Clinton Portis & Shannon Sharpe remember legendary $100K+ Rookie Night | EP. 37 | CLUB SHAY SHAY S2

I I kid you not I remember when I got to. Denver and seeing our team and realizing. the team I played on in college was. better they don't call it TV no protein. folks all my life they're grinding all. my life sacrifice hustle paid the price. wanna slice got to roll the dice that's. why all my life I be grinding all my. life all my life been running all my. life. [Music].

all my life. hello welcome to another edition of Club. shayshay I am your host Shannon sharp. I'm also the proprietor of Club Che and. the guy that's stopping by for a drink. and conversation today is a two-time pro. bowler he's a 2002 offensive rookie of. the year one of the 80 greatest. Washington football team players 2001. national champs on the University of. Miami University of Miami sports Hall of. Famer my former teammate Clinton POTUS.

po what's up. what's good bro how you doing man I'm. good good to see you long time no I used. to see you back when you were still. playing and I was going to the barber. shop down in Atlanta and but this is my. first time seeing you in a while how you. been. I'm good man I reach out to your. response you got big time you started. Club Shay I'm just glad to finally get. an invite me first of all you know how. long Club Shay Shake been in existence. Club station was in existence when you. came to Denver.

hey I know but you finally had a world. see and trying to get that opportunity. I'm like hey I'm waving on your IG shark. hey hey it's me yeah I mean I can't even. get acknowledged well you you know what. you in club Shay Shay you spent a. million night in club Shay. explain to people because people like. did you really have a club can you. explain to people because I know they've. asked you because you play you you and I. played together and they asked were. there ever really a club station explain. to the people that's going to be.

watching this what club shayshay was. Hey listen Club Shay it kind of remind. me of uh uh the Boom Boom Room from life. you know what I mean Club station in the. Boom Boom Room the same thing it's been. an imagination forever like I said it's. finally come to light and everybody get. a chance to see it I think you do a. great job with your interviews having. people uh getting the truth out of. people so it's been something that's. been in the making uh just like Eddie. Murphy if he ever would have got out and.

got a chance to get uh the Boom Boom. Room started it it would have been a. beautiful creation well I'm glad you. don't come to the I'm glad you don't. come to club come to club Shay anymore. with 100 trying to roll dice and think. you gonna break the dice game up with. 100 in your pocket and borrow money from. everybody else around the table to my. man I'll pay you tomorrow. Hey listen I bet you I don't owe anybody. you and you know it you know and I know. that them hundred dollars stress a long. way.

let's start let's start with. I guess you want to start with your. rookie Night Out explain to people about. your rookie Night Out explain to them. what what happens on rookie night out. what's all involved and what's required. of you being it was you and uh Ashley if. I'm not mistaken. listen don't say explain what happened. on my rookie night out this wasn't a. situation like I I brought this up you. know it was rookie night in Denver it's. rookie night all the rookies are.

responsible and it just so happens. offensive rookies are responsible for. taking offensive players out so since. you were one of the high draft picks you. actually he was first rounder he was. second rounder it was your. responsibility to get cars to get us to. and from the location it was your. responsibility to feed and quench out. first. that was your responsibility. so I will let you take it away so. being that that was our responsibility.

yeah actually uh get together we say you. know what man we need to have an epic. rookie night yeah you know I mean so. what can we do to make this epic. something that's never been done before. yes so I you know I call all my people. in Miami I said you know what I'm having. a I'm having a party out here we got to. take the Vets out we need to have a good. time we need to bring Miami to Denver. yeah we did that you know we had about. uh we had about 10 people come out and.

it was probably the best night of a. bunch of guys uh a bunch of guys and. girls uh all time you know I think it. was probably the most epic rookie night. ever. but just the the entire set of I. remember reaching out to Ashley like bro. I I didn't spent seven thousand in the. party haven't even started he like man. I'm gonna send you ten thousand like. whatever you need so I'm like and it was. me Ashley he was first round I was. second round so that's 17 000 before the.

party even starts so we got everything. uh we got all the entertainment set up. and from that point on I think we turned. what was it Del Frisco. but I really appreciate because you know. the limos that you did y'all did me. right because I wasn't riding with. anybody else I had my own limo so you. know I was the only one. I had my own memory not only that.

for one. see yourself yeah like that's what I. needed I tell people all the time I said. man you know what I don't my time in. Denver was short but there was some. memories and some teammates and I always. speak with you and Rod Smith Eddie. McCaffrey uh Al Wilson. go guys it just took me uh under their. wing uh middle Brooks guys that took me. under their wings and showed me what it. was supposed to be like to be teammates.

and. um when I left Denver I left them for. thinking every team was like that you. know I thought that was just the norm in. the NFL it's going to be this way. everywhere and I didn't realize uh what. we had and how special it was you know. coming to A Team fresh off the Super. Bowl a couple years removed from the. Super Bowl having veteran leadership I. could think of the billboard being out. in Denver when I got in trouble and you. guys took up for me the feather in my. helmet when I got in trouble you guys.

took up for me walking in the Huddle uh. when they called for the ones and me and. TD both standing in the Huddle and and. by the T like hey rookie get over here. and I'm like you said you know you. wanted to start this up so. I'm here you know I mean just all the. all the opportunities that we got. um that I got the knowledge that I. picked up being around you guys how. often you all uh covered or took up for. me man it was something special but you. do realize that you ended up spending.

like I think the bill was probably like. 20 000 but it would have been a lot more. because you remember what guys were. trying to do they were trying to put. five thousand dollar bottles of. champagne liquor they were trying to. take live lobster home and I said no I. said now we're not gonna do this I say. whatever you want and you can eat it. eat it but I say I'm not gonna let y'all. get these bottles of champagne and this. balls of alcohol and take it home and. cost this man fifteen hundred thousand. dollars we ain't gonna do that now we're. gonna have we're gonna tax him but we. ain't gonna do it like this.

