Robert Griffin III
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Yeah, it's not. Wow.
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In so many words.
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It's not a victory lap.
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That's the best victory lap. Yeah, go for the victory lap. You deserve a victory lap. And I understand that. And I get it. When I say it's not a victory lap and then everyone comes and says, hey, RG, you just took a victory lap. I understand that. You deserve one. I think where I'm coming from with it is I wasn't... Honest to God, I was not trying to shit on the Bears.
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Right? So when I came out and I said, Caleb Williams should pull an Eli Manning and tell the Bears he's not coming unless this happens.
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Now... The take that was out there was fully on, hey, coaching matters. Structure matters. You're looking at the Bears. If Caleb comes in and they don't do anything with Eberflus, he'll be the third quarterback in a row that had a hot seat coach, and then now he's working on his second coach and his third coordinator in his second year. So from that sense, yes, I was right.
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But I wasn't rooting for the Bears to fail. I just wanted them to make a decision on Eberflus. Yeah. I did too. Because I know you were a big advocate for them to move on from him.
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And I'd probably say 90% of the fan base also wanted to get rid of him. Yes. And so I'm sitting there, and I'm like, in this new age of quarterback, in this new age of NIL, transfer portal, player empowerment, LeBron James started in the NBA. It's trickling in all the other leagues.
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If you're a quarterback like Caleb, like Shadur coming out, and you have the power to tell a team, I need you to make a decision on your coach. So I was just saying, extend him. If you're going to keep him, extend him so that the team knows that he's their guy.
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I saw that. I saw that.
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Correct.
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So for me, it wasn't about him getting him fired. The Bears had already made a decision that they were keeping Iberflues. So now it's like I'm having Courtney Cronin was a former colleague at ESPN and she's, you know, telling me, well, you know, the Bears don't ever publicly announce when they give a guy an extension. Right. That's just a, you know, an organizational practice.
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But if you're going to do that, look what it did to Ibra Fluss in that locker room. When you've got, was it Jalen Johnson? Yeah. You know, going off on him, you know, allegedly in the locker room after. No, that definitely happened.
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But who's been speaking their mind the most of all the guys all year? It's been DJ Moore. Yeah. He's been so honest, like to a fault almost, in his post-game pressers. If you publicly extend Eberflush, Every player in that locker room now knows he's not going anywhere. He's our guy. They left it in the balance.
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So for me with Caleb Williams, all I was suggesting he do is say, I need to know what you're doing with the coach so I don't come into a situation where the structure is bad. And now he's going to be sitting there, second head coach, third. offensive coordinator. And the structure is bad. And the structure is bad. And the organization is bad.
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And we don't have to belabor the point, but the thing that bothered me the most, like I root for guys. I root for teams. I know like me saying that kind of turned a lot of the Chicago Bear fans against me because they want their team to be successful.
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you want your team to be successful i understand that i didn't hold it when you wrote that i didn't i don't think i wrote i think i wrote back but i didn't like tear you down right back it was like i understand why you're frustrated the thing that bothered me was the way that ryan poles handled it okay when he when he go ahead no i want to hear what you have to say because i i feel like from the outside you you go ahead give you give me your take
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Yes. The way that they handled it, going on Pat McAfee's show, and when asked about it, saying it kind of pissed him off, almost as if they weren't walking down the same street. They're walking down the yellow brick road to go see The Wizard of Oz that the last three organizational leaders had done. And for him to say it pissed him off because they're there to break the cycle.
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I'm like, well, I'm giving you my educated... Not just throw something at the wall and see if it sticks. I've been through this. PFT knows this. I went through the structure portion of why it matters in coaching and why it matters organizationally. So I'm giving my advice based off of GMs I've talked to, my own shared experience in the NFL, and
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And it's not that they need to listen to me, but don't spit in my face and act like what I'm saying is so disrespectful to you. And I request from Pat McAfee the same time that you guys are giving me on here to be able to go up there and talk about Not just why I was right, but how the Bears can fix the issue moving forward. And to me, that was just like, it pissed you off?
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You want to break the cycle? I want you to break the cycle, man. I'm not rooting against Caleb Williams. I'm not rooting against your team. I want the Bears to be successful. Otherwise, I would have been doing victory laps all year. But I waited because I knew there was a chance that we could have this conversation. And it wouldn't be just constant dunking on you guys. No, it was perfect timing.
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I'm not a villain.
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i think i think caleb is a phenomenal player early in the year i noticed a lot of bears fans were like really worried because jayden was balling yeah him out but he came out playing so well because of the structure right new owner new gm new head coach guy who can call plays no expectations yeah so they've exceeded them the bears are what four and yeah four and i don't know something like that
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I think they might be four and eight. So you look at that, and it's like, well, last year you guys were seven and ten. Yeah. You'd trade away Justin Fields for a bag of chips on layaway next year, right? A fifth rounder next year. Then you keep Eberflus, and you're in a worse situation now.
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So I do think that— I think they're in a better situation because Caleb Williams is better than Justin Fields. I don't disagree with that. But if you move on from the quarterback, you should move on from the coach. Agreed. We agreed on that. That was my point. Once they decided to keep him.
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Because I know that Bears fans feel a certain type of way about Shane Waldron, but I don't think Shane Waldron's a horrible coach. He's a decent coach, but he's the only coach they could get because, as you said, PFT, no one wants to come in and be the hot seat to the hot seat. Right. Because as soon as things go wrong, you're fired.
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And that's exactly what me and PFT were just talking about after the werewolf game. It's, well, now... Who was going around doing all the talking this offseason? Right. It was pissed off Ryan Poles. Right. All right. Now it's Kevin Warren. I know. It's stupid. So now you're saying to yourself, okay, now is Ryan Poles in the doghouse? Yeah, he is.
