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Who stall of a Day, STALLAA Day, Stallata Day, Stantata Day.

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The Day brought to you by Panadia America. Josh Allen MVP the Saquon Bark League Offensive Player of the Year award was like a we got to give you something. You rush for two thousand yards and you're in the super Bowl. If you had the MVP vote Monday, you voted Monday who would be the MVP of the NFL, because more than likely it would be Saquon Barkley. Although if Mahomes would win again even though he didn't have a great regular season, you go, he's still the most

We sure did so.

I think we're gonna go to Vegas and split it, and I think Ray and Dylan won't have any money when we come back.

That's just gonna You're gonna lose money on going to pick up winnings for a bet. So those were just some of the awards last night. Jaden Daniels was the Rookie of the Year, the Assistant Coach of the Year, Ben Johnson going to the so that that count as a Bears Award winner.

There's lots of room in the Bears trophy case. Pop it in there. No one's going to read the fine print.

Well you got eighty five and then you don't have much after that, big gap. Yes, yeah, big trophy case. Not a lot of trophies in the trophy case.

Yep, all right.

See let's pull question for hour one of the program. Nothing of significance happened yesterday at the trade deadline except for PJ. Tucker. He got traded three times in five days. Do you get a jersey with those teams that traded for you? No, you don't.

I think to be in the record books in Basketball Reference, you have to be on the roster for a game even though you don't play in that game.

I think so. From February first to February fifth, PJ. Tucker went from the Clippers to the Jazz Jazz to the Heat, Heat to the Raptors. That's not fair, Like at the end result is and you're going to the Raptors. Yeah.

His agent is like, hey, look, everybody wants you.

I'm assuming that if one of them should go on to win a ring, he doesn't get that ring.

Correct, correct? Yeah, correct, because he didn't play one game.

He didn't play one game, right, Yeah.

But I don't know. So PJ. Tucker three times in five days, But that doesn't count as most teams played for? Is that still like nine teams? Haven't we discussed this before, like Clarence Weatherspoon or somebody.

Oh boy, Jim Jackson's up there too.

Jim Jackson Did he play for nine teams?

He played for eleven or twelve?

What about Joe Smith? Joe Smith might still be in the NBA.

Oh he's a world traveler too.

Tony Massenberg had about all, oh yeah, we're deep diving.

Oh loop bloop, all right, Seaton. Pole question today is going to be what.

Well, we have a couple of Todd's oddly specific poll questions which we could get to, which it's always fun.

Speaking of Todd. The conclusion of the match, the pickleball match that will be aired today, and then we'll hand out some awards. But Todd was the star the first match. He looked like a combination of Roth and a Doll and Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe. It was very impressive, very and the best athlete on the pickleball court. But let's see what you do match too. I'm ready, Thank you, Todd.

We also have a couple of other Pole questions from Paul. Here, are you rooting for the Chiefs of the Eagles? Kind of basic, but let's get the the I.

Don't know baseline?

Okay?

And then would you rather win the league MVP and a Super Bowl MVP but not be a Hall of Famer or just be a Hall of Famer?

Okay? So I'm MVP and Super Bowl MVP, correct, but not but not a Hall of Famer. Well, how many guys have won both of those MVPs and not been a Hall of Famer?

I think nobody.

No, oh, byy you.

So you could be the only one who had a great year and then won a ring but.

Not that good. Eli didn't get in first ballot. I guess I was surprised because and this shouldn't factor in, but he's from New Orleans. Here we are in New Orleans, and I got that might you know, you put those two together and maybe he's now. I don't think he's a first Battle of Hall of Famer. I do think he gets into the Hall of Fame. Eric Allen got in. I've been a big proponent of Sterling Sharp. Sterling Sharp is kind of like the wide receiver version of Terrell

Yeah, Paul, Yeah, he had one hundred and thirty six sacks. You get that one twenty number. It's almost automatic, Yes, Marvin.

And I think one of our guests has a good history with Oh no, he chased him out of the end zone.

Oh no, so he helped Jared all Jared Allen get a sack on that. Like if it's a safety, you don't get a sack, do you.

Maybe if you're the closest person or you have to touch him, I would think checking.

I don't know. Well, sometimes if you're in the vicinity, you get credit. You know when Peyton Manning used to just fall down or Brady fall down, somebody got the sack. But maybe you just have to put rest your hands on them. But yeah, I don't know if Jared Allen got a sack that. Because Orlovsky went out of the end zone when he was with the lines, we have to ask Dan. I'm sure he loves talking about that. He thought he was done with that, he thought that

Oh yeah, there was like the exact same play.

