The EA Podcast Episode 11 with Bart Scott

look at this guy says he's gonna have the juice. Okay. So I went to Dunkin Donuts this morning, got myself for coffee. They got pumpkin spice seasonal. I love pumpkin spice. You're not a coffee drinker, right, No, But you know, since I got into this world, when I do my radio shows, a lot of times that night when I'm spent, I get jacked up on mom due do you yeah? You do? The dude? It was was, well, no, no, not not to do. But the mona doing this case.

It's the coffee and I get a VENTI. I didn't even know I went in there I don't even know what. I don't know. I don't know how to speak the language. You know what I would like? Yeah, can I get a large coffee? Like um um grande? Or I'm like, I just want a large oh VENTI like, oh my god? Like, listen, can you just say large and large and actually large? What's with the venti grande? Like trying to be don't but I can't believe you're drinking coffee now listen, But

salted mocha, so sugar and caffeine. I'm hot hell on air. Salted mocha, saltic coma, salted caramel in white mocha, chocolate mocha. Yeah, I'm hot hell on air all the time. Look at this guy, the guy from Detroit who grew up drinking after Joe Man, My, my, my, my, my father and my stepdad is freaking coffee heads. That's all they drink. Yeah, so you know, I figured, hey, man, you know what happened. You know what happened. I started drinking coffee um to train.

It's an appetite suppressor and also it's like an appetites Yeah, I don't even know that. Maybe that's why I don't eat much. So when I when I go when I go in to hold keytone diet and some of them. When I'm trying to stread down. I drink coffee whenever I'm hungry, and it stops your appetite. I kernel fast in the Morning's still a little run with my big old dude, two miles things like that. But then I get my Yeah, just for my bigal just getting gone man two miles and me is like a world record.

No way, I don't do that running. You get on the trunk a little distance due I spread. I have to go, So I do interval training, so I like do the liptical and that. It's like this called the fat man thing. So you go, uh a minute, you go twenty two minutes and every minute what you do is you go forty five sex. The last fifty eight seconds of that minute, you goes hard and fast. You can go do you stop and go back to your

stride and goes fast. You go and get your heart rate up and down, up and down, and that's how you lose fat faster. So twenty two minutes. Any incline on that or no. No, It's like it's like the resistance like ten to twelve then when you you're about to do your fifteen seconds, I bumped up five and he goes fashion go that you bump it down. So it's usually the inclines, you know, the lipicals. You know

it's pretty high. Yeah. Yeah, But the guy who made his living knocking people's heads around sitting there on a liptical. I'm just trying to get now now, I don't I don't know. I got my sweat jacket on. I don't need I don't need it no more so. And I

do my jumping pump class or do spin class. But when I don't do spin class for a while, man, it takes me about three, three or four days to get used to hard saddle sore man, that's what I'm telling that how hard it's a quad but everything in there I understand now why lands he has one test scoo, man worried. That's hard man. You don't wear the pike shorts. That's no, that's hard on your scroll man, listen, but

the pike shorts, that's a no no for me. But with the but already built in it, yeah, you know, I can't. I give people credit for rolling around and as you as usually some sixty seven year old white man that wants to walk around, it's gotta be a white man. Yeah, with a jump, but black. Further of all, black people don't really get old bikes fur of a black people. A lot of black people don't even go to the gym, let alone get on a bike. They

might they come and play basketball. That's the car they're gonn play. Black people go play raquetball. Older black man, go play racquetball and basketball. You catch me on elyptical, but you won't catch No, I'm not. I'm not touching that. So I let the dunkin doughnuts. Today I got my coffee and I tweeted this out. If you aren't going to put the shopping cart back, then don't use it. I always love the parking lot with fifty of the

spaces occupied by carts. Now people started getting on me saying this is a cryptic tweet like I was talking about the Jets roster or something. I was piste off. I went to the parking lot to get to get my coffee this warning, and they're shopping carts everywhere. You ever get that way, you come on, you got a ding on your door? Like what happened? Like people just put the car and walk away, or they let it go right here on and they put it here and

