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13:32Shannon Sharpe:Listen, man, I had to get coffee, donuts, and a newspaper. These folks ain't even looking at them. Hold on, Joe.

13:39Joe Johnson:Now, this is very important, when you go get donuts, we talk about Dunkin' Donuts or we talk about Krispy Kreme?

13:45Shannon Sharpe:I was getting Dunkin' Donuts at the time. Nah, they had this place, I think it's called Winchell's. Oh, I know about Winchell's, aren't I? Yeah, I think that was the name of it, Ocho. And Joe, they talking about they want them hot and they want it six glazed and they want it with jelly donuts and they want... I said, come on, man! Damn! And they want breakfast sandwich. They got this spot. They got breakfast sandwich. I want bacon, egg, and cheese. I want sausage, egg, and cheese. Well, I want mine on a consul. You be late for that plane if you want to. Man, please. But I wanted to fight these dudes for real.

14:23Shannon Sharpe:And I know they couldn't beat me. I wanted to fight these inwards for real. And then I was just like, you know what? I only lied to you. But like week eight or week nine, I just told them, I said, I ain't bringing no more donuts. You said that? I said, I ain't bringing no more donuts. They said, all right, you know what's going to happen. I said, okay. If anybody's knowing y 'all, because they're going to cut me, I'm going to whip every last one of y 'all. Did you bring them? No, I was done. They weren't even eating them. Okay. First of all, I'm a seventh-round draft pick, Ocho. I ain't got no bread like that.

15:04Shannon Sharpe:I'm buying all this stuff, and when I leave, you know, I sit them in the guy's locker, and they still, I mean, somebody might eat one donut. Somebody might eat, you know, one breakfast sandwich or two breakfast sandwiches. I done bought seven, eight. Nah. They didn't want you to put the work in. They just want you, hey, they just want you, they just want to put your hands to work. I'm having to get up early. Hey, they wasting your money, huh? That's okay. Hey, not only that, you got to leave practice early on days we finna fly out. Yes. You got to leave practice early because you got to go get all these sandwiches.

15:37Shannon Sharpe:Thank you, Joe. Thank you. Subways. Boy, you going to be late. We calling you. You ain't got about 10 minutes, boy. You pulling up sweating like I don't know what. Yeah. Somebody want Popeye's. Somebody want Kentucky Fried Chicken. Somebody want Burger King. I mean, why can't you just go get Popeye's?

15:55Joe Johnson:And everybody get everybody the same thing. I want spicy.

15:57Shannon Sharpe:I want mild. man I'm done that's crazy that's how it happened

16:05Joe Johnson:that's crazy

16:06Shannon Sharpe:so that was the end of that I did it I did it for as long as I could I'd have kept doing it if they were eating the sandwiches I'd have kept buying them no problem but nah y 'all not eating them and then you know the D lineman eating them and the offensive lineman eating them nah right I said hey well I guess that's an ass cut and I'm gonna have to take but I tell you what yeah Two of y 'all gonna get effed up. I promise you that. Did they complain? What they gonna do? I told them, whatever y 'all wanna do. Right. Oh, damn. They gave me the name Big Greasy for a reason.

16:44Joe Johnson:Yeah. Big Greasy.

16:49Joe Johnson:Hey, Uncle. Huh? I would've had to jump on you, boy. I would've had to jump on you, boy. Like a chicken on a jelly bug.

16:57Shannon Sharpe:Nah, I got into it one time. For real? Yeah, me and CK. Because I was a rookie. Because when they moved me to tight end, obviously I had to go into the tight end room. CK was a vet. CK sat behind me. And every day, you know, I don't want to cause no trouble. My grandma say, boy, I don't send you nowhere. You know how to behave. You know how to act. Yes, sir. CK kept knocking my, so I have all my thing out. So I'm trying to take notes. So I have my notebook out. Man, it ain't worried y 'all like to make me say this ninja would like kick the book and all my papers fine. So, you know, I got to rearrange them.

17:38Shannon Sharpe:Right. And so I thought, okay, it's a rookie. I'm a rookie. Okay, I'm going to eat this a couple of times. You know, one of them days, guys, you just don't even feel like being bothered. Uh-oh. Yeah, yeah. Snap bonk? you catch the right guy but it just happened to be the wrong day yep

18:02Shannon Sharpe:man that joke he kicked that thing over one more time that last time boy I jumped out of that seat death flipped over by that time I was right here I got him out of his seat I said CK you do that one more time bro I'm gonna beat your ass and you gonna beat me and I don't think you can beat me I don't think you can beat me who broke it up nobody they were just looking like damn

18:37Joe Johnson:I bet he said I'm just playing

18:40Shannon Sharpe:I bet he ain't do it no more because at that time my eyes when I get really really upset Yeah. My eyes get really red and they start to water. Mm-hmm. I had a young lady, she used to call me Beast. Because when I get really upset, she's like, man, look at your nostrils.

