Best of NFL News Part 2: Crosby's Trust issues, Should State TAXES count towards Salary Cap?

Summary

Club Shay Shay – Best of NFL News Part 2: Crosby's Trust Issues, Should State TAXES Count Towards Salary Cap?

Podcast Host: Shannon Sharpe
Guests/Co-hosts: Ocho (Chad Johnson), Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)
Date: March 18, 2026

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Episode Overview

This rich, rapid-fire episode of Club Shay Shay, hosted by NFL Hall-of-Famer Shannon Sharpe, features football legend Chad "Ocho Cinco" Johnson and analyst Joe as they break down several pressing NFL news topics. The core themes include the NFL’s performance-based pay system, whether state income taxes should impact the salary cap, trust and business in the NFL with a spotlight on Max Crosby’s roller coaster with the Raiders, and how name pronunciations can shape players’ brands. The crew also dives into March Madness, sharing and debating their NCAA brackets, and briefly celebrates Arkansas’ first SEC basketball tournament win since 2000.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Performance-Based Pay: Not Just for Superstars

Timestamp: 02:45–06:58

• NFL Awards $542M in Performance-Based Pay:
  Sharpe outlines that over $542 million is distributed among NFL players based on playing time and salary levels, rewarding those—often lower picks or undrafted players—with major contributions on the field despite small contracts.

• Example Earners:

  • Nishan Wright: $1.4M
  • Ronnie Hickman: $1.3M
  • Elijah Wilkinson: $1.3M

• Draft Status Matters:

  • Most top earners are not high draft picks; the vast majority are third, fourth, seventh-round, or undrafted.
  • Sharpe, reflecting on his own career:

    “Only one guy that's in the top 15 that was a first round draft pick. Everybody else was between third round and an undrafted free agent. So that's a good little money.” (03:53)

• Sharpe’s Personal Example:
  He reminisces about taking a minimum contract late in his career to prioritize his family over chasing higher pay elsewhere (05:10–05:32).

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2. Ocho’s Wide Receiver Workshop – Community Building

Timestamp: 07:00–08:43

• Invitation to Top Receivers:
  Ocho announces his upcoming April wide receiver workshop and invites nearly every big name in the NFL, emphasizing it's to avoid schedule conflicts and foster improvement amongst elite receivers.
  • Notable direct callouts: Jamar Chase, Tyreek Hill, Justin Jefferson, CeeDee Lamb, AJ Brown, and many more.
  • Ocho:

    "If you’re a receiver that you want to get better, go down to Ocho's workshop." (08:39)

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3. Should State Taxes Influence the NFL Salary Cap?

Timestamp: 08:57–11:23

• Context:
  A Cowboys player is traded from Texas (no state income tax) to California (13.3%). Huge differences in take-home pay depending on team location become apparent.

• Sharpe breaks it down:

  • On a $30M salary: In California, after state (13.3%) and federal (36%) taxes, nearly half is lost to taxes.
  • Sharpe:

    “So you making 30 million, you making 15 million.” (09:57–10:14)

• State-by-State Disparities:
  Florida, Texas, Ohio—no state income tax. Arizona is just 2%. High-tax states include California and New York (~10%).

• Debate on Fairness:
  Raises the question: Should high-tax teams get more cap space to level the playing field? The trio recognizes the significant impact of where a player signs or is traded.

• On "unhoused" terminology:
  Sharpe reminds Ocho about politically correct language, advising “unhoused” instead of “homeless” after discussing California issues.

  “No, you cannot say homelessness. You have to say unhoused.” (11:42)

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4. NFL Name Pronunciation—Branding and Identity

Timestamp: 13:59–16:03

• Travis Etienne Jr. (HN):
  The running back shares the challenges of having his last name mispronounced for years.

• Player Agency:

  • He accepted “Etienne” at Clemson for ease but prefers “HN”—like “Jackie Chan.”
  • Etienne Jr.:

    “Growing up...it always said Travis HN. But when I went to college...they just couldn’t get it...So, I’m like, man, it’s Etienne. Like, how you see it is how you say it.” (14:12–14:31)

  • Sharpe:

    “ATN is pronounced HN.” (15:23)

• Broader Point:
  Pronunciation can heavily impact recognition and branding (Robbie Gould/Gold, Christian Braun/Brown, etc.)

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5. Max Crosby, Trust Issues & the Brutal NFL Business

Timestamp: 22:11–36:07

• Crosby and the Raiders:

  • Analyst Albert Breer reports trust was fractured between Crosby and the Raiders, but was organically regained when the team supported Crosby off the field after a trade fell through.
  • Debate over who initiated the near-trade: Crosby or the team.
  • Sharpe sees the offer of two first-round picks as a badge of honor but acknowledges the emotional toll:

    “...it's tough. It's like, damn, y' all really think y' all be better off without me.” (24:38–25:36)

• Personal experiences:
  Sharpe shares he was nearly traded twice and reflects on the blow to one's ego when realizing the business side of the NFL trumps personal achievement, even for players with multiple Pro Bowls or All-Pro honors.

• Ocho’s perspective:
  Understanding the business early made it easier to cope with being traded, but laments not being able to stay with one team.

• Crosby’s On-field Mentality:

  • Crosby:

    “If I acted off the field the way I do on it, I’d be in prison...the second I put on my cleats and…cross the line, I’m in a different environment, and I'm thinking about murdering everything in front of me…the second I’m off, I turn it off.” (32:16–32:39)

  • Both hosts agree: Crosby epitomizes the Raider culture.

• Bigger Picture:
  Even legends like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, and Emmitt Smith changed teams or were cut—it’s the unvarnished reality of the NFL.

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6. March Madness – Breaking Down NCAA Brackets (Men’s and Women’s)

Timestamp: 43:47–70:34

• Celebration of Arkansas’ SEC Title:

  • Joe recalls the Razorbacks’ last SEC title and the nostalgic campus-wide celebrations from his time as a player.
  • Joe:

    “Bro, you go to class…they wheel them big TVs in there. The big TVs…The whole school shut down. Every class got the game on.” (61:07–61:32)

  • Sharpe and Ocho praise Arkansas’ resurgence and deep basketball roots.

• NIL and Wealth in College Football:

  • University of Texas, SMU, and other programs leveraging family fortunes (Tyson, Walmart) to build powerhouse programs under new NIL rules.

    “Three or four families just gave them like $60 million.” (48:41)

• Men’s Bracket Contenders:

  • Lengthy debate and ribbing as each host reveals their full brackets.
  • Ocho touts bold picks and mocks the others’ logic, expecting upsets:

    “You’re using logic and common sense to pick the teams. And it never goes that way…neither one of y’all gonna be in there at the end.” (57:41)

  • Joe and Sharpe fire back, defending their strategies while joking about picking by mascots.
  • Common Final Four picks: Duke, Houston, Arizona, Michigan, Arkansas, Florida, etc.

