BEST OF Part 1: Unc & Ocho react to Browns Fumbling Shedeur, Sterling’s HOF Glory! | Nightcap

18:27Shannon Sharpe:You say this, you do this. And because they, look, you look at that team offensively, they got a good team, Mocho. They really do. When you look at their skill position players, you look at their running back, they got a solid offensive line. They got a nice defensive line. They got a good, hey. They surely do. Yeah, they got some good players. but I just, the last couple of years, they've been held back by the quarterback. There's no other way around it. And we're not taking no shots at him. We're not beating nobody down. It's just the facts. That their quarterback play has been insufficient.

19:12Shannon Sharpe:Inadequate. Not up to par. Not enough to win. And when you got those, you got Jonathan Taylor and you got Michael Pittman Jr. Pittman Jr. and you got Pierce and you got all those guys? No, bro. And Downs? What's the other guy? Is it McMillan? No? Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. They got Pierce, Pittman Jr., and they got another guy. Yeah, I think he's wearing number 10, if I'm not mistaken. I might be saying his last name. Yeah. Oh, A.D. Mitchell. Mitchell, that's what he did. That's talking about McMillan. Mitchell. Hey, A.D. Mitchell. Hey, he... Downs? Josh Downs. They got some skill position players.

19:56Shannon Sharpe:A.D. Mitchell going to be nice, boy. Yeah. Defensively, that front seven, they really good. Now the back end, hey, y 'all need to tighten up a little bit. But, hey, they got a nice front seven. The quarterback play need to match that. That's it. When you've accumulated that kind of talent, because guess what, Ocho? You like to think, and that's what teams do. They try to, hey, let's mortgage this thing. We got to – you see what Houston, the Texans are doing. They're like, we got the quarterback on a rookie contract because that next contract is going to be kind of hard to be able to keep all these pieces around said individual player.

20:37Shannon Sharpe:Even if he gives you a discount, he ain't going to give you no$100 million discount. Absolutely not. So it's going to be incumbent on Anthony Richardson to do better, to play better. Look, he got drafted on potential, Ocho. That's what it was. He was basically a 50 % quarterback in college. He was a 50 % quarterback in high school. He's been a 50 % quarterback. But the tools that he – I mean, Ocho, he's 6 '5". He's 245. He ran 4 '4". He can throw the ball 80 yards. Throw the ball 50 yards on one knee. All that side. But this is not the football Olympics. You got to put it together. You need precision.

21:19Shannon Sharpe:You need touch. you need understanding you need the ability to process information decipher that information and then the ball needs to be gone to the right player in the right position yeah

21:35Shannon Sharpe:i don't think you and i breaking we're not breaking news to anybody you watch the game you know his play needs to get better in order for them to be the type of team that that the Colts want to be. He's got to vastly improve. We ain't talking about no marginal improvement. We're talking about vastly improve. Yes, make huge jumps. Yes. Huge jumps. He's got to. Especially And look, and it's going to be, look, it's going to be the owner. Jim Irsay passed away. His daughters are running the team now. So, you know, they're going to have that. You know, they're going to be playing. I'm sure Shane Steichen, who's the head coach, is telling them, hey, we got to play for something.

22:20Shannon Sharpe:You know, Mr. Ursa, this season is dedicated to him and X, Y, and Z, and rightfully so.

22:29But Mr. Richardson, bro, you got to perform.

22:31Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. They're paying you. Hey, they took you. They took a chance. And that's the only thing, Ojo. You see, you little man, I want the sure thing. It's things like this that gets you fired.

22:48Shannon Sharpe:because the last thing I want to be doing is taking a quarterback three years ago and I'm right back in the draft, taking a quarterback again. Dang. I'm supposed to be trying to find, I'm supposed to be trying to fill in, Ocho. I buy a house, Ocho. I ain't trying to buy a house in three years. I'm just adding pieces. I'm adding some pool, some furniture, I'm adding some furniture by the pool. Maybe I get an end table, something like that, Ocho. I ain't really a whole new house. That's a good one. That's a good analogy. I like that. And so that's Anthony Richardson. He's got them proved to the point that they just add pieces around him.