Gosh, who was that?

We should remember that because we've never forgotten the Dan Orlovsky ran out of the back of the end zone.

He just kind of owns that you know?

Was it a really good quarterback? Who PJ Stroud? He got oi?

Yes?

All right? What other pole questions that we have for the first job.

Let's see these are some of the Todd's oddly specific poll question. Yes, how would you handle someone talking too much at a Super Bowl party? Ask that individual to please let you just watch the game? Politely engage in conversation and just deal.

With the situation.

Move to another spot and hope.

He or she doesn't follow you, find a TV in a separate room, leave the party altogether.

Would you like to answer your pole question? Todd?

Knowing me, I would politely engage in conversation and just deal with the situation and not be rude, holding that at some point they're going to just stop.

But what if you're the person who's annoying, which could very well be the case, and they're trying to move away from you, they.

Would probably leave the party altogether.

There would probably be like seventy three percent if there was me doing that, victimizing the poor people trying to watch the game.

Yes, I've dealt with this before a couple of Super bowls.

Unbeknownst to me, my wife invited a couple of my brother in law's clover who don't know football but talk the whole time very ornately. I do a move when we come back from firstall break, where I go, all right, let's get back to the game. Let's focus on the game. Like and everyone kind of shuts up for a second. It's like breaking the huddle. It works, It gets people refocused.

Sounds like a lot of fun by it being clapped at until the shut up at your house.

I got.

Them rolling their eyes behind him.

What's up with cool?

Thanks for inviting us over.

Yeah, I'm not bothered by Marvin. What about you now?

We don't need to talk. Let's just watch the game. You know, the commercials, the halftime show.

We don't need to do all that.

I'm watching by myself on Super Bowl Sunday. I'm watching by myself. That's it. It's the best. Don't have to hawk, no questions, nothing, They don't have to wait in line for anything.

Yes, And the thing about Super Bowl parties, there's so many people there that haven't watched football all year. But it's just an event. Yeah, and so they're like, so, who's really good on his team? Gosh, they've been good all year.

Yeah, I thought Saquin was on the Giants.

He's on the.

Eagles now, Saquen.

Saquin Barkley. All right. The eight seven, seven to three DP Show operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls and email address DPA Danpatrick dot com Twitter handle the DP Show.

Yes, Paulie, we have a quick Dion Sanders game. Coach prime Is always comes by the Super Bowl set. We're gonna play guests. The outfit for Dion Sanders, none of us. I don't think i've seen him yet.

He did shave, Oh, I was. He was on the Award Show last night. He was up there with Belichick and they were you know, it was like a buddy movie, like any one you have Midnight Run too. Yes, now it would be in Prime, I'm run it would be instead of Midnight Run. But yeah, it felt like Belichick and Dion were a buddy movie up there. You know, they're just ad libbing, just you know, gassing it up a little bit. Hey, how are you hey? And then

Yeah, I'll go first.

I'm gonna go white on white on white, Colorado flair all through it.

But it's a little warm today.

White had to toe with some Colorado pop.

All right, Marvin, what about you? You got your Dion T shirt on.

I think he's wearing retro don Nikes, and I think he's wearing just casual Colorado jumpsuit.

Okay, Todd, what about you?

Colorado Buffalo's cap of some sort, maybe with Coach Prime on the side and one of those I ain't hard to find sweatshirts. Might be white, could be great, could be black, but I know he likes to wear that.

I ain't hard to find.

What about you, Seaton.

Man, My first instinct was to say, sort of like a black on black tracksuit. Yeah, well, I guess I'll stick with that.

Yeah, I don't know. It feels like white on white on white.

It's a pretty good guess.

Yeah. Yeah, maybe with a little uh Colorado gold piping somewhere in there. Uh necklace? Watch what a crucifix?

Okay, that's kind of his daily wear though, too. Like the tracksuit that we're all talking about Yeah, he there's a big week. You know, you get a lot of eyeballs on a week like this. There might be something with a little more flare too, though not saying a suit, but something that really stands out.

What doesn't Colorado have New Orleans Saints kind of flare to it?

Yeah, they do better uniforms though, Yes, Colorado or the Saints Coloradoo were those Saints white uniforms with the gold the retro.

