October 23, 2020 • 15 mins
Steve and Gerard break down the Covid-19 testing protocol in the NFL, and what's up with the Dallas Cowboys, besides the obvious.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at
production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Steve Smith Senior, and and this is a cut to
it bonus episode. Good do It, Good do It. Let's
getting down to do it, Good do it. Cut to
(00:21):
a podcast with a bonus episode. So you ain't even
ask for this, but we're about to give it to
you anyway. You can go to jail for that. That's murder.
If you ask someone please video, please don't make me,
don't make me synonymous with a murder. You said, we
didn't even ask. Why did your mind even go to that?
Because it's asked, that's why. So so let's get into
(00:45):
some let's get into some ball. Man. So we've got
we've got this new age that we're in, the COVID age,
the pandemic age in the NFL. We're going into week seven.
What's been your thoughts on where the league is with
the pandemic. Well, I don't know where the league is
with the pandemic because when you look up the word pandemic,
(01:08):
it means all, so it infiltrates everybody. So it's not
just oh, the sports world is messed up. Oh, the
medical world is messed up. Every walk of life has
been impacted on this young old um you know, short, tall, rich, poor.
(01:29):
It does not it doesn't discriminate. It's impacting everybody. So, uh,
football wise, I mean I think to some degree they've
adjusted the best they can. Nothing ever is ever full
proof because this is unprecedented times. This is a this
(01:49):
is new, this is a pandemic, this is uh, this
is life on you talking about audibles, man, you can't
audible enough, but you can't have enough plays on the place.
This is unprecedented. What rubs me is with anything you
mentioned football, with anything right now, everyone wants to have
a knee jerk reaction to you should do this, You
(02:11):
shouldn't be doing this. This needs to be open. This
needs to be closed for us here at this table,
We're never gonna be able to figure out whether you
know what's going to happen with this season. I would
want to know, how do you think all this uncertainty
ways on a team's routine. You've always schooled me on
how how you as an NFL player, you're you're you're
in a routine, you know what you're gonna do day
(02:32):
by day. With something like this, and I know you're
not in the locker room right now something like this,
How how do you proceed? Let me let me tell
you what I've heard has going around teams. So and
it's cool because it's video, right, so utilize illustration. We
need is a smart board. I like a smart boy,
(02:56):
all right, So this is the player. Okay, driving up
on a Tuesday, right, so re record generally on Tuesdays.
So I'm driving up on Tuesday, Joe, UM, use your phone.
So driving up on a Tuesday, this is the check
in station. So you drive up, you don't even get
(03:18):
out of your car. They test the player inside the car,
so they use a Q tip as as long as
this microphone. So it's like this is this long vote.
So now I'm exaggeration starting. So so they get the
two pits the cotton swap, right, So they go in
(03:46):
there and they go in there and see how many
boogers you got you and they take it in there.
Then once you pass it, once you they get your tests,
open it up and you drive on it facility and
have it to where you know that. Some guys may struggle,
specially in the beginning, because it's alphabetical. So it's like
a through d F through agee. The man's I play
(04:13):
with some dudes that hey, bro, the ail is left, okay,
co opposite of the ale. That's right, it is, okay,
it is. It's that bad. Not everybody with the same school, Okay.
I'm just telling you. And I'm not talking about college either.
(04:33):
There's some there's some name rods, right, but here there's
some guys that's watching this that's probably like, yeah, Steve
was one of them name rods, probably depending on the day.
So being they're going there, right, So you're going there
and you just so you go about your day. You
(04:53):
have the contact tracker or tracer, and they know how
far you stood away from a guy if you test positive,
who you interacted with, and that's how they find out.
So you test positive or have a positive negative whatever
in that scope, then they find out all the people
you have interacted with or have been minus six feet
(05:18):
distance to be able to go back and test those guys.
There are some organis that most organizations have probably spent
between two to four million dollars testing just testing because
they have they have nurses and people there from all around,
I mean everywhere. We may have the Panthers. I'm just speculated,
(05:42):
may have some people from Charlotte, but also maybe some
clinical specialists from Nashville or Atlanta, and Nashville may have
some folks. They probably don't have no folks left in Nashville.
They probably got some folks from Charlotte and Atlanta. Right, So,
just doing all of that. So it is a process.
