Club Shay Shay - Nightcap - Mahomes & Purdy Lose, Bengals Are Back
Episode Date: October 30, 2023Shannon Sharpe and Chad Ochocinco Johnson have a passionate debate over whether Russell Wilson deserves credit for the Broncos upset win over Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Then they get honest about... Brock Purdy, get excited about Cowboys-Eagles next week, and test Chad's vocal cords after Flavor Flav’s odd national anthem performance causes Chad to make a bold claim about his own singing abilities. #Volume #Herd #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Welcome to another edition of Nightcap.
I'm your favorite unk, Shannon Sharp.
He's your favorite number 85 Cincinnati Bengals legend, Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson.
Congratulations to the Chargers. We're going to get right into it Cinco Johnson. Congratulations to the Chargers.
We're going to get right into it, Ocho.
Congratulations to the Chargers.
They beat the Bears 30-13.
And because that game was not very, very interesting,
let's go ahead and get into it because we have a lot of games
that we got to get into tonight.
Yeah.
The Kansas City Chiefs go on the road, lose to the Denver Broncos 24-9.
What was one of your takeaways, a couple of your takeaways from this game, Ocho?
Well, first off, I would like to give a shout-out to Russell Wilson.
I think you should give Russell Wilson his credit as well.
I'm waiting to see it.
Russell Wilson did a good job.
Russell Wilson beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
Can you say that for me real quick?
No, I want to make sure.
I'll let you go.
So I'm going to make sure I'm hearing you correctly.
Yes, sir.
The Denver Broncos defense ranked 31st in points allowed,
32nd in yards allowed.
They took the ball away five times.
Patrick Mahomes had never lost to an AFC road opponent.
Yeah.
He had a 16-game winning streak.
Yeah.
He scored nine points. A team led. Yeah. He scored nine points.
A team led by Patrick Mahomes scored nine points.
And your takeaway, a guy that completed 12 passes.
That was your takeaway, Russell Wilson.
Can I ask you a question?
No, no, no.
I'm just asking.
I gave you the floor, Ocho.
I gave you an opportunity.
So now, go back.
Go ahead.
Listen to me.
When a team loses and when a team wins, when a team loses, it's the quarterback's fault.
And the quarterback gets most of the blame. So what you want to do is you you want to run off everything that the defense did.
No, what Patrick Holm didn't do and not give Russell Wilson his credit. I'm asking you, so your takeaway, a team that, a defense that's 31st in points,
32nd in yards, took the ball away five times,
a team, now mind you now, a Patrick Mahomes team,
the last time that he did not throw a touchdown in the game
was almost two years ago.
And so your takeaway was Russell Wilson.
I got it completed 12 passes.
That's all I'm asking.
Did they win the game?
Yes.
But your takeaway...
So in other words...
Are you saying...
Oh, wait, wait.
Okay, okay.
So what you're telling me
right now, right?
So what you're saying
is the points
that the Denver Broncos
scored offensively,
are you taking that away
from Russell Wilson?
I'm not taking...
Ocho.
Ocho. Jerry Judy scored... Ocho. Ocho.
Jerry Judy scored...
Ocho.
I'm asking...
See, you're not listening to what I'm saying.
So you're saying your biggest takeaway from the game
was Russell Wilson.
Yeah, Russell...
No, no, no, no.
Ain't no Russell Wilson.
I asked, I said, Ocho,
what was your biggest takeaway from this game?
Give me your one or two takeaways.
And you said Russell Wilson.
You know what?
They won the game. This is the
same Denver Broncos that Miami put 70
up on, right? Yes.
Right? The defense.
Yeah, this is the same defense. So how many points did the defense
give up today? Nine.
To who? So let me ask you a question.
Yeah, nine. Who's the best quarterback in the NFL?
Patrick Mahomes.
And they, Patrick
Mahomes had never lost
a road game
to an AFC West opponent
yes
he had won
16 straight
against the Broncos
and your takeaway
from this game
was a guy that completed
12 passes
exactly
I'm giving them credit
because they won the game
because
we've been killing
not me
the media has been killing
Russell Wilson for them
not playing well.
Him and Sean Payton not gelling well offensively.
You do realize that Russell Wilson took six sacks?
Wait, wait, who took six sacks?
Russell.
Oh, so we blaming Russell Wilson for him getting sacked?
Ocho, I don't think you understand when your takeaways,
if they had gotten to a shootout,
they had won the game 43-30,
and Russell out-dueled Patrick Mahomes.
I'm not saying you don't give, but your takeaway from what that defense
that took the ball away from Patrick Mahomes, kept him out of the end zone
for the first time in a touchdown pass for almost two years,
and your takeaway is what?
Yeah. Yes. What's wrong with that. What's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that? It sounds like
to me you're doing everything to discredit
Russell Wilson.
Ocho, I'm not discrediting.
Stay with me. Ocho, I'm not
discrediting, but nobody that
watched that game left that game
saying that Russell Wilson
is back to being Russell Wilson.
That Russell Wilson was the reason why they won the game.
Nobody's doing that but you.
I get it.
If you want to give Russ credit,
if you want to cape up for these players
because you're an advocate for the players,
I got no problem with that.
But if you left this game with a defense that was dead last,
next to last in points and yards allowed,
and they kept Patrick Mahomes out of the end zone
and they took the ball away from him five times.
If you left this game saying,
Russell Wilson is great.
Can I ask you a question?
Sure you can.
They took the ball away from him five times.
How many of those turnovers
equated to offensive touchdowns by the offense
for the Broncos?
How many of those turnovers?
Yes.
How many of those turnovers?
Who accounted when the defense
took the ball away five times?
How many times in those turnovers
did the offense score?
The offense scored 24 points.
Off the five turnovers, right?
Hold on.
How many points did they score
off those turnovers?
Russell had three touchdown passes,
114 yards.
So out of the five turnovers, three of those equated to 21 points because of who?
Well, I think the opening drive, I think when they got the ball,
I think they stopped Kansas City and they went down and scored.
So I know at least, I'm going to say at least, let's say 17.
Let's say 17 of the 24 points they scored came off a turnover.
Okay, 17 of the 24 points.
So the defense got five turnovers.
Yes.
Russell Wilson accounted for 17 points
of the five turnovers.
Yes.
Who won the game again?
The Broncos won.
Who?
Ocho.
You're not going to discredit Russell Wilson
on what he was able to do today.
Ocho.
Don't do that.
Ocho.
We're not paying.
In this moment, we're on here to critique and analyze.
We're not fans.
We're critiquing.
Okay.
Let's critique and analyze.
Okay.
Let's critique and analyze.
The Broncos defense had a hell of a game.
They did something.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's not what you led with.
The Broncos defense had a hell of a game.
Okay.
But let's say – let's say –
We can't say let's say.
We got to deal with what we got.
Let's deal with what we got. Out of the five
turnovers, what happens if Russell
Wilson doesn't capitalize and doesn't
get those 17 points? Okay, since we're doing hypothetical,
what happens if Patrick Mahomes doesn't turn
the ball over five times? Since we're doing hypotheticals.
You know what?
You know what?
You're not going to give Russell
Wilson this credit.
But he's going to get it tonight.
Ocho.
In this moment, I ask you your big takeaways.
It's not about credit.
So let me.
I said, listen, your biggest takeaway was the fact that the Broncos defense
took the ball away, had five turnovers, and did something.
So I'm just going to make sure I'm hearing you correctly
because I want to pin you down on this one.
So, you're saying Russell Wilson was more
impressive than the Broncos defense?
No, the Broncos defense
was very impressive. It was very impressive.
So, why did you leave with Russ?
Stay with me because I want to
leave with the quarterback that everybody's been
crushing. I want to leave with Russ. That's why.
Ocho, we're not fans. You're
paid to analyze the game. I'm analyzing the game. I'm analyzing leave it. That's why. We're not fans. You're, you're paid to analyze the game.
You took,
I'm analyzing the game.
I'm analyzing the game.
Do you realize what you just said?
You said the Broncos defense was more impressive,
but you said,
I said the Broncos defense was impressive today,
but Russell Wilson led drives that equated to 17 points of the 24
that they scored off the five turnovers.
Nick Boitano pressured Mahomes eight times.
Baron Browning sacked him.
Going into the game, he had only been sacked like six times.
Five times.
He got sacked three times today, including a script sack.
I'm not saying Russell, he looked more decisive.
When it wasn't there, he took off.
Yeah, he took six sacks, but I'd rather him take a sack
than put the ball in harm's way.
Kudos.
Russ, I don't think he turned the ball over today. That's way. Yeah. Kudos. Russ did not turn the, Russ, I don't think he turned
the ball over today.
That's fine.
But you can't say
your biggest takeaway,
that's like saying,
now,
if you,
you can't do that.
You can't tell me
what my biggest takeaway
has to be just like yours.
My biggest takeaway,
you know what,
the defense played well.
The defense played well.
You know what?
But my biggest takeaway was
when they got the ball back, when the
Broncos, when it mattered most,
Russell Wilson, Jerry Judy
were able to execute the offense
and put up 17
points of
the five turnovers that make sure
they won the goddamn game. Yes.
Okay. You're right.
You know what, Ocho? That's your biggest
takeaway. Thank you. You wanted your biggest takeaway. Thank you.
You wanted to cape for Russ
because you feel...
I'm not...
I'm just telling you
what happened.
It's not caping.
I watched the game.
You do realize
that I saw your tweet.
I watched the game.
Ocho, Ocho,
you do realize
I saw your tweet?
Yeah.
Your tweet that said
that you was going to make sure?
So come on now.
You do realize...
Okay, so we get...
I want you to give Russ his credit.
You haven't given him credit yet
no no
you caping
we're not fans
we're not fans
Ocho
I'm not a fan
I'm not being a fan
I'm just
I'm just telling you
what I saw
and I'm giving you
my critique
how you gonna tell me
what I saw
you just told me
I couldn't do that to you
now you gonna turn around
and tell me what I saw
can you do me a favor
can you do me a favor it all depends on what Can you do me a favor? Can you do me a favor?
It all depends on what it is. Do me a favor.
Just give Russ his credit real quick on today's
match. Ocho. I just...
I know you want to give it to... I said
the defense played well.
Ocho. It's not... Ocho.
I just said, I thought Russ
was as decisive today in his
throwing the football. Very decisive. In the pocket
he took off and got some very
valuable first downs with his legs.
But for me, if you left
that game, Russ completed 12
passes. They ran the ball 40
times. They threw it 19
times. You take what the defense
is giving you. You take what the defense is
giving you. Hold on. Time out. You tell
me, do not let the defense
dictate what we do.
You've been saying that for eight weeks.
Now you take what the defense give you?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Listen to me now.
If it's working and it's not broken, you don't fix it.
