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DeAndre Hopkins DOMINATES! Shane Beamer Celebrates in the BEST WAY, An NFL Player's Potato Kingdom? | The Group Chat
Brennan Scarlett and DJ Reader discuss DeAndre Hopkins dominating on the field, Shane Beamer celebrating in the BEST WAY, an NFL player's potato kingdom, and more on this weeks episode of The Group Chat.
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And we're back, folks, with another episode of the group chat. And boy, do we have a special episode for y'all today. It's your boy, b-scar, aka Beej, and I'm sitting here with my co-host and I'll quickly throw him the alley-oop, like Dwayne Wade to LeBron.
Speaker 2:Your boy, deej man. And speaking of LeBron while I'm thinking about it, the Pistons beat the Lakers last night. Hey man, no disrespect to Bron, but you know the Pistons had to do their thing last night. Young boys went out there, Got a dub. I thought I'd just start to show off shouting out the Pistons man. Y'all did your thing and I was in the building to watch. It was impressive.
Speaker 1:So you're a Pistons fan now because you're in Detroit.
Speaker 2:Correct I'm a Pistons fan and also an OKC fan and a Kevin Durant fan.
Speaker 1:Were you a Cavaliers fan when you were in Ohio?
Speaker 2:Nah, I never cheered for Cleveland, bro. I was in Cincinnati. I could be whatever fan I want, basketball, I can't cheer for Cleveland, though. Were you a.
Speaker 1:Rockets fan? Yeah, are you a Hornets fan? Yeah, I'm a season ticket holder. Hey, bro, at some point it's like citizenships, bro. At some point something got to drop off. You know what I mean. You can really, I'll give you three. I'll give you your hometown, your current town, and you get one other flex.
Speaker 2:I'm not a Rockets fan anymore. I dropped them, I'm okay. I'm a Hornets fan, OKC and the Pistons. Now I just like KD. Kd's my favorite player. Ok, that's fair.
Speaker 1:You can have three favorite teams and a favorite player. That's fair. The goddamn Detroit Lions. Yes indeed, brother, holy shit man. Yes, sir, man, the boys are rolling Y'all just a big win over Green Bay. Huh, you know, nfc, nfc North, you take it, take a real solid lead in the in the division. How are you feeling, bro? Feeling good man.
Speaker 2:We needed it, needed that dub. Man Feeling real good Needed that dub. I guess a good team on the road. It was raining, it's cold out there, but the guys showed up. Man, did they think the? But the guys showed up, man did their thing. The boys showed up, man, it was good. It was good. Especially, you know we're missing some guys. Tough environment, it's cold, guys might be a little banged up, but the lines prevail. Man, we went out there and did our thing. It was good. It was good to go out there and get a dub.
Speaker 1:That bumps you out of 8-1. Mm-hmm, so we? So we're going into week 10, upcoming we now? We already had a buy.
Speaker 2:We're 71 or 81. We had a buy. You already had the buy I think, week five, but we still might be going into week 10.
Speaker 1:I don't know whatever week it is, we're uh, we're across the halfway point. Correct, we've crossed the halfway point. How are you feeling physically? And I ask because you know, at this point in the season, you know the body can start getting those aches and pains and bruises and you know some guys start to slow down a little bit. So I want to know how, how you're feeling, and also I'm curious what practice has? Have practices started to transition to be maybe a little bit shorter, a little bit less physical? How, what's practices feeling like and how's your body feeling?
Speaker 2:uh, bro, I'm feeling pretty good. You know, um, feeling pretty good body, not like oh crazy sore. You know getting bouncing back. But practice out, you know how they get like in the season. It's not that they dial back, but it's a lot more in the detail, in the walkthroughs and catching more periods there so you can catch your looks and things like that and not as strenuously, not as strenuous physically. You um, definitely are still getting plays at practice, but you aren't getting as many reps as you usually would.
Speaker 2:I think the rep countdown trying to get some good individual work and then just go back down and sharpen up the plays that you really feel like you need to check. But you know that's kind of how the season gets. And then Thursdays you kind of ramp back up a little bit more, get some more plays in because God is feeling a little bit better. But he's in because God's feeling a little better, a little bit better. And then Friday you make sure you get some good red zone work in. So it's just Wednesdays, that's a little bit lighter. God's getting a little bit more rest on my day of Tuesdays.
