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Hey, this is Matt Jones and I'm Drew Franklin, and this is NFL Cover Zero. We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different.
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Did you see the Colts pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that game.
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What was that? Oh, my.
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Oh, what's up? How y' all doing?
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Now, our second guest joining us won the super bowl with the Rams. Played unbelievable, a tackling machine. Here your starting middle linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks, Ernest Jones.
D
That's it. Yes, sir. How y' all doing?
C
How you doing, bro?
D
How y' all doing, man?
C
We doing good.
E
I'm here on the road, chilling. Hey, I could say I could tell you something real quick.
D
Talk to me.
E
Hey, do you feel blessed that you ain't got to deal with me in today's game?
D
Honestly, I wish you was out there. We wouldn't have to worry about you too much.
E
You don't think so? But you know I would have ran you over.
D
You know we got a Devin Witherspoon out there, right? Devin Witherspoon.
E
The only Witherspoon I know is the kind I eat with.
C
That's it.
D
And running me over would have never happened, man, but.
E
But I'm 236.
D
I seen what Ray did to you. You know, Ray.
C
Ernest, man, thanks for joining us, bro. You fit right in Seattle. I mean, you having a great. You having a. Let's go back. The Rams, bro. You playing out of your mind. You. 130, 140 tackles. What hap. What happened with the Rams?
D
I mean, we still trying to figure it out. Honestly, we. We don't know. We don't. We really don't know. All I know is we. We ended up training camp, practice in Houston. I get off the. The plane ahead to my car, and I get the call like, hey, we. We finna trade, you and I. I didn't really see it coming. Thought it was a joke at first, but they were real serious.
C
What did. Were you at. Hold on. Were you asking for a contract? What? What? Something had to precipitate this.
D
We never even got there. I never got to talk numbers with them. Just. Just. Just nothing. Nothing. It came out of nowhere for us on our end. But honestly, I'm fortunate and glad it happened, though, because landing in 10 I mean, Seattle really changed everything for me.
C
Now you get to, you get. You get to be yourself. You go to a team that Seattle, they pride themselves on defense. Ever since the Legion of Boom, when all those guys with Earl and Sherm and Chancellor and all those guys, Avril and Bennett, from there A Wag B Wags. From that time on, this has been a defensive led football team. And you land in a defensive led football team. You mentioned a Witherspoon, you mentioned Woland, you mentioned the guys that you guys. Now, how has that transition scene been so seamless? Because it seems like you were drafted in Seattle, like you were born to play in Seattle.
D
I agree with you there. That's how I feel. I think the biggest thing that different from there than a lot of the places that I've been, it's 53 other guys in that room, in that locker room, man, they dogs, man. They play football the right way. It's for the love of the game and getting in there in October, once I was there, they welcomed me in so seamlessly and it just was a perfect fit.
C
Now, I don't know if you know this. They traded you to Seattle, right? You know what that means? You know, when the Rams, when a team trades you within. Within the division, you know, they don't have a whole lot of respect for you artists, you know.
D
Well, they traded me to Tennessee first.
C
Oh, well, you got. Well, see, what are you buying? Cause see, they try to keep you.
D
Out of the business, but now you gotta see me twice.
C
So. So now we. Okay, let. So you look up there, you say, you know what? We got. We got y' all such and such week. And we got y' all such and such a week. Week. I don't know what's going to happen, but I promise you, y' all gonna feel 13.
D
Oh, yeah, 100%. I'll be there. Whatever time the game start, I'll be there early.
E
What. What is it? What has it been like playing out there at that stadium? I remember being out there that 12th, man. Boy, you can't hear nothing, boy. Boy, nothing. Boy, what is that feeling like, man, being out there with. With those.
D
I mean, you. Like you said, you can't hear nothing. I remember coming up here when I was with the Rams and you know, the stadium, of course I'm on defense and offense is going, so I really don't hear the noise. But, man, my first game here when we played Buffalo, I was like, this is real.
E
Yeah.
D
The 12, they show up everywhere. Anywhere. Rain, sleet, snow, or hell, they gonna show up and it's just, it's good to have a, you know, have a, a fan base that comes and support us and we got to show out for them.
C
Most definitely Seahawks, they're allowing the second fewest points, the third best red zone defense, fourth most takeaways, six most sacks, six best run defense. How have you guys, the first at the quarter poll. How have you guys been able to play so well so quickly on defense?
D
I, I, I guess for us, I think the cliche answer would be like, you know, we trust in the guys, you know, next to us, we put in the work. But I'm be honest with you, man, I, Mike McDonald, he the man, he puts us in great positions to get at the quarterbacks, get out the opposing offenses throughout the week. He gets us ready. And man, on Sunday, he calls a great game. So a lot of it has to do with, you know, our ability and us going out there and executing. But our coach got us, got us dialed in right now.
C
Would you, you look, but think about it. You was on that, that team that won the Super Bowl. Von Miller, you got ad, you got Floyd, you had Ram. You look, I mean, have you ever thought about, have you, I mean, did you go home and like, damn, boy, we got a, this defense for real, man.
D
Shoot, every, every day that whole year, I was just thinking about it, man, before the Super Bowl, I'm sitting up there reminiscing on like, okay, big moment. This is what you've been kind of working for. And I think I ended it with like, shoot, just don't fuck it up for Aaron Donald. Just don't mess it up for them. So I went out there and just went out there and played and balled. But man, that learning from the best there is to play AD Von Miller out there getting sacks, I mean, even what a weddle came in and showed me what is what it's like to be a true teammate, true leader. So big credits and shout out to those guys.
C
What was it like watching Aaron Donald? Because I remember watching him come out and I saw him at the super bowl before the draft, and they're like, I was like, damn, who? I said, man, that's Aaron Donald. I said, that little rascal, he, he don't want to be caught. Because when you look at him, he not a, I mean, he, he has wide shoulders. But you look at him, he like six foot tall. Like, man, him, boy, when I watched his first game when he was a rookie, well, I watched him at, when he was not at Pitt Yeah. I was like, ain't no way that him doing all.
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Raising all that hell, taking on double team, splitting double team, getting skinny, man.
D
Doing every damn everything you can think of.
C
When you first saw him, what did you think? When you first saw him, what did you think, Ernest?
D
When I first saw him, I'mma be honest, I didn't know too much. Too much about him. Like, of course he. He was. Aaron Donald had been in the league a couple years, but I wasn't really all the way hip to him like I should have been. And I can remember the first day I was out there giving calls, and he didn't get the call, and he told me to speak up. And the way he said it just caught me off guard. So I'm like, I can't let. I can't let this grown man talk to me like that. But to sit back and watch him. I found myself a lot of times watching him, watching him create habit, destroy stuff. And there's been times, man, he's. He stopped practicing. They told him to get out. So I've seen some. I've seen some things.
C
Yeah, because he. You can't get anything done if he get. If he's giving it 100 effort. You see what he does on Sunday. Now, everybody don't got a. A Zack Martin or Quentin Nelson to be able to deal with him. Or. Or. What's the guy in Seattle? I mean, not seattle, but the 49ers. What's the left tackle name? Ocho? Big Trent. Everybody don't got that. So if he says, you know what? I'm just gonna wreck shop today. Y' all ain't gonna get nothing done. You're not gonna get anything done.
D
And he's.
C
He.
D
He decides when he wants to do that.
E
That's crazy.
C
Your squad started the season with the 20th best odds to make the Super Bowl. Every. Every publication had you guys picked dead last. Now all of a sudden, hey, it looked like you, you, and you. Hey, it might come down to you and you.
D
It's turning, huh? It's turning. That. That was the plan, though. That's the plan. We know what it is. I. I firmly believe when the NFC west, when all four of those teams are smoking and on fire, man, that's one of the hardest divisions to come out of. So we know what's on. We know what's on the line. We know who we got to get through to get there, and we.
C
Last game of the season. This for the division. Rams takes on the Seahawks. This is for the division. What can We. What can we expect from Ernest Jones?
D
Oh, man, a performance. I'm ready to ball out a performance. Some sweet, slow and sexy.
E
And, you know, it's funny. Defense, y'.
C
All.
E
The numbers speak for itself already a quarter way through the season, but that goddamn Sam Donald and jsn, all this, they might. They might be the next big thing, man.
C
That.
D
That. That duo right there is growing to see where they came from, from OTAs, when offensively, they were learning new. Couldn't really figure it out to see them guys where they at now. And this just a start. Like, those are. Sam's a baller, cool, composed, and JSN is a quiet killer out there.
