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Bobby Bones
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You know, I get some. I get some ill stories sometime when I bump into people, you know. And one of the main things I get from some of the people, they say, man, you raised me like Man, I don't know your mama, man. Yeah, bro, you got me through some hard times, you know, and, you know, I tell them all the time when I see them. I say, hey, man, I'm glad I could be of service to you, man, but 400 degrees, just like it is in New Orleans for a lot of people, they say, man, it was an inspiration for me to do something in life. So glad to be there for him. Well, listen, Cash Money, bruh, Cash Money Records, bro, was a powerhouse in the 90s and 2000s, bro. Yeah, we grew up on that. Should you raise me? You know, when I think about it, I'm. I'm just. I'm just being honest, man. What is it like being a part of such a revolutionary label, bro? It's crazy, man. You know, we was in the studio making them songs, you know, we didn't see ourselves being. I know. I didn't, I didn't see ourself being, you know, around this long, 20 plus years. And man, it's one of them situations where you see a little bros popping off. You know, you had your shine and then you see Wayne pop off, you see BG pop off, and it's like, damn, man, we really, we really, you know, we really made it, you know, and now the city's still showing love, man. Yes. Yeah. When you were in the studio, did you know at the time what you guys were doing? Did you think it was like, man, these are classic. These are gonna stand the test of time? And probably. Did you ever think, and that's a two part question, obviously, when you have that and everybody could stand their own, did you think you guys like, damn, we probably ain't gonna be together much longer. Cause we a. Each guy can stand on his own. And yeah, we doing this together, but this ain't gonna last much longer. When we got together, man, you know, Cash Money did a overhaul. They had a lot of artists on the label. And then, you know, when I got there, the first thing they told me, it's gonna be you. You know, it's you, Turk, BG and Wayne. So when we start hitting them studios and we start making them songs, we had no idea of, you know, what the fan, you know, what the people, what the reaction would be, you know. But when we started doing them tools and that money started coming in, you know. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? The cash money, Rough Rider tools and stuff like that. Yeah, that, that's. I started seeing a little, you know, a few things. Then I started saying, well, man, I hope Everybody getting paid, right? You know, so I start. You know, I start worrying about my money, too. So. Yeah, who your. I got you on. Go ahead. Who are your biggest inspirations? When you. When you were coming up, and who inspires you now? So when you was coming up before you started popping off and y'all were, boy, who inspired you, especially from your own culture? Good question. Man. I listen to everybody. I was one of them cast that liked to listen to hip hop, period. But my main influence was Ice Cube. Ice Cube. And Ice Cube was that guy for me, you know, when NWA came out. Gangsta, Gangsta. And everybody from the city could tell you, when Gangsta, gangsta came out, that changed the way everything in New Orleans. Everything, homie. I mean, and Ice Cube was always that dude for me. Who inspired you? Right now, that's in the game. Somebody that you. You look at and be like, you know what? That he the one. He one of them, man. I got a few of them right now. It's this guy sitting next to you, man. I'm inspired by him. The transition, you know, I'm in the transition of my life where I'm getting ready to do a podcast. You know, I see how y'all. I see how you're picking up all these awards, and I'm inspired by that, man. And my other inspiration is E40. You know, the way that he took the rap game and started branding itself. I see you with your laportier. I got my yak, I got. Everybody down here knows I'm branding myself all the time. I got juvie juice, I got chips, I got papers, you know what I'm saying? I got a few things. And my inspiration right now probably wouldn't be somebody that's in the rap game right now. Cats, that. That was around back in my day about being an entrepreneur. Let me ask you this. Weezy was the youngest. Did you know that he was going to grow up to do what he's become? We did, bro. You listen to Bling Bling. You hear. You hear Birdman sing in the year 2000, Wayne gonna tear the game up. We. That's how we felt. We always knew, you know, Wayne mom. You know, Wayne mom wasn't letting them curse, so we had to water it down. We had to, like, he used to come in there with some songs, and like I said, bro, you can't say that, bro. The kids like, bro, you can't say that. So we knew then some of the stuff he was saying then, like, damn, bro, when we take the cuffs off, God, Damn. He gonna. Yeah. I mean, when he came up with bling Bling. Say that again. Bling Bling. Yeah. Did y'all know that was gonna be an after? Because everybody started talking, hey, bro, you need that? Bling Wayne was making so many sound effects. You know, that was his trick, too. You know, I come in the studio talking stupid like, look, man, I'm about to mess. I don't care what you got. I'm about to mess over you. Wayne come back with sound effects, so. Wayne was always the one that killed me on the song, man. But, yeah, man, I didn't know bling bling was gonna be something. Not especially. Not a word in the dictionary. Wayne was always creative, bro. Beyond. I can't explain it, bro. I can't explain. In the beginning, dude used to have me laughing. The fact that he was so young and he was like an adult in a kid body. Some of the things he knew. I'm like, bro, how the hell you knew that? Amazing, bro. Real smart, too. Real smart, too. Real book smart, too. Yeah. If there was an artist right now that you could collaborate outside of me. You spit like that, though. Oh, yeah, I could rap. Yeah, I spit like that. Yeah. You got rhymes. You want to hear it? No. Well, forget y'all. Anyway. If there was an artist you can collab with today, who would it be right off top? Off the bottom? Yeah, that's off the top. Somebody that's active right now. It's Glorilla for a whole bunch of reasons. That's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one For a whole bunch of reasons, too. I just feel like Glorilla fit that whole hot girl thing that I've been talking about that we was talking about years ago. You know, I'm from the projects. Yeah, she just feel like somebody is from the hood. Oh, you say Glorilla? Yeah, Glorilla. Oh, yeah. Glow. Glow off. Glow on, man. Let her cook. Yeah, she back. We're joined by a very, very special guest. Very. He and his mom, they're promo promoting Invisalign. They both did the treatment. Jaden Daniels, who's going to be the runaway rookie of the year after an outstanding season. He did something very, very unique that very few rookies have ever done. He's led his team to two road playoff wins as the de facto leader. He wasn't relying on his defense. They put a lot on his plate, and he ate everything. I expect to see big things from this young man in the future. Congratulations on a great season. Jaden, tell us about the treatment that you and your mom did with Invisalign, man. I mean, the main thing for me, you know, is appearance, man. You gotta have your smile, right? Okay, you have them on now, right? I do have them on right now. Okay. I do have them on right now. But for me, I mean, I have braids and stuff like that, so it wasn't. My teeth were always straight. It's like, man, let me enhance this more, right? So, I mean, just a partner with Invisalign, man. The appearance is everything. Everybody look at your teeth. Everybody look at your smile. First thing they notice, bro. You know, that's how you get that money. I have a question. I want to. I want to transition into football. Do you understand how special what you've done for organization that has had chaos, turmoil, and they haven't been at the. The depths of the bottom of the NFL, but they've always been in situations that weren't in favor of. Of them in general. You understand? You turn the organization around in one season, there's been no maturation. There hasn't been no. No steady progress or a progression to them turning things around. You came in, in one year and literally turned the franchise around. Yeah. Do you understand that? I think. I think I'm kind of getting the grasp of that. I didn't know how. It's real talk. I didn't know how passionate Washington fan