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host, former NFL lineman Ross Toker. Oh,

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yeah it is. But it's not

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just any Ross Tucker football podcast.

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It is a new week. It

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is a Monster Monday. And we've

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got the man, John Coon. Coon.

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Long time Packers fullback and some other

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teams as well. Cannot wait to dive

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into some stories with John. Not a

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lot of news. The biggest news, luxurious

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need. We'll get to that momentarily.

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It's big show time. The big show.

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Coon. Yes. So

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excited to finally have my

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buddy from eastern Pennsylvania. John

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Coon on the show. Obviously

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long time fullback in the NFL. Steelers.

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I think probably most people remember him from

1:04

the Packers and then the Saints. Dude,

1:06

how happy are you, by the way, that

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you have a sweet last name like

1:12

Coon that like people like, I

1:14

mean, I don't think you'd be nearly as popular

1:16

if your last name was like Philippa weights, bro.

1:19

Yeah. If I had a

1:21

hard last name with, you know, 13

1:24

different continents or a bunch of different valves in it, might

1:26

not have rung the same, but, you know,

1:29

green Bay's done this before George Coons has

1:32

done it. They had result Douglas

1:34

most recently and now Luke Musgrave. So

1:37

anytime you get that deep sound,

1:39

you can get that whole stadium bellowing it, man.

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It's a great feeling. So

1:44

in all sincerity, though, that that's that's

1:46

like, I mean, you're

1:49

popular because of how long you

1:51

were there, how well you played

1:54

your style of play that

1:56

you played for all those things. But

1:59

That stuff helps. man I used for this

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Dealers are more like that such as as

2:03

something like everybody's no matter how big or

2:06

small of affairs you are or reach as

2:08

it gets into it it's like. It's

2:10

like something that we're doing as a

2:12

community together, you know? Yeah, and enough

2:15

for a case like loot. Musgrave is

2:17

a Green Bay Packer right now. They're.

2:19

John it out when he's making a catch

2:21

on a first down for fifteen yards. on

2:24

Thirteen Eleven, right for a guy like me.

2:26

Get the ball on third and one oz.

2:28

get the ball down around the goal line.

2:30

Words kind of really of the office supply

2:33

does it's job and was super easy for

2:35

me. But because it's easy to say it's

2:37

easy to yell. it's easy to cheer for,

2:39

it's easy to get on board. and and

2:42

people for summary. I mean they will remember

2:44

how many plays you make no matter how

2:46

easy or how difficult they were based off

2:49

of deep. Below that name out. You.

2:51

Know it's funny. Just a quick aside, I'm

2:53

sure there's no relation. But. When

2:55

I was nice go were both used to be a

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guys. Are. Best basketball player in high

3:00

school Basketball team was a guy named Andy

3:02

Coon. And there was a big

3:04

family. The Coon family. They had four boys

3:06

in a daughter. They got Coon funeral home

3:09

the whole deal. But. He was like

3:11

my idol. I'm always one thousand points He's

3:13

the one that like. Taught. Me

3:15

like how to play bad where they do just

3:17

practice driven all the time. Because. It

3:19

you to dribble you join you you

3:21

want So John I was like six

3:24

five to fifty as a senior in

3:26

high school. At one hundred and thirty

3:28

five. Person. Graduating class and I

3:30

brought the ball up due to six five

3:32

to fifty since I was always small on

3:34

oil but it was drupal. So.

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Anyway, No. Relation to any kind

3:39

of the coon family. Is there? No,

3:41

none. None that I know, but now

3:43

I'm really interested. I am gonna have

3:45

to figure out if there's us Ross

3:47

Tucker archive for basketball highlights in high

3:49

school because that is must be television.

3:52

Was. Funny, I told the story before

3:54

village of you ask my college buddies

3:56

at Princeton or even my school buddies

3:58

like hey, was it. Backer like

4:00

you made the Nfl the also the same

4:03

thing like. Mother. Brings together to

4:05

rise three hundred pounds and he was the

4:07

point out of our inner Merle basketball team

4:09

and like would like drain three like I'm

4:11

from into this day. That's. That's

4:13

what enabled Meta to be able

4:15

to play your story another roy

4:18

ask you this. So. Do

4:20

you go to Dover? Not a powerhouse

4:22

outside York High School or as as

4:24

York. I'm I'm assuming you

4:27

just weren't that heavily recruited and you

4:29

ended up at ship like zynga they

4:31

love from. Even. Like Delaware

4:33

have no var anybody. Well.

