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12:55Chad Johnson:Yep.

13:00Shannon Sharpe:You think growing up how I grew up in a thousand square foot, I thought I would spend the kind of money I spent for a house considering? Yeah. What? Yeah. The kind of cars that we drove, you think I would spend that kind of money on them for a car? Mm. And we never, you never was able to take a car to the Ford dealership or the Chevy dealership. Man, you better go see Junebug, that Shade Tree mechanic and let it work up under that thing.

13:28Chad Johnson:And boy, he gon' - Wait, who? Junebug.

13:31Shannon Sharpe:Rest and soul, Junebug. That was it.

13:33Chad Johnson:Junebug probably charge you an arm and a leg too, boy. Nah, Junebug was good.

13:39Shannon Sharpe:You know, a six pack of beer, about$20. Junebug had that thing working. Now, everybody not only rubbed for two weeks, but it's gonna run now. Junebug will have it right.

13:49Chad Johnson:Hey, that's what I'm talking about here. You gonna have to take it right back to Junebug. I had a mechanic back home in Little Rock.

13:55Shannon Sharpe:You laughing on Joe. Hey, Chad, anybody from Glenville, do y 'all know, hey, y 'all know about Junebug? Hey. That's his name for real. Yeah. I don't know what his real name was. Hey, Joe, onks say that, hey, onks say we're gonna work for two weeks and you got to take it back to school.

14:14Chad Johnson:Hey, Ocho, Ocho, I know what he's talking about, I had an old school, I had a mechanic back home in Little Rock who was helping me keeping it running. Hell, it stayed in his shop every damn week. I'm like, damn, man, I thought you fixed it. Hell, I'm spending more money than I paid for the damn car.

14:28Shannon Sharpe:Man, you know the carburetor, he done had a screwdriver, a flathead screwdriver in the carburetor. The carburetor ain't on there. He just got the screwdriver in there and closed the hood down to him. This shit would work down. I said, man, come on, man. What am I supposed to do with this? But I'm telling you, man, hey. Man, them shade tree mechanics. But he ain't had no training. He just know. I got a first cousin just like that. He ain't got no training. But he always, a lawnmower, a motor, he could pull it apart. And put it back together. And put it back together. He always had that ability.

15:08Shannon Sharpe:No training whatsoever. His go-kart, his little motorcycles. He ain't never send it to the shop. He'll pull it apart, he take the whole damn thing apart and just be looking at it, and just be looking at it. It need this, it need this. You go to the store, you go to Western Auto or something, go to the spark plug, get this, get that, fire it right up. Yeah. I can't do it. God gave me one ability to be able to, he gave me two abilities. He said, son, you can talk and you can play sports. That's it. I ain't gonna let you be able to sing. I ain't gonna let you be able to work with your hands. That's it.

15:48Shannon Sharpe:You know, it's like how some people can play instruments. Oh, Joe, Joe, you know, they can play about four, five instruments. I'm like, God, you can let me play the piano. Let me play the drums. Let me play the saxophone or the trumpet. Son.

16:00Chad Johnson:Hey, did y 'all try to play any instruments when y 'all was in, like, high school, college? No. Man, my grandma ain't play that, Joe. Boy, from when I was there from junior high, elementary, elementary, junior high, and it wasn't until my freshman year in college i mean freshman year high school where i was able to get out of making a choice where i don't want to play piano and saxophone i had i played alto saxophone i played piano i i never forget never ever forget and that was her way when football season ends to keep me from being right throughout the streets because now when school out i can't just go rip and run with the fellas i got to rehearse got a piano practice yeah man oh man

16:39Shannon Sharpe:My brother tried to try to play my brother wanted to join the band. So my grand say yeah, all right, boy, you can you can go. So he went got he got the instrument. My brother go play the trumpet. So you know, you got to practice. Man, my brother pulled that trumpet out the case without the other poor and tried to practice. Man, Papa said, Oh, hell no. The noise, the noise. He took it right back the next day.

17:12Shannon Sharpe:Marty Poitier played at. Told him to go down there to the branch and play. But it's sad that. You know what I wonder? And we can only speak to our race. You think other races are like this? What? That family and friends and loved ones be hitting them up for money? Oh, yeah, I do.

17:35Chad Johnson:Absolutely. Absolutely. I know. That's what, hey, Joe, before you go, that was always one of the conversations that we had. That's locker room talk right there. Yeah, this came up before in the locker room. And it's not just you thinking just you or just us, but I remember talking with TJ about it. And then Carson heard it. And then the linemen that came up, the D linemen, everybody walking by, everybody got the same problem. Regards the background, regards the ethnicity. I mean, think about Kobe's situation. Yeah. That's an extreme situation, but yeah. Hey. You know, I mean, it's tough, man. I know some cats.

18:16Chad Johnson:I'm talking about some white men, some Jewish men who have kids, Uncle Ocho, who have been entitled and spoiled their whole lives. Yes. It ain't good, bro. We ain't the only one who had to deal with it. You know what I mean? Good. They deal with it on a different set. I feel so much better now. Oh yeah, they deal with it on a different surface too now.