19:02Shannon Sharpe:So she called me Beast. Man, I was like, boy, look here. Had I been a, well, he wouldn't have done that if I was a vet. Right. But he thought like, and see, I don't like all that picking. That's what they call it. In the South, we call it picket, Ocho. They call it bullying now.

19:19Joe Johnson:Trying to bully, yeah. I don't do all that picking.

19:24Shannon Sharpe:And grown men don't play like that. I had no telling them, man, stop that, man. I was thinking the coach, the tight end coach, was going to say something, but he didn't.

19:37Shannon Sharpe:That was it. And then I slapped the dude one time because he was playing. Damn, huh? You slapping people at work? Look here, man. When a man tell you to stop playing, what you do, Joe? Stop playing, yeah. It was cold, and he knocked the ball out of my hand. I'm talking about it was cold. I'm talking about I bundled up. I got two sweatsuits, two pair of sweatpants on. I'm talking about this cold out of my hand. Come on, man. So he knocked the ball out of my hand. I said, man, stop playing. So catch me a pass. I come back. he hit the ball and the ball hit me in the face and before I had knew it I had them punched him dead in his face a little slight reaction I'm talking about I snapped he said man you for real they said that man just punched the shit at you what you think I went on about my business that was the end of that I bet he didn't do it no more nope I mean we didn't speak for a couple of days but we were cool after that I don't do our look we had a group that we used to play jokes on each other me Burns House

20:58Shannon Sharpe:double A dude named Allen Aldridge rest his soul he passed away it was about four of us and foots so we would play jokes on each other couldn't do it in the cafeteria But if we saw you somewhere outside, like, man, Joe could be eating in his locker, and you come knock all his food out. Oh, okay. We did that in high school.

21:22Joe Johnson:We did it in high school.

21:23Shannon Sharpe:So check this out, Joe. Check this out, Joe and Ocho. This dude, I get my food. And Ray Jacobs, that's who it was, Ray Jacobs. So every day I would come with pancakes. I'd come with pancakes from LaPete. I get wheat germ pancakes banana sliced on top that's it that's what I would get I would park in the same spot every day how about dude laying up under his car huh he laying up under his car I ain't thinking nothing about it man I got my got my pancakes got my orange juice I'm just I'm gonna tear this up how'd dude roll up under his car and just kick my bag right up out of my hand oh Oh, man. Pancakes go everywhere.

22:10Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. He laid on the ground under his truck like Cape Fear. You see the movie Cape Fear with Robert De Niro? Yeah, just the... That's how old boy did me.

22:21Joe Johnson:Hey, you know, back in high school when we played that, and you got something in your hand, they slap it out your hand real quick and it hit the flow? It's yours. But it hit the flow, though, Joe, so you can't eat it no more. Yeah. I played three-second rule, boy. I'm picking it up. I'm eating mine.

22:40Shannon Sharpe:You couldn't eat that because we hit on the floor and just step on it. You ain't eating that on Joe. That's exactly what guys would do. Tell me, oh, three second rule. It's good. Three second rule. Yep. Joe, y 'all ain't play that three second rule, Joe? Nah, nah, nah. We played games like if you had something in your hand and I liked it and I knocked it out, then it was mine. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah. Man, we be in training camp, Ocho, I go around and screw the top off and just barely put it back on, all the salt and pepper shakers. So when they get some, all the pepper in the place, all the salt on the food.

23:22Hey, boy, you man.

23:25Shannon Sharpe:What a good day, bro. I did. I did. That was, hey, that was all the stuff that I wanted to do. I said I couldn't wait. They got me, Joe. Yeah, yeah. That's the thing. I got to get my get back. Yeah. I hated when, because that was my, in 2003, my last year playing, we had training camp at the facility. That's when they had started, you know, bringing in, and we didn't go back to Greeley anymore. but to go to Greeley to be in that dorm because we stayed at UNC University of Northern Colorado up in Greeley man oh we stayed in some mess oh man oh Ocho Ocho would have been mad oh we got Ocho we got Ocho you're a rookie nah but y 'all would have loved me y 'all wouldn't have messed with me yeah we would have and you're a rookie here and then we the guys so bad and you like oh I'm getting me somebody back yeah they make something up to get you Ocho it don't matter if you doing everything right they gonna make something up

24:39Joe Johnson:it's all good

24:42Shannon Sharpe:you only a rookie once Ocho

24:45Joe Johnson:and then guess what you gonna be a vet

24:47Shannon Sharpe:longer than you gonna be a rookie so guess about all the rookies that come in after you Yeah.

24:53Joe Johnson:See, I let all the rookies slide that came after me. I was a good sport about it too, Uncle Joe. I was a good sport about it. I won a trip. But listen, listen, I understand this tradition. I really ain't into that. So I'm going to accept it. I'm going to pay what I need to pay. Hook before the games. I'm going to get you Popeyes, you know.