23:28Shannon Sharpe:You don't want to be the piece that gets replaced. Not a good thing. First, first, first, first, first. Ocho this weekend. Yeah. It was unbelievable. Tell me about it. Take your time, man. Take your time. Obviously, I went through this. I experienced this 14 years ago in 2011. And it was unbelievable. I mean, it was a great honor. But this one topped it. Yes, sir. This one topped it. Because of the significance of it, what my brother meant to me and Ocho to be in that Nitschke luncheon on Friday. and hear Rod Woodson and hear Niels Williams and hear Daryl Green and some of the defensive players, be it Richard Dent and Johnny Randall, say, man, this was long overdue for your brother.

24:22Shannon Sharpe:To hear them say that, because I already knew it. You're preaching to the choir. Yeah. I sing up here every Sunday. So I ain't new to the congregation. I'm here. I'm backing you up every week so I know what he is. I know what he was. And to see him finally get that recognition and to my mom, you know, there'll be other moms that have sons in the pro football Hall of Fame. Yes, they won't be first to have my sister and my coach who coached both of us, coached my entire family. My kids there, my sister-in-law and my niece, Susan and Summer there to to to witness that and to experience that. man look here and that's a great feeling boy man ocho man i can't it's it's hard for me to describe ocho yeah and and i knew i would be emotional even though i had already you know i was his presenter and i had already done my part via uh video so i did that a couple of weeks before and so I thought but the more he talked the more he talked and when he says I only have a couple of minutes left but the last couple of minutes I won't you gotta come up here and when he called me to the stage and I had no idea what he was gonna say he didn't write anything down he was the only one that didn't have notes he didn't have anything he said I'm just gonna speak from the heart yeah that's how you know that's pretty much how he does all the speaking and to hear him say that everything he did was for an audience of one he didn't care what you wrote about him he didn't care what you said about him none of that mattered because the only person that he wanted to impress was me everything that he did was because of me and to hear him say you know you can't lead without following and to hear him because it's almost like I'm like it's replaying the very words and how I felt about him how I feel about him and to hear him say that and to know the relationship that he and I have.

26:56Shannon Sharpe:And I think people got an opportunity to see that on full display. Even on Friday night at the Gold Jacket presentation when, you know, you walk the gauntlet, you go through all the Hall of Famers. And we had almost a record, Joe. We had 111 members back. Now, mind you, of 382, my brother is the 382nd member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And if I'm not mistaken, I think there are 181 living members. right okay so that means they're over they're 200 201 that are no longer with us yeah talking to bobby bell this morning getting on the plane he's 115 there's only six with a lower number than him that's still remaining so and then you know you know seeing all that but to be there and to experience it ocho yeah my brother's really not an emotional guy like i said i think i've only a handful of times.

27:50Shannon Sharpe:And like you said, when Papa died, he didn't cry. When daddy died, he didn't cry. When granny passed, he didn't cry.

28:03Shannon Sharpe:But to be in his presence and to know what this moment meant to him, my brother don't let a whole lot of things bother him.

28:16Shannon Sharpe:But to be around him, because I know him better than anybody. I know him better than anybody. I know what this moment meant to him. I know what he felt. Am I supposed to say, hell, I thought he was going to pick you up off the floor at the gold jacket ceremony? Right, right. I said, yeah, and throw his back out in the process. But Ocho, man, to see how he was walking around and to see the love and the kudos that he was getting from those other gold jacket wares and the members and at his party and to have the bust and to have his family because we don't get, like I said Ocho, we don't get together much and I said, bro, we got to do a better job of that.