C
Were you surprised the AD stepped away when he did? Because you're talking about a guy that played 10 years. He won three MVPs. He won. I mean, he was phenomenal. He was eight time, nine time, first team all pro. I mean, and he just, like, you know what? I don't want to do it no more. I don't have the passion to train with which. What it requires me to be the AD that y' all see every Sunday. That takes the off season, and I'm done with that.
D
I. I truly. I could say I wasn't surprised because we kind of knew coming into that year that it was going to be it. But I'd say you just said it for him to, you know, I guess be honest with himself and know that, you know, I don't have what it takes to be Aaron Donald. I don't want to come out here and do the.
C
Do the training and steal their money.
D
And just, you know, be taken. Like you just said, it was. It was kind of honorable for him to put it up the way he did. Went out on his sword, went out at the top of his game, and, you know, you gotta talk about him from. For years now as one of the best.
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Hey, this is Matt Jones, and I'm.
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Drew Franklin, and this is NFL Cover Zero. We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining, and twice a week. That is exactly what you're gonna get. We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different.
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Did you see the Colts pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that game.
C
What was that?
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Looks like something that should not be sold.
C
Oh, my.
B
So that was my other big Colts.
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They sold that?
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Yes.
B
Might want to go back at the Colts Stadium. Yeah, I want to go back to the drawing board on that.
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Yeah, I thought the shape we had.
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With Pretzels was Working pretty well for generations.
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We're just here trying to enjoy it. We hope you all will join us throughout the year. And let's go.
B
I hope I'm as youthful as Pete Carroll is at his age. He's a young 73.
A
He is a young 73. He is spry.
B
I wouldn't fight him.
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Yeah, and the funny thing, too, and E, when you think about it, you think about Aaron Donald and all these accomplished. You look at his accolades, you look at his resume, coming to the NFL, won a championship. What the hell else does he have to prove? Yeah, he had nothing else to prove.
C
I mean, a lot of people don't have anything to prove, but they're hard to walk away from. 30 mil a year.
D
Did he walk away from it? I think they were still paying my boy a little bit.
C
I mean. Cause, I mean, like I said, it wasn't like you saw slippage in his game. He could still split the double team. He's one on one. Hey, and he lined it up. He turning every door. Oh, this. Oh, this was locked. Oh, man, they left this one open. He gonna stay right there. He moving up and down the line, and he's telling everybody. I mean, your office line coach for the opposing team, number 99, you circle him, he gonna get a chance to whip all y' all ass. So don't worry about him. Let's go on to the next guy because that's what's gonna happen. He gonna whip everybody ass. And you have to. Guys like him and LT and, And. And. And Reggie White and Bruce Smith, you had to account for them. They would wreck your entire offense if you did not have one. One miss. He gonna hit your quarterback in the back of the head and he gonna put it on the ground.
D
That's how he was, man. Just. Just a monster man. Just wrecking shot every day like it's. It's some stories that he probably wouldn't want told online. But that, man, that man is a monster.
C
That year that he was whipping all them offensive lineman ass, they couldn't nobody block him. He and he say, look here, if y' all give me a little. A little fee, I take it easy on y' all today. Cuz you had. Cuz they. They had one on one. You had one on one in training camp. You had one on one sometime during the course of the year.
D
Yeah, ain't nobody blocking him at some Point.
C
Yeah. I mean, what you gonna do? He getting that shade. He getting that. He getting that three Tech. Well, hell, he can get in the five, he could cut. He could go up and down the line. He can get into a nine, he can get into a seven, he can get into a five or three, a tilt that matter what you gonna do.
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And you know, it's fine.
C
And he uses his hands. I've never seen a. A lineman look, use his hands like he could. He's almost like a wide receiver. I mean, if you look at the way he moving his hand ultra. How we swimming? How we knocking people's hands away? That's how he was as a defensive lineman. And then he catch you. He pushed the arm up and did he get skinny? I gotta get. I'm in there.
E
Oh, hey, hold on, hold on. They got a bad boy over there in Seattle right now, too, now.
C
Who? That 99?
D
Yes, sir.
C
Oh, yeah, Williams.
E
Yeah, they got a bad. I'm not saying he. Aaron Donald, but he's a bad boy, man.
C
I.
D
Listen, I. I've got the luxury to play behind some great defensive tackles. Knows, man, he's. He's up there. He's one of. He's one of the ones, man. And that whole front, that whole front four, whoever they roll out, Jerry Reed, we got Byron Murphy, those guys, man, they keep me protected, and I just fly around and make planes.
C
And you just. You just get the flow. You just like, hey, keep it clean. What. When you come in, I want to know the goals. So when you come. When you start the season, when you get ready, it's like, okay, I'll be getting ready to go to training camp. Give me some. Give me some of the goals that you set for yourself.
D
Oh, man, I'm sorry. I think for me, some of the goals that I set. When it. When it comes to coming out of training camp, are you saying on a personal level or just far as the thing.
C
Yeah, on a personal level, obviously you want to win. Obviously. Like, if I do what I'm supposed to do, we gonna win because I'm gonna get. I'm gonna get me about 150.
D
No, for sure. Me coming into this season specifically, this is the healthiest I've been. I dealt with a knee issue for the past two years, and it's still able to play at a pretty good level. But for me, this year was coming in healthy, and then it was from that. Let's take the next step in my game. Let's. Let's start affecting these passes that come across this middle and coverage a little bit more. Let's be more fluid out in space. Make those tackles and let's just see what happens. Man. Of course I want to go. I want to go all pro. I want to be a pro bowler, but I'm all about winning, getting there and doing what's best for my team.
C
You want, you want another. You another piece of jewelry? Huh?
D
I need this one over here. Getting lonely, man. I need another one.
C
Do. Let me ask you a question. Do you wear it like when you go on road trips? You suited and booty that. Have you pulled it out? Do you wear it or you just like. Nah, I got to get you. I got to get you. I got to get you a partner. I got to get you.
D
I'm wearing today. I. I pulled it out today for the first time. Today was the first time in a while, but I don't wear it. I'm waiting to get it. A twin sister.
C
Yeah, you got to get a twin. You got to get a swim for it. Cause he lonely up there. Know you like. Damn. I ain't got nobody to talk to. I ain't got nobody know to holl at or nothing. What. What.
D
What's going on? I need it and we, we keep going the way we going and just keep, keep getting better. I think we got a great shout out. Shout at it.
E
Absolutely.
C
You got anything else?
E
No, no, I'm done. I'm done.
D
My last thing for oo. Hey, that Madden overall, we gotta.
E
But tell me what. You. Tell me what you need. Hey, listen, I take care of the receivers and the DBs. I don't really operate with the, with the linebackers and stuff.
C
What you need speed, you need script.
D
For me, it's overall, I think. I think we lacking a couple things. The tackling. I think we do need to be better. Missed four tackles last year. Ain't too many people only missing four tackles. We got to get that up a little bit, right?
E
So what's your overall right now? I got 81.
C
Damn, 81? Yeah. Yeah. That real low. That real low. I don't agree with that.
E
Listen, I got. I got a meeting with the EA team in the morning. I'm gonna address that. I'm appreciate it. I'm gonna bring it up like I'm really not in a position to bring it up if it's not a skill position like receiving db. But I can sit on the table for you because it's on film.
D
I appreciate that. That's all I. That's all I play for Is the film.
E
I got you. I got you.
C
Who y' all got? That's gonna be a good one. Yeah, they got a. They. They got. They. Hey, they. They ate them. Bucky. Bucky Irving and. And White. They can run the ball. Baker throwing it. Hey, that's gonna be a good matchup.
D
Good one. It's gonna be a good one. They come out the looming. So we'll. We'll see. See him Sunday.
C
See, we. I played in Lumen before y' all became. Before y'. All. Wasn't good. It wasn't no crowd noise. Matter of fact. Oh, you know how to be like this here. I was like. I was on the opposing team. Like, get.
D
It's going to pop this week.
C
Oh, for. Oh, for sure. So when you got to Seattle, did you go to the market?
D
I haven't been yet.
C
What the hell you waiting on?
E
And you got to go catch.
D
I got here in October. The only thing I was trying to do was figure out a playbook.
C
I get you.
D
I was trying to figure that out. But we gonna get there. Me and my wife gonna get down there at some point.
C
So you. You like. You like seafood? You like fish?