Speaker 1:Right, right, love to hear it, man, love to hear it. I love to see y'all balling and keep it rolling.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, we in Houston this weekend made it man hey, homecoming for the guy. I hadn't been there in a minute, bro. I hadn't been there since I left, so it's gonna be good hell yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1:We're gonna jump into our college section maybe we can start with a couple of clips. You hate to see it with a couple of clips.
Speaker 2:Mm-mm-mm.
Speaker 1:You hate to see it. What is that? Four minutes in the third Are they going to get hot dogs or something? I mean it could be Y'all got a good hot dog in Death Valley, or what?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know we don't throw alcohol in the stadium, so they might just be like. You know what I'm going to need to be hammered after this one, after we lose this one, so I'm going to just go ahead and get a head start. Maybe that's it, dog, but it's just fans, bro. Fans are spoiled and I can't say that Now. When that happened, that was after the horseshit call. I don't think head fans should do this, but I do think referees do terrible jobs and nothing happens. You know how I feel about refs sometimes. I would just. You know what, If we get booed, sometimes your ass needs to sit there and get booed or self-sauced at you too. And then, right after that horrible call, that's kind of what happened after it. It was a big plan, but it was you know, and Louisville did what they did.
Speaker 2:It was their first time ever beating us. You know, and as I always say, even the trash can gets a stake every now and then. Bro, nothing to me is a program. Nothing to me is trash can gets a stake every now and then. Bro, nothing to me is a program. Nothing to me is a guy. We've beaten y'all 10 games. They won one out of the 10 games. We've beaten them nine years in a row. They were eventually going to beat us. Probability says eventually something's going to happen.
Speaker 2:We just didn't come in there with a good. I didn't feel like we came in with a good offensive plan, but I knew this was going to happen, man, I knew this was going to happen. This is a product of when you know you got young guys, they don't show up. Sometimes you need some older guys and this is the exact reason why that portal would look so nice. But you know, dabo, keep doing what you're doing. I commend it. I'm not going to complain about it. I'm going to stick with you. I got to now. I'm married to you by association. If you're not going to change, I'm done complaining about it, brother. So you just do you, and I will be okay with every couple years of us having a down year or not even a down year. We've only lost two games, Not a down year, but not knowing that we won't make the playoffs every year because we will suffer from losing guys and having to build young guys up.
Speaker 1:I mean you got to be loyal to the program, right, got you. And yeah, you got to respect old Dabo. He's sticking to his guns, man.
Speaker 2:He's sticking to his guns he is and after talking to him about it, it makes sense again how he goes about it. He's not saying that he can't get an IO. He does not like guaranteeing people things I get it Everybody's pretty much going to make. You know, all those kids I feel like are making six figures, which, hey, whatever. But people want guarantees of the upward, like you said, 300, 400, 500,000, millions. It's hard to guarantee a kid that and then he show up on campus and be trash Like I get, you could get that. He's saying you can get that if you get here and that's what you're playing like I mean we'll find it for you, right here, and that's what you're playing like you, I mean we'll find it for you, right, right.
Speaker 1:Saying as far as me guaranteeing it, and then you getting here and being trashed, like what am I supposed to go back and say to those folks like, yeah, well I mean, hey, well, shoot bro stanford's in a in a in a similar boat, right like I was doing an interview today because, Scarlet Creative, we support Lifetime Cardinal, the NIL collective for Stanford, and I was doing an interview just to help promote the collective and the work that they're doing and I talked a little bit about, like you know, Stanford's got to pay these kids. Man, If we expect to compete, we have to be willing to compete from the financial front, how many dollars these kids are raking in. Because it's a consideration I was saying when I was coming out of high school. It was basically three things influenced my decision. It was do they have a decent football program? Number two, what's the education like? And number three, is it in a city that I like, like part of the country that I fuck with? For now, the 2024 current high school recruit or current college athlete?
Speaker 1:Now you're well, how much money does Stanford need to really be willing to front to a high-level recruit, a top-level prospect or one of the better players on the team? Because the Stanford degree is still worth something, but how much is it really worth? If I'm coming out of high school, if any of us are coming out of high school and you have that offer from Stanford and they're giving you saying yo, you'll get a hundred thousand, but you get an offer from Oregon state and they say we'll give you 500,000. Like, how would? How do you compare, Like if it's taking 300,000, 400,000 more dollars from another school? Like are you willing to do that? Or you want to take that Stanford degree? Like, how much is it truly worth?