base was like me growing up, because you never seen, like, them at the top. I know you've seen, like the RG3 years, stuff like that, but when I really got there, I was like, When I got drafted, people were like, man, I'm a Washington fan. I was like, I ain't never, like, heard nobody say that. Right, right, right, right, right. But now I'm excited to see everybody, dmv, everybody around the world, you know, bringing out their Washington stuff, going out there, grabbing out the basement, hanging the flags up and everything. So they excited, like, watching you play. And if you're a fan, if you're a commander's fan, you understand with a quarterback like yourself what you were able to do in a rookie year where there hasn't been no room for development, you know, most you wait for rookies to develop, you know, and then, you know, you see you have a chance. But you give a team hope for the next decade based off your play this season. And I commend you. I salute you. Been a fan for a very long time, man, but what you've done was special. And not very many quarterbacks, especially as a Rookie have been able to come in and do what you've done. When you look at what you've done, the expectations now you have to improve and build on what you've done. You can't become complacent for sure because you understand what is expected of you now. Only because they're talking about, man, this guy. Who's to say he's not a top five quarterback? As we sit here and speak currently. What does Jaden Daniels need to do to improve to make sure this year wasn't a fluke? Man, I just think like you said, don't get complacent. And I think the veterans that I had, like one person I really lean on a lot is Bobby Wagner. Okay. So that's my, that's my guy, man. We have conversations and he just teach me little things. I remember like shout out to him. I remember like we played a couple games and a road game, we'll get back late, you know, you tired, everything. And he pulled me aside like, man, let's go get, let's go get these tubs. So we, we up there like 3 o'clock in the morning. Wow. Making sure your body's back right. But just little stuff like that, it's like never thinking that you know too much. There's always room to grow. So I mean outside you always get better technically, stuff like that. It's a blessing. I get to be in the system that I was with Cliff another year. Yes. So I can improve on that within that system. But just learning how to be a pro, you know, it's my first full off season, so I was like, okay, I got to figure out, have a schedule like this. What I'm gonna do is my ramp up period ota, stuff like that. And just always had the hunger to get better. How do you block out the noise? Because obviously there's gonna be a lot that comes along with what you've been able to do your quarterback. In the NFL, we know what comes along with the most important position in all of pro sports. So now the endorsements are gonna come now. More fame, more adulation, more praise, everybody. Hey, Cub, what's up? Everybody's a friend now. Everybody's a family member now. And as your mom said, she's like, look, I know the women are coming, but hey, my son got a Heisman pose. I got one too. I'm still farming them all out the way. How do you keep a level head and to understand. Yes, I understand what comes along with me and Jaden Daniels, but I don't get outside of who I am, man. I just think it comes, like you said, support system, mom, dad, like, friends, family, Everybody knows me for me. And there's not here, like, okay, let me ride his coattail and stuff like that. So that's a big part. But also it's the time to play for everything. It's gonna be a time to have fun, right? It's gonna be a time to go out there and party, you know, make some money, do this, that and the third. But the main thing, man, none of this happened if you don't ball on the field, right? So that's the main thing. Like, how do I get better to continue the success? And knowing, like, all right, first year is that, like, everybody's gonna have a full all season to watch a film for year two. So, like, man, I gotta improve on different things and get better myself. Listen, though, when you talk about that improvement, right? You guys were able to make the NFC Championship. What pieces to the puzzle do you think you. You guys need to add to make your job a little easier so the bulk or the weight of getting things done isn't always on your shoulders? Yeah, man. I think for us, it's like, if you look at. I think I seen some, like, we got like 20, some free agents like that on the team. So, I mean, we gotta. We gotta bring some. We gotta bring some people back. So I think overall, just in general, man, we gotta. We gotta get some people in. We gotta bring people back. But I focus on my job, man. My job is to get better. Whoever they bring in, we hold them to this standard that we set with DQ and the set, and then let the front office do what they do. Now, I have a question. When we talk about letting the front office do what they do, I know it's very early in your career, do you think you would have any say on who you bring in, especially from an offensive perspective, to be able to help you out? I don't know yet. I think. I think that time comes, we'll see if they call me. Yeah, okay. But I don't know, man. They're doing their job, right? Like I told. I tell them, man, let's bring some dogs there. But I'm right here. If you need a dog, I'll let you play. When I look, go back and look at this NFC Championship game, Jay, you guys have played well, and the one thing that you hadn't done until the championship game was turn the ball over. And, you know, I'm sure DQ and WAGs have told you if you turn the ball over in the playoffs, you pay double. You had four of those things. How differently do you believe the game would have been had you taken better care of the football? Because you guys were right there until you had those consecutive turnovers. I think it came down to the wire. I think it came down whoever had the ball last. Obviously, like you said, turnovers, especially in the playoffs, man, play a huge factor. I mean, we turned the ball over against Philly in the regular season five times. I won the game, right? But in the playoffs, you know, it's different, right? It's a different type of beast where you're in the playoffs, you're on the road, so obviously you're playing into the crowd, playing the atmosphere. And man, they got dogs over there, they got superstars. Okay, this game right here, you got the two time defending champ and the Kansas City Chiefs led by Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid. You got the the Eagles in your division. You played them three times this year. This is their second time back in three years. How do you see this game shaping up and who do you have winning? I think it's going to come down whoever got the ball last. I think so. I think obviously Saquon and what they do, Jay, hurts. You got A.J. brown and then on the other side, man, you got Pat. So it's hard to bet against Pat, right? Especially he's been here. But I think it's who could create more turnovers, who could create more negative plays on the side of the ball And I think it will come down to the end. So for me, I think it's hard to bet against Pat. I can't see, you know, rightfully so. I mean, I love playing the Eagles, right? They're in the division. But I think it's hard to bet against Pat, man. I really appreciate your man, the legendary already icon commander's quarterback, Jaden fucking Daniels maybe. I appreciate you appreciate it, man. Thanks for stopping by. He'd repping Invisalign, go out there, get the treatment he and his mom would get, have the treatment done. They're very, very satisfied with the treatment. Thank you again, Jaden. Mom, thank you for dropping him by. Thank you. Appreciate y'all. We're joined by Greg Olson, one of the great play by play guys. Actually your color. You're not play by play, your color. One of the great color guys, young, up and coming. When you. Let me ask you this. Forget football. What's been the biggest thing from you to do? How. How were you able to become so good so quick at doing this job. Great. You know, it's funny when people ask me about it, you know, there's actually a lot of lessons that I learned, you know, from playing. Right. Just routine preparation. Every Monday is a Monday, every Tuesday is a Tuesday. And leaning into a lot of those things throughout the course of the week. As a player, I didn't know any different. Right. So when they said, all right, we got a game next Sunday and you're going to call it, I just fell back to what I knew, which is study the game. I love