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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome back into the players Club.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We are your host. I'm loving to Fletcher, got my
man Santana Moss aka Hey to the Nine aka Cowboy
Killer a ka Giant Slayer. And we got Shot Springs
aka Blue. All Right, Fellas, we got a show for
y'all today. We got a show for them today. Tell
him what to tell him, what's in story.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We're gonna kick this thing off with some duves for
the week.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
And guess what, Fellas, we got Monday night football prime
time here in DC against the Bears.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And later on the show, we got Bill Crosskey merrit See.
I want to say his whole name. I wanted to
say dollar dollar Bill.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
That man is known by his full name, dollar Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Dollar Bill. All right, man, let's try to get this
show started. And as you mentioned, Tanna, we're gonna start
this thing off with doves of the week. Got more
Monday night football on the horizon, Bud. We got to
look back to the bit out on the West Coast.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We went out there and got that dub out in
the west on the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Ain't like putting up dub, but you ain't from the
West Coast. Went up the dub and then like flying
back six hours.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Winn slept, Hey, California was good to me.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I ain't gonna even lie to y'all. Went out there
on Friday, Yeah, played me some golf at an exclusive
country club on Friday.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Then Saturday, then again Sunday we played and we got
that dub. So I'm gonna start you all off with
my dub of the weekend. And I felt like, going
into this game, our D line had to dominate. Yeah, well,
we've been able to consistently get pressure on the opponent
the quarterback. We've won those games. Games we haven't, we've lost.
(01:51):
Charges came in there banged up offensive line. Herbert had
already been sacked twelve times, been hit numerous other times.
This was the game that the D defensive line had
to dominate, and they did. They end up coming out
of this game. We got five sacks for on Herbert,
one on Trey Lance, but just the impact that they
had Doris Armstrong two sacks, Von Miller sack and a
(02:13):
half Ken Law and in Pain just being disrupted, just
being disruptive, Jacob Martin being disrupted. So I'm gonna give
them the guys that dub. But also I gotta give
Kawhan Martin. Yeah, Kuhi was the one who really sparked
that comeback for us down ten to nothing, charge of
driving put that show on that on that football Forrest Fumber.
(02:36):
He had a number of big, big hits in that game.
Another and also a tackle touchdown saving tackle right before
the Santa Street interception. So those are my dubs of
the week.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, I feel you on that. I think too.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And just to kind of come in a little bit
about your dugs, Kwan especially, I said that going into
the game, and I want to see our defense playing
on the other side of the ball, you know, and
when when when we have that's when you see our team,
you know, the way we want see him flying around
and and being the dominant playing command of football. But Kwan, man,
he set the tone I've been I said this. I
(03:07):
want to know of Maddia or Kayler. Got any audio
of me talking about who I thought was gonna be
that guy offensive told Ja Kwan remind me of an Ed.
I think I've been saying this dude presence back there, man,
and he does something that we didn't see Ed do
(03:29):
a lot. He smashing cash. You know, he ain't scared,
and I'm not saying Ed was was. Ed tackled everything,
but kwan Quan comes downhill like a different kind of safety.
You know when it comes to putting that, you know
that right there on people. But my Doug gonna go
to I'm a first start off with offenses, you know,
That's what I got to talk about first. JD five,
come on, man, homecoming Jedi himself. I think, man, just
(03:53):
knowing what that whole trip meant to him was one thing.
And I was saying to myself, you coming into us like, man,
I hope he don't put too much on round Matt
and just try to play back knowing that he's been
off for two weeks. You know, because they asked us
before the game, who, you know, what did we expect
out of, you know, our quarterback knowing that he's going
(04:15):
to be back, And I'm like, look, man, when he playing,
I'm expecting to be him. I care less about what
he went through because if he's out there, to me,
that means he's confident enough to go out there and
play at.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
A high level.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
We didn't get nervous times when.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I watched him pre game, and I knew immediately in
pre game that it was nothing that's.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Gonna hold him back.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
That Brice was just there for protection because I watched him,
you know, do a couple of drills and I know, man,
just being a guy, Like I can watch a guy
and tell you if something, if he's ginger on something
and he's kind of like not want to, you know,
be explosive. So so I'm gonna give him my first
dug because he went out there, he went back home, He.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
He had mom was out there.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Man. You know you wasn't there to see it. You
had to be there to see it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And I'm just saying it's because, bro, she came and
she brought a lot of people with and I mean
they was parting.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
They was they was right there behind the bench.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
They had to they had to sweep right behind the
bitch and she turned up. So JD five for going
up there, taking his taking his team to his hometown,
getting a dub, playing out standing. I'm talking about from
the past game, you know, picking up first downs, when
when things went there with his legs, all that of
that nature. My second dub, I have to mention this kid.
My sex second dub goes to none other than Sanders
(05:32):
still think Sanders still he's you know, we talk about
it as players because you played this game. When it rains,
it pours, and he had to he had to pick.
Two weeks ago in Atlanta, he started it off and
all the players said leading up to this game, you know,
(05:53):
on the West Coast, he's been saying, hey, man, I
feel like I'm gonna get something. I'm gonna get a
pick this week because I been he was making kind
of kind of plays. He's making practice lead you know,
it kind of leads over a bleeze over to the game.
So for him to steal that thing on the gold line,
you know we talked about.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Your shoutout took d line too, because they tipped that
ball tipically right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
We talk about our defense being one of those defenses
that you know, when we playing our best, you know
we are being but we're not gonna break. And you
saw them do that time and time again, and they
ended it. They put the I guess you can say
the explanation point on it when he made the interception.
So both of my dubs going to JD five and
Mike Center still.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And you knew JD five had to perform home shout
out to Bobby Wacken, another West Coast kid. You know,
we ain't get allowed to talk about him, but you
know he played extremely about fifty miles from the stadium
as well too. My goal stay on the offense side
of the ball. The man we know it's Dollar Bill,
Yeah right, Lenna. You talked about it earlier in the
week as we previewed the Chargers going to the West
(06:51):
Coast that against that defense, you had to be able
to run the ball.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and when we knew.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
If you couldn't sustain drive as a defense like that
and they get you backed up and they blitz heaven
and you know, put that pressure on five. I think
five was able to play a good game because Donor
Bill had one hundred and eleven yards fourteen carries. And
when your defense travels in your run game travels, you
come out with a win. So I think I'm a
(07:20):
summing up about Dollar Bill was my guy.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I love.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Was happy to see that kid go over one hundred yards.
Get you know, we've been talking about him since since
he touchdown, Yeah, and he made He's making touchdowns right,
So that's my double the week.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm gonna go speed over to this lane and it's
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Speaker 1 (07:44):
Nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So we got this week five matchup man, and you know,
the talk is about the rematch, basically the rematch from
from the Hill, nor but not only just.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The rematch part of it.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
A little bit of talk about.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That, just a little bit talking about but that's not
the biggest talk. The talk is JD five and Kayla
Wims going head to head for the second time. This
is year two of these guys even been in the league.
And now you can already see it brewin. You can
already see it forming that these guys might be like
the Peyton Manny Tom Brady of our era, playing watching
(08:21):
these guys year out the year, competing to.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
See damn ma Reno Johnny.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, you can name them all.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So what have you guys seen from from Caleb Man
so far? In the Ben Ben Ben Johnson's.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Where the biggest thing where the biggest thing, you know,
coming over from we we all talked about, you know,
Ben Johnson and everybody around the leg talked about his
creativity on the offense side of the ball and what
he did for Jake Goff, So we was like, man,
he go over there with Kayleb Webbs. You know that
that kid got every throw. He's athletic, he can do everything.
So we were like, this guy could possibly be the
(08:57):
limit now that uh Caleb got a coordinated just like
Cliff is with j D five. I see a kid
that he can He has all the talent in the world.
You obviously see why he was the number one. He
can make every throw. He seems to be a little
more poised there on a little wind streak. It's gonna
(09:20):
be interesting to see how, you know they play against
our secondary because I think I think we match up
extremely well against UH the their their receiving cores. But
I just see a kid that's that that that earned
the right to be the first pick. I think he's
unbelievable talent and he's only gonna continue to get better.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I see why why the Bears hired Ben Johnson as
there off the head coach, and it was the fixed
Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
He looks like a totally different whole season ago.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I mean, you see him getting the ball out on time,
making making accurate throws. I saw with the versus the blue.