And another part, which is it's different is um, I remember,
(06:04):
I love traveling when I go play a team because
here's why a lot of guys don't live in the
cities they usually play in for all those years. Because
they go say they go to the Carolina Panthers and
they playing this team, you get the best of that
city for twelve hours. And what I mean the best
(06:27):
of that city means you get the best restaurant based
on whatever advertisement or whatever someone five star and you
get that um restaurant and experience and it makes you go, man,
that place must be awesome. Because when I was there
last time, when I played the Carolina Panthers, man, we
at this place. We did that. They don't get to
(06:48):
experience that. When they go to a city, they are
on lockdown, lockdown, no visitors, no one comes in or out.
You are the room service, you play the game ass
on the whole on the plane, and you back to
your cities. Bye weeks. Not allowed to travel, not allowed
to visit, not allowed to do any of that stuff.
(07:08):
So it has really changed into a sport that has
allowed you to, you know, maybe go playing London. Now
you are in that city that you're playing in, you
only see those facilities and you don't do any extracurricular
activities of meaning you can't Like when I played in
San Francisco. One time I went and saw one of
(07:30):
my cousins. I drew down to Oakland and watched my
cousin on the Saturday because we had we we we
had practice early in the morning and we were done
to the rest of the day. So I drove down
to Oakland watched my my cousin play his high school
game after school, and it was I had a blast
(07:52):
and it wasn't I had a blast because I want
them from Cali and I got an opportunity to see
some family and I got to see him in an
element and then oh, my big cousin who played plays
in league, He's come to see me play or go
have this day and they just seem like that's that's
all I do. Win, it's all out the wind, or
go or get to watch my um go home and
(08:13):
I get to watch my h have I get to
have dinner with my with my grandmother. So some of
that stuff just doesn't happen anymore. I mean, you got
the Lakers just won the championship in the bubble. The
World Series is about the Star, the Rays and the Dodgers.
I'm just I'm leaving the how about this? What's up?
(08:36):
Whoever wins, We'll have two championships. If the Rays win, ye,
the Tampa Bay Lightning have one the nil and then
you had the Lakers and the Dodgers, and then if
the Lake if the Dodgers win, you got the Lakers
and the Dodgers. Who was that? That's Did you know
that before I said that? Fun fact, didn't know that
you did that. I didn't know that, I thought. I'm
(08:59):
still I'm still very wide to say I know that.
But uh, but what parts of that? I mean, it's
it sounds like a lot of the things you talked
about in terms of the protocols. We know that the
NFL is there's there's no way you end up doing
a bubble for every single team the way that the
NBA has. But it seems like there's parts of of
(09:20):
those bubbles that NFL is implementing to to better regulate
a lot of the you know, COVID and the spread virus.
It's more of just to spread and the impact that
it has. Understanding the impact, understanding way things are going.
How what when you have to to some degree, I
don't want to say push aside what's going on, but
(09:43):
we cannot continue to just kind of hovering this no
man's land, right. It is dangerous. It's it's psychologically um
impact and everyone, um, who are your surprised three week
six and who are your disappointments? Disappointment is really uh?
I mean the Dallas Cowboys stuck up defense, defense, everything.
(10:06):
I mean they missed blocks, they missed, they miss they
missed simple assignments. I mean Ezekiel Elliott was unlike the
Zeke to feed me man that we've we've seen him
to be. It's just a lot of things that team.
That team is struggling, and defense is like a screen
door with a hole in it. Let's everything in sha man,
(10:31):
that's pretty good. Here's how I think that I have noticed,
though I didn't really think and not because I don't
think he's a good player. I didn't think the absence
of Dak would impact that team from the top to
the bottom. This team looks like they're in disarray. They
(10:53):
and that tells me that speak to you more about that. Yes,
they lost their general. They have lost the guy who
commands everything, who is the leader of this team. And
it's showing the offensive line like Andy Dalton is not
a Dak Prescott quarterback, however he I mean the right
guard just missing the slide is a ricky Ricky bro
(11:16):
It's right. Oh, the trickle down fact, I mean the
impact on that that the it's remarkable how that team
is in disarray. And and you can't blame it on coaching.
You can't blame it on players. They lost their faith
general general, and it's impact with that. So that's your disappointment.
(11:36):
Who's your surprise. There's a number of teams I got
to eat my humble Pie and Jimmy Garoppolo. I didn't.