D
I go. I go for fish. I'm allergic to shrimp, but other seafood. I'm.
C
I'm allergic to shellfish also.
D
It's just shrimp for me, which is crazy.
C
No shrimp, lobster, crab, oysters, scallops.
D
It's a South Jordan.
C
Now, I can eat. I can eat calamari, but that's the difference. That's a crustacean. And the mullets. So they're two different. Well, I'll tell you about it later.
E
But anyway, hey, hey, you don't. What's your diet like? You're not one of them healthy eaters and eat all that. That good stuff.
D
I'm. I'm gonna be mad here. I'm like, you. I, I. I'm gonna get it in. I'm gonna get it. I will say, I. I ain't been to McDonald's in a minute, but I'm. I'm gonna get full. I'm gonna just eat.
E
That's what I'm talking about. And see, and people want to understand. They want to question, well, why is he so good?
C
Why.
E
Why is he great? Why is he one of the best NFL? You know why? Because he eats the way he's supposed to eat.
D
I'm on South Georgia.
C
Hey, clean that diet up. I guarantee you all pro, first team.
E
Hey, you clean the diet up.
C
You gonna clean that diet up. First team, All Pro.
E
Nope.
D
I got you.
C
Get you about. Get you about five force fumbles, three picks. Now, you know, with 135 tackles, four force fumbles, two fumble recoveries, and three picks. Now they talking about DPOY. That's what they talking about. I don't know if you want that or not, but you clean that D.
D
I'm gonna get it done. I'm gonna get it.
C
That's what I'm talking about.
E
Hey, listen.
C
Don't be listening to oo.
E
Hey, I. I tell you one thing. Whatever you put in your system ain't got nothing to do with making none of that.
D
He just named it. I got you, man.
C
Earnest, man. Thank you, man. Appreciate you joining us tonight. Best of luck.
D
Appreciate y'.
C
All. Hey, and when that season turns out the way you want it, come back and talk.
D
I got you. Thank y' all for having me.
C
Appreciate you, bro. Ernest Jones iv started the middle linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks. Man, he's an unbelievable player. I mean, I was shocked. I was absolutely shocked that they. When they traded the Mocho. Because I didn't see. Because I'm like, man, no, no. He could really play.
E
Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
C
No, yeah, he could. He could really, really play. So I'm absolutely shocked.
E
Yeah.
C
That they moved it. Yeah.
E
The funny thing, too, about it.
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B
Did you see the Colts pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that game.
C
What was that?
B
Looks like something that should not be sold.
C
Oh, my.
B
So that was my other big Colts takeaway.
A
They sold that.
F
Yes.
B
I might want to go back to the Colt Stadium. Yeah, I might want to go back to the drawing board on that.
A
Yeah.
B
I thought the shape we have with pretzels was working pretty well. It's worked for generations.
A
We're just here trying to enjoy it. We hope you all will join us throughout the year. And let's go.
B
I hope I'm as youthful as Pete Carroll is at his age. He's a young 73.
A
He is a young 73. He is spry.
B
I wouldn't fight him.
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E
When you. When you. When you move a player that's that good and makes that Kind of impact at that position. That means there's somebody else that they see behind him that they believe in. And I'm not sure who that is right now.
C
Well, no. One man's trash is somebody else's treasure because they got. They. The Seahawks got an unbelievable hell. I'm surprised hell he didn't stay in Tennessee. Yeah, Tennessee. Look, no guy can play, y'. All. Hey, Chat. Y' all know, I call it like it is. He can play.
E
Well, listen, he legit. He.
C
He for real.
E
He in the right place.
C
O Joe AJ Brown spoke to the media about why. Why he's frustrated with the Eagles offense being stagnant at time. Let's take a listen to what he had to say.
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Yeah, but I think it's fair to, you know, to want the ball to get. To get us going, you know, like last week against the Rams, you know, I caught. I caught the Sluggo back offense going. Next play open up in Dallas gallery. The safety came over to my side and opening it up. So, you know, I don't think it's a bad thing for one, the ball. It's not just for targets or anything to put numbers up. But, no, I see that we're struggling, and I'm a guy that wants the ball in those times when we can't find away. Give it to me. Like, when the game's on the line. Give the ball to me. I want that. I want that pressure. I put it on myself, you know, and I work hard for it. And so. And that's what, you know, the misconstruction or whatever, you miscon. Misconstrue, you know, whatever perspective you. You can about me, but, you know, it is what it is, you know, and I don't care, to be honest, because my teammates know. My teammates know that when the game's on the line, they're getting, you know, and I want to everybody in the stadium to know that, you know, that's not a secret. You know, I'm not shying away from that. And so that's when you see that frustration, that hunger comes out, and I see me struggling and I believe that you give the ball to me, I'm gonna open up things and I'm gonna get this thing going. You can put it on my back.
C
I like that you like to eat your accountability for his thing. Yeah, I do, too. The only thing. The only thing I. The only thing I would say.
E
Yeah.
C
Is that keep it in house. Because the perception of how it's going to be perceived.
E
Right. It's Completely different.
C
Oh, Joe. You know, optics and perception is everything in our business.
E
And this. And the one thing he did say, you heard what he said towards the end, is even if you guys misconstrue what I'm saying or what the meaning is, that I'm trying to get across, I don't care. And you have to have that mentality as well. He has that mama mentality, in a sense. He has a killer mentality at the receiver position. He's out there by himself, Unc. He's on the island by himself. So he's reliant on 10 other people.
C
Oh, he plays. No, he plays a dependent position.
E
Exactly.
C
You had the mercy of the quarterback.
E
Hey, every time. So I. When we're struggling or the type of team we are, the way our offense is the. We run the ball to open up the pass. Well, you know what? I'm a player that's here where we can throw the ball to open up the run. And I want to be that guy. I put the pressure and the onus on myself, get me the ball in these situations.
C
You know, the hard thing is, Ocho, is that when you win a certain way, the team believe that's the only way they can win. So. So what? What do they do? Say, well, we want it last year. Well, it. You have to evolve because Saquon is not. The holes are not there for Saquon this year like they were last year. So clearly the defense is saying, we are not going to let 26 beat us at all. If you guys want to beat us, he gonna have to throw the ball.
E
Yeah.
C
And AJ Said, well, damn, can we throw the ball when they don't know we gonna throw the ball? Hell, if we just throw the ball on third down, you make it really hard. But, you know, I'll be open on first down, too. I'll be open on second down.
E
Yeah. And then hold on.
C
Opportunity.
E
And one more thing, One more thing. Another thing that they need to do. Let's be a little bit more creative. Let's be a little bit more creative when it comes to the type of routes that you're giving A.J. brown the run. I can name them, too, based on the split every time.
C
The underground, they under the slant.
E
Listen, if he 2 yards outside the number, he running the goddamn slant. If you're on top of numbers, he running the goddamn curl. If he. If he's explicit, condensed, he run the quick stick route.
C
Yep.
E
It's the same. It's the same concept every time. Like, what the hell are we doing?
C
That's it. Ojo. Travis kelce spoke about AJ Brown's tweet saying, You're 4 and old, boss. Come on, man. It's frustrating for AJ right now. Clearly, he's going. He's going to social media to show it when I show my frustration when we aren't rolling as an offense. But it's. But it's also really hard for me to get mad when we're winning. I don't find that energy when we're winning. Putting up points and winning football games. That's all I said that. That was my entire point.
E
Right.
C
It's hard, people. Oh, you can't say, well, I'm hungry. I give you food, man, this ain't no wagyu. This ain't no au gratin potatoes, man. This ain't no lobster Mac and cheese. Hey, so, and. And. And I. And I. And that was my point. That was all I was trying to say. It's hard to get people on your side.
E
Yeah.
C
When you're winning, right? Philly wants to win.
E
Yeah, absolutely.
C
Absolutely. And so when you're winning, it's hard to get people like, yeah, aj, you right. They be like, aj, we winning. Yes. I want you to catch passes, but not as much as I want to win the game. And so that's all I would say. And I get what people say. And people like with Travis Kelsey. Yeah. He gets with. Hey, when they not winning. Yep. He gonna act up when that offense is stagnant. And that's what AJ Is saying.
E
Yeah.
C
So it's just hard. Aj, go talk to Jalen, Go talk to Sirianni, and go talk to your. Damn. Your offensive coordinator. Yeah, that's what I'm talking to. I ain't gonna put no tweet out. I ain't gonna say I. I ain't gonna put nothing on no Twitter. Ocho. I'm going to talk to them because I got a direct line. I know. Hey, I know where your office is, and I know. I got her phone number.
