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All right, man, go ahead, Welcome

1:04

back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. I

1:06

got two of my favorite guys on here,

1:09

Ryan Fitzpatrick Andrew Whitworth.

1:11

My coworkers now appreciate

1:13

y'all joining.

1:16

You finally invited us on the podcast.

1:18

Weren't wait for exit to be here.

1:23

I mean, I'm grateful and thankful. I know you guys

1:25

have a busy schedule, especially you fits

1:28

on every commercial in America. You're

1:30

America's child right now in

1:32

the barn.

1:33

You know, I've already done all those, so I'm not busy with

1:35

those anymore so except for

1:37

the one we did together to

1:43

I'm gonna tease it. I won't even say what it's for, but

1:46

we did do one together recently.

1:48

See how he can just go following a sword

1:50

by himself. Wait, he had to pull me in. Uh.

1:56

Well, you guys are in and obviously

1:58

we're a year out of football in

2:01

a new space. How are you enjoying

2:03

the analyst space? And what

2:05

what's your favorite part? And yes, I'm

2:07

fishing for compliments here.

2:10

We love Did you change that one?

2:13

Yeah? You know what, it's

2:15

been unbelievable. I think we you know, we've shared with each

2:17

other over the weeks. I think for me,

2:19

I never really thought I would

2:22

have this much fun doing this. I mean, obviously the

2:24

crew matters, and the people you do something with.

2:27

You know, we have been able to find a good.

2:28

Group going on the road and spending some

2:30

quality of time together and then also getting a chance

2:32

to talk about a game that's changed all

2:35

of our lives, that's for sure, and so that to

2:37

me, that's the most fun. I can talk about something that's

2:39

made a massive difference in my life, and

2:41

and then I get to do it with a bunch of great people

2:43

and we find a little way to have

2:45

some extracurricular fun at times on

2:48

the road.

2:48

I don't know if I sleep much.

2:49

That's probably the biggest shock is that I did not realize

2:52

that Zero's sleep was including this job.

2:55

That's a lot of preparation quit it's

2:57

a lot of bondy, a.

2:59

Lot of prep time, and for some reason, I always

3:01

have to leave a couple days early. I didn't figured that out

3:03

yet, but Melissa, she gets it.

3:05

You know, I always have to leave earlier than I thought.

3:08

I will, I will say for all of us. So like

3:10

the leaving the team aspect

3:13

of it football, and everybody

3:15

says, oh, I missed the locker room whatever, like we

3:17

we kind of have recreated it with this

3:20

and doing the traveling circus when we go on

3:22

the road, and I think that's the one

3:24

thing when I you know, we all jumped

3:26

into this thing kind of not knowing. But that's

3:29

the one thing I think I'm most grateful

3:31

for is to still have that, to still have

3:33

the camaraderie, the back and forth. That

3:36

part of it is really fun for me.

3:38

Yeah, except when you leave your teammates when we give

3:40

you a hard time like you did last week.

3:42

I mean, guys, the

3:44

two minute warning happened, like we got we got

3:46

to go on air.

3:47

Guy, Okay, you.

3:47

Can't just sit in and eat all the m and ms

3:50

and whatever else you cocktail

3:52

in the green room.

3:53

No, but it happened twice because you did it before

3:56

the game when you went into the green room

3:58

and we were still off the debt, and normally

4:00

you wait for us and we walk off the field together.

4:03

Sherman and I like to be escorted. Okay,

4:05

we don't want to have to catch up to you, all

4:08

right, we want you to walk with us.

4:10

I was with I was with Jason

4:12

Kelsey, who was new, and I was trying to show

4:14

him the ropes of where to go.

4:16

And showing him the ropes to the stand right here

4:18

and wait on Sherman with that would be stick showing

4:20

the ropes.

4:22

Okay, well, I'm gonna admit my mistake

4:24

and say sorry.

4:25

Guys, you're such a big man fits

4:27

and that's that's what we're talking about. With the

4:29

maturity, it's the beard. I don't know if it's the beard

4:31

or it's just he's a father of seven. The

4:34

maturity level there is outstanding. That

4:36

was great.

