25W: 2024 NFL Season Preview Special!

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Speaker 2 (01:21):
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Speaker 3 (01:29):
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Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's a big NFL preview show, brought to you by
Draftking Sportsbook, Buldi West Letty. All right, let's talk in NFL.
So what we'll do is we'll go through each division, Eddie, Kevin, myself,
we'll pick the division winner, and then we'll celebrate ourselves
because we'll obviously be very wrong. This is kind of

(01:58):
how it works, you know. Someting not team that audio
playoffs that did in the year before will start AFC South,
which traditionally the last few years has been a very
weak conference. UH Texans, Jags, Colts, and Titans. Texans were
ten and seven last year. Obviously, c J. Stroud, Who

(02:18):
do you think is going to be that number one
wide receiver over there? Tank Dell?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Do you think it's they got Robert Woods too?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
No? And also they just got uh yeah, and he's
already complaining. Nico Collins Dix is complaining every play already,
like even preseason. Hey, I'm here, I'm hoping throw the ball,
like if the camera stays on him, just lecturing Stroud
the whole time. So, uh, Texans, Jags, Colts and Titans.
Probably I'm going to assume I think the Texans won

(02:47):
the division?

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Does anyone not think it's the Texans?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:51):
No, I mean I want to hope maybe the Colts
and Anthony Richardson can kind of turn that thing around,
But I don't see.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I would think the Jags is more than the Colts
another year. Doug Peterson, Trevor Lawrence, who I still think
is really good. We've seen him win a playoff game,
We've seen him be almost great at times, where Anthony
Richardson he was like lightning in a bottle for a
few games and he got hurt, Like we're really I'm
gonna go Texans, Jags, Colts, Titans. But the I don't

(03:22):
know if the over unders on the Titans, but I
do feel like they may win a few more games
than people think. I don't think they're as terrible or
they're gonna be as terrible. Obviously, levis a lot's gonna
depend on that.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Losing Derrick Henry. I mean, they did.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Their offensive lines a little better, but with Derek they're terrible.
No quarterback, no offensive line. They have a whole new
offense though Derrick Henry would not have fit in the
offense because you got the offensive corner. For the Bengals,
they need pass catching running back, so they have two
spears and your boy from the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, you got Pollard.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, so they got some weapons though. Yeah, and especially
if Hopkins comes back healthy, it's.

Speaker 7 (04:08):
Five and a half wins, total wins.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Five and a half. You gotta go over that.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I would think over too. But it felt so easy
that I have to be wrong, I know, because anytime
I think, oh for sure, I'm so wrong. Right, So
we're all going Texans.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
What's the headline for the Texans? Can they do it again?
That's the headline. Can they surprise because it's not a surprise.
But can they can they prove? Can they prove us?
Prove them right? That's the headline. What's the headline for
the Jaguars. You just paid them a bunch of money
and you got a Super Bowl coach, so now win?

Speaker 7 (04:44):
Yeah, can Trevor Lawrence?

Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's what I'm saying. Pay Yeah, prove everybody right? Yeah,
he's What about the Colts? Is it all Anthony Richardson?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
All Anthony Richardson?

Speaker 7 (04:54):
Yea, because Gardner almost took him to playoffs?

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Gardner didn't make the Pro Bowl, but so did die exactly.

Speaker 7 (05:01):
Everyone Richardson just has to be pretty good.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
I don't think pretty good as a floor. I think
awful is the floor. And I don't think he can
play and be pretty good. I think he's either awful
or a freaking amazing with just his style of play. Like,
I don't think he's just gonna sit in the pocket
and throw twenty two balls. So it's can Anthony richards

(05:28):
stay healthy? Who is Anthony Richardson? Yeah that might be
the headline? Who is anything like that?

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (05:34):
Well stand up, see you went too far?

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, the real Anthony Richardson please stand up.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Please stand up and not be injured. Yeah, without crutches.
But Jonathan Taylor, it is like he's part of the
team as the season starts. For last year, it was
all dramatic, like he wanted his money. And I'm always
for everybody getting paid because their live spans, their careers
are very short. The AFC North last year, the Ravens
were thirteen to four, the Browns were eleven and six,
the Steelers ten and seven, and the Bengals nine and eight,

(06:03):
which he had four winning teams. What's interesting about this
is the Bengals went nine and eight without a healthy Borrow,
and so that's always like, that's everyone talking about the
Bengals this year.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Period.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
If Burrow stays healthy, we're going to remove that from
our vernacular because the same thing if Lamar stays healthy.
And sure, Burrow has a history of the last couple
of years of not being healthy, but Lamar had a
run and not being healthy. I mean, all these quarterbacks
have injury seasons that they've been through. So everybody's healthy

(06:37):
in this perfect world. Okay, we're in a vacum. Everybody's healthy. Ravens,
can they get Lamar to the Super Bowl? That's the
big question. Derrick Henry, I think is going to be boss.
I think Derrick Henry is going to thrive. They have
a pretty good offensive line. I'd say seven out of ten.
They have a pretty good offensive line. Henry him were
for like a three out of ten offensive line. The

(06:59):
focus is not just going to be on Derrick Henry.
It can't be because Lamar is where the focus has
gotta be. Mark Andrews back healthy. There's freaking awesome when
he's healthy.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Say Flowers. So we got receivers.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
The Ravens are gonna be lethal. So I'm gonna go
with the Bengals winning the No, dang, what a ropid dope,
I'm gonna go with the Bengals winning the division. So
I'm picking the Bengals.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
Eddie, I'm going Ravens. I think the Ravens are too
stacked to not win that division. Oh yeah, the Bengals
are gonna be a threat, for sure. It's gonna be tight,
but I think at the end the Ravens are gonna
take it.

Speaker 7 (07:34):
Kevin, Yeah, I'm gonna go with the Ravens too. I
want to say the Bengals, but I just trust the
Ravens a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
The only person to look down my homes and beat
him Joe Burrow, I know, and he's healthy.

Speaker 6 (07:49):
Are you guys just riding off the Steelers? But oh yeah, no,
we can get there because it is a two man race.
I think we can get there. I think the Browns
are gonna be pretty good. Yeah, they got a shot
to make the playoffs. Yeah, I don't know they're gonna
win because remember, everybody's healthy.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Guys's healthy. I don't know that they can win the division.
That this is a really strong division, like all four
of the teams could have winning records. Again, the thing
about the Steelers, I just feel like they're going to
be quarterback issues all season long because I think the
players like Justin Field's way better and Fields has a

(08:24):
much higher upside for longer than Russ than Russ.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
You think they're going to be switching them back and forth.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, but every every quarterback gets hurt now at some
point of the season. Yeah, Like really, when you say,
like seventy percent of the quarterbacks have some issue during
the season, some much smaller than other, or they miss
a few games where they miss a game or or
so or half or like I feel like now you
kind of have to have a pretty good backup that
can come in and be serviceable. But I want to

(08:51):
go Bengals, Ravens, Browns Steelers. Steelers have a very tough schedule.
They may be the only team not to be above
five hundred. I don't want to go Bengals, Ravens, Browns,
Steelers with three of those teams having a shot to
make the playoffs. Eddie, what is your order?

