June 6, 2026 • 17 mins
We're covering San Francisco 49ers Linebacker, Fred Warner! Gronk and Julian Edelman discuss what makes Fred Warner so great and some of their favorite stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On to Cincinnati, onto our next guy. All Right, here
we go. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of
all ages, please put your hands together for a warm
welcome to our next dudes on dude, dude, that we
(00:22):
will be talking about Fred Warner.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Lady, Fred Warner, Frederico, Anthony Warner, Panamanian, Mexican.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
All right here, Americo, he's a fucking dog. Just go synopsis,
my sonaplois right here. That's a big word. And let
me let me tell you I just hit a synopsis.
I'm Fred Warner. Here we go, say Robbie. Fred Warner
is a standout linebacker for the San Francisco forty nine years,
(00:55):
known for his exceptional tackling and leadership on the field.
Off the field, he is as fired. He is admired
for his dedication of hold on. Off the field, he
is admired for his dedication and humility, often crediting his
single mother for his success. Water journey from Mission Hills
(01:18):
High School to the NFL is inspiring, showcasing his hard
work and persevere man man. Dude, Federico Anthony Warner. What
AI did we use? I feel like we use like
week like weak? AI like this AI is like like
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the broken like the electronics are sparking like type of AI.
Because like last week when I had the AI printed out,
let me tell you, for our first couple episodes, that
was a description we need, we need, we gotta work
on AI.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, because I didn't didn't come close to describing what
this guy is on the field.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I love this story about you know, come where he
came from, and you could you could see what that
passion how he plays on the field.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I remember watching him.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I went to that that Raiders forty nine ers training
camp last year. They had a joint practice and I
was out there real early. I was visiting the Raiders
when McDaniels was over there. Don't like, let's not get
in the comment section about that, and I yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
No, the comment section is right here. I thought, you're
a patriot for life and not all over with the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Know it was more of the hate for Josh. I
was talking like, all right, we don't need to hear that, right,
all right, all right, but I look, I go out
to practice early and there's one guy out there at
the very beginning. It's Fred Warner, and there's the two
fields and he's over on the far field. I don't
know what he was doing. I think he was smelling
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the grass, doing some kind of weird war dance or something.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But whatever he did, he let you know.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The first play of that practice, he set a tempo, man.
And that's the kind of guy he was like. I
was like, this dude's doing some like predator shit. That's
fucking fire. I like this guy more than anything. I
found out he was Mexican. He plays for my old
team that I love, Like, I love this guy, and
then I've met him a couple of times. He's just
a fucking like the AI said, He's a stand up
dude that's very got a lot of humility, but he's
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also an assassin on that field.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Man, he sidelined the sideline. You played against him a bunch.
How was he actually? I never actually played against the
San Francisco forty nine ers in my life. I was
hurt the two or three times when we did play
the forty nine ers, which was a disappointment. I mean,
I wish I truly played against every team in the NFL.
I wanted to play in every stadium in the NFL.
He's Plato Bucks with the Bucks. No, No, we never
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played the forty nine ers. Mmm. Man, so so I
think that's the only team in the NFL I never played.
So but let me tell you I was just covering him,
so listening to it. Didn't get scored on it by
grown covering him this week, and let me tell you,
I had to cover Fred Warner because he made a
couple of plays and they had a couple turnovers, and
he had the biggest play of the game on the
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defensive side of the ball. Shit jumped up in the
air and had that interception versus Jacobe and it literally
just showed like his freak athleticism on that play because
he had to jump in the air like a wide receiver.
He's a bump, you know, a couple like thirty inches
off the ground, solid vertical jump, and then he had
a he landed on his back and then he popped
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up immediately. Like his awareness is a ten out of
ten to be a defensive player and to have hands
like that and then to have the awareness to get
up and that the play is still like there's wide
receivers in the game that catch the ball and fall
to the ground and still think it's college And he
plays over and then they drop it on the ground
and then it's a fumble. Fred Rico, Ladies and gentlemen,
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he popped right back up. And let me tell you,
if I had to catch a ball and fell on
the ground right now, he'll take me like twenty seconds
to pop right. He sat that on air when you
set it on air, he popped right up in literally
a half a second, joked some guys, and ran it
back for a pick six, pick six. It was, it was.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It was kind of the nail on the coffin at
the beginning of the game where you knew it was
going and that's and that's he makes those plays all
the time. Now, you know, he's been a very durable player.
