September 8, 2025 • 36 mins
On our first edition of Ford NFL Spotlight, Eric Dickerson gives his thoughts on the Rams beating Houston, the Chargers' win over Kansas City in Brazil and other big week 1 matchups. Also, ED gives his thoughts on the Micah Parsons trade
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, all right, welcome back. I'm sorry about that. Welcome back,
Rodney Pete, Adam Austin, the Rambassador Eric Dickerson is going
to join us here shortly. All right, Adam, Let's let's
get into the NFL. Man, Let's get into the NFL.
And I was saying, you know, to Kevin earlier that
(00:22):
I don't know. It feels like for me, it feels
like there's a different level of excitement for football this year.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'll tell you what last night's game didn't hurt. That
was that may be the best opening weekend. We still
got a game left tonight. But considering how Sunday night
football went, I mean, the Jets Steelers game early on
was great, the Box Falcons game was great. But then
you get the two top teams by most most people's
measure in the AFC. We'll see what happens with Kansas City.
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They already lost the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Two of the top three quarterbacks playing against each other. Yeah,
that was phenomenal last night.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That's one of the best games I've ever seen in sports.
That was as exciting as fun. Explosive offenses comeback after comeback.
I would say, interesting decisions made late in that game.
I'm looking at you, John Harbaugh. Some some second guessing
going on, some Monday morning quarterback going on today, But
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that was high level football.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It really was. For week one, that was an instant
classic and instant candidate for game of the year. And
usually that's reserved to a late season try to win
the division or a playoff game or something like that.
But week one, you know, yeah, forty one, you wonder,
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you know, how the defenses were and how they're going
to be the rest of the year. But everything was
on display. Both Josh and Lamar were as advertised, even
Derek Henry leading up to everything but the fumble that
cost them at the end. But all of the stars
played last night in that game, and I think this
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weekend too. It was pretty good. But also even just
not only just the NFL, but college You know that
that Texas Ohio State game was the highest rated college
football game ever, that's ring ever. And that's including like
back in the day high you know, rivalry games in
Michigan Ohio State see still a see Notre Dame blah
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blah blah. It was the highest rated one ever.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, and that seems we were talking about it off air.
That seems almost impossible considering how many more options you
have in life. Nowadays, you got options. You got three
hundred and fifty channels whatever it is, you got streaming,
you got YouTube, you got legal places to go to watch.
It is still the highest rated over stuff that happened
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in the nineties when there was thirty channels. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That is crazy? All right? So overall, Adam, overall, what
did you what did you make going back to the
kickoff game in Brazil with the Chiefs and the Chargers
Week one in the NFL, what did you take away
from it?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'll say this, I'm glad we're getting kick returns again.
They changed that rule and it works.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Makes it exciting again.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now, if you want to talk about players safety, fine,
but they're trying to find a happy medium where we
can at least get some kick returns.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I mean that is.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
To me as a kid watching Michael Bates with returns
for the Carolina Panther's a track star like that. That's
one of my favorite things in sports, and it was
taken away due to safety reasons, but they took it
so far away. Last year was all touchbacks.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, well, let's bring them in right now, talking about
safety and talking about game changes. The Rambassada the rambassador
for the first week bed for an NFL spotlight. My
man ed Eric Dickerson. How you doing, brother?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
What's up riding?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
What's up? Adam?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
How you doing? How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Uh? First of all, sorry, we have some technical difficult
to go here with. I was I was outside trying
to kill a rouse snake. Oh, y'ad out here, that's
one I'm getting lad man.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, I remember you got cut off the head and
bury it out man.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Like.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Wait, there's a there's a very popular uh Instagram guy
named I think he's called the Black Tarzan. He goes
into these places and and yeah, and and hunch the
snakes and get them out of people's houses and stuff
like that and all that kind of stuff. And now
are you the are you the the black Tarzan of
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the valley?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Now? But I'm not. I'm not. I'm not the black Tarzan.
I'm not the color of Tarzan. I'm no no Tarzan.
I don't I'm not afraid of snake. I don't like him.
But man, I was out there, I was putting it.
It was I was putting it. I put a mouse
trap outside in the back, just in the back by
by a wall, and it's some.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It was.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It was too cool. It was on top of each
other and I was I just kind of kicked the trap.
I thought it was a mouse and I saw something
stripe and then I'm like, oh, that's a rout snake. So
I had to go inside first. That first, and I
went inside and got the shotgun. You know, I'm gonna tack,
so I got so I wouldn't got the shotgun and
then I'm like, well, I can't shoot on this concrete.
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It's gonna ricochet. So I have a bead pellet gun too,
so I had to put it back. He was a
baby raller, but still it was a rout snake.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You got the daisy or the Crossman air gun there
I got.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I got the cross when I got the one to
open up and put the pellet in, and it's it's
not like a twenty two man.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So you got it. You got it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Got it what I was doing. I got I got him,
you know, yeah, I bet I like I beat the
head off of whatever. What a racket beat his head
off and through it, the throing the trash through the
top and they come and get trash tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So but that makes sense because you put you were
putting the mouse traps out there. It was probably hunting,
hunting the mice that may be run in the area.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, but I haven't had no ralph snake run in that.
It was a king snake is different ral snake. Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I can't do that between.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You and Domin. We're gonna talk about Spencer Rattler.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Now what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
All right, d We're gonna get into the rams uh
in the second here. But I just want to get
your overall thoughts on just Week one in the NFL,
even going back to Thursday night with the with the
Chiefs and UH and Chargers in Brazil. Man the whole
the whole weekend of of Week one, or not well
chief charge in Brazil, but also Eagles Cowboys on Thursday night,
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but the whole weekend in the NFL. Your thoughts on
Week one.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, I'll tell you watching the Kansas City and the
Chargers game, you know, I said that a little nice
team over there, I mean they played a great played,
really good, really good football game. I gotta say the Charges.
Did you know I played golf with Justin Herbert this
summer and uh, I said that to him. I said, man,
it's a great quarterback. He really is a nice young man.
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I said, they got to get you some help, man,
They got to get you some receiver, some help out there.
And I'm not saying that they have to answer for it,
you know, for for for the whole season, they looked
really good. I mean they that the defense looked fast,
the offense looked fast. And that's the thing I mean
when I look at Kansas City, I hate to say,
Kansas City's don't look old, you know, And I think
that's what I think. I think that that the Eagles
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kind of showed him up, showed them and this team
is this this is not that. This is not the
Kansas City you know for years, you know, two years,
two even two or three years ago. This is this
is an older football team that's starting to show. And
I think that was that was one of the reasons,
not the main reason that the Chargers beat them. The
Chargers just they played good football. They they had a
great football game. Justin Herban had a great game with
three touchdown, three out in eighteen yards. When I look
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at the Cowboys and the Eagles game, I mean, I
thought the Eagles are probably gonna kill him, I really did.
But I was shocked. The Cowboys they hung in there.
They played well, uh you know, with without with the
defensive a line my name, they traded. Yeah, like Michael Parsons,
that defense man they were. They were stuffing the run.
The thing about it, you know, I didn't like the
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way the game started with Jalen Carter spitting on on Dak.
But but but you know, I ain't gonna say Dak
didn't instigated, but he didn't. You know, he spit on
the ground. And you know, you come on sometimes you
walk up since you do that, you spit on the ground.
And I mean I noticed a rivalry, but you can't
take it that far to spit on somebody. And you know,
you have to be you. You have to control yourself
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better than that. I mean, imagine if this was a
divisional I mean like a divisional playoff game or the
Super Bowl. And now because you did something that stupid,
you know, you're out of the game. Kick kicked out
of the game. And as for at Washington Rams yesterday
and that defense was on it. I mean, that was
that was a really good football That was a really
good football game, really good football team. I meant when
I went there to Washington, watched the game yesterday. Uh,
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one thing I did know. The Texans are a well
coached They have a really good defense. These guys they
stay in their lanes. They don't do anything fancy, but
if you make mistakes, they'll take advantage of it. And
Rams didn't make a lot of mistakes. They made the
one mistake at the end of the game fump, you know,
the fumble. Uh, and that was that. You know, that
just kind of happened. But luckily I can't take fifty
five punch the ball like that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But he went for the land Man, land Man, that's
my new man. That's not new defensive guy. Land Man
puts it out. That was that was good.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He went for He went for the punch of the ball,
not even tackle. To save that victory for the that
defense man, that defense thing. Gret I got to get
an offensive line. Did They did a good job. They did.
