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So we will be carrying you along here on this football Friday all the way up until noon Eastern time today. So lots of football to talk about, not quite it was a football game.

Is a lot to talk about. A great defense, as far would say, right, I'll know, I don't know, man, No, that's not great defense. I gotta tell you, guys, I really didn't feel really good about Can I ask this question before you start on the football part of it?

Because Var and I were together yesterday and there was speculation about why Jonas and Lee. I mean, we kind of know why Lee miss yesterday, but we weren't exactly sure why Jonas missed yesterday. The speculation was given the after Christmas discounts and how frugal Jonas is that he wanted to take time off to go Christmas shopping after Christmas, since that's that's typically his move. Anytime he can find a deal, he can he can find some way of cheaping out.

That's what he'll do. Yeah, they was the shop.

They said, catch the specials, the mark down specials at the dollar store.

Is that true?

Well, no, you catch him at the regular grocery store because any candy, holiday item whatever, you go through the Dale, it used to be the Dale Old bread rack used to be what it was called when they were getting rid of stuff. So it's always off to the side of the supermarket. So when you walk over there, Oh yeah, everything is slashed and dashed. I just picked up a fourth of July banner for twenty two cents.

You get two cents for the brand new pristine the Independence Day folks, it was the hole wasn't off the fireworks that like a little poppers into the air, just like you know, change it around a little bit called New Year's Eve that you always.

Say your family, lets us off your round though, right, Oh.

Yeah, you know that works, Cali. Yeah, they definitely do things a little differently around here.

Yeah they do. They're looking vernye excuse to light off? Fireworks? What fireworks? What's going on?

Oh no, I thought y'all was having family dinner, you know, because you off of each other's sandwich and stuff like that. By the way, Brady Lee got a haircut. I mean Lee's hair is gone. He looks like an altar boy. He does. He looks like he's missing his robe. Oh god, he shaved it. Dude, looks like I don't know, man, I want to say, he looks like he's like.

Clean, don't I don't know. Are saying the mullet's dirty?

No, no, not clean, as in, like your mullet was dirty. Like you're clean? Yeah, Like like you like total game change. Yeah, like you've like taken control of your life. Like you look like you could be like a responsible adult right now. It kind of scares me a little bit. I don't know who I'm looking at. I don't know what I'm looking at right now.

Yeah, I don't like it. We speculated you were just drunk, so that's why you want to take the day off. So well, not that I would take it off because of that, but did that. Yeah? Sure, there there you go. Okay, all right, I mean, so are we two for two?

There?

Is that fair to say? Pretty close?

Like Lee was easy, Mina, it took a little bit, but.

Yeah, I mean two byes that is kind of crazy. Man like, man, I don't know, that's kind of that's almost that's that's a that's an effort, which would have been a more of an effort than.

What we saw on the crime.

I mean that was and I picked Chicago to win our money line Chicago, and I was like, this is the perfect game for them, the money line. Let me tell you something. They better be glad this isn't a longer season because they could have ruined.

And maybe they have I don't know, but they are on.

The fringe of ruining Caleb Williams in one season. In one season, well white wait for two one they almost get it.

Looks like they've almost gotten it done in one season.

Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. Now that we're here, I've gotta I've gotta pose a question. And by the way, do you remember that when this team was four and two with the chance to bat down a hail Mary to go to five and two. Yes, and instead they've lost straight since that moment, But it was fresh off of bye. Yeah, I digress. You made a statement saying

Oh, it's close. I'm not gonna say it is. I will say this. I think the world expected way more from Caleb Williams, which means that in totality, this is worse because it's a different I think it's a different scenario. You look at Caleb Williams versus Bryce Young, It's like Bryce Young is in Carolina, He's undersize, like you see him come out.

It's like, can this little dude do it?

You know the Carolina Panthers, they were going through some things. I just think that the Chicago bears the market, the history of the organization, how much fanfare was surrounding Caleb Williams and all of the hype. I think, in totality, this is way worse. I think this is way worse because we are met, We are witnessing a can't miss generational talent. Compared to Patrick Mahomes go down like it's bad, it's not good.