4:37

Yeah, I just give I learned

4:39

with my wife just to give up on the argument and

4:41

just completely cave in. That's the fastest

4:43

way to stop talking about it.

4:46

That's fair. That's fair. So what since

4:48

you've stopped playing, what are some things

4:50

that you guys have more time for that you didn't

4:52

have time for when you were playing.

4:54

So one of the things that I get a chance

4:56

to do is coach basketball,

4:59

and not just but dive in. I

5:01

mean we're talking, I'm watching

5:03

game film, I'm watching practice. It

5:06

doesn't matter that it's second and fourth grade basketball.

5:09

I mean, this is serious. I replaced

5:11

a lot of my football film work in the offseason

5:14

with being able to watch these kids

5:16

and even if they can't dribble, we're gonna

5:18

review the tape. We're gonna make sure

5:20

they know what they're doing wrong, and we're gonna try

5:22

to get better every week.

5:24

Yeah, that's excellent. Happens same

5:27

thing.

5:27

I mean, I think it's coaching the kids' sports. It's

5:30

been a lot of fun.

5:31

It's intent Still, I didn't

5:33

think I would like get into it, but I'm into it. I thought

5:35

I was gonna be like, you know, I'm gonna play cool every

5:37

week, not really gonna get into it. But

5:40

it is locked in. I mean, you guys have seen

5:42

me messing around watching tape sometimes

5:44

on these youth football games, getting prepared for

5:46

the next week. But that part has

5:48

been a lot of fun. You got to take it serious, gotta lock it

5:50

in. But we had our end of the year party yesterday,

5:52

I share with you guys. We got torched our last

5:54

game in the playoffs, and one of the dads

5:57

was like, you know, hey, what

5:59

do you make of season?

6:00

Could you kind of break it down for me?

6:01

And I was like, I don't

6:03

know.

6:03

I mean sele y Olds playing football, I don't I

6:05

mean, I don't

6:08

know.

6:08

I mean I don't know.

6:09

I don't have any like final words.

6:11

See the exit meeting, give him

6:13

his exit meeting.

6:14

I'm curious, So like with you hurm even

6:17

my for my boys, Like I don't

6:20

I almost shy away from football, not

6:22

not them playing, they play, but like I almost shy

6:24

away from coaching them in football, and

6:27

like then I can dive into some of the other sports.

6:30

Basketball was my favorite sport, like in high school

6:32

and growing up, it just didn't happen to be the

6:34

one I was best at. But what

6:36

do you you coach your son in football?

6:39

And do you feel weird about it?

6:40

Or no? I feel weird about it, And

6:43

I try to stay as uninvolved as

6:45

I can until he asks, are they

6:47

getting a sticky situation? In the playoffs

6:49

of the third and fourth Great

6:52

Division of the Flag

6:54

Football League, And then the coaches

6:56

like, man, can you help us? We're down by fourteen at

6:58

the half. And then I get involved and we

7:00

start running blitzes and complicated stuff,

7:02

and we come back and run, run the score up and we

7:05

score points. And then I back back off

7:07

once once my son and his team say.

7:09

Let me let me show you this Seattle three that

7:11

I've run for a while.

7:13

You guys, have you got cover three? Have

7:15

you got cover three? Just

7:19

but it's fun. It's fun to see the kids

7:21

happy. You know, I usually coach basketball

7:23

and track team. You or that's my baby,

7:26

but it's all the same kids. So when the football

7:29

season comes around, they're looking at you puppy

7:31

eye, you know, down by fourteen and a half,

7:33

and you know you can give them answers to winning the game.

7:35

You're like, hey, well you got to me,

7:38

this is what we're gonna do.

7:39

I think one of the coolest things too, about coaching your kids

7:42

is you really get to know the kids they are hanging out

7:44

with Like that to me, and

7:46

it turns into Friday night basketball

7:49

practice at the house and you know, families

7:51

coming over and hanging out and you

7:53

just it's so hard getting

7:56

pulled in different directions with all the stuff that we do

7:58

on the road and everything else kind of hit pause,

8:00

and to be able to see them

8:03

and learn who their friends are and be a part

8:05

of it is a neat part of it.