Ocho, Ocho, you said-
If it's working and it's not-
If it's working and it's not broken, there's no need to fix it.
Ocho, that's not what you said.
You said you hate when deep when
officers let defenses dictate where the ball is gonna go i was i was speaking on a simple
perspective of allowing defense to take away your best target okay from a receiver standpoint you
just told me you just told everybody that's watching he took what the defense gave him. So when I've been telling you
you take what the defense gives you,
you tell me you can't let
the defense dictate. Now, which is it?
And if I'm not mistaken, I think
I was speaking when it was
pertaining
to Devontae Adams, if I'm not mistaken.
Okay, they're taking what the defense gives them.
Okay, the defense is not giving them Devontae.
Okay, okay.
I get where you're going, but based on the team
and based on what we're talking about right now,
I think what they need is today.
The defense was giving them the run, and the run was working.
So what do you keep on doing?
You keep on running it.
Okay.
Wait, wait, wait.
Let me finish.
The fact that he only needs to complete 12 passes
and still came away with a victory.
What does that tell you?
It tells me that the Broncos played very well today.
The Chiefs didn't have their best stuff.
And Patrick Mahomes was awful.
I'm not going to use, oh, he was sick and he had the bug.
We don't use excuses because if he'd have played well,
we'd have been talking about he was Michael Jordan.
But I'm glad we don't have to talk about that.
Because all I know is I saw 15 and I saw Mahomes on the back of that jersey.
So there's a level of expectation.
I don't want to hear nothing about the fumbles.
I don't want to hear anything about the drops.
It is what it is.
He knew going into that game, they knew going into the season that these receivers were young.
Sky Moore hasn't gotten any better since his rookie season.
Rice is hit or miss.
Valdell Scanlon, one game, he's going to catch a touchdown and play well.
The next game, he's going to drop and he's going to fumble.
We know that.
We know the only receiver that he can consistently count on is Travis Kelsey.
And he didn't have his best day.
And I'm kind of disappointed because, you know,
Friday night he was at the Rangers game.
What's wrong with that?
It's the middle of the season. What do you mean,
what's wrong with that? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Listen, I know the Chiefs
lost. I know they lost. I know Mahomes
didn't have a game. I know Travis Kelsey didn't have
a game. But you're not going to tell me you can't
enjoy yourself on a
Friday night, which is a short day.
Listen to me. It's a short day.
It was in Texas. He lives in short day. Listen to me. It's a short day. It was in Texas.
He lives in Kansas City.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, you really tripping.
That's different.
Yeah, I definitely
wouldn't be getting on no plane to go nowhere for no game.
That was the World Series
game, right? Am. Am I mistaken?
If it's in Kansas City, I got no problem with that.
But you mean to tell me you're going to get on a plane
and go to Arlington, and then you got a game on Sunday
during the season?
That's a bad look.
I mean, listen, based on what Travis Kelsey's been doing,
based on what he's been able to do,
the consistency he's put up year in and year out, game by game,
it's hard to really argue the fact that him taking a mental reset to go
watch the World Series game is the reason why he didn't play well.
The team in itself didn't play well.
I'm not saying that's the reason why he didn't play well. I'm not itself didn't play well. I'm not saying that's the reason why he didn't
play well. I'm not saying... You really think
it's a bad look, though? Seriously.
It's an awful look. It's a
terrible look. If it was the
bye week, Ocho, you
do realize this is the
NFL. You got a game on
Sunday. You're going to board a
plane? Let me ask you a question.
Every coach I've ever... That's a mental reset, though. Every coach I've ever Sunday, you're going to board a plane? Let me ask you a question.
That's a mental reset though. Every coach I've ever
played for has always
told us one thing on Friday.
Make sure you get off your feet.
Make sure you get
off your feet. I'm sure everybody that's in
the NFL has heard the exact same thing.
They don't say, hey, we
understand that we ain't got no game on Saturday,
but hey, go.
And then if you look at it, there's videos popping
up of he was like raging. He was
like, out.
Come on, Ocho. That's a
horrible look. I'm not saying it's a
bad look. I'm saying it's a horrible look.
And Trav, my guy, but it's
not a good look.
I understand what you're saying, but it's
honestly, I love you to death, but it's honestly honestly i love you to
death but it's really hard for me to agree with you on this and i understand everybody's different
listen i think remember you gotta understand optics matter right optics matter because of
the player because of the caliber of player travis kelsey has a little bit more leniency
to do something like that on a Friday, to have a mental reset,
to go enjoy a World Series game and be able
to come back and perform. Because you know what you get
from him. You know what you get
from him week in and week out. This is why I don't want
Travis Kelsey to do that. Because of
the look. If somebody else had done that,
but Travis is a leader. Somebody
else can't do that. They can't do that.
They're not Travis Kelsey. Travis is
the leader. don't but see
here's the thing even though i was a leader i never did anything where the team could see that
i was getting privileges because i'm telling you they'll grow to resent you remember the russell
wilson how he got the locker how he had the office how he got to come in certain things he had earned
it he won the super bowl he had been a multiple-time Pro Bowl player.
I'm telling you how human the net,
how the human mind works.
Right.
Your teammates will grow to,
I don't care what you've accomplished.
Don't thumb their nose in it.
Don't make them feel,
because don't do it.
It's a horrible look.
And no,
you ask.
That's a tough one.
That's a tough one, man.
It's not a tough one, Ocho.
It's not a tough one.cho it's not a tough one
it's really not like I said if it's the bye week and we can get into we're going to talk about the
bye weeks and you know how some guys you know because when I play you we got Thursday we got
Thursday at noon off and then we had Friday Saturday Sunday we had to be back Monday by noon
now they get their entire week off and you and I'll get into that what's the proper way to to
reset during the bye week you and I'll discuss that a little later but during the season and
NFL season that's a bad look bro I'm sorry yeah I I got you listen time to different now everybody
different everybody has a different approach to the game everybody operates differently on the
way they do things and and it's hard for me to judge. And I'm just saying,
if I were the team out of Kelsey's,
and I understand-
I would be disappointed.
I would be very upset.
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't.
Because that's his decision.
That's his decision.
And he's earned the right
to be able to do that.
He's earned the right
to be able to do that.
Hey, listen.
When Sunday,
what is Kelsey giving me
on Sunday when it's time to play at 1 o'clock?
I don't care what you're doing on your off time.
I'm just telling me personally.
I'm just telling me personally.
For you, you would have been upset.
I don't control.
I'm not controlling or conducting what somebody does on off time.
So I just want to make sure I'm hearing you correctly.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do for me on Sundays at 1 o'clock?
That's all I care about.
So I just want to make sure I'm hearing you correctly.
If the player is good, you don't care what he does
as long as he... Oh, oh, oh. When the player
is great. Don't do that. Okay. Don't do that.
When the player is great,
you don't care what he does as long
as he's short for you and play well on Sunday.
That's all that matters.
That's what he gets paid to do. Ocho, I'm
going to be honest with you, bro. That's what he gets paid to do.
I'm glad. All the other stuff and
all the optics and all that other stuff.
I ain't kidding about that.
What you doing for me on Sunday at 1 o'clock?
Ocho, it doesn't work like that.
It really doesn't, Ocho.
I mean, I played the game.
You played the game.
You and I played by the same amount of time.
But that's a bad look.
Let's talk.
But that's a jaded way of thinking.
No, it's not a jaded way of thinking. It's a horrible way. It's not a jaded way. thinking. No, it's not a jaded way of thinking.
It's an arbitrary way.
That's not a jaded way.
Because listen, there are privileges.
There are so many examples of privileges of certain players that are really good
that get to do things that others can't.
That's been the lay of the land for the longest.
Let's not act like that.
I'm not saying.
Come on, now.
Ocho.
Come on, now.
Don't do that.
Okay, the quarterback getting a parking spot is one thing.
Come on now, don't do that.
Okay, the quarterback getting a parking spot is one thing.
Leaving your team to go to fly to Texas. You do realize, now, I can see it if it was his dad, if it was his brother.
But I'm saying I don't really know the affiliation with him in Kansas City.
And that's fine.
But that's still a horrible look, Ocho, to leave in the middle of the season
and go watch a baseball game how many times?
Now, would he have been upset if another player had done that?
So what's to stop another player from going to do something?
So what's stopping Patrick Mahomes from going to watch a game
during the Super Bowl on a Friday before the Super Bowl?
Why? Why not?
Can I tell you something?
Sure.
Can I tell you something real quick?
Sure.
Man, these boys don't care about that, man.
I'm just telling you.
No.
They don't care about that.
That's fine.
They don't care.
They're not interested in what you do
all the time.
I think he does care.
And I wish he'd put a little bit more thought into it
because the optics of it,
it's not a very good look.
So that's where's that's that's
where i that's where i am that's where i am on that okay i got you let's go to the other quarterback
the 49ers lose to your team again brock purdy has zero picks in his first five wins he had five
picks in his last three last three games yeah i said something after they scored 42 10 they beat
the cowboys 42 10 and I got hammered for it.
I said, Brock Purdy's not elite.
I said, if y'all think he elite, you're fooling yourself.
Now, I'm not, I don't like to do, you know,
hindsight is a magnificent sign.
It's perfect.
Because you get to look today already knowing what happened yesterday.
What's your takeaway?
What do you think of Brock Purdy?
Brock didn't have a very good game.
He didn't have a very good game.
And the first thing I said when no Trent Williams, no Deebo Samuels,
he would have to play that much better.
When the talent around you is not what it should be,
that means you have to play that much better to make up for what's not there.
Okay.
Ayuk did what he could do.
Christian McCaffrey did what he could do.
But when it came down to it,
Purdy didn't do what was necessary to give his team a chance to win the game.
Two picks, fumble loss. do what was necessary to give his team a chance to win the game.
Two picks,
fumble loss.
The way, the thing that I wanted to see, and this is
the way I said, I want to see
when every throw matters,
when every possession matters, not when you're
ahead, way ahead. And you see
now, Ocho, the defense is starting
to slip a little bit. And now
every throw matters. Every possession
matters. They can't
stifle teams.
They're not getting short fields.
The defense is not turning you over. Getting
short fields. Now
we get an opportunity
to see the level
of greatness. And see, when I
said he wasn't elite, that doesn't mean he can't
become elite. I'm saying as I sit here and judge him today, he's not elite. Right. And see, when I said he wasn't elite, that doesn't mean he can't become elite.
I'm saying as I sit here and judge him today,
he's not elite.
Right.
And I think it's mass when you have so much talent like that around you.
You know, you can look elite at the time
when you have that type of supporting cast around you.
Brock Purdy is a very good quarterback.
Brock Purdy is a very good quarterback.
But is he on the elite level?
He's not that just yet.
But I have a question.
