Will Compton]

We saw one situation. Going to speak into that a little bit, Jack as far as the Oregon Duck and having a good quality exchange with the fans of Oregon football. Jeremy Klump, who is a die hard Oregon Duck fan, was telling me to hang on and back up and wanted JP to get the camera out because Klump saw the Duck walk and he was going to get dapped up in him by him in the tunnel pregame as the Duck was walking, engaging with some fans, saw Klump look Klump in the eye. Clump is stretched out like a little kid trying to get their favorite players autograph. Reached out over the fence, fence almost falls over and breaks.

[Mitch]

Grown man, by the way.

[Will Compton]

Grown man, grown ass man. It reaches over and Doug just looks at him and kind of walks by him. Doesn't give Clump a dab.

[Taylor Lewan]

Is that true, Clump?

[Will Compton]

That's true.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes.

[Jared Beeman]

It was brutal.

[Will Compton]

The Duck dude about the Clump curse. I, yeah, the Duck.

[Jared Beeman]

I wanted JB to do it for the vlog is like a joke that the Duck accepted me as a Ducks fan and it backfired more than anything. It was brutal.

[Mitch]

At least you got Laning though.

[Will Compton]

He, he didn't even.

[Jared Beeman]

He like gave me like a motion too. Like he, he acknowledged that I wanted the high five and oh yeah, not right now.

[Will Compton]

No one around him.

[Jared Beeman]

It wouldn't have stopped him. It would have took him one second to give me.

[Taylor Lewan]

And we were the only people. The worst thing to happen to Oregon I could be.

[Jared Beeman]

I'm not gonna say it. We're not, we're not cutting stuff.

[Taylor Lewan]

So yeah, we're not cutting stuff. But I'm. Hey, but I'm with you.

[Will Compton]

You're with me?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I'm with you, dude.

[Will Compton]

Have to cut that.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, we, no, I don't want that. I don't want that public. That's, that's, that's internal busing.

[Jared Beeman]

I, I am for now. I'm in my own hell because Oregon loss. Haha. Real funny. Then the Eagles lose too. And now I'm like literally waking up in the morning like me. Am I really a curse? I, I, I might be.

[Will Compton]

You're not a curse of the Eagles.

[Taylor Lewan]

You know what kind of worries me.

[Mitch]

I needed that was just suck.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

The Eagles just were who we've been saying that they are. Yeah, Panthers are better than Eagles.

[Taylor Lewan]

But let's just say, let's just say that the club curse is real and any team he kind of supports goes to. Before this year, Clump was all on Michigan and look what's happened to that happened to that university in just the.

[Mitch]

One year and he, and he was on Tennessee for a sec. Look what happened there. He was, he was with Tennessee until.

[Taylor Lewan]

The Georgia game, right?

[Will Compton]

He about Van.

[Taylor Lewan]

Even him. He hinted at Vandy and they didn't make the playoffs.

[Will Compton]

Florida.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh my God. Florida.

[Will Compton]

He hinted at Vandy too the week of the Texas game.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, he didn't.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And low key clumping, texting me about like these, these transfer portal guys at Michigan. He's obviously, I'm telling you, like this is, this is an exciting year for Michigan and I'm obviously, I'm, I'm buying into all that. But as we sit here I'm like, do I even talk to club about Michigan anymore?

[Jared Beeman]

Yeah, this is my hell right now.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well, hell. What do you mean?

[Jared Beeman]

Yeah, I, I truly think I might be a curse. I might be a curse. You did good on the sports book this weekend. Outside of the Eagles though, shout out to fanduel.

[Will Compton]

I was right on every game but.

[Taylor Lewan]

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[Taylor Lewan]

In other news this past Tuesday, Jared Beeman did his first stand up special at Zany's. Crushed it I thought. I mean he didn't do a full 20, but I thought he did a really good job. He was genuinely funny money. A lot of good stuff I think we're gonna do. There's rumors swirling. Rumors. Rumors about a beaming and friends type of setup. On a quarterly basis, do the 100 seater room in Zany's.

[Mitch]

And potentially a pull out of the hat for busted employees. Someone's gotta go up, do three to five minutes. Some light something quick.

[Levante David]

Amazing.

[Jared Beeman]

Maybe Mitch's first Vegas.

[Mitch]

Yeah, residency in Vegas. Possibly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Maybe. We'll see, we'll see.

[Will Compton]

Oh man.

[Taylor Lewan]

But yeah dude, he crushed would be awful.

[Mitch]

Three minutes. Three minutes Isn't bad.

[Will Compton]

That's one long story for you, y' all with rich crackers.

[Levante David]

I can't.

[Will Compton]

I can. I can hardly talk on this show, let alone.

[Jared Beeman]

And this.

[Will Compton]

There's eight people in here, let alone a hundred people.

[Taylor Lewan]

You.

[Mitch]

You see the way Demon's been flying, though, post show? Think about the relief you'd feel after getting off that stage.

[Jared Beeman]

He's been moving different.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Oh, Demon's been moving different, bro.

[Jared Beeman]

We get on the pj. We get on the pj. He cracks a. A whiskey and coke right away or ginger ale. Whiskey and ginger ale. That's a move by a Jim Beam. And ginger ale is what he cracked.

[Taylor Lewan]

And he's moving be Has. It's like, you look at him tuning, like, do you humble him? Do you not? Like, it's too early to tell.

[Mitch]

In Vegas, the first night, we go and meet up with Dana, and within five minutes, somehow, Jared is explaining his whole comedy set to Dana White.

[Taylor Lewan]

And then it.

[Mitch]

It happens where Dana's like, yeah, I've just done stand up, you know, at one place or time at the Laugh Factory in la. And it's just like, all of a sudden, I was like, are we vlogging Dana and Jared now, this weekend?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, dude. They start going in. We're kind of just quietly sitting there while Jared is legit breaking down the full set. Yeah, today it was awesome. Yeah, I had a. There was so much fun that night. Getting Taylor to come, too. Getting all the girls to come hang out. It was. It was a blast, dude. I. I feel like we should definitely do that again. Again.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Shout out Demon, too.

[Taylor Lewan]

Shout out Demon, man.

[Will Compton]

Shout out, baby.

[Taylor Lewan]

What else, boys? We have anything else before we get to Levante David?

[Jeremy Klump]

Clean takes.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clean takes.

[Will Compton]

Maybe some shout outs, some pet peeves.

[Taylor Lewan]

I got a pet peeve.

[Levante David]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Is this a clean take?

[Taylor Lewan]

This is probably a clean take, but.

[Will Compton]

It'S kind of like Kevin's Natural foods clean take.

[Taylor Lewan]

Kevin's Natural food clean take. Here's my take. If you're in line for Southwest, go up to somebody and ask, hey, what number are you? And file in. Don't sit at the front and count people. 1, 2, 3, 4. And then get right in front of somebody else just to go in. I was a 16 on the flight home, and this chick with four bags on her, she's counting, boom, 1, 2, 3, 4. Fifteen people come. I know I'm 16. And she goes, excuse me, and goes right in front of me. I don't say nothing. I'm thinking to myself, this. This lady, this nice young lady.

[Will Compton]

Oh, you folded.

[Taylor Lewan]

Folded like a lawn chair. I'm like, she's got to be B30. So much so that I'm trying to look over her shoulder when she's putting the thing, her phone down to get it scanned. That I'm like, what number is it? I can't see. You guys know my eyes. We get there, and I know she's got this pride about her, the way she's walking. They stop her right as she's about to get on the plane, and they're like, ma', am, you actually have three bags. You have to actually put one of those in luggage. Can you stand over here to the side so we can get these. These people on the plane? And I just gave her the biggest smile walking by her, because I know she tried to cheat the fucking system, dude.

[Will Compton]

What number was she?

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Will Compton]

But she could have been clean take.

[Taylor Lewan]

My. My Kevin's clean take is if you're in a Southwest flight, just stand in the line that you're supposed to be be. You have a little bit of communication, which is a big part of this podcast, and just say, hey, what number are you? Oh, you're 11. I'm 15. Let me go a couple back. What are you? I'm 16. Perfect. I'm right in front of you. I may. I'm a 15 right here on B15.

[Mitch]

Always have the boarding pass up. And because I had a same situation, same flight, I was a 31. So very front, and I'm. I run up there. Old man, you can tell, you don't. He means business. I immediately just flash him a 31, gives me the thumbs up, we move on.

[Taylor Lewan]

Boom. Money. That's nice. Yeah. Clean take.

[Will Compton]

Good, clean take.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clean take.

[Will Compton]

Thank you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Thank you.

[Will Compton]

Anybody got some more clean takes out there?

[JP]

Clean take. I guess this would be a clean take. When the hotel gym is stacked like it was in Atlanta, but also having the basketball court outside in the hotel, It's a nice amenity at a hotel.

[Taylor Lewan]

Good gym setup.

[JP]

Yeah, great gym setup.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a clean tank.

[Jeremy Klump]

What type of hotel chain were we rocking?

[JP]

Hilton.

[Will Compton]

Hilton, yeah. Good hotel, Good hotel. Quality hotel. Except for my clean take is going to be make sure you pack your dude wipes when you go to these hotels. Because one of my first texts to the boys was that two I was talking about that was coming in the middle of Ray Lewis and me peeing. I finally got to have my two when I got to the hotel. And this toilet paper is Just so cheap, bro. Another clean take for the hotels. Invest in a little bit more quality toilet paper. It's nice because it was rough and the the amount I was scrubbing the hole and you could feel the rash starting to come on to where I kind of had to hold. I kind of had to change my technique up to kind of just press it against and just scrub a little bit versus just, you know, wiping hard. It was like, hey, I text the boys immediately in the group chat with my pants down. 3am 3am shout out the above above the knee shorts guys when you sit down. But I'm just telling them, hey, guys, take care of your hole. Take care of your hole.

