WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.000 Eric continue on. Eric Dickerson joins the program. E d 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:06.480 How are you. What's up, Fred? How you doing? Man? 3 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:10.919 Doing well? Doing well? What's up? Rodney? What's up? Eric Dickerson? 4 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:14.080 How you doing? Brother? I'm good, brother, I'm good. Yeah. 5 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:18.120 I was at that baseball game yesterday. Yeah, I was 6 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:18.559 there too. 7 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:23.000 I was telling them, uh, you know after that second 8 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.239 inning it when the Dodger Stadium just got quiet, or 9 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.760 about six innings, man, it was like flat. 10 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:31.800 Yeah, I mean I got you know, I do. I 11 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:36.119 do give the fans credit, Dodger fans credit, man. Man, 12 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:38.240 the Dodgers have a lot of fans. I mean, yeah, 13 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.320 I see, I see why guys. You know, they may 14 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:42.960 not see it when there are other teams when they 15 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.600 come to the Dodgers. But they said, I've always wanted 16 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:48.439 to play for the Dodgers. You know, just everything is 17 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:50.600 just so first class over there. I mean, it really is. 18 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:52.640 I mean something I hate to say it. I got 19 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:55.039 to give them credit. It's almost like the Cowboys, you know, 20 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:58.359 it really is. That's the same persona playing for a 21 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.240 great organization. But it was a tough loss yesterday, but 22 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:02.439 it was just it's just one game. 23 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:04.719 Yeah, I don't know about you a D, but I 24 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.400 was just gonna follow him that real quick. Fred. 25 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:07.959 I don't know about you D, but I went when 26 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:12.079 I was playing. I always, I always when we went 27 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.920 to other stadiums and stuff like that, I always enjoyed 28 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:18.680 the ones that did it right, like the stadiums and 29 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:21.200 the fans and the teams that did it right. So 30 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:23.319 you like, man, this is this is a cool place 31 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:25.560 to play. They got everything right, they got the music, 32 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.920 the fans are great. And I was just looking at 33 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.040 the like the teams like the Mets or whenever I 34 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:32.799 go to a Dodger game, just looking at the other 35 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.200 players and how they kind of look when they come 36 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.400 out and are playing in front of the Dodger Stadium 37 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:42.319 crowd and in Dodger Stadium. It's got to be that 38 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:45.159 feeling like, man, this is this is this is cool. 39 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:47.959 This is something I love to play here. You know, 40 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.040 it's got to be. I mean, think about I think 41 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.120 on the tiny signed you know he said that. You know, 42 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:54.760 he didn't never say you never heard them saying thing 43 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.640 about the Dodgers playing for the Dodgers when he was 44 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:59.120 with the eight I mean the Angels. But when he 45 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.079 said he said, you know, I always kind of want 46 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:03.120 to play for the Dodgers, and that just goes to 47 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:04.640 show and you right, right, and you go to different 48 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.000 stadiums and play play different you know, play different teams. 49 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:09.360 You look at them, you look at the fan base, 50 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:11.319 because that's big for us. I mean, I don't forget 51 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:14.120 when we played in Anaheim, Man, it was lots of times. Man, 52 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.159 we'd have like thirty thousand fans of the game, I 53 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:19.319 mean twenty It was frustrating. I mean sometimes I like 54 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.120 playing on the road better because we on the road, 55 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:22.319 we seem to sell out. 56 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:24.439 I mean, you know, we sell out for the forty 57 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.080 nine as we sent out the Cowboys. You know it's 58 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:31.199 at the Eagles. But you know, similar the other Atlanta nah, Cincinnati, Nah, 59 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:33.159 you know, just we just didn't. 60 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:37.840 But would you be upset if you're a regular fan, 61 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.280 do you think they're upset? You know, Hey, you take 62 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:42.319 your you take your shot, and you pay your money 63 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:44.080 and you go to the game, and you go to 64 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:47.199 a game where the team is just crushed. Do you 65 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:48.719 think of the back of your mind, you go, damn, 66 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:49.680 I wasted that money. 