He's he's leading the NFL in touchdowns six six touchdowns,
run exceptions one thirty six QBR or QB rating I
think highest or second highest in the NFL. His ability,
(10:14):
he's not turning the football over, only been sacked one
time in the last two games. That was something he
was highly sacked last year and then even the first
two games, and I think he was still getting to learn,
getting to know that offense and comfortable. They do a
nice job of moving him around, running the bootlegs, getting
him out of the outside of the pocket, being able
(10:35):
to utilize his legs, and they'll take shots down the field. Yeah,
they gonna take shots. So it's a the imprint that
Ben Johnson has played made on Caleb Williams. It's paying
huge dividends already, and I'm sure the Bears are happy
with this, this marriage the way it is in this
early stages.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, I've seen some of those things too. I watched
I had a chance to sit down and watch them.
In one game I forgot I think it was against
the Cowboys, and I watch how that first drive it
was like it was like precision. I mean, I'm talking
about this guy was I mean, they didn't miss a beat,
and it was like when they scored, I'm like, okay,
(11:13):
this office looking a lot different. And then I saw
a sputter a little bit throughout the game after those
first I guess you could say the scripted plays, but
it only sput it because Caleb at times going to
be Caleb, you know what I mean, And rightfully so, man,
when you have when.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
You say that, you mean and you say that like
like Jay and at time's gonna be j what you mean?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You know it's a difference.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So Caleb being Caleb to me is just like even
though the coach might want him to say, I want
this thing on time, I want you to get the
bars to hand quick, at times he wants to play
that that you know, that's saying like football, and it's
like it's in him, it's in his DNA.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
He does it well.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
He can he can scramble, he can find the second guy,
find an open guy, and it works.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Does I frustrate you as a coach or.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
You frustrate me as a receiver. I know it would would,
but I'm not sure what it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Straight.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Ben Johnson showed you his frustration. But when that ball
is not coming out on time or where it should go.
Oh he's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, So I say all that, but I also say
I don't take nothing from what he can do. I
got this guy can throw the ball with the best
of them. He's a phenomenal talent. He's not scared, fearless.
He goes out there and he plays the game the
way you want to see your quarterback play.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So I think it's gonna be one of those games
for him. Man.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But what I want to ask you guys, is how
can our defensive front have continued success against the quarterback
like Kayler? What do they need to do, you know,
in this game to kind of have what we've been
seeing when we've we've won our you know, our games.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, when you think about, you know, the two games,
I think we played extremely well upfront with the Giants
and last week against the Chargers, both of them got
athletic quarterbacks. Justin Herbert is not an easy still against
the Raiders to but Justin Herbert is not.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
An easy shack. That's an athletic kid.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And I think what we got to continue you to
do is just just just that continuous to get continuous
like just dominance because sometimes I think, and maybe it's
just me, I felt like our d line just it
showed it say like your potential is to be like
the best team time in the league.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
And then sometimes I felt like we kind.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Of cruised a little bit, you know against you know,
like we absolutely absolutely dominated the Chargers, and it was Novice,
we absolutely dominated the Giants. I felt like we, you know,
against Atlanta, we didn't do that. I think we can
absolutely dominate the Bears up front.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know the way the way We're gonna have to
do that though, and it's the secondary plays a major
part of that. So secondary against coverage, it against Chargers,
think about we started that game out, We're playing a
lot of male man and then bringing pressure, and they
were making plays. Herbert, you didn't didn't have the proper
(13:53):
wreustlane of discipline. He runs for forty one yards man
and man defense. Everybody got back to the quarterback. Second
time they run a little royal route, two dbs running
to each other twenty nine yard for.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Keenan.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I'm talking about this on the booth, like we need
to play coverage, just rush for and play coverage behind.
I think that one that Keenan Allen. Play was also
a five man pressure. Once we started playing more zone
and rushing four vision on quarterback making him read it out,
that's when the d line was able to get to
get to the quarterback. So it's the same I feel
(14:32):
it's the same same situation with the Bears. The only
thing differently is we're gonna have to make sure the
Bear the Bears old line is better than the charge better,
but I mean a drastic but we have to make
sure if we're gonna play zone defense, we gotta be
great in our zone drafts, better than we were, even
even better than we were against the Charger. Understanding that
(14:55):
they're gonna go play action. They're gonna two man rous
three man routes or whatever, and they're taking vertical shots.
They're looking for big windows. So as linebackers, it's underneath
players you have to take because drops. You're gonna have
to identify these guys a lot, a lot better.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Because because they were Caleb. I think it was a
Cowboys game too. I saw a little r PO action.
I think it was Cowboys, and when they went that,
you know that that that the RP action. The r
PO action can put a little linebackers in the conflict,
so you have to.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Be Yeah, they they play. Action is a big game.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
This is truly gonna be a game where Russian coverage beings.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
To work in units.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Being that we face the Ben Johnson's offense before in
the last year. Now there's a whole different you know,
ball club and him being in Chicago and different players.
Do you think we can take some of the stuff
we used in and use it now just knowing that
some of this, But.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
The difference is Jared Golf was he was sitting duck, Yes,
he wasn't moving.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Caleb has that ability to exactly it will.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Probably be different rush playing against Caleb as opposed to
Jared Golf.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I think that's very important.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I rushed playing when first that you can't get, you
can't go, So you got to.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Understand keep them in the pocket.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, but schematically you understand they're gonna wrestle trick plays,
they had the fleet flicker they got, they're gonna do versus.
Understand his his philosophy caller, So you'll you'll you'll definitely
be some carry over with that. But different players playing
different positions, different positions too.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, we've been talking to Man far As just you know,
not to talk so much about their offense. You know,
I want to dive in deep on ours. One of
the things that all of us have been wanting to
see is just knowing that we have that running back
by committee in our backfield. We've been saying we should
lean on it a little more times. What have you
guys seen so far? And we can just go off
(16:54):
of what you've seen last week against the Charge, But
what have you seen from the Commanders run game so far,
you know, leading to this game, leading to this week?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Well, I was just gonna say, you know, Bill is
just continue to get better each week. You know what
I'm just talking about. He's starting to show himself as
the number one guy, even though we got running back committee.
And what I see with a kid like that is
just's He doesn't look like big and stature, but you
(17:27):
know the first guy you hear a break of arm tackle,
he can hit the crease hard. He has patience. You know,
I can't continue to say how good I think this
kid is. Man, this kid is, this kid is we
found one. It almost kind of reminds me of like
and Lonner. You probably can relate to this when Denver
found TD, you know, like you knew the late drive.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Pick of a guy, you know, even Alfred Morse.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah yeah, but when you find a guy like that
that run too for that run yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
About three years the straight thousand thousand thousands six first year. Yeah,
that's what I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
So, I mean, you know, I'm quite sure he gonna
he had one hundred and eleven this week on fourteen carriage.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I'm quite sure he's gonna have a few more carriages.
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It's so crazy because I've been trying to, like, you know,
when you're watching somebody play, you're like, man, whoever you
remind me of? I haven't found one person that his
game is just like. But I know some of his
moves where he can get you to this freezing them.
He bursts. That's eGRID James to me. Now, Eddrin is
not probably as fast as him, how his burst was.
But Edgewill had a way to get his feet in
(18:34):
an awkward way as a running back, you know, you
want to be balanced. He had a way of making
the making the linebacker thing. Hold on, he might be
coming back backside and you get you know, I'll see
you linebackers all the time because y'all watching to see
the movement, and you gotta mirror him sometimes. And Edgrin
had a way. I saw it in collage so much.
He would make you mirror his one two. As soon
(18:56):
as he saw you lean and getting ready for the
he go right back where you thought he would going.
I saw a couple of little runs last week and
I was like, man, that's e J all over, but
different kind of body, different kind of you know, flavor,
you know.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Trying to pinpoint who was the modern day football I
was thinking maybe diving Cook.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Maybe that was the closest thing I was thinking of.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Cook got a difference, and the Cook to me was
a little more of a strong runner, you know, he
had a different kind of run to He was quick
as all our dose and fast is all I do
is so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
By me of a young lady and Thomas.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yes, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Other part of it is, uh, the patience lad. And
I played against some Danny when he was a rookie.
