Best of The Doug Gottlieb Show: 02/02/2018

Doug Gottlieb broadcasts LIVE from Radio Row! He speaks with Steelers RB Le’Veon Bell about how the Eagles can beat the Patriots, and Rams quarterback Jared Goff about his impressive sophomore season. He also talks to former Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield about the upcoming NFL Draft and Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota about his first playoff victory. Also, he talks to Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey about his stellar rookie season. Finally, Doug chats with young Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster about his easy transition from college to the NFL.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the dun gott Leap Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Let's welcome in one of the
great running backs in the National Football League, a guy
who everybody's gonna be talking about in the offseason because
of the contract situation, because of the offensive coaching change,
assuming that Pittsburgh won't let him go. Leady On Bell
joins us here on the Douglas Show. How you do man,

(00:22):
I'm feel good. How are you good? Um? What's it
like to get the respect and the love from everybody?
Like It's Look, it's one thing to get it on
the Field's the whole other thing when you have the players, agents, fans, radio,
row and you walk in and get the type of
money again, it's amazing. You know, as a as a kid,
you know, you kind of never really, you know, really
realize that you can do it, you know what I mean,

(00:43):
you kind of say it. I always dreamt about it,
but you know the fact that has actually happened and
I'm living it. You know, it's amazing. You know, just
interacted with the fans, the players that you play against,
and you know they respect you to interact your game. Um,
just getting to know him off the field, is amazing.
How are you gonna lose with the jaguarsh Dude? Come on, man,
all right, look man, did I wear was a good team?
You know? I mean, um, obviously we didn't play our

(01:03):
best game. Um, I don't think we played a good
second half. We played a good second half. The first half.
Explained to me this, Okay, you first half Cleveland Brown's
first game in the season, Indianapolis Culture. You picked the
game and it was like it was almost like you're
the guy who goes like, all right, we'll go to ten,
I'll spot your five. That was kind of like you
guys had so much talent and yet so often times

(01:24):
you get off the sluggish start. Is that I don't know, man,
maybe maybe you know, it might have been a little
bit of the offense, maybe a little bit of defense.
I think for us, the switch up at the off
the coordinator um that that I hope, hope without a lot.
It's not taking away from Todd and when he's done
for us, but I just stink to switch up a

(01:44):
wrinkle or something that may happen, you know in better situations,
better um, you know, positions to make make plays and
things like that make it EASi on me or a
b perfect example is and like, look, Todd Helly is
a well regarded offensive coordinator, right, but didn't you guys
starting empty against against Jacksonville, right Like? I mean so,

(02:04):
I mean, like, look again, I'm not saying I know
more about football than Todd Hayle's just that I know
that when they've gotten you like, this is not rocking science. Right.
That was a muta say like football is a simple game,
and it's so simple because Jacksonville Jacksonville figure that out, Like,
we're gonna run the football, and then eventually, when they
over commit to running, we're gonna run some play actions

(02:26):
exactly and worst case scenarios say you get stopped three
straight times, that's okay, you punt and you get it
over to your defense. He played field position football, yes,
so so um so you do get the sense that
that's that the coordinator change. And they talked to you
about it, they said, this is what this is what
we're kind of looking for, this is what's gonna change. Well,
I mean I was at the pro bo with Randy,

(02:47):
you know, and he gave me a whole bunch of,
you know, different things and situations of how they're gonna
use me and what he's planning on for next year,
and I'm excited about it, you know. So, and I
know Randy's the quarterbacks coach before o C. And I
love Randy. You know, he has a good camaradie with
everybody in the locker room. Everybody loves Randy and respect him. So, um,
he's a great you know pick for the office, the coordinator.

(03:07):
And you know, I'm decided. Okay, so they're gonna tag
you at I hope not. I mean, it's guaranteed money.
It is guaranteed money. But you know I need some
long term you know security. That's that's that's the biggest
thing about contracts. You wanna get a long term deal
with a nice guaranteed money. So when you say something,
do happy. Like look, you said, look you got hit

(03:30):
in the knee, like anything happened in the knee, and
and and then you went over and you tested it.
It was the middle of the season you went and
tested it. And yeah, I'm sure you had to be
freaking out. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. And the
thing about it is like at any moment, like you
may not be the same player anymore. Here, Okay, can
I give you the Devil's advocate? What what people will
say when you say I think I should get a
long term deal, They'll say, look, man been injured and

(03:51):
he's been suspended. Yeah, absolutely, Okay, So about so why
would why should the Steelers invest long term and a
guy who's now getting upper twenties and has been injured
spending what's the counter to that? Because the Steelers know
what type of person I am. Yeah, the suspensions happened,
and the second suspension they know exactly happened, and and
and it's it's a lot of things that it shouldn't

(04:14):
have happened. And the Steeves understand that they were behind
the scenes of everything, so they know exactly what's going on.
Um the injuries, freaky injuries, you know, a little a
little weird stuff, but they understand what type of player
I yeam, and I'm a different type player even even
with all the injury suspensions. Now I'm the number one
player after five years in screaming yards. All right, so ever,
so do you, uh, do you sit training camp if

(04:37):
they if they franchise tagging, do you because you know,
I mean, you know, somebody asked you once you thought
about retirement. You said to think about it. You do
know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. Uh,
if they take me training camp, I'll see you week
one maybe. But but that that sets you back, or
at least they didn't give you the ball as much
because they just didn't give me the ball. But like

(04:58):
I came in out of shape, I was ready. They
I mean, they want to give me the ball, you know,
six or seven times against the Browns because they know
it's the Browns. That's what it is. It is what
it is. But I'm going out there as long as
I finished this. He's the healthy. I'm good. Help me
out with the Patriots. Um, the defense is ben but
doesn't but don't break. Now. They have allowed you know,
up until their last game, they allowed the fewest uh

(05:19):
but fifth fewest uh but fewest points in in the
league since the week five, right, so they've they've been better.
But it's the defense good or it's just they just
don't make mistakes. That's what it is. They play real
disciplined football. They don't get out of gaps, want to play,
you know, play Opportunity presents itself, they make the play.
But you know, The reason why they're so good because
they're not gonna go out the gap and try to

(05:40):
be greedy and try to make a tackle if there
if it's not their tackle, it's not their gap. They
didn't worry about making that tackle. You know, you've got
guys in the legal individual guys who like worry about
making every tackle. You want a guy who had heard
fifty tackles over the course of the year. They have
no guys like that. They go out there to play
as sigmon football. That's what make those all good. Um,
what about Brady in that offense against this Eagles defense.
Eagles defense pretty nasty, isn't Yeah? Yeah, their front their