it roll slowly. When they leave, it starts rolling and hit your door, and they don't care. They just take off. I'm one of those people. Americans are lazy, man like this. It's called spade to space. How hard is it to put your stuff in there? At least a lot of people have like they have, like the little section where you put all the carts and there you just push them in there. Lazy lazy. Americans are lazy, lazy, the

fattest country in the world. I'm one of those people who if I even thought about it, I have a guilty conscious even thinking about it, like I should I leave it here? People trying to put it in between both lanes and so then when you come in, you you gotta stop and move it out the way, put up on the grass so that you can pull it

into your spot. And it's it's so lazy man, because they could at least did that, at least put the front wheels up on the top so it's not touching nobody's car, so we're not in a So I's ticked off this morning. Yeah, they're talking about I'm speaking about the chutchs roster. I'm like, no, I'm actually getting a coffee. And I just wanted to put this out there because I just wanted to tell people that is a pet peeve. What are some of the mad backers pet peeves? Huh?

Is there anything that gets you gone? Because we know from time to time you showed some emotion. Let'll tell you what I hate. I hate thieves, man, I hate I hate. I hate thieves like these people that take stuff and people like that really irritates me because even even with the drug deal of the hustler, at least they working for it. You know what I mean. It takes nothing to it takes no energy, no talent, know anything to have somebody work for something. It's still the

man as I ever got. Somebody stole my clothes out the washing machine in college, you know that's that's like the thing like somebody walking around whether you have at a laundrom in a laundromat and then your dorm in the dorm, in the dorm on the dorm on the floor, we had washing machines, went in there, went back, came back clothes gone, Like who steals wet clothes. Why do

I want another man's clothes? If you do have enough money to for your own clothes, you know, and there's people unbelievably suffering in this world, and that's a different deal altogether. But why would you want another man's clothes? It's white clothes. I mean, you're in college. But still, I'm saying, you in college, so you think that okay, you're wearing the jeans and it should be okay every day you should be all right, you know, you shouldn't

have to do that. And I can see we're at a group home and somebody were going to watch close by. Still because ain't nobody got nothing? But you think most people in college has at least enough. You know, you may not be rich, I said, everybody go to college is rich. But it's still another man's clothes. Like, come on, man, I'd just be wrong because now you can you can never wear them? No, can you put it on and kill you? I'm saying, then you so, I man, and

you never I never saw my polo shirts. He must have did it transfer for something for clothes, the dumbest thing ever. But yeah, man, I can't stand. I can't. I can't stand when you ask somebody, particularly women like you know, like my wife doesn't do that because you

know it's the pet people of mind. But when I was growing up and you take somebody out, you ask me they want something, they say no, and they soon ad you get your stuff, you get nice and ready, they start reaching over eating out nachos or something like that. I just asked you, did you want something? I just want a couple. Well, I've got you a whole thing. But these are mines. I hate that pet people. I love my mom and she's the same man, but she's

the same way. She ordered the salad and you get the burger and the French fries and getting together just having a family dinner and should always be reaching in for those French tries. Want to fry? I just want to take a few. So so we just got back from the desert. I wanted to ask you favorite places in this country to travel because Arizona to me, what

best cities to play in? No, No, just to travel too if you're gonna have some time off, because Arizona to me, between October in March, that's one of the finer places in the country because it's still on the nineties and you got those great resorts there. And there's no water in Arizona, but everybody's got pools spot country no, but no grass, just grabl grabl front yards. You have to get used to that and getting cactis and stuff like that. Oh you know a lot of them have

artificial turf as grass and the Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. Uh you know what for me? Well, not right now? What best cities to kind of visit? Yeah? I love Chicago. Chicago is one of my favorite cities. Western guy Chicago and d C. I love d C. Um. I love Houston. Um, Now Houston, that's interesting. Houston is nice. Biggest city in the world. I think, Well that's why because Houston is more spread out. But yeah, it's more spread out, so you know, if you don't feel it on top of

each other. But it has all the amenities that you will want, you know. I mean, it could be a fast city, could be a slow city. You can do like the trial and country stuff where you can speed it up, you know what I mean? Um where else? San Diego is cool? But I love San Francisco. Okay, San Francisco is nice, man, No, it's beautiful. I love

