Nightcap Hour 2: Unc and Ocho react to McCaffrey having a bounce back season

23:25But it ain't hush-hush no more.

23:27Shannon Sharpe:Hell nah. And something gonna have to give. Something gotta give, Ocho. Something gotta give. Who gonna fold first? Kyle Juszczyk, the great fullback from the San Francisco 49ers, expecting a bounce-back season for Christian McCaffrey, which would help the 49ers bounce back from a 6-11 season. This is what Juszczyk said. Christian is arguably the best player in the NFL. He was offensive player of the year two years ago. He changes everything. He looks incredible. He looks so healthy. He looks so explosive. McCaffrey began last season on injury reserve, injured the season on injury reserve. When we first started the show, Ocho, what did I say?

24:05Shannon Sharpe:If you limp into the season, how you going out of the season, Ocho? You won't limp out the season. He missed eight games with a bilateral Achilles tendonitis and then played only 167 snaps before a posterior cruciate ligament ended his season. Ocho, CMC have a bounce back season? Absolutely, it's possible. I saw he just welcomed a baby girl. Yep, congratulations. And his wife, Olivia. Yep, but he definitely can. I mean, listen, CMC is a special running back. He's a special running back. He can do it all. He can do it all. And he changes the dynamic of that offense when he's available to play. He can run it.

24:45He can catch it out the backfield. And he makes everything easier for that offense. There are certain players in the NFL, when you're on that offense, it makes the offensive coordinator job easy. It makes the quarterback job easy because they can do so much. Most of the time when it comes to offensive coordinators and you call them plays, you have to call them in a way to hide certain weaknesses. A player like McCaffrey.

25:11Shannon Sharpe:Your whole playbook is open. opens up everything. It opens up everything. There are very few players on each team like that. Every team doesn't have them, which makes the offensive coordinator job that much more difficult. But when you have a player like that, it makes everything else easy because they're so good at what they do.

25:33Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, he's special. He's special. The thing is, Ocho, he's not a naturally big man. And he plays probably the most physically demanding position, which is the running back position, as not a naturally big man. He's not Saquon. He's not Derrick Henry. He's not Joe Mixon. He's not Josh Jacobs. I mean, he's probably going 2-0-5. If that. That's being generous, if that. And you're asking him to do 275 between 275 and 325, 350 touches. Now, it'll be fine. But what happens when they hit him, he hit the dirt, and then they fall on top of him?

26:25Yeah.

26:27Shannon Sharpe:So I think that you're going to have to be judicious. I mean, look, Ocho, we got a weapon. I want to use it. I mean, what am I saving it for? Right. I want to use it. Right. It's like you got a whip. Man, such as I got a bad. Man, I heard, Ocho, man, why don't you bring the car? Man, I heard you got, Ocho, I heard you got that thing, man. Let me see it. What good is having a nice car, Ocho, if you just go sit in the garage? It's like, man, we got Christian McCaffrey. We got one of the most versatile running backs in all of football. and we're not going to use him because of the potential that he might get hurt?

27:05Shannon Sharpe:Nah, we're paying for you. If you get hurt, we'll deal with it. But when you're the highest paid running back at what night? Well, I think he's the second highest paid now behind Saquon because I think Saquon's at$20 million a year. And I think Christian's back at$19. I got to give him touches. I got to hand it to him. I got to throw it to him. Whatever the case may be, I need the ball in his hands. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Chargers running back Najee Harris suffered a superficial eye injury at the fireworks mishap at the 4th of July event last week. According to his agent, Najee Harris was present at the 4th of July event where fireworks mishap resulted in an injury to several attendees.

27:45Shannon Sharpe:Najee sustained a superficial eye injury during the incident, but is fully expected to be ready for an upcoming NFL season. Ocho, you see? Yeah, but I don't play about them fireworks, boy Why you don't play, Ocho? I don't play about them fireworks Listen, I don't play about them fireworks When it comes to fireworks and my kids want fireworks lit I allow someone else to light fireworks I don't play about that Listen, especially the eye area But listen, I don't even got Man, what about JPP? Have you not learned about JPP? Hey, you ain't got to tell me twice Even before JPP's incident I'm not playing with them fireworks just with understanding what happens if it goes off what happens if it goes off i i don't like that i don't i don't like i don't like i'm um i give enough space between me and any fiber of display a lot of space just in case something might tip over i'm able to move and react i don't play that at all and it's about he had he had an eye incident don't play it up man shit hey anything it cannot be replaced i don't be fooling around with that my eye all this right here no i can't you know artificial no eyes my nose my i i already i only got one good eye as it is yeah i only got one good eye as it is i'm not losing nothing else yeah absolutely not you like me my thing ain't full forest Whitaker but you know it's heading that direction hey my this is you know what people probably would never believe me, I'll never forget, 1993.

