Best of NFL News Part 2: A.J. Brown MADNESS, Anthony Richardson DELUSION!

21:33hmm

21:40Shannon Sharpe:Connor Connor was he drafted to the Steelers or we were the free agent

21:47I mean

21:48Shannon Sharpe:I mean to be from here and playing for the fountain. Bro, that's... He was drafted Hayward. Connor and Cam Hayward. Damn.

22:06Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, obviously. You probably got a handful of instances, Ocho. If you go back and study the NFL, maybe you got a handful of history. Right. Instances in which guys have gotten drafted. Brothers have gotten drafted. Maybe they played at a later date and time, but to be drafted, man, that's unbelievable. That's dope. As parents, they got to be one of the greatest feelings in the world. One of the greatest feelings. I mean, obviously with Donna Kelsey, what she was able to do. Oh, yeah. I mean, Terrell's parents. I mean, the Watt family, the Manning family. That has to be one of the greatest feelings, man.

22:46The barber. Golly. Oh, yeah. Rondé and Tiki. Yeah, man. That's dope. Pouncey.

22:56Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Sonoris and Santana Moss. Trying to think. The list goes on, man.

23:08Shannon Sharpe:But you know what, Ocho? What happened? I mean, they got some very, very touching, heartwarming stories. But I only know one set of brothers. They got these. There you go. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you right about that. Hey, I like that. I like that. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Here he go. Here he go. Hey, so Chauncey got a gold one too? Nah, nah, nah. Hey, listen, I'm the only one with a 14 karat gold bust. You hear me, Honjo? Hey, Chad. Hey, hey, hey. only one with a 14K. Hey, wait till I get my arm. Hey, it look like me, huh, Joe? Yeah, it look like you, bro. Hey, that dome, you got a little knot up there on your dome.

23:55Shannon Sharpe:He got that little knot up there. Uh-huh. See, you should... Hey, you should have been working with Chauncey. Got Chauncey to be playing football. Nah, Chauncey a hooper, man. Chauncey, he don't like football. He don't like that contact. Hey, Joe, you talking about playing me? My brother... Who is your brother? Nah, whoop your brother's ass. Hey, hey. Don't bring your brother in this mess. Hold on, hold on, Joe. Both of my brothers, my brother Chauncey, my brother Sam, I promise you that they'll take you buckles, boy. Line it up. Line it up. No, you think you slick. You ain't getting away from me.

24:36You gonna deal with me, boy. You gonna deal with me, boy. You gonna deal with me.

24:41Shannon Sharpe:I whoop their ass, too. hey but hey you hey joe you why this ain't the nba joe what we play streetball i grew up playing what you talking about i grew up playing that okay yeah okay joe hey all right support for the show comes from public the investing platform for those who take it seriously on public you can build a multi-asset portfolio of stocks bonds options crypto and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with ai it all starts with your prompt from renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over 20 year over year you can literally type any prompt and put the ai to work it screens thousands of stocks builds a one-of-a-kind index and lets you backtest it against the s p 500 then you can invest in a few clicks generated assets are like etfs with infinite possibilities completely customizable and based on your thesis, not someone else's.

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28:33Shannon Sharpe:Ocho! Anthony Richardson is reportedly looking for an extension of the McVay Shanahan LaFleur tree, which to learn from. This comes in progress Malik Willis showed under Matt LaFleur in Green Bay this past season and led to a three-year$67.5 million contract with the Dolphins. Injuries limited Richardson to 17 appearances, and a performance when he did play left a lot to be desired. He has thrown for 2 ,400 yards, 11 touchdowns, 13 interceptions, while completing about 50 % of his passes. Ocho, could a West Coast system help Richardson revive his career similar to Willis? I think any system would really help him if he lock in.

29:16It's not about the system he's in. It's about you locking in. It's about you taking what you do serious, not rapping, not all the side quests not all your hobbies that you focus in being the first one in and being the last one out. It had nothing to do with the system. It's you. You know? That's all it come down to, Unc. That's all it... The work you put in the results show up on Sundays.