(06:02):
front seven is really well. I think the Eagles can
win if they don't let the Pages get a run
game going, if they just have to sit back and
the Patriots just got the past with Tom Brady five,
Why the Eagles are gonna rush four. They're gonna play
man to man and put pressure on time Brady before.
You can't put time Brady at all. You gotta literally
play man and man no not physical too, right, Yeah,
you gotta play man a man, not zone and rush

(06:23):
four and your four have to get press on time. Brady,
not blitz anybody. You gotta just rush four and play coverage.
Uh so who are you picking? Man? Look, I know
the Eagles are so good. The Eagles amazing team. They've
been good all year. Um, it's just so hard for
me to pick against Tom Brady. Man, it's just so
hard to do it. Like, Um, so I'm gonna go

(06:44):
and go and go with the Patriots. You're gonna started
eating avocado ice cream and stop lifting weights and start
stretching all the time. That's his deal, right, He's like
he's all about flexibility and diet and sleep. I mean yeah,
I mean, I guess it's working for him. He's also
a position where you can get away with that, right.
I mean, I don't eat meat. So you're a vegan
or vegetarian, pescterian, pescetarian, so you only eat fish, only fish.

(07:07):
What's your favorite fish? Salmon? How? How? How how do
you like it? Uh? Man, I like it everyway? Did
you eat everything growing up? Like? Man, I'm be a pesketarian.
I'm only gonna eat never never thought that, never thought that.
It got to a point where I actually went on
the date and Uh, this girl kind of talked me
into it. You know, but what's your name name? Why

(07:28):
was it date? Then? Not a date now? Yeah, but
I don't want to say that name. You can mess
up on other dates, man, But it's an old date.
It was a long time, I long, even I long
even a Pesterian for about six months. Oh well, like
this is an okay, you don't you don't miss a
good steak. Come on, dude, you want really you walk back?
Come on, you gotta pass Bruce Chris and you smell
some of that steak cooking, like I don't really want.

(07:50):
I know it's gonna kill my stomach. It will kill
your stuff, I know, will, I know will? That's what
that's what like? It kind of give you, like cheeseburgers
and stuff like I came like, I'm straight, okay, all right,
I like good. So it fish as well. Tune is
pretty good. So it fish really really good. Do you
like Chilean seas? That's my that's my favorite. One problem. Um,
you're you're here with Mountain dew Ice. When I think

(08:11):
ice side, I think is it beer? Was ice? I
think no? But I think I like remember bud ice?
But but ice, that's before your time man, that's back
when I was in college. Uh, Mountain dew Ice supporting
team Ice Cold. In the showdown between the Mountain dew
Ice team hashtag Ice Cold and the Dorrito's Blaze team,
was it a rat battle? Yeah, ra battle. I'm with

(08:34):
Morgan Freeman though, Freegan Freeman, you ain't know that, you
know what? No, you gotta see the rap battle. Morgan
Freeman is like voice of God from Truman Show. Right. No, no, no, uh, Bruce,
that's what it was, Bruce almighty, you can wrap no

(08:56):
no who uh? And then Peter Dinklich is the is
for three knows a with the ritos. He with the ritos.
So I'm t mice. You know what I'm saying. Look
look where I'm rocking. And that shirt is awesome. You
know what I'm saying. It's a shirt with Morgan Freeman,
white hair, white goatee, big kerchief holding a mountain dew Ice.

(09:16):
So he is this caffeine. That's the biggest thing that'll
wake that'll wake up You do your do Wow, little
little pestterarian giving that mountain. Uh. We hope they don't
tagging and you get paid, although we all know they're
gonna tag you. We kind of know that. We don't.
Come on, dude, we might get it done. Come on, man,

(09:37):
you think we get it done? They did say. Okay,
so reports were last week that two sides were progressing
towards the deal. How accurate are those reports? That's accurate? Okay,
that's accurate. Is it imminent? We're progressing? Man, break you
don't break your own story. We're getting like it's done.
Nine ain't done though, it ain't done? Is it about?

(09:58):
Is it about? What it is about? The guarantee number?
Is about? The guarantee is the guaranteed number in years?
The guaranteed number? Um the A P? Yeah, yep, And
then um, you know how long you know what I say?
How long? How how engaged in it are you? Do? You? Guys?
You you want to be engaged in every part of it?
Or just tell me when it get official and all

(10:20):
of it? I gotta be. That's That's what I'm saying.
That's no I know. But sometimes, like look, I've been
a contract negotiation. Sometimes you hire a guy because they
you want them gonna kind of do everything for you.
He's gonna kind of report back to you if I
don't sit on every call enough. I don't see on
every call, but you know what I'm saying about a
little underfit. You say maybe, like, all right, give me

(10:42):
give me percent hopeful you'll get it done. Percent hopeful
or percent you think he gets done? I say about
seventy five percent. A right, progressing. He's confirmed that it
is progressing. All right, Let great catch. I appreciate it.
He'll be eating salmon all weekend long. Here. Be sure
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(11:04):
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Well, what
a special second season. This guy had und yards, eight touchdowns,
only seven interceptions, and this after the first year which
people they were bailing, they thought he was a bust um.
He's Jared Goff of the l A. Rams. He joins
me on the Doug Gotleap Show on Fox Sports Radio

(11:25):
and Jared, you know, confidence is such a huge part
of having success in the NFL. How much do you
think that first game against the Colts, how much do
you think that kind of propelled you guys confidence wise
to have the season you had. Yeah, it was it
was a good It was a good game. It was
a good start. You know, we didn't get to play
them without Andrew, which definitely helps. But uh, you know,
we played well. We executed, we execute on defense, were

(11:46):
executed on special teams, and we executed on offense. So
when you do all those three things, most time you win.
And uh that thing like they we did. How much
did you want to, like go around TV channel the
TV channel when you start, when you start winning and
you I mean, like, I really don't, I really don't.
I just I have fun with it now. I think
it's it's kind of funny to see the reactions of
some people. But I've always, you know, believed in myself.