watching football. I love asking questions. And you have to be very willing to be like, you know what? I don't know a lot about this. I'm going to find people who really know it, and I'm going to pick their brain. I'm going to talk to great coaches, I'm going to talk to front office guys, I'm going to talk to, you know, defensive coordinators. How do you put together your blitz package, Learn as many different aspects of the game, organize it in your mind, organize your thoughts, and then just lay out the game. Stay with the game, follow it, and try to do it in a way that is interesting, it's insightful, and try to add value. And I'm still learning. I don't pretend to know it all, but I just love learning the craft of calling the games. And it's been a great transition for me since I'm done playing. Listen, I've watched you transition, obviously, from playing the game to doing play by play or color commentary, like coaches, coaches said, obviously your discipline and your work ethic has allowed you to do so. Now I'm thinking about someone in my position who has never done anything of that magnitude. Is it possible in any way that I could probably learn? If I can minimize my cursing a little bit, I can learn to do color commentary or. That something you think I should stay away from? No, I think anybody can learn it. Right. So the inherent, you know, the underlying foundation of all that is guys who love football, guys who want to continue to learn it, guys who want to continue to stay up with the trends and follow it and dive into it. Anybody can do it. Right. Then it's just communicating it in a little bit of a different setting. Right. Simplicity. It's. And that was probably the biggest transition for me. I'm a talker. I love conversation. I could sit here with you two for three hours. Yeah. And we could talk about whatever, but that's not the broadcast. We have commercial breaks, we have referees, we have game breaks. And you get 15 seconds. That was probably the biggest thing is just the tempo and kind of the rhythm of the broadcast. Everyone has a lot to say. Can you say a little bit make an impact but also not overdo it? I think that's still the balance that I'm still trying to find. Okay. I think the biggest thing for me is that what I've noticed is you're talking about it as it's happening versus talking about something that's already happened or something that you perceive to happen. So like pre game, post game is entirely different than doing color because you're talking as it's happening. Yeah. And I think the, the, the battle, at least the way I try to do it is I try not to tell you what you're seeing. Right. Because you already see it. Right. Like I don't want to narrate the replay. Okay. Okay. I don't want to just talk over what you're already seeing. I think to most fan. I think fans nowadays are very educated. People are listening. They're listening to shows, they're listening to weekly and weekend stuff. Tell them why they're seeing it. Maybe take their eyes away from the ball. What led to this play being really successful? What led to this read or this wide receiver route? Like was it. It was a pick. But did the receiver not get flat enough on his inside brute? Take people into the why? The thought process. That's the part I enjoy the most. Everyone can see it was a nice catch. Right. Everyone can see it was a sack. Why? Yeah, tell us why and what the counter is going forward. That's the game that I think is the fun part to lay out. Some might say homes.com is the best home shopping site. But why is it their sleek ad free user interface Enjoy search experience without distraction. Maybe it's their unmatched school insight featuring district detail and reviews from expert sources like niche. Every parent's dream. Or is it their super comprehensive agent directory? Or how they always connect you directly to the listing agent on every listing? Homes.com even offers a comprehensive search experience with 22 data visualization layers, 7 environmental layers and an option to search by commute and architectural style. 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We're rolling three times a week on Mondays, on Wednesdays, on Fridays, breaking down everything you need to know about the NFL. We're talking about the MVP race. Is Josh Allen going to pull it out? Lamar Jackson? Can Saquon Barkley even break the rushing record? Can the Speaker Steelers keep up their momentum? We talk about everything. We break it down. Stats, analytics. And of course, Chris Rose is bringing his perspective on being a pro in the media world as well. Listen to Football Today on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast, and you will be glad you did. Hope you could join us for the postseason run. Joining us now, cap Michael Pittman Jr. Sir. Sorry, I'm fumbling around here. Here we go, bro. How you doing? Good, good. Congratulations on a great season individually, not the season that you wanted to have. Team wise, what do you guys need to do in order to have success where you're in the playoffs and you're contending for a championship? Yeah, I mean, that's a really, really tough question. But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Be honest. Don't be politically correct. Not here. Okay. Okay. Be straight up, like we in the barbershop now. Okay. All right. So we have to have those tough conversations as, you know, like, just like, as men. Right. And. And we need to call guys up, right? Like, just, like, not, like calling them out. I just, like, call them up to. To, like, our. We expect more. Yeah. And. And that starts with everybody. Like, that starts with me. That starts with every single person. And we just got to find ways to close that gap because there's so many games that, like, you were close. Like, just, like, we were so close, and we just let it slip. Now, I got a question. Now, you speak about that gap, right? And obviously everyone's goal at the beginning of the season is you want to compete to be in San Francisco this year, coming up next year, obviously. What gaps do you think need to be filled in from an acquisition Standpoint, offensively or defensively that can help you guys get to that end goal. Honestly, I think that we have a lot of our core guys. Right. And, and like before I can focus on anybody else, like I got to focus on everything that I got to do. Like I didn't have my best season. I mean now there are some things that happen, but just, just like focusing like all myself, like I have to do things to produce in any type of situation injury, like just like, you know, like just like guys are like out there hurt too. So. Right, right. There was a lot made of the situation. I think it was the Texans game. Your quarterback scrambled. He ended up taking himself out of the game. I guess there was a team meeting, there were conversations that were had. The coach ended up benching him for a couple of a game. Not a week. He got benched one game, a couple of games and then I think Flacco filled in or whomever came in for him. What was those conversations like? Because I'm telling you as a player, have been in the locker room, have been a leader. That's frowned upon when we feel a guy left us out there to drive. Because the one thing is, it's kind of like we doctor it's nothing compared to the military. So military folks, don't get me wrong, but it's like we leave no man behind is that we're out here together, we're going to fight together, we're going to win together, we're going to lose together. But the one thing we're not going to do is leave the other guys behind. What was that conversation that you had to have with your quarterback? Because I believe he's going to be there for an extended period of time. Michael Pittman Jr. And you know you guys are going to need him. Yeah, we had a. So we actually had all of our team, so all of our team leaders from every single position group and we kind of had an hour long meeting and, and we talked about everything. Like it wasn't just centered around that, like it was everybody. But I think that was a good learning experience for him to know that that is not the standard and that he can't do that and stuff like that. So it's all just learning. And I think that he handled that period of time well because everybody was like crashing on him, right. So we saw him show up earlier, we saw him put in more work and like kind of do the things necessary to kind of earn everybody's trust back. Jalen Milroe, former quarterback of the Alabama Crimson Tide, who decided to give up his final year of eligibility to go into the NFL draft. Jalen, thanks for joining us. So what are you. What are you repping in? You're just here for the Super Bowl. What's going on? What are you. What are you. What are you selling? Yeah, so I'm repping Auto Trader. Okay. They made this event possible for me. So I'm coming from Orange County, California. Long day of travel, and it's a great opportunity to be here. Definitely inspired, you know, to understand where and why I'm here. Super bowl, you know, I'm inspired to achieve my next dream, which is during the draft process right now. So, you know, I'm representing Auto Trader today. I got a question. This is not where you really want to be. You want to be preparing for the game? Yeah. This is the first time. So hopefully in the future, we don't see you back here again. Yeah, no. No doubt, no doubt. Yeah. Thinking about it, how's the. The process been? Getting ready for the draft? Yeah. So the best thing right now, I'm able to pour into myself right now and invest in myself. One thing that's unique about the office is no shot clock. So you have time to develop, time to pour into things that you need to improve on. And so I'm around a lot of great people where I'm at. I'm in Orange county with Jordan Palmer and Mike White. Jordan. Yeah, my background, man. In Cincinnati, man. