JERMICHAEL FINLEY

I'm saying he's probably maybe a pound and a half heavier now in retirement right, Um from the University of Texas tighty when when tight ends were trying to the tight est. Today, we're trying to be what Jamachael Finley is UH today, which is a receiving tight end, big target. Welcome to the Cut to a podcast Jamaica. From Michael, Oh my god man, thanks thanks for having being honest. Man. This is just I'm looking forward to. It's gonna be a fantastic conversation. Where are you from in the place

you call your hometown? Um from from dove Ball Texas. Bro, it's uh. Uh it's south of fifty nine post to Houston, Texas and uh as well as born and raised raised by my grandmother. Man, you're born and raised by your grandmother? Okay, so that how much mean you know how to cook a little bit? I a love bit, man. But once again, now I guess somebody that set it up for me. Now, Bro, really, Oh, what's some of your favorite meals that other people cook

for you? My my favorite, Man, One of my favorite meals is uh taking promos on bro homemade taking promisen. Of course, I'm a I'm a country boy, so I like pig feet hog malls with hot sauce on it. I know you're looking at me crazy, but it's one of my favorite meals, bro. Really, growing up, what other sports did you enjoy playing other sports? Uh? My first love was basketball. Man. I didn't start playing football, um

until my sophomore year in high school. Uh. I got recruited by Arizona by Lude Oats and the famous Lude Oats and at the time, um, and then my jo mcbrown came around and was like Finley, one of the two here at the University of Texas. And you used to play basketball and football. So I'm like, man, I'm I'm in Texas, so I gotta play football. Um, So I be committed my junior year UM and went through

the University of Texas. You know, obviously as funny as UM, I was up at a couple of days ago, was up at uh uh UNC Chapel Hill and had the opportunity uh to see mc brown. Just see um. You hear the stories of how he is connected to the University of Texas, how he has always understood uh the climate and talking to some players and coaches down at

UNC Chapel Hill. Is you know this this is this is a guy who's you know, he's no spring Chicken's He's he's up there in age, but yet he's moving around and understands, uh the climate and with the climate of you know, with with with uh black lives matter, uh, the climate of equal opportunity, just everything that we have to deal with, right um, each and every day Coach Brown was talking about it, and you know, man, I was just I was shocked because of he does a

really good job, yeah, of making sure he's plugged in and listening to the players. Has he always been that way and that's crazy you say that. Steve Man always been that way. One of one of my favorite coaches because he's a player's coach. He's one of those coaches if you sit down at line star at the mill table in college, he's one of those coaches that come by and shoot the ship with you and say what's up kicking uh and and down that line and uh.

And of course it was in Austin, Texas where I mean a lot of players got in trouble, um and you're singing with some coaches, some coaches to get your grass up out of the a soap, Mack Brown bringing the office talk to you. You know. I think one of the things with students too, is identifying where they come from and and and what challenges they have in in in moving forward, going from where they used to be to where they're trying to be. Absolutely and he's done a great job with that to a lot of

my peers. I came in with Jamal Charles rack Poe played for Tennessee, so we're guys that came from um property, um, the streets, um, and somewhere down the line of that nature. And he knew how to deal with us. He knew how to talk to um and and so on down that line. And man, when I say I loved mcgroun, he was it was like I said, he's my He's my top coach in my career. Well that's that's that's stellar.

Tell me your experience, your collegian experience, uh, playing at the University of Texas and what was football for you? And and and and how did it? How did it change your life for you know some people that say it didn't you know, everybody very sure. I don't want to assume. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh. Like I said, I came probably man, football, basketball, anything I gotta do with the ball, Uh yeah, I mean I'm front the streets, so anything that deal with the ball, I'm gonna do it. Because

that that got me out of where I was from. Um, I wasn't I wasn't a genius. I wasn't the smartest kid on the block. So I had to implement sports into my life to try to get out um situations that I was in. And like I said, Mac Brown and lude Oatson and UM saw him down the line. The coaches that recruited me, I mean, blessed, bless my game and bless my life and now today life change from my my five boys, uh and and my wife.