Yes, those are really sharp, amazing, those are really shark All right, we'll take a break. Deon, we'll join us. Coming up next, we'll get to phone calls, settle on our poll question. Just getting started on this meet Friday here in New Orleans. We're back after this.

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No?

All right, you gotta you gotta whistle there.

I'm a coach, so I got a whistle.

So are you gonna use the whistle during this, uh interview?

Well, it blows, but I don't plan on blow anything.

Okay, fair enough? How many pairs of shoes do you want?

I haven't taken inventory in quite some time, but it's it's a lot like Jordan's or I'm not a Jordan guy.

I'm a prime guy. You're not got my own shoes?

Did you ever own? Did you ever own? Jordan's?

Maybe a para sol, but I love Mike makes my guy. It's kind of different when you.

Know Jordan, you know, like you know, it's a little different. I like, I like what I like.

I'm not a big sneaker everyday guy, but when I do wear tennis shoes mostly were my own.

What do you take away from Jordan's like everything.

He's the greatest, He's the goat, He's a character, class.

Work, ethic.

Nothing Lebron could do.

I'm not gonna put another brother down, but lit than another. I'm not doing that. We don't do that now. Both of those guys are Black excellence to me. Both of those guys are on different mountains, and they've reached their pinnacles differently, but certainly they they have reached it. We could compare everybody to them, but not them against one another.

I'm not doing that.

If I had you in your prime against Travis Hunter now.

Right, Travis bad boy, I'm not putting Travis down.

Travis bad Boy. There's like another sign to me.

Travis is a generational type of young man that we may never ever see again. The reason we may never ever see him again because coaches won't allow it, because they can't fathom what they can't do themselves. I did it at an extreme level, so I was able to guide him and lead him and allow him to do it without the risk of jealousy, of envy, or hatred from his teammates. Travis is unbelievable. Travis is the best player in.

This draft by far.

Match your challenge his talents.

I don't match man' I'm that old coach in the corner of the ring, that boxing coach saying left right, left, right, You got it.

That's it. I'm not matching nothing.

I'm trying to help him exceed anything I would ever fathohim, not only on the field, but off the field as well.

How would you use him if you're an NFL cause.

I've already showed him how to use him. Why would they defer?

I don't you know. We've talked to people who've played, you know, either defensive back or wide receiver, saying you have to go to these meetings. Come on, man, I'm just going by what they tell me.

When is the last time you heard a football player say, boy, that meeting really helped me.

No, but you have they require you to be at certain places.

Yeah.

I was there for fourteen years. I know the drills. Travis has never been mistaken for an idiot on the football field. He's very intelligent, very intelligent on the field, at and off the field. Had a four point oh GPA. Let's get that straight. So he's a smart young man. He will be prepared for whatever you place in front of him. Generational loves the game, don't party, don't smoke,

But full time dB, full time wide receiver.

Why not you play an NFL game. It's much slower than the college game. The college game is no huddle, is tempo. We plays that the players are the players that the plays. The pro game is so durned slow. You go into the huddle, you take your time, you call another play. Not only that, you can't touch him, you can't hit him in the secondary. So the risk of being injured is not as such as the college football game.

The pro games protects you even more.

I think what he does should transnd to the next level. He's already shown them what he could. He's capable of doing. The reason they're saying he can't do both because they never fad them.

To do both.

He's deon Sanders. Why does the media want you to coach in the NFL.

I'm not gonna say the media.

The media is uh. Some people are very kind. Some people do clickbait. So when you mention my name, that's gonna warrant an opinion. You're not gonna mention my name and not have an opinion. If you say anything and mention me, you're gonna have an opinion. I'm not the kind of guy that's idle that you have nothing to say. When I walked in, you had an opinion. So that's just the thought that we provoke. So it's not the media. I just think when you look at me, you're based with an opinion.

Yeah, but I think the media it allows them. You know, when you talk to your Jones, there was wishful reporting. I think that was attached.

Jerry is a magnetic man. Just us sitting down hugging each other. He said right behind me the honors last night, and his beautiful wife. But just he's magnetic. If we talking, hug is going to be a story. Whatever Jerry does is going to be a story. Jerry is the only owner in the NFL that consistently makes you feel as dough his team has a chance to win a Super Bowl every year and you have an opinion about it.

What other owner has.

That that authenticity and that that that attraction nobody.

Jerry's one of a kind man and I love him.

If he had asked you to interview with the job.

I wouldn't have to interview. My interview is being played. Why would I have to interview? Like I can you coach you?