4:36

I'll be honest, I there was a

4:38

couple flyers I had out there. I

4:40

had an opportunity to go to Penn

4:43

State and and walk on in the

4:45

spring semester of my freshman year. didn't

4:47

necessarily want to do that. My parents

4:49

to never whole lot of money and

4:51

that was a big financial investments and

4:53

then know what? We had a falling

4:55

out with the Richmond Spiders man I

4:58

was set to go there. I was

5:00

fired up on big. They were looking

5:02

for a couple freshman running backs. I

5:04

said yes, I verbally committed. And

5:06

then when it came to signing day

5:08

when it came down to like the

5:10

week before or the we got signing

5:12

day I can remember below our a

5:14

while now we need to make this

5:16

official and they came back and they

5:18

said last week we offered three guys

5:20

we only have two spots available. All.

5:23

Three of you said yes. So

5:25

unfortunately, We're. Going after work at

5:27

the pool, that scholarship offer that we

5:29

made for you and at the time

5:32

I was devastated. Like completely devastated raw

5:34

sake, I got my mind set at

5:36

your be a Pennsylvania guy. You.

5:38

Want to go to Penn State your whole life?

5:41

and when net turned out to not really be

5:43

world's gonna go. I've. Reset my bar

5:45

and my bar was right there. Richmond Spiders.

5:47

I'm going to go down there in a

5:49

minute. Let my mark be there. I'm I

5:52

did. I remember I went to Penn and

5:54

it had a good running back to Tigers

5:56

Penryn. I. think some version of the wing

5:58

tier some sort of belly type of game.

6:00

There was a running back there by the name

6:02

of Jim Finn who was just about to graduate.

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He ended up going and playing with

6:07

the Giants for a few years and

6:09

I was gonna be Jim Finn 2.0. I mean I

6:11

had good grades in college. I didn't have or high

6:13

school I didn't have great grades. I was something like

6:15

a 3.3 3.4.

6:18

My grades didn't get me independent so

6:20

then I had to reset again and

6:22

I reset on Richmond. I accepted their

6:24

I verbally accepted their scholarship offer and

6:26

then when it came to I was

6:29

I mean I'm getting knocked down peg

6:31

after peg after peg before finally I

6:33

had to completely reboot spring semester of my

6:35

of my senior year of high school and

6:38

find out where I was going. I was

6:41

a late I was a late addition to

6:43

Shippensburg. I didn't actually you know agreed to

6:45

go to Shippensburg until real

6:47

late in the process probably April

6:50

or May of my senior year and that's because

6:52

I had to start taking trips around PSAC schools

6:54

to figure out which one I liked the most.

6:57

Oh dude I never heard

6:59

that story. Yeah that is what

7:01

you think you're going to Richmond which

7:04

is also like a really good academic

7:06

school. Yeah. On a full ride and

7:08

the next thing you know you're scrambling. That

7:11

is brutal. Was that motivation

7:13

for you at Shippensburg and throughout the rest

7:15

of your career at all or not really? You

7:18

know a little bit but I had

7:20

one of those paths where there

7:23

was constant hurdles every chance you had there

7:25

was a hurdle. Ross I

7:27

remember my first year in

7:29

the NFL I got I got cut and

7:31

I was told by Kevin Colbert of the

7:33

Steelers stay in town stay in

7:36

the hotel the team hotel we got your

7:38

room covered for the rest of this weekend

7:40

there's a really good chance we'll bring you

7:42

back to the practice squad. Well Sunday rolls

7:44

around and that's when they're starting to

7:47

sign the practice squad guys because they've been cut

7:49

for 48 hours and no

7:51

call no call no call. Finally

7:53

I called my agent and I said do

7:56

you think they're calling me? Nobody

7:58

called me to say yes. Nobody

8:00

called me to say no Nothing

8:02

really happened here whatsoever and my agent, you know,

8:04

he's got to get on the phone He's got

8:07

to talk to his client. He says John. I

8:10

think it's probably safe to drive home And

8:12

I was again, it's one of those situations where

8:15

you're devastated. You're like, oh my god I couldn't

8:17

even get the call to tell me you're actually

8:19

not bringing me back to practice squad I stayed

8:21

here two and a half extra days after

8:23

our last preseason game because you said to stick around

8:26

town I didn't even get the call go ahead and

8:28

head home so if

8:30

Ross it was just one of those things where you

8:32

just get numb to it you just kind of

8:34

get used to it and It

8:37

becomes one of those things where as

8:39

you go throughout an NFL career You

8:42

expect you almost anticipate Something

8:45

bad to come so that you can

8:47

overcome whatever comes your way eventually You

8:51

know, what's so funny about that story? 2001

8:54

was my rookie year Nobody

8:56

told me that they only call you if

8:58

they're gonna cut you So

9:00

Marty Schottenheimer said to be

9:03

in your hotel room from 8 a.m To

9:06

noon like a four hour window.