He had he had patients. A lot of young players,
regardless of the pittients position, their mind is working on
thousand miles per hour and their feet is moving quickly,
especially at the running back position. But he has paid
(19:56):
had that patience. They used to run a lot of
powers and stuff like that. Like this dude, he would
do a lot of like what you just said with
edge setting you up, getting you to go somewhere and
then and burst on, burst through the whole like slow
to it, then burst through it. But Bill has a
unique ability to know one he can be patient, but
then also know when I got to hit it, like
(20:17):
the touchdown run that's is that that players designed to
go up and seeing there's no edge, get outside. So
he reminds me of a from patient standpoint. Some of
his in and out Russ got the other young today
then the young preach homes. We got to put our finger.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
But as far as the other thing about the run game,
the blocking, yeah, physicality, all alignement can pull. I mean
everybody can pull.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You know that thing I sent you the other day
with the dude of what a guy name was who
be breaking down our runs the right job showing some
of those all of them can can pull.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Got all these different counters, the tight ends saying now
doing a great job getting based back. But the block
in the physicality. Chris Paul has been Hey, can.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
We say Pro Bowl almost like he's only been playing
with three games now and.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He's looking like that. He's looking like that, bro. Yeah,
so he's uh.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That's what we're talking about developing a player right there.
Like seeing him from the year and the way he's doing.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Connery all those guys just doing outstting the job and
the tight ends and Trench Scott great job add to
that too.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Have you ever seen that? And you know, I don't
want to be too long winning on it, but have
you you a defensive guy? Both of you guys are
defensive guys. This twelve package, this is what is twenty two?
Twenty two?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Three tight ends or three tight ends? Thirteen thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I'm way ahead of myself when when I saw Trent
going as a tight end, when I saw him ab
outside of touss, I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
How to inside? I'm like, Okay, he's used as a
tight end.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
He did catch jd first touchdown past, so I'm like, okay,
we're using him as a tight end. Have you ever
seen those formations before you get in the middle of
the line back and just seeing Detroit used to do.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
It a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I mean, they just did.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
They had the type the office alignment that they brought
in is as a skipper, was a da skipper.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
I think they got because they got that was the
game last year.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Detroit was doing it and it got the penalty. Was
a Detroit game, Detroit Dallas last year.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
But anyway, oh yeah, they did. It was Detroit Dallas.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But they always they always YEA had that and there's
been a bunch of teams that they'll bring in the
extra office alignment.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Now I wonder it just it just looked different to
me because I feel like we run that thing so well.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
When them guys in there, you just know it's finna.
They're finish.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Show you some some something that can be on a canvas.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That's like I'm watching art.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
That's been a silver lining of debates injury because prior
to Baits getting injured, it was they send it ers
or or Yankoff as the three tightness. Now when base
got injured, hey we need a bigger body. Put trench
Scott there, and I mean it's just now, coach, look
(23:13):
like you know what we got something?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You see what you if you like football today.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Shout out to coach.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Gibbs speaking of speaking of how those guys you know,
being able to pull and everything, I'm pretty sure the
Chicago defenses is watching that tape and getting ready, you know, defensively.
What have you guys seen so far from them this year?
You know, I've seen some of them.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, I was just about to say, they get they
get turnovers, opportunistic. They can't stop that run, yeah they can,
they get takeaway.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
But but but and that's the that's the key, right
because you know they're going to be aggressive on first
down against that's because they know they can't stop off running.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah, but they they're the best.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
In the league on on on third down, and they
got some guys in the vacum can play some football.
So we JD five though he's been so smart with
the ball, you know, going into this game.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I know Cliff and those guys recognize that.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
But if.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
We got we got a chance to do something good
against the defense, as long as we don't get backed up.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, hey, fellas, it's tied to go, Yes, sir, Many
rippletent On y'all you know Many Rippertent.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Memory Lane?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, it's trying to go
down back down memory lane.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But we got a Monday night football dame coming up. Memories.
It could be memories against the Bears.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, primetime game Monday night, something that Thursday night. Whatever
the case may be. What is what is? What's your memories?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Man?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Wow, I'm gonna start with you.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Please start with.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Him, because you know mine, I got a lot of
prime time memories.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah man, you know, I mean we all have. I
mean we all had a long.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Playing The Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah yeah, that's that's that doesn't drain me.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
But you know, and this was not like a prime time,
prime time game, but it became a prime time game.
It was like a four o'clock game. You know those
four o'clock games. They considered them.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Almost prime time, especially the national game.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
It was the Jacksonville game for me, you know six
the way that ended, uh, the fashion of it. It
was a walk off, remember touched it and and just
to me, it was special. See, folks don't realize how
different these games are for certain players, you know what
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I mean, Like you have a you get up for
certain reasons, London get up for certain reasons. I went
into that game on the high just knowing, like every
time I played the team from Florida, it was something different.
Now you might not saw it in me because I'm
gonna have the same demeaning, I'm gonna have the same approach.
But I knew it was something.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
To go down. Why it's Jacksonville.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
I'm I'm from Miami.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I watched I watched Jacksonville as a kid. I watched
Mark you now throw to Jimmy Smith and Keenan McCarty
had shot and fred t in a backfield. You know
what I'm saying, Like this, that was my childhood Sunday's
because I want a Dolphin fan.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
My dad used to want to watch them. I'm like
Jacksonville Temple, you know, That's how I used to look
at it.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
So anytime I got a chance to face those guns,
it was something. It's something like I had a different
bounce in my stuff. But I couldn't tell you that
that game was gonna start or end the way it did.
And I started off with the first touchdown and I
finished it with the last one in overtime. So that
to me, man was one of the big kind of
like And that was regardless if it wasn't like.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The prime time.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
It was prime time for me because who it was,
and it was just a way to kind of end
there because I remember when I went home, that's all
they showed on ESPN. They showed that thing so much.
I was like, Yeah, that ain't nobody top that performer.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
And that's gonna mind have to be. I got to
one Monday night wash I think it was year two.
First time we went back. I was in Seattle. We
went back to Green Bay with Coach Mike Home and
and all week he had been talking about Brett fav
and giving us the tips. And I had three pictures
that had four and I took a h and I
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took a block field go back. I did a little
dancing and if y'all want to pull out up.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You get I can't.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
I got we gotta. I got a little hip at you.
It was don't worry I do.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
So that was my Monday night and I was big
for Coach Home going back to Green Bay. But Thursday
night against the Bears year was that because seven.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
At the shot Man.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
I remember Sean this.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Past funeral, and we we've been banged up in the secondary,
and I remember Devin Hester and all those guys and
a bottle shout out. By the way, I'm a huge
fan of Devin Hester as a returner, but I was
sitting on him everything as a receiver.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Respected running shout out, but everything.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, man, I'm a big fan of that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
You know, you know, you know, Devin was more of
a coner coming out of high school, so it was
kind of strange to even see him play receiver in
the league. But he can always get up there be
and it's run with everybody, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
So I had two picks and he did run me down.
My back was tighter. I have cut the field, but uh,
y'all got it in there. But man, but two picks.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
That he had no hamstrings by that time seven he
was getting up there.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm still running.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I'm still running here, practicing fresh I have fresho the
league broeven, Okay, So with seven now eleven years for.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You, I still probably run four three, I believe anyway.
So with that, with that, with that being said, here's
the crazy thing about the game. I balled out that game,
and I don't know if y'all recall I don't smooth
decides he's gonna get injured, didn't play for about the
whole half. Man, you know what's the lasting.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
He told me he.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Missed the whole game.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
That's why he don't stretch because he don't get hurt.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
He come in to the last playing in the man's
on or the go line, knock the ball down and
the crowd go smooth, go crazy. You don't have two picks.
They had two picks of coach Gibbs up and celebrate him.
On the Monday, I was hot as hell man. He
still I was hot as hell man. But that's my memory.
So you that week, I remember a lot about that week. Obviously,
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that was the week we went to Sean's funder. On
that Monday. We didn't practice. We just had walkthroughs leading
up to the game.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Defensively, this that's started the time that started the string
of where we was only playing like four defensive calls
were mad.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Man, Look that's when we got mad.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
We got mad at mad at me, like I'm the
defensive These calls we played we had a sam single,
bronze pressure, a wheel single and covered to row and
cover to a rover.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Yeah one alert man, yeah man, we.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Were so I was so hot An I said, Man,
if you don't change these plays.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
He started yelling back, and everybody yelling at yell he
ain't my fault. He started yelling back.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What they don't know is they called man the man
way more time than I actually called it, because like.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Yeah, I'm saving you myself exactly, I'm out there covering
I'm covering tighty as Like.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
What man the line?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Man? Everybody?
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Man, we run the same play, man Man.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I first Monday night football game, That's that's the one
that I I remember the most because that was think
was my first Monday Night one. Oh you grow up
thinking of watching it. Can't wait for Monday night football
to come on. First opportunity to play and we uh.
I didn't play on Monday Night until my third season.