29:26I'm going to tell a quick story real quick. 1993, I woke up with inflammation in my eye, similar to swimming under salt water. If anybody's been in the ocean, you look under salt water, you know you can't see nothing. Woke up one morning, my grandma thought it was pink eye. We woke up, she said, you're not going to school, whatever. A few days go by, nothing happens. The pink eye, the swelling, all went away, but I still couldn't see out my right eye. grandma take me to the doctor some type of inflammation on the inside i'm not sure what it was blah blah blah i go have surgery had surgery to clear up whatever it was so at that point remember how big small's eye he went his eye yeah yeah you had one eye to look straight ahead and the other on the slide yeah so my eye was like that the majority through high school obviously where it was it was it was very very lazy very lazy so yeah yeah whatever happened i I don't remember what the procedure was, but I could never see out of my right eye since 1993.

30:26So at some point, doing certain, I forgot, not drills, but finding ways to strengthen, even though I couldn't see out of it, I still look like I'm looking at you now. It wasn't as bad as it used to be. Sometimes if I lock in long enough on an object or looking at my phone, my eye would just drift on its own. Now it's hard to notice. And people say, why you always wear glasses? is white so I always have glasses on most of the time because my eye will drift off sometimes and the funny thing about it is I played my entire career with one eye I can only see out my left eye and the funny thing I can talk about it now if you ever watch me catch the ball in the NFL every catch you see you always notice I wait till the ball gets about right here on me I wait because I can't see it most of the time if you have both eyes you can catch it from you I mean you can yeah you look at the ball you see you try to pick it up as soon as you possibly can you try to get it out here bingo I couldn't see the ball until it got at least right here and then I would just have to be able to every catch now I rarely caught up my body but I had to wait until it got close to me in order to catch it this to see it in sight and that's that's the story I really never you know I never really shared that story but in in this in this eye over here i'm like 99 maybe 120 or 90 20 something like that but in my left eye yeah i'm you mean 2020 vision is based on 2020 no 2020 in my left eye but right at like 90 i mean it's bad on like the big the biggest letters on the on the eye chart yeah if you cover if you cover my left eye i can't even see i can't even see the biggest letters on the eye chart it's bad it's real bad

32:07Shannon Sharpe:all right well i'll make sure i put that thing to your head on the right side so you won't see what got you don't give me my money oh hold on i got your money hold on hold on

32:25hey hey i got i got your money right i got your money you got it yeah i got listen i got 10 20 30 40

32:37Shannon Sharpe:no that ain't enough I got 50 ,000 for you right here I got you baby I got you I seen you a little extra how long it's been tell me how long it's been we bet at the beginning of the season we did yes how much interest I owe you man just shoot shoot your boy cool 5900 6 ,000 make it even okay okay I got matter of fact you know what I'm gonna tell you that's how much I love you whatever you pay for the dog I'm gonna pay for the dog too so I'm gonna shoot I'm gonna give you I'm gonna see you 6 ,000 and whatever you pay for the dog I'm gonna shoot that on top of just out of love I'm gonna put this in the mail tomorrow hey hey man mail me my shit man we done been on vacation three weeks you keep it keep it all at once man I forgot all about that ay send me that man the web is supposed to be here next week hold on matter of fact I'm going to shoot you a cool 10 ,000 I'm going to shoot you a cool 10 ,000 send my stuff man come on now I'm just going to hold on to this to the web is coming so I can sit it all all at once see you a good dude I don't care what they say about you boy you good in my book you good let me see if i got anything else of yours here hey where my funko at hey send me my funko man oh hey send me my funko okay yeah yeah yeah so my funko send my webby hey what's that award what's the triangle what's the triangle award what's that called uh creative excellence oh yeah that's me that's me i like the word excellence because when i go when i go use the bathroom i piss excellence so that that award would go good in here.