9:08

Yeah, so i'm just sitting there,

9:10

right? And at like 10

9:12

30 my phone rings And

9:15

I answer it real quick And they're

9:17

looking for Justin Skaggs a wide receiver to

9:19

tell him they want to cut him and

9:21

put him on practice squad They're like Justin.

9:23

I'm like, no, it's Ross Tucker and they're

9:25

like, it's Justin there. I'm like, no Like,

9:28

you know where he is. I'm like, no I

9:31

said, are you guys gonna like I said, what about me? So

9:34

give me the And they're like, they're like,

9:36

I don't think we're gonna be calling you today. I was

9:39

like Okay And

9:42

then they like hung up real quick. So I didn't

9:44

even know what that meant. So dude like 1205 I

9:48

call Kenny Watson a running back

9:50

from Harrisburg who went to Penn

9:52

State He was undrafted rookie

9:54

like me and I and

9:56

he answers the phone like hello, and I'm

9:59

like Kenny He's like, yeah, I'm like,

10:01

it's Ross. Oh, man, you scared me, man. I'm like, I

10:03

know like it's 1205 Like did we

10:05

make it? He's like, I don't know And

10:08

so I finally called my agent and my

10:10

agent had to call the team kind of

10:12

like you and my age going back He's

10:14

like, oh man. Oh, man. I'm like what

10:16

what he's like. This is amazing. I'm like,

10:19

what is like you made it I'm

10:21

like what this is incredible. Like it was

10:23

I get chills just tell him that story So

10:25

I had a similar story and just better

10:29

Yes, I would say yours is slightly

10:31

better Hey,

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so how many full backs

10:38

were even in the league? When

10:40

you were playing I'm sure you counted them.

