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21:43Shannon Sharpe:six months or$180 for 12 month plan required$15 per month equivalent taxes and fees extra initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy c terms it'll be just like that the miami dolphins announced their captains for the 2025 season monday but there is one glaring omission for the first time since joining the team in 2022 tyreek hill was not voted a captain by his teammates reek himself suggested this offseason that he likely would not be a captain this year due to his actions at the end of the 2024 regular season when he removed himself from the finale and hinted after the game that he wanted to play elsewhere.

22:17Shannon Sharpe:Mike McDonald had a very revealing quote. I'm really excited about the whole voting process in general this year. The team was much more unified and the focus was on those six guys was very clear. Those were resounding vote getters. We were focused on giving the keys to captaincy to guys that had earned it each and every day. that speaks to me the most is football team that knows who it wants to be led by. Yeah, that's cute. That's cute. It's commendable. You know, having your peers on your team vote you as a captain. Yeah. That'd be nice, man. I wanted a captain to see you on my jersey. That's cool.

23:01But honestly, for me, my Dolphins, my Dolphins, and those of you in the chat, I'm from Liberty City, born in Jackson Memorial Hospital, in Dade County, 12th Avenue. What I care about is my Dolphins playing well in the postseason. Is my Dolphins playing well when they play against teams that are above 500? Is my Dolphins playing well when the weather is below 50 degrees? I don't care who's carrying that C on that goddamn chest. I just want us to be able to execute offensively and defensively when it matters most. That's it. That's it.

23:37Shannon Sharpe:I mean, look, you, there's no way it'd have been, it'd have been a joke. If he did what he did and he turns around the following year and he's a captain, it couldn't happen. They weren't going to let that happen. No joke. Even if he'd got, even if he'd got 52 votes, he wasn't going to be no captain. They wouldn't let that happen. No joke. You know that. I know that we know how it worked. We know who they want to be captains. Come on now. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. We're on the same page. We here. Yeah. We here. Yeah. But look, I think Reek learned a valuable lesson. I think if he had to do it all over again, he definitely would do it a different way.

24:15Shannon Sharpe:He's going through some stuff right now. Reek, my heart goes, I tell you, because I think you're a phenomenal player. I absolutely do. And I know that's a lot on your mind. Anybody, you know, being there. It's going to be, hey, don't work, bro. It's easy to say, tell somebody not to worry about something when they're not going through it. But when you're going through it,

24:40so I mean

24:47Shannon Sharpe:it's tough because like you do things like you in it Ocho and the minute you do it you're like damn

24:58Shannon Sharpe:but I don't I mean Rick was in a great situation when he went to Miami that's where he wanted to go I mean they could have traded him someplace else. They ask him. I mean, think, Ocho. Think about this, Ocho. They ask him, where you want to go? You want to go to the Jets or you want to go to the Dolphins? Yeah. They put him where he wanted to be. And I get it. When you had the season come off, he led the league in receiving. Hey, remember last year, Ocho, he was the number one player voted by his peers in the top 100. Yeah. Your quarterback gets nicked. You're not the same reek. People like No, he didn't lose it.

25:36Shannon Sharpe:He didn't lose nothing. It's just that his quarterback guy hurt. He's dependent on a quarterback that's injury-prone. The guy's been injury-prone since college. He limped into the NFL. He's probably going to limp out of it. He had a lot of injuries when he was in Alabama, Ocho. He had the tightrope surgery on his ankle. He had the dislocated heel. He had the injury, the pinky. He had an injury history. Yeah. And guess what? He's had a concussion, or I don't know if you want to say concussions or injury, but he's had a history since he's been with the Dolphins. And Tyreek's future is tied. His success, his production is tied to a guy that's injury prone.

26:20Shannon Sharpe:It's kind of like, Ocho, you relying on somebody that's unreliable to get you to work.

26:39it's tough

26:40Shannon Sharpe:it's tough and then he didn't make it no better because he could have just went there and said I'm happy to be in Miami it's great great weather great team but every chance he gets he tried to take a shot at Mahomes oh Tua is more this than Mahomes oh this is that and this, bro, you don't need to do that. Nobody, you're not, even though you play with both, you're not going to convince anybody that Tua is a better quarterback than Mahomes. You're not. So why you try to do that? I believe you could, Ocho, I believe you can prop one guy up without trying to put another guy down. Guy down, yeah. Well, in that situation, that's not putting a guy down because you can't put Mahomes down, especially in that comparison when it comes to the quarterback position.

