Nightcap Hour 1: Russell Wilson CLAPS BACK at Sean Payton + Unc & Iso Joe CLOWN Ocho for having a TWIN BED + Unc REFLECTS on his 2025 & CALLS OUT his FAKE FRIENDS + Quinshon Judkins JOINS NIGHTCAP

25:12Shannon Sharpe:George Carl, keep on poking Melo. Melo don't mention George Carl. But every chance he gets, he tries to poke Melo. Melo's going to have to, look, Melo's going to have to draw a line in the sand and say, Mo Fo, if you step across this line again, I'm going to have to unleash. You know he ain't got no problem doing that. You know Melo ain't got no problem drawing that line. he's gonna have to because every time every time he's always speaking negative oh they couldn't win no championship with that guy he wouldn't play defense he wouldn't do this i get it you don't like mellow everybody is not gonna like everybody but bro you hadn't coached mellow in damn near two decades yeah what what is the issue now can we just move on i mean obviously at that point it'd be better if coaches come out especially when they continue to do this and they have things to say years removed from from dealing or coaching a certain individual why don't you just come out and say you know what i don't even like this individual and it's personal it had nothing to do with the sport it had nothing to do with basketball had nothing to do with football nothing to do with him playing quarterback or whatever it may be i just don't like him and that's okay it would be it would be better suited for us as a public and fans of these sports to come out and have sean pay say you know what i just don't like russell wilson i don't know i don't know what it is about him I just don't like him or George Carl you know what I don't like Carmelo whatever it may be what's understood don't need to be spoken yeah you know man I don't well if somebody continuously cheating on the other party what does he need to say what does she need to say you keep doing what you're doing when you know it's wrong I don't need no no Harvard attorney to try to read between the lines yes sir you're telling me the mere fact that you keep taking shots at me publicly is one thing if it's getting back to me Ocho but the mere fact that you're putting it in print the mere fact that you keep saying it publicly I can read it for myself I can see it for myself tells me that how you feel about me but I didn't I already knew that I'm like I've been trying to take the high road try to remain remain professional I'm trying to build a brand I don't want to do anything to tarnish that but hey bro I understand that's not what you are you don't try to build a brand you're not really on television people go to you when they want to get they want to get clicks they want to get a rage bait material they'll come to you and you'll say something Mello is one of the 75 greatest players to ever play in the NBA we understand what Melo is now he's a hall of famer so automatically if somebody says something negative that's going to get picked up yeah that is Melo that's his former coach yeah I I just don't I just don't get it we don't have to like all of our teammates we don't have to like all of our coaches I've had I had a great relationship with all the coaches maybe one or two I didn't really jive with.

28:19Shannon Sharpe:It's okay. But I would never say anything publicly. Absolutely. For a teammate. It's only so much, bro. It's only so much. Yeah, bro. I'm 57. I got grand now. What I'm talking about what happened 25, 30 years ago. What purpose does that serve? In a negative light. Yes! Yeah. None at all. None at all. I mean, listen, I get along with everybody. I'd assume. I try to. I'd assume everybody loves me the same way I show love. There's only one person I don't get along with and if I ever see him, it's on site and

28:59what'd you say, Joe? Who was that? You don't want to say? Oh, James Harrison. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's personal. It's personal. And I say it every day and I let him know. I can't wait to see him. Obviously, he doesn't live here in Miami, but the only place I'll probably see him, what, maybe Super Bowl? Yeah, O2. Yeah, so I'm sure we'll probably cross paths, maybe you know, Radio Row or some shit like that, and either he gonna have security or it's just gonna be a thumping session.

29:28Shannon Sharpe:O2, I don't know if you wanna climb that tree, man. One thing about me, hey, let me tell you something, hey, Joe, in high school, they called me Paul Bunyan, you hear me? Hey, I'm chopping everything down. All the trees. Hey, as your player partner, man, I'm trying to listen. You might want your pass on that one, bro. Hey, Joe, brush up on your NFL knowledge. What you want to know, Anx? I seen, hey. No, I'm just saying, I might need a new partner. Okay, okay, say less, say less, say less. I'm with you. Hey, the fact that y 'all don't have no faith in me, man, that y 'all not Christian. Hey, hey, hey, Anx, basically saying, you gonna be concussed, you gonna be out, you gonna be out for the rest of the season.

