Kalen DeBoer Talks Taking Over From Nick Saban + Implementing His Own Culture

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Speaker 1: The opportunity to come here to Alabama knowing this program and what the history was all about. But it just it just felt like, you know, this is something that was too good of an opportunity and it's just been an awesome experience here these first three to four months.

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Speaker 2: Stupid garden games, language, no memory, no simple.

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Speaker 3: It's ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of Busting with the Boys. This is episode two seven four. The boys just got back from the University of Alabama. And what are we driving while we were there? Will we what do we go down? What are we on the highway? Hitting?

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Speaker 5: I will say, I used the Chevy this weekend to move that thing right smooth?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, why are you saying I drove a Chevy this weekend? Who's Chevy did you drive?

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Speaker 5: I drove? I drove will Chevy.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, sir, let me use it to move this weekend.

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Speaker 5: And it fit all of my big stuff, like my bed and my dresser and all that stuff, and it was like riding on a cloud.

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Speaker 3: It's nice, right, it was really nice. Bro.

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Speaker 4: I told me the only stipulation because I got a text. I was like, hey, He's like, hey, I put the boxes by your garage. I was like, the only stipulation I need, The only payback I need is for you to get rid of those boxes. You know, your boy, I get lazy at times. Boxes one of my Achilles heels, so I had. It was like a back extension box. It's been in there, for.

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Speaker 3: Since December, since December.

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Speaker 5: And I also put twenty dollars a gas and cleaned out your car a little bit too.

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Speaker 4: I did notice, and I thank you for that. What was that little thing that you put in the cup holder? A little black It was like a black leather looking piece.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That was on the floor, Okay, I didn't know.

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Speaker 4: If it's like something happened, you're like, oh, let me just put this here.

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Speaker 3: I know what it is. I was.

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Speaker 5: I told all my buddies that were helping me move him, like, do not fuck this truck up, because it is my life.

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Speaker 3: If it is, it drives like a dream.

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Speaker 5: It does.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Yeah, it's fantastic. Going into Will's truck is like walking into a time capsule of the year prior. Well. You can literally find all the stuff, everything you need, every piece of Mercher's ever come out, every sample of Merches ever come out, the old files. I'm pretty sure I saw Will's last three years of tax returns in his truck last time I was in there. It's incredible the amount of storage you can put in that ZR two.

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Speaker 4: And it's a quick boy too. It's a performer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, before we start, I do want to shout Oh you had to no, I was gonna say. I want to shout out tornadoes hitting Nebraska and Iowa over the weekend, some bad ones. There's video footage out there. They were crazy.

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Speaker 3: And so we did a T.

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Speaker 4: Shirt fundraiser to raise money where one hundred percent of our net proceeds are going to I think there's four local charities in Nebraska and then there's going to be a local one in Iowa. And shout out everybody who showed up and bought a shirt and donated. We raised fifty thousand dollars almost sixty thousand combined between Nebraska and Iowa. And not only that, who I want to shout out as a couple of our sponsors, because look, I know we do a lot of ads at times and it can be annoying, but honestly, without your guys is without you guys showing up and without your guys support, the brand awareness that we have and the brand loyalty that we have. We are with a couple of partnerships, Duke Cannon and True Classic. And the moment that we had posted about the T shirt donation going up, the True Classic CEO hit up Taylor and myself wanting to send boxes of shirts and clothing to these local charitable spots. And then Duke Cannon also hit us up, wanting to stand like they have these gun cases where they put a bunch of products, soabs deodeor and high hygienic products. Is that right, hygienic hygienic products, and they're winning the ship stuff. So not only did we raise a bunch of money to send to these local charities, also resources and supplies from Duke Cannon and True Class that were going to these spots as well. So I just want to shout out those partnerships that we're in because I thought that that was major them, you know, seeing the boys post about the shirts and then wanting to get involved, it was awesome. It was really cool to see. So I just want to shot them.

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Speaker 3: The thing that's wild about those two sponsors coming out of the woodwork, it's not like we reached out to them and were like you need to do X, Y and Z. That text from a Ryan at True Classic just came in a group chat with like it was literally like a book, Like that text you get when you're out with the boys from your girlfriend that makes you nervous that big of a text. Yeah, And it was essentially like these are the resources you guys have that we can give blah blah blah, all these things. It was really cool to see. And that is I mean, like will say, we have a lot of sponsors sometimes.

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Speaker 4: But Ryan's like, this is what a partnership looks like. And it just just fires you up there. You know, the boys show.

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Speaker 3: Up wearing all True Classic stuff today.

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Speaker 4: You look great. You've been doing nothing but repping the True Classic I love. But you finally found some jeans.

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Speaker 3: That finally it's been my whole entire life. Yeah, my whole entire life. Thirteenth, thirteenth Christmas, got some tight jeans. My brother got a pair of tise jeans, and I was like fired up about it. It's like when tight jeans were hitting the rage, everyone was all about it. Yeah, And I got a pair and I put those boys on. They didn't go past my kneecaps. That was so upset. I thought I was about to change the game at my middle school that next day. And it did not work out for your boy. So thank you to True Classic on that situation as well. Dude, the tornadoes were wild because I heard obviously the Knelt Boys you see there, Yeah, I saw their stuff going on to you, and I saw that They're like, hey, we're going I thought they said Kansas, but they're like, we're going to We're Oh, I thought this at Oklahoma. We're going there's like the worst storm in ten years. We're gonna go tornado chase. And I was falling along because that was some interesting stuff. And I'm seeing all these insane tornadoes, and like, twenty minutes later, I go on the burden on your like Nebraska destroyed.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, chair, I'm like, oh my gosh, because I'm looking at their stuff kind of after the Nebras stuff's going on, I'm kind of thinking, like, I mean, yeah, I get their storm chasing, but people are losing people are like losing everything everything, which is uh yeah, yeah, different, a couple of different worlds happening at the same time.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a tornion in your life?

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Speaker 4: Not close at all like that, but obviously Missouri that you get. We get quite a few tornadoes, but I've never actually seen one swirling like in front of my eyes. You just know when one touches down, like Nashville a few years ago when one touched down here in the east. Like you hear sirens and everything else, but I'm not visually seeing anything. You just you know the damage that those things fucking do.

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Speaker 3: Did I remember I was in that georgetownhouse when that tornado hit. Yeah, and we're like town that, we're going to bed, and there she was looking on Instagram. She's like, oh, there's a lot of like tornado warnings tonight, and I was like, that will be fine, that's nothing's gonna happen. I would sleep. I supped through the alarms and everything. I know why we could have died. Yeah, I could have absolutely died. Woke up and that was a crazy situation.

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Speaker 4: Yes, bro, they fucking yes, it's a good thing. I feel like I've never actually seen one because then you feel like you're little close. It would be cool to kind of see one in action. But obviously if it's like in a field.

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Speaker 3: Zone and controlled envis yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel that no one cares about. It's like state landers and right right right right, like damn, look at that. And the most politically correct way you could possibly say, we'd love to see a tornado because it would be cool to go storm chasing, but.

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Speaker 4: Because you know, it's like you and your old man my dad all the time in Bad Guy, everybody's rushing down to the basement, but my old man's like standing outside wanting to see the storm, and you're kind of curious, like, oh yeah, how close. So everybody's attracted the getting as close as you can and the death without actually experiencing.

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Speaker 3: It right right, and to Arizona, there's no tornados or nothing like that.

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Speaker 4: You have you outside in Nashville's Nashville, your first one.

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Speaker 3: Nashal is my first time ever like experiencing the thought of a tornado coming near me. Yeah. I think in Michigan one time, there's like a siren that went off, but there was never a tornadother touchdown. Yeah, I thought that was a myth.

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Speaker 4: It's like that Midwest area, Oklahoma's like Tornado Valley.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I can't believe people live there. It's a crazy just to live in that area and it happens every single year. Yeah, you just know right around April May that things are coming down the pike. Tornado season you can't control. Yeah, just wild, absolutely wild.

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Speaker 4: Other things On the weekend, the NFL draft took place. How do you feel like the boys in two tone Blue did?

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Speaker 3: I didn't know how to feel for I'm gonna if I'm gonna be as transparent as possible. When that first round was going down, we were up in Chicago. I was praying, crossing my fingers for Joell obviously Chicago or not Chicago. Uh, the Chargers take Joell and I thought, Okay, the next guy to get is that Ola Fashanaki from from Penn State, because jac Latham really wasn't on my on my radar. The only thing I knew about Jacon Latham is this fourth and five Michigan versus Alabama. And I saw this kid at the combine and I thought, for how big this man is? He moves really well, but he played right tackle. We have a right tackle. So when I saw that pick come through, my first reaction was, fuck, man, did get Did we get the right guy? And I worry because I have, like, what is it not postpartum PTSD from Isaiah Wilson's and these top tier SEC schools we all know, like the top tier schools, the top five squaks. Yeah well yeah, yeah. Unfortunately he was a guard and he was the pick before me. He was to pick the year before me tenth overall, but like these top five college schools, they get a silver spoon shoved the way up there. Ass Michigan included. Don't get me wrong, but like and you're kind of like your hand is held through absolutely everything, so you get worried about guys. But luckily we're at the University of Alabama last week right before the draft, and we got to talk to Tyler Booker and that guy's conversation how he held himself talking about leadership, talking about speaking things into existence, just like the process, and where he learned that was I AMG Academy, which is shout out that shout out IMG Academy, Bradenton, Florida. I actually trained there for the combine and they were kind of like they weren't fully finished with everything, but it was it's an establishment. Yeah, like if you are if you want to be the best, you need to go there. If you have the opportunity, you have the skill set to be one of the best, that's the school you need to go to. And he was talking about how they have literally have classes on leadership. So JC Latha, the first thing I do is I hit up the wiki and I see that this kid went to IMG. Texted JP the next day like, give me everything you know about jac Latham and he's like checks all the boxes. So that fires me up. Now. The only thing that worries me is I don't know what he played at IMG, whether it's right tackle or left tackle. And I know he played right tackle starting for two years. G starved two years in Alabama at right tackle, and we need a left tackle. So hopefully for me personally, that's like the hardest thing in the world to do, is to switch. It's like riding with your opposite hand and that's how my body works. But I've been around other guys that can literally jump from one side of the next no problem at all.

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Speaker 4: So are they looking at putting him at starting him at leftock?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think they came out and they're like, this is he's a left eckle. If there's a coach to doing, man, it's Bill Callahan, no question. I'm telling you this dude.

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Speaker 4: At times you sit back at a vent you're like, man, they got to you're basically like reliving their college and he's working with this guy.

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Speaker 3: But he is a O lineman. Whisper.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I and he's young. It's like him and Scronsky. He's got like a younger room, a couple of vets that are early in their second contracts and everything else to where you don't have like an age vet who's kind of like maybe resistant to that type of coaching, that type of style. I feel like coach Calan having like a younger room who are going to be the starters, He'll be able to mold them the way you know he's wanting to mold them for the offense.

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Speaker 3: I've never met him personally, but I've all like o line room is like the most unique room in the entire on the football team. Everyone is so close. There's so many of you on the field at one time, and there has to be like some sort of gel or some sort of chemistry between all five of you in the entire room. And the who sets the tone is the offensive line coach.

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Speaker 4: So I hope, hey there and he sets the tone. The stories at the CAF tier table and washed it with the boys from the old line room, how they just kind of sit your you know, assholes tight because he just runs to the table.

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Speaker 3: Like he is the leader of the old line room.

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Speaker 4: Great, it'd be like shitty, can't play for me, can't play for me, can't do it. You gotta get fucking Betty hands like all the stuff. I'd like he's Italian. He's not Italian at all.

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Speaker 3: That the Eagles coach? Which one? Who's what's the name of the Eagles offensive line coach? Dude? I met him at the combine. He was awesome too, but he literally talks just like that. Yeah, but he's been he's been there forever. Yeah, just stoutlin he is. This dude's a og. Also he's a stud. But yeah, that's what you want, dude. You want an older, heavier set guy running your old line room that has like ten key phrases, he says, on a consistent basis, where all the offensive line can go behind his back and make fun of the way he talks. If you had that, yes, you've got the first piece of the puzzle for the boys. And that is what they have.

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Speaker 4: Yes, because it's not like a respect like if coach Callahan walked up on the conversation to be very much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he runs that room. Yes, he runs that room. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: The biggest surprise has to be the Michael Pennis. Yes, dude, the Michael Pennicks grab that.

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Speaker 3: Is like the number one. I guess we'll see pick of all time because I understand the thought process of what they're doing because the Packers, right, Packers have done this for I don't know, since they've been a franchise. It seems like with Farv going into Rogers, Rogers going into love and having that type of success that they've had. But the Falcons have so many holes. The Packers, it seems like forever have had a team established like they've had. Okay, we have core wide receiver team, we have a core running backs, we have core defense. We know who our core guys are. We're pretty put together. We just gotta make sure a quarterback is always waiting in the back lines ready to go. With the Falcons, It's like every news article coming out about the Falcons going into this draft was they haven't had a rusher since Jonathan Abraham. They haven't had a guy. They haven't had somebody that goes in rushes to the power. Somebody gotta worry a war daddy that you're like, boys, we have to block this guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you pay one hundred million guaranteed. To Kirk Cousins, You're like, you're going in this season to win right now.