Speaker 2:I guess for me, man, like that's the thing, it's, how much is it worth? And as a kid, like, how much do I need? Like, is the goal to maximize the amount of money I can make it in college and not really care about the other factors? Is it try to get both as close as I can to both? Is it going to a program that I know is going to care about me? It's going to, no matter what I will say. When you go to a place like Clemson, you have time to develop. That's not the case everywhere else because of what NIL is. But Clemson, like you don't got to ball as a freshman, you don't got to ball as a sophomore, you don't got to ball as a junior. As long as you end up hopefully balling by the time you leave there, like you still on path to go where you need to go, like and it's till graduation, do you part? You don't have to worry about that will kick you out of the program if you're doing the right things, like because that's it from Clemson.
Speaker 1:You get commitment. From the program you get a good degree to Clemson, got a good degree obviously, but it's you're able to earn more.
Speaker 2:Obviously. There's kids on the team making 300 400,000 like. There's kids on the team making three hundred, four hundred thousand, like. There's kids on the team doing it, but they've earned it through play. Right it is. We know that the minimum that everybody's getting is whatever this number is and the rest of it is earned through play. We go and we try to get you these deals and things like this. But I guess my thing would be like you said what is the number? What is the number?
Speaker 2:And when you start doing this unless, like these people just got like, and which some of them do they just got money to waste and blow around. But you essentially become a company with investors now and you have to respond to those investors. Like not only is like, and these are bigger investors than just the IPTA or whatever. You were talking about, the Cardinal, forever, what is it? Now you're talking about individuals from these things who are now donating more and more money and now they're going to want shit done. You know what I'm saying. Anything you do, though donating that much money, you're going to want things done. You're going to want things changed. You're going to feel like you can give input on things you may not give input in. That's what you're creating. Think about it, bro. You're creating a system where, like, think about how these nfr owners have like some of these head coaches and stuff. Like that's the kind of system you're creating at the college level where this person can come in.
Speaker 2:I can get this in the third, I'm gonna feel like I should be able to walk over this place and do whatever the hell is I want to, if I'm paying for the best player on the team and I'm dropping this bag on them. Y'all wouldn't have got it without me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean shit. You start talking about the NFL, right? Nfl players have to make similar decisions as these college players, right, on which team they go into next. Because Deeves like you were on in free agency, right? You basically just you know, if you were in college to translate it, maybe you're, you know, a high school senior or maybe you're just a, you're a junior to just finished up.
Speaker 1:You know a great year and now teams are reaching out to you to potentially enter the portal. You can either choose the Detroit Lions, who right now are 7-1, 8-1 or whatever, and they're offering you X amount of money, or you could go to the Raiders, or the team at the bottom of the league that maybe is offering you X amount of money, plus another million league that maybe is offering you X amount of money plus another million. Like, is it worth going to that shitty team and take the more money? Or is it worth going to? Or is it Detroit, who has a great culture, a winning program? It's like so as the you know.
Speaker 1:Now going back to DJ, like the college player, do I go to Clemson as a high school boy? I know if I get that development, you know it's going to be able to be worth whatever in the future. Or do I go to South Carolina? Who's giving me, dropping me the bag in the first place? Right, it's like it's a much more complicated system of like measuring, you know, than it used to be where, when money wasn't a factor, it's definitely tough and like.
Speaker 2:That's the thing it's. Like you know, the difference between like college and nfl now is like I guess they have bargaining chips. Like you are slotted in nfl where you get drafted, where you get drafted and even then still y'all all make the same amount of money that first year, besides signing bonus, every rookie makes the same amount of money. So it's like it's a random, like you know I'm saying like you're in now, now it's random as hell, like in college, like you're. It's like it's a random, like you know I'm saying like you're in now, now it's random as hell. Like in college, like you're. It's not slaughtered.
Speaker 2:You don't know what's going to go on, you don't? It's a bidding war over even down to the smallest kid. Now, like you, three stars two. You know I'm saying three star kids. Like it's a bidding war. It's not like I gotta walk in this kid's off, like in this his house, and be like, oh my god, I gotta fight with him over such and such, over a couple thousand dollars. Like it's got to be annoying. I don't know how coaches are doing.
Speaker 1:It's got to be annoying as hell yeah, yeah, I don't know, man, it's uh. It's interesting to to understand how coach like dabble was weighing, you know, the, the values that that he has integrated in his system, right, and like you know what type of value that is outside of just money and same with, you know, stanford that has the degree and the caliber of the degree that has some weight, you know, and some value attached to it. It's a little bit hard to measure, right, especially when you're measuring against real hard dollars, real cold cash. I will say some things in college football, in football period, that are just priceless, man, just priceless. And this past weekend the South Carolina head coach, coach Beamer which hell of a name for a coach, coach Beamer.
