In short
The episode is a fast NFL news roundup focused on three main stories: Cleveland’s decision to name rookie QB Shedeur QB1 (Shadour Sanders) as the Browns’ starter for the rest of the season; the Indianapolis Colts’ interest in bringing back veteran QB Philip Rivers after Daniel Jones is out with a torn Achilles; and other league injury/discipline updates, including Bengals DE Trey Hendrickson’s season-ending core muscle surgery, Titans sideline reporter Will Bowling being removed from charter flights after an off-the-record breach, and Steelers WR George Pickens being confronted by coach Brian Schottenheimer about effort after a Lions game and a deleted IG post involving Richard Sherman.
Guests
Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ocho” Ochocinco (both former NFL players and co-hosts/commentators).
Key claims
Browns’ QB decision ends week-to-week uncertainty and reflects QB development; Rivers at 44 is a short-term “veteran presence” but lacks mobility; Pickens should apologize and improve effort; Bowling’s access was jeopardized by violating off-the-record rules.
Notable examples
Browns’ remaining schedule (Bears, Bills, Steelers, Bengals); Rivers’ Hall-of-Fame eligibility clock reset; Hall-of-Fame/charter-flight anecdotes; Pickens’ contract “clawback”/effort clauses discussed.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOShedeur Becomes QB1
2:55 to 4:25
Discussion around Shedeur being named the starting quarterback.
“But he's very intentional about getting better each and every game he's out there.”
Stefanski's Coaching Decisions
4:25 to 6:15
Examination of Stefanski's choices regarding quarterback decisions.
“So the more he gets to gel and build that continuity and chemistry with his offense and his receivers and his offensive linemen, the better he's going to look on the field.”
Growth and Maturity in Players
6:15 to 8:13
Insights into admitting mistakes and player development.
“We have the luxury of knowing today what we didn't know yesterday.”
Looking Ahead for the Browns
8:13 to 14:00
Discussing future implications and next steps for the team.
“But it's hard to get somebody to admit when they're wrong.”
Shedeur's Development as QB1
14:00 to 17:10
Discussion on Shedeur Sanders' growth and impact as a quarterback.
“When you can self-correct on the fly, Ocho, oh, he get it.”
Shedeur's Development as QB1
17:33 to 18:42
Discussion on Shedeur Sanders' growth and impact as a quarterback.
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Phillip Rivers' Potential Return
19:10 to 22:00
Analysis of Phillip Rivers' possible comeback with the Colts.
“And each drink tastes like a well-earned reward.”
Colts' Quarterback Challenges
22:01 to 24:20
Examination of the Colts' quarterback situation and player injuries.
“Hey, he's going to sling that rock, even though he got a funny throwing motion.”
Anthony Richardson's Future
24:21 to 28:00
Discussion about Anthony Richardson's injury and future with the Colts.
“Ocho, I fractured my orbital, and I was out three weeks.”
NFL Practice Squad Insights
28:00 to 29:40
Discussion on the current state of NFL practice squad players and their challenges.
“Beathard, Sam Ellinger, Will Greer is in Dallas, Bailey Zappi.”
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Injuries and Player Health
29:40 to 31:20
Exploration of injuries in the NFL and personal experiences related to player health.
“and rest i don't know every every injury is different so i shouldn't you know i'm just telling you i had the injury three weeks i was cleared and they just told me and the whole next year, Ocho, I wore a shield.”
Trey Hendrickson's Season Ending Injury
31:20 to 33:10
News about Trey Hendrickson's injury and its implications for the Bengals.
“Oh, Joe, that man, that man is a defensive lineman.”
Copenhagen Spit-Free Pouches Ad
33:10 to 34:35
Advertisement for Copenhagen spit-free pouches highlighting their convenience.
“The long-haul trucker is stuck in gridlock.”
Copenhagen Spit-Free Pouches Ad
34:48 to 35:00
Advertisement for Copenhagen spit-free pouches highlighting their convenience.
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Media Access and Reporting Ethics
38:10 to 40:40
Discussion about the ethical responsibilities of sports reporters and their access to teams.
“Put them in my bag and says, guys, this is what Peyton Manning is going to be throwing the football with today.”
Personal Connections with Teams
40:40 to 42:03
Insights into personal relationships with NFL teams and the importance of trust.
“Obviously, I'm not counting the Ravens game.”
Personal Reflections on Game Attendance
42:03 to 43:09
The hosts discuss the challenges and emotions of attending games while working.
“You know, the Broncos really wanted me to come back.”
Ravens Fan Experience
43:10 to 44:35
The conversation shifts to a Ravens fan's anticipation for an upcoming game.
“I'm not sure if you've seen some of the clips that Butter makes some time.”
Respect for Female Reporters
44:36 to 46:04
The hosts discuss their experiences and respect towards female reporters in the sport.
“But for this gentleman, Ocho, I don't know.”
Plane Etiquette and Gambling Stories
46:05 to 49:50
The conversation reveals stories from flights, including gambling and inappropriate viewing habits.
“You know, hey, y 'all get to the room, have at it, you play your cards, you know, play cards, roll your dice, but can we not?”
George Pickens' Performance Discussion
49:51 to 55:03
The hosts analyze George Pickens' performance and his relationship with the coaching staff.
“One person or two people to mess it up for 50.”
Contract Clauses in the NFL
55:04 to 56:00
The hosts discuss the implications of contract clauses for players in the NFL.
“The reason why they put that, the reason why they put that clause in Kyler's contract.”
Contract Clauses and Money Management
56:00 to 57:25
Discussing the implications of contract clauses and the importance of securing financial stability in sports.
“There are going to be certain clauses that it's just standard procedure for a contract.”
George Pickens' Potential and Career Advice
57:25 to 1:00:41
Analyzing George Pickens' career highs and emphasizing the importance of seizing opportunities.
“he's had Ocho even with all that his 78 catches is a career high his 1179 yards is a career high.”
Travis Kelce's Struggles and Aging
1:00:41 to 1:04:21
Examining Travis Kelce's challenges this season and the realities of aging as an athlete.
“Listen, if you grow yours out, I grow mine out, man.”
The Reality of Declining Performance
1:04:21 to 1:09:12
Discussing the emotional toll of performance decline and the realization of an athlete's limits.
“And most of the time, one of the things that really hurt and really bothers you as a competitor is you put the work in during the week.”
Changes in Defensive Strategies Against Veterans
1:09:12 to 1:10:02
Reflecting on how younger or less respected defenders now face seasoned veterans and the shift in respect.
“And you can look like a shell of yourself watching.”
Aging in Football: The Business Decisions
1:10:02 to 1:11:59
Explore how aging affects players' decisions on the field and the business aspect of sports.
“oh my goodness I'm used to getting double and triple team I don't even know this dude guarding me who is this Yes!”