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Speaker 3: To win right now, Yes, and so why not add that piece of the puzzle. And I feel bad for Michael Pennix Junior because the kid is an incredible talent. He's gotten through a bunch of adversities at a couple of knee surgeries, but he still is extremely athletic, extremely able to move so well, can put balls on an absolute dime. He was throwing to he was throwing to aliens, but like you see him all the way up until the National Championship dice people up, left, right, and center. And he played on a team that was an underdog team for I don't know, eight of their twelve games, and.

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Speaker 4: He can make all the throws, like his pocket awareness and just feeling like when somebody's there and he can.

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Speaker 3: Make awkward, awkward throws.

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Speaker 4: I just feel bad because he's gonna be like we used to what twenty four now, probably gonna be like twenty six, you know, depending on how Kurt.

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Speaker 6: Is twenty six when he will get his first start. If Kirk Cousins plays out the remainder of next year's season.

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Speaker 4: Right right, because another thought too, I think dan Orlosky was talking about it, that other angle of having somebody to kind of groom and in the way, waiting in the wing when Kirk is done. But also they think that they'll be competitive and play good over the next couple of years, that they would have a lower back half pick. And if you're trying to get a quarterback for the value, that's why they picked them at eight because they feel like they're going to be later in the draft, because they're going to be good. But the counter argument to that was, uh, yeah, but if you're trying to win right now and you think you got you know, you got your quarterback, why not surround him with weapons right now and not even worry about playing this long game of chess. Uh But I guess, yeah, man, I guess we'll see you in a couple of years. JP out of you feel being a being in an Atlanta falcon.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 7: I love seeing Michael Fennix in the city of Atlanta.

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Speaker 4: I did see a hilarious hang on a second.

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Speaker 3: I think, uh oh, man, jeez at the bad one. I love it.

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Speaker 8: I've seeing Michael Pennix in the city of Atlanta and I think the toughest part is the injury history he has. But it's also like Kirk, he is older. Imagine Kirk goes down. Obviously that would suck, but like he's an older quarterback, the risk is higher with him he goes down.

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Speaker 7: Now, you do have Michael Pennix back there and black left handed quarterbacks in Atlanta. Dogs We're back, Yeah, humans are back dogs dogs.

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Speaker 4: I saw this one photo was like the dog perked up, eyes wide open. Yea like Atlanta Falcons draft another are drafted black quarterback, left handed.

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Speaker 3: All dogs around Atlanta just perked up.

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Speaker 8: What doesn't make you feel good is the video of Blank talking with the GM.

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Speaker 3: And his GM obviously is trying to give yeah.

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Speaker 4: But also we don't know what's said true language as a lot.

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Speaker 3: Do you feel like, though.

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Speaker 4: If you're going to take a quarterback eight overall like that high in the draft, like the owner wouldn't be privy to that before it happened, you.

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Speaker 3: Would you would think so, But you know, just watch the body language of this clip and you're you think, no, he had.

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Speaker 4: No pitching his ass off. Here's the thought process.

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Speaker 6: Do you guys want to at least one of y'all take a chance at trying to uh say what he's saying on here and do a little a little lippering.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but before you do that, hold on, I want to have one more statement about Pettis because I saw this, this take and it's not my original take, but I do agree with it. Is when they brought Jordan Love into to the Packers behind Aaron Rodgers. If you look at Aaron Rodgers gameplay, it's shot through the absolute roof and it just made both guys way better. So Kirk Cousins might be pissed and Aaron Rodgers was noticeably mad about the situation. Kirk Cousins team has come out and said that he's pissed about it. This could be something that like truly just elevates Kirk's game because everyone shits on Kirk for his whole career, has only won one playoff game, but he's made all this money blah blah blah blah. Now I feel like this might be that little extra juice for Kirk. And he's coming off an Achilles, which is a very difficult injury to come off of, and so you just draft draft the guy who's at knees not not Achilles. Let's give it this.

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Speaker 6: All right, Who's who's gonna stop? All right?

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Speaker 3: I think Taylor? Go ahead? Oh okay, that's just them talking. Yeah, way too loud. Was insane.

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Speaker 6: I don't think you need it because it's gonna be the giraft.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's literally them talking.

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Speaker 4: All right, go ahead, you're you're coming in, you're coming And ask me, are you trying to watch the video through?

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Speaker 3: First, watch the video through.

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Speaker 4: When you look at the hundred million dollars we gave Kirk, that's we print money America princes that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you see the dat.

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Speaker 4: Now when you look at Jordan Love, with the Packers did with Jordan Love what they hate? They sat him for a couple of years. I know he was twenty one. You're saying he's twenty four. He might not play till he's twenty six. But listen to me. If we're competitive for a couple of years now and we have a later pick in the draft, we just got this quarterback early in the draft, and he can be our future, have a couple of years to play with them. That fifthy your option. You can sneak it on him. You can sneak it on him any which way because he doesn't have four years of film. He's only got two years of film. So you can throw that fifthyr option on and we're gonna be We're gonna be in the green if we're competitive.

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Speaker 3: Do you think we're he's like doing little hand thing? Do you think we have the talent that the packers had when they brought in Jordan Love. That's what Blank saying.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I personally have no clue. You got you got coll Pits, coach. That's a great question. Now receiver wise, we got a is it Kenyon, Drake, Drake London my fault, Drake London, coach, you look at it. We got Drake London, we got coll Pits. Now I know he wasn't getting a whole lot of separation, but that's what we brought in, Coach Morris. Teach these guys to be athletic, quick on your feet, get separate, get some separation. We get added Bijon Robinson. So we got the talent, We got the horses that Kirk competed to and Pennis can learn from, and also the competition. The cream rises to the top. Aaron Rodgers was pissed off with Jordan Love right behind him. Kirk Cousins is now pissed off. We flustered their whole camp. This is gonna lift the ships of everybody.

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Speaker 3: You said twice as many words. This whole entire video. Arthur Blake lily makes one comment the whole time. You know, like this video is great, but the video the video. What the video doesn't capture is Arthur Blank getting his attention. Let me talk to you for a second over here, just.

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Speaker 4: Taps him on the shoulder and he just starts going PowerPoint presentation. You look at here, you look at there.

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Speaker 3: You know he brought that pick. He was like held it to his He called Michael Pennox and he's like, all right, we'll get we'll get a locked in. We absolutely and then just sat there and waited. The hairs on the back of his next stood up as Arthur Blake quietly just walked over.

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Speaker 4: They're calling like, hey, I know the pick is going to be known like when it comes across the taker, but try not to say anything.

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Speaker 3: And we got to put some fires out before we make this pick. But just know we're picking you. Yeah, dude, Arthur Blank is like the most gangster owner of all time too. I think so I had a meeting with them. Then it was like two days after I went to Country Thunder and there is my voice is gone. I'm still hungover. And I went I was in Atlanta and drive all the way into the city because they play they're they're in Flower Branch where they're they're like forty five minutes out. Do you get you know that you're a falcon? Yeah, And I go, Uh, I lit to go into like the city of Atlanta, and there's like this old Victorian building which is his office. And I go up and it's like everything is like really nice, uh, you know, wood and a giant fireplace and there's a guy on top of the dark Yeah. And we sat down, just me and him and talked and I could barely speak. I was like yelling, trying to just get words out. And I thought, I'm not going here. It's probably not a shot to make it here. But he does have that cool owner vibe, just keeps it calm. You see him too. He's pissed off. His body language is mad, but he's at the hand hands in the pockets brings a just as one of these real quick hand back in the pocket, keeps it calm. You know what he says is talk to me. Yeah. So why yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, So why would you do that? Explain this? Yeah, then you got your boy, Joe Walt goes fifth overall to your boy heart ball with the Chargers.

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Speaker 4: I know you think, Joe, you were talking about j C. Latham earlier going from right to left. Guys can kind of do it. How do you feel like Joe Walkin can transition to that left side.

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Speaker 3: I hope you can. I hope he can do it. Yeah, we him and I actually had a conversation.

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Speaker 4: Hey, hang on my phone, transition to the right side.

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Speaker 3: Got you? Uh. I don't know if I'm being one hundred percent honest like this. I know that Joe sees himself as a left tackle. I know that he wants to play left tackle because I had the conversation with him. I talked to you about this, and He's like, I want to I want to play left tackle. I'm not I Switching over the right sides a difficult thing to do, which he and I shared that, and I what I told him was, when you meet with these teams, tell them that, like, don't just try to be yes, sir, everything I can do x Y and Z. I can do it all for you if you want. I can snap the ball coach whatever you want. Like, if you believe this is where your skill set is, then tell him that's who your skill set is. No, this is at the combine. This is at the combine. And now Joe he's going he's going to a place. They're going to run the ship out of the football. They're going to play old school, hard nose three yards in a cloud of dust ball with Jim Harball at the helm. They're gonna be a good that's gonna be a good ball club. Look at him just kind of hugs his girl, like fuck yeah, put it in his arms as far out as possibly can. I think I'm trying to look excited right now. I fucking hate that guy there at the beard. That's Tommy Condon, son of Tom Condon.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a sharp beard.

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Speaker 3: That's a sharp beard. Handsome boy.

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Speaker 4: They're all they all kind of know the same thing, like, yeah, your boy just huged him right there, Like, hey, I know you're pissed.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, just be happy to be happy. Be happy. It's got a juice you up. The way.

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Speaker 4: Harball comes out and talks about people talk about, hey, we're gonna get weapons lineman or weapons.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and he's like, it's the only position group that doesn't rely on anybody else. Yeah, I love that. Look at him, that big bear. It was a bear that just scratch his back on the tree. Yeah. Well, hopefully it all works out. I mean, it's it's gone. The kid's a talent, he's a stud and he got picked fifth. Overall, he's a lot to be excited about. But they got Rashaan Slater, and that guy is a proven talent in the NFL. They're not moving him to right tackle. Yeah, unless there's a conversation they have where you know, for Sean's like, yeah, I don't mind playing right. I could absolutely jump over there and play right. Joe feels more comfortable at left. But if it's me, no, yeah, I'd be very I would have been very upset because I lack the skill set to switch my feet. Yeah, Joe might be able to. He might just not know how talented he is just yet.

00:24:19
Speaker 4: Just yet, just how it is, like, say, it's you feel like it's getting forced in those first couple of days and can he kind of gets a little flustered Yeah, it'd be interesting to know, like what is how he would be verbalizing it, like when he's in the locker room, like yeah, god, God, I can't play right, you know what I mean.

00:24:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be difficult because offensive linemen usually have a hard time like expressing themselves. They're frustrations. They just kind of get internally mad and then call whoever they're closest with and then move on. There's not like a big blow up for the normal offensive lineman.

00:24:45
Speaker 4: Don't be seen, don't be heard the line.

00:24:48
Speaker 3: Another thing that happened elite neighbors got a taste of looking at college facilities, two NFL facilities and how different they are.

00:24:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll go through these draft moments here, but you can see Moliku neighbors wapping up the entire New York Giants organization, just knowing that he's going he's entering hell at the moment with Daniel Doones. I think you're referred to him as in the press conference, tapping up each guy like god, damn it, just fucking put me down here. I'm gonna make a lot of money for you guys, but don't disrespect me. I feel like that's the vibe that Malieue Neighbors is giving. Yeah, he's like, Hey, I hope you guys know I'm gonna do this how I want to do this.

00:25:25
Speaker 3: There are two kind of football players when you walk and you meet the higher ups in a in an NFL league and an NFL team. It's the guy that wants you to respect him immediately and you're like dapping him up, big energy, Hey coach, how are you excited to be here doing all that? And there's the other guys that's like, you need to respect me first before I respect you. Yeah, And Emlieue Neighbors is giving off the I need that respect before I started.

00:25:46
Speaker 4: He was giving off the vibe that I'm going to put in two really good years up front for you guys, and you better be you better be ready to renegotiate with Yes, you better be.

00:25:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we're gonna renegotiate after my rookie year of those guys for sure. Yeah. But kids, I mean he's a stud. Yeah. All the Marvin Harrison junior stuff. People were talking about this guy's number one in the draft, bah blah blah, and then all of a sudden, that classic the rumors start going around right before the draft happens of Hey, this guy his yards after catch, the way he's so sharpening out of his brakes like attacks, like everybody saying he's even though Marvin Harrison Junior was the best wide receiver, Everybody saying he's the most explosive, the most explosive. And the dude is a tank too, Yeah, absolute tank. So I'm excited. They seem like they got their OBJ, a bigger OBJ, bigger OBJ. Time.

00:26:32
Speaker 4: We will only see what's another draft moment? Oh uh, I don't want to mess his name up.

00:26:40
Speaker 3: Penn State left tackle. Mom's getting excited. She gives them the big hug. Girlfriends to the right of the mom, she goes in for the hug. Little Lake tap first team All NBA Defensive Team. Yeah, the girl.

00:26:51
Speaker 4: It's like it's tough to be in that spot, right, You're trying to be excited, You're trying to maintain composure. A couple claps, you kind of reach over for the old lake. Touchy mom is just I mean, look at look at mom.

00:27:02
Speaker 3: Just him.

00:27:04
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's his dad next him, but she's tapping him like, hey, get in here, everybody block out. So his uh, his white girlfriend can't get in this because this is our baby boy there there. She kind of goes in for the Hey, you can hug me, but not my boy.

00:27:16
Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, we're transmitting the energy through me to him.

00:27:19
Speaker 4: You're on a yearly contract just like he is.

00:27:22
Speaker 3: This every single year. We're gonna reevaluate and renegotiate helping him out. That is a big man. Even legs looks it's oulu right.