34:30Man, hey, send me my jersey, man. Come on, man. Hold on. Oh, you went to the beach? I went to the beach high. That's me. I was number two. Damn. How you got that? Just you? Come on. Hey, what you doing? What we doing over there now? Hey, Ash. Ash, you know my address, Ash. Hey, send my stuff now.

34:53Shannon Sharpe:We send the other stuff to the old address. What old address? but i don't i don't live that no more well she'll get it to you no no come on don't do that don't do that don't do that you don't come on man but i hold on i'm confused how you got my high school jerseys both of them why they end up with you i need that fun coat that's a 101 right there boy okay i'm gonna send the fun coat i'm gonna send the fun coat the uh award for creative excellence and the two the two webbies. I tell you what, how about we do it? I got one for you. Now listen, it's been a long time. I owe you money. I got money right here.

35:34You send me my stuff and I'm going to send the money.

35:37Shannon Sharpe:I got you. Send me my stuff. Hey, listen, as soon as it gets here, I'm going to send it right to you. I promise you. I promise you. Hey, a good 50 right here. I can smell it. It smell good. Look good too. Hey, it do. Hey, fresh too. Hey, these are new hunters too, huh? These are new hunters. They new? Yeah, these new, boy. Oh my God, I forgot. I don't know how I let it slip my mind. I don't know if we have it in what we talking about tonight. We talked about the casino and them having Uno. Lo and behold, god damn across Vegas. They're bringing Unos to the casinos. And I'm going to tell you where you can find me.

36:16I'm going to tell you where you can find me. You can find me in Casino playing Uno. I'm going to be a beer now. I tell you that right now. I'm going to be a billionaire over playing Uno in a casino. I don't know what rules they're going to have.

36:29Shannon Sharpe:But they're going to have different rules than what we play in a casino. No, no, no, no. They can't gentrify. One thing they're not going to do, they can't gentrify Uno. They can't do that. Don't gentrify Uno. Because you can't put draw tools on each other. You can't put no draw foes. They got all kind of rules, Ocho. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. If you're going to put Uno in there, let's have the original Uno. All that new stuff they got, we ain't doing that. We ain't doing that. Vikings linebacker Dallas Turner reportedly fell victim to a phone scam that cost him a staggering$240 ,000. He was allegedly targeted by a caller posing as a representative from JPMorgan Chase who claimed that someone was attempting to impersonate him at a bank branch in Arizona.

37:12Shannon Sharpe:The caller convinced Turner that to protect his funds, he needed to urgently transfer his money to alternate business accounts. believing his finances were at risk Turner visited two separate Chase banks and transferred$120 ,000 each of funds were later discovered to have been funneled into fraudulent accounts. Turner didn't realize he had been duped until after speaking with family members who raised concerns about the legitimacy of the instructions. He then contacted law enforcement in an effort to recover the stolen funds. Authorities have only managed to recover less than$2 ,500. Hey, hey, listen, Like stuff like that shouldn't work.

37:53Stuff like that shouldn't work. Stuff a phone call. Since the bank. Stuff like that shouldn't work. For one if Chase is calling you. About anything. Suspecting when it comes to your money. I'm going to the bank.

38:09Shannon Sharpe:Nothing like that. That's what he did. He went to the bank. But they convinced him. That you need to get some money out of this. And put it in here. At the actual bank. So he went to two different banks and transferred 120 ,000 each into the accounts that they told him say this will protect you. No, no, no, no, no. I'm talking to the GM or the manager at that specific bank asking if anything with my accounts is in trouble. Are there any type of alerts, any type of security things that I should be worried about? I'm sure they will check and show and let him know there is nothing going on here. Especially any phone call.

38:48There ain't no bank calling you, letting you know. What are we talking about? How did we fall for that in 2025?

38:54Shannon Sharpe:I think we've all had our number. They call, well, this is the last call. You need to pay your tolls. Or you need to do, man. Man, please. Don't know where I go got tolls. So I know it ain't got nothing to do with me. Oh, your credit card. I was like, nah, they know me personally. They call me. I don't need you telling me something wrong with my credit card. Man, man, listen. There's certain things we shouldn't fall for. there's certain things we shouldn't fall for at our big age that just doesn't make sense it doesn't even make sense you know but hopefully young bull I hope we can get some of it back but it's hard to show you know when money goes man that thing gone it's hard to get you never gonna get fully what you lost you just hope you can get 40, 50, 60 % on the dollar because you ain't gonna get 100 think about this when it comes to scams of this nature, it normally works on the elderly.