[Taylor Lewan]

Fair enough. Clean take, clean take, clean take, clean take.

[Will Compton]

Invest in bringing some wipes as the customer. But also clean take for the hotel chains. Invest in a little bit better quality toilet paper.

[Taylor Lewan]

I like that clean take.

[JP]

Dirty butt.

[Jeremy Klump]

I have a clean fun take that I saw on the Internet. I don't know if anyone else saw this. That Caitlyn Clark is the reason that Miami is in the national championship. Have y' all heard about this?

[Will Compton]

Have not.

[Taylor Lewan]

I've not.

[Jeremy Klump]

Caitlyn Clark blows out LSU in March Madness. That had Haley Van Lith in that game. Haley Van Lith. Who's that? It's the person that covered Caitlin Clark that was the point guard for LSU that then brought her stock down at LSU and they kind of asked her to transfer out. She transfers where? Tcu. Who's the starting point guard there? The Cavender twin that Carson Beck was dating. She all of a sudden goes, haley Van Lith is going to start over. Me. I'm going to call up sis and let's go bring it back to Miami.

[Will Compton]

Go.

[Jeremy Klump]

Transfer to Miami. Carson Beck follows his girlfriend to Miami and transfers there.

[Will Compton]

Oh, so the ass open that Caitlin Clark gave the LSU point guard just set off a domino effect that led Carson Beck and his girlfriend to Miami.

[Jeremy Klump]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

And now he's got him in the national championship.

[Mitch]

Former.

[Jeremy Klump]

Exactly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Girlfriend.

[Will Compton]

Sorry. Oh, okay. Either way, got got him to Miami on take. Clean, clean take, clean take, Clean put together take.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's nice. That was good. Do we feel good?

[Will Compton]

I think we feel good.

[Jeremy Klump]

We also need to do ro spicy tear talk.

[Will Compton]

Yes, yes. And gunr of the month and gooner of the month. Optimism. Optimism.

[Jared Beeman]

I for row spicy to your talk. What is it?

[Jeremy Klump]

It's best couple traditions.

[Jared Beeman]

I need you to to take this one for what you told Will and I what you and sit and do and Lindsay and I started doing it. It is awesome. So this is a, this is a great couple tradition.

[Will Compton]

A tier one couple tradition. Sex.

[Taylor Lewan]

Nice.

[Jeremy Klump]

Clean tape.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clean take like real spicy teardown.

[Jeremy Klump]

Spicy.

[Will Compton]

Spicy.

[Taylor Lewan]

What you got jp?

[JP]

Mine was last year Sid and I started the tradition of every Sunday we take a jar designated gratitude jar and we get little sheets of paper and you write down three things, three to five things that you're grateful for that happened that week. Could be something as small as I love the sushi roll that I had or it could be trips with the boys. And you write it down and then at the end of the year or on January 1st of the following year, you go back through, dump the, the pieces of paper out and then you just take turns picking up reading it. I could read mine sometimes, maybe I'll read sitting sometimes, but you keep switching off and you just kind of recap the year through these little sheets of gratitude. And it truly does make the week feel more full when you do it even we just take the. Because it takes three minutes, minutes to do if that. And it's amazing how much it, it helps and kind of shifts your mindset and perspective on, on everything that's going on.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's nice.

[Will Compton]

Sex and gratitude. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Jared actually told me one that him and his girlfriend do this weekend that I was a big fan of and it is the fake third roommate in their house.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I've heard about this.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, the fake third roommate. It's like when you're, when you go into the kitchen and you're sniffing other didn't do the dishes, you're like, hey, why don't you do the dishes now? It's like friction. There's always like a, a level of a scoreboard taking place between you and your significant other. But by having this imaginary third roommate, I can't remember the, the roommate's name that Jared and his girlfriend gave him.

[Will Compton]

But let's name him Derek.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay. Like Jared will walk into the room and the dishes won't be done, but bro, I can't believe Derek didn't do the dishes. Now it's light hearted. It's a little more fun now you guys both, both talk shit about Derek and you guys just do the dishes together. Yeah. And that's like a nice little weave around of having some animosity keeping a scoreboard. I think it's a nice little move, something I might think about implementing in my house. It's a good move, right? Let's get Gooner of the month. Gooner of the month.

[Will Compton]

Our, our true classic Tada. Our true classic Gooner of the Month.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh my word. This is December, Correct.

[Will Compton]

This is December. December, December. It's your true classic. Gooder of the month is. Jared Demon. He's on a heater, folks. He's on a heater.

[Taylor Lewan]

God, no one's having a better start.

[Will Compton]

Of 2026 than be nobody, man. No one. We're going have to bring him down.

[Taylor Lewan]

I have to, man. Good for him, dude. He really might. He might blow up this year.

[Will Compton]

He might.

[JP]

Dude.

[Will Compton]

Ascension.

[Taylor Lewan]

Got to love it guys. Everybody who's watching, thank you so much. Please reminder. Just subscribe, leave a comment all the things things. It's very helpful. We love you.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we appreciate you enjoy this interview with Levante David Big hugs, tiny kisses, boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

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[Will Compton]

How we doing?

[Levante David]

Chilling, man. How y' all doing? Big Thomas?

[Will Compton]

Doing well. Not as big as you, bro.

[Levante David]

Listen, man, I see y' all on TV every week. I'm like, dang, how big? How much bigger these dudes gonna get, man?

[Will Compton]

Trust me. It's a surprising to us as well.

[Taylor Lewan]

Levante, Taylor, one here. I. I gotta be honest. We. We haven't really talked. I don't think ever. I don't know if we've actually met many met.

[Will Compton]

You've never met Boogie?

[Taylor Lewan]

Have we met before?

[Levante David]

Yes, we met plenty of times. Taylor.

[Jeremy Klump]

All right.

[Levante David]

We rolling? Yeah, we are.

[Will Compton]

I guess. I guess he's never been on. I guess she's never been on.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, I wasn't on with you guys.

[Will Compton]

Wait, wait.

[Taylor Lewan]

Did we meet at the pro. Pro bowl where we were at the Pro Bowl? No, cuz I see the jersey in the back, like that's the dopest. What's the dopest jersey? And I never got it.

[Levante David]

We met. We met at the joint practice.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay, that doesn't count.

[Levante David]

We met when Vita came on.

[Will Compton]

I was going to say Levante was sitting on the couch.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's right. Okay, okay, you're right. You're right. That's on me. That's on me.

[Will Compton]

Have we ever said it? So, Boogie, whenever we're. Whenever you see us on TV from the facility, have we ever said anything out of line as it pertains to the Buccaneers?

[Levante David]

Nah, nah, y' all was great.

[Taylor Lewan]

Y' all was great.

[Levante David]

I don't think Buccaneers got brought up, but y', all, y' all been doing a great Job, man.

[Will Compton]

It happened one time, and I picked the Patriots to go down there and beat you guys. And lo and behold.

[Levante David]

Hey, hey, hey. Watch it. Watch it. But I remember that one.

[Will Compton]

Look, I got a sheet here. Number one. My first bone to pick with you, Boog, is I'm upset that you're not here in Nashville. And, you know, this is a cop out for how this got set up through other people, because I reached out like we were talking. We was messaging last week. Week. And you know, this is a cop out to be sitting at home right now on Zoom and not here on the bus in Nashville. You ain't doing nothing.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, let me check something.

[Levante David]

I didn't. I. I didn't know how soon you wanted me to be on there.

[Taylor Lewan]

You know what, Will?

[Will Compton]

If you would have called me back.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, Will Levante. I just. I just looked it up. The Buccaneers did not make the playoffs, so their season's over.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So Boogie's been chilling. Levante's been chilling.

[Taylor Lewan]

So there's no. So Levante's got nothing to do.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And based on how you talked about how he was in Nebraska, he ain't doing nothing either.

[Will Compton]

No, he chills.

[Taylor Lewan]

Chills.

[Will Compton]

Levante is a homebody.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Which I love about him. Gotta love that anytime we were at. We were at school. By the way, do you have your driver's license now these days?

[Levante David]

Yes, I have my driver's license.

[Will Compton]

So Levante didn't have a driver's license when he was all throughout college, which.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, Levante. That's a heady play, by the way. That's a heady play.

[Will Compton]

So I was basically his car service everywhere. But we, you know, after workouts and everything else, we'd always go back to. We'd always go back to my townhouse. And the only time we'd leave the house is when Boogie wanted to go get chili cheese dog at Sonic, which was right down the road. So that's the only times we would ever leave the house. And I would always ask him. I'm like, hey, do you want to drive? Like, I'll sit in the passenger seat. We can go to a parking lot. We can drive around the parking lot.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And it's just never. He's like, no, no, I'm good.

[Taylor Lewan]

So, Mr. David, or can I. Can I also call him Boogie? Is that. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Okay. So for everybody listening, I might have broke. I might have broke it down on a time he's been on the.

[Taylor Lewan]

Do you want our guest to break it down?

[Will Compton]

Sure. I would love to hear Boogie he might not know the reason I gave the name Boogie, but he understands the lore behind it. You remember why me and Zoe started calling you Boogie?

[Levante David]

Yeah, for sure. I know. I remember that. Is it the story when we was in San Diego.

[Will Compton]

Where y' all headed? So it came. Boogie dude's a dog on the football field.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

He's got some pit bull tendencies.

[Taylor Lewan]

Sure.

[Will Compton]

You know, the. The Red Rocket, everything else.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

And so I told Boogie he, you know, he would. I won't get in all that stuff. But I told. I remember sitting in the meeting room, and I was like, I always wanted a pit bull when I, you know, had my own house, had all the other stuff. I have an Inc English bulldog now, but I always wanted a pit bull. And I had a pit bull for a little bit back with my ex girlfriend. And I told Boogie, I said, whenever I get my pit bull, I'm naming him Boogie. And I will. I will then be naming you after I name my dog. So whenever I get a pit bull, whatever I name him, that's going to be your nickname. And I got him. It was Boogie. So Boogie's name was Boogie because, you know, a lot, a few reasons out there, the fellows out there that are breaking that down, that are reading between the lines, but that is where his name. That is where his name was born. Does it got a pit bull named that dog Boogie? And I told Boogie that that was going to then be his nickname.

