Nightcap Hour 1: Unc & Ocho REACT to Chargers-Raiders, Bucs beat Texans + Melissa Jefferson-Wooden joins

19:18Shannon Sharpe:so he has those two horrible L's on his resume but he's going to be in some big games with that coach, with that team they're going to be in some big games and it's going to be up to him to carry his part and I think he's more than capable of doing that but I really love what I'm seeing from this defense. It's going to be interesting to see how this thing with Khalil Mack, you know some people say do we have an idea what they say Khalil Mack? I thought there was something wrong with his elbow Elbow? Dislocated elbow? It was in the stadium. Obviously, it goes up on the Jumbotron, players out, and it tells you a description on what it was.

19:53They said elbow, so I'm not sure.

19:57Shannon Sharpe:Okay. Yeah. Yeah, sublux dislocated. Dislocated elbow? I know the feeling. I dislocated my elbow. I dislocated my right elbow. It hurt like a mofo. How long is that out? I missed five weeks. Well, no, let me take that back. I missed, I heard it in the beginning of the second quarter. So I missed that game in four weeks. So a month. Played with a brace for the rest of the year.

20:34Shannon Sharpe:That's how mine look, yep. I, you know, tried to brace myself on the ground. And somebody came from behind? No, the ground. and you know I got it pinned. Yeah, I couldn't get it out. It hurt. Boy, it hurt like a mofo.

20:56Shannon Sharpe:But I think the Chargers will be okay, but it's not something that's season-ending. He'll be back. He'll have to play with a brace. You know, J.J. Watt played with a brace his whole career. Yeah, he dislocated his and played with a brace on for the rest of his career. I couldn't, I mean, it's hard to catch when you catch the ball, it's kind of hard to play with that thing. I mean, I had to play because I played with it for the rest of the year and they didn't want anything to happen, but I know once that season was over and I got into an offseason, I wasn't coming back with that thing on. I know a lot of defensive linemen and some offensive linemen, once they do it, because they're doing a lot of this continuously.

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25:20Shannon Sharpe:killer the earlier game the Bucks beat the Texans 2019 for the second straight week Baker Mayfield engineered a fourth quarter drive to win the game trailing by five points with barely more than two minutes left to play Baker led a Bucks on 11 play 80 yard drive last week Baker engineered a late road win with a touchdown pass to a Mecca uh to beat the Falcons Ocho Tampa hey Tampa looking good Tampa looking real good. They look very good. Listen, you know who else we had on the show? Oh, Labonte David. And look what happened. He dropped that interception, though. He didn't know he was supposed to get to the house.

26:01Shannon Sharpe:I mean, CJ hit him dead in his hands. He's on defense for a reason. It's no way for him being able to catch.

26:12Shannon Sharpe:But do you know what I like about the Bucs, Ocho? They can run the football. football hey that guy uh uh right and bucky nice boy yeah i see i see bucky uh he broke off to the right side and i see him hit that peter warwick dead leg on somebody i'm like wait a minute okay saucy like that baker 25 or 38 215 two touchdowns uh they pressured him for but on fourth down they had him dead to right and he got up out of there picked up a big first down. You can't run by him to a lower. I think that's the to a Lolo Toto He's from the University of Alabama the linebacker. He runs by him Got him dead to right got they got the perfect play call.

27:03Shannon Sharpe:They got the perfect blitz call They crashed him and he ran by him Baker jumps out jumps out the way It's so funny. And when you think about quarterbacks that are dual threats, you don't really view Baker as a Josh Allen or view him as a Lamar Jackson, but he can hurt you. If you're not disciplined, if you don't come into control, if you don't come to balance, when you have him there to write, like you said, and you just aggressively just try to make the tackle, you'll do exactly that. Come right out the back door. He had 33 yards rushing. Bucky Irving had 17 for 71. Rashard White has 10 for 65.

27:39Shannon Sharpe:Baker had three for 33. 30 rush attempts, 169 yards. 25 of 38, 215. Two touchdowns. He did get sacked four times. But they took care of the ball. And they got pressure on C.J. Stroud. C.J.'s got to make some of those throws that he missed, Ocho. He's got to make some of those. He's got to make some of those. It is what it is. You've got to make them. you gotta get the ultra you can't keep kicking you beat every time huh you got to score touchdowns you got to score touchdowns you got you do what would and what did Mike Evans finish with because that Mike Evans had five catches 56 yards on 11 targets look you know has Stingley chasing had him Stingley follow him around the whole day that was nice.

28:36Stingley did a really good job. Stingley did a really good job tonight, obviously, showing why he's one of the top corners in the NFL, and he traveled with Mike Evans the entirety of the game. I had to leave I think maybe the end of the third just to get over to the Raiders game so I didn't have to fight no traffic. I missed it back into the game

28:57Shannon Sharpe:to get to the Raiders. Look, that's what you pay Stingley the big bucks. He's one of the better corners and you says okay look we're gonna play we're gonna take you take him and then we'll play coverage everywhere else um it gives you an opportunity to free up some things that's what you when you have one of those guys it allows you to be really exotic defensively because you feel you got a guy that can shut down their best receiver that's more defensively when you have a like that yes you can focus a defensive coordinator can focus elsewhere and do other things and expand the playbook defense because you know what i ain't got to worry about this side so I can do other things with everybody else to confuse the quarterbacks.