39:50It normally works on the elderly because they're not aware. They're not sure. Something like this of this magnitude shouldn't work on a young bull. It shouldn't work on a young bull. He should know better. You got to be a little sharper.

40:02Shannon Sharpe:People hurt you about their money, man. They don't play. They don't play. He done work too hard for that too. He done work too hard for that, man. Come on now. And the thing was I'm gonna leave it right there because Who the break that he with who's with a chase bank? Yeah. Oh Y 'all responsible for that. So if somebody steal it out of there y 'all responsible for y 'all gonna place that back I ain't gonna do nothing. Yeah, absolutely Absolutely, you know what you know what the funny thing I bet I bank with Chase I bank with chasing just the thought of even believing Any phone call any text me like come on man banks don't even operate that way They don't even operate that way Oh, we know.

40:46Who? Boy, you got the wrong number, man. If you don't get off my line, stop playing.

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44:17Shannon Sharpe:Did the long break, Ocho, do you think the long break helped Andrews move on? Yeah, most definitely. Or did he give him an opportune time to just sit with his thoughts? Yeah, because it's the way the season ended, I think it's going to linger a little bit longer, you know, the way it ended. And for him being at fault, for him dropping the ball, obviously they were down. He fumbled early in the season, but they had an opportunity. He fumbled early in the game, but they had an opportunity to tie the game and obviously maybe go to overtime and see what happens from that point. And I think it hurts a little bit more and it lingers a little longer because you will view it as, oh, I lost the game for us.

44:58you know so now obviously he says he has to prove himself again well we know what you can do

45:03Shannon Sharpe:we know what you can do we know you've been a pro bowl you've been a pro bowl being an all pro absolutely but it's it's those opportune times when it matters most can you make those plays and i think the thing is ocho the thing that we love most about sports because you have to have a short memory because guess what in basketball the game might another game might happen that next night. Baseball, another game happened that next day. In football, a game is going to happen that week. So you have to forget about that. I can't be thinking about in this game what happened last game because it's going to mess me up in this game.

45:36Shannon Sharpe:Exactly. But because, excuse me, that was the last game. And here we are, Ocho. February, March, April, May, June, July, August. It's not until he gets back out there and he's playing meaningful football that he could possibly put that. Now, that's never going to leave. No. That's never going to leave. It's never. Yeah. But he's going to be all right. That's the thing that I love about professional sports because you have to move on, and you get an opportunity to move on very, very fast. But when it's the last game, and then you have three months, four months, and, hey, bro, don't worry about it.

46:21Shannon Sharpe:Hey, it's, hey, ain't no one play. you know you don't ain't no one play causes the game. Shit. Okay. Yeah. I mean listen nobody will say it obviously but that play costs the game. It did. I mean listen it sounds cute. You know they always said oh that's not why we lost the game. Yes it is. Honestly. I mean it is. Let's be realistic. You know your teammates will always say all the right stuff. They'll never say it to your face. You know but it costs the game. And what's going to happen is he's going to bounce back this season. He's going to have a great regular season as he did last year, but when it matters most, you have to make those plays.

47:01You got to make those plays.

47:04Shannon Sharpe:That's what it comes down to, Ocho. That's what you paid to make plays. He's one of the better play tight ends because they're used to him making those kind of plays in those type of situations. But if anybody can bounce back, Mark Andrew is coming back. Trevor Lawrence had high praise for Travis Hunter this week. Travis has been great. Just his work ethic, how he comes in. He's been one of the hardest working guys we have. I think his commitment to learning the playbook and trying to learn the two systems. It's a lot on a rookie. It's challenging to learn everything that he's done a nice job.

47:37Shannon Sharpe:We still have work to do and we're going to get a lot done in training camp to get us ready to play come September. I'm really excited for him and how he can help our team. Yeah. I'm excited too. I am. I'm excited. I'm excited for Duval. I'm excited for the fans in Jacksonville. I'm excited to see Travis Hunter. I'm excited to see Brian Thomas Jr. They got some weapons now. Every game, they got eight home games. Every game should be sold out. Every game will be sold out. Simply for the excitement. I don't know what happened, Ocho. What? When I was you know they became a franchise in 95. Yeah. And I remember going down there and we played them in in 99 and we played them obviously then I went to Baltimore and we played them.