Speaker 2:He's got a legend. Is that Frank Beamer's son? I believe.
Speaker 1:Is Shane Beamer, frank Beamer's son? I'm not sure. I think he may be related. He's got to be related, right? Yeah, I mean you know how these coaches are with the bloodlines. I think he may be related. He's got to be related, right? Yeah, I mean you know how these coaches are with the bloodlines. He had his players in the locker room after a big win, after they upset number 10-ranked Texas A&M, sing his wife a happy birthday anthem, which maybe we run this one time, just to see it one more time. It's priceless.
Speaker 4:All right, last one right here, then we, we're gonna break it down.
Speaker 4:Uh, my wife, family I know you're in the back, come on up here all right come the folks shouting out speech I told my kids all week that if we won this football game, all right, I was gonna do a little celebration for here in the locker room. All right, I'm gonna need y'all's help and we ain't singing happy birthday. Don't think it's sad. Alright, I know y'all sing this song at practice, so I'm going to need a little backup right here. But this is her little birthday. Hit it Big Mike.
Speaker 1:Priceless man.
Speaker 2:That's great man. Oh man, we gotta play a coach that cool At the end of the year Clemson. Oh, it's gonna be tough, it's gonna be a good game. He's cool. He's got the locker room. The guys love him. Dog, his wife loves him. His wife loves him. The guys love him. Damn, I don't wanna to cheer for that guy, but he did a great job. It hurts my heart. My skin is crawling, shout out to him though, man Damn.
Speaker 1:That's a good call, that's a good call.
Speaker 2:That garnet in black I don't want to chop man. Shout out to that. Shout out to Coach Beamer. Man Shout out to Coach Beamer. It's a hell of a song too, man. You did a good job. You animated. When people give a performance, I wanted to put their freaking heart into it and I know his wife feels special because he put his heart into it in front of his players. Post-game speech basically might as well be national television. He didn't half-step it, he went for that shit he put his head on the hand pillows.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he went after it. He made the ham pillows.
Speaker 2:I ran the other way that boy dipped down. I said yeah, yeah, he ran the other way. He had the pin pop with knee crack weak.
Speaker 1:Oh man, he had the chain on it everything. Coach Beeman, I like Coach Beeman. The chain on it Everything. Coach Beamer, I like Coach Beamer.
Speaker 2:Turnover chain on him. He was thugger, sing it to his study. I like that Coach. I like it bro.
Speaker 1:Nice work. Nice work, Coach Beamer Deej, we got our pick-em.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, how they looking.
Speaker 1:You've regained the lead by two. You've regained the lead by two. His look, he looks so crazy. Well, that's all right, come back with another week. Man, new week, another week. Let's start with old Coach Bima. We got South Carolina at Vanderbilt. Sorry, coach Bima, we're going with Vandy. I like positive energy in the locker room. I'm going with South Carolina, georgia at Ole Miss. I'm going to take the Georgia Bulldogs.
Speaker 2:Give me, ole Miss, man Give me Ole Miss, we'm going to take the Georgia Bulldogs. Give me Ole Miss, man, give me Ole Miss, we're going opposite two games in a row.
Speaker 1:All right Alabama at LSU, give me Alabama.
Speaker 2:I'll take Alabama.
Speaker 1:Because it's at LSU, it's in Delphi Valley. I'm going to go LSU Oklahoma at Mizzou. I'm going to go with Mizzou.
Speaker 2:I'm going with Mizzou. I'm going to go with Mizzou too. I don't want to disrespect Carolina Somehow. Whenever we pick against them, they win, so I'm going to pick.
Speaker 1:Mizzou yeah, tough to bet against Mizzou. Number 19, Clemson at Virginia Tech. Virginia Clemson Tigers baby, I'm going to roll with the Tigers as well. I'm on that with you. I believe in Dabo we got Colorado number 21 Colorado at Texas Tech. I'm going with Shadur and Coach Pratt.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go with Colorado, man. They're back in Texas, man.