E
You don't think he done did that? You don't think he did that? Because we had the same problems last year. You don't think he's done that? I think the first step is he probably went and had those conversations already and nothing has changed. Nothing changed now we in the next year, and the same shit's still going on.
C
But again, I give you a prime example. Monday night, what did you see Chase do? Chase walked right up to Zach Taylor, didn't he? He walked right up to him.
E
He was Frustrated. He was frustrated. And I'm curious. I'm curious to see. And it don't get no easy this week, huh? This week they play Detroit.
C
Oh, Lord, they play Detroit.
E
So.
C
And you know Detroit put points on the board, don't.
E
Yo, but who you telling? They scored 50 week before last, and they scored 40 the last game. We don't have no choice. Zach Taylor spoke to the media today and said there's no need for us to bring another quarterback in, a veteran, because we believe in Jake Browning. I said, well, shoot, if we believe in Jake Browning, I ain't got no choice but to get on that bus, too. Let me guess where I'm at right now.
C
Where?
E
In Cincinnati. Guess who I'm going to talk to in the morning.
C
Who?
E
The team. Because I'd be.
C
Damn. What you gonna talk about.
E
I'd be damned. If I get embarrassed Sunday, I'd be damned. I'm. I'm going to the game Sunday, Obviously. I'm. Leave the game. Going to the game Sunday. We will.
C
Don't worry about it. You can leave at halftime. It'll be over.
E
Hey, listen. Hey, Unc, but when you. When they get.
C
Hey, hey, Chad, we gonna start on time?
E
Hey, Unc. When they get this pep talk for me when they get this pep talk for me before that game. It's a rap. I'm telling you. I'm telling you.
C
Okay. I can't wait to hear this pep talk.
E
Hey, matter of fact, you know what? I'm so happy and just speaking back about, like, I know you ain't send me none of my gifts, but I got a nice gift for you. I got a nice.
C
What haven't I sent you? Hold on.
E
I got a nice gift for you. To show you my appreciation and thanks for giving me the opportunity, I got you an awesome gift.
C
You know what? OO I'm g. Sen. You know what? OO I'm gonna send you your gift. I'm gonna send you your. You.
E
You didn't even ask me what the gift was.
C
No, I don't need to know the whole point. Okay, Ocho, what's the gift?
E
I got tickets for me and you to sit front row. Front row. And we can go. We got backstage passes so we can take pictures and stuff at the NBA YoungBoy Concert, October 13th.
C
Where's that?
E
In Miami. All right, all right. Listen, listen, listen. Wait. Before you say anything, I know how you like to fly. I already got the private jet charter to pick you up, bring you to Miami. I got a driver for you to bring you to the concert. I got you two security guards.
C
Ocho, I don't know one song. NBA Youngboy Sing, man.
E
I don't either. What you need to do is go listen to the song Rebels kick it. You can start there, and then I send you other stuff up to date that can catch you up to what you're going to hear at the.
C
Can you give me. Can you give me a Chris Brown ticket? I know Chris Brown.
E
I know.
C
What about Drake?
E
See, you don't. Hey, we. Hey, you, you. You a y N. Right now. You a y N. And hey, we going.
C
I'm an o N. Hey, what's Owen stand for? A old ninja.
E
Hey, listen. Hey, listen. I got you the lime green bandana, the tie around your neck. I got you a leather vest.
C
Oh, Lord have mercy.
E
Listen, wear some black Air Force ones. Hey, we gonna be in there cutting up.
C
You hear me, man, you gotta give me. I mean, if I'm gonna go to a car, I ain't been to a concert, man.
E
I know. Hey, we go.
C
Adele was the last concert, and she was. When she was at. Had the residency. Yeah.
E
Hey.
C
Oh, you gotta. You gotta. You gotta give me something easy, man. Damn.
E
Oh, this easy. He gonna. Hey, listen, let me. He gonna bring us on stage, right?
C
No, I don't need to be out there. Hey, I'm on. I'm on. Hey. Oo. I'm on probation for the rest of 25.
E
I know, but this ain't got nothing to do with that, though.
C
I'm saying, I just. I. I just can't. I can't be at something like that. You know what I'm saying? It gonna send. It gonna send the wrong message. My probation officer gonna get me.
E
What message? This message. This message is about living life. This message up. This message, I'm having fun. It's about freedom.
C
The rest of 20. The rest of 25. Now 26. I, I'm. You know, I. I will get back out there, but it need to be, you know. You know. Ocho, come on, work with me. Oh, yo, work with me.
E
Working with you. That's why I'll be going to the NBA YoungBoy concert.
C
I can't do this.
E
What you need and you need to be.
C
Let's go.
E
Hey, you could come up at your shirt, then you go ahead. The lime green bandana.
C
Oh, no, man. Look here. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you, man. I'm. I'm just gonna go. Hey, I gotta sit this one out.
E
Too late. I already got the charter. I already got the tickets.
C
Oh, Yo, I already got tickets. I need to go somewhere. Let me go to a John Legend. Let me go to a. A Anthony Hamilton. Let me get. Maybe, maybe I could do it like a Drake or Chris Brown. Hey, do no Young Boy.
E
I'm gonna tell you like this. Either you go to the Young Boy concert with me, I'm gonna beat you up. Now you got. You got two choices. You get your ass whooped.
C
I think that's what I'm gonna have to take. I'm gonna have to take that one. Ocho, man, you Ocho, man, you know, right? Ocho, you know your boy, right? Now I gotta, you know.
E
Hey, I'm telling you, when you. Hey, listen, when you get in that atmosphere at that concert, I'm telling you, you're gonna feel like, damn, I ain't felt like this in a long time. You just, you just, you get loose, man. You just. And then, hold on, we gonna be in the. Listen, we gonna be in the crowd and we're gonna be standing on our chairs and stuff.
C
No going crazy. I'm gonna have to say. I'm gonna have to say that. Hey, I got y'. All. I'm back at 26. I'm back at 26. Follow 26.
E
Oh, I done already told NBA YoungBoy we coming, man.
C
Hey, hey, Ocho, you know my motto. Follow 26. I'm a dark skinned slave. I'm outside. You know what I'm saying? Ocho, I'm outside. You know, that's where I'm at. Give me 26. 26.
F
I gotta let.
C
Hey, come on now, work with me. Chad, tell him to work with me, man.
E
Damn. I'm working with you. I just spent 12, 000 on these. On these tickets right in the front. Now, don't do that. I got your chart. I got you two security so nobody can't nobody bother you.
C
It's just not a good look for me right now. You know what I'm saying?
E
It's a good look.
C
Yeah, as a matter of fact, Ocho, as a matter of fact, the first, the first big function, I want people to see me. I don't want to be coming out of church. Maybe I go to the parlor house in Dallas. Maybe I come out. Chad, y' all need to see me come out of church. You know what?
E
That's what I'm doing. One thing about it, we ain't going that route. We ain't going that route. We not going that route. Acting like, you know, we. We Reverend We Reverend Al Sharpton and all that.
C
Yeah, that's what I got to be. That's what they gotta do.
E
Yeah, we gotta turn up. We gotta stay. We gotta stay true to ourselves.
C
Nah, nah, nah. I can't be that no more. I gotta change.
E
Stay with me real quick.
C
I changed my life, Chad. I'm changing. I'm new.
E
Stay with me real quick. It's okay to be new, but don't forget where you came from. We come from times like that, and at some times, you got to revisit where you come from.
C
I gotta go back to church, Ocho. I lost my way. I lost my way. I gotta go back to church, Chad. I know y' all understand. I know y' all listen to. Oh, y' all won't want, you know, do something or do something. But that. But that. I had to put him up. I had to put him on the shelf.
E
Hey, listen. Hey. That uncle you try to put on the shelf is what made us who we are.
C
I know, Ocho, but we can't lose that. I reinvent myself.
E
If we lose that dynamic, then that doesn't make us who we are. We can't lose that aspect of what makes us us. So you can't go to Kirk Franklin route. That ain't nobody want to hear that.
C
Hey, as a matter of fact, Ocho. Hey, don't be surprised when y' all see me in the airport. I'm carrying my Bible. I'm just saying. I'm just saying that that's where I'm at, Ocho. I'm just saying that's where I'm at. I'm carrying my Bible, Ocho. I've changed.
E
Listen, I'm off. I'm all for change.