29:37Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, and all the great ones have been able to do that. Rod Whistle, that is, they pick the Steelers and Prime and the Neals and Darryl Green and Charles Woodson, Revis. When you got those top guys, you can get really exotic defensively because you know they're going to be able to more time than not look. Those great receivers, they get paid too now. They're going to win some, but more time than not, you feel your guy's going to be able to hold his own And so now we can take somebody else away. We can bring an extra guy because we feel we got a guy that can hold up where you really want to go with the football.

30:12Shannon Sharpe:But I thought Tampa looked good. Look, we think Tampa is the class of the NFC South with maybe a little scared from Atlanta, but we don't think the Saints and Carolina is going to put up much resistance. So we look at it as a two-horse race between the Falcons and Tampa Bay. I don't think we're going to, you know, there's a whole lot of like, nah, man, hey, it's only two weeks into the season. I noticed, I ain't heard nobody in Carolina say, oh, it's only two weeks into the season. I ain't heard nobody from New Orleans, it's only two weeks into the season. You know, you know what it is. It is what it is.

30:47But Baker, Baker has been playing, look, Baker has a home.

30:51Shannon Sharpe:He has people that believe in him. He has an organization that wants him. They let him lead in the way he, knows how to lead. They let him be him. The problem sometimes with organizations, though, Joe, well, this is the way Tom did it. He's not Tom. Well, this is the way such and such did it. Well, he's not that. You have to let a person be who he is. That's the one thing I can honestly say about the Ravens. You have your own identity. Just play like a Raven. Whatever you do, if you want to be quiet, be quiet. You want to be boisterous, be boisterous. You want to have, you want to joke and tell, be whoever.

31:26Shannon Sharpe:ever. They don't try to make you confined to anything. All they ask you is to play hard. That's it. And that's it. And I think the thing is, look, he was not going to the Rams. Once you call him a winning Super Bowl, they were not going to place Matthew Stafford with Baker Mayfield. So let's just say that the Cleveland and the Carolina situation didn't work out. He got hurt. He tried to play through it. It didn't work out. You hear stories. They wanted a grown-up in the room. Okay, whatever the case may be. Carolina, ain't nobody winning with Carolina until you get more talent around them. And so he went somewhere.

32:05Shannon Sharpe:They had talent. They had Mike Evans. They got Chris Godwin. They did a great job. A light. Jason Light has done a great job of drafting. Bucky Irvin did a great job of white. He did a great job of drafting some of those guys. And so now you see the fruits of it. It's like, okay, they still got a good team. There was a little drop off, obviously, you don't have the Super Bowl expectations that they do, but from the outside, you don't have the same expectations that you have with Tom Brady. Tom Brady automatically comes with Super Bowl expectations. He's Tom Brady. But Tampa, hey, Tampa's going to have something to say about it now because defensively they can get after you.

32:49Shannon Sharpe:They can get after you. They can do a great job. Todd Bowles do a great job of dialing up different schemes. He can pressure you when he needs to. Vitavell do a great job of stopping the run, but they can pressure your quarterback. So it's going to be very interesting to see how this thing shapes up. Let's see when we get by the week eight, week 10, Ochoa. We're going to start seeing some things like, okay, because I think Green Bay is going to be a major player here. I think Green Bay is going to be a major player when it's all said and done. I don't think the Eagles, look, the Eagles got to get their passing game going.

33:29Shannon Sharpe:It's going to happen, Ochoa. It's taking some time. The funny thing about it is it's taking some time, but they haven't played an offense just yet. That's a juggernaut. They can put them under the gun. They can put them under the gun and force them into doing something else outside of what they already do. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with you. Somebody's going to have to put some points on the board, and they don't have no choice but to throw it. Now you've got to find a way to try to get the ball to A.J. Excuse me, get the ball to A.J. You're going to have to find a way to get the ball to Devontae. You're going to have to find a way to get the ball to Dotson.

34:06Shannon Sharpe:And right now, nobody's made them do that. They throw the ball on their terms, and then they get it in short, you know, second and short, third and short, fourth and short, and then you get to the tush-push. but if you're going to let them jump the count because the guards are moving people are moving before the center you saw a slow motion of that yeah I mean I'm seeing it in real time and it's the same thing with the offensive tacklers you remember there was a push we want you to count the count because guys were jumping I mean how many times did they call the Kansas City right tackle Juwan how many times did they call him bro he was jumping down there every time they cracked down on it they're going to have to crack down because if you let the guards move and can root people out before the center snaps the ball, well, you've created an even bigger advantage.