Speaker 6 (09:07):
Yeah, Sam, is you? But I'm switching Bengals and Ravens.
Ravens number one, Kevin, same as Eddie. Ravens, Bengals, Brown Steelers.

Speaker 7 (09:15):
What's the headline for the Ravens Henry? Henry runs hungry?

Speaker 2 (09:23):
You're a terrible headliner.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Can Lamar get as far as the super Bowl with
this squad? It's a super Bowl? When super Bowl? Can
Lamar get that far?

Speaker 5 (09:40):
I like it?

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Something like that. What will Lamar raise the bar?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Fair?

Speaker 5 (09:47):
No, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I really wanted to hate. That's a pretty good one
because if they don't get to the super Bowl, that's
kind of a bus for them. I don't think they
have to win it. I don't think they have to
win it for to be a bus they should get there,
but I think for them to have a successful season,
they need to get to the Super Bowl. The Bengals

(10:09):
can they claw their Oh you one with a tiger
Burrow makes to hear where you guys go with this?

Speaker 7 (10:18):
Go ahead and Joe Burrow himself back to help to health.

Speaker 8 (10:23):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Good, that's good?

Speaker 5 (10:25):
All right? I like that.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
But isn't Burrow down?

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Go down? Can you borrow.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
Burrow out of Okay?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, I need to shut up.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'm just the reader man. It's not making sense to me.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
But uh, Deshaun Watson, anyone to a headline, you know,
like three step out.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Of that one?

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I got a lot there.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, probably gonna we'll move off. Anc West Chiefs were
eleven to six last year, Raiders and Broncos both at
eight and nine and Chargers five and twelve. I would
assume we're all okay. Can the Chiefs three p? That's
that headline? We don't have to rhyme, by the way,
it's's fine to do that. It is, yeah, but that's

(11:07):
that's it, right. Can the Chiefs do it again? That
would be super cool if they did. Nobody hates the Chiefs.
Some people could be annoyed as the Chiefs like Patriots
fans who don't want to hear that that dynasty might
be challenging, Right, that's you. Yeah, but nobody really hates
the unless you're like Taylor Swift, and then you don't
even hate the Chiefs. Hte yourself.

Speaker 7 (11:26):
Mhmm.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
You can be annoyed at what the coverage is doing,
but you're not really annoyed at what they're doing. Like,
what's Travis Kelcey done that would make you not like
him other than be overexposed, which is no. Nothing that
he did.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
He does he throws some temper tantrums.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
On the field, Yeah doesn't Yeah, you just see him more.
I'm saying, yeah, of course he did not like Kelsey.
So let's say we think the Chiefs are gonna win it?

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Do we think the Chargers like they've got like one receiver?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Who is that?

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Drone Brown? Is he their number one? I would even
looked that up. Josh Okay, got it, Josh Palm, you're right,
that's tough. Hm.

Speaker 7 (12:10):
Quentin Johnson, will you do it?

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Quinton?

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Now was he a rookie. He's a rookie second year
and they were calling him a b TCU like Crush
the TCU. They were calling him a bust. But can
you fully bust after one year and there's a coach
firing when when Stalley was a defensive coat. So Jared
Rice is kid still. It's his first year to play.
He was drafted seventh round last year. He's a big,

(12:34):
big guy, a thick guy.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
You met him, big old butt.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Really you know my big butts?

Speaker 5 (12:40):
You do?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Playing football with the Broncos and the offense that they run,
they might have found their quarterback Old Bo Yeah Bo
Nicks And maybe just because he's white and small, we're
all like Breeze Part two.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
The same Bill. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
So I'm gonna go cheat Chiefs, Broncos, Chargers, Raiders, heang
Raiders last.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Uh yeah, what do they got going over there?

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I was listening to a guy tell me a story
about interim coaches because with the Raiders, their coach was
an interim coach. Right, so last season those last season right?

Speaker 7 (13:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (13:18):
So he goes in the team loves them. They win
a little bit. And the reason that a lot of
owners will let their teams with their main coaches ride
out and die and not fire them is because they
don't want an interim coach to bring new energy that's
pretty temporary into a locker room, have some winning, and
then everybody's fighting for that guy to be the coach.

(13:39):
When they don't have the credentials, they don't have anything
to actually be that coach other than some new energy
maybe the benefit of a positive couple of games in
the schedule. And I'm not saying that's what happened here,
but that that could be what's happened here.

Speaker 7 (13:55):
That's fair.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
But sometimes you can find a star like that, and
they might have I would.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Say ninety five percent to the history of time of
interim coaches. They did not find the star. If we're
playing odds, but also I just made the odds up
so that sounded good. AFC East Bills are eleven and six,
Dophins eleven and six last year, Jets seven and ten,
Patriots four and thirteen. What's interesting about this is do
the Patriots do they get to field a full eleven players?

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Right?

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, I mean, well they who knows, you know, do
they get do they all get pads? You know, it's
gonna be an interesting dynamic to see how bad they suck.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
I mean, the rough season they are like one of
the contenders to be in last next year.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Right, they could finish last.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
They could have the number one pick again, yeah, or
not again, but they could have the number one pick overall.
They had a top with four pick, yeah, Slasher.

Speaker 7 (14:42):
Yeah, And I'm alright with the top pick next year
because we need offensive line so bad and I don't
want to put me behind that offensive line and it'd
get ugly.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's gonna be a tough year for you.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's okay. You want a bunch of games and Exast championship.

Speaker 7 (14:53):
And the Celtics just won, so we're good.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
That makes you feel better.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yep. Bills, Dolphins, Jets, those are your thre who wins
the division?

Speaker 6 (15:03):
Eddie Man, we're playing that whole Everyone's healthy here, and
I'm assuming that if everything's right for the Jets, this
could be the year that the Jets win that division.
I know it's the battle between the Bills and the Jets.
I for some reason just think that this is the year.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
The Bills are going to struggle. Don't know why.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
I feel like Josh Allen was kind of on the
struggle bus a little bit last year.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
He came out of it. He finished strong.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
But I think this is the year where the Bills
struggle a little bit and the Jets take the division.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I mean, I think if there's a reason that he
struggles based on what we know now, he doesn't have
anybody to get the ball to. Ye, he's no wide
receivers that have been proven at all. We've seen Mahomes,
Peyton Manning. We saw those guys win without wide receiver ones.
Basically a bunch of wide receiver threes. But that would
be why I think if they're not able to score

(15:51):
a bunch of points, it's because they don't have the
wide receivers. James Cook running back, Yeah, he had a
really good second half of the last ye Yeah, dev
two tightens that are pretty good. So boy, I think
everybody's gonna pick the Bills.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's kind of why I went Jets.

Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well I'm going Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I mean, yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot there.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
But you do know that.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's winter when the layoffs happened. Yeah, you got to
get to a coat or something, But does that really matter?

Speaker 3 (16:22):
What do you mean?

Speaker 7 (16:22):
But you're saying to pick the division, not the super
Bowl not Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, at the end though, you know they do matter.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I had a solid month of cold weather at the
end there.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
It wasn't great for him.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
But but like, say, you.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
You grew up in like Minnesota, but now you live
in Miami, Like you can still play in the cold
even though you've only lived in Miami.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
A year or two two.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
I grew up in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
No, no, no, why?

Speaker 1 (16:46):
But yeah, that's like the worst example of Tyreek.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Come on, turry, where's Tyree from?

Speaker 1 (16:50):
I think it gets Where we live now is pretty temperate.
It gets kind of cold, but god dang, we go
somewhere super cool. It hurts. It hurts more than people
who live there. I'm taking the Jets too, because the
offensive line is heavily improved. If Aaron Rodgers can be
a seven out of ten, If Brece Hall, who had
to catch a bunch of balls last year because they
were always behind, they didn't have a quarterback, Brestall's awesome.

(17:13):
He doesn't have Let's he two years in, but he
was injured for a whole his rookie year. He got
hurt like a third of the way through. Brestall's awesome,
and it learned a vacuum. Everybody's healthy. I'm still taking
the Bills.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
I thought you were going to still.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Taking the Bills. But I do think the Jets are
gonna be fun and they're gonna.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Win and Miami only because of temperature.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
And Miami's gonna win a bunch of games, but towards
the end they're gonna stru They gotta get him a coat.
How they trying north Face. There's a couple of brands
he should really focus on. Team sponsor. Yeah, Kevin you.

Speaker 7 (17:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna go to Dolphins. I want to go
out on a limb here a little bit. The top
three is gonna be tough, and then my Patriots gonna
be bad. But I'm gonna say the Dolphins, it's the
year they take that next step. Two, it takes that
next step. He got paid and he's ready.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
What's a success for you as a Patriots fan? With
the Patriots, It's taken me some time to adjust. I'm
not gonna lie because I think the over under is
five games, and I'm like, easily over. And then I
look at the schedule last year and I'm like, oh
my gosh, I really won.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Four games last year.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
You'll w four games?

Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:17):
You cut Bailey Zappy.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Yeah, they probably will.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I mean, like, you have two quarterbacks, they both need
snaps because you're not really trying to win. I guess
unless they're both just so overwhelmed.

Speaker 7 (18:32):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with that over under. If we
win five games, one more than last year, it's a success.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh boy, so five wins because you have you don't
have a quarterback yet, he's so raw loicking.

Speaker 7 (18:44):
Yeah, and you don't have an offensive line and I
don't care if he doesn't play at least half the year.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
And Juju don't even jew there anymore.

Speaker 7 (18:51):
Yeah, Juju, you're gone.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah. Who's who's gonna get the ball?

Speaker 7 (18:56):
They got some weapons, Hop, Douglas caj Osboyne, Jalen Polk,
Romandre Stevenson. He's a stud but sucks.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah he's good. Yeah, his all line sucks. Yeah, that's tough.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
That's tough.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
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ball Light We're back, NFC South Bucks, Saints, Falcons, Panthers,
UH probably the weakest division.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Stuff to pick a winner.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
I don't I don't feel I feel like I am
comfortable betting a large amount of sum some of money
on who wins this division with your boy.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
You think your boy can do good in Tampa.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Why why don't you pick who you think is going
with the division.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'm gonna go with Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
I would go with two.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
But there is Tampa though, and there is Baker Mayfield, and.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
I would say Kirk Cousins one, and I agree, but
I'm not going to pick it and then fight for
the other one. It's a weird argument.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
It is weird, but I am going with the Falcons.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
I would say Atlanta has more weapons as well as
a more proven quarterback. At the same time, Kyle Pitts
might actually be a tight end that can catch some balls.

Speaker 7 (21:52):
Is this the make or break here?

Speaker 1 (21:54):
It has to be to be. I've drafted them over
your fantasy Drake London like, who's legit? But you can't
be legit if you don't get the ball. And Kirk
Cousins is if if that Achilles is good, and it
seems to be, they're going to be a solid, maybe
ten win team. I don't. I think ten and seven's
probably pretty good number for them to chase. But I'll

(22:18):
go Falcons as well. Falcons then Bucks. I think the
pant Give me that Panthers over under because I do
think they win more games this year for sure than
last year. They won two games last year. A little
stronger line, and I think hopefully Bryce has grown a
little bit. You know, he's fifteen now.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, I don't think he's getting taller.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oh you under down, Oh dang. I think the Panthers
are a little better. I think the Panthers are back in.
They're in that chase though, a like number one pick
again four and a half, same as Patriots. Yeah, I'd
probably go over though, because they play up weaker teams
in the Patriots generally probably go the over on that one,
but I would go Falcons, Bucks, Saints Pants. Who are

(23:00):
you picking to win it? Kevin?

Speaker 7 (23:04):
Yeah, it's Falcon's here with Kirk, They're back to get
on top. Butt Pendix did look good. He's slinging he
did NFC North. This is going to be a super
fun division to watch. Yeah, just because of all the
stories and all the places the Lions could win the
Super Bowl. I don't think they need to actually win

(23:26):
the super Bowl for it to be a successful season.
I think getting to the super Bowl is that bar
for them. They get to the super Bowl, that's big.
I want to see that city.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
I think about Detroit though, and God bless them. If
they have a great run, they may burn it down
in happiness. It's one of those we won, burn it
down or we lost. Burn it down. They need to
go to the super Bowl, probably even for themselves, for
us to feel like that that was a great season.

(23:58):
We're not talk about super bowlre but feel like it's
super Bowl or Bus, not super Bowl winner bus for them.
The Packers. Jordan Love just got paid. They love Jordan Love.
I don't know who the number one receiver is there?
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean they actually have receivers,

(24:20):
but like who who is the Vikings? I think Sam
Donald could be pretty good. He's got a good coach,
quarterbacks thrive and then the Bears.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
It's gonna be fun to watch though.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's got a big butt, love his butt.

Speaker 7 (24:36):
Do you think the Bears finished ahead of the Vikings?

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Probably. I think the Bears have too many weapons and
the Bears defense is pretty good too.

Speaker 7 (24:44):
That's a tough one too. That division.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
They all could be yeah, five hundred or better. I
have decent expectations for the Bears because they have so
many weapons all Kayleb Williams has to do is be
pretty good. Yeah, so I'm gonna but I'm still gonna
go Lions then Packers. But I think the Bears could
possibly win nine or ten games. That's a lot. That's
a lot for a rookie quarterback. Though. Oh yeah, Eddie.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
I'm gonna go with Lions win the division. I mean,
they're going to be good again this year, I think.
And then and Jordan Love I think is just he
ended strong last year. I mean, I think the Packers
are going to be good. Unfortunately, I remember that I suck.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
I remember that.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
And then Yeah, I think Bears Vikings.