29:03Shannon Sharpe:I say, look when you really cut it down to I say, us, it's me, you, mama and Libby my kids and you know, Susan and someone I say, we got to do a better job, bro. We got to do a better job. I said, you know, theoretically, Mom could still outlive us long, but come on. We can do a better job than what we've been doing. But Ocho, that was the crown of achievement there. Ain't nothing topping that, Ocho. Because there's if you play a sport to go into your sports heaven, and that's what the Hall of Fame is, be it baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis, swimming, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame If you go into your professions Heaven That's what the Hall of Fame is When you get there, okay Yeah Now that's it That's it Man, I cried I've been up all night

30:07The

30:09Shannon Sharpe:The love and the respect That was shown to my brother man Ocho. Yeah, I already listened. I already know. I already know. Jordan done posted so much stuff, I'm like, well damn. I'm looking at my feed and I'm like, well damn. Did you go to sleep? You posted in the middle of the night? Every time, collab, collab, post, post, post. I'm like, well damn. Somebody sent me something. They didn't have your information. You saw this photo gallery I sent you? Uh-uh. You just sent me something? Man, no, this was a few days ago. Remember? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they didn't have your information.

30:50Shoot, they sent me the whole photo gallery. Oh, man, it's that moment, bro.

30:56Shannon Sharpe:And, you know, riding in the parade and everybody, because the Packers traveled really well. And to see some of his teammates, because I don't know if you noticed, Ocho, when he sat down with me, I didn't know this at the time. I didn't. I didn't know. He never shared this. So what he said on the pod was the first time. Right. When he had his neck surgery, no one called him. Hmm. Not a teammate, not a coach, not a front office. We call hell getting him to accept them doing this party. Right. I said, because what I told him, I said, now you have to understand, the people that's in place now were in place then.

31:38Shannon Sharpe:Right. I said, now, I'm not saying that your anger isn't warranted. I said, but in this situation, it's misplaced. Right. The people that you should be upset with, they weren't there. Yeah, they're long gone. They weren't there. And I didn't know, like I said, Ocho, I didn't know that. Ocho, the man, there's a chance that he could have been paralyzed. Yes, sir. From neck down. He could have been a quadriplegic. Now, mind you, his last season, he still has tied for the third most receiving touchdowns in a single season. And he never played another season. So he goes under the knife. And not, just imagine, Ocho, you go through a surgery that you could be paralyzed or worse.

32:32Shannon Sharpe:The owner, a coach, a teammate, not even TJ, not Carson. not the general manager, not your head coach, not even you, Jack. No one calls you and checks on you? Shit, boy. Listen, that tells you all you need to know, though. You hear me? So think about the people you just named. Think about the people you just named. Nothing is even wrong with me and everybody you just named, I've talked to at least three times a month. Mind you, I am of no value to Marvin Lewis anymore. I'm of no value to Hugh Jackson anymore. Hell, TJ, me and TJ, we in a group chat with about 20 Bengals. So that's a constant form of communication.

33:23But that would hurt so bad. It did. It bothered him. The people that I went to war with, the people that I'm playing for, not giving me a call with the extent of my injury with a chance I could be paralyzed and I can't play ball no more and nobody reached out, not a flower, not a motherfucking card. I'm sorry.

33:47Shannon Sharpe:So I think that bothered him the most. Yeah. And he still, I was like, bro, you know, and he's finally letting it go. Because my brother, you know, he's he don't hit you over the head with it but carries his Bible he goes to church, he reads the scripture so he's learned Ocho that I've got to let this go. He says I can't be what I'm proclaiming to be if I still have this in my heart. But it was tough for him. I'm number 267. He's number 382.

34:32Shannon Sharpe:I think they said over 30 ,000 men have played this game, coached this game, owned a team, been a general manager. 30 ,000. 382 men have a gold jacket. They said over 300, what is it? 300 million men have played the game of football. Let that sink in on your 300 million. Oh yeah. so my mom my mom's like i got two boys talking about i probably need to scan i might have another son out there somewhere so you don't you don't you ain't got another son you ain't got another daughter i promise you this is all this is all you got yeah this is all you got what you got daddy hey you told daddy shot was clothes after me.