• Women’s Bracket:

  • Ocho, Sharpe, and Joe also share picks for the women’s March Madness, with Ocho picking TCU for a major upset over South Carolina, drawing jokes from the rest.
  • Sharpe puts his faith in perennial powerhouse UConn:

    “I just don’t see anyone beating Yukon. I don’t.” (67:09–67:12)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On performance-based pay:

  “That’s a good little money right there. Forget being a Pro Bowl. I’m trying to make the top 25 base team.” – Shannon Sharpe (05:10)

• On state taxes:

  “You make $30 million, you making $15 million.” – Shannon Sharpe (09:57)

• On NFL business:

  “It's like, damn, y' all really think y' all be better off without me. I just went to the Pro Bowl...” – Shannon Sharpe (25:00) “Hey, after you. You can't trust after that, man.” – Ocho (31:28)

• On team loyalty:

  “If I could do it again, I would stay. I would definitely stay. I didn’t even have a choice. I ain't get no phone call, no nothing.” – Ocho (36:41)

• On name pronunciation and identity:

  “I’m very much open to being Travis A. Chan again, just being myself.” – Travis Etienne Jr. (15:08)

• On upsets in college basketball:

  “You’re using...logic and common sense…It never goes that way. That’s how I know neither one of y’all gonna be in there at the end.” – Ocho (57:41)

• On March Madness nostalgia:

  “The whole school shut down. Every class got the game on. Those are moments I always remember.” – Joe (61:17)

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Episode Structure & Timestamps

| Segment/Event | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------|-------------------| | Performance-Based Pay Discussion | 02:45–06:58 | | Ocho’s Receiver Workshop Announcement | 07:00–08:43 | | State Taxes & Salary Cap Debate | 08:57–11:23 | | Political Correctness in Language | 11:23–12:45 | | NFL Name Pronunciation | 13:59–16:03 | | Max Crosby/Raiders Trust & Trades | 22:11–36:07 | | March Madness – Arkansas SEC Win | 43:47–46:34 | | NIL Money in College Football | 47:23–48:41 | | Men’s NCAA Bracket Debates | 49:39–59:57 | | March Madness Nostalgia | 60:19–61:32 | | Women’s NCAA Bracket Picks | 61:32–68:17 |

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Final Takeaways

• The NFL's structure can reward overlooked players but remains a cold business at the top—even legends get traded or cut.
• State-level income taxes, while rarely discussed publicly, play a tangible and sometimes decisive role in shaping NFL player and team finances.
• Personal branding, down to the correct pronunciation of a player’s name, matters both for respect and legacy.
• March Madness continues to unify fans and ignite passionate debate, with every host convinced their bracket is a winner (until the upsets start).
• The episode is a lively blend of hard-core sports analysis, industry inside talk, friendly roasting, and authentic personal stories—delivering both information and entertainment.

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[Shannon Sharpe]

The NFL announced today that over $542 million will be given to NFL players in performance based pay following the 2025 season. The performance based pace program is collectively bargain benefit. The compensates all players based on playing time and salary levels. Quarterback Nishan Wright led the way $1.4 million in incent in performance based play. Ronnie Hickman, 1.3 million offensive tackle who was just, he was with Atlanta last year. I think he with Arizona now Elijah Wilkinson has $1.3 million. They top the list as you can see the list right there in front of you. So a lot of these guys are probably lower round picks. Oo right. Well I mean on bargain contracts. Yeah. And they play a line. They play in 75, 80, 90% of the snaps and this is what you get.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey that, that's, that's a good thing too because most, most of the guys that are getting these incentives, they probably don't have big salaries, huh? Not yet.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, no, no no no no no no, no, no, no, no.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah. So this, this is big. This is big for them.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You, you look at Ronnie Hickman, undrafted free agent. Elijah Alexander, undrafted free agent. Nick Scott, seventh round, seventh round, seventh round, undrafted free agent, fourth round, fourth round, fourth round, third round. Devin White was a first round pick but that was in 2019 so he's not playing. Excuse me. Chat. So if you look at the guys there are, there's only one guy that's in the top 15 that made that was a first round draft pick. Everybody else was between third round and an undrafted free agent. So that's a, that's a good little money. That's a good little money right there. Oh yeah. I think that came in like when I was like my last two years. Oo, you know I got a quick little hunter. A little hunter something.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Wait, hold on, wait. You got a quick you about your incentives?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, this, this, this.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Because I would, you know, I went back on a minimum contract.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I just wanted to go back. I didn't want. I ain't want to start. I didn't want to go to the Raiders. I didn't want to go to Seattle. That's too far. My kids were young. That was 2002.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So my kids have been 10 and 11 and they're going to be traveling from Atlanta and to have my mom, my mom would have had to fly down from Chicago, pick the kids up. My sister had to pick. I say, nah, it's too much.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

It's too much.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, my girl, my girls could. My girlfriend could, you know, fly down one stop, go pick them up, you know. Nah, I, I had to think about the kids then it wasn't about me making. Yeah, I could have made a little bit more money. But Ocho, forget being a Pro Bowl. I'm trying to make the top 25 base team. I mean, if you made the Pro Bowl.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Whoo.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Look at this, man.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

What happened? What happened? What happened?

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm just looking at this money. They joke these joker making Ocho 1.1 on top of your contract. Who, who?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, who, who at the top?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Nishan wright, he made 1.4.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ronnie Hickman made almost 1.3. Elijah Wilkinson, almost 1.3. Yeah. A lot of seventh round draft picks in that thing. And undrafted. Yeah, they were what, two. There were three undrafted free agents, three seventh round draft picks. And most of, most of the other guys of the top 15 were third or fourth round picks. Like I said, only Devin White was a first round draft pick and that was way back in 2019. So obviously he's not on that, that type of a contract currently. Probably played on a minimum contract or slightly above minimum and plus incentives if he led the team in tackles, if he top five, top, you know, led the league in tackles, tackle for loss of things of that nature. But congratulations, guys. Hey. Now it's like, hey, Nishan Wright gonna get paid though. He about to get. He gonna get a big contract. Oh, yeah, he played. He played his tail off.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

He's nice. He nice. Hey, we. You know what, now that we on the. I want to interject real quick now that we're on the topic of. We're on the topic of football, right?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I have a question. The next topic is still football or we going on to something else?

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, we still talking football.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay. Just in, in between. Real quick. Hey, Chad, I need you to do me a favor. I need y' all to clip what I'm getting ready to say. My wide receiver workshop is coming up, right? Un.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I had all the young bulls last year. We're doing it in April because we don't want to interfere with obviously their vacation time. And obviously World cup is going to be here. So ain't no telling where people gonna be. And I, I need you receivers, I need you people in the chat if you can clip this at some point and make sure send it to them. I'm going to send them their own formal invite, but I need them at the wide receiver workshop. Jamar Chase and T. Higgins. They were here last year. JSN Was here last year. Tyreek Hill. Depending on where you at, I need you. Cortland Sutton, Jerry. Judy Jaden, Reed Tankdale, Elijah Moore, CD Lamb. I don't bother you much. Come on home. Amon Ross. St. Brown. Justin Jefferson. Malik Neighbors. I'm not sure how rehab is going. Please, please. It'd be an honor to have you come down with the fellas, man. Chris Godwin, Chris Olave, Mike Evans. If you're on the West Coast, I will fly you back to the East Coast. Your presence is needed. Nico Collins, please. Jalen Water, you right down the street. Ain't no excuses. A.J. brown, Brian Thomas, Jr. Devonte Smith. George Pickens.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Huh?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Let's finish that conversation in person, please. Puka Nakua, Zay Flowers. You already here at home. Mike Wilson, Keon Coleman, Luther Burden, Rome Medunze, Xavier Leggett. If there's anybody that I left off this list of receivers I would like at my wide receiver workshop this year, you are welcome. I can't say everybody's name, but please, I beg of you, let's get together.