Transcript
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2:48Shannon Sharpe:All right, Ochoa, but here's the deal. The Browns have finally named Shadour their starting quarterback for the rest of the season. No more week-to-week bull jive. here's what Stefanski had to say about it today yeah I think all along Mary Kay as you know with our quarterbacks and our young players you're always making sure they're making the right decisions for our guys and I think he's he has constantly and consistently gotten better in each one of these games and how he's approached this game he's been working very hard so I feel good about where his development is heading he knows there's there are always going to be plays that he can be better and those type of things.
3:27Shannon Sharpe:But he's very intentional about getting better each and every game he's out there. Kevin, hi. Was it a mistake not to start Shadr earlier? Yeah, I'm not going to get into those type of things, Tony. I'm obviously focused on what's in front of us.
3:50Shannon Sharpe:I mean, that's a good thing. It's getting better when he can actually get on the field and show you what he can do. Yes, sir. Standing on the side, flipping the ball and going through his drop backs when he ain't throwing to nobody. Right. Look, Ocho, I want to hear what you got to say on this. I mean, I was just going to say it's a good thing. There's no more confusion. You're not looking over your shoulder. You can go right through. You can lock in and do what you need to do. Preparation. You say it all the time. I've said it all the time, and that goes for anybody, whether it's sports, whether it's life in general.
4:20when preparation meets opportunity. When opportunity meets preparation, this is what you get. You get games like this. So the more he gets to gel and build that continuity and chemistry with his offense and his receivers and his offensive linemen, the better he's going to look on the field. And just to think about it, if I think about what he would look like, if he looked like this in his third game, what do you think he would look like if he'd been playing all season long? There's nothing we can do about that. all we can do is think about and start from where we are right now. The game you had last week, what you want to do is you want to bill off of that.
4:54Bill off of that and continue to go forward. Finish the season off strong so they have no choice. So they have no choice. Even if you might be auditioning for another team, listen, we can take him. But if he can do what he's doing right now for the Cleveland Browns organization, imagine if we were able to bring him in here where we have a better supporting cast to put around him. so I think he's auditioning still if he's not going to be in Cleveland next year he's auditioning for another job somewhere else where he can be the starter and not have to worry I agree
5:28Shannon Sharpe:can Stefanski not say sure is SH words is that out of his vocabulary because why can't he just say the man why can't he say the man's name why is he when we're dealing with young players I think Shadour's progressed very very well you know why I like what I've seen. Even though when he wasn't playing, you can tell a guy that's being very attentive, the guy that's very attention to detail. You see the way he takes copious notes when he's in meetings. You see the way he goes about his business at practice, although he wasn't getting reps with the starters, and he didn't start getting reps until later in the season.
6:07Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. It's okay. Excuse me. It is okay to admit we made a mistake. Right. It's okay to say, you know what? Yeah, maybe if things look different. We all have the luxury of hindsight. It's a magnificent science. We have the luxury of knowing today what we didn't know yesterday. I get that, and I get your questions, and all your questions are very, very valid. But if I were to answer her question, if I were to answer the reporter's question in honesty, now I look bad. This organization looked bad. And I don't want that. Right. You see what you just did? Did you see how you answered that question so eloquently?
6:50Not only did you answer eloquently, you threw a word in there. I don't know what the hell it meant. So that's why I raised my finger. I want you to go back to that because what kind of notes did he take again? Copious. Ooh. Well, you've been a thesaurus, huh?
7:09Shannon Sharpe:The thing is, people have a hard time. And I get it. It's hard. because we don't like to be wrong. And if we're wrong, we damn sure don't want to admit that we're wrong. But I think it shows growth. I think it shows maturity that when we're wrong and we're man or we're woman enough to say that I was wrong, that wish we could have done something differently. Whatever the reasons were, I was wrong. And you have to be man or woman enough to say that I was wrong in order for you to sincerely, in order for you to have growth. Now, if he didn't want to answer, I think we know the answer. Chad, I think we know the answer.
7:50Shannon Sharpe:Why he didn't want to answer that, was it a mistake not to start him? Because I would like to think their record would be better than what it was. Now, it could be, Chad. I mean, now we're sitting here saying they could have won probably two more games given that Shador. Maybe they don't win no more games. Maybe they have the exact, the identical record. We'll never know.
8:13Shannon Sharpe:But it's hard to get somebody to admit when they're wrong. And we see in real time what's actually happening. And we see it. And a whole lot of guys. Think about it. And he's got probably, I think, the fourth or the fifth most passing yards by a rookie quarterback that wasn't taken in the first round. That's crazy. That's crazy. So, I'm glad he's getting an opportunity to start. The teams that he's up, the Bears, the 9-4, they're playing in Chicago. The next game, the Bills, 9-4 playoff team. Steelers at home, the division leader, and then they finish on the road at your Bengals, which could have some playoff implications for the Bengals, It's not for – obviously, Cleveland's not going anywhere.
9:07Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. It also all depends on – what would they try to do, Ocho? Did they start like this because they tried to get draft – they tried to get position for the draft? What were they hoping? Because you know Joe Flacco is what Joe Flacco is. You know now. I mean, the guy's 40-plus years old. You know what he is. He's streaky. He'll win you a game or two. But he's always been and always has been, always will be a turnover machine. That's what he is. yeah i i i have no idea your guess is as good as mine we've been trying to figure out what the browns have been doing with their organization for a very long time not just this year but the past 30 some years especially at the quarterback position they haven't got it right in a very long time and and still to this day still to this day they still haven't answered that question and the one that looks like it might be promising they still have an issue with that so it looks like what they're trying to do based on some of the things that we've that we've seen some of the things that we've heard come out of out of that out of that locker room or that organization in general they still don't think the person that is at the helm right now is the answer they don't yeah i mean and i i really hate to feel this way but a part of me like yeah we're gonna let him start the rest of the season.
10:28Shannon Sharpe:Oh, Bears, Bills, Steelers, Bengals. If I was to do it, I'd be like, nah, I'm good. I already showed y 'all what I can do. Put Dylan in there. Matter of fact, I want him to play against the Bears. I want him to play against the Bills. I want him to play against the Steelers because I want him to show that I'm a competent quarterback and I can compete at the highest level as a rookie if given the right amount of time to prepare. I want him. I won the half. Oh, no, no, no. Ocho, but this is not a mistake. They picked these games and they... Why couldn't you name his ass the start of three games ago?
11:07Shannon Sharpe:Why was it week to week? Because every... You know what? Every time he don't want to ask a question, he always say, well, I don't want to get into that. Right. I don't want to get into that. Because they ask you... They asked him before, which it should do or go to start. Well, I don't want to get into that. Let's look at the film and all that. Bro, you know. Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. That's not true. That's not true. because after the first game and they asked him, is he going to start the next game? He wanted to see if he could do it again. What is he going to look like again? If he look bad, what's the first thing you think Sepancy was going to do?