27:25but I think Rick has a lot to prove this year especially coming up last year obviously them not voting him a captain boom that's another one okay y 'all didn't want to vote me a captain okay hold my beer watch this watch this and he finna go slap

27:43Shannon Sharpe:I hope so go slap off because I mean you know he's a special talent there are not very many guys that's been played in the history of the game that had his God given ability that can take a route that can take any route on the field and he's a legitimate threat to hit his head on the goal post. Now we say that, oh, you give him a fight. No, no, no, no, no, no. There have only been a handful of guys that can literally take any type of route that you give them and you can strike up the band. Yeah, every time. Hey, you see he doing that, the band playing. Yeah. And Rick has that accountability. He just needs to get back to that.

28:25Shannon Sharpe:And hopefully he can focus. I think being on the field, it allows you to like tunnel visual, Joe. Yeah. It allows you to lock in. You got to compartmentalize. That's what's really good with a great at it. That's the one place. Doesn't matter what's going on in life. You know, once I get to that stadium, once I get to that grass, it's different. Everything else is left outside. No. No, I didn't know. Somebody said you put Tua down and put Tyreek up. No, I just said he's not Mahomes. He's a good quarterback. He's not Mahomes. And Tyreek's production is tied to a guy that's injury prone. Did I lie?

29:11Shannon Sharpe:How many concussions has he had? How many times did he get injured at the University of Alabama? I'm just giving you facts. I ain't say he wasn't a bad player. He a terrible player. That's not what I said. I said Tyreek's production is tied to a quarterback that's injury prone. That's factual. That ain't no, you know, stretching the truth. That's not a lie. That is just factually correct. Yeah. And maybe Tyreek wouldn't have 1 ,700, 1 ,800 yards because he got Kelsey and he got other guys. But if you go back and look at it, look at his production. It's 1 ,300. It's 1 ,400. It's 1 ,500. It's 1 ,300.

29:55Shannon Sharpe:It's 1 ,400. It didn't have, though. It didn't have 1 ,800 and then 900. Right. You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying, Ocho. Hey, I mean, you don't want to have no 1 ,600 one year, then 1 ,000. 1 ,200 one year, then 800. Nah, you want to be consistent. Hey, let me be somewhere that consistent. Let me be 11 to 12, 1 ,300. I can live with that. Right. One year, if I won't have one of your bust-out years, I give me two or three 200-yard gains, I'll be on to something. But, nah, I just think the thing is, you know, you're emotional. Things didn't go your way. You're like, damn, I'm going to get 100 yards.

30:37Shannon Sharpe:I want to continue my 1 ,000-yard season, Ocho. That's going to come to an end. Damn, we're going to miss the playoff. That's going to come to an end. Yeah. and he just got frustrated and it bubbled up that's all it bubbled up made a mistake he probably and he said it I should have handled that differently wish I'd have handled it differently and you know lesson learned and I believe he learned his lesson I do absolutely you're going to bounce back yeah but and I think McDonald's says let's not focus on who didn't make it as captain. Let's talk about the guys that did make it as captain. They're deserving.

31:23Shannon Sharpe:They're the captains. That's who they want to lead. Bradley Chubb. It's time for Chubb to come out there and play like the Chubb, like they gave up the draft picks to get him from Denver. It's time for him to play. It's time for him to show. Because it looks like Ocho, they're kind of taking this thing apart. They let, you know, Kaleas Campbell go. They let Jalen Ramsey go. They let Christian Wilkins go a few years ago. So it seems like going for it, going for it, going for it. Now they're like... They're getting younger and younger. Getting younger and younger. Yeah. So we'll see how it works out for you.

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34:29Shannon Sharpe:Don't miss Guns N' Roses Dolphins CeeDee Lamb denounced rumors that Micah Parsons was considered both egotistical and self-centered. That's my dog. He knows it. I express to him just about every week I could. So he knows. So I feel like he knows where we stand as far as a brotherhood, friendship and all that. So obviously wishing him the best. Hope he has the best season ever. Trayvon Diggs felt everyone in Dallas currently locker room like Micah. And he indicated that the fuel for those rumors likely came from former Cowboys. He didn't name names, but it was pretty clear Diggs was referring to Marcus Lawrence.