30:12Shannon Sharpe:Look, we got other business ventures that we're trying to get to, Ocho. Oh, we going to get there no matter what. We going to get there no matter what. I mean, if you can't talk for like six months. Oh, I'm going to be able to. Man, trust me. I'm going to be okay. Hey, listen. If you see me in a fight with a bell, you might want to help the bell. Yeah. Hey, Joe, I don't need no partner when he move in the chair like this here. You hear me? I can't use no partner like that. I need a real partner. Somebody to go laugh and joke and get up out the chair. Hey, Ocho, I got a question. What's your game plan, though?

30:49Y 'all getting into Oxagon? What y 'all doing? Hey, listen. Octagon, street, boxing ring, it don't matter. On site. It don't matter, Joe. I'm at that point. I'm kind of frustrated because I keep challenging him and he really don't want no smoke. He's not responding. That lets me know all that size and muscle don't mean

31:09Shannon Sharpe:nothing man okay hey hey from me to you bro just keep your distance stick and move don't hey that's that's hey joe that's what i'm gonna do joe don't yeah there you go hey look at look at my range make my moraine got there yeah you know i'm gonna keep him out of distance joe like i might i might get me arranging that and get close up on him no no don't do that don't do that no no don't get close keep that distance use that jab you gotta use that jab baby hey joe i'ma use that thing joe I'm using it. I'm telling you. Man, listen. Listen, hey, one thing about it, man. The first - God always been on my side.

31:46God always been on my side. You hear me? I am on your side. I'm saying - I'ma pull him off you. But y 'all sound like y 'all ain't on my side. Y 'all telling me I'ma be hurt, and I ain't gonna be able to talk.

31:57Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, it ain't looking good. All right. But no, what we're trying to do, Ocho, we're trying to keep you safe. I'm safe. I'm safe. When I get in the car, I put my seatbelt on. When I walk out the door, I say a prayer. Every morning, I roll out of bed. Whether I roll out the left side or the right side, I say me a prayer. Every time I walk up and I pray, I'm always safe. You don't get out the same side of the bed every morning? Huh? You don't get out the same side of the bed? No. Sometimes I roll to the left, I roll to the right, depending on what side she on. Oh, okay. Yeah. I get out the same side.

32:36Shannon Sharpe:It don't matter. Me too. No. No, hell no. I'm sleeping. That's my side. What size bed y 'all got? I ain't no. I mean, Ocho, I'm just saying, who sleeps in the middle of the bed? I sleep on one side. No, I don't sleep on the edge of the bed because I might fall out. You don't toss and turn? No. Yeah. I see my bed. I got a twin. What size y 'all bed? Oh, man, stop. I got a king bed. God damn. You got a king? What, you sleeping on a full size? A twin? I got a twin. Boy, you ain't had no twins since you was in college. Exactly. Hold on. Time out. Hold on. Hey, hold on. I'm not playing. Wait, y 'all got king size beds?

33:21Shannon Sharpe:Man, come on, Joe. You know how much that shit costs? Yeah. Oh, Joe, I got to have a king size. Oh, but Joe, you - You probably got a California king. your feet be hanging out the bed, Joe. There you go, baby. There you go. Hey, listen. The king bed costs so goddamn much. I got the cheapest one. And then you know how much a mattress is? Yeah. You don't have to buy no mattress. You don't have to buy no mattress, but once every 10 years. Yeah. A posturpedic mattress, man, was like$4 ,000 for a king bed. I was like, oh, that's cool. Give me the twin. I got my mattress. I got one of the mattresses.

34:03Shannon Sharpe:Oh, that really it'll tell you how long you slept How long you was in a deep sleep how long you was in the rim If you bear get hot it'll cool it down for you. You make adjustments You got one of the memory for her. You got one of the memory phones over there. No, I got weather Well, you know what about one of them old space age be Hey, what would they run how much when I'm run a little sauce. So you don't look sorry, you know, they come in twin Hey, Ocho, why you be trying to act like you can't spend four, five grand on a bed, man? I ain't spending no... Joe. Hey, Joe. I ain't spending four, five thousand on a bed.

34:38Joe, who do that? Look, look. Come on, man.

34:45You ain't doing nothing but sleeping and shagging on there anyway.

34:48Shannon Sharpe:That's what I'm saying, but Ocho, Ocho, it'll tell me how long I was in a REM sleep. It'll tell me how long I was in a deep sleep. It'll tell me how long I snored. it'll say you snored 35 minutes last night you snored 50 less than normal yeah yeah it'll tell you what time you fell asleep i have a question even if that bed has all those features and has all those amenities that it comes with i'm sure it costs a pretty penny what are you going to do with that information 5900 that's how much the bed costs that's a whole lot what you mean ocho What you mean what I'm going to do with that information?