11:39He's going to put Dylan Gabriel back in there. That's why he had to, all right, I don't want to answer that right now. I don't know. But Shadour gave you no choice. Man, could you imagine after he played this game, after he played this last game and the game before that, If he was the bench, you're talking about losing your locker room? And listen, at that point, I guarantee you one of the veterans would have spoke out. I guarantee you one of the veterans would have spoke out. They're probably already speaking out. I mean, it ain't get out in the public yet.
12:13Shannon Sharpe:No, no. I mean, you know, I think the thing is, look, the last thing that you want to do because Dylan is still your teammate, it's not his fault. you can never blame a player for an organization or a coach's decision. I can't get mad at you because they put his ass in there. I can't get mad at him because this organization drafted him before me. That ain't got nothing to do with me. I wish him the best. I'm going to support him as best I possibly can. I couldn't get mad at the guys they took before me. It wasn't their fault. But I tell you, in a couple of years, you're going to wish you, like, damn, I'm glad we took this guy in the seventh round, we probably should have taken him early.
12:54Yeah.
12:55Shannon Sharpe:So I'd never begrudge the guy because they didn't draft themselves. Dylan Gabriel didn't draft himself. All I'm happy now, and for me, I'm glad they came to this conclusion. Did it take longer than I think it should have? Yes. I think most people believe that it took longer than what it should have. But at the end of the day, they got it right. I wouldn't say it took longer than it should have. Dylan Gabriel was the third round pick on Dylan Gabriel was their third round pick and he was the successor to Joe Flacco so when Joe Flacco moved on automatically Dylan Gabriel goes into the lineup and it's time to see what he can do it didn't go well now Shadour's time to see what they can do yep that's all and he's only going to get better I mean he's going to have some growing pains he's not going to I don't see him throwing for 364 and 4 having four touchdowns every game.
13:52Shannon Sharpe:But I tell you what, all I need to see is improvement. All I need to see, and I saw some stuff late in the ball game that I saw the mistakes that he made earlier that he self-corrected. That's when you know a guy gets it. When you can self-correct on the fly, Ocho, oh, he get it. Yeah. Oh, he definitely gets it. All we want to see, I mean, excuse me, in that organization, as a head coach, as a GM, as teammates, not only improving week to week, but giving us a chance. Giving us a chance so we can compete week in and week out. That's all. That's all you want. And that's all you can ask for, consistency.
14:35How consistent can you be offensively to give us a chance? That's it. Yeah. So if you do as your ball, pick it up and run with it, bro.
14:47Shannon Sharpe:Do what you do. You got four games. These last four games, it was about, you know what? We got our guy. We got our guy. Let's go in the draft and get an offensive lineman, a receiver, a linebacker. No, I like this linebacker, that rookie linebacker, number 49. He hailed. Maybe get somebody to go opposite of a – I don't know. but Shador's job is to show them they don't need a quarterback. Yeah. That's his job. Yep. And then build a team how they best see. I don't know if we should trust them to build a team, but I just think the thing is Ocho is that we just show them, show them that you got the right guy.
15:39Shannon Sharpe:Cause he said it. I'm want to show them what I'm, what they've been looking for. I'm what they've been searching. They've turned over a lot of stones.
15:58And, you know, sometimes, Ocho,
16:01Shannon Sharpe:you got to kiss a lot of dragons to find your princess. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. So they've had 35, they've had damn near as many quarterbacks as we've had U.S. presidents. Yeah. but uh uh should do it say this starts with me it stops with me no more you're gonna have you're gonna have peace and prosperity for the next decade i like it i like it hey matter of fact yeah hey um uh i'm wondering if the chat the chat heard about that too you you heard about um Damn, this is sad for me. Mr. Cup, you heard about Mr. Cup? No. Yeah, man. His wife left him. Oh, Lord, here we go. Yeah, now he's a solo cup.
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19:44Shannon Sharpe:Ocho the Indianapolis Colts are in desperate need of a quarterback so they've gone to a desperate measure to find one with starter Daniel Jones out for the rest of the season due to a torn Achilles and backup Riley Leonard nursing a right knee injury that clouds his status for Sunday game at the Seahawks, the Colts called Phillip Rivers to potentially save their season. The Colts are flying Rivers to Indianapolis for a workout Tuesday with the possibility of signing the eight-time Pro Bowler. Rivers, who's 44 and became a grandfather in recent years, has not played in the NFL since 2020. However, the Colts are sitting at 8-5, and to think of an AFC playoff race, they piqued Rivers' interest, they piqued Rivers' interest enough to him to contemplate potentially coming out of retirement.
20:29Shannon Sharpe:All up. He's like one of the nominees for the whole, right? Yeah. Wow. If Rivers were to join the Colts after active rosters, it presents a very unique scenario regarding his potential induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Rivers is one of the 26 modern era players who are semifinalists for the 2026 class. Yet, the moment he joins an active roster, His eligibility clock, it resets, doesn't it? Yeah. And he would have to wait an additional five years. I mean, listen, I like it. I like it for him. I like the opportunity for him. Even though he's 44, as a quarterback, I think the Eagles are still in a good position to make the playoffs.
21:15You need a quarterback. Huh? Oh, my bad. You mean the Colts? Who did I say? Eagles. Oh, my bad. The Colts are in a good position to still make the playoffs. We need someone, a quarterback, that's a veteran, that can give us a veteran presence, that can throw the ball, that can command the offense, be a leader, and keep us afloat.
21:36Shannon Sharpe:Why didn't he stay? They wanted him to come back. So why did he leave if he still had interest? He wanted to go back. Maybe he didn't have interest. Maybe now, after four years, he wanted to come back and play. After five years? Okay, five. Oh, that's him. Hey, he rested up, shoulders good, throwing motion, everything good, bodies healed up a little bit. Man, he might come back and go crazy out there, man. No, he's not. You don't think so? No. I mean, can he throw the ball? Sure. Oh, yeah. But the thing is, he has no mobility. Yeah. No, no, no. He has zero mobility. He has even less mobility. Now, he really never had any mobility.
22:18Shannon Sharpe:So, imagine him at 44. Yeah. Hey, he's going to sling that rock, even though he got a funny throwing motion. He's going to let it rip. Oh, yeah. I mean, what, 60 ,000 yards, 400 plus, what, 427 touchdowns? Damn. Yeah, he was a hell of a player. He was. I mean, listen. It's disappointing they didn't win more than what they want. Right. You figure they got Gates in the Hall of Fame, LT's in the Hall of Fame, he's on the ballot for the Hall of Fame. I mean one year they finished number one offense and defense and didn't even make the playoffs go figure damn I mean Cap was right there oh Cam was right there too Cam ain't nowhere near 44 Cam don't want to play no football Cam told y 'all he didn't want to play no football let that sink in so what did that tell you Anthony Richardson let that sink in now a man that got 10 kids got grandkids that's been retired from the NFL for five years.