(12:07):
But I know there's plenty of people who haven't, and
I know that will probably continue the rest of my career.
And just something that I got a good experience of
dealing with. Was there ever a moment to which you
didn't like in the first year? Never, it wasn't any
oh my gosh, this might I might not be what
I think I was, but I think am I didn't.
Where does that come from? How do you maintain when
when everyone is saying, oh my gosh, they that this

(12:29):
might not work. How did you maintain your focus and
your confidence. We'll try to not pay attention to any
of that because, um, they're not in the building. They
don't you know, see what's what's going on or any
of that. So just try to remain confident. I know
what I've done my whole life, played football, my whole life.
I played I think pretty well my whole life. Um,
you know, just try to try to get back to that.

(12:51):
And I was lucky enough to get some good pieces
around me this year, and um, grow grow in this offense,
and grow and mature and continue to get better and fleet,
you know, keep keep trending in that direction. Jared Goff
joining us in the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Last year, this time you sat down, we
talked a little bit about John McVeigh. You said you're excited. UM,

(13:11):
give me at least one thing that kind of surprised you.
But you know, either surprised you about McVeigh that you
didn't know when you first your first couple of days,
first couple of weeks working together. Um, who I think.
I think how intense he is on game day because
you know he comes on the radio shows, he's very calm,

(13:31):
cool and collected and you know, very meticulous and throughout
the week years as well, and then on game day
he is a different dude. And he is a competitive,
competitive guy and very intense and a lot of fun
to play for. Um, what about you? Uh this this
this year, obviously you blew up and um, you know

(13:52):
your offense kind of took over that division. What's next
for you? What's the next step that you look at
yourself and even though you're confident, you never lost your
confidence with things for bad, You're also not an arrogant dude.
You know you got to get better. Yeah, what what's
the what's the next step for you? Uh? Just continue
to get better. I don't know if I can put
my finger on one thing. I just want to continue
to be the best quarterback I can be, be the

(14:12):
best leader I can be, continue to get better in
those aspects, and continue to try to be try to
help our team win. I think that's ultimately what you
do as a quarterback is you're the facilitator of winning.
Is is kind of what you try to do. You know,
I've got Todd behind me, I got so many good whiteouts,
We've got a good line. Just try to get the
ball to them and continue to elevate my game mentally
and physically, and um trend in that direction. You know,

(14:35):
as long as I keep doing my thing, hopefully everyone
else is as well, and we'll we'll be ready to
go next year. All right. The Falcons came in and
jumped on you in the playoffs, and they're a team
that's experienced in the playoffs. And look, it's no different
than high school. Playoffs are played at a higher level
than regular high school football. College the college football playoff
or college football intense bowl games are played at the
higher level. What what what would you learn would you

(14:56):
take from that experience that the heightened uh intensity of
the playoffs taught you for the future. I think I
think you take away from it like you do any
other big game. I think you kind of get that
experience in that atmosphere, which we which we did have
a few of it in the regular season, But it
is different the playoffs. You you realize, you know, this
is the last game for both teams. You can't you

(15:17):
got treat it that way. You know where you're this
is your last game and if you when you move on,
if you don't, you don't. And um, I think getting
that experience of being in the atmosphere and in that
environment and in that mindset of this is a winner,
go home game? Is is uh good for us moving forward?
What when you see Brady as as a quarterback? What
do you marvel? What? What do you say? Man? I,

(15:38):
by the time I'm done, I want to be able
to do this like he does. How accurate he is
is unbelievable. I mean, he's obviously forty, so he's that's
unbelievable in itself. But I think his ability to stay
at that high level of accuracy of puts the ball
exactly where he wants that come from? Or what does
that come from his footwork being consistent? Does it come

(16:00):
from his his throwing being consistent? Because because when I've
seen you a couple of times, Um, there's been a
couple of times where your where your feet, you don't
get to feet your feet exactly where you want right
when when anybody, when there's somebody, if your feet is
not gonna be the same? Is that? How does he
I'm I'm marvel at it as well, right, Like, how
do you maintain the same level accuracy as you age
and your arm strength is going to change a little bit.

(16:22):
Is it the feet, is it the hands? What is it?
I don't know. I think he's he works his ass off,
He he does his he does it all he does
in the off season, and um, I hear him say
all the time he wants to be as long as
he's continuing to help the team win, he's gonna continue
to play. And I think he's gonna do that for
a little while longer you can start pounding avocad of
shakes and I don't know. I I'm a big fan

(16:43):
of his and what he does, and I think ultimately
what he does in the offseason, all the work he
puts in allows him to stay at that level. One. Um,
he's an awesome guy to watch and I'm glad to
be in the league at the same time as him
and somebody that I can say I played against. Your
favorite win of the year was what uh? You ones
at home? Why? Because there were nine game winning street

(17:03):
coming to our place. We had just lost to Minnesota
on the road, tough one, came back home, pulled out
a hard one this place, Tennessee. The clincher was fun too,
Tennessee was that was a tough game at Tennessee, a
little little weather. Um, you didn't say Seattle. I didn't.
I didn't. I don't know, I didn't. I didn't. I
didn't have too much of a role on that one.

(17:23):
I just kind of handed off to Todd. He went
for about two fifties. Still still though, it was a
sweet one. Yeah, it was fun. I know, I'm I'm no,
It's like, I'm not trying to put words in your mouth.
I'm just I'm interested in You mentioned playing in Minnesota.
This is a tough place to play. I know the
Vikings aren't playing here, but it's pretty sick stadium. It
was one of my favorites, one of my favorites. Great atmosphere,
great fans, loud as hell, awesome, awesome stadium architecture. All

(17:47):
that's awesome. Yeah, but you don't do you do you
actually get a chance to take that in when you're
playing and you're just like football field. I tried to pregame,
you know, especially the new stadiums and me being young
in my career, I try to if it's in stadium
I haven't played at, you know, I try to look
around and see how it is, you know, take it
in play a lambo this year in the preseason game
for the preseason I wasn't I wasn't playing, so I
got to really take it in, kind of sit there

(18:07):
and look around. It's unbelievable. They have sold it out
for a preseason game, preseason number four, I know. And
and they're they're all, I mean, just drinking out there
and they're it's it's it's it's so nice, all of them.
They are nice. It's so not California, right, and that California.
I don't think people people aren't like New York. There's
the people can be nice, people can be nasty. California.
I don't think they're not necessarily not nice. There's an

(18:28):
urgency about everything though. It's it's it's it needs to
be done done quickly. Um. All right, you're a wild
Wings guy. You're here with Buffalo Wild Wings. What's your
style of wing man? Mild traditional, little buffalo sauce. I'm
like buffalo. I like buffalo, uh, dipping in some ranch.
If you can't make it into the store, you can
order online a Buffalo wild Wings dot com or you
can call him. But I'll be in the store. Oh,