00:27:33
Speaker 4: He might be thinking like, okay, Mom, you're hugging me a lot right now, Like, let's stand up, get some fresh air. Mom even reads it out of nowhere, goes and picks that ball off, stands up, hugs him again even more. Yeah, tight cover and poor girlfriend back there, she's just kind of waiting her turn. Feels cameras on her. I'm sure she just tried to make a step and I think Aunty said no, get back back it up.

00:27:51
Speaker 3: A second Anty said back it up. Maybe the Jets drafted the wrong for Shawan Hill. They should have maybe taken the mom. She is out there absolutely making sure his son is not even touched by that. Yeah. Yeah, incredible time man, true past protection the entire time.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: And keeps her at bait too. She keeps her hand on old girl's leg, like you just stayed down when this happens. You let us get it in.

00:28:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, she noticed that little the little leg tap.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then our boy. Now, really cool moment was Brandon Fisk with the Rams.

00:28:22
Speaker 5: I'll make sure it's not as this time.

00:28:25
Speaker 3: Let's hope start playing.

00:28:32
Speaker 4: The Rams call Fisk here and this is what the second or third round? Second round, second round, and the Rams are trying to get is this gonna be playing the same time I'm talking. Okay, well then let's just wait. Just turn it off, Mitch. We can kind of just overlay the visual. But basically, the Rams were on the phone with him fired up. They were trying to get Jared versed because they took him in the first round. They were trying to get him up to the to the war room to make that call to him because the boys are gonna be back playing together just like they were.

00:29:01
Speaker 3: In Florida State.

00:29:02
Speaker 4: But they have a cool moment when Verse gets on the phone and they're just high for each other, and then they both just start getting emotional, which is fucking awesome.

00:29:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get your boy back, your boys back in the saddle with you. What an amazing feeling that is, because when you go to a team, you're walking into you don't know anybody. You're essentially going back to camp making friends. Hopefully you can find a couple guys that sit at breakfast with and have a couple of laughs with, but you really don't know what's gonna happen.

00:29:26
Speaker 4: Going from East Coast to West coast too. Yeah, for Brayden being a small school scat small school cat before he transferred to Florida State, being a ripping it up at the combine, just shot up draft boards for him to get taken.

00:29:39
Speaker 3: He's gonna love McVeigh too, Like, what a fucking coach to play? Yeah, dude, this is such a cool move by Lessening and McVeigh to be to something is so sacred as the draft. They literally have rooms called the war room that they're in there and they're looking to have their little things. Okay, this guy's off the board, Now, who's our next in line? What do we need? All that stuff? Like they're truly like setting up the future of their team and for them to to call one of the guys they drafted just a year ago to bring them in because they know that they're boys. That's a that's more of a bro move than I think people even realize. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. But to see Fisk have the conversation with the coaches and everything and it's yes, sir. No, Like every one of these calls is either a kid crying or yep, let's get it. Yep, yes sir, yep. Oh, let's the Caleb Williams call was a little awkward. Yeah, we can get into that a little bit too. But I feel like Caleb Williams, He's just a different cat, different cat, extremely talented. I'm not getting on Big Cats list.

00:30:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, promise you don't want to be on Big Cats list.

00:30:32
Speaker 3: But we can still the minute Big Cat said that everything before this was wiped clean because I have said a couple of things about Kayleb Williams, I'm not I'm not ruining that opportunity.

00:30:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Caleb Williams. Who's the receiver that they.

00:30:42
Speaker 3: Took roma Dunze from Washington. Yeah, it was a stud.

00:30:47
Speaker 4: Yes, the Bears knocked out of the park with their draft.

00:30:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, speaking, you don't want to rank your top draft grades for teams.

00:30:55
Speaker 4: My favorite draft was probably number one. The Boys where I started with Washington, Jane and Daniels. I think he's gonna be a stud. But in that division, the Eagles, you got a team that was abysmal on defense, more specifically the secondary last year. And to go and get Cooper Dejene just just skip over their first round draft pick, but Quinon Mitchell, who's an absolute dog who attacks the ball really well, Cooper Dejean cornerbacks with their first two picks, and on a lot of big boards top ten talents that they got in the first two rounds. And then you get somebody in the edge, what's his name? Jay is Jylyx Hunt, Will Shipley just another gritty first and last out cat. You get Jeremiah Trotter, Jeremiah Trotter junior as a linebacker who Jeremiah Trotter Senior was an animal at Philly back in the day. What's up? He was a stud? And for them to get I mean, I feel like they address a lot of other spots on defense to where a lot of people were calling for Sirianni's head last year. Their defense played really poorly, and again in that back end, and now you got Blanken, ship Dejeene, Mitchell, Darius Slay say the best one, Cooper Dejean, Trevor Keagan, Trevor Keagan, they get your boy, Trevor Keagan out of Michigan. I feel like for good value in the fifth.

00:32:12
Speaker 3: Great Value one seventy two overall, I mean the guy you you can watch the film. Obviously, this limited athletically plays in a phone booth. But he is a guy that loves football, loves to get after your classic hog, who's going to give you every ounce of effort he can possibly give on a day in a day up basis.

00:32:28
Speaker 4: And didn't allow a sack in twenty twenty three and played eight consecutive games without allowing one single pressure. That is again a Michigan man coming coming from what's the trophy call where the entire line gets it.

00:32:40
Speaker 3: That is the Joe Moore Award, the Joe Moore Award. They were two times right, right, and the Michigan played one of the hardest schedules this past year. If you look at the back half of the schedule, they played Penn State, they played a hot state, they played Alabama, they played Washington.

00:32:51
Speaker 4: Right, so he's got the he's got the tape. They got the o Lineman Awards, the Joe Moore Awards. So he's coming from time Joe good O line culture in Michigan and going to a great line culture with Philly.

00:33:01
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of reports coming out of the combine of like higher ups GM saying that like these Michigan Cats are head and shoulders above mentally where usual where usually guys are at going from college to the NFL. And that's a product of Jim Harbaugh and the culture that established and thirteen guys drafted, thirteen guys ready to go program record, that's awesome. I do like that. It's very interesting that you picked the team that probably picked the most amount of white guys. That's very well confident of you.

00:33:29
Speaker 4: But also just to play Devil's advocate and that you know they're one of the rivals of Washington. I do fault Washington had a great draft, but for the Eagles again to address absolutely, I think they traded up for Cooper as well, but to go after spots to where they need filled, I think that that's why they're They've been my favorite draft.

00:33:46
Speaker 3: There's nothing more heartbreaking to me than when I saw Cooper de Gene fallow to the first round. That moment that you me, Stephen Shehay Roan and Brandan Walker shared was so nice before you got duped.

00:34:00
Speaker 4: I know, I know, which sucks because it was coming from those kind of like you know, those I don't know how to call him, the credible bot X profiles like the Dove Climb and the mL Football, the JPA or whatever. It was like that, those are the ones I saw it on because they, you know, you would I would type in like if the Eagles are drafts, I type in Eagles and then usually the most recent tweets are saying, oh so and so they're they're getting this guy. Yeah, it had been put up and then when we went back afterwards, it was then deleted. But your boy got duped, and it was tough because, you know, based on there was a tweet going around last week that Cooper de Jean was our Jackie Robinson.

00:34:39
Speaker 3: And it was not a big moment for it was not your tweet.

00:34:42
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no. People thought it was, but that was not my tweet. But uh, it was a big moment for you know, our culture. We haven't had a first round cornerback maybe ever or maybe since like the seventies, we haven't had one start, and so who knows if he's going to get to play corner, they're going to move him the safety.

00:35:00
Speaker 9: Can you imagine what it's gonna be like for him to line up against A. J.

00:35:04
Speaker 3: Brown and practice? Yes, after AJ getting paid? Yeah, this strapped. A's gonna give him hell.

00:35:12
Speaker 4: Maybe or AJ might not practice. AJ might not practice. He's one of the man man.

00:35:18
Speaker 3: Might outwork ethic him. I don't know. Maybe it might grind it out. He might know the place coming before the play even comes.

00:35:23
Speaker 9: That needs to be the hard knock series.

00:35:25
Speaker 4: Philly is Philly, and not only that, DeVante Smith got paid.

00:35:29
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I feel like he doesn't talk like AJ talks.

00:35:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know AJ is crazy.

00:35:35
Speaker 3: AJ is him.

00:35:36
Speaker 4: Those rookie corners. Whether you had question marks on the Mitchell playing at a small school and against the competition, he'll be getting the best competition at receiver, playing against the Eagles with Davante Smith, A J.

00:35:47
Speaker 3: Brown and those boys. He's gonna find out real fast if he's gonna make it or not. Yeah, absolutely, real.

00:35:51
Speaker 4: Fast, and you're gonna be You're gonna start callousing your brain mentally when you do get beat because you're definitely gonna get beat.

00:35:56
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00:38:20
Speaker 4: I mean, look, JJ couldn't have went in out of all the quarterbacks. I feel like he might have went into the best situation. You got Addison, Justin Jefferson, TJ Hockinson. Who's their running back from Minnesota? Madison? Yeah, Addison Madison. You Gottison Madison. You got a lot of weapons, you got a solid old line. They built defensively, uh, because they got better with coach Brian Floores being their their DC. But you couldn't as a rookie quarterback going in to a situation where you got coach Kevin O'Connell, who understands quarterbacks a little bit of a quarterback whisper coming from McVeigh was in Washington obviously is coach Kirk Cousins a lot uh Coach West Phillips, who's the OC like he's in a very good situation where the great coaching staff and a lot of weapons.

00:39:03
Speaker 3: Right Yeah. The only player that you probably could argue is going to the best situation as a quarterback is going to be uh, Caleb Williams Keenan Allen from the Chargers. They a Duneesa and the what was it the ninth pick, the ninth pick overall, and the kid is an absolute stud And so he's got a whole bunch of weapons going into the situation with a fan base that is dying, right, dying for.

00:39:25
Speaker 4: For me that though, you know, that comes with a lot of expectation, a lot of pressure. The first overall pick. I agree with you, he does. He's going into a good situation, but it's kind of like you know you're going in to win. Now, Minnesota is like similar, But I just feel like as far as a young guy coming into something, coming into a culture that hasn't been on fire, the way the Bears have.

00:39:44
Speaker 3: The thing about Caleb Williams is he's obviously a unique cat, and I had my comments about him after the combine. But the pros of having that personality is it really seems like he does not give a shit who's saying anything about him. Like he's gonna paint his nails, He's gonna do the Bears and million times he thinks that's super funny. Even though that wasn't a good Chicago accent. He is going. He's like buying in and also buying in the way he buys it. He's gonna stay true to himself if he does have he has the talent. Now we just need to see if it shows up in Chicago.

00:40:14
Speaker 4: Another quarterback that had a phenomenal weekend, Dylan ray olout of Nebraska. Do we want to hit on the Nebraska spring game?

00:40:20
Speaker 3: I don't, but you can any one last thing.

00:40:25
Speaker 4: One last thing for NFL Draft j JP slowed me down before I start getting.

00:40:29
Speaker 8: Off of just some kind of juice for all these high school kids coming out. In the first round, five five stars were picked, fifteen four stars, nine three stars, one two star, and two undrafted or too range guys.

00:40:45
Speaker 7: For the first round.

00:40:46
Speaker 3: It does.

00:40:46
Speaker 4: I mean, it isn't about how you start, it's how you finished.

00:40:49
Speaker 3: No question. And that's not even the finish either, the new start, right turning of a chapter right there. That's the thing that dudes you need to figure out the most is like you've gotten drafted. You've gotten that call, especially the kids, the cats that sit in the first round, Like your bank account has forever changed, but it's now it's proving that you were worthy of that bank account. Right, you know what I'm saying. Now you have to play up to the level that you're being paid. It's no longer Hey, let's get the classes in order, make sure we show up on time. It's either you're going to you're not going to, and that'll that'll dictate your career other than injury.

00:41:18
Speaker 4: Because you'd be in a first round, pick, second round, whatever round you were drafted in. There's a whole other wave that comes in next year. So if you don't start showing what you're worth out of the gate, like that's what drafts are for. Obviously, everybody spotlighted, showered with love, just ass pats all over the place. You're making all this money, hugs, cries all this stuff and now you know rape. It's like, hey, it's not about how you get here, it's that you hear now.

00:41:41
Speaker 3: Right, and those ass pats and all that. A minute you put on the helmet, it's over. No more ass pats, none of that stuff like you need. It's now time to go to work. And it's a It's such a crazy thing that I don't think people talk about is if you are picked in the first round of the NFL Draft, you're riding that highlight crazy. You're getting more text messages and you've ever had in your entire life. You walk in, everyone's dapping you up. That first practice is going to be a tough practice. Everyone's gonna be gunning for you. All the defensive ends, if you're a tackle, they are all going to be gunning for you. They want to show that you picked him. I can make the team off this guy by beating him. Yeah, coaches are now going to be hard on you because the expectation is higher on you. There's a whole lot more that comes into it. So when you leave that first practice, while trying to digest the whole entire playbook, it is very, very different than the first moment you walked in that at everybody getting.