[Taylor Lewan]

I know we don't have to get too deep into the weeds here, and I know you're not a big movie guy, but when I hear Boogie, you allude to a couple things I think of Boogie Nights.

[Will Compton]

Never saw Boogie Nights.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's what I was thinking. Has nothing to do.

[Levante David]

I know Boogie Night is solid movie.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, that's a good movie. But. But it would say a lot about the nickname if you were naming him after Boogie Nights. It's. So I'm glad we got that out of the way. Yeah, I'm glad we got that out.

[Will Compton]

So we started calling him Boogie. And I was like, whenever I get my dog, bro, that is what I'm gonna name my dog.

[Taylor Lewan]

I love that this podcast is gonna essentially turn into me sitting here while Will tell stories and Levante laughs. And that's kind of the vibe of what's going to be. Let. Let me just ask like a. A quote podcast question for Levante Boogie. When did you think you were going to make it to the NFL? And was it after you had 27 tackles against Michigan? 11 or 12?

[Levante David]

Nah, man, I honestly didn't think I was gonna make it until after our big Tour Championship junior year.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, against Wisconsin. Oh, Big 12 championship.

[Levante David]

Yeah, that junior year. I had, like, 18 tackles that game, I think. And I had started getting calls from agents. I ain't know what was going on. You know, people call me, like, who is these people contacting me, asking me about, you know, representation and all that stuff? And, you know, I ain't have. I ain't have going to the NFL in my mind at the time. And then when all that started happening, that's when I realized, oh, it's a real possibility because all these agents hitting me up, trying to get me to see if I'm. Come out early and enter the draft. But in my mind, I never was going to do it. But from that point on, I knew I had a chance to make it to the East League.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bro, your lore is, like, in my life, the, like, Levante David saga. Like, I remember clearly playing against you when I was at Michigan and just watching that, like, kind of getting after the game, because you know what it's like when you're playing. I'm sure you guys as linebackers, and, like, you guys are keeping track of stats in your head as you go. As an offensive lineman, I'm just sitting there playing, and you kind of notice, like, the same number over and over again. So after the game, we kind of sit there, and we're like, yeah, this. That number four. Number four. Like, that guy was kind of going off when he was all over the place. You turn the film on, you're like, jesus Christ, this cat's moving. And then Will tells a story about Bo Pelini after the game in that. And it's like, oh, all those things add up. I meet Will, and then I see you on the field, and it's like, bro, this dude's moving lateral and lateral. Now, fast or backtrack a little bit, but fast forward this story. I'm at the SEC championship. We're sitting there in a nice hotel, drinking coffees, and some guy walks up, and you're. Dude, you're mentioned once a month in my life, like, you're a cat that, like, hey, Levante didn't have long. Usually out of Will Compton's mouth, but, like, it's everywhere at all times. I'm sitting at the. Before the SEC championship, it's the morning of. We're all having coffees in some Georgia. Like, a defensive assistant coach walks up.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And starts, like, breaking down stuff. And he talks about this cat named Yoshi and this guy named Levante David.

[Jeremy Klump]

Boom.

[Taylor Lewan]

Will Compton's eyes get like that and they start going in breaking and I'm like this.

[Will Compton]

He said he was at Fort Scott and then that's when I started to scoot up from my chair and I'm.

[Taylor Lewan]

Thinking to myself, dude, this dude was in junior college as well. So I'm, I'm basically told my little around the world story about you to be like, I really want to hear about your process of like high school to the NFL because I mean, yeah, there's some stats here that Will's going to read off later. He found these stats, they're absolutely beautiful. But like this cat that I'm looking at on this piece of paper and then hearing like junior college, I think you, Will was ahead of you and then Will got hurt and then all.

[Will Compton]

Of a sudden you were never going like eight people.

[Taylor Lewan]

I would love the entire, the entire breakdown from you take as long as you want, dude, because it's, it's true. It's truly fascinating.

[Levante David]

Yeah, I mean I started, you know, playing in high school. I played at Miami Northwestern Senior High School, you know, a prestigious high school down here in Miami, won two state championships and I was here. I never lost when I was a starter. I didn't start playing varsity until my, my junior year. So my freshman and sophomore year, I was really just, you know, everybody who I hung around, you know, was older than me. There's like, you know, seniors or juniors and stuff like that. So my freshman and sophomore year, I was just out there having fun, you know, just doing whatever in high school, just, you know, skipping class, you know, just doing silly things that high school kids do. And then, you know, when I started, you know, getting serious in football because I played junior boxing my sophomore year and I started getting serious in football. And you know, by the time it was time for me to graduate, you know, I didn't have the proper GPA to be able to, you know, go on to a four year university. So I signed to Middle Tennessee State out of a, out of high school. So I didn't qualify. Manny Diaz was the linebacker coach and he recruited me big time. You know, he the only one who really, you know, stuck with me throughout that whole process. He was trying to get me to come here really bad and unfortunately it didn't work out. And then it was a, it was uh, a thing that we was going, I was going to gray shirt and then end up going to state in the spring. But something happened during the summer back at home. In Miami. That kind of like, you know, spooked my parents, so they wanted me to get out, you know, hurry up and make a decision to get out and go to school. And Eddie Brown, Antonio Brown's father, was a coach at Fort Scott Community College. And he reached out to my parents and said, hey, we got a spot for him over here in junior colleges. He's gonna have to do a year and a half or two to get another, another opportunity to go to a big four year school. And I ended up doing that. And my first day at Fort Scott, I quit. I didn't want to be there, obviously. And then the reason that I quit is because we had a conditioning test. You know, I tell this story a thousand times, and I just can't believe that actually this was actually a condition test. We ran 4, 2 20s, 16, 110, and 2000s and at all times. And as freshness coming in, you can't have. He couldn't drink any water or nothing like that. Only people could drink water is like, y' all who've been already. And on the second 220, I passed out. You know, I'm on the ground, flat on the ground. Coach Sims, Coach Jeff Sims, he's the, he was the head coach at the time, cursing me out, calling me all type of names, saying, my daughter can effing do this. My three year old daughter can effing do this, this. You Miami guys are weak and soft. And you know, me, I'm, you know, I'm getting pissed off, whatever. So, man, I just basically like, man, this, I'm gone and I quit. So in the back of my mind, you know, I was gonna go home and be a firefighter. It's like football is done. My football career is over. I'm gonna go home and just make a career for myself right away. And then Eddie Brown put me to the side. Like, man, trust me, man, just stick it out. It's gonna work out. It's gonna work out. So the whole time I'm there, I'm just, I'm just angry. I'm pissed. I'm mad at everybody. And I don't know BK told you this story, Will, but the first day in pads, we doing. I came in as a safety. They had me playing safety. So the first damn pass, we doing one on ones. And you know, well, you know, BK is the guy at the time. So I'm like, I pushed everybody to the side. Nah, I want him. So I'm trying to earn my strikes now. So the first playing and one on ones, BK runs a slant. And I hit him. Like, I literally like hit him because I'm mad. And me and BK get into it and this and that, and everybody like, oh, what's going on? Like, break it up, break it up. And then like everybody looking at me like, oh, man. Like this dude here, you know, he's. He's crazy because, you know, bk, nobody does BK like that. So I'm like, yeah, because BK was the recruit.

[Will Compton]

BK was the recruit that was going to lead. You know, he was like, like, he was like the. The bell of the ball.

[Levante David]

Roman, one of the guys who was putting forth Scott on the map, you know. So I'm like, okay, I'm going go against him. And then it happened again. And then we started fighting and stuff like that. And then it transpired to 907. I'm 907. I'm the strong safety with COVID four. And they got this, this top back that coach Sims loved. And they do like a little stretch zone, stretch play. And then I run the alley and cover four after cover four to safety and I hit him like one of the biggest hits I probably to this day ever had in my life. And the ball flew way in the back of the end zone, the opposite way. And everybody was going crazy, going crazy. And the night meetings, Coach Sims put me to his office just like, you want to be my linebacker? You're starting, you making this. And the rest is history. I ended up making the team. And the whole story about that is like going through all that. Only 12 man out of state guys can make the roster at the time. And I'm like at the bottom of the rocker. So I had to fight my way up all the way there to get to the top of the roster. And I ended up making the roster and then from that point ended up going to the University of Nebraska. You know, BK was already that time, you know, will, you know, reaching out and stuff like that. Those guys welcome you over arms.

[Will Compton]

Cuz Yoshi was there. That's when Yoshi comes up. Cuz bk, they were, they were recruiting a recruiting class right before.

[Taylor Lewan]

Who's bk?

[Will Compton]

Brandon Kenny.

[Taylor Lewan]

Got you. Thank you. All right. I know a lot of people, right? Mitch, you're back there. Bk, they're talking like we just know everybody from Nebraska.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Brandon Kenny, who was a receiver in Nebraska, he was like a highly recruited.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I remember you talking about this cat. He was supposed to be like the one and then just got a little yippee.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he like dislocated his Thumb.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

Dude was super athletic, a great leader. He was a. He was a stud. But him and Yoshi were already there. Was. Was JPP your class or in that same class of BK and Yoshi?

[Levante David]

He was the same class as bk.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So that the only one that they lost out on was jpp. He went to South Florida. So when Levante was coming out, it was basically down to Nebraska and South Florida.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

And everybody ultimately got Levante recruited to Nebraska. So when Levante was coming in, he was this JUCO all American linebacker. Like a four star in the juco rankings coming out. He's a big dog that was coming. So he had great relationship with like, BK and Yoshi. They're telling me, Zoe Whaley, the linebacker room about Levante. And so everybody was just kind of getting connected.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gotcha. Everyone's. And your two biggest offers were Nebraska and us. Usf.