(18:49):
I'm a I'm a dry guy, Like I like the
dry spice, right, the dry rubs. Yeah, sure, there's the
salton vinegar is really good. Sure, but there's also like
a Chipotle type deal or something kind of spicy dry one.
There's a honey barbecue too, if you like that. Yeah,
that's like, but that's that's that's wet, don't Yeah, I
like the dryness because I also don't like going through
my hands and like everything sticky. When your wife on

(19:11):
the napkins, it's like everywhere, and I'm gonna get it everywhere. Guy,
my wife can't take me anywhere. If I'm eating wings,
I'm eating you know, so you get twelve piece wings,
I'm eating them all without touching my face and then
I'll clean up. Did you see this number that Buffalo
wings tame point five million wings on Sunday last year?
That's crazy, Like thinking about how many pounds of wings

(19:31):
that is? Um? Are you like me? Do you have
less respect for people who order the boneless wings? Right?
Like if you're yeah, no, I go, you can't do that.
Boneless is just like a chicken nugget. Yeah, that's like, huh,
a chicken nugget. That's exactly what it is now. It's
still tastes good, but it's not a wing. You need
a wing to be a wing. Okay, give me the

(19:51):
one big thing you're gonna do in this offseason non football?
Who uh, work on my golf game. Let's play. Let's play.
We're down the street. Jared Goff, former number one overall pick.
Great season this year with the Rams. Thanks to the
folks at Buffalo Wild Wings Wings Beer. Sports can't cannot
beat it. Thanks so much of Jonas. Thank you. Fox

(20:11):
Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
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com and within the I Heart Radio app. Let's catch
up with the dude who just won the Heisman Trophy.
Potentially a first round draft pick, and he is, without
any question, the most polarizing prospect in the NFL draft.
He's Baker Mayfield from Oklahoma. He joins me in the

(20:33):
Doug Gotlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. We'll talk about
Oklahoma and getting ready for the draft. Take me back
your time at Texas Tech Um. There's there's like a
misconception of who was in the quarterback room when you
were there as the starter. What was that quarterback room
like when you were there. Everybody gets it confused, though
Pat actually was not there when I was right. He

(20:55):
got in right after it. So we had Michael Brewer, uh,
Davis Web and I it's so, and then you leave
and then Mahomes, Mahomes comes in and and uh, I
mean like, look, it's it's a well spring of quarterback talent. Obviously,
you make your way to Oklahoma. The greatest stat And
I told I'm not gonna tell you who was at
an NFL coach up here, and he goes, Man, I

(21:16):
like that Baker Mayfield. And I said, the greatest that
I've ever heard. You did not lose a true road
game in Oklahoma. Um, what tell me about your mentality?
Because I think people see how fired up you get
on the sideline and um, you know the references. They
want to want to make you into Manziel, They want
to make you into something. What is it that you

(21:36):
do in your preparation and in your play that's allowed
you to be so successful in the road, which is
college football, maybe more so in the NFL, the hardest
place to win. I Uh, it's a mindset. It's preparation.
You carry yourself with a driven mindset. That I want
it more than anybody else, that I'll do anything, anything,
whatever it takes. And so but going on the road,

(21:57):
I love it. Going into somebody else's house. Being able
to have the power to silence a crowd of close
to a hundred thousand is a is a good feeling. So, uh,
you gotta you gotta want it. You gotta be able
to execute on the road. You gotta be able to
block out the extra noise on the outside. So it's
a It's a few things that come into play. How
can you be the best version of yourself and yet
you know, NFL guys you'd be like, hey man, you

(22:19):
can't do that stuff. You can't do that jumping up
around and going crazy and head button dudes in the
NFL like nobody does that. How can you be you
and yet fit into the style of what I guess
NFL quarterbacks you're supposed to be. Well, I'm not gonna
conform to anything. There's things I can, you know, draw
the line and not do absolutely. But at the same time,

(22:39):
if I didn't have passion for the game, I wouldn't
be playing it. And if I was playing without it,
I wouldn't be myself. So I'm gonna stick to what's
gotten me here, playing a trip on my shoulder, you know,
making other guys around me better, pushing them to be better,
and uh, you know, being a fire guy on the sideline.
How how do you? How do you go from a
walk on in two different Big twelve schools to being
a Heisman Trophy final? There's two times in a Heisman

(23:01):
Trophy winner and competing for a national champion. Like how
what what has I mean? Have you changed? Like? What
what they'll happen? How does that happen? No, that's I've
had the same mindset the whole time. And it's kind
of like what I said about road games. You gotta
one it more than everybody else. When when nobody's watching,
what are you doing? And so, uh, everybody's seen the
stuff on camera, they've seen I got three years of tape.

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But the stuff that's gotten me here, the reason I
have success is because of what's happened behind the scenes,
Like what just work ethic? Yeah, I put in an
extra hours, How I carry myself around my teammates, how
I pushed them to be better? Just demand excellence overall? Okay,
So uh six ft and three quarters, um, which is
bigger than you know, Russell Wilson. Some people want to

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say Russell Wilson. Some people want to say Drew Brees.
Some people want to say case keenum Um because it's
the air raid offense. Some people want to say manzell Um,
you know you better than anybody else knows you. Who
do you think you're most like? I think I have
a little bit of everything when it when it comes to, uh,
picking and choosing from some of these guys, and that's

(24:03):
what I try to do, you know. I would love
to have the pocket presence in the accuracy of Breeze.
I'd love to have the mobility and escape part of
Russell Wilson's game, uh, the command that that all those
guys have, Tom Brady, and it's just kind of the
electrifying stuff of Rogers. I would love to have a
combination all of those. And so that's what I think
is unique about me is I don't necessarily have one

(24:23):
trait that's better than the others. I think I try
and you know, be a complete guy. How the Senior
Bowl go, It was really good. It went really well
for me. Got to, you know, sit in front of
some of those teams, some of those g m s,
and uh, you know, address the stuff that happened in
the past year, the arrest, the Ohio state, the flag plant,
and the Kansas situation. So I was able to address
a lot of stuff. So going forward, I'll be able

