My intro is going to stay the same as the beginning of this thing.
I'm just going to put.
This weighted vest on because wil says, we just got to find a couple of things to talk about. So let me strap that in and I'm falling out of a plane with no parachute. Will what do you got for us today?
Dude?
Talk to me about how disrespectful you are. Dude, do you want to live up to those things?
What are you talking about? Disrespectful I'm talking about.
I'm talking about when you're in my car, and talk about when I when I dropped you off at your car yesterday. In my car, my door was trying to close because I have a little remote thing that'll close the door for me, and you just stood in front of it and you almost broke the door.
And then you walked away with your ass sweat to your car.
No, you tried disrespecting me by like, hey, I got to Tesla, like I'm environmentally friendly and try like electronically closing the door and.
I just wasn't moving because I wasn't ready to move yet.
If you're trying to shame me for reducing my eco footprint, then shame on you, sir, because me and Leo, Yeah, Leonardo DiCaprio, I call him Leo because we know each other like that. We're doing our best and we're moving forward. That being seen, you say the same thing in your fourth Raptor. I never the Ford Raptor. It's Eco boost due, that's a V six. I can't even pull the trailer in the back of that thing. Sure I'm getting built Yeah it is. It's built on It's a corn certain, dude.
I put pour corn sip into my gas tank and then and then little kernels come out of it. Dude, That's how my truck runs. Why I don't even use plastic anymore. This is not This is not plastic, dude, this is hemp. You just can't tell. You just can't tell because I'm so dude, I'm so invironlment. I might save the world right now. That doesn't stop from also being disrespectful. We're at breakfast the other day and we okay, so anyone who goes into breakfast, guess what you have
to order your food? Do you not have to order your food?
What do you mean you'd like when you I, well, what would you like?
Well?
I would I would like this and that and uh do you change this out for that?
Be sure you have to do all those things.
I ordered my food, okay, then you ordered your food. I even went first, so you had a good gauge of where we were at.
Then you went.
Then our food comes out and you asked.
You have the audacity to ask me for some of my food. We're not dating, dude, So here's what happened. He asked me for a full of a Here's what happened.
We're walking into Fidos and uh, awesome spot in Nshville by the way.
Yeah, we're not going to but we're not getting know what you're gonna do.
We're gonna beleeve that out. So when he just said awesome spot, you have no idea why because spiders.
We're walking in. What was I was talking?
Uh, we're walking in and Taylor goes, hey, we'll appreciate breakfast by the way, okay for the boys.
I'm the boy. Yeah, I get it. You drove because you asked me, Hey, let's ride together. So we're walking in.
That's actually true, and he's like, hey, appreciate breakfast. My man orders checks the menu, literally orders a you know, standard breakfast off the menu, says you know, no hash browns, no bread, no cheese. Solid choice did the same thing, said subber for fruit, add three avocados.
Three of avocados, two extra flaking steaks, Ye latte on top of it.
I with all the milk, orders a completely entire meal, and uh, buddy, little.
Time out real quick? What do you do? Order an entire meal?
Got ahead and Mikey he orders his meal.
I ordered mine, like the bill's over like one hundred dollars at this point for a little breakfast. It's it's nine am in the morning and I'm paying over one hundred dollars for under a breakfast six And so I'm eating my food. I'm getting a little angry. I'm gotting I should ordered a little bit more, but I didn't because I'm like you, I gotta order less because my friend ordered way too much.
And I'm going a budget, like I don't have a paycheck right now.
And Taylor, I look over and I'm like, hey, you mind if I have a bite of your avocado please and thank you, oh my god. And He's like, dude, take your take your peasant meal and you just eat alone by yourself, like over there and he's like trying to shove me off my chair the whole time being super disrespectful, and I'm you know, taking it like a champ, like hey, you know, don't stoop to his level like he's he does what he does.
He needs.
He must not be getting much attention at home by the bean, so you know, I do my thing. But that's a story. He didn't. It wasn't me being disrespectful. It was this man ordering a huge check, me taking care of the boy. And I have no ending after that.
Oh you don't have an ending, No, because it's a false story.
That's why that's not a false story.
Yes you do. You didn't say hey, may I please?
Do you mind?
You actually try to use your fork and go over to my side and scrape it off.