18:39Shannon Sharpe:I am so glad. But I'm glad my kids, like, look, for the most part, they know. I help, you know, sometimes I'm just like, okay, here. They're like, Daddy, you put this. Oh, you thought that you got a bank fare or something I don't know about? Tell me who put this in here. You know who you know damn well. You ain't put it in there.

19:00Chad Johnson:Hey, but they got, Uncle Ocho, they got to show some effort though. You got to give me no effort. Hell, I can't do nothing for you. I'm sorry. Everybody got to go to work.

19:11Shannon Sharpe:Everybody got to go to work, Joe.

19:12Chad Johnson:Yeah.

19:13Shannon Sharpe:Hold on. You think I'm about to be 58 and y 'all are y 'all 30s and I'm working harder than y 'all and I'm going to support y 'all? Hello. First of all, y 'all supposed to be supporting me.

19:29That's a good one. I'm going to use that line right there. I got to use that.

19:32Shannon Sharpe:to be talking, real talk. Y 'all are supposed to be supporting me. But no, I will say this. My kids, they're going to have a job. Hey, I say, I don't care. Hey, you don't like your job, but don't you quit until you get another one. Hello. Don't you quit until you get another one.

19:53Chad Johnson:Yeah. Got to get out here and do something. Got to be proactive, trying to, you know, chase whatever dream it is that you want to do, but just sitting around not doing nothing. Oh, no, no, no. Looking at daddy.

20:05Shannon Sharpe:Oh, hell no. No, no. No, no. That ain't happening. Oh, no. I can't play that. But please, when you look at JB, and they know, see, they don't put JB numbers in the paper. What? So they know JB got$308 million coming. He making like 60-something million dollars a year. Man, 60 million a year? Man, you could phone 50, 100 ,000?

20:28Chad Johnson:What's that to you? Ocho. A lot. Man, my rookie year, you know, I bought my mom a house my rookie year, but it took a while to move into it, so we were still staying in the house that I grew up in as a kid. So if my rookie deal was$8,$9 million, man, we had people coming to the front door, knocking on the door and everything, asking for all type of stuff. Come on, man. Damn, Joe, like that? I'm telling you, man. You talk about family. You talk about immediate family. Nah, hell nah. People didn't know. Yeah, yeah. I'm talking about people who kind of just grew up in the neighborhood who knew me like, they ain't mind coming by stopping, knocking on the door at.

21:06Shannon Sharpe:I'm like, come on, man.

21:08Chad Johnson:Yeah.

21:09Shannon Sharpe:Man. Who played the bad person? I knew your mama told everybody to know. Shit, me and her. Hell, there ain't nobody but me and her. We both had to be the bad person. Oh, man, look here. That's tough. When we got getting ready to move, now a lot of people, there nobody know but family. Not even close friends, nobody knew. the situation was they wouldn't have indoor plumbing and things like that. We'd get ready to move, and so the word got out that we were in town because we lived in the country. Actually, where we lived was called Tyson, Georgia. Ain't got no traffic lights. Everybody lives like probably a half a mile from each other.

21:46Shannon Sharpe:Ain't nobody really, really close to each other like that. So once the word got out that, you know, we were looking for a new place, how about people told my grandma that she don't need to move. she just need to fix this place up. Because now all of a sudden, we gonna be living different. Yeah, yeah. It ain't costing you nothing. Why you care if we move?

22:11Chad Johnson:Hello.

22:12Shannon Sharpe:Oh, you know that's gonna be too much house. You ain't got to clean it or pay for it. Boy, people, boy, people, boy, look here. They wanna keep up. I tell you what, you wanna know what people think about you? Get some money. no hold on not get some money say no say no they'll expose it they'll show their hand real quick you got to say no because you got some money if you ain't got no money it's easy to say no they wouldn't even ask if you ain't got no money ain't nobody has to borrow no money when we have no money right but soon as they think you got somebody joe and i just come to the realization i'm only gonna give you what i say you know what because i i don't want to because did you know money smell Joe?

22:57Chad Johnson:That I know money smell yeah.

22:59Shannon Sharpe:Yeah.

22:59Chad Johnson:Yeah.

23:00Shannon Sharpe:It don't get I didn't know it smell until they said oh here here's your little 500 funky dollars back oh now they're funky now. They're funky. It wasn't you didn't say let me borrow 500 funky dollars. You ain't ask you ain't say that.

23:14Chad Johnson:Yeah.

23:15Shannon Sharpe:Now you want now I want it back you say it's funky.

23:18Chad Johnson:Yeah. He a little funky 40 dollars back.