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to talk about ball. I love the flag plant. I
don't get it like I love it every and and
then you know, you guys give you by always staying
iwa was state flax plant plants facts like, you know,
all right, that's kind of cared about that one. Nobody
cared about that one, right, But I love I love
the flag plant. I thought the whole thing with the arrest,
I thought it was like, dude, like maybe you didn't
have SEC escapability? Is that is that? Is that that
the issue is that what happened? Right, That's the big

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thing is if you're an SEC, dude, they well you
would have alluded for Georgia. I was undefeated against the SEC.
That's that's that's very true. How do how do how
do you how do you process that? Because you're such
a competitive dude, you got to the college while playoff
twice an you guys couldn't couldn't get over the couldn't
get over the hump? How do you how do you
process all the things you personally succeeded in and frankly

(25:28):
your team succeeded and winning the Big twelve. You know
when Lincoln Riley first first year head coach, but you
couldn't win a national championship? How do you process that?
We had a great year. But uh, yeah, the hisman,
all the individual stuff was was very nice. But I
didn't come back to win any of that. I came
back my senior year to win national title. So that's
something that's gonna haunt me for the rest of my life.
We got close. But the thing is, I will say

(25:50):
we had such a special team and I wouldn't trade
any of those guys. We went through a lot together,
the coaching changed, Like you said, having linked his first year,
um something I'll be forever grateful for having uh play
for him in his first year as a head coach,
and just a group of guys the way we you know,
came together, had great team chemistry is something I always cherish. Ah,
you're here with Panini, which is the officially licensed collectibles.

(26:10):
So do you have your own bobble head? What do
you got? What do they what do they make up for?
You know, I came to announce that I've signed an
autograph trading card deal. Uh, and so I'll have obviously
the classic is the Sooner's jersey, and then after the
draft will be able to have whatever NFL team I'm
on have those trading cards. And so it's an exciting
thing for me. Like the kid growing up right with

(26:32):
your own autograph on it? Now? So um like you
had to at some point, like in high school you're
working on your autograph right? Oh? Absolutely, no, So have
you changed it and tinker with it here during your time?
I know you if you took my high school signature
to and now, oh absolutely, it's so much better now.
Not that it's I'm still working on it's still trying
to perfect the craft, but uh yeah, I know it's
something I had to work on. Okay, all right now? Kick?

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Can you do it like blindly? And do you do that?
Is there is there a difference between the ones you
care about and the ones you're like some dude stops
you when you're at the urinal you know somewhere normally like,
uh here is it? There's a difference in those two signatures?
Is there is a difference. There's a lot of difference
of personalizing message to being able to make sure I'm
you know, using my my handwriting that I was taught
in elementary school and then uh make sure it looks nice,

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you know, because there's there's a difference, and like you said,
scribbling one out real quick and then being able to
sit down, first line, stay in for the game, going home,
Going home. Aren't you going to Cali though? Right? Going
back to train? Yeah, okay, because you know, the weather
is just a little bit better where you've been training
than it is than it is in the Twin Cities.
I went from eighty to negative eight. I mean, it's

(27:36):
it's crazy. I just it sounded like a good idea
of like Minnesota a great new stadium, Like yeah, yeahahlet's
do it. They're like, oh my god, it's really cold.
It's really and it's been cold in Oklahoma's you know,
there's winter has been like ridiculous. We actually haven't been back.
It's a good decision. We went back for around the
holidays and we were like check, please, get get me
back out getting back out of the seven one for

(27:57):
the nine four nine again, that's uh, Pannini the officially
licensed collectibles um and of course Panini has Pop Warners
Skills Clinic. Did you play Pop Warner growing up? Yes?
When did you start playing? Fifth grade? Was my first year?
So he always quarterback always, So I played baseball. Is
a huge baseball guy. That was That was my true
sports second or short what short and third? And so

(28:19):
playing in like Travis community, the some of the coaches
that did the Pop Warner draft, whatever you wanna call it.
I knew that I could throw the ball, so they
drafted me to play quarterback and that was my my
first year. Do you remember who your team is called?
We're just like drafts. Wildcats were the there was a red,
black and a white squad. We're the white squad. How
how crazy is that? You got Nick Foles, who's a
like he's like Travis West Well he's west Like which

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is Austin area kind of same. Breeze went and then
Breeze went to Westlake as well. Right, you got three
three and none of them played for Texas. I want
to I want to point out that did they asked
you to play defensive back? They did not. I was
a little too small. Baker Mayfield Heisman Trophy winner. He'll
be in the NFL Draft. We'll see where he goes.
He's the guy every buddy's talking about. Than thanks so
much joining USPP. Be sure to catch live editions of

(29:03):
The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at three pm Eastern
noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
Radio app. Through a touchdown pass to himself in a
playoff win over the Chiefs. He's the titanst quarterback Marcus
Mariote's joining me on the Doug gott Leap Show. So
we usually have the plug at the end of the interview.
Let's reverse it. Um, I have to start with the
plug at the start. Why do you have spam? Yeah?

(29:27):
Absolutely big things. So growing up man spam was a
big deal back on Hawaiian big in Hawaii, and uh
funny it kind of worked out being here in Minnesota.
The headquarters for spam are here, so it just kind
of sparked the relationships. Okay, so now here's the here's
the question I have. Um. Look, I've done a bunch
of tournaments in Hawaii and I've I've called you H's

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n C a tournament game where they beat cow and
then they lost in the second round, and like I
go with Hawaii, but I think it's supposed to be Hawaii, right, Okay,
So but how should like us gringo? Uh, you know,
contiguous forty eight states, Like I don't want to try
too hard, Like Hawaii is fine the way that you play,

(30:09):
ok alright, good enough? And I know you love the
weather in the Twin Cities. Right, this is it. It's
a great negative four degrees right now, it is okay.
So spam, like, how do you how do you eat it?
So there's um, there's many ways to do it. Back home,
we really have it with like every single meal, but
really you can do it with breakfast. People chop it up,

(30:31):
putting their eggs um a lot of times. What my
family has done in a lot of different fimes have
done is they make it what's called spam musubies And
basically you take some rice, you put spam on top
of it, and then you wrap seaweed on it, and uh,
it's a quick little snack. Some people put egg in it,
some people do some other things with it to change
it up, but it's a quick, easy little meal. I've

(30:52):
been watching Tom Versus Time. I haven't seen him use
it in Tom versus time, like, you know, maybe that
would extend his I also, I was in Eugene last week.
It was in Eugene last week called a basketball game.
There's a Hawaiian spot there. Oh yeah, there's a bunch,
there's a few. How is that? What is that? What
was that there before you got there? Yeah? You know what,
there's there's always been kind of a uh a good