67 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.199 H Well, you know no, because you know it's no 68 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:56.159 guarantee when you go to a game ference you're gonna win. 69 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:58.280 I mean, it's always fun when you win it. I 70 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.280 mean the team that wins and man, that was a 71 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.039 great time. That was a great game. You know it 72 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:03.800 was great because you won. I mean even if the 73 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:06.680 game was closed and you lost, you still be like, man, 74 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:08.000 and we just just did this. 75 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:08.240 Man. 76 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.039 Yeah, you know I had a good time, but you 77 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.639 know we lost. That's what it comes down to. I mean, 78 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:14.199 yesterday I had a great time. 79 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:16.680 I did. I want my friend Christopher Lake yo. YEA. 80 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:19.680 Always invice men, my man George Lee from my heart. 81 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:22.520 But but you know it's I'm gonna tell you something. 82 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:24.199 When they hit that When they hit that first home 83 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:28.759 run up Brazier, I'm like, what was it? He had 84 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:31.000 two strikes and I think two balls up and then 85 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:32.439 I know it's two and two or something like that. 86 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:34.599 They had a home run. I'm like, oh, this ain't good. 87 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:36.280 I just had a feeling. I said, this ain't good, 88 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:39.120 you know. Then then came hit that the grand Slam. 89 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:42.280 I'm like, yeah, we're two strikes, Yeah, we're two strikes. 90 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:42.520 Yeah. 91 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:44.199 I mean I used to say it, I'm one of 92 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:45.960 I'm saying I'm one of them got s out. This 93 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.479 this old because think about it, when you got a 94 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:51.479 six old lead. This was in baseball, six old lead, 95 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.680 and like football, I was like twenty one nothing. Yeah, 96 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:58.080 it's hard. It's hard to make up six runs in baseball. 97 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:00.120 It's hard to make up twenty one points. You know 98 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:01.840 I did playing in the NFA. It's just tell me 99 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:03.240 to get twenty one points. 100 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.919 Uh. Did you hear what Dave Roberts said about the 101 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.599 Padre series? If you remember, and I want to get 102 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.719 your take on this, guys. At one point he said, 103 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:17.199 you know, it was unsettling when Manny Machado apparently threw 104 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:21.000 a ball at him. I remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 105 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.519 well now you know it came out. Well, it's not 106 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:25.879 really what happened. I just did that. I said that 107 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:30.120 to take the heat off the players and my guys 108 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:33.639 and you know, focus on me so they can just 109 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:37.600 go out and play. And he said that all right. Yeah, 110 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:41.160 so you know, actually it was a pretty good tactic 111 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.759 if you think about it, What do you think about 112 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:47.160 a coach or a manager doing something like that. I 113 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:47.959 think it was great. 114 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:54.839 First off, you know, was Manny trying to really hit him? No, 115 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:56.519 I don't think he was really trying to hit him. 116 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:59.959 But was he trying to stir some stuff up? Yeah, absolutely, 117 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:01.759 he was trying to get in the Dodger's head. 118 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:02.759 You don't do that. 119 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.399 You don't throw the ball at the opposing team's dugout 120 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:07.480 after warm ups. 121 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:08.920 He just don't do that. 122 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:11.360 And so yeah he was, he was trying to stir 123 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:14.600 some stuff out. But Dave making it you know more 124 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:17.079 than that. Yeah, because if you if you go back 125 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.600 and watch Taoscar who was right there, was all fired up. 126 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.759 He was like ready to go. Of course, Flaherty was 127 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:27.000 ready to go since the time he faced him and 128 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:27.680 struck him out. 129 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:28.519 He was ready to go. 130 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:31.680 And the whole team was ready to fight Nanny Machado 131 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:35.879 at that point. So diffusing that sometimes you know, you 132 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.560 want your team to to fight and have that kind 133 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.519 of fight in here, but you don't want that to 134 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.879 be the distraction of going out and playing baseball. You're 135 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:47.439 so worried about fighting and being mad at the other 136 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:49.920 team that you forget what you have to do. I 137 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.360 remember Magic said that said in that one series against 138 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:56.920 Boston when they closed lined old Boy closed lined. 