35:28Shannon Sharpe:It'll tell me. Guess what? It says your best time to work out is between the hours of 1 and 5. Take the morning to rest. Your body will tell you that. Your body will tell you when the best time to work out is. That's what it's telling me. It's the same reason they put all that stuff in your shoulder pads and they track everything that you do at practice now. Right. You dehydrated. You need more hydration. See? the more information you have hey you want me to tell you why they track everything now because they understand see their pros and their cons to that they understand when you get to a certain amount of mileage yeah this car he ain't no more good that's all it is with that man he tracking that upstairs they try to make it seem like it's a good thing but they tracking all this stuff where his speed ain't what it used to be yeah we might need to watch him It's about we might want to get rid of them and get something good for them.

36:27Shannon Sharpe:Well, they put it in your pads, Ocho. Huh? They put that in your shoulder pads. Yeah, and the catapult. You know, the catapult thing? Yeah. Yeah, man. And the bed, you know, I like it to be about somewhere between 66 and 68 degrees. So, you know, as you lay down, my body temperature, I'm like, my body temperature is hell. So it'll cool it down. So it might start at 72 and it'll say, you know, we made 34 adjustments last night to your bed. Be it my feet, be it my back, be it if I'm on my side, be it if I'm laying on my stomach. It doesn't matter. It'll automatically adjust. I got a damn boot. I give you a goal.

37:07All that's so unnecessary. I do just fine. Let me tell you something. Stay with me real quick. Stay with me, Joe. Joe, I got a twin bed, Joe. It cost me$2 ,200, Joe. I got a mattress, memory foam, Posturepedic. It cost me$800, Joe. That's fine. You talk about your bed heating up and getting cold and doing this and doing that. I don't need all that shit. Joe, I put my AC on 65 degrees and I leave it. I'm good.

37:33Shannon Sharpe:I'm good. I ain't got to do all that. The bed will adjust for me. It cooled down for me. I ain't got to do all that. Hey, you boys sleeping like polar bears. Hey, Joe, you know how to get hot? Oh, Joe, when you get hot, you got to kick your leg out from under the cover or throw the cover off that I ain't got to do none of that. I ain't got to do none of that. That's normal, though. No, it ain't. No, it ain't. Hey, me, I pull the covers up on me. See, you live in a different time. You're trying to live like the Jetsons. I don't want to live like the Jetsons. I want to live like the Flintstones.

38:07Shannon Sharpe:I already lived like the Flintstones for 20 years. I ain't trying to live like that again. Right, right. I'm good. I done had pallets on the floor. I don't sleep on those cast iron beds I'm good I'm gonna sleep good now oh yeah hey oh Joe sleeping's important brother that's that's how your body hey look that's how your body recover man hold on I'm good Joe I don't go nowhere I know about sleep if it wasn't for the show remember I'm sleep by 9 30 at night I'm up at 5 a.m. every morning I'm in the gym at 7 a.m. I sure wish I sure wish I could go to bed at 9 30 at night you can if you stop partying hey you remember what happened Monday night What?

38:47Shannon Sharpe:1.30. I've seen you. Yeah, what time did we come on, Ocho? It was 10.45 here. It was 1.45 there. Yeah, we didn't get off until 3 in the morning. Exactly. And guess what else, Ocho? I had to get right back up and catch a flight and go to L.A. Okay. See, that's what I call dedication because I was up, too. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, I was up. Hey, Joe, it was 3. We got off the show. Joe, I swear for God, my clock said 3.23. I already know. I wasn't tripping. I was feeling good, too. because I took a nap earlier today. Yeah. I took a nap earlier today. No, I had to cut them naps out. Because you can't sleep at night.

39:24Shannon Sharpe:I can't sleep at night. Hey, see? That's perfect. You see, this is why I'm trying to get you a part in a night. It's perfect right there. Them nights you can't sleep at night, boom. Hey, honey, I wrote a poem for you. Hey, honey, let me write you a love letter. Hold on. Recite some Shakespeare to your girl or something. Hold on, hold on. I thought, I'm saying he got somebody saying he should have been married in two years. Yeah, yeah. You heard that, Joe? Joe live for sure. Yeah. Hey, just because y 'all don't see me, I'm listening and watching now. Okay, okay. Yeah. Hey, Joe, you married, huh?

39:59Close enough. I ain't married.

40:00Shannon Sharpe:Close enough. Okay, but listen, listen, hold on. Stay with me, Joe. He just ain't got no paperwork. Hang on. Listen, this is what we can do. We can all make this official and have a trifecta wedding. Hold on. Yeah, we can have a trifecta wedding. I'm official. I just ain't got no whistle.