8:07

No, it really is.

8:08

I mean I think that's the part to me that's most

8:10

educations who my kids hanging out with, and also

8:12

getting to learn the personality is you know, everybody

8:14

when you compete, there's a certain personality

8:16

you have in those moments.

8:17

So I think your.

8:18

Kids got to see who the kids are that you're like, ooh,

8:20

you should be around this kid a lot, Like he's wired

8:23

right, You're gonna learn a lot from

8:25

being around him.

8:25

I think that's a huge part.

8:26

I'm the coach though that like, I ignore that Michael

8:29

exists something my eleven year old on my football

8:31

team, So I'll.

8:31

Coach the team. I don't even speak.

8:33

To him, you know, we don't talk to each other.

8:35

So we get in the car.

8:36

So it's like in the car, he's like, hey, Dad,

8:38

what'd you think about practice. That's first time he'll hear from me

8:40

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8:42

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speaking of like family, you know,

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we got Thanksgiving coming up and

10:09

I got to play on Thanksgiving. It wasn't yeah,

10:11

well actually it was a fun game and it got

10:14

to eat turkey on a football field of my greatest

10:16

rival at the time. But you

10:18

guys can have any fond memories of playing on

10:20

Thanksgiving. I know, I know you played in Thanksgiving

10:23

in twenty ten, fits

10:25

I don't know if you played.

10:27

I never played and never had the pleasure of playing on Thanksgiving,

10:29

but I do. My birthday is November twenty fourth,

10:32

so like it's always fall, you know, falls

10:34

on Thanksgiving every now and again, so I was always

10:36

happy to not have a Thanksgiving

10:39

game to be able to spend

10:41

it with the fan. But how is it, wit? Do you enjoy

10:44

got it. All I remember

10:46

is we got beat. It was not fun. It

10:49

was not a fun game. Let's just

10:51

put it that way.

10:52

Another like Thanksgiving on the road and

10:54

just getting torched in a football game.

10:56

So what much fun?

10:57

Yeah? We had it on. We had it on that Thursday.

10:59

We we beat the Breaks

11:01

off of San Francisco that day. I had two picks

11:04

Player of the game. You

11:06

know, I mean every now and then, you know what I mean. Kaepernick

11:09

would feed me and help feed my family, you know,

11:11

I you know, I got a few Birthday

11:14

and Christmas cards for him and his family whenever

11:16

they need. Uh. You know, the Fitzpatrick

11:18

family is always good in my book as well.

11:22

I always tried to feed the family for you, no

11:24

problem.

11:24

I appreciate that you were you were not stindy about

11:27

that. But we got the Black Friday game

11:29

this year. We got the Jets versus

11:31

the Dolphins and.

11:35

Deep breath, Deep

11:38

breath, baby, deep breath.

11:40

What advice would you have for Zach Wilson?

11:43

Fits, Please give if you coaching Zach

11:45

Wilson right now, give me what you've got to tell

11:47

him.

11:47

Give me you should offer to

11:50

meet with him. Fits.

11:51

Come on, man, tell us what you,

11:54

we'd love to hear about him.

11:55

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, I feel

11:58

I feel bad for Sala because he's

12:02

stuck, like he obviously like this,

12:04

that is their option, right, so he has to continually

12:07

support him in the media. They

12:10

have a championship caliber defense, like

12:12

as we all know and as we see every

12:14

single week. I think at this

12:16

point one of the things that I watch him play

12:19

and people may disagree with me, but I think

12:21

he's become too safe. I think that he's

12:23

been beaten down so much with

12:26

his performance with turning the ball over, with all

12:28

those things, that it's such

12:30

a careful offense. Now there

12:32

are glimpses in games where

12:35

you see that special ability. That

12:38

being said, it's like some of the layups he

12:40

makes more complicated Clay Caterd

12:42

than they need to be. And I just

12:44

think it's almost too careful at

12:46

this point because they go It's hard to

12:48

play quarterback when you go into a game and you say,

12:51

okay, well, let's not screw this up. We've got

12:53

a good defense, we've got good special

12:55

teams. As long as we don't screw it up, we've got

12:57

a chance. And look, they've had a

12:59

chance in less few games and just haven't scored any touchdowns,

13:02

so at some point you also got to be aggressive

13:04

on offense.