23:21Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Yeah. I got me a little job Oh, you still working that little piece of job? Oh, it's a piece of job. Oh, it's a little piece, okay. But now, this little piece of job got me going to where I'm going. Hello. I love it when they expose themselves, Uncle Joe. I love it. I love it. I hate it though. I hate it though, because it'll ruin a friendship, man. It really will. And it makes you. Because I hate you, man. and you know, Joe, I ain't never came to you before. I ain't never asked you for nothing. Yeah. Like you supposed to ask people for something.

24:02Chad Johnson:Yeah, it makes it hard to deal with people and you become way more reserved than what you normally would be. Like, look, man.

24:09Shannon Sharpe:Yes.

24:09Chad Johnson:Yeah, you know what? Hell, a lot of stuff that I was doing, hell, I could do this by myself and have so much damn fun without dealing with this damn drama. You hear me? Mm. Yeah.

24:21Shannon Sharpe:But I just give and just keep it moving. I just give and keep it moving. I'm like, okay, now I know. Go ahead and put you on block.

24:30Chad Johnson:They going to find you. You can be on block. They going to find you. They going to find you.

24:34Shannon Sharpe:They can't find me. Find who? They can't find me. Hey, guess what? Hey, you got a new number? Nah, I'm going. Hey, I'll get you. I'll find you.

24:48Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, you talking about if you mess around and bump into them, then you're the block for them. Yeah.

24:53Shannon Sharpe:Man, you must have got a new number. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. You know how it is.

24:57Chad Johnson:Hey, it's like some people can't catch a hint, can they, man?

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28:36Shannon Sharpe:Guess what team you think they feature, Ochoa? If I had to give you a guess. Nine of the what? Nine of the most expensive NBA games this season feature what team? Philly. I mean, Philly's number one. The Knicks 76ers over the night is$2 ,605 average. The Lakers 76ers,$830. 76ers Knicks,$539. 76ers Cavaliers,$478. 76ers Celtics,$316. 76ers Trailblazers 272 76ers Pistons 259 Hornets 76ers

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29:17Shannon Sharpe:zero games in the top 10 last season but a guy that ain't no good don't nobody care about him people sure want to see him huh Joe

29:26Chad Johnson:the old king huh everybody want to come see the old king

29:32Shannon Sharpe:what game we We gotta catch him somewhere, guys.

29:35Chad Johnson:Come on, y 'all. Let me know. We need to be booked. We gotta prepare for that now.

29:39Shannon Sharpe:Hey, why you boo-jiving? Why you boo-jiving, Joe? We definitely do. You heard me, Unc? What's that?

29:51Chad Johnson:Keenan Allen went to the Colts. Oh, did he? Yeah. Oh, Keenan Allen, nice. Was he with the Chargers last year?

29:57Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, he was with the Bears. And then, uh, they released him. Yeah, he went back to Chargers. He just signed with the Colts. Damn. We got to find a game to go to. Well, we definitely ain't going to the Knicks 76ers. That one's out. Yeah, we ain't going to that one. You just said it's only 2 ,600. Boy, that ain't for no court-sized seat. The hell? Oh, you got to have them feet on the wood, huh?

30:23Chad Johnson:Yeah. Yeah, Uncle, you just like me. I know I'm having feet on the wood for that Minnesota Timberwolves game. Heat game, the first one. You going to have your feet on the wood? Hey, that's going to be the only game I go to. I owe your ass whooping from the time I tried to put your feet on the wood here in Atlanta. I owe your ass whooping.

30:42Shannon Sharpe:But see, Joe, you know your boys show up. If I tell you something, you already know, Joe. If I tell you Grah's going to turn to cheese, what you going to do? Start hustling crackers.

30:51Chad Johnson:Start hustling crackers.

30:52Shannon Sharpe:You already know. If I tell you grass gonna turn to cheese, quit everything. Sell everything you got. Just hustle crackers. Hey.

31:00Chad Johnson:What's up, bro? Hey. Don't forget Joe stood us up. You know what? I was forgiven for that.

31:09Shannon Sharpe:You know, I was in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. Old Joe had a joke.

31:14Chad Johnson:Joe and I had a good old time. Hey, you know that man tried to come in between us. Boy, hey, hey, old Joe. I saw that. You know what? He did, didn't he? Hey, I'm just reminding you, he the same one stood us up on your birthday. Now I flew all the way to Newson to celebrate what you did. You didn't do that though. Yeah. Misery loves company now. You know misery loves company. Gotta do, gotta do. Yeah, hey, listen, misery loves company, but I'm not miserable. I'm just wanting to remind Unc, you know, don't let him pull the wool over your ass. It's easy to have a good time when he already in the city.

31:47Hey, Chad. Huh? See, I jumped on the plane, bro. You hear me?

31:51Shannon Sharpe:You definitely jumped on the plane. You jumped on the plane. JoJo, I can't deny. But you know what? We're going to get an opportunity to make it all back up.

31:59Chad Johnson:We got to combine them.

32:00Shannon Sharpe:We're going to go to a game.

32:03Chad Johnson:And stop bringing up old stuff, bro. Staring up old stuff still stinks. Stop doing that. For real. Hey, you know what they say about old stuff, huh? When it lay around long enough, huh? What? It's still stinks. I got a surprise for you, though. Don't even worry about that. When we got the live show in H-Town, I got something for you, boy.