[Levante David]

Yeah, Nebraska. Usf. At the time, until I found out I had a lot more office that I didn't know about. But that's another story to talk about.

[Will Compton]

I didn't know that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Will Compton]

I didn't know that. I just remember Eric and Coach Bo just talking about how Levante, like, we need to, you know, hey, reach out to them. Like, they want them to feel as comfortable as possible.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, you're like, hosting. I do you. During. During your story, you talked about how you weren't eligible, though you were. Didn't start to your junior hanging out the older kids. You're skipping class. As a guy who was also, like, on the fence, like, when I was going into my senior year, a lot of schools came and recruited me and they're like, we would clearly love to have you, but your grades aren't there. We don't know if you're gonna make it. And so a couple schools didn't offer because of that. Wisconsin and a couple other those. But like, I ended up making it. That story has been well documented on Bustle with the boys. For you, what was it like when you're staring down the barrel looking at it like, okay, I need to be eligible.

[Public Sponsor]

Whether.

[Taylor Lewan]

Whether it's the sliding scale of the ACT and your gpa, like, what. What didn't take place for you to be able to take the next step? Because, I mean, clearly when guys get D1 offers, we, like people think it, but it's very clear that you get a silver spoon shoved so far up your ass immediately in high school. Like, you become like the guy in school where the teachers, the principal, everyone kind of is like, Looking out for, okay, this kid, we know the direct line of what his future can be as opposed to all these other kids that are, it's like we hope it works out for them. They're going to go to college and figure out their lives. And so for me in school it was this kid clearly can do something in the NFL or maybe make it to the NFL, let's at least get him to college. So there was a big push from like my student counselor, the head coach, the principal of the school, teachers. Like everyone was kind of in it to be like, let's get Taylor to college and then he can, someone can take him out, taking care of him from there. But you being in Miami, it didn't work out that way. Like what did not happen? Like how bad was the gpa? I just kind of want to understand that a little bit more.

[Levante David]

Yeah, I was hard headed man. My whole thing was just, you know, I just wanted to have a GPA, 2.0 GPA to play football. You know, I wasn't really thinking about nothing else. I just wanted to play play football because it was really good at the time. I was having a lot of fun with my homeboys and I was having a lot of success. And then, you know, when you have that, those, those meeting with your counselors, going to your senior year there and trying to see where you at and things like that, you know, I had that meeting. It was like, hey man, like you slacking, like if you want to go to school you gotta, you know, pick it up. And then that's when I saw my scholarships getting taken away and things like that. So my senior year I was pretty, you know, pretty behind, just trying to catch up and stuff like that. And then when it was time to take the ACTS and all that my great, my score didn't match up with my GPA. You know, I ended up with a 2.3 GPA. I graduated with it, but I had like a 18 on act. So by the time it was time to, you know, make those decisions, it wasn't adding up. So I wasn't able, wasn't going to be able to qualify and things like that. So ended up going to junior college route, you know, kind of that. I think that whole process just, you know, humbled me and just helped me understand how, you know, how important, you know, school and school is and stuff like that. I always thought like, as long as I'm good at football, I'll be okay. But that's not the case. And that's something that I kind of you know, just, you know, that's something that just humbled me. And I definitely, you know, kind of like just took that for what it was and I took it from the side of God and just went on ahead. And I went to junior college and I was able to, you know, graduate with my AA right away and then going to a four year university. Even though I didn't graduate, you know, on time in Nebraska, I did go back and get my degree. So I'm extremely proud of that. So, so that whole process, man, just going through all that stuff like just finding out things later, I advise anybody to get on it right away because even though I went to juco route, man, I won't recommend going to juco. I mean it's always a good story to have, but it's rough going that juco route.

[Will Compton]

The stories that you yosh bk that you guys would tell about being a juco. I mean that conditioning test is outlandish.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, the, the condition test is crazy. It's like, I don't know, like 90s football, high school football. And then I feel like juco still lives in that world where we just gotta, we gotta weed out the week. 24. Seven. Yeah, nine on seven.

[Levante David]

I could tell you so many stories that we had, man. Like we used to have to run to this run to this lake that was five miles away. When somebody messed up you had to run to the McDonald's that's like five miles away. Bring back a catch up packet to make sure that you went there. It was one time during practice we wasn't having a good practice. Coach thought the practice we ran gashers until he got tired of us running gashers. Shoot, it's just another story. It's another story. I mean it was one time when we, you know, we kind of got in trouble, did some knucklehead stuff. We had to run around this, run around this path in front of the school. School when it was freezing cold like 12 degrees outside and everybody. Yoshi ended up getting frosted bite on his head. It was so much stuff.

[Jeremy Klump]

No.

[Levante David]

That is, it was a, it was a lot of stuff that we had to endure during junior college. But it made a lot of guys, man. It made a lot of guys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Did you guys that year you played one year junior college or did you two?

[Levante David]

I played two my first year. That's when I played with jpp.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gotcha.

[Levante David]

And we went to a, we went to a bowl game and we beat blinn college in a bowl game. And then the next year that we played. We ended up playing in the national championship against Blend again. And that's when we played against Cam Lewis.

[Taylor Lewan]

And he mopped.

[Levante David]

Now, he lost.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, he said he mopped. He was.

[Levante David]

Oh, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

A man amongst bullies.

[Levante David]

Well, he had a. He had a solid game. But we lost on the last second point return. We lost going to win. The clock was running and we punting the ball with like 30 something seconds left. And we was up by, I want to say, two.

[Taylor Lewan]

And.

[Levante David]

The punt ended up going in bounds and the dude ended up catching and ran right up the middle and scored a touchdown and we lost the game.

[Taylor Lewan]

What a way to lose a national championship.

[Levante David]

It's a clip out there about out about it. You know, if you can see probably at the sideline, like everybody. Soon he caught the ball. Everybody just dropped like, oh. And the crazy thing about that is I ain't. I ain't, you know, trying to toot my own horn or nothing, but I was supposed to be on punt team that week, but they wanted me to spot Cam new and so I. They took me off and that ended up happening.

[Will Compton]

I don't want to toot my own horn, but they did take me up the punt, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Did you ask him is.

[Jeremy Klump]

Was Cam Newton on the ask?

[Will Compton]

Use the mic, Levante. And Yes. Oh, he was, yeah. Cam Newton was on the Blend team. Yeah.

[Jeremy Klump]

How is it playing against Cam Newton and Juco? That's gotta be. I mean, that's crazy.

[Levante David]

I mean, for me, you know, it was. It wasn't nothing I do. But he definitely wasn't an intimidating figure, you know, as he is right now to the day. Still, he was an intimidating figure. You know, he had all that aura about him. But we should have won that game. I'll tell you that. We should have won that game. But. And the crazy thing is my boy Jasmine Hawkins, the running back, he won off as an mvp and I won deepest mvp. So that goes to show that we should have won the game.

[Will Compton]

He said it wasn't.

[Taylor Lewan]

Just still truly takes it to heart.

[Will Compton]

He's like, yeah, Cam Newton is an action figure on the football field, no doubt. Not to take nothing away from you. You've always been like an undersized cat at.

[Levante David]

Yeah, I have. But, you know, at the heart of a lion, man, you know how I go.

[Will Compton]

No question, no question. And the Miami Northwestern team, he. He talks about how he ended up, you know, the Middle Tennessee State and everything else. But Levante played with a dude named Sean Spence, a linebacker that was coming out that was like highly Ranked like, dude was a stud. He played at the University of Miami. Then I want to say he got drafted to Pittsburgh, right? Yeah, he was a stud. And Levant, I want to say, like, nine guys off that defense ended up.

[Levante David]

Ended up, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Going to. Playing college ball. Like, Levante was, like, him going to MTSU and everything else. Like, Levante wasn't part of the crop that every coach and teacher and people are rallying around. We got to get this kid, right? We got to get this kid to the next level. I'm sure that, you know, I'm sure that they were having conversations with you, but Levante wasn't, like, the pick of the litter on that Miami Northwest.

[Taylor Lewan]

No doubt. No doubt that.

[Levante David]

Yeah, we had. We had a whole bunch of guys. We had, like, two, five stars. Maybe like, six, four stars. We had eight guys signed to the University of Miami. Out of my class.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, that OA class. I remember a lot of guys from your school was signing with the University of Miami.

[Taylor Lewan]

That is just nuts. At my high school, there was. We had two guys go D1, and I was one of them. So.

[Jeremy Klump]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And the other kid was a 4.0 student. He had no problems at all. There was like, we just gotta fix that. That kid right there. I know we're. I know we're sticking a lot on the high school part, but were you wanting to go to Miami? Were you in your hearts, like, if I could go to any school, be Miami.

[Levante David]

Yeah, I did. I did. You know, obviously, I got a lot of love for Miami. I grew up in Miami. Fan. Watching those guys, you know, Jonathan Vilma, DJ Williams, Sean Taylor and those guys. I definitely want to go there, but it was a chance that I can go. I could have went out of Juco, you know, but they wanted me to go. They wanted me to attend in the spring, but I wouldn't be able to. I wasn't gonna be able to graduate early. I had to go in the summer. So they ended up falling back from. But, you know, it's all good. I ain't tripping. It worked out for me.

[Taylor Lewan]

Now, you did mention some of the story for later about how Nebraska. I was like, nebraska and usf, those are your two schools you go to? Like, there were actually more, but we can get into that. What? So was somebody hiding offers from you so you would go to Nebraska? Did Bo Pelini and Will Compton take away your offer? So you just go to Nebraska?