What's funny about.

It is all the jokes that bears fans and people in the media were making about oh my god, they fleeced Carolina on that trade and this and that and look at what they got, and Carolina right now picks after them in the draft. So bad, They're so terrible, and I think it's worse from this standpoint. There were expectations going into the year that hey, listen, they've added pieces around him.

Hold on, hold on.

You had expectations going into the year, but we didn't have four wins. Yes, I thought four wins was very came really, but yes, we didn't have expect for four and thirteen. I mean, that's eventually where they're headed, right. They gotta play the Bay next week. Yeah, they're gonna lose.

I'm just saying we we didn't have expectations. You thought they'd be a wild card playoff? You did? Hold on?

Okay, did you think there would be a four win team?

Really? Yes, that's it, But I certainly did think. I find that hard to believe.

I don't think I think you thought they were going to be a fringe seven to ten football team.

Not me, not me.

Who don't put that on me, well, whatever it is, put that evil on me. I did not think they were going to be good. That is for certain, now what their win totals was, because they stink and I thought they were going to stink.

I just I didn't put a win total. I don't know that I put a win seven.

Still a long departure from your playoff prediction before the season for the Bears.

Oh yeah, but you guys had them not going to the postseason, that's correct.

Did you have them this bad? Yes?

I I okay, Well I didn't, and I don't think a lot.

Of people had them this bad.

Well, you're a Bears fan, though, and you still like admitting it to everyone air Well, I mean, listen, we're not gonna, you know, take pot shots here and everybody.

We're not doing it. We're not taking pot shots.

We're just trying to like be open with our audience and demonstrate the fact there's some bias there. You had high hopes. You're a Chicago fan, you love the Cubs, you love the Bears. There it is, and it's out there for the public to know.

You're gonna do it again come next season. Problem, You're gonna do it. Absolutely, You're going to do it again next season. I've been getting kicked in the nuts by them for forty years.

Yeah, and you must like it. Can we talk about though?

One of the most alarming things that I'd be concerned with, okay, is in this grand scheme.

Of what the hell was going on with the Chicago Bears.

And there's all these reports and discussions about who they're head coaching candidate, candidates are, who's making that decision? You hear fans, you know, chanting sell the team.

At last night.

This is as big give a dumpster fire as there is in the NFL, if we're being honest with ourselves, because at every single level you have an aptitude from whether it's the McCaskey family, they can't figure out how to build a stadium if it to me, Arlington or whatever. And so that starts at ownership. It then goes to Kevin Warren. You look at the roster. I don't think the roster's that bad. Whoever, their offensive line needed improvement.

That's still a big time struggle. The decision to.

Fire Matt Eberflus, which has done nothing, absolutely nothing for this team, of course, and then you hire or you elevate Thomas Brown into a position where like, I'm not going to take shots at him because he's got almost zero experience being in this position. So if you if you're out there and you want to hammer him for his decision making last night in the final, you know, under three minutes go ahead, that's fine.

You have every right to do so that's your opinion. Horrible, but it was horrible.

It was That was some of the worst clock management I have ever seen. And it was shocking to think that you have coached in the NFL and that is not one of your priorities and understanding. You get a big gain when you're in a two minute drive or end of games, so you take the timeout. It takes so much time to get your group to line up. How about the play calling in the final moments. All you needed was a fueld goal to tie, and instead you're trying to drop back and take thirty yards shots

Then you sit there and get a five.

Year penalty to back you up, and then you take a time out and then decide to come back out and go for it like it was for the for the NFL, for that level of football, it was the worst clock management I can recall since the start of the millennium.

By the way, Thomas Brown became offensive coordinator and then head coach in the span of like eighteen days, like they looked like they just, well, Okay, we've gotta get Rishane Waldron, will ellate elevate him, got to get rid of Matt Eberflus.