35:25Shannon Sharpe:You say, hey, when they ask you, they say, Papa asks you, say, Alice, what you want? Daddy, I don't give a damn if it's a lizard. I'm done. So, you got what you got, mama. That's it. But she was happy. My father, my coach, Coach Hall, like I said, you know, he was there, coached all my uncles. My uncle started graduating high school in 1966. 1966 I graduated 86 yeah he taught for 50 years and having him there but Ocho I don't know if you saw this I know you couldn't pick it up but at the gold jacket ceremony what they did they started doing I don't know when they started it this is my first time back since 2019 is that obviously you walk the gauntlet you know so you have four guys two walk this way two guys walk that way and you got all the hall of fames and they give you hey congratulations welcome to the fraternity welcome to the brotherhood then you get up on stage and then i was really the only presenter that was actually there right uh uh dean spanos who presented uh uh no his dad his dad was yeah his dad was there i think his dad was there jared allen's dad was there put the coat on him marcus put the coat on eric allen and then uh lt ladane and thomason put it on uh gates antonio Gates.

36:49Shannon Sharpe:But anyway, and so you know, they come up, they bring your family out, they let your kids, your wife come up, your kids come up, your mom, X, Y, and Z. So Jared Allen, Jared Allen family comes up there, and everybody, he's excited, you know, his wife is excited, the girls come running to him. I think one of his daughters had on cowboy boots. But anyway, you know, he got his signature move, Ocho, you know what he do? He calf rope, he go down on one knee, calf tied up and wah-wah. He go down on one knee, calf rope that thing. Split his pants. So where I am, I can see. I think he ripped his pants.

37:35Shannon Sharpe:Right. From the back of his knee all the way up to the top of his belt. Yeah. So now they got to rush over. Because the hotel is really close by where they were staying. They got to rush over to get a police his escort and get him a pair of pants. Cause you know, that's funny. That's funny. And there, there's a clip out there and I know we didn't get a chance to vet it and we don't know who it belongs to, but there's a clip out there and you can see it. He grabbed the back. He grabbed at first. I thought he had to, I said, damn, you tweak your hamstring. You don't do no, you know, but then as he started to move, I was like, nah, bro, you rip, you ripped him.

38:16Shannon Sharpe:And he really did. But it was great to see, like I said, I know Gates. Gates, my guy, like a little brother to me. And to see, played against Eric Allen. I played against EA in Philly and when he was at the Raiders because he was chasing me in the end zone. And who else? Jared Allen. Jared retired. He came to Kansas City the year I retired. And who else? EA, Gates. That was it. No, who else? Oh, yeah, obviously played against my brother twice. but Ocho it was unbelievable they're doing so much they're building it up now they're trying to do more for the players that are in the Hall of Fame but it's an unbelievable it's an unbelievable experience and whew that's dope I don't know what I need to deserve all this what you've done for my family but I appreciate it the biggest news of the day Ocho the Browns have released their depth chart Joe Flacco.

39:16Shannon Sharpe:I told you. I told you. QB1. Kenny Pickett. Two. Dylan Gabriel. Three. Shadour Sanders. Five. Excuse me, four. But they did bring in because two of the four quarterbacks are injured. Hamstring, Kenny Pickett, and Dylan Gabriel. And a few hours ago, this is what Adam Schefter tweeted. The Browns are signing Tyler Snoop Huntley, who spent part of last season with Cleveland. With Kenny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel, nursing hamstring injuries, and Shadour Sanders having a sore shoulder, the Browns need another arm. Enter Huntley. Yes, sir. Talk to me. What are the Browns doing? I don't know what they're doing.

40:02We don't know what they've done the last 35. Do they know? Are we sure they know what they're doing? Have they known what they're doing since that franchise has been established? Have they figured it out yet? Because the last good quarterback, no disrespect to the quarterbacks that have played for the Cleveland Browns, the last one that has been of decency has been Bernie Kosar, if I'm not mistaken.

