Deebo & Joe - REACTION to Eagles SURVIVING vs. Cowboys + Jalen Carter SPITTING on Dak Prescott

Summary

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Nightcap | Deebo & Joe - REACTION to Eagles SURVIVING vs. Cowboys + Jalen Carter SPITTING on Dak Prescott

Podcast: Nightcap (iHeartPodcasts & Shay Shay Media)
Air Date: September 5, 2025
Hosts: James "Deebo" Harrison & Joe Hayd

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Episode Overview

In this engaging Nightcap episode, Deebo Harrison and Joe Hayd break down the Eagles' nail-biting win over the Cowboys, the shocking on-field spat between Jalen Carter and Dak Prescott, and offer their unfiltered reactions and stories from around the NFL. The duo dig deep into what spitting means on the football field, the psychological and strategic elements of the Eagles’ win, quarterback play rankings, locker room culture, and off-the-field NFL news—including player union politics, jersey number negotiations, retirements, and even a playful debate on hypothetical fights and Powerball dreams.

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Main Theme

Raw, immediate, and veteran-player analysis of Week 1’s Philly-Dallas showdown—especially the controversial pregame moment when Jalen Carter spat on Dak Prescott—and what it means for team culture, league discipline, and the early NFL season.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Spitting Incident: Jalen Carter & Dak Prescott

• Description: Early drama as Jalen Carter spits on Dak Prescott before the coin toss.
• Player Code & Reactions:
  • Joe: “The most disrespectful thing in the world you could do, man, is spit on somebody. Like, if somebody was to spit on me, go ahead, get my bail money together. I’m going to jail.” (04:40)
  • Deebo: “That’s what I’m saying, like, the spit—I know you feel some type of way… He spit on my man’s upper chest plate slash Adam’s apple… That’s the craziest thing. I had to pause and look at it. Man, this is not normal.” (06:05, 06:20)
  • Both agree the Cowboys o-line must have missed it, or a brawl would have erupted: “That’s like an all-out brawl. You just canceled the first regular season game because this is not gonna stop.” (07:26)
• Debate—How should the league respond?
  • Joe: “Suspend this dude… at least six games. You gotta go ahead and make an example.” (09:30)
  • Deebo: “I would say for show, like, two. At least two games. At least two games.” (10:17)
  • Both concur: suspension is necessary, length up for debate.

2. Eagles Survive, Not Shine: Game Breakdown

• Low-Scoring, Sloppy Opener:
  • Deebo: “That’s what good teams do. You figure out a way to win the game. Jalen Hurts… 19 for 23, 152 yards… But end of the day, you want to get out of these games with wins. Watching tape on a win is way easier than on a loss.” (12:12)
  • Eagles’ offense was not firing, but “these are the games you just end up winning… Get out of stadiums with W’s and not L’s.” (12:12)
• Key Stat: Hurts picked up a career-high five first downs on scramble runs, including a game-clinching conversion. (15:31)
• Cowboys Missed Micah Parsons:
  • “That was something else… not having your guy in the middle there, that’s a lot different game.” (19:31)

3. Quarterback Ranking Talk: Jalen Hurts’ Place

• Jalen Hurts: Top 5?
  • Joe: “Would that be a correct assumption—you were impressed by [Hurts’] performance?”
  • Deebo: “A thousand percent… But I don’t know if he’s top five. He’s top ten for sure, probably six or seven… There’s a couple quarterbacks just more gifted throwing the football.” (16:00-17:15)
  • Joe agrees: “I can’t… feel comfortable saying top five of the quarterback [position]. What he can do at that position—yes. But being able to see what you see, get it there… That’s something [others] can do better.” (17:19)

4. Locker Room Culture and Player Switching Teams

• Micah Parsons’ Departure: Locker Room Dynamics
  • Debo: “That man is in Wisconsin. Ain’t nothing to do out there. Everybody’s at the facility getting, right, chilling, getting treatment for sure… It’s a different vibe than Dallas.” (25:56)
  • Joe: “He’s not taking a knock… He’s being exposed to something else… Sometimes you get a group of dudes that are in there together. As it went further—2012, 2013—it wasn’t the same… It used to be everybody.” (27:07-28:54)
  • Both hosts reflect on importance of veteran leadership for building locker-room camaraderie.

5. Player-Union (NFLPA) Politics & Critique

• 18-Game Season Inevitable?
  • Deebo: “Man, they tripping—they just trying to get more and more bag.”
  • Joe, skeptical of union leadership: “That is inevitable. The NFL is going to want [an 18-game season]... The NFLPA leadership dude is weak at every level. We need strong leadership.” (34:24, 38:59)
  • Joe reveals he wants to run for Executive Director of NFLPA; explains the need for player-focused leadership: “I know all the things that we’re going to… when football is done with you.” (39:20-43:10)

6. NFL News, Trades & Player Life

• Jersey Number Stories:

  • Deebo: “I had to buy 23 for 20 bands. As a rookie!” (47:28)
  • “I tried to give Mike Mitchell $200k for 23—he wouldn’t sell.” (47:36)
  • Joe: “In New England, a dude let me have 92 for $3,000… He blessed your boy.” (49:18)

• Do players overcharge for numbers?

  • Both hosts share horror (and comic) tales about pricing and negotiations; Malachi Corley’s million-dollar request for Devante Adams cited as “wild” (46:40).

• Retirements & Comebacks:

  • Amari Cooper reportedly changes mind after signing: “If he just signed a week ago, that means he didn’t do training camp… got into the grind, really was like, ah, I don’t love it. It’s about to be a whole season of this.” (53:38-54:25)
  • Joe’s personal struggle returning from retirement: “If it wasn’t for the fact that my daddy told me, you start, you finish what you start… My body hurtin’ so bad… My kids said yes, though. So I did it.” (56:50-58:30)

7. Legacies & Generations: The Tom Brady Debate

• Is Tom Brady a 'generational talent'?
  • Joe finds RC’s TV statement nonsensical: “This can’t be right… If I’m talking about… all the intangibles—I’m not gonna lie to you, it’s gonna be Tom Brady.” (51:06-52:44)
  • Deebo: “He gonna walk you down the field and win.” (52:44)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Spitting and NFL Conduct:

  • Joe: “If somebody was to spit on me… go ahead, get my bail money together.” (04:40)
  • Deebo: “You hit that man here—full blown, directly… Spit is not. That's not cool… That’s just foul.” (09:16, 09:55)

• On Locker Room Culture:

  • Joe: “It used to be everybody… offensive, defensive. Then it was little groups… When you build that, it’s special.” (27:38-28:54)
  • Deebo: “You want to help people out. Like, you’ve been in the situation… You looking out for the next generation.” (42:00-43:10)

• Jersey Number Haggling:

  • Deebo: “Mike kept the 23. My rookie year, I had 21. Ended up buying it off Rob G for the 20 bands… He was ecstatic.” (47:28-48:35)
  • Joe: “In New England… He said, three grand. I wasn’t gonna pay much… I wasn’t gonna pay much.” (49:39-50:11)

• On Amari Cooper’s Retirement:

  • Deebo: “NFL is not a game. It’s not… Oh, yeah, I’m gonna just jump in on there and play with these dudes. No, you’re gonna get hurt. You’re gonna get smacked out there.” (53:38-54:25)

• On the Hypothetical Fight Between Hosts:

  • Deebo (about Chad “Ochocinco”): “He don’t got no combat… background like me. Hell…” (64:53-65:13)
  • Joe: “That man spit on me, it ain’t a rule in this world that’s gonna stop me from trying to kill his ass.” [Laughs] (65:13)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Spitgate: Carter vs. Prescott, player code, and suspensions
  [04:40] – [11:35]
• Eagles' win breakdown, Hurts’ performance, and early takeaways
  [12:12] – [18:30]
• Is Hurts a top 5 QB?
  [15:53] – [18:30]
• Micah Parsons’ new locker room, team culture nostalgia
  [25:56] – [28:54]
• NFLPA credibility, 18-game debate, and Joe’s campaign for Exec Dir
  [34:08] – [43:39]
• Jersey number stories & price inflation
  [46:37] – [51:06]
• Tom Brady/Brees/Manning “generational” debate
  [51:06] – [52:44]
• Player retirements & comebacks (Amari Cooper, Joe’s return)
  [53:04] – [59:54]
• End show banter: workouts, family, Powerball, fighting Chad
  [61:09] – [65:44]

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Tone and Style Highlights

• Authentic and Unfiltered:
  Both hosts speak with directness, sometimes raw language, and a playful, competitive energy. They blend storytelling and hard-nosed football wisdom into entertaining, streetwise sports talk.