They did. They did a I think a pretty good
job protecting Matt Stafford ran the ball well. So I
was pleased at that win because that was a doubt
that could have win either way. To be honest with you,
were you were.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You like a lot of people were, and including me,
just waiting for that first hit for Matthew Stafford because
all the talk about the back issue, the back stuff
going on. You know, how is he going to do
when he when he got that first, second or third hit,
is he going to be get you know, is he
going to be able to get up? And he got it.
And in fact, they Adam brought it up that they
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they ran a couple of quarterback sneaks and everything within them,
so they must feel like the back is good in health.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Man Man man first of all, and don't get me wrong,
he's you know, his back a little injured. But I
because I went at the training camp, I asked him
of the guy, I said, what's what's up with Man's back?
He could he just just they don't want to play?
I said, I get it, you know, you know, you
know the deal, Rodney, they got to.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Make a big like that. That's a big deal, a
big issue with the bag because they never playing preseason anyway,
so why are they making it a big deal That might.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Have been a little stiffid. But you know it is Hollywood.
You gotta do. You got the Hollywood way, you got,
you gotta be.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Some drama like, oh man, Matt.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Might not play. Oh my god, what the ram I'm
gonna do? You know, without Matt Stafford. So he looked
he looked good yesterday. I mean the team looked good,
like a solid football team. You know. I like you
where they played. I got to give him credit. And
now here y'all talking about the kickoff return? Man, hey
rdn see imakase your quarterback brother. You don't understand. You
don't get it. You show don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I'm an admirer over Harry D.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I'll tell you what you get that get on the
kick out the old way. Everybody's running from forty yards.
But man, I'm gonna tell you right when they used
to do the kick off.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I would turn my back.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I didn't even watch it. It was too violent.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I'm like, this is like a like a did you
ever return? Did you ever return kicks back back in
high school or even early on at SMU anything like that?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
In high school? I did, and in high school and
you know, seventh grade I did.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I liked it, but I didn't like it. But in college,
I'm gonna tell you when I got to college, I
did in my freshman year, and I didn't want to
do it. And I'm gonna tell you. Me and a
guy named Charles Wagner, we played the Texas Tech Red Raiders,
were both D they had us, both D guys, and
he told me, I see said, he said, I got it.
So I stepped up. And back in those days, that's
they could cut you. They could cut and they could
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cut you down to your knees and stuff. And they
cut me and cut him at the Sanknis. She was
close to me. He came down and broke a bone
in his neck and never played again. And let me
tell you something, that Charles Wagner would have. Somebody's gonna
to leave me and him a craig. I'm telling you
that's how good he was a running back. He was.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He he was some Dallas caller.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
He was.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
He was that.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He was that good of a player. Now going to
the pros, I'll never forget with my one of our
first day of not first when the veterans just showed
them were doing special teams and they called it, you know,
deep man on the kickoff return, and they called my name.
I'm like, oh, hell man. I'm like, oh hell so
you know everybody, you know, that's about the other players
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go in. I'm a rookie, but I'm like, uh uh so.
I walk up behind j R.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Jr.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Standing there with his arms crossed. I said, hey, coach,
I say, man, a kickoff return thing. I said, that
ain't me. You never just kind of steered that for
a minute. He said I go ahead and go in.
He never looked at it. I'm like, okay, I kick out. No,
he got it.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Hey, they got to protect their number one asset. I
remember the Giants in the nineties, they had Jason Seahorn
in a preseason game on a kick return. Did his
A c L was never the same after that? The
last white quarterback by the way.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, but that but that was I never understood why,
you know, so so so cheap NFL where they didn't
have enough players. So unfortunately a lot of times guys
that played a lot of starters had to play on
special teams. You know, and you know this CD, A
lot of guys would get hurt on those special teams.
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You'll whether it be a starting outside linebacker or safety
or your nickelback would be on them teams and you
lose a guy for a season because he was on
the special.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Team, right, And you said it, and the starters, not
that he's a starter, starting linebacker, starting it wasn't on
starting offensive lineman, on the defensive lineman on that because
they want the fast guys, right, That's what I'm telling you, man,
when you watch them, when you watch even after I retired,
I could not watch the kickoff. I'm like, this is
too violent. I'm like, you see guys, oh wow, jacked up,
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but right jacked up. He got knocked out. I didn't
want to be on nobody's highlight tape doing get knocked
down on a kickoff team.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Now, there were a few guys from the other side
of it that made a name for themselves, like Steve
Smith started off first time you ever touched the football
back in two thousand and one for the Carolina Panthers.
He took it for six on a kick return and
then eventually worked his way into playing receiver. But receiver,
you know, it's easy for me to say from the
entertainment aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You played with Ron Brown thoughts right, he was a specialist.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, yeah, I was an RB RB and I was
kind of like, he's not kind of like to you.
I mean he was faster. He'd faster still, man like,
all right, My boy Fred Young played with the Seahawks.
He made his name on kickoff kickoff team, the kickoff team.
He was knocking people out. I mean he got Dokie
Williams one time. Man we could talk to about that well.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Terrell Davis in Tokyo. Terrell David us had that big
hit on a kickoff return where he knocked out a
forty nine er and they said, why don't we give
him the ball a little bit more on offense and
reward him worked out.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm gonna put you back there.
That you that you said.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Now, I saw what happened to Johnny Knobsville when he
tried that once on jackass to be a punk returner
or something gotten aff knocked out.
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uh listen man? First of all, did you recently have
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a birthday? Brother?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Happy birth Oh my thousand yards for you.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But do you think we weren't gonna bring that up?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Man?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Happy birthday? I was hoping y'all wouldn't. Yeah, thank you,
I appreciate it. I know, right with a certain age,
you don't want to hear about birthday.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
No more.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I'll tell you it's not getting another birthday. That snake.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
No, let me tell you something. That was a baby routler.
But that was a big rounder for a baby one.
I could tell you's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
A Well that's a problem too, because they don't know
how much venom to use when they were a baby.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, I'm trying to find out. I was thinking about
that when you heard that thing his he did that?
What wh I First? I told you I was trying
to stick it was it was it was.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It was by behind a cooler next to a wall,
and so I hit, I dropped the trap and I
just kind of kicked it with my foot and I
heard I heard something strike, and I thought it was
a mouse trying to come out. And I'm like, oh,
I'm gonna kill you a mouse. I'm like, oh no,
that's a rattlesnake. So you know, like I said, once again,
I'm from Texas. Ran and got the shotgun first, but
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I said, I can't shoot on this concrete because it
was on ricochet. So I could with the pellic gun
take care of it. Yeah, we got we got it
done out here.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Uh all right, Eadie, So you know, obviously the big
news before Week one was Dallas trading Michael Parsons, and
you know you you feeling the way you feel about
the Cowboys. I knew you were just laughing, laughing the
whole time that was going down, and Jerry didn't mess
it up again. But first ball, what did you what
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did you make of that trade and them not only
trading them, but trading them to another NFC team, another
NFC contender like Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Well, I say this, I wish my team I was
the ramser did me like that? Because I wanted to
go to the Redskins. And now my cousin was that
dext to mount and he said, man, I heard we're
trying to get you. I said yeah. He said, you know,
it ain't gonna happen. That's too much like right, that's
the right thing to do. Theyin't gonna do that. But
for as you know, forst traded him to a giving
him an opportunity to play for a good football team.