[Levante David]

No, no, no. I just found out later that I had a lot of other schools that was very interested in Me. But you know, obviously, you know, people wanted me to go to Nebrask, Alaska and you know, I'm fine with that. But you know, don't, don't, don't just, you know, kind of like don't hide my office away from me and stuff like that. Just, I just, that's just like a, a motivating factor for me and stuff like that. And I did, I did a lot of my own recruiting too. When I was there at Fort Scott. When I saw myself being able to, you know, go to the, to a four year university, I started to do a lot of things on my own. Reaching out to schools, emailing schools and stuff like that. I know when I was at, when I was in high school, one of my fiu, Florida International University was the team. So who was recruiting with Crystal Ball and you know, another guy, Coach Cooley. Coach Cooley or whatever. And then they ended up going to. Cooley ended up going to Florida State. And I remember he was on me big time. So I ended up emailing him and getting recruited about Florida State tube out at the time. So, so those is one of the schools. So I found out, you know, who was really interested in becoming a juco and other schools I heard of, I heard of lsu, I heard Tennessee, I heard Oklahoma, a bunch of schools, but at the time I was already signed to Nebraska.

[Will Compton]

So you know what, you know what that was? Those are, those are, those are handshake deals happening with the JUCO staff and, and the Polini staff. Honestly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Sounds like. Because that Georgia, that Georgia assistant we talked to the SEC championship and you were talking about how like Yoshi and Levante were kind of like a package deal because would. They wanted Yoshi.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, they wanted Yoshi.

[Taylor Lewan]

And then they were like, if you want Yoshi, you gotta take this Levante kid as well.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

So.

[Will Compton]

Because like a little Fort Scott was like a little pipeline for Nebraska.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Yeah, it seems, it definitely seems like it. When did you find out that you had potential offers from LSU in Oklahoma, possibly Michigan and a couple other schools?

[Levante David]

I didn't find out after my rookie, my rookie year. I know a former, a former coach who coached at Fort Scott. He came to one of the games and then we were just sitting down talking and then he ended up telling me, you know, he said, you know, you had a, a lot of other schools that was interested in you. Man, I'm sorry that it went down the way it did, but, but you.

[Will Compton]

Know.

[Levante David]

It was a bunch of other schools interested in you and stuff like that. But I was like, it's all good, man. It all worked out for me. I ended up going to Nebraska, met Will, had some good times, ended up being a second round pick out of that. So I ain't tripping at all.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, you're not tripping, but, like, I have this, like, image in my head of you grabbing coffee with this guy. This guy. And then I don't know if you've seen the SNL skit of, like, Chris Farley when he's sitting there, they're like, sir, are you. Where you're not drinking coffee, but actually decaffeinated coffee crystals. And then Chris Farley has a complete crash out. That was more for Sherm than anybody else. But that. That's how I imagine Levante. Like, were you, like, livid when that happened? Because you definitely, like, slowly in this podcast, I'm just realizing this cat, the reason why he's successful is the. Is the classic chip on the shoulder. Nobody wants me. I'm gonna prove everybody wrong. Like, how'd you play? Nothing, to me, like, Cam Newton ain't nothing. It's like, okay, all right, I got you. I'm with you. Like, did you. Was that like a Michael Jordan? I took that personal moment.

[Levante David]

Yeah. I mean, I didn't take it personal, but I was just like, I was kind of like in the scrawl. Like, damn. Like, why would he do that? Like, confused. Like, why would he do that? You know, at the time? You know, they want the best interest at hand, you know what I'm saying? Like, let us decide where we want to go and things like that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Levante David]

And, you know, I was. I wasn't. I was kind of. Of taken back by. But, you know, I was at the point where just like, you know, I'm kind of like, there's nothing I can do about it now, you know, So I just, you know, took it for what it was and just moved on.

[Will Compton]

He. He ain't having a 14 year career without Nebraska.

[Taylor Lewan]

Do you believe that, Levante?

[Levante David]

I don't know, man. I don't know. But I think my mindset back then, I think I may have. But, you know, everything just, you know, you know, God had predestined his journey for me, you know, so, you know, he wanted me to go to Nebraska, so I ended up going to Nebraska. And I learned a lot of football at Nebraska, I can tell you that. You know, coach Bo Pellini, you know, he was a. A very sharp, you know, football guy. Even though, you know, we play all these coverages in the Spring and the summer and then we get to the game. You just run even double bracket.

[Will Compton]

Even double bracket, man. Yeah, we do everything under the sun defensively and then you get to the games and it's, it's even double bracket. You know, what is it? Back angle? Back angle one. You just run a few things and everything would be check based.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So off of formations, tendencies, which is, I, I feel like that is where you kind of get the, the leg up of seeing a game, seeing the game from a different lens, especially when you get to the NFL and you realize some of the vanilla teachings and things that go on and you're like. And you, you almost tell the coordinator, you tell your coach like, yeah, yeah, I can handle, I can handle seeing a bunch set and you want to get to something else. Or if we go to empty, you can trust me to check out of it and go to something else because it was, everything was predicated off of formations and tendencies with coach Polini.

[Taylor Lewan]

I love it.

[Levante David]

Yeah, that was real Fabio.

[Will Compton]

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[Will Compton]

About talk about your first year. Talk about your experience at Nebraska. You obviously you come in, you know you were, you were operating. So when Levante came in they were going to make him. You do the whole thing. Like I don't know where he was predetermined on the staff's list but making him earn everything that he's going to get. So when we're starting off Training camp, he's not even working on the fields with the ones and twos. And I want to say levante was a 4 at the time, and he's just on a. Yeah, he's just on a separate field to where you know, every other period, they might have the fours go off and do something else. But Levante's practicing with the fours, and then sure enough, enough, you know, injury after injury starts happening, and he's starting week one of his first year at Nebraska, where it's not like he has everything put together, you know, with the installs and everything else. It's almost like he. He had to go out there because Sean Fisher tore his acl. There's a crack block that happened. You know, when. When. When tempers get high in training camp, guys kind of start getting more physical. It's just offense versus defense. Every day a crackback happens, happens. A tough block happens. That dude falls into Sean Fisher, who was starting in the dime package at the time as the solo backer, and he tears his acl. He gets carted off. I'm now the solo dimebacker like Sean Fisher.

[Levante David]

And I think Fish. I think Fish broke his fiber.

[Will Compton]

Oh, broke his fibula. That's right. You're right. You're right. He broke his leg. And then in the. In the. When it was nickel and bass, like, it'd be me and Fish. And then when it was a. So a single backer, it was Sean Fisher. Now I'm the single backer going into week one because I'm a sophomore. At the time, Sean was a sophomore. And then the week of the opening week, who was the team that we played?

[Levante David]

Western Kentucky.

[Will Compton]

Western Kentucky. Opening week. On Thursday, in our just walk through, jog through style practice, I break my foot on just a. A little stick route. Earlier in the week, I took this wheel route up, and I thought I, like, felt something in my foot. Foot. But they MRI and nothing or they X rayed it. Nothing was there. And turns out there was just, like, a hairline. It's, like, hard to see. Maybe hard to see, but I had, like, a hairline. And then on Thursday, I plan on the foot, and it just. My. My foot just breaks. So I just, like, drop to the ground. I try, like, taping. I just can't walk. Like, minute by minute goes by, and, like, I can't walk. I realize my foot's broken. So now Levante is the single backer going out there and opening week, his first year at Nebraska, first year in Nebraska, trying to keep his head above Water had a summer with us.

[Taylor Lewan]

You were playing in the kiddie pool, starting to camp like, you're over. You're over in the rafters, like. Yeah, take them over there. They'll figure it out. When they do. To being a starter in week one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And will.

[Levante David]

The crazy thing is, when I first got there, it's. It's a conditioning test called the beat test. And you know Dobby, you know Coach Dobson.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, he's the best.

[Levante David]

Yeah. And then I failed to beat test. So we have a meeting of all the new guys, you know, the incoming recruits, I mean, the freshmen in the transfers or whatever. And I'm getting chewed out. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, I'll be telling me, you know, you supposed to be an example for these young guys. You out here failing your beat test and this and that and that chewed me out. So I'm already behind on that part. I'm like, damn, I'm making, you know, a bad first impression.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So I failed that BEEP test, too.

[Taylor Lewan]

Now explain. Explain the beep test for people that don't know the beep test, myself included.

[Will Compton]

So beep test number one, you should be able to pass the beep test.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay, okay, let's just.

[Will Compton]

Let's just get that away. Just because you're hearing that me and Levante feel it, doesn't mean it's a hard thing, because it's not.

[Levante David]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

What's up?

[Levante David]

Like the pacer test?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's like this pacing test to where you. You run. You run across however long it is. It's not like that far, let's just say. Say what? Like, 20 to 30 yards?

[Levante David]

Yeah, I think I. I think it'd be like 32 yards or something like that.

[Will Compton]

Something like that. And then like, when the. When it beeps, you run, and then you reset, and then when it beeps again, you run back when you reset, and then it just paces, like, it gets a little faster. And it's truly, like, when I failed, I. I failed as a freshman, there were maybe two or three guys that failed out of our entire class of, like, let's just say 25, 30 guys. So it's a. It's a. It's a tough feeling when you fail.

[Levante David]

The peep test, but, yeah, I guess it's pretty embarrassing. Just keep it real, you know?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Levante David]

It's a strategy that goes into it. I didn't pace myself, you know, I thought it was a bit bad. Well, if I'm sprinting out there, trying to, you know, look all good or whatever in it. And they caught up to me because I didn't know as you get closer to the end, it goes faster and you have less rest time. So yeah, you gotta be able to pat yourself to in it. So, you know, the second time I did, I had to do it inside the weight room and I ended up passing it because I had a better strategy. And then going on to training camp, I remember when I realized, like, oh man, I gotta break my way in. It's because, you know, we in individual, in individuals. Right. And you know, Coach Eckler was our linebacker coach every time. Coach Mike eckler, he's the 13 coordinator at Nebraska right now.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, yeah, I'm very familiar.