139 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:58.639 Uh. 140 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.240 Yeah, Kevin McHale got we said they were more concerned 141 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:05.040 about fighting the Celtics than playing basketball, and that's exactly 142 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:07.839 what the Celtics wanted and ended up losing that series. 143 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.360 And so you can get caught up into that. So 144 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:12.439 I thought it was smart by Dave Roberts by taking 145 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:14.839 it and saying it was on me. I was unsettled 146 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:16.920 by that and blah blah blah, and yeah, it was 147 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:22.240 orderline intentional to take that off of the players just 148 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:23.800 kind of going off at that point. 149 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:25.959 Yeah, I think I think it's a good thing too. 150 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:27.839 I mean, it's funny. He kind of made it up. 151 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.000 That's the fun that's the funny thing. Like I really 152 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:31.800 didn't happen, but I want to get my guys spoted. 153 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:32.120 You know. 154 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:33.680 It's like it's like if you're in the field and 155 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:38.040 a player walks to your huddle. You know, you're like, hey, man, 156 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:40.800 what the hell you doing here? You know, something gonna 157 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:44.160 something gonna go down, or guys come towards your sideline, 158 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:47.040 stand in front of your sideline. You're like, hey, IMF, 159 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:49.160 you know it ain't going down like this. I mean, 160 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:51.279 you're thinking about it. We're gonna get at it. But 161 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.680 football is different because you know, it's an aggressive sport 162 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:55.800 you can get really aggressive bout that. You know, it's 163 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:57.439 not like baseball. You kind of have to keep your 164 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:00.680 composure in baseball. But I do like the idea that 165 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.199 that just goes to show what kind of coach he is. 166 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.399 I'm gonna put this on myself and take it off 167 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.120 the team, and everybody be talking about, you know, a 168 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.040 child throwing the baseball at me, and that's what kind 169 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:09.720 of everybody was doing. 170 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:11.920 Wow, what do you throw it? In? Man? What what means? 171 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:13.759 What happened when they don't like each other? 172 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:17.000 So you know, yeah, I became the Chado and Dave 173 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.759 Roberts and Roberts the Dodger players and Machado going at 174 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:21.800 right right? 175 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:24.759 You guys, ever have anybody walk into the wrong huddle, 176 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:28.839 into one of your huddles talking? 177 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.879 Yeah, you know. Greg Townsend was used to do that 178 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:33.680 for the Raiders all the time. He used to get 179 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:35.120 in and try to get in the huddle, or if 180 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:37.120 we had a time out, he would try to be 181 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.399 on our sidelines. I walk over for the time out. 182 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.120 He tried to be right in there and trying to 183 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:43.560 listen to what we were talking about. And I don't 184 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.759 you know, there was there's a guy in Green Bay, 185 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.879 because when I was in Detroit played him twice, Tim Harris, 186 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:50.920 who had he had a run for a little bit, 187 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:54.759 Tim Harris, Tom Harris, Oh my god. He used to 188 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:59.600 talk talk during the play, after the play, between the play, 189 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:02.439 and yeah, he would try to cross the line and 190 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:06.160 get into your huddle and have conversations and all kinds 191 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.399 of stuff, man, and yeah, just. 192 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:10.120 To get under your skin, just to try to get 193 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:10.680 under your skin. 194 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:12.920 And a couple of times, yeah it worked for him 195 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:15.360 where guys would get angry and you know, they start 196 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:17.759 a little scuffle and all that kind of stuff, and that's. 197 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:18.639 All he really wanted to do. 198 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:20.680 But yeah, there are a little number of guys that 199 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:22.360 love to just kind of get in here, try to 200 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:23.240 get in your head that way. 201 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:25.199 Oh yeah, I mean Tim Harrison. 