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I m Rapports Stereo podcast coming

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the Gloom toumb of

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rapp Report a k a. The Greno man Dingo

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La Matta Podcasting. I'm

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here with G Moody. Some

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people will still call him air Moody. Yeah,

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I don't know why anyone would

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call him air Moody. But we're gonna get

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into his dunk. We're gonna get

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into sweep

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the Cleveland Cavaliers. We're gonna get into the Met

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Gala. The fucking Met

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Gala is going down once again

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in New York City, and neither me the

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Gringo man Dingo or G. Moody,

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whose last name rhymes with duty, have and

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invited again. David

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Fizdale is officially the head

1:06

coach of the New York Knicks and so much

1:08

more, plus special guest

1:11

speedster from the Detroit

1:13

Lions. My man a mere Abdullah

1:16

a B dignity. We're

1:19

talking football, We're talking offseason

1:21

grind and so much

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more with a Mere Abdullah of the Detroit

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Lions. Miles Jordan's

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let's do this like brutus because you always notice.

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Let me get something funky,

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all right, rappor stereo

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podcasting. I

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told you name is Michael rappaport

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G Moody, last name rhmes with duty. Listen Moody.

1:57

How you feeling? I feel good?

2:00

War Well, my knee is a little

2:02

better. Oh why

2:04

is your knee hurt? You? Bang it? I

2:06

was jumping a lot and

2:09

uh it's sore. The left kneecap is sore,

2:12

but that's to be expected. And

2:15

Uh, I'm good. I'm good today.

2:17

Bro. Okay, that's good. Um.

2:20

Has everybody heard on

2:22

the emergency? I am Rapp Reports stereo

2:24

podcast Uh. The comings and

2:26

goings of air Moody's dunk attempt,

2:29

now, Gerald, I never like to

2:31

do things behind your back, Okay,

2:33

that's why I did do it publicly. Um.

2:37

But I put up partial

2:41

video of you attempting your dunk. Uh,

2:43

And I did a poll on Instagram.

2:46

Do you want to know the results? Excuse me? Do you want

2:48

to know the results of that? Polly of

2:53

the people said, that's not a dunk. You fuck

2:55

you of

2:58

the people probably all you And

3:00

then a couple of them. I don't know. You

3:02

know, they're like the crew that you brought to the gym

3:05

and you're fucking your your trainer and

3:08

whoever the flunky's you had, you got like a little

3:10

crew. Those are probably people

3:12

the ten percent. But of

3:14

the people that the question was is this a dunk

3:17

or not? And it says if

3:19

it says yes, it's a dunk, you fuck

3:22

you, or no, that's not a dunk, you dumb

3:24

fuck you. And of

3:26

the people said no, that's not a

3:28

dunk, you dumb fuck you. So

3:31

do you want to keep arguing with this or

3:34

do you want to concede or you just want to leave

3:36

it alone and deal with your fucking hamstring

3:38

injury. Yeah, that's what I want to do. I want to nurse

3:40

my knee back together. What I did is

3:42

what I did. It's on tape. I

3:45

ain't gotta say ship else somebody. Mm

3:48

hmm, No,

3:50

you don't, Mi amigo. You don't have

3:52

to say you know what, I think it would be best if you don't

3:54

say shit about it. Okay,

3:57

I think it would actually be best if you

3:59

do not say about it. Now, listen to the

4:01

fans at home listening

4:04

whether you're at work, whether you're

4:07

on the way to work, whether you're laying in bed

4:09

listening to the soothing sounds of me the Gringo

4:11

man dingo. Uh, whether you're

4:14

I don't know driving, I don't know where

4:16

you are listening to the Iron

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Wrap Port Stereo Pockets. I want to tell

4:20

you that the Quintessential

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the Iron Rapp Reports Stereo Pockets, we

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I'm in here with the writer right now. Usually

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it's just me and g Moody. Okay,

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but we are being monitored. Okay,

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so we're we're gonna put on a special show.

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Okay. The New York Times ain't

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dead, it ain't fake news. You fuck

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you. They came to the best that We're

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gonna give him the best podcast possible.

5:03

Let's jump into this. We

5:06

know what just happened, Drake,

5:09

You fuck you.

5:13

You couldn't go to Game four Cleveland's

5:16

about a two hour flight on your

5:18

private jet. The PJ. You couldn't go

5:20

to Game four and support

5:22

your team one last

5:25

time in person. You

5:28

couldn't do that. You sit there

5:30

on the sideline talking ship game

5:32

after game, season after season,

5:34

series after series, whispering

5:37

in people's ear, talking ship two

5:39

players while they're taking the ball up. But you

5:41

refuse to show up for game

5:43

four and sit on the sideline

5:45

in Cleveland and supports your

5:48

team through thick and thin. Oh he

5:50

wasn't there. Oh, man, Well,

5:52

you know who was there. Chloe Kardashian was there.

5:55

But this fucking guy didn't show up. That's

5:57

that's a fan. That's a fair Weather

6:00

fan. There's no money, there's

6:03

no convenience. The good people of Cleveland

6:05

would have loved to have seen Drake show up,

6:08

but he didn't do it. Yeah, like, yo, you

6:10

support the team when they

6:12

down go, wouldn't

6:14

your support be more needed

6:16

at that time? Wouldn't

6:19

do it? Couldn't do it? Oh that's what it

6:21

is. Then, this fucking guy. Yeah, that's why

6:23

they keep getting sweat, sweep

6:26

getting sweat. Might as

6:28

well you might as well fucking go to

6:30

Cleveland. Hey,

6:33

listen, I was there last year

6:35

at the finals with my fucking broom, and

6:37

it caused the Big Brew. Ha ha, remember

6:39

that movie. Remember

6:42

that I was there at Game three with my broom.

6:44

I bought it in a local

6:47

Cleveland hardware store. I didn't

6:49

go to a home depot. I went to a local Cleveland

6:51

hardware store, brought my broom in there, and

6:54

and it caused such a commotion, such

6:56

a backlash. The NBA complained

6:58

about it, The arena complained about

7:01

it. Now, you cock

7:03

suckers, wish you had a fucking broom, don't you.

7:05

You fuck you wish

7:07

I was there to sweep the fucking trash out.

7:09

You wish I was there to talk ship to

7:12

Drake. Four games to nothing,

7:14

the Toronto Raptors should be ashamed

7:16

of himself. Dwayne Casey. Yo,

7:19

if they give this fucking guy Coach

7:21

of the Year in June at those ridiculous

7:23

NBA awards that happened after the season's

7:26

finished, can you what will that feel like? Coach

7:28

of the Year. The imagine

7:31

to give Dwayne because he's probably gonna win

7:33

that award Coach of the Year, Imagine what that's gonna

7:35

feel like like. Dwayne Casey's gonna

7:37

go on vacation, He's

7:40

gonna start looking at college recruits. He

7:42

you think he's gonna watch the rest of the playoffs,

7:46

Why would you want to watch it, Dwayne

7:49

Casey. He knows

7:51

he's about to be fine. You

7:53

can't keep getting sweat, motherfuck

7:57

yo. It's one thing to lose, but getting

7:59

swept every four zip.

8:02

You don't have one guy on your team

8:05

who you could say, listen, if we're

8:07

going down, we're gonna fucking knock the

8:09

ship out of this guy, just one time, just

8:11

to see what will happen. Not the little

8:13

grabbing, not the little like playing

8:15

grab bass with Lebron James. He's two hundred

8:17

and seventy pounds of

8:20

god knows what and

8:22

the and the uh. The rosan gets

8:25

kicked out of the fucking game. The hundred

8:27

million dollar man gets

8:30

kicked out. This is the star gets

8:32

kicked out for flagrant too, and

8:35

not a good flagrant too, not the kind of flagrant

8:37

too you can hold. You can hang your hat on, right, Dwayne

8:40

Casey. You're the coach of the fucking year,

8:43

and you don't have one player that will

8:45

just say fuck it and knock the ship out

8:47

of Lebron James. Not one

8:49

player will do that for you on their own accord.

8:52

He's not the Coach of the Year. This

8:55

this is Coach of the Year. This is he

8:57

aint the fucking coach of the year. He's

8:59

gonna win. But but how did Coach

9:01

of the Year gets swept? What

9:05

are we talking about? We ain't talking

9:07

about practice. Is this fucking guy He's

9:09

gonna win the Coach of the Year. And I'm gonna tell you something right

9:11

now, Just like last year, Russell

9:13

Westbrook won the m v P at these silly

9:16

ass NBA awards. What's

9:18

that you that? Those

9:20

are the awards where they give the m v P, the six Man

9:22

of the Year, the Coach of the Year, the most improved Player,

9:24

the most fashionable. Remember

9:27

last year they gave the award they gave most fashion

9:29

I think it was the d Wade. Are you

9:31

fucking kidding me? This is an actual

9:33

award that they're giving in June,

9:36

the most when they give out the m v P,

9:39

the Best Defensive Player, and all these

9:41

coveted awards, they also give some

9:43

fucking guy most Fashionable.

9:46

That's an actual fucking award

9:49

that the NBA gives out.

9:52

Jesus Christ, that's

9:55

an actual award. Westbrook did

9:58

he win? No, he won m

10:00

v P. Dwyane Wade won Most

10:03

Fashionable last year. He's the what

10:05

is it called the first the first guy who

10:07

wins most like the first

10:09

of something. Oh oh, he's the first

10:12

award e of fashionable.

10:16

I wanted a word, motherfucker, not like the

10:18

first award. He like, he's the the honorary

10:21

whatever it is, he won that award. So

10:25

Dwayne Casey, good riddance, good

10:27

luck on your fucking vacation. I'm sure you'll come

10:29

back. You'll be You'll have been a like Bolly

10:32

or wherever the bye

10:34

bye, motherfucker you got swept. He's

10:37

I think they lost four to two, four oh

10:39

and four. Oh, that's that's his record

10:41

against Lebron James and them.

10:44

That tells you what you need to know. Don't

10:46

expect to come back. How you gonna expect

10:49

they should? If I'm ownership, you

10:52

gotta go, man that that record you presented

10:54

to me is not acceptable.

10:56

Unacceptable, good un acceptable? Yeah,

10:59

goodbye. Well that team

11:01

is gonna break up. That teams finished unless

11:03

Lebron James goes to l A and then that team is

11:05

great. Hey man,

11:08

you know what the nickname I got

11:10

a nickname for Lebron that he should have

11:12

always had the nucleus,

11:14

the fucking nucleus. This dude

11:17

does it. Fucking oh man, the

11:20

nucleus, the center of it all. That

11:22

should be his fucking nickname, not the King. He

11:24

gave himself the nickname the King. That's

11:26

why I don't really stick the nucleus

11:29

is that ship man that that's not a good nickname.

11:31

That's a good name for my man. It describes him.

11:34

It describes him. But that's not let's say your nucleus.

11:36

What's up like you? No one wants to get

11:39

nucleus tattooed on their back. Look

11:41

at these motherfucker's way today. I

11:43

don't know. But your guy lebron

11:47

I said it the other day. I'm not going to repeat myself.

11:50

Okay, I am not going to repeat

11:52

myself. I'm not going to say what I said again.

11:55

Um, but if they get

11:57

past the Boston Celtics, and it is

12:00

an if. If

12:02

they get past the Boston Celtics, assuming

12:04

Boston continues to to beat

12:07

Philadelphia, they are now winning. At the recording

12:09

of this Iron Wrap or stereo podcasts, they are now winning

12:11

that series three games to one.

12:15

Uh the process. Uh,

12:17

They're they're lucky because the O in the

12:19

word process was starting to look like a zero

12:21

because they were gonna get swept. But they scrounged

12:23

together one win. Uh

12:27

Lebron James, Uh will not be

12:29

winning a title. So all the ships you're talking

12:31

about, nucleus and science experiments.

12:34

He's gonna go to the finals again then

12:40

lose. The Warriors don't play

12:42

that ship. And you know, I was thinking about

12:44

this because you always talk about my man Kevin Durant.

12:47

Watching him play the style of what

12:49

the Warriors play, that's

12:52

basketball. They move the

12:54

ball, they're cutting, they they set

12:56

each other up for easy passes. They make the extra

12:58

pass to the extra Pas said, the extra past.

13:01

Kevin Durant is disgusting.

13:03

He's a fucking killer. He's

13:06

a killer, cold blooded

13:09

killer. They're gonna beat the ship out

13:11

of Cleveland. If they play them in the finals, they

13:13

might sweep them. Before.

13:16

You said that before I beat him a five last

13:18

year. You have no credibility, man, You

13:21

said that the Celtics wouldn't make the playoffs.