I just, I'm to drift off just a little bit.
Go ahead.
Is it the fact that the 49ers defense is not really declining
but didn't look like themselves today?
Or was it the fact that Joe Burrow is now healthy?
Well, I thought that Joe has gotten healthy to buy wheat
cutting about a great time for
them because they gave him an extra week to get that calf and he got an opportunity to stay off
his legs rest that calf but i thought the fort uh the cincinnati bingos the bingos offensive line
did a great job hell of a job and he did a great job he had they had him a couple times and he got
out and got first down listen jo, Joe Houdini Burrow.
And you saw today, they ran a quarterback draw.
He got a first down.
He got out of harm's way.
He took off.
So that tells me that that calf is 100% because there was no hesitation.
Remember how you said, I think, I can't remember exactly what you said,
but when the Bengals were 0-2 and I told you just be patient.
Yeah.
Just be patient. Yeah. Just be patient.
Yeah.
The Cavs, oh, Joe Burrow's hurt.
They don't look the same.
And I told the rest of the world, I say, listen, we always start like this.
We always start like this.
And it's one thing about the Bengals.
When everybody is healthy and humming, we're going to be all right.
Everybody panicking.
And you ask me, is it time to hit the panic button?
It's not.
It's okay.
The football season is not a sprint.
It's a marathon.
It's about hitting your stride at the right time.
Timing is impeccable, and we hit it at the right time,
and this momentum is going to continue to carry on.
And you know who else in trouble next?
Buffalo.
Buffalo, the Bills.
No disrespect to Josh and Stephon Diggs.
They in trouble next
my only concerns Ocho with what I felt that was different than the previous season when you started
0-2 is that Joe Burrow was healthy if you told me Joe if you told me Joe was 100% I was like okay
I've seen I've kind of seen this movie before and I know he'll figure it out he and Stephon
Diggs get on the same page they'll they'll do a little better job of running the football.
Today, Joe Mixon had a season's best 87 yards rushing.
Jamar Chase was Jamar Chase.
Ten catches, 100 yards, didn't get the ball into the end zone,
but he had some big-time catches.
I think two passing affairs.
Yeah.
Chase scored once.
Yeah, he did.
He had what you call him.
He had that slot route.
And he faked that.
They're going to run the jailbreak screen. Here come everybody running. And he slid right down the side. You're right. You're right. My it. He had that slot route. And he think that they're going to run the jailbreak screen.
Here come everybody running.
And he slid right down the side.
You're right.
You're right.
My bad.
Ten catches, 100 yards, and a touchdown.
Three different receivers scored a touchdown.
Boyd had it going.
Got some key third downs early in the ballgame.
This is how the Bengals offense.
But what was really, really impressive was their defense.
Defense.
They did a job of taking the ball away.
Great job.
Take Taylor Britt.
I know you're going to see this.
Jermaine Pratt.
I know you're going to see this.
I love y'all boys.
Hooray.
Keep it going.
Keep it going.
And what's the 21?
Hyatt?
Hilton?
Hilton?
Hilton.
Yeah, man.
Yeah, he playing.
He playing. He playing. Mike Nasty, boy. Mike Nasty with it, man. Hilton. Hilton. Yeah, man. Yeah, he played. He played. He played in that.
Mike Nasty, boy. Mike Nasty.
Yes. Yes. Real savvy. Real savvy
veteran. Very savvy veteran.
It looks like that division is going to be a clash.
I think Baltimore is going to kick
themselves. Baltimore could
have had a commanding lead in this
division had they went ahead and taken care
of business with the Steelers. We saw the Steelers lose
again today at Jacksonville,
the Browns lost.
So it looks like it's going to come.
It's going to be a two,
a two horse race in this division,
Cincinnati and Baltimore.
Can I,
can I tell you something?
Yes.
I'm not Cleo.
I don't have a genie.
I can't predict the future.
I can't,
I can't,
but I can tell you about the script when it comes to the NFL.
And I can tell you how it's going to end.
And this is no disrespect to the Browns.
This is no disrespect to the Ravens.
The AFC North is going through Cincinnati.
And I mean that with all due respect to everybody for fans and all that.
But I'm just saying we're hitting our stride at the right time.
Well, it looks like the Ravens are hitting their stride too.
I don't know if you've been noticing.
Listen, no, no.
Well, I noticed. I know. Ravens got the bestide, too. I don't know if you've been noticing. Listen, no, no. Well, I noticed.
I know.
Ravens got the best defense.
Best defense in the league, man.
I understand.
I understand that.
But I'm just saying when the time comes, it's going to come down to coming out the AFC.
Yep.
The Ravens and the Bengals.
Yeah.
And we already know who coming out on top, especially on the back end of the season.
Well, we're going to see.
I think L. Jack, L. Jack, Lamar Jackson,
Action Jackson is going to have something to say about that.
L. Jack is the real deal.
That's home team.
No disrespect to him.
But again, you know what my allegiance lies.
And just what we can do offensively,
I think it gives the Ravens problems
as opposed to any other team that they're going to face in that AFC.
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We go to the Cowboys.
They do a demolition job on the Rams, 43-20.
Dak Prescott.
The defense was outstanding again today.
Dak was 25-31, 3-0-4, four touchdowns, one interception.
He was throwing the ball over the middle.
The guy got his hands up at Karam a couple of times
and got picked off.
CeeDee Lamb, 12 for a buck 58, two touchdowns.
Did you realize this, Ocho?
I don't know if you realized this.
This was the first time Dallas offense scored more than two touchdowns
since week one.
Yeah, I knew you was going.
I knew that's where you was going.
I knew that's where you was going because the entire season,
all we talked about is the defense and how well they played
and taking the ball away and giving the Cowboys offense short fields
and defense scoring touchdowns and making it easy
where other teams were always playing from behind.
But what did Dak Prescott show us today?
Hey, do me a favor.
Do me a favor.
Dak played a hell of a game.
Do me a favor.
Read Dak's stat.
Read me Dak's stat line one more time.
25-31, 3-0-4, four touchdowns, one pick.
Woo-hoo!
Yeah.
Can you get Dak his credit today?
Huh?
I thought he played well.
No, play well.
Play well?
Yes.
Play well.
I thought he played very well.
He was elite.
He was elite today.
And the Dak that you saw today.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Ocho, Ocho.
The Dak that we need.
What we're not going to do,
if we're not going to put elite one day,
then take it off the next day.
Either you're elite or you're not.
Is Dak Prescott elite?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Is Dak Prescott elite? Is Dak Prescott elite?
The NFL is week to week.
No.
It's week to week.
Not greatness.
Greatness is not week to week, Ocho.
Stop this now.
Stop this.
Look.
Ocho, stop this.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Stay with me.
How did Patrick Mahomes play last week?
So is he not?
So hold on.
How did Patrick Mahomes play last week?
Ocho.
How did he play today?
Ocho. Ocho. So are you saying because Patrick Mahomes had two week? Ocho. How did he play today? Ocho.
So are you saying because Patrick Mahomes had two bad weeks,
he's not great?
He's not elite?
Whoa.
That's not what I just said.
I said the NFL is week to week.
This week, Dak Prescott was elite.
Ocho.
But we don't assign.
You know what, Ocho?
You can assign elite as high up you want to.
Thank you. Thank you. But people at home. And you know what, Ocho? You can assign elite as high up as you want. Thank you.
Thank you.
But people at home.
And you know what's going to happen?
Greatness and eliteness is not a week-to-week thing.
Granted, you update your resume.
But once you're in the league, Patrick Mahomes is elite.
Patrick Mahomes is great.
Because he hasn't played well in two weeks,
we don't take him out of that eliteness.
Wait a minute.
I didn't...
Yes, you did! I just
asked you. I said, is Dak Prescott elite?
You said he was elite today.
I said, Ocho. He was elite
today.
He was elite today. Did you not... I saw... I watched
the game.
I watched the game.
I'm not even a Cowboys fan. I watched the game. I'm not even a Cowboys fan.
I watched the game. I saw Dak Prescott
do what everybody said he couldn't do and
hasn't done the entirety of this season
so far. And he did it today.
Let me ask you a question. What hasn't he
done?
Again, they were 2-4 in the red zone.
They're still 50% in the red zone. What did you just say
they hadn't done since week one?
Scored two touchdowns. Offensive touchdowns. How hadn't done since week one? Score two touchdowns, offensive touchdowns.
How many did they score offensively?
What did CeeDee Lamb do today?
Show why he's one of the best in the league.
Ocho.
Ocho.
So when you watch the game, did you see that pick six by Deron Bland,
who now has three pick six?
Hold on.
I'm just asking.
I'm just making sure.
They left the ball too far behind. But okay pick six. Okay, hold on, hold on. I'm just asking. I'm just making sure.
They left the ball too far behind, but okay, yeah.
Okay, did you see the block punt for safety?
Oh, yeah.
Okay, did you see Kevon Turpin run the ball back to almost a 10-yard line?
Yes.
So, Ocho, all of that.
I'm not taking anything away from the offense, but what I've said is that it seems like the Cowboys offense gets going
in the right direction when their defense.
Micah, what did Micah do today?
Micah, you see Micah.
Strip sack, forced fumble, sack, short field.
That's all.
Look, my problem was is that when they created those opportunities, that wasn't taking advantage of them.
Advantage of it.
So now, if you tell me, Ocho,
this is the Cowboys we're going to see moving forward.
I'm going to say everybody in the NFC
is going to have their damn hands full.
If the Cowboys are going to,
you're going to get pick sixes.
And we've seen when the Cowboys play great,
what do they do?
They're always spearheaded by what?
Pick sixes, punt, scooping scores,
or short fields,
but that... Go ahead.
Football. Yes.
There are three phases to the game.
Yes. And normally when you win in all three phases,
you get what you got today.
If you look at the Cowboys,
when they win a game,
they don't just win all three phases. They dominate.
Right. They don't win. all three phases. They dominate. Right, right.
They don't win.
You look at what they did to the Patriots.
You look at what they did to the Jets.
You look at what they did to the Giants.
Now, we look at the Giants offensively.
We're going to talk about them a little later.
We look at those teams.
And you look at what they did to the Rams.
When they don't win all three phases, they dominate.
And when you dominate all three,
if you can dominate two of the three phases,
there's probably a 75% chance you're going to win.
When you dominate all three, you're almost unbeatable.
And that's what we're seeing.
Right.
And one of the things that I like, and you can attest to this,
when you have a game like today,
when C.P. Lamb has a game like that, and Dak Prescott. Lamb has a game like that and Dak Prescott has a game like that,
that defense and Makai has a game like that,
do you know the type of confidence you have after a performance like that
going into the week in practice and going into the next game?
It carries over.
It carries over, not just with the individual players,
but the team as well.