34:59Shannon Sharpe:It used to be you couldn't aid the runner, you couldn't push him, but they say now you can. They're going to jump the snap count and you're going to let them aid the runner. I don't know how you stop that play. It's so funny. I'm not sure if the rescues even see it in real time. In real time? I don't think they can see it in real time because the timing of it, When you slow it down, obviously, yes, we can see it at home when you play it back in slow motion. But in real time, I don't think the refs can tell. Ocho, we had an upset at the World Championship Track and Field in Tokyo. Jamaican oblique Seville clocked the track.

35:34Shannon Sharpe:He ran a personal best of 977 in the 100-meter finals at the World Athletic Championship in Tokyo. Kishane Thompson took silver, 982. Noah Lyle got bronze at 989. Seville finished dead last in the Olympics at the 100 meters last year yeah Ocho uh is the pressure for loud nor allows to stay on top is it getting to him I wouldn't think it's getting to him but obviously you know it's one race it's one race so at that moment it's all about those moments how well do you execute your game plan and what you need to do in that moment where it matters most and yeah he hasn't had a whole lot of races Ocho he's been nicked um I think he's probably only had he's had less than five races in 100 meters I think he's had even fewer in the 200 now he surprised a lot of people by winning the uh the gold and uh um at the uh where was Paris uh in 100 meters he's a 200 meter specialist um so I'm gonna give him a little grace uh Seville and Kishane, they ran really well.

36:45But I think Noah, he got to get some more races on this belt.

36:50Shannon Sharpe:Now, I think he'll be better served in the 200 because that's his baby. That's his baby. That's his baby. And so we'll see because, you know, he's got the world-leading time in the 200 at 1963. Konku Kenny was right behind him in 1967. And then you got Tabogo, the Botswana. I think he ran like 1976, you know, a couple of months ago. So I'm going to give him some grace. That's not to take anything away from Seville and Kishane Thompson. Hey, Seville, but Seville has been running well all year. So has, so has Kishane. Both of those guys have been running well. Noah hadn't had a whole lot. Here she is.

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40:44Shannon Sharpe:Here she is, all the way from Tokyo. She got the bronze medal in Paris. She says she wasn't satisfied. She says, I want to reach my maximum potential. And she did. At the World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo just a few days ago, she ran 1061, which is the fourth fastest time ever run by a woman. We got Flojo, who ran 1049 at the USA's in Indy. And in 2021, I don't know what was in the water because you got Elaine Thompson-Hara run 1054 in Eugene, and then you had Shelly Ann Frazier-Price, the pocket rocket, running 1060 in Lausanne. And here she is. We had a conversation, MJ. I say, I think if you, with these ladies in, with the right win, I say, I believe you can go 10, I believe you can go sub 10-6.

41:35Shannon Sharpe:You had a negative head win. I believe if you get a plus, you get a plus one. You get a plus one five, you go in sub 10-6. Do you believe that? Congratulations. Tell us how you, before we get into that, how you feeling? I'm feeling good. Thank y 'all. I told you I was coming back. You told me. Hey, I said, when you win that gold medal, I said, when you win the gold medal, make sure you come back and tell us about it. Oh, yeah. And your Wi-Fi is perfect. Listen, Tokyo, it's so efficient over here. Everything is great. The Wi-Fi is good. I know it's good because I brought my game, and I can play Call of Duty.

42:14Shannon Sharpe:So, obviously, is your coach over there with you? So, tell me your strategies. So obviously it's survive in advance. You're trying to be as efficient as you're possible. I'm not trying to expend any more than I have to, to advance and get through the rounds. And so that's what I'm trying to do. And once I get to the finals, I'm going to drop the hammer. Is that kind of your strategy, survive in advance, doing as little as possible? Yep. That's the name of the game when it comes to these championships and the rounds is to just conserve as much energy as possible. And then when you get to that last round, It's just about who can put together the perfect race at the perfect time.

42:50And I just kind of look at it as I'm going to just lay it all out. Cause I mean, I've been working for this very moment, so there's no need to be trying to hold anything back. Just let it rip.

43:00Shannon Sharpe:Do you believe if you get a positive tailwind, you could have gone 10 sub 10, six? Absolutely. I thought I was going to run 10, five, if I'm being honest, I knew it. Really? Hello. Hello. 10, five, eight, 10, five, five. or lower than that? If I'm being completely honest, I thought that I had a chance to run anywhere between 1052 and 1055 with the right tailwind. Well, now you're talking about the right tailwind. You're probably going to need probably about a 1.5. And a 1.5 would probably got you what you wanted, probably a 1055, maybe a little lower. but I felt that with the women in this race, you look at Julianne Alfred of St.

43:50Shannon Sharpe:Lucian, you look at Tia Clayton. So you had the women, Tallulah is always dangerous from the Ivory Coast. She's dangerous. Dina Asher Smith, she's dangerous. Your training partner, Sha 'Carri, she's run 1065. There's not a whole lot of women that's run sub 107. She's won. So you had the women in the race. You had the track. You just needed a little bit more favorable conditions and I believe you go sub 10-6. Yep, for sure. And I say that too. And then even looking back at the race, like obviously it was one of the best races of my life. It was the fastest I've ever ran. But I look at the race and I still see areas where I could have improved on.