202 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.920 I remember him because I won't forget when he bodied 203 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:29.879 slammed nicmahon. 204 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:30.399 And separate his shoulder. 205 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.159 Yeah, because we're playing them that we planned Bears the 206 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:34.840 following week, and. 207 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:36.679 Yeah, kind of related kind of thing. 208 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:39.919 Late he Jimmy throw the ball and we're just kind 209 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.480 of standing there. Yeah, and you say, oh, you're standing 210 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:45.639 next to me. He just picked him up and and 211 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.159 slammed him on his shoulder, separate his shoulder. I think 212 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:49.879 he got like a five hundred dollar fine. I mean, 213 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.080 can you imagine doing that now he be spending for 214 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:56.440 the whole year. I mean, oh yeah, yeah. I meant 215 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:59.000 you'd be surprised to staying on that field, man. I 216 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.879 mean it'd be something like wowout that man. They talked 217 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:05.039 about the kids, and they talked about all kinds of 218 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:06.879 stuff in them huddles. 219 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:12.039 Man. Now that stuff getting personal like that, it gets personally. 220 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:12.600 I had. 221 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:16.399 Never forget. I might get in trouble for saying this, 222 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.559 but I never forget. We had a receiver in Detroit. 223 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.919 You were just a cocky, cocky kid and and and 224 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.759 just you know, love to talk mess And it. 225 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:26.559 Was my early days. 226 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:30.559 And we put in the run and shoot and he 227 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.000 played for Mouse Davis back and heughs to play with 228 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.039 Jim Kelly and that team when they were playing in 229 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.600 the USFL and came over to us. But just very 230 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.360 very cocky. And it was at a time where you know, 231 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:45.679 you didn't you didn't see. There wasn't there was like 232 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.919 it is today. Basically, there wasn't white corners, right, There 233 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:51.799 was no such thing as white it was white safeties. 234 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.039 You know, safeties is if you're a white player, you 235 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.279 played safety and you didn't but you didn't play corner. 236 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.679 It was usually reserved for for black players that played course. 237 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:02.000 So it was a rarity that you saw a white 238 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:03.159 guy playing corner. 239 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:08.399 And he went in motioned a couple of times and 240 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.120 I'm in the middle of my cadence and he would 241 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:13.039 yell at me, going, Pete, pete, I. 242 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:14.559 Got the white guy on me. I got the white 243 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:22.200 guy on me. Oh my god. It took everything. 244 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.519 I mean it was took everything from me not to laugh, 245 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:27.600 but I'm sure everybody that heard it was. 246 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:31.519 Like, going, what got the white guy? 247 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:34.200 I mean, I can get I can get a lose, 248 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:35.679 like the white guy got the. 249 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:40.440 Wells. You remember that game, Rodney, What kind of game 250 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:46.399 did that receiver have? He had a big day. 251 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:50.279 I think yeah, because I think he had like four 252 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:53.320 or five catches before that, and then he just kept 253 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:55.279 eating him up and they kept putting them, putting the 254 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.000 same guy on him. He was like, yeah, I got 255 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.360 him again, I got him again. Let's go, and yeah, 256 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.039 we fed him. You know what's funny around there is football. 257 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:03.240 Now. 258 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.480 I was talking to Roy Green the other night, and 259 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.480 we were talking about receivers, you know, getting targets and 260 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.679 how many catchers they have, and that's my said. I said, 261 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:13.879 what's the most target you ever had in the football game? 262 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:16.240 He said, most past ever call in the game. My 263 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.360 whole crew was eight, and I think he had eight 264 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.879 for like one ninety he said, Man, didn't we didn't 265 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.240 get that moment. That's the more eight I was. That 266 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:25.399 was crazy back in those days. Say, man, I know 267 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.720 he said, I got if I got sixteen or seventeen passes, said, 268 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.159 I had four hundred yards, right, And you think about it. 269 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.240 They didn't get the ball like that. They didn't If 270 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:34.840 if a receiver had a big day, he had to 271 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:38.200 do it off of sometimes three or four catches, five 272 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:39.559 at five at the most. 273 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.000 I mean the game was like pretty good, you got 274 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.320 a pretty good day, he called five. Yeah. Yeah, Like 275 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:46.320 I saw the tight end. 276 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.480 The tight end slash quarterback slash receiver that played against 277 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:50.799 USC was number forty four. 278 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:57.000 Oh god, oh my man, man, he got started on him. 279 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.159 He did everything but kick field goals against. 