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Exactly. And it's a never-ending cycle. Correct. You're just constantly cannibalizing yourself. When I look at Ryan Poles, I had a former teammate call me from my time in Washington. When I made the statement about Caleb Williams pulling an Eli to use it as leverage to get the Bears to make a decision. And I thought a public decision, as we mentioned before, was important.
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I think that stuff matters. I think what happened with me in Washington, I think if there were more public statements from the organization, it wouldn't have stopped at all, but it could have damn sure slowed some of that stuff down.
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They're talking to the fourth string tight end, and he's putting a story out, and they're like, well, we verified it. It's like, okay, you got the fourth string tight end and the fourth string linebacker to verify a story, and it just becomes a constant problem. So now I look at it, and I'm like, for Ryan Poles,
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he should still be the one that is out front making the decisions and talking to the media. Otherwise, it just looks like you said, like he got handicapped. But the question I have for you, Big Kev, is who do you think should be the next coach? Now who do you want to be the coach?
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I can see. Okay. Let's talk about the three you mentioned. Yeah. So first, Ben Johnson. Yeah. He didn't leave Detroit last year, talk to Amon Ross St. Brown, because they felt like they had unfinished business. I think they're on the path to try to go finish some of that business that they had. Why would he come to Chicago? Caleb Williams. I understand that.
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That's the golden ticket. I know.
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And I think it's an attractive job as well because of the skill guys that they have around. You come in, you build up the offensive line, you improve the defense, but you have Caleb Williams. You have Roma Dunze. You have DJ Moore. The roster isn't so bad.
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Right.
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Exactly. And you're right. It's like you mentioned about Ryan Poles. There's only 32 GM jobs. To just walk away from one is very rare. It's nuts.
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Oh, yeah. No, he would be the man for doing that. he would he would put his foot down yeah and that would be it would be an awesome move that would be a full circle moment yeah hey caleb should pull an eli and then but uh i think to your point i agree that it's it's difficult to see him coming to chicago Yeah.
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Agreed. Grable would be great. Now, who's the next one other than Kyle?
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I will say this. Kyle, you know, I don't want to say we work together. I don't want to misrepresent it, okay? But he does a thing called the Quarterback Collective, or he used to, and they've been working with Caleb since he was –
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in junior high school yeah so kyle knows caleb he knows him really well he's coached him before in the off seasons i don't think that he would shy away from that but it's again it's the structure yeah to me you almost have to go get someone that no one is expecting
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In a good way. Who was the third person you mentioned? Mike Vrabel. Yeah, I agree.
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Oh, I like Mike, man.
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Wasn't one of the things that got Mike out of Tennessee the fact that he was such a big...
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I would love to play for a guy like Mike Vrabel. I think Ryan Tannehill enjoyed playing for him. I think, obviously, Will Compton here at Barstool enjoyed playing for him, Taylor LeJuan. I agree with you, though. When you bring Mike Vrabel in, Mike Vrabel is not going to say, hey, Kevin Warren, I'm going to answer to you. Yeah, right. Hey, Ryan Poles, I'm going to answer to you.
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He's coming in there, and he's going to be the alpha dog. Even if you don't give him full control, you're still going to feel like he has full control.
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Here's my two suggestions, and these are off the wall, out of the box thinking. I think you have to bring in someone that knows Caleb Williams. And I know that people have talked about. Don't you, Cliff. No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait.
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Don't take Cliff from me. Don't say Lincoln Riley. Cliff. No, don't take Cliff from me. I will start with Cliff. I've heard rumors that there's some interest there for Cliff to become the head coach.
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There's no interest per me. I don't think that Cliff would go to that job personally. For Lincoln Riley, it hasn't worked out the way they want it to at USC. I don't believe that Lincoln would succeed in Chicago as the head coach. But if he wanted to come to the NFL... and be with the quarterback that he won a Heisman Trophy with, you make him the offensive coordinator.
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I don't know if he would do that. I don't know if he would either. He's making a boatload of money at USC. Whoever is working with Caleb doesn't need to be someone that comes in and tries to, hey, let's change what he is. Let's change what he does. They need to know him. That was a big reason why I thought Caleb – should want to go to Washington because he had Cliff there who knew how he is.
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And I think we would all believe that Caleb would have started faster this year if he had Cliff Kingsbury as his offensive coordinator. So that to me would be an out-of-the-box, bring Cliff as the head. But I think Lincoln Riley, there's something there of maybe bringing in him or a coordinator that Caleb worked with so they can help him continue to grow.
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But at a head coach spot, until they really iron out the structure – I don't see why any top coach would pick the Bears outside of you get Caleb and you got all these weapons on offense.
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It doesn't give me PTSD. It's just I care too much. I talk to PFT every now and then, and I talk about the commanders. It's not about what I went through. I talk about Lamar, and I talk about my process of being a mentor for him. I just care too much, guys. I had a coach tell me that once. It was Jay Gruden. He just told me, hey, man, you need a hobby or something. Go play some golf.
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You care too much about winning. You care too much about winning in the weight room, winning in the film room, winning on the field. You need to loosen up.
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When I see these quarterbacks get thrown in these situations, a lot of guys, there's one, I can't remember, he's always on Pat McAfee's show, former GM, and he was trying to take some stabs at me and say that I always look at it from a player's perspective. Well, if you're a player and you come in and you've got a shitty organization...
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and they're not helping you succeed like a Baker Mayfield going to Cleveland. And now you look at him in Tampa, and he's a $40 million quarterback. You look at Sam Darnold with the Jets. He goes to the Vikings, and they're 10-2.
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And they want to poke holes in everything you do. So when it's know your why, and I ask 50 of my teammates on Twitter, because it was Twitter at the time, What is what's your why? And they're all responding back. It's like, oh, this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. We went ten and six. We won the division. We're winning all these awards, all these accolades.