29:44Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. When you don't put the work in, Joe the results show up that you ain't put the work in. It shows up on Sundays. Absolutely. Don't get mad at the results you didn't get for the work you didn't put in. There you go. That's all it come down to. But Ocho, you remember when we were talking about this, let that man have other things. He ain't got to be there all day. Now, where they at in the chat, Ocho, when you and I was on this thing in the very beginning? Where y 'all at in the chat now? That's the one position. Let him do what he want to do. If he gets his work done, Ocho and I just happen to play the game at a very, very high level, Joe.

30:21Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. extremely high level. You played at a high level. I tried to tell him, if all you do is what the coaches ask you to do, you'll never be great. No, sir. No, sir. But oh, your big mouth, you and Ocho don't know everything. I said, okay. I said, but at that position, it's all encompassing. Hey. But I want to know, Chad, where are y 'all at now that y 'all criticized Ocho and I? Man, you don't know. I said, it's a bad look that he left the game because he was tired. It's a bad look. I said, they had a team. Think about it, Ocho. They had a team damn meeting about a rookie quarterback. Yeah. I've never heard in my 14 years of playing, in my years of covering, something of this magnitude.

31:11Shannon Sharpe:But the chat, people that's never played, want to tell guys that's been in the locker room, that's been leaders in the locker room, and what it takes to be great. But now they know more than us. But okay, I'll let y 'all have it. Now where y 'all at? I ain't heard not one person. Yeah, it's different, Joe, especially at that position. And people say, oh, Joe, man, all sharp, man, talk too much. But you never said I didn't know what I was talking about. Hello. Hello. Boy, them sharp boys, they sure talk a lot. When have you heard them say they don't know what the hell they talking about? That's the one position you can't cut no corner, Joe.

31:47Hey, QB. You can't cut no corners. You can't. You got to be invested. I'm talking about 24-7. On the field, off the field, in the film room.

32:02Shannon Sharpe:And that's why they cut no corners. How great do you want to be at it, Ocho? That's what it comes down to. How great do you want to be at it? Yeah. Because you can be really good and do it half-assed. Yeah. The same thing, Ocho. Remember we said I was on, what you calling? when I was at Undisputed, and I was talking about Kyler Murray. Man, let that man have a life. I said, do you understand what it takes to play that position? And y 'all, I said, let this sink in for just a second. They put in his contract that he would spend X amount of hours away from the facility watching game tape. Do you understand what that means?

32:48Shannon Sharpe:Okay. I'm going to let y 'all have it. I'm going to let y 'all have it. Y 'all know. Y 'all right. Y 'all right. Y 'all right. You can do it both. You can play Cod and all your time and your off time. You can do all what you want to do. No. But while you moving up the ranks as a Cod player in the USA or the world, you dropping in the NFL ranks as a quarterback. Yeah. Because it's somebody working, trying to catch you. Oh, yeah. And if you ain't working, you don't get exposed on Sundays. Either way. Either way. That's how I go. That's the one position you can't hide on. No. Hell no, you can't hide it.

33:34That's the one position you can't hide, Joe. Hide everybody else. Yeah, you can hide everybody else down there, Joe. I can slide the line one way or another.

33:39Shannon Sharpe:I can roll coverages. Yeah. I can blunt you. I can stack you. I can push you in motion. Yeah. The one position I can't apply to the quarterback because guess what? He got the ball every damn time. Every time. And hell, to piggyback again off what you said at the beginning and then put him in a new system, well, hell, young bull came from the Giants and did extremely well in the system that you just had yourself with the same players until he got hurt. Yeah. Ocho, you making sense. Boy, stop. Damn. same system same receivers they ain't gonna like that I mean I'm just being honest you're being truthful yeah but see Ocho when we say this you know we timing we buck dancing

34:30I just

34:31Shannon Sharpe:I won't listen I ain't one of them so they know coming from me we don't get the chances that they do so don't F the chances up that you do get yeah there you go once you get there it's easier to get there and stay than it is to get out and try to get back in. Bro, you see the money that they give it and the cap just going up. Bro, make you$300,$400 million and then say kick rocks. I'm going to go smoke weed. I'm going to play card. I'm going to play whatever else they got. I don't know the video. I just know card to do that. After you get your money though. Yes. After you get your money. Yes. Absolutely.