13:24

That was pre I'm

13:27

entitled to be wrong sometimes, Yo,

13:31

Listen, the Boston Celtics are getting

13:33

swept now by

13:36

Cleveland. Okay, okay,

13:38

all right, we're gonna move on from that,

13:41

because your your predictions have been off and

13:43

I think you're probably on some antibiotics

13:45

and possibly some some pain medication

13:48

due to the dunk attempt. Um. I want

13:51

to give a shout out to the Knicks. As

13:54

of the recording of this Iron Rapp Reports

13:56

Stereo podcast, David Fizdale

14:00

is officially the coach of

14:02

the New York Knicks, Scott

14:05

Perry is officially the GM

14:08

of the New York Knicks, and Steve Mills is the President

14:11

of Operations of the New York

14:13

Knick. Knicks. Three black

14:15

men all run everything

14:17

that has to do with basketball at the Knicks. Big

14:20

fucking never happened in the NBA before. I

14:22

just think it's a good precedent. And listen,

14:26

I'm all in, as I said it before, I am

14:28

all in on the New York Knicks. I'm all

14:30

in on David Fizdale and everything

14:32

that's going down for them. And it's a big deal. And

14:34

and trust me, they're gonna be talking about the fact

14:36

that there's three dudes, uh, three

14:39

three black dudes are in control of everything

14:41

that has to do with the New York Knicks. That don't mean they're

14:43

gonna win that don't mean they're gonna lose, but I

14:45

think it's a cool thing, especially to happen in

14:47

New York City. Yeah,

14:50

you're right. I just never I never looked

14:52

at it like that. But yeah, good, it's

14:54

just listen, we're on the cutting edge here once

14:57

again. You at

15:00

the met Galla. You

15:02

had your little party, but you couldn't invite. You couldn't

15:05

fite me. You couldn't fite me.

15:07

And g Moody. Nah, they don't funk

15:09

with me. Every year, year

15:11

after year after year, we have to get slapped

15:14

in the face and

15:16

see this one and that one show up to the met

15:19

galup. Did you see some of the outfits the ship

15:21

was where they were wearing this year? What I

15:23

didn't see it, but I can imagine

15:25

the clownishness of

15:28

it. Well, the theme

15:30

this year was Christianity, So

15:33

you got people dressed up like Jesus Christ.

15:36

Uh. You got people dressed up like kings,

15:39

queens, popes. Kim

15:42

Kardashian, she's she's she's

15:44

dressed up in all gold with a diamond and crusted

15:47

this that, with that big ginormous

15:49

fake ass. She's so proud

15:51

of that fake it's like a it's like an end table.

15:55

Damn, that's cool. But

15:57

but but but

15:59

but at the met gallup, not

16:03

one mention of global warming,

16:06

not one mention of mental

16:09

health, not one mention

16:11

of Donald Trump, not one

16:13

mention of times up.

16:16

Why why,

16:18

why why? At the Grammys,

16:21

at the Oscars, at the sag Awards,

16:24

every fucking awards show that they went through

16:26

this year. Poor Jimmy Kimmel couldn't

16:28

even make a joke, it

16:31

was so tight. The

16:33

met Gala, they all get dressed up, all

16:35

of them. No protests,

16:37

nobody fucking kneeled, no nothing.

16:39

They're just so happy. They're giddy to get

16:42

dressed up in

16:44

these fucking costumes for the Met galap

16:47

nobody's mentioned in Trump, nobody's

16:50

mentioned Stormy Daniels, Nobody the

16:52

global warming. It's still going on. There's

16:55

crisis is all over the place. There's all sorts of

16:57

stuff in Puerto Rico. If it was a fucking

16:59

music awards show, or it was it was

17:01

some sort of film and television award show, you

17:03

know, they don't have pins on. Remember they had the fucking

17:06

pins on at the Emmy's. Nothing

17:09

at the met Gallah. They don't want to sunk up the costume.

17:12

How do you feel about that? You feel you feel

17:14

that's a good thing like that? I feel I

17:16

feel like it's bullshit. I feel like, what does

17:18

the protest stop for the met galla?

17:21

You? No one's there to talk at the met gallaph?

17:24

All the protest, all the ship talking,

17:26

all the hashtag this hashtag that nothing

17:28

at the met gallap But for your own awards

17:30

show, you're up in there getting crump Yeah,

17:35

hed glean, people hissing at people Trump,

17:37

this Trump that, Jimmy Kimball can't make a joke,

17:40

all this ship, but no one, no one

17:42

had a pin on, no one had anything on. This

17:47

year, the theme was Christianity. I'm

17:49

assuming, I'm

17:52

assuming next year

17:54

is gonna be Judaism.

17:56

I want to see puffy and a diamond encrusted

17:58

Yamaica. Yeah, I

18:01

want to see mink, Orthodox hats

18:04

and all that ship because next year we better

18:06

celebrate Judaism. You can't just do Christianity

18:09

and Catholicism and not celebrate

18:11

the Jews, not in New York, not

18:13

in fucking Haimi town. And the

18:15

Reverend Jesse Jackson once called

18:17

it. Yeah,

18:19

so what's up next year? Yeah?

18:23

I mean, imagine what some of these designers, can do you

18:25

hook up like you could get dope ass

18:27

yamkas and all like, Yo, you

18:30

gotta be fair. You can't just do Catholicism

18:32

and not acknowledge the Jews. I'm just saying,

18:35

spread it around. Hey, that's what's up. You

18:37

can't just do one. What else

18:39

is going on? Mr Moody, Hey, I'm

18:42

just happy about the playoffs.

18:45

How's the weather? Oh, the weather. The weather

18:47

is eighty seventy five. It's

18:49

good man? Is it muggy?

18:52

Some days are, but for the most part it's like spring.

18:54

It's like that type of cool ship. Hey,

18:57

you watch these cooking shows, right, I'm

19:00

a chef. Man, I told you that you

19:04

can't even make a bowl of cereal. Motherfuck?

19:06

Yeah. Well, what have you cooked lately? Ribby

19:09

perfect ribby steak? Be just

19:12

the ribby steak, garlic,

19:14

mashed potatoes, roasted garlic in

19:17

the oven. You don't understand this, ship, man, Mm

19:20

hmm. A ribby

19:22

steak and garlic mashed potatoes. That's that's

19:24

your meal. Huh. Yes, and a little asparagus

19:27

roasted garlic asparagus? Yeah,

19:30

okay, um, over

19:32

seasoned. If it's a great piece of meat. You don't have

19:34

to do anything to Wait. What did you do to cook it? Oh?

19:37

Oh yeah, I'm gladly. I will tell you how I get down

19:39

with this. What do you do? Coosha

19:42

salt lightly, Let the salt

19:44

dissolve into the flesh. Turn

19:46

it over lightly, cosh

19:48

assaulted, grind,

19:50

pepper, boom, Let it stay there outside,

19:53

room temperature hot, and skill it three

19:56

minutes each side boom, ten

19:58

minutes in the oven. Boom done, medium

20:01

steaks. Um.

20:05

You know I watched these these shows the other

20:07

day. My wife is watching these shows,

20:09

these Iron Chef shows. Mm

20:11

hm. And you know when we

20:14

go to our guy in New York, Chef

20:16

Shane, he always talks about the misery

20:18

of being an actual chef, Like

20:21

when you watch those shows, it seems

20:24

so stressful. Like the

20:26

last fucking thing that I'd want to do is

20:29

wanna wanna be a chef and

20:31

and want to cook with the pressure and then you

20:33

gotta rush and you gotta time and then

20:35

and then most of the chefs they don't even eat the food

20:37

that they make. You do

20:39

you watch those shows? Yeah? I always watch

20:41

Iron Chef. I've been watching that for fifteen

20:44

years. Man, all that good stuff you just you

20:47

just new to the Yeah, I watch fucking what's

20:49

that lady, I'm not cooking ship. I know my

20:51

skills like handwriting. That

20:53

got it? Or you don't. And I hate to tell you, moody, Listen,

20:56

you're fine. Like you're fine. Like it's like like a

20:58

dad, Like a dad who cooks his daughter. That's

21:01

a good piece of that's a good piece of me. Like if your

21:03

daughter will say, the fucking you make? I

21:06

just made nothing. So I'm

21:09

just saying and woe and anybody

21:12

like you, you're the man, will be like

21:14

thanks that that's a good thing. Thanks for the stake. No,

21:16

no, no, sorry you

21:19

watching you watching

21:22

course meal. You're watching these shows

21:24

and you're enamored with this ship. But

21:26

we've been on this ship for twenty years because

21:29

we're cooking me

21:31

me. I've been on this ship. I've

21:33

been on this ship twenty years. Man, watching

21:36

that ship. Now you want some bullshit, why

21:38

don't you try to make something? Never

21:42

that, Listen, I know my skill set,

21:44

I know my skills. Course your hips. My

21:47

hips is good. Man. I'm on the rim.

21:49

Remember I'm on the rim. I'm

21:51

I'm up there. No,

21:53

you're not up there. I'm up there, I'm

21:55

grabbing this ship. It's you didn't even

21:57

hang on the fucking rim. You you you hit the rim

22:00

and pulled it down. You like you didn't even get your

22:02

your fingers above it. The video doesn't lie.

22:04

The bull don't lie. To quote the Great Rashid

22:06

Wallace and the video on Instagram

22:09

and the Iron Rapp Report app, it doesn't

22:11

lie. That's a fact. And you can't

22:13

like you couldn't even hang on the fucking rim. Why

22:16

why are some people saying the opposite

22:18

of what you saying? Why am I getting?

22:20

Why? Why am I getting? So? I got inundated?

22:23

Favorite thing you didn't see I have.

22:26

I'm gonna go over them right now. I'm gonna

22:28

count them.

22:30

Thirty six emails, thirty

22:32

six emails. People emailed us, and you can always email

22:35

us at I am Rapp Report Podcast

22:38

at gmail dot com. Thirty six

22:40

emails. Every

22:42

single one of them said that fucking

22:45

guy didn't dunk, variations of

22:47

that, that wasn't a dunk, That

22:49

fucking guy didn't dunk, and

22:51

different variations of that. Hey, I got some good

22:54

ones too, man. I could show you different

22:56

they feel bad for you, differing.

22:59

I could show you differing opinions on

23:01

it. Why and this whole bullshit about I'm

23:03

forty nine, No one cares. I didn't

23:05

say that. See, I didn't even I never

23:07

said that. They're saying that, they're

23:10

giving me props for that. I welcomed

23:12

that. Don't hate on that. You

23:15

gotta grab the rim. You ain't gonna try to dump.

23:18

Don't worry, I'll be you. Don't

23:21

worry. That's not a problem. Um

23:23

you see. Uh, this former ESPN

23:26

reporter, she tried to talk talk some ship with

23:29

me. Britta mckenry.

23:32

Okay, you know what you want I'm talking

23:34

about. Oh yeah, Blondie brit

23:37

mckenry is like the fake Tommy Loren except

23:39

for she does sports. She's the one that like cursed

23:41

out the uh the tow truck operator

23:44

and all this stuff. She's claiming she

23:47

was let go because

23:49

she was white. Yeah,

23:54

she said, how about this, Brita mckenry

23:57

said, how about they just let you go because

23:59

you're just not that fucking

24:02

good. How About you're just not

24:04

that talented When you grab the microphone,

24:07

it's just not that compelling. You don't

24:09

have that it factor. How about that?

24:11

How about has nothing to do with Jamal Hill. How

24:14

has nothing to do with Carrie Champion. How about

24:16

it has nothing to do with your big bleach

24:19

block teeth, That has nothing to do with

24:21

anybody. How about the fact that you just don't

24:24

got it? She associated

24:27

what was the said they let her go

24:31

because and I quote

24:33

she was white. And then she also said

24:35

she made too much, which probably had something to

24:37

do with it. But if you're really good, they

24:39

would pay you what you were worth. If you were

24:41

really good, you'd still have it. The fact that you're

24:43

white and you got big bleached teeth

24:46

and bleach blond hair, that's an asset.

24:49

That's a fucking asset. They want to have

24:51

a talented, charismatic, smart,

24:53

opinionated, bleach blond haired

24:56

girl on the sideline. But you just don't

24:59

have the gift for gab. No

25:01

one gives a fuck. Yeah,

25:04

you can't claim that, ship m that's

25:07

a hard call. George

25:10

Zimmerman's charged with stalking.

25:13

George Zimmerman is the guy who infamously killed

25:17

Trayvon Martin aggravated

25:19

stalking, threatening a private investigative.

25:22

Can you believe that George Zimmerman is

25:25

living like like a life,

25:27

like no jail time, no nothing, nothing,

25:30

no, nothing, nothing, and

25:32

he continues to get into ship and nothing

25:34

has ever happened to this guy. Yeah, that's the

25:36

thing. That's that's a troublesome

25:39

that this dude is out here while

25:42

in the funk out like he there's no remorse.

25:44

This was like he just doing whatever

25:47

you would think he would stay. We want to stay out of

25:49

the spotlight with his behavior. But that's

25:52

not the case. So whatever happens

25:54

to him, yo, happens,

25:57

but nothing has happened to him as of as

25:59

of like as yet, as of yet, he

26:01

keeps he he's gonna sunk with the wrong one

26:04

and it's gonna be a rat. Our

26:07

guy, the

26:10

great stand Van Gundhi was

26:13

let go by

26:16

the Detroit pistons Um

26:19

Sad Day for the Iron Wrap or stereo

26:21

podcast Dad Sad Day for the

26:22

h the Van Gundhi family. A

26:25

lot of people have been calling for Bizarro Stan

26:29

van Gundy to speak out about this firing.

26:32

I don't know where he is.

26:35

I've tried to reach him. Have you

26:37

heard from him? I did get a voicemail.