And he may have got a little banged up on
the sideline, but he looked like he was all right.
But I remember I was watching you do the highlights
on Fox halftime show, and I was like thinking, like
(05:34):
he did fucking just catch that ball and get up
and go and and was instinctive and like when defensive
guys get their their ball, their hands on the ball.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Sometimes you see him carrying the ball like a loaf
of bread.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
He looked like a big ass running back and then
he got that Pop Warner. He got that Pop Warner
arch in his back, you know when you get tired
at the end, and then he jumped it. You get
to that Pop Warner arch when you got the kid
who's running away.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
He got the Pop Warner arch talking about that, you know,
Pop Warner. He had the play offense at some point. Yeah,
to be able to catch a ball like that and
then to be able to run like that after the catch.
I mean he had to play like running back, freaking
slot receiver or something growing up. And he played at BYU. Actually,
you know, a star right there from the very beginning.
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My first game out overlooked to it. Yes, yes he did.
And my first game ever was actually versus BYU. That
was just a fun fact I was throwing out there.
We actually won. They were number I think twenty in
the country when we beat him, and I beat BYU
in a bowl game as well, the first bowl game
for Arizona. Zero touchdowns, but my brother had one. I
don't know, like it was my last game actually at
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the University of Arizona, and it was the first bowl
game in ten years for the University of Arizona. It
was the Vegas Ball. We won there. But what was
most important was I was in Vegas. Was at nineteen
twenty years old? Was it fun? Yeah? It was fun.
It was really fun. This time. I was still too
young though, so I didn't really get the experience Vegas
like that. Yeah. I was trying to you know, I
(07:03):
was trying to. No, it wasn't that gift bag, the
gift back shit, I don't know that. That was like
fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I never went to a bowl game, and I always wanted,
you know, I always want to know because you'd hear
about like guys go to the bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Games and get like an Xbox PlayStation. We gotta PlayStation.
I actually sold it. What was that website? Craigslist? My
friend sold it for me. No, it was Nintendo Week.
My friend sold to me because I had no money.
I was like, yo, I don't really play video games.
We actually had one system already. We played Halo twenty
four to seven on on Xbox. I was like, I
don't need this. Nintendo Week. He sold it for me
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on Craigslist for the amount that it goes for in stores.
I threw in my fifty bucks and I had like
another two hundred dollars to buy people beer.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You know what, I bet you if the NCAA knew
about that, he would have got fucking fined.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He you would have been you would have a fine gift.
You're allowed to sell a gift.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Are you? But that sound crazy? I sold it like
two months he's selling. We and you go to a
college player's fucking the players lot. Now all you see
is Lamborghinis, these little fucking college kids.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Rob's over here trying to get fifty dollars from a Craigslist.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
All of his. All I knew was fifteen bucks a week,
and I was satisfied. It got the job. Get you.
It got me a thirty pack, and it got me lunch.
That's all I needed. That's all I needed, folks, protein
shake and thirty beteen shakes and beers.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Did you just get the protein shakes back at the facility?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, actually yeah, yeah, I got the protein shakes at
the facility and a dinner which I would bring back
as well. We would like like stack up the to go,
so then we would have kind of like an actual
launch or a dinner that night. The next night as well,
just in case if we need some backup food, beers
and and the food. But dang I forgot. Oh oh,
I now I know why I had no money. That's
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where I was going. I had no money in college
because my brother and I we pull all our money together.
I was left in our bank account. We bought a
hot tub. The first three weeks too at the University
of Arizona water. We drained our bank accounts. They were
at zero dollars. Yep, yeah that's us. Yeah. The guy
I mean back to Fred Warner, I mean guy twenty
twenty one. He had a record breaking contract, five years,
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ninety five million dollars. He reset the linebacker market. So
are all you other linebackers out there, thank Fred Warner
forty point five million dollars guaranteed. I mean superstore. What
was his first purchase? I'm not sure. I feel like
he's a reserved, you know guy, and people should be
looking up to him for sure off the fielding on
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the field. My first purchase, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Was your first when you got your first paid or
when you got drafted? What was your first My.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
First purchase, I've always wanted an escalate, so I actually
bought a used two thousand and eight Escalade and they
had thirty thousand miles on it, and it was the
red one, and I just thought I was so freaking cool. Man.
