Bonus Episode- Steve and G Break It Down

didn't even ask. Why did your mind even go to that? Because it's asked, that's why. So so let's get into some let's get into some ball. Man. So we've got we've got this new age that we're in, the COVID age, the pandemic age in the NFL. We're going into week seven. What's been your thoughts on where the league is with the pandemic. Well, I don't know where the league is with the pandemic because when you look up the word pandemic, it means all, so it infiltrates everybody. So it's not

just oh, the sports world is messed up. Oh, the medical world is messed up. Every walk of life has been impacted on this young old um you know, short, tall, rich, poor. It does not it doesn't discriminate. It's impacting everybody. So, uh, football wise, I mean I think to some degree they've adjusted the best they can. Nothing ever is ever full

proof because this is unprecedented times. This is a this is new, this is a pandemic, this is uh, this is life on you talking about audibles, man, you can't audible enough, but you can't have enough plays on the place. This is unprecedented. What rubs me is with anything you mentioned football, with anything right now, everyone wants to have a knee jerk reaction to you should do this, You

shouldn't be doing this. This needs to be open. This needs to be closed for us here at this table, We're never gonna be able to figure out whether you know what's going to happen with this season. I would want to know, how do you think all this uncertainty ways on a team's routine. You've always schooled me on how how you as an NFL player, you're you're you're in a routine, you know what you're gonna do day

by day. With something like this, and I know you're not in the locker room right now something like this, How how do you proceed? Let me let me tell you what I've heard has going around teams. So and it's cool because it's video, right, so utilize illustration. We need is a smart board. I like a smart boy, all right, So this is the player. Okay, driving up on a Tuesday, right, so re record generally on Tuesdays. So I'm driving up on Tuesday, Joe, UM, use your phone.

So driving up on a Tuesday, this is the check in station. So you drive up, you don't even get out of your car. They test the player inside the car, so they use a Q tip as as long as this microphone. So it's like this is this long vote. So now I'm exaggeration starting. So so they get the two pits the cotton swap, right, So they go in there and they go in there and see how many boogers you got you and they take it in there.

Then once you pass it, once you they get your tests, open it up and you drive on it facility and have it to where you know that. Some guys may struggle, specially in the beginning, because it's alphabetical. So it's like a through d F through agee. The man's I play with some dudes that hey, bro, the ail is left, okay, co opposite of the ale. That's right, it is, okay, it is. It's that bad. Not everybody with the same school, Okay. I'm just telling you. And I'm not talking about college either.

There's some there's some name rods, right, but here there's some guys that's watching this that's probably like, yeah, Steve was one of them name rods, probably depending on the day. So being they're going there, right, So you're going there and you just so you go about your day. You have the contact tracker or tracer, and they know how far you stood away from a guy if you test positive, who you interacted with, and that's how they find out.

So you test positive or have a positive negative whatever in that scope, then they find out all the people you have interacted with or have been minus six feet distance to be able to go back and test those guys. There are some organis that most organizations have probably spent between two to four million dollars testing just testing because they have they have nurses and people there from all around,

I mean everywhere. We may have the Panthers. I'm just speculated, may have some people from Charlotte, but also maybe some clinical specialists from Nashville or Atlanta, and Nashville may have some folks. They probably don't have no folks left in Nashville. They probably got some folks from Charlotte and Atlanta. Right, So, just doing all of that. So it is a process.

And another part, which is it's different is um, I remember, I love traveling when I go play a team because here's why a lot of guys don't live in the cities they usually play in for all those years. Because they go say they go to the Carolina Panthers and they playing this team, you get the best of that

city for twelve hours. And what I mean the best of that city means you get the best restaurant based on whatever advertisement or whatever someone five star and you get that um restaurant and experience and it makes you go, man, that place must be awesome. Because when I was there last time, when I played the Carolina Panthers, man, we at this place. We did that. They don't get to experience that. When they go to a city, they are on lockdown, lockdown, no visitors, no one comes in or out.