10:43

I feel like There

10:45

was a stretch there John where I

10:47

feel like maybe only like half the teams even

10:49

had one Do you remember I'm

10:51

guessing you knew at some point like what

10:53

was the low water mark or the high

10:55

water mark in terms of full Backs in

10:57

the league while you were playing? Well,

11:00

you know Ross 2005 was my rookie year

11:02

So I came in

11:04

right at the end of really

11:06

gap scheme football power You

11:10

know counter tray counter BIM Lead

11:13

draw all that good stuff where you had

11:15

a big neck and you had big shoulder

11:18

pads on you Maybe even had a cowboy

11:20

collar or neck roll or something and you're

11:22

just crushing with that Mike linebacker and or

11:24

that Sam Linebacker and a 3-4. I that's

11:27

when I came into league and honestly the

11:30

Pittsburgh Steelers even though they cut me three

11:32

times They they made my career because

11:34

I came into that team

11:36

with Jerome Bettis Dan Crier

11:38

and Do Staley and I

11:40

had to learn how to lead block coming

11:42

out of Shippensburg and you talk about

11:44

a crash course That's like going 400 level

11:47

straight from the 100 level and

11:49

I had to learn and learn in a hurry. So Big

11:52

kudos to them for really having patience

11:54

with me bringing me back to a

11:56

practice squad Let me learn on a

11:59

practice squad and doing all that stuff

12:01

because that really taught me how to

12:03

block and as the game started to

12:05

evolve and went more path-centric. Now you'll

12:08

struggle to find teams that run 50%

12:11

of the time now in the NFL. I mean you

12:13

it's hard to even find 50% let alone when

12:16

I first came in the league and it was like some teams

12:18

running 55-60% of the

12:20

time. So I learned how

12:23

to block in that in that manner and

12:25

as the league started to spread out and

12:27

linebackers started to get smaller they

12:29

started finding on offense that they could keep

12:31

a tight end to really lead

12:33

block because the middle linebackers have gotten smaller

12:35

they could find matchups there that they could

12:38

exploit in the past game for 60% of

12:40

the plays and then lead block on

12:43

40% of the plays and not even that many

12:45

because they would run more out of 12 personnel

12:47

so they could really you know use 10, 11

12:50

plays a game as a tight end at

12:52

the fullback position and I would say at

12:54

its lowest was probably around I would

12:57

say like 2014, 15, 16 around that time you

12:59

could count around the league and

13:02

find yourself anywhere between 12 and 16 fullbacks

13:04

and that was really really about it

13:06

and I'm talking true fullbacks guys that

13:09

aren't necessarily putting their hand in

13:11

the dirt and 12 personnel as a backside tight

13:13

end guys that predominantly line

13:15

up in the backfield or the BB as a

13:17

lot of these offenses called a lot of offenses

13:19

don't even call it a fullback anymore they call

13:22

it a BB a blocking back a guy who

13:24

who can be a U he could be you

13:26

know an H he could be whatever but they

13:28

put him in the backfield and you know at

13:30

the lowest and and I've been

13:32

kind of seeing a comeback here as

13:34

a true fullback you would say you

13:37

know with Alec Ingold and Kyle Juicechek and

13:39

the way that they use those guys and

13:41

some teams want to mirror that and mimic

13:43

that but the days of

13:46

a big sledgehammer type fullback the

13:48

Lorenzo Neil types now

13:51

I just don't know if that's ever gonna come back again man

13:54

so much good stuff there it's interesting

13:56

it feels like a lot of the

13:58

good teams You know the

14:01

Dolphins within gold the Niners with use check

14:03

even the Ravens with Patrick Ricard It was

14:05

kind of a different animal with just how

14:07

big that dude is But

14:10

it feels like a lot of the teams that are good

14:13

Have a fullback and those

14:15

guys provide a lot of that. I feel

14:17

like especially if

14:19

you can block like use check, but

14:22

then also sort of be a weapon in the

14:24

passing game like Like I guess

14:26

you can go all the way back to like

14:28

Tom Rassman back in the day Right, like there's

14:30

a lot of value there if you

14:33

can do both those things like I guess that's why

14:35

you Shakespeare making so much money Yeah,

14:37

and and Ross I'll be honest with you

14:40

kind of the slow death of special teams

14:42

hurt the fullback position, too right

14:45

the fullback used to be Somebody that

14:47

was predominantly a wedge buster or an L and

14:49

our three on the kickoff team He was a

14:51

guy that was gonna get a lot of double

14:53

teams But he'd be nice and he'd be a

14:55

thick body So he'd be able to absorb the

14:57

special team and not get washed off the field

15:00

It was a guy that on kickoff return. He'd be

15:02

back there He wouldn't be in the middle of the

15:04

wedge But he'd be on the end of a wedge

15:07

and he might be able to feel one of

15:09

those Squib kicks every now and

15:11

then so the slow death of the special

15:13

teams really affected the fullback as well Cuz

15:15

now instead of I mean teams

15:17

really keeping six core special teams guys like

15:19

when we came in the league That's

15:21

not really happening anymore They're keeping to

15:24

they're keeping yet three and then they have

15:26

a lot of Safeties a lot of wide

15:28

receivers filling in these extra spots Making

15:31

special teams faster because there's really not that

15:33

need for the girth not that need for

15:35

the size anymore The

15:38

Packers did a couple things this offseason

15:41

Kind of feel like out of character a little bit and

15:43

I'm curious to get your opinion for those who don't know

15:45

John has a radio show up in

15:48

Wisconsin. He's part of the Packers official

15:50

radio broadcast I've been with him on

15:52

the sideline a few times Josh

15:55

Jacobs that they move on from Aaron

15:58

Jones bring in Josh Jacob as

16:00

a former running back, what was kind of your read on

16:03

that move? You know,

16:05

we knew running back was going

16:07

to be addressed here in Green

16:09

Bay. Absolutely, it was a must.