It had the I had everything. It was the best
car of all time I've ever had. So I got
to get an escalator again. Man, it's been a while.
(10:07):
That was my only escalte I've ever owned. I had
it for about four years and then I gave it
to my mom because I'm a good guy like that,
you know. But great car, man, that was my first purchase.
How about you, Jules? What was yours? I bought a laptop.
Laptop that's my signing bonus was forty eight five, bro,
I was. I didn't think I was gonna make the team.
I bought a fucking Apple laptop like one of the
(10:28):
new Macs. I still have it. You were getting ready
for your next job. Actually when you bought it, You're like,
I'm not gonna make this. No, maybe I'll be an accountant.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Randy Moss Wes Weelker, Joey Galloway trading for Greg Lewis.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You divide the odds, Jewels, just get a laptop? Oh,
you divide the odds? All right? He's he's only missed
one game in his six year crible reliable. That's crazy
for the middle linebacker. It is like some London Fletcher
started every game as a rookie. You know how hard
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that is to do? That is did you start every
game as a rookie? No? Did you even play as
a rookie?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Really?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well West towards ACL Well, and then that's not the
reason I was looking for Julis.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's sad. Well, yeah, I didn't start as a rookie,
not until like week ten because I didn't know the playbook.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I started Week two at the Old Giant Stadium.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
We lost, but I had like nine catches in one
hundred and nine yards.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well that's more important. Then it was like my first
time ever. I was like, holy shit, Wes was out.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And then Wes came back and bawled out, and then
I didn't play for a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, we're at eleven minutes now. These guys are just
so great. We can talk about him for thirty minutes
forty five minutes an hour, But where does he rank
an all time Niners On the defensive side.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
On the side of the Patrick Willis, they always have insane.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Patrick Willis is a Hall of Famer. Now he went
into Hall of Fame. I think this year, am I right?
Last couple of years, last year. Yeah, he's in the
Hall of Fame though, So you got Patrick Willis, Ken Norton. Well,
I believe if the San Francisco forty nine ers can
finally win a Super Bowl, I mean, they got a
stacked team, they're gonna obviously be having a chance to
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win one. I think he's going to be right up
there in top three on the defensive side of the ball.
You are you going to the field, You're going to
old school. Now you're the Niners fan, So you grew
up in the Banker so you can you can name every.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
One of them as much as the Niners, as much
as the Niners lot Ronnie.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Lott even right or no, that was Eric Wright's son.
I used to run track against him, all right. I
would say he's a he's a top five defensive player
of all time, of all time? How about you? What
would you? Still? He's on his way to be He's
got about another five years minimum left. Yeah, he's on
his way those I mean, there's he's on his way.
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If he plays five more years and wins a Super Bowl.
He's easily if.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They win a super Bowl, He's he's He's in there.
It's in there. But the thing is, the Niners get
this big rap about how sexy their offense is. They've
had some dog ass fucking defense, some players like you,
said Ronnie Lott.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Dean Steblefield, Bryant Young, Ken Norton. He used to fucking
Merton Hanks, like they used to.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Have some dogs over there, bro like Mark, Oh my god, Hey,
can't forget about the Bosa Bosa, the Bosa guy. They
have so many They still have crazy guys on their
own team.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Deon Sanders was there, but he was there for a year.
I didn't even know Deon Sanders played for the Niners.
Yeah he went. He won a super Bowl with them.
On fact, I just learned he won a super Bowl
with them, and then he won a Super Bowl with
the Niners, Dion Sanders, and then he went to Dallas
next year. I mean a Super Bowl. I mean I
was young man, I was a young boy. I don't
think you here was this four five? I mean I
was five years old. That's why. Yeah, yeah, well we
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got to get into the categories. What dude is he
Fred Warner. Is is he a stud, which is athleticism
football IQ paddig of being a stud? Or is he
a freak which counts as you know, unparalleled physical ability
one on one instincts I mean. Or is he a dog,
which is relentless, motivating, all that good stuff physical, mental, toughness.
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Or is he a whiz kid? Does he know the game,
intellect of the game, the innovation of the game. Is
he clutch? Or is he a dude? Dude? Dude? Dude's
dude is positive attitude, locker room guy, guy that you
hang out with on the field, off the field, at dinner,
family guy, just everything overall, calm, cool, collective. That's a
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dude dude.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
So I think, what what categories do you think he's
in for for his athletic ability. I'm gonna go either
on the side of being a stud or a.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Freak stutter or a freak I was instead of dog.