13:06

I agree, man, I mean you look at it like even I

13:08

would joke with you guys. A couple weeks still and they're playing

13:10

the Giants, like it's like, you know, the nose the

13:12

nose guard destroys the center and he has to leave

13:14

the pocket and start running, and all of a sudden, it's

13:16

like, oh wow when you see him out on the run, and

13:19

it's like there's no like, all right, I got to think through

13:21

everything. He's able to like run on he's

13:23

on the run, thrown across his body and

13:25

throws it a hell of a football. He did last night.

13:27

I mean, you know the other night, just same thing.

13:29

It almost seems like sometimes when you take him

13:31

out of like just sitting in the pocket being

13:34

careful and just get him like moving

13:37

around, he all of a sudden starts to throw the

13:39

football and photo aggressively. You see some of that

13:41

athleticism, And to me, it's like, how do

13:43

you get this guy to just, hey, man, just go slink, like just

13:45

go wing it for one game, like, don't even worry

13:47

about any of this stuff, because man,

13:49

it's got.

13:49

To be tough on that locker room right now.

13:51

But it looks like he has to beat under

13:53

the rest. You know, when when you get those positions

13:56

where it's reactive playing like he doesn't

13:58

he doesn't get to think, he doesn't have time to process.

14:00

It's no thinking. It's like, hey, this is where

14:02

I'm going. My body says go there. I'm

14:04

going there. And I think they gotta find

14:06

ways to get him in more of those situations,

14:09

whether it's rolling outside of the pocket or

14:11

it's kind of simulated scrambles,

14:14

because that's what Aaron used to do really well,

14:16

Like I don't know what he used to tell his tackles,

14:18

but he'd be in the pocket for like a half a second

14:20

and then next you know, he just slowly drift

14:22

and left, and you're like, wait, what

14:25

are y'all doing? Did y'all is this? How y'all drew

14:27

the play? And he'd slowly drift left

14:29

and all of his receivers were slowly drift with

14:31

him, and he'd find somebody wide open every

14:34

single time. But in

14:36

this game, they got to deal with Tyreek Hill and

14:38

Tua Toungue Vailoa and Raheem

14:40

Mostert and this high flying offense. What

14:42

do you think they can do with this defense, because

14:45

they just look so dejected sometimes

14:47

even after they get big stops and big turnovers,

14:49

they just look like, man, we know there's.

14:51

No hope, but it's like the

14:53

last few times. And you know, one of the other

14:55

hard things is this is all playing out in prime

14:57

time because they everybody expected Aaron to be playing.

15:00

They got so many primetime games. But

15:02

now every game you see the graphic

15:05

what they did to Mahomes, what they did to Josh Allen,

15:07

like what they're doing to these elite quarterback Jalen

15:09

Hurts had three picks, which you know, a

15:12

guy that takes care of the ball and doesn't turn it over.

15:14

I mean, this is an elite defense and

15:16

they're playing at such a high level. Obviously

15:18

think they're taking a lot of pride in, you

15:21

know, being this is if the

15:23

offense is going to struggle, we have to go out

15:25

and win this game. But it's just

15:28

it's time and time again. I mean justin

15:30

Herbert had held one hundred

15:32

and thirty yards or whatever it was. It's it's

15:34

amazing to watch these guys continuous to do

15:36

it week in and week out.

15:38

Yeah.

15:39

I think that's the biggest thing of them losing this game, you

15:41

know, this past week, is that you know, you look at their

15:43

schedule going forward and going into our

15:45

game Black Friday. I mean, this defense

15:47

can really be put in a position where our season is

15:49

starting to fall apart, and it's like,

15:51

man, you guys know, we all know what

15:54

that does.

15:54

To a locker room. Man, it's tough. You know, when you feel

15:56

like there's one side of.