40:22Shannon Sharpe:I'm good. Yeah, we back. We back. We probably watching. Okay. Okay. All right. I'm picking up what you're putting down. I got you. Yeah, Joe, we know it. You feel me now? It's time to come home. Yeah. It's about that time. we not getting no younger nah I ain't hey Joe I tried to explain to Unc I say the older we get the older we get the chances of getting what we want it becomes slim because what's available out there right now don't nobody else want because that's why it's available you hear me you get a certain age you know you get what you can not what you want to you know what I'm saying. Hey, the pickings are slim now.

41:14Shannon Sharpe:Hey, it's a tough time to be dating now, boy. Hey, what? Hey, boy. I waved my white flag long time ago. I remember, hey, we got back to school clothes. It was like a week before school. Everything done been picked over. Right. Hey, it wasn't so early. Hey, we get the last two weeks. Everything done been picked over. Everybody else done tried the jeans on, done tried the shirt on, that had their feet in the shoe. That's where they came up. Because I remember when I was coming up, Joe, people be trying the shoes on just their bare foot. Yeah. You ain't have no socks. You know, they just started.

41:52Shannon Sharpe:You laughing, Ocho. I ain't lying. You people had their breath like, damn. Hey, let me get them what he just had. But that was back in the day. So, but it's time to come on in, Ocho. It's time to come on home. Man. it just it is what it is and i listen i'm i'm i'm at fault too i'm at fault too yeah for sure as i've gotten older i've tried i struck out huh i've tried i've tried i've tried i've struck out but you know i'm back i'm back at the plate that's that's the one thing i love about baseball is at some point as much as you strike out you will get your opportunity to be at the plate again and right now I'm about to hit a home run yeah yeah call me uh Joao Ohtani no not Ohtani Aaron Judge no play for the Blue Jays oh Vlad Guerrero Jr I'm Guerrero Jr yes sir yes sir yeah man the thing was you know my problem with Ocho looking for perfection oh take your time it ain't out one boy she the perfect height she was the perfect complexion come on she had the perfect build she had the perfect uh-huh bro you not gonna find all that in one you just listen i've come to the realization i've got to i gotta find a woman that have enough of the qualities that i'm looking for that i'm willing to overlook the ones that she don't have.

43:33Shannon Sharpe:It took me 57 years to realize that there is no such thing as perfection although we constantly try to achieve it. Talk to them. So now I'm like, okay, that's enough. You're enough. You're tall enough. You're fine enough. The complexion is enough. Everything is enough. Come on now. And it took me a while to realize that because I'm like, I'm trying to be perfect. hell I want the perfect person yeah yeah that's why I ate the way I ate that's why I trained because I was trying to be perfect Shannon and my sister just say Shannon you realize you're not gonna be perfect right you realize you you flawed you are flawed I don't know why we all are we are yeah I mean I'm like listen I I I I would love I would love to be a therapist I would love to be counselor for my sisters because they have expectations.

44:28And I love people having expectations and having wants and needs and wanting requirements for people that they date to meet those qualifications. What y 'all laughing at?

44:41Shannon Sharpe:I'm listening, bro. Yeah. But here's the thing, Ocho. But stay with me real quick. I want to hear this. What are the chances? If you ask a woman, Joe, if you ask woman what is she looking for the man you hear me and she'll run down the list of all the qualities and all the requirements that's that she wants and it's almost it's a builder bear it's not it's not real the expectations aren't realistic so everyone is looking for this this not not imaginary but you you'll meet a guy that that'll meet half of what you want and oh you know nah he ain't no good. He worked at Sears. He worked at Macy's.

45:22I can't do nothing with that.

45:24Shannon Sharpe:Ocho. Yeah. The easy thing you'll do is to get with a person. Getting with is the easy part. Staying is what's hard. Basketball came easy to Joe. Football came easy to you and I. But guess what we had to do? We had to practice. We had to study. We had to lift weights. We had to train all that goes towards work yeah working you see everybody gets to the relationship and then that's it you've got to work every single day because the person that you met yesterday is not the person today the person that you go bet the bed with tonight gonna wake up and so now instead of finding a reason to break up can I find a reason to stay in the words of earth winning five can I find a reason just one can I find one reason to stay love games been played all of our reason was a come on now take your time so now it took me a while because I'm Ocho hey nah

46:38Shannon Sharpe:Shannon because at the end of the day the way she look today she ain't gonna look like that 10 years from now. She ain't gonna look like that from 20 years from now. And that booty that's up on her shoulders, it's gonna be down by her knees, and you're gonna need to pick it up and walk behind her. Because you know she's walking in a silhouette that you can see. Now when she get about 55, 60, it's gonna be dragging in the sand on the beach. You're gonna know where she went. Hey, what about girl? Okay, I see a trail. You know what I'm saying? And you gotta accept that, Ocho. Because I really You know what?