23:21Shannon Sharpe:You sitting on that bench they took you with the third overall pick three years ago. What does that say about you? Yeah, huh? He's on iron. Oh, is he? Yeah. Oh, that's right. He had his shoulder. His shoulder game. My bad, bro. Huh? Orbital. He broke his orbital? Yeah. When? Oh, that band. Was it the band? Yes. Yeah. Damn, the Colts have some terrible-ass luck. They just got Ward back. Remember, Ocho, he collided on the field? Yeah. He just got back. They gave two number one picks for Sauce. Sauce out with a calf injury. They paid all this. Daniel Jones. And now he hurt. He got Achilles, yeah.
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24:15Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, they went all in. All in. with sauce gave up two number ones for him yeah 15 million for daniel jones and it seemed like it was money well spent it's only i don't i don't i don't think philip rivers is the answer i don't well you got uncle you got to give him a chance first you got to the man 44 hey um you got to give him a chance him at 44 might be better than than than than some of some of the product we seeing lately. But, hold on. I'm surprised. Ocho, I fractured my orbital, and I was out three weeks. Right. The season ended, but they had cleared me to play. How did they What's his name?
24:58Shannon Sharpe:Anthony Richardson. Fractured his orbital, and he's gone for like two months? You know them people don't. You already know what to get. You know what to play is with that. Ocho, I would want him. Actually, Ocho, I would want him practicing because I want him to see it in real time. I don't want him away. He might still be there, but Ocho, honestly, you know you can't get Ocho. You need to be in uniform. You need to be practicing. Take the months to recover. Right. But I don't like this.
25:34Shannon Sharpe:Because I missed three weeks. I fractured my orbital, Ocho. it's painful but I was cleared after three weeks to come back and play now the season ended the season ended they just told me I need to wear a shield because Shannon you can't afford to get hit in the eye again but I think he wears a shield anyway yeah he's not touching the field regardless you think it's over for him in Indy? yeah really? The way Daniel Jones has been playing? Really? Okay, but Daniel Jones hurt. Now he got Achilles. And he's a third-string quarterback. He's not the second-string quarterback, which is why they're bringing in Phillip Rivers.
26:17Huh?
26:17Shannon Sharpe:I said that would have been the perfect opportunity for Anthony Richardson to play. They gave him the opportunities already. So he done. Well, it's not me. I'm not part of the organization. I'm just saying. I mean, the writing is on the wall. Riley Leonard is from the hometown that Phillip Rivers is from. Phillip Rivers is his mentor. So he's been working with him. He worked with him in the offseason. Right. And that's crazy. Shane Stankin was asked about AR today and said he's not sure if Anthony Richardson would be able to return before the season's over. Says right now, he's not ready. I told you, Ocho.
26:57Shannon Sharpe:Well, you the one just said he was... I didn't know damn season-long injury. you just I just told you that I just said that Ocho
27:13when did he get hurt it ain't even about getting hurt he's saying he's not ready I don't think he talked about the injury
27:21Shannon Sharpe:I know he's not Ocho but think about that Ocho you're a backup receiver you a backup receiver you 24 years old and they call they call a land fish girl
27:44to come out of retirement
27:46Shannon Sharpe:you right there on the roster he had two years he had two years the man got hurt on October the 12th so basically eight weeks ago yeah and you sport tracks you look at guys that are on the current NFL practice squad are Trevor Simeon is in Tennessee who's been a starter Sam Hartman Kyle McCord I mean Brett Rippin is in Indiana he was a starter in Denver C.J. Beathard, Sam Ellinger, Will Greer is in Dallas, Bailey Zappi.
28:40Damn.
28:45Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, when you have an order, yeah, hell yeah. Yeah, your mission is going to be temporarily a player. I had it. Absolutely. I was seeing triple. Yeah. You already know what the play is with that, man. I mean, they gave him opportunity after opportunity after opportunity. He didn't do anything with him. And I think they just don't see a situation where giving him another opportunity to prove himself would work. There's a reason why they signed Danny Dimes that one year, that 14th year. Oh, we understood that. I get it. At that point, you know, that ship would sail. What?
29:36Shannon Sharpe:damn he saw his first coach game so he hadn't been at practice the doctors advised him to stay at home and rest i don't know every every injury is different so i shouldn't you know i'm just telling you i had the injury three weeks i was cleared and they just told me and the whole next year, Ocho, I wore a shield. Because I could ill afford. It's kind of like Anthony Davis got to wear goggles. Because the doctor says if you get poked in the eye one more time, you might end up losing vision in that eye. Same thing with Kareem. So, I get it. I get it. Ocho's! Earlier I gave you good news. Now you're not the bad.
30:18Nah, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me get comfortable. Damn.
30:23Shannon Sharpe:Okay, go ahead. The Bengals will be without defensive end Trey Hendrickson for the rest of the season. He's expected to undergo core muscle surgery. He suffered an injury back in week six. Then he hasn't played since week eight after he sustained a hip injury. There was hope he will return at some point this season, but that won't be the case.
30:52Well, what's the bad news? He ain't coming back. Well, he ain't been there the past few weeks anyway.
31:01Shannon Sharpe:Okay, my bad. I thought you was gonna miss him. I mean, hell, he been hurt, huh? He been on the shelf. So that core muscle probably that sports hernia surgery. From liver, that's probably liver too damn heavy.
31:19That's what I need. See, man, that's why I need to be. Dog, all these injuries, man, it just.
31:24Shannon Sharpe:Oh, Joe, that man, that man is a defensive lineman. He can't be eating no little vittles. He can't be no vegetarian eating that stuff. They root his ass up out of there. Nah, that ain't what I'm talking about, man. Like, they, okay, if you're not going to listen to me as a nutritionist, at least listen to me as a strength and conditioning coach. Hell, dog. At least, like, come on, man. You still, y 'all be laughing and making fun of me, dog. I played all them years with no injuries, man. people like it's not registering man and they keep they keep listening to all these damn specialists and all these professionals but for some reason everybody keep getting hurt non-contact injuries they pulling this they tearing that like come on man shit Ocho you just fortunate hey hey listen ain't nothing fortunate winning the lottery is fortunate what I was able to do that ain't nothing but God yes Yes.
32:20Yes. And you didn't get hurt. That's ridiculous. I can't, man.
32:27Shannon Sharpe:I'd have ran out of shorts. You play this game of football. It's hard. You're very fortunate. You're one of the few that played this game and didn't really have any injuries. And you walked off the field as healthy as you walked on it. Yeah. Because I was the one delivering the punishment, huh? I was delivering the punishment. I was the savage. I was that boy out there, man. I know I was kiki and ha-ha and entertaining, but, man, I was an animal out there, man. I had them boys scared, man. Man, I ain't going to say nothing. I ain't going to say nothing. Copenhagen's spit-free pouches are packed full of American-grown tobacco.