Speaker 7 (25:25):
Kevin Yeah, same, same exact order, all Lions all time.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, all right, forty nine Ers, Rams, Seahawks, Cardinals, NFC
West Cardinal will be different because Kyler will be back
for a full year.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, well that matter.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, I think So. I mean, has there been a
new Call of Duty patch put out?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's funny, are we good?

Speaker 1 (25:45):
New one is coming out?

Speaker 2 (25:46):
It is thanks for Reid.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
It's not the Seahawks because I don't think Geno's that guy.
I think Geno is a guy, pretty good guy. I
don't think he's that guy though, I think the Rams
are going to be stat Wins Daffor is healthy. Man,
They're really good. And if both if Cooper, Cup and Pookah,
we're all healthy, right, we're all healthy. We're in the bubble,

(26:11):
We're in the vacuum. Vacuum.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
That's what.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
I still think.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
It's the forty nine ers, but the r I think
the Rams are gonna be really good. So I'm gonna
go Niners then Rams, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, Niners for sure.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Unfortunately again, Rams, I man, you got Stets and Bennett
back there, just in case Garoppolo and Stafford gets hurt.
Then then I hey, I love Stet's and Bennett. I
only want good things for steps.

Speaker 7 (26:39):
You know, Jimmy g goes in there. He's not lasting all.

Speaker 6 (26:41):
Seasons, correct, Okay, And then I'm gonna I mean, I
guess Cardinals, Cardinals, and then that's always solid, Yeah, solid.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
I do like Pete Carroll, what.

Speaker 7 (26:50):
Do you got, Well, he's not there anymore, he's done.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
No, I just mean like Seahawks like he's like I do, like, okay.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
Yeah, okaya, mode I got the same as Eddie. Actually,
I'm gonna put the Cardinals ahead of the Seahawks and
then forty nine Ers to win it and the Rams
coming in second.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
NFCS Cowboys, Eagles, Giants, Commanders, easy is it?

Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Simple? Well for you, because Sam, you're talking with your
heart not your head. No, no, go ahead, this is
this all knowledge. Cowboys want so much contract talk? Yeah, dude,
what's happening? How do they have it? But again, some
of the stuff will be settle by the time this.

Speaker 6 (27:28):
Air is sure, hopefully. I mean CEDI took all his
stuff down social media. He's not a cowboy to social media.
Why do they do that? Though, Let's just stop all this.
The DAK contract talk is going to be all season long. Yes,
but man, i mean watching Trey Lance in the preseason. No,
I'm not saying that Trey Lance is the dude, but

(27:50):
when he runs with the ball, I'm like, gosh, this
is what the Cowboys need, someone that has legs.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
This is the problem with the Cowboys fans because they'll
end up with Trey Lance. Yeah, no, that's that's they.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Gotta respect him.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
So Cowboys or Eagles basically is what what it is.
And obviously you're going Cowboys Cowboys, Kevin.

Speaker 7 (28:11):
Yeah, I got Eagles, then Cowboys, then Commanders.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
And Giants.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Giants are gonna be bad.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh Giants. Daniel Tels look pretty good with that beard.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
So you think the beard is gonna win the conference.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
He looks like a different dude, like neighbors. That means
the beard, the neighbors Beard, Neighbors. It's weird that the
Commanders might actually be pretty good, because the Commanders are
just they just suck. I have to take the Cowboys
because I bet let's go hundred bucks on the super
Bowl for twenty thousand.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
Dude, you think you think you think that old line
is gonna be good without Kelsey, They're missing a big
part of that old line. And then you're gonna have
Hurts running for his life every single play. They're gonna
be terrible.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
No offensive coordinator.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, they don't have to learn a whole new scheme,
like not really okay.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
Yeah, defensive coordinator for egoys.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, yeah, they gotta learn a whole new scheme.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
He's the head coach of the Vikings. He's a good dude.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Dude, you're on DC those at the Commanders now.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
I know, I know he's gonna be trouble when we
go to Washington.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
What do you mean he's gonna be trouble.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Because he's gonna know us. He's gonna know what the
d He's gonna know what MacCarthy's doing.

Speaker 7 (29:13):
I think everybody does.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Now you're talking crap, all right, This is our talk
with Jaguars all time leading rusher Fred Taylor. Fred played
thirteen seasons after he was selected number nine overall back
in the nineteen ninety NFL draft. A lot of people
think you should be in the Hall of Fame. I
hope he gets there one day, especially because I'm at him.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
I mean, yeah, that'd be cool.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
I'd be like, I'm at a Hall of Famer. That's
really the reason. You can listen to Fred on his
podcast that he does with Bryan Clark and Channing Crowder
called the Pivot Podcast. Seriously, it was awesome. Here he
is Fred Taylor. Whenever you're walking, let's say you're going
back to a game, what do you what are the
fans yell at.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
You for the most? What do they yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Or what are they Because we're watching people walk by
different athletes and they'll be like intercept shit too, Like
what is it that people will scream at you or
remember for what they're like kind of get an autograph
and they want to share a memory with you.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Oh, that's a tough one. Because I spent a lot
of time in Jacksonville. I'm part of the game day
production right there in the stadium. I get all sorts
of stuff. I mean, the ninety yarder from Freddy you
retired Dann Marino, you know when we beat him sixty
two to seven. I love that game, or even the

(30:28):
Pittsburgh game from the two thirty four. They're still a
killer and the Dolphin killer.

Speaker 9 (30:34):
And that's cool to have a killer, any killer.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
What's it like to break one?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's like over seventy eighty ninety when you see a
lot of green ahead, Like do you in your mind
can you outrun everybody on the field the whole time?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah, for sure, Because I would always like something, you know,
that was always the easy part for me, Like I'm like,
you're in trouble if I get an open I've never
been run down, so I wasn't ever worrying about them
catching me. And go back to that ninety yard touchdown
against the Dolphins and the playoff, which is still a
playoff record since ninety nine. I was laughing on my

(31:09):
way to the end zone because I know I had
Brock Marriyon behind me, the same guy my rookie year.
The year before that, I skirted out phone on an
eighty yard touchdown on the first playoff Monday night. They
never knew how fast I was because I was big.
They thought, oh, he's a big guy, he's not that fast.
Then we get out there, it was lights out, like

(31:30):
you weren't gonna catch me. So anytime I got a
little crease, I would tell my lineman, just give me
a little crease. I would say, look, I'm lubed up,
ready to go. I just need a crack. Sorry about that,
And you know they bust their butts to give me
a crack. And once I get through there, man, one
mistackle and I'm out exhilarating, like it's the best feeling ever.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
I was just thinking about how you would run the
boxes again. You are a physically you have a very
physical present because Jack a big dude. I just wouldn't
think that you'd be able to fly like you. People
realize you're able to fly on the field at times.
Would some of those guys be like, right, we can't.
We had no idea you were this fast.