(31:13):
amount of people from Hawaii that they go to school
in Oregon. Um, whether it's in Eugena at the University
of Oregon or Oregon State or even some of the
smaller schools. So it's been there for a while. All Right.
It is wild. You guys win a playoff game and
there's a coaching change. And take take me back to
the kans City game where the story was that there

(31:33):
might be a coaching change, you know, regardless of the
outcome of the game. I'm sure you heard that in
your locker room. That did that any effect in your preparation? No?
And I really you gotta give credit uh so coach
Malarkey and and uh really the older Vets of our team,
they way they the way they handled that. Um, you know,
you could have really let that creep in and and

(31:55):
cause some distractions. But guys just kind of flushed it
out and we're able just to go out there in
play one and get a win. I mean not just that.
I turned off the TV. I thought it was over.
What what what was said? What did you say? Something?
Was there? Schematic change? What changed with you? Guys? Honestly, Uh,
we we had kind of been in those situations before.

(32:15):
During the season. Um we kind of had it. We
had four or five of those comeback victories and uh really,
guys didn't blink a lot blink and I we understood
what what was in front of us. We had to
make one play at a time, go get go down there,
get a score, and uh see what would happen? And
we ended up coming back. I don't think there's any
secret that one of the reasons, uh for the coaching changes,

(32:36):
they want to get the best version of you on
the football field. They want to get more out of you. Um,
now you know the new staff is getting into place.
What in your mind, now that you've been in the
league for a couple of years, what's the best version
of you? What's the what has to change in the
offense to allow you to take another step. Well, I
think when it comes down to it, um, just putting

(32:57):
putting us in the best situation as possible. Um, you know,
helping our receivers out um, giving the ball to guys
like Delaney and Derek, lend them go make plays. Um.
So for me, I just think of myself as as
a point guard. Just distribute, let those guys go out
there and and find ways to make plays. And I
think if we're able to do that, uh consistently, we
can be we can be pretty good. You're somebody who

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you you you learn from every experience, what you learn
from that Patriots experience. You know what I learned from
from the standpoint that if we want to be competitive,
we want to go and get to these places. Uh,
it takes a whole lot more, uh, scheme wise. And
also I think out of the players to beat good
teams like that. And at the same time, I think

(33:38):
we came out, we came out fine. We played well
I think for the first quarter and a half, and uh,
you kind of let your guard down, you kind of
put it into the like, okay, we can we can
play with these guys. And then once you put your
your guard down, they come after you. Yeah, they just
they just blitch you, right, Like I said, wait, wait wait,
we just let my hold on. And you go into
the half you're like, wait, we were we were good
and then we're not good. And that's and that's where
I think for us as a young team, being able

(33:59):
to learn from that experience, um, and just take take
it for what it's worth, and um, you know, we
gotta be better and we gotta we gotta improve in
order to be competitive and to get into places like
these games. And there's also something kind of magical about
what Tom does, right you you know, like we've been
talking to everybody says, you know, how he finds the mismatch.
But also all of a sudden they go tempo, you know, right,
they're they're going at one speed and then they see

(34:21):
something they like and now they down shift. Uh. That
sort of command within the offense, that's something that you
had to go, hey, I want to do that, Yeah,
for sure, for sure. And along the lines of that,
I think how he has taken care of himself, the
way that he prepares. Um, A young guy like me
can learn a lot from that. Yeah. I mean, first
you have to have the spam, Mix in some avocado

(34:41):
with the spam right throwing into a milkshake. Have a
guy coming massage you at all hours of the night.
And then and then you'll last year like you're like
fifty years old. Uh it's uh. So you go to
spam dot com for easy, delicious recipes, including the one
that Marcus gave you that his folks make back home. Hey,
congrats making the playoffs. On winning the game and continued

(35:02):
health and successful man, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug gott
Leap Show weekdays at three pm Easter noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Man.
He was a stud at Stanford Right Highs from Trophy finalist.
He scored seven touchdowns in his rookie season with the
Carolina Panthers. And of course he's Christian McCaffrey. He joins

(35:24):
us in the Doug Gotleap Show Fox Sports Radio. Christian,
give me your give me your way. How you would
characterize your rookie season? Well, I had a blast, you know,
I had fun playing ball. It's what your dream of
as a kid, obviously playing in the NFL. But um,
you know, obviously didn't in the way we wanted. Um,
But but I I can't, you know, imagine myself you know,
in a in a better organization. I love the Panthers,
and I think I had I had a good year.

(35:46):
Obviously wasn't the year I wanted. Um but but you know,
I know what I gotta work on now and I'm
looking forward to getting after in the offseason. What is it?
I think, just continue to become a complete back, you know,
and not just being a pass catch and you know back.
And you know, obviously I ran the ball a little bit,
but I really want to develop as a as an
every down back. So I think that's that's the goal,
and we'll continue to work for it towards that. It also, though,

(36:07):
felt like it took them a little bit of time
to figure out how they wanted to use you, right
like he had, Cam wasn't really ready in the preseason,
so you guys, so he and then he was kind
of inaccurate to start the year, and then you guys
had some personnel changes trade and keell them Benjamin away
you know mid season as well, and then I don't know,
like to to the viewer, to to the fan, it

(36:28):
was like took them a while to figure out how
they wanted to use you. Was that your understanding of
the league that improved or their understanding of you that improved? Well,
I think, uh, you know, the best coaches and the
best players can meet halfway. You know, the coaches can
adapt to the player and the players got to adapt
to them. And I think that's that's not an easy
thing to do. You know, it doesn't come in a day.
And so, um, I think later in the year we

(36:48):
started to to to kind of jell a little bit more,
and you know, some ups and downs, but I think
it's and you know, at the end of the day,
it's my job to give them the confidence to to
you know, do what they want to do with me.
And so I'll continue to work and and and continue
to have conversations. And um, I mean I'm excited because
I know there's a lot to look forward to. Okay,
so there's there's gonna be a new system, right, new
offensive coordinator. What do you what do you know about

(37:10):
what you guys are gonna try and do do differently? Well,
I know coach Turner's resume and all the backs that
he's coached and so that's been, that's been you know,
exciting for me just to see that. So so I
know he's an unbelievable mind and just to be able
to learn from him and play for him, UM, for sure, excited.
And uh, I know they'll probably be a lot of motions,
a lot of shifts, but but overall just an efficient,
you know, hopefully explosive offense. Christian McCaffrey joining us on