00:42:27
Speaker 4: Coach hard It's like your lifestyle is not outside of the building where you're doing autographed deals, you're doing marketing deals, You're getting hooked up all around the city. All these people want to do all these things for you because your lifestyle is going to be in those four walls basically all year long, especially as a rookie. But so Nebraska's ringing boys. Anybody who saw the highlights. Obviously I posted a couple of highlights our quarterback room and even Hardberg, all the boys were throwing some dimes out there. But seeing this eighteen year old, he's eighteen, right, he should be going to the prom, Dylan Riola. Look at the mannerisms, the body language. Sitting in the pocket. The man looks like, you know, I don't want to put expectation on.

00:43:11
Speaker 3: But Patrick Mahomes he does kind of play Patrick Mahomes. He's got the body style, yeah, wearing fifteen just poise. He looks good. Fellas. We might have a real shot at what playoffs this year? Playoffs.

00:43:29
Speaker 4: I've already put in my futures plus fifteen hundred Nebraska to make the Cassotball playoff.

00:43:36
Speaker 3: Do what.

00:43:38
Speaker 4: I thought so too, But maybe everybody who's kind of watching the spring game and the odds already changed.

00:43:43
Speaker 3: I think it's wild that Nebraska. I watched some of the game and the defense is throwing in blitzes they don't care about They're like showing all the things that they have. Usually these spring games are like are like preseason games, where you're kind of just everyone around a four down front, keep it based the whole time. We'll mix it some zone with some man and that's it. And then I mean, look at that throw. It's a good throw. And he went what like ten for seventeen, one hundred and eighty three yards. It's two touchdowns an interception. I'm not sure he had. He had a great stat line. But also listen, he is and this isn't this is just an observation. He is doing a spring game versus a team that went five and seven last year. Time out.

00:44:25
Speaker 4: Okay, just to correct you a little bit, he's a spring game versus a defense that's returning eight starters in a defense that was ranked top fifteen in defensive scoring, total yards, and rush defense in the FYI. Yeah, but big ten, what they won the national title last year.

00:44:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, Michigan won the national title. I don't know if the Big Ten can claim that. Okay, we don't have to do that. I'm not going into that with you again.

00:44:49
Speaker 4: Either way, great showing for Dylan RelA and Nebraska fans should be excited.

00:44:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, they should be. They should absolutely be excited.

00:44:56
Speaker 4: And tornadoes touching down and we still got over sixty thousands showing up, just ready to die, just ready to bleed red.

00:45:01
Speaker 3: You guys had a lot of people at that spring game.

00:45:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm telling you man that we we were looking nice. We're like, did anybody else watch a spring game?

00:45:09
Speaker 8: No?

00:45:10
Speaker 4: I was just checking. I know it was the talk of the day. The draft was going on, but people were talking about this in the brass on my timeline anyway, I do follow a lot of Husker accounts.

00:45:21
Speaker 3: That is, Yeah, he looks really good that Dimi throw in the back right of the end zone. I thought it was a really great throw there, long one, long one. Yeah.

00:45:30
Speaker 4: That's the thing too, is we got some color out on the edge. Now, didn't have a whole lot of depth of receiver. We had some guys, some walk ons that you need on your squad. But you got some transfers coming in. You get a little color on the outside, guys making plays attack in the football. It seems like we're gonna have a little bit more depth this year with the big Redkay.

00:45:45
Speaker 3: You said it once and then you doubled down and said color again. Yeah, well that just is what it is. Yeah, but you can't say color.

00:45:52
Speaker 4: Okay, we got we got some more black guys.

00:45:54
Speaker 3: There, you go. That's way better. But you're sitting on a bus with six white dudes that went to some NASCAR games that probably you've love. This bus has probably heard a lot of mean words.

00:46:02
Speaker 4: No, I'm with you, but this is a podcast that brings the locker room to life. Do the boys in the locker room not say that there's too many white guys on defense? They're like, hey, we need a little bit more soul out there.

00:46:11
Speaker 3: You know, I get what you're saying. I know what the locker room says, but I feel like it would be unfair to the viewer. We got a couple of guys out there, allies that I might want to come after Will Compton, and I just want to make sure that I'm protecting my boy. I know who I am that's the problem. I don't want people to find out. God, I think that's Harburg, dude. I mean he's out there balling. Elevator, Michael the Pylon, Michael Pennex, Kirk Cousins, just elevating dudes.

00:46:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I'm telling you you had a speaking a big moments over the weekend. We ain't revel with the chug.

00:46:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, that was.

00:46:51
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want the text I got the amount of texts I got. Like Coach Vytello from uh the University of Tennessee, the head baseball coach. He's at the game and he sends me a photo of the big screen just being like an awesome moment just took place. Taylor chugs a beer, daughter chugs the water, and look at Wynn just being a showman, just like her old man. But everybody, dude, everybody was hitting me up. I mean, what a fucking awesome moment.

00:47:14
Speaker 3: Dude. That is the bet this I don't just go off the wrong way. That was the most proud moment I've had as a father, Like, I don't want that to come off the wrong way. But dude, we sat down, so it was supposed to be me tailing win and Willow go to the game. Willow ends up getting a fever so she can't go. Something going around Nashville, Tennessee. And I was like, okay, well I've already told them. I'm I'll go and I'll chug a beer and do the whole thing. And so I have to go. She's like, will take win with you? I was like, oh, absolutely, I'll take win. And when you see the paper in her hand that she's holding, she made it go predators like she drew that the whole way there. It was fired up because I was like, hey, honey, we're gonna be in the big screen. People are gonna see it. She was. She was loving it. We get in our seats and and I'm thinking to me, I'm thinking like, hey, this whole like just chug a beer thing is getting a little it's getting stale, Like it can't just chug a beer. So there has to be something more. So you know, you know what the people want when you're at a natural Yeah you want, Yeah, you got to chug a beer. So I go to win and I'm like, dude, I'm gonna chug this beer. I'm gonna pour it on my head. And then you drink that water as fast as you can. And she was kind of like, I don't know, Dad, Like she was nervous right now. She didn't she didn't want to answer the call. She didn't know how well it was going this, that and the other a lot of people. And I was like, honey, when people see you drink that water, they're going to lose their minds. And she's like, are they really? I was like, yeah, it'll be legendary. She's like, you think, So I was like yes. So they text me, they're like first first TV timeout, fourteen minute mark, we're going to put you guys on. And so as it's sticking down, we get to seventeen minutes, boys are going back and forth, h Vancouver scores, Predator score. My heart's starting to race. I'm getting nervous hoping my daughter answers the bell because if I point to her and she's just like no, I'm like, king, yeah, just stays on her. And so I was. I was really nervous. So we went over the game plan a few more times. Kate, Daddy's henchok, the beer pour on my head and then I'm gonna point to you and when you see me point to you. That's when you get the water as fasts, you can't drink it as fast. And she I'm not gonna pour it on my head. I said, you don't have to, So I'm looking at my phone. Yeah, bro, and the stand up too, Dude. Look at this kid's smile when I pick her up.

00:49:29
Speaker 4: Everybody cheering because I was. I was watching the tape.

00:49:32
Speaker 3: The look at that face, true true happiness. It was, dude. It was so amazing to see her answer the call like that, the biggest cheese of all the time.

00:49:44
Speaker 4: I was myself because people were fired up that you were doing it. But then when it went to her and she started, you just hear this second wave eruption. Then you then you pull her up and everyone just goes nuts.

00:49:55
Speaker 3: Bro, Like it was fucking dude. I was sitting so when I saw one of the timeout was happening, they started showing people and I was like, well, I can't just be looking at the jump of Tronma in my head, like try to make it look as organic as possibly. You don't know you're going to be on there, which obviously I know it's but to happen. Yeah, and legit, I'm looking down, I hear cheering and I look up and it's I'm like, oh boy, still got some juice around here. I love that. So I do the whole beer thing, and it was like and then when when stargering the beer, it went like thirty decibels up. People lost their fucking mind about it, dude. The whole way home, the whole like I literally walking out and the some cop stops me and he's like, the way you smell right now, you would go to jail immediately if you get pulled the we wouldn't even breath lize you. I was like, dude, I had I had the one, but like, yeah, but dude, she We're in the car on the way home, and when it's like, Dan, I should have poured the water on top of my head, shouldn't I, She's like, already you're reevaluating the film in her head. Like it was dude, It was so cool. It was seriously like one of the coolest moments as a father, and to see people will be like the ultimate daddy daughter moment. Yeah, that was a man. I love it.

00:51:05
Speaker 4: And look, I don't know if you've seen any comments by I saw a couple where it's like, oh, the drinking in front of your daughter, don't fuck those people. You heard the crowd, you heard the the roar, Like that is such an awesome moment.

00:51:14
Speaker 3: We were leaving, we were walking out because I had to get home her family dinner night, Sunday night, and we're like walking after the first period, and people are stopping when to give her fist bumps, saying you slam that water Canucks fans, predators, fans, everybody was all about going to be a core memory that lives for Yes, was that movie inside Out? Have you seen that movie inside Out? Inside Out? Have you not seen it? Maybe it's about a little like ten year old girl and she has like these her emotions are in her head and like the stories about her emotions and they're like core memories. Yeah, it's a fucking banger. That's a good one to put off her room. Yeah, because you'll tear up too. It's so good. They have a new one coming out also, I think the summer. Yeah, and it's it's all about the core memories, like they're joys the middle, jealousy, sadness, anger, envy, like all these other things. Oh, I love that And you just see them all kind of working it, and the next one's bet a girl going through puberty, and I'm like really nervous to see that. Oh dude, don't say that line. Take her to the moon for me. You watch it, You're like, oh my god, it's crazy, dude. It is a wild time. Not as wild as.

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00:53:53
Speaker 3: God what but yeah I did.

00:53:55
Speaker 4: That was a great dad moment.

00:53:57
Speaker 3: It was a huge dad moment. And I'm shu, we go to dad moments.

00:54:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, we can talk dad moments. I got a few right here. I got a few with some dad talk. Go ahead, do what, Yeah, I'll flip my hat around. I'll get some dad. By the way, we still got our dad merch up. There's boy mom. The boy mom hats are still available for those when in to get their mother, their wife or anybody who is pregnant is going to be a boy. We still have our boy mom hats and merchandise up in the store right now. Our girl dad hats. Father's Day is coming up in about a month, a month and a half. So for other girl dad's out there, all the dads, we have dad hats. We have girl dad merch, boy mom merch. You can get all that stuff.

00:54:41
Speaker 3: But your boy.

00:54:42
Speaker 4: My wife, she is in Paris for nine days, so I got the kid. I got rue for nine days. I had her over the weekend. We had a lot of good times, a lot of good moments. I'm talking coffee shops, pizza rias. We went and split a burger and a milkshake over at joy Land. Phenomenal Burger's way over at joy Lands. And by the way, my man over there said anytime he was we want him to come cook over at the bus. He's down to do it. We can get some cater we worked out, but dude, playgrounds and by the way, we did have some playground drama and tell me, I want to know your thoughts because I feel like this is where I'll struggle as a parent, because I feel like everything is personal with kids. I was trying to do the thing where Ruth's playing and to where I'm not trying to be around her at all times because she loves, like when dad's involved with stuff. I'm trying to like sit back on the bench and let her kind of time. Yeah, well, indulge the player. She indulge the playground on her own. She starts climbing up a bunch of stuff and she's climbing there's these couple of kids who kind of sit at the top and wouldn't let her come up, and I'm like sitting back, but I'm immediately festering inside, Like legit remind myself to just kids.

00:55:48
Speaker 3: They're just kids.

00:55:49
Speaker 4: I see one like patter on the head and they're kind of talking to her, and I don't know what they're saying, but I'm only envisioning like the worst stuff, right, and then they kind of walk.

00:55:55
Speaker 3: Off and Rufe. She's so sweet and shy.

00:55:57
Speaker 4: She kind of just stands there and then she kind of like looks at me, and I just kind of do one of these things and she finishes climbing up. But it happened a few times. And how do you view that stuff? Because I get kind of angered, Like I get like, you know, when I put ru up and then she wants to go down the slide. If it gets climbing on the slide, I kind of just indirectly talk, oh, don't worry, sweetheart, you wait your turn, because this kid's about to go down the slide and they're climbing and then they kind of just sit on the slide because they kind of know she wants to go down and they don't want to move.

00:56:25
Speaker 3: They're being shitheads.

00:56:26
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, to where I'm like, oh, don't worry, they're about they're about to finish, and then I like look over at the again and then they'll.

00:56:31
Speaker 3: Kind of finish. Yeah, very sweetheart, you can go.

00:56:32
Speaker 4: But how do you handle that? Like in your mind? Am I kind of overthinking? Because I feel like that's what her making friends and her getting bullied. I feel like it's really good.

00:56:41
Speaker 3: That's the biggest fear, right is that they're not gonna make friends, they're gonna get bullied. That type of thing. For me, I do the same thing where I'll walk up but oh honey, just wait your turn. This little boy's about to go, and then you kind of look at him until he's he feels so uncomfortable that another adult he doesn't know is look at him that he's gonna slide on the slide. Yeah. Sometimes I've had a situation where I was at a farmer's market and some kid was not being tight to willow and the parents walked up and I said some of the parents, I was like, I appreciate it. I like that. I was like, hey, do you uh your kid was kind of being a little rough with my kid. Your kid was trying to try to hold something with my kid. And they're embarrassed immediately, and I'm thinking, yeah, fix your house.

00:57:17
Speaker 4: But that's to me, that's a good that's a good thing from a parent if they like feel embarrassed.

00:57:21
Speaker 3: All my fah blah blah blah.