And why why was I doing that though? Because you were leaning on me. You were leaning on me.
Like hey, this is a line on the table, and you were past the line.
You were taking my elbow room.
Can we talk? Can we talk about Madden ratings? Can we talk about your Madden rating?
Can we talk about how you're a three time pro bowler in a row yep, and you have a Madden rating of eighty one. You're not even the highest rated olignement on the Titans. Ye, I'm the twenty What you're not sapphold is or saffold right, shold's eighty three or eighty one. I saw it, and I'm like, Yo, that is disrespectful. They really disrespected the Titans. And I remember looking at that one, like, yo, what they're like trying to troll you?
Is what I thought. Yeah, you're eighty one seals eighty three. You're not even the highest rate to alignment on my team. Yeah, you're on your own team.
You know what the most fucked up thing, like this whole thing is, you knew that information. You waited til these cameras around me to drop a fucking bomb like that on me. I didn't even think of it. I didn't even cross my mind if I was the highest rate of Titan. Yeah are you joking? No offense to the boys, my babies, But come on Madden. Yeah, dude, I got a Twitter battle of Madden the other day.
They like they're like strength set like seventh best, offensive lignment speed fifth best, But like, dude, okay, I had the top ten forty. I have a top ten forty in the last ten years, the years at a combine. When I jumped my broad jump, I set a combined record.
All right. My split time was under one seven.
For all of you math nerds out there, that is elite for an offensive tackle.
All right. I've made three Pro Bowls in a row.
I'm so fucking disrespected by E A EA sports, the whole no longer in the game.
Look at the roster.
Look Roger staffold eighty three, Taylor Luwan eighty one.
Dude, Yo, look at your picture. Can you click on his image?
That's my rookie year.
Dude.
Every year they tell me, hey, tu, do you want to take another headshot? I'm like, get the fuck away from me.
You should probably take another headshot because I'm.
Not taking another had shot. You know what I'm gonna do, Dude, I like.
I'm gonna dude.
You know.
The fucked up thing was when I was at the Pro Bowl this year.
Look at that. When I was at the Pro Bowl this year, Madden asked me to go in to do one of their interview processes to talk about how my my how white should be you have a better rating without amy even knowing my rating, not understanding the amount of disrespect.
I'm the twenty first rate to tackle.
Okay, you're the twenty first and Madden, yes, twenty first rate to tackle.
Oh my god, that's the Yeah. Yeah, I didn't know that either. That's middle the highest rated gown on the team. Obviously he's my favorite player, so he should be. But he didn't even play last year. The Laney's the number one rated tight end.
And tight you can't say a bad thing about the lane.
Yeah, I can't either, but I'm still you know, you know what I mean?
So disrespected?
Dude, I fuck them. I had nothing good to say about EA sports.
Dude, you want to know what happened to I? So I typed in I typed in your name, or I typed in the Titans roster. I just wanted to check the Titans roster. What sucks is that? Then I follow up and type in search player, I type in my name.
Yep, zero results, not even on the game anymore.
Well, I mean, like, like, I get your you feel disrespected. You're in eighty one, Like I think it was a sixty eight last year. I think the highest I've ever been is like a seventy three.
Wow.
Well, I mean you're not I mean, you.
Know, if I'm if I was a seventy three and you're in eighty one, I just meant you were You're only what is it eight You're only eight above me?
No, I'm eighty one above you.
You're not even in the game. What does that mean?
Like the math is pretty simple, dude.
Well I'm a zero, so well, actually, you know you're probably what's the math? What's why do you get to ninety nine?
Is that?
Was that eighteen points? Because when you create your own player, that's is Compton with fifty one dude, and I'm gonna be I'm gonna you'll be eighteen above me.
When I was young and I created a playery, it would always be, uh, it would always be a black guy.
Because I just said, what's with you and black guys?
Dude?
Well that sounds weird, but it's not really. It just wasn't you know? You're right, what is my fucking deal with white guys?
You know, I would literally last podcast, you're like black Quarterbacks, white Corporatemore.
We don't even know if that's the last one. We don't even know where this one is in the mix, but I know you.
Mean, why would you do that. Why would you say that.
I don't know, my fascinating I don't. Hey, what's funny? You want to know? It's funny? Like this sounds rare.