C
As a matter of fact, I told Jordan to come pick me up. Jordan be going to church. I told Jordan, swing by and scoop your hook up.
E
Hey, I'm telling you that. That ain't it. Huh? That ain't it. Listen, I'm with you when you write, but there's certain things you have to still remain yourself. You can. You can backslide. You backslide.
C
I can't.
E
God forgave you already. God forgave you already. Whatever's for you is for you. You didn't got to do all that extra stuff.
C
I just. I just need to carry the Bible just. Just for a little while.
E
But I tell you what. You get the Bible, you got the Old Testament, New Testament.
C
I got the Bible, King James Version, okay? They got the Old and the New Testament. Bring your King James Bibles, have both Testaments.
E
Got you.
C
Listen, I ain't never seen a Bible with just one testament.
E
I got you. Bring your King James version. Bring your King James Virgin Bible. October 13th to the concert. Reinbury Young boy, I tell you. I tell you that. Listen, I'm going to give you a scripture. 1 Did I go 1 Did I go off of Philippians? Philippians 2, verse 27 for thou hath not try to live perfect. Thou shalt backslideth at some point in life. But you must stay authentic to thyself because no man is perfect. So I'll see you October 13th.
C
See, I got you. See, I got my thing. I'm coming. Most gracious and holy heavenly Father, I come to thee in the most humble way I know how. Bow head, humble heart on bent knee, realizing that you God of God, Lord of lords, kings of kings. Ocho, I'm done. Ocho. Your boy out. Your boy out. I already got that. Stacey Adams, Liam Fox. I battled one knee. Hey, hey. I already told him. I said, lord, when my time is up here.
E
Hey, wait.
C
Hey, boy, you hell and my face becomes a looking glass. Just give me a place somewhere in your kingdom. That's where I'm at. Don't you. I'm done. Your boy out. Chat. I'm out. I ain't fooling with Ocho, man. As we mentioned earlier, Dara Tyreek Hill has a dislocated knee, multiple torn ligaments, including its acl ending his season. Four games into the season, Tyreek's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, stated Tyreek surgery went very well. According to his doctors. It's about rehab. He will play next season. The realistic goal is the start of the season. Ocho Tyreek is 31 years of age. He has a big contract because the contract the cap hit is over 50 plus million dollars and most teams will not want to eat that. Can he rebuild his market value as an elite receiver after this injury?
E
Absolutely. Absolutely. And even if he doesn't rebuild his market value and gets the opportunity to play somewhere again, he will soon. Even if it's not with Miami. I'm not sure where he will go, but wherever he does go, he will remind everybody why he wants what he was one of the top five receivers in the NFL right now. Obviously he was wasn't on the trajectory of doing that because they weren't playing well as a whole, as an offense in general. But when he does come back, listen, the speed's still going to be there. Some of the stuff that he's able to do is still going to be there. It was dislocated Kneecap. No, no, no. No extremities. No hamstring, no quads. So the speed and all that stuff, I say three to four months. I actually think, what are we in October, right?
C
Yeah.
E
October, November, December. If football season. If they were to make the playoffs.
C
By the first of the year, Ocho, he should be running a straight line. Oh, he might buy. I mean, in two months, he should be able to run in a straight line.
E
That's what I. I was just getting ready to say that if it would come December, he would be able to come back and play if he wanted to. He would be able to come back and play if he wanted to. So he. He gonna. He gonna be all right. He gonna be.
C
No. Brandon Iuk had. Tore his. And he still isn't back yet. He's still dealing with some other stuff.
E
That's different. He tore his ACL completely. This suggests a dislocated kneecap with a few ligaments.
C
No, but he tore his acl.
E
No, not fully.
C
Well, that's what. That's what is. That's what being reported.
E
Hold on. Let me text Reek real quick. All in his business.
C
Look, all I know is I'm calling ap. I'm calling Adrian Peterson. I'm gonna say ap. I want to know everything that you did, right? How long you did it, how often you did it.
E
Oh, yeah.
C
If you was in a hyperbaric chamber, I'm getting. I'm getting a portable hyperbaric chamber. If you did infrared sauna, I'm doing infrared sauna. I'm doing. Whatever you did, push me to capacity. Because the quickest thing I want to do, Ojo, is get range of motion back. That's the first thing I want to get. I want to get that 120 back. Once I get that range of motion back, I'm thinking about building that quad if I got to get that straight. So I'm gonna put the steel machine because I want the muscles firing. Yeah, because you know that that's a. Take you a couple of some aspirin, some Tylenol. So that pain. Because they're gonna. They gonna push you. The thing is with athletes, Ocho, if you're a normal person, you get to go to rehab twice a week, right? Now they go to rehab twice a day, five days a week. That's why. And plus, they got youth on their side. They got muscle musculature on their side, right? And they got the best that money can buy as far as therapy and doctors resources.
E
Yes.
C
He could go anywhere you, anywhere. And have that surgery. He could have went to Dr. Neil Ella Trash. He could have wanted to went to the curling job. That's what did my hips or, you know, stem and Hawkins or James Andrews, whatever the case may be. But I, I, I hope Tyreek gets another opportunity. Hope. I, I want him. I want him. Look. Oh, he got speed to burn. So let's just say for the sake of argument, Ocho, he ain't four two no more. He four three. Wow. I'm so disappointed. The man can only run four three.
E
Right. Right.
C
That should, that should be a luxury for us to have, Ocho. Yeah.
E
Yeah. He, He. He gonna be all right. He gonna get opportunity. I'm excited to see where he goes. If it's not back to Miami, I'm sure he'll be somewhere else. There are so many teams that can use the threat, a dynamic threat at that, like Tyreek Hill. And he's gonna show once he's back. Once he's back healed and he. And he's going to make videos running full speed.
C
Yep.
E
He gonna look like he never left the game.
C
The thing is, the hardest. The thing. The thing that he got to do, Ojo, is stop planting cut.
E
Yeah.
C
Because that's everything for a receiver. He gonna be able to run in a straight line in probably two and a half, three months. But it's when he gets that, when he be able to do that.
E
Yeah, yeah.
C
And, and speak when he got. Hey, like we talked about the other day. 10. Roll to 12.
E
Yeah.
C
When you hit that dig, when you hit that comeback because he twitchy and then.
E
And then being able to do it with confidence, too.
C
That's the biggest thing.
E
You're not having to worry about that knee.
C
Just, Just, you know that. You know what? That thing's strong. That is strong enough it can sustain. Because you got to realize now that's just not a northern normal receiver. That's the guy that's running and stopping and getting in and out of break. Tyreek don't do a whole lot of throwing that blink on and diagnosing. He's stopping on a dime.
E
Yep.
C
So that's a lot of torque. That's one thing. I was 4 5, 4 6, running a comeback. Running out. That's 4, 2, 4, 3. So that's a Ferrari getting up to 100 miles an hour instead slamming on the brakes.
E
Right.
C
As opposed to a pickup truck going 50 and slamming on brakes.
E
Yeah.
C
Mike's called Brian Daball's reaction to Jackson Dart's first NFL touchdown. Day ball screamed that's our effing guy. As he nearly ran into running back Devin Singletary. That's a man who's stoked about his new signal call. Ocho Ojo. Yeah, what you thinking? He said, that's our effing guy.
E
I mean, I mean it is their guy. It's the guy they picked. It's the quarterback that they drafted. They just waited on his opportunity to play. It came earlier. It came earlier than most thought it would. And he looked good. Huh? He looked good. You didn't know what to get from Jackson Dart. We know know we know what he could do because we saw him in the preseason. He looked good in the preseason but you good. That's not the kind of defenses, that's not the kind of schemes. Those aren't the players you're going to see in the regular season. And Jackson th said hold my beard. Let me show you whether it's the preseason or not what I can do. Multiple great throws plays using his legs on third down to get first downs. He looked really good.
C
The thing that, that tells me well I knew he was their guy cuz they drafted him and they seemed. But everybody look, I don't take anything from a, a, a draft room because everybody's always that's the guy we wanted. We didn't think he was going to be there. Okay, fine but oo he named the guy the quarterback for the rest of the season. He left. He removed all doubt. Yeah, because he's like okay, he could have easily said we're going to start Jackson Dart. He said we're starting Jackson Dart for the remainder remainder of the season. That ain't what they did with Dylan Gabriel. They said Dylan's our starter.