16:12

A.J. Dillman is to be a free agent. Aaron

16:14

Jones is going to turn 30 years old

16:16

this going into this football season. So we

16:19

knew it would be a spot. We just

16:21

thought it might be a little flip-flopped. We

16:23

didn't anticipate Aaron Jones, and even Brian Gudinkins

16:25

came out after the season, and you saw

16:27

the worth of Aaron Jones, the last five

16:30

games of the season, rushed for over 100

16:32

yards, including the two playoff games. I

16:34

mean, he was really something to finish

16:36

the season. But I

16:38

really think the injuries that he

16:40

had this year really limited, I

16:43

would say, probably 11, 12 games

16:45

for him, his availability and his

16:47

production. And because of that, the

16:49

Packers, they wanted to take a

16:52

discount on that. They wanted to be able to

16:54

financially set themselves up so that they could sign

16:56

some more players. This is the first time they've

16:58

been able to really have some alleviation

17:01

for their salary cap penalty, which was

17:03

the COVID year when they started bumping

17:05

contracts out into the future and

17:08

Aaron Rodgers' big contract. So they

17:10

got themselves some room there, and

17:12

Aaron Jones was at a big number. They asked

17:14

him to take a pay cut. And to Aaron's

17:16

credit, he got more money going to Minnesota than

17:18

what he would have gotten here in Green Bay,

17:20

what they felt like they could afford to pay

17:23

a 30-year-old running back here in Green Bay. Everybody

17:25

would have loved to have seen him stay. And

17:27

with him turning that down, Green Bay had

17:30

to look somewhere else because one thing about

17:32

Matt LaFleur's offense is you need a dynamic

17:34

run game to set up your play action,

17:36

and play action is everything in

17:38

this scheme. So they go out there and they pick

17:40

up the guy who was all pro just two years

17:42

ago, a guy who led the league in rushing just

17:45

two years ago. And really, the

17:47

way if you dive into his contract,

17:49

the way it hits this year, it's

17:51

a lot of cash in year one, which is $15

17:53

million. But the way that

17:55

thing gets spread out, this is

17:57

kind of a cap-friendly deal. least

18:00

for the first two years, if not even just

18:02

the first year. And Josh Jacobs is going to

18:04

come in at 26 years old,

18:06

and he's going to be the Bell Cow, probably

18:09

a little bit more of a Bell Cow than

18:11

Aaron Jones even was because he's a little bit

18:13

bigger. He's a little bit younger, so they

18:15

can probably count on him being

18:17

able to carry a little bit more of

18:19

the load than just Aaron Jones. And then

18:21

because of the departure of Aaron Jones, AJ

18:24

Dillon gets to come back. He takes a

18:26

team friendly deal. He got that long snapper

18:28

at Dendham, which I think is hilarious that

18:31

if the NFL had that when we were playing

18:33

Ross, we would have tried to play forever because

18:35

that extra little one and a half million dollar

18:37

bonus kicker that you get that doesn't count towards

18:39

the cap. I mean, that's a very team friendly

18:42

thing that they put in this last CBA. So

18:44

the Packers got their running back position for this

18:47

year settled, but I don't think they're done bringing

18:49

them running backs for this season. Are

18:53

you convinced Jordan Love is the guy for

18:55

the next 10 to 15 years? And

18:57

if so, when did you become convinced? You

19:00

know, I started to get convinced

19:02

throughout the middle part of the season, even

19:04

when he was struggling because his

19:07

worst game, I would say was about

19:09

week seven against the Raiders and you

19:12

could tell his vision was getting

19:14

there, but wasn't quite right.

19:16

He was a second behind. He was throwing

19:18

off his back foot. He wasn't convicted. And

19:20

the next week we went out and we

19:22

played Denver or maybe it was two weeks

19:24

later after by, we went out and played

19:26

Denver and that's when it really started to

19:28

click and he took it week in and

19:30

week out from, from the Raiders. So the

19:32

Broncos to the Steelers, and these are all

19:34

three losses, but each one of these games,

19:36

you can see the progress that he makes,

19:38

and then it turns into a homestand where

19:41

I think he played the chargers,

19:44

the chiefs and

19:47

the lions in three consecutive weeks,

19:49

and he just continued his progress against

19:51

three teams that are at least three

19:54

defenses that I considered pretty dangerous. And

19:56

in fact, the Packers were the only team to score over 25 points.

20:00

on the Chiefs last year. And

20:02

that was with Jordan Love really

20:04

making his mark in a Sunday night football

20:07

game. So I got convinced midway through the

20:09

season, this guy has what it takes to

20:11

be the guy. And as

20:13

he continued, he never really had

20:15

a drop off. He had one kind of dud of

20:17

a game at the end of the season against the

20:19

Giants, but he never let his

20:21

foot off the gas from the midway point

20:23

of the season on out. And

20:26

it really goes to show you, you can

20:28

sit around for a few years, but

20:30

you need that time on the field. He

20:32

had three years of sitting and watching from

20:34

Aaron Rodgers. He needed that time on

20:36

the field to get game speed. And he

20:39

needed time to develop with some young wide

20:41

receivers. And about the time the wide

20:43

receivers developed, that's when you really started

20:45

to see Jordan Love. I think they got

20:47

their guy, and I think they got their guy for a period

20:49

of time now. Unbelievable. Three

20:52

in a row. Yeah. Farve

20:54

Rodgers Love. Check him out on social

20:57

media at Coon

20:59

J30. He is the man. I

21:02

love hearing stories like that. The

21:05

rich, I mean, not that I like hearing your

21:07

terrible stories, that the Richmond

21:09

story, the Steelers story, and then you go

21:11

on and play double digit years in the

21:13

NFL as a fullback and you parlay that

21:16

and all the stuff you got going on

21:18

up in Wisconsin. John, thanks so much for

21:20

coming on the show, man. Really appreciate it.