44:28Like I probably could have been a tad bit more explosive coming out the blocks or, you know, just running through. Well, I ran through my transition very well. I feel like the weakest part of my race the other night was probably the start. Yes, I would agree. And that's just because I like to be able to create the separation. Like my coach drills into my head like, you know, when we get in certain races, obviously the game plan changes. But for races like these in this moment, the biggest advantage that I can have for myself is to put it away in the first 30 meters. So I feel like going back at it, like if I could do it all over again, I would probably be that much more aggressive at the start.

45:08And then you take my start, make it a little bit more aggressive of how the rest of the race went for me, then I probably would. I probably wouldn't have needed a win. I probably wouldn't have needed a tailwind to run to a win. Matter of fact, I don't know. Boy, that finish.

45:24Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Tia Clayton pulled up. She's like, where you going? Let me get up out of here. Where you going? You ain't finna get there. That's me. Hey, MJ, when it comes to racing, you know it's having a game plan when you're going against women that are that are great at those that you went against today or well what's that it's 1 30 it's what it's 1 38 out there huh it's um it's yeah it's like 2 30 it's like 2 30 in the afternoon here on wednesday no yeah tuesday you always have a game plan going to a race like that what part of the race is your strength would you say I would like to say my strength in my race is my start yes but sometimes I have a tendency like I think I've been so focused on trying to make the other part of my races better it's almost kind of like I find I find comfort in knowing not being complacent or prideful or anything like that but like my start is kind of like the part of the race where I don't necessarily have to worry about it just it with my start it just it has more so to do with uh how aggressive i am attacking the front side angle and things like that but i really try my hardest to focus on the other parts of the race so like the transition acceleration to keeping up with my frequency like i've always had the frequency but in the past um i just wasn't strong enough to be able to meet or let it get the uh let it get the best of me if that makes sense so like my legs could be moving this fast but then if my arms ain't doing that like if i can't keep up with uh the amount of turnover and frequency that i have then that's when things start to go wrong in the race so i feel like this year just in that race alone like i feel like um i feel like my acceleration and my transition was probably like the best i've ever had yeah when when you look at a race and and and and training i'm sure your coach is drilling your head there's two ways to increase speed stride length and stride frequency.

47:28Shannon Sharpe:How far are you out and how quickly do you pick them up and put them down? You look at Usain Bolt. He's the perfect sprinter. You talk about a guy that had a stride length and he had the stride frequency and he's taking him probably 40 steps to run 100 meters. So when you said, I'm a starter, but for some reason, was it in the back of your mind? Did you know, did you see that a Tobogo had false started? Is that in the back of your mind? Like, look, I am not going to blow this. I still believe I'm even with these women in this race, you got to Lou and you got Alfred and you got Clayton and you got Sharika Jackson and you got Sha 'Carri.

48:03Shannon Sharpe:They're in this race, but in the condition that I'm in right now, they can't beat me. The only way, the only person that can beat Melissa Jefferson wouldn't is if I fall start. If I don't fall start, they can't see me. They got, they can't get number tailpipes today. And it's true because I think it's crazy because I did the same thing at u.s trials like i feel like this year my best start uh was probably when i ran at prefontaine and eugene so like a maybe about a couple weeks out before u.s trials but even like going through the rounds uh at u.s trials i was very um i was very like i played it safe with all of my starts through the rounds but it was just i think i think like i agree with you i think that i know what i having a tank and I don't want to put myself in a predicament to mess that up so I'd rather play it safe than to you know have that one time where I think like oh no this is the one and then it'd be it's a little bit too too much so yeah is it a situation MJ that maybe you get a diamond league meet where you don't have to run the rounds it's one time it's one crack you know I'm I go over there a couple of days earlier I get acclimated I don't have to get off a plane and I'm running in three hours, something like that, where I go over there and I get acclimated for a couple of days and I only got one race.

49:29Shannon Sharpe:Is it a situation like that where you feel you can put something together? Because we're asking you to do an awful lot. And I understand this, you know, to put rounds together and then run fast at the end. Because even though you're trying to be as efficient as possible, you're still moving at a pretty good rate. You're still burning gas, so to speak and so if do you think a 10 five it was possible but what do you think about if you just get that one race so you know what this is yeah i think i think without a i think without a doubt it would have happened because then it would have just been like one and done like this is it you only get the tanks yep empty the tank that's literally it when you when you think about it no american woman and we've had some fans only one american woman has ever won faster then you're 1061.