35:06Shannon Sharpe:I think everyone liked him. I feel there were some former players who were not here no more who didn't like Micah. There was a lot of that. I would say hate, jealousy, envy towards him because of who he is and the production that he does on the field. Imagine if you could come here and you're talking like somebody's shine or taking somebody's spot. You're not going to like that. They're going to feel some type of way, especially you're that type of person.

35:32Shannon Sharpe:the greater the person listen because sometimes I think people the greater the athlete the greater the individual the bigger the ego quarterbacks have the biggest ego they do the best job of hiding it the greater the person the greater the player the more accomplished the person is so are we saying that Beyonce and Taylor Swift ain't got no ego are we saying Drake Michael Jackson, Whitney, Mariah ain't have no ego are we saying Elon Musk and whomever got no ego so we're saying Tom Brady Peyton Manning, Lawrence Taylor, Jim Brown ain't have no ego they all do the greater the person the more accomplished the person more successful yeah all of them man what we do what we do in here everybody's not gonna be liked and that's okay what you do when you get on the field bro as long as you ain't a jerk as long as you're not doing anything that's gonna harm the locker room or call a fraction in the locker room bro I don't care nothing about that bro Yeah.

36:56Shannon Sharpe:First of all, I ain't going to your house like that anyway. So what you do, I don't care. Look, this is my locker right here, Ocho. This is my locker right here. As long as you don't F with nothing in my locker, don't give a damn what you do. I ain't messing with nothing in your locker. You got a job to do, I got a job to do. Hey, man, how you do? We don't have to be friends. we can be friendly. Yeah. I mean, it's a locker room. You got 53 people. You got 53 people. Everybody's not going to get along. Yeah. Everybody's not going to get along. You're going to have egos. You're going to have people with pride.

37:38You're going to have jealousy. You know? It's always been a part of sports. It's always been a part of locker rooms. It's always been a part of teams in general. You're not going to like everybody. Nope. You're not there. This is not a liking contest. You're there for one job.

37:57Shannon Sharpe:Do your job. I like you more if you do your job good. I like you even more. But, look, I don't, you know, clearly CD and Diggs have a fondness to, with Micah. I've been around him a little bit. I don't have no problem with Mike. I never had a problem with it. He's a funny, funny dude. That's why. He's just hearing, hearing anything come up about ego. And he's, especially when it comes to him, he's a, he's a funny guy. He's young. You know, it's weird. It's funny how everything comes out when someone actually leaves. We knew that was going to happen. Funny how that works. You know, you ever notice the guy was, Oh, he was a problem on the job.

38:47Shannon Sharpe:15 for 20 years. Ain't nobody say nothing. The moment somebody leaves. yeah, yeah, he was a problem. Yeah, he was probably the best one on the job, too. Yes. Let's add that. Ocho, Vegas has Lamar Jackson at the back. He's back on top for the MVP odds. The reigning MVP, Josh Allen and Joe Burrow, are hairs beneath him at plus 600. Patrick Mahomes rounding out the top four at plus 650. Is this the year Lamar puts it all together, wins MVP and a Super Bowl? I mean, it could be the year. It could be the year. If it was going to happen, this is the funny thing when it comes to not just Lamar Jackson, but Josh Allen and all those other quarterbacks in the AFC, it's always coming to the same four.

39:38Yes. The same four. Same four. Now, what Lamar Jackson do we get in the playoffs? What Lamar Jackson do we get in the playoffs? That's all that matters. We know what we're going to do in the regular season. Yes. We're going to put up crazy numbers. Yes. We're going to rush for crazy numbers. But what Lamar Jackson, whatever Lamar Jackson we get in the postseason, that will be if those odds in Vegas come true. That's all it comes down to.

40:06Shannon Sharpe:And that's all I've said. I said, I want to see the Lamar Jackson that's won the MVP or finished second. We have yet to see that guy for the totality of the playoffs. We've seen it for a game, Ocho. But we need to see it for the totality because we saw it last year. They didn't turn the ball over. He didn't turn the ball over for like eight, nine games. Right. And then he had two big turnovers. And that was, you know, some of that's undoing. Like, look, and I get it. Such a hold on to the ball. Zay Flowers fumbled on the one. But he did give the Chiefs a short field. He got stripped in the pocket.