Speaker 1:Now we got our NFL section and I'm fired up because hop, hop, deandre Hopkins did his thing with the Chiefs. Oh, my goodness, love to see that he's back out there balling and Pat Mahomes is finding him. He's finding him, had a long, what was it? 30, 40-yard pass to Hop to get him down into the red zone. Then boom touchdown pass to Hop to get him down into the red zone. Then boom touchdown pass to him. Hop had a big reception towards the end of the game and he did his little slow motion spin. It was like slow, slow motion spin on the sideline. It was crazy and he was cooking. Whoever that dude was that was guarding him, hop, he was balling. I was happy to see it. Yeah, bro, it's always good to see it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, it's always good to see your boy happy man, your boy Hop man. It's going to be scary, him and Pat, because if I know anything about Hop like there's no better guy in the league at not having a route and creating some type of way to catch the ball. Like Uncover, when the scramble drill or uncover starts, there's no better guy in the league. Hey, I might not be open, but I'm open. If you see me and I see you, I'm going to catch it. If you see me, I see you, you might as well just throw it to your boy. No better person, man. So it's going to be fun to watch them work.
Speaker 2:Man, it's just good to see him happy. He's almost emotional just after the game, man, you can tell he's just in a situation where a lot of people have doubted him about what he could be and what he was in this league still and it's unfortunate, you know, because when things aren't going your way as a player, your fans are there and fans and people in general are just quick to doubt you. It was good to see him go out there and do his thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, 100%. I mean Hop, when we were in Houston, was arguably the best receiver in the league. Right and like to your point. There's two things you know Hop going to do for you Hop going to get open and Hop your point. There's two things you know Hop going to do for you Hop going to get open and Hop going to catch that rock.
Speaker 2:When it's thrown his way, he will catch that ball. Yeah and yeah, he's the man. It might have supposed to have been ran at 10. He might have cut it off at 8. Ball still caught, and somehow he stretched out that first down. So are you complaining, you tripping no.
Speaker 1:Man bro stretched out that first down. So are you complaining? You tripping? No, yeah, man bro, yeah, yeah, and and uh, I like to see hop celebrate man after one of the touchdowns. I think it was the first touchdown he scored. He did the little, the little rumble remember the titans dance? And I remember I was, I was watching it, me and my dad were watching it and I was like, oh, he's doing the remember the titans. And then immediately clicked remember the. Oh, I get it, I get it. Okay, that's clever. And the whole team was doing it too. I was okay, I like that it was good, man, it's.
Speaker 2:It's crazy because it's just like I was watching. I was like man, that's fire. That was good, that was very well planned out. Yeah, I like that. I like a good celebration, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially when it has, you know, has a little context. Hop got traded from the Titans and you know he's looking back on all the haters and said you know, remember the Titans? Look at me now.
Speaker 2:Look at me now. It's good to see you know when future Hall of Famers do. You know what they're supposed to do? And Hop just being Hop man, he's one of the most competitive guys I've ever fucking been around. So I don't know what people were talking about, about him not being a team guy or this, that and the third. When people say those things, I'm like I don't know if y'all actually know him. There's no way you actually know the person. He is competitive as hell and just wants to win.
Speaker 1:I've watched him not be selfish multiple times so I don't ever really see that or get that out of him. The thing that's easy with Hop because Hop is so relaxed, he's so laid back and chilling is it's easy to misconstrue that as indifference. Because Hop is so relaxed, he's so laid back and chilling, it's easy to misconstrue that as indifference, like he doesn't care, hop cares. Hop want to win right, he want to win every route. He want to win every jump ball. He want to win every game. You know what I mean. So like deep down, but he does stay relaxed, he's composed, he's pretty chill, like Hop is one of the most competitive dudes, he's chill, bro, he chill.
Speaker 2:It throws you off when you get upset, so maybe people react wrong. When you actually do get upset a little bit, yeah, because it's not very often, it's few and far between but like. But when he do, yeah, he obviously be like yo. I'm not A little upset, but you know Right.
Speaker 1:Shout out Hop, hop. So do you know? There's a guy in the NFL whose family is the primary potato supplier for McDonald's. You a fan of McDonald's fries? I am. You're fan of McDonald's fries, I am. You're not the only one. There's a whole world full of folks who love them fries. And there's a guy in the NFL His name is Conor McGovern, drafting in the 2016 NFL draft. So he came in our year and his family business is the potato company that is the supplier for McDonald's, and so when he went and he went, he got drafted in the later rounds. His grandpa told him yo, do you realize that you go into the NFL, that you're actually taking a pay cut than what you could make if you just come and start working in the family business? That's what his grandfather said. His grandfather's name Ron O'Futt, the Sultan of Spuds, basically, ron O'Futt. His business is worth more than $500 million. Dude's a ball. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And McGovern is in his eighth season in the NFL and he shared a couple times like sometimes dudes ask me why am I doing this? Why do I play the game? Why are you coming to practice? Why are you going through training camp? You know getting hurt and these injuries. Why don't you just go home and sit on that potato farm and collect that check?