Well we'll just elevate him again.

He's used to this sort of transitioning and he's been trying to figure this whole thing out, and they've.

Gotten worse, Like they're worse and without even the water.

That's why you I mean, when you when you break it down the way that you guys just broke it down and presented the way you guys just presented it. If I'm Pete Carroll, why wouldn't I take advantage of this opportunity. You're You're exposed, You're vulnerable, you're embarrassed. I just don't think that there there cannot be any more major slip ups or mistakes made by the decision making body of of this organization. I just don't think that

That sweatsuit might have holes in it.

I'm gonna have like a towel around my neck, you know what I mean, with some Chuck Taylor's on. I'm not trying to look like I'm living good right now, because this product does not say that I should be maintaining that type of image. I should be in war mode. He should have had some pain. He should have had eye paint on his face, some tape around his fingers, chewing, some gum, standing up, pacing back and forth. You can't look smooth and you can't look comfortable if that's the

Up two scoops ad.

You can't just be comfortable sitting there like that something. I mean, unless ownership is like, hey, you know, this is our business model. We're meeting our business model. I don't know what that business model would be and what it would consist of, but you can't be sitting there feeling comfortable. If you're a decision maker and you brought in a generational talent at quarterback thinking that he was going to change the whatever was going on in Chicago, and this is where he's at.

He's almost damn there ruined.

He's almost gunshot, he's almost gun shy in the behind.

He I mean, he made more mistakes.

And more you know, more things going on based off of how much pressure he felt at times, more so than the pressure that was really getting to him. That's bad. That's bad, man. You're trying to ruin the dude. You might have ruined him in one season.

You know.

That's kind of where too, Like if everyone can acknowledge, you watch the game, you go, oh, yeah, offensive line is an issue. Well yeah, like that's been the problem there for a long ass time, Like, offensive line has been an issue for a long time there in Chicago.

And the point you made was, well, Olu was.

Available and they didn't take him, So what makes you think they would have taken Joe Alt? At like this entire setup and the way that this whole thing is done. And what's bizarre about it is Ryan Poles was an offensive lineman like he would like you would think that that would be a priority for him, and it hasn't been.

I think the other thing, too, is again scheme wise.

So if you don't have the ability to protect a quarterback with your five offensive linemen, you've got to adjust. You have to start running more seven man protections, bring in your tight end, bring in a running back, you know, run more gap protections where you're not asking, you know, the offensive line to have to win a lot of one on one battles. And if that's not the case, get the ball out of his hand quick, you know, and I understand that's been kind of part of their offense.

There's ways around that. Because here's the.

NFL, it's a copy cat league. They are going to continue to keep bringing pressure time and time again until you prove you can beat it. And if you can't, one or two things are gonna happen, or I should say both of these things are gonna happen.

You're gonna lose.

You're you're gonna get beat because you're gonna keep forcing him to have to run backwards to then throw down the field and he's gonna get hurt eventually. Caleb Williams is gonna get hurt for one of these hits, one of these plays. It's just a matter of time when they keep subjecting him to that.

You want to hear a little Caleb Williams, Little Williams being asked, you want me to do it he want me to do to sound that we might have to dump it.

He was asked about.

You punk mother, do you know what's out and done to many? Ruin me. I just want to come out here.

And at what point do you know, is is it like if the fingernail painting stuff, if that stops, like is that when we know it's like changed.

I think it's already stopped.

His hair was in this curl. Either it's going a little bit straight.

I mean, I'm just.

Saying that he's got a completely different look.

Next year he comes out looking hard, just like rough, you know, he was asked. He was asked about the he's wearing car heart.

It's like just bringing his He's got his hard hat, lunch and pale.

This year, he was asked about the booze in Chicago. Fans not happy. This is a response.

Yeah, I've only been here for you know, it's my first year, so uh, you know, their frustrations, you know, go way longer back than you know then I've been here. My job is to uh you know, go out there and win games, and we don't focus on outside noise. The fans are you know, they're gonna cheer and and and maybe boos sometimes and you know.