40:42Shannon Sharpe:I just need Lamar to be Lamar in the postseason that he was in the regular season. I don't need anything else. I don't need to be, I don't need anything else, Ocho. I don't need him to be anything other than what he's shown us for the 17 games in the regular season. If he's that, if he's that player, can't nobody beat the Ravens? Nobody. Nah. Well, I don't know about nobody. Ocho, the man threw 41 touchdowns with four picks. Hold on, hold on, huh? Nah. Don't jump on me. Don't jump on me. This is a new season. With everything you just named, it's what he did last year. Now, I'm not saying he can't repeat it, but there's a team he has to deal with in the AFC North.

41:29Shannon Sharpe:They own y 'all. Come again? They own y 'all. Lamar Jackson owned the Cincinnati Bengals. Let me do something. The Ravens, that's your team, huh? Or your supposed-to-be team that you spent two weeks at? Two years. Okay, two years, two weeks is all the same. you want to bet something on that game Ocho it's kind of hard for you to borrow money when you owe money who huh oh you know hey listen I'm good for it no you ain't good for it when I go to the casino they just give me what I want because they understand Ocho you here oh we know we're going to take care of you what you need what's your money line I'm a file of what you call them on you I'm fine.

42:17Shannon Sharpe:I'm going to press charges on you. I ain't do nothing. How you going to press charges? You'll be$5 ,900 and you won't pay. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Is it written on paper? They heard it. Oh, yeah, they got it. We got it on paper. I didn't sign nothing. You ain't got to sign it. We got it. We got a verbal contract. You bet me. Micah Parsons and Jerry Jones had a verbal contract, too. No, no, no, no, no, no. We got this. I showed him tape. Your Honor, here it is right here. This is it. Oh, I bet you.

42:52Shannon Sharpe:Johnny, we're going to get you out of here on this one. This clip from your Glory Days podcast has gone viral. Let's show the chat. In my draft class, the Browns had two picks. With the sixth pick, we took Justin Gilbert from Oklahoma State. And I get the most wave of shit for being a bust in this and that. I wasn't even the biggest f***ing, and respect to Justin Gilbert, I love him as a human being, but we both flamed out. We both f***ing struggled, and he went 14, 15, 16 picks before me, so I'm not even the biggest bust in my class from the Browns. Damn, Johnny! I was feeling some type of way that day, huh?

43:39Shannon Sharpe:Clearly, clearly. You're like, hold on, y 'all killing me, but what about the guy that went top 10? I mean, I wanted to be in that pick. Like, if we were talking about going to Cleveland, I wanted to go to Cleveland at six. I wanted to go to Cleveland at four, whatever the pick was. Like, if you're going to send me to Ohio, at least send me with$20 million instead of eight. Like, what the fuck? Damn. All love to Justin Gilbert. Look, I think, you know, from from a Browns draft perspective from that year, you know, Joel Batonio is still playing and doing well for Cleveland right now. But all around miss, you know, I think I will always be looked at and viewed at because of how much hype and, you know, media and everything that was around me and the city of Cleveland expecting me to be great.

44:31and that ultimately not panning out. Listen, you know, I sit here today and I go back and forth with, man, am I going to let Cleveland off the hook and just like let it go? Or am I going to sit here with hate and animosity in my heart for the rest of my life? And I finally sit here today and I'm like, fuck it. I think I'm going to be pissed at them and hate them forever. So it is what it is, man. No love for the Browns. I'm rooting for 0-16 seasons every season.

45:01Shannon Sharpe:damn john let me ask you this as you sit here today and after all the things you've gone through we sat down a little over a year ago and we had a conversation had a great conversation and i think a lot of people got an opportunity to see you in a different light knowing what you know now you're back in that situation but you know what you know now what would you have done differently would you have done anything different leading up to the draft would you have done anything different in college what are some of the things that johnny would have done differently to make sure this outcome that we're talking about never happens.