They gave him that that opportunity, a team that can
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really go to that you know right there by the
Super Bowl door, I mean, not in the division. They
didn't do what the stupid Giants did to sake one barket.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Right in the same division. I mean, that was just dumb,
you know, Rightney.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
One thing about that that is is that when you
get drafted by a team, even if a team is
a bad team. I'm sure you know I got I
was fortunate to get drafted by a good team, the Rams,
and you want to stay with that team. That's the
team you want. That's the team you want to, you know,
want you want to you know, ride or say ride
or die with. And I'm sure him being a cowboy,
you know, because I kept I was in Dallas this
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past week and I was asking people.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
A lot of people were pissed about it, and so
be we okay with it? You know, They're like, well,
you know, if it kept, it may help our defense.
We have to draft picks.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But you know, it's a few players that are generational players.
They really are, and I think and I think he's
one of those generational players. But the big thing is,
and I kept saying this, I said, look, first of all,
these agents, you know, these agents, they don't care about
the player. The agents care about themselves. When you think
about Michael Parson's playing in Dallas and let's just say
they offered him one hundred I'm just throw a number.
Say they offered him one hundred million dollars. And let's
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just say the Green Bay Packers offered him one hundred
and I'm gonna say one hundred and eight million dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Lets shoot that number.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
First of all, you pay notes, you have no state
tax in Texas, and in the long run, and make
it plain and simple, you think you're gonna get more
endorsements being a packer or a cowboy, You're gonna always
get more being a cowboy. Being a cowboy is gonna
add if you're a great player, that's going to add
another five to ten million dollars to you just being
a Dallas cowboy, not a Green Bay packer out of Cincinnati, Bengal,
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not even a Los Angeles ram. Let's be honest. I mean,
it's being a cowboy. So I just felt like it
was a I thought it was a win win and
a loss loss for both of them. Really, I really did,
because you know, you don't trade a guy like that
if you don't have to. And I don't know, I
don't know all the particulars about it, but I know
how these agents are the agents. You know, you think
them agents carried them. Agents care about their percentage. That's
they care about it. And in the long run, you
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look at it, he's really not making he's made. He's
losing money going to Green Bay. When you look at
the numbers, he really is. So I don't think it
was a great deal. I mean I thought, I wish
you'd have stayed a Dallas cowboy, Like I said, I'm
not a cowboy fan. I just like great players and
when you go someplace, you want to stay there. Like me,
I wanted to stay with the Rams my whole career.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Man.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But I was just talking about a million dollars. They're
talking about one hundred million dollars. It's a big difference,
you know. So I just think it was Like I said,
I think it was a win for him, and you
know made it most definitely for it's the contract. I
think he got what sixty seven the million dollars guaranteed
or something like that. I mean, think about it, Ridney, Yeah,
I mean think about it. You got you got that
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much money, that's guaranteed money, you get hurt guaranteed. You
can't beat that deal. I mean, that's that's the that's
the thing that we don't have in the NFL. That's
that's generational that's generational wealth. I mean, he could do
some dumb stuff and still have some money. They can't
do not too dumb, but he could do some dumb stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's still have money he do aside from what this does.
The Dallas Cowboys and they weren't a close one against
the Eagles and maybe could have used Michael Parsons in
that game. Green Bay looks loaded right now. They just
took out the Detroit Lions, and some people had them
as an Inner Circle contender before they got Michael Parsons.
To me, now that's one of the favorites. I got
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them win in the Super Bowl this year.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, I mean I wouldn't go that far, but I
mean they do look good.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I mean I got.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Rams could take them down. I'll say that.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, And I'm not and I'm not no homework. I
mean I'm not.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'm not seeing the Rams are gonna do it out.
I mean you still got to go with it. The
defending champions, the Eagles, I mean they look good also,
but I mean they made that team that much better
by having Michael Parsons on that football team. He really did.
And just think about it right now. He got he did,
got he got a sack yesterday. That's his first game.
He don't even know. That defense wasn't even he had
been no training camp or nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Did you see the crowd when he went in the
game when they got that first snap, that crowd went
crazy and crazy. They will embrace him and they'll find
a way to use him right up there as well.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
He only got thirty snaps in and he still looked
effective out there when he was out there.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I mean, that's that's what I'm saying. Just wait, just
wait till he really gets in football shape and really
gets that defense down. No, and they start knowing the
guys you know they're playing, they're playing across from him,
that's playing with him on his defense.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Then they're hard.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
They were hard to tend with the ten with last year,
so they only be that much better this year.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Eric, you mentioned some earon. I want to go back
to that because that's that was really important, that the
difference in different brands, and you've been in different brands
and you know you understand that, I mean understand it
to this day being you know, you know, playing for
the Rams and the fact that the Rams came back
to LA and the resurgence and what you've been able
to do, uh being you know, back a part of
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the Rams, and that wasn't always the case, right, So
when he came back to LA and Stan Crunky and
you know, new coach and all the new new new
front office embraced you back there being a cowboy. And
I was there for one year, so I understand. I
understand what it means to be a cowboy. And if
the money was close, you know, if money is close,
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you're going to always benefit more by being with the cowboys.
And so again to your agent point, from what I
understand that the money, the overall money was very, very close,
and the agent got offended because Jerry went to Micah
behind his back or talked to him individually, as opposed
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to bringing the agent in the room. But if the
money is close, man, I don't know what happens this year.
I don't know what happens in this career in Green Bay.
But you're right, you think about all the cowboys that
got that are on the networks, right, and then how
many I don't know, if there's another organization of former
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players that live in the city that they played from,
that played for that amount of Cowboys that live in
Dallas still after.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
They returned after they retire. First of all, Dallas is
a great city. I mean I went to college there.
I mean, I'm watching it grow so much. I mean
from I saw a survey they said that about the
year twenty thirty five I turned starts two years ago,
that Dallas would get the largest city in the United States.
And if you spend some time in Dallas and you've
ever been to Dallas, you know I grew up there
but went to college there.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
It has grown so much. Ridney and Adam, I mean, Plano.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Was a place where just say, brothers, you didn't go
out to planeo uh, you didn't do that. Now you
might come up missed it. You might be a deliverance thing,
but now plan deliverance. You don't.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Like a big boys hearing.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Some banjoes playing right now?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, bring Reynolds back like me.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
But I'm serious, I mean, plaino uh, it's a part
of the Frisco All that's Dallas now, I mean it's
not It's not like it used to be. Dallas is
as a city that's grown so much. And like you said,
after money it was close. Man, you gonna get more
by being a cowboy. I'm telling you you're right. There's
so many Dallas cowboys that played for the Cowboy Organization
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that still live in Dallas. And I got to say
this much. You know, you might not like Jerry Jones
and all that, and I like Jerry. You know, Jerry
has been known to take care of his guys. You know,
I know this stuff he's done for certain guys. I
know this stuff he's done. Mike, Michael Irvin. You know
he had his problem. Jerry really took care of him.
So you know, as a as a former player, you man,
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most of these teams don't care about you, and the
owners really don't care about you, and they you know,
you just a number to them. But some owners they
embrace you, like Eddie de Bartola back and in the
forty nine a.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Days, those forty nine players talking about.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Oh man, they talk about it about him, way to
talk about him, love the have of him. I mean
still they talk about him. Man, Eddie man the other guys.
I know, man Eddie did and you'd be like, huh,
eddid what it was almost like unbelievable. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I won't tell you who who, But one guy told me.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
He said when they traded for him, and they gave
him a signing bonus, and Eddie gave him nine hundred
and eighty thousand dollars in cash, some of it he
hit it. They gave him to him cash. I'm like
what he said. He gave me nine hundred eighty thousand
dollars in cash. I'm like, man. So it's just certain
organizations that they take it over the top and they
didn't want to play for maybe Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
We are right, we gotta regular leave that alone.
