EA Podcast: Episode 16 with Bart Scott

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this week we started off with Bart and Uh. We touched upon the holiday seasons, November gets underway, and we also went back to Detroit as Bart talked about his upbringing uh from the tough streets of the motor City and where he is now. I think you guys are gonna like it. It is election day, Bart Scott. Did you get out and vote? I was there this morning. I'm a voter. I mean I'm in Michigan, man. We earlier, I was one of the first guys out there. Did did you did you tweet? Did you take a picture

of Instagram? Know what's that supposed to? Yeah? That gets you in jail. Got justin Timberlake in trouble a couple of weeks ago. What happened with Tim You're not allowed to you know, it was a thing. They thought he was gonna go to jail, and you know they didn't press charges or go forward. You you're not allowed to take pictures or Instagram when you're in the booth. When you're in the booth. Justin Timberlake, one of the Mickey

Mouse kids could have been in jail. Man being somebody's girlfriend. That's not a good look for you. Really. I know you're wiry, but it's tough for you to keep it. I don't want to go to jail. Please gad about me going to jail. I just want to make sure you didn't do that, because I didn't, because they'll come after you later, you know, because once you start floating around, you know, they'll come get you. Timberlake, it was a serious thing. Well he got off probably because justin Timberlake's

got a lot of friends. Well because he got off. He got off because he did the trolls um song. So you know, the people that was procuting kids probably got free movie tickets in the side CD of the sound track. You know, a lot of famous people part of that. Mickey Mouse Club spirits. Absolutely, it was the thing. It was a thing. I think Christina Aguilera, all of them. Yeah, I remember, very talented crew. Yeah, what do you think about timber Like, I'll tell you what. That guy is

so incredibly talented. He does everything. Look at look at grand day. On the grand day she was she had red hair. I forgot kayten Alley or cat or something, you know what I mean. My kids watch it and then now they see her growing up a little bit. You know. You know, there's been some child stars has made that transition. You know, it's it's a good way

to start. It's it's a it's a blueprint out there but you have to be careful because a lot of those kids lose themselves and kind of go crazy out the words, man, you know, and so you can do a whole two hours show about you know, child stars. Have you seen him lately? He's in trouble, right, He's one of those guys with the robots that Din of the Year Internet story right like that click here he's

paid now. I mean, because you're talking about his movies or classic he's only made like four of them, but you know they they're still one of the greatest holiday movies. You know what we should we should probably do. We probably talk about great holiday movies, man, because it's it's starting to get that time. I'm all about the great holiday movies. And you got to start with Chevy Chase and um uh, National Lampoon's what is it Christmas? A? Yeah,

that's definitely a good one. Then you gotta go Christmas Story. Okay, that was that was a good one. But if you want to get more, it's a wonderful life. If you want to, you know, Christmas Eve, you know, you get the family out and you watch it some wonderful life and have a couple of tears with Jimmy Stewart. I think I think I'm going to have a Christmas this year. I need to start a new tradition with the kids.

You'll have the kids come over and you'll have people come over and change the gift and drink some egg nog. Are you an egg drinker? I don't really like it, not really, but if you still have me. But but if you put you can thin it out with like some some rum or some cone yak or something and thin it out, you know what. I like to have a drink of in the winter season, once it starts getting a little cool. Yeah, go ahead, you look like a cider guy. I would have sided with a little

rum or something. But I don't mind a nice brandy once in a while. Yeah, I had brandy before. That's distinguished. Man. I feel like I need to put on like a velvet smoker drink. And you usually don't have holiday parties at the place, No, no, no, I really don't. Usually usually have family members come in and like you know, that's usually the day where dad comes in with the step mom or mom comes in with the step dad and we kind of do that, you know, they kind

of split holidays that way. But you know, I think I need to start my own tradition here where the kids and look forward to something and have like a little social event and kind of get the understanding what Christmas is all about it really, you know, it's it's supposed to be Jesus birthday party, you know what I mean? But so so often it's a season of giving here because what I really like, you know, really to me, my favorite um holiday because it doesn't get all distorted