Somebody someone take well through one class, like one one one like making a film class, dude, so he understands, like how the fuck to talk during a camera like, well, we don't know where that was going to be?
Well, they don't.
I would like that was the next one, like this, you're like this, Oh, it would not be a buzz On with the Boys podcast without a train.
I always do that too. I would say the bus, it's okay, Hagrid you good boy? He you like this?
How, I don't know.
There's a there's a lot of things are doing.
People be like, oh, come, I'm super racist. I'm not, no, but I when I would create my black guy, his name would always be like Jamal or Terrell or Tyrone because my young self, my young ten year old self didn't know, you know, didn't I'm just like watching what was that show called uh where they tried to show the outlook of professional athletes NFL players lives, but they couldn't They didn't use the exact team names.
Lesson for a little bit of like ESPN.
Anyway, long story short, Yeah, I used to I would never create Will Compton.
It would always be like a black guy that dominated.
Yeah, like I never that's great, Will. I never played EA sports. The most sports game I ever played was NFL Blitz, Dude, and that was it. I did play dirt bike games though, however, and I always named my guy Trey Oland.
Why Trey old you didn't get.
To pick his race?
Why?
Because motocross doesn't see color.
It's because they're decked out in gear and you're not going to see color. It's not like I was seeing color. So this wasn't like a.
Dude, you need to go take a.
But I need to take a long look in the mirror.
African American studies class or something like that.
Did all my all my roommates have you know been black?
That's like, that's like a white guy saying the end word been saying. No, it's cool, my best friend's black.
President.
You still don't get that ass beeed Bud.
My president used to be Obama.
Oh my god. Well today that was fun. That was a fun time. Well today we have uh Andrew Wireworth on the podcast. It's gonna be amazing. Uh, the guy's unbelievable. We talked about the intro whatever.
Well, uh, that.
Train is still rolling by. I feel like people actually don't ever hear the train and they're like, like, what the fuck is this guy talking about? When we when we get back boys Andrew Whitworth all right, a lot of HYPEO, Yo, what the boy? What's going on?
Dude?
You just popped up out of nowhere. That thing didn't even ring once.
Yeah, Zach, there is a psychopath.
Yeah, dude, how's things going?
How you are you in Colorado? I am brother, dude, you're just living the dream right now.
By the way, don't say anything dumb. We're being recorded right now, so I have to tell you that full disclosure. So how are you excited? Do you're busting with the boys right now?
I'm you know what my card any higher?
He said?
I can tell he sounds sound.
He sounds excited. We have you watched have you listened to any of our stuff?
It's rhetorical. Don't answer that question.
I'm gonna assume you've seen everything. So what the deal is, dude, is we were on a NASCAR bus in the middle of middle Tennessee with an air conditioning that apparently is not working today, or next two train tracks, like we are. We're living a little rough and a while in the South.
Baby.
But you know all about that because you're from Louisiana. Where'd you grow up in Louisiana?
Uh, you know, North Louisiana, but a little Monroe Western Road area.
West mon Row area. Is that where they uh duck dynasty?
Is that where that is?
There?
You go, dude, And I didn't even that was swinging that the fence there.
Hoping to God that Yeah, dude.
It's so funny to me, like when people come from like backwood spot spots, like the small town people and they're like God's Country. Like I'm the same way. He's like North Louisiana, God's Country.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's Will Compton talking. He's, ah, well you're.
There.
Yeah?
Yeah?
Did you when you were growing up? Were you always always gung ho? But the Tigers?
You know? I really wasn't you know that the little kid that people don't know. I was actually a Florida Gator community.
No way, you were a commit. You were a Florida Gator commit.
I was a little silent comment. I officially announced it just because obviously, when you're in Luisiana you're going to commit to another exec school, they're going to probably come after you with twitchway. So Herbal I decided I was going to go to Florida my seni of year when Nick Clagan got hurt as the head coach at LSU, and that changed my mind.
Really, do you play with men Burger?
No, he's way older than that, dude.
Like thirty seven years old. Dude, he is, you got, He's got a whole starting off. It's a line as a family.
Dude.
He's got four kids.
Ye must he's almost there.
Yeah he.
Yeah, go ahead again.
He's sorry.
My joke was not going to be sol right there. I literally stopped mid joke, like, Yo, this is not gonna hit.