00:57:23
Speaker 4: It's the ones where I saw one little kid maybe twenty months and starting to wander off the playground and then like yelling up for mom and kind of like getting a little nervous to where I'm sitting up on my Yo, where's is kids? Yeah, And then I see her all the way over on the basketball court and I'm just thinking, man, this kid was kind.

00:57:37
Speaker 3: Of months old. You're, yeah, just walking to stick around. Like so my oldest when she's six, if she has a situation with the kid at the playground, she comes up, tell me, I'm like, all right, go talk to him about it. I have her go confront the issue. But if it's Willow who's three, I'll kind of help her navigate the issue until she kind of sees how things go down. And then when she gets old enough, I'm like, all right, you go handle that problem, because then handed the problem. Now they're problem solving themselves, and you're giving them tools instead of just helping them.

00:58:04
Speaker 4: Right, because the issue and I already know it, Like I'm like wrapped around her finger to where I just she's so sweet and like if kids come up and they want to go on the slide and they're behind her and they're kind of like they're being kids are like ready to go down the slide, she'll like stepped aside and let them go in front of her and stuff, and she's kind of passive, but I just it always just melts my heart when I'm like, God, do I feel like do I feel like a situation is happening right now?

00:58:24
Speaker 3: Like do I need to jump in? How old are the kids? They were?

00:58:28
Speaker 4: I mean they were older, like one was probably for the other probably six, the one that kind of patted her on the head. And I'm just thinking, like she gets bullied right now? Probably not, I'm overthinking this, but she just kind of sits there all quiet and stuff.

00:58:40
Speaker 3: I know, but she's really coming out of her shell of not being so shy. Yeah, just like everything's just turned too. Yeah. Every since she's turned too, it's been really been happy, real yeah, and it's happy, excited, confident comes up a little more like just not just mom and dad. When you all are at my house the other day and she was.

00:58:57
Speaker 4: Just hanging with you and JP going out, that was so awesome. Yeah, to know she didn't need to be.

00:59:01
Speaker 3: By me, and so we started walking to the goats JP, and Will come comes out of nowhere. I don't know how you felt, but in my head, I'm like, yo, go back inside. Will ruin the moment JP did try to take it the moment he's trying to take it all for himself at one point going down to see the chickens. You guys were going down, and I could see that you two were kind of just starting to go down, so I had to be like, hey, you want to see some chickens. She has chickens. I'm back though.

00:59:26
Speaker 4: Is she's a JP fan. I feel like he kind of rubs the boy Taylor kind of being around, which is crazy three times as much as you myself.

00:59:35
Speaker 3: She's a big JP fan. Jope, jot p. That's crazy.

00:59:40
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know what to tell you.

00:59:41
Speaker 3: I put the work in. I've been around, he says, I put the work in. It's just crazy. I'm gonna say it. Blame it on my tall stature. Maybe it's a little more intimidating and the fact that my that wind start trying to scare it with a mask one time, and that's all she talks about.

00:59:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, every time we go to Taylor's house, mask all gone, mask all gone. Yeah, the masks go upstairs, Win upstairs, when yeah, Win had the mask on upstairs masks.

01:00:02
Speaker 3: On, Winn puts this like, uh this how to swing your dragon toothless mask on and essentially just runs that real.

01:00:09
Speaker 4: Yeah comes up over my shoulder and just just like lean up and.

01:00:16
Speaker 3: That's when you sit back. And I'm like, no, that's you can I watch out Will's handling. I go over to Wind. I'm like, what are you doing? Yeah, you know, you're just like staying home. The mask isn't real. YadA YadA. She gets a little spooked. I don't know how big. And this Speeptober shall be, which will be a little bit of work. I think it's got it's I'll tell you. That's my dad moment is. Winn loves it. Winn loves it. My dad moment is. This past weekend, Willow started really talking about Spootober and buying in not only. She started like, she's like because I told her, like, you'll be four before Spootober. She said, she brought, oh, you'll be four before then. And that's like been like the craziest thing to her, that she's gonna turn four before the next Spootober And have no idea why it's a cool thing to her, but that's kind of yeah. And ever since I got back from Next Go, dude, it's like only Dad. It's the first time ever it's been like only Dad. I only want that, Like she'll come in the room. Like on the weekends, I'll kind of be get up in the morning. I'll go do my little thing in the recovery room and Tail will tell me that. Willow will walk in the room be like, where's Dad, and she's like, oh, he's not here, and she's like, all right in this peace out and come meet me up in the recovery room and I build ship and Mom will be like, you want to play with mom? No? No, Dad? Yeah. She Willow is like super blunt too. She's just kind of like, I kind of want you, like at the game, to go to the game. Last night, will was like, Dad, I want you to stay and Mom can go with win. It's like, hell, yes, but I can't. I have to go A day's gotta chug a beer, Yes, yes, sweetheart. Mom is awesome. Yeah. Mom's great. Yeah, very transparent with my kids about the beer chucking, like dad's got to drink boost him. Yeah, first job. Yeah. And they fully support me.

01:01:50
Speaker 4: And for any dads, they get a little nervous about watching your kid on your own because I know it's out there guys, like you know it's like, oh, you baby sitting the kid. It's like, oh, no, I'm I'm being a parent. But all so, it's really not that tough man. They you negotiate with them better with mom not around. Yes, like they listen, like like Rue has been all time. Not that she doesn't listen, but there's usually this back to back like if I want her to do something, she doesn't want to do it, She'll eventually say.

01:02:14
Speaker 3: Like see mama, see mama, Mama holds you.

01:02:16
Speaker 4: And I'm just thinking, bro, you've got to whether it's eat this, you gotta clean up that. It's really not that tough man. And and I was I was getting sappy. I was watching an Instagram video and then it was like it was talking about tough moments with your kids, and he's like, the best advice I can give is picture yourself at eighty years old. When they're old, you're kind of looking back at these fond memories and all you want is for them to kind of be complaining and be back in those moments. I'm sthing they're tearing up kind of watching this Instagram video just being like I'm glad I get to have this week with Rue because number one scoreboard with mom, but also like it's it's been fun bro, it's been awesome.

01:02:49
Speaker 8: You gotta sympathize, empathize, sympathize whatever it is, empathize, empathize with the people out there that have like three kids under five and they have to be.

01:03:00
Speaker 4: So no doubt different. Absolutely, I just have one, So that is a very good point. And then the people have too. It's like, why did I ever complain about one? But it's one of those things I feel like, if you know, if I'm out with rue, you know, I ran into a buddy of mine and it's like, oh, you're not helping me out, you know, and his wife will be like, oh, Charles's doing this, Well maybe I can go do this while you watch the kid. YadA YadA YadA.

01:03:22
Speaker 3: Uh.

01:03:22
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's again, it definitely empathized with that. There was this cat who had there where he was like watching three. He's like, oh, yeah, you know, you just He's like, the goal the game is this. You just take him out to eat. You take him whether you want to pack their lunch, and you go out somewhere with the whether's outside. That way, you burn through time. You're all out of the house, you're not all stagnant, and they're kind of having fun and then next thing, you know, it's time for bed or it's time for their nap when you bring them back.

01:03:46
Speaker 3: So you just you're always getting outdoors. That was kind of the tippy game. Yeah, you get outdoors as much as possible. Yeah, And there's like a study about like kids with their dad solo and their mom solo, and like kids naturally are like more comfortable with the mom, so they'll show all of the emotion and not as comfortable with the dad. So that's why they're like more listening and more agreeable. Yeah, maybe because when we go places tail and be like these kids ban sometimes like they're a lot, and then she'll go somewhere and do something. I'll be think, this is nothing. I'll sit them down. We have team meetings, well say hey, team meeting. They all run to the chairs, they know exactly where to sit. I'm like, here's what we're doing today, this, this, this and this is there anything else you guys want to do? And they give up and they have covered a couple of suggestions. I'm like, yes, no, absolutely not. We'll go through that and then we stick to the plan.

01:04:32
Speaker 4: And then if they start to get out of line, you just revert to the plane.

01:04:34
Speaker 3: Hey, remember remember we talked with this, Remember the team meeting and sometimes they get a lot of line. We'll have a team meeting, a sporadic team meeting at the park. Yeah, yoh yeah, got to have to Yeah, it's a must man.

01:04:46
Speaker 4: What what else we get on the dockets? Boys, I'm excited about my shoutow. No free shout out this week.

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, I'll fuck myself.

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01:05:30
Speaker 5: By Benjamin at Thick air wreck on Instagram.

01:05:35
Speaker 3: Okay, Benjamin Thick, Eric, Yeah.

01:05:38
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know. But when you die, what is one stat you'd like to know about yourself?

01:05:44
Speaker 3: How many times I nutted?

01:05:46
Speaker 4: That's a solid one.

01:05:51
Speaker 3: I would like to know that we're up there. Yeah, how many times do you think you have nutted? How about? That's the question we could go to this. Yeah, would say I'm an outlier. I feel like maybe every guy. I'd say, we've put in ten thousand hours masters of your, masters of our master of the craft. I don't know, man, dude. When Taylor and I first met, we were talking about jerking it and she's like, how fast do you think you could do it yourself? I was like under a minute, and I put it to the test with her watching. No, I went to the bathroom. Oh that had been kind of cool, though. Fifty six seconds t.

01:06:30
Speaker 4: M I, t M I t M I. Were you allowed to get yourself hard?

01:06:35
Speaker 3: First? Brother? The thing? Yeah?

01:06:39
Speaker 5: It hard?

01:06:39
Speaker 3: Right now? I had nah the part of the show where everybody, what do what do we want to know? What's your stat? I don't know.

01:06:49
Speaker 5: Do you guys have any like how many times you've pooped? How many times, Like how many beers you've drank?

01:06:55
Speaker 3: Why you say pooped like that? I know it's like his boob comment that one time, like moobies. There's a lot of boobies in that ship. That's not a cooler. GP's always got fire once.

01:07:10
Speaker 7: I would like to know how many people I've met my whole life. I'll be cool.

01:07:17
Speaker 3: What do you think your number is?

01:07:19
Speaker 7: Let's see, I have four thousand Facebook friends? What would my number be?

01:07:30
Speaker 3: Think? What do you mean shake their hand? Introduced? Yeah, just met though not remembered, right, I think you got it a million? I think so thinking about college, bro.

01:07:44
Speaker 7: Yeah that's true. I was thinking more like I was really thinking probably like fifteen k no shot. You bring up college though, Like that's a good point.

01:07:54
Speaker 3: You bring up college trips with your friends? Hey, what's up them? JP? How many times have you said that in your life? That'd be a good time.

01:08:00
Speaker 4: I mean the me and greet last week there were thirty people there, true, met all them.

01:08:06
Speaker 7: Boom my engagement party. A lot of people I have never met before.

01:08:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, your wedding up there, there should be a lot of people you've never met before.

01:08:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be cool if there's a criteria like positively impacted, like knowing how many people you impacted?

01:08:20
Speaker 3: I think it would be cool to know. Taking a step further Instagram followers on yours JP, is how many murderers I've met?

01:08:28
Speaker 7: Ooh, yeah, that would be.

01:08:29
Speaker 3: That would be they say you walk by, like, how many killers you've met? How many people who have committed murder? That's a good one, thanks, dude. Two good ones. Don't forget the come one.

01:08:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't forget the come one. I'm just piggybacking. I think those are great ones. The positively give us something, Give us something, bro, My brain's not how many times you maj.

01:08:52
Speaker 3: Your kids laugh? How many times you picked up your phone? How many blizzards I've eaten?

01:09:03
Speaker 5: How many PP and J's I've had?

01:09:05
Speaker 3: How many crackers of peanut butter you've had his dinner?

01:09:07
Speaker 5: That number would probably be like ten crackers for dinner would probably be maybe twenty to thirty.

01:09:15
Speaker 3: Keep whatever number he said you were gonna say, no matter what I said you were that was a premeditated mega cab.

01:09:22
Speaker 5: PB and jays though, that's pretty high.

01:09:27
Speaker 3: What about how many times you've said a curse word? Yeah? Yeah, like just a random one like the or like that would go crazy, that would go crazy, or god, God, just.

01:09:48
Speaker 4: Just d I keep I keep you guys, keep delivering one. And all I do is think off of that one. There's no original thought come into my.

01:09:54
Speaker 3: Head right now as his life. How many original thoughts you've ever had?

01:09:58
Speaker 4: Zero?

01:10:02
Speaker 3: What about you? Gee? What about you? Jack?

01:10:05
Speaker 6: Maybe like I wanted to do how many concerts? But that seems just like a pretty standard number. But maybe like how many minutes of music you've listened to, or how many songs you listened to in.

01:10:14
Speaker 3: Your own life? How many dollars you've gambled in your life overall?

01:10:23
Speaker 4: Now, when you say, are you talking like when you put money out just on the table or the money you've amassed.

01:10:28
Speaker 3: The whole time, money out on the table? How much you think you've done in the last year. Yeah, I mean it's basically your gambling career. Yeah, I bet it's up there. It might be seven figures, because other than that you just do kind of like definitely like the Boys' trips, where you're just you know, you're ready to lose a certain amount of money, so you're there until it happens. Yeah. Yeah, And also like if you think about just playing, like when Jack and I go to Vegas, we'll be sitting at the table for probably ten hours more some days, and you're just sitting there. Ben. You win one, you lose one. That's let's say you bet one hundre dollars. That's two hundred dollars right there. Yeah, yeah, I'd say, yeah, it's got fire in the last year.