Um not now that you get to live the life that you know, I mean that a lot of people can't live. Why do you say that sports was the only way you can get out? Do you just felt that that was the only way? What was what was holding you back? Or why do you believe but that was the only one. I mean at the time, the capacity of my brain was, Uh, it wasn't as as an assimilated as it is now. And uh thinking of the big picture as as I'm out. Uh. Like I said,

I grew up without a father. Um Gramar raised me. So she was working two jobs. So like I said, man, only only where I can get out of the projects is I mean the time was the ball because the capacity of my brain couldn't think bigger as far as academics, business, entrepreneurs and things down that line. And now today, man, um, I can teach my kids. Uh uh you know, I mean how to play the game within the game, and that's you know what I mean, making making a businessman,

not only focusing on sports. She'll go backwards and look at Jamachael Finley. Back then, what what did you show yourself short on throughout your years at the University of Texas, just in everything, not just you know, Grant better around.

I'm just talking about just everything they could backward absolutely. Uh. My thing is it's it's crazy when the compliance came in and talking about what you can do with your money, um down line or you know what I mean, especially when when the guys came in and done a little orientations and and fell um you know, I mean they came at the wrong time because it was after practice. I'm fatigued as hell, But it was a little meetings. Uh, the little team meets that that guys don't listen to

as far as as Lee wise. Uh. Like, like I said, I'm doing player development now. Um, I got my own companies called Elevate You, and I'm teaching these guys and listen to all that little detail. Man, you came out of college early, right, we take us through that process or why you why did you leave college early at that at that time. I mean, we all know why you left college, Jelly, but I don't like to assume, so I just want I want you to tell that story.

You're something right, bro, Uh, You're something right. Um. So men's and maltals once again. Rules roommates and man were like I said, we was. We was making it happen on the field, was coming during our things. And we came back after the o U game. It was probably week five, and then we see all these scouts coming. I was like, man, we got some money for you. I'm like, man, I can't even do it. Man, I'm trying to get to the lead. So man to mall got in the bluth. I was like, man, I'm leaving

this year. I put my paper in for the NFL and said in the first round, I'm like seeing I'm leaving for self. Back down, I wasn't having it. And the ball was like, man, I'm out of here. I don't care what the hell he's saying. So from there and don't bro we hit the We hit that HLV. Like there were a lot of people who would assume that these coaches, man, you know, they just want they would just want these kids to leave early so they can keep showing showing them how many draft picks they

have to keep. Uh, so those guys will come back donate to the school. Like just the the product coming in and out and and and fans don't really. Fans have now really got to the point of where they believe that these coaches are just you know, it's like a it's like a puppy farm, right, you know, they get them, they raise them, they sell them to the league, and then they do it to the next guy. And it just walk us through that because there is a

lot of assumptions that that are out there. Boy, you're you're funny. Man. We I live in Texas, So we call it like raising cattle and just putting them, put them in a slaughter machine, throwing them out. But yeah, it's one of those things, man. In Texas. Man football is huge, and especially with Matt Brown. We had that team coming in that next year with Cope McCoy being

the quarterback. He look, he saw that we had a national championship on the line, and my thoughts and my peers thought that, hey, look we out of here, you know, I mean, we're trying to change our family lives. M And my thought is, being a little youngster, is that man I got I mean, my my body got to count on it. And I played reckless. I don't play I don't go out of bounds like a Jason Winton I'm not one of those guys. I don't slide. I'm trying to find some contact. So my thought was get

out and go get the money. As out show you get drafted by the Green Bay Packers. Man, tell us, tell us what was that experience for you personally, going going through that process, going to you know, you're coming from a historical college, right historically in winning attendance expectations, and then you fall right into the same expectations, the same storybook franchise Green Bay Packers. Man, it was it was a whirlwind. Um. I was when when I got drafted,