You're all right? You know, I had to get the other. I had a kid the other day in La at an edible house party. Uh deal, I want to and I was the old man there. Young kid asked me. He said, you know, did you run run across playing with you know when my GM my grandfather was with the team. O God, are you ask me? Are you asking me as me and your grandfather played in the league at the same time. Obviously I'm a little sensitive to it. And then he's like, oh, I'm so sorry.
My grandfather went into the front office after he played, and he retired from the front office not that long ago. I was like, oh god, okay, calm down. Jump that was my fault. I didn't mean to jump down your throat. I didn't understand the question.
Just tearing down little kids, dude, I get it. You get old, dude. I was in Cabo uh in March. Will was invited. He never came, So next year, I'll invite you. But I was in Cabo, dude, and these uh these they have these stupid headmans. Have you been in Cabo with?
Oh?
Yeah, okay, So I'm in Cabo at this taco shop next to uh this like beach bar, and they're these headbands like one says like, uh like big dick and the other one is like, uh, I hate my boss and a bunch of a bunch of stupid headbands. Well, I'm buying these headbands for my buddies. Were about six Margarita's deep and I look at these two girls and they're like, I'm like, hey, do you guys do as one head bands like three dollars each. I'm like, yeah,
i'mnna throw these girls as solid. These girls are like, yeah, absolutely, we love it. And I guess I didn't hear them, but my buddies heard him. One girl was like, Hey, what college do you think he goes to? Because this is this is in March, so it's spring break and the girl, the girl goes.
They're not in college. They're so old, they're so and I heard that.
I was like, yo, I'm yeah, but on different level, I'm gonna kill myself. Yeah, but I'm headed there like you're literally yeah.
They don't even have three dollars.
Dude.
That was like, but you're he's like ten years old than me. But what's looking young man? He got he got that bald head, living life. He looks good. Benjamin Button dude, Yeah.
You do, got that Benjamin Button disease for real.
Yeah. You gotta keep it shaved though, because at the moment I let it come out and see the age come quick. It's the white stuff thing.
Now you are you were you bald and before, and that's why we needed to make that discipline decision.
Well, I actually in high school we were really good, and our deal was we always shaved our heads to go on the state championship. The whole team that too, And so I started doing it then and I kind of liked it, and so in college I just kind of rolled with it. My freshman year, I was like, you know what, I'm gonna shave my head and go with it. And I grew it out like one year in college and outside of that shaved head, I was
kind of rolled with it, man. And then you know what, my junior year in college was like, I'm gonna grow it out, like and even you know, look good thinking I was good looking, you know, and uh.
And then.
Now it was there was no hair left soude were you know what my head.
There's there's no way you had to think to yourself, I'm gonna grow my hair out to figure out that you were balding.
There's no way.
You kind of saw it when you go.
For a shave, like you know, there's less of this stuff that but I.
Thought like, hey, you know what, it's kind of grow back then it's gonna be okay. And then it was just pure halfering, like I had a horse shoe in my head and I was like, oh my gosh.
Dude, that's brew Like honestly, did you ever think to yourself, like, you know, when I get older, I'll do the with the plugs or anything like that.
That's across the head, Like you know, like you know, what would that be an idea? Like, but it's so bad. I would never take the time. You can try to grow.
Yeah, don't do it, dude, or like put his the hair plugs in and stuff, and.
I just looks so such like yeah, it's like somebody.
Look up to as a backer and now he's got his hair and you're just like, uh, you just it doesn't work, man.
He's got that sharp.
Yeah, yeah exactly.
Hey, so plane at l s U. Were he there when bo Polini was there?
Uh my last year there was Bocalini's first year there.
So you probably have no good Bopolini stories. Then I played for both.
That's one of that many. Yeah, he was pretty quiet, you know, less that was left his first year there too, So feeling process for all of us, you know what I mean. He's a little couple of gaskets here there, but it's more like the boy nothing to major.
Yeah, Well go ahead, Taylor, you know you.
Always got the feeling that he gets blood pressures running on like a foulton. But uh, you know he was. He was definitely intense, that's for sure.
I feel like every coach in college is like that, like for some reason, they just got to lose their mind over nothing sometimes. Like that's the way that I was so freaked out when I got to the league, Like everything was yes.