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35:37Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, doesn't come as a surprise because I told you this was going to happen. The Tennessee Titans' sideline reporter, Will Bowling, has been removed from the team's charter flights going forward. Bowling shared something that he witnessed on the plane ride of a trip home from Cleveland after week 14. Bowling addressed the situation during his daily radio show and apologized for relaying the story and that now understands He should have been considered off the record. Yes. Everything that you, if they're not speaking directly to you, it's off the record. Yeah. You don't get to go on the team playing.
36:17Shannon Sharpe:Do you know how many reporters have seen things on the team playing? Well, who's late or who's, maybe there's been a fight. Maybe there's been some things that shouldn't have been going on. Because back then we used to have them little portable DVDs and guys be watching things they shouldn't be watching. Hey, guys be drinking and things of that nature. You keep your mouth shut. Yeah. He got to learn the hard way. Now you got to find your own way to the city. And guys are going to be like, man, we can't trust the old boy because the old boy is going to be like, shh, shh. Yeah. Hey, listen, for one, you give an opportunity to have access, to be around, to be on those charter flights.
37:00and you can't just take everything you see and try to use it to your advantage and make it a story. Now you're outside the window looking, peeking through the blinds. Yeah. Now, I'm not even sure whether, I mean, for years going forward, were they probably, were they? Probably not. He probably won't be allowed on. He probably will not be allowed back on the plane. Now you done messed up. You done messed up a good opportunity just to have a story.
37:28Shannon Sharpe:Yes. Oh, I'll give you a prime example. I remember Peyton Manning's first year. Was his first year? Yeah, first year in Denver. Yeah. We're doing a story.
37:45Shannon Sharpe:And I watch him practice. Yeah. He hadn't had this all year. He's throwing with a glove. Yeah. Oh, it was cold, huh? But remember, he had that nerve damage. But prior to that, he had been throwing barehanded. Right. I see him. He's practicing with a glove. I see all these gloves in his locker. It would have been nothing for me to take a pair. He got 20 of them in his locker. Right. Put them in my bag and says, guys, this is what Peyton Manning is going to be throwing the football with today. Oof. It would have been a great story. Shannon breaks news, Peyton Manning. And sure enough, he comes out there throwing like, oh.
38:26Shannon Sharpe:But nah, bro. Everything ain't meant to be said. Yeah, yeah. Everything. Plus, that is my team. And they trust me. I got free reign, don't you? I go anywhere I want to. I know the code. I punch the code. Hey, they don't let me in. I punch the code and go in. Right, right, right, right. I go where I want to go. I go upstairs. I go to Mr. Bowling's office. I go walking around. I'm in coaches. I go to John Fox. I go to John. I go everywhere. I see. So we the same. With the access you have in Denver is the same way I am down in Cincinnati. Yeah. And the funny thing about it, you know, I think why we have that access the way you do.
39:02And for me, it's always arms are always open and welcome because I don't take advantage of it. I only go there maybe twice a year, maybe twice a year. You know, that's it. And I think if I think of knowing the access that I do have and the love that they do show in that stadium where I can go from top to bottom. Yeah. And I go anywhere I want anywhere. If I did it all the goddamn time, they'd be like, all right, now. Yeah, you're beautiful. Come on now.
39:27Shannon Sharpe:Let me take that back on Joe. I used to be able to do that. I don't have that access anymore now. Oh, no? I don't know. I don't go back. They invite me back for alumni things and the Super Bowl team and stuff like that. When guys get to go to the ring of honor. I haven't been back. I have a great relationship. I met the Waltons. I met the Penners. I met all of them. They were great to me. They had a great conversation. but I don't know them like I knew Mr. Bowling. I would like to get to know them. Maybe I take some time and I go back and sit down and have a conversation with them. But I'm like you, Ocho.
40:07Shannon Sharpe:I'm never going to wear out my welcome even though I had the access that I had. I didn't go back and take advantage of it. I would go back when they invited me but when it came time for the Super Bowl, you damn best believe Hey, you was there? What? You know I'm excited. So obviously, most of the time, I was doing one a year. Since I retired, one game a year. I always made it out to one game a year. This will be the first year since I retired. And what was that? I mean, since they left there. Since I left there. Yes, you left. Where I'm going to a second game. Right. I'm going to a second game.
40:43Obviously, I'm not counting the Ravens game. I'm not counting the Ravens game Thursday night on Thanksgiving. Right. But this Sunday, I'm going back. I'm going back for the Ravens game. I mean, it's just the warmth and the welcome and the grace that they've shown me when I am no longer any value to you. I'm no longer any value to you. And they still treat me, whether it be the fans, whether it be ownership, Zach Taylor, whether it be the players, with open arms. And the fact that they still treat you like that when you're no longer of any value. I'm not on the payroll. I'm not on the payroll.
41:21Shannon Sharpe:I don't get a check in there. I think the fans appreciate that. Fans know guys that really cared, that played their ass off, that gave everything they possibly had, left nothing on the field. And when they left, they're like, you know what? We got everything Shanna Sharp had. We ain't never had to worry about 84 because we know 84 was going to give it to us. Yes, sir. It became difficult, Ocho, because I worked at CBS for a decade. So how am I going to get – I'm in New York. How am I going to get back? I went back when they put me into the Ring of Fame in 2009. I went back again in 2011 when they put me – I received my ring for the Hall of Fame.
41:59Shannon Sharpe:But it was hard for me to get back because I'm working. I can't – hey, you know what? You know, the Broncos really wanted me to come back. I can't miss work like that. And then I started working at Fox Undisputed for several years, and it was hard. And I went back – I think I went back once. But it's really hard, Ocho, to go back. when I got to watch all these games and I'm at one game. Even though, you know, they got it on, you know, Mr. B was like, oh, you know, Sharpie, what game do you want to watch? And I was like, don't worry about it, Mr. B. So it's really hard. It's hard for me to talk about something, Ocho, if I don't see it.
42:36Shannon Sharpe:I need to see it. So I can tell you the intricacies of what actually happened, the design of the play to make up the defense, X, Y, and Z. So that's really the main reason I don't really attend events when other events are going on because I need to be able to tell you what actually happened. And speaking of being able to tell you what actually is going to happen, I'm going to tell you, your Ravens are going to lose again. There you go. I'm just saying, every game I'm in attendance to, you do understand. I went to the Thursday night game, Joe Burrow's first game back. You see what happened. You see what happened, right?
43:16And this, I got another. I got your Ravens. I got your boy. You know, you Ravens fan. I got Butter. I'm not sure if you've seen some of the clips that Butter makes some time. I haven't seen it. Listen, Butter stayed way in Seattle. I done got Butter a ticket, right?