Speaker 2:I feel like his granddad would have had to have been giving him a pretty big role in the company too. Like it's hefty, honestly, like you know maybe, but I feel like Conor's made pretty good money, so I feel like he would have had to come out there first year. I mean, obviously it's his grandson. He could have gave him whatever freaking position he wanted to and he could have been making hell of a bread. Yeah, 33 million career earnings in eight years. You thought he was like on the potato farm. I mean, like I said, he would have been a high-level position in the potato farm dog, you know what?
Speaker 1:I'm saying yeah, he'd have to come in there.
Speaker 2:I don't know what the positions are. He'd have to come in there pretty hot.
Speaker 1:He's goddamn digging up the potatoes, he's chopping them up, he's frying them, he's driving them to the local McDonald's. 33 mil. He's flying over to China to drop them off. 33 mil.
Speaker 2:He's going to be 33 mil. He's going to have to be high up there, bro, but I understand. I understand the concept of what he's saying. He can always go do that, bro. He's chasing his dream. You know what I'm saying? He's chasing his dream doing what he loves. I guess he can always go be back on the farm. It's not like it's going anywhere. It's in the family and obviously if they feel like he was going to be able to make $33 million in eight years on the potato farm, they're going to be willing to give him that, no matter when he comes back.
Speaker 1:It's nothing like being an NFL football player, and I think some of his teammates saying that it's like the grass is always greener on the other side right, if they were sitting in his shoes and had an option to play or not play, 99.9% of them would play Correct. And it's just because he has these alternatives. You know cats on the other side of the fence, they're like man he's tripping. He should make the other decision. If I was him I would do it, but until you, that guy in those shoes, man, it's easy to say Folks don't realize how fun of a career it is. You know, the game is fun, man. It's a lot of adversity, for sure, but when it's all going the right way and you out there feeling good and you balling bro, I mean no better feeling, no better feeling.
Speaker 2:It's the game is game and, like you worked your ass off your whole life to just be like, yeah, I'm just going to walk away. Like, yeah, you're right, like that's what I'm saying. I don't think his teammates get that part. Like, because his parents owned, or his family owned, that potato farm that didn't short any 110s, he had to run any bench presses, he had to do any reps he had to take, he did all that shit. And you think, like I'm just going to walk away, bro, like this is something I built in my own right you know what I'm saying In my own lane. Like, yeah, it sounds good in theory to be like, yeah, I don't have to do this, but I already did it. I already fucking did it. Like, so now you're telling me, yeah, I'll just be. Like, no, I'm just going to walk away. No, I already did this shit. And, like you said, it's the game, it's what we love. So, like, until he's done with it, he'll be done with it when he's done with it, and like he'll be able to do what it is that he wants to do.
Speaker 2:But like you trying, you doing here, you could be doing this. It's kind of like, bro, I could have not been doing this shit a long time ago to even get to it. I worked so hard to get here and now you're just like, yeah, nah, bro, you don't really got to be here doing this. Why are you here doing that? Why the fuck did I do it this whole time? Then it's pointless. That would have pissed me off if I was him. To be honest, I'd have been like, bro, like I get what you're saying, but like, think about it, just think about it, bro. Think about what you're saying. Work my ass off my whole life. I could have stopped this shit a long time ago. I knew we had the farm. We've been having the farm. I could have this football stuff could have been done bro Like come on man.
Speaker 1:Wait, we had this shit for four generations, grandpa.
Speaker 2:You telling me it's now. I'm about to get drafted you talking about it now, hell, no, I ain't trying to hear that shit, dog, wait Now. Like what are you talking?
Speaker 1:about yeah, grandpa's up his rocker, god damn it.
Speaker 2:Grandpa, I should do my thing. Now you're talking about some, hey you?
Speaker 1:know you don't really got to go, man, you didn't want to tell me that at my freshman college training camp. You know how hard it was, Grandpa.
Speaker 2:I could have been on campus chilling doing shit for farming. I could have been just getting my doing doing shit for farming. I could have been just getting my major relaxing coming back working on the farm, actually had some experience in this job that you want me to take over. That's gonna apparently pay me 33 million dollars a year did you ever have you ever?
Speaker 1:you ever have anybody like recently? Try to just ask, like ask you, you know why you playing, or you know, just be curious around, like you know why you're playing or just be curious around why you're playing football.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, I don't know. I was in a situation I'll call it a situation where the person would ask me all the time you got money, what do you need to keep playing for? Right, and that really used to drive my gears, buddy. Let me tell you. It's again what is like. That's not the like. Yeah, you want to be compensated, but that's not like what you do this shit for and it just used to bother me. It bothers me all the time, like even you know.