well I think the total bill came out to. be about 63 I think the bill from the uh. restaurant was 20 some thousand and then. we went when we went out I think it came. out to be about six three thousand but. the following year for when the new guys. came in I made sure I got my five. dollars. I got I got me some get back so uh you. know but not realizing what we were.

doing. um that still was a special night. because that's that's the night that. actually led to uh so so much of my. career I think right after that it was. before we played Arizona. last game of the season uh our rookie. night was on Friday night and Sunday I. was still hungover and I remember. getting ready to walk into coach. Shanahan office like I was I was. breaking my hand up to knock on the door. and and you stopped me and say po what. you doing I'm like bro I'm hungover I.

can't play in this game and you was like. man it's a business that's not their. fault it's your fault so what you better. do is go out and run gassers and uh cold. cold cold tub and hot tub uh contrast. whirlpools and get the liquor up out. your system and I went on to have what I. thought was the best game of my career. the Arizona game I think I had like uh. 22 carries for for 220 or something two. touchdowns uh although we won the game.

we were out of the playoffs because the. team we needed to lose one earlier so I. felt like that was the best game of my. career. when you look back at it I mean. obviously you you know you were. disappointed because like I said talking. to you and you like man all these. running backs that got drafted before me. they're not better than me you had. several guys on your own team get. drafted before you you like I'm I'm. better than them were you disappointed. did you have something to prove when you. got to Denver like man they took all. these running backs in front of me I'm.

better than all these guys. man you know I had something and I think. again uh being able to play with you. right still guys who are in similar. situations uh that was so great to this. NFL uh but got screwed over in the draft. for whatever overlooked uh coming to a. team that that was full of guys like. that Mike Anderson or Landis Gary TD you. know uh the list goes on of guys that we. had that were overlooked but outstanding.

Talent so uh when I came to the NFL I. was so angry and you think about the. backs that were in front of me uh all. the guys that went in front of me. combined you know I think it was William. green DeSean Foster uh and TJ Duckett. combined uh I ended up with more rushing. yards more receiver yards more. touchdowns uh than all three of those. guys combined fine and it was just one. of those chips nothing nothing against. them you know having an attitude and. mentality and believing in myself saying.

hey you know what I should be the third. pick in the draft because I understood. David cards to the Houston Texas uh they. were a new franchise I understood Julius. Peppers to the Carolina Panthers who. were a new franchise and he was a. HomeTown guy and number three I told the. Detroit Lions hey y'all need to drive me. a trade with somebody so they can draft. me and I think they took Jordan. Harrington I remember. um Arthur Blank laughing in my face you. know he was like kid where do you think. you should get drafted at I said man in.

order for you to get me you got to trade. over the lions at number three and he. was like no serious where do you think. you should get drafted I said no serious. trade up to number three and select me. so. but when I look at your numbers your. first two years in Denver. you said franchise uh uh uh a rookie. franchise Russian record with 1508 yards. you had 17 touchdowns he was offensive. Rookie of the Year you came back the. following year and I think you went. 15.99 and 20 plus touchdowns and then.

you're the youngest player at 21 years. 105 day to score four touchdowns in a. game and I've told you and I told you. this at the time you was doing it I said. Port you don't realize how special you. are I said I played with TD. I say talent I played with Jonathan I. played with Ray Lewis I played with John. Elway I say none of them got the talent. you got do you realize what you can do. in this league I said you could be a. Hall of Famer. yeah you know again it's so many. conversations that we had that seemed.

like uh you know just regular guys. talking crap uh shooting that came. about uh with you I could think about. the day that Jamal Lewis wrote the. Russia right yeah you might have forgot. this Jamal Lewis broke the Russian. record we were getting ready to play the. charges yeah in the four o'clock game on. the sideline walking out you come out. and say Pope man what you gonna do today. I say you know I'm gonna fall out you. say man Jay Lou just broke the Russian.

record what you gonna do I said okay I'm. gonna go get it first quarter I had. seven carriers for 121 against the. charges I ended up getting hurt because. I got stuck in the clay and uh I think I. broke a rib or something trying to make. a move in the second quarter but I was. on my way all because you came out and. brought that information to me right all. because you came out and said hey Pope. what you gonna do. let's get it done that's what I told you. I had seven seven carries for 121 and in.

at the end of the first quarter you know. I think I was well on my way if I. wouldn't have gotten hurt I used to. watch you in practice and you would tell. me in practice until about. Sean watch this I'm gonna do this you. know Bobby T hated when when the backs. would dance around you get one cut you. like sharp just what I'm gonna do I'm. gonna take the ball and I'm gonna. pretend like I'm gonna go left and I'm. gonna come all the way back and nobody. gonna touch me and they would hand you. the ball and it wasn't block it wasn't. cut off you could have read what you.

wanted where the hole was open but you. would do it just to call just because to. show me what you were capable of doing. and I'm like. this you know what did what he said he's. gonna did I'm like and I was constantly. in you I was like Pope you don't realize. just how special you are. you was you man I think uh when I talk. to people I always say they say you know. what gave you the confidence what was. the what was the moment that you. realized you could play this game and.

always say from the the the confidence. that you guys had in me uh which was you. Rod Eddie Mack uh always talking crap I. remember after every game you would show. me your chick like hey poke man you. balled out thanks for giving me pain and. show me the check you know and Rob would. come by and laugh uh but the the. signature game I remember us playing in. San Diego uh Junior Seau and Rodney. Harrison who I admired like looked up to.

as a kid I'm like man that's Junior say. oh that's Rodney Harrison and after our. first game in San Diego those guys. running over to me at the end of the. game is saying hey young fella we love. watching you you could be special in. this league and to think about the. teammates you know I always am admire. you and Rod and look at you all like big. brothers uh in in YouTuber. some of the few that could say something.