15:57

The football field, you know, one

15:59

side of the tea that's really dominating and not

16:02

the reason for losing, and then the other side is

16:04

the reason. Uh it makes uh,

16:06

the the culture and atmosphere, as

16:08

we use that word all the time. The best thing for a culture

16:10

is called a winning Everybody has a really

16:12

good culture when they win. Then when you don't,

16:15

it gets tough, man. And so I think that's

16:17

gonna be the biggest thing. They've got to find a way

16:19

to get some offensive production at least have

16:21

just a game where win or lose, they play

16:24

well offensively, and I think they

16:26

need it badly.

16:27

And they got so much talent on that defense.

16:29

I mean, you talk about the season Quincy Williams is

16:31

having, Quinn Williams is obviously

16:33

a highly paid guy. Bryce Huff getting

16:36

pressure on the quarterback, Jermaine Johnson

16:39

come into his own.

16:40

Uh.

16:40

Then you got CJ. Mosley, who's

16:43

been elite for a while. We always, you

16:45

know, saw some red get all the credit they deserve.

16:47

Uh. But it's so it's gonna

16:49

be a star studded affair

16:52

when when Miami's offense, uh

16:54

is going against the Jets defense.

16:57

And Sauce has had some success versus

16:59

Tyreek, but I mean this year Tarreek

17:01

is just on another level and playing in another

17:03

mode. Do you think this Judge defense will

17:06

be able to have another elite performance

17:08

against Tua tongueba Low well

17:10

with.

17:10

I mean, I think the biggest

17:12

thing with Miami's offense and they've they've slowed

17:15

down a little bit. Their running game has slowed down. A

17:17

Chaine looks like he got brought off ir

17:19

So I don't know fe'll play this week

17:21

or next week, but that'll

17:23

be a big part of their running game going forward. And

17:26

then I think the teams that have been successful against

17:28

Miami, if you can get Tua

17:30

off his first read, if you can

17:32

get him to have to move around in the pocket

17:34

a little bit and the Jets have been so good at

17:37

collapsing that pocket. So you

17:40

know, everybody's so afraid of the speed

17:42

of Tyreek and Waddle, but

17:45

making sure that Tua is having to

17:47

go through a progression and spend more than those

17:49

two point two seconds or whatever it is with the

17:51

time to throw a tua. That's a big part

17:54

when you play Miami. The problem with them is they can score

17:56

in every single play, and there aren't a lot

17:58

of offenses in the league right now.

18:00

You're afraid and it's not just one or two guys. There's

18:02

four guys that can take it to the distance on

18:04

every play. But it's it's

18:06

like the AFC is so dang competitive right now.

18:08

Yep, Like what's going to crazy some

18:11

of those bottom spots, It's crazy.

18:14

Yeah, I think that's the thing.

18:15

I think you eventually a lot of these teams too, you look

18:17

at it, are playing each other the next few weeks.

18:19

So you know, I think there's gonna be some teams

18:21

in the AFC right now that may be in

18:23

it right now that are going to be out of it in a few weeks.

18:26

Because I think some of that's going to kind

18:28

of all come down to these last few weeks

18:30

because of really how competitive it is

18:32

every week. I feel like any of those

18:34

teams can win. You got a team from Pittsburgh standpoint,

18:37

who you have no idea how you have the

18:39

record they have, and then you look

18:41

at the Bills and Bengals and you're like, man, how are these

18:43

two teams not in the playoffs? So I think that's gonna

18:45

be the crazy part for that game.

18:47

Jets Dolphins, I think it's be interesting to see how the just

18:49

decide to play in defensive You've seen the different philosophies

18:52

every time somebody plays them, and it seems

18:54

to have worked for a couple of these four down line teams

18:57

to keep these shells, not run with

18:59

all the motions and just try to take away that first

19:01

read and see what happens and get there with pass rush.

19:03

So it'll be interesting to see how they decide to play them.

19:06

And I do think too, like for Miami

19:08

warm weather team, like as it starts

19:10

to get a little colder, we know what

19:12

have not a physically bruising run

19:15

game like, It'll be interesting to see how they

19:17

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I mean it's gonna be great, this being the

20:18

first ever NFL game taking place

20:20

on Black Friday on Prime video.

20:23

How excited are you guys to be part of

20:25

that inaugural kind of

20:27

NFL New NFL Holiday.