25:11Shannon Sharpe:I'm good. I don't want no Popeyes. I want you to sing. Where you from? Put your hand over your heart. Where you from? Oregon State. What position you play? Wide receiver. How about your signing bonus? Five, oh, hell no. How you get$500 ,000?

25:32Shannon Sharpe:Hey,

25:35Shannon Sharpe:the worst thing, the worst thing in the NBA was when they made you, as rookies, they make all the rookies carry these little girl backpacks. You had to wear, you had to carry like a pink backpack, or it might have to be clear to where you can see everything. in your back, oh man, it was bad. It might be a butterfly backpack. Door to the door. Oh man, oh yeah, door to explore, all that. Yeah, yeah, old season. But that's gone on. What we did was passed down. They had been doing that for like 40, 50 years, old Joe Joe. Yeah. Damn. So we just want to keep the tradition going. okay all that they're cutting up we ain't cutting no hair i mean so i see some people cut people hair now we ain't cutting nobody i ain't cutting nobody here now and why oh yeah man they be getting dude man they cut half the half the side of the hair off like this here the rest of the side is there oh yeah they get your mohawk they do all man joe i said oh no that y 'all doing too too much for that.

26:44Shannon Sharpe:That's too much. There was the days, I'm sorry, man, you know what? Now that I think about it, y 'all ain't getting no rookie initiation, Joe. You didn't know, Joe. We ain't getting y 'all no rookie initiation. Joe? Yeah. What we don't do to him? I don't know, we thinking something. There, I'm two years in. Damn, damn. Yeah, you right, Joe.

27:11Joe Johnson:We done passed the threshold. Not really. We still got to initiate you, though. Hey, Unk, you know what? I'm kind of mad, too, Unk. What there? For what? I'm mad he faking an injury trying to duck me, man. Oh, he ducking you on Joe? Yeah, he ducking me. I just thought about that.

27:27Shannon Sharpe:Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey, hey. What I ain't doing in the big three ain't got nothing to do with you, bro. Oh, oh. I'm going to be able to tend to you soon. Don't you even worry about that. Damn. Yeah. Don't worry about that. You think so? Yeah, yeah. That left leg, he said that left leg is only like 115.

27:44Joe Johnson:So he ain't going to be able to push off it. Hey, all I'm going to do, I'm going to go to his right because you got to push off that left. That's right. That's right.

27:51Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, you can't see in that damn right eye.

27:54Joe Johnson:So we even. That's right. We even. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Joe. Hey, Joe. Don't talk about my eye, Joe. For real.

28:05Joe Johnson:Hey, that thing a little murky, though.

28:06Shannon Sharpe:For real, though.

28:07Joe Johnson:Yeah. You look cloudy on with your foot. I know. Hey, can you see it? Can you see it? Yeah.

28:13Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, man.

28:14Joe Johnson:It's bad, huh? Yeah. Man, that's why I'm going to say, I'm going to go get the cataract removed, man. I'm going to do it, man. You probably need to. I am. I am. Man, I don't know, man. I don't know, man. You scared, huh?

28:31Shannon Sharpe:Boy don't want to have to go. You know what?

28:33Joe Johnson:I remember what it was like in 1994 when I had that surgery and I had inflammation on the inside. My grandma thought it was pink eye. I don't know what it was, but I remember they took the Q-tip and they took the Q-tip on top of the

28:45Shannon Sharpe:eyeball and you

28:47Joe Johnson:feel that needle go in, but you can't feel the pain because they have it. They numbed it. That's the worst feeling, man. I just don't want to go through that no more, man.

28:59Shannon Sharpe:That ain't what they do with a cataract now, they actually lift it up and pull it out.

29:04Joe Johnson:Oh, man.

29:06Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, yeah. They got to get that up out of there.

29:08Joe Johnson:Go on, get it done, bro. You got to get it right. I'm going to do it, Joe. I'm going to do it, Joe. I'm going to do it. Oh, that's just the eyeball, man. And what if I get that lazy eye again? Oh, that Farz Whitaker? No. In high school, my eye was stuck like that. It was off to the side. Oh, you think that thing cocked out, huh? Yeah, I was like that for real. I don't know how. Like, hey, Joe, you see how I'm looking at you right now? Yeah. It wasn't like that when I was in high school. My eye was stuck. It was stuck to the right, like Biggie Smalls. I don't know how it got to the point. And I can't see.

29:45Joe Johnson:I can't see nothing out the right eye. I just don't want that to happen. I go back under the knife, and then my eye stuck. I'm 50 years old, and I'm cockeyed.

29:56Shannon Sharpe:What'd that look like? We're going to start the show every night. What a joke could do. Oh, don't think just because you got a cock-eyed 50 years old, we ain't going to join you. Boy, please. Hey, come on, man.

30:11Joe Johnson:Y 'all can't do me like that, man. Yes, we can.