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But then the next year you go four and twelve. And now when you say no, your why at the tendency is to say that's why they're not successful.
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right yeah as well well we were successful yeah it was the previous guys liked it it was the same thing it's like when when cam newton wins a game and he puts on the crazy outfit yeah that guy looks awesome and he loses the game it's like why is he wearing a peacock on his neck exactly and like we understand as players like now at 34 i understand the ebbs and flows of that you don't you don't take it personally as a player anymore because you understand that when you're winning everything is fine
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Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, for I'm sure Caleb comes to Chicago. He realizes that the fan base is phenomenal. Right. Like I'm not mad at the Bears. I don't I don't. Well, no, you were right. It's fine to be right, but I don't do it to be right. I'm trying to educate you with my own opinion. So Caleb comes here. He's probably like, oh, I'm going to be the guy. I'm going to throw for 4,000 yards.
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I'm going to be the franchise QB. So when you get here at first, you don't have a focus of, hey, what's going on with Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles and what's going on with the McCaskies. You just come in and you do your job. You're trying to win over your locker room.
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And I was a little bothered by the fact that even before Caleb got to the locker room, there were people in the locker room saying, hey, he can't come up in here being Hollywood.
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And I respect that from the players. It's just the organization clearly didn't care. Right. And they said, we're going in this direction. We don't care what you think. So when you step into that environment, you're just trying to win them over. I think Caleb has won them over over the past three weeks. Yeah, I agree.
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I think before that they were sitting there like, bro, we should probably still have Justin. And I don't know if that's necessarily right or not. But as a player, you walk in, you don't understand the layers of it till years go by. It took me to go to Cleveland. I went from dysfunction in Washington to dysfunction in Cleveland. Then I was out for a year.
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Then I was blessed with the opportunity to go play in Baltimore. And that organization, the way they run it, Mr. Bashadi at the top. You got Eric DeCosta. We had Ozzie was the GM my first year there. And then Eric DeCosta took over. You got John Harbaugh. The way they structure that organization is how it's supposed to be. Yeah. And that's where I think players don't understand.
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Damn, why did I come into this league?
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this whatever all-star balitnikoff whatever you win and you get to a team and it's like why am i not being used the same way why don't why aren't they helping you get in the right position why am i not making the same types of plays it's all about the structure yeah and i think for a quarterback you have a structure that helps you build leadership i don't know if matt eberflus created a structure for caleb to be a leader in that in that first part of the season and now he's gone and caleb's got to do that whole process all over again with a new head coach yeah
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Yes, man. My car actually got broken into in Cleveland and Baltimore, but it was Cleveland. We were at the game and they valet the vehicles in Cleveland. So you come in. Boom, valet guy takes it out. And they had stole like 5,000 bucks from my car. I stole a Rolex out of the glove box. And then it became public and they actually got mad. Like the Browns got mad at me for that.
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And I'm like, well, I'm not the one who broke into my car.
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You know, like we got to obviously take care of the players a little bit better. But it was just another sign of a dysfunctional organization. I even look at Jameis now. Like I think Jameis is a genuine guy. I think that the way he plays the game, he reminds me of sexy Rexy. Mm-hmm. Right? Yeah. Also RG3. Also RG3, exactly. He's going to keep both teams in the game. Yeah. Right?
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Six touchdowns in the last game. It just so happened that two went the other way. And he has become the story there in Cleveland, but it's the sign of a dysfunctional organization. Yeah. They're not winning. They're 3-9. And the team is excited about a quarterback who is almost 50-50 on touchdowns to interceptions. That's why we love him. All right.
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And it's all because of the dysfunction that they created when they signed Deshaun Watson.
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So when you see Jameis and you see the speeches and the comments in the postgame, like, I always wonder, like, are people laughing more with him or are they laughing at him? I just think they're laughing because it's different than what they've been dealing with the turmoil.
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Of the whole Deshaun Watson debacle.
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And Jameis is getting the feed off of that.
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So, I mean, I think it's I laugh with everyone else. I think it's funny. Yeah. But that's dysfunction. It's a sign of dysfunction as a player. You don't even know it until you get out of it. Because we're so used to being the man in high school, being the man in college, and then you get to the pros and you realize, well, there's like 16 pro teams that just don't know how to get it done.
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To fire Ryan Poles. To sell the team Georgia Cask. I'm not doing that. It's just more of have it be clear. Let the football guys make the football decisions.
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Bring the coach in. Yes. Let him control what he needs to control. And stop trying to be the forward-facing, I was right guy. Like, imagine if the Bears were, I don't know, 12-4 right now. Or Big Cat would definitely be saying.
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He's not.
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They do. And I'm waiting. This conversation would be different. If the Bears were 12-4. Oh, of course. Big Cat would be like, hey, remember when you said this, blah, blah, blah. I'd take a victory lap.
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Not to take a victory lap, but you'd take the victory lap. And I understand that. So when you make a statement, you have to be ready to back it up. So I don't ever make a statement and say to myself, man, I hope this doesn't work out. I wanted you to be able to have a victory lap against me because I want Caleb Williams to be successful and I want the Bears to have a great team.
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But until they make the changes that they need to make, it's going to be this never-ending cycle. And I don't want to see you guys ruin Caleb Williams.
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Wow, that is a heavy one. I don't think he actually did. I don't think he did. I have no proof of that. Yeah. What I do know is that when I'm on TV with somebody, I just feel like there's a way to tell stories the right way, and there's a way to cover the athletes the right way.
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And I didn't feel like at times, and I think there was like two instances when I was on first take with Paul, that he was – he was taking care of their stories the right way. And I wouldn't come to you and be like, we can disagree. I'm not gonna say Big Cat's a fraud. That's a strong term. I'm not gonna say that PFT is irrelevant.