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Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh yes, we are back with the Ford NFL Spotlight,
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the Hall of Fame of joining us Adam Auslin and
for Fred hey Ed, I just want to I want
to I want to touch on something real quick because
this became a story over the last week and a half. Obviously,
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you know Bill Belichick taking the elite from leaving New
England to go into North Carolina didn't getting blown out
by TCU, and a lot of people were like either
loving that or knew that was going to happen. And
then it turns out that he banned he banned the
New England Scouts from coming to North Carolina to watch
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his players. And his quote was that they don't want
me in the building, so they can't come into our building. Now,
all that all that happening while you know he didn't,
how do I put this the right way? At him
that he's dating a twenty four year old former cheerleader
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that is now his marketing representative agent.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And helping him understand the new ways in life, and uh,
he's fifty years older than her. It's it's strange what
they marketed or trademarked gold Digger.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Heard's been around for it, They've been and have you
seen they've they've been using you know, obviously, you know,
Jorge MJ is all over in North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He's the branding represent branding company of that. Everything is
MJ on it, everything's on it. And her first name
is Jordan. And they've been playing on the word. They've
been playing on the Jordan name and Jordan word with
her and the whole thing. It's just a circus.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
They got the new Air Jordan logo. Yes they do,
Bill Belichick lifting her off on the beach.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yes they do. Yes on T shirts, on T shirts.
They got it. I mean seriously. And he was the
one that preaching, you know, do your job and no
distractions and all that. What do you make of him,
you know, going to North Carolina and I just don't
see this working out. Edie Well, I.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Mean, I don't know, Rodney, I don't I could understand that.
I never thought he'd go back to college, for sure.
I just thought he'd staying the proles, just retire. It's
not a good look, you know. But it's not not
my life. It's not you know, it's not our lives.
You know. I always say this. I say this too
when it comes to the young girl he's dating. Yeah,
(29:56):
I mean, if that was my daughter. I mean I
talked to say, hey, yes, little he's a little old.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
But think about like this here, think about this here
right now. Okay, what is Bill So? What is he
seventy something years old? If he was doing if he
was dating the ninety five year old woman, what would
he say? Man, why he did that old last woman,
that woman forty years older than him.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
That's why he made no sense.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He's on the golden girl's curse, all the tark.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's exactly, man, that's crazy. Way then old last.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
He's gonna get your young woman that they would say, Hey,
my thing is if he if she like it, I
love it.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I mean I ain't got no problem with it with me.
I mean I don't want no old woman. I ain't
gonna lie. I mean personally, no, I get it.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Listen, as we say back in the day, and we
say it now, he was he sprung. She put it
on him, She put it on He put it on him,
He put it on it. But here's the thing. You know,
he's obviously will go down as one of the best
coaches of all time, no doubt, all the Super Bowls,
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, a little controversy in there.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
But still but to your point, either, you know, why
would you go back to college? Is the reason why
so many of the greats have left college. Nick say
they want to go to the pros. He was the
one to go to the pros. Or the way the
college is nowadays, it's not worth it for an old
soul to kind of have to deal with the recruiting
and the transfer portal and all the things that are
associated with college football right now. It's just it's not
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easy to be a college coach right now. But even
let's go back when you said Nick Saban, Nick Saban
went to the pros. It didn't work out. That was
too I'm talking about now, I'm talking about leaving. He
decided to leave Alabama. He's like I and we see Alabama,
they can't compete with Georgia. They can't compete with that
SMU anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
But but remember when he went to when he went
from from whatever he was LSU went to the to Miami.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Oh yeahs it didn't work. It wasn't work. It went wait.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But you know why, because you can't talk to these
guys like you talk to the college guy.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
They'd be like, hey, man, check it out. I'm thirty
two years old. You can't talk to me any right,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Right, I'm gonna go on and ask, man, who do
you think you yelling more than you and I make
more than Give me the hell out of here.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
That what college? The way it is now, some of
these kids are making more than the coaches.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Novel left the pros to go the Prosy ready to
go to go to pros.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
But but you know what, one thing is right, I
don't have a problem with these kids getting paid. I
really don't because I know when I when I heard
uh Nick Saban say, oh you know it's it's it's
wrong for these kids to make that kind of money,
blah blah. I'm like, okay, I'll tell you what they're Nick,
And I like, Nick Sables, why don't you coach for free?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Get it?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Get your doing the education? Will house you? You know,
we ain't paying you no money. We just give you
a house and that's it, and and let you let
you live for free like that, the same thing as
a college kid is doing, but instead of paying you.
Because I think the kids are doing the work and
they're getting nothing for it now.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And we won't let you do any of these commercials, Nick,
we can't, right, can't commercials or anything.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
But the coach can do the commercial. But the coach
you do no more. I do the comore you can get.
I can make the money. I just don't like the
way they jump around. I mean, I think the one
thing is right, and I think like if you think
about when you in college, think about all the friendship
you friendships you.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Have from USC over the four years you there.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
You know, if I played at USC, then I went
to UCLA, then I went to Kentucky, then I went
to Alabama and I went here.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I mean, where who am I? Where are my guys at?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Which guys are connect? You just mentioned that because you
know that when you come into a place as a freshman,
you bond with the freshmen, right exactly. You bond with
the freshman. You the new kids on the block. You
bond with them, and then you start to grow with them.
One or two of you may play early on, you're
rooting for the freshmen. Your classmates. They come in, all
they got on the field, they playing, they bawling, and
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then a sophomore you grow up with them. All of
a sudden, by the time y'all junior is like, all right,
now we're getting now.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
We got something. Now we got something going exactly. That
doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
My problem is the college situation was always a business.
It always felt like that under the guys of student athletes.
Student athletes, let me tell you something. If somebody didn't
graduate that long ago from college a bachelor degree, that
they're saying, oh, you got you got a scholarship. What
do you mean that's what you're getting out of this?
A bachelor degree today is like a high school diploma.
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It's like par for the course. It's not worth the
paper is written on most of the time. What it's
worth is to go on to more schooling. You have
to get this, to go on to more schooling and
invest more money and get in more debt with student loans,
acting like, oh, you're getting something out of this too,
with this scholarship was always best.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It was always and we got away with it for years.
And now they complain, and the old schools are complaining
that kids are playing. But to your point, I don't
like the whole way the transfer portal is right now
that they can just go year to year and I
don't like to say penalty either, but it shouldn't be
that easy that, you know, Eric, you had to compete.
(34:42):
You had to compete for a starting job when we
got there, when we got to college, it was like, okay,
we got the best players around the country. You got
to compete for it. And if you didn't win it,
then you hope that something happened, or you got a
chance to play, to show your stuff, and then you
could play maybe a year from now. Now. If guys,
he doesn't win the in the spring, they don't want
to compete, they don't. I gotta go to the next place.
(35:04):
I gotta go. I gotta another school.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Not something's wrong with me that I need to work
on it, something's wrong with them. I'm gonna find a
better spot.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Correct. Well. A lot of it, a lot a lot
of it too, is the parents.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I mean, think about the parents and parents are, oh
you ain't my son ain't playing over here. He needs
to be starting, you know, And oh he ain't gonna play.
He played a couple of places. I'm gonna move him
over here. I mean, I think a lot of it
is the parents, I mean, and a lot of it
is the kids that got this entitlement thing. They feel
like they're entitled because they've told they were great in
high school. It looks right, and you know as well
as I do. Adam, you may know this too. I'm
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not sure, but you know most most and most athletes.
I mean, look, when when you go from high school
to college, it's different. It's a different it's a different
level of everybody that was great in high school. You're
a great high school player, you don't become great college.
But it doesn't work like that all the time. It's
some guys that were just good in college. They go
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with the pros and they turn it out like damn.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
What he got his opportunity to do what it is out.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
And that's that's what it is. You have to you
have to work at that. A lot of these players
want stuff given to them. And I worked at it, brother,
I'm telling you, and I worked hard, and I'm glad
I did, because nobody gave me nothing in my life.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
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Speaker 3 (36:25):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
A lot more to talk about with the Rambassador of
the Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson on the other side,
Adam Auson and for Fred Rogan, Boy, that first week
in NFL was pretty good, especially Sunday night game. Last night, Man,
we got to get into that shootout between Josh Allen
and Lamar Jackson. Good stuff.