32:25Shannon Sharpe:You can't let that go yet, Joe.

32:28Chad Johnson:Oh, okay. My bad. My bad. My bad. Hey. Hey, listen. That live show in H-Town, boy, I'm going to have one.

32:35Shannon Sharpe:Oh, Joe, did I just tell Joe we can't let that cat out the bag just yet? Oh, my bad. Oh, Lord. My bad. My bad. My bad. Hey, they waiting, though. Hey, honestly, hey, what arena? My bad. My bad.

32:48Chad Johnson:I hate I even brought it up. But damn. My bad. Hey, what arena the Texans playing? The Houston Texans. I'm just throwing this out there. Yeah, what's the name of the arena? I don't know. Reliant, Reliant, Reliant, I think. I think, you know what? As much as they love us down in Houston, I think we can select the whole stadium.

33:10Shannon Sharpe:Reliant. Yeah. That's how I feel. So what game can we catch?

33:22Shannon Sharpe:That Christmas day game is just out of the question. I already know. If I call my guy, I know they gonna be wanting. Jesus Christ.

33:29Chad Johnson:They gonna probably want at least 45, 50, if not more. What, who, who, come again, who what?

33:36Shannon Sharpe:For the Christmas day game, Joe?

33:38Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah.

33:39Shannon Sharpe:Probably by 2025.

33:41Chad Johnson:Oh, by 2025?

33:43Shannon Sharpe:Yeah.

33:49Chad Johnson:yeah man let me know man i don't mind coming out west now i'll come out with

33:55Shannon Sharpe:ass typing nah hey ash can i have a life you do realize i got a life okay i know contrary to what you think i ain't got no life and it seems really boring but i do have a life outside of night camping I'm just saying.

34:17Shannon Sharpe:You gonna tell me I know you don't. Yes, I do.

34:26Shannon Sharpe:So, Knicks 76ers, Knicks Cavaliers, so who we want to see? You know what? I mean, I would love to see the Knicks 76ers Trailblazers, but I don't be wanting to go to Portland.

34:38Chad Johnson:You don't want to go to Portland?

34:40Shannon Sharpe:Hell no. But that's close for me. I mean, the East Coast, to fly six, seven hours.

34:45Chad Johnson:What about Minnesota? Philly, Minnesota?

34:49Shannon Sharpe:That'll work.

34:54Chad Johnson:That should be a hell of a game now.

34:56Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, if I had a whatchacallit. What? If I was on the clutch payroll, that would be no problem, Joe. I'll be able to give me some tickets to any game. That should be a part of the purse that I get. I show – so, hey, what was that? 24, Joe. I bought season tickets. I bought, well, me and the guy split them. So, of the 41 games, I got 23. He took 18. Caused me about 350. Oh, okay. Yeah. three three three fifty one up in the cave for uh 18 tickets and i ended up having to sell the tickets back to the guy come back i ain't go i went to two games fooling with ocho well y 'all started nightcap at the time and i got the tickets we didn't there was no there was no nightcap yeah okay what you say fooling with me i i ain't had to do that to do with that could you if you If you'd have said no, I wouldn't have had no partner for NICAP.

36:06Chad Johnson:You know them people buy them floor seats, Uncle Ocho, as an investment. Oh, yeah, for sure. You know, not everybody. They don't come to all the games. They just buy them, and they probably go to about a few games out the year.

36:18Shannon Sharpe:They want to go to probably open at night. They want to go to Christmas. Yeah. And then all the rest of the tickets, they sell to be able to buy the season tickets for next year. Yep, yep. and then the playoff tickets, whoo.

36:32Chad Johnson:But you can make your money back real quick. For sure.

36:36Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. But we going to a game, so just pencil it in, Ocho. Okay, shoot, let me know. Let me know ahead of time, so I can start, you know, getting my ducks in the road now. You ain't tell me, I gotta do the same thing, you know. Yes, sir. You know, we ain't sitting on the wall like, oh, Big Bang Hank, oh, Big Bang Hank over there, you know he ain't worried about nothing.

36:57Chad Johnson:Oh, Poe Hustler over here. I'm just an old slow Poe Hustler. I'm just trying to make ends meet. You know what I mean? Hey, you ain't telling me nothing. I'm 30 cents away from a quota. Well, hell, if that's okay with shit, I'm going to leave a check to check, man. Yeah, yeah.

37:19Shannon Sharpe:The Browns, Andrew, Browns GM Andrew Bray spoke to our very own D-Boy Joe this morning and made it clear to Sean Watson's contract will have no advantage over Chedua Sanders. Let's take a listen to what Andrew Barry had to say this morning.