• Playful Banter:
  Segments on buying jersey numbers, the fantasy of fighting each other, and Powerball number selection show the relaxed, humorous chemistry between Deebo and Joe.

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For listeners short on time:
This episode delivers real locker room insight, sharp banter, and the kind of veteran football perspective that doesn’t hold back—a must-listen (or read) for anyone trying to understand both the physical and cultural realities of the NFL, especially after a fiery season opener like Eagles vs. Cowboys.

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Transcript

[Debo]

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[Joe]

Welcome to this episode of Debo and Joe. I'm your host, James Debo Harrison, and I'm here with my co host, Joe Hayd. Would you please make sure you like and subscribe to our channel? Y' all don't want to miss nothing. How you doing today, Joe?

[Debo]

Man, I'm doing great, Debo. Great to be with you here on this great Friday. We got football, we got things to talk about. My good brother.

[Joe]

Definitely, definitely Dallas. Dallas over there. And Dallas and Eagles gave us a. Gave us a whole lot to talk about, you know, especially before, you know, a snap even got started over there for Philly. My man Jalen, he, he decided he, he wanted to spit on this, this man right before the kickoff. You know, in my mind, dude, like, the most disrespectful thing in the world you could do, man, is spit on somebody. Like it's nothing else in this world that you could do. That would be worse than, than spitting on, like, if, if somebody was to spit on me, like, go ahead, get my bail money together. Like, like, I'm going to jail. I don't know how Dak had the, the control to not, like, react to it and do something.

[Debo]

You called me Debo.

[Maria Hinojosa]

Yes.

[Debo]

You called me. You called me when this happened. I knew you felt some type of way, so I couldn't wait to get your opinion. And that's why I'm saying, like, the spit, like, I know you feel some type of way. So literally, like, Deebo, you said bail money for show. How would you feel if that would have been you in that situation? What would you have done, my brother? I just needed to answer it.

[Joe]

Would it? Dude, I can't even. I would have had. Oh, I wanted to say. I want to say that I would be able to control myself, especially, you know, being in that situation.

[Debo]

First game of the season, you got to put yourself where it is. You know what I'm saying? You are a professional athlete. You in. But he did. All right, let me say something too. When he spit on your man. So we got. Dak did a little spit first. I seen it. But like, when he spit on him, Debo, he spit on my man's upper chest plate slash Adam's apple. Like, he spit that on his neck. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, the disrespect. You're right there in close quarters and you just really spit on the man. So, like, that's. What are we doing? That's the craziest thing. I had to pause and look at it. Like, man, this is not normal.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Like when they said like, he. I think he spit on him. I'm like, there's no way. He went over there, spit on him and like, nobody reacted. Like, you don't just coaxially walk up to somebody and spit on them. Like, like, dude, like, the level of disrespect of spit is no level to it. Like, the only level below that is getting into a fight with a dude and he beats you up by just slapping you and he never balls it straight.

[Debo]

Open hand slaps.

[Joe]

Yeah, like, that's.

[Debo]

That's the only other thing that's close.

[Joe]

And like, I don't see. The only way I can describe or understand why the offensive line didn't react is that it's no way in hell they saw that. They saw that.

[Debo]

Because that's like an all out brawl.

[Joe]

And that seems y' all just canceled the first regular season game because this is not going to stop.

[Debo]

That gives. It gives. Like I would say, you know how. I know how Pouncey rocks. And I'm just saying for the office alignment, just for protection, that gives you the right to throw a hat.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Debo]

Because he's. He literally, he didn't just, he didn't just, he, he didn't smack. He spit on your man. So now you can obviously fumb. You could fire off on him and you might just get a flag, but he's going to get thrown out because the initial man, the referee was standing right there. He saw the spit. So I think that's maybe why the, I don't know if the lineman saw it, but like that gives you a little bit.

[Joe]

There's no way on God's green earth, dude, that the lineman saw. It's no way. It's, it's, it's no way. I, I, I, I, I don't believe that. If I see that. And it is just, it's you, man. And we, and who, I don't care who it is. And they spit on you.

[Debo]

We close quarters. We're close quarters.

[Joe]

They. And he walked over to the other side. That's like a automatic. Like he's supposed to be getting hands, feet, maybe a helmet, like all that.

[Debo]

You know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

No other level that you can disrespect somebody with other than spitting on him.

[Debo]

Yes. Like that was crazy.

[Joe]

No to no extreme. I just, dude, and the fact that they did not react to it, I.

[Debo]

Was hopefully you saying that they didn't see, they had to not see the spit though.

[Joe]

It's no way.

[Debo]

And just trace, because they controlled.

[Joe]

But yeah, and then like to come out with, you know, Dax spit. He went in between his lineman and he spit. Dude, he spit at the ground. Like he, he, he's not, he, no, he didn't even try and level it out to even make like he was getting to you. So. No, all that other stuff, you can miss me with that noise.

[Debo]

You hit that man here, full blown. Here, here, between here, here. Directly he spit. It's you out on the field, you spit on the ground. You know what I'm saying? Like you feel like it's in your direction, you feel disrespected, that's on you, coach.

[Joe]

Dude, think about how many times you've been on the field, bro. And you turn your head to spit and you hit somebody's shoe in the front. Yo, mom, my bad, my bad. You ain't even. It's one of your team. You just went over. I believe they gotta suspend this dude, man. I think he gotta get at least six games. You gotta go ahead and make an example out of this dude. It's no way. It should not be some sort of suspension with this, bro. What do you think?

[Debo]

I think he should get suspended for show. Six game. I don't know. Six. But you gotta make like you may. You. You wanna make an example. Spit is not. That's not cool. This is not what we're doing. We're in. We're. We're playing in this game. You know what I'm saying? Tensions get high. It is what it is. But that's just. Foul.

[Joe]

You ain't even snapped the ball yet, bro.

[Debo]

You ain't got to play. What. What?

[Joe]

Tension got high.

[Debo]

It's the first game of the season. He's building up anger, you know, but you right. You right, James. He needs to get suspended. I don't know about. I. I would say. I would say for show, like, two. I would say at least two. At least two games. At least two games.

[Joe]

Two games. Just two games for that, bro.

[Debo]

You say six. Six games.

[Joe]

All right.

[Debo]

Yeah, I think. Yeah. If you want to make an example of them, understand, we.

[Joe]

We can do six and maybe knock down a couple.

[Debo]

Okay. No, for sure. We can start off and knock it down. I just. Yeah, it's just the. Yeah, no, I feel you. You got. You got to hit it where it hurts, and that's going to be in this check. He's gonna miss six game checks, if that's the case. You know what I'm saying? And that's.

[Joe]

That's.

[Debo]

That's. That's gonna be where it hurts. I would say, for sure, suspend him. The length of the suspension is. Is. Is debatable. He needs to be suspended. He's not going to. He got to sit. He got to sit down. You got to sit down.

[Joe]

Yeah, the apology and all, that's. That's. That's, you know, that's. That's great and cool, but at. At the end of the day, man, you like. You spit on somebody, like, if you're in an argument with somebody, that is the last. That is the last thing that you are thinking about doing.

[Debo]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Is spitting on them. Unless, dude, you don't spit on them.

[Debo]

You don't spit on anybody.

[Joe]

The first time your kids spit, what you do? Pop them in their mouth, Right? That just don't make sense, dude. Anyway, man, him getting kicked out the game really didn't help. It helped the Cowboys, but it didn't help them enough to win the game, I believe, 24 to 20, the Eagles ended up beating them anyway. Yeah, what. What, what, what takes, uh, what things that you see that, uh, came from this game that you would, uh, want to, you know, talk about or point out that the Cowboys could Obviously do better to help them, you know, secure that win.