I was back home. Um I had all my people all was over there kicking it, and we got the phone call from Mike McCarthy and Tared Thompson. At the time, I'm like, hold up, man, um I got Tared Thompson Mike McCarthy on the line, old up, and I'm coming from Austin, Texas where it's ninety degrees and I'm about to go to the place where it below zero. I'm like, man, I don't know if I can do that. So I call my homeboy, Johnny Jolly. At the time, it was like,

now you better bring every Nintendo game you got Nintendo. Yeah, Nintendo, you know train castles out at least by them, any kind of Yeah, bro, he said, bring it uh time. Man. We got on the plane the next morning, I dropped down in Green Bay and I'm like, man, what what these people got me at? And uh, like I said, now I'm thinking about it was a blessing planning Green Bay because it was strictly football. I mean, what is so elaborate on that? What do you mean it was?

I mean, I know what you mean, but elaborators, just strictly football, the football meeting within myself, coming from Austin, which is which is a uh which is a party town, a town where it's a lot going on, a lot of things happening, and going to Green Bay where you know what I mean, you got the Green Bay Packers and you got the packer honors. Let's expect a lot from you, you know, I mean, the fans um obviously

pay you well, have an honor. So it was one of those things where you have to you have to lock in a little bit. Now. I loved every bit of it. I love cut to it, and I love it even more when you download us and subscribe and you can follow us on social media too, Smithie where where at that's at? Cut to It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At? Cut to It Facebook? Cut to It

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out there, you're playing, and then you get hurt. Man take I wanna I want to sit there because you know, obviously obviously I've experienced being hurt as well, but I want to talk about really what the injury, not physically, not just what it if to you physically, but also the eternal dialogue that you have, you know, and just how you managed everything going from the cream of the crop. Um too, all of a sudden, football is being played.

But yeah, you can't participate, right and and and not and I'm and I'm not interested in blaming who and all that stuff. I don't care, just just really giving people understanding of the reason I say that I'll set the stage and then you follow. Every year you get hurt, whether it's a hamstring, broken ankle, whatever it is, you always have that moment and that injury, whatever current injury you have, that's the worst injury you've ever sustained at

that moment until the next storm comes right yea. And it's and it's one of those things. Man where at varsity is on the hit um And I always took in my head if I played this game long enough and injury is gonna happen, you know what I mean. I don't blame man Steve. I don't blame the guy that hit me. I don't blame nobody. It was football

is a football play. And when I hit the middle of a fourth quarter, I was playing Cleveland, uh fourth quarter of four minutes, thirty five seconds, laughing A Rodgers hit me on the routine, a routine slam. Um. I caught the ball, duck my head a little bit. Um. I forgot to catch Ward. Ward came down hill and hit me, and I hit him up. In next day, man was I was like man like literally paralyzed. I was paralyzed for two months, bro, I couldn't move right side,

paralyzed and I hit a boy. The next day, my my my grandmother held the phone up to my face and I was like, Man, don't even worry about it. Man, I called to lead, don't even find him, don't it's football that this this happens. And Man. From then on, Man and I grew callous as far I grew stronger. Um in the way I'm moving in real life now, So we'll take us through that. He hit you, you

duck your head, and then what duck my head? I hit the ground, bro And when I hit that ground and felt at the time for for about uh five by five to ten seconds, I felt it felt like a hunted bees was sinking because my body was going into I was going to top. And after that my body collapsed. I went into I forgot what it's called with your hands and feet, go all across ways and um after so much pain bro Um. At the time, at the time, it was Cordless Andrew Corless looking down.