E
Yeah, they, they leaving the door open. And this we talk about two different scenarios too. Two different teams. Two teams that have two, two different type of expectations for their season as well. One coach is on the hot seat and understands yes, if I'm going down, I'm going to go down with the player that I wanted.
C
It's going to be look, that's the guy they wanted him and he played really well. You know, look, the one thing you can say about Lane Kiffin, he can coach his ass off offensively and he can coach the quarterbacks. So him and Sark was co coordinators. I think there was the USC when they was at the height, Carson Palmer, Matt Leinert, so forth and so on. So we know they can coach that position. We know he is a.
E
Great.
F
What up there O Joe, where you at boy? Well, I'm in my crib, man, living the good life, man. I'm over here looking good, baby.
E
Yeah, well, you know what?
C
Y' all know who it is, but I give an introduction anyway. That's my dog, Quake. What it do, man?
F
Man, I'm living on. I got a special out called joke telling. Business is in the top 10 in 24 hour release. I got a TV show that's gonna be on Fox and I just got married and you didn't show up. You supposed to be my man. You ain't come to the wet. All the things for you. I said, shannon gotta come.
C
Quake, you know, I. Quake, you know, I've been. You know, I've been. I had a rough 25 so far. Quake, you know, you know, hell with them, man.
F
You all right. You shedding shop, man. You walk with your head up and.
E
And I support you.
C
Like, I text you. You always. You one of the first ones you see.
E
You see what I mean? Hey, Quake.
C
Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no. Me and this dude, me and this man here, we got. We got decade plus.
E
Yeah.
C
Hey, I used to. When he's at the Uptown Comedy Quarter. We used to be in Atlanta coming. I come. I come see you.
E
Yeah.
F
Ain't nobody judge you but God, man.
C
I appreciate that, man. I appreciate.
E
Hey, Earthquake.
C
Yes.
E
I got me and Unk. I got me and Unk tickets to go see NBA YoungBoy October 13, and he's scared to go talk about he want to go to church instead.
F
Well, he can do that, too.
C
Take the Lord with him.
F
Take the Lord with him, man. Take the Lord with him. The Lord know his heart.
C
Why would that fool over here tonight, the Lord know your heart. Quake. Let me ask you this. When you get ready, when Netflix call and they say, okay, Quake, we like to do a special X, Y and Z. How long did it take you to put this set together?
F
It was already ready. I'm like, oh, Joe, I'm ready, man.
C
You ready?
F
I keep jokes. That's why it's called joke telling business. I'm in the joke telling business.
C
You told me the story. Tell Ocho why you went by the name of Earthquake.
F
Oh, man. Because, hey, Ocho, this was just. This was no epiphany. I just tried this one time, right? And, you know, I got him in the military for nine years. And, you know, I got a family that's so critical, so I ain't want to mess up my good name.
C
So if it didn't work out, you understand?
F
Because my family said, you know, he got out the military and went to Atlanta trying to be Richard Pryor. He must be on that thing. So I said, if it didn't work out, somebody said, hey, Earthquake. I said, my name ain't Earthquake. My name Nathaniel. I don't even know no Earthquake.
C
But it worked out.
F
That's when you. You know what I mean? I ain't gonna mess up my good name.
E
Yeah, that's a good one.
C
You went as a comedian and you say you in the joke telling business, and you know, you wanted the first ones because you, like, when I started Club Shay Shay, you one of the first ones. I reached out. You say, bro, whatever you need, I'm there, right Then. How often do you tour? How often? How many dates out there? 365. How many tour dates a year are you on the road?
F
Man, it's 52 weeks in. I do about 46.
E
Damn.
F
Hey, man, you got to pay for this hill.
C
This hill ain't free. You got that. You got that big house now?
F
Yes. Got that wife I got. I got to go out and get it. She feeds me and kicked me out the door. Say, go get it.
C
Go make. Go make this money.
E
Hey, Craig, what you think? You know, I'm thinking about doing. I'm thinking about doing Stand up.
F
Come on. I'll bring you on. You can always work with me. We'll start with two minutes and work your way up.
C
No, but, Quake, you know, we talked about it. You like, hey, man, you could really do this. I'm thinking about it. Quake, come on up.
E
It's.
F
It's therapeutic.
C
Because I got these jokes that, you know, I keep. I keep. I got a thousand jokes on my. I ain't talking like four of them watching.
F
You got something. You got some one liners. You'll give. You'll give half of the comedians that's out here now a run for their money.
E
Hey, I. I got some good ones.
F
Yeah, you gotta.
C
You. You got a plethora. How wifey that platform?
E
Matter of fact, I'm gonna give you a small example right here. Watch this. Hey, do me a favor.
C
Go ahead, repeat after me, okay?
E
Blue.
C
Blue.
E
The cat is red.
C
Cat is red.
E
What color is grass?
C
What color is grass?
E
That's a good one. That's a good one.
C
Yeah, you thought I was gonna say green, didn't you?
F
No, you. You got. You need a little help on that, Ocho.
E
Yeah, I lost that one.
F
People boo you by the time you got to that green one, you understand? It took too long. You got to get in there. You gotta Be like your boxing. You gotta put them hands on them.
E
Okay. Hey, I'm gonna work. I'm gonna work on my material. My delivery.
C
Yeah, that's what you gotta work on.
F
You'll be good after that.
C
All right, so Quake, when they came to you, you had already this set that you did for Netflix. You had already had it ready, waiting for someone. Like maybe it was gonna be Netflix or whomever, Amazon, whatever the case may be. So you had this already lined up.
F
Well, see, when you're a touring comedian such as myself, every year you gotta come up with a new set. We're not like rappers or singers. We can't tell the same joke.
C
That was a hit you.
F
So I'm already in it. You know what I mean? So when it's ready, they get the call. I say this, the jokes that's for sale right now. And I sell them to them and keep on going with it. And that's what happened. So now I'm going to be at Houston this weekend and I'm start all over again.
C
Start all over. Yeah. Quake. You know what? In this age, when you first started Quake, you could tell a joke damn near for a whole year because you was in Houston. You go to Dallas and you go to Atlanta and you go to Miami and you go to this place, that place, there was really no way to commute. Man. Man. Quake told his joke. Now you tell one joke, you goddamn. They gotta get a whole set. When you go in Houston, you move to Dallas, you gotta dab to get a whole set. Cause everybody done posting your ish online.
F
Yeah, that's why you gotta keep them cameras out the comedy clubs.
C
Okay? You understand?
F
That's why you gotta do like Dave Chappelle, Put them in them little bags.
C
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
F
You got to put them in there and keep them that way. But I don't worry about that, man. And just the same way, I don't worry about nobody stealing my jokes. You might could take the jokes, but you can't take the creator because it's who told them that makes it everything. So that's where I'm at with it. And I'm. I'm like McDonald's. I'm over a billion joke toes. I'm gonna create another one. I'm gonna keep on giving it to you.
E
Hold on. I got another one. I got another one. I got another one.
C
Come on.
E
You ready?
F
Come on.
E
What do you call a singer with a laptop on her head?
F
What do you call a singer with a laptop on his head?
C
What?
E
Adele.
F
Something Wrong with your boy, man. Go get him tested, Go get him today.
C
Go show you something else, boy. Let me ask you, how long are you going to stay in the joke telling business? Are you going to do this? Say I I, well, hey, I'm a. As long as they laughing, as long as I can keep people laughing, I'm gonna tell jokes. I might be 65, I might be 70, I don't know. I ain't got no time limit on it.
F
The great thing about being a comedian, you can do it to the Lord taps you on the shoulder, say he need to see you in the office. You can sit up, you can roll us up and put us in a chair and just tell them jokes from the chair and put a microphone in their face. So as long as I'm confident and my mind is good, I'm gonna tell him to God, tell me to go.
C
Because I love it.
F
I love making people laugh.
C
And I'm great at it.
F
Humbly feeling or putting them together. And it's a high like nothing else. And then again, it's therapeutic. Instead of going talking to a therapist, therapist and giving him 100 or $200 an hour, I stand on stage and collect 200, $300 an hour. Share my pain, baby. And it's beautiful.
C
So comedian, as a comedian, you, your job is to take an event that's happened to you or something, you know, a true and make it funny. Is that your definition of comedy? Yes.
F
It's taking your experiences and making them relatable with everybody else and make it funny. Laugh at my pain, laughing my experience and the whole time. That's why you see the great ones. And you also see when comedians get to a certain level, financially, successfully, they stop telling jokes because their experience is not relatable to the people that they telling the jokes to.