50:17Shannon Sharpe:Carmeletta, good friend, hey, she's running 1064. We got Sha 'Carri at 1065. We got Marion Jones at 1065. We got some... So you're in a very elite company. I believe in the next year, maybe two, you're going to join, you know, Elaine and Flojo. That 10-4, 10-5 is group. Have you thought about it? When you wrote your goals down coming into this year, with 10-5 on that paper, so 10-5 this year writing down my goals 10-5 wasn't on the paper 10-6 definitely was though okay I had I wrote down 10-68 and then when I ran 10-65 at trials it was kind of just like oh well excuse you what you're talking about actually so my own self so um but then it's just like a testament to the work that I put in and me knowing that like you know um I'm a very firm believer in my faith and I know that the journey that I'm on the journey that I'm walking like God it's I'm right where I'm supposed to be where I'm supposed to be and so I can't put a limit on what I think that I can accomplish if I say that I believe in him wholeheartedly to the fullest extent and that he's literally guided my steps then there's no possible way that I could put uh you know a limit on what I do.

51:38So, and the same thing goes for the 200. Like I ran 20, I had written down 21.9. That was my end goal for the 200 for me this year. And I ran 21.99 in rain and 68 degree weather. So I'm like, okay, Melissa, like what are you actually talking about? Like, what do you actually think you know? Right.

51:59Shannon Sharpe:So those are not favorable conditions, cold and rain. The last thing a sprinter wants to see. Now, a distance runner, he okay with the cool. Yeah, he's like, let's have a date. He wants it. They want it to be cool. But as a sprinter, the way you're bound tight, you want it nice and, you know, 75. I do 75. Give me a little nice little tailwind. But you don't want windy. You don't want rain. Slipping and all that other stuff. So now, and I'm looking at this race, and I'm looking at the women that's in this race, yourself, and Julian Lafford has run 1070. You know, Sharika Jackson runs 1065. Shelly Ann has run 1060.

52:37Shannon Sharpe:Toulouse had run 1070, I think 1075. She's run a monster time. So you got everything that you could possibly hope for. You're like, you know what? You're looking around, you're like, yeah. You're like, yeah. Oh, this is all barbecue chicken. Oxtail. I mean, were you feeling good? So how did you feel going into, how did you feel coming into the championship? Because you had run, you were the favorite. You had run all the times. And I was like, well, damn. You know what I knew, Melissa? When you put back-to-back 10-6s, I said, there ain't been a whole lot of women that can back up 10-6 with another 10-6.

53:16Shannon Sharpe:When you back that up, I said, if she don't false start, ain't nobody beating her. Is that when you knew you was ready to run fast? Really fast. I think I knew after I ran Philly's Grand Slam that this was going to be – Like that, I feel like that's when it started before then, but it was really like, okay, no, I, I feel like it was, I put the stamp on it. Like, no, this is your year to become a world champion. It was after that meet. And then going into trial or going into Prefontaine, you know, it was the rematch of the Olympic podium. Very much. So it almost looked pretty identical to the finals that we had last year in Paris.

54:01so it was kind of like all right they beat you that time don't let them beat you again and going into the race a couple days ago I remember we were in the call room and then we were they were about to walk us out for the final and I sat there and I just told myself and I was like Melissa tonight is your night but it's not going to be given to you you're going to have to take it like don't just think that it's going to come to you and then I looked around and all the women that I was getting ready to race against they had all beaten me before and i said well they won't get me twice and i was the last thing i said before i got to the line i was the last thing i said before i got to the line and then after the gun went off it was just like well here we go

54:44Shannon Sharpe:i don't i can honestly say and i follow track and field and everybody knows i'm a big track and field fan i don't know if i've ever seen anybody finish as strong as you did i mean because when till clayton challenge you it's almost like race horses because a lot of times talking to bob Baffert and some famous trainers, they say they'll tell their jockey, let the horse pull up next to him. That horse knows he's in a competition against this other horse. He just needs to somebody pulled up to his bumper and he knows he's there. Now he gets another gear. Melissa, when Tia Clayton pulled up, I was like, okay.