with you know, gifts and the jolly fat Man. It's really Thanksgiving because we're only a couple of weeks away. Yeah no, because Thanksgiving us all about sitting down with your family, reflecting and being thankful. It's no, no, no, no gifts exchange. When you throw gifts into it, and then now you you feel pressure like who do you give gifts to? Like I am that person? I can't stand it, and then I get blamed for all the time is that you know you're not thoughtful and I

want to think I'm too thoughtful. At what point do you stop? Like is it the third cousin is the first sesse of Then you give him someone year and you don't give it to him the next year. Like, you know, you can't put yourself on the hook for for the next ten fifteen years buying like cousins or nieces something or the baby. Somebody had a baby. You get them a gift for Christmas one year. Then now they're expecting the gift every year. You look up. You

can be by gifts. I like gift certificates, I really do. And people say it's not thoughtful to me, it's you can do anything you want. You know, you can go to the store and pick out the water you want or here, ever, my not few you want to hatch, go pick the size you want. Instead of getting what you think is cool from them, you don't know them. You never really know what somebody else is gonna want, so you don't want to do that. You don't never

near that. People will get mad or take it to take offense to you being like, oh, I appreciate your gifts, but they didn't like the reaction. Yes, and then they take it back and you wait for them to wear the gift, and then they hurt your feelings because you

never see it. Or you go back and you're having a turkey bowl they're playing in your sweater to keep warm and treating like a piece of crap, like you know, so like you know, I'm for the gift certificates, but I'm for like you know, for the kids, you know, or my niece and nephews. Tell me what you want and I'll get it if you earn it, you know what I mean, and give it to them that way, that way you can be happy, you know. So that's just my my little take on all right one, thanks

for giving us a few weeks away. What are the plans for the parts Scott family right now? Well, listen, we're switching it up so we're not going to have anybody come from out of town this year. We're gonna keep it more intimate with just us and the kids. And what we're gonna do is because I have a game that I have to you know, last year we had you know, we got to we had the bad luck of the draw. We we we got the short straw. We had to go on I believe it like four

or five. So we got the middle game, which you know pretty much you gotta be there early so then you really don't get an opportunity and you end up missing half of the day. I got back like a ten o'clock, but we have the early game this this year, I think the twelve o'clock game will be out by four.

Who was playing I don't remember. It's always the Cowboys and it's always either lines, but now they do a third one for the late late game that usually on NFL Network, so it's probably the Line versus somebody, and then the Cowboys to use the fourth game. So I bet you the Lions are the twelve o'clock game because they always do that to the Lions. They get Allions like the twelve o'clock game. So you know we're gonna do that. But we're gonna stay in the city. So

wife is going to make the dinner. She's gonna make the city because I'm already there. So we stay there

and then next day it's Black Friday. But what happens is because we're staying there, I'm going to get a room, hopefully at the Peninsula, opposite of the room that we're gonna stay in, because you know, we get a discount at to London, so I can get a nice spot at the London and be able to, uh, you know, let the kids run around in a nice, good suite at the London but then get a room at the Peninsula so the kids can be on Fifth Avenue when

the parade comes, so they can see the parade. So they so Thursday morning, right, She's so Thursday morning, I'm on the air. I gotta leave, but they can. You have Minnesota in Detroit and that's one of those crossover games like that, because that's not a typical but because really is to use the NFC that does the Thanksgiving games and start off as addition as Dallas and Detroit, so of course it has to be a cross over game. Um, so the kids will be there for Thanksgiving Day parade.

Have they ever done that before? They did it once, but it was bad because we're outside and it was cold. But now they can be they can go they can go out the hotel and see if they want to see a person, or they can go back in the hotel and I'm giving them a view from Fifth Avenue so they can watch from there. They literally can walk to the window. They know how good they have it.