[Shannon Sharpe]

If you're a receiver that you want to get better, go down to Ocho's workshop.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Come on. Come on now.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Please.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

That. That's just. That's just a list of names off the top of my head that I wrote down. And I look forward to seeing all y' all boys. The formal invite. I'm. I'm. I'm gonna send out to your agents. I know y' all got a lot of moving parts and moving pieces, but I look forward to seeing all y'.

[Shannon Sharpe]

All there something. The salary cap should take state tax into account. The sparks come from the trade that defensive tackle OC Odigo Zua from the Cowboys and the Tech in Texas was. There's no state income tax and he was traded to the 49ers in California, where they have the highest state income tax. So you go from 0 to 13.3%. The real question is whether teams should get more to spend. Given there's more, what's paid, it end up being taken off the state government. The numbers are significant. The salary cap in 2026 is $301 million.20. So the drams, chargers and 49ers with a 13 bump would push the cap the 341.2. So in other words. So if you look at. If you look at that. If you were to bump it down. So because the state taxes, that's 13%. So if you make $30 million.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Your contract is $30 million in the state of California, Uncle Sam taking 13.3% before you even see it, that state. So now when we kick that federal in there, which is 36%, they splitting your money 50. 50. So you making 30 million, you making 15 million.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Oh, that's nasty work, boy. That's nasty work, boy. That west coast, if you play in New York, I think New York is like that too, huh?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, I think New York, New York, New Jersey, they're around 10. You know, there's some states that's a little, obviously a little higher than others, but if you want to play in Florida, you want to play in Texas, Ohio, Tennessee, where there's no state income tax. Nevada, there's no state. Arizona, I think it's like 2%. But then, you know, most of the states are somewhere, anywhere between, you know, 5. Just say 5 in, like, it's California, 13.3. And then California trying to, Trying to eat bubba to be higher. And, and for what? What am I getting for that? Crime is still bad. Homelessness. Oh, excuse me. You can't say homelessness. The unhoused problem is still extremely bad. Oh. So I got, we got to be correct because people be kind of calling in, trying to get us, try to get us canceled. The unhoused community is the, is getting out of control. So we go, we got to be politically correct because we know y' all be clipping stuff.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

You.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And then y' all try to spin it. So this is what we're going to do. We're going to speak in only political correct terms so we can avoid this foolishness. So the unhoused or the physical limited, which means the disabled community, that's what we're going to do moving forward.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay. Okay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, you cannot say homelessness. You have to say unhoused.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, I, I, I never knew that, huh?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Well, you know it now. I do, because trust me, I got people in my air constantly, constantly reminding, shannon, this is what you can say. Shannon, this is what you can't say.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Right. Okay. So, I mean, we don't, we don't touch those topics too often.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So, yeah, I mean, but, you know, we, we just be talking like, okay, home. I mean, you know, without. So we use the term unhoused. You know, we talk to different. I talk to different. Different demographics. I said, okay, what is acceptable? What isn't accepted? Acceptable. Had a conversation with Brad Williams, who is A. A little person. You. He little person is correct. Also, dwarf. You can't say the M word right. He said, is that.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Is that offensive?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Dwarf. That is acceptable. Huh?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Is that offensive?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes. If you say the M word, it is offensive to them.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

That's crazy. I mean, I, I. Okay, all right. I'm. Leave that alone.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So we just, we just, we. We try to be as acceptable as we possibly can because, you know, so like I said, Ocho, you'd be surprised that we be talking. And I get off if people don't clip some of the things that I've said or what you said. And I already got it posted.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah, well, so, you know, I, I'm. I'm. I've always had an unfiltered mouth. I've been this way since 1978. So normally when I say something, it's like, oh, that's Ocho. Okay, next.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, you.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

You. You like that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ocho. But now you're.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

You. You're more polished in that area and in some of the words you choose use. I just been a potty mouth all my life.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Well, I think the thing is, is that you have to understand, like, okay, when you're in the. Even. Even when I'm in the barbershop, I don't know if I'm being recorded, so I always use politically correct terms.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Damn. They be recording in the barbershop. You know what? You know what I thought about? They got them glasses. What's the glasses called?

[Shannon Sharpe]

The meta.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah, man. Hey, yeah, you got. You got to watch out for the meta glasses, huh?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep, yep, you do. So that's. So you just chat. Just be careful. Yeah, they. They looking ocho.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yo.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Travis H.N. jr. Spoke to reporters on how to pronounce his last name. They were calling him ATN at Clemson, but it's right. Travis A. Chan Jr. Take a listen to what he had to say.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay, so it.

[Travis H.N. Jr.]

Growing up, Travis H. So it be like a C, H, a N, E. And that's how you always said Travis Hn. But when I went to college, I kept telling my. Telling him my name, like, every day, every day, every day. And like after, like, four weeks, they just couldn't get it. So I'm like, man, it's etn. Like, how you see it is how you say it.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

So.

[Travis H.N. Jr.]

And that's. That's, that's. That's how that became. And it kind of took off because it was easy for the pronouncers to say it. I didn't have to just tell them I didn't have to correct them every day to say my name. And just when I kind of just started learning more about my last name and how it came about and things like that, it just kind of stuck and made sense.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But

[Travis H.N. Jr.]

I'm very much open to being Travis A. Chan again, just being myself. I don't have to correct people here on how to say my name each and every day. And I kind of love that. And that's just. Just get back to me.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Wait a minute. So it's not Travis atn.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Nope, it's HN because remember we had. We had a Chan from the dolphins on dolphins, and we asked him to say. What's the correct pronunciation? It's like Jackie Chan.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

A Chan.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

A Chan. Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So it's the same thing. ATN is pronounced hn.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Well, how did we come about that? What's the origin? What's the backstory on his name? Is it for. For it to be spelled the way

[Shannon Sharpe]

it is, but pronounced completely different from New Orleans? You hear, you hear Kind of like the Creole.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

When he got to Clemson.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They kept. He told them what it was, but they. It doesn't. It doesn't. If you look at it in the way it's spelled.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That doesn't look like it should say HN. It looks like it should say ATN.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So they called him Travis ATN Jr. Right. And it stuck and he didn't correct them.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Robbie Gold. Robbie Go used to be the kicker for the 49ers. They called Robbie Gould when he was at Chicago.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Right.