20:29

I think it's insane. I mean, you think about it. Last year,

20:31

guys we got on the set. You're

20:33

part of the first ever fully streamed package

20:36

of football games, which is just crazy to

20:38

do as we all step off the field, and then now

20:40

to be a part of the first ever Black Friday

20:43

game, I think.

20:44

It's any of those films.

20:45

When we get there that week and everything's going on,

20:47

you're gonna feel it, just because it's gonna be that big of a

20:49

game and the atmosphere and everything else around

20:52

it. But I think it's really special,

20:54

man, to come off the field and get to be a part of

20:56

something like this. It's gonna be cool

20:58

because I mean, I think for me, when I think

21:00

a football season in November December, I mean

21:02

Thanksgiving week, those games sitting

21:04

down at your house with your teammates whatever else

21:06

over uh, those are kind of the memories

21:08

I have of like that this part of the year

21:10

of the football season. So to be a part of a

21:13

new, unique game that's gonna be on a

21:15

Friday, guys are going to get.

21:16

Home from their walkthrough or practice setting.

21:18

They're gonna be like, hey man, let's go sit on the couch and watch

21:20

this football game, and we're going to get to be a part of is insane.

21:24

And I was kind of shocked that they hadn't figured this

21:26

out yet, like that there was a game on Black Friday,

21:28

because they're really I don't think there are any days

21:30

left and the other NFL calendar

21:32

where they can put a game. But for us to

21:34

be able to do that, obviously, the synergies

21:36

of like being in New York and Amazon and

21:38

everything that happens on Black Friday, it's

21:41

going to be cool. And then for me, I mean, it's a rivalry

21:43

game for me. You know a couple of former teams.

21:45

I mean, who do I root for? Shirm you

21:48

know, Whit and I are going to be sitting on top of the standings.

21:50

You're going to be looking up at us.

21:52

You know, n.

21:55

This may be a big one on my

21:57

podcast.

22:00

I'm just in your house. He

22:02

walked in your door. You have two losses

22:04

on the year. Sure, if it wasn't.

22:06

For it some big you know what,

22:09

the will lit, The will lit.

22:13

That was the right pick. They should have

22:15

worked that game. They didn't.

22:16

They should have, but they didn't.

22:18

But coverage begins at one thirty

22:21

one thirty pm Eastern time. The

22:23

Dolphins are at the Jets. Oh

22:26

No. Coverage begins at one thirty Eastern time.

22:28

The game kicks off at three pm Eastern

22:30

time, which means we'll have a bit of

22:32

an earlier ending to the game. That'll

22:34

be a different rhythm as well.

22:37

So Eliza, my wife, was already for

22:39

the viewers now for you guys, was already asking me, like, what do

22:41

you guys do after the games? And it's like, well,

22:43

we we just go, you know,

22:45

we sit around, we enjoy it. But it's always

22:47

late. So it's like, are we

22:49

gonna have to plan something after this game because

22:51

we're going to be done so early. I think we'll probably

22:54

do the same type of thing. It'll just again

22:56

find its way into the wee hours of the night, just

22:59

hanging out and having fun.

23:00

It's gonna be great. I mean, we're not gonna you

23:02

know, I'm not gonna get to spend Thanksgiving with my

23:05

family. You know, it's gonna be a different holiday for

23:07

us, but for people for the fans

23:09

at home, I mean, Amazon is

23:11

still the same. Amazon is gonna have deals

23:13

for customers every quarter. So

23:16

you gotta tune in to see. Like, it's such a

23:18

different way to do Black Friday because when

23:20

I was younger, Black Friday used to stand in

23:22

line. You know, people are camped outside

23:24

now, right

23:27

right, you gotta be the first one to get the deals. Now,

23:29

you just gotta be watching the Black Friday

23:31

Game on Prime Video to

23:34

get these deals. Each quarter they're gonna have different

23:36

deals. It's the perfect fit for Amazon,

23:39

really because how many people holiday

23:41

shop on Amazon. It's

23:43

like they're bringing everything one stop

23:45

shop come to Prime Video. You can do your

23:47

shopping, you can catch the game, you

23:50

can you can do anything. Really,

23:53

what are we doing?