My kids, they don't even respect Dad trying to go on calling in favor like yo, I needed to Okay, I need the view so the kids can see and just think if you go up high enough, the float across right past your face, you know what I mean. So you get a room like maybe six seventh floor, the floor will go right by the kid's face. Oh my god, dostand reach out and shoot shot the spike and bus. Now, when you were a kid, did you

ever watch the parade? You always watch the parade. That's you watched the parade before before you before football starts. And then you go out. Sometimes in Detroit a lot of times were growing up, it was snow outside. So you go out. You have your turkey bowl. So you go out, your neighborhood game. Neighborhood game. You put it, You put on all the layers of clothes, be the

snow outside. You go play football. But when you're the only guy in your neighborhood, when you're playing with twenty guys who went on and play the National Football League. My point is, you're the mad backer, You're the nasty man. I don't want to play against you. You know, once we're playing flank football, dude, you're you're on my team. I don't want to play. Think growing up, all my cousins,

everybody's older than me. So like where I was, I was the little kid that can play with the big kids. So like I really didn't intimidate the big kids because you know, my cousins is six years older than me, so like he's sixteen, I'm ten. You know what I'm saying. So I was a kid that catched the pass like late where you know they slipping on me and hit him with a little wiggle and make the catch. You know.

I mean I ain't always been a defensive player. I was a running back too, so I can get that rocking. You know. We just play pick him up, messing up. That's how I devel out my skills. So pick him my mess him up? Was you throw a ball or or you have to get past people? Right, So you got one person, so let's pick him up up, Well, pick my messim up something else. But we play an other game, right, So you start. It's cool game. So you start at the base. You have one person, that's it.

So he called somebody out, right, he called somebody out. If that person gets past him, then the whole group gets to run. Right. So the first person just you and him one on one, and you chase, if you tag, if you tackle him or you get him. Then now he becomes a chaser with you. And what you do is you call people out. But what happens is the person that you called out they get to the touchdown. Then the whole group get the run. So now you gotta try and catch one of a bunch of people.

So it's like tackle tag and but you run straight back and forth and you sit in the middle and on the winth of the field. What I won, It depends on what feel you in. Yeah, we're not talking about a football field. We're talking about the parts abandoned

a lot and banning a lot. So like so you can think maybe yards wide, you know, it was like, you know, my grandmother's lot was like twenty yards wide, you know, I mean, so like it's a good space and so so talking about while it was a great open field tackle because I played that game growing up all the time, and you start tacking other people. So then now as running back to now the whole fillers out there, you're the only one that's like maybe two

of you guys left. They call you you're dunking like five safe? Were you hurting young guys out there? Hood game? Well, when when I played, like I started playing football, when I was eight. So I mean, like all the tackle and stuff I did as a kid would probably be illegal because we just had this thing about we said get meat, and meat was to paint off the other

person's helmet. And like every once in a while you would see somebody cheating, they'll go over there, they'll be hitting the hitting their helmet against the ground, or trying to take somebody else helmet that's their buddy from a different team. And all minds was earned. So you you guys suited up when you're doing that. No, no, no, no, I'm talking about I'm just talking about growing up like you talking about how it was as a kid, like

I was a head hunter. Like when you looked at me, I had streaks from every team like landon Wood night night, Like I wouldn't be allowed to play like Little League no more. But they didn't call that back, And yeah they did. That's what I'm saying. That's how the game has changed. Like you were trying to not hit the guy so hard that his paint rubs on your helmet, and you can tell. Even in high school, I always

had a bunch of meat, just straight gone. And the best way to get meat is off that face Max because face Master Guy got that rubber so it burns quick. But you get that meat off the top of the helmet too. But then it shows you how far the game has come. You ever take the kids back to uh use, I imagine you still got family in Detroit, Michigan. Do you ever take them back to the to the own neighborhood when you crew up? Act? That's the absolutely My family still lives on that block and I still

have a lot of family there. Um, and you know, I have a picture that they haven't been back and maybe two or three years with me like going there and with their mom took them back. But um, we should do this thing. Well last time we went back. I think my son is three now, so he was once. It was two years ago. Like I took him to take a victory lap everyone every time I go home. Every time I go home, I take a victory lap. Um.