Offensively, Dak going to be, you know,
you get a different bounce to yourself, man.
You get a different bounce or just a different aura, a different walk.
It just is something about having a good game and you want that momentum to carry.
Well, you need to do it because you know who they play next week.
They got the Eagles next week in Philly.
So, and so they really needed this game.
Jared Jones after the game says he didn't want to talk about
the upcoming Philly game because he doesn't want to poke the bear.
Dak was told of this and Dak Paul smiled,
pour honey on me.
If you ever see me in a fight with the bear,
pour honey on me.
I'm looking forward to that.
I like it.
I like it.
And this is one of the few times where Jerry Jones
didn't step up to the plate
and give the opposing team bulletin board material.
Damn that bulletin board.
I said, what?
I remember we played the Tennessee Titans in the playoff game, Ocho,
and all the little comments that we had said,
because they had, you know,
NFL's films wasn't supposed to release what we were saying in our locker room,
but they released it anyway.
And so they had all the montage, what Coach Billick was saying,
what I had said, what Ray had said.
And so you know what I said?
I said, whatever they say, we said, we said it.
Now, what y'all going to do about it?
Right.
Because at the end of the day, Ocho, whether I said a little or I said a lot.
Said a lot, yeah.
We still got to play the game.
Mm-hmm.
We still got to buckle this thing up.
We got to strap these pads up.
Yeah, no matter what. it don't matter what I say
so you know what
I be quiet
well since Shannon
ain't say nothing
this week
we gonna go easy on him
nah he talking
let's get it
it don't matter
you know how it go
it's all the same
it's all the same
so
that's gonna be a barn burner
that's gonna be a barn burner
next week
that's gonna be a good game
they got
they got the one o'clock or 4 o'clock
slate. They need to change it.
They'll never put the Cowboys and Eagles
in a 1 o'clock window. That's always going to be the late game.
Probably 425.
Yeah, that's the 425. Might be
a Sunday night game.
It's the late game. It's the late game.
That's a good game.
My former network, Fox, ain't really trying to give up no Cowboys.
Cowboys, Eagles? Oh, hell no. Cowboys, 49ers network, Fox, ain't really trying to give up no Cowboys. Cowboys equal?
Oh, hell no.
Cowboys 49ers?
Absolutely not.
You're not trying to give up that game.
Okay.
The Jets get an improbable win.
They come back. They beat third string quarterback Tommy DeVito, who played more like Ocho.
How about this here?
I had more passing yards
than Tommy DeVito
and I ain't leaving my couch.
I ain't trying to hear all that.
Guess what?
I had more,
ladies and gentlemen at home,
Shannon Sharp,
55 years of age,
sitting on his couch
in LA,
had more passing yards
than Tommy DeVito.
Zach Wilson and the Jets beat the Giants.
Talk about that.
Zach Wilson and the Jets.
Did you realize you had more passing yards than Tommy DeVito?
When was the last time you threw an NFL ball?
What does that have to do with the outcome of the game today?
Zach Wilson, say it with me.
Zach Wilson.
Ocho, think about what you just said.
Think about, hold on, Ocho.
I want you to think about what you just said. The about, hold on, Ocho. I want you to think about what you just said.
The same thing I said when I talked about the Broncos.
You said on the end of your bed,
you had more passing yards sitting on the end of your bed
than a quarterback did in the NFL with nine passing yards.
What does that have to do,
what do we have to do with the personnel for the Giants?
What do we have?
I ain't got nothing to do with that.
I ain't got nothing to do with that. I ain't got nothing to do with that.
They know what they had on their roster.
They know what they had on their roster.
That is not going to take away the fact that a game,
the game, the NFL game in itself is about moments.
It's about moments.
Yeah.
Did Zach Wilson play great?
No.
Did Zach Wilson lose the game for the Jets?
No.
That's his only job. Wait, wait.
Stay with me. Was
he in a position to help his
team win in a pivotal
moment at the end of the game and over time?
Yes. Did he not make two
important clutch
I don't even know how to spell clutch because I can't
drive stick.
Did he make two
crazy clutch throws to put his team in
position win the game big time big time big say his name with me enormous throws and that's that
his job is to not lose the game you don't have to win it just like you said sometimes the game
comes down to a throw here or a throw there.
And the throws, when it mattered, he made them.
Yes.
If I had a cap, I'd tip it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Zach, I hope you see this.
Shannon, giving you your love.
Oh, and that's what it's about.
But that was a terrible game to watch, though.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, the weather played a part.
The weather played a part.
Now, I know you had to adapt to it.
You had to play. You had to play. They had over 1,000 yards and punts. Yeah. I mean, listen, the weather played a part. The weather played a part. Now I know you have to adapt to it. You have to play. You have to play over a thousand yards and punts.
Yeah. It was 23 points between the two,
23 points between the two teams and 24 punts. Yeah. It was, it was bad.
It was bad. It was nine passing yards. Oh, Joe.
That's why I say we had more, you and I had more passing yards. Yeah.
Yeah. You're right. You're right. It was an ugly game.
Four for 34 on third down?
I don't
know if I've ever heard of Steph.
Do you owe for 34? I mean,
four for 34 on third downs?
That's bad.
That's a bad football.
It isn't bad football.
But I take my hats off to the fans
because me, I'm going to be fair weather.
If it ain't god dang over 80 degrees and sunny, your boy can't go.
I can't say, oh, Joe.
You can't do that.
You can't do that.
And I'm not finished.
You're not a true fan.
That's why they call fans.
True fans, it could be hot, cold, rain, sleep, snow, thunderstorm.
If the game is playing, they're going to be out there supporting.
Big N, big O, no.
So I tip, hey, I tip my cap
because this is a deluge.
It's a monsoon.
And they're sitting on there
with their parkas and their raincoats.
And they're like in and they're cheering.
No, Ocho, I can't do that.
Hell, I didn't want to be out there
and I was playing.
If you a Jets fan, you got to be happy.
Because I told you what would happen.
But Ocho.
They won the last three games.
Name the player that liked
playing in the rain in a football game.
Listen, when we was little,
we loved being in the rain.
It wasn't a problem. We loved it.
I hated the rain, playing in the rain.
I don't mind the rain. I don't mind the rain.
I don't like it hot, which is weird because I'm from Florida.
Give me hot.
Yeah.
Give me cold.
I like it when it's cold.
No, I don't like that.
Because when it's cold, I'm not going to cramp up before the half.
My calf muscles.
My calves.
Man, them little BBs you got.
They're talking about some calf muscles.
The Eagles pull out a victory over the Commanders.
A.J. Brown is playing out of his mind.
Another eight catch, 130 yards, two touchdowns today.
He's the first player in NFL history to have six straight games
with at least 125 yards.
That's crazy.
Jalen Hurts, 29 of 38, 319, four touchdowns.
And the game probably shouldn should have been that close,
Ocho. He lost two
fumbles inside his three-yard line.
They've got to clean that up because
the Cowboys are coming.
Points at a premium because as you
step up in level of competition,
your
level of
mistakes must go down.
Go down, right.
If you do what you did against the Cowboys –
and look, they know each other.
You know, these are the division.
Just like the Eagles and the Commanders, they're in the same division,
the NFC East.
The Cowboys and the Eagles, same division, NFC East.
They know each other.
But you pay double in a division game when you turn the ball over
because remember, that's what happened to Kansas City.
Remember, Ocho, you turn the ball over, Because remember, that's what happened to Kansas City. Remember, Ocho, you turn
the ball over, either you're going to bring the team
up to your level or you're going to go down
to their level. One of the two things are going
to happen. But
Jalen Hurts throwing the ball.
Man, I don't even know what to say about A.J.
A.J. done lost his mind
these last six weeks.
Listen, A.J.
Brown is bumping his head off the goalpost every time you look
around. And it's not just the contestant
catches, catches
wide open. I don't know
what ritual he's doing or what he's
eating. Whatever he's doing, he's just got to keep doing
it. He's got to keep doing it because
what he's doing is unheard of.
Did you see the one-hand grab in the end zone
with the dude draped all over him?
Come on, man. What are we doing? he you know everybody else is gonna be like ever since ever since he had that little
that little dust up with hurts on the sideline a little one of this is a minor disagreement
a little minor disagreement don't be the bone yeah it says hurts have made it his mind says hey
i'm gonna feed big dog early and often. Yeah.
It makes sense.
It makes sense.
And the funny thing about it is you know it's coming,
especially when you play
a division opponent.
You know how to stop
your number one target
and there's nothing
they can do.
There's nothing
they can do to stop him.
That's crazy.
And both of his touchdowns
that he caught on Washington
was tightly contested.
A.J. Brown now has
12 receiving touchdowns of throws
of 15 plus yards downfield
since the start of last season. That's number
one in the NFL.
Hurts again.
29 of 38, 319.
Four touchdowns.
This is going to be a matchup because now
we're going to get to find out.
We're going to get to find out because everybody
we kind of been, you know,
Cowboys, they've been playing okay, but not, you know, they winning.
The Eagles, they're like, man, Ocho, they winning,
but they don't look like they did last year.
Like they having a hard time getting out of third gear,
trying to get to fourth and on to fifth.
We don't need fifth right now,
but we really trying to get out of third gear
because we are almost halfway through the season. Now don't need fifth right now, but we really trying to get out of third year because we are almost halfway
through the season. Now we're going to find out.
There's no love lost between these two teams. I'm trying.
I want you to know that I'm the beast of the East and the East goes through
Dallas or it goes through Philly again. Yeah. One of the other,
and the fact of the matter watching the game today and I was doing,
I was watching double.
I was having to look, look to my left and look to my right earlier today
when I was watching the Philly game.
And the funny thing about it, when it was 14-3, I was like,
man, well, the Commanders got this one.
I thought it was going to be one of those days.
And I looked over to the right, and I came back.
I'm like, wait, wait a minute.
And the scoreline continued to change, and it continued to change.
And again, and when it mattered most,
in pivotal moments in that game,
he made the throws
necessary. Run here,
or run there, and goddammit,
I'll be damned. They back in the game.
Not only back in the game, oh shit,
they done took the lead.
Unbelievable football, and the fact that both
of these teams, the fact that Dallas won the way they did,
and with a comeback victory for the Eagles,
both teams coming to the game
with great momentum and confidence.
Yeah.
Individually for the individual players.
I'm telling you, having a good game,
it do something to you.
I don't know what it is.
It just does something to you.
So ain't no telling what's going to happen.
All I know is this.
When I play, I'm looking
at a team that we're
going to play, and I'm like, man,
their quarterback ain't as good as ours. Their receivers
are not good as ours. Man, they threw
for 300 yards. Man, what you think?
Sam Howell almost threw
for 400. Yeah.
What you think Dak and CeeDee
and those receivers thinking?