48:30Shannon Sharpe:We were in the same division. So Ocho that place used to have 60 ,000. I'm talking about they were loud. Yeah. Now I think they blacked it out up there. I'm like come on Jacksonville. But they were loaded. You know they had Mark Grunel. They had Jimmy. They had Kenan. Kenny McCarty. They had Fred Taylor. Fabulous Freddie Taylor. Tony Buscelli. Yeah. Tony Brackens. They had Dion Figures. They had a nice squad. Oh, yeah. They had a really nice squad. Donovan Darius. Come on. Yes. Oh, yeah. Come on, Jazz. Get on out there and support your team. Oh, no. Oh, they're going to be there. You ain't got to worry about that.

49:05They are going to be there. Listen, the offense is lights out. The offense is lights out even before Travis Hunter got there. So the addition of Travis Hunter plus Brian Thomas Jr., who was one of the better receivers last year as a mash man they're gonna be nice they're gonna be real nice now if we can get trevor lawrence to play up to the expectation number one overall pick and one of the highest paid players in nfl yeah he has to fulfill his end of the deal too now he'll be all right just a little consistency week in and week out coach prime said at the big 12 media day

49:40Shannon Sharpe:that something should change with the uniforms let's do something about the uniforms we got guys in biker shorts. That makes me sick because I'm a football guy. I play this game at a high level and I have so much respect for this game. How can we allow guys to come out there in biker shorts? No knee pads, no nothing. Literally pants up under their thigh. That's not cool. I think there should be a fine implemented for that stuff. And let's have more respect for this tremendous game. Do you believe college should adopt NFL rules for the uniform? Absolutely. not. There's enough control as it is. Allow the players to be themselves.

50:21Prime is one of the few, probably the only one who made the mantra, you look good, you play good. But Tyve had all his plans. Tyve had thigh pads, hip pads, knee pads, butt pads. But listen, he had his own specific style. He did it his way. Allow the players to feel good about themselves based on the way they style themselves the day don't change that don't take that away from them don't take that away from allow allow the players to do what they want to dress how they want especially on the field because it makes them feel good if they feel good if you look good then you get the same return in their play that's that's

50:58Shannon Sharpe:time also said he wanted to you know they adopt a lot of the rules that uh he's like look i need you to two feet it take two feet to have a completion yeah you know hey uh uh clock don't stop and all that for on that first down stuff keep it going right right right right um so he wants because i think the thing is like you're like these guys getting ready to go play to the nfl so let's go ahead you know ocho you remember in college used to kick off a tee used to be able to kick a field goal or pat off a tee they're like nah guys were bombing out because they were used to kick it off a tee right then all of a sudden you get to the nfl you got to kick it off the ground at the ground yeah yeah in high school yeah i can't go see you know i was a kicker we kicked off the t the orange t yeah in high school yeah no i i'm talking about i'm talking about for p.a.t and field goals do they still kick off a t yeah i kicked off the black t a little black black black t yeah coach prime says coach prime also wants a salary cap in college football all you got to do is look at college football playoff and you see what teams spent and you'll understand darn well why they're in the playoffs should there be a salary cap oh i mean some some some some would agree i don't think so i i don't i don't like it allow allow these players are they gonna put a salary cap on the coaches no probably not right he said i don't think he has a problem with guys making he's like but you know some of these freshman class they're going for 20 million 30 million dollars well hold on what are they going to put a salary cap on the coaches when they go to other places nope what they can be paid right allow these players to get max value whatever it is that they're valued at why put a salary cap on that now i understand as a whole where depending on the program that has more money to spend on certain players to make your team better well i mean like i i no i i don't i don't like the salary cap idea allow those players to make as much as possible because there was a time where they wasn't making nothing yeah well they're making something but it wasn't yeah yeah i know what you mean listen hey listen i'm wishing when you're right i'm wishing when you're right all right oh joe it's time for our final segment of the evening it's time for q and a god damn the night was good but oh this felt good tonight but i'm glad to be back boy oh look at here oh let me pp they uh yes chat i am so glad to be back uh the three weeks i mean like i said the first week I went home.