37:32Chad Johnson:And there's a lot of people I know of you heard that said, you know what, they're paying Watson too much money to not start him. How much pressure is on you to start Watson because of what you're paying? It doesn't matter what they're paying when they're on the field. What we want are our wins and performance and production. It's a performance-based decision. The contract does not matter. We're pleased with both guys. You know, ultimately it's a, it's performance and production. That's going to drive the decision for coach month from that last game coach. How would you rate the performances though, from the, from the quarterbacks?

38:02I think we saw good things from both guys. You know, obviously look at it's preseason. So preseason is early, you know, guys, guys aren't going to be perfect. You know, Deshaun, we were really pleased with how he operated the offense. You know, he navigated the pocket. Well, he was accurate when we had either miscues or a look that, you know, we weren't necessarily expecting down the field and coverage. He did a really nice job. He didn't break off like a huge scramble, but he did a good job of turning a play that really should have been a negative into a no game or a short game with his legs.

38:31He's put in a lot of hard work over the past last year plus. And then Shadour, I think we continue to see major growth in Shadour's game, both in terms of his processing speed. Obviously, don't like to see the turnover. On the whole, a lot of good to take. And then some good moments where we're going to be able to coach off of them and then really improve as we go into the Buffalo League. Yeah, yeah, definitely.

38:52Shannon Sharpe:Oh, Joe, you believe what he said? Come on, man. I mean, listen, I respect Mr. Berry. You hear me? I respect him. I love him. He has a very tough job to do. But to sit there and say that what you're making does not have any significance, whether you start or not when it comes to money, come on, man. Who are we for? I'm saying, Ocho, what else? Joe, in the history of this game has ever it's never happened where someone's making that kind of money and someone else beats them out of their position it hasn't happened ever ever it's okay to you know when you ask this like a politician you ask a politician, they answer the question without really answering it and if you know the game, understand the game you understand the business when it comes to this game you know they lying.

39:48Like come on man. I understand it but he has to do that. He has to come on and say that. He can't tell the truth. But even a blind man can see how this business always worked when it comes to the person making the most of the money. They've always been the starter. If you play receiver you're making the most money. Who's getting the most opportunities Unk? The guy that paid but they get paid the most.

40:15Shannon Sharpe:Come on man. It's just hard for me to see a guy, Joe, that's making that kind of money that doesn't get the opportunity to start. Now, I'm not saying he's going to start all 17 games, but I just don't know how he's on your roster and he doesn't start day one. I'm not saying he start day 50. I'm not saying he start day 30, day 45, day 85. All I'm saying is it's just hard when one guy is making 46, 47 million and the other guy is making a million and a half. It's just hard for me to see it. Yeah.

40:47Chad Johnson:It's a tough situation, but he can't come on there and say that it does play a factor. I thought he had to answer the question politically correct. And the fact that I think they definitely want to give Deshaun an opportunity. You know what I mean? You have to give him a chance, bro. And like he said, they both showed some great flashes, obviously the turnovers, but for the most part, it's still wide open. and the fact that they're giving those guys a chance to compete for their job, I mean, I think that's – as a competitor, as a player, that's all I would ask for, bro. But be honest with me. Don't have me out here competing, Uncle Ocho, knowing damn well I ain't got a chance to win the job, bro.

41:30Shannon Sharpe:But the thing is, somebody said in the chat where they did it with Tom Brady, Drew Bledsoe got hurt. Yeah. Now, the reason why Drew got hurt, Tom came in Coach Belichick felt that Brady had was playing better than Drew before Drew got hurt he had the hot hand so that's not but Brady had the hot hand start the opening week he did not yeah so it's a totally different thing if Deshaun if Deshaun playing hopefully doesn't get hurt he gets benched but the question but the thing was you said that Brady did it with Bledsoe. That didn't happen. Drew started the first five games. Drew got hurt. Tom came in.

42:18Shannon Sharpe:Coach Belichick felt that Tom was playing better than Drew before Drew got hurt. That's what Mike Shanahan told us because, Ocho, you know the general rule of thumb, you can't lose your job because of an injury. Mike Shanahan said, that's bull jive. He said, if you get hurt, the guy comes in, and he's playing better than you before you got hurt, that's his job.

42:37Chad Johnson:Hello. Yeah. Yeah. And think about this. If you start Shadour to start, I just think it's hard to sit Deshaun on the bench making that type of money. Y 'all don't think they'll just try to get rid of him. Maybe they'll eat their contract. They probably won't be able to trade him. But hell, if Shadour do win the job, you can't have Deshaun sitting over there on the damn bench. Yeah.

43:04Shannon Sharpe:Same thing, Tony Romo, Dak Prescott. You look at the way Dak played in the regular season. As a rookie, Tony Back was injured. But they said, you know what? The way this rookie played, he playing better than what Dak played last year. Yeah, we got to stay with him.

43:26Chad Johnson:Yeah.

43:28Shannon Sharpe:And Tony been in the broadcast booth ever since.

43:30Chad Johnson:Yeah. Dak and Zeke was a monster they rookie year. Yeah. Them boys were cutting up.