to me and I I actually acknowledge it. and. straighten up you know I mean uh because. of the respect so when you look at the. confidence that came from uh having the. guys yourself having a rod Smith uh. having an Al Wilson guys that uh not. only talk to talk. um you all walk the walk as well so uh. just having that man and being able to. to look and say you know what these guys. believe in me these guys are gonna do.

whatever it takes and and here I am. having fun you know people say well what. was the difference between you and. Denver and undc and I'm like Endeavor. I'm like eighth length on the totem pole. maybe lower than that uh but I didn't. have a care or a worry in the world. because I had big brothers you know I. mean I had I had Shannon I had Rod uh I. had owls I had guys that were going to. take up for me and show me the ropes. when I got to DC it was like the Wild. Wild West like it was a change of of.

everything and eventually we got that. together and once we got it together. um I think we had had an opportunity to. make a run you know maybe o5 uh we had a. golden opportunity 07 uh if we didn't. have the tragedy as Sean. I think and that those two two years uh. we had an opportunity to do something. special and it just it just didn't. happen. how different do you believe your career. would have been had you stayed in Denver. as opposed to going to the what is known.

as the Washington football team now. you know again I I think even seeing in. Denver Jake had just come uh Grisha was. gone Jake had been there it was still a. change I don't think people realize that. uh Kubiak Kubiak left when I left right. so uh it's easy to say well man if if. you would have stayed in Denver look. look at what you would have had but I. was used to Kubiak so Kubiak was gone uh.

as well so it's not a guarantee coach. Shanahan was a was an awesome coach but. I felt like when we were there coobbs. was the man like boobs don't get the. credit he deserved uh in throughout the. NFL circles but koobs wasn't me and he. left as well so uh for me it's one of. those situations the AFC was totally. different from the NFC in the AFC I. remember game players yeah I remember. playing the Raiders one year.

um and we had a game plan that you. weren't even involved they just said hey. Shannon you know what. Raiders don't have any DBS you're not. even gonna be on the field we're going. to spread them I mean we're going to put. wide receivers on the field it was it. was Game planning it was out game. planning your opponent and when I got to. the NFC it was tough man football it was. hey who the baddest the Eagles gonna. line up put you in the mouth the Giants. line up punching on my Cowboys coming. off the corner uh to punch you in the. mouth so it was this tough man football.

and they're having uh the Bears the. Bucks like all the teams that we were. playing against were the best defenses. out at the time you know I don't think. people uh remember those the Jaguars uh. of the 2000s you know under. um Tom Coughlin under their coach uh you. know I don't think the Jets defense the. Vikings the Bears these defenses wasn't. giving up 100 yard rushes and to go in. in and be the one that break those molds.

year in year out uh was awesome so I. don't really look at my oh man I love. Denver and I fell off I think I came to. DC and I became a complete back because. in Denver I didn't have an impression it. was fun in DC I had all the pressure of. the world to carry to carry our. organization and I think I stood up. further to lead to that challenge so it. wasn't as exciting it wasn't as you know. uh uh highlight real worthy as it was in.

Denver but I think the growth of me as a. complete back really showed once I got. to the rescue did it force you to grow. up because although Santana was there. and later Sean Taylor rest his soul came. there. I don't know if the guys that when you. got there you were still a young player. but when you we always looked at you man. that's Pope we hey we got to look out. for him you like the little brother and. no matter what you did you were still. the little brother we still got you even. though you did something might be. something effed up we were gonna go to.

mice and Mike uh we got it we got it we. gonna take care of that now when you go. to Washington you got a fan for yourself. bro. so you're you're right when I got to. Washington it was it was a difference. because they were uh they were coming. off of uh what coach Gibbs was just. getting it so he had to put his stamp on. it right they were coming off of spuria. and from what I heard of spurry it was. like a country club. um so the the leadership and you know it.

was like uh oh these are the guys that's. getting paid so they hang together and. these are the guys it was it was all. screwed up but I think we got it right. right you know I think we got it right. and guys bought in you know that that. first year 04 was just a competitive uh. a year of learning for us you know uh I. had lavernius Kohl's and Rod Gardner. with me and we were the offense like uh. LC left the Redskins after having 99.

catches said hey man we don't we don't. throw the ball enough and I remember. talking to LC like bro you can't leave. in that same because LC wanted to leave. it gave us an opportunity to bring in. Santana and that that put me back with. my dog my partner right you know my my. day one and I think that created. something special. um. having Sean T come to the team I think. that created something special in Denver.

I don't think I would have had those. opportunities to uh to to go talk to the. higher-ups and say hey man we need Sean. Taylor like let's get Sean Taylor or. let's trade for Santana Moss. I don't think I would have had that. voice you know. um. I I think having the voice of bringing. Brandon Lord uh the team not. understanding how to use them uh and and. all of a sudden he lead and go to the. Pro Bowl you know that lets you know. that he could play what he was doing in. San Francisco was amazing you know us.

losing Ryan Clark and bringing that Adam. Archuleta we had so many pieces uh that. happened that shouldn't have happened. you know we lose Ryan Clark Antonio. Pierce uh those guys should have been. been in the organization because they. wanted to uh they wanted to be and they. have brought it to the system so when we. lost those guys you bring in an Adam. Archuleta you bring you pay another guy. um. the the experiment. was bad because you got guys who really.

wanted to be there that we let go for. guys who didn't really bring anything to. the table. you spoke. some about your finances and when you. first got to Denver you signed for x. amount of dollars and then so you tell. the story your second round draft pick. obviously that's not where you wanted to. be but it is where you got drafted. you get your money you sign the contract. they give you your check what are you.

thinking. I'm thinking I gotta hear you get. my dude already done. um because in the assumption that I was. going to be a first rounder right uh. myself Philip Buchanan who was my right. hand man coming out of college. um going out and running a 426-427 on. probate everything aligned for me to be. a first round correct in uh prior to the.