47:13Shannon Sharpe:I walked by the mirror the other day and I was like, damn.

47:22Shannon Sharpe:I ain't the same guy no more, Ocho. Hold on. You lost it? Ocho, I'm telling you. I used to pee in a boot from 25 feet away. That's how your arm was, Ocho. I ain't that no more. What happened? Hey, you say you ain't got it like you used to. I ain't got it like I used to. I'm like, well, damn. I'm like, you know, I'm not terrible. Right. But I'm looking at how I once was. Right. And so if women were to judge me by what I used to be, as opposed to what I currently am, I ain't going to get nobody. Damn. I know I used to walk. I walked around at 235 with 5 % body fat. Okay. 3%, 4 % body fat for years.

48:15Shannon Sharpe:Right. And so I was like, you know what? I need to give people grace. Like I'm asking people to give me grace. Hold on, what you saying? You fat now? Nah, he's - No, I ain't fat. Oh no, everybody, no stretch of the imagination. Okay, okay. Hey, hey, I'm saying his bounce back ain't like it used to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. His bounce back ain't, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Damn. I'm just saying the baby arm ain't what it used to be. That's all I'm saying, Ocho. That's all. That's it. We ain't going no further. 26. 26. I'm going to be back. Check. Stay with me till 26. My bad, Thaddo.

48:53Shannon Sharpe:My bad, Thaddo. Yeah. But you have to come to the realization, man, and I've come to the realization that, hey, it is what it is. Hey, I ain't 27. I ain't 37. Hey, just got to keep kicking. I just put one foot in front of the other and just keep going forward. Well, we back. We all the way back. I love it. Damn. Nah, nah, nah, nah. We all the way back. But you better believe, 26 is going to be all the cracking. All right. That's what I'm talking about. I'm going to be part of some of that cool stuff y 'all got going. Yeah, you know, the reason why y 'all fell in love with Uncle Don't Choke nightcap, 26.

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53:53Shannon Sharpe:Change wisely. Man. You know, when you, you know what I'm saying, you know, you drive and you just spend a lot of time. You know, I've had a lot of time today because, you know, my grandmother say, boy, she say, you either walking into the storm, you in the storm or you walking out of it. Yes, sir. You say somebody, everybody going through something, son. Yeah. Come on. Come on. Boy. And when you in that storm, when you in the eye of the storm, the eye of the storm dropped down in New Orleans, Katrina, that was the eye. Yeah. Boy, you don't think, you don't know if it's ever. Ever. Like, when is this going to be over?

54:31Shannon Sharpe:How much longer? Man, hello. Where do I go? When does it end? What the? Yeah. Hey. But I. The eye of the storm could be eye over. Ocho, I read a quote many, many years ago. It said, a lesson that's not learned in blood is destined to be repeated.

54:56Shannon Sharpe:I had a conversation with my brother probably about two months ago. He called me and I said, well, obviously he knew what was going on because I called him and told him or heard a time. And then something else came out. Then something else came out. Then something else came out. Then ESPN came out. He said, Shannon, there's a lesson in here somewhere. For you to be going through what you're going through, there is a lesson. It's on you to figure it out. Yeah. I said, man, I sure wish I would. He said, you know what? He said, no, that's not the plan. He said that if you knew what it was, you would circumvent the lesson.

55:40Right.

55:41Shannon Sharpe:he said no but you'll figure it out he said you'll figure it out and people when y 'all see me I don't I don't want y 'all to have the wrong impression but I'm just very guarded now I'm very very guarded I was always on alert but I'm on high alert because I really don't know who I can really trust because what I've seen over the over the over the last six months there are very few people that you can actually trust yeah yeah very very very few and there are there are people that said some things and it's gotten back to me but I was like wow yeah and and you remember we had this conversation don't show about being down and then people feel like they could they can pile on yeah um but I'm I'm I'm I'm just very I I'm I'm very matter of fact I'm very hey how you doing and it's nice to meet you.

56:40Shannon Sharpe:I'm on my way. I'm on my way because I don't want people. Yeah, I had a conversation because if you stay too long, Ocho, the more people, and this is what I had to learn, and somebody told me this. They say, Shannon, the more people you become involved with, the more stories there is to be told.