43:30Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. I done got Butter a ticket. I'm talking about he's a huge Ravens fan. He fly in tomorrow. Okay. He fly in here. He fly in to Cincinnati tomorrow. I'm going to meet him out there Friday evening, and I'm going to allow him to see greatness in person. Okay. I want him to see greatness in person. I want him to be able to, I want him to be, because he streams and increase content, I want his content to be authentic and organic. Yeah. I want him right there. I want him right there, front and center, you know, watching the Ravens lose, you know, and I want him to cry. I want him to cry. So we can see, I don't, you know, one thing about it, it's very hard for me to talk about people.
44:07It's very difficult for me. I can be critical. Yeah. I can critique players. but I wanted to see 77 in person. I wanted to see 77 in person and to see why Lamar is going to be frustrated, why he's going to get sacked, why he's going to be running for his life, and the Bengals are coming away with another win and one step closer to winning the AFC North that hasn't gone in our favor all season long. Yeah.
44:36Shannon Sharpe:But for this gentleman, Ocho, I don't know. He's got to be young because no veteran reporter would ever do something like this. You think he's young? He's got to be young. I mean, I'm not saying he's, I'm not maybe age-wise, but it'd be interesting to know how long he's been in this capacity doing this job. That's understood. Oh, so we got women on the plane. I mean, we used to have women reporters. Lynn DeBruin, rest her soul, Lynn was great. She was great. She would always come to me. I was like, Lynn, do you not have, she's like, but Shanna, you're going to give it to me straight. I know, but somebody else might give it to you straight too.
45:15Shannon Sharpe:You don't want to get it from them. But she was always great. And we were always respectful. And I made sure guys were respectful of her, especially women. Sage Steele, her first job was with the Raiders. As a reporter, it was with the Raiders. Right, okay. And all that stuff that, obviously, she's attractive. No, boy, we're not going to do that. That lady finna do her job. And we're going to allow her to do her job, and we're going to be professional. Yeah. That's what we're going to do. She'll tell you. Ask her. She'll tell you. No, we're going to be professional. That's not the way we do things.
45:50Shannon Sharpe:Right. But on the plane, Ocho, you're like, look, we gambled. We played card for money. And then, you know, obviously, they got to go to the bathroom, Ocho. They couldn't go to first class because that's where the coaches were. So they had to come by, and we move out of the way, and Mike just said 84. can we not gamble on the plane? You know, hey, y 'all get to the room, have at it, you play your cards, you know, play cards, roll your dice, but can we not? Okay. Done. Now, the only thing that I really got, I don't really get mad at mad. Animals get mad. Humans get upset. I don't really get upset because Mike was like, Mike was like, obviously he let the vets handle the stuff and we did a great job.
46:30Shannon Sharpe:I think the committee that was in charge, I thought we did a very good job. of dealing with stuff before it got big enough that Mike would have to intervene. Right. Mike said it was brought to his attention, and I know who told him. The flight attendants did. Oh, you remember the portable DVD? Chad, I know y 'all remember the portable DVDs. Yeah, it was kind of big a little bit. Yeah, they were silver. A little thick at the bottom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Hey, what y 'all were watching? What y 'all were watching? They know y 'all, first of all, I had one but man, y 'all know my personality I'm going to be joning on the plane I'm going to be talking about what you wore what you wore on the plane and how that's good and terrible and I'm going to tear your ass up once we get on the second team bus so you make sure you get, nah, nah everybody want to go on bus one, if they got on some bull jive they want to go on bus one because that's the bus Mike on yeah, they don't want no smoke yeah, they know we can't get your ass on bus two man, Sean, what bus you on?
47:33Shannon Sharpe:I'm getting on bus too. Mike asked, look guys, it's been brought to my attention that you guys are watching stuff that you shouldn't be watching. Like what? What they can't watch, huh? Man, them jokers be watching Spanx-O-Vision. In the hotel, we call it Spanx-O-Vision. Spanx-O-Vision? Yeah. What the hell is that? Chad, tell Ocho what Spanx-O-Vision is. Ain't nobody, Spanx-O-Vision? What the heck? Never heard of that? That's when you watch them more dirty movies. Oh, You talking about like Debbie does Dallas? Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay, okay, okay. But guys are walking... Oh, you needed some earphones?
48:09Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, no, but Ocho, the fire attendants come in giving you food and walking up and down asking you to want their thing to drink. They walk about pushing the cart, they see that. Oh, okay, okay, okay. See, they got their eyes in the wrong place. They need to mind their business. Look here. You know you walking up and down. It's just like you walking up and down, you go to the bathroom, and somebody filling out their thing, you gonna see it. It's just the way it is. Ain't nobody walking straight ahead. You're not looking to your left. You're not looking to your right. You're walking straight ahead.
48:37Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Mike said, look, guys, I don't try to tell you guys what to do. You're grown men. But let's not do this. Yeah, you right. You right. You right. You right. You right. Yeah, hey, them boys watching that thing when they're playing. I'm coming back home, huh? Man, I slammed that thing. I slammed somebody's thing. I think I broke it. I said, see? because here's the thing. The way I look at it, you know how coach it is. Somebody jump off sides, we all got to run. I didn't even do nothing. As a matter of fact, I wasn't even in. Right. So we got to run. So if that gets out again, what Mike's going to do?
49:16Shannon Sharpe:Mike's going to punish everybody. Nah, you're not fitting to mess it up because you can't control your behavior. Nah, that's not going to happen. So that's where, you know, man, bro, the man told you. I mean, think about it. We get what we want. We get free movies. Everybody got a free movie. Whatever you want to watch. I mean, me and Burns, I watch Players Club. I bet you I watch Players Club 25, 30 times. Hey, Bernie Mac was a fool in that thing. Man, bro, I just didn't want guys to mess it up. One person or two people to mess it up for 50. So, you know, sometimes you have to like, bro, come on now.
49:59Shannon Sharpe:you have to you know but on the plane bro you can't talk about you can't as a reporter yeah you're right you're right even me now knowing what i know i know look i make calls here and there i just let it go i just let it go i don't say nothing i know a lot of things that have transpired be it nba be it nfl that ain't what i do i just let people think i'll just be talking out my, you know. Yeah, and don't know what you're talking about. But guess who knows what I'm talking about? The people that I'm talking about. Yeah.
50:46Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, head coach Brian Schottenheimer says he had a talk with George Pickens about the effort following the Lions game and the now-deleted IG post about Richard Sherman. Shoddy, that's what they call it, said Pickens owned it, telling him, hey, Shoddy, I didn't play my best game. He made it clear he's not worried about all that Pickens' efforts moving forward, saying, unfortunately, none of us played our best game. That's real. But I don't worry about George and his love for football and playing this game. So, pick the right thing to do. If your coach talked to you about your effort, apologize to Richard Sherman.