Speaker 2:Just, some people do it because, like general health, obviously some people care about your health. I've had the injuries. They're like well, why don't you? It's not your body, bro, shut the fuck up. You know what y'all do, what you do, and you worry about your job, which I appreciate you caring about me. But what I've had to tell people is y'all worry about your job. Like I'm not one of those people. I understand where I am and when I'm done and I don't feel like I can do it anymore, I will walk away. And if that's decided before I get to decide it, then I'll still walk away. I won't be out there dragging along wrong. Just understand that. So when I tell you I'm good. I mean, I'm good I can go play, like I remember coming off this injury.
Speaker 2:My mom almost made me mad one day. She's like you, sure I'm like Ma, I don't think they're going to be out there kicking my ass or anything. What are you talking about? She had me confused. I was like she's like, well, you know you might be a step. I was like hold on, do you think I'm just going to be out of getting caked or something like every other play, like what? Yeah, this is me Like I don't think that's going to happen. But so that that those type of things happen, I think it's just natural as you get older, for your loved ones maybe, but I think I don't understand the work you put into this shit. That's what I really don't. I don't think somebody would understand that part.
Speaker 1:You had to get mom's mind right at that point. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You've been watching me for 30 years now. I was like yo, mom, relax, like it's cool, it's straight. I would let you know you, out of all people, I'd let you know it's good, everything is straight. I let you know like it's good, like everything's straight. It's not that, trust me, but yeah, it's, I think. But again, I don't.
Speaker 2:Even people who are close to you, I don't think unless, like, they've really really truly changed their mind to see you, the little intricate parts that you put into it every day, they're not going to know how much is really put into it for you, that emotional attachment, that feeling that you have to the game, not just the game, like you know what I'm saying. Like the game, the going out there with the locker room, the vibe, all of it, that's hard for people to understand because, like one, either they never touched it, or two, like you've always carried it so well that they don't really understand, like how much work you're really putting in, like it just seems normal to them. Like I've heard people refer, like you're just going to practice, you're just going to lift, you're just going to train, like it's not, it's you, of all people know it's not a, just that you know what it is those days and the days out, that training camp, what it's like having to put your hands on people. You know what I'm saying. Maneuver in the trenches, really working like, especially with replay, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Like you striking somebody, being violent, like violent and disruptive, like it is the game, yeah, but I don't think you get those parts. They just see the end product of what the game is. They don't understand that that shit happens every single day leading up to that Sunday. You put your hands on somebody every single day. It is physically demanding every day, mentally demanding every day up until Sunday.
Speaker 1:There's so much of the game that that like wrapped up and bundled in the game is all types of emotions and things that human beings are that gravitate towards Right and most people don't experience it all bundled up into one experience right, or one thing right. It's like every human being wants, you know, needs to have food on the table, roof over their head, a sense of security, but they also need a sense of belonging right A community. You know people that show them love. You know family, friends, et cetera, and then everybody also.
Speaker 1:You know there's some value to like going through adversity, although you don't seek it out, but you go through adversity and then you triumph over it and you know you have a sense of confidence. Then you build that confidence Right, and then there's like the happiness of doing a good job and how that feels and like how satisfying that is when you win Right, when you win something right, when you win something like. All these like great feelings. That's a part of like the human experience, all these things that like is actually becomes like the reason, like one of the, you know, the top things that you want to live for.
Speaker 1:Actually, like in football. It's all bundled up into one experience. It's the locker room, it's the journey of getting better each and every day, it's the, and then when you get professional, the ability to get paid from it, earn a living, put the roof over your head, et cetera, and then to win a game, have 75,000 fans cheering for you as you make a tackle Like man, it's all bundled up into one experience. So I think most people struggle to really understand that because they, you know they get their community from, you know this social group over here, and then they feel their satisfaction from a wins in their job or something, and then they get their you know security from another, whatever it is. You know it's all like compartmentalized versus the experience being in a league is all with under one umbrella.
Speaker 2:It's such an emotional, fun part of it. Like you said, there's that sense of community. Everything's there, everything you're looking for is there. That's why I hate the freaking Taunton penalty. That's why I hate it, because you're telling me that all things, things are happening, all these things are happening. The people who aren't involved are the ones that all things, things are happening, all these things are happening. And the people who aren't involved are the ones that they're like oh, we don't like that for the game. We don't like that. You did that or you said that to that person. Always so emotional out there, you're just asking people who you want to see be gladiators and animals just to do it and then just go line up. Go line up Because it seemed disrespectful to the ref or whoever.