So my high school football feelers named after me. Yeah, because you donated funds back there, No, No, I had, you know, I had nothing new fundy They changed it to that before well well before before that, you know basically just um just because where you would made it. Yeah, I became and you know, I've always been a member of that community. Always came back to their name of Statum for me because Will Goldson goes there was from there, and Jonathan haikins, it's from there, you know what I mean.

So you know, since then, there's been other guys that made the victory lap means what I do a victory lap for myself. So I come back. So it's weird. I do the same thing, right. I come back and I go to this mall that I grew up in and I get an order of nachos and hill Opinions

extra cheese. I sit down and I peached people watch and I just watched people when I watched them going through life, and you know, I see, I love why and like the teenagers and the kids, and it puts me in the mindset of that kid could be somebody special. That kids want to do this, that kid and everything is available to that kid right now. He can be with every one because I walked through the same hallway.

So people watch. And then what I do is I drive to my old neighborhood, um before I take my victory lap, so my school is fed on with Fairview street car Fairview and what I do is I lived in between Charlotte will and Goalthy, the schools in between Charlotte Wold and Gothy Right, So I drive up every street, so I go. So I make a right, go down, make a left, go to the next street, make a left, go make a right, go down the next street. And

I go through this tied neighborhood. Then I go back and come back and I get out and it's just me.

Nobody else is around. And I did this every since I was a player too, every time, and I go back and I walk around that track, and I reflect on how far I've come and where I've been, and it puts me back and always put me back in the mindset to come back wherever I was at, whether I was in Baltimore, I was in New York, to make those people proud in that neighborhood of what I've become and what I represent because I represent them, I represent hope, I represent um, change, I represent um, the

fact that you can dream. I defied the odes, and I hope that I can inspire them to do the same or to believe that they can. And it's weird because and then in the last couple of years, I can look to the left of my school, and you know, everybody can't be a football player. So I looked to the left of my school and I see these projects that's right across from my school. And I know the Dage Loaf came out of there. So now people that's involved in the arts can say, hey, maybe I can.

She's a female that became a rapper. She's only like twenty six maybe, and man, she came from this mess. And I always had this thing, you know that you know, a ro Oles. I had this vision in my head, and you know, I gave my I sold my life story to uh Warner Brothers. They're on the rights to it. And me and my agent always laughed about what should be on the cover, like no, no football picture or

something tough or anything like that. But we always had this vision that, you know, if they ever make the movie of a rolls growing out of a crack of a broken sidewalk, you know, proven that something beautiful has come from somewhere dark, you know, and you know that's like my my whole dream, Like they make the movie on the cover or the DVD or whatever. So how do you go about how do you go about something that Warner Brothers. Because I think you did that when

you were here. Whatever you finalize that when you were here. You just remind me, I gotta go get I gotta go. You just reminded me, like gate to Lisa Guy to remember. I had a writer following me around my first couple of years. He called, he called my age. He said, has a bunch of personal pictures of my family and stuff and me growing up. I forgot I gotta get that from. He asked me to get him out. What is he doing? He was just a person that creative

like kind of helped write. But you know the movies. You know, hell, they're still trying to make the Tupac movie that that's been in the working for thirteen years, you know what I mean? So you never know, like you know, but if they make it, they make it. If they don't, they don't. You know. I just keep adding stuff to the movie because the more successful I become, the more person is the book happening, you know? I right, I'd like to write, Oh see, I haven't No, I

haven't even I want to write a book. Say I want to get together. I think we might have something I want to write, you know, and I already know what I want to title I want to I know what I want to title my book to be, just like I know what a division and like the graphic of a rose growing out of a broken sidewalk around gravel and all that darkness, and I want that to be in black and white. I want the roles to

being colored kind of like Pleasantville. Um, I was just I want the name of my book to be or my what do you call it? Biography? Yeah, biography. Yeah, I wanted to be uninvited guests, guests like that like that. So we have to talk about that separately. Now you said the Tupac movie. Um, they've been talking about that for more than a decade. Who's going to be the actor? Who they already got the actor? He's an unknown, they

don't know. You gotta do somebody unknown because you don't want somebody to play him that everybody knows, because you know the Tupac character, just like playing Superman, that becomes iconic.