You can't.

You could watch that. You can see that I'm pretty durn good at what I do. I don't have to interview. You just have to come and this is my staff. This would be my staff. Who do you want me to hold over? Okay, here we go. What we're gonna do? And but I'm more I'm more involved. I'm not gonna just let you build it for me. I need to build it. We need to build it together so so that I could make it certain I had a hand in our success, certainly not our failure.

Did you want to be ansesked to coach the Cowboys?

I love the college football game. I'm built for the college football game at this point in my life. And I'm not doing nothing at that next level with doubt. My sons, everybody know that. Why would I do that? Why would I go coach against my son? Who wants to do that? Who who signs up for that?

Hey?

I want to go coach against my son. What idiot does that? No, if that was gonna happen, that would be one of the continguencies.

So if you could coach, okay, So that's the only way. If you can.

So I've it's always what I've always said. Yeah, that's it.

How do you prepare for the draft with your So?

I prepare him. I prepare them for the draft, he and Shallow. I prepare them with the thought process, the language understanding, the room understanding, this is what this team has, this is what the questions that you may want to warrant. But I prepare them as men for the moment, because we're gonna get that moment. The reason you sit up here is because you've been maximizing your moments for how many years now forty forty years. That's why you're hear

Of a father as a father. Are their teams you'd prefer he didn't play for?

There's a lot of teams I prefer any It's just like I said, aren't their team that you don't want to watch.

That?

You hit the room money? You just hit the clicker like that, you nern skippy. You're right. It's teams I didn't want to play for, So why wouldn't I want my kids?

No?

Come on, man, I'm a dad, I'm a real dad that has a lot of information about the NFL.

I know some folks who know some folks who know some folks.

In the NFL, and I know what's behind the curtain. So definitely I'm going to lead them in the right direction.

But how do you how do you navigate that?

I would meet with them behind the door, closed doors. I would not call them out. I would not put them on front street and talk about their organization because people work too hard to make it right. Instead of a guy like me ignorantly saying something wrong, I would meet with them privately and talk about my concerns so we could have an understanding.

Has that happened already?

Yes?

How many teams?

Few? I just want to know. I just want to know why.

If you don't get your wives answer, you're gonna always be curious in life. I like to get my wives answered because this is this is my guy. I mean, these are my kids. This ain't just a homie a friend. These are my kids.

Who does Shador remind you of his dad?

He reminds me of me in a lot of ways. He he he.

He's the son that has always been there. Like what I mean by that is like Bucky, my oldest son. He lived with his mother, his mother for a period of time. I was always fathering him, but he didn't stay in the house for a period of time because of separation and divorce. But I want custody of my second set of kids, my second three. But Shador never ventured out, he he. He didn't get mad and get upset and run to mommy and and whatever that would would be. Shador has always consistently been there.

But just he's been with you you mean, yeah, okay, Yeah, that's what I mean by there. He's I admired his toughness. Yeah uh. He hung in the pocket. But he's not elusive like you. He We don't want their speed.

Yeah, but if he was, he was running the ball profusely. You criticized that he's a drop back past it, he's a pre pure pocket part.

I wouldn't criticize it because we look at Lamar Jackson.

It was only it's only Lamar won Lamar and Lamar didn't win an MVP award that he should have won last night. So there's always going to be criticism when your gift is exemplified tremendously.

But Josh Allen runs.

Yeah, but you don't criticize him for running. You've never criticized him for running. You've criticized Lamar for running. That's a great analogy. I'm glad you said that.

No, I've criticized Josh Allen because he didn't take care of the football. No, A lot of people have. Yes, I mean I can only speak for me. You're speaking in generalities. I Lamar Jackson I thought was gonna win the m v P, Thank you. I thought he was going to win the idea too. Josh Allen is taking care of the football this year better, and I thought that was the lamarck.

No, Okay, both guys are tremendous. We can't put Josh down and lift Lamorrow up. But that MVP trophy I thought was Lamar.

I would have given it to Saquon Barklay.

No, yeah, Lamar, Well, because he's here, would you have given it to him if he wasn't here?

He ran for two thousand yards, he changed their offense.

Yeah, but that has been done before. Yeah, multitude of times.

We're never going to have an MVP be a running back.

But Lamar, what he did.

I forget his statistics, but his turnover was when he had three interceptions or something four interceptions and in what eighteen nineteen games?

Yeah, that's crazy, that's absurd.