D
You know what I mean?
C
So you have to tap out.
F
Because, you know, I tell my wife this all the time. I said, you know, shepherd should always smell like the sheep when you charging the sheep.
C
Wow, I like that, I like that. I, I like that, you know, so you don't feel you, you, you don't feel you cat, you cash that chip in that you feel you still on that, that relatable level that you could tell a joke. Cause you still find you flying commercial, you still, you know, hey, I got nice things now, don't get me wrong. But hey.
F
But I take one day out and go shop at Marshalls. I go to Target, I go to the bowling alley, I hang with friends. Most of my friends are not in the economical situation that I am. So I hang in their lives and I go on and I be a part of that because they are my constituents who I have to sit to. They don't want to hear about this part of it and this how well I'm doing. So I make myself relatable by putting myself with people that's going through things that I'm gonna be talking to, so I can just sit there and diagnose what they going through and live by courage through them and then take it on stage that way.
C
Man, that's unbelievable, man. Tell them the name of the country. I'm. I'mma watch it. You know what? As a matter of fact, I'm gonna go upstairs and watch it right, and watch it right now when I get done, because I ain't got nothing else to do. So please watch.
F
Tell me what you think about it. It's cold. And the reason why I call it joke telling business comedians need to get back to the job description and be funny. I don't care what they doing, but if they own any platform or anything is stick with the job description. And if you're going to sit here and carry the banner of being a comedian, you got to be funny.
C
But see, Quake, you go up. You grew up in a time that you told jokes. Look, obviously Flip Wilson had a lot of skits. I mean, the Philip Wilson show when he was doing, doing Geraldine, there's some. And now these guys now Quake, they hit a lick, they get on the Internet, they tell a few jokes, they do a few skits, they done made it, they gonna get up out of there.
F
But it's not. It's short money, but it's long for now, but it ain't lasting money. What I'm saying, if you want to laugh three decades in here, going on my fourth. If you want longevity, you can't skip the process. And that's the same thing you would tell anybody in your profession. Hey, man, you got to practice. Like you said, the coach always say, I would not accept nothing in a loss.
C
I won't accept anything in the loss. I wouldn't. Yeah, same thing. You, you, you have to pay.
E
I don't.
F
Whatever way gets you to our genre in our profession, I have no problem with if it's the Internet shows, skits, but you still got to hit that stage and sit down here and come with funny jokes to be. Call yourself a comedian. And then if you don't want to do that, then take the title off of it. Because I respect my Art. I'm just trying to see the protection.
C
Of my art form.
F
And I'm in the joke telling business, and I sling these jokes, and I expect everybody else to sling them jokes, man.
C
Quake, man. Thank you for the time. Y' all make sure y' all go check out his special on Netflix. What is it called? Joke telling. You in the joke telling business?
F
I'm in the joke telling business. Joke telling number seven right now and climbing and 24 hours out.
C
Man. That's my homeboy. That's my very good friend. Earthquake. Earthquake. Steak. Hey, what your commanders go. What your commander's gonna do on Sunday.
F
Man, we gotta get this win, man. We went down to your hometown and laid ahead. I think we coming out west and gonna get these charges because they very vulnerable. What's the name Got him. So the Giants got him. So that mean that you can get them. So I hope we get them. And baby Jesus coming back. JD5 so. But see what happened when they hold out, man, they get hurt. You know what I mean? Terry held up soft tissue. I told him, go hang out with Ocho and stay in shape so when he did get his money, we wouldn't have no hamstring pool.
C
That's how it normally happens.
E
There you go.
C
That's the great comic. Good friend of a good friend of the show. Very good friend of mine. Earthquake. Earthquake. Congratulations on everything. Congratulations on the marriage. I'm gonna hit you up because I need you to do me a favor. I got you bet. Anything you need.
F
Ocho. I love you, man. And I can still outrun you. Ocho.
C
Earthquake. Make sure y' all go check out his. His comedy special tonight on Netflix. In the joke telling business, man, look here. I've been knowing that brother. Decade plus. Great. Great. I couldn't tell y'. All me. Once upon a time, I could have tell y' all what he did for me. He did a real solid for his boy. But we gonna let that go. We ain't gonna wiggle. We ain't gonna tell that. We gonna tell that story quick. But I'll keep that between me, you, and the Lord.
F
All right?
C
Oh, we're gonna get back to our final segment of the evening. It's time Jason said Ocho says he got jokes. I got one, too. The Cincinnati Bengals.
E
Hey, listen, let's see. People love to kick. People love to kick a team when they down. They love to keep a team when we down. The only reason things are how they are right now is. And because Joe Burrow's hurt. Let's not get beside oursel.
C
Zeldorf said we need to start a GoFundMe to get Oo a t shirt with the Browns and the Bengals logos, including words Toilet bowl champions. Cuz they are only the nine bowl oo Bengals will ever win.
E
Okay.
C
Damn. Oo.
E
Okay, I see we got jokes. Okay.
C
Dylan Benavidez with a great tight end play. I need to talk. Someone's always bring up, but I need to ask. Unk, am I tripping on how good Algeron Alger Crumpler was? Crump was good. He played unbelievable. He was with Vic. Yeah, I think Crump went to like four or five promos.
E
Yeah, Crump was nice.
C
Yeah, for a man his size. He wasn't supposed to be able to move like that. Ocho.
E
He was a big boy. Boy.
C
Hell yeah.
E
Hey, what was the court? What was the receiver play with Crump? War 83. He was white. He was white, though.
C
Yeah, a white. Yes, a Roddy White, right?
E
Yeah. Roddy White and Roddy White.
C
Peerless Price.
E
Peerless Price. Yeah.
C
The long Gun love nightcap ain't much fun, but I got five on it for y'. All. Keep pushing, brothers. Thank you, bro. Thank you. Appreciate the support, sir. Underscore case. My guys. Ocho, if the Bengals missed the playoff this year, Zach Taylor gone and is.
E
No, he won't.
C
Lamar Robinson. Uncle Cho, if I could have one. If. If you could have one meal your grandma made for you, what would it be? For me, it would be my grandmother's grilled cheese.
E
Listen, for me, it'd be my grandfather, and it's way back in the 90s. I don't know how he did it. Remember that evaporated milk came in with the cow in the front?
C
Yeah, yeah. Borden's.
E
He used to make me Cream of Wheat. Unc. I don't know how he did that. Cream of Wheat was so good, Unc. Oh, my God. But I do anything. Obviously it's impossible now, but just to have that creamy wheat again. As a little kid, I used to beg for that.
C
Me, it'd probably be stewed chicken and rice or squirrel and rice. Fried squirrel.
E
Fried squirrel.
C
But stewed chicken, man, I love, man. Hey, hey. I need to find out where they got some stew chicken. Who do stew chicken in Vegas?
E
We can do it. We can go catch the squirrel. We can record that. You heard me. I got a slingshot.
C
Yeah, okay. But I could go for a good old mess of squirrel and rice. Fried. Lord have mercy. Lamar Robinson. Okay, that was. We read that one. James Lee said, how Common is using stick them on your gloves during your playing time. Jerry Rice said everyone would use it. Have you guys ever used it? Yes, everyone was using it. Guys used to defensive lineman, an offensive lineman used to use silicone on the jerseys. That's why you the. That's why you see the referees, they always pick the linemen and they pat them down. That's why. Cause I didn't want you to be able to grip and grab a hold of my jersey. So I was spread with silicone. So guess what you couldn't do. Grab my jersey. And guys offensive linemen would spray stick them on their hands because when they grabbed the jersey they wanted to be able to hold you, right? Yes, it was very common. Now they cut the spray. Now. We didn't have the stick them like Lester Hayes them had. They had to go, you know, Lester had it all over and you know, he had it all on his socks. He had it all on his forearm. He had it everywhere. And he touched the ball. That ball was done for the rest of the game. Yeah, it was done. He was done for the rest of the game. But yo, but you go back and find pictures of Lester and you see on his socks, you see all on his hands. Yeah, he had that wide base dance.
E
Yeah.
C
Yeah. But it was, it was very common. Zay2x said, hey uncle Nocho, my dad's birthday was last week on September 22nd. Could you give us a wish and give us and wish him happy birthday. Could rank the best wide receiver duels. I think my cowboys are number one. Yes, we could. Happy birthday. You didn't give us his name. That would really help if you gave us thing. But his birthday was on last week. Couple of weeks ago on September 22nd. So happy belated birthday. Thank you Zay for watching us and tuning in. We really, really appreciate that the great ranked the best wide receiver duos. Yeah, I think you guys are up there. I think you got to put AJ And Devonte even though their numbers currently don't say so. I think you got to put Amara St. Brown and J. Mo. I think they're up there. I think Puka and Devonte, they're up there. Obviously CD and and and and and Pickens are there. Chase and T. Higgins, man. St. Brown got like six touchdowns already.