draft. the Falcons go trade for work done and. uh uh my former coach Butch Davis go. draft another running back in William. green. um. so much stuff out of my control happened. that I go to the second round which you. know at the 1.3 I think I signed for 1. 1.3 Meal which turned out to be 858 000. when I received my check after taxes but.

then you don't realize the fee you know. I had to pay my agent who was David Ware. at the time uh I think soon as I signed. my deal before I cash the check he. called me like hey send me that money. back the same day I'm like I'm late for. training camp I haven't even deposited. the check he's like yo man send me send. me send me this money that you owe me. and I think at the time I owe him maybe. 400 Grand you know I mean just from. off-season spending traveling uh his.

fees whatever that was so. um then I get to Denver you buy a house. you buy a car uh that money go quick you. know your mama house. yeah boy I didn't get Mama house. okay I didn't get her house until. um I went to DC so when I got the. Deborah you know I got my crib and the. following year uh before we played the. Chiefs you know I remember going to the. bank Wells Fargo uh you know heading.

towards C470 right that Wells Fargo on. the left I remember going to the banking. and having uh 121 000 you know I go I go. uh to the bank I got 121 000 and betting. on myself I say you know this is one of. those make a breaks I went and bought a. G wagon and a SL500 the same day sure. did I go by same day I said hey but it. was betting on myself like knowing uh we.

were playing the Chiefs the the the. platform was there. um the opportunity was there and just so. happened I go out. people don't believe how that game. happened you know people don't believe. in man how you knew this game was gonna. happen how you what made you bring the. belt to the game what how when did you. bring the bet on the sideline and I'm. like bro if you really think about this. game I show up with the belt at halftime.

I had 12 carriers for 52 yards I bring. the belt out on the sideline the second. half but guess who brought the belt out. build up. Shannon sharp is the person that helped. me put on the belt in the fourth quarter. yep no one realizes. how this game actually happened. to go and have those runs playing you.

know looking at the sideline seeing. priest Holmes and knowing man I got an. outperform priests you know I mean. Priests of dog priest priest was a dog. at that time uh in that Chief's offense. was just Unstoppable Paul you remember. part of you remember we had lost to them. we were beating them the whole game and. that pug returned by Dante Hall you. remember how Dante Hall ran that person. like 93 yards it was so loud it. Arrowhead. he shook so many people Dante Hall Dante.

Hall always messed up my highlight reel. he's like if I did something big in the. game you it is going to turn around him. and Priests coming right behind each. other and I always tell people if Dante. Hall could have played in this era today. he would have been the coldest receiver. yeah if if Dante Hall was on the field. right now the stuff that receivers slot. receivers are doing man that's nothing. true.

but when you you go you go into that. game and we knew look uh that was pretty. close to the last game of the season. because they had beaten us earlier uh. with that big that long I think it was. week 14. okay yeah I think it was week. 14. and so you get off and you know you. got the belt Pastor Troy gives you the. belt and I think you were afraid to. break out the belt because Mike will go. look at you like you crazy like what the. hell you doing rookie so you get about. me because you know at that time I'm. just senior Statesman me and Mike me and. Mike had the made piece we had our.

differences early on but he is like okay. 84. whatever you think's gonna be. because it was my job to get everybody. ready to play that was always all right. 84 get them going even in training camp. you know I used to come into a we got to. strike up the band today boom boom boom. you know I'm banging on lockers and. everything everybody getting high in so. that was my job so you gave me the best. about a shark take this out I'm like for. what you ain't did what I'm gonna put. the bed on you for it you got 50 yards. you didn't get no bill put on.

the world. I knew what time it was you know that. whole week after I bought the two cars. uh after I bought the two benzes I. bought the G wagon I bought the SL uh. after I bought them I went home this was. like uh Wednesday I called Pastor Troy I. say hey Troy what's up you know we we. chopping it up doing our weekly talk and. I said hey bro y'all come out here and. bring the belt he was like what you feel. like that I said man y'all jump a flight.

come out here bring the Bell like don't. worry about nothing else I told I didn't. tell anybody uh I had got the cars I. didn't tell Mama I didn't tell nobody. nothing when I pulled up at the stadium. with the top down bumping that that we. ready. that was the first time I'd actually. seen a G-Wagon. bro. I just I I knew it you know I knew I was. betting on me.

um and that was an opportunity. um but what's crazier than that is that. was week 14 like within three months of. that bro I was traded like I was gone. yeah basically that was it part of look. we stayed at the hotel the night before. the game we stayed at The Inverness do. you know that I looked up my window Mini. at night and who did I see leave it at. the curfew did you did you you didn't. even know I knew that did you until I'm.

telling you to this to the day. first off you all if you I always left. early in the morning right so after. curfew I would I mean I always park my. car up front and I would leave at like. six o'clock in the morning to go home. because my mom sometimes you let me come. home to eat breakfast sometimes you let. go this was. go ahead this was the beginning yeah. this was the beginning but.

then all of a sudden I realized all. these cars parked at the front. definitely Rod Smith car parked at the. front of the hotel and when I leave at. six in the morning everybody car gone. so I'm like what what these guys doing. I listened in memes they said you can. leave I mean after bad check so in the. morning so I realized guys were leaving. at 12.