Like what he's doing is what everybody said he couldn't do, and he did it to another level and it still wasn't glorified.

What if we had the MVP headed out of at the end of the year.

That's what it should be handed out. That's when all award should be handed out, when the body.

Of work is done.

So then it's either Mahomes or Saquon Barkley who probably would win them.

People Now that's because they have the lasting impression. That doesn't mean that they're the MVP.

But that isn't value winning championships.

Yes, but it's not singilely value. It's that don't make you better because your team is there, you have a better team. It's some guys that could flat out play, but if you put them on a different team, they're wonderful. Example cam Ward. Cam Ward and sh your door are best of friends.

Cam Ward.

Last year he probably would have been on a third fourth round draft pick. He goes to Miami. Now he's arguably the first pick.

What happened? What changed?

Was the scouts wrong or did he go to a better team and get in a better situation or was the scouts wrong?

Probably both, So let's say they're wrong.

They misdiagnosed him, they misrepresented him, they treated him unfairly. And I love where he is right now. I flat I love it because it make him all look like a fool because last year, you can't tell me this wasn't the same guy. That's the same camp that I knew, that's the same camp as doing this thing. He just has a different uniform on.

And I love it.

If you could change one thing about college football right now.

It has to be more structure in regards to what was supposed to what was supposedly inil it's not in IL, it's collective, it's pay per view. So if I could change something, that would have to be structuring guidelines for these kids. It would be a mimic of the NFL when rookies come in. This is what you could get. This is the maximum. It would be like that for high school kids. Then the college kids that have already proven themselves would be more would have more value.

We got to have some type of structure.

If not, you're going to see the same teams that's exhausted themselves financially, and the collectives go to the playoffs. Every year you may see two surprises like Arizona State who played phenomenal, and a couple of other teams, but mostly was it Boise State. It played phenomenally, but you know, you get knocked out. So if it's not even if I can't give you what the other team can give you a pay you, it's not evening.

Yeah, I don't know if we get to the pro model eventually, where maybe we take the top fifty schools and then we kind of divide them into regions and then that's.

Gonna happen eventually.

Yeah, you think it's.

Going and in most schools is probably gonna break away from football, is probably gonna break away from the other sports. It's probably gonna be football. Then the other sports have their own ad and it's probably gonna roll like that.

Uh, you're here. It's almonds and I love it. Yeah.

I don't just endorse the product to endorse the product. I endorse the product because I believe in it, like you know, being healthy, being fit. You know, I don't have a belt loop, you see, my parents don't have bet loot, so I gotta stay lean and mean. So almonds keeps me right there. Weight wise, My skin is pretty Look at that close up coming close up on me, this skin?

Which skin is looking good?

What's your playing weight?

And you are now I probably was anywhere from one eighty five to two eight.

I'm right now. I'm probably two o fo lex lightly bo Back to my almonds.

Right here we go.

I love uh California almonds. I love everything about it.

They're a healthy snack because I'm a I'm a fit guy, so I'm a health conscious type of guy. And when I'm starving and when I'm hungry or something, just to have something instead of stopping at a fast food place, or whatever to grab something. I'm able to pop my almas.

In almonds dot com. Which team will be serving your son almonds in the.

That's good, that's good.

I don't I don't, I don't know. I think he's gonna go. I don't think. I know he's gonna go anywhere from from one to three. I think at the latest and uh last year, leading up to last season, I said that he and Travis probably gonna be one and two or something like that. But it's probably gonna be two and three or one and two, one and three. It's gonna be one of the other. But I'm excited. He's the only quarterback that has had I think seven coordinators.

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It's right. We're in our prime. We got to own your prime. And you got to be healthy.

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You guys gotta think healthy, eat healthy, live healthy. And you guys look good, most of you, most of you. Who doesn't, Well, it's obvious. I think it's obvious.

Oh, Marvin's got his shades on over there.

You look good too.

Oh, Man, appreciate it.

Well, I'm glad.

I'm gladt you're included.

I'm glad inclusiveness that I see. Wow, I like that's right. I like the black thing. I appreciate you Dan for that.

DP didn't need the Ruoney room.

Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I already had him, he was hired, he was already in the building.

Yeah. But you you made sure he was in the day elevated. Yeah, I comploted you should have.

Well, yeah, I don't know if he hadn't seen you work, Mark, Maybe get some almonds here? Yeah?

Does the body good? Does the skin good too?

Did you see the tragger girls out there?

Let me tell you something, man, you're the best gift giver in the game.