[Debo]

I think it was more, I would say Cowboys, man. The thing is, that's what good teams do. You're going to figure out a way to win the game. The Eagles, Jalen. Jalen hurts. He threw for 152 yards, went 19 for 23, 82% passing completion, completion rate, you know what I'm saying? Nothing too crazy, but. But end of the day, when the game, when the season starts, you want to get out of these games with wins. You want to win. You want to get to the next game, you want to get to practice, watch the tape. Watching tape on a win is way easier than watching a tape on a loss. So Dallas Cowboys, like you, they didn't have their best defensive lineman, their interior lineman, so they ended up being able to just get out of that situation, winning the game. Defense play solid, only gave up 20 points, you know what I'm saying? So these are just messy games where they. Nobody's really into the flow. You don't really know what's going on. A.J. brown wasn't target. He had one catch for eight yards, you know what I'm saying? Like, they just, at the end of the day, their offense wasn't doing too much, but these are the games that you just end up winning. You want to get out of stadiums with W's and not L's because it's way easier to figure out, you know what I'm saying? Let's. Let's study from this. Let's get right. But let's not spit on fucking somebody if you're in the game. That'll help our defense. Just start off, you know what I'm saying? Like that part. And then we can start. AJ Brown getting him into the mix. Saquon Barkley scored a touchdown, only had 60 yards rushing. But you leave those stadiums.

[Joe]

Yeah, a lot of that with, you know, scrambling and coming up with big plays, you know, getting in there. I think on, you know, Dallas side of the ball, they need to, you know, I think shore up like just small things. I think they need to get. They need to get what's his name, Pickens more involved. They need to get more touches, you know, getting more targets. I believe they had over something team targets for. For CD also. CD had had a few drops. I think he. Or four drops there. But I think the big thing that really hurt him was, was that turnover and then, you know, the rain delay. It seemed like both teams couldn't get started back from that. On defense, you know, again I mean, more, more, more pressure from, from the Dallas defense. Obviously Parsons isn't there.

[Debo]

I wonder why, wonder why the lack of pressure. Debo.

[Joe]

Yeah, I mean, you know, hurts. Running the ball hurt him. You know, him scrambling. His ability to, you know, extend plays and make and with his legs was really the, the big, the big difference. And like you said, he didn't go out there, you know, slinging the ball left and right here and there, but he, he made up for it, you know, at the points and spots of the game.

[Debo]

And that's what, and that's why I love Jalen too. At the end of the day, like, doing what it takes to win, he's going to, like we would say you're not great, whatever, whatever, but you're going to. He leaves that, he leaves that stadium with a W, not an L. That's 01. The Eagles are one and, oh, trying to figure out how to go two and zero. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's the simple part of, at the beginning of the season, how do you start behind the eight ball? You win games that you're not really supposed to win or nobody's really performing like you think they are, but you won the game. So y' all are just building consistent. You, you stack those up. Next thing you know, you sitting there, four, zero, just trying to get your rhythm right. Like this is the beginning of the season, training camp. Nobody's hitting, you know what I'm saying? But he's making those third shorts, like scrambling, being able to extend plays, being able to just do what you got to do to win the game, get out of the stadium. So, like, yeah.

[Joe]

According to the next gen stats, Jalen Hurts picked up a career high five first downs on nine scramble runs.

[Debo]

Come on.

[Joe]

Yeah. Yeah. Including the game clinching third down conversion, he also scored both of the touchdowns on scramble runs. You know, obviously I think you were impressed by his performance last night. Would that be a correct assumption?

[Debo]

A thousand percent. I mean, like, like I, I, with.

[Joe]

That being said, do, do. He's a top five quarterback.

[Debo]

No, see, that's the thing. I never want to give slander to Jalen Hurts. I'm not here for the Jalen Hurts.

[Joe]

I'm not saying I'm not, I'm not saying you're slandering.

[Debo]

No, no, no, no, no. But when I say that, when you.

[Joe]

Say he's a top five, I'm practicing.

[Debo]

Myself to say that I don't know if he's top five. He might be like, he's top Ten for sure. But I'm saying, like, the way that I think of Aaron Rodgers of being just the best thrower of the ball, you know what I'm saying? Compared to, like, people, the way you.

[Joe]

Think of the position of quarterback. I understand what you're saying.

[Debo]

Quarterback position.

[Joe]

Yes, yes.

[Debo]

All things being the same, I think if Patrick Mahomes was on the Eagles, they may be better. And that's no disrespect, because I love none. You know, I love Jalen Hurts. So that's why when I say if I were to put Joe Burrow there, I think that they may be a little. They may, they may be a little better. You know what I'm saying? Like, and that's not knocking Jalen in any way. He's doing what he's asked to do. He's a great quarterback. He deserves every dollar that he gets. You know what I'm saying? But I just think there's a couple of player quarterbacks, I think that are just a little bit more gifted than him throwing the football, you know what I'm saying? And, and that's just as me as being a quarterback. I think that that's just on my, on my, on my top. So I think he'd probably be like, he's definitely top 10. He's around probably six or seven. Probably six. I would say six.

[Joe]

Okay.

[Debo]

I would say six.

[Joe]

Okay dot okay.

[Debo]

Where do you put Jay?

[Joe]

Like, I'm with you. He, He. He's in that top 10. I can't, I can't. I don't feel comfortable saying top view of the. The quarterback is the just flat tangibles of a quarterback. What he can do at that position. Yes. Being able to run afterwards and, and, and, and, you know, extend the play. That's the added bonus and all that. But being able to see what you see, get it there and, you know, read out of things, that's something that he can do, you know, just sitting in the pocket. And like you said Tom, you look at Tom, you look at other guys like, Tom, you look at Mahomes. Same thing with Mahomes. He can see it. And if he don't see it, he, he can get up out of there. But, you know, nine times out of 10, he's looking to throw the ball. So I think a few of those times, you know, it was opportunity where he could have hit a guy that may have been breaking open and chose to, to take it off or just maybe later on to read or maybe they breaking later open. So I don't. Was there Any cause of concern, you know, from the Eagles last night that you, that you could think of anything that.

[Debo]

I mean, it's early, you know, I think A.J. brown getting involved, you know what I'm saying? Just trying to get that passing game going. But like I said, it's early on in the season. Being able to come out of these games with W's is the main thing. So them winning a tough division game, starting off, I think they're on the right path. But like A.J. brown getting the receivers more involved, I think that's something that we could do little. Cause you know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying. He threw for just a little dump. That big post that he threw, that was a 50 yard pass. You take away that he went 18 for 22, 100 yards. That's real, you know what I'm saying? Dinkin and Duncan is doing what you got to do, but I was think like more, just a little bit more explosive plays, you know what I'm saying? I think that's probably the only thing for real because they did good job on defense and they, they didn't have their best player on and they didn't.

[Joe]

Yeah, that was something else. Like, I'm not, I'm not really concerned about it, but I believe they won't have him for a few more, few more weeks. If, if not, you know, if not more than that, you know, and I believe next week. Who they play the Chiefs or something?

[Debo]

Oh man. I think so is it.

[Joe]

I believe they play the Chiefs next week. So, you know, coming up on that, not having your, your guy in the middle there or possibility of not having him there, that's a lot, that's a lot different game, you know, for them when they going in there trying to make sure they can stop the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes. So, you know, just from the play that I saw last night, again, the best defensive player wasn't in there. Yeah, I ain't gonna lie, dude. I think Dallas might be a little better. Than what? Than what we think, bro.

[Debo]

Like they got, they got, they have talent. They have talent. I think them getting George Pickens also a long CD. Lamb, he dropped some balls. That's not the normal CD. He's still at 7 for 110, but he's gonna get right. Getting George Pickens is another number one, you know what I'm saying? Like, you need to throw that ball to him the same way they're throwing it to cd.

[Joe]

And that's what I was saying. You need to get him more touc.

[Debo]

Oh, he's. He's unbelievable. His athletic ability, like just put him in space, give him the ball, throw him a slant, he can take it to the crib. We've seen it before, you know what I'm saying? So I think just getting able to get him involved, that understanding, you got two number ones you can go to.