Oh, all right, welcome back. I'm sorry about that. Welcome back,
Rodney Pete, Adam Austin, the Rambassador Eric Dickerson is going
to join us here shortly. All right, Adam, Let's let's
get into the NFL. Man, Let's get into the NFL.
And I was saying, you know, to Kevin earlier that
(00:22):
I don't know. It feels like for me, it feels
like there's a different level of excitement for football this year.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'll tell you what last night's game didn't hurt. That
was that may be the best opening weekend. We still
got a game left tonight. But considering how Sunday night
football went, I mean, the Jets Steelers game early on
was great, the Box Falcons game was great. But then
you get the two top teams by most most people's
measure in the AFC. We'll see what happens with Kansas City.
(00:55):
They already lost the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Two of the top three quarterbacks playing against each other. Yeah,
that was phenomenal last night.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That's one of the best games I've ever seen in sports.
That was as exciting as fun. Explosive offenses comeback after comeback.
I would say, interesting decisions made late in that game.
I'm looking at you, John Harbaugh. Some some second guessing
going on, some Monday morning quarterback going on today, But
(01:24):
that was high level football.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It really was. For week one, that was an instant
classic and instant candidate for game of the year. And
usually that's reserved to a late season try to win
the division or a playoff game or something like that.
But week one, you know, yeah, forty one, you wonder,
(01:47):
you know, how the defenses were and how they're going
to be the rest of the year. But everything was
on display. Both Josh and Lamar were as advertised, even
Derek Henry leading up to everything but the fumble that
cost them at the end. But all of the stars
played last night in that game, and I think this
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weekend too. It was pretty good. But also even just
not only just the NFL, but college You know that
that Texas Ohio State game was the highest rated college
football game ever, that's ring ever. And that's including like
back in the day high you know, rivalry games in
Michigan Ohio State see still a see Notre Dame blah
(02:29):
blah blah. It was the highest rated one ever.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, and that seems we were talking about it off air.
That seems almost impossible considering how many more options you
have in life. Nowadays, you got options. You got three
hundred and fifty channels whatever it is, you got streaming,
you got YouTube, you got legal places to go to watch.
It is still the highest rated over stuff that happened
(02:52):
in the nineties when there was thirty channels. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That is crazy? All right? So overall, Adam, overall, what
did you what did you make going back to the
kickoff game in Brazil with the Chiefs and the Chargers
Week one in the NFL, what did you take away
from it?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'll say this, I'm glad we're getting kick returns again.
They changed that rule and it works.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Makes it exciting again.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now, if you want to talk about players safety, fine,
but they're trying to find a happy medium where we
can at least get some kick returns.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I mean that is.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
To me as a kid watching Michael Bates with returns
for the Carolina Panther's a track star like that. That's
one of my favorite things in sports, and it was
taken away due to safety reasons, but they took it
so far away. Last year was all touchbacks.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, well, let's bring them in right now, talking about
safety and talking about game changes. The Rambassada the rambassador
for the first week bed for an NFL spotlight. My
man ed Eric Dickerson. How you doing, brother?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
What's up riding?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
What's up? Adam?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
How you doing? How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Uh? First of all, sorry, we have some technical difficult
to go here with. I was I was outside trying
to kill a rouse snake. Oh, y'ad out here, that's
one I'm getting lad man.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, I remember you got cut off the head and
bury it out man.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Like.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Wait, there's a there's a very popular uh Instagram guy
named I think he's called the Black Tarzan. He goes
into these places and and yeah, and and hunch the
snakes and get them out of people's houses and stuff
like that and all that kind of stuff. And now
are you the are you the the black Tarzan of
(04:45):
the valley?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Now? But I'm not. I'm not. I'm not the black Tarzan.
I'm not the color of Tarzan. I'm no no Tarzan.
I don't I'm not afraid of snake. I don't like him.
But man, I was out there, I was putting it.
It was I was putting it. I put a mouse
trap outside in the back, just in the back by
by a wall, and it's some.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It was.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It was too cool. It was on top of each
other and I was I just kind of kicked the trap.
I thought it was a mouse and I saw something
stripe and then I'm like, oh, that's a rout snake. So
I had to go inside first. That first, and I
went inside and got the shotgun. You know, I'm gonna tack,
so I got so I wouldn't got the shotgun and
then I'm like, well, I can't shoot on this concrete.
(05:23):
It's gonna ricochet. So I have a bead pellet gun too,
so I had to put it back. He was a
baby raller, but still it was a rout snake.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You got the daisy or the Crossman air gun there
I got.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I got the cross when I got the one to
open up and put the pellet in, and it's it's
not like a twenty two man.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So you got it. You got it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Got it what I was doing. I got I got him,
you know, yeah, I bet I like I beat the
head off of whatever. What a racket beat his head
off and through it, the throing the trash through the
top and they come and get trash tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So but that makes sense because you put you were
putting the mouse traps out there. It was probably hunting,
hunting the mice that may be run in the area.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, but I haven't had no ralph snake run in that.
It was a king snake is different ral snake. Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I can't do that between.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You and Domin. We're gonna talk about Spencer Rattler.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Now what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
All right, d We're gonna get into the rams uh
in the second here. But I just want to get
your overall thoughts on just Week one in the NFL,
even going back to Thursday night with the with the
Chiefs and UH and Chargers in Brazil. Man the whole
the whole weekend of of Week one, or not well
chief charge in Brazil, but also Eagles Cowboys on Thursday night,
(06:38):
but the whole weekend in the NFL. Your thoughts on
Week one.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, I'll tell you watching the Kansas City and the
Chargers game, you know, I said that a little nice
team over there, I mean they played a great played,
really good, really good football game. I gotta say the Charges.
Did you know I played golf with Justin Herbert this
summer and uh, I said that to him. I said, man,
it's a great quarterback. He really is a nice young man.
(07:02):
I said, they got to get you some help, man,
They got to get you some receiver, some help out there.
And I'm not saying that they have to answer for it,
you know, for for for the whole season, they looked
really good. I mean they that the defense looked fast,
the offense looked fast. And that's the thing I mean
when I look at Kansas City, I hate to say,
Kansas City's don't look old, you know, And I think
that's what I think. I think that that the Eagles
(07:23):
kind of showed him up, showed them and this team
is this this is not that. This is not the
Kansas City you know for years, you know, two years,
two even two or three years ago. This is this
is an older football team that's starting to show. And
I think that was that was one of the reasons,
not the main reason that the Chargers beat them. The
Chargers just they played good football. They they had a
great football game. Justin Herban had a great game with
three touchdown, three out in eighteen yards. When I look
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at the Cowboys and the Eagles game, I mean, I
thought the Eagles are probably gonna kill him, I really did.
But I was shocked. The Cowboys they hung in there.
They played well, uh you know, with without with the
defensive a line my name, they traded. Yeah, like Michael Parsons,
that defense man they were. They were stuffing the run.
The thing about it, you know, I didn't like the
(08:05):
way the game started with Jalen Carter spitting on on Dak.
But but but you know, I ain't gonna say Dak
didn't instigated, but he didn't. You know, he spit on
the ground. And you know, you come on sometimes you
walk up since you do that, you spit on the ground.
And I mean I noticed a rivalry, but you can't
take it that far to spit on somebody. And you know,
you have to be you. You have to control yourself
(08:25):
better than that. I mean, imagine if this was a
divisional I mean like a divisional playoff game or the
Super Bowl. And now because you did something that stupid,
you know, you're out of the game. Kick kicked out
of the game. And as for at Washington Rams yesterday
and that defense was on it. I mean, that was
that was a really good football That was a really
good football game, really good football team. I meant when
I went there to Washington, watched the game yesterday. Uh,
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one thing I did know. The Texans are a well
coached They have a really good defense. These guys they
stay in their lanes. They don't do anything fancy, but
if you make mistakes, they'll take advantage of it. And
Rams didn't make a lot of mistakes. They made the
one mistake at the end of the game fump, you know,
the fumble. Uh, and that was that. You know, that
just kind of happened. But luckily I can't take fifty
five punch the ball like that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But he went for the land Man, land Man, that's
my new man. That's not new defensive guy. Land Man
puts it out. That was that was good.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He went for He went for the punch of the ball,
not even tackle. To save that victory for the that
defense man, that defense thing. Gret I got to get
an offensive line. Did They did a good job. They did.