E
Yeah, but they dishing that boy. That ball boy.
C
Man, that joke will be if you had to take one duo right now. You taking chasing Higgins.
E
Absolutely. I mean even, even with I. I know Joe Burrow's hurt, but I'm taking them in Right at. Right after them. The next duo I would probably take. If it wasn't chasing T, it'd probably be J. Mo and St. Brown.
C
Yeah, for me, I would probably say, yeah, I can't take. I can't take T and what you call them. Not with that quarterback. Not with that quarterback. I probably would pick. I probably would take Almond Ross Saint. For me, it would be between Amon, Rod and J. Mo and Puka and Devonte.
E
All right, that's a good. That's a good one. Well, if you're gonna.
C
Man, Matthew Stafford. Ocho, he dealing.
E
Yeah, if you're gonna throw Puka and Devonte in there, I'm gonna throw Jefferson and Addison in there, too.
C
Good point. Good. Great, great, great point. Yeah, we solid. Peggy Hager said Goodell is mad at prime for not taking his nephew to Colorado. They took it out on Shador. I don't know anything about that. I. I don't. I don't. I don't know if Roger Goodell has a nephew. I don't know. I know he has twin daughters. Met his wife when I did the thing for Netflix a couple of years ago, but I don't know anything about that. So, Peggy, if that's what you said. Hey, Jason Zeldorf said after Monday night game, I was wondering if UNC was gonna have to call the cops to do a wellness check on Ocho. Yeah, we put paint, man.
E
We.
C
That's embarrassing. Ocho. Jamal, the singer said, I know Ocho. He fell asleep. Fell asleep on an ac. But if he keep it a buck, it was. Stop eating all that Ocho.
E
I don't know.
C
You got to say it, Booty bag.
F
Oh, head.
C
Oh, we were excited to have D. Wall. Can you ask him if he thought those black uniforms were dope? You like those Dolphins uniform, Ojo?
E
Yeah, I like it. It's different. Is different.
C
Especially I like the old. I like the old school. The teals.
E
The teal. Yeah, the teal is nice. With the white pants.
C
Yep.
E
That's nice. I think the black was something different. Look, you know, little change don't hurt.
C
Dr. Frankie L. Bellamy said. Okay, fam, it's time for some humor. Who you got, Leslie Nielsen and Naked Gun or Jim Carrey and Pet Detective?
E
Ooh, that's a good one.
C
Leslie Nielsen and Naked Gun.
E
I'm going with Leslie Nielsen, too. That joke was funny, boy, man. Hey, that was funny, bro.
C
King of the one liners.
E
Hey, I think the chat might not know about the Naked Gun, though, man.
C
Please. Naked Gun. Hey, they better Go. They better stop playing.
E
Hey, but that was funny, boy. And then the one they had, the one with OJ in it.
C
Yeah, he was in all of them.
E
He was.
C
Yeah.
E
I ain't know he was in the first one.
C
Yeah. But fun Jared D say, Uncle Nocho, my man Jaden Blackwell did it again. He broke the world record in the 400 meters at the World Championship for the U.S. paralympic track team. And he Run the 180. Run the 400. Jaden, congratulations, bro.
E
Congratulations.
C
Hey, we are very, very proud of you. We happy for you. Congratulations again. Another gold medal. Hey, we can't say congratulations and thank you enough, but continue to keep up the great work. And y' all see this Paralympic gold medal against the world. That means you could do anything. There are no excuses. One would hear. I can't or this or that. No, I love to see. I love. Because I normally watch it, Ocho, to see these men and women. I see, you know, people swimming with one arm. No arms, man. And you go and somebody complain, man, I ain't trying to hear nothing. You saying nothing. Don't even talk to me about that. Because after I see these people out there with w. Amputees and. And. And. And they got the guide sometime running with them. They blind. Ocho got a blindfold, and they got the guy run. Hey, some of the people damn to be out running the Damn. The guide.
E
They fast now.
C
They be. They be dealing. Kevin Norwood Jr. Said your Broncos photo is my wallpaper. It's because you inspired me, Kemper. Thank you very much. I know who wallpaper doesn't. My bad. That's lip don't show My bad. I ain't want to say that. I ain't mean to say that.
E
You good. Don't worry about it. As long as you. As long as you go to that concert with me, you're gonna be all right.
C
Thank you for joining us for another episode of Nightcap. Y' all know who I am. I'm your favorite unc, Shannon Sharp. That is my partner and co host, Liberty City's own Bingo's Ring of fame honoree, Pro Bowler All Pro. That's Chad Ochocinko Johnson. Please make sure you hit that subscribe button. Please make sure you hit the like button. And do us a favor. Go subscribe to the Nightcap podcast feed, wherever you get your podcast from. We'd like to thank each and every one of you for your eyes, ears, and your word of mouth for help making Nightcap what it's become. Thank you. Make sure you check out Shea by La Portier. We do have it in stock, but if you can't find it in a city or state near you ordered online, ship it directly to your door. Best tasting Premium Bsop Cognac on the market. The best tasting Premium Bsop Cognac on the market. Don't take my word for it. Try it for yourself. You will not be disappointed and you will believe me. Say, you know what? You got something on your hands. We believe we do. Make sure you check out my my media company, Shay Shay Media on all of its platforms and my clothing company, 84. With 84 being spelled out. That link is pinned in the chat. We want to thank all of our guests that joined us tonight. Darren Waller, tight end, Miami Dolphins, Ernest Jones, the fourth Seattle Seahawks outstanding linebacker and good friend of the show, the comedian Earthquake. Make sure you check out his special I'm in the joke telling business. Thank you guys for joining us for Nightcap. We'll see you tomorrow after the game. I'm Unk. He's Ocho. See you tomorrow.
A
Hey, this is Matt Jones.
B
And I'm Drew Franklin.
A
And this is NFL Cover Zero. We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different.
B
Did you see the Colts pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that close out.
C
Oh my.
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We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining. And twice a week, that is exactly what you're going to get. Listen NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
Date: October 2, 2025
Host(s): Shannon Sharpe (“Unc”), Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson (“Ocho”)
Special Guests: Ernest Jones (Seattle Seahawks LB), Earthquake (Comedian)
This episode dives deep into NFL narratives and behind-the-scenes stories, with a special focus on Seattle Seahawks linebacker Ernest Jones, his transition to a new team, and his aspirations for another Super Bowl ring. The discussion branches into Aaron Donald’s impact, Tyreek Hill’s injury and comeback prospects, and the nuances of NFL offensive frustrations (with AJ Brown’s candid comments as a case study). To top off a lively session, comedian Earthquake makes a surprise appearance, offering both laughs and wisdom about comedy’s craft.
| Segment | Timestamps | |---|---| | Ernest Jones Interview (Trade, Rams, Seahawks) | 00:38 – 21:29 | | Defensive Identity, Aaron Donald Stories | 06:09 – 11:32 | | Seahawks Aspirations, Madden Rating Jokes | 16:08 – 17:48 | | Food, Diet, and Ring Talk | 19:15 – 21:29 | | AJ Brown, Offensive Creativity Discussion | 23:31 – 27:25 | | Tyreek Hill Injury & Comeback | 41:12 – 45:47 | | Earthquake’s Surprise Appearance | 49:13 – 61:29 | | Comedy, Relatability & Jokes | 51:34 – 61:29 | | Listener Mailbag, Nostalgia & Banter | 61:29 – end |
The episode maintains Club Shay Shay’s signature conversational, locker-room energy—equal parts insightful NFL talk, humorous roasts, and warm camaraderie. Both Shannon and Ocho bounce between analytical sports commentary and playful ribbing, keeping things sharp, funny, and accessible, with guests feeling at home.
This episode is a stellar representation of Club Shay Shay’s formula: exclusive access to NFL stars (with personal storytelling and behind-the-curtain context), smart football talk, and comedic levity, capped off by genuine moments of advice and life lessons from Earthquake. Whether you’re invested in current NFL narratives, want to hear how teammates and greats shape each other, or just want a good laugh, you’ll find something to enjoy here.