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm with them right now. So it's been fun to build each and every day and find beauty in the process. Yeah. So what does Jalen Melrose need to work on in order for him to get to the level of quarterback that he wants to be and know that he can be? Because obviously there's some things that you need to work on. There's no finished product coming into the draft. There's no finished products once you enter the draft. But what is the most important thing you feel you need to work on? Putting my body in the best way, fashion, as far as efficiency to get to make every throw on the football field. Okay. That's number one. Number two, the exposure to the NFL. Although I lack experience, it's come from watching tape. It comes from being in that system. And so during this process, I've been able to do that. Going to the Reese bowl, we're going and working with Jordan Palmer, being able to reflect on tape and acknowledge, you know, where the area of weakness is to strength and why you're able to do that by playing so, you know, for me, the transformation of 2023 to 2024, being a first year starter, then my final season in college, and so just the exposure piece number one, but also just having this offseason to really narrow down how can I put myself in the best way efficiently to on the football field? Because that's what's going to be needed when it comes to performing on Sundays, but also playing on time, playing us upright and doing things the best way fashion so we can lead our offense to win back. What's up? No, he had to go to the bathroom. No, he ain't late this time. He late now. He ain't late this time. All right. Joining us on the Nightcap set is Adam. Pac Man Joe. You go by Adam or you go by Pat? I go by Pat. You ain't never called me Adam. But, but we were told, like when I, when I was doing this on television. They say he don't want to be called Pac man anymore and he wants to be called Adam. I say, since when? I just saw it this end in the barbershop a month ago and everybody was calling him Pack. Ain't nobody ever called him Adam. I don't know what, what Coach Marvin was thinking about when he said that to the media. I think that was something with him that had nothing to do with me. All right, Pack, you down here at the Super Bowl. You know the two teams that are in the super bowl, the Chiefs and the Eagles. How do you see this matchup playing out? I just, I can't. Two teams are competitive, but Andy Reid having two weeks to prepare for this game, it's gonna be hard to beat Andy Reid. Andy Reid have a motherfucker wide open. I mean, the other week when he had. They was in the trips formation to the right, single back, I mean, single receiver to the left side. He sent the two over in motion just to see what they was in, man. And then he ran the little play with the pick out the back. Tell me how the linebacker gonna make that play. He can't. There's no way. He's not gonna make. What's up, man? You late? No, I was. And they sat on this play for the entirety of the game. They did not bare look, and Ocho and I talked about this. There are not very many coaches in that situation is going to throw the ball. Because if you're going to stop the clock, if that clock stops now, you give them an opportunity to get the ball back with a chance to go down and tie you or beat you, he Says Patrick. And we saw this last year against the Baltimore Ravens. He said even Valdell Scanlon, who had dropped several passes during the regular season, he threw the ball on third down 30 plus yards down the field. That's the kind of confidence that andy has in 1:5 and, and, and confidence is well placed. Yes, it is. And man, you can look at them last week and look at him four weeks ago when they didn't have worthy, they didn't have chuckle. Now they all helped him and where are they is man, he got better and better like he he is. That's one of the guys that ain't nobody talking about that can be mvp. That's why I told you. Remember I told you earlier, you never know who day is going to be. When you watch the Chiefs all season long, every time they play, it's always somebody else day. Yeah, like you watch the banger play, you know it's going to be chase half the time. 90% of the time you watch the Chiefs play, ain't no telling who day it's going to be, right. One day is worthy, one day is Kelsey, one day it's Noah Gray. So depending what the Eagles do this game, well, it's going to be exciting. Now joining us, he was NFL rookie of the year. He's a former all pro and Pro bowl player. Played years with the San Diego Chargers and he played one season, if I'm not mistaken, with the Buffalo Bills. Here he goes, Sean. Lights out. Merriman. What up, bro? What's up? What's up, little man? What's up, little man? What's up, little man? There you go. I'm just getting up here. That bear knuckles are getting up. I was finna beat his ass years ago. See, this will happen, I promise you. He said this will happen. He. I didn't know he was playing around. I didn't know he was playing around a long time ago, right? And he said he won't be my ass. Right? So I stopped this. I was in the charge facility. I walked out and I did a video. I was gonna choke him when I seen him. Right. I didn't know Chad then. I, I thought he was. I thought he was serious. Okay. And we was playing. We were playing them coming up. I said, when we see them, I'm gonna do something real bad, real bad. When I catch. And we ain't. I never caught him. Yeah, it was a fun day, man. How you doing, Sean? I'm good, man. Doing well. Good. Let me ask you this, man. You see this matchup? Obviously Patrick Mahomes going for the three peat, the Eagles, Saquan, Jaylen Herz, AJ Devonte. Then you go to the defensive side of football led by Jaylen Carter. They have Zack Braun in the middle. You got Slade, you got Mitchell on the outside. How do you see this matchup playing out? You know, it's funny because everybody's talking about the obvious, right? Saquon talking about Pat. We know what they gonna do. I think, man, this game really gonna come down to the trenches. I think it's really gonna come down to Jalen Carter, Chris Jones. I think it's gonna be that kind of matchup because that's really going to dictate the tempo of the game, right? You know, we, they gonna get there. Saquon's gonna rush for whatever he gonna rush for. I don't think this Magnola let anybody rush 100 yards this year. I don't think so. Yes. But again, so now he got a real, a real obstacle on his hands. Dealing with that, man, I just think it's going to be an unsung hero. It ain't going to be Patrick Mahomes. It ain't going to be. It's going to be somebody like Slay right to step up, you know, getting pressures, you know, and a ball force. And I think it's going to be an unsung hero in this game that we just, we really not talking about. I want to know about the fight league. Yeah. All right. That's what tell, tell us, tell the people about what you have going with the fight League. Because I'm thinking about joining, you know, getting hands wet a little bit. But. But it's mma, so Agnes, I can kick too. Whatever you want to do. So look, when I back in the mid-2000s, I. I wanted to start, I was working with Jay Glazer. I was in his gym, right? So I grew up, my family, like my uncle's from professional boxers. So I grew up just boxing in PG county in Washington, D.C. area anyway, right. Sugar Ray Leonard's gym was right up the street. So I