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Well, I first have to say I was not fired. Okay, not fired. I was laid off. Laid off, sorry.
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And I am getting paid from ESPN while I'm off. That's awesome. The first reaction was why? All right, so you go through the process of why did this happen? Okay, let me look at performance. All right. They are saying it's not performance based. They put me on Monday Night Countdown. Bless me with that opportunity. I was very thankful to be on the show with Susie Culber, Steve Young.
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You know, one of the great Susie's one of the greats as a host. We had Booger on the show, Adam Schefter. And that was an iconic crew.
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I can give you the story about the bird. Yeah. But for me, it was more of a, they put me on here for a reason. I was a younger guy. Everyone else on the set was a little older. They wanted to hit the younger demographic, just like everyone is trying to do right now when it comes to content creation. And we accomplished that. The show was a success. Then we changed the show.
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Now it's me, Ryan Clark, Scott Van Pelt, Marcus Spears. And you go on that show and the ratings stay the same, right? So then they bring Jason Kelsey in and it's like, well, we should be on this thing together, having a good time, two great personalities. I love Jason. I think he's a phenomenal dude. I know he's had some, you know, run-ins with some stuff here. We took his side.
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Recently, but when you, when I looked at it from that point, it's like, okay, it's not performance based. They're telling me it's not performance based. And what is it about?
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and i don't know that sucks but what i can do is i can sit here and i can twiddle my thumbs for three four months five months and try to figure out well why did this happen or i can just go move on and have fun enjoy the process we have the podcast out of pocket with rg3 and my wife is a co-host on that and we've had some great conversations with people and you guys are crushing it it feels like every other day you're sitting with someone some big you know name or whatever stories and it's like at the top and it's fun
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You know what I mean? You sit down with Deion, Shalom Shadur, Dana White, sit down with Reggie Bush and talk about him getting his Heisman back. You know, we had a chance to sit down and have a conversation with a guy, Mike Norvell at Florida State.
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When they're not doing very good right now.
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I know you guys, you would rather do the interviews with the people who are having a good time. Yeah. As opposed to people who are going through some things. Yeah. And that was a it was a tough one to navigate. But it's been a fun process for for me. And I got some stuff in the works that's going to be coming up here in the next couple of weeks. And I'm blessed to be a part of those opportunities.
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But you just don't want to sit on your hands and feel sorry for yourself. Yeah. Good for you.
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Correct. And it's, you know, like legacy media as far as like the ESPNs, the Foxes, the NBCs, the CBSs, and then the new age media, Amazon and Netflix. Like I'm open and excited about all those opportunities, but I wasn't just going to sit at the house and be mad about something.
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It's like they decided to go in a certain direction and you just find a way to be the best version of yourself that you can be.
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that would have been nice or maybe it wouldn't i don't know it would bother me i think i think it would be nice i think everyone wants you want to know right when they tell you what it wasn't you're like oh yeah cool sweet no you're great everything was awesome and then it's like but what was it you you're big boy just be honest what was it right and you didn't i didn't get that answer and at this point like you know we're shoot what
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four months past that yeah i'm not asking for the answer anymore i don't need it right i don't need it anymore it's like like you said we're thriving we're having a good time being able to connect with the fans in a different way that's great and then when we get back to legacy media like i'm not gonna lie to you the thing i miss most is calling games yeah yeah i mean i miss calling games yeah three hours to talk to the fans have a good time crack jokes educate them i miss that and i look forward to getting back to that whether it's college football uh nfl or both
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What experience are you guys talking about?
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Was it called Barstool Van Talk?
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I'll answer that, and I'll get to that eagle, the Seahawk story. For me, when you do this, there's no...
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like podcasting it's it's your views likes comments hey what are they like you kind of move in that direction of what you're comfortable doing right i'm not going to go be an only fans model that's just not what i want to do with my life you kind of dabble in it yeah the croissant picture i think the internet's gonna internet because the croissant picture they took that bad boy and ran with it's a very good meme
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It is a solid meme. I was told today that I'm in the Internet Hall of Fame because of that meme. But the reception that I got after the news broke and I cracked the joke about Friday and then I posted the basically farewell from ESPN and, you know, I miss my colleagues and the people behind the camera and the teams that I got to work with. The reception from the fans let me know, hey –
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They told me that, hey, you're going to be replacing Randy Moss. And I'm like, I don't know if I want to do that, guys. Like Randy Moss is a legend. Straight cash, homie. He Randy Moss was actually the person that got me on Monday Night Countdown in the first place. Oh, wow. I was going I was at ESPN my first year, 2021, and I was going there to read the Heisman finalists. That's it.
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Hey, a Heisman finalist has to do it. We need you on the show. I read it. It's in Buffalo. It's the coldest game I've ever been to in my life. And I didn't have a jacket because in Buffalo, if it says it's, you know, 45 degrees, it's really not 45 degrees. OK, it's it more feels like it's 15 degrees. And Randy stopped me in the truck and said, do you want to do come on, man? No, it wasn't.
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Come on, man. Do you want to do you got mossed? So then the producer's like, yeah, I mean, Randy, if you want him in there, we'll put him in there. And I'm like, yeah, sure, I'll do You Got Mossed. That was my first hit on Monday Night Countdown. Next thing I know, I'm on Monday Night Countdown the next year, and it was because Randy wanted to move to Sunday Countdown. Ah.
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So it wasn't that I was replacing him there, it was he didn't wanna travel anymore. And now I know we see some of the health things that he's talked about, he's going through. I kinda understand why he wanted to make that transition. So when they bring me on, they're trying to find something. We need to liven up the show. I get on and it's the Seahawks game.