No, you're really upgrade.

No, you're you're you're good.

No, but you need an upgrade always.

Who's gonna say no to Dreg?

All right?

Who's gonna say no like you? You got it straight?

And in my, oh mya estate in Texas, they're prominent.

Dreger is prominent there.

It's great to see, great to see.

I love you, man, I appreciate you.

Thanks for stopping.

Make sure you talk.

Positively about the Sanders boys. Okay, I appreciate that. I will thank you, sir.

All right, Jon Sanders will take a break. Play of the day coming up now.

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WAPP Final Hour on the final day. How did it happen so quickly? Here? Amazing? I want to thank all of the great folks people at the Exchange Pickleball Place here, the Pickleball Place in New Orleans for hosting us, all the great people who made this possible the entire week here. Also, King Sawaiian has some food. They fired up the trigger grills.

Let me update you real quick on the percentage of people that are rooting for the Eagles, because that is going significantly in one direction. It's actually getting closer to even oh, rebounding a little bit. It's now a fifty four percent Eagles. Okay, that's pretty interesting.

The NFL Honors last night, Josh Allen MVP, which is surprising. I gave you a stat earlier in the show. I'll bring it back. He got the MVP. He's the first player in twenty one years to win the MVP without being selected First Team All Pro had twenty seven of the fifty first place votes. Lamar Jackson had twenty three first place votes, and that's the smallest difference between first and second since Peyton Manning and Steve McNair declared co MVPs with sixteen first place votes each back in two

He did as a six seed.

As a sixth seed, yep, oh.

They weren't very good, but you got a triple double. So they gave it to him.

Oh, I know that. It made it easy for the voters. They go, he averaged a triple double. Now it feels like everybody is sort of you know, got the chance. How many triple doubles did ninety one players? I've had triple doubles so far?

Yeah? I think Melachai Flynn got one too.

Yeah, yes, balling.

What if we make it tougher and now it's going to be a triple dozen triple dozen?

Yeah, Now it's a more of an accomplishment, just a touch more.

But I bet that was.

You have to have at least twelve assists in twelve rebounds, or you have to twelve twelve or more trip does Marv Okay? All right, we'll get phone calls coming up. Let's bring in Josh Jacobs, the Green Bay Packers running back. I'm looking at what he did this past season. Thirteen hundred yards, fifteen touchdowns, First team All Pro, He's a three time Pro bowler, NFL rushing yards leader. In twenty twenty two, he was All rookie, won a national championship

So and you use those, yeah, I use those Man X Tech since I came in probably my junior year, of colleagues.

Reached out to me, man, let me try it out.

I went over, flew over to the headquarters, got to see you know what they all, what they all was about. And then I mean, I think ninety percent of the guys in the NFL right now where audi leak college guys wear them.

I mean, if you just look last year in the.

League, guys that you brought up, Josh Allen Pass certain my favorite linebacker, Fred Warner, all of these guys, word is for me a light You know, you don't feel anything, and I haven't had any injuries from the shoulder or anything since I've since warned them.

So I'm gonna warm them my whole career.

So you can be friends with the linebacker Fred Warner.

Bro I a lot.

He's it's more of a respect thing. He's he's the best. He's the best I've ever been against.

So what makes him so great?

His instincts?

I would say, how fast he is and how physical he is, and he doesn't take a playoff like he's one of them guys that he's the leader of that defense for sure.

Okay, but who's the other guy? Like when you get to the line of scrimmage, you know you're getting the ball. Yeah, let's say Jalen Carter's there. Yeah, Or let's say, now, I don't know who else? You would go, where is he? How many players do you go? Where is that guy?

I would say most of the time, I never look at the defensive line never.

You don't care.

When I'm running the.

Ball, I manipulate them. I don't really, I don't really too much look at them. So I look at the linebackers and safeties, and it's only a few safeties to me that actually want that type of type of smoke.

Uh So, I mean, I like like, I like Buddha Baker. He's one of them. He'll hit you wherever he's around the ball every play. He's one of them guys.

He's gonna come down, he's trigger fast, he's gonna make a play. Brian Branch is low key the same way too. So those guys got my respect. A lot of people just okay.

So those defense their defensive backs where you go, don't even don't.

Even yeah nah, Now you can look at their eyes like that, nah.

But you don't do like Dereck Henry. Dereck Henry is like get out of here and like, you know, knox him to the sidelines there.

Yeah, see, I try him.