280 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:06.000 Oh god, he killed us, single handedly killed us. 281 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:07.240 But you're right, you're right. 282 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.519 And the thing is the misconception about that whole thing, 283 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:14.240 and receivers still to this day still don't always get it. 284 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:16.279 Is that you know, a play is. 285 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:22.159 Designed and it's it's maybe designed one a certain way, 286 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.879 but the coverage will dictate who becomes number one, who 287 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:29.960 becomes number two, becomes the first target, the second target, 288 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:32.639 the third target. So it's not always the case like 289 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:34.440 they didn't throw me the ball or they didn't target 290 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:38.360 me the golf. Sometimes the coverage will say, okay, this 291 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.039 play was designed. If they played this coverage or played 292 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:43.399 these two or three coverages, then yeah, you'll be the 293 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:46.279 number one primary. But if they don't, then I got 294 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:49.039 to go to the other side, right, And then they 295 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:51.200 look at it as going they didn't target me in 296 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.440 the first half, they didn't target anything, or maybe they're 297 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:55.320 playing man to man, or we thought they were gonna 298 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:56.039 play man and they didn't. 299 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:56.840 They played zone. 300 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.360 So all of a sudden, those those plays that we 301 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.120 put in from me and the man don't work because 302 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:04.559 they're playing zone. And all of a sudden, you know, 303 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:08.360 because receivers now are the prima donna's and the cocky 304 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.440 guys of the team that they think that they're supposed 305 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:13.759 to be targeted all the time. It doesn't work that way. 306 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:17.759 From a quarterback standpoint and offense standpoint, it it dictates. 307 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.080 It's like, it's like Eric, if we design except when 308 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:22.600 y'all had Dee de Bruck, because they gave you the 309 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.200 ball no matter what. But if they if they say 310 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:29.120 we're gonna get Eric, you know, thirty carries this game, 311 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:31.240 and all of a sudden, the team says, you know what, 312 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.039 we're not gonna let Eric beat us. We're gonna play 313 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.159 a nine man front. But if you know, court, you 314 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.200 got to check out of those plays and go, Okay, 315 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:39.919 we're not gonna run against that. It's no game. We 316 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:42.080 got to throw the ball against that. All of a sudden, 317 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:43.879 he thought he was gonna get thirty carries, he only 318 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:47.120 gets fifteen or twelve. You know he's not gonna come 319 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:48.799 back and go they didn't give me the ball. They 320 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:50.759 told me they will giving ball twenty five times. Then 321 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:54.519 get they're playing a nine man front ninety percent of 322 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:56.559 the time. There's no way you can run on that. 323 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.480 And so it's just sometimes it baffles me. How you know, 324 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:02.879 you hear receivers talk about that after the game, I 325 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:04.519 only got targeted this amount of time. 326 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.000 I only got this. The game a lot of times 327 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:08.440 dictates that I know. 328 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:11.879 I mean, David, he'll text me last night and he said, man, 329 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:14.919 it's just frustrating watching these players. He said, they're so soft. 330 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:17.559 He said, they get hit, they can't take the hits. 331 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:19.559 They always you know, they got a head injury right 332 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:21.919 off the bat. I mean, think about it riding there, man, 333 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:23.159 back in the day when we played, and I had 334 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:24.919 to see saying back in the day, but it's just 335 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:25.399 the truth. 