53:41Shannon Sharpe:I got an opportunity to spend time with the kids and the grandkids. My son has a granddaughter now, Kennedy, and it was great to see her little chunky self. It was great. But, you know, I spent time with the fam, and then I came back up here, and I've been, you know, doing what I do, getting ready for the season, getting my mind right to go through this grind all over again. I really look forward to it. Being able to talk to you guys, and I was like, man, when you do something and you really appreciate doing it, you love what you do, when it's gone, man, you're like, damn. I showed Miss Ocho. Ocho, Dr.

54:21Shannon Sharpe:Frankie L. Bellamy said, Hey, fam, was there anything on your list that you didn't get accomplished while on vacation? Love y 'all. Glad you're back. Doc, thank you so much. I am glad to be back. Ocho mentioned earlier he's excited to be back, extremely excited to be back. No, I got everything. Just relax. I just wanted to get away. I didn't even shoot any episodes of – I think I shot one episode. I think we shot one episode of Club She-She. One episode. Normally, we go on vacation. I'm trying to shoot as many as I can. So we're behind schedule right now. We got to make up. The next month, though, we probably got to go get about 10 of them in the can.

54:59But, no, I didn't – there's nothing that I didn't do

55:04Shannon Sharpe:or I didn't get accomplished that I wanted to get accomplished. Oh, you have you good old time. I saw you listen listen. I had a great time what I haven't done yet, which I'm still going to do I'm just I'll probably be doing nightcap on vacation You know I have I take my annual trip with all the kids. I take my angry trip with all the kids. So I'm taking the kids. I think we're going to Turks and Caicos So it'll be all it'll be all eight of us I'm excited. I'm excited for that. I don't think you might not like you might not like the way we travel on the way I'm going to take them on this little trip.

55:41But we're going to have some fun. I want them to be able to experience what it's like to fly private, to not have to walk through the lines and not have to go through customs. So I'm excited for that. And that's pretty much it.

55:56Shannon Sharpe:No.

56:00Shannon Sharpe:They've been on private. They don't need to be on private no more. Who? My kids. Y 'all didn't fly to be private. Oh, so your kids been on private just before? Mm-hmm. Well, see, mine haven't had the opportunity to experience. I want French fry. I want French fry to be able to walk the red carpet. Listen, I'm for the red carpet. You know, black car pull up. You know, y 'all get out, and you know, they pick you up. I want them to experience that and see what it's like just one time. I'm going to do it for them one time. We're going to have a good old time. Good deal. Laney Ray. Hey, Laney. Welcome back.

56:32Shannon Sharpe:Hope you guys had a well-deserved vacay, relaxed a bit. Now, if you can bring football season back faster, that would be great too. Unfortunately, Laney, we can't do that. We wish we could, but we can't do that. But thank you guys for tuning. Thank you for joining us. Charles Whitlock said, is Shakur Stevenson the closest thing to Floyd? No, Floyd is the closest thing to Floyd. Yeah. Now, I'm glad whoever that was said that. I'm glad whoever that was said that. But Shakur Stevenson, what we need to understand, what you saw against Zepeda was a boxing clinic. It was a boxing masterclass. Shakur Stevenson defense is his offense with a pressure fighter like Zepeda.

57:11Most most most fighters under that kind of pressure would have folded. If you watch your career Stevenson's body language throughout the entirety of the fight, you want to show the entire world that I can sit here and fight. I can sit here and box. I can sit in the pocket be defensively sound of obviously your gun. You're going to get hit. He got hit. Yeah, you know the boxing match. Yeah, he got hit a lot, but it is boxing. You want to minimize those punches the best way you can, and he did a great job at it. And what you saw last night, despite what you may think or feel about Shakur Stevenson, it was a boxing masterclass based on what we saw.

57:48He's the best defensive fighter in the game right now. In the game right now, and I don't see how you can hate on it after watching that. I don't see how you can.