43:39damn

43:40Shannon Sharpe:I get it it's so funny Russell West there's a big difference between 47 million and a million five big difference you know what's funny too is I like the fact that Joe and Nebo were able to get Mr. Berry yeah that's great but what I don't like is how people eat it up how people eat it up and don't see through the politically correct stuff. They do. They see. Because they don't. I think some people actually really believe. They really believe. Like you can't be that. You know what? I was going to go into politics but I'm not going to go there because that's not the show. In other words, you want to say these people can't be that naive and believe.

44:23Okay. Right. Right. I'm not going to go there but like come on. Come on, man. I just... That was dope though.

44:33Shannon Sharpe:It's a close race. It's not like either guy is that much ahead of the other, Joe. It's not like Usain Bolt and he racing the field from 2008, 2012 when he was jogging and looking back side to side at people. It ain't that. It's close. Or they were already named a starter. You see what they did in Minnesota? Yeah. They already named a starter, didn't they?

44:59Chad Johnson:Yeah.

45:02Shannon Sharpe:So if it was – if one guy, I believe, if one guy was so much better than the other, they would have already named a starter. The mere fact that they haven't named a starter lets you know this thing is really, really close.

45:14Chad Johnson:Hey, I do think they got a guy who they leaning toward, though.

45:18Shannon Sharpe:That could be the case, Joe.

45:19Chad Johnson:I think they got a guy who they leaning toward. I don't think that they won't come out and say it, but I do think they have a guy who they really want to lean toward.

45:29Shannon Sharpe:but he said something but I did hear him say something very interesting he said you know didn't like the turnover from Shadour yeah if I didn't know that I could have swore uh Deshaun fumbled the ball yeah yeah yeah y 'all didn't hear did y 'all hear that chat he made sure to know one guy turned the ball over when both guys turned the ball over yeah

45:57Chad Johnson:That's one game, man.

45:58Shannon Sharpe:See, you're saying, Ocho, when you're an investigator or you're a psycho, when you're evaluating people, you don't listen to what they say. You listen to what they should have said.

46:08Shannon Sharpe:He could have said, you know, I thought we should try and play well. Obviously, we don't like to turn the ball over. The thing that we do, we'll stay on the field. But he may know that Shadouar turned the ball over. Yeah. When he could have easily said both guys turned the ball over.

46:28Shannon Sharpe:I'm just you know sometimes I put my little psych hat on it okay I try to evaluate okay what did he say? I like that what should he have said? why did he say that? who could have easily just have said that? and kind of got the same result huh interesting look there's no easy solution here there's not there's not Oh, it's easy. It's easy. You think so? No, it's easy. It's not complicated. Everyone else is complicating it Everybody else is complicating the Joe I told you from jump when we first had this discussion Who job it is to lose? number fours I'm saying is his job to lose but the mere fact that he hasn't been named it tells me that he's not running away with the competition.

47:25Shannon Sharpe:Now, it might be a situation, Ocho, that they already know they got their quarterback and they just try to keep everybody to keep the natives from being restless. You don't think the Browns organization is enjoying this? The extra press, the extra media, the constant conversations, the eyes on them, you don't think they're enjoying this? They like this. They don't want to name a starter. Well, they're getting talked about. For what? when is the last time that's happened I've never seen the Browns talked about in this magnitude ever since 12 got there somebody in the chat said the clip got cut short but he did mention that later that both quarterbacks turned the ball over so okay

48:11Shannon Sharpe:but look at the end of the day they're going to have to make a decision and somebody's going to be very unhappy with that decision Yep. And when you make a decision, anytime you make a decision, somebody is upset with the decision that you made. There's never been a decision where everybody is happy with a decision that's been made. I defy you to find a time in history, regardless of what the scale of the event was, that everybody was happy with the decision that was made. Because that's why you have to be careful when you take a stand against anything. Because no matter what, if I say, Ocho, I want to save the well.

48:48Shannon Sharpe:they're gonna say what about the elephant what about the rhinoceros if i say you know what i'm gonna start a campaign and i want to rescue i want to save i want dogs i don't want to put any dogs down somebody gonna find something yeah i got cancer what about heart disease What about diabetes? Joe, you can't make everybody happy.

49:17Chad Johnson:You can't, bro. You can't.

49:21Shannon Sharpe:Man, I want to rescue children all across the world. Man, you need to rescue these black people right here in America. You keep on talking about, hey, you keep on talking about save the white officer, save the ninja. Save the ninja. That's who needs saving. We going to stink.

49:39Chad Johnson:Oh, boy.

49:41Shannon Sharpe:But that's the idea. So you got to just realize that any time you say something, somebody's going to be directly opposed to what you said. And you got to be able to live with that. You got to be able to stand on that because everybody – I can say Tom Brady is great. And they're going to say, what about those great defenses that he had?

49:58Chad Johnson:Yeah.