You,
hey,
Ocho,
you don't,
let me get an extra helping
of that.
Let me get an extra helping
of Bradbury the fourth.
Hey,
give me a little bit,
hey,
give me a side of that slate.
Give me a bar yard.
I know you just got there,
but I will,
hey,
I want an extra helping of him
because Sam Howell got 400.
Yeah.
Dak said, and he don't talk about
he won't point it poured on him because he's going to fight a bear because he won't be better
stay there and you know i'm glad i'm glad they got cd involved they haven't been using cd to
the magnitude he should be used at yeah because he can make that job very very easy i don't like
i don't like people talking about ceeDee not being a number one
receiver. They like to say, well, he's borderline.
He's not there yet. Yes, he is.
He just got to be consistent.
The one thing you know about the true number
ones is that A.J.
A.J. showed up every week. Reed,
Justin Jefferson, Chase, those guys
digs. I mean, I can't have
CeeDee have a game like this and then come back next week
and give me 50 of those Ocho. I can't
have that. And it's
not that he's going to give you 50. It's the fact
that the opportunities and the targets
have to be there. The play calling
has to be there. And if they're trying
to take him away, you got to manipulate
your scheme offensively to put him in
position to get open. It's easy to do.
You know, sometimes offensive
coordinators have ego. I want to run my system and I'm going to run it the way I want to. And if they want to take him away, I'm going to let them take him away. It's easy to do. You know, sometimes offensive coordinators have ego. I want to run my
system and I'm going to run it the way I want to. And if
they want to take him away, I'm going to let them take him away. I'm going to just
use everybody else. Sometimes your offensive coordinator
got to be aggressive. But today
you ain't taking away
88.
The system, that system, I know that system,
that West Coast system is predicated on the receiver.
Jerry Rice in that
offense. You go back and look at all the the receiver. Jerry Rice in that offense.
You go back and look at all the great receivers that have played in that system.
Right.
It's all about the X and the Z receiver.
Yeah.
Jerry was the Z.
John Taylor was the X.
My brother played the Z.
You go back and look at the West Coast and look at that offense
and you look at the guys that play it.
You got to have a dog and you got to give him the ball right not to it's it's it's mandatory and most of those guys
are tremendous run after the catch because cd was a punt returner you know he's good after the
catch you know he has some elusivity to it you just got to give him an opportunity you got to
like you said hey give him hey i an A. I can't look.
Gallup, for whatever reason, Gallup hasn't really gotten,
he doesn't look like he's gotten all the way back over that knee injury.
Right.
I know what I'm going to get with Brandon Cooks. I'm going to get a deep threat here or there.
But my guy, CeeDee, I keep saying my guy, but CeeDee is a guy,
he can work the slot.
He's outside the numbers.
He can run the tree.
He can get deep.
So at some point in time, you just might have to force feed him.
And I know Jared says, I want to spread it around.
Spread it around and do what?
That's just, again.
Because you don't want to pay that man his money because you know that man
going to be asking for 25, going to be asking for 28 M's, 30 M's.
So you want to try to suppress.
So you want to try to keep them numbers down.
Oh, yeah.
They will do that
that's the way the game goes
the funny thing about it I don't even think the outside world
understands the business side of it
of suppressing numbers
another thing when receivers or
receiving get into their 30s and the first thing
everybody likes to do is say
oh he's slowing down
oh he lost a step
he ain't lose nothing if you pay attention.
Just pay attention to the targets and opportunities,
how they start to decrease so your numbers decrease as well.
And then they like to use, yeah, well, you're not the same as you used to be.
Well, yeah, motherfucker, you ain't throwing me the goddamn ball
the way you used to either.
Because the last thing you want is him to be on one of those all-pro teams. Have
100-plus catches, 1,500
yards, another double-digit
touchdown season. Back up the brink
truck, please. Exactly.
Back it up, please. Having been
a part of this system, you and I know how
the system works. Let's go to the Ravens.
The Ravens win this ballgame, but the story
of the game with Odell clearly being frustrated.
We saw him draw a defensive pass
in the fair,
and then go to the sideline
and slam his helmet.
Odell drew three penalties today,
but he had zero catches
on four targets.
Yeah, yeah.
This is only the second time
in his 102-game career
that he's failed to register
a catch in a game.
And Ocho, you know how it is.
You go to another team,
there's a, because they know who Odell is. You go to another team. Yeah. Because they know who Odell is.
They remember this Odell.
Yeah.
They remember the guy with the Spider-Man catches,
the guy that's dancing, doing all that thing.
The last time they saw the guy,
he was going haywire right before the half in the Super Bowl.
And so he wants to come and put on a great show,
wants to have an impression.
And for whatever reason
I don't know Ocho
I don't know why
it just hasn't clicked for him
what do you think is going on?
I think obviously
you're in a different system
you're in a different system
you're in a different offense
I think Odell
wants to get back to being
the Odell of old
letting everybody know
I can still do this I can still be the Odell of old I can be the Odell wants to get back to being the Odell of old, letting everybody know I can still do this.
I can still be the Odell of old.
I can be the Odell you saw with the Rams.
I can be the Odell you saw with the Giants.
Is that possible?
In fact, of all the work, think about all the work he's put in
to come back from not one but a second ACL.
Yeah.
You put in all that work to get back,
and all you want to do is you want to go out there and contribute.
Contribute to some of the Ws, some of the wins,
and obviously with the pass interference, it's interfering with him,
and he just want to get in rhythm.
He want to touch the ball.
How can I be an intricate part of the offense
if I can't get the ball in my hands?
The balls are coming, but obviously they were pass interferences,
and the frustration is building up
because he's not able to contribute
and being a part and helping that team win.
And one of the things I said,
Odell, and I said this about him,
I forgot where I was at when I said this.
We talk about quarterbacks
getting $200 million contracts.
If Odell hadn't have been hurt,
I believe Odell would have been the first receiver to have a 20
million dollar deal he was that dynamic he was that polarizing he meant that much to the game
of football i think he would have been the first he can do anything from anywhere in the field
one of the few players i've seen take hitches slants go deep just do it do every goddamn thing you know and the fact that he got hurt i i i think
had he not got a hurt originally and he'd have been had some better behavior in new york
i would agree with you that wasn't going to happen once he went to cleveland and had that
knee injury because you know that unless you're a quarterback,
they're not handing out $200 million contract.
That's why I said if he hadn't gotten
hurt. Now, had he
stayed, if he could have had a quarterback,
stayed in New York
because remember, Ocho, he was
box office in New York. Yeah.
He was box. His first four years,
he was electric.
He was nothing like it.
He was the few guys.
I mean, the Giants might not make but one play,
but you knew one thing, 13 was going to make it.
And he could take a slant and go hit his head on the goal post.
He could make the spectacular catch on the sideline.
He could go over the top.
He had, and he was box office in terms of he was must watch TV. Not just, you know, there are a lot of guys that, you know, can catch the top. He had, and he was box office in terms of he was must-watch TV.
Not just, you know, there are a lot of guys
that, you know, can catch the ball. I mean,
a lot of guys can catch the ball,
but are they must-watch TV?
Man, hey, I gotta get home.
Man, hey, I gotta see what Reek gonna do.
Tyreek, hey, Tyreek gonna
pee somebody out, and I need to see it.
Hey, AJ Brown gonna catch it in the crowd
and gonna run somebody over. I need to see it. Hey, A.J. Brown going to catch it in the crowd and going to run somebody over. I need to see it.
Justin Jefferson going to shake somebody.
Jamar Chase. There are certain guys
that you got to see. Odell was
all of that. And he
had the flair. He had the
shoes. He had the
gloves. He had the charisma
and the persona. And
he was in New York.
Yeah.
See, that's the game changer, Ojo he was in New York. Yeah. See, that's the game changer, Ocho.
He in New York.
Yeah.
So, yeah, and I feel bad.
It's tough, Ocho.
It's tough.
It's tough.
Because what happened is,
is that Baltimore giving this big contract,
and it's only for one year.
And then everybody's saying, see, I told you.
See, I told you.
And he just wants to get, he's just like, man, I can do it.
I can do it.
See, you know what, Ocho?
What they should do, since they already will try to do everything,
go ahead, when you get a defensive pass interference,
give me them yards.
Give me that receiver, add them yards.
I'm going to stop all y'all.
You ain't catch it.
Yeah, but you got got a 15-yard penalty.
I got a 40-yard penalty.
Nah.
And we're going to see it.
Because if O'Dell get through penalties, he might got 50 yards now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think I understand where his frustrations are coming from.
And I know what's going to happen.
I'm not sure who the Ravens play next.
But they're going to design plays. And what you next, but they're going to design plays and what
you can do, they're going to design plays
to ensure that he touches the ball
early. And you know how it is as a receiver.
You as a tight end.
If you get the ball in your playmaker's
hands early, just let him touch it.
It don't have to be none serious. It could be a reverse.
It could be a smoke. It could be a quick screen.
Just let him touch it and then
you invest it. You invest it into the game the rest of the way.
Remember we was having this discussion, I think,
just a couple of weeks ago.
We was talking about the Ravens and their red zone inefficiencies.
Today they were 4-4 in the red zone.
Gus Edwards had himself a day.
He had three touchdowns today.
And that's kicking field goals will lose your game.
Scoring touchdowns in the red zone
will get you in the playoffs and can win your championship and the ravens to their credit
was sensational once they got that ball into the red zone and that's what you need to have okay
let's go to the miami dolphins they carve they carve up the patriots defense tyreek he'll become
the first player in nfl history to have,000 yards receiving in his first eight games.
He and Jalen Waddell both go over 100 yards.
I think, if I'm not mistaken,
that's like the fifth or the sixth time
that they've done that in the same game.
And, I mean, what do we say about Reek?
What do we say about Tyreek?
When people, and I'm going to say it again,
and I've said it over and over and over,'ve said over and over and over when we talk about
tyreek when we talk about top five when we talk about let's stay within this era of football
we talk about the best players tyreek is in his own category yeah and that that's why i always
say and i've been saying it for the past two years. Don't ask me to do top five because Tyreek is in a class of his own.
And that's with all due respect to all the other players.
But it's just unfair.
They don't possess what he possesses.
Yeah, it's unfair.
The combination of speed, size.
I mean, the fact that he's small, he can go across the middle.
Can you imagine if he was Randy Moss height with that kind of –
Then, you know, he wouldn't be as agile.
He wouldn't be as shifty.
He wouldn't be able to corner like he does.
Yeah, he wouldn't be able to do what he does.
So the fact that he is the size he is and he's able to do what he does
the same way Randy Moss does as far as being able to take the top off of defenses
is unheard of.
Contested catch.
Everything.