30:13Shannon Sharpe:Yes, we will. I don't know. Joe might not, but I'm going to... Oh, hey. Oh, nah. Hey, hey. You know, I got to get mine in, too. You know what?

30:22Joe Johnson:I'm going to wear a patch. Don't worry about it. That's okay. We know what's under there.

30:26Shannon Sharpe:You're going to be like, hey, you're going to be like Slick Rick Carula?

30:29Joe Johnson:Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Man, honestly, that's why I'm nervous about getting it done because I just know after that surgery, I had a cockeyed all through high school. Sophomore, I had to deal with it in college. And once I got to Santa Monica, for some reason, it started to straighten back up. But I still couldn't see how that.

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35:43Uh-oh.

35:44Shannon Sharpe:Just going to get Ocho upset. An anonymous AMC executive is calling out overpriced wide receivers. I think the wide receiver prices have gotten so crazy that teams are warming up to the fact I can get a super talented back, pass catching, talented back with pass catching abilities paying$17 or$18 million a year like doesn't sound so bad anymore. The top average NFL annual value position for JSN,$42.1 million. more than double the top running back, which is Saquon, at 20.6. Ocho? Hey, because remember Ocho used to be the running backs. We ain't going to pay the running backs. Now they're saying these wide receiver prices are getting astronomical.

36:26Shannon Sharpe:They're getting out of line.

36:27Joe Johnson:Man, child, please. Listen, if you don't have receivers, go out there and try to run an offense and see what happens. You can't nobody get the hell open. And they stack nine in the goddamn box. And then even if you do have one of those dynamic backs, that can run the ball and catch the ball out the backfield and they can't run the ball because you don't got no receivers to open up the game, to take the top off the coverage. What are these people talking about, man? There's a reason they make that 40, 41, 42, 43. There's a reason Puga going to break the bank and reset the market at the widest position.

36:58Joe Johnson:What are we talking about? If you understand the game and how the game is played, how many of those backs he just described are there in the NFL? One, maybe. Three, maybe four? If that, McCaffrey, B. John Robinson, Jameer Gibbs, Saquon, Jameer Gibbs, and Christian McCaffrey. Who else? It's 32 teams. I could only name five players that are really good, really good at doing both. You're right. Let's be realistic.

37:27Shannon Sharpe:Come on, man. And he make it seem like everybody, listen, every receiver that comes up ain't going to get JSA and Apuka's money. No. It's just like every quarterback. So every quarterback now when he's eligible. So you think Baker Mayfield is going to reset the market? He's going to get Patrick Mahomes money? No, he's not. No. He's not.

37:45Joe Johnson:And then you have to understand, these$40 million contracts are reserved for the elite of the elite. All top-dollar contracts are, except the quarterbacks.

37:54Shannon Sharpe:But the quarterback is the only guy. He's the only guy that you pay on potential. Everybody else have to prove themselves. And they have to normally prove themselves over and over. A quarterback, well, we think he can be good. Let's go ahead and pay him. Even after one season. Because you can't do nothing without no damn quarterback. At all. Can't do nothing. Look, I understand. So you want this exec, whoever this exec is, so you want the value of the franchises to go up. You used to buy a franchise for$30,$40,$50 million,$100 million,$200 million. So your franchise is going up$6 billion,$7 billion,$8 billion,$10 billion,$12 billion.

38:41Shannon Sharpe:But while the prices for the players stay the same.

38:45Joe Johnson:You see how they think it's changed?

38:47Shannon Sharpe:So now the Cowboys got a value. I think they got a valuation of$12,$13 billion. But you want the wide receivers to still make money like they're playing in 2015.

39:00Joe Johnson:Hello. Damn. Matter of fact, you know who I left off that list too? Six running backs, actually. Brother Cook down there in Buffalo. Okay, yeah. Yeah, Brother Cook down there in Buffalo.

39:12Shannon Sharpe:That's what I don't get. Everybody keep talking, oh, oh, the stock market is good and all this is good. The common man ain't in the stock market. That's reserved for a very few. Yeah. So I don't care. The stock market can go to$60 ,000. If I ain't got no money in there, what good does that do with me? In order for to put money in the stock market, you got to have disposable income. Everybody ain't got disposable income. Because everybody ain't making a living wage. I can't take money. So the money that I was supposed to put gas in my car or buy necessities around the house, I can't take that money and put it in the stock market.

39:51Shannon Sharpe:I need that. Yeah. I need to put a roof over my head. I just don't I just don't get they don't want to play the players nothing they just want they just want these owners just just print money yeah

40:05Joe Johnson:or they want they want to make all print money

40:07Shannon Sharpe:because here's the thing y 'all making more money we see um Netflix it's a Netflix plays 75 million dollars for five games 75 375 for five games so joe 375 for 5

40:34Shannon Sharpe:Netflix I don't know if Amazon will get another package but Netflix is going to want that Sunday night package Fox y 'all going to have to bid CBS y 'all going to have to bid because they got these streaming services they got boo-boo bucks and y 'all remember that game Press Your Luck Big Bucks no whammy, Big Bucks no whammy stop they got it and the one thing I know about the NFL y 'all think they got loyalty to your networks but they about to show you at CBS money talks when they talk about getting a reduction okay you're going to find out that's what I don't get so as everything goes up the value of the franchise goes up more money is coming in through licensing, licensing, TV contracts, but, oh, now the players making too much money.