I'm like, man, if you don't call these people out here and come get me, I'm like, because I'm hurt. And after after I told it, said that to him, I was out of there. I passed out because I was in so much pain and in so much shock back pain, like when you say the beast things like you're just talking about like just all over your body, numbing, all over my body. Um, it's like your body going numb. You got them move what they call them tangloss. And yeah I had that full body. Wow. Yeah, I'm showing

five shoulders to toes. So so there's the toes man. And at the time, I'm I'm on the field. I mean, I'm gonna feel a crime. I'm like, man, I don't know what's going on. Next thing I know, I try to I'm trying to yell, and next thing I know, I go horse. And after that, like I said, I just collapsed. Man, I was out of it. Yes, because after that, because my narrow canal that's where you turn your head, it collapse on me. So I couldn't. I saw it cut off my air supply and all show

you show you, wow, show you passed. Now you could have died right there on the spot, on the spot because when he when he hit me and it put it and put a bruise on my and put a bruise on my spinal corps. It's instantly stopped breathing. Bro. Wow, the trainers and the paramedics, all the all the guys got got to me in time to calm me down. I started breathing. Um, I couldn't move. And at that time I went to the hospital. I've done a doctor. I was like, I think that was your last place.

I was like, man, I got to be a kidding me. And so happened. Um. God was looking down on me. And I had signed a disability policy with lords in London, and I started tapping into that and I started thinking, I'm like, yeah, it might have been my last Like you feel me m hm. I mean, you know, you have a conversation with the guy that hit you. Then

what what what's the rest of it? What's the rest of the story, Like, you know, I understand the money, I understand all that stuff, but what's going on in your head? Like how are you processing all of that stuff? Man? The process that was crazy, man, because once again we all have this number in our head and how long are we're gonna play? How long we want to play? And then once I got settled there and Rodgers came to the to the house, sital all my guys, Mike McCarthy,

everybody came in and done the thing. And after I got time to calm down and think, I'm like, man, what what's the next phase of my life? So I went into this deep, deep depression. I went to deep depressing probably for probably two years to check me up. Out of that deep depressed, I went in a dark hole where um, if we can talk openly and free,

there was a lot of addiction start popping up. Things that I was doing out the out the ordinary, you know what I mean, Things I never even thought about them because I love to keep my body peer and clean, and so all of these um addicted personality started coming. I started getting very impulsive because once again, when I got knocked out, percent of my brain was dysfunctional, and so I couldn't I couldn't process things. I couldn't think, I couldn't even you know what I mean, I couldn't do.

I couldn't do much, seems. So I went to Peer Sports Recovery UM. What they do a ton of rehabilitation for guys that had head trauma addictions all all over the line. I went there and I took a time out in like man, and and called up and and tried to beg um become normal and become try of your brains wasn't working, wasn't working? What are the some of those if you don't mind me asking, what were some of those things you weren't able to do anymore? Uh? As far as process, like if I've seen it, I

wanted you feel me. As far as like, um, go out, going out and hanging out then with the wrong crowd. No, no, no, I'm talking about of your brain wasn't processing. So I'm talking mind you get up in the morning and I'm asking, and I don't want to sound stupid, but like can you brush your teeth? Yeah? I can, Yeah, I can brush my teeth. It was just at the time, like

if if some occurred. As far as a business a business adventure, my thought was, damn, I'm just sell on it, not thinking, not going through my assistance and try sets and things. Right, Um, I can go all down the line with you bro um drug it was. It was it was a combination of things. M hm. And so you so you go to this uh, you go to this facility and and what are some of the what are some of the techniques or what what are some of the rehab stuff that you have to do to

to get it back. Like you know, somebody listening, they're going, man, what is that I'm trying to give the listeners and understanding of what what rehabilitation is for what that looks like for someone who loses forty four of their of their brain use. Um, it looks like it's a it's called neuro feedback. When they put a map on your head, um, it's like an X ray almost. And then they put a cap on your head basically like my cap now, and they put all his wires on your head and

attach them. And you're looking at the screen and the screen maybe I'm a football player on the screen, maybe have a kicker on there, and you have to sit there and just focus on the screen. And if you focus right, the kicker kicker right through the uprights every time. And if you focus though elsewhere, the kicker just he'll

start shaking them. It'll be off. So it was teaching me how to process and how to see the things and how to settle my brain with this, with this dysfunctional of dysfunctional meaning I had bleeding all over here, all on my left side because when I when every time I took the tackle, I leaned to my left side. So I had a ton of contact. Um in the front of logo my in the front of logo, my brain where where you make all your decisions, That is right here in the front left of your brain. M hm.