[Joe]

And on the defensive side, man, like, you know how much you think they missed Micah though?

[Debo]

Oh, big time. Like you said, there wasn't the pressure of being able to. He. You saw Jaylen, he ran for five of them first downs. Being able to just escape like they weren't compressing the pocket, being able to keep him contained. So I think with Micah there, he would have been able to get to. He would have been able to get to him. He's the best defensive lineman they have by far. He's the best defensive player they have. He's the best player on their team. And he was not there to help run that man down and stop some of those first downs that he was able to convert.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. So I guess according to Adam Scheffner, the Eagles were in a great big war for Michael Parsons. Like, is no way in hell that Jerry Jones was go give no Michael Parsons to the Eagles. No, no, no, dude, that's probably why he was talking about. Yeah, he got, he got two or three more years here. Like he, he let him sit there and, and do nothing before he give him to the Eagles for sure.

[Debo]

That was the last place.

[Joe]

Can you imagine, dude, the Eagles with Michael Parsons right now? No, that game would have got ugly way uglier.

[Debo]

There's no way. There's no way. I mean, they would have had to give them. He would have got the hole that he deserved. He would. They would have to give him six first round picks. They would have to. They would have to.

[Joe]

Dude, I don't even think he would have gave. If they gave him. Dude, I would not have done. It would have been the worst move he could have ever made in his life. You're almost but all but guaranteeing that you will never, ever beat the Eagles for this foreseeable future.

[Debo]

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

[Joe]

I just don't. Dude, I just don't. I just don't see it happen going to Micah Parsons. I guess they're saying that Micah took a little dig at his former Cowboy teammates. Let's see, by praising his packers teammates, he said, I tell you, I've never been in a locker room with guys like this. I come in Tuesday for treatment and I saw almost every guy in the locker room. This is the first time I've seen this, he said. He goes on and say, that just shows how much these guys want to be here. They just want to be around. They just want to be around each.

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[Joe]

Other and hang out. I think that's important. And when you're around guys like that, it makes it exciting to come to work. Do you think he was taking a dig at his former team, or do you think he's just excited to have an opportunity to be on the team?

[Debo]

Debo, that man is in Wisconsin. There ain't nothing to do out there. Everybody's at the facility getting, right, chilling, getting treatment for sure. Where we gonna be, what we gonna do? So, understandably, I think that Micah gotta understand, it's like Wisconsin is a little different than Dallas, but I understand when you come into a new spot, you bringing that good energy, you saying what you see. I think that it's dope that everybody's in the facility. You know, I think everybody's getting that treatment, getting that work in early Dallas. Tuesday's the day off, Debo. We know this. What are people doing on Tuesdays? That's your time that you don't have to come to the facility. Actually, you can chill, you can do what you want to do. So being that in. He's saying Wisconsin, everybody's there, they're getting treatment. I was meeting people on a Tuesday. That's the day off. So he's saying everybody's in the facility. Maybe in Dallas, finally, the day off, people aren't in there as much. You know what I'm saying? You can come get your lift in. You cannot. But I think he's saying, I'm. I'm looking at it like, dude, they're in the facility. You're in Wisconsin. Everybody's coming in the facility because you're getting treatment, getting their body rights, a thousand percent. But I don't think it's that serious. I think he's.

[Joe]

I don't. I don't. I don't see it as a. A dig at the Cowboys. I see it as him being exposed to a different locker room, a different way of moving. So from the time I was In Pittsburgh, from 2002 until probably 2012, that's what we had. We had a group of dudes that were in there. We were. Everybody were in there together. Like, we hung out on the off time. You know, we'd go out, hang out, do whatever, go out, kick it. And first thing in the morning, yo, 6:30, 7 o'.

[Debo]

Clock.

[Joe]

You're in the gym at the latest, working out, getting it going. And that's just the, you know, that's just the atmosphere that those players from that time to us passed down and it, it just continued. And to, to be honest with you, like, as it went further and further in 2012, I ended up going to Cincinnati in 13 and you know, I came back unretired and was back in 14. And it wasn't, it wasn't the same, you know what I'm saying? You didn't have the same. Where it was a whole, you know, like team thing. You had, you had your little cut up groups, you know what I mean? Like you had your groups. Like maybe it was offense, defense, where before it was just everybody, you know what I'm saying? When Bussy and all them was there, it was everybody. Now it was a little more offense, defense. And then it even got, you know, some things got cut down even more than that. You know, it was positionally, you know, it might be, you know, receivers and DBs and all that. So I understand what he's saying. He's not taking a knock. He's being exposed to something else that he didn't think would happen because that's all he was exposed to. This is something new and he likes it and he's enjoying it and he's not taking a knock at somebody else. He's saying, I'm seeing something else and it's good. I like it, I want more of it.

[Debo]

I love that. I love that. No, for sure. Like you said too in Cleveland, just different. Like when I, when I went from. In Cleveland on Tuesdays, like you said, this is the day off. You have like you said, positional groups. We were really cool. Defenses get tight. But when I came to Pittsburgh, Will gay and those dudes, they will always have some stuff. Like those defensive meetings, there was like mandatory kicks, you know what I'm saying? Like not really mandatory, but dudes wanted to hang out. Like we gonna watch this film and we gonna get some good food, like and just really bond to be able to talk and really be able to get this camaraderie. So there's different. And that's what I was trying to do when I was in Cleveland at first some OG Gabe Elam dudes that do it, you kind of, like you said, you just fall into it because OG gonna tell you kind of where we going, where we meeting at and that's what you're gonna do. And then when you become lg, you want to set that thing up. Too with the food, making sure everybody's good so they. They feel apart. Everybody knows we in this together. End of the day, we grind and we figuring it out, but meeting and us doing these little out of the off. The team of coaches is not here. This is what makes me know your family, what makes me feel like we are actually bonding, you know what I'm saying? Getting along, that camaraderie. So I understand exactly what that perspective, because that's, that's a real thing. Maybe they weren't doing as much in Dallas like you said. The OGs probably didn't bring them in as much. Didn't like, take him out the dinners will show them the way. You know what I'm saying?

[Joe]

Right.

[Debo]

He would want to get led. And now he goes there. It's a whole different vibe. Dang. I got somebody really like, oh, dang.

[Joe]

That's what's good.

[Debo]

Like, boom.

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We.

[Debo]

So this is what we doing. And everybody's just kicking it cooling now you're like, man, these dudes are some good at good ass dudes.

[Joe]

Right, right, right. Speaking of people that was doing things the way he just found out they doing them. I guess Stefan Diggs decision to not speak to the Boston media rubbed the local reporters the wrong way. It says Diggs apologized, I guess for coming off rude. He said, obviously I don't want to come across as that. Well, they said he was. They said. They said he was a pain posterior. Yeah, dude, my braces be locking me up, bro. Yeah, he was a pain in the ass. You know, obviously they said posterior, so it wasn't one of us. But he said, obviously I don't want to come across as that. I'm going to say this. I want to be very clear. I'm an adult. I apologize. I'm not up here to ego trip. I'm not up here to rub any. Anybody the wrong way or say anything that's clickbait. If I rubbed anyone wrong, I, I really want to apologize. So like, you know, the man said he's, you know, he's up there, he's. He's trying to lock in. He's. He's making sure he take care of his body. He's take care of his mind. You know, it's camp. He didn't want to get, you know, into the whole rigmarole yet, you know, and right now, I guess, you know, you're at the point where it's mandatory now, you know, so he's doing what it is that he has to do right now. But, but you know, at that point in camp, he was saying he wanted to lock in, and I guess the. The two individuals, they actually, I guess, had a little an apology too. Do you. Do you think that that's something that you would do or that. Do you think he was actually just locking in or do you think he was just being an a hole, as they say, a pain. I can't even say the word, bro.

[Debo]

I don't think I know Diggs personally. That's my. He's from the dmv. We from the same area. Like, I know him, I know his brother, all of them, and Diggs is a really, really good dude. But I would say that, you know, he had a lot of off the field stuff really going on, you know what I'm saying? He was in a situation, so he just wanted to keep it football. He's in a new team, knows what they trying to talk about, and he really wants to keep the main thing. The main thing coming off an injury. He knows he got some stuff to prove and I think he's going to do it.