35:04Shannon Sharpe:That's all I'm saying, guys. I want guys to get all that money because it's there for you to get it. But don't, bro, don't let these people gas you up, talk about you can do other things. No, professional sports is a full-time job. A quarterback, just like the NFL. NFL used to be a seasonal job. It ain't no more. It ain't no more. Because guess what? Oh, so there used to be times, we didn't talk about football in May. Once the draft happened in April, You took a break. You ain't talking about in June. You ain't talking about July. You ain't talking about until guys went back to training camp. Yeah.

35:50Shannon Sharpe:Now they're covering the draft. Excuse me. Now they're covering the combine. Balls to the wall. Now they're talking about OTAs. Now they're talking about who reporting and when they're reporting. It's different now. And it used to be teams would give you an opportunity. They would wait for you to develop. They ain't waiting no more, Joe. Hell no. Nah. They ain't waiting. They got too much money tied up. They say, hell no. We're going to get something else. They very impatient. It's a good thing. It's a gift and a curse. It's a gift and a curse, though. Because now the impatience when it comes to owners and wanting the satisfaction and having success right away just by getting a high draft pick and giving them a lot of money, that's not the way things work.

36:30Now, that might be the way things work in business. Yes. Where you throw money at business and it gets you what you want. It don't work that way with young quarterbacks. You got to give him time to develop. There's a learning curve, huh?

36:45Shannon Sharpe:Don't you see that in business? If something not going well, what they do? They'll find a CEO and get another one. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He ain't doing it. They'll find another one. And they look at the quarterback as a CEO. Yes. But it get... So they get his ass up out there and get another one. Mm-hmm. Hey, but look. How many quarterbacks that came into the league as a rookie and really been effective? Like, really? Right away? Huh? On rip? Yeah. Shit. Whoo. I'm talking about as a rookie. You got to look at like RG3. Yeah, RG3 had a good year. When you look at being effective, so you're saying like being effective, have good years?

37:22Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, had a good year. Have been good to the playoffs. To where you made the playoffs, and let's say you was, you know, you had a decent playoffs. Shoot. RG3, Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels, CJ Straub this first year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. CJ was nice. Our first year was nice. CJ, yeah. Hell, Michael Vick had to sit and wait. Carson had to sit and wait. Brady sat and wait.

37:52Shannon Sharpe:Peyton didn't sit and wait, but Peyton said, I root for somebody to throw 27 interceptions so I can get off the list because I got the most interceptions in the rookies ever rookie. Peyton said, I want somebody to break my record. I'm breaking all the rest of them. Hey, Joe, Peyton was horrible, boy, as a rookie. Dak came in. Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah, because he took Tony Romo's spot off dunk. Yeah. Romo got hurt. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So there have been, but it's hard, Joe. It is hard for that guy to come in and he got to be the leader of a team, a first year, a rookie. It's tough. Hey, is it tough because of the game, the NFL and college, the NFL is a lot faster than college?

38:35Shannon Sharpe:Like your processing has to speed up. Way faster, Joe. Yeah. way faster. I mean, obviously, at that point, it becomes a mind game. You know, it's a mental game. I know it's a physical sport, but here, the game is 90 % mental, 90 % mental, 10 % physical. Absolutely. You have to know what everybody else is doing. You have to know what everybody else is doing. And then when it comes to being able to read and process the defense, not only the route scheme, the combination that you have going on, but knowing what the defense is doing before they even do it. So you know exactly where you want to go with the ball.

39:10So you're able to think and read and react fast.