40:25Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, that's in mid-80s. Mid-80s. Okay, there you go. There you go. That's no disrespect to any of the quarterbacks that have played there, but it is what it is. We talk about consistency. Have we had one for a decade that we've been able to lean on and build around? You had a couple of years. You got a couple of years of Baker. But outside of that, no. No disrespect. Come on, man. Come on, man. So how do we? That's the problem that you have. How do we trust this organization when it comes to choosing quarterbacks at a position when they haven't figured it out all these years? All of a sudden, now they got all the motherfuckers.

40:59Excuse me. Now they got all the sins. They're supposed to have all the sins now. The depth chart to me, I'm going to let you go. The depth chart to me doesn't mean anything. We know what Joe Flacco will do when the lights come on. Kenny Pickett had his opportunity when he was drafted to the Steelers. So we've seen a sample size of that already. I mean, no disrespect to him. He's not the answer. Dylan Gabriel has success at Oregon when the lights come on. But it's a different ball game in the NFL with them grown men that got mouths to feed. Everyone should get an ample chance to win their starting position.

41:31We already know who quarterback one is going to be. We know who that's going to be. The depth chart doesn't mean anything. What they're trying to do is they're trying to break young bull. They're trying to break him, huh? That's all it is. From the draft process, to getting drafted in the fifth round, to the owner coming out and saying what he said last week, to now. Man, come on with that bull's eye, man.

41:54Shannon Sharpe:I don't see how Kenny Pickett still remains number two. He hadn't practiced since the 26th of July, if I'm not mistaken. So he's been dealing with a hamstring injury. but when you go out and sign somebody in free agency I mean I guess that does tell you they do think highly of him because they signed him um Dylan Gabriel he's got Dylan with a hamstring um I guess the worst thing that happened is that we could have found out because had both of those guys been injured we head into the first preseason game and only Flacco and Shadour is healthy. Now, it remains to be seen how much Joe Flacco is going to play.

42:34Shannon Sharpe:If he plays, I'm thinking maybe a series, Ocho. That's top. Let's be generous and say a series. Now that was going to be Shadour opportunity to basically take us home. We saw Trey Lance. Trey Lance started the game and played, what, deep into the fourth quarter. Hell, he might have finished the game. with that being said

42:55Shannon Sharpe:the worst thing that could possibly happen happened for the Browns is that the two quarterbacks that you're probably counting on, they both got hurt and they got hurt early now, we'll see how soon it remains to be seen I think I said last night, they played Thursday they played Thursday or Friday is it Friday? okay, they played Friday against the Panthers Three more days. I'm excited.

43:25Shannon Sharpe:Is Shadour going to play? Yes, he doesn't have a choice. This is part of his resume. But what if he has? I mean, clearly they don't feel that confident because if they thought Shadour was going to be able to go, would they have brought a fifth quarterback in? Yeah, they had to bring somebody else in because Kenny Pickett's probably not going to play, especially with a hamstring injury. The game is fine. I don't think either one, I don't think two and three is going to play. Yeah, so definitely, definitely he's going to play. Listen, the eye in the sky doesn't lie, and they need Shador to put what he can on tape.

43:56They need to, what are we going to get? What did we draft? All the work we put in, obviously, going against offense and defense in practice, that don't mean nothing. Well, you don't expect to get, Ocho,

44:06Shannon Sharpe:how long do you expect the$500 call to last? Think about where they drafted him now. Now, clearly they ain't put a whole lot of resources behind it. No. So they're not... You know what, Ocho? You know what we do here on Nightcare. Come on, talk to me now. Chat, you know, when you go by what we used to call, when I was growing up, we call it secondhand. When you go by something secondhand and you spend$500 or you spend$1 ,000 and as is, no warranty, you're not expecting, okay, hopefully it get me from point A to point B. They drafted Shadour in the fifth round. They're not expecting much of Shadour.