51:26Shannon Sharpe:but that ain't coming all he did he didn't say you was a bad person he didn't say all he said was that effort ain't good enough especially double especially when CeeDee leaves the game your coach if it wasn't that big of a deal why would your head coach have a conversation about your effort it's okay sometimes Ocho we say it all the time here when emotion is high logic is low yeah I man and look Ocho I don't play my best game and you point that out man help you I get it I get it I get it I totally understand I don't want people to think I don't understand because I do and I don't want you to think Shannon Sharp was ever perfect in any game because I wasn't I had drops, I had missed assignments but my job was not I always prided myself in Shannon don't make that mistake again you know what you did wrong but if somebody called me out for something that I did I can't be wrong I can't be wrong that the coach called me out about a missed block I missed the block I didn't get my head across I took terrible anger I took terrible steps why do I get mad at somebody for pointing out what you know you did wrong hey all you gotta do hey Sherman I'm sorry bro yeah well he ain't apologizing to Sherman but I know his I can tell you that right now that's not coming but on the field it's gonna change it's gonna change he's been good the past 13-14 weeks he had a little mental lapse a little lackadaisical but hey damn
53:23damn
53:23Shannon Sharpe:but see what y 'all feel no he's playing for a contract so Elcho let me ask you a question and you can speak to this because you're a receiver with his history based on what happened in Pittsburgh now he comes here and have a game So how your agent go in there and says, Pickens is going to be on time. Pickens is going to be on time for meeting. He's going to be on prior for practice. He's going to be where it's supposed to be. And he's going to give you good effort. How you sell that?
53:58You say how you sell it?
53:59Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. What week we in?
54:04We in week, this 14. Well, I use the other 12 weeks to sell it.
54:13Shannon Sharpe:what about the other four years? So you got 13 weeks. I got three years and a game. We going to use what happened in Pittsburgh? Are we going to use what we did the first 13? Are we going to use what we did the first 12 weeks? I mean, when it's time to get paid, they're going to use you. You got to update your resume. So it's based on recently. But what have I seen more of? Him giving me that effort the first 12 weeks or the effort that I saw on Thursday night? Or the last year. Okay, you're right. You're right. Right. See, and you know how they're going to, Ocho, you know how they're going to do it.
54:47Shannon Sharpe:Now they're going to write all this stuff in his contract, all these clauses where they can claw back money. I'm just telling you how they do it. Yeah, I know. You know the game they play. Yes. You know the game they play. But you know what? He's going to get his money, but they're going to have a whole lot of clauses in there, though. They're going to have a lot of clauses. Yes. And that's all I'm saying. I don't want you to try to claw back money now if I'm late for something if I meet something now I can potentially void the contract I can avoid the guaranteed money or roster bonuses hell no yeah I can honestly say I don't know about you but I ain't never had nothing like that in my contract I didn't have a weight clause in my contract when people start putting stuff in their contract what are they trying to tell you we don't trust you yeah basically Basically.
55:41Basically.
55:41Shannon Sharpe:Trying to think. The reason why they put that, the reason why they put that clause in Kyler's contract. What did they have in Zion Williams' contract, don't you? A weight clause. Why? Because they don't trust it. They got a weight clause in there? Yeah, absolutely. Huh? Yeah. Same thing with Eddie Lacy. Hey, hey. Hey, big Eddie, boy. Eddie was big, huh? Well, Eddie was a big one. Literally and figuratively. Run it back and play and run it back. Literally and figuratively?
56:15Shannon Sharpe:But I'm saying, I know. Put in my contract. I get it. There are going to be certain clauses that it's just standard procedure for a contract. And we get that. But you ain't finna put no wait clause. You ain't finna put no on-time clause. Yeah. Because, no, I need all my money. I ain't trying to give you nothing. And I'm not trying to, if I do something, it voids it. right that's all we saying Pit you too good boy go get this money get it hell yeah this thing I'm talking about thing about clauses shit I ain't had no damn clauses shit I kept getting all my money back yeah I wasn't tripping
57:05Pit
57:06Shannon Sharpe:I ain't telling you what somebody told me you talking to a guy that
57:15Shannon Sharpe:effed up some money yeah go get them boys hell next week what give them hell shit and despite the post of Lawrence he's had Ocho even with all that his 78 catches is a career high his 1179 yards is a career high. His eight touchdown is a career high.
57:41Shannon Sharpe:Nobody has ever, ever doubted George Pickens' talent. Nobody. It's unquestioned. It's off the charts. Yep. Off the charts. Bro. These last four weeks, and if you guys make the playoffs, let it be the hardest you've ever played and go get you a contract that if this is the last contract you get you can go shut it down go back to Georgia or wherever you're from and live happily ever after
58:24Shannon Sharpe:that's what you do that's what you do Pete don't mess this opportunity up sometimes people get multiple opportunities sometimes they don't
58:39Shannon Sharpe:get your money pick yes sir huh
58:48Shannon Sharpe:I was like why you keep looking at me what happened Ash put up a poll talking about Shoshana shave yes no let it grow shave what okay okay cause I know you can't grow one I can grow mine like Rick Ross yeah you know you'll get one of them units nah no I can get a real hey matter of fact that's a good idea matter of fact when we do the live show I'm gonna get a unit a nice little beard with a lace front with the waves I'm gonna be clean though yeah they're talking about to make you look old. What you mean look? I am. I'm 57. I'm about to be 58. I'm about to be 58. You don't look 57. You look like about 39, 40.
59:44Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, yeah, yeah. You look young. No, no, no. I don't think it's fully gray like Prime now. I don't think it's time. I don't think mine's going to be like salt and pepper. Yeah, you know, Black 4, we age gracefully, man. you might be 57 but you look 39, 40 yeah you good I do a lot of things like I'm in my 20s
1:00:12Shannon Sharpe:let me stop let me stop
1:00:19nah
1:00:23Shannon Sharpe:but I'm going to see I'm going to give it a month So this is Saturday, Sunday. I didn't shave. Saturday, Sunday, and I didn't shave today. So this is three days. Yeah. So I'm going to see where it's going to be on the 5th. Okay. Listen, if you grow yours out, I grow mine out, man. We, you know, sure, we can look like we from Philly with the beers. hey I'm gonna put that Beijing in mine I'm gonna get that I'm gonna put that up in that 5710 okay a little Rogaine and have it like a have that thing like Big Pert and Rick Ross oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah give me some beard oil yeah hey you know I think I'm gonna do it James Harden yeah you grow yours out man I'm gonna grow mine out man Then I'm going to give him a little lace front with the waves.
1:01:26Nice little... You got your hair gray? Nah, not yet. Oh. You know, I'm young, man. I'm about 23, man. I don't get no gray hair yet. Yeah.