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So we won the Super Bowl ninety nine. The next year,
we played the Broncos on Monday Night.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
I have a Monday Night that year.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
YA was on y'all, y'all the year that we wanted.
We were four to twelve a year before, but.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Dan y'all went on the streak. Y'all was here, but
so we got to get to that. So we had
won Super Bowl ninety nine. Broncos had one of the
ninety eight they won eight. So it was a rematch
of the last three Super Bowl champions, and it said
Saint Louis don Rocket oh Man TV there who they
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got TD was he was kind of he was on
his uh, he was still dealing with the injury, but
he still he came between that on the white lines,
and I had to give it to him. We need
fourteen tackles, two sacks, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Though, I was all over that time.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Okay, I respect that the house, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's enough for that man. After the break, we got
Bill joining.
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Speaker 1 (32:54):
Slash Commanders. Welcome back to the Players Club. As promise,
we got Bill Crofty marriage.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That's what I'm talking about, started off. Guy.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
This is my guy.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Man.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Hey, I've been talking about you man ever since we've
seen you on the field. I was like, this kid
makes plays brother, you know, and uh, we all often
talk about it don't matter what you get drafted. When
you got out there bro between them lines, you looked
like you was first overall pick Man.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
How has it been?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Man? How's a ride been?
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Man? The turney been good? And like I wouldn't want
it any other way than I had it. So, I mean,
it's been great so far.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Speaking of how you had it, because I want to
dive into it. I want to know what was it like, man,
for that last year in school to be like it was.
You know, one of the things I heard that stood
out to me was when they didn't allow you to
play no more that year you stayed and you practicing
on the practice squad, Like what was going through your
mentor them saying you know what, Man, if I can't
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do that, least I can do this. Because the most
guys would have said, I'm gone, you.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Know, so my the whole process, like I was like, man,
I kind of knew, like I get a shot, So
I was like, I want I still wanted live reps.
I still wanted to play against like the good players
we had. I was going against the first team every day,
so I mean Arizona. So I was like, man, I
still I can just get better and like I won't
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be as slow up to game speed like when I
get to the to the next level because I know
those guys like they they twice is better. So I mean,
I just wanted to, like just to make sure I
was ready for this opportunity.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
And you ain't want to leave to.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
My second home like I did. They showed me a
good time.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
That helped to coming off your first one hundred yard
rushing game of the season out against the Chargers, two touchdowns,
a couple of past receptions for almost forty yards. How
did that feel?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Man?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Being able to have that type of game?
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Good defense too, We said, oh yeah, we needed a
run game.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I mean it felt good.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
I felt good out there just being being with my
teammates and just just having fun and like winning just
made it ten times better. So I mean it was
definitely like a blessing to be able to like achieve that.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
In the NFL, you have.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Something that's rare, I think for a young ball carrier
and most of the good backs, the backs that we
are now talking about, like L T. Ladani and Thomas
and Eddri and James, you have this patience about yourself,
especially being from off of the season that you had
last year in college. You know, did you always have
that about your game or is it something that you
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kind of, you know, gain over time of just you know,
studying and watching others run the ball.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
I'll say studying watching others run the ball, but I gotta,
I gotta watch something for I go to sleep and
just like just see how they move, and I try
to like just study how they play, just like try
to add to my game because like them the best
the best at what they do, and I just I just,
I mean, I just want to be the best, the
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best at what I do.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's crazy you say that, because I would tell my
son watching the games, I'm like, look, bro, half the
things I've done on the field, I saw it done
before by somebody else. I just put it on my
I just added to my belt, you know what I mean.
So that's good you say that because a lot of
the good guys, the guys that you have have those careers,
are the guys that watch and say, hey, I'm not
ashamed to take that.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh yeah, add that to my game show. Who do
you compare yourself to?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Man? Like?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Growing up? Who's growing up?
Speaker 6 (36:35):
I would say, I like Mark Ingham growing up?
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Yeah, Alabama guy?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Yeah, I think I like mark Ingram growing up.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
But like the guy who I said the most is
like I like I love bear Sunders, I love them.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
So I mean that's why I said.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, coming out of high school, born in Montgomery, Alabama,
you end up at Alabama State? Was it was they
the only school that recruited you? Or I joined up
out of state because we see this talent, Like you
didn't just get this talent.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You had this back in high school. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Was you just underrecruited or what happened?
Speaker 8 (37:08):
I definitely was underrecruited, Like I didn't have no schools
wanted to come get me. It was it was between
Alabama State and our corps. I never told nobody this,
but I had two HBCU offers. The running back ended
up command to our corns. So that was like that
spot took up. So I had no choice but to
go to Alabama State, and I was like, I'm gonna
make the best best out of it. And then that's
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when like the transfer reporter came around and I was like,
I probably can play somewhere bigger. So I mean, that
was like the whole plan, like just step by step, I.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Got I gotta ask you before you got killed. Oh no, no,
you dominated.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I got to ask you because I don't want to
forget to ask this question. Man, you were so geeked
on that interview.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Man, I was if I couldn't hide, don't.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
Ever not be you? Be you?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But how was the How did that feel? Bro? Because
I know, I mean we've all been there. How did
that feel?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (38:07):
It felt it felt like a like a dream come
true moment? Really, yeah, for sure, that's what's up.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Man. He was geek.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
Man, I was I see all like ray he starts smiling.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Yeah when I.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
Can.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
I also happy for you, but I said, man, I
can see him.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I say, Bro, you know what, so you know it's
so crazy we forget are youth.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
A little bit because this game. But your age quicken it.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
I'm not talking about how you look, just the you know,
once you go to getting them years, you forget how
you felt. And Rookie and when I saw you, I
was like, damn, I know what he's going through. I
know the feeling, the joy of the saying, Man, I'm
on this level playing this great game, man that I've
been loving since a child.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You know, he said it's a dream. Come try when
you see Brady. I see Brady and I get nightmares.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
The super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Yeah, that's a different feeling.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
The nickname Bill, Yeah, I know something you've shared a
little bit. Not everybody may have heard the story. What's
what's the behind the nickname Bill? Because your real name
is your Cory, So what's what's the Bill?
Speaker 8 (39:13):
It's basically just a nickname that I had, like I
was given. I was like my childhood, like the care
of the little Bill, and it kind of yeah, it's started.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
Like everybody just started. Yeah, family friends, and it just starts.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
What's going back? And when you're growing up, you play
running back?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
What else you play?
Speaker 6 (39:32):
You play play running back?
Speaker 8 (39:33):
I played like a nickel Yeah, and that's just running
back and nickels.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Okay, that's off the field. What what kind of things
do you.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Like to do.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
I like being with my family a lot. That made
me happy. We like going, like trying different foods. That's
all I do. I don't really do too much.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
We see you in the back of backfield with obviously
Jade Man.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (39:58):
What's that relationship like with him? Because you dude, you
guys play with y' y'all seem to be connected.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Man, Yeah, that's my dog.
Speaker 8 (40:05):
I feel like he like he slowed a lot of
stuff down for me, So, I mean it's fun being
then with him.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
He can do he can do do everything.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
So like like having like a high caliber player like him,
it made me want to step up. It made me
want to like, like you can you can like play too,
So I just want.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
To when you say slow it down, he's just he's
just a common presence. Why is it that again, you
can slow things down for you?
Speaker 8 (40:31):
I mean when you have, like I like, when you
have like so many good players on the field, like
like you keep the defense thinking.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Speaking of that, being in that room with Austin Ekeler,
Matt Nichols or Rodriguez, what he all these guys done
for your game as well, because when you're coming in
here as a you a blank canvas, you know what
I mean, Like you you haven't done nothing in this
level yet when you was going through that preseason and
watching those guys, what did you use or take from
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them guys that you can now you know, point out
and say, man, this is something that you know.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I give them credit for how.
Speaker 8 (41:08):
They take notes, how they is in the in the
like the mean room, like when we have running at me,
like what kind of question they're asking. It's the small
stuff like how they treat they boy, what they're doing
outside of the building. And like those guys they showed
me and taught me a lot, like just my my
small time being here, like we go out to eat,
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like you feel me just go bun. So they definitely
taught me a lot.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
That's all right, Bill. So what did we do with
all our guests that we have on the show. We
have them autographics ball for us.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
We appreciate you joining us. Look forward to watch you
Monday night football. I know you, I know you dream
about That's that's a dream come true. All right, man,
with that'll do it. We'll see y'all next week same
time from the Players Club.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
Appreciate you all having me Man.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
We are your host. I'm loving to Fletcher, got my
man Santana Moss aka Hey to the Nine aka Cowboy
Killer a ka Giant Slayer. And we got Shot Springs
aka Blue. All Right, Fellas, we got a show for
y'all today. We got a show for them today. Tell
him what to tell him, what's in story.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We're gonna kick this thing off with some duves for
the week.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
And guess what, Fellas, we got Monday night football prime
time here in DC against the Bears.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And later on the show, we got Bill Crosskey merrit See.