[Joe]

So.

[Debo]

So I don't think he was trying to be an asshole. He just knows that people are trying to make the story not what it is, and he wants to keep it on football. And the only way is to stay away from the media. Just stay off of it right now. Really lock in, try to be the patriot way of. Oh, like, don't really worry about that, you know what I'm saying? You're locked in, you're trying to do football, you know what I'm saying? So I understand where he's coming from. And now just getting back to the media, you're going to have to respond, you're going to talk. So I think he really, really genuinely does want to apologize. Really did do that genuinely from his heart, because he's a good dude. He doesn't mean any harm, but he knows how the media is and they could tie things up and try to make him look crazy. So staying away from him is a way like, you're not gonna be able to confuse nothing. If I don't say nothing, if I don't talk to y', all, you know what I'm saying? I think that was right. You can't mix up.

[Joe]

If I don't say nothing to you, then it ain't. It ain't. It ain't nothing that you confuse.

[Debo]

I don't want to talk to you, you know what I'm saying? So that's the most you could say. That's what they Were saying he's not talking to us. So he. But basically like, he's like, you're not gonna be able to say nothing because I'm really locked in. I'm on my football. You haven't seen nothing about Diggs. He's. I love that man. So I'm rooting for him. I hope the best. Nothing but the best for Diggs. So I think that that's what he was on. Like. Nah, don't get this confused. I really got. I'm on a new team, I'm coming off injury, I'm trying to ball out. That's what it is.

[Joe]

Yeah. So let's, let's get over here to the NFLPA, I guess the NFLPA interim director David White says 18 game schedule is not inevitable. What do you, what do you think of that comment, bro?

[Debo]

Man, they tripping. They just trying to get more and more bag.

[Joe]

As far as him saying that it's not inevitable for me, that's an absolute lie. That is inevitable. That is going to be one of the things that the NFL is going to want when it comes time for them to re negotiate this new collective bargaining agreement. With that being said, him not saying it's not inevitable. It is inevitable. It's going to happen. And if you're saying that it's not, I don't believe you've got yourself into a situation that you understand.

[Debo]

I think he's lying to you.

[Joe]

What is going on, obviously, and you haven't been through the history of how this whole thing has went down. I don't know if you were playing when Gene Upshaw was the, in the position that he's in now as the executive director. So when Gene was in there, he had told us, dude, this was like 2007, 2008. He was like, yo, the NFL is going to lock you out. You guys need to save up money and you need to save up 100% of what it is that you make over the course of the next. I believe he said two or three years at that time to make sure you can make it through a 12 month lockout because he said come 2011 they're going to lock us out. He ended up not making it to that. He ended up passing. I believe it was 2008. And then we got the worst commissioner to ever. I mean we got the worst executive director to, to ever have. And that was D. Smith. D. Smith did, did everything possible, dude, to just increase the power that he had as the NFL Pennsylvania, you know, executive director for the players. It wasn't anything, you know what I'm saying?

[Spencer Graves]

He.

[Joe]

He made it to where he took a lot of the power away from the players being able to make the decisions of who could actually even be voted in as a executive director. He put a whole executive committee together that actually voted on who would run against him. The committee he put together voted on who would run against him and took that vote away from the players where before the players actually made the vote of, you know who it is they wanted to run. And then from there they, they voted on. You know, I don't, I don't believe, I don't believe David White has a good understanding. Prime example. I went down to the facility yesterday, the Stiller's facility yesterday, and he was supposed to be down there. I believe it was him, Don. Don Davis, who is the chief player officer, and Jaylen Maiden, I believe is his name. I. I really don't know. He's supposed to be the president of active players. He's not even an active player right now himself. He's not even on a roster. But they were supposed to be there. And this is supposed to be his very first trip to Pittsburgh and he doesn't even show up.

[Debo]

No, bruh, He.

[Joe]

He doesn't even, he doesn't even show up for it. Right? So now, like, even D. Smith, as bad as he was, came when he was supposed to show up. So you're telling me no, that's right. That's interim. The interim executive director for his first trip, introduction to the group of guys he's supposed to be, you know, out here working for and defending doesn't even show up. Up. Your chief officer. Your. What is it? Your chief player officer. He doesn't, he doesn't show up. All three of these dudes don't show up. And on top of that, did they.

[Debo]

Did they, did they send a message? Did they send an email?

[Joe]

No, no, no. I knew of nothing, why they weren't showing up. You had a couple other NFLPA reps that showed up that assumed that they were already there. And I'm like, no, they're not there. They're not on the field. So, you know, the NFLPA leadership dude is weak at every level. We need strong leadership.

[Debo]

We need competent leadership. You're not going to show up.

[Joe]

Here's the crazy thing.

[Debo]

It doesn't make any sense.

[Joe]

Before the last one, I went and was like, yo, I want to get, I want, I want to run for, you know, executive director. I told Don Davis this. He never dropped my name in a hat. I Know this for a fact because I talked to a person.

[Debo]

Oh, no, Debo.

[Joe]

Executive committee. You know why that happened? Because he was trying to get it. Currently trying to get it now. But again, man, I'm running for executive director. My name will be in a hat. It will be there. So the leadership that we need is a guy that is like Gene Upshaw was. He was a guy that played the game. He understands what we go through. He understands what. What happens. Like, I'm a guy. I was a practice squad guy. I was a guy that was a minimum guy. I was a guy that actually made money, and I'm a guy that's retired right now. So I know all the things that we're going to. That. That we go through, that we've been through, and you're going to go through when that time comes that you're, you know, done with football or football is done with you, you know, and it's just, you know, the difficulty. I'll just bring up one little thing like your hra, you know, you got all that money in your hra, right? And that's for your. That's where, you know, when you get done, you got your health reimbursement stuff so you can get your insurance paid and all that stuff, right? Well, for you to get that reimbursement, the money's here, right? The money's here, but the money is there. But what you got to do to get to it, you don't know. It's a field of broken glass you got to crawl through. Dude, it took me almost 2 hours and 34 minutes just to get back 50 bucks of reimbursement of a credit thing. And that was only because I got lucky and got a hold of a Cigna person that sat down there with me and actually called the other insurance company company. It's things like that that guys are running into. So when you have guys that are retired and they're like, you know, I can't get this. I can't get that, and, you know, you tell them, get your hra. Well, yeah, it's there. He just can't get to it because he got to crawl across this glass that he can't get to. And if you're a guy that has a regular 9 to 5, they're only open regular hours. So you don't have the time to sit there and do all that to actually, you know, go through if you learn it. I actually talked to four different people before. I got one guy that actually sat down there with me on the phone for, like I said, 2 hours, 34 minutes and went through the process to show me how it was done. You know, with that being said, I don't. I'm just. I'm just concerned that as interim. I hope it's just the interim, because we need somebody in there that knows exactly what we go through, what we're going to go through, that can go in there and actually speak for the players that's trying to make it better for the players and not trying to make it better for them to keep power, position and money. That's all I'm saying.

[Debo]

No, I ain't gonna lie to you, Debo. You speaking facts, brother. You are. Because at the end of the day, you're not coming to. You're not looking for any. Any particular. You don't want to gain anything. You want to help people out. Like, you've been in the situation. Like you said, you were undrafted, you ended up being minimum. You had a contract, and now you retired. Grown kids, everything, the whole situation. So you've seen it on so many different levels that you're not trying to act a certain way. No, you. That it's hard once you get retired and trying to figure some stuff out of the situations, like just how to. How to. How to continue to keep going. And you just want to look out for the dudes that are in the league that know this. Your time's going to come. You know what I'm saying? Like, you. It's sweet once it is, but once you get out, you really need to have people that are trying to protect you and not looking for a game, not looking for themselves to literally. You don't want it for yourself. You looking out for the next generation. So I think that's exactly.

[Joe]

I can't get nothing from it now. Like, I'm done.

[Debo]

I'm with you. What's the position that we looking for you to get, Debo? We want. We want you to be president.

[Joe]

We want me to be the executive director of the NFLPA Executive. That's what we're. That's what we're shooting for. That is what we're going for.

[Debo]

Dude, I'm done.

[Joe]

Okay?