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And I'm like, like, hey, what do you think we can do? I thought about it for a couple of weeks and I came back to the producer and his name was Greg Shapiro. And I said, why don't I just race the hawk? what do you mean race the Hawk? You can't beat a Hawk in a race. I'm like, I think I could beat him in a race. So I didn't tell anyone on the production side why I thought I could win the race.
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But then when I ran, I beat the Hawk.
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And Booger was like repping me saying I didn't win. So then we did it again the following year. And I blew him out even worse this time because I had football cleats on.
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I did my research ahead of time. You're like, what kind of bird is it? It's an osprey? No, no. It's the fact that the type of hawk that it was, because seahawks don't exist, by the way. It's just a hawk. So they can fly up to 120 miles per hour when they're hunting. When they're going down. When they're going down into the water and they're hunting, they fly at 120 miles per hour.
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But they don't fly that fast when they're just gliding. So they made me have to take off when the Hawk took off because I raced it first before they aired it and blew it out by like 25 yards. So I had to run again. And they made me take off when he did so he could actually have a chance to beat me. And I beat him the first time and then obviously blew him out the second time. But there's no...
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I always tell people, don't be afraid to try new things. Just do your research. I knew he wasn't going to beat me in that race. They didn't. And the person at home certainly didn't know. It's just like, RG3 just beat a wild animal.
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The hawk was embarrassed. And the handler was so mad because the first year when I beat it, he was like, We're going to race again, and he's going to be ready. In the second year, I said, I'm just going to throw on some football cleats so I can have a little bit more grip. Oh, that's awesome.
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I didn't know how to slide.
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There was a rumor that they did that, but that never happened.
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And then made it seem like I turned it down.
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It never happened.
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Yeah, I mean, it's a lot. I will say in Trevor Lawrence's specific example, I've had two concussions from that same exact thing. In Washington, we were playing the Atlanta Falcons, and Sean Witherspoon did the same thing to me. I was sliding near the sideline, last second slide, even later than, because I don't think Trevor slid late. I think his was just the guy formed in the face.
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But I did slide late. Witherspoon hit me, bounced my head off the ground. I was out for the rest of the game. In college, I was playing against Texas Tech in Jerry's World, running towards the sideline, slid, boom, got my head bounced off the ground. In college, that probably – that situation that Trevor just went through happened to me at least six times. And this is 2011, right?
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Defenders are trying to get as many licks as they can on the quarterback. So when they see you slide – They're going to try to give you something. I'm not saying that they're trying to put you out the game, but they're trying to give you something to prevent you from thinking it's sweet. Right. They want you to know that it's sour.
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When I hear quarterbacks talk about sliding who were not mobile guys. They don't have as many opportunities to be put in those positions, whereas Jaden Daniels, Caleb Williams, Trevor Lawrence, Kyler Murray, Lamar Jackson. These guys are being put in these situations five, 10, 15 times a game. So my belief is, yes, sliding is a mechanism to protect the quarterback.
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You don't take sliding out of the game. But I can also understand from a defensive side why they get mad when Patrick Mahomes does a fake slide. Or when Kenny Pickett had the infamous fake slide in college that I was on the call for. That was awesome. I thought it was awesome. It looked cool. But from a defensive perspective, they're saying, well, I'm not supposed to hit the guy.
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I don't think that there's a perfect solution to it. But I think everyone in their right mind would agree that what Aziz Al-Shahir did was wrong. Trevor Lawrence did not slide late. He clearly went after his head once he went for that slide. That shouldn't happen anymore. But we do have to – I think we might have to start penalizing quarterbacks for fake slides.
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Because I'll tell you the technique that Lamar has. Lamar doesn't slide. Maybe he's slid twice in his entire career. He just – he attacks the knees of the defender. Yeah. I heard Rex Ryan talk about attacking their ankles. If you attack their ankles, they're going to hit you in the face with their knee.
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Lamar, when he runs and he knows he wants to get down to avoid the hit, he goes after their legs. Because what do they do? They move. So now they don't have any power to hit you. And they're thinking more about self-preservation than they're about how can I get this lick on the quarterback. But like I said, there's no perfect solution to it.
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But damn, man, we got to be able to see a play and say, yeah. Yeah. There's no two sides to that. It was wrong. And I think he got suspended three games because of what happened after the hit. Yeah. Not just the hit. Partially. You know what I mean? Yeah. The sportsmanship they're talking about and he got in like two fights after that and was like cussing out the fans.
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That's why he got suspended three games. Yeah. Not just the hit.
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Remember that? I remember that.
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He did. He did. Yeah. That's the way to do it. Smart play. Yeah. He was out there meat hunting.
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One.
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It would not- I mean, I still think that even though the Chiefs are- Yeah, no, I agree. I still think that they're – as long as they've got those – the core fours, I call them, Mahomes, Andy Reid, Travis Kelsey, and Chris Jones, they're top of the list. Then the Chiefs, I could see the Chiefs winning it. I could see the Packers. I could see the Lions. I could see the Eagles. Yeah. Bills, Ravens?
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I can see the Bills. The Ravens, to me, are a dangerous team because it looks like they're not going to win their division. But then if they get in the wild card, I don't think anyone wants to play. No. I don't think they want to play the Ravens. What about the Steelers? I think the Steelers have a chance to win it, too. Really?
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I said that in the offseason when they got Russell, and everyone's like, oh, yeah, no possible way. So, again, I was right. Yeah. But for the Steelers, it's more about if Russell plays like he did against the Bengals. Yeah. Oh, my God. They can go score 44 points? Yeah. It's a cliche answer, but any team could. I could see Washington winning the Super Bowl. I don't know. This year?
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I could see them winning the Super Bowl because it's so up in the air right now, especially with the Lions. I know we're going to talk about this when we're watching the stream, but the Lions are so beat up on defense. I know. And they're the best team in the league in my opinion right now, but every team at the top is vulnerable. The Eagles are slow starters. Mm-hmm.