57:03Shannon Sharpe:Circle got to be crazy small. The more people you're involved with, Shannon, the more stories there are to be told. Okay. I like that.

57:20I didn't know what was going to happen.

57:24Shannon Sharpe:I appreciate you, Ocho, because you're like, hey, when you text me, Unc, I'm with you. Yeah. Whatever we got to go through, we going through it. You ain't by yourself. till the wheels fall the fuck off. Shit, you gave me opportunity. There are so many people, Ocho and Joe, that used to call, that used to text. Yeah. I ain't heard from them since this happened. But that's all right, though. That's all right, though. Man, please. Yeah, keep it moving, baby. Maybe this is what, I don't wish this on anybody. But what it did do Is it really showed me Who's really Really there There are a lot of people on the Peripheral When things were going well We were at the apex And Getting invited to everything Yeah I'm talking about ain't called Ain't called and I'm talking about we were talking once a month twice a month are we going to come back but I see I think about too Unc and Joe you had to think about what you had to go through I've been in the eye of that storm too now big time in front of the world I had to take my legs I had to take my wings and I had hey Joe but them calls stop ain't hurt nobody my circle was always small so my same my same circle was right there you know to lift me up but i already knew i often sit for a minute yeah for a long time joe i had a it was quiet up for maybe six years yeah well you know how long six years six years is and nothing coming no nothing you just i'm i'm and then here we go you give me an opportunity you know why everything is is is back going motion and going is going good yeah and then you think i had a nerd to jump ship just because you're going through what i had to go through years ago i know i know what it's like yeah and i'm looking at the chat everybody say steven a no i will say this steven a has called me and been there every step of the way I will say that I will say Stephen A Have reached out he's called Asked me anything Juvie He's like man Juvie just wanted to say hey That's his boy He just wanted to say hey You good hey You good I'm good I'm good look I know A lot of people say a lot of things about Stephen A all I can attest to is the Way Stephen A is with Shannon And he's been great because when I went through what I was going through at Fox he was there when I was going through what is this he was calling anything I could do what can I do I won't get into private conversations that we have because that's between he and I but there are a lot of other people a lot well I shouldn't say a lot of the parts of the land there were a few quite a few

1:00:47Shannon Sharpe:but you know what I was I've been down before this public lashing and ridicule and scorn and humiliation take your lumps but it took me a while to realize like hold on you call the people that you're closest to brother, mom sister, kids, best friend, bucket burns you explain to them what they say bro we good once I got to that Ocho you and I talked about this man look it is what it is I'm gonna be alright I ain't even wanna hear it we good sunshine follows rain what time the next show hey Joe that's all I wanna know what time is the next show That is exactly what he said. I know what that's like.

1:01:51Okay. Okay. Yeah.

1:01:54Shannon Sharpe:We will get back to that, but our very, very special guest is joining us. Cleveland Browns rookie sensation running back, Quinshawn Judkins joins us. Q, what's going on, bro?

1:02:09Shannon Sharpe:What's up? What's up? What's up? How you doing? Nah, he good. He good now. What's up? You been housing that thing this week? Well, you've been housing it since you got back. But you was really housing that thing. Hey, house call. Fought it. I'm out. I had to. Yeah. How are you feeling? How has your experience so far in the NFL been? Has it been everything you expected it to be as opposed to, you know, the transition from college to college? Oh, yeah, most definitely. I feel like it's been more so surreal, not only for myself, but for my family to get to experience everything, you know, get to meet a lot of the players.

1:02:44and that whole nine yards, man, just getting to finally touchdown, you know, going through so much, a slow start to the beginning of the season and shoot, just everything taking off when I landed. Man, that's what's up.

1:02:57Shannon Sharpe:You're from Ohio, right? No, I'm from Alabama. I'm from Montgomery. Oh, you're from Alabama? Oh, man, how did you get out of – how did you get weighed Ohio State from Bama? NIL. Hey, hey. that's the way to keep that seriously oh man i think for myself just in college man i ended up going to old miss for two years i played there in the sec um had a lot of success and then my last year of college for my junior year i was like man i want to go somewhere i can compete for a national championship so i ended up at ohio state i felt like that was a great situation coach day was a great tight program a lot of talented players there so you know i was like You know, it's no better place to go than Ohio State.

1:03:43So I end up there.