They did. They did a I think a pretty good
job protecting Matt Stafford ran the ball well. So I
was pleased at that win because that was a doubt
that could have win either way. To be honest with you,
were you were.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You like a lot of people were, and including me,
just waiting for that first hit for Matthew Stafford because
all the talk about the back issue, the back stuff
going on. You know, how is he going to do
when he when he got that first, second or third hit,
is he going to be get you know, is he
going to be able to get up? And he got it.
And in fact, they Adam brought it up that they
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they ran a couple of quarterback sneaks and everything within them,
so they must feel like the back is good in health.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Man Man man first of all, and don't get me wrong,
he's you know, his back a little injured. But I
because I went at the training camp, I asked him
of the guy, I said, what's what's up with Man's back?
He could he just just they don't want to play?
I said, I get it, you know, you know, you
know the deal, Rodney, they got to.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Make a big like that. That's a big deal, a
big issue with the bag because they never playing preseason anyway,
so why are they making it a big deal That might.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Have been a little stiffid. But you know it is Hollywood.
You gotta do. You got the Hollywood way, you got,
you gotta be.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Some drama like, oh man, Matt.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Might not play. Oh my god, what the ram I'm
gonna do? You know, without Matt Stafford. So he looked
he looked good yesterday. I mean the team looked good,
like a solid football team. You know. I like you
where they played. I got to give him credit. And
now here y'all talking about the kickoff return? Man, hey
rdn see imakase your quarterback brother. You don't understand. You
don't get it. You show don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I'm an admirer over Harry D.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I'll tell you what you get that get on the
kick out the old way. Everybody's running from forty yards.
But man, I'm gonna tell you right when they used
to do the kick off.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I would turn my back.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I didn't even watch it. It was too violent.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I'm like, this is like a like a did you
ever return? Did you ever return kicks back back in
high school or even early on at SMU anything like that?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
In high school? I did, and in high school and
you know, seventh grade I did.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I liked it, but I didn't like it. But in college,
I'm gonna tell you when I got to college, I
did in my freshman year, and I didn't want to
do it. And I'm gonna tell you. Me and a
guy named Charles Wagner, we played the Texas Tech Red Raiders,
were both D they had us, both D guys, and
he told me, I see said, he said, I got it.
So I stepped up. And back in those days, that's
they could cut you. They could cut and they could
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cut you down to your knees and stuff. And they
cut me and cut him at the Sanknis. She was
close to me. He came down and broke a bone
in his neck and never played again. And let me
tell you something, that Charles Wagner would have. Somebody's gonna
to leave me and him a craig. I'm telling you
that's how good he was a running back. He was.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He he was some Dallas caller.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
He was.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
He was that.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He was that good of a player. Now going to
the pros, I'll never forget with my one of our
first day of not first when the veterans just showed
them were doing special teams and they called it, you know,
deep man on the kickoff return, and they called my name.
I'm like, oh, hell man. I'm like, oh hell so
you know everybody, you know, that's about the other players
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go in. I'm a rookie, but I'm like, uh uh so.
I walk up behind j R.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Jr.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Standing there with his arms crossed. I said, hey, coach,
I say, man, a kickoff return thing. I said, that
ain't me. You never just kind of steered that for
a minute. He said I go ahead and go in.
He never looked at it. I'm like, okay, I kick out. No,
he got it.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Hey, they got to protect their number one asset. I
remember the Giants in the nineties, they had Jason Seahorn
in a preseason game on a kick return. Did his
A c L was never the same after that? The
last white quarterback by the way.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, but that but that was I never understood why,
you know, so so so cheap NFL where they didn't
have enough players. So unfortunately a lot of times guys
that played a lot of starters had to play on
special teams. You know, and you know this CD, A
lot of guys would get hurt on those special teams.
(13:27):
You'll whether it be a starting outside linebacker or safety
or your nickelback would be on them teams and you
lose a guy for a season because he was on
the special.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Team, right, And you said it, and the starters, not
that he's a starter, starting linebacker, starting it wasn't on
starting offensive lineman, on the defensive lineman on that because
they want the fast guys, right, That's what I'm telling you, man,
when you watch them, when you watch even after I retired,
I could not watch the kickoff. I'm like, this is
too violent. I'm like, you see guys, oh wow, jacked up,
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but right jacked up. He got knocked out. I didn't
want to be on nobody's highlight tape doing get knocked
down on a kickoff team.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Now, there were a few guys from the other side
of it that made a name for themselves, like Steve
Smith started off first time you ever touched the football
back in two thousand and one for the Carolina Panthers.
He took it for six on a kick return and
then eventually worked his way into playing receiver. But receiver,
you know, it's easy for me to say from the
entertainment aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You played with Ron Brown thoughts right, he was a specialist.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, yeah, I was an RB RB and I was
kind of like, he's not kind of like to you.
I mean he was faster. He'd faster still, man like,
all right, My boy Fred Young played with the Seahawks.
He made his name on kickoff kickoff team, the kickoff team.
He was knocking people out. I mean he got Dokie
Williams one time. Man we could talk to about that well.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Terrell Davis in Tokyo. Terrell David us had that big
hit on a kickoff return where he knocked out a
forty nine er and they said, why don't we give
him the ball a little bit more on offense and
reward him worked out.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm gonna put you back there.
That you that you said.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Now, I saw what happened to Johnny Knobsville when he
tried that once on jackass to be a punk returner
or something gotten aff knocked out.
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Speaker 1 (16:08):
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uh listen man? First of all, did you recently have
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a birthday? Brother?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Happy birth Oh my thousand yards for you.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But do you think we weren't gonna bring that up?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Man?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Happy birthday? I was hoping y'all wouldn't. Yeah, thank you,
I appreciate it. I know, right with a certain age,
you don't want to hear about birthday.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
No more.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I'll tell you it's not getting another birthday. That snake.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
No, let me tell you something. That was a baby routler.
But that was a big rounder for a baby one.
I could tell you's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
A Well that's a problem too, because they don't know
how much venom to use when they were a baby.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, I'm trying to find out. I was thinking about
that when you heard that thing his he did that?
What wh I First? I told you I was trying
to stick it was it was it was.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It was by behind a cooler next to a wall,
and so I hit, I dropped the trap and I
just kind of kicked it with my foot and I
heard I heard something strike, and I thought it was
a mouse trying to come out. And I'm like, oh,
I'm gonna kill you a mouse. I'm like, oh no,
that's a rattlesnake. So you know, like I said, once again,
I'm from Texas. Ran and got the shotgun first, but
(17:33):
I said, I can't shoot on this concrete because it
was on ricochet. So I could with the pellic gun
take care of it. Yeah, we got we got it
done out here.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Uh all right, Eadie, So you know, obviously the big
news before Week one was Dallas trading Michael Parsons, and
you know you you feeling the way you feel about
the Cowboys. I knew you were just laughing, laughing the
whole time that was going down, and Jerry didn't mess
it up again. But first ball, what did you what
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did you make of that trade and them not only
trading them, but trading them to another NFC team, another
NFC contender like Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Well, I say this, I wish my team I was
the ramser did me like that? Because I wanted to
go to the Redskins. And now my cousin was that
dext to mount and he said, man, I heard we're
trying to get you. I said yeah. He said, you know,
it ain't gonna happen. That's too much like right, that's
the right thing to do. Theyin't gonna do that. But
for as you know, forst traded him to a giving
him an opportunity to play for a good football team.