I thought he was more of a system guy. He
played the week before Week five, he played bad. You know,
one touchdown I believe, but two interceptions. He come out
there for thirty three two d sixty eight yards hundred
twenty four point three NFL quarterback raiding and three touchdowns,
(12:03):
zero interception. You can see he was comfortable. He failed
general and I really have to say, I'm surprised that
he came. How methodical, intelligent, um precise and cool he was,
and that I see why they gave him the contract extension.
(12:23):
I see why. Yes, he understands that system, but the
way he orchestrates that system makes it so Beethoven. It's
like it was really good comparing quarterback to composers. You
got a job doing this, I might. All right, Well,
here we are with a bonus episode. Cut to it
(12:45):
a new video studio. Hey, we're coming up on the world.
Do I need to shade man? I didn't know what
was gonna and there's almost no shape anyway. You just
gotta you gotta head start. I know it's looking thick.
M How you live man, I'm using more handsome than
this for some of that genetics. All right, Well, you
(13:12):
have now listened to Gerard's last day on the podcast. Now, Hey,
appreciate you guys tuning in. Thanks for cut to it,
Thanks for all the support and again, um, we really appreciate.
We've only been up and operating for a little bit
of time, but we're making a we're making an impact
in the podcast. I'm Steve Smith Singer. This ugly guy
(13:33):
is John, and the uglier ugly guy is backstage Joe,
not back door Joe. Thank you for listening to Cut
to It with Steve Smith Senior and my co host
are a Little John That Beat Me. And wherever you
(13:53):
listen to your podcast, you can get us on I
Heart Radio, also on Apple Podcast whatever you wherever you need,
we are there. Just download us and follow us act
cut to It on Instagram and act cut to It
on Twitter, and visit our website. Cut to It Podcast
(14:14):
dot Com. New episode every Tuesday. That's right, every Tuesday.
You know why it's Tuesday because guys are off International
Football League, so that's why they can squeeze us into
their schedule. Not everybody's retired playing golf sitting around. Cut
to It with Steve Smith Senior That Is Me is
(14:36):
a production of Cut to It LLC, Baltol Creative Media,
The Black Effect, and I Heart Radio. For more podcast
from I Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app.
Apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
You ain't heard am about it, then we're about to
(14:58):
let you know. It's all Chris
This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at
production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Steve Smith Senior, and and this is a cut to
it bonus episode. Good do It, Good do It. Let's
getting down to do it, Good do it. Cut to
(00:21):
a podcast with a bonus episode. So you ain't even
ask for this, but we're about to give it to
you anyway. You can go to jail for that. That's murder.
If you ask someone please video, please don't make me,
don't make me synonymous with a murder. You said, we
didn't even ask. Why did your mind even go to that?
Because it's asked, that's why. So so let's get into
(00:45):
some let's get into some ball. Man. So we've got
we've got this new age that we're in, the COVID age,
the pandemic age in the NFL. We're going into week seven.
What's been your thoughts on where the league is with
the pandemic. Well, I don't know where the league is
with the pandemic because when you look up the word pandemic,
(01:08):
it means all, so it infiltrates everybody. So it's not
just oh, the sports world is messed up. Oh, the
medical world is messed up. Every walk of life has
been impacted on this young old um you know, short, tall, rich, poor.
(01:29):
It does not it doesn't discriminate. It's impacting everybody. So, uh,
football wise, I mean I think to some degree they've
adjusted the best they can. Nothing ever is ever full
proof because this is unprecedented times. This is a this
(01:49):
is new, this is a pandemic, this is uh, this
is life on you talking about audibles, man, you can't
audible enough, but you can't have enough plays on the place.
This is unprecedented. What rubs me is with anything you
mentioned football, with anything right now, everyone wants to have
a knee jerk reaction to you should do this, You
(02:11):
shouldn't be doing this. This needs to be open. This
needs to be closed for us here at this table,
We're never gonna be able to figure out whether you
know what's going to happen with this season. I would
want to know, how do you think all this uncertainty
ways on a team's routine. You've always schooled me on
how how you as an NFL player, you're you're you're
in a routine, you know what you're gonna do day
(02:32):
by day. With something like this, and I know you're
not in the locker room right now something like this,
How how do you proceed? Let me let me tell
you what I've heard has going around teams. So and
it's cool because it's video, right, so utilize illustration. We
need is a smart board. I like a smart boy,
(02:56):
all right, So this is the player. Okay, driving up
on a Tuesday, right, so re record generally on Tuesdays.