39:14Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, yeah. I mean, if you think about Tom Brady and you think about Peyton Manning, some of the greatest quarterbacks that there are, and they're not physically imposing, you know? They're not the fastest, you know? They're not the most athletic. But they beat you here every time, Joe. They beat you here every time. Process. That's their edge. That's their middle edge. Ocho, you know, Drew Brees got bitched. He was the reason that they got the number one pick. for real remember that they got Eli oh yeah he said I'm not going first of all he got benched for Doug Flutie I didn't know that I didn't know that yes that's how they ended up they had the number one pick they ended up trading it and getting Phillip Rivers right okay yeah but also Joe you have to understand you're dealing with guys that's been in the league 8, 9, 10, 11 years and you're asking a guy to come in and be the leader guys want you to prove it in this league before you lead them they need to see you to do it they want to make sure that you that guy you show them you're the guy and they'll follow you forever because they watch it they watch it they see who the first day Your quarterback, you can't be the last in the first to leave.

40:41Shannon Sharpe:You got to be first and last. First in, last to leave. No question. Not last, first. Joe, you got to want it, Joe. You got to want it. You got to. I already know. You got to want it. You got to. And you got to want it more than somebody wants it for you. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I might have been a clown, and they might have called me all they wanted to, Joe. But, boy, I wanted it, Joe. You were locked in? I was locked in. Joe, I ain't had no choice, Joe. I talk too much shit. Yeah. I talk too much trash through the week purposely. I'm finna give you bulletin board material. This is what's finna happen, and I'm finna go in here and practice, and I'm finna go do exactly what I said I'm gonna do, and ain't nothing you can do to stop it.

41:28Nothing. I don't care, and I don't care what defense you run. I don't care how many people you put on me. Boy, you finna get this work.

41:34Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. every week every week it was a challenge it was fun and I just turned the fun and entertainment but I had to put the work in Joe I had to study and they'll see it once they see that you serious about this yeah the work the way you practice the way you meet the way you study the way you're prepared

41:58that's why Joe the way the way Unk just explained it is why they never told me to stop what I was doing because everything Unc just said, that's what Marvin and all them, they got to see that part.

42:10Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. The way I practiced, the way I studied. I was sharp. I was sharp. See, the rest of the world saw the finished product. They saw the fun. Yeah. They seen the trash talking. They not seen all the work I'm putting in to be able to pull that shit off. Absolutely. Nah. That's it. They know, and that's why coaches let him do what he did. That's why I didn't have a problem with my coaches because they know. how much time I put in to study. They knew how much effort I put in in the off season and during the season to keep my body right. They didn't have to worry about anything. But guess who else was watching?

42:45Shannon Sharpe:Your teammates. Hello. Hello. They're watching.

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46:26Yeah.

46:32I got you, Joe. I understand. I understand there's certain things that I can say, but I sprinkled it out there a little bit, you know, like parsley. I sprinkled it out there a little bit. And, you know, the fact that I say it when I do say it, most of the people don't believe me, but when it happened, they'd be like, oh my goodness, Ocho, you was right. So a small example of me knowing what I'm talking about, but nobody really paying attention. And goddamn, in February, I told you, hey, where did I say, and I'm sure we got the video evidence that we can pull back and we can use as proof. Where did I say A.J.

47:00Brown was going when they going to trade him? What team I say we're going to?

47:05Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Two months ago, Joe. I've been telling him since what? October. I said, oh, he up out of there. Oh, yeah, he up out of there. Man, you don't know what you're talking about. All you try to do. Man, this is what I don't like about the putt. This is what I don't like about O. Because he think he know everything. Come on, now. Not one person. We can go back and pull it because we still got the comments what Ocho and I was talking about because we got it. and we can pull the comments. You don't know what you're talking about. All you do is think you know everything. You don't know everything.

47:33Shannon Sharpe:I said, man, y 'all don't hear this man talking. They winning the ball. They winning games. Oh, my thing went out. I came back. My bad. So they traded. No, Joe. It was going to be a post-June 1st. Yeah, post-June 1st. But, Joe, listen, I was saying this two, three months ago, right? Football season was over. They were having discussions and talks about him going. I said the first thing I said was, listen, young bull want to get up out of there. If you're acting, why are you in season? And then I'm thinking, what place would make sense for A.J. Brown to go for him to still be able to flourish? Hello?