41:34Shannon Sharpe:And the players are the product that's on the damn field that draw eyes to the game. That's what I don't understand, bro. You gotta always take care of the product, man. I don't give a damn what sport it is, Ocho. You gotta take care of the product, bro. That's the guys that's out there or the people that's out there on the field or on the court that's competing and making the game somewhat respectable to what people want to watch. Yes. That's what I don't get. Reward the people that help your business grow. That's the way you do it. But they want to make all the money. You're getting a check.

42:15Shannon Sharpe:What's the, what is it,$250 million? What's the cap? you're going to get$400 million just off TV. Just off TV. Now, you got local TV, local radio. You got parking. You got admissions. You got PSLs. You got all the other stuff that's in there, motocross, NCAA, concerts. Okay, the NFL salary cap is$301 million, 301.2. You're about to get a check for$400. so you're about 100 clear that's before you do anything locally now what about all the jerseys that you sell you gotta cut it out all the merchandise so now when we get the stadium you got at least eight you got at bare minimum because guess what the tickets aren't any cheaper for preseason you're low So let's just say on the low end, you got 10 home games.

43:25Shannon Sharpe:On the high end, you got 11. That's a regular season. Because it's an odd number, 17. So one year you might have nine home games. The next year you have eight. Now, postseason.

43:40Shannon Sharpe:So they just want to make all the money. Players are making too much. As your franchise has increased exponentially. man y 'all need to stop

43:49Joe Johnson:hey listen god it sounded it sounded a little bit like college football too of course huh oh everything was fine and dandy when the universities and the entities were making billions of players likeness and all of a sudden NIL is a problem yeah

44:06Shannon Sharpe:they're making too much money they never said guess who they never said that about Ocho the coaches who the coaches name the coaches say you know when the when the college came to them say you know what We want to give you an extension. We know you got five years. You know we got three, four years left. We want to put another three, four years on it and bump your salary from$5 million to$7 million,$8 million. Nobody uttered a word. Now, now it's a problem. Why it's a problem? It wasn't no problem when y 'all was making billions. Y 'all didn't go to Congress and sit y 'all ass up there and lie and talk about this is bad.

44:45Shannon Sharpe:when coaches leave. Y 'all didn't say, well, a player should only be able to leave once. Really?

44:52Joe Johnson:Why? Coaches leave all the time, more than once.

44:56Shannon Sharpe:The coach, he was at Cincinnati, and then he went to Notre Dame, and then he went to LSU. Chip Kelly? No, Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly.

45:09Joe Johnson:I'm talking about Chip Kelly.

45:12Shannon Sharpe:Coach Saban, I love you. You left, wasn't he at Toledo? A Bowling Green? Where was he at? Where was Coach Saban at? And then he went to LSU. And then he went to Miami. And then he came back to Alabama. Urban Meyer. He was at Bowling Green or something. Then he went to Florida. Then he went to Ohio State. So, damn. So, coaches can move as much as they want, but you want to relegate a player. Wherever you go, you get one move. Okay, coaches, you get one move. I'm cool Coach you get one move So if you go to University of Florida Your next move better be your best move Because that's it

45:56Shannon Sharpe:Unless you get fired Oh Oh Coach Saban started at Kent State Then it was No I'm just I just want to go head coach Oh he was at Michigan State. That's where he started. Michigan State. He was at Toledo, and then he was Coach Belichick's defensive coordinator at Cleveland. Then he went to Michigan State. Then he went to LSU. So hold on. Toledo is one. Michigan State is two. LSU is three. Miami is four. Alabama is five. Well, damn.

46:40Shannon Sharpe:But a player will get to, a player wherever you go. So if you go to University of Miami, El Cho, you get one transfer. That's it. That's it. If you go to Arkansas, you get one. You can go to Kentucky, you can go wherever you want, but you only get that after that. That's it. But coach, you get to go wherever. Nah, hell nah. And y 'all know they're going to try to cap that damn NIL too. Oh, God. They ain't going to just let it. How many schools Lane Kiffin did that? Yeah. Yeah. Lane the damn thing coached every team in SEC. Lane got a big, He was at Tennessee. He's at Ole Miss. Now he's at LSU.

47:19Yeah.

47:24Shannon Sharpe:Man, look. I think Coach Saban is the greatest college coach of all time. But I think it's really disingenuous what they're doing. Because what happened was, guess what, Ocho? They weren't the only one that was playing players, allegedly. So now all of a sudden, everybody got a bag. All of a sudden, people didn't want no scat packs and no charges and challengers. When I can get a Lambo, I can get a Cullinan, I can get an Uris. Hello. Yeah.