[Levante David]

Yeah, it goes, you know when you in a. It goes one's up first and then two. Everybody's behind each other. I'm like, I'm like five behind everybody like that. So like it shows like, hey, I gotta work my way up. And then, you know, training camp, you split fields and you know, all the one tools are on like the, the turf field or in. It was it the indoor or the turf field?

[Will Compton]

It just depending on the day. But yeah, you guys would be over there on the grass. Grass field.

[Levante David]

We was over on the grass. Like I'm over there with, you know, with the walk ons and the freshman.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Levante David]

I'm like, man, what is going on? I'm like, with like the ga.

[Will Compton]

The GA is your coach?

[Levante David]

Yeah, the GA coaching and stuff like that. I'm looking like damn well, I got some work to do. And then, you know, as everything just kept on going, it kept on unfolding. I think it was a. It was you and Fish, Zoe Whaley, Eric Martin.

[Will Compton]

Yep.

[Levante David]

Matthew May Graham started and then it was. Then it was me. I was like way in the back. And then I ended up just, you.

[Will Compton]

Know.

[Levante David]

Trying to learn, understanding and stuff like that. I mean, I was getting 13 reps I went against. I remember one day in practice, I don't know if I ever told nobody this story, but it wasn't really like a crazy, you know, crazy prize or whatever. But Jim Epkey, you know, Jim Eski, you remember?

[Will Compton]

Oh yeah.

[Levante David]

Thirteen. Thirteen Ace. Yeah. I had to block him on kick return and he was going crazy. I'm like, yo, like, bro, like, it's not like it's a, It's a walk through. Like, what you doing, sir? I don't care. This is what I do. I'm like, okay, okay. So I know, I know what time it is now. So ever since then, I used to be, like, just trying to go hard just because I used to go against him all the time. We just need to go at it. And, you know, that's when I knew, like, okay, this is like, this. This is real now. So I gotta. I gotta step it up. And then, you know, that's when, you know, Sean Fisher went down and, you know, I don't know what happened with Zo. And then, well, they just.

[Will Compton]

It was like. It was like we run two backer sets, and then when we were in dime pack, just like, you want. You want an athletic cat, like, you want speed on the field. Like, Zoe was, like, in the conversation you and Zo started in base, you guys started to nickel. And then when it was. When it was dime, they're just like, hey, we're going to try. We're going to keep a vanilla, and we're going to put Levante out there. Like, let's see what the dude's got. Because he would flash, like, even though he's on the grass field, they would still, like, eck would still show clips throughout the day of Levante. Kind of probably maybe just to keep his head in, to keep his confidence high that he's still being looked at. Looked at. And he would flash, like, on the grass field. But again, when I break my foot, it's Thursday, we play on Saturday. And so Levante is just getting thrown into the fire come game day. And then game day happens. You have, what, 13 tackles, 13 tackles.

[Taylor Lewan]

Thirteen tackles against Western Kentucky. Wills up in a suite with a scooter.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Just sitting there standing up like, fuck, me and Fish.

[Will Compton]

Me and Fish is up there. Me and Fish is up there in scooters. And it wasn't just the 13 tackles, but he had one play where a Duke comes over the middle, and Levante tattoos this motherfucker, bro, and throws up. It's a photo that still just lives, but it was from his first game. And it's like he's in the middle of his leg kick. He's throwing the bones. Yeah. Everything. And I just remember, just I was personally bummed because it was going to take me, like, at least eight weeks to get back. And I'm like, damn, this dude is flashing. And then he continued to flash throughout the next seven, eight weeks. And see what I did not say there? Seven, eight weeks, and he balled, bro. And it was one of those situations for me to where. Where coaches aren't kind of telling you what's going to happen. I'm curious. I'm like, man, he. He's been playing good. I, I, E. We're like, you know how Ek and I are this, like, father, son, like, best friend type of relationship. He's talking to me about how good Levante is, and I'm wondering in the back of my mind, like, damn, am I going to have a job when I come back? Like, I know I was going to be the guy that ran next to Levante, but I wonder what's going to happen with the dime package? Because the way the Polini system worked, they. They lean more on dime packages and use a more defensive back because Dijon Gomes was really good. And so I just knew. I'm like, as far as playing time goes, I wonder who's gonna have that dime slot whenever I do come back. And then when it. When it happened, nobody kind of tells you. I'm kind of just learning in real time. Levante ain't losing his spot.

[Taylor Lewan]

So first week, I'm assuming you're like, oh, I'm really happy for Levante.

[Will Compton]

Fired up him and Zoe, too, because Zoe played well.

[Taylor Lewan]

At what week were you, like, having this thought process? Thought process of, like, I don't know if I'm going to.

[Will Compton]

I think. I think it was Washington. I. When did we play Washington in week three or four?

[Levante David]

Yeah, we played, like, week three.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, like, week three, we went out to Washington. Awesome atmosphere. That was when T Magic was born. He was going off. He was starting to get in the Heisman conversation. And Levante had a. Like, a really good game and kind of sneaky, too, because you could see how. And it's been his entire career, he's been like an undersized cat. Not like the most physical as far as going to the point of attack will knock your dick in the dirt. But as far as, like, taking on blasts and everything else, this dude was very good. Good at. At getting skinny or finessing or slipping blocks, which you just. It's. You can't teach it, you can't coach it. It's. You just watch Levante, and it's like, he's just. He's got something. Whether in my brain at the time, I might be thinking, it's lucky, but he's got something that he's able to just do. Whether he's blitzing and running right at a guard and just turns his shoulder or hits a swipe at just the right time, he just had this ability. And I just remember, remember the way Eckler was talking about him on the flight home, I'm like, yeah, this dude is. This dude is nice on the football field, but.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, but the college mindset of you, Will Compton is not. This dude is nice. You're like, man, this guy's. He's all right.

[Will Compton]

It was. It was like a song of dance. Because when Levante comes in, like, he'll tell you, I've just always been the guy. Even when Rashawn got drafted in the first round, like, I've always been like a. You know, I fight those demons on my shoulders as far as, like, the. The selfishness that does go into it.

[Taylor Lewan]

But.

[Will Compton]

But I wanted Levante to. To be a good. I wanted him to be good for the linebacker room. It's not like I'm sitting there being like, I want him to be better than me and everything else. So when he was coming along, it was kind of like, you know, you had to have a little bit of an ego death, but you couldn't just sit there and, you know, I'm thinking in my mind, like, what's going to come out. I can't sit here and project that this dude's being lucky and everything else. Like, he was playing good. And every time we're in the room, like, I. I felt like a responsibility. Fish and I both felt like you have a responsibility to. To coach the dudes up and whatever the game plan is, like, getting Levante as well equipped as possible to go out there and play on Saturday. So it was like. It was tough. Like, of course I wanted to play.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right. But the mental warfare internally.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And Levante and I were boys. Like he was. Again, he didn't. He didn't have a license. Like, he rocked around with Yoshi. Like, we had. We had, like, a crew of guys, but Levante and I and Zoe, like, we were boys. Like, again, Zoe would always call him Boogie. My wife called me. He's like, that's just Boogeyman. And I'll just be like, whenever I have a dog, I'm gonna name a Boogie. Because of our knucklehead tendencies in that. Back in that time. But we were all close, so it was like, you know, you had. It was just. It just was what it was. Damn.

[Jeremy Klump]

Yeah.

[Levante David]

And I. I honestly didn't expect them guys to, like, treat me the way they did. Like, Will helped me learn to play. But, like, soon as I got there, you know, we used to meet extra time. We used to watch film and stuff together. Him, Zo, all those guys. Fish was. Fish was okay. He wasn't really.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but Fish was going to be a doctor.

[Taylor Lewan]

He.

[Will Compton]

He Is he is currently like. Like, dude's like a surgeon.

[Levante David]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So he was always studying 4, 0, double major, everything. But fish wasn't like, you know, when practice and everything was over, Fish was going to study hall. Fish was going to study.

[Taylor Lewan]

Fish wasn't interested in an NFL career. He was interested in a doctorate.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Levante David]

He was one of those guys. But they definitely welcomed me over arms, though. And I just remember when Will first got hurt to go back, you know, I remember, you know, he crying and stuff like that. You know, he kind of like just, you know, kind of like. I don't know what to say to him and things like that and stuff like that. But, you know, he kind of like, kept on encouraging me and kept on, you know, come, you know, just giving me, you know, his best foot for it, you know, so. And then I just remember he's saying. He kept on saying that when I get back, you know, it's gonna be us. You gotta take it over. You gotta take it over. Like, I got you, man. I got you. You know what I'm saying? So I know in the back of his mind, he was kind of like. I'm sure he was upset, but when he seemed to, you know, kind of, like, take off, he kind of, like, was just like, effort, like, it's gonna be me and you now.

[Will Compton]

Yes, bro. Cause we had some moments, bro. We had some fun moments, man. With Penn State. Michigan State, yeah. Like, again, Levante, he got Big 12 newcomer of the year. He was an all American the next year. The. The Sandy going to bowl games because we was roommates, too. I would always try and get. I would always try and get boogie. I would record him all the time.

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[Will Compton]

Because again, he was a hermit. He just didn't do a whole lot. And he was just always, like, funny to us because he was just like. He had, like, this Ed Reed mentality. But, dude, we had a lot of good times in Nebraska. We had a lot of good times in Nebraska.

[Levante David]

And just like, also, I remember the next remember, you know, Coach Bo is always like the dime stuff. And I was like, I mean, I'm talking about Coach Bo. I mean, Coach Bellini. Coach Bellini always like to dine stuff. The one backer. And I remember. I'm telling you, man, I can't do the one backer no more. Like, we got to be on the field to get. You know what I'm saying? And then that's when I ended up having a meeting with Coach Bellini. And then he Ended up changing. It was dying necessarily for hours to dime. Will was in. So me and the next year, me and Will was always on the field because I was like, I can't be the only backer out there no more. I need other people out there with me.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, so you gave Will a step up in his career and you say that.