Sir and no sir.
And then like our linebackers coach Lou, He's like, hey, like you can cut the shirt, surf shit out, like just call me Lou.
And I was so nervous.
I was so nervous to call him by his first name. But like, yeah, in college, man, it's weird. It's like you're in the military or something like that. Like the drum line and everything, a bunch of stuff going on. They got pt in the mornings, got it all going.
Dude, it's wild.
I can't imagine doing that in Baton Rouge, man, one of those games, Like in uh in Baton Rouge was it pretty pretty wild because Zach.
Me, yeah, he currently played like a team that had to come from either the North or the like you know, like which time we played Oregon State, you know in back Rouge. It's just like early in the year, you just felt like those guys were just like what in the craft is this did weather? I mean that humidity would jump on you so far. I always tell people were in training camp, we used to like literally have
like forty minutes. Every forty minutes we have to like stop practice and like cold towel, people like give everybody cold crew like you just you were so worried somebody was gonna die so far. I mean, it was just unlowlievable. It was. It was that bad, oh crazy hot.
Where where'd you spend most of your time? Forget football, where'd you spend most of your time in Tiger Land?
Do were you?
Were you like a Bogie's guy, your friend's guy and Mike's guy.
I was never really really never a Bogey guy. Maybe maybe later in my career when I thought I was cool. But you know, like a lot of people, if those these was more like you thought you were super cool.
Oh that's find that's hard to hear because I I went I dated a girl from Baton Rouge her one of my teammates. It was this team my teammates sister. Worst mistake, he ever made in Tarltt. But I went down there a bunch of baton rouge. I loved lsu What you see, Mike the Tiger, the whole camp.
What's that You're only improving what I just said?
Yeah, And we would go to we would go to Bogey's all the time, and there's strict on the you can't have tattoos showing or nothing. And like the manager came up and he saw like a bird on my forearm and he's like, I like that bird, you can come in.
That was like all it took for some reason. But Bogey's was my spot.
Man.
Then Zach Mettenberger took me down there a whole bunch prawfish boils. That place was just some dark stuff happened down there. Man, that place is crazy. Like Mettenburger had a cot in the back. But yeah, it's definitely where kids think they're cooler than they actually are.
Where was your spot then.
You know, uh, well later in my later in my time, I was definitely early in my career, you know, it was it was it was the Stadium Club, it was it was Spreads and Reggie's and just you know, just shirt off jeans and some shoes and just like sweating your face off. Nobody wants to touch you or get close to you. And you know it just it was like a big guy, just all big guy, just big fat guys running around drunk. You know it was. It was not dude, if I if I, if.
I was a regular pedestrian, I walked into a bar and I saw you the behemo that your shoulders are twice as white as mine.
You're like a forehead taller than me.
If I was a regular, But if I was a Will Compton looking dude and I walked into the bar and I saw you, I'd immediate with your shirt off and denim jeans.
On, I'd be out of there. I would just I'd have to walk out.
Dude, You're an intimidating figure for sure.
I saw him in Vegas one time with McVeigh. They were on some basket party.
I don't know if you remember this with but I felt that way, and he was already he was just dressed up, sitting down.
Yeah.
I was like, yeah, McVeigh, good to see you, man, Like this is wit And he.
Just looks at me and kind of shakes my hand and I'm like, God, this guy's he did looks like he's just gonna swing on me right here, dude.
The only way I know wit WIT's always sitting down.
Like everywhere I see him, he just finds the most comfortable chair.
In the room, and that's where he's at. Posted up all night, man.
Yeah, you know, and I post up. That's my du I'll post up by my father. I don't care where anybody else is going.
I'm got your spot all night.
I love it, dude.
So way back in the forties, you were second round draft pick. You're also also white, so there's a lot of privilege going into the NFL. You played for a long stint with the Bengals, and you make a transition from guard to tackle. What was that transition like and was it hard? Was a harder since you're going from a spot that's known as not as athletic to a spot that's more athletic.