[Debo]

Look, it's done. Executive director of NFLPA Diva. Because I ain't gonna lie to you, though. I love when it's. It matches. It's not like we trying to do something that doesn't make sense. It makes perfect sense. You deserve to be the NFL executive director of the NFLPA because you gonna do what needs to be done for the players. You're not trying to get over, you're trying to look out. And that's what the NFLPA is supposed to do. Look out for the players, look out for the guys.

[Joe]

Yes. And it got, I think, when, when Gene, you know, passed and it was passed over or they voted for D. Smith, it didn't become that, like, no longer did we hear a st going to be a locked out and all that other stuff. Like, he was telling us that, like, in 2007. Gene was telling us that in 2007. Yo, they're going to lock us out. You need, you guys need to save up to make sure you can make it through a year. He got in there and all of a sudden it was like, yeah, you know, what happened to what, you know, Gene was saying? You know, oh, and then come the last hour, they're like, oh, yeah, they're going to lock you out. We're going to try and help guys with this and that. Dude, if guys had listened from the very beginning and you continue to push that as you should have, instead of it being a, oh, we could. They could lock us out. So make sure you save something, then guys wouldn't have been able to hold out. But at the end of the day, even though the guys that, you know, were able to do it or wasn't able to do it, the. The message should have been the same.

[Debo]

Yeah.

[Joe]

When it came down to it, you should have been the guy, as the executive director to do the hard thing and make it to where guys would get exactly what they wanted. Some people got to learn hard lessons the hard way. Everybody was told the same thing. Yeah. So just because, you know, he told me, well, you know, James, we had a certain percentage of guys that just, you know, they wanted to go back. They couldn't. I'm like, dude, you're not there for a certain percentage of guys. You're there for everybody. You're there for the nflp, the nflpa. That's all players. Not the ones that just didn't listen, like, you're trying to make it better. I'm not gonna let my son do something that I know is not going to benefit him in his future just because he's. He. He wants to do it right now, short term. Right. He wants something for the short term. You know, like, it just, it just, it just didn't make sense, man. And, you know, you go that long just to come out with a deal that, you know, it wasn't even worth going through the fight of it. Like, it wasn't even a Fight. When it came down to it. Yeah. So I guess, I guess Devonte Adams, when he was dealt to the jets last year, he asked the rookie receiver Malachi, I guess for his 17. He offered him 17, 000 in exchange for number 17. According to Devonte. Man, he's totally. He told him he need a million. God, a million. He said, hey, man, it's good to have you. You happy to have you on the squad. But I need a million.

[Debo]

I'm gonna need a mill. I'm gonna need a whole meal ticket for that one.

[Joe]

But I'm gonna need a million. Who, who is, who is. Who is that Corley, Malachi? Corey? Who is that?

[Debo]

I, I, I don't know.

[Joe]

I'm trying to think.

[Debo]

I gotta look bro up, but I don't. For acting for Millie is Wild.

[Joe]

That's out of control.

[Debo]

Millie's crazy. I had to pay when I was in Pitt, when I was in the Browns. When I first got there, they threw me in the craziest, stankiest number you could ever imagine. I had to. I was in number 40. And then I had to get that thing off to Peyton Hillis. And I bought number 23 for 20 bands. As a rookie, I bought that joint for 20 bands. And then when I came to Pittsburgh, my man Mike Mitchell, shout out Mike Mitchell. I tried to buy 23 off Mike Mitchell, right?

[Joe]

What do you say? What do you say?

[Debo]

Oh, do you want to know? Oh, I gotta. Oh, yeah. So first I tried to pop off, boom. I got 20 bands for you, Mike.

[Joe]

Not rocking laugh that day.

[Debo]

All right, bet. I got 50 for you. Mike laughed at that. I got 75 for you. Mike laughed at that last thing, Mike. Cause he know he gotta buy another number. We got Rob G there, 21. I say, Mike, I got two, 200 bands for you, Mike. He's like, no, I got my foundation and everything under my, under my jersey, under 2, 3. I said, oh, man. Well, I, I can't do nothing for you. So then Mike kept the 23. That's what my rookie year, I had 21. Ended up buying it off Rob G for the 20 bands. Rob G was Geechee, no question. You know what I'm saying? He went to no question, nothing. Like nothing happened. Oh, he was ecstatic. Took that 20 so fast. Rob G. Great, man. Love Rob G. So now I was in the 21. And then next year, they ended up letting go my man, Mike Mitchell. And then I got 23 for free. That was the crazy part.

[Joe]

Yeah, I ain't gonna. I ain't gonna lie. I might have. Somebody offered me 100, bro. I tried to start off 92.

[Debo]

I laughed at me so hard, so then I just tried to go 50.

[Joe]

I ain't gonna lie. I had a laugh too. But once you got to. When I got to 100, I would.

[Debo]

Have been like, man, look, Mike. Oh, look. Because he was like, man, it's just a number. I don't have nothing. Michael, you. I'm gonna give you this hundred thousand dollars, and you're gonna give me number 23.

[Joe]

Ah, cash in your hand. 100,000American current ass in your hand. $5.

[Debo]

And he said, ah, no, I. No, after that, I just. I'm going number 21.

[Joe]

Yeah. So I. I went to. Was it New England? And it was a dude that had 92. And I'm like, yo, let me. You know, let me get 92. What you want for it? Yeah. Hey, I don't. I don't even remember what his name was, but he. He blessed your boy. You know what he said? What? He said, three grand.

[Debo]

Oh, you need to send him a Christmas card.

[Joe]

I can't remember his name.

[Debo]

Bro, we gotta find whoever was 92 when you went there.

[Joe]

We can find him.

[Debo]

Him. Because I love him.

[Joe]

I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie to you. I wasn't gonna pay much.

[Debo]

No, no, no. For sure. He said right around the number that three was cool, though. That three bands. He was like, hey.

[Joe]

He said, it depends, dude. If it depend over that, I wasn't gonna be like, nah, man. What? I'm here for, like, two months, bro. You. You actually. He's like. He was like, yeah, he's like, three. I'm like, say less here. Cash out my.

[Debo]

Oh, for shaking cash after.

[Joe]

No question, dude. Yeah, but I ain't gonna lie. Yeah, he showed up. I thought. I thought he was. I thought he was gonna do something, you know, something out of control.

[Debo]

Oh, my goodness. No, Debo, I'm happy for your story.

[Joe]

Yeah. Oh, no. Yes.

[Debo]

I'm out for. I'm out 40 for two numbers.

[Joe]

Here's the crazy thing. So when I unretired, I came back, and it was a guy that I believe he had 92, but he hadn't made, like. Like. Like active or whatever it was. So it basically just, you know, just got it from him. However. However it went, if he was actually active, I wouldn't have been able to switch into the number, like, when I came in, so. Because of the timing of the season when it started. So if he had actually got Active and onto the field. He would have been holding on to the number. Yeah. Oh, that's.

[Debo]

It worked out perfect.

[Joe]

Oh, yeah, dude, that. That worked out to no end, bro. Yeah. So my guy, RC says that Tom Brady was not a generational talent at quarterback. This. This can't be right. Is this real? He said, I think. I think John Elway was a generational talent. I think Patrick Mahomes is a generational talent. I don't think Tom Brady. I don't think Drew Brees. I don't think Peyton Manning or generational talent. I didn't hear this.

[Debo]

He said this on tv.

[Joe]

I. I didn't. That's what it's saying that. That was said. I don't. Huh?

[Debo]

Is. I think. Does he say, I can see Drew.

[Joe]

Brees, but not like.

[Debo]

I think. Was he saying, like, does he have to see athleticism to be a generational.

[Joe]

I don't know, man. I'm. I'm not. I'. Not. I'm not. I'm not gonna run with this one right here, to be honest with you, because I just absolutely do not understand the whole concept of it.

[Debo]

I'm trying to say.

[Joe]

She said to me. Yeah.

[Debo]

I'm trying to find out how it could only be athletically.

[Joe]

Athletically. Yeah. If I'm. Dude, if I'm talking about the position of quarterback and I'm like, all the intangibles of what I need as a quarterback. I have a line to protect him. I have a running game to assist him, my quarterback. I'm not gonna lie to you. It's gonna be Tom Brady.