grew up around boxers anyway. And so I was hitting the gym, hitting the miss one day at gym and Jay Glaze said, hey look, I see you can box if you ever tried mma, it'll help you out in football with the hands coming off the edge. So he took me to the gym one day and Jay Glaze is here and Randy Couture is sitting on my left. And I'm looking at Jay, I said, I'm not fighting Randy Couture today, that's not happening. But what I saw, man, I started training with these guys every off season. Chuck Liddell, TD Ortiz, all these guys I got a chance to just be around to train with. And I fell in love with sports. So I ended up launching light side extremes fighting, which we looked at, man, as one of the feeders to ufc. You know, we, we sent six guys to the UFC last year. Okay, so that, so that's what. So basically you're a m. League system to the ufc. Yeah, yeah. And I think that the, the word minor league, nobody's going to be bigger than ufc, right? No, no, no, there's going to be. People's gonna try give a head start. They got too much a head start. And when you think of mma, you, you already think of the ufc, no matter, no matter where you at. But what you can do is do some things they may not be looking at, right? We got a bunch of, we got chips in the gloves that can measure speed, power, punch, impact. All that's like a lot of tech, a lot of AI. And now I just launched my streaming service, Lights Out Sports tv, that we carry a lot of combat sports. We got a big fight in LA this Friday in Long beach for light side stream fight. So what you can do, man, because we're able to pivot, we can do some stuff. And if they like it, right? If they like it, they adopt it. And that's the whole goal of Ben. We don't try to compete, we're just trying to create. Let me ask you this. You hear Miles Garrett says, look, I appreciate everything Cleveland. They made my dream come true. First overall draft pick, defensive player of the year, All Pro, Pro Bowl. I believe I've done all I possibly can, but at the end of the day, I want to compete for a championship and I don't believe I can do that in Cleveland. What, what, what do you, do you. Do you have a problem with him? Like I want to go compete for a title. No. And the Browns organization got to respect it. He's giving you everything he possibly can from his standpoint. He's done everything he, he can. And you get to a point as an organization that they're not doing what's best in your interest now, because after you make enough money, you already know it's the best in your position. You already got the Pro Bowls, All Pros, you already got the accolades. The only thing now to do is get a championship. And if you don't have somebody out there working with you to give, put you in the best situation, say, hey, man, we got to get this. We got to get this. The biggest regret I have, my career is not winning the ring. That's the biggest one. And all the teams we had, we should at least got one. Yeah. Yeah, we should have got one. And so, you know, I'm sitting up and I'm. You know, I remember going to NFL Network. Going to NFL Network, and I'm sitting up there on the panel up, got Marshall for. Everybody was up there and they got these rings on, and I'm sitting in my heart beating through my chest because you missed that part. So I don't blame Miles Garrett at all for wanting to get out of an organization that hasn't put him in the best situation to be a champion. You good? I'm just making sure. You good? You sure? All right, what's really going on? I'm making sure he good, but I thought you wanted using the fight into the what? The fight game. No, I'm not really into the fight game. My son is into the fight game. Like. Like fighting, like with mma? With fist mma. Yeah, he likes to do in the night. How old is he now? 17. Okay. But I ain't letting him do nothing to spar. Why? Because it's. He got a gain weight to play ball. So why don't you? I don't. I ain't got no way. I spot you anytime, man. Oh, I'm dead anytime. Nah. Do you think he think it's a game this. But, hey, this different over here, man. Hey, hey, you sweet on that? Hey, you know. Hey, you know what? You know what's funny is after. After I did my exhibition, right? And I had a few. A few. A few fights. A few local fights in Miami. Yeah. My hands are registered now. They registered with who? I didn't have with Vegas. I had no choice but to register. What you mean, you know with who? Stop playing with me, man. Come across this table, across your head, boy. Come on, man. All you need to do is swing. I take everything else. Really? That's it? Really? That's it? You want a boxing match or mma? Oh, I'm MMA all day. I don't care. He can kick all he want to. I don't need to kick. What you gonna do? All I need to do is grab you. You ain't going to grab. I'll beat your ass. You got. I'mma choke the life out you. They're have to choke me out. Help me understand something. You tell me. We get in the Octagon, right? We Me and you get octagon. Are you gonna run? No. What? The run from who? Did I run for you when we played? Did I run from anybody when we played? No, it's no different. I have the same mentality. So we get. We can make this happen. Hold on. We get in the octagon, you tell me you're going to try to grab me, and you think you're going to be able to do so? Understanding as quick as I am with these feet, understanding these hands, you gonna grab me? Listen, man, fighting you would be like fighting my son. You know, practice. Hey, can you do me a favor? Yes. As God is my will, please make this happen so I can. We gonna make it happen. Hey, Chad. Y'all wanna see that? Y'all wanna see MMA Ocho against Debo? Fight of the century, Please. This way, this way. For one. Listen. Steelers keep in chat. He's too slow. Too much muscle. I'm gonna dance around that. I'm gonna hit you in your head. I'HIT you when I want to. I'm gonna play with you. I' beat that. Hey, Peasy, I'm. Listen, man. Hey, listen. Get up here, man. Get up here, man. He up here talking through. Beat his ass, too. I don't care. It don't matter. God damn. Got it like he used to trip me. What's up, fellas? What's up, man? No, hey, man, he talk about. He talking about whooping ass in the game. Oh, FNA whoop his ass in the game. What you mean? What's the difference? Like, hey, you. Hey, listen, just because he's sitting here. Just because he's sitting here, my tone don't change for nobody. It don't need to change. I beat your ass and I beat his ass. It ain't happening. Ocho say he won't. He won't. He won't. He won't. In the mma. He won't be in mma. It's still Chad, you know. I mean, he always go talk crazy, but, you know. But listen, it's one thing about talking, but, you know, I'm gonna get in there and. You're trying. I'm a thumb. What? You try. It's gonna be a try. You 100. What? How much weigh? 205. Right now. May gonna pick that little shit up with one hand. How you gonna pick it up? Cause he gonna pick that shit up with one hand. Y'all can even touch me when I play. What make you think? Go. I couldn't touch you when you played. I slammed you on your Head on your neck, doing that, doing your neck, doing that on your neck. Hey, hey, hey. He still. He still. He still lift in a different way. He still lift in a different way. Not like that. They different. They still like me, man. Just big, man. I don't see that shit, man. Hey, man, y'all got. Hey, y'all got me up, nigga. Beat your ass, boy. Run it, run it. Man, stop playing with me, man. You playing with me, man. All right, I got these. Hey, I'm putting on my. I'm putting all my money on defensive people. How much you got? Man, the way my body set up, I can't do no helping nobody. You betting against me? Yeah. All right. Hey, bet. Hey, bet. All right. You can invest. You think she is sweet? What? Oh, I don't think you think she's sweet, man. You think you for real? Are y'all playing? Are you for real? No, no, no. You from hell. Where am I from? But you seriously, I'm from. Hey, man, we gonna make it happen. Be really believing what he's saying sometimes. He could be outside. It don't matter. Brakes off his ass, yo. All right, all right. We gonna do all right. We're gonna get advertising sponsors. How the hell I get. Yeah. How the hell I get caught up for this conversation? You too slow. You're not quick enough. I have a skill set that I've honed over years that you ain't gonna be able to deal with. Absolutely. All right. Okay, okay. This. And be honest with you. Yeah, you fast, quick, quick. You all that hands. I got ground game. What? What? Just stop with the rest. I don't want to grab. Stop with the grabbing. Stop it. Stop with the grabbing. Stop, man, for real. Let's get. Let's