336 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.039 I mean, when you got hitting the head, so what 337 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.000 get up? Shake it off. 338 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:33.679 I mean, and I'm glad they're protecting the players, but 339 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:35.960 I mean this day and age, it's almost like you 340 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:37.799 can't hit them. If you hit them too hard. Well, 341 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:40.440 we got a concussion. Oh that's it. He gonna be 342 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:43.159 out for two weeks. I mean, and I know our 343 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:45.240 equipment was real ragged. I was just looking at my 344 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:47.279 I'm gonna send you out a picture. What I want 345 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:50.759 to send you a picture? No, I haven't to run. 346 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:53.639 I was in my story's closet here. I'm like, wow, 347 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:56.000 my shoulder pass. I put my shoulder pass out with 348 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.399 the neck roll. I mean, I'm gonna send you a 349 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:01.720 picture of it. Man, they had had a double reinforce 350 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.799 with the pads on the man, I'm like that the 351 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.919 necro still look like it's still it's beat up looking. 352 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.039 But no, that was a different football back then, like 353 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.240 I said, yeah, like we said, and they hit, not 354 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:13.360 that they hitting for real. 355 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:15.480 Back in the game. You went back in the game. 356 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:19.000 It was nothing, I mean seriously, And then again, we're 357 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:22.879 not making light of concussion protocols and what you have 358 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:25.159 to do today, because you do because you you know, 359 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.600 you see guys later in life that are that are struggling. 360 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.039 But it was a different mindset where you got hit 361 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:31.840 in the head. It was just like part of the game. 362 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:34.240 You got you got your belt run. It's what they 363 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:36.519 called it, right, You got the belt run. You saw 364 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:39.200 some stars a little bit, and a lot of times 365 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.240 you know it would last, you know, five minutes or 366 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:45.000 so and then you would feel all right to go 367 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:46.279 back in or go play again. 368 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:47.720 And that's what you did. 369 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.720 There was there was not an immediate take you out 370 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.559 of the game, right and and so it's it's just 371 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:56.960 a different mindset when you watch the games nowadays and 372 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.519 see you know, they got a medical tent for everything. 373 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:03.799 You got a hangnail going into medical ten. Well, you 374 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.159 know the issue is because people were so concerned about 375 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.480 safety and the effects that players had after they retired, 376 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:14.639 the game had to do something to clean up because 377 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:18.600 football would have been at a crossroads. It really would have. 378 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:21.759 I mean, in today's world, people are not going to 379 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:26.440 stand there and watch people get basically sacrificed. And it's 380 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:30.200 an unnatural act. If you're playing football, and you guys 381 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.279 know I never played. Is it a natural act to 382 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:35.639 run as fast as you can into a brick wall? 383 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:39.519 Is that natural? It's an unnatural act? Correct? 384 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:47.679 Go ahead, Ah, you said it perfectly. My mother hated football. 385 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:50.360 I mean she hated it. She didn't want me to play. 386 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:51.879 I told you before. She didn't want me to see that. 387 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:54.399 She wouldn't back when I was younger. You have to 388 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:57.000 have somebody to sign for you to play. So I 389 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.679 asked her to say, I play seven great football. She said, 390 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.000 I'm not signing for that crap area. She said no, 391 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:05.359 and I said why. She said, son, it's an unnatural act. 392 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:08.240 You'd be running into each other. She said, that's not natural. Eric, 393 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:09.880 It's gonna cause you problems later. 394 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:11.279 So make a long story. Shut up. 395 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.240 And that's my godmother to sign next door, and she signed, 396 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:15.359 I don't give her my mother side. 397 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:19.279 She said. She signed the papers like, yeah, boy, she 398 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:21.839 was she was mad, but she was hot. Yes, yes 399 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:22.279 she was hot. 400 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:25.799 But you're right, Fred, she said, fifty years ago. That 401 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.200