47:58Shannon Sharpe:How you get every four and five star running back coming out?

48:04Shannon Sharpe:You know what? You know what it is. You got Trent Richardson. You got Ingram. You got Derrick Henry. You got Kamara. You got Damian Harris. You got Tenpenny. Rest his soul. You got seven, eight five-star running backs. Boys. And they wait and they turn. What about the receivers? Alabama used to be just like that. They had Ridley, and they had Julio, and they had Coop. They had Judy. They had Devontae Smith. They got Ruggs. They got Waddle. Hey, no.

48:47Shannon Sharpe:Stop. Just stop. And we ain't going to talk about all them D linemen and linebackers and corners they had, Ocho. We ain't going to talk about them.

48:58Joe Johnson:Hey, animals, boy. All right. I can swim, Joe. Okay.

49:03Shannon Sharpe:All right. Joe. Vaughn Miller's looking for a new home. Look what he posted. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Hold on, Vaughn. Hey, Vaughn, come on home, man. You know we got a spot for you. That two-fold look good on you, too, Vaughn. Yeah, he from Texas. He played at Texas Stadium. Makes sense. DeMarcus Ware was one of his guys. He got an opportunity to play with D-Wear in Denver. They won a championship together. Vaughn was Super Bowl MVP. And you look at the limited number of snaps that he had last year. I think he had like seven, eight sacks. and he can look the one thing he can do he can get after the quarterback and it's not going to cost you a whole lot of money can he be he can still be in that corner he can still be in the edge oh yeah he absolutely can

49:52Joe Johnson:he been it like Beckham boy

49:54Shannon Sharpe:I'm a Von Miller fan man especially he coming to the Cowboy huh hey boy our defense is going to be alright Ocho I'm telling you Our defense is going to be better than y 'all's. Ooh. The Bengals.

50:11Joe Johnson:Yo, let's wait till football season to get here, Joe, before we talk. All right, okay.

50:14Shannon Sharpe:I'm going to be all, hey, hey, I got something for you, boy.

50:17Joe Johnson:Right now, my head is all basketball right now. All basketball.

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54:56Shannon Sharpe:Execs, coaches, scouts rank the NFL top wide receiver for 2026. They got Jamar Chase at one. Justin Jefferson at two. JSN at three. Puka at four. Armand Roth St. Brian at five. CeeDee Lamb at six. Pickens at seven. Nico Collins, eight. A.J. Brown, nine. Devontae Adams rounds out the top 10. I don't know how they got Malik Nabors in there at 11 considering that he's coming off ACL and he had surgery because the scar tissue built up. So I don't know how he got there in front of Mike Evans. Tyreek Hill, there's a chance he might not even play this year, Ocho. I don't know how he got to how he is.

55:34Shannon Sharpe:But I would have Jamison Williams absolutely up higher than what he is. I put him in front of Malik Nabors and Tyreek based on just injury history alone. Damn, y 'all think DK that far down at 19?

55:50Shannon Sharpe:I'm not putting him. Man, hey, that kid Alex Pierce, now he don't get no shine on Joe, but we know he, hey, he for real, Joe. Yeah, yeah. He for real, for real. Oh, he going to get his chance this year, though. Look, absolutely. Chase, I'm not going to argue with you, but I can't put Joe there, too. not after what Puka I'm not putting him in front of Puka

56:15Joe Johnson:let me tell you something Jeter stand right there too I understand what Puka's doing I understand how great Puka is but I also understand what Justin Jefferson has done since he's entered the league now the fact that he didn't have a quarterback is the only reason I gotta factor that in

56:33Shannon Sharpe:I'm not factoring it in

56:34Joe Johnson:I'm not doing that I know exactly what Justin Jefferson can do I know exactly what he could do Nah I'm not playing that game And chastising And penalising Jettlers because he doesn't have a quarterback Based on what he's done since he entered the league I'm not doing that And Puka got And Puka got Stafford throwing to him Nah man come on

56:57Shannon Sharpe:But I'm saying but you make it seem like Puka ain't put up numbers Since he's been in the league

57:02Joe Johnson:Hey um We talk about Justin Jefferson Puka's great I like Puka, he's great we talk about Jettles man come on man come on man, don't do that

57:15Shannon Sharpe:don't do that you saw Puka numbers don't pretend like Puka but come on now

57:22Joe Johnson:we talk about Jettles now, come on don't do that man come on man

57:26Shannon Sharpe:but I gotta take in the totality body of work

57:30Joe Johnson:if you take a totality body of work then Jettles would be number two

57:35Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, but I'm saying last year happened. Puka has never had a year like that. And I know his quarterback situation, but guess what? Like you tell me all the time, when them numbers dip, they don't want to hear nothing about that quarterback duty, Ochoa. I know they don't want to hear, but

57:50Joe Johnson:the reason why the numbers dip and he still was over 1 ,000 with the quarterback situation he had, with the miracle. Man, look

57:56Shannon Sharpe:here. 1 ,000 yard for a receiver playing 16, 17 games, Ochoa, you know that ain't nothing. That's like a running back. That's like a running back getting 1 ,000 yards in 17 games. But they ain't but 58 yards a game.