San Franco never gets really warm there. Yeah, Like Mark Twain always says that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco and San Francisco, and we went out there and shot for the Super Bowl. Man, it was so cold, like fifty degree. And it's weird because inland, the closer inland you go, it's smoldering. It's weird. Something about the water and the atmosphere from the from

the ocean comes out and sucks the heat out. But then in inland, the farther the inland go, it was like So it was like sixty degrees in San Francisco. We went more inland, it was like a hundred. Right, It's crazy Golden gate Bridge. Okay, So let's get the serious topic over the weekend. The buses actually are playing touchdown in Phoenix. We get on the buses and we are informed that Dennis Bird, at fifty years old, died in an automobile accident where a young driver, seventeen year

old kid, crossed into incoming traffic and hit Dennis. Um. When you heard the news, what want through your mind? Well, for me, I couldn't believe it. And the only thing I can compare it to is a soldier going away and doing like ten tours and duty and coming over and being a victim of drive by shooting. Because you think about everything that Dennis Berg has overcome, you know, you think about, you know, getting paralyzed and then told you would never walk again, only to defy the odds

to to to walk again. I don't need to walk again, but to live and to live his life in such a way that inspires other people to be the best versions of themselves. And that's what Dennis Burg meant. He was an inspiration. He's a light to everybody about not

giving up. You know. He played with such a passion and a joy, and it's just one of those things it's hard to really swallow, you know what I mean, because like he's like, come on, not him, He's he's he can't he can't explain it through so much like you're saying, is that you're looking for answers and you're saying, Wow, here's a guy who was paralyzed, paralyzed and then determined to walk again, and he got up and walked again.

And the guy said Bart who played with them, said he kind of stayed away from the organization after coming back a little bit, because football meant so much to him, he had to remove himself from it. And then though we had him back a few times recently, Tirer's number and I was in a liven January Jets Patriots Division round of the playoffs. You guys had Dennis come and speak to the team. Do you remember that night? Absolutely? Team team captain as well. He was the team captain.

Carritge Jersey out there to the to the middle of James I had to boat dig and Lathenien Thomlinson with the number ninety exactly man, And he really was the the inspiration and the feel of the fire that we played with. We played with such a passion, we played together, we played with emotion, we played under control, you know, and um we we owed a lot to him. And after the game, you know, um, I get this this shirt.

I'm like, and what's this? And he gave me his the shirt that they cut off of him when he got injured, and he said, I reminded him of itself. And you know, for some player like that, you talk about a guy that was a budding star, you know, talking about seven sacks and right exactly, Actually I think, you know, I mean, And for him to see a little bit of himself and me, you know, made me feel like I was doing the right thing. I played

the right way. I know a lot of people can't handle the emotions sometimes and the passion and the words, and sometimes it can be misunderstood. But he understood it because he played with the same to nasty, the same joy and passion. You know, it's a child's game, and he played with that for so for him to see a bit of himself and me, you know me, it was truly remarkable, inspirational, you know. And I played with that with that shirt, and you know me, I've never

wore sleeves ever. I wore sleeves because I had his shirt and it was a big shirt because it's much larger man than me. And you know, it inspired me. And you know, I was hurting, but I failed to to I refused to succumb to my circumstances. And you know, afterwards, you know, I put it in the frame and it sits in my trophy case. And and it's imperfect because they sold it back together, but they couldn't sow it back to together perfect. So the letters don't match up

one side to the to the next. But it's um, it's beautiful, just like he was. Do you they have trouble because I do. This is something that I was thinking about over the weekend and set so that happens Saturday night, and I feel like it just became just another storyline with the scroll, you know, like, oh, yeah, Donna's bird, who's that? Yeah, you know, it didn't really resonate, it didn't start. It didn't start because a lot of