Speaker 5 (32:10):
So I did on purpose. What I would do is
I would go and stand by the biggest lineman so
it would make you a smaller look smaller. And then
on game day I would run through the defensive backs
warm up drill, so when they would see me in person,
they would go, whoa this kid, that he's really big,
Like I didn't think you were that big. I was six'

(32:32):
one to twenty eight when I played. When I was
younger four to two, like four to eight. So yeah,
that that fast catching catching him off guard a little bit.
But my game was I felt like I could do
it all.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
What were you like in high school?

Speaker 5 (32:46):
I was a one hundred meter guy. I ran one
hundred meter like to twelve.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
What size were you in the like twelfth grade?

Speaker 5 (32:54):
Six feet six one to twelve?

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Was it so like man amongst boys that.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
I was cheating? Yep. I have some games I have
three carries for you know, buck fifty, buck eighty, and
my coach would take me out. Yeah, try to rest
me for the next game. Rare that I would play
past halftime.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
What about when you went to college and that's a
level jump obviously, was it were you still a bit
fast for the game.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
Everybody's fast then, but I still had elite speed at
my size and the position I played out, I just
didn't know how dominant I could be, you know. So
I would always practice hard, and I would look at
my teammates and go, why do they look like they're
practicing in slow motion? So eventually the difference became you

(33:40):
were ready for the next level and they weren't. And
there's no knock on them, but they didn't make it
to the next level. And you know, I had some
issues earlier on in my college career that sort of
you know, minimized my playtime. But eventually I became the
demand and coach Sperry trusted in my abilities and he
started feeding me to ball more in a passing offense

(34:03):
back in those days. And if I had a stretch
of a few good games, I was able to parlay
that into you know, great workouts for my pro draft
day and eventually being drafted ninth overall.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
So the Pivots the podcast, right, yep, yeah, yeah, and
it's really cool becaure's a lot of NFL perspective. It's
not just you, right, So if people listen to the Pivot,
what like, what are they hearing.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
What are you guys talking about?

Speaker 1 (34:26):
What what motivates you guys as ex players to still
talk about something like do you feel like your perspective
is still fresh and needed or is it more like
more like old school like this is how it should
be back in the day.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
No, No, it's really just a locker room vibe. Then
we kind of you know, integrate like culture and real lifestyle,
Like we try to be as transparent and authentic as possible.
We believe we have a lot of a lot of
messages and gyms to share, especially with you know, younger
athletes or anybody that's a fan of sport. So sport

(35:00):
sort of is what leads people to our doorstep and
then the conversation, the things that we talk about in
real time. I think those messages are important. The way
we highlight and put emphasis on our guests, allowing our
viewers and our fan base to really hear from our guests.
We learn not to overtalk our guests and let them

(35:21):
share their messages and their life experiences. And what people
take away from it is a person that's not an
athlete or not a celebrity, they go, hey, listen, I
go through this stuff but if I see this fan,
I mean, are this guests or this celebrity going through it,
and they're able to talk about it, they're able to
be vulnerable and show us that and we can hear

(35:42):
it all, then I'll be okay. So we just try
to elevate those conversations and paint certain pictures. Ryan Clark,
who you guys recently had on, is amazing as the driver.
You know, myself, I look to fill the void. You know,
if there's something I believe that lacking or needs to
be touched on, then I'll make sure to bring it up.

(36:03):
And our third host, Channing Crowder. Channing is the viral
moment guy. He's the comedian, the nutcase, the crazy guy
on the show. He's going to say something's going to
travel around the globe, you know, at light speed. But
it's my job to kind of bring Channing back down
to the center, and that creates the balance for us. So,
you know, much like our mantra, except to just move forward,

(36:27):
everybody is going to have their pivotal moment in their life,
so we just try to highlight that moment.

Speaker 6 (36:33):
You play football for so much of your life and
then it's over playing football is over.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
It's time to pivot. Yeah, it's time to pivot.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
I mean, what's that thought process of when it's over,
You're like, oh crap, what am I going to do?

Speaker 5 (36:45):
You know what? So you have to put in the
preparation and the planning before that moment come. Some guys
never know when that moment's going to come, so you know,
they're just hit with it abruptly. Myself, fortunately I was
able to thirteen years. So towards the end of my
career as it started winding, now it became you know,

(37:08):
an exciting It became a competitive moment for me in
my mind, like what's to come? The unknown? Like that
excites me. You know, change excites me. So I wanted
to make sure I wasn't going to be a statistic
like most of the guys that retired within three years
of retiring, most guys are eighty seven percent of the

(37:30):
guys are either filed for bankruptcy or divorced. I would say, no,
it's my challenge not to be one of those guys.
So it excited me to be able to pivot and
do things to avoid being that. So every guy has
a different perspective. But now we're able to with our platform,
be able to share that message with these guys, you know,

(37:53):
the young guys come on and show. Look, you got
to prepare yourself. This is what it's going to be like.
That transition is it's tough, you know, not just financially,
but from a mental standpoint, because you go your entire
life people telling you how good you are, you got
the fans. When you don't have that stage any longer,
what are you going to do? So these are the
different thoughts that we try to share with them. So

(38:16):
now they can start putting the pieces together.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
I've pulled this from the collection.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
Oh that looks like a rookie car?

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeah? Would you? Would you? We're gonna record you signing.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
You know, I don't. I don't sign rookies. I gotta
charge you for this.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Never mind, hold on, and oh there's the charge.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
No, no, it is any anytime I got a black
chin strap, that's a rookie car or is that true? Yeah,
because the league banned the black chin straps after that year,
So since ninety eight? What reason the league reasons?

Speaker 3 (38:48):
And who knows? They didn't give you that reason?

Speaker 5 (38:50):
No, you know, but they're a bit more lenient now
on a lot of things, and I love it, you know,
like the clique thing. You know, when they're able to
go and get these the cleek calls for your cleeks
for calls and then you can see the cancer cleaves
and the you know, sickle cell like different reasons why

(39:12):
guys where they're clicking there able to paint them and
get the fans in well. I love that. Back in
my day, black white, whatever the team issue colors were,
that's what you were stuck with, and it was playing
and boring. The game now is so exciting. It's so fast,
they're scoring a lot of points. The fans that have
in a great time, the venues, the stadiums are amazing,

(39:33):
So I love it.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
We appreciate yourselffing by I think chanting is switching out.
He's gonna hop up. Is he helping them now? But
you have to take this twenty now, no, no.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
He paid that. You have to read if my signature
is only worth twenty dollars without a problem.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
We were just using it for our context.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
But yeah, I know the Starbucks, I'll give this, I'll
take it under the table. I know. I appreciate what good.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
To see you. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
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Slash ft ball. All right, let's get over. We went
to La Chargers training camp in early August, and we

(41:28):
were facilities and we got to talk to a few players,
and we talked to Brendan Rice, the sun of Jerry Rice.
But I made sure not to ask him any questions
about Jerry purposefully smart, like all kids don't like that.
I wanted to be well. I just everybody asked about
Jerry Rice, and I just wanted to go. And I
led with, Hey, do you mean to ask you any
question about Jerry Rice? I didn't. I never bought it.
He was drafted in the season after spending the last

(41:49):
few seasons at USC. He is a beast physically a beast.
So here's a few minutes with Brendan Rice. Some of
these guys that come from Minnesota, Nebraska, wherever they get drafted,
Like it's gotta be great to tell them how lovely
California is all the time.