57:59Shannon Sharpe:Pat Dubbs said, oh, go ahead. Go ahead, Ochoa. What are you going to say finishing up? will have to change depending on who the person is across from him, Zapata didn't have the power. He didn't have that kind of power where he had to be worried about it. Now, if that's a tank, you're not sitting there like that. No. You're not sitting there because he got bricks in his hands. But tank ain't no pressure fighter like Zapata though. Exactly. But you have to be cautious. You wouldn't be sitting on the ropes. It's all about understanding your opponent and knowing what you can and can't get away with but the thing is if you go back and look at floyd and you look at floyd at 130 135 with floyd 130 135 140 147 154.

58:44if you go back and look at floyd floyd had power oh yeah early

58:48Shannon Sharpe:floyd before early floyd mess your hands up go back and look at floyd pretty boy floyd not money not money mayweather pretty boy floyd at 130 135 in their slugging yeah look at what he did to corrales diego that was a good fight look at uh codo ricky hatton got it yeah oh yeah teddy bear bro

59:31Shannon Sharpe:Pat Dove said, are you, Ed and Rod, the best blocking receiving group? At least in the 90s. Look at TD numbers. 1 ,100, 1 ,500, 1 ,700, 2 ,000. back-to-back Super Bowls, league MVP, Super Bowl MVP. And then you go back and look at the next year, oh, gee, Bird, Alandis Gary rushed for$1 ,250. Those, the one thing, look, the one thing the Broncos received when Mike Shanahan was there, oh, you blocking. Got to. You blocking. That's why, and people thought, oh, well, it doesn't matter who you, because, you know, we put, you put Ruben Drones back there, he go get$1 ,200. You put Mike Anderson, he was rookie of the year, He goes and get 1 ,500.

1:00:20Shannon Sharpe:Clinton Portis comes in. He's rookie of the year. He's running for 1 ,500. Yeah, people think of that. It was, nah, man. It was the scheme in which we had. I mean, you had to have a certain type of back. Bobby Turner, who's the running back coach in San Francisco, wherever Shanahan is, you're going to find Bobby T. He went with Mike to Houston. First of all, he went with Kube to Houston. and then he went with Mike to Washington. And then when Mike got let go, he went with Kyle to – Kyle went to Cleveland and then he ended up going to Atlanta. And he went with Kyle to Atlanta. And when Kyle went to San Fran, he followed Kyle.

1:01:00Shannon Sharpe:But Bobby T is the best running back coach in football. That's all he wants to do. He don't want to be a head coach. He don't want to be an offensive coordinator. He just wants to be a head coach. So, yeah, but I think we were. Ain't nobody better than us. Mr. McGee said, remember when Ocho tried to block Ray Lewis? I thought Ocho retired as a physical run blocker. After that, it went into mental run blocking with the trash talker. He did.

1:01:26Shannon Sharpe:The abyss one said, is TD all-time leading rusher if he doesn't get hurt? I don't know about the all-time leading rusher. I mean, he has the third highest rush average of anybody in NFL history. Let us think in. what is it what 5.8 nah he averaged like 90 over 90 like 97 yards a game I think Jim Brown I think Barry's 2 ok ok ok ok I don't know about the all time leading rusher but it's hard when you look at the guys that came behind him and look at the yardage that they got right he's going to be well over 10 ,000 and he's not going to have to wait as long as he had to wait to get into the Hall of Fame I know that for certain damn smith said rogers with andy reed as a coach in that defense i'm taking aaron pat has tyreek and kelsey aaron had nowhere near that but you also got to understand is he gonna listen see y 'all just think it's about talent you just think look at brady brady was willing to be coached Patrick Holmes is willing to be coached.

1:02:32Shannon Sharpe:Are we sure? Are you sure, Dan? Hold on. Does he understand the receiver that Aaron Rodgers had? No, he don't. Because Jordy Nelson wasn't a slouch. Boy, Greg Jennings wasn't no slouch. Greg Jennings wasn't a slouch. Donald Driver wasn't a slouch. No slouch. James Jones led the league in receiving touchdowns. Jermichael Finley was a Pro Bowl tight end. Look at the offensive lineman that he had. Jenkins, Batiari. Don't do that. Yeah. So now, were you saying that when Andy Reid was in Philly? Or are you saying this when Andy Reid is in Kansas City? Because I don't remember anybody saying, man, if Aaron Rodgers had Andy Reid when Andy Reid was in Philly, oh, but now you want to have Andy Reid when he's in Kansas City.