I want to say his whole name. I wanted to
say dollar dollar Bill.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
That man is known by his full name, dollar Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Dollar Bill. All right, man, let's try to get this
show started. And as you mentioned, Tanna, we're gonna start
this thing off with doves of the week. Got more
Monday night football on the horizon, Bud. We got to
look back to the bit out on the West Coast.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We went out there and got that dub out in
the west on the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Ain't like putting up dub, but you ain't from the
West Coast. Went up the dub and then like flying
back six hours.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Winn slept, Hey, California was good to me.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I ain't gonna even lie to y'all. Went out there
on Friday, Yeah, played me some golf at an exclusive
country club on Friday.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Then Saturday, then again Sunday we played and we got
that dub. So I'm gonna start you all off with
my dub of the weekend. And I felt like, going
into this game, our D line had to dominate. Yeah, well,
we've been able to consistently get pressure on the opponent
the quarterback. We've won those games. Games we haven't, we've lost.
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Charges came in there banged up offensive line. Herbert had
already been sacked twelve times, been hit numerous other times.
This was the game that the D defensive line had
to dominate, and they did. They end up coming out
of this game. We got five sacks for on Herbert,
one on Trey Lance, but just the impact that they
had Doris Armstrong two sacks, Von Miller sack and a
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half Ken Law and in Pain just being disrupted, just
being disruptive, Jacob Martin being disrupted. So I'm gonna give
them the guys that dub. But also I gotta give
Kawhan Martin. Yeah, Kuhi was the one who really sparked
that comeback for us down ten to nothing, charge of
driving put that show on that on that football Forrest Fumber.
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He had a number of big, big hits in that game.
Another and also a tackle touchdown saving tackle right before
the Santa Street interception. So those are my dubs of
the week.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, I feel you on that. I think too.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And just to kind of come in a little bit
about your dugs, Kwan especially, I said that going into
the game, and I want to see our defense playing
on the other side of the ball, you know, and
when when when we have that's when you see our team,
you know, the way we want see him flying around
and and being the dominant playing command of football. But Kwan, man,
he set the tone I've been I said this. I
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want to know of Maddia or Kayler. Got any audio
of me talking about who I thought was gonna be
that guy offensive told Ja Kwan remind me of an Ed.
I think I've been saying this dude presence back there, man,
and he does something that we didn't see Ed do
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a lot. He smashing cash. You know, he ain't scared,
and I'm not saying Ed was was. Ed tackled everything,
but kwan Quan comes downhill like a different kind of safety.
You know when it comes to putting that, you know
that right there on people. But my Doug gonna go
to I'm a first start off with offenses, you know,
That's what I got to talk about first. JD five,
come on, man, homecoming Jedi himself. I think, man, just
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knowing what that whole trip meant to him was one thing.
And I was saying to myself, you coming into us like, man,
I hope he don't put too much on round Matt
and just try to play back knowing that he's been
off for two weeks. You know, because they asked us
before the game, who, you know, what did we expect
out of, you know, our quarterback knowing that he's going
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to be back, And I'm like, look, man, when he playing,
I'm expecting to be him. I care less about what
he went through because if he's out there, to me,
that means he's confident enough to go out there and
play at.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
A high level.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
We didn't get nervous times when.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I watched him pre game, and I knew immediately in
pre game that it was nothing that's.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Gonna hold him back.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
That Brice was just there for protection because I watched him,
you know, do a couple of drills and I know, man,
just being a guy, Like I can watch a guy
and tell you if something, if he's ginger on something
and he's kind of like not want to, you know,
be explosive. So so I'm gonna give him my first
dug because he went out there, he went back home, He.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
He had mom was out there.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Man. You know you wasn't there to see it. You
had to be there to see it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And I'm just saying it's because, bro, she came and
she brought a lot of people with and I mean
they was parting.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
They was they was right there behind the bench.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
They had to they had to sweep right behind the
bitch and she turned up. So JD five for going
up there, taking his taking his team to his hometown,
getting a dub, playing out standing. I'm talking about from
the past game, you know, picking up first downs, when
when things went there with his legs, all that of
that nature. My second dub, I have to mention this kid.
My sex second dub goes to none other than Sanders
(05:32):
still think Sanders still he's you know, we talk about
it as players because you played this game. When it rains,
it pours, and he had to he had to pick.
Two weeks ago in Atlanta, he started it off and
all the players said leading up to this game, you know,
(05:53):
on the West Coast, he's been saying, hey, man, I
feel like I'm gonna get something. I'm gonna get a
pick this week because I been he was making kind
of kind of plays. He's making practice lead you know,
it kind of leads over a bleeze over to the game.
So for him to steal that thing on the gold line,
you know we talked about.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Your shoutout took d line too, because they tipped that
ball tipically right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
We talk about our defense being one of those defenses
that you know, when we playing our best, you know
we are being but we're not gonna break. And you
saw them do that time and time again, and they
ended it. They put the I guess you can say
the explanation point on it when he made the interception.
So both of my dubs going to JD five and
Mike Center still.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And you knew JD five had to perform home shout
out to Bobby Wacken, another West Coast kid. You know,
we ain't get allowed to talk about him, but you
know he played extremely about fifty miles from the stadium
as well too. My goal stay on the offense side
of the ball. The man we know it's Dollar Bill,
Yeah right, Lenna. You talked about it earlier in the
week as we previewed the Chargers going to the West
(06:51):
Coast that against that defense, you had to be able
to run the ball.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and when we knew.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
If you couldn't sustain drive as a defense like that
and they get you backed up and they blitz heaven
and you know, put that pressure on five. I think
five was able to play a good game because Donor
Bill had one hundred and eleven yards fourteen carries. And
when your defense travels in your run game travels, you
come out with a win. So I think I'm a
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summing up about Dollar Bill was my guy.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I love.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Was happy to see that kid go over one hundred yards.
Get you know, we've been talking about him since since
he touchdown, Yeah, and he made He's making touchdowns right,
So that's my double the week.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm gonna go speed over to this lane and it's
called the fast Lane Fitting for you, presenting by Easton
Automotive Group, any car anyway for everyone since.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So we got this week five matchup man, and you know,
the talk is about the rematch, basically the rematch from
from the Hill, nor but not only just.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The rematch part of it.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
A little bit of talk about.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That, just a little bit talking about but that's not
the biggest talk. The talk is JD five and Kayla
Wims going head to head for the second time. This
is year two of these guys even been in the league.
And now you can already see it brewin. You can
already see it forming that these guys might be like
the Peyton Manny Tom Brady of our era, playing watching
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these guys year out the year, competing to.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
See damn ma Reno Johnny.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, you can name them all.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So what have you guys seen from from Caleb Man
so far? In the Ben Ben Ben Johnson's.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Where the biggest thing where the biggest thing, you know,
coming over from we we all talked about, you know,
Ben Johnson and everybody around the leg talked about his
creativity on the offense side of the ball and what
he did for Jake Goff, So we was like, man,
he go over there with Kayleb Webbs. You know that
that kid got every throw. He's athletic, he can do everything.
So we were like, this guy could possibly be the
(08:57):
limit now that uh Caleb got a coordinated just like
Cliff is with j D five. I see a kid
that he can He has all the talent in the world.
You obviously see why he was the number one. He
can make every throw. He seems to be a little
more poised there on a little wind streak. It's gonna
(09:20):
be interesting to see how, you know they play against
our secondary because I think I think we match up
extremely well against UH the their their receiving cores. But
I just see a kid that's that that that earned
the right to be the first pick. I think he's
unbelievable talent and he's only gonna continue to get better.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I see why why the Bears hired Ben Johnson as
there off the head coach, and it was the fixed
Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
He looks like a totally different whole season ago.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I mean, you see him getting the ball out on time,
making making accurate throws. I saw with the versus the blue.