0-1. that's in the morning. nobody was getting in trouble so I. started leaving at 1201 bed check was at. 11. I take me an hour power definitely go. home uh no they weren't supposed to. leave either but I'm talking about I'm. looking out my window I like. I mean two days just because you know. two a crime dog was the only one that. did the bed check they did the bed. checks at home and different coaches did.

it I mean on the road but at home I look. out my window and sure enough just like. clock I set my watch back yeah they go. pro. I'm like man listen. I deserve that man I deserved it I just. needed to sleep with my own bed hold on. to sleep in my own bed Pope how you. figure you deserve it I gotta state I'm. staying I'm the Elder station. you wanted to stay you you used to look.

forward to coming there bothering. everybody you wanted to be an idea you. wanted to be around the guy yeah I. wanted to go home and be in my bed like. it wasn't I wasn't going out like that's. what's crazy people give me this like. this like party boy image I wasn't. drinking I wasn't going now I wasn't. doing anything I just did stuff my way. when your agent called and told you that. they're trading you to Washington.

what went through your mind. man you know it was actually before the. agent calling told me I remember uh. being at the Pro Bowl and I I did an. interview uh with this this beat writer. uh named Adam schefter from Denver and I. do an interview with Adam Shafter and I. go back to the bar. um. I'll never forget it was me. Peyton Manning. uh Donald McNabb Joy Porter.

sitting at sitting at the bar at Provo. uh drinking my ties and you know. everybody talking and it was like. breaking news uh when we come back on. ESPN so everybody like man who got in. trouble what happened and the breaking. news was. Portis walks out I mean everybody's. looking around I'm looking around. no no this is no no no this is bad like.

I didn't I didn't ask to be out but uh. some of the questions that uh Adam asked. me at the time were I say I don't know. you gotta you gotta talk to my agent you. know he was like you outplays your. contract no do you think the Broncos are. gonna pay you uh should this happen. should that happen I'm like bro I don't. know about all that like uh I'm just. here refereeing the Broncos like I'm. living my life I'm enjoying having a.

good time right and. that you know all of a sudden that's. what started to trade songs but it was. only one team that that I felt like. didn't pass over me so I didn't want to. be traded but once it came up it was. like the only team who didn't have a. first round draft pick was Redskins so. I'm like I tell Drew I'm like the only. place I would go is the Redskins and. they had just gotten coach Gibbs so I'm. like the only place I would go is the. Redskins I won't even go anywhere else.

because everybody else passed over me so. that was the only trade destination that. I would possibly work out a trade with. and once the once the chatter started in. the back and forth so that I think Drew. kept me in the house for about three or. four days trying to get the trade done. you know they went from uh Indy. um they went from Indianapolis to uh uh. the trade talks which was like a week. later at the time like March the third.

or something uh free agency so for like. a week I'm just sitting still scared to. walk outside just trying to make sure. nothing happens to mess this up and uh. once the opportunity came about. I talked to Coach Shanahan and it was. just one of those situations and he was. like hey you don't have to leave like we. could pay you and keep you here. um and we we feel like we're going to be. able to get Champ Bailey regardless.

um and we would like to keep you you. know we uh they were really trying to. set the market on how much running back. gets paid which at the time I think. Curtis Martin was the the lead dog uh in. that and so they were trying to set the. market to say no one is willing to pay. this amount of money and the Redskins. jump to the Forefront. with the with the bag. so important when I look at you look at. Aaron which you played you played with L. LaDainian Tomlinson edger and James.

priest Holmes and yourself. LaDainian in the Hall of Fame Edward in. the Hall of Fame had preached home not. suffered that career-ending injury look. what you had the injury I still believe. that I just don't believe Porter's you. worked as hard as you needed to work to. be what you could have been I believe. you left you left the Hall of Fame. career on the table I've told you that. this ain't something I'm just not sure. you could have been that you. you have and and I look at it totally. different because I feel like I did all.

the work uh that I needed to do and I. look at I was having this conversation. recently about guys and workouts you. know I wasn't a guy for workouts that. that just wasn't me I hated weights. um but on when it came game day I was. the toughest strongest man on the field. so I didn't see too many other people. diving in 300 pound guy's chest I didn't. see too many other people hustling 70 80. yards trying to throw a block you know. to carry out my fate run to the other.

side of the field come back crack back. then carry the ball I didn't see no more. dudes doing that I was the only one. playing that at that level every Sunday. that I touched the field I felt like I. was the baddest man on the field no. matter who the the person was across. from me or no matter who my teammates. was. I stepped on the field and I walked off. the field feeling like hey I was the. toughest man out here today so. um that workout stuff just wasn't for me. and the thing about what you're saying. oh man POTUS think about what you said.

you played the NFL not a contact sport a. collision sport the most physical. grueling demanding sport there is and. you say work anything for me and you. don't think that that's better parties. you had to leave you left the game at. 30. bro I left the game at 30 for a. different reason like I left the game at. 30 because I realized it didn't matter. once Sean T once once they moved Sean T. Locker out of the locker room my love. for the game disappeared you see what.

I'm saying like everybody look like oh. man you left the game so early now I. said in a locker room where for a guy. that we looked at as a as a a God and I. saw them remove his locker and put. someone else there to create space it. was plenty of space in the locker room. right you could have built a new Locker. right you didn't have to remove Sean. Taylor right at that time I was too. sensitive you see what I'm saying I was.

too sensitive okay at that moment and it. happened to her right you know now I. think it's a great idea that everyone. gets to see it and you know it's in the. stadium and every fan and any anybody. who wants to uh acknowledge Sean or see. Sean gets an opportunity to walk past. that Locker or take a picture but at. that time I I could I could never. swallow that pill you know uh when I see. a guy that that did everything that laid.

it on the line and he became replaceable. that quick it changed my outlook like. um because you know I was one of the. most competitive guys it didn't matter. what it was I didn't have to know how. but I believe in me you know so when. when I see a guy like Sean who still has. an effect on the world uh so so positive. after all the negative that happened you. know like in the beginning he was a.

villain in in he turned that villain. into the most lovable respectable guy. that you could possibly find you know. everybody is influenced by Sean Taylor I. played with Ed Reed and Sean T it don't. get no better than that teammates that. not to mention anybody else that I. played with but I played with Ed reading. Ashanti like bro you got to be kidding. me and when when I see a guy. that could have been the face of the NFL. the best player in the NFL and you.