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The Bills, how many times are they going to allow Josh Allen to drop back 17 times and score 35 points? At some point, he is going to have to be Superman, and that will really test his decision-making. So all these teams are so vulnerable. I could see a team like Washington sneaking in.
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Now, why is that? It's a rhetorical question, but why is that the case for the Steelers? It's because that's exactly how Russell Wilson won his Super Bowl in Seattle.
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Beast mode. But the Steelers are playing great defense right now. They had the legion of boom on the other side. So you're putting Russell in a very familiar situation where now he can drop back and throw those moon balls and they're not all off play action. Some of them are drop back. Some of them are him scrambling. He looks so much younger.
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He looks five years younger than he did last year in Denver. Yeah, he does. So to put him in that situation with a Najee Harris and to have that running back group rolling and the offensive line rolling, that's why they're in the position they are. And let's be honest, Mike Tomlin, he is definitely in the running for a coach of the year.
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Then anything can happen. Anything can happen. Look at the Ravens in, was it 2013? Was it 2012? Yeah. When Joe Flacco had his magical run. No interceptions. Anything can happen. I think it was 13 touchdowns, no picks. Anything can happen once you get in the dance. And I think the reason I feel that mostly is because the Chiefs. They look vulnerable right now.
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And the other teams that are at the top also look vulnerable. So it could be anybody's game. Right. I won't allow myself to think that. Take the compliment.
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Chargers? Again, they're playing top five defense. Justin Herbert hasn't had to be Superman all year, really. I think that bodes well for them because he's not going to go into the playoffs banged up. Everyone wants to say, oh, the Chargers can't win any playoffs games. Oh, Justin Herbert's all – he's stat padding and doing all this stuff. It's like, no, the man's been being Superman for 17 weeks.
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And then when he does get to the playoffs, he's tired. He's banged up. He's got an ankle injury. He's got a rib injury. He's got a hairline fracture in his collarbone or something. Right. Now he doesn't have that. Now they're actually – they just won 17 to 13. They're not having to win putting up 39 points like they were with Brandon Staley.
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Let's do it.
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Yeah. So yeah. We haven't seen you since. We're at the Olympics. Yeah. And we find out in Paris that they have these giant croissants. So I'm like, hey, we got to go get one of these things. Actually, TikTok. actually worked with us to get us the giant croissants and create content with them at their headquarters in France. So that was an incredible experience with me and my wife.
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You know, shout out to TikTok for doing that for us. But then when we got the croissant back at home, I'm like, we have to take a picture eating this croissant. So here's... You guys have had a situation where your wife kind of or your lady friend threw you under the bus a little bit. I'm not blaming my wife for saying that she threw me under the bus. No, she did.
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What I'm saying is that when we took the picture, we were both supposed to be eating it. Yeah. And she didn't do that. And then she posted it on Instagram with a zoom in on you on me.
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You went all in on that croissant. So she kind of set the motion. Set everything in motion.
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I appreciate you saying that. And she knows it because she did it all purpose. She took the picture. It was the blank picture. And it was three frames. And the second one was zoomed in. And the third one was zoomed in even more. So then when I posted it on Twitter, I got all the zoomed in pictures. Yeah. Instagram that came over.
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And in like 10 minutes, it was like, yeah, this is going to be a long day. Yeah.
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When you grab a croissant, like if the croissant was a double hander on the side. You might have been in the croissant's gooch. I'd have been able to grab it like that. The croissant was so big. I had no choice. He's cupping the balls, PhD. I am not. I am not. You're giving a lot of support like this. I had no choice but to have the hand underneath because I'm stronger from here.
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I do not. I stand ten toes down that that did not happen. This is not what happened and went down, but the croissant was super heavy.
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Yeah, I sucked off a croissant. I definitely didn't do that. And that was not the purpose of posting the croissant picture. But I think to your point, you have to be able to have fun in a way that... People can relate to. When you see that picture of me eating the croissant, I saw Josh Hart, the guard or forward for the Knicks. He said, Jesus himself could not get me to post this picture.
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But guess what? He's engaging with the picture because he understands that it's funny. He understands that you have to have a sense of humor in life. And I think for me, the internet took it and went with it. The way I captioned it wasn't like, hey, watch me eat this giant croissant that looks like whatever. It was enjoying a croissant with my wife. The internet will always internet.
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There's been times that I've said things in games that I never anticipated would go viral. And they go viral. And then there's times when you're in a game and you know you have a one-liner and you hit it and you're like... I knocked that out the park and it's nowhere. And you're like, you don't know what people are going to gravitate towards. You don't know what they're going to grab a hold of.
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But at the end of the day, you have to be willing to laugh at yourself. So there was a time, not gonna lie, more than that first hour. And it was going like a, you know, ballistic. Yeah. There was, there was some people that thought like, Hey, maybe we should, maybe we should take the, take it down. And it's like, nah, man, the internet's going to do what the internet's going to do.
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I'm not at fault for them taking it and making it whatever. Um, It's a croissant. I'm eating. I can't eat pastries now.
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And you just have fun. You laugh it off and you move on.
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can't have this on there right it makes my whole life worse because i spend my whole life online and i don't see it like i i think on instagram i have a couple videos where i was explaining because like it happened i'm like well i gotta like address this yeah so then when you couple of croissants balls you have to talk about it definitely didn't do that There's no frosting on my face.
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You are committed. You are committed to continue to talk about it. I'm looking at the picture right now. It's me eating a croissant. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So there's a video on Instagram of me explaining it. And like, if you go to the comments, it's like 15,000 pictures of the croissant consumed in And like, what are you going to do? Are you going to go through and delete every single comment?
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Or are you going to just laugh about it and move on?