01:11:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean because you've won that much.

01:11:17
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good one. How many miles you've ran? Mine would be low. Well, I think about the football games you play your whole life, and you're you're running at those times.

01:11:28
Speaker 6: Now that you say that, what about how much weight you've lifted overall?

01:11:33
Speaker 3: That's a good one. Histon comments, Let what what's the one stat you would want to know? Good question, good question? Your job, Benjamin, Thank god, Benjamin, Thank god for Benny. Shout out, no free shoutout. You guys got something we shall JP can get off, brother, I gotta pe.

01:11:55
Speaker 8: All right, my shout out, no free shout out. It's funny because Win had her moment. But I went to Preds game on Friday, and there's nothing better than the fan cam when it gets on to people.

01:12:07
Speaker 7: I feel like it's the.

01:12:08
Speaker 8: Most genuine form of happiness that you should just see from everyone. The camera gets on a little kid, their face lights up, they go crazy. It goes on an adult, they light up. Even the ones that don't like it, they still smile because deep down they do like it.

01:12:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so which it's like, kid out, let it out, don't be too cool for school.

01:12:28
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:12:29
Speaker 8: So the fan cam, and it hits at every sporting event. So shout out to the fan cam.

01:12:34
Speaker 4: Shout out to the fan cam, Mitch, you got one a ge.

01:12:43
Speaker 5: So this weekend I was moving, like I said earlier with so like thank you for let me use your truck again. But also my shout out for a shadow is when you finally do move and you're done with the process and like you have everything settled, like that feeling of like all right, this is my place now, and like you all that stress of moving, all of your shit is just done. All right, this is it, this is my new where I live, where I habitat, habitat now. So that fee I can't I'm looking forward to that feeling.

01:13:13
Speaker 4: Does that oh you're looking forward to I was gonna say, does that happen? Quick for you, because sometimes I'm like, what, there's there's other stuff that's not done that we're still going to figure out.

01:13:20
Speaker 3: That's small.

01:13:21
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I got a bunch of small stuff like left. Like I I enjoy moving to like like I said, like being in a different spot. But the process of moving all your shit, I hate that. I mean, I'm sure everybody, but like I'm looking forward to being like, all right, this is my this is.

01:13:37
Speaker 3: Why I lived down.

01:13:38
Speaker 4: Did you throw away a lot of stuff?

01:13:40
Speaker 5: I got rid of a lot of clothes, and I like the stuff that's still in my apartment now is just rand literally just random shit. So I just like trying to get rid of some of that stuff because Foul is already done moving. He doesn't have a lot of stuff, And it makes me feel like I'm a hoarder because I have a ship ton of stuff.

01:13:59
Speaker 3: But let it go, man.

01:14:01
Speaker 4: I think that's a benefit too of like moving, as you just start getting rid of a lot of stuff that you've been meaning to for the longest time, you just never have.

01:14:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's what I'm doing.

01:14:13
Speaker 6: My shout out of a shout out goes to I guess winning the approval of your friend's parents. Yeah, I had friends parents in town this weekend and they're here for the marathon. One of my friends, Sydney, ran it, and so two sets of parents are in talent and you have that like first meeting where it's like you don't know how the interaction is gonna go, if they're cool, if they're gonna approve of you, especially when you have like tattoos and stuff. You like, meet the dad and you're like, I got a nosering but you know, I say yes, sir, that type of mentality. And so we we saw them a handful of times over the weekend, and by the end of it, it felt like we were all just like good friends and we're just having a blast together. So shout out to the Chances and the worshu Chevski's. So it's fun when you kind of like find a little bonding point between the parents and your friends. You've never met them before.

01:14:59
Speaker 3: So oh like that love that you got. G you got one brother, Yeah, I got one.

01:15:07
Speaker 9: It's gonna be a shout out to when you can successfully stick it to the man. I recently had to battle my current landlord over a situation where they're asking us to move out sooner than our leases. So I kind of sure some of those stresses, but eventually got my way by putting my foot down and.

01:15:33
Speaker 7: I will be able to pay movers.

01:15:37
Speaker 9: So sorry, nich I don't have those stresses. But yeah, shout out to when you can just kind of dish it back to somebody who's trying to take advantage of you.

01:15:46
Speaker 3: Now, was it like a confrontation put your foot down or you were methodically?

01:15:51
Speaker 9: I you guys would be proud. I handled this one perfect because saying.

01:15:56
Speaker 4: To frustrated G, he's not a G you want to be in a conversation.

01:16:00
Speaker 3: Back from Alabama like the hotel?

01:16:02
Speaker 9: Yeah, why don't you tell the people about that?

01:16:04
Speaker 3: When I'm done, I will.

01:16:07
Speaker 10: No.

01:16:07
Speaker 9: So long story short, living in this house, I understand that by the end of the lease there is a chance that they're gonna want to sell the house. They call me in March to tell me that they're not going to renew the lease. That's fine, My lease is through the end of August. They call me April first to tell me they need me out by the end of May. So then I try to explain the inconvenience they're putting me in and that I would like the security deposit back in full guaranteed, and they're given like the whole If the house is in the right thing, well then I'll stay till the end of my lease. They're like, well, we really need to hit this window to sell. It's like, I trust me, I get what you need, but you need to play ball with me a little bit. It was very even kill they They did not want to have anything in writing, and so that helped me not, you know, get too intense in the conversation.

01:17:02
Speaker 3: Are they paying for your movers? Yeah? Nice? Yeah, and you're getting the deposit back? Yeah nice. Let's sell done. Stick it to the man, yeah, bro solid and thincaes you win all around.

01:17:16
Speaker 9: Oh yeah. I would send them something and they'd be like, can you call me? I was like no, Like I know what if I did call them, I was like, hey, I need you to respond in writing right right. But we got that, we got it done.

01:17:30
Speaker 4: I'm excited. Well, I don't want to oversell this shot. It's a very simple one. But it happened when we were in Chicago because obviously we get back to our rooms around eleven, we got to wake up for an early flight. But my shot out, no free shotow goes to when your room is close to the elevator room Room eight fourteen, Literally right when I get off the elevator, it's right there.

01:17:48
Speaker 3: And obviously it.

01:17:49
Speaker 4: Only takes like a minute or two to walk to your room. But when you're walking long links, you're just thinking, like you go down one hallway, around the corner, go down another one, you see that your room is down another corner. It's just like God, you gotta make a trip down to the elevator. But when your room is right there by the elevator, the convenience factor of leaving your room, popping right on the elevator, and then when you get back, you're right to your room, getting to bed as fast as you can. It's a simple it's a simple luxuries and boys time.

01:18:14
Speaker 3: Yeah. Only thing you can't get back.

01:18:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, So shout out, no free shout out to your room being close to the eyes.

01:18:23
Speaker 3: My shot out is gonna be obviously I gotta go to win and yesterday, but it's really about when I picked her up in the big smile on her face, that she like truly have her a core memory. My shoutout goes to core memories. Yeah, and having good ones with your old man, and that is it was. It was the best, due, it was truly the best. That's my shout out for shoutout that's also wholesome.

01:18:46
Speaker 9: I have one that I think all of us will agree on, but shout out to Clump.

01:18:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been an absolute grinder for us.

01:18:54
Speaker 4: One of our social media guys, one of our social media producers, Jeremy clump He is accept at the job with Yahoo Sports. So we were fired up for him. Just an absolute grinder, this dude. We were like his We were his fourth job. Yeah, he had a full time job, two kind of contracted out jobs, well three with ours, and it's just warked his dick off lost one hundred pounds over the last year and he's now catching a break and getting a big time opportunity with the Yahoo Sports. Shout out Jeremy Clump Man. He's an absolute soldier.

01:19:27
Speaker 3: Dude, from day one to how long has he been with us? Three? Two years?

01:19:32
Speaker 4: I think two football seasons, yeah, two football season.

01:19:34
Speaker 3: Yeah. The first time I even saw a Clump in person was at Olympics Balympics last year. Yeah. Yeah, And but dude, the dude is just constantly grinding, getting after it. He's getting paid the way he deserves to get paid. We're gonna miss him. But man, what a stud. Yeah yeah, shout out. Rip love you clump, love you clump.

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01:21:17
Speaker 3: Playing music now.

01:21:17
Speaker 4: They seem a little bit more loose at Alabama as the culture. You can see some stuff already being created out of that. But he talks about some of the new things that he's bringing in Alabama, what got him the job, succeeding Nick Saban, and how you know, in those interviews with the players, we asked them about how it's been in springball with coach the Boor.

01:21:34
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01:21:35
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01:22:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't help with.

01:22:42
Speaker 4: Ask Yeah, you need some dad gear. It's just like our Uh, it's just like.

01:22:50
Speaker 3: I'm I'm someone with Will and I. There's been a couple like that, I guess, look a look at Delaney here, Delaney, so the dad hat. There's been like a couple like the when I signed a contract with the Titans, I like, wore this boss hog outfit all white, and I said, daddy's here, and so like a couple people in Nashville calling me dad for a little bit. And then when Will and I met, that's what that's the origin story of the dad march. That's how sorry, that's how I'm telling the story how I was starting. And then uh, when this story origin stories my first time here the dad You remember that, right, Delaney? That's right. I know that that is I know I know that that is a moment in time. There's a moment in time that I think of myself when I look at the dad hats, I think, wow, I really did that. Yeah. And so when Will and I first met, I had a very young daughter and then a bean, the bean, and then now I have two kids. Will's Will's got a daughter, so we came out dad hats man because it's it's a it's a culture. People don't know. There's all these dumb jokes about will people know because they have dogs, you don't understand what it's like to have a kid. So you actually have a kid. So it's like a nice little group is the best. Yeah, you're more than willing to be in the group. If you want, we'll send you a couple of hals.

01:24:10
Speaker 4: I got two girls, girl dad perfect, we have girl dad, so we'll get you hooked up when.

01:24:16
Speaker 3: You were let's actually, by the way, Derek's calling me back right now. Yeah, I want to make sure because Jack's video that Taylor had a tough loss.

01:24:26
Speaker 4: Derek was texting and Taylor tried FaceTime, and then he didn't answer Taylor's phone call.

01:24:30
Speaker 3: But he's responding and texting back and forth the whole time. Seven years teammates, seven years. Yeah, I tried to pot it off always at OTAs trying to get his raven friends. Yeah, and stuff like that. What do you want to start, Oh, I want to start with your two daughters. When you had two girls, did you think maybe one more? I'll go for a boy.

01:24:52
Speaker 1: No, honestly no, I think once we got the younger one, I think we were all good. Certainly would have been fine with boys. And looking back on it though, and now being a football coach, I think it's actually a blessing, you know, having no pressure on any boy and having to play football and just enjoying who they are. And you know, man, they love the game and they love being around the team and all that kind of stuff. And they both have totally different personalities and totally different likes interests. But it's awesome being a girl, dad.

01:25:24
Speaker 3: Were you like myself?

01:25:26
Speaker 4: I was let down when I saw the pink come from the cake that we were having a girl.

01:25:30
Speaker 3: Hey, not only he's true. No, he came his wife came in with a cake at the bus and when he saw that color it was there was no hiding it. It was true disappointment that I was going to get at.

01:25:44
Speaker 4: But as an athlete, which I can't wait to ask you about, because you were a stud at Suit Falls, were you hopeful for your for for the first kid?

01:25:53
Speaker 3: Were you hopeful that it was a boy?

01:25:55
Speaker 1: I honestly didn't have feelings one way or another. I really didn't better.

01:26:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, very politically correct answer. Yeah, strong, well thought out answer. Yeah. I was not gonna get anything mad with that one. Yeah.

01:26:06
Speaker 1: I think it was meant to be. That's the way I look at it.

01:26:08
Speaker 4: So you have a few records coming up as a wide receiver, do you keep a highlight tape close by just to let the boys know that you can dabble, that you can dabble with the best of them.

01:26:20
Speaker 1: No, I don't. Uh, it's nothing like what these guys are here at this level. They would turn that on and uh have a few laughs. So, uh, I'm proud of what we did, but as a team, but that level was a little different.

01:26:33
Speaker 4: Than record in yards, receptions, touchdowns. You played some semi pro ball as well. What as you were going through as you're as an athlete going the semi pro bawl route in that moment in time, are you sitting there you're trying to gather tape to try to get to the next level, or after you had a couple of years you're like, okay, I just I need I need to start making a pivot going into the next thing.

01:26:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you talking the football Pece?

01:26:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, football piece.

01:26:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. From from with the football, it was just you know, indoor football there and Falls enjoyed a couple of years kind of right there at home, and I was already on into coaching high school ball and kind of onto while you're playing things while I was playing, So you know that was that was just a kind of a side hobby that's with you during those two years. And got into the college coaching there at university who Falls, and then kind of had to put everything else on the back burner and move on with the.

01:27:25
Speaker 3: Career obviously, like coaching, you've done an amazing job, You're at one of the most prestigious universities of all time. But playing and realizing that, okay, this is the road's coming to an end of my playing career, Like how was that transition for you? I know you were coaching already, but was there ever that point where you're like identity crisis or anything like that.

01:27:41
Speaker 1: No, I don't think it was at that level. I enjoyed the relationships, I enjoyed the friends. I knew that there was definitely a ceiling and I had probably maxed out that ceiling as a football player myself, and so, you know, great times, but it was time to move on.