You are the room service, you play the game ass on the whole on the plane, and you back to your cities. Bye weeks. Not allowed to travel, not allowed to visit, not allowed to do any of that stuff. So it has really changed into a sport that has allowed you to, you know, maybe go playing London. Now you are in that city that you're playing in, you only see those facilities and you don't do any extracurricular activities of meaning you can't Like when I played in

San Francisco. One time I went and saw one of my cousins. I drew down to Oakland and watched my cousin on the Saturday because we had we we we had practice early in the morning and we were done

to the rest of the day. So I drove down to Oakland watched my my cousin play his high school game after school, and it was I had a blast and it wasn't I had a blast because I want them from Cali and I got an opportunity to see some family and I got to see him in an element and then oh, my big cousin who played plays in league, He's come to see me play or go have this day and they just seem like that's that's

all I do. Win, it's all out the wind, or go or get to watch my um go home and I get to watch my h have I get to have dinner with my with my grandmother. So some of that stuff just doesn't happen anymore. I mean, you got the Lakers just won the championship in the bubble. The World Series is about the Star, the Rays and the Dodgers. I'm just I'm leaving the how about this? What's up?

Whoever wins, We'll have two championships. If the Rays win, ye, the Tampa Bay Lightning have one the nil and then you had the Lakers and the Dodgers, and then if the Lake if the Dodgers win, you got the Lakers and the Dodgers. Who was that? That's Did you know that before I said that? Fun fact, didn't know that you did that. I didn't know that, I thought. I'm still I'm still very wide to say I know that. But uh, but what parts of that? I mean, it's it sounds like a lot of the things you talked

about in terms of the protocols. We know that the NFL is there's there's no way you end up doing a bubble for every single team the way that the NBA has. But it seems like there's parts of of those bubbles that NFL is implementing to to better regulate a lot of the you know, COVID and the spread virus. It's more of just to spread and the impact that it has. Understanding the impact, understanding way things are going.

How what when you have to to some degree, I don't want to say push aside what's going on, but we cannot continue to just kind of hovering this no man's land, right. It is dangerous. It's it's psychologically um impact and everyone, um, who are your surprised three week six and who are your disappointments? Disappointment is really uh? I mean the Dallas Cowboys stuck up defense, defense, everything. I mean they missed blocks, they missed, they miss they

missed simple assignments. I mean Ezekiel Elliott was unlike the Zeke to feed me man that we've we've seen him to be. It's just a lot of things that team. That team is struggling, and defense is like a screen door with a hole in it. Let's everything in sha man, that's pretty good. Here's how I think that I have noticed, though I didn't really think and not because I don't think he's a good player. I didn't think the absence of Dak would impact that team from the top to

the bottom. This team looks like they're in disarray. They and that tells me that speak to you more about that. Yes, they lost their general. They have lost the guy who commands everything, who is the leader of this team. And it's showing the offensive line like Andy Dalton is not a Dak Prescott quarterback, however he I mean the right guard just missing the slide is a ricky Ricky bro It's right. Oh, the trickle down fact, I mean the impact on that that the it's remarkable how that team

is in disarray. And and you can't blame it on coaching. You can't blame it on players. They lost their faith general general, and it's impact with that. So that's your disappointment. Who's your surprise. There's a number of teams I got to eat my humble Pie and Jimmy Garoppolo. I didn't. I thought he was more of a system guy. He played the week before Week five, he played bad. You know,

one touchdown I believe, but two interceptions. He come out there for thirty three two d sixty eight yards hundred twenty four point three NFL quarterback raiding and three touchdowns, zero interception. You can see he was comfortable. He failed general and I really have to say, I'm surprised that he came. How methodical, intelligent, um precise and cool he was, and that I see why they gave him the contract extension. I see why. Yes, he understands that system, but the

way he orchestrates that system makes it so Beethoven. It's like it was really good comparing quarterback to composers. You got a job doing this, I might. All right, Well, here we are with a bonus episode. Cut to it a new video studio. Hey, we're coming up on the world. Do I need to shade man? I didn't know what was gonna and there's almost no shape anyway. You just gotta you gotta head start. I know it's looking thick. M How you live man, I'm using more handsome than

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