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Yes. And honestly, I mean, it's the truth. It's like, hey, how you view something is how you view it. If you can't laugh at yourself, man. Yeah. Then what are you really doing? You can't. Great quality. You can't laugh at yourself or laugh at a moment and move on from it and not be bogged down by it in your own mind. And then it doesn't matter. So I don't worry about it. It was it was it was fun.
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It went galactical and you move on.
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Yes, did Chef Donnie. Cooked some beignets. Did the show with Chef Donnie.
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Oh. Did the show with Chef Donnie.
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Yes, we did some beignets. Okay, all right.
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That happens at the Heisman house. Okay. So when we're with Nissan and we go to the Heisman house, we got video games in the back and you get to sit down with Baker Mayfield and Tim Tebow and Charles Woodson and Desmond Howard and Eddie George and all these guys.
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I don't think he was there.
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I don't want to say that.
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Oh. I saw that that wasn't true. He might have done it. I saw that it wasn't true, though.
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It came out and said that the recording was him just talking to himself. Ah, okay. It was the bodyguard talking to himself.
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I am leaving that all the way alone.
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But he hasn't been there. I haven't seen him there. I don't know if he's ever been there, but I have never seen him there. But it's a good time, you know, kicking it with the guys, shooting the funny commercials. When you go to the Heisman ceremony, it's more of just, I know some people think that the guys that are on stage, they go there just so they can be seen. And that's not what it is.
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They're there to support the next guy that's coming in. And like the Heisman loses its value if the guys who won it before don't welcome the new guy into the fraternity. So it's really cool to go there and see Mike Rozier, right?
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It's really cool to go there and see Archie Griffin, guys that I never got to see play, but they believe so much in the Heisman fraternity that they're willing to come back and welcome the next guy into that. That, to me, is awesome. So, you know, ESPN runs the show, and I've been a part of that broadcast for the last three years.
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I'm not going to be a part of the broadcast, but I'm still going to go back because it's important to welcome, whether it's Travis Hunter, Aston Gentry, Shadurah Sanders, Cam Ward, whoever it is that wins the Heisman, it's important to be there to support them.
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Yeah, it certainly feels special, and it changes your life forever. It's not just the Heisman house, but it's the way that people look at you. And other awards, it's not to speak down on the other awards. They just don't remember MVPs. I won, with all due respect, I won the Manning Award my last year in college. No one says Robert Griffin III, the Manning Award winner.
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They say RG3, the Heisman Trophy winner. So there is a certain level of prestige, and that goes with all of them. It's not just the Manning Award. It's the Maxwell, the Bolitnikoff, all these other ones, the Davey O'Brien. They have value, and you appreciate getting the award and being a part of that fraternity, but there's something so much more special about the Heisman Trophy.
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honestly i'm 34 so it's not like i'm 55 right and that first check for the heisman house i was like wait what y'all giving out checks like this to come do this commercial like that that was a moment of like oh wow this is a gift that keeps on giving because we have guys like an eddie george who's been removed from the game for 20 years and he's still getting those types of opportunities due to the heisman and um i was just at an event doing a speaking engagement and they introduced me as heisman trophy winner and like
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And you're like, man, you don't understand how much it means to the other people until you hear it when you're so far removed from it. I remember the moment. I could feel my heart beating through my chest when they said the 2011 Heisman Trophy winner is. I still remember that moment. But I don't think I knew it was going to have this type of impact on my life.
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Isn't it funny that everyone who does the pose, it's literally not the Heisman pose.
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Or the Desmond Howard.
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And honestly, if someone got up and scored a touchdown and did the actual Heisman pose... it wouldn't be as cool. No, people are like, what is he doing? What is he doing? Yeah, he got two feet on the ground. You're going like this. It's not as cool. So I actually appreciate it. I think they should give two trophies out.
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Give the normal Heisman and then a bronze sculpture of the guy doing it because almost every Heisman winner has done it at some point in their Heisman season. Because I know I did it at Baylor with my teammates. Yeah, when did you do it? It was early in the season. Oh, early. So you called your shot. At one point, we had more touchdowns than incompletions five games into the year. That's insane.
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So it was after one of those early games, and I did it with my offensive lineman. So that was pretty cool.
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Waco's not as big of a city. Yeah. Right. But, you know, we used to have this this a student gym called the Slick. And I used to play basketball there all the time. So in 2008 through 2010, like 2008, 2009, we weren't very good. 2010, we got good. We beat Texas. We were seven and five. Everyone's feeling good about themselves because Baylor wasn't winning any games at that point.
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Then in 2011, we went on a run. We won 10 games. And that was wild. Just walking around campus, smaller school, Baptist school. You know what I mean? So a lot of a lot of different people on campus. But the majority of the student population that was black were like on the athletic teams. Like it was that type of environment.
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But it was cool to be there to see the impact and see how Baylor changed. Because when I got to Baylor, we had to drive 25 minutes across town to go work out because our facility and our stadium was not on campus. And then by the time I left, we had an on-campus workout facility. They were building McLean Stadium, which is what they play in now. Thanks to you.
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Not just me, but a lot of other people. But I got to see the university change. At one point when I was a freshman, man, I'd go to class. You know those big auditorium classes where you got 500 kids? Yeah. And the teachers would be in the class making fun of us. Like making fun of the football team. Yeah. Like cracking jokes.
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And I'm like, my God, our coach made us walk around with a shirt that said, I play football for Baylor because nobody took pride in it.
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But by the time in 2010, 2011, now I'm going to these big auditorium classes and the teachers are praising us. Right. That was a very weird thing to go through. Yeah. That's a cool. It was a great transformation.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. You know, Mack Brown just unfortunately got fired. JMU made him quit early this season. You think so?