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[Shannon Sharpe]

I know you guys have been calling me Robbie Gould for a while, but actually, my name is Robbie Gold.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Right. But why. Why he got the you in there, then?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hey, bro, don't start me like, listen, that's.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

That.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

That pretty dope. I. I like it. I. I can't wait to. I'm sure I'm gonna see Travis.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

At some point. I. I would love to hear the backstory on the spelling and how, you know, his parents came about giving him that name.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. If, you know, like, the guy from the. The nuggets is pro, is spelled Braun, B, R, A, U, N. But it's pronounced Brown. Kristen Brown. It's male. It looks like it should be Kristen Braun.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But it's pronounced Christian Brown. So sometimes spelling and pronunciation doesn't go hand in hand.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

No, not. Not at all. You know, I. I know very well because that. That spello Cinco, man, that's. That's. That's rough for me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So hopefully down there in New Orleans, he's from that area. Hopefully everything will get corrected, and he'll be Travis. But that's what. That's. That's what it is. Ocho. So he's correcting people. He says. Hopefully. He says he doesn't think people have a problem pronouncing his name from. Because he's from that area. They're very familiar with that. I'm surprised it took him, what, five years to get that corrected. Yeah, normally, guys, you know, hey, they get that corrected as soon as possible. Here's the pronunciation. I guess they started. I guess they called him Te because, like, DK is the. The quilling. But he goes by DK because it's so hard to say. So he said, just call me dk, man.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

The quit. The. The quilling.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

What.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

What's the k. What's the quilling?

[Shannon Sharpe]

What? DK is for the quilling. Metcalf.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay. Hey, I'm call. I'm calling him that from now on.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Albert Brer wrote about the latest he's hearing on the Max Crosby future with the Raiders. Brer reported some of the fractured trust between Crosby and the Raiders was rebuilt organically last week when the team showed the five time Pro Bowler that it had his back and reaching out and offering him any help he needed after Ravens backed out. It won't hurt Clint Kubiak effort to build a culture to, to have someone like Crosby if Crosby buys in and there's no reason to think that he won't, he has the potential to be what he's always wanted to be for the Raiders, a flag bearer and an agent of change.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, it sound good. I love the words. Right. But after a situation like that and a team ships you off or lets you go and they bring you back, how you building trust?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Look, we don't. Ocho is some people saying that he told him that he wanted out. Some people say he never said that. They got an offer that they couldn't refuse. Two first round picks. They traded Michael Parsons for two first round picks more times than there've been a lot of players traded for two first round picks. So it should be a badge of honor that somebody thought enough of you that they were offering two first rounders.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But for your services. Okay. Things didn't work out so guess what? They brought him back.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We're happy to have you back. Oo behind. Like I said, I don't know. I mean you hear a lot of things. He wanted to go, he didn't want to go. Blah blah blah. We don't really, I don't really know the extent, but I know this.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Is that they got him back. Yeah. And if they tried to trade him again, he's not getting a first. Once somebody fails you on a physical, Ocho, it's hard to overcome that.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah. That sucks too. The physical part, I mean that. That sucks. I hope he has a speedy recovery, gets back healthy and can do what he's always done, be dominant, you know, at his, at his craft. I'm hoping Kubiak and the rest of the organization has a hell of a plan not only with off season free agency, but the draft as well, to continue to, to build what they need necessary to be able to compete in that division. Because the Broncos have gotten better, the Chiefs have gotten better and at some point the, the Raiders are going to have to catch up.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. And I mean it's. Look, nobody want. I mean being traded, it's always nice. You know, I was potentially traded a couple of times. It didn't happen. Almost got traded to Green bay during the 99 season. Ended up breaking my collarbone. You? I did.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

You mean you could have been with Brett Favre?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, Had I not broke my collarbone, I would have been with Brett Favre. Almost got traded in the 95 off season to Arizona for Eric Swan. The Broncos was going to give their first round pick, which was number 15. Ended up being John Mobley, myself and Mike Pritchard for X1 that didn't go through right. So. And it's tough. It's like, damn, y' all really think y' all be better off without me. I just went to the Pro Bowl Lo Cho, you know.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That was my fourth consecutive Pro bowl of two time. First I was two time all pro in that Spanish. They're like, yeah, you good, but we'd be better without you.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Damn.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's what I said. See, that's exactly what. That's exactly what I said.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey. Hey, August. It's hard. Listen, I'm glad Max is happy. Obviously in the media, in the public, they always gonna say doing taxes the

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[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

All the right things but for sure but that it just. It just. You already know how dirty this business is. Yeah, for sure. You guys have seen how this business operates many, many a times. Obviously, players, they. They do what they can to save face by saying all the right things on camera, but behind closed doors, they know how the game goes. And I. It sucks. So I'm just hoping they do right by Max. And he does, you know, his due diligence on getting healthy and getting back to doing what he does best.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's. That's the number one thing Ocho, is to get healthy.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause we know he's healthy. He.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hell, hey, before he the fourth to deal with.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He's a top five edge rusher. You know, Hey, I ain't taking nobody over Miles Garrett, because I think Miles Garrett is the best defensive player in football. And I can make a case he's a top five player in all of football, regardless of position. Obviously, the quarterbacks hold a lot more valuable than. A lot more value than any other position. But when you look at what Max. Max Rod, what Miles Garrett can do in the run, tackle for losses, pressures, he's second to none. But like you said, Ocho, it's tough. It's almost like, oh, we filed for divorce and then, well, come on back, baby.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah. Hey, I can't find nothing. Hey, I can't find nothing else out there. Hey, I can't find nothing that's out

[Shannon Sharpe]

there to find out. You.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

You.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You wasn't. You wasn't what he thought he was or she wasn't what you thought she was. So come on back and accept them.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, after you. You can't trust after that, man. So.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, no, no, no, no, no. But it. Ocho, look at all the greats they traded. Joe Montana.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They cut Jerry. They cut Emmett. Come on. What are we doing here? These new young players think that being released or being traded is beneath that. Could never. You better go back and check some of the historically great players that have been cut and traded. It happens. Y' all need to stop. Max Crosby also said on his broadcast that he acted off the field the way he does on the field. He would be in prison. Crosby said, the second I put on my cleats and I'm across the line, I'm a different environment, and I'm. And I'm thinking about murdering everything in front of me the second I'm off, I can turn it off just like that. And just because you have to. I can't be like I am on the field all the time, or I'd be in prison. He's a Perfect guy. He's a perfect guy for the Raiders.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah. I mean, listen, I said that red hair.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, he's al. He would be. He would be like the old Ocho. The 70s Raiders wouldn't have Matusak and Otis sit. All those guys. Ben Davidson, Jack Tatum and all those guys.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

He did he perfect. Hey, I said it before. I mean, I didn't think he wanted to be there, but if he is, I mean, they lose a huge piece of what their identity is. Mac Crosby is the identity. He represents everything that the Raiders are and always have been.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

So, I mean, it was kind of weird. Kind of weird to see him go, but I was also happy he went. I wasn't happy he went to the goddamn Ravens, you know, but, I mean, hey, listen, it is what it is.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So if Tom Brady can change teams, if Aaron Rodgers can change teams. Yeah. If you think about the greatest players, the greatest players can change teams.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What chance do you got? These guys got now? Brady didn't finish his career. Peyton Manning got released. Yeah. Y' all realize Peyton Manning got cut, right? Five MVPs.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Adrian Peterson, Emmett Smith. It happens. It's tough, though, Ocho. It really is, because it's a blow to your ego. I'm Bro, all the all pro teams, I done made all these. All these promos, DPOIs and. And MVPs. And you say. You saying that you. You better without me.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah. Hey, you know what the problem is, too, with those MVPs, with those defensive player of the years, with those Pro Bowls, and maybe add your Super Bowls to it as well.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

But when I want to get that money off the books.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Huh?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

When I want to get that money off the books and I want to go somewhere, get something cheaper. Now, I might not get the production you bring me, but I can get half the production and try to make up for it in other areas.