be honest. Listen, like, you in the car with no license or with the grabbing. All right? You know he don't want to get in the GR. Of game. I know he don't. I know he don't. This is what I'm more worried about. I'm more worried about he might eat that little you throw at it. No, forget. He ain't conditioned like I am. No, he gonna be tired in two seconds. He gonna try to throw a punch. You said. You said mma. Stop grabbing me. Stop saying that. I hit you. Your mouth don't say that no more. How the hell I get on this? I was walking by, now I'm about to get hit in my mouth, boy. God damn. Cause y'all disrespect. Y'all think they could. Hey, Peasy, you Know how AFC north is? Hey, Enemies forever. I don't like. I don't like that. People look at size and they determine wins and losses based off size. You saw David and Goliath. Remember that story, right? Man, that was the Bible. Remember that story? Remember what happened there? Huh? Yeah. You know, don't. Don't worry about it. Don't try paint yourself up to beat that. You read the Bible? Yeah, I read, but you ain't. Do you read the Bible? One of us is David. Do you read the Bible? Yes. Neither one of us. Start reading because you gonna need that. Boy, you good. I ain't gonna need good. I thought you was good back then. I thought you was good back when you started. Listen, you heard me talk to you. Y'all take my life for a joke. My life ain't no joke. Oh, my kids all that crazy. I'm gonna bust you in your mouth. Call me. I'm gonna. I'm like, oh, boy, what's going on? I put that on my kids. Hey, you know I don't play by my kids. I got 200 of them. I got you, but you good, boy. You're good. I'm sure you. I'm good. I'll show you I'm good. Oh, my God. What you got? You got something to say? Listen, man, I accepted my Lord and Savior in August of this past year, man, I was baptized. You were? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, my mind went off. What you about to make me do is go totally outside what I said of your character, right? No, listen, man, I think I might. I've been trying to hold this thing inside of me for a long time because ever since I got, like, fined by Roger Goodell for 75,000, I've been wanting to kill somebody. I think you might be the person. I think God done brought you to. Fine. That's fine. That's fine. Whatever you want to do, you know? Matter of fact, if you beat me, I add a 75, 000 to your purse. If you beat me. How about that? So you get your money back. That's how serious I am. Oh, you gonna give me that? I give it back. You might as well just write that right now. You got me up, man. You might as well write that. How can peace, like, hey, how can I get involved in this? Y'all talking about making some money. Where's my part? I'll tell you what part. You gonna be the cut man. All right. I ain't gonna work that day, then. Don't worry. Gonna be no work. Done. Do My check come whether I do not. So hold on. I got. I got three. Because I walk down the aisle. I'll walk. I'll bring him out. Hold on. So you don't believe in me? No. You don't believe me and you talking what you think? Okay. What the hell I look like believing in you? You know. You know, I've got life. I don't care. Where you from? I'm from Akron, Ohio. That don't mean nothing. You from where? Akron, Ohio? Yeah, who? Dade County? I don't even know what it is. I know you don't know. It don't matter. You gonna know when I lump your ass up. But all right. How did I get in here? You know what? Matter of fact, I'm doing too much talking. This you. I'm doing too much talking. Let's just set. Set the up, man. We got run it when you want it tomorrow. It don't matter. We can do it now. We can do it now in front of everybody. It don't make me none. It don't matter where I'm at. Six months. Run it. Run it. What you saying? Hey, run it. All I need you to do is. We got six months. We got six months. I don't trust him. Huh? Say I don't trust. No, no, no, listen. I'm trying to tell you. He's that pitbull that if he's sit up, you get close enough, he gonna grab your ass. You said I pulled you down, right? He said what? I pulled you down. He. I pulled you down for a reason. We. Hey, we got six fat. I'm not playing. He. He's dead ass. Oh, yeah. I was headed up. Hey, P.E. we got this. It's me. Oh, we gonna make talking about. He's serious. What you think I am playing? Yeah. I ain't play. Did I play with you on Sundays? Yeah. He come to me for. Let's act like we about to fight before the game. I said no, man. They gonna throw me out for real. I got time to mess with you, cj, Like I'mma be. He. Pull up the shirt. Roll up. Come on, man. I said no, man. They gonna throw me out for real. And you gonna get to play. But this. This the thing. This ain't football anymore. This is real life. You tested my manhood not. And you disrespected me. Oh, you go. Are you. No. Okay. We'll see y'all are the same, man. We'll see. How much. How much time you need to get the knee right? Oh, I don't want no excuses. That's gonna be his first excuse when you lose. Oh, my knee was messed up. Oh, my knee was. I'm here till tomorrow. Y'all bring me back. I'm here till tomorrow. I gotta go run and do my thing. Oh, my knee hit me back. Oh, I need some more of this, man. I need to get my content up. I'm gonna beat that nigga ass, bro. I tell you what, man. Give it time. Whatever you need to do. Sh him the time. And he gonna need to gain some weight you might want. I don't need to gain. I think six months would be good enough. Could you be ready in six months? I could be ready tomorrow, man. No, we need time. We got. We got. We gotta sell this. Well, now, now, now you quiet. Now. You quiet. He quiet. Soft ass. Nobody quiet. Soft ass, soft ass. You soft, boy. I see through all that. I see through all that muscle. Ain't about nothing, boy. You got the right one, dog. I'm going to. You got. You got the right one, baby. I'm gonna try to see what he said in the chat. Cause I beat the chat ass, too. See, man, listen, we gonna have. Listen, I'm tired. I'm not listening. Yeah, I'm. I'm Helen Keller. Don't talk. Trying to make me laugh. Don't talk. I'm not trying to make you laugh or what? Cause whatever you smile with gonna be missing. Bust your ass too bad. Okay. All right. Bet. No, no. You got the game. Bet you got the. Hey, he asked for this. Oh. I'm gonna give you everything you're looking for. March, April, May, June, July, August. I think August would be about the right amount of time. I don't need it. I'm good now. You better talk to him. Hey, Ryan. I'm gonna fuck him up. Lies. All right. I got Debo. Chat, huh? That's fine. You know, I want you to better get. Cause my teachers in high school said the same thing. They didn't believe in me. And look what I became. You did? Look where I've come ash. Who you got? Debo. Okay, Aaron, who you got? Debo. Thank you. Thank you. Somebody that believe in me. That's a. That's an Ocho's producer, Aaron. So. Okay. Don't worry about it. Unfortunately. Put all your money on him, too. James Harrison, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for joining us, Debo, man. Appreciate it. Hey, get right. Get the knee right. Listen. Get. Get right. Yeah, I know. I know, man. It's gonna be the easiest, okay? I thought playing Football was easy. Okay. That could be the easiest money you ever made. Okay. Ever made. We'll see. Long the money, right? Somebody gonna pay, right? Some money. We'll see. Yes. That's how I know he gonna get his ass whooped. Because he worried about the money. No, I'm. I'm going. I'm going in for business. You going in for business? I'm going in for business. What you doing after the show, huh? What you doing after the show? I'm gonna go to French Quarter and smoke a cigar. You want to go? Tell me where you're going. I'll meet you there. Okay. Bet we can take care of it then. I just told you. I just told you. I'm gonna be in the French car. I'll be in the French Quarter smoking a cigar. 