[Debo]

He gonna walk you down the field and win.

[Joe]

Yeah. Like, he's gonna see it, get to it, you know?

[Debo]

And he did it again in Tampa. Oh, 40.

[Joe]

Like, I just.

[Debo]

Hey, I don't know. I don't know why he would say that about Tom.

[Joe]

I have no clue, brother. Yeah, I'm gonna let that one go. He. He. He told. I can. I can relate to this. I ain't gonna even lie to you. I could relate to this. So Amari Cooper informed the team that he no longer has a desire to play and intends to retire. Right. But what do you. What do you think of that? Didn't he just sign, like, a week ago? Right.

[Debo]

I don't. Did he just signed and he just.

[Joe]

With the Raiders, Right? I believe it was. Went back to. Yeah. I want to say it was a.

[Debo]

Week ago, so he had to be there. So, like. Yeah, I mean, you know what it is, Debo? If he just signed a week ago, that Means he didn't do training camp, didn't do none of that. So he went back, got into the grind, and really was like, ah, you know, like, I don't. I don't. I don't love it. It's about to be a whole season of this, you know? And, I mean, he's played 10 years. Amari Cooper, at the end of day, got it. I mean, he made some money, you know? And at the end of the day, nobody. They're not getting any slower. They're not getting any weaker out there. These dudes are out that Joe trying to get it. Everybody. Every year, new NFL season. The NFL is not a game. It's not nowhere. You just. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna just jump in on there and just go play with these dudes. No, you're gonna get hurt. You're gonna get smacked out there. They're not playing, playing. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's not a game.

[Joe]

Ain't playing no game.

[Debo]

No, you don't just go play football. NFL football. No, that's a business decision. When you go out there and joint.

[Joe]

That you're making with your body, list your life, It's. It's a 100 business decision. But it's also. Well, for me, when I came back in and unretired, I was done. I was good, bro. And I had, you know, I had Keisel call me. It's like, you know, 4:30 in the morning, I'm getting up, get ready to go work out. I get a call. He's like, hey, you ready to come back? I'm like, nah. What you talking about, man? We got this down. We got that down. I'm like, I don't. Hey, brother, I don't know what you're talking about. I ain't coming back. It's, you know, I'm done by.

[Debo]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And then, you know, I got a call from Troy, and. And Troy's like, yo, we. We gonna need you to come back. And I'm like. I'm like, troy, listen, brother, I'm not coming back. I'm good, bro. I'm happy. I'm out here living life. You know what I'm saying? I'm feeling good, bro. And then I called me, he fresh out of surgery. He just broke his forearm. And he like, bro, we need you. But I said, all right, hold up as I tell you. I'll tell y' all what.

[Debo]

It's a good feeling to be wanted, brother. You got the homies hitting you.

[Joe]

Well, well, you know, I played so Long with them. Dude, that's my brothers. You know, my kids call them Uncle. That's Uncles. Them Uncles. That's Uncle Troy. That's something. That's Uncle Keys. Like, those are. Those are. They're. They're. You know, they're. They're on. So I'm like, you know what? I don't want to feel like I'm letting my brothers down. I said, but if my kids say no, bruh, that's gonna be it. I'm not. I'm not doing it. So I'm like, I'm gonna call my kids. I'm gonna see what they say. And I'm like, if they say no, that's it. If they say yeah, then, you know, I do it. And that was after I had already, you know, spent that year in Cincinnati, and I really, you know, I really just didn't want to be away. So I called my kids. I'm like, yo, hey. I actually had them on FaceTime. Made sure it was recorded. I had. I had to show proof when they said no, which I just knew they was gonna say no, Right? You know what I'm saying? I'm like, hey, you know, daddy got a chance to, you know, come back and play football. So you guys would have to wait, you know, to get into your contact football. You'd still be doing. Doing flag, all that, whatever. It was like, okay, but where. Where. You know, where it's gonna be? I'm like, it's in Pittsburgh. It's like, all right, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you could do that.

[Debo]

I'm like, damn, they hype.

[Joe]

They did not do it. So get into fast forward, into that first week where Amari is at right now. Dude, that first week, I was supposed to get, like, 15 snaps. So I'm preparing myself, but as I'm going through that week of practice, bro, the second day I come in, you know, the sword and setting in for the next day. But it don't really set in till that Thursday. Dude, if it wasn't for the fact that my daddy told me, you start, you finish what you start. I was gonna give them whatever they wanted to let me get up out of there. Like, my body was hurting so bad, dude, and I was only out of it for, like. Like a off season and, like, maybe the first two, three weeks of the season. Dude, bruh, you talking about taking anything I could to try and kill the pain, try and knock down the inflammation, the swelling landing. Like, I was cold plunging before. Cold plunging was cool, bro. To my neck up in that thing. Bro, Like, I'm just. And I'm. I'm sitting there, and I'm sitting at my locker. And so we go through the week, we end up playing Tampa, and Coach T comes through the locker room. So now, you know, I'm into the second week. I'm feeling better. I'm feeling good. And he like, how you feeling? I'm like, oh, I'm good now. He said, yeah. He said, I was gonna come over and talk to you on Thursday. He said, but it looked like you was making decisions in your head, and I want to give you an opportunity to step out of this.

[Debo]

It was all over your eyes.

[Joe]

It was all over my face, man. I guess he bad. Yeah. So when you get into that, especially with him being out of it, just signing that week, I totally understand what he's talking about. I could see how it could happen, because, like I said, I was in that position, and that is not an easy position to be in, especially as you get older, man, you like, I got this sitting in the bank, man. Do I really want to do this? You know, And. And for me, I continued because, you know, your body hardened back up to it. And then I, like he said, I fell back in, you know, in love with the process, the game and all that. Ended up signing a couple more years. And even when I went to New England, dude, I could have went back to New England. And Bill was like, I want to bring you back, but I want to wait till after the draft so that I don't tell you something that's not true. I want to be able to tell you exactly what your role is going to be. So, you know, I want to sign you after the draft, and that way, you know, I won't tell you anything that's not true. We can go from there. I'm like, all right, cool. And the more I sat back, I'm like, dude, I just don't want to be away from home again. And it's just. It's just not something I want to do. And I was like, you know what? I got to retire, because if he offers it to me, I know I'm going to take it, because I love the game. I want to play the game. And I was like, yeah, I got to retire before that. That happens, because once I started, I got to finish it.

[Debo]

No, for sure. And, man, that's good, though, Debo, that you can even do that. Your body.

[Joe]

Body.

[Debo]

The way that you work out, the way that you maintain yourself, though, is. It's a true testament. I ain't gonna lie because once I stopped and I retired, I stopped, like, the treatment just to taking care of my body to be able to stay elite. Like, there's no off season when you're in the NFL. So when you stop for real and, like, stop working out, stop getting that massage and stop getting that treatment, then I did it for a year. And then once, once that happened, then my body was kind of, I was out the way. But I could tell you still lifting up the whole gym, so I could tell you still staying in shape.

[Joe]

Yeah, I, I, I, I ain't lifting up the whole gym. I'm just, I'm still taking care of my body, though. I'm just not doing it, you know, to the level that I was when I was playing. I'm not, you know, I'm not seeing a chiropractor twice a week. I'm not seeing, you know, my docs and, you know, for IVs and all that stuff. Twice a week I'm doing, you know, acupuncture, dry needling. Every week, all that, you know, I'm doing normal massage. Maybe once a week, some acupuncture, you know, once a week. And I'll see my Cairo, maybe. It depends on how I feel, to be honest with you. You know, it may be every, you know, month, every couple months. It just really, it just really depends.

[Debo]

On how often are you working out, Debo. That's what I need to know.

[Joe]

Five to six days a week? Well, five to seven days a week.

[Debo]

Okay. Okay.

[Joe]

It just, yeah, it just depends. Is this actual weight lifting, though, is only five days a week? I cut that down. It used to be six. So on Monday through Friday with weights and, you know, cardio, whatever it may be, you know, through the six day.

[Debo]

I gotta get you in the gym with my dad. My dad was like, I would love to get in the gym with Debo. They watch. He probably watched.