So they put a map on my head. Um, I've done a lot of man, I've done a lot out of meditating. I've done a lot of it. Was it was some crazy stuff that bounced back. Man. Like I said, I've done twenty four months of that. So you were in there twenty four months, on and off. I had to on and Applaus, but I'm just see my family, um, to try to keep that communication going, and and and dealing with being retired from the NFL, dealing with that and trying to just process everything, and and and the

hall twenty four months two years of rehabilitation. So you had the transition of no longer playing football unexpectedly, transition of learn how to use your brain, learn how to process something that is you know, very traumatic, having to grieve right, also having to be dad, you know, trying to you know, I'm just assuming based off conversation, trying to save your marriage because there's obviously some impact than something there's some residual behavior that um really impacts the family,

impacts yourself. Right. You know, nobody is really UM educated at this point between you and your family to know how to deal with these things. Right, It's no roadmap. There's barely a roadmap for parenting. You can't you have no roadmap for parenting. Uh, marriage and uh brain dysfunction. Right, that was the base, man, it was. It was different for sure. Uh. And it was one of those things. Now, Um, I tell guys, now, I always have a plan. I mean,

because we don't. We don't know. It's it's a game what we call it. Any given Sunday. Now we play Mondays and Thursdays, but any given Sunday. Uh, your career can be taken away from He's the moment and man, play play hard. Man. Tell me how big of a

role did your wife play in into your recovery? And you know, and I'm assuming, um, you know probably uh man, she's she's she's the real all star in the family based off of just what you guys went through, UM and dealing with and and and you know, I can't imagine. I'm just all assuming, but I just kind of thinking about it, you know, putting myself in your shoes. I can't imagine. I've you know, I've been injured as well,

and you know you have that. Um, you have the grieving process and any injury, but the the injury you sustained was something that was very, very much deeper impacting for your family than than than most than most football normal football injuries. That was not a normal football injury. Yeah, man, a girl, a girl secrew song. Man, she grew um saw hell a song through this sope. See, she had to help me walk get to the restroom with any man and out man, man don't want any woman help

them use the restrooms at the time. Help me use the restroom, help me get up out the bed left left my backup. So it was some of the things that where it's like, damn, I got I got this lady right here and helped me do it every damn thing. So uh like now now she's just uh man, she's so strong now. And uh like, like I said, I'm blessed. Man, I got five boys, I get to bless the game too, and uh see the real MVP of the family. As you're getting as you saying, your wife have to do everything.

What's going on inside your head? What eternal dialogue are you having about yourself? Your wife is helping use the bathroom. You can't take that very lightly. You go from catching touchdowns, first of all, you you go from catching touchdown University of Texas. You're at you in Green Bay, Title Town. You're playing with Aaron Rodgers. Right, You're out there, you're playing with uh Donald Driver right, Uh my green Is.

You know he's still right there. You know he's not all the way removed, but he I think it was probably about one or two years before he had moved on. So you're out there playing with some pretty darn good football players, right, and you're in a place that all football. You're at the hide of your career. And then a couple of months later, man, you need assistance going to the restaurant that can't be easily taken. And I just want to, I just want to for somebody listening that's

going through someone, you know, what were you going through? Man? I was going through a lot I was going through. Uh. I stayed. I stayed in my head as far as uh. I'm like, Man, I got I got this lady right here helped me. I just got done. I just got done, you know what I mean, breaking three or photocos getting to the zone, throwing up the wild t t oh, you know what I mean. I'm here, can't move. I mean that that that I did not take like that