1:03:45Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Q, tell me something. You SEC freshman of the year, right? I was, like, nominee for it or something like that. But, yeah, I think I was freshman of the year. I can't even remember. So you left the SEC to go to Ohio State, huh? Yep. Hey, that bag different, ain't it, man? For me, it wasn't about that, though. You know, like, for many different people, like, in the game, It's about money, the car. For me, it was like at the end of the day, bro, I'm a competitor. I'm trying to go out and, you know, kill it. Like, I'm trying to go out and, you know, win games as much as possible. Because at Ole Miss, I was putting up 1 ,500 yards.

1:04:23I'm getting 15 touchdowns a year. So, I'm like, man, no, I'm doing all that. But that's not what fulfills me. That don't make me happy. So, that wasn't what I was chasing. You wanted that title. Hey, Q. Hey, Q. Q. Hey. Hey, don't give me that politically. For real though. Not for real. Come on. Hey, this is your boy. Come on. Don't do it like that. For real. Hey. Okay, okay, okay. I'm going to let you have it. Hey, one thing. I want to talk about the Cleveland Browns. And I want to, from the outside looking, I don't think you quite understand. Obviously, you in position, but me on the outside looking in, because there's been controversy at the quarterback position, do you understand that you are the bell cow that you are the offense that often goes as you go most of the times it's a star player a star quarterback or a star receiver but you are the nucleus of that offense and as you go the rest of the team goes do you quite understand that just yet i think just because it's so early on in my career i quite don't get it yet but at the same time I understand like the situation like in coach Stefanski's his offense if you go back to Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt and different guys playing in this offense it's always been able to to lean on the run game and I think that's what's very beneficial about playing this offense um so I think you know just in my mindset man like my mentality regardless of who we playing that week, what plays we're installing, just had a staying determination, bro, to just go out there and leave it all out on the field.

1:06:07But knowing the particular situation, yeah, for sure, knowing that this is a run-first offense. I'm all right.

1:06:15Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, you in the West Coast system. In the West Coast system, that's all you put your foot in the dirt and you get downhill. And then everything comes off of that because now we're going to boot, we're going to play action because, look, I I played in this offense. Now, a lot of it's maybe changed. The wording or the herbage has changed. But you go back and look at the Broncos offense with TD and Clinton Portis and Mike Anderson and Ruben Drones, and you look at the way the teams run this offense. When you got a running back, when you got a guy, Christian McCaffrey in San Francisco, Kyron Williams with the Rams, you look at Josh Jacobs with the Packers.

1:06:51Shannon Sharpe:When the run game is efficient, this offense is almost impossible. Almost, almost, literally, because I feel like that's when we're at our best. When we're clicking in the run game, like, I feel like as a team, man, we're unstoppable. And that's where we continue to get better at and consistently try to go out there on Sundays and put it all together. Because I feel like, like you said, man, that run game is what really helps us. What were your expectations? What was your goals when you came in? You were dealing with what you were dealing with in the offseason? season I think you got uninvited to the uh to the draft but you was going through what you was going through you was like okay this is going to be behind me and I'm going to have to put what I what's what's this is I got to put that behind and I got to go somewhere and I got to perform at an elite level I got to play like I know I can play what was your expectations for your uh uh your rookie season I think for myself it was more so a testament to you know what I'm doing when nobody was looking because when I wasn't in the building you know like I didn't have a strength staff I didn't have a coach to talk to to go over plays I didn't have every resource that I had while I'm here in Cleveland now so it was like the amount of dedication that it took for me to give everything I had and try to perfect my craft when I wasn't around and then come back like it was nothing and try to get on that same page with no training camp, no football for, what, three months.

1:08:29So not having those things and just training, making sure I'm mentally sharp so when I get that call and I go back, I'm ready. I think that was my things that I really hearted the most. Also, other than, like, physical activity was really just making sure, you know, like i'm mentally sharp just because you go through so much man and a lot of people don't understand they'll never know what it's like you know especially being an athlete and the thing that we deal with uh but yeah bro just really just making sure i'm mentally there all the way

1:09:03Shannon Sharpe:sharp 100 i love that what you said what you were doing when no one was watching because discipline is doing what you should do versus what you want to do yes i'm sure you wanted to hey the boys kicking it they doing they pay hey let me go over here let me party let me kick it but the discipline stay true because i got bigger issue you're the first browns player with three rushing touchdowns in the game since nick chubb did it september 18th 2022 you had 84 yards rushing uh three touchdowns and your rookie of the week nominee when you when you see things like you've done doing things that hadn't been done by a browns player in three years you're doing you know being nominated for rookie of the year.