You you you you can't.

React to that. It's not something that you know, we we react to. We have a job to do, and you know, you don't do so well on the job some days, and some days you you know, you're you're you're pretty consistent. Some days you you.

Know, you play a great game.

So you know, I think today was was one of those games that you know, I think we played two sides of the ball today pretty well, special teams and uh defense, and then you know, offense, we didn't play well. There was miscues, there was stupid sacks that I was taking. I would definitely take the you know, the heat for this one.

Gotta be better.

So he did say let me.

One of the reports that came out before he got into the NFL was that he wanted stake and ownership and if there are channing sell the team, I mean, is it too late for that?

Can he get a piece of this and maybe build the offensive line?

You want to know the way he could try to get it? How can he do about using his rapid radio? Hell out, all you gotta do is hit that button and you'll get that push to talk Walkie talkie and listen. It has national lt coverage for clear connection. If you're going to use it and hit that one button, so listen at the touch of it, that's right, that button. You'll get great communication from a great device. It's great

All right, there you go, there you go.

Hey, hey, Caleb, you know you wanted to sit there and say I wanted to boo too. I'm new to the town, but I felt like, hey, if I could have joined them in the stands, I would have been there booing as well.

I mean, boo you for picking me.

Hey, listen, there's a great hot dog cart out in front of Soldier Field.

Have that.

That was the only one that you want to get. That's all you got. I get yourself a Chicago dog because the winds are hard to come up.

Why do you talk like you eat those You.

Don't eat those Chicago dogs?

Oh man, come on, please, buddy, when's the last time you actually ate food? Last night?

And we'll go what time what did we have? We had had neck? We had what what kind of neck was it? Grilled chicken breast? There you go, we had had.

And before that, when was the last time you ate?

Actually before that? I had prime rib.

The night before? Yeah, I did you? Yeah, yeah, night before. I didn't ware to god, prime rib the night before. How many meals do you to, dad Johannas one and a half? Maybe one? Yeah? Maybe one? Yeah. But we're supposed to believe you got to.

Chicago and all of a sudden you turn into the type of guy that eats a Chicago.

Dog him and Carlos Chicago dogs right in front of the.

Set, just because you know it doesn't mean you eat it. Come on, I was there in August.

I had one that's like me talking about Primanny Brothers in Pittsburgh, Right, I do. I used to eat it, but I don't. I don't go to Pittsburgh and just go to Primanny Brothers.

Lamar said the danger, which is solid, like he's had it there, and they said, what you mean, let you put that on?

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Joinas.

Did you notice how Lebron said that, you know, Christmas Day is the end?

Oh yeah, even though he loves the NFL, so he made it a direct shot at the NFL.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you think any of the Christmas Day games for the NBA will surpass?

Was it? Twenty four million? Was the average audience?

Probably not? Yeah, I'm gonna go with probably not.

I mean, will it Will it do half those numbers? Probably not? Probably not?

It Just like, I don't know why they can't just.

Be honest about the situation and stop getting so and look, I know that you know, ESPN's got a vested interest in it, and there's other people that have vested in vested interest.

In the NBA.

They want it to work, they want it to be successful, and they just cram it down your throats at all hours of the day, and god forbid anybody speak out and say, look, the product stinks, it's not the same as it was. The games are competitive. You've put a premium on the playoffs, so why should we watch.

The regular season?

Like you can't do that or else you just labeled a hater, but then they take it upon themselves after they win a Christmas game and one and Lebron wants to make it a point that yeah, this is our day.

This okay.

Yeah, Well, like the numbers say different.

So yeah, do you want the total numbers? Yeah, it was twenty four right.

So it's it's a little difficult to measure because you're talking about a streaming platform as opposed to you know, broadcast television or cable television. Right, because the metrics for like streaming, a lot of times they'll look at, for example, how many people tune in for at least one minute. So sixty five million US viewers tuned in for at least one minute of the two NFL games. Sixty five million people, all right. The average during both games was

And this is according to Nielsen, who does all of this.