(37:33):
the Doug Gotlip Show here on uh Unfoxed Sports Radio. Um,
this is an Eagles team that they got a pretty
nasty defense. I'm wonder what what what about the defense though?
Uh that you see that we miss on? What makes
them so effective? Well? I think I think they play
so well as a team. Uh. You know, they've got
a great, great uh front. You know, Fletcher Cox as

(37:55):
an unbelievable player. You know, Malcolm Jenkins in the back
kind of runs runs a secondary and so to have
you know, a guy up front and a guy in
the back who who you know are pro bowled players.
And uh, you know, they have so many great, great
talents other than them as well, and they play so
well as a unit. I think that's you know, that's
that's what's tough to to do on offense to to
you know, be efficient against as a defense that plays

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well together. What's your reaction to Bryce Love decided to
come back for another year at Stanford. Oh? Man, I'm
excited for him. I know he made the best decision
for himself and that that's what he felt in his heart.
So he's gonna have um legal success whether he came
out this year he comes out next year. I know.
But there's like, look, you you didn't play the Bowl game, obviously,
protecting your body, getting your self ready for the draft,
And there's a lot of there's, you know a lot

(38:37):
of people like, look, you had a great year. You're
gonna be a top draft pick. I mean, why would
you put yourself in harm's way having been through it?
Do you do you like the idea of coming back
and risking, you know, so much just to return to
play for Stanford? Well? I think, you know, it's a
it's an individual decision, you know. Obviously I made my

(38:58):
decisions based on what I thought was best me and
he's doing the same with him. So you know, whatever
he decides to do is the is the right thing
for him and not them, you know, nobody can argue
because he he felt it it was best for him. So,
you know, like I said, he's gonna have success regardless.
Have you gotten to the place where you can bust
cams balls about the hats? Absolutely? Absolutely? So did he

(39:18):
take it? Okay? Oh yeah, man, cams man, Man. He
he jokes around a lot, you know, obviously, Um, you know,
he's he's a funny guy and he's unique in his
own way. But at the end of the day, he's funny. Man.
We have fun What's the worst one? The worst one
that he's got to stop wearing is the ones without
the bills where it's just the hat part. So that's

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I mean, he rocks it and he does well with it,
and he makes it his own. But that's something that
I probably couldn't put in my wardrobe. It's really remarkable, though,
how big a human being he is, right like, I mean,
right like. It's one of those things to which I
know on on on camera he looks he looks like,
you know, like big, super athletic guy, but in person,
I mean an unbelievably imp posing, posing dude. And obviously,

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you know, one of the things that changed with you
guys is you guys started using more as a runner
second half of the season. That that took away your carries,
you know. But uh, but that's that has to be
something to which I don't know, as like when you
first get in the locker room, you gotta be what
trying to figure this guy out as this bigger than
life figure that you're trying to can I bust his chops?

(40:22):
Is he a regular dude? How long did that take?
I mean it, I mean it wasn't different with him
or anybody else. I think that's that's the thing. You know,
people misunderstand about cams. At the end of the day. Man,
he's he's a great guy. Uh. You know, people don't
get to see is off off the field self. And
uh you know, he's a great teammate, he's great in
the locker room. Um, you know, he vibes with kind
of everybody on the team. So uh, you know, he's

(40:44):
a great guy to be around. Um, coming about your
you've teamed up with Visa and their technology, of course,
Uh you know you can complete payments. There's a bunch
of different ways to use Visa other than just the
old fashioned visa card, right right, Yeah, No, I'm in
a couple of days in these last few weeks and
got to show a lot of people, a lot of
different people to the speed and efficiency. If it's a
contactless car, it's all you gotta do is just put

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it up to the to the monitor and you can
hear the Actually they call it the sound of Visa uh,
an actual sound that comes out and you know it's great. Actually,
uh got to spend some time at a curling rink
which I've never been to before and saw some fans there,
got to sign autographs and actually pay for some some
of their pizza while I signed the autograph. So it's
great with Visas doing their unbelievably innovative and with this
new card, it's it's pretty cool. Yeah, well, so can

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you curl? Did you know how to do it? I
was absolutely terrible? I uh I, it's unbelievable to finesse
you have to have when you curl. They had some
pros come out and there's a lot of technique to it.
You gotta know when to sweep it when not to
sweep it. It's like a big shuffle board. Hey, you're
like you you have You're an unbelievable spender. You have
like remarkable speed and agility. How much of that obviously

(41:50):
both your parents great athletes. How much of that has
God given and how much of that is development over time?
I think it's definitely a little bit of both. You know,
I hit a hit a good gene pool, but you know,
it takes a lot of work and um a lot
of consistency of keeping up with it, keeping up with
the training and just trying to find the best new
new stuff that works for me. Yeah, I look at

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uh I watched this you're talking about curling. I think
of the the sprinters that are ice skaters like have
you have you ever? Like they are freaks, absolutely freak
shows athletic. That's an unbelievable sport that that gets taken
for granted because if you you know, you hit the
boards going as fast as they, I mean they're going
you know, fifty, and you know you fall into the boards.

(42:31):
You know you're that's that's serious. So it's it's pretty impressive. Well,
you had an impressive first year. Man looking for big
things in the future. Christian, thanks so much for joining us.
I appreciate you having me. Fox Sports Radio has the
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our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within
the I Heart Radio app. He's Steeler's young wide receiver
Juju Smith Sho Street joins me now on the Doug

(42:51):
Gottlieb Show, and um, all right, we got a bunch
of things to get to with the Juju. But are
you gonna lose to the Jaguars? Man, I'll tell everybody,
maybe we dug a hole to deep, you know for
us to come out. I feel like, you know, every
game that we play that we're down, we always played
better when we're losing. I think, you know, moving forward,
when we start on top, you gotta stay on top. Yeah,
but you guys, I know you guys did that all year,

(43:13):
like Cleveland to start the year. Any of you guys
are down to like you go through all these games?
What is the deal with with falling behind? Like it's
almost like that that kids like that guy who's at
the park playing pick up basketball, Like, all right, we'll
go to ten. I'll spot you five points. That was
the Steelers this year. Yeah, that's a good one. Man.
Definitely us this year. But I mean, just moving forward,