[Levante David]

I mean, you know, so we had.

[Will Compton]

A freak, Dijon Gomes. He was a dog. He was a ball baller, and he was somebody who could play. Like, you know, if you look back at the Texas game, he, like, he. He stripped the dude and took a ball. Like, the dude was very good, very opportunistic when it comes to, like, getting his hands on the ball, Right? So he ended up rethinking the way, hey, if all these teams in the Big 12 that do spread, he was kind of a tweener to where he was physical enough, even though he was more of a db. But you couldn't not have him on the field because we had cats everywhere in the secondary that was very good. We've always had a very, very good pass defense. And so. And so when. When Levante, when he ever. He has his here, and we're kind of every. The packages are kind of mixing it up. You don't know who's going to be doing what. We had different stuff going on. But that next year, I know they were trying to fast track Levante as the dime package because Levante, again, he was more of a backer, but he was somebody who could cover everybody. So he was just.

[Jeremy Klump]

He.

[Will Compton]

He was the piece. He was the piece that the Nebraska defense loved, because, again, you could have a smaller. A more athletic body who was physical enough. And then Levante was able to fill that in whenever the John. Whenever Dijon Gomes went to the NFL.

[Taylor Lewan]

Got you. Got you.

[Levante David]

So I basically ended up playing Dijon Gomez spot when he left.

[Will Compton]

And there was a pride factor in the linebacker room of just always hating when we would have to go sit solo. Backer, always. We took it as, like, a slate to where we had to figure out.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, why is there only one of us on the field?

[Will Compton]

Yes. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Off the field, were you ever casted to be a part of Will's Vines?

[Will Compton]

That was you, though. The year vine came out was my senior year in college. So you were gone. So you were gone. So. No, no. But Levante was part of a lot of videos of mine because I always have my phone out. I was always recording in the locker room.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's so sneaky. About the phone, dude, he is always. Yeah. And he does a great job of not like changing his tone when he's like got his phone as opposed to just talking to you normal. So he'll catch your ass. Like there's probably a dozen videos will as of me just talking crazy about things.

[Will Compton]

He'll just.

[Taylor Lewan]

As soon as he's done, he'll just go.

[Will Compton]

Got him like Levante, love some R B soul music. So we'd be, we'd be waking up, say we go do Braxton. We might be chilling before for maybe a night game or before we leave on the bus. So Levante and I are kind of just laying in bed whether we're watching college game day tv, whatever it is. But boogie would just. All of a sudden he just. He'd have his headphones in and then he'd just start singing. And so I would catch him all the time with the phone and he'd look over and he'd like drop, man, come on, man. Why you always gotta be recording me? Because I just catch him in a full verse of some R and B. I'll have to leak those.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

For this, for this pod for sure.

[Levante David]

I used to go over warehouse and take his. His MacBook. He had a MacBook at the time. And I used to have my own playlist on his MacBook. Put all my music and stuff on there. Just keep on adding music.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Levante David]

Levante, do you have any. He's having MacBook and just play music all the time.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's awesome.

[Levante David]

Levante, do you have any untold behind the scenes stories of Will? Whether it's in the locker room at.

[Taylor Lewan]

The townhouse, going out at the rail.

[Levante David]

Yeah, I kind of do. Yeah. I got a lot of stories in wheels. Will is a boogie guy himself.

[Will Compton]

So we call me Willie. Eat you comp though we won't get into the lore of that.

[Taylor Lewan]

I. I think it doesn't take a whole lot to think of.

[Levante David]

Is Willie B. Willie B. Come out, Earl. Come out. Come out, little Earl, come out. There's so many. He got a lot of alter egos, man. But yeah, those nights on the rail downtown, you know. You know, he's a married man now, so I mean he's. He's safe.

[Will Compton]

I appreciate.

[Levante David]

So I'm sure Charlie won't be mad at these stories, but just, just I tell you this tape, we'll go there together, hang out together. And I look up, he's going. I don't know where he's at, buddy.

[Taylor Lewan]

I had friends like that all the time. Be like, hey, we're hanging out, right? The boys are going out tonight. Yeah, yeah, we'll go out. And then, like, 30 minutes into all of us being there just vanishes. Hey, what happened to you last night, man? Don't worry about that.

[Will Compton]

The vibes would be high.

[Taylor Lewan]

Earl was out last night.

[Will Compton]

The Lil Wayne mixtape. The Lil Wayne mixtape was hot. BK Rocked it at every opportunity he got. Got vibes would be high. But, yeah, we had. We had good times.

[Taylor Lewan]

No doubt.

[Levante David]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Hey, hey. And the. The. The. Can I tell the San Diego story? It's not, like, a bad story.

[Levante David]

Yeah, it's not a bad story, but it was one.

[Will Compton]

When we're sitting there laughing, like, what was that boogie? We went out, you know, we was at. We was at a bowl game. So we were out, I believe, in Orlando, and we wanted to go get, like, seafood. We're like, hey, let's go get a spot. Me, Levante. Me Levante, and Zoe Whaley. So we go out, we're having. We're having dinner and everything else, and we feel like when we were leaving, like, these. We felt like this group of girls was looking at us. Yeah. You know, we're kind of, you know, trying to play it cool.

[Taylor Lewan]

Once you notice it, it's hard to unnotice it.

[Will Compton]

And Levante at this point, this is late in the season, so he obviously cleans himself up himself up now, but he had, like, the whole Ed Reed thing going on where he basically just, like, grows his. His hair out. There's no hairline. There's no nothing. Just nappy. And the girls got, like, close to us, and they kind of, like, walk by, and Levante just goes, hey, where y' all headed?

[Jeremy Klump]

And we was.

[Will Compton]

They kind of just turned back and look, and then just hurried up and scurried away and kept going. And me was like, yo, what the hell? That was the creepiest thing we've ever heard, bro. He's a dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

Crazy ass hair. Crazy ass fas. Where y' all headed right now at that time?

[Levante David]

We in San Diego, man. We don't got that much time. We got to get straight to it.

[Taylor Lewan]

No doubt.

[Will Compton]

Not Orlando.

[Taylor Lewan]

There's something. Something about Will goes, can I tell the San Diego story? He goes, we're at a bowl game, probably Orlando.

[Will Compton]

And I'm thinking.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm, like, thinking, all right, coast to coast this motherfuck.

[Will Compton]

We took a plane to Orlando. I'm feeling.

[Taylor Lewan]

I asked Levante if we met before. He's like, yeah, D. We met a lot. Then it will hits that I'm like.

[Will Compton]

All right, never mind. We're good, dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, Levante, I'm with you. Them bull games, man, you get. You only have a finite amount of time. So there's no. There's like a lot of courting taking place. Like, you don't have that. Like, it's speed dating. Speed dating. When you're in a different location.

[Levante David]

That's exactly what it is. You know, we had a bowl game, San Diego, we got college gear. You know, you feeling yourself and stuff like that. So. Hey, man, you gotta. You gotta try to get it where you fit in, man. Try to get his clean spots.

[Will Compton]

Hey, sun's going. Yeah, sun's going down, down. You just imagine with bookies, the moistures are hitting. Yeah, yeah. Where y' all headed? What the hell was that? What the. You just scared him away.

[Taylor Lewan]

That is so funny.

[Will Compton]

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Hey bro, we can sit here and talk NFL. Are you coming back next year?

[Levante David]

Am I coming back next year? You know what Will? I'm gonna be honest with you man. I'm not even thinking about football right now. Honestly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, you know what he did? He went. He went. Oh, I'm talking to ESPN now.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's what he just did. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

To be honest, I love the game. It's done so much for me. But at this point, I'm just not thinking about. I want to rest and recover my family. Talk to God. Is that where you were getting?

[Levante David]

That's exactly what I'm getting. But Will, you know, you'll be the first to know, bro. You know you Know how it is, man. You'll be the first to know what I did whenever I decide. But right now, bro, I'm not. I'm honestly, like, truly, I'm not really thinking about football. I'm not. I'm not thinking about retirement. I'm not thinking about playing. I took my daughter to school this morning. That felt amazing. So I'm just locked in on that now. Just. I'm just right now just chilling, you know, getting my mind right. Daddy mode. I'm going to. I'm going to do this place called Hot Words. I'm going to do cycling later. Later, you know, kind of like get a good little sweat in, good little workout in. And then, you know, when that time comes, bro, it'll pop in my mind, a sign to hit me. And I. I decide. But I would tell you this. My daughter, she doesn't want me to play anymore. So we'll see.

[Will Compton]

I'll tell you this whenever you do decide, because I am. Whenever the team told us that you were coming on Zoom, it was like last night around 9pm A rage took place internally. Because I want you on the bus. So whenever you do figure it out, I would love for you to be back on the bus. We could talk more things Buccaneers when that time comes. But what is going on through your head? Like, what questions are you asking yourself when deciding if you want to come back again for year 15, bro, again, Taylor was asking, like, when you knew you were going to be able to play in the NFL. I remember your senior year when you were going to the NFL. And we're everybody, you know, me, you like all the boys. We're just all. We're all fired up. I wonder where you're gonna get drafted. And we're like, how long you think you want to play? And I just remember you saying, like, I'll get to 10 years. And then, yeah, I'll get to 10 years and I'll figure it out. And it's one of those things where you just smile and shake your head because you know that that is a reality for him. And it's just cool to hear, like, this Dude's talking about 10 years. He hasn't. He's not even a rookie yet. And now you're looking, looking at. You could be looking at year 15. You just finished 14 years and just an unbelievable career. You already know your boy is going to be your biggest hype man. One of your biggest hype man, along with Gerald McCoy and all the boys out there that always put your name at the Top of every list. But what is going on through your head when deciding this? Are you asking yourself, what more do I have to prove? Can my body go through this again? Do I want to go through this again? Like, give us a look inside of your brain.