I took it. I took to get real hard. And it was it was days where my wife for now he's my five years now, he's my four two year old. At the time, it was he was a youngster. Uh, they couldn't they couldn't stand up being around because I was always upset like what if? What if that? What if this happened? And then I just I got to the grieving poem where I was like, man, God, God made it happen for a reason. And uh, like like I said, it's it's a thing. Uh, it's a thing

I did not take lightly. And now man, um, I'm doing wonders um helping and give back and get a game back to people. Man, how cool is it now then to to to be able to play coach your kids? Like what what what do you what do you enjoy most about that? I just enjoyed you. I mean helping them and uh and showing them how to build leader and uh, you know I mean and finishing, not only finishing your rep. Just I mean, if you got someone over here that's not not doing what they're supposed to do,

lift them up, helped them finished. And and that's that's my whole thing about teaching my boys now, because like I said, I got all my boy the thorough grades, and uh yeah, and we're gonna make it. Happend it, God do it. Let's get down to do it. Good. Hey Gerard, why did you get that T shirt? You mean this thing? Oh yes, I got it from cut to a podcast dot com where we have exclusive merchandise. Shout out to our guys at seven or four shot. But yeah, you can go on, buy you a T shirt,

subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. So what what sports are they playing right now? We got? Uh? I got a football and football, basketball and track. Oh yeah, yeah, I got a little quarterback. But I got I got pretty much pretty much everything you've got you guys. Long All right? What's what? What? What? My man doing the track? Then my man doing triple jump long jump? Uh two

hundred and they run the eight hundred eight hundred relay. Okay, um, look look do six six ft little dude in six ft eight grace state. Goodness gracious, that's pretty cool man. Yeah, man, that's awesome man. Yeah. And then so you got show all your boys you're playing sports. All my boys placed sports, every last one of them. Yeah. Man, So so how are you and a wife doing this? You've got five boys put all playing sports. Man, y'all playing zone coverage.

But you only got two drivers. So yeah, we're playing. We're playing. So we gotta get an anti uh on a friend and we get that the man who's working son. Yeah. Yeah, man. What's the best part about you know, being present for your boys and playing sports. What's some of the things

that you see? Um? You know obviously with you not having your folks in your life, what what what are some of the things that you see um or maybe you don't or you know, are you I know I know for myself that they're sometimes I'm parenting as a dad, but I'm also sometimes I get Lottie emotional as a son, you know, just because you know, my dad was in my life, but he wasn't He wasn't I wasn't raising

the same house. So when you're not raising the same house, you know, there's little things that you miss, you know, when you're not there. Ye. And that's my thing, man, uh, my my big thing. And the thing I love I love to see him love to do is wake up to my boys and love on them. And when they come if it's a hard delt soul and uh easy del is just loving on them right when they hit that door or right when I'm in the carpool line. And just I mean the things that I didn't get,

I try to implement that into my boy's life. And just you, I mean uh a tonic. I mean hugs, kiss on the cheek and things like that, bro, The things I didn't I didn't get at all, and just every chance I get what Uh, how are you at the games? You're a parent a quiet prayer. I don't see you being a quiet parent. But go ahead, let

tell me a lot though, tell me a lie. I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty quiet, bro, uh because like I said, uh, we put in so much work, I believe, and if you put the work in, um you ain't you ain't got to say nothing. So I'm really I'm actually really quiet. Uh, but I'm not quiet. Were in the lab working though, Yeah, the lab? So you training them. Yeah, I tell you my boys, like I said, I just started to coming.