So I'm driving up on Tuesday, Joe, UM, use your phone.
So driving up on a Tuesday, this is the check
in station. So you drive up, you don't even get
(03:18):
out of your car. They test the player inside the car,
so they use a Q tip as as long as
this microphone. So it's like this is this long vote.
So now I'm exaggeration starting. So so they get the
two pits the cotton swap, right, So they go in
(03:46):
there and they go in there and see how many
boogers you got you and they take it in there.
Then once you pass it, once you they get your tests,
open it up and you drive on it facility and
have it to where you know that. Some guys may struggle,
specially in the beginning, because it's alphabetical. So it's like
a through d F through agee. The man's I play
(04:13):
with some dudes that hey, bro, the ail is left, okay,
co opposite of the ale. That's right, it is, okay,
it is. It's that bad. Not everybody with the same school, Okay.
I'm just telling you. And I'm not talking about college either.
(04:33):
There's some there's some name rods, right, but here there's
some guys that's watching this that's probably like, yeah, Steve
was one of them name rods, probably depending on the day.
So being they're going there, right, So you're going there
and you just so you go about your day. You
(04:53):
have the contact tracker or tracer, and they know how
far you stood away from a guy if you test positive,
who you interacted with, and that's how they find out.
So you test positive or have a positive negative whatever
in that scope, then they find out all the people
you have interacted with or have been minus six feet
(05:18):
distance to be able to go back and test those guys.
There are some organis that most organizations have probably spent
between two to four million dollars testing just testing because
they have they have nurses and people there from all around,
I mean everywhere. We may have the Panthers. I'm just speculated,
(05:42):
may have some people from Charlotte, but also maybe some
clinical specialists from Nashville or Atlanta, and Nashville may have
some folks. They probably don't have no folks left in Nashville.
They probably got some folks from Charlotte and Atlanta. Right, So,
just doing all of that. So it is a process.
And another part, which is it's different is um, I remember,
(06:04):
I love traveling when I go play a team because
here's why a lot of guys don't live in the
cities they usually play in for all those years. Because
they go say they go to the Carolina Panthers and
they playing this team, you get the best of that
city for twelve hours. And what I mean the best
(06:27):
of that city means you get the best restaurant based
on whatever advertisement or whatever someone five star and you
get that um restaurant and experience and it makes you go, man,
that place must be awesome. Because when I was there
last time, when I played the Carolina Panthers, man, we
at this place. We did that. They don't get to
(06:48):
experience that. When they go to a city, they are
on lockdown, lockdown, no visitors, no one comes in or out.
You are the room service, you play the game ass
on the whole on the plane, and you back to
your cities. Bye weeks. Not allowed to travel, not allowed
to visit, not allowed to do any of that stuff.
(07:08):
So it has really changed into a sport that has
allowed you to, you know, maybe go playing London. Now
you are in that city that you're playing in, you
only see those facilities and you don't do any extracurricular
activities of meaning you can't Like when I played in
San Francisco. One time I went and saw one of
(07:30):
my cousins. I drew down to Oakland and watched my
cousin on the Saturday because we had we we we
had practice early in the morning and we were done
to the rest of the day. So I drove down
to Oakland watched my my cousin play his high school
game after school, and it was I had a blast
(07:52):
and it wasn't I had a blast because I want
them from Cali and I got an opportunity to see
some family and I got to see him in an
element and then oh, my big cousin who played plays
in league, He's come to see me play or go
have this day and they just seem like that's that's
all I do. Win, it's all out the wind, or
go or get to watch my um go home and
(08:13):
I get to watch my h have I get to
have dinner with my with my grandmother. So some of
that stuff just doesn't happen anymore. I mean, you got
the Lakers just won the championship in the bubble. The
World Series is about the Star, the Rays and the Dodgers.
I'm just I'm leaving the how about this? What's up?
(08:36):
Whoever wins, We'll have two championships. If the Rays win, ye,
the Tampa Bay Lightning have one the nil and then
you had the Lakers and the Dodgers, and then if
the Lake if the Dodgers win, you got the Lakers
and the Dodgers. Who was that? That's Did you know
that before I said that? Fun fact, didn't know that
you did that. I didn't know that, I thought. I'm
(08:59):
still I'm still very wide to say I know that.