He's he's leading the NFL in touchdowns six six touchdowns,
run exceptions one thirty six QBR or QB rating I
think highest or second highest in the NFL. His ability,
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he's not turning the football over, only been sacked one
time in the last two games. That was something he
was highly sacked last year and then even the first
two games, and I think he was still getting to learn,
getting to know that offense and comfortable. They do a
nice job of moving him around, running the bootlegs, getting
him out of the outside of the pocket, being able
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to utilize his legs, and they'll take shots down the field. Yeah,
they gonna take shots. So it's a the imprint that
Ben Johnson has played made on Caleb Williams. It's paying
huge dividends already, and I'm sure the Bears are happy
with this, this marriage the way it is in this
early stages.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, I've seen some of those things too. I watched
I had a chance to sit down and watch them.
In one game I forgot I think it was against
the Cowboys, and I watch how that first drive it
was like it was like precision. I mean, I'm talking
about this guy was I mean, they didn't miss a beat,
and it was like when they scored, I'm like, okay,
(11:13):
this office looking a lot different. And then I saw
a sputter a little bit throughout the game after those
first I guess you could say the scripted plays, but
it only sput it because Caleb at times going to
be Caleb, you know what I mean, And rightfully so, man,
when you have when.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
You say that, you mean and you say that like
like Jay and at time's gonna be j what you mean?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You know it's a difference.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So Caleb being Caleb to me is just like even
though the coach might want him to say, I want
this thing on time, I want you to get the
bars to hand quick, at times he wants to play
that that you know, that's saying like football, and it's
like it's in him, it's in his DNA.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
He does it well.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
He can he can scramble, he can find the second guy,
find an open guy, and it works.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Does I frustrate you as a coach or.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
You frustrate me as a receiver. I know it would would,
but I'm not sure what it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Straight.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Ben Johnson showed you his frustration. But when that ball
is not coming out on time or where it should go.
Oh he's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, So I say all that, but I also say
I don't take nothing from what he can do. I
got this guy can throw the ball with the best
of them. He's a phenomenal talent. He's not scared, fearless.
He goes out there and he plays the game the
way you want to see your quarterback play.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So I think it's gonna be one of those games
for him. Man.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But what I want to ask you guys, is how
can our defensive front have continued success against the quarterback
like Kayler? What do they need to do, you know,
in this game to kind of have what we've been
seeing when we've we've won our you know, our games.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, when you think about, you know, the two games,
I think we played extremely well upfront with the Giants
and last week against the Chargers, both of them got
athletic quarterbacks. Justin Herbert is not an easy still against
the Raiders to but Justin Herbert is not.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
An easy shack. That's an athletic kid.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And I think what we got to continue you to
do is just just just that continuous to get continuous
like just dominance because sometimes I think, and maybe it's
just me, I felt like our d line just it
showed it say like your potential is to be like
the best team time in the league.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
And then sometimes I felt like we kind.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Of cruised a little bit, you know against you know,
like we absolutely absolutely dominated the Chargers, and it was Novice,
we absolutely dominated the Giants. I felt like we, you know,
against Atlanta, we didn't do that. I think we can
absolutely dominate the Bears up front.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know the way the way We're gonna have to
do that though, and it's the secondary plays a major
part of that. So secondary against coverage, it against Chargers,
think about we started that game out, We're playing a
lot of male man and then bringing pressure, and they
were making plays. Herbert, you didn't didn't have the proper
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wreustlane of discipline. He runs for forty one yards man
and man defense. Everybody got back to the quarterback. Second
time they run a little royal route, two dbs running
to each other twenty nine yard for.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Keenan.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I'm talking about this on the booth, like we need
to play coverage, just rush for and play coverage behind.
I think that one that Keenan Allen. Play was also
a five man pressure. Once we started playing more zone
and rushing four vision on quarterback making him read it out,
that's when the d line was able to get to
get to the quarterback. So it's the same I feel
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it's the same same situation with the Bears. The only
thing differently is we're gonna have to make sure the
Bear the Bears old line is better than the charge better,
but I mean a drastic but we have to make
sure if we're gonna play zone defense, we gotta be
great in our zone drafts, better than we were, even
even better than we were against the Charger. Understanding that
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they're gonna go play action. They're gonna two man rous
three man routes or whatever, and they're taking vertical shots.
They're looking for big windows. So as linebackers, it's underneath
players you have to take because drops. You're gonna have
to identify these guys a lot, a lot better.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Because because they were Caleb. I think it was a
Cowboys game too. I saw a little r PO action.
I think it was Cowboys, and when they went that,
you know that that that the RP action. The r
PO action can put a little linebackers in the conflict,
so you have to.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Be Yeah, they they play. Action is a big game.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
This is truly gonna be a game where Russian coverage beings.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
To work in units.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Being that we face the Ben Johnson's offense before in
the last year. Now there's a whole different you know,
ball club and him being in Chicago and different players.
Do you think we can take some of the stuff
we used in and use it now just knowing that
some of this, But.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
The difference is Jared Golf was he was sitting duck, Yes,
he wasn't moving.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Caleb has that ability to exactly it will.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Probably be different rush playing against Caleb as opposed to
Jared Golf.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I think that's very important.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I rushed playing when first that you can't get, you
can't go, So you got to.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Understand keep them in the pocket.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, but schematically you understand they're gonna wrestle trick plays,
they had the fleet flicker they got, they're gonna do versus.
Understand his his philosophy caller, So you'll you'll you'll definitely
be some carry over with that. But different players playing
different positions, different positions too.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, we've been talking to Man far As just you know,
not to talk so much about their offense. You know,
I want to dive in deep on ours. One of
the things that all of us have been wanting to
see is just knowing that we have that running back
by committee in our backfield. We've been saying we should
lean on it a little more times. What have you
guys seen so far? And we can just go off
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of what you've seen last week against the Charge, But
what have you seen from the Commanders run game so far,
you know, leading to this game, leading to this week?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Well, I was just gonna say, you know, Bill is
just continue to get better each week. You know what
I'm just talking about. He's starting to show himself as
the number one guy, even though we got running back committee.
And what I see with a kid like that is
just's He doesn't look like big and stature, but you
(17:27):
know the first guy you hear a break of arm tackle,
he can hit the crease hard. He has patience. You know,
I can't continue to say how good I think this
kid is. Man, this kid is, this kid is we
found one. It almost kind of reminds me of like
and Lonner. You probably can relate to this when Denver
found TD, you know, like you knew the late drive.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Pick of a guy, you know, even Alfred Morse.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah yeah, but when you find a guy like that
that run too for that run yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
About three years the straight thousand thousand thousands six first year. Yeah,
that's what I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
So, I mean, you know, I'm quite sure he gonna
he had one hundred and eleven this week on fourteen carriage.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I'm quite sure he's gonna have a few more carriages.
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It's so crazy because I've been trying to, like, you know,
when you're watching somebody play, you're like, man, whoever you
remind me of? I haven't found one person that his
game is just like. But I know some of his
moves where he can get you to this freezing them.
He bursts. That's eGRID James to me. Now, Eddrin is
not probably as fast as him, how his burst was.
But Edgewill had a way to get his feet in
(18:34):
an awkward way as a running back, you know, you
want to be balanced. He had a way of making
the making the linebacker thing. Hold on, he might be
coming back backside and you get you know, I'll see
you linebackers all the time because y'all watching to see
the movement, and you gotta mirror him sometimes. And Edgrin
had a way. I saw it in collage so much.
He would make you mirror his one two. As soon
(18:56):
as he saw you lean and getting ready for the
he go right back where you thought he would going.
I saw a couple of little runs last week and
I was like, man, that's e J all over, but
different kind of body, different kind of you know, flavor,
you know.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Trying to pinpoint who was the modern day football I
was thinking maybe diving Cook.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Maybe that was the closest thing I was thinking of.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Cook got a difference, and the Cook to me was
a little more of a strong runner, you know, he
had a different kind of run to He was quick
as all our dose and fast is all I do
is so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
By me of a young lady and Thomas.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yes, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Other part of it is, uh, the patience lad. And
I played against some Danny when he was a rookie.