The NBA's five slate averaged about five point two five million, and that's across ABC, PIAN those platforms.

So there you go.

I mean, but it's their day, Like, no, don't anybody step on our toes here, it is our day.

It's like I said, I think, I think what the purpose of that was is to one hundred percent identify and and rally the troops that truly truly support the NBA. I mean, you even get a couple of trolls on on your social media that talk about every time we say the NBA doesn't matter, you know, he has something to say. I think that it is. There are some people that are very very keen on how the NBA works and their involvement in the NBA. And while it's not as large a market, you know, as as it

Now.

I'm just here to tell y'all the NBA is not as relevant. It's not even close to as relevant as the NFL. It's just not in terms of viewership and relevance.

It's just not. It is what I think the.

Tough part too, is the NBA players have so much power, and if you look at the decline in ratings, and if we're being honest with ourselves, there is just a much part of it as anyone else. The decision for

Are some of the realities of why they are where they are.

And you know, Jonas, we've talked about this for a long time about moving the schedule and saying like like why try to compete with the NFL now that the NFL seems like they're going to continue to keep putting games on Christmas.

I mean, it originally was more.

Of a thought of you know, hey, it's just on the day of the week that Christmas falls. Well, now it's on a Wednesday, right, And the NFL is like, yeah, we're comfortable throwing a couple of games there. And we found a suitor or a partner in Netflix who's gonna pas us a bunch of money too for it, So why not, right, It's good for our partnership, good for our business. Moving forward, And so next year, what does it fall on a Thursday?

Yeah?

Yeah, well yeah, yeah, you can expect to have some NFL games on that Thursday too. Moving forward, that are going to absolutely dwarf anything the NBA does. But if the players don't take accountability for why they are where they are, and they don't try to circle together and go to the NBA owners and be like, look, you know, we're obviously getting paid, we feel good about where we're at, but not necessarily with the leagues at like, let's try

They've figured out in the NFL's figured out a way to market or brand or present their product differently.

And better than the NBA has.

And it kind of reminds me of the UFC in boxing, where man, look, I love boxing and I grew up a diehard boxing fan. It's not even close the presentation and what they've done between the UFC and boxing, it's

I can't get out of.

No. If you do that, you're going to lose your belt because you haven't defended it. And it's just too many different things going on to where it's hard to keep track up man, Like it's hard to know. Okay, so who's playing what? Like you've got five games on Christmas and the end of a like I look at it and I go, there's just a better way to streamline it to the audience and to present a better product and a better league. And they haven't been able to figure it out, and the NFL just continues to

They want it.

Nobody cares. Dude, you're not fixing anything.

Did Levarn Did you say? I mean, it's kind of a participation trophy.

It's like getting guys to play during the regular season and games that are I don't know, I mean they're meaningful at the end of the season, maybe not necessarily so much in the middle.

But it's honestly, in a way like.

A participation trophy, like thanks for playing during the regular season in this in season tournament.

Right, because guys don't want to play, right, guys do want to maintain their health and the load management aspect of it. It's trying to find that balance of playing enough basketball where you can be relevant as a superstar player, relevant enough to keep your team good enough and being contention for the playoffs and being healthy enough to make a run when it gets down to crunch time at

On in the year.

Get out to a fast start, so so you're you're facing you know, injuries or whatever it may be. Mid season, you can still have time to try to regroup and make it back into a number one seed or make it into a wildcard position. The storylines are way more intensified because there's less there's less games, there's less opportunities for for for failing, for for messing up, for blowing it off. You just you're just not going to see

If you do, you get shamed for it.

Come on, man, I just think that it's just a different mentality, it's a different which it's a different way of looking at things, and for what it's worth, when I look at basketball, you're always going to fight the idea of relevance during times where the sport just doesn't boast the.