26:40

It was sort of hard to understand. He

26:42

was talking something about everything,

26:44

Uh went went downhill when

26:46

Boban got traded and he was the lynchpin

26:49

um and he went on to talk about watching

26:53

boban shower and the pleasure

26:55

that he got from seeing him nude. Um.

26:57

But I've yet to been able to get uh

27:00

bizarre stan Van Gundy on the phone, the

27:02

fact that stan Van Gundhi was let go. Hey,

27:06

I don't know what he's gonna do. But could you imagine Jeff

27:08

and stan Van Gundy and maybe they

27:10

do it with Mark Jackson calling a

27:12

fucking game that's must

27:15

watch TV, the

27:17

Van Gundy brothers in the broadcast booth.

27:19

Or maybe we get our guy Ryan Ruco, Jeff

27:22

and stan Van Gundhi. That

27:25

would be I would watch any game

27:27

that they called together. That would be good basketball

27:29

because those guys would be arguing, uh,

27:33

you know, just bantering with each other. That's the

27:35

kind of ship that I want to see. No

27:38

doubt that it would be compelling, good stuff.

27:40

That would be great. Um.

27:43

As I told you, we got my man

27:45

from Detroit Lions, Amir

27:47

Abdullah

27:50

speedster. I got to watch him work out. Uh.

27:53

When I also when I went to that workout, when I

27:55

got to watch Odell Beckham and those guys work out

27:57

a Mir Abdullah coming up later

27:59

on the Wrap por Stereo podcast Today's

28:01

episode. Um, but it's it's

28:04

that time. You can kind of feel it in the air, um,

28:06

and you hear the music sort of coming

28:09

in in the on the background. Miles

28:11

Jordan's UM is that the sick the

28:15

soundtrack? You fuck the door? You want

28:17

you fuck the door? Why would you fuck the dog?

28:20

Why would you fuck your girlfriend's dog?

28:23

Sick fuck the sick Funck of the

28:25

Week. It's earned earned,

28:28

not giving you did what? No,

28:32

no, no,

28:37

Yes, that is the sick Fuck of

28:39

the Week soundtrack. This is an award that

28:41

has earned, not given. Yes,

28:44

this is an award that has earned, not given. As

28:46

I told you a couple

28:48

of podcasts ago, we are going to

28:51

do a cumulative from the

28:53

ground Boots on the Ground All

28:55

Sick Funk of the Week podcast coming

28:58

up because we have been inundated just

29:00

so many sick fox from

29:03

all over the place. I literally have had

29:05

to create a file on my on

29:07

my computer and on my phone to keep

29:09

track of all the sick Fox.

29:11

I appreciate all the fans out there that

29:13

that keeps sending them to us, but at a certain

29:16

point, enough is enough. It's

29:20

a lot first sick fuck

29:23

Wisconsin man who was featured in

29:25

the super Seize Me documentary and

29:28

who never did anything wrong, but he actually

29:30

does look like the essence

29:32

of a sick fuck. Dan Gorsky,

29:35

sixty four years old. This guy truly

29:38

is a sick fuck. This

29:40

guy had a celebration in lieu

29:43

of eating his thirty thousand

29:47

big Mac. This cocksucker

29:49

has he eaten thirty thousand Big

29:51

Max in his lifetime. They threw him a party,

29:54

they gave him his thirty thousands. Am I saying

29:56

a thirty thousand with the

29:58

team? I'm saying it right as

30:01

a th Well,

30:03

you guys know what it is, Dan Korski,

30:06

And you know if you look at him on

30:08

paper, he's got like a like a mullet haircut,

30:11

and he's got sideburns and mutton chops.

30:13

But he's not heavy. Thirty heats,

30:16

he eats a big mac a day, and

30:19

he he looks like he says he's in great

30:21

shape, and you know, he looks

30:23

like he's fine. He just needs to get a haircut.

30:26

I'm surprised they don't have gout fucking

30:29

thirty thousand. He's a fucking slob man

30:32

thirty Why would you want that every day,

30:34

every single day. Um,

30:38

a woman in New York has been

30:40

arrested. I mean she's a sick funck,

30:43

but she's smart. Uh Latania

30:45

Salissa. I'll probably not saying her

30:47

last name right, but if you're a sick

30:49

fuck, I don't need to go out of my way to uh learn

30:51

to pronounce your name. She's actually pretty smart.

30:54

This sick fuck was

30:57

reading obituaries to

31:00

find out when people died and

31:02

figure out when their funerals were,

31:04

and then she was robbing their homes.

31:07

Man, that's not a sick

31:09

funk. That's something else. Man ship

31:13

Hum, this is a sick

31:16

funk who I forgot to mention. She's

31:18

from Iowa. A woman who's

31:20

thirty one years old. In Iowa, she left

31:23

her four kids alone so she could go on

31:25

vacation to Germany. You

31:27

sick fuck. First of all, why would you want

31:29

to go on vacation to Germany?

31:32

Second of all, you left four kids, ages

31:34

six to twelve years old home.

31:39

Damn. The

31:41

kids called the father and said, Yo, we're

31:44

over here by herself? What the fund is going

31:46

on? Pop said I'm on.

31:48

I'm on my way to Germany too. You

31:50

were so excited to go to Germany. Just

31:53

right there. She

31:55

needs to be put into questions. Uh.

32:00

In Jersey, straight out of Jersey,

32:03

New Jerus. Uh.

32:06

New Jersey police officer who

32:10

is now a sick funk of the week was

32:13

arrested and accused of

32:15

repeatedly, not one time,

32:18

repeatedly pulling over

32:21

women on the freeway,

32:23

not to give them tickets, not

32:25

because they had a broken tail light, to

32:28

try to get their phone number and

32:30

ask him out on dates. Yo. I

32:33

like it, I like it. I like his style. Go

32:36

ahead. New Jersey State Police

32:38

trooper Eric Richardson. He's

32:41

accused of repeatedly pulling over

32:43

women to try

32:45

to get them on dates. This

32:47

is what you're doing. This is a police officer.

32:50

He would you rather reproposed

32:52

for a date or get a ticket? That's

32:56

true, especially if you did something

32:58

wrong and just

33:00

put politely decline and

33:02

he'll let you go. That's how he gets

33:04

down. Finally, we have a sick

33:07

funck nurse uh Cora

33:09

we Burg uh and this is

33:11

in Washington State. She's

33:14

an emergency room nurse with hepatitis

33:17

C who infected patients

33:19

and stole their narcotics.

33:21

She was arrested near the Canadian

33:24

border Cora,

33:26

Wiberg or we Burg again,

33:29

you're a sick funk. I'm not gonna learn or fact

33:31

check on how to pronounce your name correctly. Is

33:33

accused of infecting two patients after

33:36

stealing their injectable narcotics

33:39

and using them for herself. This

33:42

is what kind of this is a sick What

33:45

is this? People? It

33:47

gets it gets uh, it just gets worse

33:49

and worse. Sometimes you baffle me with

33:51

ship man. I don't have words for that. It's not me,

33:53

it's the sick funck whisper out

33:55

there. This guy keeps saying he's He's just sending

33:58

me more and more sick Fox Listen Sane

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34:46

A mirror Abdulah a b

34:48

Dignity speedster

34:51

from Nebraska in Los Angeles working

34:54

out in the off season. I saw you at

34:56

the I was. I was talking about

34:58

it on the podcast. I had connected

35:00

with four Nette and he was like, Oh, I'm going

35:02

to work out over here, and I went there and I was like I was

35:05

at the end of the NFL All Pro

35:07

Day. Yeah, man, we we are.

35:09

We're getting work with Jamal Leggan's

35:12

outstanding trainer. I really

35:14

just wanted to surround myself with guys who at

35:16

a very high level. Obviously, like you said, four Nette,

35:19

Odell h Randall,

35:22

it's a lot of guys out here who was just competing and

35:24

you only's gonna be as good as people around you. So

35:26

I like to just surround myself with the best. When did

35:28

those workouts start? I mean I literally

35:30

thought out like he was gonna be like I didn't know what and

35:33

like I walked in there I mean it was like ten

35:35

ten guys there, and it seemed like a maintenance workout

35:37

like that seemed like a low key day, but

35:40

I mean I was tripping out off of it. And

35:42

and to watch you guys, to

35:45

watch high level athletes, I mean you're

35:47

just doing your thing, you know, And I went over there like

35:49

tripping, like I'm like, oh shit, you know,

35:51

to watch you guys, you know do that. What is

35:53

your off season? Like here we are in

35:56

April, what is your sort of maintenance

35:59

because obviously you're not going full tilt

36:01

now because you have you know, you can't burn

36:03

yourself out to what is your sort of you know, what is your

36:06

workout now? And then how

36:08

does it ramp up? Yeah? Well, at

36:10

the beginning, I started, Uh, I would say late

36:12

February early March. Uh

36:14

did you take time off? Like how much time you

36:16

take off? I probably took well, shoot, we didn't

36:19

make the playoffs, so I had a lot more time, none of the teams.

36:21

So I took maybe about a

36:23

month and a half off, like January

36:26

and half of February. Then I started

36:28

doing a light conditioning, you know, just like running

36:30

on the treadmill and biking and stuff

36:33

like that, but even then getting

36:35

the too op season workouts. You know, you put a lot

36:37

of wear and tearing your body through the season.

36:39

I don't do a lot of high impact

36:42

you know workouts until now. Like

36:44

what's a little bit like what you saw the other day. Um,

36:47

most of it's just maintenance, like you said, strengthening

36:50

your ankles, strengthening your hips, your joints,

36:53

getting it ready to do those high impact

36:55

you know workouts later down a row. So this

36:57

is just kind of like keeping it. This is like the

36:59

prep, but for the prep. Definitely, you don't want

37:01

to peak too early. I mean we don't play until you know, September,

37:04

so at your peak physicality

37:06

and you're not gonna be ready to come September

37:09

nine. So so all those dudes that come through,

37:11

I'm sure some dudes come, you know, one day they're

37:13

here. So all the guys that have worked out at

37:16

this offseason, you know, I

37:18

mean I was like an elite work like I thought,

37:20

like I was like a special thing for me to see as

37:22

a football fan. Like I was like if a real football

37:24

fan walked in and they'd be tripping. Who

37:27

are the guys that have impressed you? Like, you know, like obviously

37:30

Odell was out there. He's like a freaking gazelle.

37:34

You can run all day, dude. He's incredible.

37:36

He's a guy who when I watched

37:38

him then make a lot of sense because he's not

37:40

the most physically imposing looking

37:43

guy. And I think

37:45

he's probably six feet maybe yeah, maybe

37:47

six ft But like you said, he's he's very flexible.

37:49

That that's that's where he gets his edge. He's very flexible.

37:52

He can he's very dynamic. But really the

37:54

guy who really impresses me is probably Lenar for

37:56

Nette, just how well he moves at

37:58

what to forty eight hips, you

38:00

know, like me, I'm a smaller back, so people

38:03

expect me to be able to get in and out of my cust really

38:05

quickly. But he's a guy. He's really impressed

38:07

me. Yeah, because he's a big dude, and he's

38:09

not that he I thought he would be taller, like

38:12

he's just like he's compact. You don't

38:14

want to like run into him. And he

38:16

impressed me last season because he'll

38:18

run past you, he'll jump over you.

38:20

That's the most impressive thing about him. You

38:24

can run. Dude is faster

38:27

than me, he really, and he's heavier than

38:29

me. Yeah, are you serious? I

38:31

would think so. Man Like, when I watch him run like

38:33

he can, he can pick him up, put him down and

38:36

shoot. He's just not normal. So just watching

38:38

him, how humble he is? Too? Right, He's a guy,

38:40

he comes from humble beginnings and he obviously

38:43

hasn't forgot that. Um. All right, So you're from

38:45

Alabama, you're in Los Angeles.

38:48

You grew up, you had nine siblings

38:51

young you're the ninth. So you had eight

38:53

brothers and sisters, have six sisters, two brothers,

38:56

and you're the you're the youngest. All

38:59

see that. That's that's an interesting thing. So your

39:01

the baby. So is the rest

39:04

of your family athletic? Like? Who like? In

39:06

your primes? Because I'm sure the agent spread who's

39:09

the fastest and the primes

39:11

I'm the fastest, probably in all

39:13

of our problems. Of the guys, of

39:15

the girls. My sister Medina, she was all

39:17

stayed in everything she did, volleyball,

39:20

powerful power. She's probably the best athlete in our

39:22

family and her pride all stay volleyball,

39:25

all stay basketball, stay track. I

39:27

can't say that I wouldn't all stay basketball. It's

39:29

all stay tracking football, but basketball.

39:32

She got me beat, and what when you ran track?

39:34

What was your what was your like best race?

39:37

And what was your best time in your prime? Yeah,

39:39

my best were the one hundred hundred

39:42

yard d hundred yard dash and I was a long jumper,

39:44

and what was your best hundreds hundred

39:46

yard dask was a t and what's

39:48

like who both that? Nine

39:51

eight? We had a guy in my high school actually

39:53

at ten oh one though he was like the

39:55

pride and enjoy the school when he came to track. So

39:58

you were a fast motherfucker. And

40:00

who's saining boat is like a second? Yeah,

40:03

you're saying boat. A lot of people they see

40:05

him running, they don't really understand what he's really

40:07

doing. He's running less than a second

40:10

per meter when he's really hitting

40:12

top speed. And nine five eight,

40:14

I don't know when the next person is going to break

40:16

that record? Yeah, and and nine five, ten

40:18

five eight, twelve five eight.