Speaker 1:I had a neighbor tell me that maybe a few years ago, when I moved up into my career, and my neighbor said to me one day I think I was over there like helping him out with his yard or something, if all my neighbors older, retired, you know, back in a nice little gated community and dude was like, call him Robert. Robert was like man, I don't understand why you play football Like you're so smart, you're so bright, you know you could do anything else. Why are you playing football? You know, is it injuries, physical contact? You know all the things, right, the head injuries, this and that. It's like why would you do that? Why are you still doing it? And he was like why would you do that? Why are you still doing it? And he was like, he was like legitimately confused and was basically like telling me like I'm tripping. I was like, bro, first of all, if I didn't play football I wouldn't know your ass. You think I'm going to be up here with you.
Speaker 2:Now, especially now, like now we're talking about people.
Speaker 1:Be up here with you now, especially now, like now 20, some, you know, maybe 28, 29 years old. I'm 28 years old, bro. Be living with you, bro. This football that allowed me to be here, but then it was just everything else was like man, I can't even unpack it for you, bro you wouldn't I can help you. I can't make you understand in this moment.
Speaker 2:Bro, do I got a potato family somewhere? Brother, where do you think I get this money from? Where am I getting it from? Where am I getting it from? Where is I going to be able to afford this house? I wouldn't be helping you with your yard, brother. I wouldn't be helping you with your yard, brother. Right, I wouldn't be helping you with your yard as a neighbor. I might be helping you with your yard, but not as a neighbor. My boy Not as a neighbor, Not as a neighbor dog, you might have found my card somewhere.
Speaker 1:You might have found my shit posted up to the telephone pole. What are you?
Speaker 2:talking about? Why am I doing it? Rob the bank somewhere. Not only that, bro. Besides that, I'm good at it. Obviously, I set out on this journey because I was good at it, dog. The same reason you got your job, man. What are you talking about? What does Robert do? What did he do? What?
Speaker 1:did he do for a living? He was a mathematician in college, real smart dude, but I think he had most of the money in engineering that shit is stressful.
Speaker 2:You gotta be super smart. I'm sure it's stressful mentally. You might fuck around and have a fucking aneurysm. You know Thinking too hard, like fuck. I don't know Rob. Like damn Rob. I've been playing this all my whole life, brother. I've been out here doing my thing hooping, hooping.
Speaker 1:You sure you want to calculate those formulas. Why are you doing that? You sure you could pop a neuron.
Speaker 2:You know that. You know that Brain injuries man People going crazy.
Speaker 1:Well, it's a beautiful game, man. You know. I think we're blessed to be able to have played it. You're blessed to keep continue playing it, man. You know, I think we're blessed to be able to have played it. You're blessed to keep continue playing it, man. And God damn it who y'all got next week.
Speaker 2:We got the Texans next week, brother, oh Houston, yeah, oh yeah, it'll be good, though my son's birthday is the day before the game so it birthday's day before the game, so it would be awesome.
Speaker 1:It was going to be good Sunday night football. Well, man, we were going to get your thoughts on why we should bring back bullying or why society should bring back shame, but maybe we just save that for next week. What do you think? Save that for next week, man? Let's keep that one in the holster.
Speaker 2:Shout out my dog, connor. Man, go back to those potatoes whenever you want to, brother, forget what grandpa said, dude, you do your thing until you're done with it, alright. And those teammates who keep asking you don't got to answer they shit. You just tell them hey, man, I'm over here. I've been in this league nine years. I remember Connor from the senior bowl, so I mean, I've been around my boy for a long time, played against him. I've had the pleasure of playing against him a few times. F those guys, dude, they don't have to keep asking those questions. You're doing it because you want to do it. What's the matter?
Speaker 1:Shout out to the potatoes of the world. Salute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man.
Speaker 1:Shout out to the potatoes of the world bro, all my potatoes out there. Man, continue, continue inspiring us. Be well, journey well to all my potatoes out there that's how we gotta end it, right there, man.
Speaker 2:And you know what? Today's been another episode of the group chat, yeah. So today's episode, be more like a potato. This your boy, deej, and that's your boy, has been another episode of the Group Chat. Yeah, for today's episode, be more like a potato. This your boy, deej, and that's your boy, beej. And we out today, see y'all.