Not really, just because in college I only played left tackle, and then my rookie year in the league, I played left tackle because our left tackle got hurt. And so really my second and third year I played left guard. And you know, I enjoyed it, actually, because when you're in that little box you can just try and people throws off and they can't go anywhere. So it's like
it's kind of fun. I kind of enjoyed it. I used to say, like the anxiety and just like overall, like just calmness was so much better in there because you literally could just swing and do care something that's gonna happen. But you know, you don't have the edge where you're like, oh god, my pinkiness and it's over with. Yeah, So it's like playing on the edge just so different
that I just love playing inside. It was just like the most fun two years ever because it was just you know, I get after it and go crazy and something good. Decenter said, and like, oh man, at least you were physical, So it's like okay, great, uh, but not on the edge. Yes, you know, it's just a different world when you get on that edge, especially if you start winning a lot of games and uh, start playing a big games to playing big time players, so the edge is always being totally different.
Who's the best player you've played against so far ever in your career?
Oh that's a tough one, you know, I think you know, I always say that, Yeah, that's a big guy alignment that guy food, right, I gotta put it. I gotta put it into the categories. You know, there's Italian, you know there's steakhouses. We can't just I can't just give somebody the number one. So I had to go pure pass rushers. I'm gonna go d White Frames. He was one hell of a rusher, him and John Abraham back
in the day. When you got those guys and he played against him and they were up on you a couple of touchdowns, it was like the least favorite day of your.
Life, he said, back in the day.
Yeah, dude, there's nothing.
There's nothing in.
The different categories and just guys who played day in the day. And I mean Trel Suggs and James Harrison for playing those guys for ten years. I mean just as physical and getting after the type of guys as you're going to play. And you know what, it was a lot of fun playing against them. And in one heck of a competition.
James Harrison's I had to play him my rookiear on Monday Night football and it was like the most intimidating week because, like you know how some offensive line rooms are. Some guys don't talk. I'm sure you don't chirt very much, but I'm sure you know from us getting to know each other, I do like to chirp a little bit.
And the old the yeah, the old line rooms.
Like we're going into the game, they're like, hey, dude, just don't just don't even say anything to him. And the first play of the game, we threw a pick six and I cut him and he went down and I just started going off on him, like, you know, just telling them all sorts of things, and the rest of the game was probably the most miserable.
Game I've had to play in my entire life.
We ran outside he does man and he does that where you go to punch him and he grabs your arm and uses your like momentum to swing himself around because the center of gravity's so low. It's he's he's an intimidating figure and it's crazy. He's intimidating because he's like five six, Yeah, I know, just straight, yok, he's just straight.
A bowl, like a rolling ball of butcher knives. Due just like running around. But he didn't say much.
Dude, Like I went to running outside zone to the right like the next time we were on the field, and he like he chased me down and grabbed my leg and Gator rolled my leg and I was like, oh, this is oh, this is getting that kind of game. He was mad at me because I was saying, you know, I was saying a whole bunch of stuff to him. But he's a stud, dude. Both those guys are studs. And as far as like Abraham goes, I remember, you know,
do you know Jake Long? Oh yeah, so Jake. Jake's like was like the hero, right because I went to the University of Michigan and I remember watching him in a Falcons game. Dude, and he beat Jake off the ball and picked him up by his throat and put him on his back. And I and I'm thinking, I'm thinking to myself, like, yeah, there's no if he if he's.
Gonna be there's no way I'm going to make it to the league. Dude.
Like he was. He was a special rusher man when he got off the ball, uh man, he was special hit speed and his ability to jump unders and one arms up at speed was just Abraham, no doubt.
What was changing gears a touch.
Talk to me about last year, dude, How cool was it to make it as far as going to Super Bowl, then, how tough was it to deal with something like that that late in your career of you know, kind of taking taking a loss.
I think, you know what, honestly, for me, it was easier to lose career because he wait and.
Wait, wait, wait, go back, go back a little bit you with.
There, and we lost y cool thing thirteen years he's not listening there he wait?
Can you hear us?
Wait? Can you hear us?
There be a part of the went Holy Ships? Winning the game? Obviously, as much as many games I felt like I'd won as many division championships of one of my career. Uh, to never have the opportunity to actually go into the big one just awesome. Uh. I enjoyed it, man. And obviously it's tough when you lose. But you know, for me, honestly at this point of my career was it was harder for really for guys that I just
believe in and I thought deserved that opportunity. With Sean McVay and Jared goff and and Gurley and a lot of these young guys that I just think, man, you know what, they're super talented, and uh, I've played really good football and Sean has done a tremendous job. The first couple of years, it had just been awesome to see guys you believe in win it and be able to stand there and be proud of who they are. And so for me, it was tough in that way because that's kind of how I am to get what
they deserve. So that was probably the toughest part about it. But the rest of it, man, I'm good, brother, I got four kids, I've got a lot of things going there that are wonderful in my life, and a tiper bowl on the wall. But you know what, I'm still going swing and it don't matter.