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Yeah, I mean, everybody talks about the injuries. Right. I think it just. When you go, when you go through the whole year, things just unraveled at the exact wrong time. I think you call it right. We thought we had a chance to really get back on track midseason. We get Christian back, right? You know, we win a big game on the road against the Buccaneers, Buffalo, we think we can come bounce back after a bad game against Green Bay, he gets hurt, we lose guys on the D line, we lose Trent, we lose BA like all these, all these injuries kind of just happen at the wrong time, and we just weren't able to continue to compete at a high level. So we got to get back, man. We got to get back on track this offseason, get guys healthy and get that, get that dog back in us. Now when you, when you think about the off season, right, are there any pieces, any acquisitions that you see fit that can help and bolster the defensive side of the ball, the offensive side? Are you, Are you happy with the core guys you guys have? I mean, I see Miles Garrett asking for a trace. What's up, man? We was just jumping it up at the Pro Bowl. I don't know, man. I love my team. I love who we have, right? You always looking for more, more pieces, you know, more improvement. Of course, you know, we need improvement going into next season, of course, based on the season we had. But I love everybody that we got in our locker room. It's going to take everybody just taking a look in the mirror and just taking that next step on the next season. What is Fred Warner, obviously you've been a multi time all pro player. You've gone to Pro bowl, you've gone to Super Bowl. What's left? What do you want to accomplish, say the next four or five years of your career? Four or five Super Bowls. Four or five super bowl, man, That's. That's honestly what the only thing I'm chasing at this point, right? When I, When I wake up in the morning, it's no longer of like, all right, I'm trying to just be the best in the game, right? I want to be the best of all time. And what does that require? Not only playing at the best, the highest level, but having the champion, having the championships, right? That. That's the ultimate team award is a Super bowl ring. And so what do you have to do? You got to go outside yourself. You got to get uncomfortable now. Where you going? You. You're getting after your teammates, like, hey man, come train with me. Come train in the bay. Like, let's get let's get after, let's get to it. So we making sure that we're training together and we're doing things the right way. So when ultimately the season comes, boom. Now we even that more locked in the chemistry there, the camaraderie. We got to build that up to start getting, getting these rings going. What about a dpo? Why? Absolutely. Because, you know, you look at the great linebacker from Singletary to Buckers, Ray Lewis, Earlacher Keakley. Yeah, all those guys are able to accomplish that at the middle linebacker position. And I think you're in that, you're in that category. Absolutely. But you're going to need, you're going to need to get one of those. Yeah. I'll take it a step further. Why not mvp? Okay. There must be two of those now. Adam Page and lt. I figured I want to shoot for MVP and if I fall down on dpo. Yeah, that's great too. That's the mindset though. Yeah. I'm trying to think. It's early. I've asked everybody that's been on here this. It's early as February right now. I'm not sure how much time you take off from your season before you start back training. What do you do in the off season? What does that look like before you get back into business? Before getting back into it. I mean, all that time in season when I'm dedicating that to is just strictly football. Like, like I want to give some time back to my family. Right. My wife, my son. I got a 10 month old boy at home who needs his daddy, you know what I'm saying? So it's kind of using that time to take some trips, spend some more time with them. Unfortunately, I got to come do stuff like this because I'm not playing in the super bowl. But it is a pleasure obviously being amongst the greats and do stuff like this. But yeah, man, just spend time with family. That's dope. Yeah. Ted Karras and Alex Kappa, each one, one, one, one. What's up, bro? How you doing, man? What's up, bro? How you doing? What up, baby? Good to see you. What up, baby? Let's go. Have a seat. Tell us, tell us, tell us what brings you out to see the Bounty the quicker picker. Hold on. Bounty wingman for the bounty wingman today. You can't have football without wings. You cannot, you cannot have. And you can't have wings without batting. You cannot. Can't do it. So if this two ply guy, the quicker picker up all right. Oh, this is the good stuff. The good stuff. Really good stuff. This is the Diesel. Okay. Yeah, I like it. Listen, we might as well be in Cincinnati right now. There we go. How's your experience so far? Been in super bowl this week. Just, you know, just coming straight to radio row, you know. I've been to New. New Orleans a few times. Huh. I love this town. You like it? Yeah. Yeah. How's it been so far? It's been good. I had some beignets last night. Ah, unbelievable. But it's been good, man. Just hanging out here. Okay. Okay. Talk to us about the season. Obviously you guys did make the playoffs and haven't been to the Super Bowl. You know what that's like. So what, what are the Bengals? What do you guys need to do to make sure that next year in San Francisco that you guys are not able to come to radio row? Yeah, I mean, you can't throw away games, right? Like, if you look at our early season, we had too many games that we just threw away, like game four or five games we should have won and we didn't make the play. And when you do that, it's. It's tough to dig yourself out of a hole, even if you go on a run at the end there. That Patriots game really hurt, huh? Because you look back at it and see where they finished and look where that one game. What if you like. And that's what it comes down to during the season. It's look, we can. There's game here, game there. But you like, hold on. We lost to that team. They're going to be picking third in the draft and we lost to that team and they potentially kept us out of the playoffs. Yeah, no, and I think that's officially something that's, that's on our back as a program to see get these early wins in the season and not, not play from a 2, 3 game deficit against Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore and you know, just be in the pack because it's going to be tight regardless. Yes, but we can't drop three to start and expect to do anything nasty. But you know how close those games are. Even between teams that win a lot of games and teams that don't. If you don't play well, you're going to lose those games. It's that simple. You look at Kansas City, one score game, they don't lose one score game, you lose a couple of those games. Now all of a sudden it works out different. Some teams, one score game, they might be 2 and 8. Another team in one score game, they might be 8 and 2. That's the difference between a team making the playoffs and a team that doesn't make the playoffs. What do you got? Look, you lose your defensive coordinator, you bring it. I think out, I think golden comes back in. He was a db, linebacker, linebacker. End up going to Notre Dame, becoming the dc, he comes back. What are some of the things that you think, you think you guys need to do in order to improve this overall team? To make sure you guys just in the super bowl about four years ago. How do you get back? So I think it just starts with preparation. We, we got to come out of camp healthy and ready to go prepared, healthy, ready to go for week one, week two, and put ourselves in a great position in our division and in our conference. You know, I'm excited for Scott Peters, our new line. Bring a great, refreshing new energy to our room. I've talked to Dave Andrews up in New England and you know, he, he speaks very highly of him, so I'm excited to get to work with him. Yeah. And it's not wholesale changes like, I mean, every game is going to be close the whole year. So it's making those plays. It comes down to execution. And if you execute in those close games, that's the difference. Better get a. Get them right. Also, you know, also I want to, to point out, also, watching us, I'm saying us, even though I'm not on the team right now, watching us throughout the years, we always have a problem, an issue with starting slow. We always start slow where we have to find our way, pick ourselves out the hole. You know, what do you think we can do from an offensive and defensive standpoint to where we can get a. Get us get a season finally where we start fast for a change. It is not so hard to climb back into. In contention later on in the season. I think we're probably gonna. It's probably gonna be a little bit different of a spring program. Right. And obviously camp too. And, you know, I think that Zach wanted to play us more in this preseason. I think we'll probably have a bigger volume in the preseason coming up. You just talked about that. Yes, because I'm from the old school. We used to play the first preseason game. There's four preseason games. Obviously, if you went overseas or you played the hall of Fame game, you played five. But we would play 10 play. The