1:09:44Shannon Sharpe:Look, we all want validation. We put that kind of time in. We put that kind of work in in the offseason. And to see you plant a tree, you want it to bear fruit. Yeah. You're bearing fruit. How pleasing, how gratifying, how satisfying is it for like, okay, everything that I did in the offseason, everything that I went through, this is more gratifying. It makes it even more like I know I was doing the right thing. For me, it more so like I'm just I'm one of those people where it's like, man, I'm just trying to chop wood. I'm just trying to chop wood. What I'm doing is that's cool, but at the same time, I got bigger goals.

1:10:22I know how I view myself as a competitor, how good I want to be. So I don't really think about it, but at the same time, when I look up and knowing what I've been through, knowing how I persevered, knowing what different challenges I've faced, and then you see the light at the end of the tunnel, it motivates me personally to keep going. strive to be better. So I think just that motivation you get from it and the hunger.

1:10:48Shannon Sharpe:Hey Q, man, as a rookie in the NFL, bro, living the American dream. Tell me what it's like, because when I look back, when I was a rookie playing in the NBA, bro, I couldn't sleep, man. I couldn't sleep. I was so geeked for the moment because I'm coming, because when I came in the NBA in 01 is when Jordan came back, you know, T-Mac, Cole, Vince Carter, all them dudes who was, you know, they was at the apex, so I couldn't sleep nights before games because I was still keeping them for the moment. Man, I'm not playing, so what is it like as a rookie living the American dream? You've probably been, you know, wishing for this moment since you was a kid, and now that you're actually in it, what is it like?

1:11:31Oh, man, I think for me, man, like, just finally being here, this is something you think about your whole life like you worked your whole life for this like you worked since you was this big like to get to this to this moment so it's like you finally here but what i realized was it's like okay it's not how fast you can get here it's how long you can stay so so so my thing is you know doing everything in my power to you know be able to go out there and do this have the same amount of success, not only for this year, but for a long time, and keep that same discipline. So that's one thing I did learn, I would say, is that just having so many good vets, too.

1:12:14You got a lot of good vets in the locker room, and you meet a lot of good players around the league, too. You develop a lot of relationships. I think in college, it's more so very, compared to NFL, I would say it's kind of individualized, just because guys aren't in locker rooms as long as they are at different organizations in the league. So I think in the league, man, you always have people that you can lean on, get advice from, because, like, coming into this, you know, a lot of stuff moves super fast. So having somebody that you can ask different questions to so you're not just hit by the blind, for real, for real.

1:12:47Right. Hey, how's the body holding up? Good. I feel good. You know, I used to get a lot of carries when I was at Ole Miss. I used to get a lot of carries. And then last year at Ohio State, I think I had, like, maybe 300, 255. So I was used to being the bail cop guy, you know, so I feel good though.

1:13:06Shannon Sharpe:Okay. How is the quarterback? Look, he started out and, you know, Gabriel gets drafted and Shadour comes in and we know what Shadour, we know what that last name brings. You got Joe Flacco and you got Pickett and they, okay, we're going to move on. We go in this direction. And now has that, the quarterback, the situation with Gabriel and Shadour, is he going to get reps? Is he going to start? Is he going to play? has that impacted the locker room in any way no i think with our team we're all so close and we got a lot we got so many young guys man it's like in our locker room we genuinely it's almost like you in college again it feels like for real for real like damn like like i'm full of young guys but man it's just like the energy there regardless of who playing those two guys they always support each other man like it was a clip i seen i like that on um the internet the other day and it was like them walking down the sideline and just talking, laughing about it.

1:14:02I think we had just scored a touchdown or something. But that's who they genuinely are. That's who they truly are. They are competitive, but at the same time, they want what's best for each other. And I don't think there's ever been turmoil or any words said by anybody on our team about who's our quarterback. We all 100 % support Dylan. I even played him when I was at Ohio State twice. I played him at Oregon once, and then I played him again in Pasadena, California, at the Rose Bowl. So I got to see him and how he is as a quarterback. He's super talented, bro. He's, like, super smart. He processes really fast.

1:14:36And he's a great player. So I'm excited to see how he develops in his career.

1:14:42Shannon Sharpe:That's amazing. Man, Q, thanks for stopping by. Thanks for giving us some time. Congratulations on your early success. Continued success. Stay healthy. And, you know, when it's all said and done, at the end of the year, you go over 1 ,000 yards, come back and tell us how you did. Yes, sir. I appreciate y 'all. Appreciate you, man. All right. Later. Yo. Thank you. Hey, tell Denzel Ward he can't stop me. Hey, look. I be telling him at practice. He be getting mad. I be like, bro, I bend that corner on your ass, boy. I'm 220. I still do it. You hear me? Yeah. I'm like that. I'm going to hit him, though.

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