remove his locker I just never along. with me having a coach that didn't. understand me. you see I'm saying like everything. happened at and at the same time I lost. my grandmother Sean get killed we bring. in in in a coach that I didn't see eye. to eye with that you know I felt like. was trying to sabotage me when I'm. trying to put it on the line and do. everything that you're asking of me. you're instead of throwing me under the.

bus so it was so much happening. your head coach. man I'm talking about Coach John not. coach Gibbs coach. okay. exactly right you you see what I'm. saying you don't even know who it was. coach Zorn so it was so much happened. that took the love away from the game. because you feel like man I'm going out. here and fighting I'm throwing Haymakers. I'm throwing punches and I'm running. through walls whatever it takes and and.

now my head coach punching me in the. back of the head like I'm trying to. fight for you you punching me in the. back of the head right so it was just. one of those situations that my. appreciation and love I felt like wasn't. reciprocated so it separated me from the. game so that's why I retired that's why. I walked away from the game because I. couldn't give it that same I mean I. didn't care anymore right you see what. I'm saying I didn't care anymore and. that was coach Shanahan came and I I'm.

reunited with Bobby T who I got the most. respect in the world for by the teachers. for this day I still talked about him. too he still reach out you know what I. mean and when Bobby T came back I said I. don't even think Bobby T saw the dog. that that he remembered you know I mean. and I couldn't I couldn't this my man. this Bobby T this is a man who raised me. then put me in position to go out and. win and I can't be you know I don't have. that that dire. um that you once could.

yeah because I my love wasn't the same. you see what I'm saying so I I felt like. I was cheating again so I wanted out of. the game and and you know I even told uh. Dan Snyder when we called Dan said no. coach Shanahan said no to me retiring. um both of them said no that's a bad. idea but I told him hey bro I'm cheating. y'all you know I mean I'm cheating you. I'm cheating my teammates I'm cheating. me because I really don't care like I.

really. it don't matter to me anymore because I. don't love this anymore. you finished with 9923 yards 75. touchdowns 77 yards of 10 648 yards. short of John Riggins all-time Redskins. uh Washington football team mark. I didn't know this. you and O.J Simpson are the only players. to rush for at least 120 yards in five. consecutive games you did it twice in.

your career. think about all the great running backs. man a lot of they're running a lot of. running it's in Hall of Fame there are a. lot of running backs currently playing. this really good. there's only two that did that. bro you know when when you look at these. these accolades and uh knowing what what. I left this game knowing what uh what I. left on the field. um the numbers speak for themselves you. know everybody's like oh man you played. for nine years well three of those years.

I got hurt so I look at that spin God. you were working out. no well working out don't stop a. concussion working out don't stop. tearing the groom yeah working out don't. stop either though nothing is a hundred. percent poorness nothing nothing is 100. but it greatly reduces the chances not. the concussion but it greatly reduces. the chances of some of those other. injuries happening don't do that portal. don't do that you know bro I had I had.

freak injury I got hurt going to make a. tackle. in a preseason game that I shouldn't. have been in uh doing that and you went. out there with that famous you hated the. preseason. yeah but that's that's real talk like. that's that's real talk I got hurt in. the preseason game you know people look. at like oh man you was injury prone if. you put me on the field I only know one. speed yeah I'm gonna give you all that.

guy yes if I'm on the field so either. I'm giving you all I got or sit me on. the sideline because once I get out. there the competitor gonna kick it right. you see what I'm saying like the. competitor gonna kick in so for me man I. just think the numbers speak for. themselves and I got hurt two. consecutive years right when you sit and. say my numbers well you 77 yards short I. got hurt in 09 and 2010. I needed 77. yards to reach the Pinnacle which would.

be ten thousand. those same two years you saying over a. two-year span. I could have became the all-time leading. rusher. in an organization that got a Hall of. Famer in Rigo. and Johnny it's just wasn't me. yeah it like it just it just wasn't. meant to happen for me because I wasn't. chasing I wasn't chasing a record I. don't even care about records Bobby. Mitchell Bobby Mitchell so I didn't I.

didn't care about records I wasn't like. oh man I want to break Rigo record. you see what I'm saying if I would have. knew I needed 648 yards hey a lot of. tried to play through my concussion. you know I'm glad you guys 6 48. I need. 77 yards at the time it wasn't as. serious though right I could remember. scoring the touchdown where I did I. couldn't see nothing it looked like like. Kaleidoscope in the background but that. was that was a different date.

you signed a big contract eight years 50. 50 and a half million 17 million dollars. uh uh signing bonus. you're on top of the world this is this. is now you know what I'm straight for. the rest of my life. what Looking Back Now what do you wish. you have done differently. I'm bad on me like I should have always. believed in me I think I had trust. issues uh with people just just knowing. the upbringing knowing the way I grew up.

going from uh Mississippi to Gainesville. to uh coming to the University of Miami. to being drafted by Denver I ain't trust. people that I didn't know so the moment. that I started to trust people I I. didn't know. um is that's what I would have never. done I never would have uh took the. advice because people give you the. advice hey man you need to trust this. person you need to listen to this person. or they have your best interests may I. have my own best interests right uh if I.

look back to say I need to change. anything I never would have started. trusting people that I didn't know like. these people weren't around me these. people didn't have my best interest and. I would understand I would have. understood that these people are out to. get paid the same way I'm trying to get. paid and my bread and butter is on this. field not not this investment over here. you know I mean like uh often people get. involved in Investments that turn out to. to pay out and give them a lot of money. but it'd be the other way around they.