I think he's just a stud because if you said
stud or dog and I have to start a freak.
What does that have in common?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Joe, Well, if it was a ven diagram, I think
stud would be in the middle part.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes, it would be. So I've heard diagram you go.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Those two circles and the ones that overlap. I heard
that recently, probably back to eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Is there any numbers in that ven diagram that I
can cut?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
There was like six numbers in this one and three
and four were over in this side, and then it
went over to three and four when there was six
numbers of this in the three and four over and
they both inter it would be those the three and
the four.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
All right, I think he's a study. I don't. I
don't know what the heck you were just drawing up.
I don't know what your imagination was thinking then diagram.
But all I know is that Fred Warner is an
absolute stud of a linebacker in the NF stud pedigree
of the middle linebacker.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Right now in the NFL, it was like it used
to be like Luke Keighley Erlacker. Right now, Fred Warner
is up there. And there's a bunch of other guys
that are in that category. We'll get into him this year,
but he's definitely in that category.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
He's a stud. And what's crazy about it too, is
that he's kind of like the new era Mike linebacker
as well, because all these offenses were turning the passing offenses,
so you need the guy that could be able to
cover and also stuff the run. So you kind of
needed a more athletic linebacker. And that's what he represents,
and that's why he got paid the way he got paid,
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and that's why everyone looks up to him at the
linebacker position, especially the mic because back in the day
you had Mike linebackers and they were, you know, two
hundred and fifty pounds, two hundred and sixty pounds, two
hundred and seventy pounds that can just stuff the hole
and stop the run, but they could never really cover
that well. I mean and zone defenses, yes, they can
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fill the hole, you know, and make a couple plays.
But this guy can cover as well, sideline the sideline fast.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
But he also doesn't doesn't lack in the in the
lower end department. He still brings the wood the heat. Yes,
So he's just a fucking stud and he's the.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
First one to do that in the new era when
the passing offenses just kept growing and growing.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Patrick Willis was like that a little bit too, though,
like it's I think it's just niners. These niners know
how to get that damn linebacker the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Ravens do too. Patrick McQueen queen shit, but they let
him go.
On to Cincinnati, onto our next guy. All Right, here
we go. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of
all ages, please put your hands together for a warm
welcome to our next dudes on dude, dude, that we
(00:22):
will be talking about Fred Warner.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Lady, Fred Warner, Frederico, Anthony Warner, Panamanian, Mexican.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
All right here, Americo, he's a fucking dog. Just go synopsis,
my sonaplois right here. That's a big word. And let
me let me tell you I just hit a synopsis.
I'm Fred Warner. Here we go, say Robbie. Fred Warner
is a standout linebacker for the San Francisco forty nine years,
(00:55):
known for his exceptional tackling and leadership on the field.
Off the field, he is as fired. He is admired
for his dedication of hold on. Off the field, he
is admired for his dedication and humility, often crediting his
single mother for his success. Water journey from Mission Hills
(01:18):
High School to the NFL is inspiring, showcasing his hard
work and persevere man man. Dude, Federico Anthony Warner. What
AI did we use? I feel like we use like
week like weak? AI like this AI is like like
(01:39):
the broken like the electronics are sparking like type of AI.
Because like last week when I had the AI printed out,
let me tell you, for our first couple episodes, that
was a description we need, we need, we gotta work
on AI.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, because I didn't didn't come close to describing what
this guy is on the field.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I love this story about you know, come where he
came from, and you could you could see what that
passion how he plays on the field.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I remember watching him.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I went to that that Raiders forty nine ers training
camp last year. They had a joint practice and I
was out there real early. I was visiting the Raiders
when McDaniels was over there. Don't like, let's not get
in the comment section about that, and I yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
No, the comment section is right here. I thought, you're
a patriot for life and not all over with the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Know it was more of the hate for Josh. I
was talking like, all right, we don't need to hear that, right,
all right, all right, but I look, I go out
to practice early and there's one guy out there at
the very beginning. It's Fred Warner, and there's the two
fields and he's over on the far field. I don't
know what he was doing. I think he was smelling
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the grass, doing some kind of weird war dance or something.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But whatever he did, he let you know.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The first play of that practice, he set a tempo, man.