[Shannon Sharpe]

When they get fed up, they fed up. It's really that simple, Ocho. You see, they're eating 100 million or two. They're paying two a damn near $60 million. Say no, you go and play for somebody else. It happens. The greatest, from Randy to Tio to Jerry, your top three Seavers. Somebody's like, nah, we good. It happens. And so I can understand. But, you know, you're happy that, you know what? They wanted me back, so I'm good. I'm good. I, I, I, I, I, I can, I can. I can get. Ocho, you know what? I. I can get over that. I can. I can get over that. Yeah, it does. Because you think about what. You think about what you gave to Cincinnati, if Cincinnati. Because it's like you were like, okay, it's time for a change of scenery. But look at all what you had done to Cincinnati.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

From the All Pros to the Pro Bowls. And they say, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, we. We could.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah. I kind of knew it was coming too, though, and I understood it. The funny thing about it, too hunky. You know what? I was very wise, actually, while I was still playing the game. I understood the business side of it. I understood the politics that came with it, which is why I played the game with such joy, like a little kid. That I did because I understood the Minnesota, and I wanted nothing to do with that. Now, honestly, when obviously the trade happened, I knew it was going to happen because they were drafting a new quarterback.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

They were drafting a new receiver.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

And that new regime was going to start. And they want. They wanted to start fresh.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They want to start it fresh. Yeah.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah. Everybody else was. I don't want to. I hate using the word old, but we were up in age. We were up in age. So I understood it. If I could have. I would have loved to have let Marvin know. He said, marv, listen, I take a pay cut. I take a pay cut. Just put me in the slot. Put me in the slot. I let AJ Green do what he do on the outside. And let me. Let me just. If I could be a one Jersey team, if I could do it again, I would stay. I would. I would definitely stay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I didn't even have a choice. I didn't even have a choice. I ain't get no phone call, no nothing. I think Drew Rosenhaus hit me and say, yeah, they shipping your black ass off.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, Ocho, I wasn't taking no pay cut.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

No.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, hell no.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

And let me. Let me see.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm coaching. You got to understand, I had taken. I had taken less. Now, I wasn't getting big signing bonuses, Right. So they was really. All my money was against the cap. So I was the highest paid.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm like, hold on. So seven consecutive Pro Bowls in an eight year span with five for. With five All Pros, and you want me to take a pay cut Because I have. I got injured.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Oh, okay. I. I think for me, the fact

[Shannon Sharpe]

that I take a $300,000 pay cut.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's all I can give you.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah. I would have took a pay cut simply because when football season was over, I had so many moving parts in the off season. So I was still. It was like I was damn near working year round. So, yeah, I wouldn't have trip. Whatever. I take a pay cut. And whatever I take, whatever pay is cut in season, I would make it an off season anyway, so I really wasn't tripping. But obviously it didn't work out that way.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But no, it. It. But look it for the best. I'm glad I went to Baltimore. I got a chance to win another Super Bowl. I want it without the umbrella of Denver. And people couldn't question, well, you wasn't gonna be that good if you hadn't played in Denver with Elway and Shanahan, blah, blah, blah. I get all of that. But look, I don't care who my teammates were. I was very successful that I was a part of three super bowl winning teams. And I like to think I was an integral part on all of those. So people. People gonna try to take shots at your. Oh, well, you did this, you did that. Look who you play with. Okay, what y' all want me to do? Say I wish I hadn't played with Elway? Wish Mike wasn't my head coach? I. I don't think Brady. I don't know how Brady feel, you know, feels about coach Belichick, but he'll never say he wished he wasn't his head coach, right? Not after what they accomplished. And, you know, sometimes you don't get along. Everybody don't get along. This notion that you think that everybody should get along, that ain't happening. Just like you don't get along. Go ahead. Oo. Everybody don't get along at the job. Yeah, we saw that. We saw the Lakers. Hey, Chuck, we contenders yet. All I know, we the third seed. Third seed just took down the Rockets. One Hyundai, the 92. I saw that. Luca had 36, 6 and 4. LeBron had 18, 5 and 5. Austin Reeves had 15, 3 and 5. Market Smart chipped in with 11. D8, gave us 11 rebounds with seven points. We got 13 points off the bench. We can roll with that. We can roll with that. But easy. 33 minutes from raw. A little light lifted. A little light lifted. Had the highest plus minus of anybody on the court tonight. But Lakers are playing well. They're playing some good basketball. They're playing some good basketball. Lucas. Lucas. Luca, he gets off to that heart start. I mean, now you kind of at his mercy.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

What. What Luca had tonight. Unc.

[Shannon Sharpe]

36, 6 and 4. 36, 6 and 4.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

And

[Shannon Sharpe]

there are two players right now in the league averaging 25 and 5. Two players.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Joker.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Joker. Guess who the other one is.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Either Shay or shay or Luca.

[Shannon Sharpe]

LeBron, I think there's two players. Shay gonna win the mvp.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Not even. Not even close, huh?

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, even.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

The fact, even with the time that he missed, he's still gonna win it, huh?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

He ain't missed.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He ain't missed over the a lot of games, right? So. And Joker could only miss one more game, so if he missed one more game, he cool. But if he misses two more games, he's out of the running.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

It's a rap.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Giannis is out of the running. So for me, it's Shay, it's Yoke, it's Cade, it's jb, and it's Luca. Yeah, and Wimby. And Wimby. And Wimby. But Lakers get a big win tonight. They needed this. They start their road trip. They got. They got the same team again Wednesday. Oh, man. If I'm a head coach, I'm flying y' all ass back to la. You think I'm gonna leave y' all down here Monday night, Tuesday night in Houston. Oh, no. Y' all gots to go. Oh, can you imagine if you had the super bowl in Houston now?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I don't even want to think about it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do my part. A nightcap remote. I ain't showing up. You gonna be a Houston by yourself if you do about on video conference.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, if you don't show up, I ain't showing up

[Shannon Sharpe]

to be down there for a Ocho. Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night. Getting up out of there. Ocho for real.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

No.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

No, sir. No, sir.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Can't do it.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Oh, houston boy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Darius Acup Jr. Scored 30 points and handed out 11 assists, leading Arkansas past Vanderbilt 86 75, Arkansas's first SEC tournament crown since 2000. With the win, Calipar became the first SEC coach, okay, in history to win the tournament titles at two different programs. He won six at Kentucky. Excuse me, the last in 2018. Including the 2017 title over Arkansas. Calipari now has 16 combined conference turner titles and career stance at UMass in the A10, Memphis in Conference USA, and Kentucky and Arkansas in the SEC. Oo. What did you like about what? Joe, let's go to you. This your squad. What did you like about what you saw from your team,

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

man? Okay, Ocho, first off, they hadn't won the SEC championship since 2000, and guess who was on that team?