(43:34):
we gotta, you know, stay focused. I learned a lot
I know, so give me, give me some bullets on
first year. I don't know if you're taken, if you've
taken like mental notes or physical notes like first year, like,
I've learned these couple of things about the league, one
mental note and one physical note. Good go. So one
mental note for me is, uh, you know the game.
Everyone's a lot smarter, um. You know, being able to dissect,

(43:56):
you know the cover, the coverage of the play. You
know the second for the boss and that whether whether
his's man or his own. I've learned that you run
across the middle against linebackers, if his zone, you better
sit down. If you keep running, your li's knocked out
of you. Um. Physically, I've learned that, you know, in
the NFL, it's a lot you know, slower pace. You
know in practice you gotta learn how to you know

(44:18):
when a goal full speed winning out to um. And
I've learned that pretty fast, you know, going against you
know the vets. You know. So it's uh, I'm taking
both things. Okay, explain to me this a b thing,
because I don't understand how he's so so good, Like
he's so much better than everybody at that position. I
mean Antonio brown Is it's crazy. They put two guys
on him, he still gets open. They're physical with him,

(44:40):
he still gets open. They put speed on him, he
still gets open. Like how does how it? How does
it work? A B is open? Seven? How? But how
how does it? How that that's not that goes counter
to everything you think of, Like, alright, two guys on him,
we go somewhere else, but big Bend just waits and
eventually he's open. And I don't know how to explain
it because every damn practice that's what they do. The

(45:02):
double team him. They try to press him, they try
to be physical, and a B still produces. And it's
crazy because he does it every year. So what can
you what in how he does what he does? Can
you take and go like, oh, I'm gonna add that
this offseason? Is it? Is it footwork? Is it hand
hand fighting? Like? What is it that you're gonna try
and take from watching A B every day and go,

(45:22):
I'm gonna try and do some of that. His releases
and his toes, his toes catches, toe taps. You know,
that's something that we learned in practice every day that
we do, is that every time you catch the ball
top on toe and against great great explanation. Uh, Green
Bay Packers, you know we're down. You gotta get a
fielder to win the game. It's covered to two people
on a b He throws like a circus tround a

(45:45):
bender in the smallest window that Big Ben puts it on.
He catches it, drags the right or left toe. Everyone's like, no,
that's not a catch. It's a catch. Win the game
off the field. Yeah, I know, it's it's crazy. I mean,
he's so ridiculously good. Um, hardest thing about being a
rookie staying up playing video games all night. You can't

(46:07):
do it anymore or just that's the problem. I need
to go to sleep. I stay up. That's the hardest thing,
you know, being being up? And uh all our friends
are from Cali, so that's three hours. Back up, the
headset on, head set on high. What are you playing?
You playing a lot of call of duty? Your call
of duty guy? Not a Madden guy, not an NBA
NA man, I'm two k guy, We're not. What about

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the pup? Does the pup stay up late or does
a pup shut shut it down? Like eight? Yeah? I
know right. Dogs are amazing dogs are come in and
come in and go, you know, like, hey, we're going
to bed. We're going to bed. Like now I'm not
going to bed, all right, I'm peace out. This bogie,
I know it's bougie sleep on the bed in a crate,
in a crate. You don't see me. He has his
own master bedroom. How big it's Uh, it's about this.

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It's probably like half of this. Uh now, where's boogie?
Did you lea bougie at home? I love you don't
like this snow? Is he used to Cali Weather? I know,
but he's now in Pittsburgh. Just I mean, I know
offseason you're gonna be He's gonna be back home, uh
in Cali. Okay, So Panini's the exclusive trading card partner
of the NFL and Jujue Smith Schuster. You're gonna uh
participate in the Pop Warner Skills Clinic. Did you play

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Pop Warner growing up? Starting one grade? I started about
I will say about sixth grade, fifth grade tackle. Sixth
grade fifth grade, I was playing tacle flag. It's kind
of all the way around and always wide receivers. You
play quarterback, play quarterback? Yeah? Quarter you kid plays quarterback?
Well all the good kids play quarterback, right, Like that's
how he doesn't mean you're eventually good, you're always gonna
be a quarterback, but you start playing quarterback and then

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they're like, because you want the best athlete to touch
the ball as often as possible. Most definitely, Um, Levy on,
what's what's the story with the contract? You get involved?
Your late leby on? We need you back? Yeah, I
mean there's my CM, Like, come on, lady, let's let's man,
let's get this ring. Um. But it's tough, man, And
that's the thing that's that's the NFL for you. How um,
how tough was it? How tough? Is this the shasier

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thing to process? Right? Because I know, like I played
football Pop Warner growing up as well, and I know
they always told you like this was a possibility if
you get your head down or whatever. But to see
a dude, who's I mean to see Ryan Shay's here,
like a bigger than life guy lay on that football
field motionless, what's that like? Emotionless? Man? It's tough. Um.

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And even to this day, you know just recently he's
he's able to stand and you know, being able to move. Um,
it's a blessing. You know, Um, we're not worried about
if he's coming back, you know, to play ball with us,
but we're worried about if he's able to you know,
be able to walk around, play with his kids and
you know, have that lifestyle back again. So I mean,
uh to see that. It's tough, but we know that

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we call it say leave, and you know, we believe
that he's gonna come back. New offense coming this year.
Have you been told what's gonna change with the offense? Um?
Not yet? Just get get you drew the ball more,
that's right. Yeah, I'm just gonna have to get out
there more. Uh. Well, listen, you show that you can
block as well as as well as catch. Congrats on
a great year. By the way, you can go to
uh instant go Uh be sure to get your o

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Pininis Shoe Bull trading card set next week at Panini
Instant instant dot com Instant dot com. You ever think
you have your own trading card? Like, that's so sick.
Now it's crazy. And it's cool because I'm able to
connect with kids you know, who are young, who are
in school and uh, you know, it's all over the
world and it's pretty cool because like, I'm not so young.
I mean, I'm I'm young, You're so yeah, I'm young.

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So so just right now, I just did the Hunt
Top one hundred and I thought I'll never do that,
and I was like, wow, this is pretty crazy. And
when I'm want to fill against like guys like, uh
so it's are you know, uh Xavier Road, I'm like, dude, like,
I'm a fan Road, but I gotta you know, I
gotta run these ross cash footballs to you. But I'm
a fan of you. So it's crazy. So yeah, I

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think it's pretty cool that Panini is able to you know,
give me a card and uh, you know, connect with
kids around the world, tell us, tell the truth. Patriot
Steven stinks, doesn't it. Good luck to them boys. Thanks.
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