40:21

All this is out of my demographic. I mean,

40:23

like, like me like twelve five eight would

40:25

like you know, like that might happen for

40:28

for me. That'd be a great time for me.

40:30

I'm one of the slowest people in my The

40:32

good thing about my speed a mirror because

40:34

you're a speed, dude, is that I never

40:37

lost the step because I never had it. So

40:39

I'm about the same speed as I was when

40:41

I was eighteen, when I was at my fir um.

40:45

All right, So Alabama, you're from out like

40:47

I've never been to Alabama. I'm from Birmingham,

40:50

right outside the city, from a small

40:52

little community called Smithfield. Okay,

40:55

Like how small is it? Like

40:58

how many people in your Like does everybody know everybody?

41:00

Yeah, for the most part, and eight of nine

41:03

of the people are the Abdullus. Yeah.

41:06

So like you took up like a quarter of the population,

41:08

like your family, Like you guys took up like you said, when we

41:10

were about a seventh of the population.

41:13

So you you wound up playing football at

41:15

Nebraska. When you got to

41:17

to make the choice to go to Nebraska, did you

41:19

get with the Were you one of these high school football

41:22

players like you had options to go everywhere?

41:24

Man, I had had a really tough role.

41:26

My high school, as you can imagine, wasn't

41:29

very big, and we didn't know much about

41:31

recruiting. I didn't send out my film until

41:33

after my senior year. You you didn't

41:35

at all, No, I I didn't. I didn't know I didn't

41:37

know how to get recruited. I didn't know what

41:39

it took. I used to see these guys online

41:42

who were, you know, four or five stars, and I was like, how

41:44

are they doing this? Are they just that much better than

41:46

me? But it was really they were sending out the film

41:48

and going to camps. I didn't go to the camp until like

41:51

the middleway of my senior year, like to one of

41:53

these football camps, like one of those satellite camps

41:55

where like all the college coaches are you know, had

41:57

you see them hardball and all those dudes that I

42:00

didn't do that type of type of stuff. So were

42:02

you thinking I want to play college football? But

42:04

did you? Were you aware? Like you were at that level?

42:06

In my mind, ever since I was six years old,

42:09

I knew I was gonna play in the pros. And

42:11

it sounds crazy, but you know, you just have the intuition.

42:13

I just knew I could play professional football

42:15

and I knew I was going to get there, no out of route it took,

42:18

but it was discouraging, you know, getting

42:20

done. My senior year, I was all state, led

42:23

to state in Russian and I didn't have a single offer.

42:25

I had running backs in the same division, who

42:27

didn't even crack a thousand, who had offers to at

42:29

least Tuskegee and U A. P. And

42:31

I didn't have any of that. But but football is huge

42:34

down there, like it's the sport. So are

42:36

you like getting to a point where you're like, this isn't

42:38

gonna work out because you obviously have to play college

42:40

football? Definitely? Definitely. I mean it

42:43

got to a point where I was like, well, I guess I'm just gonna have to,

42:45

you know, go to the Universal Harbor and you know, try to

42:47

walk on and uh. But things

42:49

changed after I sent out my film. I started

42:52

sitting out my film, and first off was texting and

42:54

them, and at that point I knew, I was like okay,

42:56

and then once that comes in there, you

42:58

know, I had I had a bunch of visits. Uh, probably

43:01

the last month of leading up to signing

43:03

day, I had I visit every single

43:05

week besides from football

43:08

and track. Uh did you play any

43:10

other sports? Played basketball? So how tall

43:12

are you? I'm five nine, so you are you could?

43:14

Could you dunk? Can you dunk? Still?

43:16

I can still dunk? Now? Yeah, I'm a jumper

43:18

man like long Jo might never touch you. My long jomb what

43:23

that was in high school? And I know I could jump a lot further than

43:25

that, probably now because I'm a lot stronger. I

43:27

was a jumper. That was my best thing. So today

43:30

you could bang it on somebody. Oh yeah, for sure.

43:32

Are you a two foot jumper or one for jumper?

43:34

Doesn't matter

43:35

that basketball

43:38

really no pun attend It is my favorite sport to watch.

43:40

I think those dudes are the most skilled

43:42

other than some soccer players, are the

43:44

most skilled athletes on the planet. Man, dudes

43:47

are incredible. Oh they're ridiculous. What's so, what's

43:49

your team? Because that I'm a Laker fan, like

43:53

a Laker fan for life, for life,

43:55

for life, the thick and thing man

43:57

now to this day. Back in the early two

43:59

thousand's and men two thousands when they were struggling.

44:02

I even accepted Smush Parker when he was on the squad.

44:05

What about Smush like people you know, switches

44:07

from New York. He got a bad rap, did he? His

44:09

averages actually weren't that bad. I

44:11

mean, at the same time he was on a bad Laker

44:14

team, So that's not saying a lot, but he has it was

44:16

like thirteen and like five or something. Like he

44:18

was like he had a tough run. That's a laker though,

44:20

Yeah, I mean he was. I think him and Kobe didn't

44:22

get along. He was one of those dudes

44:25

that Kobe was like on him. Of course. I mean he

44:27

played during the time where Kobe was literally

44:29

at his best. So you gotta let

44:31

Kobe be and Smush was

44:33

trying to obviously make him a name for himself,

44:35

right, you know, I gotta I

44:37

had a lamar Odom was just on the

44:39

podcast, which was dope to see him and then

44:42

the Metal World Peace nice. He speaks

44:44

like you gotta check up to have a conversation with

44:46

him. He's you know, he's so much you know. The thing

44:48

about him is like that the fight. Everybody

44:51

thought that to find him and obviously was a fun up

44:53

thing um for him to go to, you

44:55

know, but but he's so I

44:58

mean, that's like a life changing thing, you

45:00

know what I mean for him, and I think at

45:02

the end of the at the end of the rainbow,

45:04

uh, it was a positive thing, like a

45:07

positive came from a negative. But he was

45:09

dope to have on the on the podcast. He has one of

45:11

the most underrated careers ever because he played

45:13

a very long time, very long

45:15

time. And he was high level dude

45:18

until the suspension with the Rockets. Man he almost

45:20

took my Lakers down when

45:22

he was with Indiana. He's before

45:24

the whole thing happened, he was averaging twenty four

45:26

points and All Star and

45:29

and uh so you're a Lakers fan, you follow

45:31

the NBA, you could bang it on people anytime

45:34

any plays and let me ask you this, you

45:36

you like ball? This has been my a

45:38

topic. I love watching Russell

45:40

Westbrook. He's a freak. He's

45:43

a beast, he's a he's a one

45:45

note beast. He there's there's just full

45:47

tilt all the time. But as

45:49

a basketball fan, everything we've seen

45:51

of Russell Westbrook for his entire career,

45:54

do you think it's possible for anybody

45:57

to play in peace, in cohesion

46:00

with Russell Westbrook after everything we see

46:02

and and bet By and I love him,

46:05

but I'm like, yo, I just don't think

46:07

he could play with another guy a

46:09

star like look like

46:12

Paul George and Carmelo sometimes

46:14

like they're like he's treating them dudes, like they're like

46:17

ancillary players, like they're just like dudes.

46:19

And like Paul George is sick as a star. Carmelo

46:21

is still an offensive force. He's out there

46:24

waving for the ball like he's like, you know something

46:26

like you know Lithuanian dude that just got

46:28

a ten day contract. I mean with

46:30

Russell, he's a stat machine. He's gonna put up

46:32

the triple double. And sometimes I think that's a

46:34

little misleading because you're like, oh,

46:36

he is a pastor because he's averaging. Tennis is

46:38

the game, but he has to

46:41

control the game in order for him

46:43

to be successful. Russ can't be

46:45

on the court facilitating,

46:48

not necessarily driving and kicking

46:51

if he expects to have a successful game.

46:53

Russe's he's not at his best when

46:56

he is the true facilitating, when he's

46:58

the true Ricky Rubio of the day. He

47:01

he's just not at his best. And that's that's

47:03

fine. You know, I love watching the rest West

47:05

when he's just dominating the ball,

47:07

you know, dominating the control of the ball. But

47:09

that's not gonna happen when you got Paul George,

47:12

and I'm gonna George's ridiculous.

47:14

So glad Victor Ladipo left. Look because

47:17

as a monster, look at the Victor left.

47:20

I mean, listen, we could talk and bang

47:22

our heads over to Kevin Durant leaving. But like you

47:24

when you look at Paul Reggie

47:26

Jackson, there's a lot of guys you see when they leave

47:29

that situation, it gets

47:31

a lot better for him. Yeah, because I guess

47:33

you have to scrutinize Russell Westburn because you look

47:35

at it, you like, yo, all this stuff. These

47:38

people leave. Even James Harden when

47:40

he was young, left Durant. You know, you

47:42

know this is gonna be like a part of his career, like a

47:44

standarders. He could win ten championships exactly.

47:47

You know, people are still like I

47:49

mean, it's like Lebron, Kevin Durant,

47:51

like as far as the most school guys.

47:54

All right, So then who are the final

47:56

four teams? You got Houston in the west and

47:58

who else the state

48:01

and let's just to say Cleveland's getting out of the east.

48:04

So who do we got winning the championship? Can make

48:06

a prediction? Come on, oh man, if

48:08

either one of those teams are, I think they're handling

48:11

Cleveland pretty killing, And I think

48:13

so. I think so even

48:15

as well as Lebron is playing, it's amazing at

48:17

what you know Lebron has done over the last ridiculous

48:19

playing basketball. He's getting better in

48:21

his fifteenth year, but

48:24

I just don't see the firepower. I don't

48:26

see the camaraderie with

48:28

Cleveland so up and down, they

48:30

don't even know who's really

48:33

leading the squad. Sometimes I agree me personally,

48:35

I think Lebrons lead that squad. I think you should.

48:37

But you know who would say different? But

48:40

is that going to take you to a championship when you've got

48:42

young guys, young pieces like Jordan Clarkson

48:44

has never really been there exactly

48:48

that they're not, you know what I mean? If Lebron

48:50

wins it with those people at that point, you're like, hey,

48:52

I don't know. You know, if if there's somehow,

48:55

some way Lebron James and this this Cleveland

48:57

Cavaliers team won, I will sit

49:00

here and say he's Michael Jordan, He's better than my damn

49:02

win it. That being set, NFL,

49:05

NBA basketball? Who

49:07

in the NBA, Who in the NFL has

49:10

game basketball? Who who

49:12

could play ball that you played with

49:15

or that you've seen at these little bullcrap charity

49:17

games. Um,

49:20

do you guys play well? We had a guy on our

49:22

team. His name was Darren Fells. He

49:24

actually played professional basketball overseas

49:26

before he started playing football. So me,

49:29

I haven't seen a lot of guys who I can only

49:31

speak for my team the time. Who

49:33

who's nice on the on the Lions Slay

49:36

is actually pretty good there, slays actually

49:38

pretty he's really athletic. The already gets really

49:40

good. Uh, can my man

49:42

Golladay with them them a little long? As

49:44

I've never seen him? Who never seen him? Who? That

49:46

kid doesn't even talk? Man, he doesn't. He's

49:48

he's like that pitted me of a Chicago kid. Just

49:50

tough, just just go get it, like every day

49:52

he's just come in to work. Now. He's a quiet dude. I

49:55

love that kid. Yeah, he's just real quiet. I

49:57

mean here talked to you, you know, like he's

49:59

not just the most outspoken

50:01

individual. Does he remind you at all of Calvin

50:04

Johnson? I mean, I know that's a high, Like

50:07

I mean in terms of the size and the

50:09

jump ball ability for sure? What

50:12

about my man Stafford? Can he play ball? I

50:14

don't know if he actually can't, Well he should.

50:16

He has a court in his house that

50:19

he lets his hoop at every Halloween, so he

50:21

should be at the hoop. I don't know. But he didn't he the

50:23

court in his house, he didn't. He don't he don't come play

50:25

it. Probably not, I don't know. I'm not

50:27

even sure. All right, So Nebraska,

50:30

you played football in Nebraska your

50:32

senior season because you you were you were thinking about

50:34

leaving your junior right and and when

50:37

you were thinking about leaving, what was the reason

50:39

why you wound up staying? Like? Is

50:41

it education? Is it you're not ready?

50:44

Is it you want to get you want to get ready? Like

50:46

when you look back at it, like, what was the real reason why

50:48

you stayed? When extra season?

50:50

It was a combination of a couple of things.

50:53

I'm a big believer, always finished

50:55

what you start. Uh. My mom

50:58

she raised nine, you

51:00

know, competent children. Eight of them

51:02

at the time had gotten their degrees. So

51:05

I didn't want to only had like five

51:08

credits left and was left. And you know,

51:10

once you leave school, you don't really want to come back. Uh.