put small portions in or put a. reasonable portion in and end up getting. a lot of money not where you put a lot. of money in and. you're putting the bulk of the money in. in somebody else's gift you know. um so for me I think it was just more of. trusting people that I didn't know that. I never should have trusted in the first. place. um and thinking that they had my best. interests so. um I wouldn't point the finger at them I. would point the finger at me and say I.

didn't I didn't want to trust you in the. first place like somebody else convinced. me right that I should trust you like I. I knew I shouldn't have trusted you and. I would have rather bet it on me and. believed in me because you looking at. like I'm getting paid on the football. field they're looking at I'm about to. get paid off of him while he's doing all. the work I'm going to reap the benefits. because they know what you don't know. and that's the thing that I tell a lot. of I tell athletes now is that you don't. know what you don't know and it's hard. part we've all been in situations where. somebody's taking advantage of us.

because we didn't know all the things. that we should know you just hopefully. you find the right people that will do. the right things on your behalf and it's. very very unfortunate that you had you. know you learned the hard way that I'm. really I read your bio where people was. writing checks on your behalf and that's. what you learned you can't give anybody. the power of attorney because nobody you. know next thing you know there's money. going on today you're like well why. can't I get this why I don't have enough. money to cover that because they've. emptied the coffers.

see man like for me it was just one of. those situations where everything come. to light you know if you if you know. early right if you know early when I was. when I was doing this in 0.507 08 making. these Investments they were they were. supposed to pay out you know in 2014. 2015. you know down the line right after. football was over right so that was a. thought process you don't know hey man I. should be getting a residual income I.

should be getting a check a monthly. check I should be getting something a. statement I should be getting uh I. should be getting something every month. I should be getting updated every every. week bi-weekly correct at the least I. should be on top of this but you're. trusting someone else to be on top of it. and with that being said as you said if. you don't know you know I think in this. era where you've seen so many guys of. LeBron James uh the the Dwyane Wade's.

these guys invest basketball that's. become phenomenal outside investors or. when you look at a Nas or Jay-Z or Diddy. how they they turn their money into an. Empire that wasn't in the 2000s remember. that like this has just come about since. 2010 2015 where guys are making these. power moves in the 2000s we weren't. doing this like it was nobody Dion. Sanders was the The Prime Time the main. man the watch he wasn't doing this right.

like we didn't have LeBron blueprint we. didn't have Jay-Z Blueprint at this time. like Jay-Z was doing the same thing I. was doing right yeah so everybody look. at it like oh man this should have been. second nature you should have known. better no no we didn't have a a guy in. Ezra and James that's got inducted into. the Hall of Fame. that's not taking the loss that 10. minutes you know 10 cents gone and. everybody got to come in the room hey.

let's talk about this we missing ten. dollars I we missing ten dollars Let's. find let's find out why we're missing. these ten dollars right when we find out. why we're missing these ten dollars that. person is gone you know I mean like we. didn't have that that was that was being. established and everybody look at like. oh man this is so obvious this is like. this should have been known like you. should have already known this no you. shouldn't have because Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff took some of the smartest. people in the world absolutely.

some of the smartest people in the world. and. you know I mean everybody look at. athletes like these dumbass athletes. like these athletes are they so dumb. with their money well what about I. didn't see any athletes Bernie Madoff. athletes weren't making enough money for. him right you see what I'm saying those. are some of the smartest richest people. in the world that got screwed over you. know what I mean. you found yourself in a situation in the. last couple of weeks uh about this. Health Care situation explain uh you.

know talk to us about that. man you know it's an unfortunate. situation again another one of those. situations that if you look back you say. hey I should have known something was. wrong but you and I both being former. players all the former players know how. hard it is to access anything right yeah. I mean so when someone comes along and. say hey I know how to access this I know. how to get this done you like shh well. I've been getting turned down I've been.

missing I I I've been getting denied. like we just talked about concussions. I've been in a concussion lawsuit since. day one I was the face of the concussion. lawsuit. I got denied you know I mean all it. carries you just discussed over 2 000. carriers I got denied you know how many. times I done fell asleep on the field or. I can watch highlights and and see. myself woozy say oh you know what I was. concussed right there they don't care. about that you know and it's not a shot.

at the NFL it's not a shot anything it's. just the fact that you get denied so. much when someone finally. willing to help it's like oh man I. finally found somebody who can help me. and. it's the wrong person you know I mean so. again it goes back to I don't trust. me and the dogs in here somebody fart. hey I'm looking at the dog what's up you. know what I mean so I just don't. trust is is one of those things man that.

if you find the right people right. sometimes people do yes if you find the. right people then. you stick with them people and y'all. grow in the Empire grow and that's how. you get all these success stories of oh. man our whole crew eating that's how you. get uh the Mavericks and all the people. that from LeBron. and become their you know I mean the the. rich Paul the the Maverick car like. that's how you get those people because. they found a good group they grew.

together and then it happened but so. many people get screwed because you. don't have that many people around you. with that knowledge or to put in. position. um to see this through and. again that blueprint is recent that. blueprint wasn't 20 years old right you. know in in in 2001 that blueprint wasn't. out right like this is we're turning. over new leaves but now that it's out. continue to go get money like I'm never.

gonna stop hustling or trying to get to. the bag but what I would do is if I. don't trust this person if I don't deal. with this person I'm not dealing with. them like I don't need newcomers I don't. need to take a chance on Outsiders I got. too many successful people around me so. tap it into the people that's successful. that I know is successful I got an. opportunity to reach out to you I want. to do media I love doing media so why. not call Shannon sharp to say hey you.

know what Shaw put me in a situation or. put me on your show let me talk my talk. let me do what I do and hope that. something come about instead of going to. beg someone that I don't know right that. don't know me who looks at me as a. screw-up who looks at me as oh man this. dude he need me out bro. we could win amongst us. ually I'm saying we could win with the. people that we know with the knowledge. that we have it's just tapping into it.