01:27:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, though, You've been wildly successful as a head coach in the NAI ranks, three national titles. I think you were sixty five and three as a head coach with Washington. I mean a two time coach of the Year. I think you twenty five and three with Washington. What do you feel like you've cultivated, whether it's values, philosophies over the years to have that much, to have this much success.

01:28:19
Speaker 1: I always go back to when I was a player at Two Falls. We were two and eight my freshman year and we were fourteen to no national champs my senior year, and I knew what the culture looked like, what it felt like as a player the first year, and also what it took to get there over those four years. And I always just remember that, And it was the relationships. It was the you know, just the consistency you got from the people that were in the building or on the team, and just the work that it put in and so it made it was fun, which allowed you know, and I enjoyed the process, which you know, I think our entire team did. And so I try to make that what we have here, you know, and wherever I've been and try to make an environment or facilitate a you know, an atmosphere that's full of energy. You know that you know you can find them driven people, let them go do their thing, whether it's coaches or players, and they enjoy each and every moment. They enjoy each you know, everyone that's a part of it, and just just let's go have some fun. Let's cut it loose. Let's make the most of every opportunity we get.

01:29:23
Speaker 3: Turning back to your success at Washington, you were the only coach to go eleven or more wins in consecutive years and then you get the call from the Crimson Tide. You just competed for a national championship. What was your thought process when that phone call did come.

01:29:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the timing of everything. I think is what really makes it extra hard through all of this, because my time at Washington is going to be for me and my family probably the best time of our life. You know, those two years there and the way we were embraced from a community aspect to the team, to just how much fun it was working with our staff. It was a special time that I know we all are going to cherish forever as a family and individually as well. But you know, just the opportunity to come here to Alabama knowing this program and what the history was all about, and getting a chance to meet Greg Byrne and just really hearing the vision, understanding the interests and how excited he'd be to have, you know, me leading the football program. That meant a lot. And you know, did a goutt a chance maybe over twenty four hours to do a little bit of just kind of investigating and kind of really thinking it through and talking to a couple of people that I'm close with, But it just it just felt like, you know, this is something that was too good of an opportunity and it's just been an awesome experience here these first three to four months.

01:30:43
Speaker 3: Is that how quickly you had to make that decision? Was twenty four hours?

01:30:47
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I pretty much had to make the decision if I was offered a job. You know, That's really how it really comes down to, you know, and you know, and I understand why, you know, in the just the environment we're in college football, the timing of it, you know, we're talking the middle of January retaining a roster. I just the urgency that it needed to be to keep the program moving forward. I completely understood why, you know, Greg Burn told the team, you know, give me seventy two hours, you know, and you know that was that was that urgency if I was going to be the football coach. I knew getting down here and being around these guys and just being NonStop and trying to build these relationships and keep things together in the first two weeks while I was here, while I'm building the staff, was going to be critical for our immediate and long term future.

01:31:39
Speaker 3: Were there nerves involved in the interview process, like you're going you know, you have your success at Washington, You're going after this Alabama job.

01:31:46
Speaker 4: There's always that kid in us that's like you go to the next stage, you go to the next thing.

01:31:49
Speaker 3: Were there any nerves involved in going after this job.

01:31:52
Speaker 1: No, not at all, because I had a great place where I was at. You know, really, it was more about making sure that this was going to be a good fit, that this is going to be a place I could see, you know, myself, you know, being successful and you know people that I was going to be enjoying the journey with, you know, from Greg Byrne to to others here in the athletic department at the university. So in all honesty, no, because I was at a great place and so you know, it's just a matter of really thinking it through. And you know, I think the piece that I truly tried to make sure it was I wasn't getting caught up in the emotions of the ups and downs of what we had just been through with the season and trying to really take a step back in a short amount of time and have some perspective on everything, because you know, we had had such an amazing year and you know, on a Monday night in the national championship, you know you're the wins taken out of your sales, and you know you're trying to support your team and your your your staff. But you know, I just wanted to make sure I ain't caught up in that, and uh, you know, taking a step back as much as I could and in the moment was important.

01:32:55
Speaker 4: You've obviously had a lot of experience being being an athlete yourself. You know, you set records, you go to the NAIA, you win national titles there, you uptick into the vision and college football realm. You win a Pack twelve title, you take a team to a national championship, in sports, like as athletes, coaches, everybody in the performance world, you're always you know, you're moving, you're moving up the ladder. You're coming in to succeed somebody like U arguably the greatest coach of all time in Nick Saban. How has your experience moving up, you know, in your journey helped you kind of not see these expectations you come into a seat like Alabama and succeeding Nick Saban, Is there anything with that that you think about?

01:33:35
Speaker 1: Well, I think my journey in general is just something I'm super proud of because I've always focused on just where I'm at. And really it's never been about getting to an Alabama or it was never even about getting even to a Washington or Fresno State. I mean, go on and on. It was about just coaching ball, loving the moment we're in, you know, raising a family, and doing it with other people that had the same like minded interests as I had in all those areas, both football and family, and so, you know, just enjoying that journey and joying that ride. But I think, you know, coming here, I just can't say enough about again being embraced by the community. You know, coach saban Uh. He's so respectful and how he's trying to handle and he wants to see the program. You can just tell he wants it to be great, and he he wants it to continue to go this direction and and us continue to build on all the things he's put in place. And so he's almost been over the top, respect respectful, trying to keep that distance, and you know, I want him, you know, to always know that, hey, this is this is our program because everyone who ever set foot in these buildings, and that's alumni, that's former staff members, everyone who made this place great are always going to feel I want them to be a part of it.

01:34:51
Speaker 3: When you like, when you play with other Alabama players, it's like they've taken a drug or something like that. They're so obsessed with Alabama truly. Like there's literally times I walk into the cafeteria and Rashaun Evans and Derreck Henry are disappointing people. You lost to Alabama. You lost to Alabama. A lot of pride there, they truly have, like of any other team, the most school proud I've ever seen anybody else. And so now, like Will just said, you're taking over for a guy that is arguably probably the greatest college football coach of all time. You're walking into a room where guys when they commit to this school, they're expecting to win national championships. So they don't argue about how many games they win. They argue about how many national championships They went, oh, you only got two? I got Yeah, which class was better? Was there any point for you where you sit down, You sit in a nice chair that Nick Saban once sat in, and you go, oh, fuck, like this is this is I mean, there's gotta be a level of like, this is a lot of responsibility. And you're walking into a room of these guys signed up to be coached by Nick Saban and now you have come in, You're like, we're gonna run this. This is gonna be our offense. And keeping these kids around, especially with Nil, there's got to be a lot of tremendous you know pressure on that.

01:36:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, you know what you signed up for. And I guess it just always goes back to everyone's human and I think that being around these guys, you understand the reasons why they came here into this program. And it's Alabama football. It has a lot to do with coach Saban. You know, the guys in their commitments to be in here, but they are just so proud of this program and they want to be the ones that carry on the legacy of this place. It's been fun being around the alumni that that do have that pride. I feel that and it's you know, it's not an ego thing. It's pride, you know. And these guys that are in this program that chose to stay here over the last couple of months, they believe in this place and they know what we can accomplish. I have an appreciation that they understand that it's really about them and them sticking together. And the ones that stayed many are they are resilient. They're hard headed in some ways because they they man, we got to win a championship. We got a chip on our shoulder, and you know, people think we're gonna fall off because of the transition and all that. So it's been fun locking arms with them and you know, helping them realize their goals and the reasons that they came here and help it help us through and make this progress.

01:37:15
Speaker 3: Jalen Milroll was quoted by saying, you prove that you were the right man for the job. Every single day during springball. What has your relationship being like with him?

01:37:23
Speaker 1: He's been He's special. He just has a heart of gold. He wants it so bad, both personally and also for this program. He's you know, takes on the responsibilities of being the quarterback at Alabama with such grace. He's there for others. He's willing to give as much as he can. Sometimes I'm you know, just always checking in with him to make sure he's good because he gets pulled in a lot of different directions. But in the end, he loves getting out there. He loves the game of football. I mean we've talked about that a number of times. He just loves everything that surrounds it, from the teamwork and the leadership that he is asked of him to, you know, just work, working on the daily skills. He loves the film. He just loves so much about the game itself, and you know, it's fun being around guys that are willing to put in all the things and make the sacrifices needed to go be great.

01:38:13
Speaker 4: When you walk into the team meeting room for the first time, what was your message to the team when you first took the job.

01:38:18
Speaker 3: It's a great question.

01:38:19
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that was That was Friday night, and I knew that this was a group that had been through a lot just in the past couple of days. You know, I don't remember exactly what that message was. It was a whirlwind for me and my family as well. Just a few hours earlier. You know, it kind of pretty much been off for the job. You know, been through my emotions within in regard to you know, everything of Washington still certainly and even come close to getting through that. But knew that the team just needed to hear that. I was excited about, you know, joining them, meeting them, meeting them where they're at, and getting to know them, and appreciated their patience because with all the noise that was around the program and and all the noise that they were probably hearing individually and you know, being pulled in different places and going different different directions, they just, uh, you know, their belief in Alabama was something you could tell and feel right away. And uh, there was there's a connection with a few of the guys, and I think those guys quickly just uh, you know, held the team in place. There were some staff members here that did a great job. But you know that was that was a meeting, I think, just to to get in there and tell them, you know how excited I was to be a part of this special place I have, I.

01:39:38
Speaker 3: Have, I have another one. I was just I wanted to ask Hi about his very first phone call when he heard that he got the job.

01:39:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I I felt like it was kind of going in that direction. So it wasn't necessarily a surprise, but it was, you know, I think it was just more about being honored to to, you know, to have that responsibility to be the head coach here. It's just something again I won't take lightly. And you know I had thought through, you know, the night before just if this opportunity came up working just talking through with my family, you know, you know what that would all mean and uh, you know, the moving and the life changes and stuff that we'd be going through. So but from a program standpoint, it's just such an honor and a privilege.

01:40:26
Speaker 3: I want to talk about the big dogs for a second, the Hogs. How has it been for them transitioning in this offense? Because they were they obviously ran a lot of zone read with Jalen in the backfield last year. But it seems like you guys, from what I was told in the small little snippet, is you guys going more zone outside zone type stuff. How have they been picking that up? Because for me, transitioning from like a duo gap scheme type offense into like the zone was like was at one point I wanted to quit. I was like, this is horrendous. And then and then quickly I was like this might be the best offense you can possibly be in. How how have they handled that transition?

01:40:56
Speaker 1: I think that I think it's been great. I think that really it's not that far off from what we what they did before. It's just a matter of where your tendencies, where your priorities. You know, how many reps you're practicing a certain concept versus another based on compared to how they did it before. We certainly got to use Jalen's skill set and you know, have him be a threat to with the ball as much as possible. Uh, And so you know, I don't feel like there's as many changes as maybe you know some of the guys. I think, you know, it's been seamless. Coach Cap has done a great job. He's well versed in all the schemes that we've done before, as well as being able to help the guys translate things you know that they had done technically of you know, language wise in our offense. Just that translation. He's he's super super sharp and uh, you know, his relationship with these guys. You can see it coming out as the spring's gone on, and just how much better they got from practice one to practice fifteen. I think it's probably the position group that if I had to pick one or two, they would certainly be in that mix as far as the improvements that they've shown here in the spring.

01:42:03
Speaker 4: When you're looking at when you're recruiting guys, like everybody's got all the tangible things, the surface level things. What are some intangibles or some values or character things that you look for, like when you're recruiting guys to a place like Alabama.

01:42:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's uh, you know, you know, toughness is always going to be something that I think is just critical of what doesn't matter where you're at. I think the game was meant to be played that way. The championship teams have that mental toughness, that physical toughness that you have to have. But I think there's also the discipline, accountability along with just you know, a personality that's kind of like wide eye, just excited to learn, excited to grow. I just feel like they haven't arrived and that there's a there's a there's there's not a ceiling that they're they're looking at and they're far from it if they if they think there is. And so it's just a matter of you know, growth mindset and you know, guys who want to come in here and be a part of something, not just you know, it's all about me and uh you know, so we always talk about in terms of our non negotiables being family, accountable, and toughness, and so you know, I think I hit on also all three of those and just doing it the right way, do it with class, integrity, and also you know, while you're here, making sure we get that degree as well.

01:43:17
Speaker 3: A couple of fun questions. You got a couple, I got a couple of fun ones. Okay, give them a couple. Oh hang on, let me go one, let me go one more serious boy?

01:43:25
Speaker 4: Who Okay, what traditions of Alabama do you that you've learned about that you're keeping and keeping part of the program, and what are some things culture wise, tradition wise do you feel like you're bringing to Alabama.

01:43:40
Speaker 1: That's a that's a really good question. And I think that everything. I don't want to say every day I learned something, but I think, you know, there's a there's been many times you're like, Okay, I think I got this, understand I think I understand this. I understand that you know what's important, what's been done for decades, what's been done just maybe over the last year, you know, and understanding this was this sounds like something they really like, but is it really a tradition?

01:44:06
Speaker 3: You know?

01:44:07
Speaker 1: And so you know, just I think guys just the pride they have in some of the simple things, uh, you know, how they look, and you know how we practice and you know, tucking shirts in and for workouts and practice. I mean, those are just things that just the pride of the place that come out. Obviously, there's the walk you know that we had and that's special and you know, seeing those guys do that a A was was really cool. But you know, the fourth quarter program is something these guys just really believe in. And so a lot of these traditions are things that just are are they're so accustomed to And I could go on and on, but you know, keeping some of those things and and still bringing in the things that I think have been been good. If it adds, it adds to our culture and it's something that you know, the guys might enjoy. You know, we're going to balance that between you know, Hey, these are really important aspects of Alabama football and these are some of the things that have worked for me. And you know, I'm not married to a lot of things, but I think it's more about the feel and the energy and what can what can we bring to add to what's already here?