And that's the kind of guy he was like. I
was like, this dude's doing some like predator shit. That's
fucking fire. I like this guy more than anything. I
found out he was Mexican. He plays for my old
team that I love, Like, I love this guy, and
then I've met him a couple of times. He's just
a fucking like the AI said, He's a stand up
dude that's very got a lot of humility, but he's
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also an assassin on that field.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Man, he sidelined the sideline. You played against him a bunch.
How was he actually? I never actually played against the
San Francisco forty nine ers in my life. I was
hurt the two or three times when we did play
the forty nine ers, which was a disappointment. I mean,
I wish I truly played against every team in the NFL.
I wanted to play in every stadium in the NFL.
He's Plato Bucks with the Bucks. No, No, we never
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played the forty nine ers. Mmm. Man, so so I
think that's the only team in the NFL I never played.
So but let me tell you I was just covering him,
so listening to it. Didn't get scored on it by
grown covering him this week, and let me tell you,
I had to cover Fred Warner because he made a
couple of plays and they had a couple turnovers, and
he had the biggest play of the game on the
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defensive side of the ball. Shit jumped up in the
air and had that interception versus Jacobe and it literally
just showed like his freak athleticism on that play because
he had to jump in the air like a wide receiver.
He's a bump, you know, a couple like thirty inches
off the ground, solid vertical jump, and then he had
a he landed on his back and then he popped
(04:31):
up immediately. Like his awareness is a ten out of
ten to be a defensive player and to have hands
like that and then to have the awareness to get
up and that the play is still like there's wide
receivers in the game that catch the ball and fall
to the ground and still think it's college And he
plays over and then they drop it on the ground
and then it's a fumble. Fred Rico, Ladies and gentlemen,
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he popped right back up. And let me tell you,
if I had to catch a ball and fell on
the ground right now, he'll take me like twenty seconds
to pop right. He sat that on air when you
set it on air, he popped right up in literally
a half a second, joked some guys, and ran it
back for a pick six, pick six. It was, it was.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It was kind of the nail on the coffin at
the beginning of the game where you knew it was
going and that's and that's he makes those plays all
the time. Now, you know, he's been a very durable player.
And he may have got a little banged up on
the sideline, but he looked like he was all right.
But I remember I was watching you do the highlights
on Fox halftime show, and I was like thinking, like
(05:34):
he did fucking just catch that ball and get up
and go and and was instinctive and like when defensive
guys get their their ball, their hands on the ball.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Sometimes you see him carrying the ball like a loaf
of bread.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
He looked like a big ass running back and then
he got that Pop Warner. He got that Pop Warner
arch in his back, you know when you get tired
at the end, and then he jumped it. You get
to that Pop Warner arch when you got the kid
who's running away.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
He got the Pop Warner arch talking about that, you know,
Pop Warner. He had the play offense at some point. Yeah,
to be able to catch a ball like that and
then to be able to run like that after the catch.
I mean he had to play like running back, freaking
slot receiver or something growing up. And he played at BYU. Actually,
you know, a star right there from the very beginning.
(06:21):
My first game out overlooked to it. Yes, yes he did.
And my first game ever was actually versus BYU. That
was just a fun fact I was throwing out there.
We actually won. They were number I think twenty in
the country when we beat him, and I beat BYU
in a bowl game as well, the first bowl game
for Arizona. Zero touchdowns, but my brother had one. I
don't know, like it was my last game actually at
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the University of Arizona, and it was the first bowl
game in ten years for the University of Arizona. It
was the Vegas Ball. We won there. But what was
most important was I was in Vegas. Was at nineteen
twenty years old? Was it fun? Yeah? It was fun.
It was really fun. This time. I was still too
young though, so I didn't really get the experience Vegas
like that. Yeah. I was trying to you know, I
(07:03):
was trying to. No, it wasn't that gift bag, the
gift back shit, I don't know that. That was like
fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I never went to a bowl game, and I always wanted,
you know, I always want to know because you'd hear
about like guys go to the bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Games and get like an Xbox PlayStation. We gotta PlayStation.
I actually sold it. What was that website? Craigslist? My
friend sold it for me. No, it was Nintendo Week.
My friend sold to me because I had no money.
I was like, yo, I don't really play video games.
We actually had one system already. We played Halo twenty
four to seven on on Xbox. I was like, I
don't need this. Nintendo Week. He sold it for me
(07:38):
on Craigslist for the amount that it goes for in stores.