51:13

And I felt like I need a lot more personal

51:15

education. I feel like I needed to learn people

51:18

more because a lot of people who stepped

51:20

from the collegian realm to the professional realm,

51:23

they don't understand this is a business and you're

51:25

dealing with people, You're dealing with the psychology

51:27

of the game now, and it's a lot more personal

51:29

education I feel like I needed before I was free to take

51:31

that step. That's dope. That's cool that that you

51:33

were that that aware of that, and

51:35

so I I gotta give it to my sisters and brothers. I

51:37

mean that they you know, they're screwing me to the game for sure.

51:40

So you wound up graduating what was your

51:42

degree in pre law and double major

51:45

history? Damn, that's

51:47

alright. That's two attorneys in my family. Two

51:50

attorney said, all right, that's impressive.

51:53

I mean, you know, that's impressive for anybody, but a football

51:55

player. Heisman candidate. Well,

51:58

what is your take? You know, like every

52:00

March it comes up

52:02

n c A. Uh. With basketball, it's

52:05

like then it'll die down. You know where I'm

52:07

going, and then you know, come come August

52:09

they start talking about Uh. You know with football,

52:13

you're a smart guy. Obviously you played,

52:15

you participated. Uh, now you're

52:17

in the NFL. What is your take on

52:20

paying college athletes and do

52:22

you think it will actually ever happen. I'm

52:25

not sure if it'd ever happened, but

52:28

I definitely believe that players

52:30

should be able to use their likeness in certain

52:32

opportunities to make money. I mean, if

52:34

if a guy has possibly

52:36

like a trading card deal, you know, because I mean what

52:39

they make annually on East player in

52:42

college football and just on March Madness

52:44

a law, it's ridiculous, you know what,

52:46

what what they can do to facilitate

52:48

that through the players and through a lot of

52:50

different benefit programs. I feel like it will be a lot

52:53

more helpful than where the money is actually going now. But

52:56

um, I think players should

52:58

at least use a likeness in some situations. I

53:00

mean when you're there, like, how much are

53:02

they explaining to you? Like are they breaking

53:04

down? Do this? Don't do that? Don't sign

53:06

this? Because so many kids it seems like I mean,

53:09

you know, I think it was Manzel like he signed

53:11

cards. I mean, it's the list goes on and on and

53:13

on, and then you start hearing about this.

53:15

Are they explaining the rules the dudes and don't

53:17

still they do? Um, I think it's

53:19

more to to make sure nothing

53:22

slips by them, you know, as

53:24

opposed to really educating us on what the

53:26

rules are. I got you, Uh.

53:30

We have meetings before every training

53:32

camp, every fall camp, whereever you want to call

53:34

in college before every spring ball telling

53:36

us to know compliance they come down and say

53:39

if this guy shows up, be aware of this guy.

53:41

You know, they even have guys mark down who are

53:43

like the boosters to watch for and stuff

53:45

like that to stay away from. Definitely

53:47

like that could be. Like, I just think it's ridiculous

53:50

that, um, a lot of players can

53:52

go out and perform in front of hundreds

53:54

of thousands and make so much

53:56

money for the university, but they can't get a free dinner

53:59

from a buster alumni you

54:01

know who's been there, who just enjoys to watch

54:03

you play on Saturday. If you go to dinner with a

54:05

booster Joe Schmo, Tony soprano

54:07

looking dude, and he's he's been there,

54:09

he's giving money to the school. He could

54:12

give money to the school. But he can't take

54:14

a mir Abdullah out to Red Lobster exactly.

54:16

He can't even buy you a soda. You can't even do it.

54:18

So if he buys you a soda dollar

54:22

like you guys are just there like wherever

54:25

pizza, Holy

54:27

shit, it's ridiculous. So you have to say,

54:29

no, I got the soda Damn, that's

54:32

crazy. Yeah. My my freshman year, I was actually

54:35

involved in the situation where I was unknowingly

54:38

let someone buy me a subway sandwich

54:40

and I had to go through extreme links of finding

54:43

the receipt so I can pay the exact amount

54:45

back to that person. And how did they even track this

54:47

situation? It was like after

54:50

Twitter, I was like, thanks for the sandwich, you know, thank

54:52

them, and then they tracked that down and

54:55

it was it was ridiculous. That was my first taste

54:57

stuff like the in c double as a bunch of bullshit. Really

55:00

um, all right, So when you look

55:02

back at all the games you played at Nebraska

55:05

the college atmosphere, where was

55:07

the toughest, craziest, rowdiest

55:09

fans that you played against? Probably

55:12

Ohio State. What is it like in there?

55:15

Well, we never had a good experience that they kicked

55:17

our ass every time when we were in there. But

55:19

it's just loud the whole time,

55:22

the entire time, and every time we always

55:24

had a night game prime Time TV

55:27

when Braxton Miller was playing at his best, Carlos

55:30

I was was killing us. Uh,

55:32

it was they were just rude to I

55:35

mean I remember one year they would be in as probably

55:37

by like thirty in the fourth quarter game is

55:39

over. That they're just saying personal

55:42

things that you know, they find personal things. And being

55:44

black and Muslim in this country,

55:46

obviously I hear a lot of

55:48

just like crazy, they're they're tracking

55:50

Bay as well, man Green Bay is like that

55:53

too. Yeah as a pro Yeah,

55:55

they're rough and they're rough man that they find

55:57

out a lot of like your personal history

56:00

and no that is not say whatever about

56:02

your sister's mom whatever, They'll look at the whole

56:04

thing. So you're a Muslim

56:07

this country since nine eleven,

56:09

being a Muslim is

56:11

such a scrutinize. It's a

56:13

lot of pressure, such a um

56:17

confusing, I think,

56:19

uh polarizing religion

56:23

in this country. What does

56:25

it mean to be a Muslim? You grew up

56:27

Muslim? What does it mean to see

56:29

from nine eleven? You how many years ago? Is that?

56:31

That's so you were a kid, I was in fourth grade,

56:34

you know, like before that

56:37

this was not an issue. And then since

56:39

they explain to me what being a Muslim iss you

56:41

and just every everything

56:44

that comes with it post nine eleven.

56:46

Essentially, well, I mean being a

56:48

Muslim for me has just been a man of faith,

56:50

just trusting in the process

56:52

of anything that's started into your life. You know, I really

56:54

believe that God makes this world

56:57

for individually everybody, which mean was meaning

56:59

specifically this world for you, just

57:01

like you made this world for me, and then that's how

57:03

I lived my life. But like you said,

57:05

after nine eleven and a lot of things have

57:07

just been scrutinized and twisted

57:10

through you know, media propaganda to

57:12

build up this villainous essence

57:15

of what Islam is about, you know, to try

57:18

to purify this country in a sense

57:20

of just Christianity

57:23

or whatever mindset they want the you

57:25

know, the country to believe.

57:28

And they do that, uh,

57:30

through villainizing people saying

57:32

this is what they believe, you know. And it's

57:35

I just find it ironic that the people

57:37

who know nothing about the religion, who

57:39

have never practiced the religion the day in the life,

57:42

I feel like they're constituted to speak

57:44

on or say this is what they believe, or

57:47

this is how they act, or this is what

57:49

they want us to do, you know,

57:51

and it's it's I just

57:53

I just wish a lot of people would thoroughly educate themselves

57:56

on why would a lot of people be

57:58

mad you know, why would it a

58:00

lot of these so called extremists be upset?

58:03

Is this something out America did that's not

58:05

highlighted? And you know mainstream you

58:08

know media, Uh,

58:09

why why are we over there? You know, why are

58:12

we involving these things? And I'm not saying

58:14

what they do all right at all. I

58:16

don't agree with killing anyone, you

58:18

know, but at the same time, we

58:20

can't turn a blind eye to and

58:24

just think people would just react out of nothing.

58:26

You know, my dad always says,

58:29

anytime I see a kid on the playground, you

58:32

know, punch a kid, I don't

58:34

always get mad at that guy who threw the punch. First

58:36

I think, what did they guy do to deserve that

58:39

punch? You know? And all that. It

58:41

is not always that they got deserved that punch, but

58:43

at least you got to ask those questions. Do

58:45

you think like it has the stigma and the

58:48

sort of like there it's I guess the words stigma.

58:50

It's like, oh Muslim, you know, is

58:53

that felt like a burden, especially being a professional man.

58:55

Yeah, I feel like I'm constantly explaining

58:58

myself. But I've brought

59:00

up a lot all the time, all the time, and

59:03

especially you know, going into training camp. A lot of time

59:05

Ramadan falls going into O, T, A.

59:07

S. And I get the same questions, how do you do

59:10

it? How do you? And then they're making such an alien

59:12

thing as if this country isn't a

59:14

salad bowl of religion or isn't

59:17

a salad bowl of cultures. And I'm

59:19

like, this country wasn't founded

59:21

on Christianity. This country wasn't

59:23

founded on just white people. It wasn't

59:25

just founded on black people or whatever you want

59:27

to say. I just founded on people

59:30

in the human race. But it's

59:32

like I said, it's been this stereotype that

59:35

America, America Christianity. That's

59:37

not what that means. But and they

59:39

try to, like you know, in the media a lot, they try

59:41

to build as if it's such a feign thing,

59:44

as if this came over later. But

59:46

this has been right here for years.

59:49

It's almost as if like the religion started

59:52

after night and last after night, and level like it just

59:54

spawned from wherever.

59:57

You know, it's crazy, it is, it's crazy.

1:00:00

And being a football player, I mean in this day

1:00:02

and age, I mean, one thing that's interesting

1:00:05

about being a fan of football,

1:00:08

being a fan of the NBA, NBA

1:00:10

obviously there's no uniforms, Like when

1:00:13

I saw you at the work and I'm like, oh ship,

1:00:15

that's to me, or like when you guys don't have

1:00:17

your uniforms on, you have the helmets on so

1:00:19

much like I would you know what if you ever

1:00:21

if I see you with your uniform and

1:00:23

you're I'm like, I'm abdulla. You

1:00:25

know all those dudes out there, Um,

1:00:28

you're like in a twenty four hour

1:00:30

seven during the season. I think basketball

1:00:33

it's worse because you know where

1:00:35

we we know all the players because they're they're not

1:00:37

covered, you know, the the you're like in a

1:00:39

reality show. And last year two seasons

1:00:41

actually with the Kaepernick uh

1:00:43

situation, um, which

1:00:46

it's so clear as to was

1:00:49

that like last year's like conversation,

1:00:51

Uh was? It was? It NonStop?

1:00:54

It was well for me and for

1:00:56

our team. It was a big deal, you know because

1:00:59

it was a lot of a

1:01:01

couple of players, myself included. You know, we demonstrate,

1:01:03

you know, demonstrate over every going into two thousand

1:01:06

seven, this page

1:01:08

wells six hours involved and Tower down

1:01:11

seven two sixteens when it started. And

1:01:13

then because we're in two thousand eighteen, so two

1:01:15

thousand sixteen was when CAP was still with the

1:01:17

Niners. Okay, like, what

1:01:20

has it been Like? It's fucking crazy, It's

1:01:22

been unbelievable. It's uh,

1:01:25

it's like living in a revolving

1:01:28

door because a lot of people

1:01:30

just really want to ignore the

1:01:33

issue and and they want to make

1:01:35

it about uh material

1:01:37

thing. They want to make it about the flag and

1:01:40

ignore that this flag doesn't represent

1:01:43

just the military. It doesn't represent

1:01:45

just a veteran. It's supposed

1:01:47

to represent teachers, mothers, daughters,

1:01:50

fathers, Muslims,

1:01:52

Christians, everybody. And

1:01:55

the only thing that capped every day about

1:01:57

taking a stance was holding people accountable

1:02:01

to what you say this flag means unless

1:02:03

you say this country represents and

1:02:07

some people don't like that when you hold them accountable,

1:02:09

they don't like that, and they try to twist

1:02:11

your words and turn it as if

1:02:14

you're sending hate towards a specific

1:02:17

group, but they're contradicting

1:02:19

themselves because you're saying you're about Americanism,

1:02:21

I mean on patriotism and love of

1:02:24

this country, but this country and captures

1:02:26

everybody. And when you're not showing

1:02:31

universal justice for everyone

1:02:33

in this country, then you you can't

1:02:35

call yourself American. You can't call yourself

1:02:37

a patriot. Did you ever imagine

1:02:39

that when you guys first kneeled going

1:02:42

into two thousand sixteen

1:02:45

that it would turn into what

1:02:47

it's turned into. Because I can't

1:02:49

believe that Colin Kaepernick as

1:02:52

a football player with totally unbiased

1:02:54

nous, whether you agree with them or not agree with

1:02:56

them, straight up, a

1:02:59

college appernick should absolutely be in the

1:03:01

NFL. Wise, at least is

1:03:03

a backup. Right, at least at least

1:03:05

as a backup. I mean, I'm gonna

1:03:07

forget, forget everything that happened. I'm not going to credit

1:03:10

any other quarterback in this league, but as

1:03:12

a backup, yeah,

1:03:15

because you need three quarterbacks. I

1:03:17

mean that's not just some crazy ship, right, that's

1:03:19

just I mean if if he's not even

1:03:21

thirty, if you have Callen Capi at your

1:03:23

third quarterback, you're winning. You're like, dude,

1:03:25

I got my third stringer has been to Super

1:03:28

Bowl before, and my third stringer at least at

1:03:30

least he's gonna be able to get the ball down. That's

1:03:33

for real, right, with all unbiasedness,

1:03:35

without all prejudice, whatever, he should

1:03:38

absolutely the skill set should be playing in

1:03:40

the NFL. It's it's

1:03:42

just ridiculous too to at

1:03:44

this point say it's about talent as

1:03:46

opposed to the stand that he made.