[Julian Edelman]

Who?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

That Joe was on there.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Hey, listen, let me tell you something. Let me Tell y' all something. 2000, bro. We was, like, 16 and 14 going into the SEC tournament. That was my freshman year of school. We wasn't gonna make the NCAA Tournament unless we won the SEC tournament. Right. Man, the gauntlet. We had to go through four days to win four games against elite talent Georgia, who was. It was played here in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome. So that was a home game for them. Then Kentucky, LSU and Auburn. Like, that was a hard feat. This is kudos to Coach Kyle, man, and his coaching staff. You know, Chin and Kenny Payne, those dudes, man, keeping those guys ready and developing those dudes. Because we've gotten better as the season has progressed. And right now, uncle and Ocho, them Razorbacks, we probably. We playing the best ball. This is the best time to be, you know, peaking, you know, going into the tournament. So I'm proud of those guys, man. That's what's up. Home team. Them dudes. Coach Cal. Look, when Coach Cal got the job, I went to his presser because I knew he was gonna bring talent. Yeah, we got the. We got. We got two fresh. We got the SEC Freshman of the Year. The SEC Player of the Year. He's a freshman, bro. Like, we. He's gonna get the talent. Now we just gotta, you know, hope these boys can keep it going.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But they look great, man. They look great.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Congratulations.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. Billy Richmond, yesterday was the guy. He had a successional game.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And then today, a cub says, hold on. Y' all must have forgot. I'm still him.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah, yeah, Them boys balling, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We gotta.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

We got quite a few guys. Uncle Ocho, Trevor Brazil. Yeah, Brazil, who's been playing great,

[Shannon Sharpe]

obviously.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Malik Thomas, these young dudes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Who, Jay Wagner.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Wagner, yeah, yeah. DJ Wagner, who's been around. Who's been around the block. He knows and understand. We gotta. We got a solid squad, bro. We got a solid squad.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He. They shot your guy shot 15 or 24 from the three. Joe.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

They shooting that thing, huh? We. I'm talking about. We got some guys who can fill it up, though. Like, them boys getting it done, man. You know, in the NCAA tournament. Arkin, Ocho, you. If you got great guard play, you got a great chance to go far. Yes, you got a great chance to go far. And we got two elite guards, man, who I think can obviously, you know, lead us in. In the right direction. So I'm looking forward to seeing these guys.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's how UConn wanted back to back, because what do they have? Great guard play. You look at Villanova. What did they have guard play. You look at the Tar Heels when they won, what did they have? Guard play. You're absolutely right, Joe. The bigs, it's nice to have a big. But if you got great guard play.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

I'm talking about game changing guards. Like, you seen that run Kimball went on when he was with Connecticut? Like how him and little Shabazz Naper and all them little dudes changed the game. You gotta have guards who can really take over Ocho. And we got that, bro.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Y' all. Do y'.

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All.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, y'.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

All.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I can't complain. I can't. I can't say nothing, Joe. I can't say nothing. Yeah.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

He liked that. He liked that.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, y' all shot 52% from the floor, 63% from the three point line. You shoot 63 for the three point line, you gonna win a lot of games.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah, that was. You know, that's. That's back to back to back. That's three games in three days, fellas. You know, with minimum risk.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Look, you know, the one thing about Cal, you know, Cal been on the nil deals. And now he got. Now he got that Tyson money, Walmart buddy down there at Arkansas Joe.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

And then Tyson Chicken, that Tyson Chicken

[Shannon Sharpe]

farm, another Walmart buddy.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Hey, hey, hey. That. That is. That is not a bad place to start when it's legally nil money now. But that's the best place you can start, actually. You know, they filthy up there, bro. They take. They take care of them. They taking care of them boys. And this is what you get. You get great product.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Look proud of Texas. If I'm looking at somewhere, I probably football. O show my first job. I'm looking at Texas. University of Texas. Got money. SMU. Hold on. Didn't somebody just give SMU like 60 million, like three families? I think three or four families just gave them like $60 million. Look that up, Ash.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Oh, yeah, Man. Hey, hey, hey. We might have to take a trip up there and Holly. The walls. The walls. The Walmart's in the Tysons, man. The. The Fayetteville where I went to college at Ocho.

[Shannon Sharpe]

It was.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

You know him personally?

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Come on, man, stop playing. What did you talk about?

[Shannon Sharpe]

$50 million. Oo to recruit and retain players at SMU.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Damn.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's that Highland park money. That's that real money?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You think. You think Texas and you think A and M got it? S. If you got it, they got it.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Got it.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, Joe, tell me more. Tell me more about these Mr. Tyson

[Shannon Sharpe]

and, man, you eat Titan Chicken when you go to the store. You see T, Y, S, O, N? That's them.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah, I know they in Arkansas when

[Shannon Sharpe]

you go to Walmart. Sam's Club, the Walton. That's them.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay, okay. Hey, Joe. Get him on the line, Joe, so I can holla at him.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Man, say less, baby. What you got? You got some plans?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah, you know I ain't got planned. All you gotta do is get me in the room, Joe.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, all right.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Bet.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Say later. Hey, Joe. One thing about it, boy, I may play a fool, but I know how to work a room like no other.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah. We might have to do it like a little event or something up there.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Okay.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah, okay.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, that's fine with me.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

All right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

All right. Duke took it, though. Number one overall seed in Selection Sunday, with Arizona, Michigan, defending champs, Florida rounding out the number one seeds. And without further ado, Ocho and Joe and I are going to reveal our full completed brackets. Well, Ocho. Yeah, I'm reading Ocho. Or the Ocho gonna read Ocho. Oh, Lord have mercy.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Now you, you, you read. I could barely see mine.

[Shannon Sharpe]

All right, you got Duke.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hold on. Before you start, right, for all the people that are watching, if you made a bracket, this is a great time to look at mine and cheat, because this is exactly how March Madness is gonna go, and I could win us a whole lot of money. Okay, go ahead.

[Shannon Sharpe]

By Saturday, this is what you'll be able to do to Ocho's bracket.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

All right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

All right.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I'm telling you.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

All right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He got. Obviously, he got Duke. Okay, he has duke, Ohio State, St. John's Kansas, Louisville, Michigan State, UCLA, UConn advancing. And then he has Duke and Kansas, Michigan State, UCLA advancing. Then he has Duke, Kansas. Although he has Duke over Kansas and UCLA over Michigan State. So in the east coming out, he has Duke facing ucla. In the bottom half of the bracket, he has Florida, Clemson, McNese, Nebraska, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas A M, Houston advancing. And then he has.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Well, that's a tough.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Over Clemson, Nebraska over Magnese, North Carolina over Illinois, Houston over Texas A and M. He has Florida over Nebraska, Houston over North Carolina, and then he has Houston to upset number one seed, Florida. Okay, and I guess this is the West. He has Arizona, Utah State, Wisconsin, Arkansas, byu, Kennesaw State, Miami, Florida, Purdue. And then he has Miami over Miami and Florida over Purdue. BYU on Kennesaw State, Arkansas over Wisconsin, Arizona over Utah State, and then he has Arizona over Arkansas, Miami tripping over byu, and then he has Arizona in the Final Four. He has Duke in the Final Four. He has Houston in the Final Four. In the Midwest, he has Michigan, St. Louis, Texas Tech, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Santa Clara, Iowa State advancing. And then he has Michigan to advance, Alabama to advance, Virginia to advance, Iowa State to advance. He has Virginia to advance, Michigan to advance. And then Virginia beats Michigan and they go to the Final Four. And he has. Cutting down the nets. Arizona,