first preseason game, we played 10 plays and then we play 20. The third preseason game was dress our dress rehearsal. So we're playing three quarters and Then the fourth game, we were out. Now, a lot of these guys that y'all. You guys don't even play in the preseason. How difficult. And then now you ask. Well, you don't play the entire preseason. All right, we're gonna turn it up. We want you to go all out. 60 plays. That's asking an awful lot, guys. Yeah, but you still see. See, teams do it. Like, I think the Rams, when they won the super bowl, they didn't play at all in the preseason. So. So I don't. I mean, it's doable. I don't like to look at that as, like, kind of an excuse. Like, I really think it comes down to executing plays like. Like, why did we lose those games? I don't think it's because we didn't play in the preseason. I think it's because we didn't play well. You know what I mean? Like, I was just kind of pointing to something that we could change to just change up the. The Mojo, even. Yeah. Right at the start of the season, Cleveland Browns all world cornerback Denzel Ward. My guy, D. You up, Ocho. D. Who? What? You. You might be talking about. You might be talking about Madden. You know, I didn't study. I didn't study them to a T. I could tell him about his whole game. What are you gonna do down at this? Nathaniel the Great. Hey, listen, one of the. One of the greatest technicians. Have you ever been seeing the tweets where I talk about. Oh, I studied. No, that's what I appreciate that. I ain't even playing the game. You can't. Right. The real. The real deal. Yeah, hold on. I got. I got one. I'm another technician. Denzel Ward, number one. That goddamn Stingley. Now, everybody can play Kona, but this is different. I'm talking about that dog. Remember. Remember the play you just said PS2? Nah. No, hold on, hold on. No, I say P. Cert. I'm talking about technical. Like, it's different, the skill set. You know, watching somebody six, two do it and watching somebody. How tall you were? Six foot. Yeah, it's different. Oh, he's so fluid. By the hip, the footwork. Number one that ran the deep. Higgins. Yeah, yeah. I'm mad. Oh, that's. That. That's Denzel. Thanks for joining us. Obviously, the other day, you know about it. I don't know how soon you heard about it, but Miles Garrett sent a letter to the Cleveland Browns. He's asking for a trade. Get a comment? Anything you want to say? Oh, man, like I said earlier, in the season, I feel me and Miles, we like Shaq and Kobe, so I've been saying that. So I want to play with Miles Garrett. You know, I don't want him to leave, but sure, yeah, if he leave, what's up? You. You asking you? I don't know. Just check the details under the trade. I might be in there, but I don't know, man. Like, I want to always say, I love Cleveland. I'm a hometown kid in Cleveland, and shoot, I mean, I want to stay home on Miles to say, and we got to get this thing rolling, but. But we never know. That's the NFL. We'll see what happens. But you. You also have to understand, when you look at the landscape of the NFL, you look at the teams that win consistently year in and year out, there's one position that allows you to contend for Lombardi Trophy, and that's the quarterback position. Now, the Browns haven't been able to find a quarterback adequate enough to make sure they're always in contention, year in and out. Correct. So at some point, you do understand where Miles Garrett is coming from about his wish and hopes to contend for Lombardi. Yeah, no doubt. I mean, that's the main thing. Like, I mean, just last year we had the number one defense. Yeah. So, I mean, we got things kind of settled, I feel, on that end. So, like I said earlier, we need to solidify the quarterback position. Our quarterback been hurt, and we just been rotating guys in and out, and it's hard to win like that in the NFL. So do you feel you're the best DB in the league? No doubt. No doubt. Like I said, I'm a technician. I found the number one technician in the league at corner. I'm a playmaker, too. Like, I make play. I'm the most play making corner out there in the game or whatever. But it's a funny thing when you talk about DBs. Right. 95% of DBs play not to get beat. You got 5% play to make a play. There's a difference. There's a complete difference. You don't understand. I can see and talk about DB player. I like DB player as opposed to receiver. More. More. Do you think I want you to be honest with yourself? Yeah. Do you think at any point in your career right now, when you came in, when you was in college, that you could cover me? Come on. I feel that's a rhetorical question. You know, I'm answering that rhetorical question. I just want to know if you really feel you could do that. Yes. Like seriously serious serious. No, I mean like you think you get over and you're in your prom, you like you getting prime. I can get over on your ass right now. I see one. One clip. You got him out for one. Ain't having no clicks. I ain't see. I ain't see your feet. I just, I just seen. I really couldn't dig up out of it like I wanted to. Yeah, when he stabbed, I was just gonna go up under it. I couldn't. I couldn't get up under because I had no grip. Yeah. I'm gonna say the old trouble he'd have got around that. Oh yeah, that's the old Ocho. I'm 57 now. He's just an old ojo. Not a whole. Not old ocho. The old ojo. But let me ask you this. When you look at Jerry Judy, he came to Cleveland after some years in Denver and the quarterback play had a lot to do with that. He was technical. Now you talking about. I can imagine those, those one on ones in practice because he's technical. He can get in and out of breaks. He got great movement. What did you see? What do you think the biggest difference was between him and Cleveland and him and Denver? I think it could have just been opportunities for real opportunities. But like you said, he a smooth route runner. You go, you go get in and out them breaks like that. Like in practice, we going at it every time. So we getting each other better for the games. But yeah, I think it's just opportunities. Getting the opportunity to get the ball more and being that number one guy. He the number one guy for us and he been making it happen this year. How was it having James in the locker room? We see, we see those clips of James be dubs he be giving those sermons. No, I love, I love James, man. James a great quarterback. I feel sure he is giving us the best chance to win. He gonna throw that ball when he, when he get out there. But just a great team guy in the locker room like what you see on, on film and the clips, viral clips, like that's, that's really who he is. That's him. So you got to appreciate that and love who he is. Listen, since you've been in the league right now and you, you understand the landscape of the receivers, who do you think the best receiver in the game is? Or just give me your top three based on those. You play go. You play space. Yeah, yeah. Like since I've been in the NFL. You're like right now, Right now, let's Go right now. Right now. I'm gonna put Jamar Jamar up there. Just being. Having to see him two times a year, that's always gonna be a battle. So Chase Devonte. Well, I went against him. Adams. Yeah. Jefferson. Yes. Okay. We said three or five. Wow. I mean your top three is good. I'm good with that. Is there someone that gives you trouble? Like I. When. When we. When I talk about DBs, obviously during my playing day and I think of someone that gave me trouble. There was only one. And that. That was Rebus. There was only one. You know, regards to where it was in my career. Technically sound. He was patient, had patience like Sally Nay, but you know, people ain't going to pay Sally. That's kind of patience he had at the L. So nothing I did would really work. He would arm bar. Yeah. He was always in position and then. And his. His ball skills. He had the balls. You have the same ball skills. You and Derek Stingley might be the only two I know that have elite ball skills that don't get impatient. They don't panic when the ball is near. That's the biggest thing. Nice and calm. Yeah. But he, he had that same thing. What receiver gives you trouble if there was one? Right. It's okay to be. It's okay to be honest. Yeah, I'm be honest. Like it's a lot of great receivers, but I don't feel no one just give me like, oh, it's just crazy trouble. No, but when I first came into the league, Antonio Brown though, so going against him as a rookie, I feel like, okay, you know, this is really a matchup. Like he put pressure on me. Right, right. But I mean it's a lot like Chase. 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