1:03:49

It's amazing to me, Eric Reid, He's

1:03:53

now like he's not signed with a team,

1:03:56

And I didn't

1:03:58

know that. I didn't know. I was just with

1:04:01

him a couple of weeks ago. As far as

1:04:03

I know, he's not signed or he wasn't signed when like

1:04:05

the last time I looked, and you know, he made

1:04:07

a either him or his agent was like he

1:04:10

almost made a public

1:04:13

thing saying if he goes to a team, he won't kneel.

1:04:15

And I'm like, this is insane to me, like

1:04:17

that that has to like, yeah, that

1:04:19

he won't kneel as if

1:04:22

kneeling just and

1:04:24

this is a star, like you know, he's a man

1:04:26

of one of the best things in the leagu he's

1:04:30

not even like there's no excuses.

1:04:33

Um so last year, Like what do you make

1:04:35

of it? Like and what what do you guys do going

1:04:37

forward? Like it is a business, you

1:04:39

know, do you feel like you have to compromise yourself

1:04:42

like or is it is it not worth it to kneeling

1:04:44

against the scrutiny like and also

1:04:46

it's like, Yo, they're kicking motherfucker's out the league

1:04:48

for real, man, And I mean, this is our job. You know, a

1:04:51

lot of guys, this is how we make money. This is how we're you know,

1:04:53

setting ourselves up for the future, future

1:04:55

ventures that we want to go into. And

1:04:57

it's tough just you know, obviously making

1:04:59

that sasion if I'm going to near or

1:05:01

not, because I'm a big jay Z

1:05:03

fan and I believe in one line day says

1:05:05

I'd rather die enormous than to live dormant.

1:05:08

And you know that's the kind of person I am. You know, I'm

1:05:10

not going to conform myself

1:05:14

just so I can appease someone,

1:05:16

you know. But it is tough when you know a lot of

1:05:18

these people have children. Professional

1:05:21

football player and you're a professional and

1:05:24

I understand the you know, don't bring necessarily

1:05:26

politics to work, but it's tough when politics

1:05:28

are brought to us to work every single day week

1:05:31

We're forced to sing the national anthem every day.

1:05:33

That's politics, man, you know what I mean, Like,

1:05:35

how how can you tell me not to, you

1:05:38

know, bring politics on my political

1:05:40

stand or belief towards something. When I'm

1:05:42

a public figure and I have the media

1:05:44

asking me about Donald Trump or asking

1:05:46

me about how I feel about this happened. That

1:05:48

that's to my that's to my job, that's to my workplace.

1:05:51

Are asking me, uh, well,

1:05:53

what have you been a Muslim athlete? Mean,

1:05:55

that's you bringing my political being

1:05:58

to my workplace. That's not because

1:06:00

that's not like a normal job. And when

1:06:03

I'm a person, I'm a human. You know,

1:06:05

I have feelings, I have, you know,

1:06:07

thoughts or opinions on things. And

1:06:10

when I see people of color

1:06:12

being killed in the streets at an alarming

1:06:15

rate and no justice being

1:06:17

certain, and am

1:06:19

I not allowed to express

1:06:22

my distaste for that because I

1:06:25

know especially it's I know, if the shoe

1:06:27

was on the other foot, if it was a

1:06:31

terrorist attack demonstrated through by

1:06:33

ISIS and we took a knee

1:06:35

for whatever the situation

1:06:37

was because of military people were killed, people

1:06:40

will stand up and clop, stand up

1:06:42

and clap. But what's the difference between these

1:06:45

African Americans? Are brown people in this country

1:06:48

being killed and we're taking a stand for them who

1:06:50

are actually citizens of this country?

1:06:52

Why it's that different? You know? But

1:06:55

like you said, it is tough because people's

1:06:57

jobs are being taken away. I didn't know Eric

1:06:59

Reed and Leaven on a team. Yeah yeah, I

1:07:01

mean, and Cap is like they made an example at him.

1:07:04

That's like fucking like, that's like and that's what people saying

1:07:06

is like that's what he gets like for.

1:07:11

That's like, you know, it's a lynching.

1:07:14

It's an example of a lynching. It's it's not

1:07:16

a lynching obviously, but like how

1:07:18

they used to lynch people like publicly,

1:07:20

like Yo, this is what's gonna happen. This

1:07:23

is what this is. It's a fucking lynching. They

1:07:25

made an example his fucking guy. And

1:07:27

and you know, I got into my little ship with Manzell,

1:07:30

this whole thing with him. It's like listen,

1:07:32

I wish uh if you're

1:07:34

everybody to reach your dreams. Now it's

1:07:36

kind of like, well, you ain't playing in the NFL,

1:07:39

you know, man'zell because you were

1:07:41

doing wild ship. And he happens to be a quarterback

1:07:44

and he's a polarizing quarterback, just

1:07:46

like Kaepernick because of polarized quarterback. Totally

1:07:49

different things. And it's like and whether or not Man's

1:07:51

own has a skill set, but it's like, you

1:07:53

know, you ain't playing in the NFL now, Like he's

1:07:55

sort of gotten swept up in this because

1:07:58

it's just it's a mess. Let's let's talk of

1:08:00

football, your football. Detroit Lions.

1:08:03

Matt Stafford signs a contract

1:08:05

last year for seven hundred billion dollars. Does

1:08:08

he buy the team dinner? Like when you go when you

1:08:10

guys are on the road with Matt Stafford? Uh,

1:08:13

Like, no one's reaching for the wallet. Like,

1:08:16

I mean, what was his contract? Four ni

1:08:18

billion, six hund a million. It

1:08:21

was a lot. It was definitely a lot. I

1:08:23

think it was like one thirty five

1:08:25

million five at

1:08:27

the time. You know, quarterbacks is just getting higher

1:08:29

and higher for him, but he was the highest player ever.

1:08:32

Um, he hosts events at his house. Okay,

1:08:35

let's just come over all the time. It's a real cool guy.

1:08:38

Uh So that's enough for me. I'm not gonna actually

1:08:41

know, buy me dinner or anything. But but

1:08:43

I mean, if we're at dinner and it's like we're gonna look at

1:08:46

I don't know Matt. If I if

1:08:48

I'm in the same res if I'm in Ruth Chris

1:08:50

and he's in the restaurant, Um,

1:08:52

I've I've had him on that fantasy teams. I'm

1:08:54

gonna expect him to pend with the hundred thirty five

1:08:56

million, and don't forget that he was the first pick

1:08:58

in oh nine to before before

1:09:01

the news cb A. So the

1:09:03

money's coming in. The money's there, money's

1:09:05

definitely there, all right. So your crew, Uh,

1:09:08

they just signed with Garrett who for

1:09:10

some reason is like I don't know why the

1:09:12

Garrett blund is taking for granted, guy he

1:09:14

kicked ass with the Patriots when he

1:09:16

he kicked out, I don't understand. And maybe the age,

1:09:19

but other than that,

1:09:23

that's the thing. Like the year before last

1:09:25

with the Patriots, he broke records last

1:09:27

year when he got the ball he kicked ass. How

1:09:30

excited are you uh to

1:09:32

have him? But you know, you guys in Detroit,

1:09:35

like your running game, it's been a three headed

1:09:37

monster. And I get from I'm a fantasy football

1:09:39

expert. That's a fact. I've had you on my fantasy

1:09:41

football team. You guys are one of the teams

1:09:44

Uh where the ball gets distributed

1:09:47

last? Is that frustrating? And

1:09:50

and what do you know going into a game plan

1:09:52

like all right, I mean you're gonna get ten touches?

1:09:55

Uh you know THEO You're gonna get twelve

1:09:57

touches? Like how does it get broken up? Like so the two

1:09:59

part question is it frustrating at times? Did

1:10:01

you break up your rhythm? It's frustrating,

1:10:04

especially coming from Nebraska where I

1:10:06

was a guy. You know, I knew I was gonna get the ball at least

1:10:09

twenty times a game. And for

1:10:11

me, it's not necessarily getting

1:10:15

a certain number of touches, is

1:10:17

getting meaningful touches and

1:10:19

getting into a rhythm that that that's where

1:10:21

it gets kind of frustrating. Where you know the

1:10:24

coaches, they I trust their game plan. You

1:10:26

know, they go in and you know they're much smarter than me.

1:10:28

They go in and they dissect how they

1:10:30

want to attack the team we're playing and how

1:10:32

they want to break down the touches. But it's hard when I

1:10:35

come in, I get a care and I break it for about ten yards.

1:10:37

Then I come out for about three plays. Then

1:10:40

I gotta come in to like pass protect.

1:10:42

Then I don't get my next carrier to like the next quarter.

1:10:44

Do you know that going into a game sort of

1:10:46

the scheme, you have no clue. I mean, we're

1:10:49

in the past heavy offense as it is right past

1:10:51

heavy offense. Uh uh,

1:10:53

So it's tough to

1:10:55

make the most of some of your touches um

1:10:59

first when you don't know when they're gonna come. But

1:11:02

for me, what I've learned the most about Detroit, what

1:11:05

I appreciated about Detroit is the

1:11:07

fact that mentally I'm a lot tougher

1:11:09

than I ever would have been if I feel like I would win somewhere

1:11:12

else. Why just because it's

1:11:14

a very unconventional and different situation

1:11:16

for me. I don't get the ball as much

1:11:19

as I used to, uh with

1:11:21

with our past heavy offense they used still

1:11:23

a lot in the past. Unless they want

1:11:25

to go deep and use me to just run past people,

1:11:27

then they used me, and we don't run

1:11:29

the ball much. I probably got maybe like seven carries

1:11:31

a game last year, which is what less than

1:11:33

to a quarter. If you that's tough,

1:11:36

it's tough. It's tough, especially when you have a

1:11:38

lot of pressure on you to be that thousand

1:11:40

yard back and it's like, what do you

1:11:42

expect if I'm being six a game? But

1:11:45

you know, that's it's kind of tough. But I

1:11:47

appreciate that because it's made me a lot mentally

1:11:49

tougher, and going into the last year in my contract,

1:11:52

I feel like I'm ready for anything. This is coming. This

1:11:54

is your last year, my last year my contract.

1:11:56

This is the fourth year year of a

1:11:58

four year contract. So when you when you signed, you

1:12:00

signed a four year country. Um,

1:12:03

Maddie Patricia, who uh?

1:12:05

I mean this guy because I'm a Giants fan.

1:12:08

This guy drives me nuts. Have you met

1:12:10

Matti Patricia? You haven't met him personally yet.

1:12:12

Um, he simply you know,

1:12:14

obviously a couple of emails to the team and stuff like

1:12:16

that. But I've done my own research. I know this dudes

1:12:18

like a genius. He's a genius. Yeah. I

1:12:20

read someone where like he was studying to be like an

1:12:23

astrophysicist or something like that.

1:12:25

So, I mean, obviously the brain powers

1:12:27

there. I'm interested to see how he conducts

1:12:29

the team. Obviously, you know, being a defensive

1:12:31

coordinator not necetionally been a head coach. Now

1:12:34

you have to, you know, work with two different realms with the team.

1:12:36

I'm interested to see and I'm just excited. I

1:12:38

love new change. I always like new change. Yeah,

1:12:40

I think it'll be exciting. I mean I think, you

1:12:42

know, coming from from Belichick, obviously,

1:12:46

you know the people, the expectations are gonna be high.

1:12:48

Has it been frustrating, like you're you're so damn

1:12:50

close. There's so much talent on that team,

1:12:53

you know, Uh is it frustrating?

1:12:56

Like it's always like you guys are always like the week

1:12:58

fifteen, weeks sixteen, so they could cocker

1:13:01

shit. I mean it's frustrating

1:13:03

for me just because, for one, we have

1:13:05

a quarterback who is probably gonna be we're

1:13:08

looking at his numbers. You might end up in the Hall of

1:13:10

Fame, right and anytime

1:13:12

you have a guy like that, especially in the league, like a

1:13:15

quarterback driven league, right now, you want

1:13:17

to make the most of you know, his time before

1:13:19

he starts to you know, regress. And I feel

1:13:22

like Matt is, he's on the up, So

1:13:24

we definitely have to ride that wave

1:13:26

and just produce. Man. I think I think things are

1:13:28

coming together. I know we made a couple of coaching

1:13:30

changes and hopefully we get you know, a couple

1:13:33

of guys in there who really are going to look and

1:13:35

evaluate our talent and use each talent

1:13:38

individually to succeed, not

1:13:40

just to run a scheme, but to see

1:13:42

these guys and be like, I gotta get him involved. This

1:13:44

way. I got you, you know, like you like

1:13:46

do what you as opposed to just instead

1:13:49

of just running I got you. That's that never

1:13:51

works. I got you, I got you. Um

1:13:54

uh, Thanksgiving. You haven't been

1:13:56

able to rest on a Thanksgiving

1:13:59

for the last were years. What is

1:14:01

it like playing on Thanksgiving? And

1:14:03

you know, like how big are those games?