Man, I got most of that.
Can you hear us?
We lost?
Can you hear us?
Yeah?
You could out in the beginning, but you we definitely got a lot of that. We gotta.
That was hilarious.
Yelling at you. We're like what what and You're like You're just going and going. So hey, we got to let this answer ride, dude. But from the last question, we'll answer. Ask you about that. Like I remember after the Super Bowl, I'm sitting there and like I was texting you before because I was like, you know, people, when you plan everyone's like who do you want to win?
And like my thing was always like, well, you know, Tom Brady played for Michigan, but like I knew you, and I knew how good you were You've been to me, and I was like, you know, I'd love to see you wake get a super Bowl. And then I see your interview after and they, you know how the media is, they snipped it up and it was like, how do you feel for the super Bowl? And you're like, well, you know, you know, eventually you just die and you
can't take anything with you. And I was like, oh my god, was my guy all right?
Yeah?
What was what was the whole situation there?
Yeah? It was great. I mean it's one of those things to media just you know, obviously those guys not medium or competitors and don't really understand the contact of the question is as I think I was being a little confusion to them, as they don't understand philosophying on the trophone. But what I said to him was is they asked me, they said, hey, you know what your career ending, and you're not going to take on the super Bowl because most of them assumed I was retiring.
They said, you know, how do you feel about the ending the thirteen year career and not having the Super Bowl. And what I said was is I didn't care if I won fourteen Super Bowls, with the twenty Pro Bowls, whatever it was. What's more important to me is who I am at the Mayland and how I go about myself on every single day, because we're all going to die and we're all gonna one day. Those trophies aren't
going with you. What people are going to remember me by, I hope is who I am as a man, who I as a friend, who that father, those kind of things, They're more important to me than some trophy because at the end of the day, those things, who cares. I mean, you know, you can win a million Super Bowls if you're an a half, I don't really care to know. Yet I don't really care about you. So you know, to me, it's about who you are on a daily basis more than it is about what what record or
what trophy you got. If you're disrespectful, then you're not really somebody I roll with, and so I don't care what you've won. So that was kind of the answer that I gave them, and obviously, in immedia fashion, they take what they think they can write a cool story about it. And they only wrote the part die you wrote their own lyrics. So yeah, you know it's fine and cool. But you know, I understand that's part of it. But I probably got a little too deep for him in that moment.
It's just tough man people. Yeah, they definitely want to take what they what they want and spend it knowing you for I mean a short amount of time, but getting to know you in cool situations like the Pro Bowl and stuff like that. Like a special time for me and our friendship was when I don't know if
you remember, but I was at a steakhouse. We're at the steakhouse in the in the hotel that everyone staying and I had my family there, friends there, and I'll tell everybody like, hey, first Pro Bowl, like this one's on me, guys, thank you for everything. And at the end of the whole thing is you know, the waiter comes up to me and we did not spare any expense to you. We were getting after it and the guy comes up to me and goes, hey, mister Whitworth actually paid for your meal.
And I was like, you know, that's the coolest thing ever.
Because my first probo is you and Joe Thomas and me and year three, and I'm looking at you guys like you do their legends. I've been watching you guys forever, and it was like a such a cool experience. To just even something like that was like super cool to me. So the kind of person who are definitely and you say you hope people will see you in that side of way, well, I definitely do. And anytime your name's ever brought up, I always talk about the kind of
person you are more than anything. You're a help football player and I hope you play for forty more years.
Man.
But I really appreciate the guy you are, and I appreciate you coming on our podcast.
Yeah. I appreciate you all having me, Man, I appreciate you saying that that means more than mean anything else. Brother.
Well all right, man, I appreciate good luck this year. Hopefully we're seeing the Super Bowl.
Yeah, I'm like playing, brother, I have a great year. Man, appreciate you having me
All right, Thanks for coming, Bro,