1:03:22Shannon Sharpe:Were you saying that when he was coaching Alex Smith? or are you saying that now you got Patrick Mahomes? I'm curious. I noticed everybody says that Aaron would have had Andy Reid. Andy Reid with Patrick Mahomes or Andy Reid in Philly? Which one? Or Andy Reid when he had Alex Smith? Which Andy Reid do you want him to have?

1:03:58Shannon Sharpe:it's funny it's funny because nobody nobody you got to realize first of all i remember when andy reed was in green bay with my brother knowing well know his wife go to the provost sit there and have a conversation they're great people nobody thought andy reed was a top coach when he was in Philly. Now stop it, people. It's amazing what the right player could do, huh? He was so great. Jeffrey Lewis said, nah, we good. It's amazing what the right combination of players and coach together can do, a la Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Oh, hold on. Yeah, give Aaron Rodgers Bill Belichick. The Bill Belichick in Cleveland or to Bill Belichick in New England when he got Tom Brady?

1:04:55Hmm.

1:04:56Shannon Sharpe:Because he had Drew Bledsoe and he had Matt Jones. So which one? So I just need to adapt. Which Andy Reid did you want Aaron Rodgers to have? The one in Philly or the one in which he had Alex Smith? Oh, oh, oh. Because guess what? Travis Kelsey was there with Alex Smith. Tyreek was there with Alex Smith. Tell me you heard him talking about like they talk about him when they had Patrick Mahomes. Listen, Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid is no different than Richard Gere and goddamn Julia Roberts and Pretty Woman. Perfect, perfect, perfect match. Perfect match. It worked well together.

1:05:52Shannon Sharpe:Tyree McClinton in 6 ,220. Oh, excuse me, 6 ,200. Why does the NBA media try to diminish LeBron's legacy? For example, I watched someone say if Kawhi wins, if Kawhi wins again, it changes LeBron's legacy. But your legacy never changed. When Giannis won MVP defensive player of the year, a Kobe three-peat. Because. If I don't like somebody, I can find a million ways. If I don't like him, I can find a million ways to further try to discredit them. Always. Listen, depending on who you're talking about, the goalposts continuously move. Yes. Depending on who you're talking about. Matter of fact, the greater the player, the greater the accomplishments, the more they try to move the goalposts to diminish what they've done.

1:06:40Shannon Sharpe:13 times first team All-NBA. In year 22, he made second team All-NBA. Could he have made first team? sure. If he'd have made it over Donovan Mitchell, I don't think people are having a heart attack, but hey, he didn't. Donovan made it. Congratulations, Don. Congratulations on getting married, too, on the engagement to Coco Jones. Congratulations, y 'all. But the man is a 13-time first-team All-NBA selection, most in NBA history. He's a 21-time All-NBA selection, by far the most in NBA history. Four finals MVP, four regular season MVPs. led the league in assist led the league in scoring he's got more playoff wins got more score more playoff points scoring leader that's still not enough you know what you know why LeBron you know is the greatest you know why he's the GOAT because he gave me his 50k point ball LeBron chat y 'all see that you know what this is worth LeBron I appreciate you boy I don't care what they say about you boy they will never be able to diminish your legacy because I have your 50 ,000 point ball Brian S said you look 37 not 57 appreciate that Ocho looks like you had a good vacay nightcap fam we missed you we need our boy your voices echoed in the homes around the world yes I agree we missed you guys too Ocho we got the biggest trash talker up there over 9 ,100 votes.

1:08:19Shannon Sharpe:50-50. You got 50 % of the votes. I got 50 % of the votes. Somebody lying.

1:08:29Shannon Sharpe:50-50.

1:08:35Shannon Sharpe:That concludes this episode of Night Camp. Man, it was good to get back. We'll see you guys again tomorrow. Please make sure you hit that subscribe button. Please make sure you hit that like button. and y 'all know who I am. I'm your favorite uncle, Shannon Sharp, my partner and co-host, Liberty City's own. Bingo, Ring of Fame, Monterrey, the Pro Bowler, All Pro, that's Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson. Go get your podcast, go subscribe to the Nightcap podcast feed wherever you get your podcast from. Remember, all of this is possible because of you. We greatly appreciate your support and your continued support because everything we've been able to accomplish has been because of you and we want to thank you again.

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1:10:13Shannon Sharpe:Thank you guys. See you tomorrow. Peace.

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