1:14:05

And do you actually get to actually eat a Thanksgiving

1:14:08

Day meal? Uh? Well,

1:14:10

I appreciate Thanksgiving probably differently

1:14:13

than what why the typical Americans appreciate.

1:14:15

Probably just been around my family. I don't really support

1:14:17

Thanksgiving, like right, I got you, But it is still

1:14:19

a day like it's a day of rest. Whatever, is a day

1:14:22

where I supposed always watched the football

1:14:24

game. And you gotta everybody's gotta eat something that you're

1:14:26

eating, you know what I mean. Your mom's gonna put down

1:14:29

the best meal she can for the year

1:14:31

pretty much. And uh it's

1:14:34

tough. I've had my family come to me now,

1:14:37

the entire crew, most of them, most of

1:14:39

them. I have one sister lives in d C. She has her

1:14:41

own family, so that's always tough for her to

1:14:43

to come to us. But for the last how

1:14:45

do you distribute tick? Can you get tickets? You got eight

1:14:47

brothers and sisters, they might have a wife. What

1:14:50

are we doing here? Yeah? Man,

1:14:52

sometimes I need to cut a deal with him because the most

1:14:54

time I gotta come out of my pocket, you know, for most of these tickets.

1:14:56

But I understand if it's a holiday, I don't

1:14:58

mind. You know, I want my family to be there, especially,

1:15:01

you know, it's always where we're one of the

1:15:03

few games is playing that day US

1:15:05

and another team, so I know all of

1:15:07

Americans watching, that's a special woman for them to be

1:15:09

there. So you mentioned green

1:15:12

Bay. You guys play green Bay,

1:15:14

Minnesota, Chicago, you

1:15:16

you you mentioned green Bay is the toughest place

1:15:19

to play. What is it like

1:15:21

playing in Green Bay? Well, for one

1:15:23

of the grass is always bad. It's

1:15:25

always better field, Yeah, just because

1:15:27

the terrain in the Midwest is just unpredictable

1:15:30

and ulrain the day before it is

1:15:33

always wet. The grass is never just intact

1:15:35

like that, so the field is always

1:15:37

tough. Then the next thing is like

1:15:40

Green Bay, their fans I guess

1:15:43

own the team or something and they're like owned

1:15:45

by the city or something, so they definitely

1:15:48

bring that ownership type of attitude

1:15:50

like it's their team, like man,

1:15:52

and they just I mean, it

1:15:54

brings passion but at the same time, it's kind of a

1:15:56

scary feeling playing there because those those

1:15:58

fans are really brutal, are they really

1:16:00

they are? They're brutal for sure. I

1:16:03

remember um, like I said,

1:16:05

being black and Muslim, it's it's like a double

1:16:08

you know, pressure on me

1:16:11

sometimes. I remember my rookie

1:16:13

year. I forgot what I think

1:16:15

maybe it wasn't after the Boston bombent what

1:16:17

what happened in two it was?

1:16:19

I think it was Boston was in Boston. We

1:16:22

were having a moment of silence, which

1:16:26

it's ridiculous when people yelled and screamed

1:16:28

on moments of silence, but all you can

1:16:30

hear was death to Muslims and this

1:16:32

and the third while you're having the moment, having

1:16:35

a moment of silence, and I'm sitting

1:16:37

there, I'm just like, man, they're talking to me.

1:16:39

You know, I'm probably the only Muslim on the field, and

1:16:42

then I'm hearing all this stuff and nowhere else.

1:16:44

I don't think I would have heard that necessarily

1:16:46

than Green Bay. So it was it

1:16:49

was definitely an eye opening thing for me. That's

1:16:51

crazy. It was crazy, man, when when

1:16:53

you when you're on the field in

1:16:55

the stadium, like Green Bay, a

1:16:58

Minnesota, Chicago, a

1:17:00

tough Philadelphia. They're animals out

1:17:02

there. Can you hear the

1:17:05

fans a lot of times? We can. I know in New York

1:17:07

you can because in New York there right on top of you kinda.

1:17:10

So we played in New York this past year on

1:17:12

Monday Night football and we were winning

1:17:14

pretty good, and the fans.

1:17:16

That's I like New York fans because they never give

1:17:18

up though, you know, they just say

1:17:20

funny stuff in the back year, you know, back of

1:17:22

year the whole time. But yeah, you you

1:17:24

usually can, especially when they're

1:17:27

calling out the quarterback or calling

1:17:29

that one specific player. You can definitely can hear all the

1:17:31

stuff they're saying. All right, what

1:17:33

was your first Oh shit, I'm in the NFL

1:17:35

moment where you were like on the field plane

1:17:38

but you were like, there's And

1:17:40

it was Monday night football my rookie

1:17:43

year. We were playing the Denver Broncos and you're Payton

1:17:45

win one Super Bowl and

1:17:48

he ran out on the field and

1:17:50

that was the first time I had seen a guy and I was like,

1:17:52

damn, that's a quarterback, because like I see

1:17:54

Matt all the time. So I'm like, okay,

1:17:56

that's just Stafford. But when I saw Peyton

1:17:58

Manny come out there, warm and up, I was like, that's

1:18:02

the Hall of Fame quarterback. I didn't realize

1:18:04

he was a tall I didn't realize

1:18:06

like that was you know, that was paying Manning. He had like

1:18:08

a legendary night that night to lit us up. But

1:18:11

that was my first like, oh shift, I'm in the

1:18:13

NFL. I'm on the same field with

1:18:15

a guy I used to play matting with

1:18:18

when I was little. That's Payton Manning.

1:18:20

So I mean that was special. That's cool. Um,

1:18:24

NFL defensive players, you got

1:18:26

my guy all day, big

1:18:28

play, Darius Slay, the safeties,

1:18:30

the defensive backs, these are the biggest ship

1:18:32

talkers in the NFL. You're you seem like a mild

1:18:35

manner, dude. You don't seem like a real ship

1:18:37

talker. It depends. It depends on the day.

1:18:39

Give it to me, because because I'm a Hall of Fame

1:18:41

ship talker, do you instigate the ship talking

1:18:43

or see everybody? Everybody I've interviewed

1:18:46

football players and they all say they don't

1:18:48

start, that they finished it. But I have to say the

1:18:50

defensive defensive players always started.

1:18:52

Who are the biggest, right, So who are the biggest ship

1:18:54

talkers opposition that you've played

1:18:56

against? Uh? Team ares Uh.

1:19:00

He probably is the biggest ship talker. Khalil

1:19:02

Mack. Khalil Mack for sure.

1:19:06

Let me think to us. Oh, Vince Williams lying

1:19:08

back and from the Pittsburgh Steelers. He from

1:19:11

the from the on set. That's his attitude. I respect

1:19:13

him, but I don't but I don't really like him. I don't

1:19:15

really like him. But he talks a lot of ship he does. Yeah,

1:19:18

he's probably number one. He's probably NB one. And what

1:19:20

about like the DBS in the safeties because they

1:19:22

seem like they have like Napoleon complix the

1:19:24

DBS and safeties. They just say like

1:19:26

funny. Dominique Rogers Camardi is pretty

1:19:29

he's a ship talker, but it's like funny, Okay,

1:19:31

you don't take them serious. He's just saying just you know, weird,

1:19:34

weird stuff to you, just to get you thinking

1:19:36

about anything else than making plays. And

1:19:38

you said you talked to you, are you like, what

1:19:40

would get you going? What?

1:19:43

What what gets me going is obviously I'm running

1:19:45

back, so I'm at the bottom of the paler lots

1:19:47

when I'm trying to get up and someone tries to like use

1:19:50

your body to push themselves

1:19:52

up. That's like my biggest pet peeve on the field.

1:19:55

Like when you're when you're getting up and you feel someone

1:19:57

like pushing you back down

1:20:00

so they can get themselves up. All that

1:20:02

ship pisses me off and that that would get me going out.

1:20:04

That's when I get fired up. When you're at the bottom

1:20:06

of a pile. What

1:20:08

is the nastiest thing that's happened?

1:20:11

Like is it spitting? Like if

1:20:13

there's a fumble and like is it like what what's

1:20:15

going on? Like that's like to me, like a scary

1:20:18

environment, like I forget, just like a like

1:20:20

attack, like when when there's a fumble and everybody's

1:20:22

diving and grabbing and pulling. What

1:20:25

is happening under that? That's this thing that's happened

1:20:27

to me. It was my rookie year when Claire's

1:20:29

Campbell was still with Arizona. He was

1:20:31

on top of me and like his belly was

1:20:33

out and his

1:20:36

stomach was on my advisor and he was

1:20:38

sweating so much that it literally dripped

1:20:40

him to my eyeball. It was the

1:20:42

nastiest thing ever. Man. That

1:20:44

is funny, that's disgusting. I was.

1:20:47

I was pissed. I was like, damn, I had to come out.

1:20:49

And that is

1:20:51

found. That's a big man. That's

1:20:53

a big man. He's like six nine. That's

1:20:55

a dude. And he's sweating on you

1:20:59

and you you just you you're at it, murder. You can't

1:21:02

there, you know what, I'm some two three

1:21:05

something like when there's a

1:21:07

fumble and everybody's diving after it. That's

1:21:10

the scariest thing ever. What is that? What

1:21:13

is that? It's that split the

1:21:15

moment you gotta make the decision, like, am

1:21:18

I about this life? Because

1:21:20

dudes are coming in. I remember when

1:21:22

Cam Newton fumbled into the Super Bowl at one

1:21:24

time he made that decision. I

1:21:27

wonder about that life because you dive

1:21:29

in there and you're trying to reach your arm out, so gonna

1:21:31

hit your arm you Tara l Abraham, It's

1:21:33

it's dangerous, man, because picking up that

1:21:36

ball is that's hundreds of thousands of dollars.

1:21:38

Anytime a defender recovers a fumble, that

1:21:40

goes on his stats and that's something he can goes to

1:21:42

the negotiation table and he's like, hey, I

1:21:45

recovered this many fumbles. You know what I'm saying?

1:21:47

So those defenders are flying in there,

1:21:49

man, like, that's one of the most dangerous,

1:21:52

most underrated, dangerous parts of football

1:21:54

is a fumble recovery that in the field

1:21:56

goal. Why I feel gold just because

1:21:58

you if you look at the

1:22:01

lineman blocking on field goal, these

1:22:03

guys legs are strouded open

1:22:06

and they can't really move because they don't want to make

1:22:09

any separation between so a

1:22:11

defender can't get in and blocked, and they're

1:22:13

just exposing themselves to God's

1:22:15

just torpedo missiling through

1:22:17

their legs stern UM's rib

1:22:20

cages to block that ball. It's that's

1:22:22

a dangerous ass play. What's

1:22:24

the like, uh, the hardest

1:22:26

hit? Do you remember where you're like? It

1:22:29

was actually air greed. It was actually

1:22:31

air greed. I was I was tip torn.

1:22:33

I had broke like a twenty run. I'm a little

1:22:35

trying to dance out of bounds a little bit because I

1:22:38

felt good about myself. Right before I stepped

1:22:40

out of bounds, he lifted

1:22:42

me, lifted me, and I went flying, and

1:22:44

I remember like landing by our own like

1:22:46

the defensive bench, and they

1:22:48

looked at me and they're just laughing. I'm like, damn,

1:22:50

we were winning, but I was like, that's

1:22:53

gonna be on somebody's highlight because he I

1:22:56

flew like eight yards. Man, it was a hard hit. Do

1:22:58

you are the hits like that? Because

1:23:02

you know, if your guys are laughing, it's

1:23:04

not one of these scariest are the hits

1:23:06

like that? Like? What are the ones that hurt the most? Is

1:23:08

hit? Like the more subtle things is that the way you

1:23:10

fall. It could just be like hit somebody hitting your hip.

1:23:12

A lot of times, it's it's the way you fall,

1:23:15

you know, because like if you're

1:23:18

wrapped up all one guy and then another

1:23:20

guy comes and hits you at another direction,

1:23:23

you gotta make sure your body falls in

1:23:25

a certain way that won't twist up your bones

1:23:28

and your ligaments and stuff. Those are the hits

1:23:30

that I kind of like, you know, I'm cognitive of I've

1:23:32

been fortunate that I've never been diagnosed with, you

1:23:34

know, with a concussion, so I've never took

1:23:37

like direct shots to the head. But

1:23:40

the ones that I get a lot is when I'm in the power I'm

1:23:42

trying to drive my legs and then like another guy

1:23:44

comes and dives at my legs this way. Then the

1:23:46

guy dies on my upper body the other way, and

1:23:48

that's kind of like, you know, one way, you know,

1:23:50

hollowed a little bit, and that's when it gets kind of scared.

1:23:52

Are you conscious of like three things

1:23:55

going on? Hang onto the you

1:23:58

know, and you dr and but

1:24:00

but also protect yourself at all

1:24:02

times? So which first? Hang

1:24:04

onto the ball? Yeah, that's

1:24:06

definitely number one, hang on to the ball, and then the second

1:24:09

one to protect yourself, especially

1:24:11

like you gotta live to play another down.