You know, you're trying to do something else, you're always gonna be known as that, right, So I forgot the actor that that did it, But you know he was crazy because he had auditioned for the Tupac movie like ten years ago and got his nose peers and all this stuff to be Tupac and then he just did something. You probably can find it a Google or something like that. The od B movie is coming out too. I know, the guy that played Omar's playing od B the old

Dirty Basket movie. Because what happens is when you make a lot of those movies. Did you meet od He's coming up. He came to a couple of chess games back. He's crazy. Man had his real food stamp license on his damn album cover and got a trouble because it was his really like holding He'll fool Stepp. He did food stumps famous rapper. Oh man, that was so funny man looking back to look at back, you know Tupac

was just a baby man. Yeah, people don't realize that because what happens is their icons smart because we gotta talent with the theology school. I mean, just think he was rapping at an actor. He had been in the how many movies? He had been a movie with John Blush before he died, did Poetic Justice, He did Juice, He did the movie with Dan Ackroyd where he was in there when he's part of the digital underground all

around the world, the same song. Remember that with Dany he was like the Judge and Demi Moore and m Chevy Chase I believe got broke down or whatever. They had the Fat Twins. That was a funny movie too, you know, so like he had been accomplished and been in so many movies like people sleep on day DMX too, Like if it wasn't for the for the drug addiction, DMX is the only you can say, j J you want.

He's the only actor that's first me rapper, first four albums went platinum, platinum, and then let's thing about he was a straight up Timberland boots action star. He was in the movie with side by side with jet Lee Steven's a goal, Like he was that dude, Like how many how many rappers other than maybe ice Q and l co J can say that they've done as many movies as d m X. Now he couldn't stay on the wagon, and he still, you know, fights for those demons.

But it's been some time with guys. Now, those are those are the guys who I respect because and I tell people all the time, like you're like, oh well, you look up to. I look up to guys like Dr Dre. I look up to guys like Um the Rock Uh ice Q say ice T because transcendent stars. Well, to me, anybody can do something special ones, they did twice. And when I say do something special ones, anybody can be great at one thing, but to transition and become

respected as something else. So Dr Dre even though Dr Dre thing is kind of still within the same realm, still in music. I mean it's worth eight hundred million dollars. But he was a rapper producer and lost his business twice, got strong armed by Sugar Knight and came back even stronger. You think about Iced Tea, Come on, man, he made a song called after Police and now he plays a police officer on TV. We're talking about a former pimp too order and if he and if he ever? But

he's also a frequently Yeah he was. He was a real you know, they had a documentary Up is Down or HBO and like he was like in that pimp game for real. And it's funny he tells you like that he wasn't a rapper, right, he tells how he got in the rap game and talk about a guy just with because he wasn't a great lyricist. We talked about a guy who I saw a big picture and the guy who bet on himself. So he said, it goes into the rap label. He goes into the to the to the music label. And he said he want

to be a rapper. He wanted a band, and they're like, what are you. He's like, well, let me hear spit something. He was like, sir, because you know, I excuse you. I te used to be in au and I think in the army or something like that. He was like, listen, if I was saying that your grenades, do you think I would let you throw one of my grenades? Or You're gonna have to trust that I got good grenades. So I'm not gonna wrap for you. You gotta believe that I can be that I can wrap. Either you

believe or you don't what it's gonna be. And he said, do sign them right there. I mean that's I mean, you gotta First of all, you talked about people being thirsty and desperate when they gonna make deals. That's faith. That's that's faith. I mean, that's showing him like, man, I don't know if he's good or not man, but he got he got something different because it's not a lot of people would have pulled that or even attempted to pull that because in the threat agetting thrown off