He had he had patients. A lot of young players,
regardless of the pittients position, their mind is working on
thousand miles per hour and their feet is moving quickly,
especially at the running back position. But he has paid
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had that patience. They used to run a lot of
powers and stuff like that. Like this dude, he would
do a lot of like what you just said with
edge setting you up, getting you to go somewhere and
then and burst on, burst through the whole like slow
to it, then burst through it. But Bill has a
unique ability to know one he can be patient, but
then also know when I got to hit it, like
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the touchdown run that's is that that players designed to
go up and seeing there's no edge, get outside. So
he reminds me of a from patient standpoint. Some of
his in and out Russ got the other young today
then the young preach homes. We got to put our finger.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
But as far as the other thing about the run game,
the blocking, yeah, physicality, all alignement can pull. I mean
everybody can pull.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You know that thing I sent you the other day
with the dude of what a guy name was who
be breaking down our runs the right job showing some
of those all of them can can pull.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Got all these different counters, the tight ends saying now
doing a great job getting based back. But the block
in the physicality. Chris Paul has been Hey, can.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
We say Pro Bowl almost like he's only been playing
with three games now and.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He's looking like that. He's looking like that, bro. Yeah,
so he's uh.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That's what we're talking about developing a player right there.
Like seeing him from the year and the way he's doing.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Connery all those guys just doing outstting the job and
the tight ends and Trench Scott great job add to
that too.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Have you ever seen that? And you know, I don't
want to be too long winning on it, but have
you you a defensive guy? Both of you guys are
defensive guys. This twelve package, this is what is twenty two?
Twenty two?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Three tight ends or three tight ends? Thirteen thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I'm way ahead of myself when when I saw Trent
going as a tight end, when I saw him ab
outside of touss, I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
How to inside? I'm like, Okay, he's used as a
tight end.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
He did catch jd first touchdown past, so I'm like, okay,
we're using him as a tight end. Have you ever
seen those formations before you get in the middle of
the line back and just seeing Detroit used to do.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
It a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I mean, they just did.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
They had the type the office alignment that they brought
in is as a skipper, was a da skipper.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
I think they got because they got that was the
game last year.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Detroit was doing it and it got the penalty. Was
a Detroit game, Detroit Dallas last year.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
But anyway, oh yeah, they did. It was Detroit Dallas.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But they always they always YEA had that and there's
been a bunch of teams that they'll bring in the
extra office alignment.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Now I wonder it just it just looked different to
me because I feel like we run that thing so well.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
When them guys in there, you just know it's finna.
They're finish.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Show you some some something that can be on a canvas.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That's like I'm watching art.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
That's been a silver lining of debates injury because prior
to Baits getting injured, it was they send it ers
or or Yankoff as the three tightness. Now when base
got injured, hey we need a bigger body. Put trench
Scott there, and I mean it's just now, coach, look
(23:13):
like you know what we got something?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You see what you if you like football today.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Shout out to coach.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Gibbs speaking of speaking of how those guys you know,
being able to pull and everything, I'm pretty sure the
Chicago defenses is watching that tape and getting ready, you know, defensively.
What have you guys seen so far from them this year?
You know, I've seen some of them.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, I was just about to say, they get they
get turnovers, opportunistic. They can't stop that run, yeah they can,
they get takeaway.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
But but but and that's the that's the key, right
because you know they're going to be aggressive on first
down against that's because they know they can't stop off running.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah, but they they're the best.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
In the league on on on third down, and they
got some guys in the vacum can play some football.
So we JD five though he's been so smart with
the ball, you know, going into this game.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I know Cliff and those guys recognize that.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
But if.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
We got we got a chance to do something good
against the defense, as long as we don't get backed up.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, hey, fellas, it's tied to go, Yes, sir, Many
rippletent On y'all you know Many Rippertent.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Memory Lane?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, it's trying to go
down back down memory lane.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But we got a Monday night football dame coming up. Memories.
It could be memories against the Bears.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, primetime game Monday night, something that Thursday night. Whatever
the case may be. What is what is? What's your memories?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Man?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Wow, I'm gonna start with you.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Please start with.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Him, because you know mine, I got a lot of
prime time memories.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah man, you know, I mean we all have. I
mean we all had a long.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Playing The Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah yeah, that's that's that doesn't drain me.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
But you know, and this was not like a prime time,
prime time game, but it became a prime time game.
It was like a four o'clock game. You know those
four o'clock games. They considered them.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Almost prime time, especially the national game.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
It was the Jacksonville game for me, you know six
the way that ended, uh, the fashion of it. It
was a walk off, remember touched it and and just
to me, it was special. See, folks don't realize how
different these games are for certain players, you know what
(25:40):
I mean, Like you have a you get up for
certain reasons, London get up for certain reasons. I went
into that game on the high just knowing, like every
time I played the team from Florida, it was something different.
Now you might not saw it in me because I'm
gonna have the same demeaning, I'm gonna have the same approach.
But I knew it was something.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
To go down. Why it's Jacksonville.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
I'm I'm from Miami.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I watched I watched Jacksonville as a kid. I watched
Mark you now throw to Jimmy Smith and Keenan McCarty
had shot and fred t in a backfield. You know
what I'm saying, Like this, that was my childhood Sunday's
because I want a Dolphin fan.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
My dad used to want to watch them. I'm like
Jacksonville Temple, you know, That's how I used to look
at it.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
So anytime I got a chance to face those guns,
it was something. It's something like I had a different
bounce in my stuff. But I couldn't tell you that
that game was gonna start or end the way it did.
And I started off with the first touchdown and I
finished it with the last one in overtime. So that
to me, man was one of the big kind of
like And that was regardless if it wasn't like.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The prime time.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
It was prime time for me because who it was,
and it was just a way to kind of end
there because I remember when I went home, that's all
they showed on ESPN. They showed that thing so much.
I was like, Yeah, that ain't nobody top that performer.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
And that's gonna mind have to be. I got to
one Monday night wash I think it was year two.
First time we went back. I was in Seattle. We
went back to Green Bay with Coach Mike Home and
and all week he had been talking about Brett fav
and giving us the tips. And I had three pictures
that had four and I took a h and I
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took a block field go back. I did a little
dancing and if y'all want to pull out up.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You get I can't.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
I got we gotta. I got a little hip at you.
It was don't worry I do.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
So that was my Monday night and I was big
for Coach Home going back to Green Bay. But Thursday
night against the Bears year was that because seven.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
At the shot Man.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
I remember Sean this.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Past funeral, and we we've been banged up in the secondary,
and I remember Devin Hester and all those guys and
a bottle shout out. By the way, I'm a huge
fan of Devin Hester as a returner, but I was
sitting on him everything as a receiver.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Respected running shout out, but everything.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, man, I'm a big fan of that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
You know, you know, you know, Devin was more of
a coner coming out of high school, so it was
kind of strange to even see him play receiver in
the league. But he can always get up there be
and it's run with everybody, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
So I had two picks and he did run me down.
My back was tighter. I have cut the field, but uh,
y'all got it in there. But man, but two picks.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
That he had no hamstrings by that time seven he
was getting up there.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm still running.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I'm still running here, practicing fresh I have fresho the
league broeven, Okay, So with seven now eleven years for.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You, I still probably run four three, I believe anyway.
So with that, with that, with that being said, here's
the crazy thing about the game. I balled out that game,
and I don't know if y'all recall I don't smooth
decides he's gonna get injured, didn't play for about the
whole half. Man, you know what's the lasting.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
He told me he.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Missed the whole game.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
That's why he don't stretch because he don't get hurt.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
He come in to the last playing in the man's
on or the go line, knock the ball down and
the crowd go smooth, go crazy. You don't have two picks.
They had two picks of coach Gibbs up and celebrate him.
On the Monday, I was hot as hell man. He
still I was hot as hell man. But that's my memory.
So you that week, I remember a lot about that week. Obviously,
(29:37):
that was the week we went to Sean's funder. On
that Monday. We didn't practice. We just had walkthroughs leading
up to the game.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Defensively, this that's started the time that started the string
of where we was only playing like four defensive calls
were mad.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Man, Look that's when we got mad.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
We got mad at mad at me, like I'm the
defensive These calls we played we had a sam single,
bronze pressure, a wheel single and covered to row and
cover to a rover.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Yeah one alert man, yeah man, we.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Were so I was so hot An I said, Man,
if you don't change these plays.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
He started yelling back, and everybody yelling at yell he
ain't my fault. He started yelling back.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What they don't know is they called man the man
way more time than I actually called it, because like.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Yeah, I'm saving you myself exactly, I'm out there covering
I'm covering tighty as Like.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
What man the line?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Man? Everybody?
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Man, we run the same play, man Man.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I first Monday night football game, That's that's the one
that I I remember the most because that was think
was my first Monday Night one. Oh you grow up
thinking of watching it. Can't wait for Monday night football
to come on. First opportunity to play and we uh.
I didn't play on Monday Night until my third season.
(31:08):
So we won the Super Bowl ninety nine. The next year,
we played the Broncos on Monday Night.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
I have a Monday Night that year.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
YA was on y'all, y'all the year that we wanted.