58:07Joe Johnson:I understand that. But I understand the greatness that is Justin Jefferson. And even though he didn't have a quarterback, it was messy. It was messy for him. It was awful. I did too. And he was still able to get that thousand. I understand how great Puka is. I think Puka is one of those receivers, honestly, if he had that same type of system that he has in LA, he can go play on any other team and still produce the same way as long as they have an adequate quarterback. It makes it even better that he got Stabbert. So he's going to go crazy regardless.

58:39Shannon Sharpe:I think the thing is that if you look at the guys that's been in that system, they catch a lot of balls, but the longevity is because you get so many targets and you get hit so much. You remember Cooper Cupp? Yeah. Cooper Cupp had that his scoring season. And then the injuries, because you take so much punishment. Man, think about how many balls they throw to Puka. He got a lot.

59:06Joe Johnson:A lot. I wonder how many targets he had last year. Can Ash look that up? I'm curious.

59:11Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, Ash looked that up. And I think he missed two games, Ocho, and he led the league in receiving. Man. And missed two games. He got a gunslinger back there, O 'Connor. Oh, man, Stafford can flat-eye throw it. Stafford can flat-eye throw it.

59:24Joe Johnson:Man, could you imagine? Put Stafford in Minnesota. Boy, what would you think Justin Nimbus would look like? Matter of fact, how about this? Do me a favor. Put Jettas and that LA offense with Sean McVay. What you think Jetta numbers would look like?

59:42Shannon Sharpe:Any receiver. You look at the one thing out of Mike Shanahan's system, the receivers. If you're that boy, you're going to put up numbers. Absolutely. You're going to put up numbers. If you just go back and look at the West Coast, you go start with Jerry, you start going Sterling Sharp and Terrell Lowens and you look at all those guys that played in that system oh they're going to put up numbers they eat oh they're going to feed you Joe they're going to move you around catch him if you can because he's going to be on the right he's going to be on the left they're going to put him in the backfield they're going to put him in the slot look at JSN you see remember they lied JSN up in the backfield on Troy threw him a touchdown out of the backfield if you in that west coast system and you a receiver for all you need you don't need if you got a great quarterback uh davante adams with aaron rogers in green bay hey ugly that back shoulder oh yeah oh that man got 113 touchdowns in 10 years different 113

1:00:58Joe Johnson:different.

1:00:59Shannon Sharpe:It makes you realize just how many Jerry got 197 receiving touchdowns.

1:01:05Joe Johnson:That's crazy.

1:01:07Shannon Sharpe:In a league that they didn't throw the ball like they threw it down. Hey. Okay, so you leaving everything as is. You got Chase 1, Jetta 2, JSN of 3, Puka 4, Armand Russell. You leaving everything as is.

1:01:20Joe Johnson:Hold on. I don't even see. Where's Devontae Smith?

1:01:25Shannon Sharpe:They ain't got somebody up there. 22 Ocho Puka caught 129 balls Ocho On 166 targets And he missed two games If I'm not mistaken

1:01:39Joe Johnson:That's crazy

1:01:43Shannon Sharpe:So he's getting almost Basically 17 games He's getting nine targets a game

1:01:49Joe Johnson:You know what I don't like Nico Collins being so low I don't think people understand how good Nico Collins is But if I want to take him up But if you put him up, you got to take somebody down. That's exactly what I get ready to say.

1:02:00Shannon Sharpe:Hey, what's the average target to game a receiver get? Your top receiver. 7-8. 7-8.

1:02:08Joe Johnson:Depending on who you're playing.

1:02:11Shannon Sharpe:Hey, listen. Yeah. For my cap. No, that's good. For Chase. For Chase. No, no, no. Yeah, no. But the average, when you equate everything out, somewhere between 7 and 8. Yeah. Well, my Cowboys having two guys in their top 10. I'm expecting big things from this year. You know what I mean? I'm expecting big disappointment. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Why are you expecting a disappointment? What's up? Because you expected a lot. Me? Yep. I'm expecting what I think they should do. We should be a pretty damn good team. You've been expecting that for 30 years. Do you remember them championships, Joe? you probably like a teenager.

1:02:56Joe Johnson:Hey Joe, he's talking about collectively as a team. Now I'm with you when you're right, when you talk about George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb individually, oh they finna go crazy. They finna act a fool.