the office, you know what I'm saying. So like you know, then he did New Jack City early in his career too, so he was acting early, played the cop there. But he based something called cop killer. That's something else. I love people that do stuff like that. All right, Uh, quickly football, Oh this isn't football. Jet's three and six. Ryan Fitzpatrick has spray knee. Uh, Todd Bull said right now, he gives us our best chance to win. If fits

can practice significantly, he will play against the Rams. If not, Bryce Patty will get his first professional start. Your thoughts, Um, you don't want to ruin a young player earlier. We've seen guys get out there too early. Confidence suffer because they really don't have a grasp what's going on. Um, they're not prepared, they're not ready. You know, most teams are in mid season form. So you're asking him to

come off the bench. Cole after never starting against Aaron Donald and Robert Quinn and Brocker, all those guys, you know that the line that could really get to them early and really hurt his confidence. So you want to put a veteran in that can handle himself and and and try and get Petty's development, you know, in the off season, or yeah, maybe he starts siting a couple of weeks, we start him against somebody that may not hurt him physically. He's Brandon Marshall said, and you were

a player. Obviously we were talking about it all the time. But from a player's perspective, even at three and six, you go and you go, and you don't look at the two thousand seventeen draft. Who cares about that. You are a player and you're going until you're mathematically eliminated from the postseason. If you're a guy in that locker room, you think you can win every game, remating why not you?

You talk about the Kansas City Chiefs that one last year and then one in eleven eleven in a row, and it advanced all the way and they played New England Lawson the divisional playoffs. So but Petty just have two years in the system. So listen, if he's called on to start this week, he's had a lot of time and preparation from coming out of Bellart to that simple spread to get acclimated with uh so. Uh. Jets fans, as you know, would be very excited to see a

young quarterback. But I think I think what they should be more excited about is trying to figure out, you know what the cylind or development of guys like you know, Anderson, you know, some of the young receivers. I think that's a safer bet to put those young guys in and see what they're capable of doing, you know, because all you can do now is build Depp. You know, you know,

these guys have unique talent. But let's see if they can take the next steps, see if they can get the game plan and you know, let's let's see if a noon walk and push you know, Decker to be that number two receiver, and then defensively too. You still want to see continued development out of some of these young guys, like Leonard Williams in the second season. He's got six sacks already this year. He's been a stalwart upfront. You want to see guys continue to develop in the secondary.

Marcus Williams is gonna be out, He's got um what is I believe it's a high ankle spring actually, so he should be out for a few weeks. So you might see Darrell Roberts on the outside. You guys A surprised you, man, I was one of those guys. You know, Ray got hurt. I've been in the program, but nobody has seen me do it, you know, a live bullets. My first start was on Halloween Day, Monday night football

against the Steelers. Talk about having your first start and ray Lewis not been there and Pittsburgh being known as a physical run team. Now I just you know, put up a sack, force fumble, thirteen tackles. You know you would monster numbers the year that Ray and didn't play. Hey man, listen, I was hungry. I was sitting in the wing. So that's what I'm saying. So all the fans, you never know what somebody can do unless they get

the opportunity. You think about James Harrison getting his first start because Joey Porter got in a pre pre pregame fight and they discovered James Harrison was a gamer. Because some guys you put in there and they and they and they drink up or they play small. You get some guys in there man, They're like, oh, like, it's like the floodgates so many and you can't deny. You look on the film like what the hell? We can never harness all this energy, all this passion, you know,

God playing like he's going for broke. Because that's the thing here. There are seven games remaining, and organizationally, whether you make the playoffs or not, people on the outside was saying, I ain't got nothing to play for. You're not making the playoffs again for six consecutive season. Where that's the truth is. You want to find a Bart Scott. Can Bart Scott play and eventually play inside linebacker for us? Because that's gonna help you with two thousand se and beyond.