44:48Shannon Sharpe:They didn't because if they thought that much of him, they'd have drafted him higher. If they thought that much of him, they would have given him a fair opportunity. But that's not what they've done. And I'm not, look, that's their organization. They run it how they see fit. But I don't know, people in Cleveland, I don't know how you would still have trust in this organization, considering how many quarterbacks and every quarterback they say oh he's franchised he's franchised you said that with derrick anderson and you said that after before him and you said that after him baker got injured and you moved on from him now baker didn't have the the weapons that he has in tampa uh i don't think baker's like oh my god dang i wish i could have stayed in cleveland the weather's a lot nicer in tampa and there's no state income tax and he had a great support system around him.

45:40Shannon Sharpe:With all that being said, I don't think it's much to like, boy, maybe they bet against him. Listen, it happens all the time. I don't want to... How does that make me look if Shadour looks well, Ocho? Wait, he's gonna... Oh, excuse me. The adversity and the obstacles that young Bullets had to endure in general. he's been he's been pre been prepped for this he's been prepped for this oh they're against me since he got drafted when he dropped in the fifth round he already knew what time it was when your opportunity gets there when you get your opportunity you have no choice but to shine you have no choice they're betting against him not to do well right but if you want me to win the race also you got to put me on a fair bread like everybody else you can't give me a clysdale and say go win this race?

46:39Shannon Sharpe:Let me ask you this. When he is in the game, is he going to get the first team offensive line? Uh-uh. Because when they want to give you a serious look, Ojo, you and I both played this game for a long period of time. When they want to give a receiver a serious look, they let him run with the ones. They don't continuously see what he can do with the twos and threes. They give him a fair opportunity with the ones, the number one quarterback, the number one offensive line, and the other one receivers on the opposite side of him. Quarterbacks, when they are running backs, when they really want to see what you can do, they let you run with the one, the number one O-line.

47:21Shannon Sharpe:And normally when they pull the offensive line out, guess who else coming out? The quarterback. Because the quarterback, the starting quarterback is not going to be in there with the twos and threes. The starting running back is not going to be in there with the twos and threes. So I'm going to be very interesting to see. It is the first preseason game. And given the way the preseason is done now, starters don't normally play. They don't normally play, and they don't play much. So Shadour is going to have to make wine with the water, the well water that he's been giving. He's going to be all right.

47:55Shannon Sharpe:He's not been giving purified water. He's not been giving bottled water. So he's going to have to make do with what he has. This is the good thing, though. the cards that he's dealt on Friday night when he enters that game, regardless of what's surrounding him, he's going to make something happen. When he does make something happen, when he's able to make something out of nothing, and there's no disrespect to the twos and the threes and the fours that are trying to make that team, everybody out there vying for a job. For sure. But you and I both know, Ocho. I know, but listen. There are only about five jobs up for grab.

48:27Shannon Sharpe:They know within 40 guys, 41 guys, who's going to build that rock yeah oh listen they they don't know they don't know yet because what they're planning on and what they're trying to do whatever it may be when he gets his opportunity all they got to do is not to go down i don't care what you put around me i'm going to show you i'm going to get the job done so imagine if i can if i can get out there and cut up on friday with threes and fours and twos at my helm what you think will happen when i got the ones which thing gonna happen when I got when I got Judy huh and Joku and the rest of them boys at my disposal as my weaponry if I can do this with my threes and fours and twos out here in a preseason game all he's done all his life is win huh that's all he's done so now you put me in this is in this situation a little obstacle a little adversity all right I've been here before I got this I've

49:27yeah

49:28Shannon Sharpe:I agree with Jocho I mean he's never had a situation like this you don't know what you can overcome until you're faced with it got doggy man with my pen oh that's a good one let me write that down don't go too fast I gotta write that down I'm gonna put that in my notes because Ocho here's the thing see strength is not what you possess strength is overcoming something that you didn't think you could. See, a lot of people think, well, I can lift this or I can do that. That is not strength. Strength is overcoming something you didn't think you could. He's never been in this situation before. He's been the best.