48:06Go back with your coach. You was with in goddamn Tennessee. Correct. With Tennessee. With Coach Rabel. So I said right away, I said, yeah, he's going to the Patriots. I mean, it's common sense at that point. And this was damn near two, three months ago. Everybody talking about, man, shut up. He don't want to go nowhere. What you talking about? Thank you. I don't think y 'all don't understand how you're going to say.

48:31Shannon Sharpe:Oh, everybody knew he was going to get traded. You a lie. No, you didn't. You a lie because all y 'all don't come now. Oh, man. No, no, no, no, no, no. We want y 'all just like y 'all when Ocho and I wrong and y 'all want Ocho and I to admit that we was wrong. We got it wrong. I need y 'all to do the same thing. I want y 'all to run it with the same passion, with the same conviction that y 'all say, Unc and Ocho don't know what the hell they talking about. AJ say he wasn't going nowhere. They say they weren't going to trade him. Run it with the same passion. Hey, I got all the tweets saved, too.

49:03Shannon Sharpe:Yeah! I was going to go back and pull them. All the tweets saved. Because when it actually happened after June 1st, we're going to go back and we're going to pull about 15 of them. So you better go take them down. Because we like the job. Because we use all tweets against you. Yeah. Because y 'all just knew. Oh, man. He ain't say that. He said he didn't want to go nowhere. They said he wasn't going to trade him. Okay. Eagle fans where y 'all at? I know we got some Eagle fans I know we got some Eagle fans because I told you during the season they're going to trade him. I said he wants to get out there and you know what?

49:37Shannon Sharpe:It's the best thing sometimes when you have irreconcilable differences, let's go ahead and break this thing up amicably That is what y 'all wanted to hear Oh you just trying to No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I want y 'all what y 'all normally do when Ocho and I are wrong. Oh, man, just admit you was wrong. Now I want the Eagle fan. Now come on with it. Yeah. And the funny thing. Come on with it. It's going to be a good thing. It's going to be a good thing. Let me give me a piece of candy. Hey, like the old people say, Joe, let me get a piece of this old hard candy.

50:15Shannon Sharpe:Hey, my grandma killed some candy. Help her. Hold on. the man catch a touchdown in the Super Bowl he's a second team all pro he's a Pro Bowl player he led the team in receiving and yards I don't know what else you can get and he was unhappy you remember two years ago he on the sideline reading a book the keeper blowing his top whatever you gotta do to keep you calm it got so bad they had a meeting the owner and AJ had a meeting. He said, I understand your frustration. Probably I understand your frustration, but can you not be so public? I said, I don't have a problem because I'm a firm believer you don't accept anything in a win you wouldn't have lost.

51:05Shannon Sharpe:I said, but you got to keep it behind the scenes because people are going to view you as selfish. You're winning. At one point, you had the best record in the NFC. I said, you're winning. I say people are going to look at you as being selfish because they're going to look at it as like, no, you just want your stats. And then if you drop a pass or something happens, people are going to become overly critical of you. I'm just trying to, I ain't telling what somebody told me. Ocho and I speaking from, I got 14 years, Ocho got 11. So that's 25 years of NFL experience, being in the locker room and seeing how things work.

51:45Shannon Sharpe:That's all. No, no, no. Don't tell me that Unk never meant nothing. I need you to admit. Don't tell me about Unk now. When Unk wrong again, Unk admit. I tell you what, if Sexy Dexy go out there and ball out, I'll say, you know what, Ocho, that was a good trade. Well, hold on, hold on. It was a good trade. I'm telling you it's going to be a good trade because any time we talk about football and I say something ahead of time, it's always right. It's always right. I'm rarely wrong when I say this. Since you've been talking about your bingos, your bingos ain't been to the playoffs since. Okay, that's one thing.