21:23

Yeah, no problem. And I'm going to pull

21:25

Ross Tucker here, and I'm going to say,

21:27

do you have time for one more story

21:29

since you like stories? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go

21:31

for it. So I gave you a lot

21:33

of really sad stories and stories about trying

21:35

to overcome these hurdles. Well, when

21:37

Pittsburgh brought me back to the practice squad,

21:39

which was that same year that they cut

21:41

me and left me hanging in the hotel,

21:43

I remember I went out to the West

21:45

Coast and I signed an

21:48

arena league deal with the team that was the

21:50

best in the arena league at the time, the San Jose

21:52

Sabercats. And a part

21:54

of that deal is, okay, you signed this deal,

21:56

but we have this other league exemption. If you

21:58

go play with another league, that's perfect. fine.

22:00

This contract will be waiting for you

22:02

when you're done. However, if you attend

22:05

our regular season camp, like going into

22:07

the season, the true training camp of

22:09

the Arena League, once you come in

22:11

you can't leave halfway through the season.

22:14

This isn't like triple-A baseball where you

22:16

can bounce up, bounce down. Once you

22:19

attend you got to stick out one full season. So

22:21

I can remember it was a Monday

22:23

night and I had my bags packed

22:25

to fly out to San Jose to

22:27

go start this camp and live

22:29

in San Jose for the next six months and

22:32

play Arena League football. The

22:34

Pittsburgh Steelers were playing the

22:36

Indianapolis Colts on Monday night football. They

22:38

had Bob Sanders as their safety. They

22:40

were a bunch of badasses and they

22:42

beat the Steelers down. They kicked their

22:45

butts and it's about 11 o'clock at

22:47

night after the game and I get this

22:49

phone call. It's Kevin Culver and

22:51

he says, John, we

22:53

need you to come in. We're going

22:55

to bring you back to the practice

22:57

squad. The Green Bay Packers just took

22:59

Noah Herron off of our practice squad

23:01

to be their running back because Najee

23:04

Davenport got hurt. So I

23:06

said, are you serious right now? He goes, yeah,

23:08

how fast can you get to Pittsburgh? And

23:10

I told him, I said, I can get there in three

23:13

and a half hours because my bags were already packed. They're

23:15

already in the trunk of the car. I was catching a

23:17

flight at five o'clock in the morning so I'm driving down

23:19

the turnpike at one o'clock

23:21

in the morning with my agent on the

23:23

phone and I'm telling him, make sure you

23:25

tell them, make sure you tell San Jose,

23:27

I'm not getting on this plane. They're not

23:29

going to avoid this contract with the Steelers

23:31

because minicamp starts tomorrow. I need you

23:34

to make sure they know I'm going out there to

23:36

Pittsburgh and luckily I made it out there

23:38

and everything was good and I didn't

23:40

have to worry about it again. Dude, I

23:42

love it. We could both tell

23:45

a million more stories. Thanks so much man,

23:47

really appreciate it. Anytime you

23:49

want, Ross. That guy is awesome. That

23:51

should be the show, right? It's like

23:53

just telling stories with other awesome guys.

23:55

I'll tell awesome stories.

23:58

He tells awesome stories. We're

24:00

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All right, Ross. Chief state trade franchise

24:48

tag quarterback, Lajerius Sneed, to the Titans for

24:50

a 2025 third round pick and

24:53

an upgraded 2024 seventh round pick as Sneed gets 19 million

24:55

a year, 55 million guaranteed. Right,

24:58

that's the big move. The Chiefs

25:00

need the cap space for the

25:02

other guys, Creed Humphrey, Trey Smith,

25:04

et cetera. They have other corners.

25:06

The Titans are not afraid to

25:08

spend money. I think Rancarathon

25:11

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25:13

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25:15

far the biggest news over the weekend.

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