50:11Shannon Sharpe:And now he's going to have that strength that his father has instilled him. His father is very biblical. His father is very into the church. He's into the word. all those words that his father has been preaching to him for a lifetime it will be put to the test when the devil told yeah of course God he's going to serve you you give him everything look at the family look at the livestock that you have look at what you blessed him with why would he not serve you remove the hedge and he'll curse his very maker and Shadour has had abundance of everything he had a dad that had resources to get him that opportunity to go learn and study under Tom Brady to get him throwing coaches and to put him in the best situations now you can recall you can call on that the recall what I what Tom said this and this guy said that and do this, do that.

51:19Shannon Sharpe:But at the end of the day, when you fall on your knees, now, because see, that's what faith is. It's believing, even though you can't see it. You see, man says, show me and I'll trust you. God says, trust me and I'll show you. You see the difference between Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

51:52Shannon Sharpe:Shadour's going to have to rely on his faith. Because at this time, that's all he has. And I'm not so sure that he's not the only one that has it. Because I'm not so sure the people in that building have faith in him. Listen, the people in the building, you ain't got to worry about that. You don't have to worry about that. At the end of the day, if they don't want you, if they don't want you, let me put on film. Let me put on film. That's what you got to do. At the end of the day, regardless of what they do, regardless of where I am on the depth chart, I have a job to do. And I'm going to do it to the best of my ability, regardless of what you put out there on the field with me on Friday.

52:32At the end of the day, it's still football. We've all been playing football since we were football. Cream will rise to the top. Hey, the cream. Man, you just took the word right out of my mouth.

52:41Shannon Sharpe:How would you get ready to say that? I told you. I've been in Shadour. See, I was Shudu Sanders before Shudu Sanders, just at a different position. I know what it's like. I went to a team that just went to the Super Bowl. Although they got drubbed, they brought every receiver back. Mark Jackson, Vance Johnson, Ricky Nathiel, Michael Young. They're only keeping five receivers, and four of the guys that went to the Super Bowl are back.

53:10They're back.

53:11Shannon Sharpe:He's going to be all right. So they bring in four or five other receivers. Shannon Sharms is a seventh rounder. I know that, but I'm supposed to be a camp body. But what you expect out of me and what I expect out of me are two different things. I don't let you set my agenda. I don't let you set my expectation. I see you. That's how Shadour has to think. I know what y 'all I know what you're playing I know hey in life when Ray told Claw he'd say I know you're thinking something you got something up your sleeve I know you got something brewing I ain't got nothing Ray I got an ass cutting for your brewing Shador just needs to be Shador he doesn't have to be any he doesn't have to be anything else other than that most definitely and that's good enough his best is good enough He doesn't have to be extraordinary.

54:12Shannon Sharpe:This is, now, the NFL, it is the league. You remember that movie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? There are a lot of extraordinary gentlemen in this league. A lot of them. But that ain't what he has to beat out. And that's no disrespect to them. Let's be realistic. They take it how they want to. I'm just saying. Joe Flacco is in year 18, and he's way past his prime. Mm-hmm. Kenny Pickett, hey, we'll see he's hurt. Can't make the club in the tub. Dylan Gabriel, he's hurt. I'm telling you what's going to happen. One thing about it. One thing about the football gods. You hear me? One thing about the football gods.

54:56When they know, especially it's funny business going on, the way they moving, cream always rise to the top. That's it. I don't care what you put around me. I'm going to make it work. I'm going to make it do. Listen, when you go to the casino and they dig you them goddamn cards, you can't control what you dealt. You got to play the hand you dealt. You got to play the hand you dealt. You got to play it to the best of your ability. That's it. That's all you got to do. Go out there with just straight, straight confidence. This is my team. You got to walk it. You got to play like it. You got to walk in that stadium like you own it.

55:35You got to walk. You got to. Oh, I see the game y 'all playing. Okay, bet. Let me show you something. Yeah.