52:16That's just one thing Hey, now hold on, hold on now Don't you do that Hey, brother cowboy, don't you do that down there That's what you're not going to do

52:26Shannon Sharpe:Because I chime in and say thanks Nah, nah I'm just saying We talk about us not being to the playoffs I mean, we in the same goddamn boat now You know Hey, if I'm Rose, then you jack Now don't act like that

52:41Shannon Sharpe:Hey Speaking of sexy Dex Tony Pauline speaks on Dexter Lawrence trade. There is concern that while Lawrence has shown himself to be a great player at time, he's not a very hard worker Monday through Saturday. Part of the reason he wanted to be traded away from John Harbaugh. Hey, you don't want that out there about you. John Harbaugh does work, Ojo. Pads, pads, pads, pads. This is what I don't get. And I think they're talking about Zay Flowers. He said that Coach Harbaugh had them in pads, so forth and so on. Ocho, if that's what you came into the league as, that's what you know, how is that a problem?

53:22Shannon Sharpe:That's all you know. Right. It's not like you've been somewhere else. You've been at the 49ers, and they're only in pads like on Thursday for maybe like 10, 15 minutes. Right. If you came from that system and went to this system, I get it. Right. But if that's all you know, when I played with Dan Reeves, we had the pads on, that's all I knew. So if I go somewhere else that they got pads on, I'm good. I'm Gucci. Because that's what I've been doing. You know, that's probably word of mouth too, um. You know, Zay Flowers here and other players that's on other teams, the way they practice, them not having their pads on as often, especially once you get later on into the season.

54:00The fact that they're having pads on as much as possible all the way up to I mean, in a sense, I don't understand it where you want your players healthy, you want them light as possible especially you know during the week so so they they're healthy you know for for games on Sundays ah now during our time during our day I understand now in today's in today's time having pads on in every single practice as many practices as you can get pads on them boys you got them on them oh that's tough yeah but uh uh in the west coast system for the

54:37Shannon Sharpe:most part, the West Coast used to be, that was the thing. No pads on Wednesday. You had them on for 9-on-7. You had them on for 9-on-7. You thudded up. But then you take the pads off. Quarterbacks kept their pads on because they wanted to get used to throwing with their pads. No problem. But everybody else, take your pads off, set them to the side. I leave mine out there because some rookie was going to grab mine. Oh, he better. But anyway, we'll talk about that. That'll be another show we can talk about. Things that you got to do as a rookie. or a player just coming up. But I don't get it, bro.

55:12Shannon Sharpe:You playing pads. I don't get that, Ocho. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I can't even sit here and lie because, hey, Joe, some days when we had padded practices, Joe, I have on the shelves. You know the shelf, a little cushion you put on. Yeah, yeah. I have on the shelves. They call them spider pads. Yeah, the spider pad. Yeah, the spider pad. so the defense would already know they weren't going to hit me no way Joe but they can tell when I'm not wearing my god damn shoulder pads I just ain't want that weight on me I just ain't want that extra weight on me Joe I want to be out there moving fast as hell moving as fast as possible through practice you know I wear them on Sunday sometimes Marvin would say something sometimes he wouldn't yeah but them pads of practice hey Joe it used to be hell boy Zay Flowers don't want to keep his pads on all that damn fumbling he be doing.

56:08Shannon Sharpe:That might be what, he might need to keep his damn pads on. Mike didn't have a problem. All he said, I want you to dress how you would dress in the game. He said, if you wore pads, thigh pads, knee pads in the game, where am I here to practice? Yeah. That's the only, that was really the only thing that he had, that's what we said. Until them guys started coming out there with damn Tims in house shoes. Man, Ocho, because we were talking about that another time. But I'm saying that was the only thing that he had. If we come out here to practice, however you play in the game, that's how I want you to, especially when we got on pads.

56:44Shannon Sharpe:So most of the guys, I mean, back then, they got to wear pads now, Ocho. I was like, damn. You go back and look at the 90s and early 2000s. Ain't nobody have no damn pads on Harley. Everybody had them basically with tights. They done gutted the thigh pads, the knee pads, took all the pockets out. All they got are tight. Yeah. Ricky Jackson was the first person I ever saw do that. I said, man, if I ever be good enough, I damn sure coming out my pants. I'm coming out mine. Hey, look. So when y 'all got pads on, they hidden? Y 'all hidden? No. We had on tight. It's just like you wear those leggings up under your game pants.