But uh, but what parts of that? I mean, it's
it sounds like a lot of the things you talked
about in terms of the protocols. We know that the
NFL is there's there's no way you end up doing
a bubble for every single team the way that the
NBA has. But it seems like there's parts of of
(09:20):
those bubbles that NFL is implementing to to better regulate
a lot of the you know, COVID and the spread virus.
It's more of just to spread and the impact that
it has. Understanding the impact, understanding way things are going.
How what when you have to to some degree, I
don't want to say push aside what's going on, but
(09:43):
we cannot continue to just kind of hovering this no
man's land, right. It is dangerous. It's it's psychologically um
impact and everyone, um, who are your surprised three week
six and who are your disappointments? Disappointment is really uh?
I mean the Dallas Cowboys stuck up defense, defense, everything.
(10:06):
I mean they missed blocks, they missed, they miss they
missed simple assignments. I mean Ezekiel Elliott was unlike the
Zeke to feed me man that we've we've seen him
to be. It's just a lot of things that team.
That team is struggling, and defense is like a screen
door with a hole in it. Let's everything in sha man,
(10:31):
that's pretty good. Here's how I think that I have noticed,
though I didn't really think and not because I don't
think he's a good player. I didn't think the absence
of Dak would impact that team from the top to
the bottom. This team looks like they're in disarray. They
(10:53):
and that tells me that speak to you more about that. Yes,
they lost their general. They have lost the guy who
commands everything, who is the leader of this team. And
it's showing the offensive line like Andy Dalton is not
a Dak Prescott quarterback, however he I mean the right
guard just missing the slide is a ricky Ricky bro
(11:16):
It's right. Oh, the trickle down fact, I mean the
impact on that that the it's remarkable how that team
is in disarray. And and you can't blame it on coaching.
You can't blame it on players. They lost their faith
general general, and it's impact with that. So that's your disappointment.
(11:36):
Who's your surprise. There's a number of teams I got
to eat my humble Pie and Jimmy Garoppolo. I didn't.
I thought he was more of a system guy. He
played the week before Week five, he played bad. You know,
one touchdown I believe, but two interceptions. He come out
there for thirty three two d sixty eight yards hundred
twenty four point three NFL quarterback raiding and three touchdowns,
(12:03):
zero interception. You can see he was comfortable. He failed
general and I really have to say, I'm surprised that
he came. How methodical, intelligent, um precise and cool he was,
and that I see why they gave him the contract extension.
(12:23):
I see why. Yes, he understands that system, but the
way he orchestrates that system makes it so Beethoven. It's
like it was really good comparing quarterback to composers. You
got a job doing this, I might. All right, Well,
here we are with a bonus episode. Cut to it
(12:45):
a new video studio. Hey, we're coming up on the world.
Do I need to shade man? I didn't know what
was gonna and there's almost no shape anyway. You just
gotta you gotta head start. I know it's looking thick.
M How you live man, I'm using more handsome than
this for some of that genetics. All right, Well, you
(13:12):
have now listened to Gerard's last day on the podcast. Now, Hey,
appreciate you guys tuning in. Thanks for cut to it,
Thanks for all the support and again, um, we really appreciate.
We've only been up and operating for a little bit
of time, but we're making a we're making an impact
in the podcast. I'm Steve Smith Singer. This ugly guy
(13:33):
is John, and the uglier ugly guy is backstage Joe,
not back door Joe. Thank you for listening to Cut
to It with Steve Smith Senior and my co host
are a Little John That Beat Me. And wherever you
(13:53):
listen to your podcast, you can get us on I
Heart Radio, also on Apple Podcast whatever you wherever you need,
we are there. Just download us and follow us act
cut to It on Instagram and act cut to It
on Twitter, and visit our website. Cut to It Podcast
(14:14):
dot Com. New episode every Tuesday. That's right, every Tuesday.
You know why it's Tuesday because guys are off International
Football League, so that's why they can squeeze us into
their schedule. Not everybody's retired playing golf sitting around. Cut
to It with Steve Smith Senior That Is Me is
(14:36):
a production of Cut to It LLC, Baltol Creative Media,
The Black Effect, and I Heart Radio. For more podcast
from I Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app.
Apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
You ain't heard am about it, then we're about to
(14:58):
let you know. It's all Chris
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