[Levante David]

Yeah. The main thing is just, you know, these seasons are long. You know what I'm saying? Am I going to be focused? Am I going to lock in? Am I going to be. Am I going to have my best foot forward for the team, you know, for 17, 18 weeks of the season, you know what I'm saying? And then next. Is my ability still the same? Am I still going to be able to cover tight ends? Am I still going to be able to. To punch and shed if I'm gonna be able to, you know, you know, make physical downhill tackles the way I always do? I just don't want to be a liability when I'm out there. I'm saying, always said, man, when I, when my ability starts to diminish, you know, I don't want to be one of those guys where people like, oh, yeah, man, it's time to hang it up, bro. I never wanted to get to that point. So that, that stuff, you know, the situation, you know, what's going on in Tampa, you know, you know, you got a lot of coaching changes down there. Are they going to put the right people in places and stuff like that and, you know, just is mi. You want to be able to endure it, you know, physical, you know. You know, this. It's been a tough year for me, you know, physically, you know, body wise, because I never really, you know, dealt with an injury like I did this year. I kind of dealt with something all year.

[Will Compton]

What'd you deal with?

[Levante David]

And it was like, huh, What'd you deal with? A knee. A knee, you know, you know how those knees get. You know, they call it wear and tear and stuff like that. You know how that can be. It could be, you know, very irritating. You know, just gotta. You gotta drain it every week and things like that.

[Will Compton]

So what's the most. What's the most CCCs you've had to drain from your knee this season?

[Levante David]

The most? I have like 50 something, I believe.

[Will Compton]

God, it's a. It's a good amount of fluid to drain before it gets.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gotta get that quad to fire.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Is there a part of you that, that, that. That fears not being the linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, that, that, that thinks about the other side and it's like, am I comfortable walking away from this Game that I know is a big part of my identity.

[Levante David]

Not really, Will, to be honest with you. I think, like you said, man, like, when you say, one of the questions, do I have anything left to prove? And only thing I have to prove is just if I'm out there, me being the best on the field. Because when I'm out there, obviously my mindset, hey, man, I'm gonna be the best player on this field. And if I don't feel like I'm the best on the field, there's no point in me going out there, you know? So that's the only thing that's for me. Like, just, you know, listen, man, I played. I played 14 years, bro. Like. Like. Like you said, I. I had a. I had a crazy thought to be able to make it to 10. I didn't even get drafted yet, so. And then for me. Me to be able to make it to 14, I tied Derek Brooks for the tackle record. I won a Super bowl, you know, mom, where I respected across the Tam community. You know, I did a lot. A lot in the community. I did a. I did everything that I said I do now and got drafted tackle. So, you know, only thing for me is just that's left to prove. Just, like, prove to myself that I'm still able to play football at a high level.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude, you. You clearly. And Will and I have had this conversation. When we were. When I was. When we were playing, I would have this conversation with Will, but you've won, dude. Like, you've done everything you have to do in your career. You've checked every single box that you need to check in order to be completely fulfilled in your career. But last week, we were doing this thing for Jim Beam. We were doing a segment which is kind of like, you know, giving flowers to a team whose season's end, and it was a Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And I did a little thing, and then Will brought up a bunch of your stats, and I think you might go down as the most underrated football player of all time. Oh, there's no question is when you talk about tying Derek Brooks and then Will has a whole sheet. He can. He can lay out all the stuff. Like, but when you see your stats next to other players and how close you are and then seeing the accolades they had from an individual standpoint versus your individual standpoint, like, does that add any more of the chip to the layer of. If I'm weighing pros and cons coming back, like, there's a pro right there? It's because for whatever Reason I've done this much and people still haven't given me the respect, the rewards I deserve.

[Levante David]

Yeah. The only thing about it is, man, just the All Pros and the Pro Bowls, you know, one first team All Pro, two second team All Pro, one Pro Bowl. You know, obviously I can't control that. You know, things like that, you know, hopefully down the line, when they really see and they look. Look at the stats and look at, you know, like you said, who I'm lined up against it like, oh, well, this guy, you know, maybe this dude did get, you know, cheated out of this stuff like that. You know what I'm saying? I don't want them to feel no sympathy for me or nothing like that, but I just want them to understand, like, every time I played on Sunday, I was a factor on the field, and that's the only thing that mattered, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, we wasn't really good. You know, Tampa wasn't really good at the beginning of my career. So that probably played a huge factor into it as well. Well, but when you look inside of that, you know, just look at the player himself, you know, look at we. What he did. You could go back and watch the film or whatever the case may be, like, people. People be like, oh, he made all these tackles. But in those tackles, I had 20 tackles for losses. So there was very impactful tackles. They wasn't like down the field tackles and stuff like that. Like, every time I played, you know, I made an impact on the game. So, you know, when people go back and look and see those things, I hope they, you know, take a chance and just look at that. And then, you know, I see like, you know, the, the Pro bowl voting and all the all Pro voting and stuff like that. I remember because I was a 43 linebacker at the beginning of my career. So, yeah, there's 43 outside linebacker at that. So I had to compete with guys like Von Miller, you know, Ryan Kerrigan, you know, Terrell Sugar. Yeah, true pass rush or something. I'm sure they not gonna vote me as outside linebacker, you know, on. On All Pro team or Pro bowl team, because they got those guys, they're looking at those guys who getting the sacks and stuff like that. And I've seen the all Pro thing came out the other day, you know. You know, they only have like two true linebackers up for all pro, and they have, like, edges. They got like five edge guys. So I'm like, come on, man, that's not really fair to the Linebacker position. So that's why I always say, man, like, the linebacker position in itself is kind of like being, you know, know, you know, tarnished and things like that because of those edge guys. But, you know, it is what it is. But, you know, I feel like, you know, when people do go back and look and just kind of like, truly see and watch, you can watch my film, you can watch the stats that I just, you know, look at the stats that I have and just shows that, you know, you know, I was. I was an impact when I played the game.

[Will Compton]

One of two. One of two players. 1500 tackle tackles, 40 sacks, 10 interceptions. Only other guy is Ray Lewis. And I look at that stat and hearing you break down some old stories and getting the relive, some old. Some old highlights of our career. But a guy who quit, tried quitting after the first day of showing up before Scott, guy who failed the beep test, guy who got thrown into the fire, a guy. All of these things. Could you. Can you even imagine. Imagine that that dude is one of two players with 1500 tackles, 40 sacks, and 10 interceptions and shares that with Ray Lewis being an undersized cat and everything else. Dude, it's unbelievable what you have done. And, you know, we're always gonna. We're always gonna root for you on this end. But yeah, when you do decide again, because we wanted you, I personally, I know Taylor feels the same way. We want you here in person.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

Because you'll sound much better. The. The. The audio will sound much better. And we'll just be in person. We can break down more buccaneer stuff. And then whenever you make your decision decision, you can let us know what factored into it. But we'd love to have you in Nashville and sitting on the bus whenever that day.

[Levante David]

No problem, bro. You know how it is, man. As always, love, man. I appreciate you guys. Every time I come to Nashville, we always have a good time. So, you know, I get. I get. I get chauffeured by you, so I'm. I'm thankful for that, you know, but definitely, bro, we could. We can set that up. Whenever that time comes, you know, I'll reach out to you. Reach out to you guys and let you up.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, AB. Sounds good. Because, hey, remember whenever we had did that favor for him in Kansas City, I was like, hey, Boogie. Just letting you know I got you my.

[Levante David]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Compton]

I executed what you needed me to, but I got you in my pocket now. Yeah. And that pocket's gonna be whenever you.

[Levante David]

Make a decision on your Future.

[Taylor Lewan]

And there's so much to break down with the. The Bucks, Tom Brady, there's so many things.

[Will Compton]

He had a 14 year. It's going to be an arguable hall of Fame career for probably a long time.

[Taylor Lewan]

We'll just call this a part one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Levante, do you want to ask the Bud Light question?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah. Levante, we got a Bud Light question for you. You know how people would do anything for an ice cold Bud Light? What would Levante David do anything for?

[Taylor Lewan]

Can't say.

[Levante David]

What would I do? What would I do anything for? I do anything to become a first ballot hall of Famer, man.

[Will Compton]

I love that, bro. I do, too.

[Taylor Lewan]

I know, dude, if, like the. Because literally the only thing that will hold you back is the Pro Bowls and all pros that we just broke down, but the stats, like, if you took, hey, player A or player B and you would win 9 out of 10 versus hall of Famers 100%. So. Yeah. But if. What's with the boys get to vote. We know where it's going.

[Levante David]

That's love. I appreciate that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Absolutely.

[Will Compton]

Boogie, we love you, bro. Appreciate you for coming on, man. And we will see you next time you come on this bus.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's give. Let's give Boogie Levante David a round of applause.

[Levante David]

Speaking of hall of Fame, man, I hope my boy Luke became a finalist. I hope Luke get in, man. That would be very incredible, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Keakley.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah. He's.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's. He's locked. He's. It's over.

[Will Compton]

He's on the rush. He's on the rush more. Only thing that would probably hurt him is what? Longevity.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, time.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, just time.

[Taylor Lewan]

But he. Dude, he's the only guy I've ever seen, like, change the way he played the game from, like, physical to be more elusive and lose zero production. Like, he. He never like the product. The product he put on the field was the exact same. It just looked different. It is nuts.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah, it was.

[Levante David]

There's only a few people who I stood up to watch when I played, you know, on the opposite side. And it was Luke, Kiko Lee, and it was Patrick Willis and Amaro Bowman. I had to stand up and watch those guys kind of hurt, but.

[Will Compton]

Always will out there. We'll get out there. Let me go watch my boy.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let me know how he does.

[Will Compton]

You're the man, Boogie. We appreciate you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Appreciate you, Levante.

[Levante David]

Appreciate you guys, man. See y' all soon.

[Will Compton]

All right, bro.

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