people didn't know his story. But I think you know, you talk about Joe Nama really talking about it yesterday. You know, they gave you know, we gave him time on our show as well. Um, and I think everybody played to pay tribute to him, because I think he was an inspiration to everybody, you know, for what he was able to overcome. You know, you look at the other guys that weren't able to stand up, are able

to walk. You think about Mike Utley, and we all understand and and all have that fear that it could be us. We all know that that's what we signed up for. It. It's a possibility on the back of the helm and it says could cause death warning, you know, we we know what we play, and so whenever we see one of our brothers go down, you know, it's always you know, it puts us in touch with our

with our mortality. How about the way he hand on himself though, Like when he talked to you guys, things like he never came across as a person who woe is me? That why did this happen to me? And it would be natural to have those thoughts, and he never never expressed that. And he also was so grounded in his faith that you could see the light in them, you know, like you could see this is a man

at peace with where he's at. To to to most inspirational people I have ever met in my life, Dennis Burg and O. J. Bragatz and and the thing that goes for those guys have in common is not whoe me? Why not me? You guy gave me this because he knew I can handle it, so I can champion it to inspire other people that they can fight. And those are the best type of leaders. So our prayers and thoughts go out to the Bird family who actually might be here this weekend. It's homecoming weekend for the New

York Jets. They wore number ninety details on their helmets Monday Night Football. But it's just it's a painful loss for people like yourself. And I talked to Marty Lyons and Marty was so close with him. He said, they drafted this guy in the second round out of also to replace him, and he said he was a good kid, and people don't realize how good of a football player

he was. But then talking about his faith and how he was at peace, and also the courage he showed, and you know the love that he brought to the table. I just I go back to thousand on eleven that the Patriots game. A lot of people didn't realize that they just caused the can't wait game because what we did, and you know the rent that I had, But they don't realize what few that, what what what happened the days before leading up to that, and you know how

he inspired us? And they forget. Now they go back and they find that footage of us carrying his jersey out, But a lot of people didn't know what that man. Did you think about bird before lighting up that day? I mean, you have to man, you know he he what did he say to you about Saturday night? Do

you remember what he was just talking about. You know, the crime is not getting knocked down, it's not getting it's getting back up and playing together and being a team, being a unit, playing together, which was what he was all about, you know what I mean, during your role playing your part, you know what I mean, playing without fear. You know, it was it was a beautiful thing, man, And you know that was perfect for us to go

out there and carry that jersey case. I think it really put us all in the right mind set right there what we were playing for that you know, we we we it puts life and perspective what life's all about when you get a Mexas like that twenty four hours before something that you think is it's the biggest

day of your life for the biggest opportunity. Yeah. Uh, Like I said, this weekend, be emotional and hopefully the bird family is able to come and prayers and well wishes are with them, and you know, but I gotta think that it is in a better place right now. I mean it's good to be able to you know, for us to be able to celebrate him in the proper way and let his family appreciate, you know, them allowing us to to to share in his life and for us to be a part of his life, you know.

And so I think it's important to help them with the healing process, you know, just as much as it is for us to heal as a fan base, as a as Jett nation, to heal together. We keep on losing people. We continue to talk about that. Uh. People great to the Jets family, tremendous people. And we we talked about a couple of weeks ago, Arnold Palmer and a young picture from the Marlins and then a guy who you would a chance to meet on a number of occasions. And you're a boxing monster, boxing fan, Aaron

the Hawk Prior. I did not know that. You did not know that that's my favorite boxer all time. Oh my god, you didn't know all that. No, that's my favorite boxer of all time, Aaron Prior Hawk Man? What time is it? Hawk time? Aaron Prior Man, that's my favorite box of all time? Man Sugary Leonard ducked him. He didn't want to fight him. He was crazy. The only man I've seen get knocked backwards, fault, roll over and get up and go sprint before the ref can