23:54

Well?

23:54

You guys.

23:54

You guys are invited to the Harvard Club

23:57

with me for with the Fitzpatricks.

24:00

Yeah, if you want to.

24:01

Ourselves, we're gonna need somewhere to hang out for Thanksgiving.

24:04

We appreciate that invite.

24:05

And sure, you've already tried the dress code

24:07

there, so I think you can just show up and sweats.

24:11

I think I think they really really kind

24:13

of turned a blind eye to me that day. And I don't know if

24:15

they're doing it a game, because these millennials that they're talking

24:17

about, these new generation, they're already talking

24:19

about taking the elephant off the wall, and

24:21

this is this is Roosevelts. Oh, this

24:27

is Roosevelt's elephant.

24:28

Now, yeah, you might want to check your email.

24:31

You might have gotten a letter about that appearance. So yeah,

24:33

when the podcast, this is going

24:35

to be tough.

24:36

Yeah, there's no rip, no ripped jeans,

24:38

please with that's the only thing we can't do it,

24:40

all right?

24:41

All right? Well, so what what give

24:43

me your prediction for the outcome of this game?

24:45

I you know, I'll take it right now. Give

24:47

me your prediction podcast.

24:51

I would say, like a team that I played for will

24:53

win. I'll say that, Wow.

24:59

No, I think it's gonna be a great game, shure. And

25:01

that's all I'll tell you. I'll send spoo tax

25:03

to who I think is gonna win. But I can't give you any information.

25:06

You know, we can't allow you back in the standings.

25:09

You guys are playing it so close to the

25:11

best. It's been great having you guys

25:13

on has been great being your teammates. What's

25:15

what's what would you tell these fans out there

25:17

is the worst part about your new job?

25:21

Well, we got to hear fitz Is last year. He didn't

25:23

realize that we traveled every week.

25:25

I thought that was.

25:29

Chris wit and Chriss favorite. But

25:31

look, I as players, you travel like every other

25:33

week, right, So getting

25:35

on that airplane every week, you know it's

25:38

it's a little bit different, but now I get

25:40

to fly and see your smiling faces, so it makes

25:42

me happy.

25:43

No, I really don't.

25:44

I don't know if I've found the worst part yet.

25:46

I enjoy it all, man, I really do. Right now,

25:48

it's a lot of fun. I'm sure there's something that you know get

25:50

tiring over the years, but uh, for

25:53

now, man, it seems like a lot of fun and I love

25:55

doing it.

25:56

You know, I can't.

25:58

I got it work going off.

26:00

To two minutes, go ahead. No, it's

26:03

it's when we're on the East coast and

26:05

we come back to the hotel and

26:07

there's people that have been standing out there

26:09

with the helmets and the pylons and the

26:11

football cards and we've

26:15

already signed eight things for you, like

26:18

do you need that ninth thing?

26:19

Sign?

26:19

You've been waiting here for five hours.

26:22

I've got to give them credit for being out there,

26:24

because it's.

26:25

Yeah, yeah, they're grinding, but they all we're

26:28

staying. Yeah, you give them credit.

26:30

Give them if they weren't if it wasn't

26:32

cold, and it wasn't they weren't out there for hours

26:34

something. You know, I probably just go to my

26:36

room because I don't like people staying at you know, waiting

26:38

for me at the hotel that I have to be at. But

26:41

you know, these people they're nice, you know about

26:43

it. They asked Actually you got to give

26:45

them credit for that. But there is something about you

26:47

know, this is the background, you know, the

26:49

the nuances of the media

26:52

world, the you know, an analyst

26:54

role is sometimes we don't have a green room

26:58

and those are times. Those

27:00

are the times I'm.

27:02

Real comfortable, real

27:04

fast.

27:05

I thought you were going to.

27:06

Say, sure. I thought you were going to say when

27:08

we try new things like this last

27:10

week when me and Witt and Kels weren't

27:13

on the desk, so you didn't have your partner

27:15

in crime with right next year and you

27:17

had to talk on the desk without us, They're trying

27:19

to mess with this this year.