Speaker 8 (42:05):
Right, Yeah, it's lovely to be here in California. I
mean I came from USC right now, and I guess
to be thankful. Man, Like I'm here each day in
and day and I'm looking up in the sky and
it's seventy degrees all the time, and I'm just like, Wow.

Speaker 9 (42:17):
I'm blessed. Some of these guys.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
I would walk to the locker room and you know,
they got two star, three star and not rated, you know,
up on the lockers for a reason. Why do you
think that culture has started here with you guys?

Speaker 8 (42:30):
Honestly, them stars never met anything even coming out of
high school. The culture is, we want the nitty gritty guys,
the one that's gonna get down and put their fingers
down in the mud and go ahead and crawl through
the trenches with us.

Speaker 9 (42:44):
That's all we want. What does coach look for out
there in this practice, this far in camp.

Speaker 8 (42:49):
This feign practice, in this camp, he was looking for dogs, man,
He's looking for guys that are really hustling and going
ahead and putting forth to effort each day in and
day out, and see are you making progress towards your goals?

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Can you be a dog in this part of camp
if you're not hitting each other?

Speaker 8 (43:07):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I can physically and mentally dominate
you every play.

Speaker 9 (43:12):
Are you studying before practice? Of course? And what are
you studying some of my awards? My fast place?

Speaker 8 (43:20):
Maybe just like certain how he wants to routes or
techniques of other players.

Speaker 10 (43:25):
In the past.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
What's been the biggest change with the coaching from where
you were last year at USC to here with the Chargers.

Speaker 8 (43:32):
I would have to say the details are the only
things here. Everything matters because at this point in time,
time is of the essence in this game is so
much faster. The d linemen are getting off the ball
so much quicker. You're gonna have to go ahead, get
in and out that route. So justin go ahead and

(43:52):
put you in the right direction.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
You guys have had practice with the rams already, right,
What was that like actually playing against those other guys?

Speaker 9 (43:59):
You don't practice every single day.

Speaker 8 (44:01):
I thought the speed was gonna be like a big
jump in the NFL, But our coaches have put us
in the right position, that the game actually slows down
because of how fast we're going to each shit and
every day.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Do you have somebody on this team that has been
a bit of a mentor to you just in your
brief time here, or that you look up to if
you have questions about playing in the league.

Speaker 8 (44:20):
Well, there's plenty of guys. Of course, Herbert even Stick
in our all receiver room, josh Palmer, Joshua Palmer. There's
plenty of guys, even Derwin James and Khalil Mack. It's
just I would like to go ahead and see how
they lead so I can go Hey, when my time comes,
I can do it in the right way.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Give me your mount rushmore favorite players growing up when
you were watching football, those.

Speaker 9 (44:43):
Four were your absolute favorite.

Speaker 8 (44:45):
Julio Jones, Megatron, Davonte Adams, Antonio Brown.

Speaker 9 (44:50):
All receivers, Larry fitzher Of course, why would I say anything,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
Maybe there was a question did you always play wide
receiver as a kid, or you ever the premier athlete.

Speaker 9 (44:59):
They wanted to put every were on the field of
who I.

Speaker 8 (45:00):
Was everywhere I was running back, I played lineman, quarterback.

Speaker 9 (45:04):
Yeah, why who put you in line? Was a dog.

Speaker 10 (45:08):
I'm sure you were.

Speaker 9 (45:09):
Oh, I know, I just can't believe they'll put you
a lineman.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Kid.

Speaker 9 (45:12):
You healthy. I really appreciate the time. I have a
great shoat. Yeah picks.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Here's day On Henley, second year player, middle linebacker. He'll
be starting this year. He played mostly special teams as
a rookie. Last year you said Don Henley, no day
on day on the Eagle.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
It's like, oh, he's a training camp cool.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
And really be struggling. So here's that day On Henley.

Speaker 9 (45:36):
I just saw you tell a kid you had him.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (45:38):
I imagine these kids like they lived for this, right.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (45:42):
Did you ever get to meet the athletes you were
a kid.

Speaker 11 (45:44):
When I was growing up, I definitely met the Shawn
Jackson Artabius Bryant, and I think that was like the
two biggest.

Speaker 10 (45:51):
Guys I had met growing up. Of course, I'm probably
missing something, but I'm not not at that age.

Speaker 9 (45:55):
Did you meet de Sean Jackson as a kid.

Speaker 11 (45:56):
Oh, well, my dad, so my dad, and he has
a connection to a lot of people. And Sean Jackson
is like from CALLI from Long Beach, so that's not
too far for me. I'm from here as well, so
that just kind of happened.

Speaker 9 (46:09):
That's your second camp. This is my second camp going
into this.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
How'd you approach it differently than the first time when
you went in wide eyed, didn't had no idea.

Speaker 11 (46:17):
Well, I knew I had like this camp, and I
wanted to come in and approach you with the like
more intensity, like I wanted more from this season. Like
it was just about this camp. I wanted more from
this season than last. So I knew that I had
to take a different approach.

Speaker 10 (46:28):
I had to be more.

Speaker 11 (46:29):
Detailed, more mentally involved, and come with a better physical
you know, just stance on everything.

Speaker 9 (46:35):
When did you start training for this year?

Speaker 1 (46:37):
So last year ended, you take a break and then
how long until you start getting back on it.

Speaker 11 (46:42):
I mean they say give you the time like by
this some rest, but I felt like my last season
ended in a way that I didn't want to see.
So I mean I gave myself about a week or
two before I started to do like little rehabing, you know,
like just warm.

Speaker 10 (46:55):
The body up. But like we didn't know where our
coach was.

Speaker 11 (46:58):
I can't say I was like regularly ready to figure
out like what the playbook was going to be but
as far as my body, like about a week or
two after I started to like take start to take
care of myself, like start to get more active and
not just be It's not normal for NFL athlete to
just sit down and be, you know, stagnant for long.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Has there been a culture change in the locker room
with the new crew coming in new coaches?

Speaker 10 (47:20):
Oh, definitely, it's lit.

Speaker 9 (47:22):
What's the difference, Like, what's the day to day difference?