even do. The official count. He's back throwing punches. The fight between him and the lectures. Yeah, the black bottle, Patama Lewis or forgot Panama, forget his last name, got barred because he had the black bottle. What do you make? And and then you know they fall in the Remax rematch and he beat him and Lexie Oguyal said, I've never been hit with two hands before, and he was like, I didn't feel like getting hurt. Uh light welt their

weight five ft six. He's in my top five thirty nine wins, thirty five by the way of knockout one defeat. Ums died October ninth, two thousand sixteen. Now now that's what they Nobody made it big enough noise about that. That's one of our great fighters of our time, undoubtably. And now that's another guy who you've had a chance to meet over the years. And he came and spoke to the team a couple of times. Yeah, actually that might have been before you because man, MAINI had couple times.

Oh you know, I wasn't here. So so so Eric, Eric was a big boxing fair Eric May Jeanie just went got a couple of points in my book. He just got a couple of cool points in the bar Scott Uh in the bar Scott Hall of Fame. Alright, So Aaron Hawk prior Uh suffers from heart disease October nine, two thousand sixteen. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in nineteen. He was a two time lightweuterweight world champion. If you ever want to watch and watch him all,

look him up. Legendary Knights, Legendary Nights. Remember HBO used to do the legendary Knights. I love legendary knights. Look Legendary Nights up by Jim Lampley since the Ohio native Hawk time. So we lost time one girls as well. Two years old heart attack, but he had a heart problem coming into the league. Yeah, we had the same agent. Yeah, there was three moments of silence before the Jets took the field, not three moments, but they remember three people

you mentioned. Quent Grows thirty two years old, unbelievable, donn Is Bird fifty years old, and also I believe the long time Cardinal's equipment manager. So they honored all three of those folks before the Jets. In the Cardinal comes in. It comes in in threes, Man comes it comes like that, you know, because a lot of our stars that we grew up with are getting old. Yeah, you know what I mean. You think about Prints, you know which he really he wasn't old enough to die. Think about Print.

You know all these all these great losing our greats man Mom and Ali and that was one of your favorites. And what a transcended figure he was. Okay, so we got to talk a little bit about football. UH Jets fall to one in five a raw, um fans don't want to hear it, but there are ten games left in the season that you've been in the locker rooms with. When any teams before you've been on, UH teams who

have struggled before at one and five? What are you do inside there to keep everybody upbeat and say, hey, listen, we gotta catch a spark. Well, you just put your head down, you start taking one other time, just start chopping wood, you know what I mean. Listen, at the middle in of November December, you look up and see where you're at because you don't know what teams ahead

of you can have that collapse. So if you start feeling sorry about yourself, wholl me, then what happens is you can chinue to lose, but then the other teams lose to and you're like, man, we would just pull something together, had a better attitude, we would have had a chance at this thing. Yeah, because the other teams are gonna hit at versity to where there the Jets are going through their tough patch and playing some really tough opponents on the road. You know, tough opponents, you know,

playoff caliber teams. You know, franchise quarterbacks. They're playing guys like that Russell Wilson, Ben Roethlisberger at their house. You know, tough sledding. We knew this part of the schedule is gonna be tough sledding. I'm sure everybody would have, you know, bought in for for three and three, knowing what happens in the second half of the season. It didn't happen

that way. All you gotta do is take this one, get to get a win against an FC opponent, the Baltimore Ravens coming in this week, and then you know, you know, forget about that that Tuesday and line the next one up and see where you end up at the end of the season. Is it natural for self doubt to creep in at this point. Well, when when this happened, you have you have you have one or two things right. You veterans understand that, you know, if you don't play well, then it's gonna be changes made

to the roster. So if you want to be around, you better play well, you better pop, and you better flash on film. Young guys look at it okay, like, well people are we're not winning, so this is an opportunity for me to play. You know, if I get an opportunity to play, then I'm showing that I'm I'm worth playing. I can be a spark and maybe I can help proprel my career for next year. You know.