01:45:14
Speaker 3: Did I read Did I read something about thunderstruck?

01:45:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's with the with the out out in our game day.

01:45:21
Speaker 3: You know the walk that is that you r is that of it? Was that a Bama thing? That's Bama? I mean that goes that goes hard strug goes hard song. Yeah, it's a it's a classic football song. Yeah. What's a core value? Not a core value, but what is like a non negotiable thing that you've brought with you to Alabama as far as a culture deal. This is how we're gonna go about business.

01:45:44
Speaker 1: Honestly, there's I mean there's probably the guys would probably the probably guys would probably say there's a lot of things.

01:45:51
Speaker 3: You know, what would the players say something that's something a wrinkle that's been thrown in.

01:45:57
Speaker 1: You know, Well, I actually I can't think it's something. The one that made some waves early in the spring was you know, we play music in practice, you know, so that was something that hadn't been done before. So not that I feel like you have to, but I think there's a lot of benefits that can come from it, you know, trying to you know, well, first of all, the juice and energy, the vibe that can it can create, but also I think there's ways you can utilize it for even you know, distractions, right, you know, and so you know, there's a lot of distractions on game day, right, one hundred thousand people, there's music playing in the stadium, and so I think there's a lot of things we actually and I tell these guys, I'm intentional on telling them the things that maybe I'm trying to do someday when I feel like they're even super locked in, you know, just cranking it up a little bit louder to see if see if they can work through that and you know, listen a little harder, you know, communicate a little better, you know, hand signals and stuff. You know, you always practice noise stuff, you know, throughout the week, especially you know, home and away, depending on if your offense and defense. But you know, those are just some of the things that I think think are our benefits of that. That was something that hit the i know, the waves a little bit and our guys, our guys enjoyed it, you know, and enjoyed it, and again it's been a positive.

01:47:10
Speaker 3: Its as players, I think we can all agree with the music is the music? Is the music? Are you taking requests or is this a set playlist?

01:47:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's we have specific people and it's been it's been transferred on. Uh. Robbie, my guy from Washington, he started it, and I'm like, you know, we gotta have the clean versions. We gotta have that. You know, we got around brown practice but uh, you know you know that that and I think he's kind of pushed it on. So they'll certainly take requests. Yeah, and at some point I'm sure they'll get the themes of the day or themes of the week and uh and so forth.

01:47:45
Speaker 4: So you mentioned something about tucked in shirts and and basically details of how you operate around the facility, on the practice field and everything else. Do you feel like you got those you feel like you had some of those ideas when you talk all the way back to I was on a two and eight team, losing team, and then I was part of a national championship team when you played, like how those locker rooms look differently and what it takes to win and even if they Hey, I might sound ridiculous saying you have to have your tucked in shirt, but there's a way, I promise you if you just trust me. These are the things that it takes over and over consistently to get to the top.

01:48:19
Speaker 3: You got to think Saban's a tucked a shirt guy. Got to Yeah, it's great, true, but.

01:48:23
Speaker 4: Being a part I mean, we've all been a part of bad locker rooms. We've been a part of good locker rooms. And what good culture looks like in bad culture looks like a hearrings.

01:48:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well I think, I think, I think is what all these things whenever you're talking about you know, those type of uh you call it non negotiables or whatever they are I think it always it always goes back to pride in who we are and that you're willing to be a part of a team. And and it's not a sacrifice, but man, looking good for us is important. And this is one of the things that we think is about looking good and looking unified and and looking the way you're supposed to when when you representing Alabama, you know, whether it's in the weight room, whether it's on the practice field or on game day, you know, and so you know what what your facility looks like, and are you picking up after yourself. Those are just like those are classy things you should do as just a human being, right, and it shows that you know the simple things. We're not going to overlook those and just be out there and focus just on the football part. And you know, I know many programs and many people have said the same thing, and I truly believe it. How you do anything is how you do everything, and those things right there, and how you treat people. We're on the road, you know, I have no doubt that these guys are gonna you know, travel well, you know, represent themselves in our program in a first class way home way wherever they're at on their own, doesn't have doesn't have to just be when we're together as a team. But those values come out in those type of actions and those type of things that you feel are important to your program.

01:49:53
Speaker 10: How you do anything and how you do everything. So phenomenal, phenomenal, unless you want some good here. When I'm nervous about my fun questions, yeah, well I just don't want to.

01:50:05
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm nervous too. When you say you're nervous.

01:50:08
Speaker 1: Of us, Now that awkward, really important.

01:50:19
Speaker 3: There's just playing everything out of play because I got to because I don't want to be that. I'm not going to be nasty, but I want to I want to talk about I do want to talk about Michigan a little bit, if that's okay. And but you've said there's there's pain there, and I don't want to go in a direction that. This has been a fun interview. It's been a good time, and I just don't want to ruin the interview, So I'll please, I'll pivot and we'll just talk about the SEC for a second. All right, A lot of bad dogs out here, a lot of strong dogs out here, a lot of strong head coaches. If it really came down to it and you had to fight these head coaches. Do you think you're losing to any of the head coaches?

01:50:55
Speaker 1: Man, I'm not even going there.

01:50:58
Speaker 3: There, we won't do any work.

01:51:03
Speaker 1: I mean they can different.

01:51:05
Speaker 4: I think who's a who's a head coach? And this, you know, out of respect for the head coach, like who's a head coach? You would love to obviously win the game, but you're you've obviously competed in your own journey to get to you know, Washington. Maybe it happened in Washington, maybe it hasn't happened yet, but that you would, you know, love to be across the sideline on and you kind of pinch yourself like, Yo, I'm coaching against so and.

01:51:28
Speaker 1: So and being obviously I mean I think a lot of those coaches are are here. Uh, and I guess I even just going back, you know, the last two years. UH has so much respect for you know, these coaches that have been doing it for many years, the coordinators working their way up. Just very similar to the journey I've been on, and so I've I've stolen a lot of stuff just like every coach does from from everyone. We've watched the film. We've watched the you know, cutups in the off season and so you know, you know you learn how you learn what to do, you know, maybe not what what not to do sometimes, you know, uh as far as like handling your team, uh, you know publicly, socially and all that. So there's a lot of these just are pretty much the coaches in this conference that have nothing but respect for and you know, I know that every Saturday, you know, you got to be at your best. And that's how it is. Uh. I think at Alabama anyway, everyone's gonna bring their a game.

01:52:28
Speaker 3: You know.

01:52:28
Speaker 1: Uh, We've had conversations about rivalries, and we've had a lot of teams and people that I know, and they felt like Alabama was their rival, you know, just because you know, it was such a big game each and every time that game was played. So I'm excited about, you know, lining up and you know, being challenged to be my best each and every week against all these coaches.

01:52:50
Speaker 4: Is there a coach that, as you're progressing through your learning curve as a an offensive coordinator, a head coach, whether it's a mentor or a coach out there that kind of jumped out at you when you're learning about situational ball and how to you know, if you saw somebody else in it one way, you kind of dove into their tape all season long. They kind of helped you along the way.

01:53:08
Speaker 1: I think, you know, there's been coaches, especially when I was a coordinator and after I'd been a head coach for five years at small college, and you know, I think about the leadership aspect and how you know, Chris Creighton at Eastern Michigan was just you know, I just learned so much on how bringing a team together happened there. I think about Jeff Tedford and how you know we're there were one and eleven before we got there, and it was you know, we're not gonna We're gonna take our guys and we're gonna maximize what they can be. And the next year, you know, you're ten and four and then twelve and two and really had nothing to do with bringing a bunch of portal guys in. It was taking who you had right there, believing in them, putting some structure and organization together some you know, offensively. I learned a lot, you know, during those two years there, and then you know Indiana, you know, being thrown in the mix there with you know, just being part of the Big ten and being challenged to be your best at the power five level. And so you know Tom Allen, you know, so you know he just the passion he brought out stuck with me, you know, and how he dove into the relationships with the guys, and so it is something at every place along the way. I think it's a lot of times the people you work with each and every day, the position coaches that I continue to learn from. I'm learning from something from our coaches right now. You know, hired an amazing staff and to me, that's the key. Has never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

01:54:34
Speaker 3: Up of your staff. Nick Sheridan, he and I played together in college. What have you seen from him.

01:54:38
Speaker 1: From who Sheridan Sharick, Yeah.

01:54:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what have you seen from college? Yeah? I was I was a young boy, he was senior. Yeah. Yeah. What have you like seen from him to make him the man for the job to be the OC? Yeah?

01:54:52
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, working backwards, he's done an amazing job this spring just pulling everything together. He's he's more than ready for this opportunity. You know. The cool thing about him is that he he was patient. You know, there's opportunities he certainly could have had over the last couple of years, you know, because he is someone who is known as a very bright mind, understands the game on another level. But we had a chance to work together in twenty nineteen at Indiana and he, you know, from a from an ego standpoint or just an unselfish standpoint, moved from quarterbacks to tight ends, and you know, for me to come in and coach quarterbacks, which I feel is a big piece of being an offensive coordinators being in that room every day, you know, but learning and working with him, I remember just thinking how bright he was for considering, you know, his age and how many years he had actually been at high level of football already at that time. Then two more years at Washington you know where again he's just right there. You know, brings a lot of ideas, brings a lot of just game planning thoughts, helping you pull everything together. It's details, but it's also a big picture all mixed in one. And then he's just such a great relationship builder. He's got great personality. Guys I think enjoy being around him. He leads in a way where he's firm. You know, he's got his things that he feels strong about, but he also you know, enjoys, enjoys, you know, just the camaraderie and enjoys working together with the staff. And he's done an awesome job having the entire staff all feel a part of it, you know, And that's I think been a big part of my success over the years is having you know, the strengths and of everyone and tapping into their strengths, you know, be why we were successful, whether it's offensively or as a full team.

01:56:41
Speaker 3: With guys that are working under you, and you become such a cohesive group, especially with all the success that you've had, Guys are eventually going to leave. They're going to go to you know, find they're going to elevate themselves and try to become head coaches just like you. When you see yourself having the success you did at Washington and and ever we will have here, do you keep something in the back of your head, be like, all right, if this guy goes and I have these two guys in my head as are always a constant game plan of a depth chart of who you would want to fill those spots.

01:57:06
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, in a way, it kind of happened here already. You know, Ryan Grubb was was the offensive coordinator you know, Washington with US and and coming here and then got the opportunity to be with the Seattle Seahawks. And you know, there are guys that I would love. You know, I'm strong on trying to keep the continuity of your system. Of course, the people is where it all starts, but the continuity of the system. And and I know offensively that continuity of our system will always exist because it's the system that you know, we've built over over many years now. But both sides of the ball, there certainly is a method and uh, I've done this at Fresno, did this at Fresno State, did this at Washington, where there's there's some depth to our staff. Guys, many guys who have called games as coordinators at the power five level on both sides of the ball, Guys who you know are just oh ego, willing to come in be part of it right now. And you know, again hopeful, I hope we are so successful to where those opportunities come up for our staff. You know, that's how I got to the place where I'm at. And you know, I'd be pretty hypocritical if I didn't say that, if I didn't want to root for these guys to get their opportunity someday as well.

01:58:20
Speaker 4: Do you have a favorite post game ritual after a win, whether it's a post game you like, I always love the post game cigar, post game beer, postgame milkshake, post game burger.

01:58:29
Speaker 3: Something with the family. Yeah, maybe indulge on a meal.

01:58:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always with the family. It's always And you know, you play day games, you play night games, so it's never it's never the same, but you know, it's always with the family, you know. And if if it's a day game, you'd love to have the staff over. And I think that's one thing I'm excited about here is just proximity and where we're all going to be living, you know, when you have that time, just continue to grow our group together. I'm really excited about that. But you know, I think you just get you're so exhausted usually from a game and the things that go into it. Winning a football game at the college level is hard. I don't care where you're at. It takes everything, and uh, you know, enjoying it for that little moment before you flipped the Sunday Sunday morning and started all over again. I think that's a big part of the process. So trying to take a deep breath and just enjoying what happened that day after a win is a big part of I think the process.

01:59:30
Speaker 3: Think, thank we feel good man. That was that was awesome. Yeah, yeah, man.

01:59:36
Speaker 1: All over the country. And really appreciate you guys coming to see us.

01:59:39
Speaker 3: Yeaheah, I mean I was nervous about being here. Yeah. I mean you walk in the door and you look at a bunch of rings and.

01:59:45
Speaker 4: Watch it immediately like, oh my god, we're in the present, You're in the mecca. But yeah, thank you very much. Everybody's been awesome to us, and thank you for this interview. It's been incredible.

01:59:55
Speaker 3: We really do appreciate it.

01:59:56
Speaker 1: I mean, I appreciate that respect because I know where you guys played too, you know, and uh, you know that's that says a lot about you guys. So thanks for thanks for coming and coming to join us.

02:00:06
Speaker 3: Yes, sirs, you and we'll hook you up with the dad. We'll hook you up with some dad.

02:00:11
Speaker 1: I need it, I need it. I'll take it.