I always try to run him over early because I always notice either two things that happen. Either they gonna sit and catch the next time, or they gonna shoot low. So I kind of just like, yeah, we's at the tone. What do you mean shoot and catch like they're sitting care It's like they literally stop their feet and wait for it and secure the tackle, or they'll literally just

But what do you think of that dB goes for your legs?

I think I think they's sow, but I understand.

Give me, give me the defensive back though that's soft. That did that too, almost all of them. Uh you got the tattoos anything of significance there?

Yeah, so this one right here so fun.

Fact, everything on the left side of my body is basically the tattoos. I feel like it's more of an importance. All of my tattoos have meanings, but it's more of an important importance because they say the left veins run to your heart first. So like I got like my family members, like my kids, my grandma, stuff like that on.

The left side.

No goofy tattoos nah. And don't get a woman's name tattoo nah nah No. Yeah, you're comfortable wearing that bracelet out there. There's a lot going on there.

Yeah, I mean I spent I spend a lot of time out here.

I'm used to, Like I can get around this city without GPS and all of that. Like my roommate in college was ARV Smith tight End. He's from New Orleans. So like every holiday or break or anything I had, I always came out here because going home to Oklahoma was too.

Far so like and boring and boring.

Uh So like we always used to come out here and then like right when the like spring got over with or the season was over, where we got down with training. It was always like Marty Grass season. So we used to always kind of like the half of the whole team used to always come back and come here.

So you imagine if you'd gone down my shoe instead of Alabama. Nah, I don't like them colors, but you would have fun.

It would have fun.

Sure, How did how did the coach Saban close you? Man?

Crazy thing is so I didn't I didn't have any stars coming out from high school, and so like it's funny because Saban actually just told the story probably like two weeks ago.

I've never I've never told the story. But I didn't have any stars.

So one day I'm at basketball practice and Burton Burns, he's actually from Louisiana.

He comes out and he watches me who and he was like, man, like I'm.

Not even He told me said, man, I'm not even supposed to be here. Like he said, I some people told me about you at another school, another school I was visiting.

I decided to make a stop.

He was like, I was gonna be here for like five minutes, end up staying for like two hours, had a conversation. And then when I took my visit and I sat down with Saving, I think the thing that sold me the most was we never talked about football. The only thing he talked to me about was how he could make me a better person and how he can grow me as a man and set me up for positions to have to be secure when I'm done playing a game.

And that's the thing that sold me the most.

And you, of course validated the these nuts he gave us the first report years ago, like whenever we bring anybody from Alabama. I had Bryce Young on ago these nuts and he started giggling, and I said, uh, coach Saban, you know he he did authenticated. I did ask coach Saban, you say these nuts? He goes yeah. Yeah.

I'd say, yeah, man, people don't give him a love credit for how funny he really is.

Well, we're seeing him on TV now and that personality is coming out of fact. But Bryce said, if he said these nuts, that was a good thing. Yeah, like he was in a good mood.

Yeah, definitely. I would say I would say if he joked.

Around with you, then one he liked you and then so he was definitely in a good mood that day.

What was it like when he was not in a good mood.

I think I was only on his bad side maybe one time.

Like I was one of them people like I never missed workouts, I like never missed class, Like I kind of like did everything in the right way. I remember one game we had bumped heads a little bit.

It was actually my junior year. It was against Ole miss.

I had got like a toning penalty after I scored, so you know, he he laid into me and I was like, okay, so you know you got to eat that. And then he came back and laid into me again, like probably like a driver or two later, and like I got up and we kind of like went back and forth. And then after that me and him became like best friends.

So it's crazy.

I think one thing about saving he he's so used to people walking on eggshells around him that anybody that has the I guess the gusts to stand up to him, he kind of like respects it in a different level.

He's Josh Jacobs. He's the Green Bay Packers running back and joining us on behalf of x Tech shoulder pads, the latest in technology thirteen years the number one pad Pro and Division one. How would you sum up Saquon Barkley's season.

Man, I mean he had an electric season. You know obviously you know they have a really good team over there. He has probably the greatest office of line. And then you know in football this year.

What you do different, what you do better than you I say that.

His top end speed for sure, top end speed ev sliding and he just does like you could tell, he just looks like he's having fun, like he's just creating. Like when you're in that zone, it's like, I feel like you just create.

And it looks like he's in that.

Zone a lot.

What's that feeling like when you're in the zone for me?

For me, everything slows down.