57:28Shannon Sharpe:That's what our football pants feel like. We done gutted the pants. We done took all the pockets out. They just basically spandex. Spandex, yeah, that's it. They just basically spandex. All I had was a helmet and shoulder pads. I had no thigh pads, no hip pads, no knee pads, no mouthpiece. I had a helmet and I had shoulder pads and I only had two of my chin straps fastened. Yeah. Hey, them some fun days. I miss it. I miss it. I ain't gonna lie to you. I ain't gonna hold you. What you miss? You miss a grind? I miss the grind. I miss competing, Joe. I miss competing. I miss having structure and discipline and having to get up for something.

58:10I need something to do. And whatever that something is, that gives me structure. How about go to the bank and send

58:16Shannon Sharpe:Unc his money? Huh? Hey, Unc, I told you, Unc, hey, break in case of emergency. If you really need that 59, I got you. That man Ben said he needed it. No, he just talking. You know, he just talking. Hey, Joe, don't you owe me a... Oh, no, we even. We even now. We even. We even. What? Say it again? Say it again? We even because we betting every game, right? You owe me a hundred. Atlanta won tonight, so now we done broke even. We even. We even. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't like the fact that I can't pay you, though, because you ain't see me with my money. I got my pants at home.

58:52Shannon Sharpe:Next time I'm home. Next time I'm home, Joe, I'm going to... Because I got some of my game pants. You'll see. They ain't nothing. They just... Damn, Unc, you kept your pants? I kept my game pants. Got shoulder pads, got shoulder pads, everything. And I ain't got nothing. They still got all my stuff. Flip, who's the equipment guy. He was there when I was there. They still got all my stuff boxed up. All my shoulder pads, my helmets, all that stuff in the box. Oh, Joe, you ain't got no helmets in there? Joe, I ain't keep nothing. Hey, Joe, let me tell you something. I don't know what's wrong with me, Joe.

59:26I swear for God there's something wrong with me Joe I had when I moved I had a big place I had a big place when I was playing out here in Davie and it really made no sense and I got to a point where you know what I'm getting rid of this I'm talking about 10 ,000 square feet it's no reason for me to have a house that goddamn big I'm not playing football no more so obviously you know how I am when it comes to financial literacy let's downsize a little bit let's get up out of here let's get in something we can maneuver with and maintain the same lifestyle we had while we were playing ball. So I put shit in storage, Joe.

1:00:00I put stuff in storage. Joe, I left that storage there, Joe, maybe by 10, 11 years. And it got to a point where, you know what, now I'm moving to something nice again. I ain't got something big again. You know? I wasn't bringing all that old stuff back with me and I done left that part of life, Joe. I just let the storage go. So it was all that stuff, man. I don't never collect memorabilia, Joe. I never have. I ain't kept no jewelry. I ain't kept no nothing. now if I need it I know I can go get it if I want a helmet if I want a shoulder pad or anything like that I can go I can find my old stuff again I got all my stuff I got my college

1:00:36Shannon Sharpe:stuff college I got my high school helmet I see yeah you see you're a collector you're a collector it's just hey Joe when a phase of life is done I'm I close that book Joe I close it I close it I don't care about it that's weird I don't know why everything that I want in college either my mom got it or it's at my grandmother's house so when I got my own house my grandma told me no you can't take nothing out of here that's my trophies that's my helmets they still at my grandma's house. My mom got some trophies that I won in college. My MVP trophy, I gave it to my girlfriend. I don't know where it's at now.

1:01:33Shannon Sharpe:Oh, man. She got one of my MVP trophies. Yeah. That's damn hard, though, too, Joe. You feel me? Oh, I do. I got clothes from when I was like five or six. That's too much, Unc. That story I told about the white outfits that my mom dressed me and my brother like Easter. For church? For Easter? For Easter, yeah. I still got that outfit. That problem was 75, 78, so damn near 50 years ago. I still got it. Damn. Oh, yeah, I keep stuff. We do. I get that from my grandma. I told you my grandma had canned peaches and beans and stuff for 20 years that she tried to bring to the new place. Let me say, Grady, this stuff ain't no good.