They gave him that that opportunity, a team that can
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really go to that you know right there by the
Super Bowl door, I mean, not in the division. They
didn't do what the stupid Giants did to sake one barket.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Right in the same division. I mean, that was just dumb,
you know, Rightney.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
One thing about that that is is that when you
get drafted by a team, even if a team is
a bad team. I'm sure you know I got I
was fortunate to get drafted by a good team, the Rams,
and you want to stay with that team. That's the
team you want. That's the team you want to, you know,
want you want to you know, ride or say ride
or die with. And I'm sure him being a cowboy,
you know, because I kept I was in Dallas this
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past week and I was asking people.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
A lot of people were pissed about it, and so
be we okay with it? You know, They're like, well,
you know, if it kept, it may help our defense.
We have to draft picks.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But you know, it's a few players that are generational players.
They really are, and I think and I think he's
one of those generational players. But the big thing is,
and I kept saying this, I said, look, first of all,
these agents, you know, these agents, they don't care about
the player. The agents care about themselves. When you think
about Michael Parson's playing in Dallas and let's just say
they offered him one hundred I'm just throw a number.
Say they offered him one hundred million dollars. And let's
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just say the Green Bay Packers offered him one hundred
and I'm gonna say one hundred and eight million dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Lets shoot that number.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
First of all, you pay notes, you have no state
tax in Texas, and in the long run, and make
it plain and simple, you think you're gonna get more
endorsements being a packer or a cowboy, You're gonna always
get more being a cowboy. Being a cowboy is gonna
add if you're a great player, that's going to add
another five to ten million dollars to you just being
a Dallas cowboy, not a Green Bay packer out of Cincinnati, Bengal,
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not even a Los Angeles ram. Let's be honest. I mean,
it's being a cowboy. So I just felt like it
was a I thought it was a win win and
a loss loss for both of them. Really, I really did,
because you know, you don't trade a guy like that
if you don't have to. And I don't know, I
don't know all the particulars about it, but I know
how these agents are the agents. You know, you think
them agents carried them. Agents care about their percentage. That's
they care about it. And in the long run, you
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look at it, he's really not making he's made. He's
losing money going to Green Bay. When you look at
the numbers, he really is. So I don't think it
was a great deal. I mean I thought, I wish
you'd have stayed a Dallas cowboy, Like I said, I'm
not a cowboy fan. I just like great players and
when you go someplace, you want to stay there. Like me,
I wanted to stay with the Rams my whole career.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Man.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But I was just talking about a million dollars. They're
talking about one hundred million dollars. It's a big difference,
you know. So I just think it was Like I said,
I think it was a win for him, and you
know made it most definitely for it's the contract. I
think he got what sixty seven the million dollars guaranteed
or something like that. I mean, think about it, Ridney, Yeah,
I mean think about it. You got you got that
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much money, that's guaranteed money, you get hurt guaranteed. You
can't beat that deal. I mean, that's that's the that's
the thing that we don't have in the NFL. That's
that's generational that's generational wealth. I mean, he could do
some dumb stuff and still have some money. They can't
do not too dumb, but he could do some dumb stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's still have money he do aside from what this does.
The Dallas Cowboys and they weren't a close one against
the Eagles and maybe could have used Michael Parsons in
that game. Green Bay looks loaded right now. They just
took out the Detroit Lions, and some people had them
as an Inner Circle contender before they got Michael Parsons.
To me, now that's one of the favorites. I got
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them win in the Super Bowl this year.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, I mean I wouldn't go that far, but I
mean they do look good.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I mean I got.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Rams could take them down. I'll say that.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, And I'm not and I'm not no homework. I
mean I'm not.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'm not seeing the Rams are gonna do it out.
I mean you still got to go with it. The
defending champions, the Eagles, I mean they look good also,
but I mean they made that team that much better
by having Michael Parsons on that football team. He really did.
And just think about it right now. He got he did,
got he got a sack yesterday. That's his first game.
He don't even know. That defense wasn't even he had
been no training camp or nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Did you see the crowd when he went in the
game when they got that first snap, that crowd went
crazy and crazy. They will embrace him and they'll find
a way to use him right up there as well.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
He only got thirty snaps in and he still looked
effective out there when he was out there.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I mean, that's that's what I'm saying. Just wait, just
wait till he really gets in football shape and really
gets that defense down. No, and they start knowing the
guys you know they're playing, they're playing across from him,
that's playing with him on his defense.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Then they're hard.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
They were hard to tend with the ten with last year,
so they only be that much better this year.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Eric, you mentioned some earon. I want to go back
to that because that's that was really important, that the
difference in different brands, and you've been in different brands
and you know you understand that, I mean understand it
to this day being you know, you know, playing for
the Rams and the fact that the Rams came back
to LA and the resurgence and what you've been able
to do, uh being you know, back a part of
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the Rams, and that wasn't always the case, right, So
when he came back to LA and Stan Crunky and
you know, new coach and all the new new new
front office embraced you back there being a cowboy. And
I was there for one year, so I understand. I
understand what it means to be a cowboy. And if
the money was close, you know, if money is close,
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you're going to always benefit more by being with the cowboys.
And so again to your agent point, from what I
understand that the money, the overall money was very, very close,
and the agent got offended because Jerry went to Micah
behind his back or talked to him individually, as opposed
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to bringing the agent in the room. But if the
money is close, man, I don't know what happens this year.
I don't know what happens in this career in Green Bay.
But you're right, you think about all the cowboys that
got that are on the networks, right, and then how
many I don't know, if there's another organization of former
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players that live in the city that they played from,
that played for that amount of Cowboys that live in
Dallas still after.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
They returned after they retire. First of all, Dallas is
a great city. I mean I went to college there.
I mean, I'm watching it grow so much. I mean
from I saw a survey they said that about the
year twenty thirty five I turned starts two years ago,
that Dallas would get the largest city in the United States.
And if you spend some time in Dallas and you've
ever been to Dallas, you know I grew up there
but went to college there.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
It has grown so much. Ridney and Adam, I mean, Plano.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Was a place where just say, brothers, you didn't go
out to planeo uh, you didn't do that. Now you
might come up missed it. You might be a deliverance thing,
but now plan deliverance. You don't.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Like a big boys hearing.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Some banjoes playing right now?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, bring Reynolds back like me.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
But I'm serious, I mean, plaino uh, it's a part
of the Frisco All that's Dallas now, I mean it's
not It's not like it used to be. Dallas is
as a city that's grown so much. And like you said,
after money it was close. Man, you gonna get more
by being a cowboy. I'm telling you you're right. There's
so many Dallas cowboys that played for the Cowboy Organization
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that still live in Dallas. And I got to say
this much. You know, you might not like Jerry Jones
and all that, and I like Jerry. You know, Jerry
has been known to take care of his guys. You know,
I know this stuff he's done for certain guys. I
know this stuff he's done. Mike, Michael Irvin. You know
he had his problem. Jerry really took care of him.
So you know, as a as a former player, you man,
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most of these teams don't care about you, and the
owners really don't care about you, and they you know,
you just a number to them. But some owners they
embrace you, like Eddie de Bartola back and in the
forty nine a.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Days, those forty nine players talking about.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Oh man, they talk about it about him, way to
talk about him, love the have of him. I mean
still they talk about him. Man, Eddie man the other guys.
I know, man Eddie did and you'd be like, huh,
eddid what it was almost like unbelievable. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I won't tell you who who, But one guy told me.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
He said when they traded for him, and they gave
him a signing bonus, and Eddie gave him nine hundred
and eighty thousand dollars in cash, some of it he
hit it. They gave him to him cash. I'm like
what he said. He gave me nine hundred eighty thousand
dollars in cash. I'm like, man. So it's just certain
organizations that they take it over the top and they
didn't want to play for maybe Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
We are right, we gotta regular leave that alone.