It almost kind of feels like you moving in slow motion and everything like I can the only thing I can here is myself brief like literally, it's weird like but and it feels like every play like you about to score, every play you touched.

The ball, You're welcome to the NFL. Moment was what.

Welcome to the NFL?

Probably my rookie year, we played the Vikings at the bank and that was the year that they had like I think everybody on their defense played together for like three or four years, and I remember like my first, second, and third option was all gone. I'm like, where do you want me to go? That was the first time I ever felt like, bro, I cannot do anything.

You got to help me.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was good. And so they roughed you up.

Yeah, they definitely roughed me up.

I was like, Okay, I understood it now, like the thought process, the you know, the mentality.

That it took in all of those things. I was like, yeah, they legit.

But did they welcome you to the end, Like did they say stuff to you? Like the opposition?

See, people always try to be my friend in the game.

It's not too many people that just come up and like we go back and forth because I tell people.

Like, man, please do not turn me up.

Please please do not turn you up, because I was really you know, I'm going about my business, but like, don't bring it, don't.

Bring it out, okay, but what would make you mad where you do turn it up?

Like I remember it like last year, right, So I had got like an eight yard game and a dude made a tackle. When he starts celebrating, I'm like, that's a loss for you. Like what are we talking about? Like that's a loss? So like stuff like that.

Like I said, people don't get too crazy crazy with me for real.

Yeah, I guess like like you know, but it's just like some of these other running back Derrick Henry, I'm not gonna make it mad.

Yeah.

Plus he's he's his biggest defensive lineman.

Yeah he's I tell people all the time.

Uh, he's a running back in the defensive ends body for sure.

But he's a Hall of Famer right now.

Oh yeah, most definitely.

Yeah. Did you want to play another position when you were growing up?

So, I coming out of high school, I had offers from like TCU for dB. So like I play, I played defense. I was also one eighty at the time. Uh so, like I was moving a lot, a lot better, But I couldn't see myself playing defense.

I always want to hit a guy.

I always wanted to be the guy that like make the plays and you know, set the tone and things like that.

So don't you want to.

Be that guy like Honey Badger or somebody and just hit somebody?

It just seems so boring, you know, Like that's the thing like defense, Like if I'm playing corner, I really don't like you know, you only make a play when the ball come your way, Like, but I feel like you can create more. You have more creativity, you know when you touching the ball and you getting it a lot.

Do you care who wins Sunday?

Nah?

Not really.

Are you gonna watch the game?

Nah, I'm not gonna watch the game. Nah. I couldn't tell you.

The last Super Bowl I watched, last Super Ball I watched was probably like middle school, honestly, Yeah, so I couldn't I couldn't tell you. But obviously I got a lot of teammates that's on the Eagles, so I'm like rooting for them. But like at the same time, I played against Patrick Mahomes twice basically my whole career, and I wouldn't bet against him.

What was Mahomes like when he was at Texas Tech?

He was a dog.

He was a dog, but you knew that he would like I thought he was. I didn't know he'd be this, yeah, but I knew he was entertaining.

Yeah, I remember seeing a lot about him, and I'm like Texas Tech, like he was the only reason why knew who Texas Tech was really a lot, a lot.

It's great to see you, and uh, once again it's X tech the X tech pad, so it's the letter X and then tech padge dot com and uh, you can check out these shoulder pads that can make you run, just like Josh Jacobs does.

Yeah, I mean I brought an extra parage in case anybody want to line it up with me.

You know, right there.

During the commercial break PAULI had he likes to take on people. Uh, it doesn't go well for Paulie. You don't want any of this job. No, you don't know, you don't. I'll take the glasses off.

By the way, Chicago Bears fan, we it's the Bear. I think they have a really good team. But you know, it all starts with the pey.

Listen, well, does it start with the panic? I start with the Lions.

I mean the Lions had a good year or two, but I mean if you look at the last ten twelve years, it's the peck.

For Viking, it's pretty good too. Do you shovel your own snow in Green Bays?

No?

Okay, yeah, yeah, no, it actually the only snow maybe twice last year.

But it doesn't snow in Oklahoma, does it?

H Sometimes sometimes Yeah.

Yeah, you gotta get rich used to that cold though. It's tough to get used to that cold.

Yeah.

I mean it's not that bad because we practice in it, but when it's the days that it's wet, it's like.

Yeah, no, yeah, great to see. Thanks for joining us. Appreciate Josh Jacobs, Green Bay Packers running back take a break back after this