50:00Shannon Sharpe:What about this? What about that? Well, Peyton Manning. Man, well, Peyton Manning, look at all the games that he lost. He lost his first five or six playoff games. Everybody's going to be happy with what you say, so you know what it is. You just, you say what you feel, you believe you, you believe you're correct, and you just go with that. Cause everybody ain't gonna be happy with what you say. You can't. You can't make everybody happy.

50:22Chad Johnson:It's gonna be a rebuttal somewhere.

50:23Shannon Sharpe:Cause if you make everybody happy, one person I know that's gonna be very unhappy, and that's yourself.

50:28Chad Johnson:Yep.

50:29Shannon Sharpe:So, so you had to bet any money, any amount of money, Ocho, that meant something to you. The guy that trots out there with the first snap, opening day is who? Deshaun. Joe? I bet anything.

50:47Chad Johnson:Ocho going with Deshaun because of the money that he making. I'm going I need to see these last two games. I'm sorry. I mean because I think Shadour getting to start this game too. I think if he plays lights out and let's say Deshaun don't have a great showing, I think he can lean more towards Shadour. I'm just going off Barry from from what he was saying in this interview, you know, there's no clear front runner. So if Shadur takes that lead, he plays great in this second season, and he takes it, I think he'll be in the front runner as far as who will start.

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54:51Shannon Sharpe:Oh, yay, yay. From game one. The Browns have rolled out a scale model of their new Huntington Bank field. They're constructed in Brooks Park, Ohio. Check out this rendering, guys. Uh-oh. Ooh.

55:13Hold on.

55:13Chad Johnson:This is going to be a new arena?

55:14Shannon Sharpe:That's the new stadium they're building.

55:19Chad Johnson:Man, come on. Y 'all see what's going on. Stop playing. Why are you on Ocho acting like that? Yeah, y 'all know what them folks trying to do, man. Yeah, I know what they trying to do. It ain't gonna be right now. And to see them win five games a year

55:31Shannon Sharpe:in that pretty stadium. The hell? Everybody wanna put a dome on. Everybody wanna put a dome on. Man, don't nobody wanna come out and no cold weather's had a Super Bowl? Everybody wanna put a dome on your show cause now everybody want the Super Bowl. Everybody wanna have the damn draft at their facility. Man, ain't nobody wanna go in the damn cold and be in no Super Bowl in no damn cold. Minnesota was miserable. New York was miserable anybody to tell you that it wasn't they're lying

55:58Chad Johnson:cause it cold in February

56:01Shannon Sharpe:do you know how cold it was in Minnesota it was cold I remember that

56:12Shannon Sharpe:look get you like 5 or 6 you can rotate between Vegas LA SoFi Miami Miami, Atlanta, Houston, New Orleans, Arizona. Hold on, what about? Arizona too spaced out. It is, because they got some stuff in the team, and they got some stuff in. Yeah. You right. Scottsdale. If, if. But the weather, it's hard, at the end of the day, you know the people, they've been working in the Northeast, they want nice weather. They don't give a dip, but they just want something nice. They don't want to put on no, they don't want to bring no overcoat right if I had an order if I had an order in which I would love Super Bowls to rotate you know by city New Orleans would be number one why is that everything is right there Joe everything is right there the city is awesome the people are awesome the food is awesome the Jag Clubs I mean everything is right there Joe and it's perfect New Orleans is first two it's a tie with two between Houston and Atlanta.

57:26Houston and Atlanta it's a tie and then obviously my three Atlanta and Houston would be 2A and 2B and three would be Miami.

57:35Shannon Sharpe:And what LA LA Hey. Yeah LA yeah that's why I have LA at four.

57:44Chad Johnson:Hey what about the small market teams though damn

57:46Shannon Sharpe:Oh no. No I didn't go to the Super Bowl bro Bro, you do realize the Philly-New England game was held in Minnesota, right? I don't know if they remember that. They talk about all the Super Bowls against the Washington when Washington beat Buffalo. But there's a recent Super Bowl that was held in Minnesota at what's that, Bank of America Stadium? What's the name of their stadium in Minnesota?

58:12Chad Johnson:It was snowing and all that.

58:14Shannon Sharpe:Man, that thing was so damn cold, Joe. Yeah, it was snowing. What? I'm talking about, bro. Everybody know it's cold in Minnesota. Ain't nothing warm about Minnesota in February.

58:26Chad Johnson:Hey, that Minnesota and that damn Chicago, boy.

58:30Shannon Sharpe:That bone chilling cold.

58:32Chad Johnson:I'm talking about I don't care what you got on, it's coming through it. Yeah.

58:35Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, boy. Mm-hmm. I done played in Soldier Field in December. That thing ain't nothing. That cold heavy. It's a damn cold.