Level of intensity of needing to win.

What team right now in the NBA needs to win right now, and we're a little ways in now, We're in there a little bit. But I'm not looking at any of these teams like, oh, this team is at five hundred right now, they're in bad shape. Or this team is a whole lot of games above five hundred and well it's risky for them to be here right now, or they're safe and where they're at, no, they're not safe.

The Pelicans have the worst record in the NBA. They're five and twenty six and still can make the playoffs.

They might win a title.

I know the and the Saints are five and ten, so it is good that your football team and your basketball game of the same number of wins.

Yeah, but that five loss for the Saints is way different than the five wins for you know, or five wins for Saints is way different than.

Those five losses for the Depelicans.

Could still turn their season round right now, as crazy as that sounds, with that that crappy ass record that they have, they can in some ways still turn their season around.

It's possible. Yeah, there's a plan, you know, you guy's possible.

So like you have that record, you have a record anywhere comparable to a bad record in football, and you're out of it, like you're out of it, and you know you're out of it, and your fan base knows you're out of it.

That's all I'm saying.

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Now, what about this, because I'm wondering whether or not you guys are going to be the next to UH to go online with this. Deshaun Jackson is apparently about set or I don't think if it's finalized yet, but they are working on a deal to finalize him as the brand new head coach at Delaware State.

So yeah, let's go. Its good. Yeah, this is the this is the new friend. I love this, man.

I love the fact that there's a lot of former players who are getting opportunities to coach.

Now.

I mean, look in saying that, that's if the organization, whether it be a university, whether it be a professional you know, team, they have to give them time. Like if you're gonna make that decision to bring in a guy who's never been there before, you have to understand he's got a completely different perspective. He's he's gonna come at, you know, at you from some different angles that you're probably not accustomed to.

Or he's not he's gonna be unaware of a lot of.

The duties responsibility sometimes so as long as there's patience to go along with it. But I love that. I love that for DeShawn Jackson, love that for Delaware State. Those players. I just I've met so many former players that they're in different you know, jobs or careers. At this point, I'm thinking, man, they'd be a great coach. And I think there's a lot of deterrence to want to become a coach sometimes and sometimes it's the track to get there, the long hours, to sacrifice everything else.

That's a part of that.

And I understand there's a lot of listeners who are like, well, should they have to so yeah, to a degree, but they also have.

A PhD in football.

Shawn Jackson played for a long time, was really successful, so it's maybe not in that respect, you know, maybe as far from the administrative standpoint, maybe there's something there, but I don't know. I love that from Mike Vick when I heard the news. I love it for DeShawn Jackson. I wish, you know, more universities and schools would take on the fact that there's a lot of really smart former football players out there that are trying to get

That comes along with it.

Sure, but to turn the keys over to a former player, I mean, Lavoy, I know you've coached, and everyone's got the own reasons for.

Doing it or not doing it. But like you phoned that category.

Man, I mean, I feel like now we can do everything we want to do and still coach.

So why not think about it?

Right? We could still do radio and do shows and not you know, not have to choose.

Is that what you're gonna do? Do that three am wake up call?

I mean I'll say this, I'll say this cute we do this show and I when I do the show out of State College, I am the only one in the building. Yeah, I am the only one in the building. And midway through our last hours when I start to see life come into the building. So if I'm only thirty minutes, it's off. You know, I'm just saying I got the rest of my day and we could make the schedule.

I mean, let's think about it. Let's talk about it. You know.

I think you and I should think about this, and like I said, we'll make Jonas like ours.

Yeah, yeah, that's about you. Yeah, I'm roping you.

Yeah, I'm rope I think you need to be the GM and I need to be the coach. That's what I think, GM and coach and we'll do it that way.

What's Jonah's gonna do?

So Jonas would be the designated because he's he's good at this, he's got a background in it. He would lead up ticket sales, all right, we put him as the person that leads up ticket sales. And and Lee, we would have Lee that we'd have Lee head up the sanitary you know crew, the sanitation crew that that takes care of. No, no, I don't want Lee being involved. Yeah, I want Lee to make sure that the bathrooms are clean and and like all the locker room.