It's called elevate you. And and I do I time of a jolty work uh feetwork, uh and conditioning and uh yeah, man, I turned my boys probably three or four times a week. They enjoy it or you enjoy it. You funny man. I'm just I got three. I got three boys, and and two of them right now are old enough, you know. And I tried to you know, some of the training or go with go with them and train or they train with me. And you know, sometimes you can be challenging. Yeah, real talk. Uh, I

enjoy it, man. And my fourteen year old he loves it. Man, he eats it up. I get into I get enough with him and uh, I mean run ross with him on the on the flip side. I cover him every once in a while. Oh yeah, yeah, I get out there and play DV. Also, and and now I gotta know you roll. He's a he's more of a in a booth guy. He's gonna come knock you out. He don't like the grind, you don't like the conditioning because he's a more thicker kid. And h I gotta I

gotta beat it and tell him a little bit. So's when you get older his brother grinding, He's gonna I'm gonna mess. Yeah. Yeah, you hope you h man, Yeah, I hope. So yeah man, So what what do you obviously you said you you you're doing uh jelly working, you you're doing that stuff. You know, um man, how is life now for you? Just you know inside your head internally? Um you know, just based off what you've been through, uh this the peaks, the peaks you've had

in your life also now the valleys. You know. How how do you how do you maintain just your wellness? Yeah? I like it? Not now how I maintained that as you know, I mean how I came out the NFL, you know, and I know they have to scream for you that said six thirty seven, thirty thirty. You gotta beat some one right now. I set myself up where

I put myself on a schedstle. Of course, my wife helped me, um to in some weeks I'm slipping, She's like, what are your susl I mean, so I keep myself on the routine and make sure I have me time to me time, me time, meaning um going through the things I like. I like the golf. Now, yeah, a golfer if you ever wanted, I got um. I mean I like that goodness gracious, you must be a good golfer. Then now I ain't that good. I like to dress. Oh so, so when you come play golf, you look good.

Or you got two boxes of ball. I got timber boxes the ball stay up. But I know when we leave, dagn you lose two money. You so so so most people playing golf, you're out there, you out there keeping the maintenance department, uh employs busy. But my mind is, you know, have fun if you I'm not taking it too serious, so you might not with me. Now I'm not taking it serious. But so let me ask you this. Then you dress nice, you bring two bucket of balls,

and then you also lose money while you're playing. Is that what you said? No, hold on, hold on all loves money though, because I know I know my game ain't that type. So I just played. I just really played like a quarter, like fifty cents a hole. Yeah, can you play, though, I can play. I just like the competition of of I like the competition a hole just straight up. You know, if you win the hole, like if if if I get attend and you get eleven,

where I win? Right? Just kind of it ain't It's not about like that is just the competition of the shot and the pressure, you know it is. Can you choose the jersey number? At least I can go beyond. I can go beyond my jersey number. But I just I like playing, but also I like the I like the process of it. I'll go out on driving range man some headphones and just just lose myself a little bit. You know. I can listen to I can listen some R and B. I can listen rap music, can listen

to gospel. It really really doesn't matter to me. I can go with whatever. I just do. I do actually enjoy um the tranquility of golf. Sometimes by myself. That's real. That's that's real. I like that that that that solong time. That's basically what I do. Sometimes I go out by myself and play solo, and guys like at me that ain't got no friends over here, But I got my music cranked up. I got they are going and I'm

good or that maybe they're just looking. They see how bad you are, and they said, man, nobody wants to play with you might not be mine. You out there hitting, man, you were three or four hits on the first drive. You look around you nobody around. So let me try to Let me give me another one. That was a practice. Look at I do do that. You must do that, Yeah, I do. That's the whole purpose of going by yourself. You you're not in the run. I've always felt this

way with golf. You can't be in a rush if you're playing golf or you're trying not to be. But when I got my my wife and my kids on my head, I'm like, man, I can't even play right. Man, I'm thinking them boys left and right. When I don't have a lot of time, I'll just play. I'll just place, you know, nine holes. Yeah I quit a quick quick nine, go to the crib. That that's what I do. Not regards. I can't. I can't do I and do the eighteen host appreciate your time, brother, Thank you any You are

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