But he's a football player. But see, here's the thing,
Ocho. Normally with guys that have
that kind of speed, they're
frail. They're not football
players. He's a football
player with track speed.
We've seen track guys try to come to
the football. Ronaldo, Nehemiah.
Now, the first guy to do it was Bob Hayes.
Bob Hayes was the reason why
they went to the zone defense
because before Bob Hayes, everybody
played man. Well, you got the fastest
man in the world and you got a guy that's running
4'6 trying to cover it. That ain't gonna go
too well.
That ain't gonna go too well.
So it's like, we gotta find a way to slow
him down. So you see the
way Bob Hayes was built. Bob
Hayes was a football player that had world-class speed. Tyreek Hill, if you see the way bob hayes was built bob hayes was a football player that had world-class
speed tyreek hill if you see the way he's built you can tell you don't you i mean you look at me
like okay that's a football player he's an athlete but then when you watch him and how he accelerate
i've never seen a guy that can accelerate just like that. Normally, guys have to build up.
They build, yeah.
Tyreek in three steps is at top speed.
Top speed.
Did you see him take it?
They had him bracketed.
Second step.
They had him bracketed.
On that goal ball, they got him bracketed.
But you do realize bracketing is the worst kind of coverage against a goal ball
because everybody's thinking in and out, and he take the top off it.
And you know the funny thing?
The last three touchdowns that he's caught deep,
they had him bracketed.
They had him bracketed last week, too.
I don't know what the safety doing.
The safety trying to disguise.
Disguise?
If I was a corner, I would have been screaming at the safety, man.
And if you don't get over here and help me?
Ocho, but he still got to worry about that run field, too, though.
See, they put him in a bind.
They put him in a bind, Ocho.
You asking the safety to do an awful lot
now
if that run come
you got him
you gotta get down there
you gotta get down there
if it don't
you gotta get back
so you gotta be
I'm looking at this
and there's Tyreek
at two step
and two
when he took off
when the guy let
first of all
you can't let him inside
Ocho
you gotta
well you know what you can't do that cause you Ocho. You got to – Well, you know what?
You can't do that because you sit too far inside.
Let's say you play head up.
You play half a man inside.
You done already.
There's nothing you can do.
You can't play head up.
You can't play inside.
You can't play outside leverage.
Either way, he going to beat you.
He going to beat you regardless.
Ocho, you got to get a hand on him.
If you get up there and press coverage, you got to do something, Ocho.
Get a hand on who? Ocho. Will you back off him? We'll back off him. If you get up there and press coverage, you got to do something, Ocho. Get a hand on who?
Ocho.
When you back off him.
When you back off him.
When you back off Ocho.
First of all, if you do realize that if you don't get a hand.
You got to run your defense.
You got to run your defense.
First of all, he going to run past you.
But if you up there and press coverage, he's already passed you in one step.
At least make him go like seven or eight steps.
And that's the scary part about it
is when he plays press, he's so
much quicker. He's so twitchy. He's so
much quicker than everybody else that's going to
get up there and try to press. You done.
You done. You pick your poison. You
play off, he's going to kill you. You play press,
he's going to kill you. You know how
they need to play him? You know how they play
the gunner? Remember how the gunner got...
Yeah. The cowboy gave him the Megatron treatment.
Put two guys.
Right.
That's the next thing you got to do.
That's the only answer.
And you know what's funny?
If you do that, he's probably going to beat both of them too.
Yeah.
That's the bad thing.
Well, now if you're going to play two on one, I'm going to run the ball.
I'm going to throw the ball to the other side of the field.
Yeah.
Because I already know you got two guys out of position.
He's averaging basically 127 yards per game.
He's on pace to have 2,155 yards,
which would shatter Calvin Johnson's Megatron's record.
He'd be the first NFL,
he'd be the first player to ever have 2,000 yards in receiving.
Have 2,000 yards in receiving in a single season.
That's crazy.
I'm knocking on wood hoping he stay healthy
because I want to see it. Oh, he's
going to stay healthy. You know why he's going to stay healthy?
He eat the same
food I eat.
Yeah, he's going to be healthy.
He definitely eat some bull jive. He does.
Yeah. He's on my podcast
and he's eating Cheetos and talking about
how his mom be cooking sausages
and pancakes and grits.
I have a question.
I'm not good.
Well, I'm not a math major, but if he has over 1,000 yards now in week eight,
at what point will he cross the 2,000 mark?
What point do you think?
Probably at this pace, probably week 15.
Week 15?
Yeah.
Week 15.
Week 15?
Yeah.
Nah, he going to cross it before that.
Well, he's on pace to average 21.55.
So he's averaging.
So that'll be 250. Average of 120 a game, right?
127.
So that's 254.
So he's on pace to get 21. a uh 21 55 so yeah he's on pace
oh that's crazy just the fact listen we i'm i'm thinking we used to be happy back in the day
you know doing ir was a little different well you hit a thousand yards well you feeling good yeah
our receiver when you if you could get a receiver, basically,
if you got 1,300 yards,
once you cross 1,300,
you start getting to 1,500?
Boy, you the real deal.
Man. Boy, you the real deal.
You real, real.
Yeah. And then, you know,
you had a couple of guys getting to 16,
and then, you know, I think
Jerry was the first guy that I remember had 1,800 in a season 16 and then you know i think i think uh jerry was the first
guy that i remember had 1800 in a season and then here come megatron had 1900 in a season i think
i think julio had 19 also in a season uh but tyreek i mean the guy after leaving but you know
what he needed to be he would have never done this in this in Andy Reid's system for the simple fact he got Trav.
And Trav is going to check.
See, he's going to get the lion's share of the targets here.
Trav was going to probably get.
He and Trav was going to be close.
So Trav was probably going to get 170, 180.
He was going to get somewhere between 150 and 160.
I mean, 140, 160.
So it was going to be hard for him to get the targets in that number.
I mean, 140, 160.
So it was going to be hard for him to get the targets in that number.
But, man, what he's been able to do and the way he's turned himself into a legit.
Because remember, Ocho, when he first came in, they just used him on punt and kick returns.
Right.
And a little gadget guy.
Right.
But he said, I can run.
I'm going to teach myself how to run the tree.
All that.
And now.
He can do everything.
And he does it so fast.
In a class of his own.
He definitely is.
And I'm excited.
You know, next week, they're in Germany.
They play the Chiefs.
They got the Chiefs.
And listen, with the way the Chiefs played today.
Man, you know Tyreek.
You know what the Chiefs like to do offensively on defense huh right in your face
right in your face
right in your face
you ask me when will he go over
2,000 if they play him
he'll go over 2,000 in
week 13 because he's going to have 300
next week there's no way to
stop him there's no way to stop him and I know
he's upset so think about how and I know he's upset.
Think about what he's thinking
about coming up this week, playing
against the Chiefs. Well, you didn't want to
pay me or you felt you could do it without
me. Let me show you
what time it is. He might
have 300. At that
point,
I've got a ring.
Go get that money, bro. Go get that money bro right right right go get that money
bro you can't eat them rings you can't sleep in them go now you get an opportunity your kids kids
kids can be set right man that's what i look you gotta look i get it you know in certain situations
you know like a brady or some guys like that, okay. But Tyreek,
man, go get that money, bro.
Don't be bitter because
they wouldn't because they weren't
going to give you the money that Miami
gave you. And they gave you more
up front. And you in warm weather.
And you no taxes.
There ain't no taxes. Do you know how much
money you keeping?
Hell, it's 6-8% everywhere tax you keeping? Yeah. Hell, it's 6% to 8% everywhere taxed.
Hell, in California, it's 12% state tax.
Yeah.
You get no state tax.
So you getting damn near all your money.
Every bit of it.
Every dollar.
Every dime.
Hey, man.
I know you saw this, man.
I feel bad for First Cousin.
He tore his Achilles.
First Cousin.
Kirk Cousin.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So soon as...
Listen, no contact either.
And that's normally what happens.
That's normally what happens with Achilles.
It looks, you know...
And, you know, you can tell he started harping.
I mean, when they went back and showed his lower leg,
you could just see it.
You see it give like that.
Man, I just feel so bad.
I just feel so bad.
I just hate guys having to deal...
Because that's a tough injury to overcome,
especially Cousins in his 30.
But you look at their, you know,
what are they going to do?
You know, you hear, you know,
possibly maybe trade for Kyler
who's coming off an ACL injury
because if you look at their schedule,
they got some game.
They could go on a streak here.
They're going to get JJ back,
Justin Jefferson back probably in the next probably three weeks or so i mean they were on a streak if i'm not
mistaken they've won the last two maybe maybe last three i'm i'm not sure correct me if i'm wrong
but they won the last three and the fact that he went down and you got justin coming back and maybe
a week maybe maybe three in the game that are coming up are winnable, but now your quarterback situation is shaky,
and you got Jordan Addison playing out this world.
Yeah, KJ Osborne.
Jordan Addison is playing out this world.
Addison, Osborne, Hawkinson.
Man, they got something.
All you have to do is fix the quarterback situation,
and that's the hard part, because where do you go?
Who do you go get?
I saw a tweet today that I put the eyes behind it.
Somebody said,
how about y'all call Brady?
Tell Brady to come out of retirement.
Brady done.
Hey, Ocho, you know,
you know like,
you done
because at this point,
Brady,
Brady has already started
not wanting to take those licks.
And you know how it is, Ocho.
Once you go after that,
because you got to retrain your body all over again,
even when you take an off season off.
You got to all of a sudden get your spidey senses tingling
to know where contact's coming.
Okay, if I caught a pass,
I knew the coverage I caught it in,
I knew what a danger.
Am I going to get side swiped?
Am I going to get hit on?
Or am I going to get hit from the back?
Based on the coverage that I got the ball thrown to me.
Bruh, you lose that when you don't use that.
Right, right, right.
And don't lick.
And as you get older, Ocho, man, God can hit me.
Man, I jump up off the ground.
Man, that ain't hurt.
Man, I got to be like year 11, year 12.
Man, I start putting that blink on.
Winkle, winkle, hit right on the bottom down.
Hey, you ain't been hit, bro.
I can't take that.
What you put on, the blinker?
I put that blink on.
Winkle, winkle.
Hard right.
Right on the bottom down, Ocho.
I ain't gonna lie to you, cuz.
Hey.
Hey, don't lick none of that, bro.
I couldn't.
Hey, you know when you young, Ocho, you see somebody, oh, I finna run your little ass over DB. Yeah. I fin. Hey, you know, you young. Oh, Joe, you see somebody.
Oh, I'm going to run your little ass over DB.
I'm going to run you over.
Right.
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Listen, you better than me. I didn't have
to. I mean, I think I was very fortunate
enough. Obviously, I stole what
I like to call making business decisions
from Tory Holt and Isaac Bruce.