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Yeah. So JMU broke him. I did not know that. But Mack never talked to me in recruiting. It was his recruiting coordinator. And they wanted me to be an athlete, which means they'll play you at safety. They'll play your receiver. They'll put you wherever they want you to be. I was a fast track and field guy.
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So they never gave me an opportunity to play quarterback or even be recruited as a quarterback. But after my freshman year at Baylor, Mac met me at the 50 yard line at UT Stadium. And he said, man, we really messed up with you, didn't we? You can come here anytime you want. So I look at that sometimes. I'm like, man, what if we were in the NIL transfer portal days back in 2008?
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Would I have transferred to Texas? And the answer is no, I wouldn't have. But it's nice to think about. And had they offered me a scholarship to play quarterback, I probably would have went there. Yeah, initially, right? I'll be quite honest with you. I probably would have.
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They missed on Andrew, missed on myself, Johnny, Drew Brees didn't go there. That's crazy. They missed on Jalen Hurts.
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Yeah, I would go to Baylor and say, give me four.
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Give me four if you can. And I'm not saying, like, I did not grow up with money. So the likelihood of a team coming to you when you're an 18 year old and paying you six million bucks, you're going to entertain that.
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The way I look at it is I love my university and I went there for a reason. You know, everything worked out for me the way they worked out because I went to Baylor University. So had I gone to Texas, would the Heisman Trophy that we won at Baylor mean as much at Texas? I don't know if it would have. Yeah, probably not. You know what I mean?
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So God has a plan of making that stuff all work out, and it definitely worked out in my favor.
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I got one last thing for you guys, though, okay? Why do you guys sometimes let guys come on the show and just lie?
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Good question.
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All right. Mike Silver. Okay. I thought that's where we were going. You knew where we were going. I thought that's where we were going. I did not know where you were going. All right. So Mike Silver came on the show. This was about a month ago, maybe. Yeah. A couple months ago, maybe a month and a half. Yeah. And he told you guys this story about the Cleveland game. Yeah.
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When Kirk threw for like 7,000 yards. Right. And, like, five, 16 touchdowns, and it was a great game.
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Exactly. It was LCL. LCL. Oh, yeah. He messed me up. Good. And he told you a story about how Dan Snyder walked in the locker room and, like... like damn near trucked Kirk to get to me and asked me if I was okay. Yeah. And then he threw something else out there saying that Mike Shanahan and my dad were off in the corner of the locker room.
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My dad was yelling at him saying, you need to run these plays with my son. That reminded me. I did watch it. I saw the clip. I didn't respond because I had a feeling we would come on the show and talk. And it's not you guys' fault, right? It's your show, but it's not your fault that he comes on there and he lies about it.
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But I had this conversation with a teammate of mine who was on the team at that time. And they're like, when is a parent ever in the locker room yelling at a coach? You ever see a guy say, hey, you got beat up by seven dudes, and then you go back and you watch the tape and he got beat up by one guy?
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You know what I'm saying? It's like an over-exaggeration of the story. So I remember the story. I know exactly what happened. My dad was never in the locker room. My dad was never a problem in the locker room. But when Mike Silver and media members from D.C. go around telling those stories constantly... the next generation tends to think that those things are true.
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And what bothers me is not myself. Like I'm so far past it for me, but from my family. Yeah. No, that's fair. That type of stuff does not sit well with me because you could ask Will Compton. You could ask any of my teammates. My dad was never in the building. He was never telling anyone what plays they needed to run. He was never micromanaging anything.
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And for a military veteran of 21 years to put his time in and serve this country, uh, For them to constantly go around making those lies because they're trying to paint it in a certain way as to why it didn't work. That bothers me. Dan Snyder, the whole story is Dan Snyder walked in the locker room and he did walk to me, but he didn't brush past Kirk Cousins.
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He walked to me and he said, hey, I heard you worked out in pregame and they said you'll be ready to go next week. Then he turned around and he congratulated Kirk Cousins on the job that he did. And for them to change that story to make it seem like it was something that it wasn't, it's always bothered me. Yeah, that's fair. I hadn't heard that story in years.
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But when he came on the show and he said that, I was like, that's fucking bullshit.
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All right, we'll do it. We'll get it done. I would love to come on with Mike Silver because the lies that he tells and whether it's in the book or not, I don't know if it's in the book. If it's in the book, I might sue the shit out of him. But the lies that they tell about that stuff, it's defamatory towards my family.
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I will always protect my family yeah no that's if that didn't happen I would be very upset that's completely fair yeah and I guess I'm not mad at you guys about it I more so saw it and I was like you know what I think I'm gonna be at bar so soon I'm just gonna talk to my guys Big Cat and PFT about it because going online and talking about it isn't gonna do anything no you're right I was smart let's just have the conversation
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No parent has ever been in the locker room screaming at a coach. Yeah. It never happens. It would never happen. No team would allow that to happen. The only time my dad has ever been in the locker room was when I got knocked out of that Atlanta Falcons game because then they bring your family to the locker room to check on you when you're hurt. You have a head injury. That's it.
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You have a head injury. Yeah. So... That bothered me.
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No, I like you guys. I think what you do is phenomenal. The way you connect with your fans is great. Everything today has been top notch. I look forward to the stream. Yes. All right.
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Love it. I appreciate that. Last request I have for you guys. Would you guys like to come with me? Is this croissant? To run with the bulls. Oh. Can you do it? When?
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But, like, I don't really want to get on a flight in July and have to go to Spain. Yeah, when is it? It's in Spain. It's in July. It's the first two weeks of July. That happens to be when we usually take a vacation.
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I know the date.
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Oh, okay.
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There's a lot of people there. I was there. Face to face. Tahoe is a monster now. Yeah, all right. Top notch.
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Yeah. All right. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. I want to do it.
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I can neither confirm nor deny if you have taken any mind-altering substances. Okay.
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We owe him that. Really? Yeah.