1:01:43Shannon Sharpe:We're going to find out. but pick I mean pick pick got a chance for 100 catches Ocho yeah pick got a chance for 100 catches it's four games left right yeah oh yeah absolutely 22 yeah absolutely yeah and the way he play that could be that could be 1500 yards woo they ain't gonna be able to deny that
1:02:15Shannon Sharpe:so pick get your money bro get your money you'll be glad you did
1:02:25Shannon Sharpe:the chiefs could be uh officially eliminated from playoff contingent in week 15 and travis kelsey said the situation is a tough reality for the six and seven team to be in neither kelsey nor the chiefs have missed the playoff since 2015 during the latest episode of new heights Trav said, I feel like I've always had answers in years past, and this year I just can't find them. I keep thinking if I show up to work and put in the work and fix the issue through my practice habit, through perfecting the game plan and my fundamentals, it's what I've been taught. And to go out there and try to play my ass off with the guys next to me and it's all come together like it's years past, and this year it's just not.
1:03:00Shannon Sharpe:Tough. Yeah. It's tough. It happens. It's coming to an end. Yep. Yeah. He knows it. everybody knows it and the thing is is that when you it happens a lot Ocho when you start to press you're not playing like you want to play as late in the ball game and you want to make every play you want to take every play to the house and so in order to do that sometimes you got to do this you see my eye ain't on the ball Joe because I'm trying to get going I'm trying to get going and ball on the ground And he had a situation Mahomes put a little behind him. He dropped that one. He threw another one, what we call a sail rock, and that one popped up in there.
1:03:48Shannon Sharpe:It was all on his head. And Al Shazier ends up taking it off and picked it. So it's frustrating because you know you're closer to the end than the beginning. And this might be the end. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it sucks. It sucks for Trav because I think he came back contemplating retirement last year, but he didn't want to finish his career off that way. He came back this year hoping things would be different. And just as a team, it just hasn't gone well at all. And most of the time, one of the things that really hurt and really bothers you as a competitor is you put the work in during the week.
1:04:28You put the same hours, doing the same formula, which you did in the past, and the end result was the Super Bowl. and now you're doing the same thing and things just aren't going well. The ball's not following your way. The calls you normally get from the refs, they're not going your way this time.
1:04:43Shannon Sharpe:It's just a hard reality. Yeah. And that's the hardest part, coming to grips with that. Because like I said, my thing was, Joe and Ocho, I could go out there like, there'll be a game, I'll go get you 130, two touchdowns. Next game gonna be 30 yards. next game gonna be 40 yards I couldn't do it back to back yeah when I was in my like year 6, 7, 8 150, 161 130, 99 and two tubs couldn't do it anymore I can still have a big game you go about I think my last year my last year second to the last game I go 7 for 101 three touchdowns offensive player of the week but in between that just couldn't just couldn't you know play play uh who we play saying we play the chargers always had a good game against the chargers so week before the bye week chargers 13 153 three touchdowns offensive player of the week come out the bye week get the ravens nine for a buck 61 you know i'm cooking i'm cooking like that guy i'm cooking like I'm white hot.
1:06:02Shannon Sharpe:You know what I'm saying? I don't touch that. Yeah, I'm like that. I'm killing everybody. Man, as you start to get older, it's tough. I'm sore. It's taking me longer where before I could play on a Sunday and I felt like my first couple of years, like that Sunday Thursday game, man, that ain't nothing. Nothing at all, yeah. Nothing, Joe. Shit. What? You're something? You're 10? Where's the bye week? Y 'all looking for the bye, Joe?
1:06:49Shannon Sharpe:It's hard to back to back that thing like that, man.
1:06:57It's just
1:06:58Shannon Sharpe:It's just tough on him because we've seen a guy, you can make the case, and I can, and I do. I think it's between him and Gronk. But I think when you go look at the playoffs and you talk about a guy that has as many yards and as many touchdowns as Jerry Rice, and we know how we all hold Jerry Rice in very high regard, you look at his numbers in the playoffs and they're right there. And what he's done in big moments, he's always been, Especially in a playoff, excuse me, in playoff games, Travis been that. Yeah. And it's hard when you can't be that anymore. Yep. Gee, isn't it funny how time just slips on the way?
1:07:43Shannon Sharpe:Happens to us all. It happens to us all. And like he said, he used to be able to fix that, Joe. he used to go hey oh this is what I did wrong you know what instead of trying to rip I probably should have did arm over instead of arm over I should have ripped instead of any of that I probably should have collided him knock him off balance break away from him you know what maybe I need to drop my hips a little more maybe I need to sell it a little more but after I mean after a while you see a guy in a movie long enough you already know what type of movie he gonna do that's a good one it's it's it's tough it's tough it's tough on count with Joe because we I mean as a competitor I mean obviously you know the way the season ended for for him last year in the Super Bowl you know he he couldn't retire like that so he had to come back you know what I mean so yes when do you say or when do you feel like or even think that man I should just probably they don't give it up.
1:08:47Shannon Sharpe:It's hard to do that. It is. Because it's harder for a great player to give it up. Because when you're great, that's all you know. Yeah. And it's hard for you to be anything but great. Yeah. One thing about it, Joe, that film won't lie to you. That film won't let you know. You might think you're great, but the eye in the sky does not lie. And you can look like a shell of yourself watching. And watching yourself, your body language, your mannerisms, it'll let you know, yeah, I just ain't got it no more. And not the blocks. Hey, I'm always one step behind. Yeah. I mean, and then, you know, you looking at guys, I'm looking at guys that started to guard, they start letting anybody guard me.
1:09:32Shannon Sharpe:I'm like, y 'all don't got no more respect than that for me. I'm like, who are you? Where you come from?
1:09:44Shannon Sharpe:I'm offended I'm offended I know yeah I'm like you're the I'm used to get hold on I'm used to getting your best corner I get number one on third down now they just got some guy yeah oh my goodness I'm used to getting double and triple team I don't even know this dude guarding me who is this Yes! That's all the respect they got for me now. Y 'all ain't playing no boxing one? Hey, y 'all ain't playing zone, but got a man traveling me everywhere I go? That's what I used to get, Ocho. Yeah, yeah. They playing zone, but I got a guy going, and I got to read it. Like, hold on, man, why you stop? I said, that's a zone.
1:10:33Shannon Sharpe:But yeah, you got a guy tailing you. Oh, my goodness. And now they just got some Joe Smo out there. Because that's back when you had them batteries in your leg. You ain't got them batteries no more. Man, look here. That's, hey. Start, stop. Hey, that Zorro rock, that heads it. That, ah!
1:10:58Shannon Sharpe:Hey, hey, Ocho, you drive a stick? You drive that stick? Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. They getting on that clutch too hard? That was me. That's how I was starting to stop it. Shit. Hey. Run through contact. Oh, hey. I run through contact. Man, I start getting year 13, year 14. I hit that blinker. Blinkle, blinker. Let me get on up out of bounds. Especially if it's cold. Yeah, it is. I want nothing. of that. And you watch guys as they start to get older. Watch how easy they go down. No, nobody want none of that. Watch how easy they go down. So, Joe, you start looking at them guys in year 12, year 13.
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