We were four to twelve a year before, but.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Dan y'all went on the streak. Y'all was here, but
so we got to get to that. So we had
won Super Bowl ninety nine. Broncos had one of the
ninety eight they won eight. So it was a rematch
of the last three Super Bowl champions, and it said
Saint Louis don Rocket oh Man TV there who they
(31:44):
got TD was he was kind of he was on
his uh, he was still dealing with the injury, but
he still he came between that on the white lines,
and I had to give it to him. We need
fourteen tackles, two sacks, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Though, I was all over that time.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Okay, I respect that the house, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's enough for that man. After the break, we got
Bill joining.
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Speaker 1 (32:54):
Slash Commanders. Welcome back to the Players Club. As promise,
we got Bill Crofty marriage.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That's what I'm talking about, started off. Guy.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
This is my guy.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Man.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Hey, I've been talking about you man ever since we've
seen you on the field. I was like, this kid
makes plays brother, you know, and uh, we all often
talk about it don't matter what you get drafted. When
you got out there bro between them lines, you looked
like you was first overall pick Man.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
How has it been?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Man? How's a ride been?
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Man? The turney been good? And like I wouldn't want
it any other way than I had it. So, I mean,
it's been great so far.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Speaking of how you had it, because I want to
dive into it. I want to know what was it like, man,
for that last year in school to be like it was.
You know, one of the things I heard that stood
out to me was when they didn't allow you to
play no more that year you stayed and you practicing
on the practice squad, Like what was going through your
mentor them saying you know what, Man, if I can't
(33:59):
do that, least I can do this. Because the most
guys would have said, I'm gone, you.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Know, so my the whole process, like I was like, man,
I kind of knew, like I get a shot, So
I was like, I want I still wanted live reps.
I still wanted to play against like the good players
we had. I was going against the first team every day,
so I mean Arizona. So I was like, man, I
still I can just get better and like I won't
(34:24):
be as slow up to game speed like when I
get to the to the next level because I know
those guys like they they twice is better. So I mean,
I just wanted to, like just to make sure I
was ready for this opportunity.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
And you ain't want to leave to.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
My second home like I did. They showed me a
good time.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
That helped to coming off your first one hundred yard
rushing game of the season out against the Chargers, two touchdowns,
a couple of past receptions for almost forty yards. How
did that feel?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Man?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Being able to have that type of game?
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Good defense too, We said, oh yeah, we needed a
run game.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I mean it felt good.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
I felt good out there just being being with my
teammates and just just having fun and like winning just
made it ten times better. So I mean it was
definitely like a blessing to be able to like achieve that.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
In the NFL, you have.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Something that's rare, I think for a young ball carrier
and most of the good backs, the backs that we
are now talking about, like L T. Ladani and Thomas
and Eddri and James, you have this patience about yourself,
especially being from off of the season that you had
last year in college. You know, did you always have
that about your game or is it something that you
(35:41):
kind of, you know, gain over time of just you know,
studying and watching others run the ball.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
I'll say studying watching others run the ball, but I gotta,
I gotta watch something for I go to sleep and
just like just see how they move, and I try
to like just study how they play, just like try
to add to my game because like them the best
the best at what they do, and I just I just,
I mean, I just want to be the best, the
(36:07):
best at what I do.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's crazy you say that, because I would tell my
son watching the games, I'm like, look, bro, half the
things I've done on the field, I saw it done
before by somebody else. I just put it on my
I just added to my belt, you know what I mean.
So that's good you say that because a lot of
the good guys, the guys that you have have those careers,
are the guys that watch and say, hey, I'm not
ashamed to take that.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh yeah, add that to my game show. Who do
you compare yourself to?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Man? Like?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Growing up? Who's growing up?
Speaker 6 (36:35):
I would say, I like Mark Ingham growing up?
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Yeah, Alabama guy?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Yeah, I think I like mark Ingram growing up.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
But like the guy who I said the most is
like I like I love bear Sunders, I love them.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
So I mean that's why I said.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, coming out of high school, born in Montgomery, Alabama,
you end up at Alabama State? Was it was they
the only school that recruited you? Or I joined up
out of state because we see this talent, Like you
didn't just get this talent.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You had this back in high school. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Was you just underrecruited or what happened?
Speaker 8 (37:08):
I definitely was underrecruited, Like I didn't have no schools
wanted to come get me. It was it was between
Alabama State and our corps. I never told nobody this,
but I had two HBCU offers. The running back ended
up command to our corns. So that was like that
spot took up. So I had no choice but to
go to Alabama State, and I was like, I'm gonna
make the best best out of it. And then that's
(37:30):
when like the transfer reporter came around and I was like,
I probably can play somewhere bigger. So I mean, that
was like the whole plan, like just step by step, I.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Got I gotta ask you before you got killed. Oh no, no,
you dominated.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I got to ask you because I don't want to
forget to ask this question. Man, you were so geeked
on that interview.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Man, I was if I couldn't hide, don't.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
Ever not be you? Be you?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But how was the How did that feel? Bro? Because
I know, I mean we've all been there. How did
that feel?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (38:07):
It felt it felt like a like a dream come
true moment? Really, yeah, for sure, that's what's up.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Man. He was geek.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
Man, I was I see all like ray he starts smiling.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Yeah when I.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
Can.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
I also happy for you, but I said, man, I
can see him.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I say, Bro, you know what, so you know it's
so crazy we forget are youth.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
A little bit because this game. But your age quicken it.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
I'm not talking about how you look, just the you know,
once you go to getting them years, you forget how
you felt. And Rookie and when I saw you, I
was like, damn, I know what he's going through. I
know the feeling, the joy of the saying, Man, I'm
on this level playing this great game, man that I've
been loving since a child.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You know, he said it's a dream. Come try when
you see Brady. I see Brady and I get nightmares.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
The super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Yeah, that's a different feeling.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
The nickname Bill, Yeah, I know something you've shared a
little bit. Not everybody may have heard the story. What's
what's the behind the nickname Bill? Because your real name
is your Cory, So what's what's the Bill?
Speaker 8 (39:13):
It's basically just a nickname that I had, like I
was given. I was like my childhood, like the care
of the little Bill, and it kind of yeah, it's started.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
Like everybody just started. Yeah, family friends, and it just starts.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
What's going back? And when you're growing up, you play
running back?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
What else you play?
Speaker 6 (39:32):
You play play running back?
Speaker 8 (39:33):
I played like a nickel Yeah, and that's just running
back and nickels.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Okay, that's off the field. What what kind of things
do you.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Like to do.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
I like being with my family a lot. That made
me happy. We like going, like trying different foods. That's
all I do. I don't really do too much.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
We see you in the back of backfield with obviously
Jade Man.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (39:58):
What's that relationship like with him? Because you dude, you
guys play with y' y'all seem to be connected.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Man, Yeah, that's my dog.
Speaker 8 (40:05):
I feel like he like he slowed a lot of
stuff down for me, So, I mean it's fun being
then with him.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
He can do he can do do everything.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
So like like having like a high caliber player like him,
it made me want to step up. It made me
want to like, like you can you can like play too,
So I just want.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
To when you say slow it down, he's just he's
just a common presence. Why is it that again, you
can slow things down for you?
Speaker 8 (40:31):
I mean when you have, like I like, when you
have like so many good players on the field, like
like you keep the defense thinking.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Speaking of that, being in that room with Austin Ekeler,
Matt Nichols or Rodriguez, what he all these guys done
for your game as well, because when you're coming in
here as a you a blank canvas, you know what
I mean, Like you you haven't done nothing in this
level yet when you was going through that preseason and
watching those guys, what did you use or take from
(41:02):
them guys that you can now you know, point out
and say, man, this is something that you know.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I give them credit for how.
Speaker 8 (41:08):
They take notes, how they is in the in the
like the mean room, like when we have running at me,
like what kind of question they're asking. It's the small
stuff like how they treat they boy, what they're doing
outside of the building. And like those guys they showed
me and taught me a lot, like just my my
small time being here, like we go out to eat,
(41:28):
like you feel me just go bun. So they definitely
taught me a lot.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
That's all right, Bill. So what did we do with
all our guests that we have on the show. We
have them autographics ball for us.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
We appreciate you joining us. Look forward to watch you
Monday night football. I know you, I know you dream
about That's that's a dream come true. All right, man,
with that'll do it. We'll see y'all next week same
time from the Players Club.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
Appreciate you all having me Man.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
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