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

they ain't. Ain't a bad pick.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I know. I know. I know. It's not.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Joe, you got decent. You got a decent bracket. You. You know, get you off to a good start after that. Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Straight to the shredder on Saturday.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Listen. Hey, y'. All. Y'.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

All.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Y' all don't understand. It's. It's. It's only one game. The way you think things are gonna go, that. It never happens the way you think it's gonna go.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

I. I already know. You over there picking mascots. I know you don't know what's going on.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hey, mascot, look the best, all right? Joe got. Joe has duke, Ohio State, St. John's Kansas, Louisville, Michigan State, UCLA and UConn to advance in the first round, and. And then he has Duke, St. John's Michigan State, UCLA, and then he has St. John's Michigan State, and then he has St. John's beating St. John's beating Michigan State in the east, and then in. In the south, he has Florida, Clemson, Vanderbilt, Nebraska, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas A and M, Houston to advance, and then Florida, Vanderbilt, Illinois, Houston to advance, and then he has Florida to beat Vanderbilt, Houston to be Illinois and in Florida to be Houston. And then he has Florida to beat St. John's to advance to the Final Four and the west bracket, he has Arizona, Villanova, Wisconsin, Arkansas, byu, Gonzaga, Miami over Florida, Miami and Purdue to advance, and then he has Arizona over Villanova, Arkansas over Wisconsin, BYU over Gonzaga, Purdue over Miami, BYU over Purdue, Arkansas over Arizona.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

What's funny? What's funny?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, you talk about my bracket.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Arkansas to beat BYU to the Final Four. In the Midwest, he got Michigan, St. Louis, Texas Tech, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Iowa State to advance, and then he has Michigan, Alabama, Virginia, Iowa State to advance, and then he has Michigan over Alabama, Virginia, Iowa State over Virginia, and then he has Michigan over Iowa State, and then he has. In the Final Four, his Final Four is Florida, Arkansas, Michigan and St. John's so he has Michigan, Arkansas to beat Michigan and Florida to beat St. John's Arkansas to beat Florida, and then they face.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Hey, hey, hey. When we see Florida again, they get back a mug. You Hear me? They get back a mug on the biggest stage.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Watch.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

We gonna catch Florida.

[Shannon Sharpe]

All right, put them down.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I got it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Sounds good. Ohio State, St. John's Kansas, Louisville, Michigan State, UCF, UConn. And then I got Duke, St. John's Louisville, UConn. And then I Got St. John's Louisville, and then I got St. John's advancing the bottom half. I got Florida, Clemson, Vanderbilt, Nebraska, North Carolina, Illinois, St. Mary's in Houston. And then I got Florida, Vanderbilt, Illinois, Houston. And then I got Vanderbilt, Houston. And then I got Houston over Vanderbilt. Top half of the west bracket. I got Arizona, Villanova, Wisconsin, Arkansas, byu, Gonzaga, Missouri, Purdue. And then I got Arizona over Villanova. I got Arkansas over Wisconsin, Gonzaga over byu, Purdue over Missouri. I got Purdue over Gonzaga. I got Arkansas over Arizona. And then I got Arkansas to advance over Purdue in the bottom half. I got Michigan, St. Louis, Texas Tech, Bama, Tennessee, Virginia, Santa Clara, Iowa State. And then I got Michigan to beat St. Louis. I got Alabama to beat Texas Tech, I got Virginia to beat Tennessee, and I got Iowa State to beat Santa Clara. And I got Iowa State to beat Virginia, Alabama to beat Michigan and Iowa State to beat Alabama. And I got Arkansas to beat Iowa state. I got St. John's to beat Houston, and I got Cutting down the nets, St. John's hey, hey, hey, hey.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

You got a decent break. You just need to flip flop your championship game team. You got the right team. You just gotta flip the scenario. I don't know what you got going on over there. You ain't bad. I like how you thinking over there. Why? You might have been copying off my bracket a little bit.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I tell you what I did do. I didn't go by mascots. I didn't pick the mascot. Whoever had the best looking mascot.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, hey, y'.

[Shannon Sharpe]

All.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Listen, y'. All. Y' all using your. Your basketball knowledge, and you're using your logic and common sense to pick the teams. And it never goes that way. That's how I know neither one of y' all gonna be in there at the end.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah, you got all top running. That's all he do. There's gonna be some upsets. It's gonna be some upsets. That's why they call it Bart's badness. I got y', all.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm telling you.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Oh, man, I'm killing y' all in the chat, too. They rolling with you, boy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's okay.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

The chat don't know no better.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, you do.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

I bet you my break could be better than y'.

[Shannon Sharpe]

All.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

You won't bet nothing.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Nah, Joe. What you bet that ain't gonna happen.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

What you mean?

[Shannon Sharpe]

I like my bracket. I like the upsets.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Well, y' all boys in trouble.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ocho, pin the tail on the brake on the bracket,

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

yo.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, it took me. It took me three hours to make my bracket, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I could have made your bracket.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Three minutes, Joe.

[Shannon Sharpe]

The mascots roll, but I'd have got this.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, you heard me, Joe.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

What'd you say?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Man, I sat there for about damn near two, three hours, man, doing my due diligence and homework, you know, before. Before I made my bracket, man.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Hey, hey, what's up with you and uncle and y'? All Fasha pink and all that today? I ain't get the memo. What's up?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Un got on pink.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Un got a little pink in his shirt. You got hot pink. What y' all got going?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

You know, this is.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Unless you got a. Oh, yeah, background.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Look, look, look. Pinkish red. It's for the Hogs, baby. You know, we still celebrating over here. I'm sorry. Come on, chill, chill, chill. Let us enjoy our moment, man. Hey, let's enjoy our moment.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Y' all on, Y'. All. What are y' all on? Y' all on Eastern time or Central time?

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

We're on Central time.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay, you got another hour. Enjoy. You got another hour. Enjoy. Man, the thing about these brackets, you never look, you. You always like, okay, the number one seed. But, man, anything can happen on a given, on a given, on a given. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You have no earthly idea what could possibly happen. We've seen it. Expect the unexpected from when Villanova beats Georgetown to when NC State beat Houston. It started with Texas Western beating Kentucky.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah, man. Man, listen, it's nothing like March Madness. I remember Uncle Ocho, when I was in high school, bro, junior high school, when the Razorbacks played. Cause, you know, that's more like our NBA team. We ain't had no NBA professional team, but the Razorbacks was there, you know, in the 90s. They were always good. Uncle Ocho, y' all had Sidney Moncrief. Yeah, we had Sidney Moncrief, Ron Brewer, Lee Mayberry, Ty Day. We had Squad, Cortis, Williamson, Scotty Thurman. Them dudes, they went to back to back natties. 1:1. Yeah, so the 90s, we were always pretty good. And I remember they were shut down if the Razorbacks was playing. Bro, you go to class, you know how they roll. They wheel them big TVs in there. The big TVs. They wheel them in there.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

We watching the game gonna be on today. The whole school shut down. Every class got the game on. So those are moments that I always remember. So when I see, you know, the Razorbacks playing like they did this weekend, bro, and winning the sec, you know, championship, it take me back to my childhood memories. So. I don't know. I'm still. I'm still in a little awe by how those dudes played throughout this whole weekend.