1:24:13

So is the off season

1:24:15

now there's been two big scrutinies.

1:24:18

What the hell is a catch? What I would like you,

1:24:20

as a football player to explain to me what the hell is a catch?

1:24:22

Because last year was like I don't know what the hell

1:24:24

it catches? And then they've

1:24:27

they've changed again,

1:24:29

like you know, this is like real football ship

1:24:32

the hits with basically none

1:24:34

of the helmet. So what are the what is a catch?

1:24:37

Now? Do you know what it catches? I think I

1:24:39

do? Okay, catch is

1:24:42

you have to secure the football and

1:24:44

make a football move. What is that?

1:24:47

I think they they're saying.

1:24:50

If you drop your shoulders and

1:24:52

you square yourself up to your

1:24:55

own oppositions end

1:24:57

zone, that's a football move. So

1:24:59

if you catch it and you have the ability to square

1:25:01

yourself up and position your vision

1:25:04

to see other you know, other teams ends

1:25:06

on. That's a football move. If you're

1:25:08

catching it and you're not you know, not square

1:25:10

yet and you're running, then you get hit and

1:25:13

you followed, then the ball comes out, that's

1:25:15

not a catch. But if you can catch

1:25:17

the ball, square it up, take a step,

1:25:19

and then get tackled, then the ball comes out, it's probably

1:25:21

a fumble or just a catch. I

1:25:24

gotta be honest with me here, I'm not sure you know where

1:25:26

the catches. And I mean it's that

1:25:28

sounds good, but I mean because I think,

1:25:31

I mean, I don't know what they're still gonna be like figuring

1:25:33

it out for sure, because I mean you watched

1:25:35

that Pittsburgh game. That was a catch. That was a catch,

1:25:37

that was a catch. Pittsburgh should have been advancing

1:25:40

for sure. Um.

1:25:42

And then the helmet to helmet, no helmet

1:25:45

to helmet. I mean, obviously everybody

1:25:47

wants everybody to be safe. You know, I have compassion

1:25:49

sometimes listen dirty players or dirty plays.

1:25:52

But I told you from the beginning,

1:25:54

I'm slow as ship. But when you guys are

1:25:56

going full speed, and you

1:25:58

know, a mere Abdulah cat just you know, a seven

1:26:01

yard route, you might

1:26:03

slip. You you know,

1:26:05

you might be catching the ball like seeing

1:26:07

the defender go under and then

1:26:09

the defender he doesn't

1:26:12

know what the hell with me? Abdula is gonna do? If

1:26:14

you guys incidentally coincidentally

1:26:17

and it's not on purpose, bang heads, the

1:26:19

defender gets the penalty. Now,

1:26:21

obviously we don't want to see anybody hurt, but like,

1:26:24

where's this going? And

1:26:27

it is football, like sometimes head to

1:26:29

head contact happen. And

1:26:31

when you see it happened and you know it's

1:26:33

not on purpose, it's like, yo, if you're flying

1:26:35

that head and the receiver he

1:26:37

might have caught it and slipped, and the other guys

1:26:39

going low and we we catch heads. The

1:26:42

defender gets the penalty, even if

1:26:44

it's not on purpose. Clearly is

1:26:47

gonna slow the game down a lot, because

1:26:49

I think then with the new ruling,

1:26:52

I think they're like reviewing like discrepancy

1:26:54

if it was malicious or not, which

1:26:57

I mean, even then, it's gonna be a lot of gray areas.

1:27:00

It's definitely gonna slow the game down a lot because

1:27:02

you know how low those reviews take one.

1:27:04

And then secondly, it's just gonna change how

1:27:07

defenders play, you know, because

1:27:10

now I think sometimes it's

1:27:12

worse to tell him to go lower, because

1:27:14

a lot of times if those guys are coming in

1:27:16

for your legs once you're get in it, that's

1:27:18

how you get a lot of like broken legs,

1:27:22

dislocated knees. I remember it happened

1:27:24

to Gronk one time, because I mean, he's a big

1:27:26

guy, and a lot of times people hit

1:27:28

him low anyways because it's easier, and

1:27:30

some of the hits I see him take down low, I'm just

1:27:32

like, dude, hit me up top seriously.

1:27:35

Like So, I mean, I think it's definitely

1:27:37

gonna change how some some dbs

1:27:40

play. But when he when he comes to those

1:27:42

bang bang plays, it's nothing

1:27:44

you can do. Like you said, like if a receiver catches

1:27:46

it and makes a quick move the

1:27:48

projector of which what you don't the taco

1:27:51

him is going to be different than when you initially

1:27:53

did it, you know, so it may hit him in a helmet

1:27:55

or may hit him in the neck area. So

1:27:58

I just feel like that that rule, it's

1:28:01

gonna be tough to you. It's gonna be tough to judge what

1:28:03

players in the NFL. You're not playing

1:28:06

a game. Let's say you have you have your weekend off, who

1:28:08

are your favorite players to watch? For

1:28:11

one, Antonio Brown? That

1:28:13

dude is stupid Antonio.

1:28:15

How good is he? He's the best? Why

1:28:19

he can do anything, That's the thing. Like he can

1:28:21

play outside, inside, he can

1:28:23

run all day. He's gonna do some something

1:28:26

freaky at some point that just gonna make you say

1:28:28

wow. Um, I love watching O'Dell.

1:28:31

I think O'Dell is in that same boat. The dude

1:28:33

just unreal. Um. Defensive

1:28:35

players that I really like to watch because I feel

1:28:38

like they're just the best

1:28:40

at that position is probably Patrick Peterson.

1:28:42

Patrick Peterson is the best

1:28:45

pure corner I've seen in a long time, so

1:28:47

patient at the line of scrimmage with his jam,

1:28:50

you can make all these moves. He's sitting

1:28:52

there just chilling. But if you actually

1:28:54

make a move up the field, and like, you see

1:28:56

a lot of dbs, now, a lot of guys.

1:28:59

I mean, I love Josh Norman, you know, I love

1:29:01

a lot of these Richard Sherman guys like that. But when

1:29:03

I watched Patrick Peterson, I see a pure

1:29:05

corner, so like I like to watch him

1:29:08

a lot. Um Cam Newton.

1:29:10

I like watching Cam just because Cam

1:29:12

gave me some of the best When I was visited

1:29:15

Arben coming to high school, he gave me some of

1:29:17

the best encouragement now I could get. You know, I

1:29:19

was a guy I came in and I wasn't on

1:29:21

an official visit. You know, I wasn't like the

1:29:23

high recruited guy. And he saw me over

1:29:25

there kind of no down because a lot of guys were getting

1:29:27

all the love. He was like, man, don't even worry about

1:29:29

it. Man, just keeps driving. In life, You're gonna be exactly what you

1:29:31

want to be. Cam told me that when I was like eighteen,

1:29:34

So I like to watch Cam a lot. Do

1:29:36

you think like he? I love Cam

1:29:39

and I love him as I don't know him. I mean I

1:29:41

met him one time. I couldn't believe how damn big

1:29:43

he was huge? Yo. Yeah,

1:29:46

is he the biggest quarterback in the NFL? I

1:29:49

know Joe Flacco is pretty big. He's big

1:29:51

too, He's just real tall. But Cam

1:29:53

is, like, you know, Cam is bigger than all terms

1:29:56

of like physical like freak big.

1:29:58

Yeah. Cam is definitely Cam six

1:30:00

five fifty home

1:30:03

boy, like you know he's like buff, he's

1:30:06

status, Like he's like bodyguard, Like like that's

1:30:08

like a guy you were like that size bodyguard?

1:30:10

Yeah, for sure? Who

1:30:12

were the other like big dudes like like

1:30:15

Tom Brady's big, but

1:30:17

he's not big, not physically like imposing

1:30:20

like that. Um. Julio

1:30:22

Jones is he How tall is he?

1:30:25

He's not. He's probably six three and a half maybe

1:30:27

six four. But he's a google. Yeah,

1:30:29

Julio is he's made on

1:30:31

a lap table. The way he can

1:30:33

run and get in out

1:30:35

of his breaks, like he's five nine. It's

1:30:37

stupid. He'll be this high and once he gets

1:30:39

to this comeback drops all the way down

1:30:42

and then comes out like a jungle cad.

1:30:44

He's crazy. Julio is crazy,

1:30:46

man Um. One of the questions

1:30:49

go back to to what he said, Rama

1:30:51

don this

1:30:54

is what month is this? Well,

1:30:57

it moves up every year because the Islamic county

1:31:01

than the so

1:31:04

I was like, but Ramadan,

1:31:06

I believe it's coming up mid May.

1:31:09

So so Ramadad

1:31:12

you fast? So how do you like,

1:31:14

how do you fast work out?

1:31:16

Keep your energy because that's when you're getting ready,

1:31:18

Like does it deplete you? What? Like it does?

1:31:21

Just from athletic points. I've broken

1:31:23

it down now where I fast every

1:31:25

other day doing doing training. So one day I'll

1:31:27

fast, one day, I'll you know, I'll be you know, back to

1:31:29

eating. Then one day out fast than the days

1:31:31

I need to make up. I'll make up after after

1:31:33

Ramadan. I got you just so your body

1:31:36

can maintain, just so I can maintain. All

1:31:38

right, Listen, I'm dulla. Listen. This is

1:31:40

what I want from going into this season.

1:31:42

By the way, I am a fantasy football

1:31:45

expert. I want more carries.

1:31:47

Okay, Matt Patricia when you tell him,

1:31:49

and I don't know if he's gonna grow that fucking stinking beard

1:31:52

out or not. I want more carries. I

1:31:54

want a healthy season. Um, and

1:31:56

I want Detroit to go over the top and

1:31:58

tell Matt Stafford if he ever sees

1:32:01

me I'm ever in the same building with him, I expect,

1:32:03

like, you know, like a steak on him or

1:32:06

like a solda or something like that. I'm not I'm

1:32:08

not whipping out the credit card at least advertising

1:32:11

something. I wish you the

1:32:13

best of luck this season, healthy season. You're

1:32:15

going into your fourth season. We gotta get the goddamn

1:32:17

ball. We gotta get the ball. That's

1:32:20

that's I mean, that's what it's about. More more catches

1:32:22

too. My final

1:32:24

question with with the catches, you're

1:32:26

a football player. I don't

1:32:29

understand this when they say running backs

1:32:31

he can catch the ball out of the backfield. He can't

1:32:33

catch the ball out of backfield. He's a backfield. He's

1:32:35

a running back who could catch, who can't catch?

1:32:38

Explain that to me, like as that being a strength

1:32:40

or not a strength. Every football player could catch

1:32:42

a ball. Correct, Yeah, do you

1:32:44

know what I'm saying. I know exactly what you're saying. I think

1:32:47

they need to be more specific when when they're

1:32:49

referring to he's a running back, you can catch the ball out of backfield,

1:32:51

what they should be saying is he's a running back who can run

1:32:53

routes. You know something that

1:32:56

separates I think myself, THEO

1:32:58

and some other guys like you see McCAT free.

1:33:01

Um, what's guy Chris Thompson got from

1:33:03

U. It's it's it's a number of guys who were good

1:33:05

at it from you know, maybe some

1:33:07

of the you know, guys who don't necessarily you see

1:33:09

running option routes or different choice

1:33:11

routes. Is we can create separation

1:33:14

and catch the ball in small windows. You

1:33:16

know you can. Anyone can catch a swing pass, anybody

1:33:18

can catch a fat route. But after

1:33:21

you know a guy who can

1:33:23

be like in Hybrid, who can line up

1:33:25

in a slot and have a nickel on them

1:33:27

and still win. That's why I feel like me and

1:33:29

THEO bring to the game. And

1:33:32

like I said, hopefully this year Detroit actually

1:33:34

gives me more of opportunity to do that because that's

1:33:36

always been my strong suit. You know. That's

1:33:38

I start off playing receiver because I wanted to be like Percy

1:33:41

Harving growing up, you know. So that's that's

1:33:43

something I'm really looking forward to. Alright, Redla,

1:33:46

thank you for rocking me on the stereo podcast.

1:33:49

Have a great off season and you will

1:33:51

be getting picked on the rapp reports like the

1:33:53

Fantastic Fantasy Football Team of Mind. Appreciate

1:33:55

that. Thank you all

1:34:01

right, A B Diggity Amer

1:34:04

Abdulah, thank you for rocking with the best. Thank

1:34:06

you for coming on the Iron Rapports Stereo podcast.

1:34:08

G Moody last name rhymes with duty, Rest

1:34:11

up, get yourself in a fucking ice bath. Okay

1:34:14

yo. Remember now it's

1:34:17

on you. I will even cut

1:34:19

the deal clapboards.

1:34:22

That's that's nothing. I

1:34:25

gotta I gotta a thirty eight inch wingspan.

1:34:28

Hanging on a rim is nothing. Okay,

1:34:30

that's nothing. Okay. Um.

1:34:33

I want to thank Amer Abdullah Moody

1:34:36

Yo Miles Jordan's

1:34:38

take us out of here with something funky. We're

1:34:40

done. Beback later on in the week's Iron

1:34:42

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done

1:35:06

too, fun too,