I threw in my fifty bucks and I had like
another two hundred dollars to buy people beer.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You know what, I bet you if the NCAA knew
about that, he would have got fucking fined.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He you would have been you would have a fine gift.
You're allowed to sell a gift.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Are you? But that sound crazy? I sold it like
two months he's selling. We and you go to a
college player's fucking the players lot. Now all you see
is Lamborghinis, these little fucking college kids.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Rob's over here trying to get fifty dollars from a Craigslist.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
All of his. All I knew was fifteen bucks a week,
and I was satisfied. It got the job. Get you.
It got me a thirty pack, and it got me lunch.
That's all I needed. That's all I needed, folks, protein
shake and thirty beteen shakes and beers.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Did you just get the protein shakes back at the facility?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, actually yeah, yeah, I got the protein shakes at
the facility and a dinner which I would bring back
as well. We would like like stack up the to go,
so then we would have kind of like an actual
launch or a dinner that night. The next night as well,
just in case if we need some backup food, beers
and and the food. But dang I forgot. Oh oh,
I now I know why I had no money. That's
(08:54):
where I was going. I had no money in college
because my brother and I we pull all our money together.
I was left in our bank account. We bought a
hot tub. The first three weeks too at the University
of Arizona water. We drained our bank accounts. They were
at zero dollars. Yep, yeah that's us. Yeah. The guy
I mean back to Fred Warner, I mean guy twenty
twenty one. He had a record breaking contract, five years,
(09:18):
ninety five million dollars. He reset the linebacker market. So
are all you other linebackers out there, thank Fred Warner
forty point five million dollars guaranteed. I mean superstore. What
was his first purchase? I'm not sure. I feel like
he's a reserved, you know guy, and people should be
looking up to him for sure off the fielding on
(09:38):
the field. My first purchase, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Was your first when you got your first paid or
when you got drafted? What was your first My.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
First purchase, I've always wanted an escalate, so I actually
bought a used two thousand and eight Escalade and they
had thirty thousand miles on it, and it was the
red one, and I just thought I was so freaking cool. Man.
It had the I had everything. It was the best
car of all time I've ever had. So I got
to get an escalator again. Man, it's been a while.
(10:07):
That was my only escalte I've ever owned. I had
it for about four years and then I gave it
to my mom because I'm a good guy like that,
you know. But great car, man, that was my first purchase.
How about you, Jules? What was yours? I bought a laptop.
Laptop that's my signing bonus was forty eight five, bro,
I was. I didn't think I was gonna make the team.
I bought a fucking Apple laptop like one of the
(10:28):
new Macs. I still have it. You were getting ready
for your next job. Actually when you bought it, You're like,
I'm not gonna make this. No, maybe I'll be an accountant.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Randy Moss Wes Weelker, Joey Galloway trading for Greg Lewis.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You divide the odds, Jewels, just get a laptop? Oh,
you divide the odds? All right? He's he's only missed
one game in his six year crible reliable. That's crazy
for the middle linebacker. It is like some London Fletcher
started every game as a rookie. You know how hard
(11:02):
that is to do? That is did you start every
game as a rookie? No? Did you even play as
a rookie?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Really?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well West towards ACL Well, and then that's not the
reason I was looking for Julis.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's sad. Well, yeah, I didn't start as a rookie,
not until like week ten because I didn't know the playbook.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I started Week two at the Old Giant Stadium.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
We lost, but I had like nine catches in one
hundred and nine yards.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well that's more important. Then it was like my first
time ever. I was like, holy shit, Wes was out.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And then Wes came back and bawled out, and then
I didn't play for a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, we're at eleven minutes now. These guys are just
so great. We can talk about him for thirty minutes
forty five minutes an hour, But where does he rank
an all time Niners On the defensive side.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
On the side of the Patrick Willis, they always have insane.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Patrick Willis is a Hall of Famer. Now he went
into Hall of Fame. I think this year, am I right?
Last couple of years, last year. Yeah, he's in the
Hall of Fame though, So you got Patrick Willis, Ken Norton. Well,
I believe if the San Francisco forty nine ers can
finally win a Super Bowl, I mean, they got a
stacked team, they're gonna obviously be having a chance to
(12:13):
win one. I think he's going to be right up
there in top three on the defensive side of the ball.