55:18Shannon Sharpe:And then you're like, where are you? Do you act? Where are you going? I ain't even hit this turbo. I ain't dropped this nitrous on you yet. I said, well, damn. Did you know, have you rewatched the race? Did you see that you got another gear? Did you see that for your own self? I did. So crazy enough, I did see it. When I heard the gun go off, I remember me getting out and I was just like, okay, you got to clear the pack. You got to clear the pack. And then I got to the middle of the race and then it kind of went blank for a second and then the closer we got to the line I was just like don't do that thing you do where you like roll your shoulders get all crazy I just went through the line and then after I ran through the line it was kind of like oh I think I won but I need to know I need to see with my own eyes that I actually won so I didn't really feel myself hit that other gale it was just about really like just trying to trying to stay clear of everybody else are you are you nervous before races I think about football games and right before kickoff the music is playing and before they kick the ball off i got butterflies in my stomach stomach is tight i'm nervous until i actually have contact or i catch a touch of ball like it's almost i don't want to use the word scared but nervous as before a race like that before you go in the blocks is there are your nerves okay how do you calm yourself down uh the biggest thing i do is just listen to music and I kind of get a sense of that too like leading up so I was here about maybe a week before we started actually competing because we had relay camp and everything so I think that was probably the longest week of my life because it was just like okay Melissa you know you're ready to run there's no need to be anxious like just let the days go by and then the time difference here was crazy so the first couple of days it was like no matter how late I tried to go to sleep I was still waking up at 4 or 5 a.m and then it was like I finally got to the point to where I was waking up at 6 I'm like okay that's a little bit of progress but then it was just still like trying to get to the line so I think if anything like I don't be really really nervous I just be I just have like a lot of um I be anxious in a sense but I'm also like you too like I'll um I'll the minute I get to the warm-up area and I start warming up I'm like okay let's do this like i'm ready now yeah you're in your you're in your element yes exactly in my element we're safe i'm looking at this relay now i don't know who's going to be on the relay i'm sure you and shakari because you guys made the finals you're the fastest woman in the world i don't know if we've seen a situation where the fastest woman in the world run lead off because you're such an outstanding starter and so i don't know what you want to share because the relays are going to probably come after the 200 so you'll probably have some other women that's going to you know qualify have you guys decided on a race order yeah so um it's pretty i would say it's pretty much set in stone i think what's going to end up happening is that um this is just as of today obviously uh i know that i will be leading it off and then um my train basically i'll be on through it'll be my training partners on the um yep so me to tt to kayla white to shakari is the last i've heard of last i've heard of anything yet we might get to go this is like unofficial okay so if something changes just say i'd i'd i'd okay that's what i'm saying disclaimer so think about that ocho we got the fastest woman in the world running lead off hey the stagger already caught i don't know who y 'all i don't know who hey we're probably gonna get lane five but six seven and eight i'm coming out y 'all these standard chairs y 'all by which is a i'm switching them that order because you're not gonna make me look bad and walk just to have this stagger walk down on me because what's ahead is caught what's behind stays behind that's what coach used to tell us son what is the head is caught what's behind stays behind because you already know she's gonna eat up that stagger because ain't nobody else got their best runners on the on the first leg most people put their horses they put them at the second they put them at the third occasionally they'll sprinkle the uh uh the ankle leg but you could be so far behind it doesn't matter unless you you say but ain't nobody got no you say we got you and she running first leg for the america

59:53Shannon Sharpe:hey hey you didn't hit him hey hit him with that piece out hey just get the baton around the track that's all you got to do you we got the fastest four women let me take that back we got the fastest six women you take anybody six women that's currently going to be in this relay we got the fastest six get the sticks around the track that's all we got to do yep that's all we got to do we got this we got this we got it because we got it to a great start we won the gold and the woman's uh discus we won uh uh krauser won the shot his first his first his first meet all year all year three-time olympic gold three-time world champion he only the second man to win three consecutive world championships oh we would do hey what the hell we would we don't know what else well ago or something didn't we oh we're gonna win the gold we're gonna hey we're gonna get this gold in the 100 meter hurdles too cordell tension i'm going on record cordell attention gonna get the gold oh i'm going with cordell i'm going with cordell Yeah.

1:00:58Shannon Sharpe:You going with Cordell? Okay, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, for sure. He's been running great. He's the only one that's gone under 13. I mean, a lot of guys, 13 flat, 13-01, 13-05, 13-10. Hey, he can cover some ground. So I'm going with Cordell. Going with Cordell. You know what I'm saying, Cordell? Yeah. But I mean, so have. So when you win the goal and you go back to your room, could you rest or were you just so excited? Like you just look at it like that goal like. So what's crazy is after after we do media and then the other things I waited, we got back to the hotel room and then I actually had a chance to, like, meet up with my family and everything.

1:01:46so my parents and I have aunts, uncles and cousins out here too so I had a pretty good crowd of people to come all the way over here to support me so I spent some time with them and that was good and then by the time I think I got to bed maybe around 3am but I was actually proud of myself, I slept for 6 hours and I feel like that's a win really? yeah because last year after Paris I slept for all of like 3 and then woke up the next morning and was on my phone just checking everything

1:02:14Shannon Sharpe:so so who's dm'd you and said congratulations help is there any like celebs or other athletes or entertainers that's congratulated you okay so i have i have one i have to make sure i say his last name right but his name is daniel i believe it's daniel okuya daniel labelle daniel LaBelle so he um who is he he's really big on social media he posts like different videos and it's it'd be like little funny stuff it'd be like um um I believe one time he raced against speed okay um but yeah I just like his videos it's like uh he has like eight one point eight point one million followers and I saw he he messaged me he was like congratulations and I was like like oh my god thank you we got to get your followers up too we got to get you up into the three and four million yeah hey y 'all do us a favor go follow uh give me give me your give them your tag give them your handle how can they find you on twitter uh okay okay so on twitter my name is at melissa m-e-l-i-s-s-a janae j-a-n-a-e 21 okay and then on instagram oh yeah on ig it's at underscore underscore melissa j19 wow were you always fast melissa i mean growing up in south carolina uh what could you i mean i don't know if you have siblings but were you the were you the fastest uh uh girl in the neighborhood were you the fastest could you outrun the boys some of some of them i could it was definitely like that but i was like always fast on like the level that I was so I went to a smaller school uh my high school I'm from the country so my high school was like we went back and forth between 1a and 2a and in South Carolina you know that's like real small my graduating class was probably like my husband would laugh at me but it's probably like 80 kids yeah well I'm having a way with 60 okay so yeah so about 80 kids in my graduating class and then Coastal Carolina you know obviously is a smaller d1 school the shanty clears yep shan's up and then um so that was like a smaller d1 school too so it's pretty much like i've lived the the underdog life of just you know being fast at the level that i am and being in that area then it wasn't until like 2022 where everything like one knee just literally changed everything that's because that's what i that's what i was that's what i wanted to ask you because you said i was fast for for where i was it wasn't like when you go look at shakari she's at Texas at a big, at a, where they got 3 ,000 kids and she runs what she runs and she goes to, in a freshman year, she wins the NCAAs.