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Oh yes, we are back with the Ford NFL Spotlight,
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for Fred hey Ed, I just want to I want
to I want to touch on something real quick because
this became a story over the last week and a half. Obviously,
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you know Bill Belichick taking the elite from leaving New
England to go into North Carolina didn't getting blown out
by TCU, and a lot of people were like either
loving that or knew that was going to happen. And
then it turns out that he banned he banned the
New England Scouts from coming to North Carolina to watch
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his players. And his quote was that they don't want
me in the building, so they can't come into our building. Now,
all that all that happening while you know he didn't,
how do I put this the right way? At him
that he's dating a twenty four year old former cheerleader
(28:29):
that is now his marketing representative agent.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And helping him understand the new ways in life, and uh,
he's fifty years older than her. It's it's strange what
they marketed or trademarked gold Digger.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Heard's been around for it, They've been and have you
seen they've they've been using you know, obviously, you know,
Jorge MJ is all over in North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He's the branding represent branding company of that. Everything is
MJ on it, everything's on it. And her first name
is Jordan. And they've been playing on the word. They've
been playing on the Jordan name and Jordan word with
her and the whole thing. It's just a circus.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
They got the new Air Jordan logo. Yes they do,
Bill Belichick lifting her off on the beach.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yes they do. Yes on T shirts, on T shirts.
They got it. I mean seriously. And he was the
one that preaching, you know, do your job and no
distractions and all that. What do you make of him,
you know, going to North Carolina and I just don't
see this working out. Edie Well, I.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Mean, I don't know, Rodney, I don't I could understand that.
I never thought he'd go back to college, for sure.
I just thought he'd staying the proles, just retire. It's
not a good look, you know. But it's not not
my life. It's not you know, it's not our lives.
You know. I always say this. I say this too
when it comes to the young girl he's dating. Yeah,
(29:56):
I mean, if that was my daughter. I mean I
talked to say, hey, yes, little he's a little old.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
But think about like this here, think about this here
right now. Okay, what is Bill So? What is he
seventy something years old? If he was doing if he
was dating the ninety five year old woman, what would
he say? Man, why he did that old last woman,
that woman forty years older than him.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
That's why he made no sense.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He's on the golden girl's curse, all the tark.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's exactly, man, that's crazy. Way then old last.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
He's gonna get your young woman that they would say, Hey,
my thing is if he if she like it, I
love it.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I mean I ain't got no problem with it with me.
I mean I don't want no old woman. I ain't
gonna lie. I mean personally, no, I get it.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Listen, as we say back in the day, and we
say it now, he was he sprung. She put it
on him, She put it on He put it on him,
He put it on it. But here's the thing. You know,
he's obviously will go down as one of the best
coaches of all time, no doubt, all the Super Bowls,
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, a little controversy in there.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
But still but to your point, either, you know, why
would you go back to college? Is the reason why
so many of the greats have left college. Nick say
they want to go to the pros. He was the
one to go to the pros. Or the way the
college is nowadays, it's not worth it for an old
soul to kind of have to deal with the recruiting
and the transfer portal and all the things that are
associated with college football right now. It's just it's not
(31:19):
easy to be a college coach right now. But even
let's go back when you said Nick Saban, Nick Saban
went to the pros. It didn't work out. That was
too I'm talking about now, I'm talking about leaving. He
decided to leave Alabama. He's like I and we see Alabama,
they can't compete with Georgia. They can't compete with that
SMU anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
But but remember when he went to when he went
from from whatever he was LSU went to the to Miami.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Oh yeahs it didn't work. It wasn't work. It went wait.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But you know why, because you can't talk to these
guys like you talk to the college guy.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
They'd be like, hey, man, check it out. I'm thirty
two years old. You can't talk to me any right,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Right, I'm gonna go on and ask, man, who do
you think you yelling more than you and I make
more than Give me the hell out of here.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
That what college? The way it is now, some of
these kids are making more than the coaches.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Novel left the pros to go the Prosy ready to
go to go to pros.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
But but you know what, one thing is right, I
don't have a problem with these kids getting paid. I
really don't because I know when I when I heard
uh Nick Saban say, oh you know it's it's it's
wrong for these kids to make that kind of money,
blah blah. I'm like, okay, I'll tell you what they're Nick,
And I like, Nick Sables, why don't you coach for free?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Get it?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Get your doing the education? Will house you? You know,
we ain't paying you no money. We just give you
a house and that's it, and and let you let
you live for free like that, the same thing as
a college kid is doing, but instead of paying you.
Because I think the kids are doing the work and
they're getting nothing for it now.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And we won't let you do any of these commercials, Nick,
we can't, right, can't commercials or anything.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
But the coach can do the commercial. But the coach
you do no more. I do the comore you can get.
I can make the money. I just don't like the
way they jump around. I mean, I think the one
thing is right, and I think like if you think
about when you in college, think about all the friendship
you friendships you.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Have from USC over the four years you there.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
You know, if I played at USC, then I went
to UCLA, then I went to Kentucky, then I went
to Alabama and I went here.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I mean, where who am I? Where are my guys at?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Which guys are connect? You just mentioned that because you
know that when you come into a place as a freshman,
you bond with the freshmen, right exactly. You bond with
the freshman. You the new kids on the block. You
bond with them, and then you start to grow with them.
One or two of you may play early on, you're
rooting for the freshmen. Your classmates. They come in, all
they got on the field, they playing, they bawling, and
(33:30):
then a sophomore you grow up with them. All of
a sudden, by the time y'all junior is like, all right,
now we're getting now.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
We got something. Now we got something going exactly. That
doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
My problem is the college situation was always a business.
It always felt like that under the guys of student athletes.
Student athletes, let me tell you something. If somebody didn't
graduate that long ago from college a bachelor degree, that
they're saying, oh, you got you got a scholarship. What
do you mean that's what you're getting out of this?
A bachelor degree today is like a high school diploma.
(34:02):
It's like par for the course. It's not worth the
paper is written on most of the time. What it's
worth is to go on to more schooling. You have
to get this, to go on to more schooling and
invest more money and get in more debt with student loans,
acting like, oh, you're getting something out of this too,
with this scholarship was always best.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It was always and we got away with it for years.
And now they complain, and the old schools are complaining
that kids are playing. But to your point, I don't
like the whole way the transfer portal is right now
that they can just go year to year and I
don't like to say penalty either, but it shouldn't be
that easy that, you know, Eric, you had to compete.
(34:42):
You had to compete for a starting job when we
got there, when we got to college, it was like, okay,
we got the best players around the country. You got
to compete for it. And if you didn't win it,
then you hope that something happened, or you got a
chance to play, to show your stuff, and then you
could play maybe a year from now. Now. If guys,
he doesn't win the in the spring, they don't want
to compete, they don't. I gotta go to the next place.
(35:04):
I gotta go. I gotta another school.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Not something's wrong with me that I need to work
on it, something's wrong with them. I'm gonna find a
better spot.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Correct. Well. A lot of it, a lot a lot
of it too, is the parents.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I mean, think about the parents and parents are, oh
you ain't my son ain't playing over here. He needs
to be starting, you know, And oh he ain't gonna play.
He played a couple of places. I'm gonna move him
over here. I mean, I think a lot of it
is the parents, I mean, and a lot of it
is the kids that got this entitlement thing. They feel
like they're entitled because they've told they were great in
high school. It looks right, and you know as well
as I do. Adam, you may know this too. I'm
(35:37):
not sure, but you know most most and most athletes.
I mean, look, when when you go from high school
to college, it's different. It's a different it's a different
level of everybody that was great in high school. You're
a great high school player, you don't become great college.
But it doesn't work like that all the time. It's
some guys that were just good in college. They go
(35:57):
with the pros and they turn it out like damn.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
What he got his opportunity to do what it is out.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
And that's that's what it is. You have to you
have to work at that. A lot of these players
want stuff given to them. And I worked at it, brother,
I'm telling you, and I worked hard, and I'm glad
I did, because nobody gave me nothing in my life.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
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Speaker 3 (36:25):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
A lot more to talk about with the Rambassador of
the Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson on the other side,
Adam Auson and for Fred Rogan, Boy, that first week
in NFL was pretty good, especially Sunday night game. Last night, Man,
we got to get into that shootout between Josh Allen
and Lamar Jackson. Good stuff.
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