45:34Look, there was a moment in time, and we spoke about it on the podcast, was after that Oklahoma Cotton Bowl game, things changed for me, and I went from Johnny Manziel to Johnny Football. And looking back on it now, people ask me if you could go back in time and do it differently. There is that split moment in time in the locker room after that game where my focus would have shifted to, let's get to a national championship the next year. let's get to San Diego and start training again and like get ready and geared up for this season because we got Mike Evans returning we got a bunch of guys on this team who can come back and make a real run and that's one thing that just never sits right with me to this day just like the untapped potential of the whole thing and the real opportunity if I want to see Texas A &M win a national championship well that was a real real opportunity for us and it just didn't come to fruition.

46:25And, you know, I sit here today and a lot of people will hear me speak. And as I tell stories and, you know, I'm doing the podcasting stuff, you know, people will always be like, you know, I'm blaming stuff on other people or I'm not accountable or anything like that. But listen, at the end of the day, everything that I've got in my life and that's happened to me throughout my football career is only because of one person, myself and the decisions that I made as a man in this life. So was Cleveland the best situation for me to go to? Did they help me knowing all the things that they knew about me with all the research and everything?

47:03Did they put me in the best situation? Absolutely not. It was not the right situation for me. But when it comes down to it, you take all of that aside, you throw it away and you look in the mirror and you say, I've let an amazing opportunity slip it's on me I'm the one that has to sit with myself every single night as I watch college football or watch NFL football and be like damn I would be in my 12th year I would be x y and z I'm the one that has to lay my pillow down lay my head on the pillow every night and be like that could have would have should have but it wasn't and at the end of the day a lot of my life as I've been out of football has been like what am I going to be able to do to find a spark, to be able to be happy, to be able to give me something like football did give me.

47:49And you know what? Maybe it wasn't meant to be for me. I didn't put in the time and the effort and determination that you need to be great, that both of you guys did for the sport. And that was just maybe my stupidity, my youth, or what it was meant to be. But nevertheless, you know, I take accountability for everything and what it is. You know, I really didn't harm anybody other than myself when it's all said and done. So, you know, we're still sitting here today, rocking, rolling, happy, healthy. And we're on the nightcap show now, baby. Every Saturday, let's go.

48:22Shannon Sharpe:That's what I'm talking about. Johnny, did it come too easy? Did football come too easy to you? You look at what you did. You went down to Tuscaloosa and you became a household name. Everybody knew who you were after you went in there and did what you did to Coach Saban. Did football come too easy for you after that? man I don't know I think I started to you start to get a little bit of ego on the football field right you start to see what you're doing in practice and how you're playing and like making certain throws and the scrambling where you like you're just doing certain things that are just like jumping off the page and you're noticing them too so it gives you a it gives you a bravado and a confidence and when people on a college football field you know I think this is why I wanted to go to the NFL so bad because as I'm going and playing on Saturdays, I'm like, these dudes can't fuck with me.

49:14They really can't. They want to. And even guys who are good from opposing teams, you'll come up to each other after the game and they'll be like, damn, you're everything we thought you were going to be. You're cold. So as you're getting respect from your peers on this level too, it does heighten your sense. It does give you a sense of ego and bravado. And, you know, you add the social media wave and, you know, at that point in time, SportsCenter every single night and you're taking over the world, you know, it does make you feel invincible. So I know there was a lot of hard work that went into everything that happened.

49:49And the reason that I played as well as I did on the field is because I did work my ass off from the time I was in high school to college and it all played itself out. I think you start to see the down you know the down slide and everything else when the hard work takes itself out so you know that's what I always tell kids nowadays who ask me and look at my story and look at everything it's like listen I had all the talent in the world you can go run a go route put your hand up and have a guy draped over you I'll drop it in the bucket you can go meet me in the a gap and really think you have me covered a tackle and I'll mix you out of your shoes when it comes down to it you gotta you gotta work hard and you gotta consistently do it day in day out even when you don't want to and if you don't want to do it guess what there's somebody right next door or somewhere else that wants to take your spot and wants to trade places with you and look what happened to me you know the nfl is a game where you get replaced like this

50:42Shannon Sharpe:johnny thanks for joining us tonight welcome to the team make sure you go subscribe to johnny's podcast on youtube glory days with johnny manziel johnny thank you for joining us man we'll see you next week, bro. Have a good time. Enjoy. Appreciate you, boys. See you next week. Much love.

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