55:41Shannon Sharpe:And it's not easy because I don't want people to fake that. Oh, he you never. Yes. Yes. There were there were there were nights that I would go to bed and I'm asking myself, am I good enough? Man, I only got three plays and I ain't catch a pass. So if I'm a receiver, how am I getting judged? by everything else. To do as a quarterback. He don't get no reps. How's he getting judged? Okay, I caught one part. I caught it. I caught it. And it's like, man, I had this great career at Glenville. I had a great career at Savannah State. And now I'm here. In my mind, what person doesn't think that he's better than some of the people that he's going against?

56:28Shannon Sharpe:It wasn't like I was, I wasn't going against a Hall of Fame receiver. It wasn't Jerry. It wasn't Jerry Rice and my brother and Chris Carter and all those guys out there. That was how I was going to have to try to win time from.

56:45Shannon Sharpe:But look, it gave me confidence that John Elway told me I could play in this league. He thought I had the ability to play. it helped me a lot when Mark Jackson would tell would legitimately tell me what I needed to do but yeah there was I'm fighting for a job and we fighting for a job and the guy told me the wrong route I didn't know it was the wrong route I went in there and ran it Dan Reed chewed my ass out did you do it full speed though? hey ask me what the hell I'm running the route hey I'm swole I just knew I read it right. Right, right. Hey, nice slap. Arm on rib. You know what I'm saying, Ochoa?

57:29Shannon Sharpe:I hit it right quick. Because you know back then, if you spend too much time dancing in a line of scrimmage, they're going to come up through your face mask. So, hey, plant, chop. I'm over. He blowing the whistle like that. I ain't been halfway through my round, Ochoa. What he blowing the whistle for? Let me get this rock and do something on it. Shadow Shark, what the hell are you doing? You know, me, old smart. I'm thinking to myself, what the hell it look like I do running that route? What you got on such and such? I thought I got.

58:03Shannon Sharpe:What can I say? Somebody told me the wrong route? You supposed to know what the hell you supposed to do anyway. That's, hey, that's how it, that's how it, that's how it is. It's a cutthroat. Bro, I'm trying to get a job. Absolutely. And if I can remove you out of the way to make my opportunity to get this job easier, guess what I'm going to do? I am going to remove you. It's called removing the competition. We know it. We hear all about what they try to do, take over somebody's territory. You try to expand the territory. It doesn't matter how. I just need to expand. I need to make sure. So he tried to remove me.

58:45Shannon Sharpe:I run the wrong route. Hey, let me, hey, never ask again. But you know what? And Mayor Porter used to say, God don't like ugly. Sometimes he don't like pretty. Guess who was the first one to get cut? But he told you the wrong route? Yeah. Hey, listen, one thing about it, boy, you can't deny greatness, boy. You can't deny greatness, you know? It was meant for me to go there. Remember when Shadour got drafted, I said, it's a blessing in disguise. Because they've always had an issue in finding the answer at that position. Now, watch they try to play with him. I said, watch they try to play with him, and he ends up being the answer that they didn't even know they had.

59:39Watch. I guarantee you. And if I'm wrong, I put my foot in my mouth. if I'm...

59:46Shannon Sharpe:Well, the thing is, he might be the answer, Ocho, and that was not even the test that they gave him.

59:53Shannon Sharpe:That's the problem that they're up against. Wait a minute. Man, bring that back one more time. That's it. You said he'd be the answer. Yes, he could well be the answer, and that's not the test that they gave him. Hey, what are you preaching tonight, boy? God. What's for you? What's for you is for you. Can nobody stop it. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. And God is God and good and bad. And we just got it. We just, we understand that. We accept that. But, uh, yeah. He has a lot going on. Don't think his mind is not, hey, it's pops. You know how close he is with his dad. His dad dealing with what he's dealing with.

1:00:42Shannon Sharpe:But his dad said, hey, you handle that. I got this. You handle that up there in Cleveland. You let me take care of this down here in Boulder.

1:00:54Hey.

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