1:02:28Shannon Sharpe:She said, yeah, it is, baby. It's sealed. It ain't been open. Yeah. Grady, this ain't the military. This ain't no vacuum. Them MRE, ready to eat meals. That ain't what this is. Dude. Joe, you ain't got nothing. I got a little something. I got a few jerseys. I mean, that's pretty much it. I got a lot of signed jerseys. You know what I mean? A couple basketballs. I didn't do that, though, Joe. Like, when you went to the All-Star game, you got people to sign stuff for you, didn't you? Nah, so, like, when you go to the All-Star game, it's a section where all the players got to sign all these balls and all the signed jerseys.

1:03:11Shannon Sharpe:They give it to us. So, I mean, I went seven times, so I got some nice stuff. bro. I got some basketballs. The signature ain't there no more. Who at? The signature on that basketball ain't there no more. Okay, I'm out there. Hey, listen, I can't tell you what every signature is, but I got some stuff on you. I don't know who they are. I don't know who they are now. But the only thing I hate is that I went and I didn't get, you know, all the, I mean, think about it. I had Brady, had Manny, Elway, Marino, Kelly, Moon. Not one thing. Hey, man, I got a question. I won an Emmy Award, Uncle Ocho, and I ain't gonna lie to y 'all.

1:03:56Shannon Sharpe:I lost it. I wonder how can I... You think they'll send me another one? You have to pay for it, but yeah. Hey, you won an Emmy, Joe? Yeah, and didn't know the significance of it, neither, Ocho. What you was in? What show? I was playing here for the Hawks, and I told my story to Fox Sports. like I was growing up so my mom was in it I think two of my uncles was in it and we just told a story bro they came to my house sit up interviewed me and all that and so it was like halftime one game they came back they was like hey they want to present you with an Emmy at halftime I'm like what an Emmy I didn't even know what the hell an Emmy was I ain't gonna lie to y 'all so listen I go out there get the Emmy I come back I put it up in my locker at the arena I put it up in my locker and about two, three days went by.

1:04:46Shannon Sharpe:I talked to my mama. I was like, mama, I want an Emmy. And she was like, you want an Emmy? Boy, where is that? I said, it's in my locker. She was cussing me out, boy. Hey, if you don't get that damn thing up out of there and send it to me, you know, people work their whole careers trying to win an Emmy. I'm like, man, I ain't know. But anyway, I had a flood here in my house when I was playing in Brooklyn. And there wasn't nobody here. So water had been running for like seven days. on there, Ocho. It flooded out, so it messed up a lot of stuff. But that's one thing I couldn't find when I came back.

1:05:19Shannon Sharpe:I'm like, damn, I couldn't find it. I don't know if somebody hit me for it or not. Yeah, but that's a nice accomplishment there, Joe. But that definitely, oh yeah, that's a standard. Yeah. We go get one, Ocho. Yeah, yeah, we definitely, we definitely is, bro. We definitely is. That's the only thing I'm missing. Hey, I don't know why, Joe, you know, after playing all them, after playing all them years, man, and having them jerseys, having them helmets and no cleats and stuff. I don't know why. I don't see the value in it no more. I don't understand. I just, it just. Even when you was playing, you didn't see no value?

1:05:57No, no, no, I didn't see it once I was done. Once I was done playing. Once I was done playing and I just let the storage go, man. You know, people, I mean, remember a dude found a storage that I just stopped paying for. And people would hit me on Instagram. They would, he would be like, hey, some dude got your storage and I'm like, man, I don't care. I done bought a whole new place. I done started over doing everything and I'm not taking none of that old stuff with me. It's funny how people see things that used to be yours and they value it more than you do. In my mind, I done left that place there 15 years ago.

1:06:33I don't want to bring it where I'm going now. You know what I mean? It's just weird how people think like that. I just, I don't see the value in it no more.

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