58:49Shannon Sharpe:man that baby it's like a wet cold i said oh nah this ain't hey it's different boy

59:02oh yeah oh yeah what's the favorite stadium to play in my favorite oh that's a good one um

59:17probably that coliseum back in the day man that black hole

59:19Shannon Sharpe:you like oh you like playing hold on you like hold on you like playing in la or you like playing in oklahoma okay yeah that black hole i just i they was crazy the fan was crazy i i like that i like playing away hey joe you like playing home better it just depends uh i enjoy playing at home

59:39Chad Johnson:but like places i used to we used to go play uncle ocho throughout my career like memphis dallas that's close to little rock and that's when like all my family will come bro so it hit a little different you know what i mean because because outside of me playing in those cities a lot of cats who i went to high school college with they live in dallas they live in memphis so when i came now i always had at least over 20-something people coming to the games bro like people who i literally grew up with so right you know i thought i thought that was always cool i love i love playing away yeah i love playing listen i love i love to have fun obviously for the home fans but boy i love you know fans heckling and talking trash and making signs and saying outro stink out but joe that that just drives me that i enjoy going back and forth with people in in the stands you know and it's the funny thing is it's never malicious it was more than respecting obviously i'm playing for the opposing team.

1:00:38Boy, I loved it. Playing in Baltimore. Love it. No playing in Cleveland. Loved it. And it was always respecting.

1:00:46Shannon Sharpe:As far as just atmosphere, it's like a stadium, like grass, like Denver, Kansas City, Carolina, Arizona. I only played one time in Houston. I only played one time in Arrowhead. Matter of fact, it was me and Pat Sertain going against each other. Oh, was it? Yeah, me and Pat. He was there at the time. Hey, that's crazy, Joe. Watching Pat Sertain Jr. now. He played against his dad. And playing against his dad. I played against his dad. We played against him. Him and T. Buck was in Dolly Madison, Sam Madison. Yeah, in Miami. Yeah, I played against him.

1:01:32Chad Johnson:Hey, was his dad just as good as him? His dad was good. Yeah, Sam was good. Sam was good now. He wasn't technically sound like him,

1:01:39Shannon Sharpe:but he was damn good. Yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, Sam was good. That's where he get it from. That's where that phone's too far from the tree. Oh no, not at all. Ain't them boys. Pat Sr. wasn't as big as two. Yeah. Man, two. Joe, he legit 6 '3". I'm talking about every bit of 6 '3".

1:02:05Chad Johnson:Yeah.

1:02:05Shannon Sharpe:And he long, he's long, he's rangy. Yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey. I mean, when you look at him, when you watch him, watch him get in his stance, and look how long his arms go below his knees.

1:02:21Chad Johnson:Yeah.

1:02:23Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. And what, the technique, he's here, turn. Here, turn. I mean, he got it like that. Real solid. Yeah, he's flawless, Joe, he's flawless. Like the old corner back when I first got in the league in like that late 80s and the early 90s, little chokes, them chokes all the way down like this here. What's the one from the Raiders? I got that picture. Yeah, that's the Hades, I like that. Yeah. Leicester. Them dolphins was hell, but when they had Pat and Sam. And T-Buck was there too. Oh yeah, T-Buck was in the slot. And it had, what's the last, Zach Thomas was in the middle. Jason Taylor. Jason Taylor.

1:03:03They were nice, man.

1:03:09Shannon Sharpe:Gardner. We beat hell out of them. Which Gardner? In the championship. In the playoff game, Ocho, we beat the brakes off them. Because they were talking ish.

1:03:21Shannon Sharpe:We took TD out. TD had, they took TD out in the third quarter. TD had 25 for$1.99. Damn. Damn. Yeah, it took about the third quarter.

1:03:35Chad Johnson:Ain't let the man get 200?

1:03:37Shannon Sharpe:Nah, we had to save him. He averaged 142 a game in his postseason career. Only one time he didn't have 100 yards rushing.

1:03:49Chad Johnson:And the MTD was serious, boy.

1:03:51Shannon Sharpe:Crazy. That's crazy. Stop it. I dare you to. You couldn't stop it. We done made it from our mind. We're going to run the ball. toss, handoff, toss weak, handoff weak, handoff strong, toss strong. You can't stop it. Hey, that Dolphins defense was good. How he had that many yards? Go back and look at the film and look at the holes he's running through. Boy, we blowing them juggles off the ball.

1:04:18Chad Johnson:25 kick.

1:04:19Shannon Sharpe:You're not there to his safety.

1:04:22Chad Johnson:Hey, bro.

1:04:23Shannon Sharpe:Rolled him up, Ocho. Hey, Louis Oliver was on the team? No, no. He's been gone. I'm tripping. Man, I read a slug on T-Buck. He had to grab me. Oh, Joe. We do. It was going to be six, huh? Yeah, hell yeah. We're going to bite. A Buck was aggressive as hell. When you pump him, he biting. Hey, T-Buck said, hey, you got more slants and stop routes than you got nines in your playbook. Man, I had his ass, too. Boy, he was old. I take that flag Oh boy I'll go do something crazy Saturday August 22nd in Tampa Witness an MMA legends final fight Chris Cyborg One of the greatest in history She's an absolute pioneer in the sport Defense her PFL world title One last time Unforgettable end To an unforgettable career.

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