You are you going to the field, You're going to
old school. Now you're the Niners fan, So you grew
up in the Banker so you can you can name every.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
One of them as much as the Niners, as much
as the Niners lot Ronnie.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Lott even right or no, that was Eric Wright's son.
I used to run track against him, all right. I
would say he's a he's a top five defensive player
of all time, of all time? How about you? What
would you? Still? He's on his way to be He's
got about another five years minimum left. Yeah, he's on
his way those I mean, there's he's on his way.
(12:53):
If he plays five more years and wins a Super Bowl.
He's easily if.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They win a super Bowl, He's he's He's in there.
It's in there. But the thing is, the Niners get
this big rap about how sexy their offense is. They've
had some dog ass fucking defense, some players like you,
said Ronnie Lott.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Dean Steblefield, Bryant Young, Ken Norton. He used to fucking
Merton Hanks, like they used to.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Have some dogs over there, bro like Mark, Oh my god, Hey,
can't forget about the Bosa Bosa, the Bosa guy. They
have so many They still have crazy guys on their
own team.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Deon Sanders was there, but he was there for a year.
I didn't even know Deon Sanders played for the Niners.
Yeah he went. He won a super Bowl with them.
On fact, I just learned he won a super Bowl
with them, and then he won a Super Bowl with
the Niners, Dion Sanders, and then he went to Dallas
next year. I mean a Super Bowl. I mean I
was young man, I was a young boy. I don't
think you here was this four five? I mean I
was five years old. That's why. Yeah, yeah, well we
(13:51):
got to get into the categories. What dude is he
Fred Warner. Is is he a stud, which is athleticism
football IQ paddig of being a stud? Or is he
a freak which counts as you know, unparalleled physical ability
one on one instincts I mean. Or is he a dog,
which is relentless, motivating, all that good stuff physical, mental, toughness.
(14:16):
Or is he a whiz kid? Does he know the game,
intellect of the game, the innovation of the game. Is
he clutch? Or is he a dude? Dude? Dude? Dude's
dude is positive attitude, locker room guy, guy that you
hang out with on the field, off the field, at dinner,
family guy, just everything overall, calm, cool, collective. That's a
(14:40):
dude dude.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
So I think, what what categories do you think he's
in for for his athletic ability. I'm gonna go either
on the side of being a stud or a.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Freak stutter or a freak I was instead of dog.
I think he's just a stud because if you said
stud or dog and I have to start a freak.
What does that have in common?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Joe, Well, if it was a ven diagram, I think
stud would be in the middle part.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes, it would be. So I've heard diagram you go.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Those two circles and the ones that overlap. I heard
that recently, probably back to eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Is there any numbers in that ven diagram that I
can cut?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
There was like six numbers in this one and three
and four were over in this side, and then it
went over to three and four when there was six
numbers of this in the three and four over and
they both inter it would be those the three and
the four.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
All right, I think he's a study. I don't. I
don't know what the heck you were just drawing up.
I don't know what your imagination was thinking then diagram.
But all I know is that Fred Warner is an
absolute stud of a linebacker in the NF stud pedigree
of the middle linebacker.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Right now in the NFL, it was like it used
to be like Luke Keighley Erlacker. Right now, Fred Warner
is up there. And there's a bunch of other guys
that are in that category. We'll get into him this year,
but he's definitely in that category.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
He's a stud. And what's crazy about it too, is
that he's kind of like the new era Mike linebacker
as well, because all these offenses were turning the passing offenses,
so you need the guy that could be able to
cover and also stuff the run. So you kind of
needed a more athletic linebacker. And that's what he represents,
and that's why he got paid the way he got paid,
(16:37):
and that's why everyone looks up to him at the
linebacker position, especially the mic because back in the day
you had Mike linebackers and they were, you know, two
hundred and fifty pounds, two hundred and sixty pounds, two
hundred and seventy pounds that can just stuff the hole
and stop the run, but they could never really cover
that well. I mean and zone defenses, yes, they can
(16:58):
fill the hole, you know, and make a couple plays.
But this guy can cover as well, sideline the sideline fast.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
But he also doesn't doesn't lack in the in the
lower end department. He still brings the wood the heat. Yes,
So he's just a fucking stud and he's the.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
First one to do that in the new era when
the passing offenses just kept growing and growing.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Patrick Willis was like that a little bit too, though,
like it's I think it's just niners. These niners know
how to get that damn linebacker the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Ravens do too. Patrick McQueen queen shit, but they let
him go.
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