1:05:04Shannon Sharpe:Or you see Gabby Thomas, how she burst on the scene, or you see Sidney McLaughlin. That wasn't the case for you. When did you realize you could be a pro or was that always your goal to be a professional track and field runner? I didn't, I didn't think that I could be a, crazy enough, I knew that one day I would go to the Olympics. I didn't know when. But I just knew that I could because of a coach that I had in high school, my freshman year high school. I think it was my that was my second year doing high school track. And then when I got to college and I had the coach there, that's when I was like, you know, I think I want to do this is what I want to do for a living.

1:05:44And I was I got to college the fall of 2019. So that's when it really just was like, OK, I know this is what I want to do. I don't know how I'm going to get there, but I'm going to just trust the people around me to help me get me. to where I'm supposed to be. So, and that's kind of how I went about it.

1:05:59Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, but I'm looking, you know, when you choose to do something, and it's just you, because track and field is a really lonely, it's you versus you. It's you and your thoughts. It's you and your training. It's you and your nutrition. So everything is dependent on you. And ain't a whole lot of money in track and field. I mean, you can count it probably on like one hand, maybe a Usain that made a bunch of money or Simone Biles or Michael Phelps, Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis. It's not, you know, flush with money, especially for the women. And so why, I mean, obviously you go to college, you're like, I'm going to get a degree, but why track and field?

1:06:41Shannon Sharpe:You just had something deep down inside of you. You said, you know what, I can make a living doing this. Yeah, and then I say it all the time. Like, this is what I'm here to do. Like, I'm here to run. I'm here. This is my gift that I'm supposed to be sharing with the world. And so the minute I got an understanding of that and realized, like, obviously, the higher I go in the sport, the more sacrifice I'm going to have to make, the more I'm going to be disciplined. And like you say, like, obviously, there's nowhere near as much money in our sport than there is in like football or basketball. but it's also just um the resources that you do have the money that you do have being smart with that and um investing in yourself in order to make sure that you're becoming the best athlete that you could possibly be like I feel and I feel like it was so easy for me because I grew up always not having the resources that everybody else had never needed for anything I've always I've always had what I needed but when it came to like you know sports or the schools that I went to and things like that.

1:07:46We never had the same resources as the bigger schools. So it was just like, okay, Melissa, control the things that are in your control. And then the things that are out of your control, leave that to whoever it's supposed to be to. And everything else will work itself out.

1:08:00Shannon Sharpe:Melissa, I'm looking at you. You're a thin young lady. So obviously you had to get stronger. You had to get, and I know women don't want to hear this, but you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. You had to get bigger. You had to get stronger. You were not strong enough to carry that. You needed to be able to propel yourself down the track. So women don't beat me up. She had a shot, called a woman big, say she didn't get bigger. But you don't understand what I'm talking about. But you needed to grow. You needed to fill that frame out. And you're still a thin young lady. But you're probably, what, 15 pounds heavier than what you were probably in high school, college?

1:08:39Shannon Sharpe:If that. if that. So what's crazy is I think weight wise, well, and that was because I got injured. Oh, you got leaner. So, yeah. I'm around the same way I was, but I'm definitely, I have more of the muscle mass that I'm supposed to have. But I've definitely leaned out this year because I started working with the chef and everything and just like really paying attention to what I need. You hear that, Ocho? Wow. Wow, Ocho. She started working with a chef and now she's the world of a chef. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. She said she's working with a chef. She didn't say what she was eating. She ain't eating bull jive.

1:09:15Shannon Sharpe:You don't look like that eating bull jive. McDonald's. You like McDonald's too? Yeah.

1:09:27I love McDonald's. But, but, sorry, Ocho. I will say I have not been eating fast food. the last time I had fast food was before my wedding in February and I said I wouldn't have any fast food until after I do all the things I want to eat. See that's okay that's okay don't try to change it don't try to change it you heard what she said right did you hear what she said did you hear what she said she hasn't had it since February that's okay because she was preparing for tonight or yesterday for that matter

1:10:04Shannon Sharpe:It's okay. No, she ain't going to have no fast food until she get back to the States. But guess what? She said, you know what? You see? She said, you know what, Ocho? You know what? Let me cut this fast food out and let me see just how great I can be. That ain't got nothing to do with it. Because listen, she was fast while she was eating it. She fasted now that she's not eating it. No, you mad. You mad because you... I ain't mad. She just told you. She hasn't had fast food since her wedding. She said February. She's been fast all her life. She wasn't this fast. She wasn't this fast. She was last year and the year before that.