1:03:08Shannon Sharpe:I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie. Ain't no way in hell Smith is the 22nd best receiver. No. I don't care what y 'all say. Malik Nabors has, Joe Ocho, he has surgery on a knee tore his ACL, but it said he had scar tissue buildup. Tyreek might not even play this year. I can't base it on, I cannot base it on what they were two years ago. Malik Nabors was fantastic, but he got off to a horrible start last year, Joe, and we saw Tyreek. We know what Reek was when he was in Kansas City, and we saw what he was those first two years in Miami. But this is a serious injury for a guy that's in his 30s.

1:03:58Yeah.

1:04:01Shannon Sharpe:And you're going to put him over Smitty?

1:04:04Joe Johnson:I wonder who made that list. I guess somebody at random.

1:04:14Shannon Sharpe:What y 'all think Mike Avery's going to do in that system? He's going to eat. What?

1:04:21Joe Johnson:Yes. What's the difference with Shanahan and McVay? What's the difference?

1:04:28Shannon Sharpe:Because you do realize McVay was up under Shanahan in Washington. Mike's going to have one of his better seasons. Yeah. All them guys. All them guys. McDaniels, that's the offensive coordinator at the Chargers. He was under Mike. He was under Kyle when Kyle was in Washington. All that was on the staff.

1:04:55Shannon Sharpe:yeah he said hey Mike Evan stay healthy

1:04:57Joe Johnson:Uncle Ocho yeah he gonna cut up he gonna get that ball they put him all over the place to get that ball

1:05:07Shannon Sharpe:J-Mo J-Mo J-Mo big play potential he a threat every time to get over the top

1:05:18Joe Johnson:Amon Ra nice too Amon Ra to be as small as he is he's so shifty, he's so crappy. And he can line up on the outside too now if he's me.

1:05:28Shannon Sharpe:Yes. But you do it, Joe, you remember Jamison Williams with all those guys at Ohio State. He left Ohio State and went to Bamboo. Yeah. All those guys and Garrett and the guy that's in New Orleans, all those guys, they were in the same receiver room. Yeah. Ohio State put them out, boy. Wide receiver.

1:05:54Joe Johnson:Ohio State and LSU. They've been on the run for a minute too, boy.

1:06:00Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. But if you go receivers, as far as just like receivers, ain't nobody touching Ohio State. Because you got to go all the way back to Chris Carter. And you remember Joey Galloway, Terry Glenn, David Boston.

1:06:13Joe Johnson:Hold on now, Alabama State. Don't forget Alabama.

1:06:16Shannon Sharpe:Alabama is in the conversation. Alabama had a nice little run. Alabama started with Julio, and then you had Ridley, and then you had Coop, and you had Devontae, Ruggs, Judy, Waddle. Who else they had? They had another receiver too. Who else they had? They had a nice little run. But, I mean, you look at – and the one thing, there have only been a handful of receivers that couldn't run. Joey Galloway. People don't realize how fast Joey Galloway was. Joey Galloway was 4 '2". Man, that pigeon-toed joke. Man, the first time I saw him, I didn't know where to say hello or throw bird seed at him. That joke.

1:06:58Joe Johnson:Hey, Joey was fast. He was so fast, and he hold the ball like a loaf of bread like this, Joe. Yeah.

1:07:06Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, I don't know if you remember, but if you look at his sleeves, he had them big baggy sleeves on the jersey.

1:07:11Joe Johnson:Like the quarterback. Like the quarterback, yep.

1:07:14Shannon Sharpe:Everybody else got their sleeves cut because they don't want to get grabbed. He already know you wasn't going to press him. You press him and you miss him. He's over. Over. And David Boston, big, physical. He just, I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened to Boston, man. He just.

1:07:33Joe Johnson:Remember how big David Boston was when he was in San Diego? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he left Arizona and went to San Diego, yes. I'm talking about Joe. He looked like a bodybuilder, boy. he was huge

1:07:52Shannon Sharpe:man it's it's not the Cowboys year Ash get that out your head Ash a Cowboy fan too is she Ash what's I knew girl I knew you I knew you was alright with me girl hey she love the Cowboys Cowboys in TCU in San Antonio oh yeah Cowboys first. No, TCU first. Then the Cowboys. Then San Antonio. Oh, she from Texas? Yes. Oh, yeah. We going to do some damage. Had me get tickets. Remember when TCU played Georgia in the national championship game? Yeah, yeah. Had me get tickets. For what? Do you remember what the score was? I got tickets. She on the 50-yard line. Her and her brother. Tell me, we having a good time.

1:08:42Shannon Sharpe:Score 48-nothing at the house. What time you having?

1:08:49Shannon Sharpe:Hey, I say, I know you're not having a good time. You know how I know, Chippa? How you know? I say, because you calling me. I'm home. What the hell you calling me for? You having a good time. You calling me. 65-7? And they stayed for the whole game. Wow. And I'm leaving. Man, you let my team fall down 48-0. What I'm staying for? She ain't leaving early? No. They stayed the whole game. Damn. And she bought paraphernalia. Remember all that she got phone fingers? I don't want nobody to know I went to this game. I promise you.

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