Man,
catch it, man, get down. I ain't taking no punishment.
Man, they pulled a turf over them.
They were like,
they were in the band like you're pulling the sheets
over you.
Yeah, but listen, I stole that
from them, man.
He a good dude.
I mean, but at some point, you got to make decisions like that.
Everything, you can't keep taking no collision.
Listen, everybody is tough to a certain degree.
You can't play this game.
Even in today's game, you can't play it without a certain level of toughness.
Now, some guys are tougher than others.
But at that point in time, you know, I got to think about it.
Nah, I ain't going to prove my
toughness on this play. I'll
literally see another day. I will get you when you're
not suspecting I'm going to be tough.
You got this one.
Nah, if I
catch you slipping, I'm going to drop my shoulder
on you. That's
basically what I did to Ring.
Oh boy, that was the worst decision you
ever could have made. Ocho,
we got 18,000
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Ocho, you know we're over 200,000
in just three weeks.
Yeah, we 200K, bro.
We going.
We moving places.
You know, I go.
We trying to get to half a million
by the end of the year or better.
As a matter of fact, give us trying to get to half a million by the end of the year, or better. As a matter of fact,
get us to three quarters.
Get a million?
A million by the end of the year.
Okay, that's our goal. A million by the end of the year.
You can do it. Man, that's awesome, man. 18,000 people
watching. If y'all can see me
live, I love y'all, man.
I appreciate you from the bottom of my
heart, me and Unc, man.
Like, for real, I'm not going to get emotional.
I promise I'm not going to cry.
But, man, I thank you.
I love y'all and appreciate y'all, man.
Let's go.
Ocho, I don't know if you saw this tonight, but the Bucks,
the Milwaukee Bucks playing the Atlanta Hawks,
had Flavor Flav sing the national anthem.
Nah!
That's what I said. Wait, Flavor Flav, Flavor Flav? Flavor Flav, Flavor Flav sing the national anthem. Nah. That's what I said.
Wait, Flavor Flav, Flavor Flav?
Flavor Flav.
Flavor Flav.
Yeah, boy.
Big clock Flavor Flav?
Yeah.
And then the Bucks had a nerve, like, having, you know, the caption,
they put it to about, yeah, boy.
I said, no, boy.
Oh, no.
Wait, how do you sound, though?
It was that
bad? Hold on.
Have you ever heard
Carl Lewis? You were young,
93. Carl Lewis
sung the national anthem
at the Nets-Bulls game.
Roseanne, Bar,
Arnold, I think you go by Bar now.
Was it Roseanne? I remember
Roseanne. She was funny.
I don't know if that flavor play bro
I mean he up there
Fergie
yo
wait hold on you remember when they
remixed Fergie thing
Fergie remixed Fergie thing
Fergie but here's the thing
Ocho you have to understand
you can't use auto tunes and sing the national anthem.
So that's your natural voice.
It's not as easy as you think.
And what people have tried to do is that Marvin Gaye sung it.
I think it was game two of the NBA finals against the Lakers.
No, NBA All-Star.
NBA All-Star.
1984.
Okay.
He sung it.
And then Whitney had it.
And so everybody's trying to win the Grammy of singing that.
Bro, just go up there and sing it and just keep it moving
because you're going to mess it up.
Marvin Gaye's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner
at the NBA All-Star Game in 84, I think it's either 84 or 85, and Whitney Houston will supersede anything that's ever
done.
But now the fact that you said the Bucks allowed Flava Flav to sing the national anthem, I
need the Bengals to step up to the plate.
And do what?
I need the Bengals.
Mike Brown, Troy, Katie, I know y'all going to see this.
Elizabeth, if y'all see this, please allow me to come in
at some point this season and sing
the national anthem. Let him come in
and talk to the team, but do not let
that man get in front of no microphone. Let me sing
for you real quick. Let me start it off real quick.
And you're gonna be like, oh my God, Ocho, I didn't know you could sing.
A quick story for you. I'm glad you
said that. Quick story for you, because you're not gonna
believe me. Listen, everybody
watching. We got 18,000 people watching.
Listen to me.
I promise you.
I promise you.
So remember the Coca-Cola commercial years ago with Tyrese?
With Tyrese, yeah.
Getting on the bus?
Yeah.
I auditioned for that.
Let me tell you why Tyrese got it, though.
Because he can sing better than you.
No, no.
He can't sing better than me.
I had won the audition, right? I had won the audition, right?
But boom, this is back when I was at Santa Monica College. So
when they called me back, I didn't answer the phone because I had practice.
And they ended up giving it to Tyrese, so he got the role.
But the fact that I could sing so well back then, like, that's
like, that's what Tyrese took off.
He took off after that.
Yeah, he took off after that.
And I went the football route.
But if I could have been, I'm really, I was really a singer first.
You dark skinned.
I was a singer.
You and Tyrese dark skinned, y'all got bald heads.
Right, right, right.
That's it.
I'm just saying, listen, it came down to us. The Coca-Cola
came down to me and him.
And he the real deal.
I look up to him because I'm like, damn.
And he was on Martin. I'm like, god damn,
he played the piano and sing just like me.
But I chose the football route.
It's crazy how God works, man.
Yeah, let me hear something.
Give me a little something. You ready? Yep.
Tell me what song you want me...
Tell me what song.
You're going to sing the national anthem,
so let's start with that one.
Oh, say can you see...
Oh, Lord.
No, we good.
We good.
See, you done hit that Carl Lewis already.
How was that?
Carl Lewis.
Oh, my bad.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I ain't even had no peppermint tea.
That was right off the cuff.
That was right off the cuff.
I'm not even prepared.
You just told me to sing.
That was bad?
I don't care.
Right off the cuff, the tea, the crease.
That was bad, though, too.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Give me a minute.
Give me a minute.
Give me a minute.
Hold on.
Give me a minute.
Give me a minute.
La, la, la, la, la, la.
Give me a minute.
Nah, don't hit that mini-repertory.
No, no, no. Me, me, me, me, me, me. Okay, I't hit that mini-repertory. No, no, no.
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me.
Okay, I'm ready.
You ready?
Yes.
Watch this.
Stay with me now.
Stay with me.
Oh, say, can you see?
See, everybody can't hit that C.
Everybody can't hit that C.
See by the dawns
early
light
Lord, that birthday
I need some peppermint tea after this
I need some
Bailey's
I got a cold too, that's why I sound like that
Ocho
Ocho
You see the potential though, you see the potential though.
You see the potential.
No,
no,
no,
no,
no.
I see a lot of potential,
a lot of things Ocho,
but that singing,
Ocho,
that's not an easy song to sing.
It's not.
Because you have to,
you have to elevate and lower.
Right,
right.
You got to have,
you got to have range.
You got to,
you got to,
you got to be,
you got to have that Christina Aguilera,
Mariah Carey, that, that Adele, that Jennifer Hudson. You got to be, you got to have that Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, that Adele, that Jennifer Hudson.
You got to be able to come here and take it down.
Okay.
What singer would you like to hear sing the national anthem?
So if they said, okay, Ocho, we're going to give you a vote.
Who would you like to sing in Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas?
Super Bowl?
Yes.
Stop playing with me.
Give me Kiki Wyatt.
Okay.
Give me Kiki Wyatt or Jasmine Sullivan.
Okay.
Okay.
I can do it.
Or Jennifer Hudson.
Okay.
Listen, take me to church with it, please.
Take me.
Lord have mercy.
Boy, give me Jasmine Sullivan or Kiki Wyatt.
Listen, I told, I told, I told Real, listen, you know, I ain't getting married unless Kiki Wyatt sing at the wedding.
Well, are you paying for it?
Who?
Yeah.
But that's one thing I would pay for.
Kiki Wyatt, Jasmine Sullivanivan fantasia um who else um
i'm leaving somebody out could have could have they'll sing the national anthem even though
she's not american yeah yeah she can but she had listen her voice her voice and i haven't seen her
live you've seen her live i haven't seen her live i'm just talking about from what i've seen
from the music i've listened to.
Yeah.
And people telling me
and raving about her.
I was just in Vegas,
you know,
doing some work this past weekend
and everybody,
they watched the show.
Everybody watching the song.
Everybody watches.
Yeah, they're watching it.
Hey, you in town,
make sure you go see Adele
and they raving about
how she sounds in person.
Yeah, she's unbelievable.
I feel like that
and they're like, man, listen, they raving about how she sounds in person. Yeah. I feel like that. And they like,
man,
listen,
words can't describe how she sounds in person.
You have to experience it.
You got to see it.
You got to hear,
you got to hear,
you got to hear.
And the fact that I was in Vegas,
but I couldn't do it because the work I was doing was when the show was at
night.
I,
uh,
I will,
uh,
I definitely will probably go back and see her again before she leaves.
Damn. I'm going to see Usher too. Damn. I'm going to see Usher too.
Yeah, I'm going to see Usher too.
That Usher,
the real deal.
He is. He the real deal. Okay, let's get
to Coach Prime.
They lost to UCLA
and they asked him about,
he said, the big picture, you get new linemen.
That's the picture and I'm going to
paint it perfectly for it. Shador
was sacked seven times, hit 17
other times and knocked down 13 times.
Damn.
They said the Bruins sacked him five
times in the first half, leading to
him getting a painkilling injection
at the half.
You told me that it's all about delivery.
Right.
Did you like Coach Prime's delivery?
Because normally Coach says, look, we're going to have to get better
in certain areas, obviously.
It's not where we should be, but the guys are battling.
The guys are working hard.
I watch them come to practice every day, work
their tails off. We'll get it fixed. We're going
to coach them up. We'll coach them a little better.
They'll play a little better.
Cole Prime, as a matter of fact,
the picture is
we're going to get a new lineup.
Did you like
that presentation? Prime has
always been unapologetically
himself since he's arrived.
The players in that locker room, they know
who he is. He hasn't
changed. He hasn't wavered. He stayed
true to himself and his coaching style,
which differs from everyone else,
obviously. Prime says some
of the things that others think. He just
says them aloud.
He has an approach. He has
a way that he wants to run his show and he's running
that running it that way what he's done for that program in such a short amount of time
is unbelievable yeah and he said I need six or eight more dogs yeah and the eight the six or
eight more dogs that he was talking about is the interior the offensive line and the defensive line
he's going to get them.
Yeah.
After the battle, when it comes to college football.
It's all about the interior line.
O-line and D-line, interior.
Bingo.
And that's the only thing that separates Power 5 schools to your HBCUs to your other small division schools
is the interior linemen.
Look at the Georgia Bulldogs.
How many D-linemen and O-linemen they put into the league? Look at Bama. How many D linemen and O linemen they put into the league?
Look at Bama.
How many O line and D line they put into the league?
Go look at the SEC.
Every year, the SEC and the Big Ten, they lead.