Make sure that the locker room.

Yeah, make sure the locker rooms are clean, all that good stuff. But you know, I think that would be good if he led that, led that division.

And then we can we often we out, we on the we on the roll.

We on a roll.

Now, like, let's go with it. I'm okay with that. You know, it's interesting.

I did want to coach at the college level at one point I thought about I thought about going to Arizona State when when Ap left for Arizona State, Like, I thought about it. You know, I thought about it a couple of times. I thought about going with with coach locks at one point in time. So you know, I loved coaching. But one thing, I will say one thing I will say is if you take coaching seriously, there is a lot that goes especially at the college

Because because they're still developing. Is that I think so?

I think so because I'm more I'm more into it that way than then it's just cutting dry. This is your job, you do it like. I don't like having to feel that way.

I think the other thing that is appealing because of that, And I think look, Nil, you know gets the uh I don't know, probably the wrong. I don't know if it's a connotation to it, but like people think because Nil.

Has infiltrated college football.

That like everyone's turned in the pros and all these kids are are jerks and it's all about money. Look, it probably is for the top, you know, two three percent. I mean, the rest of some of these kids, especially a big schools, is gonna make money. But there's a huge part of them being where they are because of things outside of football, like the education, the the alumni, the experience, the the networking, the whatever's gonna happen after

She's just I've.

Tried my best at this point in time of her life, and hopefully I can get it out of her. But I try to get it to realize, like she doesn't need to touch the stove that's hot when Dad tells her it's hot, But she's the type that needs to do.

That because she wants to know how hot does hot mean?

She wants to trust in what your level because I was im That's who I was. It's like, don't touch it, it's hot, you'll get burnt. But really, will it burn me or would it just burn you?

Right?

Is it hot enough to burn you and not hot enough to burn me? Or is this hot?

Really? Like? Oh yeah, like I touch it? Like that is hot? Now I get appreciate it. Now I get that for me.

I'm gonna have you just talked to her on speakerphone then from now on so I'm gonna call you probably five times a day to have to talk my six year old off the ledge of whatever decision she's about ready to make.

But the whole point is like, obviously.

If if whoever it is, you know, former player guys like Mike Vic, like DeShawn Jackson, when they can you know, speak into these guys' lives like it could be life changing.

It is life changing. Listen, I'll say this. I just sent man man to Penn State yesterday. We just dropped him off to go to Penn State and get you know, get going with the team yesterday. And that was that was an earth moving experience to know that that's what he grew up around.

I've coached, I coached pretty much his.

Entire life, whether it was under Armour games, whether it was doing the under Armour camps, coaching at Long Beach, Polleague, coaching at Maranatha, coaching at Charter Oak. I've coached his entire life and the one thing that was always important was the development, the growth of belief, the development the growth of understanding self confidence, self worth, you know, being accountable,

You always do this, that's so over the top.

The reason we're not fat, the reason why I went back into my legs, Why.

The reason he's the mom from what Ted Gilbert Crape, Why.

I'm not that big. We had to burn the house down. Was not that big. You were never as big as you always.

Think that big super It was almost three hundred pounds. Man, it was almost three hundred pounds. Like I was like five ten pounds away from from three hundred. That's big as hell. That's like I'm on my way to two forty five, two thirty eight.

So I'm on my way too.

And and part of the reason why I went on that journey to get myself back in shape is because I still have great relationships with guys at Penn State and guys that are in high school, and I can't be walking around them being fat and out of shape and not taking care of myself and telling them about self accountability and and doing things the right way and making sure that you you handle you know your your health and your nutrition. It's like they're looking at me

A lee.

There's your life spot man.

You're saful. This was going. It's the truth though. I mean, you do look great. Thank you, yeah, thank you. Go shoot me too, all right, thank you,