So everybody's thinking, you know, unfortunately selfishly about themselves. What can they do to put themselves in the best situation? Because you know, if you, if you if for everybody, if the top bowls loses the team and people don't play hard, or people start feeling sorry for themselves and not performing, there's gonna be massive changes made. So if you want to keep your job, you better do your job.

You better do it at a high level. So when they rank you, when they break down the film, they said, this guy didn't quit, he's a. He's a real professional. He played his butt off. He played with a hundred and ten percent. He wasn't loafing, he wasn't feeling sorry for himself. So we can build with this guy. Um, your thoughts on your buddy's street coming to it and David the hetman Harris a hundred one consecutive starts, and

he was trying. He was trying. I was watching. I don't know, I was watching him from the press box. He was trying. He was trying to convince those guys really hard, you know, Dave, he wanted to be out there in that field. Yeah, I finally see did he catch me? Did you start more than I went? I went ten years out missing a game, so that's maybe one consecutive starts? Yeah? Really it maybe one s Then he didn't catch Remember I had one. The only person

that had me was London Fletcher. Yeah, he played, he played. He probably still he probably still playing. He was like he was like cal Ripken man, like you know, he go out, he's stretching, take the first play and didn't play. No, I'm just playing. You know, he's a coworker about that. He works on the top show. I'm just playing with London.

But you know what, that's tru minutes because you think early in David's career broke his leg and he missed early on and for him to you talk about that, Let's talk about the strict that he was on as far as not missing plays in his whole last contract, you know, before this one, he missed like two players. He took almost every snap, you know, so he deserved it that he deserved the night off. What does he mean to this defense? Not just he's the glue. He's

a glue. He's a communicator. He's a guy that makes all the checks. He's the guy that keeps everybody calm. He's responsible for making sure that the front end and the back end are on the same page with his communication. He's a he's responsible for lining up the old line, the I mean the D line. I mean, that's what happens is you got this used to be you when you played together. No no, no, no, no, I don't let him do it. You did because I talked a lot.

So it's hard for me to get the signals because I'm over there fighting somebody. So I was always held be called to play and I come last minute always Oh it's from the get it because you al right, now I'm over there fighting over there like Bart Bart, like man, except to play. Three times he had called the huddle. Ain't even in the huddle. I'm over there trying to choke somebody up, you know what I mean.

So he allowed me to be emotional and stay passionate because he handled all the all the we call the the administrative stuff. Yeah, he had all the administrative stuff. Because it's always It's funny, man, whenever you call the place, is always somebody asking you, like, hey, what's the play? Like, man, what's the play? You're like, I'm trying to focus. Man, I'm trying to get down and go through my plays and stuff. And he's screaming out to play. You know

what I mean. You want to piss guys off so bad because you have such I had for the game that it was no it's so easy for you to say, okay, yeah, what's the player and have a second and you knew exactly what was happening in the route combinations, the tendency. I was fort to play the same system of my whole career. It was like you know, and a lot of the defenses were made for me, like a lot of defense has had my name in it. It was like Bart games. It was Bart this or Bart that.

It was funny because you know, um Derrick Johnson came to our show a couple of days ago. Last week when they're on Nearby, he was talking to tell me about that's all they about put in with the games with me, and a lot of the cars still have my name in I mean, so it's kind of funny because I had a difference. You're still getting playing Kansas City right now. I need I need a royalty check. Have you talked to side at all? I haven't talked to Study since the beginning of the season, but you

know I talked to you. I talked to Mark Teeples every once in a while. Man, a lot of those guys are still out there. I see b Smitty. B Smitty is actually coaching with hardball. He's out of skin. I'm like, no, why don't you leave Philadelphia? Like, oh yeah for former Jets defensive assistant. Yeah yeah, no doubt be Smitty with Michigan. All right, so we go ran the gamut today. Well, next week, I wanted to talk a little bit about Baltimore, but when We should get

into that next week. That is the mad Packer in rare form once again, Bart's got great