Speaker 11 (47:24):
I mean, first of all, we are The best way
to say it is like we're more detailed, more in depth.
I think, like from last year to this year, it's
a standard that has to be uphild, and that standard.

Speaker 10 (47:35):
Is set by the people.

Speaker 11 (47:37):
One of the best things I've heard so far through
all this is like the standard set by the people
is not set by the coaches, about the people who's
involved in I think we have a pretty good standard
right now. It's like, you know, we want to cut
drag for meetings. Cut drag meaning like we want to
start about five minutes ahead, like you're not late.

Speaker 10 (47:51):
If you get their own time. But amongst the team,
that's no late.

Speaker 11 (47:56):
I'm saying, like be there, bro, So like that's the
type of the mentality we have, like we want to
do things the right way, and I think that's just
the best way to put it.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
What was the first time you met coach or was
it a big players on all players meeting?

Speaker 3 (48:09):
Like, how was that instruction?

Speaker 11 (48:11):
No, the first time I met coach, I was walking
through the facility. I knew he had just got hired,
so I was hoping to catch him because it was.

Speaker 10 (48:18):
A whole lot of media going on.

Speaker 11 (48:19):
I knew he was a busy man, but I had
caught him in one of the middle of his pants tugs,
you know he do. Like I was walking, I didn't
know if it was him, but then he hit one
of the I was like, that's my coach, that's my coach.
I got to shake his hand, say what's up, and
it was We hit it off, man, Like I think
he pretty much hit it off with everybody. He probably
meant because that's the type of guy he is. But
that was a great day.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Before you go into a game, are you prepared that
it's going to hurt the entire time? Like?

Speaker 9 (48:44):
Is that it? Because I feel like that, I would
be like, man, it's gonna hurt the whole game.

Speaker 11 (48:47):
I mean, no, No, if you're going with that mindset,
you might be scared to make some players I want
to say, I'd.

Speaker 9 (48:53):
Rather get hurt, but it hurts no, Nona.

Speaker 11 (48:56):
You just prepare yourself for what comes next. But you
don't ever think about it. If you come out the
game feeling great, did you play hard enough?

Speaker 10 (49:04):
Did you really play hard enough? That's what you gotta think.

Speaker 11 (49:06):
So you want to go into that game like, no
matter what comes at me, I got it, I got it.

Speaker 10 (49:11):
So you don't want to you don't think about your body.

Speaker 11 (49:12):
You want to say your body's prepared for anything, Like
you want to be prepared for anything that comes at you.

Speaker 9 (49:17):
Give me your mount Rushmore for players growing up, did
you watch that?

Speaker 12 (49:20):
Were your favorite?

Speaker 11 (49:21):
Okay, so growing up, I would definitely say Michael Vick.

Speaker 10 (49:25):
Like just it's Michael Vick.

Speaker 9 (49:27):
Did you play quarterback?

Speaker 1 (49:29):
You since you were I'm assuming you're the best athlete
in like town, city, stay.

Speaker 10 (49:34):
You know right here this field best athlete.

Speaker 11 (49:37):
You know what I'm saying, field, state, whatever car, I'm
in whatever house, I'm sitting in whatever couch I'm on.

Speaker 9 (49:45):
I'm the best athlete.

Speaker 10 (49:47):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (49:47):
So you know, of course I gotta, you know, watch
everybody I was out. Randy Moss was the dopest, like
obviously Tom Brady, Michael Vick and who else. I would
say Ray Lewis, like those were like my Mount rushmore
like those the four guys.

Speaker 10 (50:04):
It's four heads on my other store.

Speaker 9 (50:06):
He didn't put the Seann Jackson on there.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
But I love him.

Speaker 9 (50:09):
Yeah, it was it too much love, like it was
too human.

Speaker 11 (50:11):
Like yeah, I'm saying, like you they say, don't meet
try those because like then they become human.

Speaker 10 (50:16):
I'm at d Jack and like, not only.

Speaker 11 (50:18):
Did I meet him like he was established, so like
it's not even just like the Djack thing for me,
It's like that's like my big cousin, So him I
got to watch because one, he was legendary, he's golded.
But also, I said, Michael Vick, and you know, I'm
twenty four, so like my Michael Vick, I barely got
any Atlanta Michael big Like I'm saying, like highlights.

Speaker 9 (50:40):
Egos Michael Vick exactly, so I got to see him
go crazy.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Last question last year, your first season in the league. Yeah,
who did you line.

Speaker 9 (50:48):
Up across from where you had that? All right, I'm
about to go hard. But that's freaking cool. I'm lined
up across from that dude.

Speaker 10 (50:53):
I would definitely say.

Speaker 11 (50:57):
Probably I got to see Leonard Fournett and I was like,
it was Leonard Fornett. That's crazy even to even think about,
like one of those guys. And then being up close
in that like proximity of both Mahomes and.

Speaker 10 (51:13):
Lamar's like, those are like what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (51:15):
You look at those guys and you see what they've
done and what they're doing because they're so active.

Speaker 9 (51:19):
It's like, yeah, I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
And lastly, it's Dicker the Kicker. Cameron Dicker, Yes, best
name in the NFL. Dick or the Kicker, made news
a few years ago when he got a call from
the Chargers in like an emergency kicker situation and he
was going to the Carry Underwood concert and then instead
he went and kicked and won the game. Big thanks
to camera for joining us here. When a new coach
comes in, does that change your anything as the kicker?

Speaker 13 (51:46):
I think if new special teams coaches. Yes, with new
head coaches, there's certain things that they might implement that
they tell the special teams coach to do. Most of
the time special teams. Coaches have almost full control special teams,
and so everything stays the same for me.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
How did Jumie coacharball with the first time or have
you even?

Speaker 12 (52:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (52:03):
I have his first might have been his first weekend
or second weekend in town. I texted him in the
off seasons I was still here and he and I
went to church.

Speaker 9 (52:12):
So that was my first time gating in Huh, how
many balls? I have friends play basketball and they get it.
Try to get episode amount of shots a day or
a week. Is it similar with kickers? Is there a
number you try to chase?

Speaker 12 (52:24):
Try to limit it?

Speaker 13 (52:25):
So I don't ever really count reps, but I'd put
it in the ballpark of like fifty reps on days
I kick, and which is twice a week other than
game day. So I'll during season, I'll kick Sunday on
game day and then do Wednesday Thursday.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
The mental aspect of this is obviously a big part
of what you do. Does your heart rate climb during
a game and do you monitor your heart rate?

Speaker 13 (52:47):
I think I don't monitor it. I don't think it
really climbs. I think it either stays same or might
drop in those moments because I just like to like
zone out and get as like mellow as I can.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Can you zone out if it's a kick to potentially
tie or win the game?

Speaker 9 (53:04):
Can you separate?

Speaker 10 (53:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (53:06):
Is that something you could always do?

Speaker 13 (53:07):
Something I've been able to do since I was young,
So yeah, something I don't know how, but I've just been.