[Joe]

Oh, yeah.

[Debo]

Shout out, pops with that one. Pops. Debo. I'm definitely getting y' all in the gym together and I'm going to film the workout. It's gonna be amazing.

[Joe]

Let's get it. I know you got one right there. I know you got a gym there.

[Debo]

You know, man.

[Joe]

Speaking of gym, man. Hey, they say, they say that boxing legend Mike Tyson, Floyd, they about to get it on Exit Exhibition. I believe it's 20, 26 next year. Not a date set, but it's supposed to be Floyd and, and Mike Tyson. What you think of that, man?

[Debo]

They gonna get my money. I'm gonna watch, you know what I'm saying, but what we got going on here, man, I just seen Mike in that joint. I'm glad my man didn't try to knock, buddy. Jake Paul could have knocked out Mike Tyson, and they fight like, that joint was not. It was. It was a little bit sad to see.

[Joe]

See, I don't know. See, I'm trying to.

[Debo]

I don't want to see Mike in a situation. I think Floyd might just.

[Joe]

I don't know. I don't know if he. You know, the contract was kind of set up, so. So he needed to make it go a while, you know what I'm saying? So I don't know if that was really. You know, I just can't.

[Debo]

I ain't sure.

[Joe]

Bro. Bro, like, if that. Because I seen him training. I seen him doing this here.

[Debo]

He could give you. You a minute of that. He's getting older, Debo. I'm just saying.

[Joe]

He ain't even give him a minute, though.

[Debo]

He was in the jones if he.

[Joe]

Gave him a minute.

[Debo]

I ain't see none of this training. I needed to see him, let him fly. Let him fly, Mike.

[Joe]

He was doing all that. I ain't see none of that.

[Debo]

You know, none of that.

[Joe]

I don't know.

[Debo]

I just want to see hands with you.

[Joe]

I don't even know if I want to. I wanna. I would want to see this like.

[Debo]

Little Floyd, too, though. But I'm telling you, Floyd don't play. I like Floyd's. Floyd got actual hands. Listen, so I'm just saying there. He's gonna sit there. He's gonna sit there. He's gonna sit there and tag Mike's ass.

[Joe]

But it's gonna be like, you know.

[Debo]

Like a little bumble. Like little stings, right?

[Joe]

It's gonna be. It's gonna be like little stings. You know, it ain't even that. He.

[Debo]

Man, look, I need to know how many rounds. I need to know how many rounds.

[Joe]

The length of the rounds. Come on. Listen, man, why your boy Chad up here talking crazy last night about fighting me, man? Take a listen to this, bro.

[Debo]

Oh, please, let me hear. You know who I might spit on. I'mma spit on Debo. Oh, I'm gonna make him fight.

[Joe]

He gonna fight you. All right, You. You gotta.

[Debo]

Because I. I want. I want him extremely mad. I want him angry. I want him to exert so much energy trying to hurt me right where I use it against him. Because I'm gonna be nice and calm and relaxed. I don't know. Not no mma, you ain't Gonna be nice. All right. You don't believe in your co host?

[Joe]

Sit on me if you want to, man.

[Debo]

I bet the chat believe in me. Chat I believe in. My guarantee you I beat Debo ass. I guarantee you.

[Joe]

Tell you, man.

[Debo]

He don't got. He don't got no combat. Combat sports background like me.

[Joe]

Hell. Oh, hey, man, he. He like. He like to hear himself talk. Man, that man spit on me. It ain't a rule in this world that's gonna stop me from trying to kill his ass.

[Debo]

I saw it for my own eyes. I wouldn't believe that he said it if I didn't see it, bruh.

[Joe]

Bruh, you beyond. You beyond fight rules. I am going to try and take your life.

[Debo]

Oh, no, Debo. Oh, yes, hands. But you are you.

[Joe]

When you. No, no, no. I'm beyond hands and feet, bro. I am going to try and take your life. They gonna have to choke me out to get me off of you.

[Debo]

I'm stressing out.

[Joe]

It ain't nothing to stress out about. You know what I'm stressing out about?

[Debo]

What you stressing out about?

[Joe]

Powerball 1.7 billion.

[Debo]

I need that.

[Joe]

I already got a ticket already. I got my tickets already.

[Debo]

How many numbers you gotta put in? How many numbers do you have to.

[Joe]

Start up until I think it's October, the end of October.

[Debo]

How many numbers you gotta put in?

[Joe]

Six.

[Debo]

Six. Okay.

[Joe]

All right.

[Debo]

Yeah, I got two of them right now. I'm going 23.92.

[Joe]

Ain't no 92. You gotta flip it around. 29.

[Debo]

Okay.

[Joe]

You could flip it around. You could go. You could go. You could go 2392. I mean, sorry.

[Debo]

23, 29.

[Joe]

You could go nine and two. Okay.

[Debo]

Then nine, then two, then three.

[Joe]

You hit a. You could.

[Debo]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Your powerball be a two. How many numbers we at now?

[Debo]

All right. 22, 3, 2, 9, 4 5, 67 3.

[Joe]

We only need six, though.

[Debo]

Okay.

[Joe]

It's five and one.

[Debo]

23, 29, that's four. And I'm gonna do nine, two.

[Joe]

No, no, no, no, brother. That's them two numbers, Joe. Them two numbers.

[Debo]

Oh, I ain't never played the Powerball.

[Joe]

So 23 and 29 would be two numbers.

[Debo]

Nine is a number, nine is one.

[Joe]

Two can be one, and then three can be your other one.

[Debo]

Okay, so that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. That's five numbers, right? Okay. No, that's six, and then two is my Powerball.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Debo]

Okay. Yes.

[Joe]

Hold on. Let's do it like this. 2392. Hey, man, I'm gonna be mad in the movie up if this hit, because we about to tell everybody. How you about to play these numbers? They probably go play that same.

[Debo]

No.

[Joe]

All right, listen. We're gonna run it like this. We're gonna run it like this. It's gonna be 23. It's gonna be nine. It's gonna be two. We go bump that back with a 32, a 29. And since we both got two in our number, to Powerball to two. Bet.

[Debo]

It's booked.

[Joe]

It's booked.

[Debo]

We hit with this one, bro. I'm gonna be the happiest man. Hey, man, ever.

[Joe]

I'm gonna have to. You got to write. You got to send that. Send me that. Send me what I just told you to put down there, because I'm gonna have to play that number, bro.

[Debo]

I got you.

[Joe]

Listen, if.

[Debo]

If we hit this, the subscribers, whoever subscribed right now, we gonna look, y' all better subscribe if.

[Joe]

If we hit this, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna pay you to come fight me, and I'm gonna pay you good money so everybody could watch me whip your ass, boy. You hear me? Whip your ass. Hey. Hey, guys. We want to thank y' all for joining us on this episode of Debo and Joe. We need y' all to go over there, hit that, like, button, button. Hit that subscribe button, and we go get back to y' all Monday, and we gonna be half a billionaires. And we out this mother.

[Debo]

We out and make sure y', all, like. Make sure y' all subscribe, or I'm gonna have my good man Debo put hands and feet on you.

[Joe]

Yeah, like I'm doing. Chad, you. You looking. Hey, just close this eye. Cause I know you blind in it.

[Debo]

Let him live, Debo. Let him live.

[Joe]

On me. I'm gonna show him too much.

[Debo]

You know what? Right? You're right. You're right.

[Joe]

You know, Let me stop, Lord.

[Debo]

Go ahead. Go crazy.

[Joe]

Let me stop. I was tripping. I was tripping. You know what? Hey, I. I want to thank my Lord and savior Jesus Christ for. For being here for me and actually coming and showing me that I was tripping. Hey, I would never. I would never. I. I could like to say I would never do that, but if I was in that situation and he did that, I don't know if I could control myself, so. But I'm working on. I'm. I'm building my relationship with my Lord and savior, man. The more I talk and spend time with him, man. The. The better. The better things get.

[Debo]

And.

[Maria Hinojosa]

And.

[Joe]

And the better I feel, man. So listen, man, and God bless all y', all, man. Y' all have a beautiful day. Chad, you have a beautiful day, brother. Love you. We.

[Debo]

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