[Shannon Sharpe]

All right, Ocho, now we did a. A women's bracket also. Oh, Ocho, I' ma read. Ocho's right. All right, we starting out in the east. We got Yukon, Syracuse, Maryland, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Colorado, Vanderbilt. And then he has Syracuse. I mean, he has Yukon over Syracuse, North Carolina over Maryland, Ohio State over Notre Dame, Vanderbilt over Colorado, and he has UConn over North Carolina, Ohio State over Vanderbilt, UConn over Ohio State. And in the bottom half, he has South Carolina, usc, Michigan State, Oklahoma, South Dakota State, tcu, Georgia, Iowa. And then he has South Carolina advancing, Oklahoma advancing, TCU advancing, Iowa advancing. He has South Carolina over Oklahoma, TCU over Iowa, and he has TCU to upset South Carolina. Top, he has ucla, Princeton, Gonzaga, Minnesota, Baylor, Duke, Texas Tech, lsu. And then he has UCLA to beat Princeton, Gonzaga to beat Minnesota, Duke to beat Baylor, LSU to beat Texas Tech, Duke to beat lsu, UCLA to beat Gonzaga, and UCLA over Duke. And in the bottom half, he has Texas, Oregon, Kentucky, Miami of Ohio, Alabama, Louisville, North Carolina State, Michigan. And then he has Texas over Oregon, Kentucky over Miami, Ohio, Louisville over Alabama, Michigan over NC State, and he has Texas over Kentucky over Michigan, over Louisville, and then he has Michigan to upset Texas. I'm gonna go ahead and borrow yours up in the trash. Put it in the trash right now.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

That man. That man got TCU beating South Carolina.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Here's Ocho.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Women's day.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hey, Chad. This man got. He got Texas losing, South Carolina losing, and Duke, and he got Duke losing. No, you got.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, you. Do you do realize this is Marshall.

[Shannon Sharpe]

It don't be like that for the women, though. It's just like that for the men. All right, but. Okay, all right, here in my bracket, I got Yukon, North Carolina, Ohio State, Vanderbilt. And then I got Yukon, North Carolina, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, and then I got UConn, Ohio State. I got UConn over Ohio State. I got South Carolina, Clemson, Michigan State, Oklahoma, Washington, tcu, Georgia, Iowa. And then I go South Carolina, Oklahoma, tcu, Iowa, South Carolina, tcu. I got South Carolina over tcu. At the top half, I'm going ucla Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Minnesota, Baylor, Duke, Texas Tech, lsu. I got LSU over Texas Tech. I got Baylor over Duke, I got Ole Miss over Minnesota, I got UCLA over Oklahoma, I got UCLA over Ole Miss, I got LSU over Baylor, I got UCLA over lsu. In the bottom half, I got Texas, Oregon, Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama, Louisville, Tennessee, Michigan, and then I got Texas, West Virginia, Alabama, Michigan, and then I got Texas over West Virginia. I got Michigan over Alabama, and then I got Texas over Michigan. I got UConn over South Carolina, I got Texas over UCLA, and then I got the national champions back to back. The Lady Huskers of Stores.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

I said husk.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Lady. The Lady. The Lady Huskies of Stores. Oo, I'm sorry.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

I'm have to. I might seem. I'm send mine in Am.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, you don't copy that was not up a late.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, Joe. Hey, Just. Hey, Joe. Just followed my.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They say you got the wrong bracket up there. What bracket y' all got up there? Yeah, what the ladies bracket at? It ain't up there. Oh, okay.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah, there it is.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. Can y' all see it now?

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Lady strong and foot too much.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Let me see.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Sarah strong. They too much. And Gino.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Hey, hey. I'm gonna tell you where you messed up at.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Oh, you messed up at.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yo, when he picked Vander, when he picked Ohio State girls over Vanderbilt.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, look, I like Shay Vanderbilt. You know, she played. Hey, she played it, but you'll see.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

All right, all right, I. I got you, boy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ocho, you see what he did? He already saw we picked. He gonna try to pick opposite of us.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Yeah, yeah. Yes.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

I mean, well, I'm for sure ain't gonna pick what y' all picking. I'm not doing that.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Well, you definitely ain't gonna win if you ain't picking what I'm picking.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, you go ahead and pick them, right?

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

You might.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You might.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

You might. You might want to follow my lead.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Nah, don't do that. I already threw yours in the trash.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Oo, you out of here.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, hey, hey. What's my prize when I win?

[Shannon Sharpe]

You're not winning. You're not winning. Oo, we haven't thought that part. Advance, cuz there.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, one thing, boy. Y' all hating on my.

[Shannon Sharpe]

On my.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

On my picks.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We have. We have not thought that far in advance.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Hey, Joe. Hey, Joe, you been in the gym.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Come on, man, stop playing. Oh, Joe, I'm just.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I'm just making sure, bro, because you. Hey, you gonna have. You gonna have hell on your hands soon, boy.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

You make. Are you just making it worse for yourself, man. If I was you, I'm.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I'm just telling you, Joe boy, you finna have hell on your hands, boy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You hear me? Look, if. If USC had juju, we'd be talking something different. If South Carolina had Chloe kids, we might be talking something different. Right? I just don't see nobody. I just don't see anyone beating Yukon. I don't.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

They too good.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ain't they? Strong and. And fud.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah. Hey, tell you all it take. All it take is one game.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

I keep trying to tell y' all that y' all ain't listening to how

[Shannon Sharpe]

you keep it close with them. Ain't nobody been close. Yeah, they got a 1, 2. They got. They're gonna have two all Americans, and that's normally what UConn does. They have two all Americans. They normally have at least going into the ncaa, if it hasn't been often, they didn't have the best player or one of the three best players. You go back and look at it, from Sue Bird into Rousey to Swing Cash to Tina Charles to Maya Moore, it doesn't matter, right?

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

You got Stewie.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, Renee Montgomery. I mean, you just go look at their rosters, they're gonna have one. They're gonna have a top three player in all the women's college basketball. A lot of times, they got the best player. Yeah. And here, lo and behold, here we are again.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, I. Like I was big. I would stay with all the crooks. Big Audi, big. Ought to be high for that thing.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Oh, we. Hey, hey, hey. They can't talk.

[Shannon Sharpe]

She go out in 5,000 on them. Get up out of here.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Hey, she obese. She obese,

[Shannon Sharpe]

but y' all in trouble. Y' all are in trouble.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

This. This was easy work, huh?

[Shannon Sharpe]

This is Joe, who you got winning

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

girls.

[Ocho (Shannon Sharpe's Nickname)]

Ain't that hard, Joe.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

I sit there and scan, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You.

[Joe (Sports Analyst/Commentator)]

Is South Carolina missing somebody?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Well, no, no, no.

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