They got them hogs, man.
You got to have your A.
They got them hogs, man.
Prime going to get them now.
Prime going to get them.
Because half of the battle is not, I was getting ready to say
drafting, not drafting.
The portal is recruiting.
Yeah.
See, the thing is about the portal,
it's easy to go in the portal. Guys don't want to
recruit anymore because guys that's in the portal,
we already got film on them playing college.
We already know they go to
class, how they're going to do it.
So I've already got a head start.
So now I go, okay, this guy really, really fit my program.
I like him.
So I think you're going to probably see until they get a handle on it
what they're going to actually do with the portal.
I think you're going to see more teams going that way.
They're still going to recruit the high school athletes.
That's not going away.
Well, I don't think not very many, though, right?
Not very many because you have to be special to be able to come in and actually contribute right away i don't think players want to want to come in and
sit down well i gotta wait three years before i play yeah yeah it's uh it is it's very interesting
to see but i'm i'm surprised because here's the thing that I'm afraid of, is I don't want the guys
to be like, well, you feel that way? Hell, I
ain't going to block no more. I ain't going to do nothing
the rest of the year.
You know what I'm saying?
They won't do that. They won't do that. They respond
and they will respond
well based on what he
said. They're going to respond well. They're not the type
of kids to shut down. Man, I just want him to beat Stanford
because that way, if he didn't want to beat Stanford,
in one more game, he's bowl eligible. We could have gone
bowling.
Yo, for real? Yeah.
All you need is six wins. Oh, that'd be
beautiful, man. That'd be
beautiful. We're going to end on this one.
Tyson Fury
beats Francis Ngannou by
split decision. Was
Francis Ngannou wrong? decision. Was Francis Ngannou wrong?
You know good with, man,
that was, that was, that was,
with no mask on.
So that's wrong about him.
He was wrong, he was wrong
with no mask on.
Listen, you know how much
I love boxing.
You know how much I love boxing.
I have submerged myself in it,
you know, since, obviously,
since I was young,
obviously stepping in the ring
and doing it, you know, not at the highest level, but just doing it, dude, that was, that was a robbery.
That was a robbery. And if you, if you watch the tweets of some of the boxers, some of the best in
the world to say it was an embarrassment to boxing, you know, if you are the, if you are the heavyweight
King, if you are the heavyweight King, you do not allow somebody to come into your sport.
That is not familiar with your sport. He familiar with combat sports but not boxing yeah to come in and
look that polished look that sharp and outclass and outbox you you just you can't it looked like
it was an embarrassment to boxing from what the peers have said.
When I look, when I watch and I look at Tyson Fury,
it looks to me that he didn't take it serious.
He didn't train.
No.
And he didn't train.
He always looks like that.
Yeah, he's always going to look like a garment bag.
I mean, you know, he ain't got no shape to him, look.
Come on.
So he built how he built.
But I agree with you,
Ocho, for an
outsider, and that's what Francis Ngannou
is. He's an outsider.
To come in and look that good.
And you talk about, this guy
is the heavyweight champion of the world.
And everybody that he's gotten in the ring with over
the last, he smoked them.
And Francis Ngannou won this fight.
He won this fight.
I don't know what the judges saw.
I don't care if you just,
and I know the judges don't go by crowd reaction,
but Francis Ngannou landed the cleaner punches.
He was the aggressor in the fight.
And a knockdown.
Yes.
And a knockdown.
But I think,
I don't think they wanted to set a precedent. I don't think they wanted to set a precedent.
I don't think they wanted to set a precedent of
having an MMA fighter with no boxing
background or boxing experience.
He has combat experience. Yeah, that's totally
different though. Having him come in and beat the heavyweight champ
of the world, and it messed up everything
else that Fury and Usyk, you know,
they're supposed to fight sometime in December.
It messes everything up, and I think they
wanted to protect all that other stuff.
And just, I mean, it was ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
And there have been some other decisions in boxing that have been questionable.
And this just goes down as just a total embarrassment.
Yeah, this was bad.
And I know this is probably you don't remember this.
This was as bad as when Roy Jones got robbed at the Olympics,
when Floyd Mayweather got robbed at the Olympics.
This was like that.
This was like, this is bad.
Yeah.
This is bad.
As a matter of fact, those losses for Roy,
that loss for Floyd might have been more impactful than it was if they had won.
Well, that was the last time Floyd ever lost.
That might have been more impactful than anything.
The last time he ever lost a That might have been more impactful than anything. The last time he ever
lost a fight.
He lost since.
Yep.
Well, thank you guys
for 18,000.
We had 18,000.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Come on, man.
Where we going now?
Where we doing?
We had 18,000, Ocho.
But I don't even know
18,000 people.
I know my baby.
Anybody that know me personally,
if y'all watching,
I love y'all.
I appreciate you. Baby, I know my baby. My baby probably what my kids watching. I know my kids watching Anybody that know me personally, if y'all watching, I love y'all. I appreciate you.
Baby, I know my baby.
My baby probably what my kids watching.
I know my kids watching y'all in college.
Make sure you do your homework, too.
I'm going to call your professor.
And make sure you tell your friends, your kids, tell their friends to subscribe to this channel.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends' friends.
Your aunties and your uncles.
Yes.
18,000?
We got to go. We're trying to hit we gotta go we're trying to hit a milli
we're trying to hit a milli by december by christmas december 31st we're gonna need to
be as close as we possibly can what a friend we have indeed yeah i wish i had a friend that
could sing i don don't, unfortunately.
I used to lead the choir as a little kid at Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Overtown.
Don't do me like that.
But you had three members.
Oh, at Mount Olivet?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Reverend Clark ain't play that.
We had a membership.
We had about 3,500 people.
Yeah, we had we had
we ain't had church
we had church
it's a difference
yeah
well we tried to get
we tried to get
our goal old Joe
let's let's
our modest goal
our goal is to hit
by the end of November
be at half a million
what month we in?
we about
we about
we are August
this is October the 30th tomorrow.
Oh shit.
It's the 30th?
Tomorrow.
I ain't even paid my,
I ain't even paid my mortgage this month.
Shit.
Don't worry about it.
They'll let you go by two or three months
before they come and put,
put chains on it.
They'll let you,
they'll let you go a couple of months before.
But then your credit, but then your credit score, then your credit score gonna suffer that. You be before. But did your credit score go suffer that?
You be laying on paper, your credit score.
You don't want your credit to go that deep.
I ain't finna play with my credit score.
I ain't playing with that.
I ain't playing with that.
You know, every time I hit a question,
and I want to ask you this for people that are watching,
because I see it on Twitter all the time.
What?
There's always a question.
800 credit score or just say
$500,000.
What you taking?
Well,
the best credit...
$500,000 or 800 credit score?
But see,
I'm not the right person
to ask that.
You or I are not the right person
because we financially
we straight.
What you going to say though?
If I was an average person,
Right.
I would take the 500 grand.
I knew you was going to say that.
No, say you us. What you going to take?
Oh, me? I'm taking 850 credit score.
Okay.
We don't have to get into the details of why.
That's a whole other topic. Yeah.
I mean, credit, once you reach a certain
level, credit is everything.
I don't think people understand that.
It's everything.
I don't think they understand that, though.
Because everybody on Twitter, I'm taking the money, I'm taking the money, I'm taking the money.
But I'm looking at it from a different perspective, from a different lens.
But you have to understand, Ocho, you can't, I mean, yeah, 500,000 of them is different
because we're trying to go get something worth 10 million, 15 million.
500 ain't going to do nothing.
Right, right.
That man ain't going to look at their credit scores.
He's going to look at if you ever been bankrupt, have you ever walked out on anything?
Right, right, right.
Like you said, we'll talk about that another day.
But I mean, I don't care what my credit score is.
834.
You 8.34?
Hey, hey, hey,
you heard that?
I thought I said that,
but...
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Hey, you in the A's for real?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm in the A's too.
And I'm not even going
to tell you no lie.
You want to know
why I'm in the A's?
You want to know
why I'm in the A's?
What?
No, I'm serious.
Let me take my glasses off
so you know I'm not bullshitting.
I'm not going to tell you nothing.
You know I always preach to you
about getting certain people in your life
that can give you a little guidance
and a little instruction.
I'm in the eights.
Real got me in the eights.
Yeah.
She got me in the eights.
You got me in the eights.
Helped me out with a little credit.
I didn't even know
what no goddamn credit line was.
Helped me out with a little credit line.
Yeah.
I ain't even had no debt. I ain't even had no debt. But see, that's the thing. You got to have a little credit. I ain't even know what no goddamn credit line was. Help me out with a little credit line. Yeah. I ain't even had no debt.
I ain't even had no debt.
But see, that's the thing.
You got to have a little debt.
Listen, it's a game.
I ain't had none.
You got to.
I'm thinking,
I'm thinking I'm beating the system.
Do not.
I think I'm beating the system
being cheap,
not having no debt,
not having no credit cards.
I'm thinking I'm beating the system.
No.
No, we get together
about three, four years ago.
And you know,
she helped me like, you know, I want to get, I want to, I want to get some. No. No, we get together about three, four years ago. And, you know, she helped me like,
you know,
I want to get some.
What's your credit look like?
My who?
Man, she done built me shit up till 8, 12.
Yeah.
That's what I'm telling you.
See, stuff like that.
When I originally came out here,
Ocho,
the guy didn't want to,
I had to, you know,
I had to get a place
rather quickly because I got the job and I had to get out here. The guy didn't want to, I had to, you know, I had to get a place rather quickly
because I got the job
and I had to get out here.
The guy didn't want
to give me the place.
He's like,
there's something wrong.
I was like,
what do you mean
there's something wrong?
Right.
He says,
you got an 850 credit score
and the only thing
that you own is a house.
I said,
why the hell do I need
like 15 houses
just because I got great credit?
He said,
because everybody
has great credit.
They have multiple this,
multiple that.
I said, well, I ain't them people.
I live within my means. I ain't trying to impress
nobody. Right, right.
And you know when
they run your credit, it dings it.
Yeah.
Man, I knocked my credit down
to like $7,000. It's a game.
It's a game of
discipline that I don't like.
I'm going to get this condo now.
You don't ding me down this right here, you
going to give me this condo here, or you going to give me
about $500,000. You don't ding my
credit, kept running my credit like something was wrong.
Why is the
system rigged like that? I don't
know, Ocho. I don't know. I don't.
I don't. That's another topic.
Another topic. But you know what, Ocho?
We just hit 205,000 followers,
subscribers, excuse me,
205,000 subscribers.
We got 200,
nah, yeah, we got 295 to go
to reach our goal of 500,000
by the end of November.
And then we got another half a million to go
to hit our goal by the end of December.
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Thank you, man.
Thanks for tuning in
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