Speaker 12 (53:12):
Able to do it.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Is there a difference with a new deep snapper long
snapper and one that has been around for a long time.

Speaker 13 (53:23):
I think just having the stability in his mental side
helps a lot, because like everybody's gonna mess up in
some way at some point, and so he knows, like,
that's not the way I am. They know that's not
the way I am. So he's not worried about anything happening.
I think just him being able to help me kind
of going into new stadiums, being.

Speaker 12 (53:41):
In Josh and you're thirteen for us, so him being
able to.

Speaker 13 (53:45):
Say, hey, the past is how stuff has gone here,
blah blah blah, and kind of walk me through how
stadiums work.

Speaker 12 (53:50):
And all that.

Speaker 9 (53:50):
Can you shake off and miss pretty quick.

Speaker 12 (53:52):
Very easily?

Speaker 7 (53:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (53:53):
Make makes and missus I'd say, are gone out of
my mind instantly, what was.

Speaker 9 (53:59):
Your bigges high school kick?

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Not the longest, but the most important high school kick.

Speaker 13 (54:04):
We had a game winner, actually a game tying kick
I'll say against Sibilo Steel when our quarterback went out
of the game and we had our backup quarterback as
one of my best friends who went into the game
and drove us down the field and I hit a
I think it was a forty or fifty yard at.

Speaker 12 (54:20):
A tire the game.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Could you ever play multiple positions and you were also
the kicker or when did you start going I'm only
dialing in a gay.

Speaker 11 (54:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (54:26):
When I first started playing football, which was in Shanghai, China,
I was a left guard and I hated it. I
thought the sport sucks, this.

Speaker 12 (54:32):
Isn't for me.

Speaker 13 (54:34):
Then we moved to the United States to sixth grade,
I only played soccer, and then seventh grade we started
playing football again because everybody does in Texas, and I
was an alignment again, thought this is awful, and decided
I'm just gonna kick. This is not for me again,
and so started kicking from there and kicked all the
eighth grade and then high school.

Speaker 12 (54:52):
I told the coaches, I'm not playing another position.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
I don't want to do this, so you chose to
only focus on kicking from eighth grade on?

Speaker 9 (55:00):
And when did you start.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
To actually play for the high school team?

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Was it ninth grade?

Speaker 12 (55:04):
Ninth grade?

Speaker 9 (55:04):
Because you can't nathe because it's too many years, right,
you get four years? And did you start as a
ninth grader in you high school team?

Speaker 13 (55:09):
I was on the a team of freshmen, and then
sophomore year I won the starting.

Speaker 12 (55:13):
Job for the varsity.

Speaker 9 (55:15):
Did you punt as well?

Speaker 12 (55:16):
I punted junior and senior year.

Speaker 9 (55:19):
Could you egency punt here and now if they needed
to do?

Speaker 12 (55:22):
I'm ready, I'm ready.

Speaker 9 (55:23):
Do you ever pray? Okay? What about a play? If
they're like, all right, do you have a play? I
don't even want you to say what it is.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
But you're so excited if they call because it's a
fake and you really get to shine.

Speaker 13 (55:31):
I wish, I wish that'd be fun.

Speaker 12 (55:35):
I wish we had the opportunity.

Speaker 9 (55:36):
To, like a direct snap roll out again.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
I wish man.

Speaker 13 (55:40):
I'm just I'm hoping one day, one day they have
faith in me.

Speaker 12 (55:43):
But we'll see.

Speaker 9 (55:44):
What do you get out of camp?

Speaker 13 (55:46):
I think it's just good to come out here and
then be able to kick in front of fans and
talk with people, and then hang out with the guys.
You have long days with each other and so being
in the locker room playing ping pong, beating everybody and enjoying.

Speaker 9 (55:59):
Life off season?

Speaker 3 (56:00):
Where you live?

Speaker 13 (56:02):
I travel. I don't have a home, so I just
travel around. I try to do a month in usually
another country somewhere and wow, figure something out.

Speaker 9 (56:12):
We're off from awesome movie.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
We're Austin, folks, And I thought you'd say maybe back
in Aues.

Speaker 12 (56:17):
I do go to Austin. That's technically home base.

Speaker 13 (56:19):
I go to my parents' house and just throw all
my stuff there and I'm there for four days and
then go on a trip somewhere.

Speaker 12 (56:25):
And I'll be I use that kind of as my
resting spot.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
How would your Special Teams coach describe you as a
human if someone went out and said, hey, what's camera
like as a person that was a kicker?

Speaker 12 (56:35):
Awful die? I just think like a good dude who's
lighthearted and it doesn't take anything too seriously.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
My final three, can you hear the crowd screaming at
you when you're about to kick?

Speaker 13 (56:48):
Not what I'm about to kick, but like when we're
just staying on the sidebin and yeah, I listen, but when.

Speaker 12 (56:52):
I run on the field everything, I don't hear anything.
Everything's just kind of like noise.

Speaker 9 (56:57):
Can you be iced?

Speaker 12 (56:59):
I don't think it.

Speaker 9 (57:01):
Do you think more is made of that than Actually?

Speaker 13 (57:04):
Yeah, I think it's like a silly thing that people
bring attention to in a way just because I'm like,
you're gonna make a miss the kick if you ice
me or not. Like, I guess it doesn't affect what
I'm doing. It's just like, okay, we're just delaying this
whole process for everybody.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
So final question, barefoot? Do you kick barefoot?

Speaker 8 (57:20):
Ever?

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Never? Okay?

Speaker 9 (57:21):
That just seems stupid.

Speaker 10 (57:22):
Yeah, it wouldn't feel good.

Speaker 12 (57:23):
We'll just hurt the foot. It's not fun.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
Yeah, okay, So here's the thing. So my friend Thomas
Rhett is a country singer. My friend Rich Eisen is
ESPN guy sports guy, And so I got this error
card and I'm going to auction this for Saint Jude.

Speaker 9 (57:38):
But it's like a re.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
Soul send card and we're gonna get him to sign
it at the end, but I want like prominent people,
would you mind signing it with Thomas Rhett, all right,
I want to give you this marker here.

Speaker 9 (57:48):
We're gonna auction off for charity.

Speaker 12 (57:50):
Sweet boom.

Speaker 9 (57:52):
Appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
That's the end of our NFL preview show. And everything
we said his gospel and take it to the bank.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
Oh it's gonna happen too, is very single thing crazy.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
It is exciting though so and it's exciting every single year,
which you think at this point if we've done it
so many years but it's football's back, you wouldn't be.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Is excited, but it's exciting every year.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Thank you, guys. We'll have two normal episodes coming up
this week, so we'll have one on Wednesday and one
on Friday. We won't do three episodes every week just
because of the college and NFL preview episodes is one extra.
But we will see you guys on Wednesday with another show.
Go follow us at Bobby Bones Sports. Thanks for listen
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