27:21

I kind of feel like I'm in I'm

27:23

butt necker in the middle of Antarctica when

27:25

that happens. But it is what it is. You

27:27

know, I'm trying to adjust, you know, when

27:30

you get put in uncomfortable situations with

27:32

and that's where growth happens. But I don't know

27:34

if I'm I'm growing from this. I'm just being put

27:36

in uncomfortable situations.

27:39

That's what I still am trying to in Miami,

27:41

Brian Flores, that sign said get

27:43

comfortable being uncomfortable, and

27:45

to this day, like I can't get

27:48

my fourteen year old to understand what that

27:50

means. And I try to always

27:52

put them an uncomfortable situations, but it still is

27:54

like it doesn't make sense.

27:56

Well, might be my last question for you

27:59

guys, And this is a big one speaking a sign.

28:00

Yes, yes, so

28:03

you guys to know I saw that behind

28:05

you, Ryan, and I know I know Sharon has one too, but.

28:07

Yes, I just got my That

28:10

makes us happy. Man connected.

28:13

It's CJ. Stroud, the MVP in the league

28:16

right now. The

28:19

future is looking bright. But you know, everybody's having

28:21

a debate because so many, so many quarterbacks are playing

28:23

so inconsistent, like is he a top ten

28:26

quarterback? Is he top five? Now fits

28:28

I need your opinion?

28:29

Oh boy, we're getting the broad curdy thing here

28:31

now here top because then

28:33

you're like, okay, well if he's in your top five, who's

28:36

not in your top five?

28:37

But I mean, I think the biggest

28:39

thing with these quarterbacks is you just you

28:42

want to see a larger sample size, and the

28:44

sample size where c J. Stroud is now

28:46

large enough so we can say, look,

28:48

this is this dude's a top

28:50

ten quarterback in the league right now. There's

28:53

some other things that need to happen, you know, with

28:55

with playoffs and stuff. I think where

28:57

before we annoint him and put him in the top five.

28:59

But it's just you know, every week

29:01

you're like, okay, is this the week that it falls off?

29:04

Is this the week that it craters? And it's

29:07

not just like the statistics and the

29:09

crazy numbers he's putting up when you watch

29:11

him and the poise that he plays with, and now

29:13

like these end of the game got to

29:15

have it situations two weeks ago

29:17

when they gave him the ball with forty eight seconds left

29:20

and he needed a touchdown and he

29:22

went and he did it and he made it look easy. I

29:24

mean, that's when when you've got a whole team

29:26

and a whole city now believing in you every time

29:28

you touch the ball at the end of the game, like you've

29:31

catapulted yourself in the top ten status,

29:34

no question, got you.

29:35

Know, no question. He's he's first

29:37

in the league and yards per game. He's

29:40

second in total yards passing

29:42

yards a game, only behind Sam Howe.

29:44

I mean, it's a lot of things that you'd

29:47

like to hear and like to see because these are kind

29:49

of Aaron Rodgers. Now, Aaron's completion

29:51

percentage numbers will be higher because he's he's

29:53

hovering around sixty one, sixty two percent. You

29:56

know, he's a young kid, so you got to give him

29:58

a little bit of grace with that. But at the end

30:00

of the day, he's executing at a real high

30:02

level. And guess what his name is. Guess what his real name

30:04

is.

30:07

I guess, uh,

30:10

Charles Johnson.

30:12

Okay, Okay, Joe,

30:14

but I like it.

30:15

Curtis, Joseph Curtas,

30:17

just Clayton john I mean, I don't

30:20

know.

30:20

Cole Ridge, Murdernard

30:23

C J. Stroud, the fourth.

30:26

Oh, that is a good name,

30:29

a.

30:29

Very Harvard name.

30:30

Yeah, a teamate named Cole

30:33

Ridge.

30:34

I bet you did well. I appreciate

30:36

you guys joining me today. I know you guys got

30:39

more things to do today, and

30:41

I'll see you guys in a couple of days. It's

30:44

been a blessing and I need to have you guys on here more

30:46

often.

30:47

Thank Sharon, Thanks Sharon Brother, appreciate

30:50

you, appreciate you all the

31:11

volume