1:10:44No, she wasn't. She ran 10-6 back-to-back eating McDonald's. So what you saying?

1:10:51Shannon Sharpe:Didn't she just tell you she hadn't had McDonald's since February? She ran those times in June. She had chicken McNuggets. I saw it.

1:11:02Shannon Sharpe:But So now you shift your focus to the 200. There has not been a whole lot of women to win the world championship in the 102. Has that crossed your mind? You start putting yourself in very, very elite company. Oh, yeah. The goal this year is, I won't say was because it ain't done yet. The goal this year is to win everything. Like, I set out that goal at the beginning of the year when I talked with my coaches. and I said well you know obviously at first like for the 200 because I'm a very realistic person too and I've fought back and forth with me running the 200 for a long time but now I'm starting to embrace it so I'm like okay if you stop playing around then you can actually win the whole thing so it went from that to just telling my coaches like I want to be able to take the 200 more serious to know I'm not only going to be like a contender like I want to be at the at the forefront You know, like I want to be able to say, like, I came away with a gold medal in the 200.

1:12:05And I know that the only other woman to do so at a world championships is Shellyann Frazier-Priest.

1:12:11Shannon Sharpe:Shellyann, who happens to be the greatest. She's the greatest sprinter. She is back to back eight and 12. She won the gold medal. And then you got you. And then she got five world championships in the 100 and she won the 200. So she's you're absolutely right. That's why many labor her the greatest woman sprinter in the history of the sport. And it's hard. Look, it's hard to deny it. I know Elaine has won back-to-back 100th and 200th. Bless her heart. But when you look at the totality and the longevity, she won a world championship in 135. I was in that race, by the way. And at last, I remember.

1:12:51There.

1:12:54Shannon Sharpe:Man, Melissa, we're happy. Nightcap, the family is very happy, very pleased. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to come on and talk to us. But, yay, this is not the end. So what's next? After the World Championships is over, your season's over, now you go eat some McDonald's or you go get some oxtails or you go get some shrimp. Oh, you're from Lowcountry. You're down in Georgetown near Charleston. So you're going to eat some, ooh. Rice, neck bones. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. He waits. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, see, she down there in them geaches.

1:13:31Shannon Sharpe:She down there in Georgia. She way down there. See, hey, Ocho, she'll tell you, when they brought us, they got off the boat down there close to where she at. Man, congratulations. I know everybody in South Carolina is very proud of you. We're proud. Thank you. We're extremely proud of what you've been able to do. But don't be satisfied. Be greedy. Oh, yeah. Be greedy. This is what I tell people. They say, well, man, they say, Shannon, if you cheat on the test, man, you don't want to get them all right. I say, if I'm going to cheat, I'm getting 100. You there now, don't be satisfied. Well, I got one goal.

1:14:09Shannon Sharpe:I'm happy if I win the silver, the bronze. No, no, no, no, no, no. Double goal. Do something that very few, and we don't know how. Think about it. In the history of the World Championships, the World Championships started in 1983. I don't know if you know this. In 1983, in Helsinki, I know. Only Shelly Ann has been able to back it up. With the hundred and the two. So you get an opportunity to do something that hadn't been in 40 years of world championships. Whoo. It'd be special. Congratulations. Thank you. Melissa, congratulations. We're going to be pulling for you. We're going to be watching.

1:14:43Shannon Sharpe:Hey, when you get that 200 gold, come on back. Okay. I'm coming back. Come on back. All right. We'll see you. I'm coming back. Jefferson Wooden, the World Championship 100-meter gold medalist. Oh, wait. With the fourth fastest time ever run. Show us the medal. Yeah, I was just about to say that. You should have had the medal on the whole wide. I'm sorry. There you go. There you go. Look at that. Oh, it's not. Yeah, there we go. There we go. We can see it. Back it up from the camera so it'll focus. Back it up a little bit, Melissa. Oh, OK. Hold on. There. Let me just turn. Right there. Right there.

1:15:20Shannon Sharpe:There you go. There you go. That's nice. Yep. Got it last night. Round of applause. Melissa Jefferson Wood. Congratulations. Stay healthy. Hey, get all of them. 100, 200, 4x1. Mm-hmm. They might need a leg. They might need a leg on the 4x4, but I told them to hold off. Please hold off. If they want to win, they don't put me in there. Not this year. I need some time. I need some time. Well, congratulations. Go enjoy the rest of the evening with your family and your husband. Tell everybody at NICAP we said hello, and we look forward to talking to you very, very soon. Thank you. Thank you so much.

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