Because what happened is when I when I, when they figured out I was a player, they said, you know what, we don't have to resign Tommy Polly because when Ray come back, he got a killer next to him and we don't have the Pam. So now we can go out and spend money elsewhere. We don't have the pay money for this veteran to be here and get a

big contract. We can use bar and that gives a couple of you know, a couple three years or address some other issues before we have to address his all right, So the last point I want to get to today's Muhammad Wilkerson, Sheldon Richardson were benched or we're not in the lineup in the first quarter against the Miami Dolphins, Todd Bull said, coaches decision. Pressed on it. Coach's decision, he said, I'll talk about football, I'll talk about injuries,

but some things we handle in house. My point is, and there's a lot of various reports out there, and there are great reporters out there in the world. There are a lot of things that happened inside these doors that nobody knows about. And there's a lot of stories that are in here that never get out and people will be surprised by them. Can you just talk about that a little bit? On all the things that go

on internally? But we call it the CIA. We have the police ourselves, and listen, you don't go out and report. People don't a out and report everything that happens in their industries. Right, so law firm don't say, Okay, so and so showed up LATEE he's having problems with his wife or you know, he's you know this or that or he you know, he went off and he went stormed in the office of the balls and almost gonna fight.

Nobody says any of that stuff. So why do you think that a football organization to to, you know, air out the dirty lionndry and tell you everything that's going on. Listen, we have a structure here. You know, guys are held a kind, held to a higher standard than most people are in society. Um and some things you just have to handle because you're dealing with young men that you

have to develop. You're dealing with young men that are early in the process of trying to be a professional, and sometimes you have to take the ball away from him to let them understand that. Listen, everybody is held accountable. It's not just you know, it's not different rules for for this player to this player. You know, we need you to be you know, accountable. You need to be a professional because it's gonna help you, not only in football, it's gonna help you as you transition off to learn

what the pros is. And you have to have a strong locker room. And you know, it's disappointing that a guy like Sheldon Richard and and Mohammed we were saying, you know, are the examples when they shouldn't be. You know, they should be the one that's setting the standard, you know, for the younger players, and this is that that just lets you know that they have some more maturing to

do in their process. You know, I would be more shocked if if it was a guy like David Harris or a guy like that, or or Nick Mango that they had these indiscretions. But you know, these are guys that are borderline young guys there in the middle of their career, or Mohammed in the middle of his career transitioning, you know, but he just got a huge contract and too much as given, much as expected. Yeah, And that's the thing. There's fifty three young men in a locker room.

And I'm not even specifically talking about Moe Sheldon, Dave Fitzpatrick, any of them. The point is there's a lot of things going on down there that nobody knows about. So you hear about various reports and things like that. I know this. Todd Bowles was a player himself. He played eight years in the National Football League. He won a Super Bowl. I know, he was an assistant coach of

the Year with the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals made the playoffs, not because of that great offense the one year, but what he was doing defensively. He's learned from legends in Joe Gibbs and Bill part ourselves and Bruce Arians and Andy Reid. He knows what he's doing. He knows how to deal with these young guys exactly. I mean, because he's not too far removed. He's not an older guy,

he's not out of touch with what's going on. And I think the public embarrassment that you know, the two players had, not only for themselves but for their family, you know, sending a strong message that you know, we don't put anything above our standard or whatever our whatever our mission statement is. You know, nobody's above that. And I think that sends a powerful message because if you'll do that to them, if I'm a player that's maybe not as high ranking as them, that could mean I

lose my job. Where it's not just sitting down for a full quarter, could be you know, pack you back. Here's a great hound ticket. Any interested in Paquial Mayweather too? Because no, for me? How about Floyd showing up the other night at Rnkie's Gonna show up because that's what he does. He's planning seas. I won't watch the replay. I have no interest. I don't want to see that. I wouldn't even watch. I wouldn't even pay pay per view to watch it. Unless you invite me over and

you're having one of your house parties. I wouldn't want you to fall asleep. That's part Scott, that's the podcast.