you know I watch you grow you've always. been this person the entire world just. got an opportunity to start seeing it. once you got the platform right but this. has always been Shannon sharp you see. what I'm saying it's the same with. Clinton Portis the people that know me. you know what I'm Into You know what I. stand for you know what I'm about the. people that judge me. Outsiders they don't know me they see. some arrogant dude or they heard from.

someone else they don't realize you I'll. give you the shirt off my back I'm gonna. make sure you eat I feed everybody. I feed a community in Washington DC. every every Thanksgiving 400 people I. sit down and eat with them. year in year out. I've been seeing Community Gainesville. Florida Washington DC Denver Miami it. doesn't matter just because I don't I'm. going to Haiti to help take clean water. I'm traveling the world trying to make a. difference I go into the prisons to hear.

people's stories like people don't. people don't know that because I don't. broadcast that you don't you always. anytime you see me oh man what this. dominant did you know I mean bro I'm out. here with these kids trying to make sure. they don't make the same mistake right. that I make not just my kids any kids. anybody that I can get my hands on and. say you know what bro I don't need. nothing from you I'm not asking you for. anything I just want to make sure you.

don't lose ten dollars that's that that. was EJ mentality Ezra and James I don't. want to lose ten dollars. so if I can make sure you don't lose ten. dollars and I can still put you in the. right direction that you keep winning. that's what I want to do everybody else. hey your opinion is your opinion it's. not gonna stop me from smiling it's not. going to stop me from hustling it's not. going to detour me I've been fighting. all my life you know I mean I've been. fighting to prove worthy to to knock.

down the door to get in the door to be. heard and now that I'm hurt even though. it's negative. some of the negative stuff just redefine. print you know and and that's another. issue where I was wrong redefine friend. read it all and if you read it all. you'll see some of the stuff that that. we jump on or some of the stuff that we. think it don't add up and if it don't. add up stay away from it I get what. you're saying you're saying that you.

know for so long you tried to get what. you thought you had Fairly earned. playing nine years in the National. Football League taking those bumps those. bruises those broken bones those. concussions you thought you would have. easier access to gain what you felt that. after my nine years of service to it in. order to a a a a league they would be. more than willing to to help me get on. my stay on my feet not get on my feet. because I'm on my feet but stay there. you know you know this is what I've. earned do you feel that this is why you.

know a lot of times now they look at it. like see you see what he tried to do a. lot of people probably don't need it but. just trying to get it trying to gain. access to it do you feel that that's how. they're going to judge certain people. that come along after after you. man I think I think people are we're in. a we're in a time that everybody is. judged man we're in one of those uh. everything is so sensitive everybody is. judged everyone's opinion of voice is. heard that it don't matter like somebody.

gonna be mad that I wore a yellow hat on. this show why did he wear yellow he. should have walked he should have wore. orange hat for the Broncos like he got. on the yellow hat for for the Washington. football team because because they just. won their first game like. that's not it but uh you can't you can't. fight all those battles right you can't. fight you can't you can't fight every. battle that that comes about you know. you gotta uh pick the battles.

um in in pick and choose and for me I. think I've had so many battles that's. been public uh that's that's been public. that I fought in the public eye that. people like man damn he not tired yet I. can't it's hard because if I get tired. I'm gonna get ran over I'm gonna lose. you know and I don't want to get uh used. to being a loser I don't want I don't. want that that. um concept to be Associated I want the. concept of you know what man that man is.

is overcoming that man is believing that. man you know it's something special. about him whether it's God whether it's. the people that's praying for him his. mama uh his Grandmama his cousins. whoever it is the people that that. appreciate him and know him for who he. is those are the people that that you. get up for those are the people that you. can't give up uh on because they're not. giving up on you so for me this is one. of those situations if I got breath in. my body man I'm Gonna Keep On Moving you.

know and and you get in these situations. and it's like man how the hell I end up. like me out of all people why why me. like why me out of all these people and. it's just one of those I can't question. God for for whatever reason that this. battle was was uh placed upon me or. bestowed upon me. it's just another obstacle that that I. got to get over and I will get over and. I will continue to believe and uh stay.

faithful and I might reach out to you. more but I'm not afraid to reach out and. say you know what bro I need you I know. you got access I know you got the. platform I know you got an opportunity. uh to to help me get this message across. so help me you know don't be afraid to. ask for uh help don't don't run from. people that that you know are smarter. than you like I blow EJ phone up now. because I'm eager to win you see I'm.

saying like and I've always had access. to them I didn't have to wait uh I I. been saw his vision uh so I could have. been tapped into it but. better you know better better late than. never so. um reach out to those people gain the. knowledge that you need to gain ask the. questions that you need to ask that's. what it is like we're so often afraid to. ask a question because we're worried. about being rejected we're worried about. being told something we don't want to. hear but I'd rather I'd rather you.

reject me and know that I'm out here. trying to get it or knowing that I'm out. here on my ground I'm not asking you I'm. not I'm never gonna call you and say hey. shock man I need you to send me a. hundred dollars never but I might call. you and say hey man I'm trying to get to. this hundred dollars. how can I get there right you see what. I'm saying like I'm not asking for. anything because I got breath in my body. I'm gonna go out and get it I'm Gonna. Make It Happen legit not not illegal you.

know so the legit way what does the 40. year old Clint Porter's. wish the 20 year old quill importers had. known. man. um. I I think the 20 year old Clint Portis. didn't even know he would make it to 40. the 20 year old Clinton Portis wasn't. worried about getting Authority and.

maybe it's just upbringing you know. um environment so you're thinking man. I'm gonna enjoy today. and I'm not really worried about. tomorrow and then when tomorrow come. when kids become a factor you start. looking at I got to be around you know. like man my feet got to be on the ground. I got to be able to uh to to provide you. know. um because at 20 I didn't have to. provide I didn't have to do it was only.

me right you know uh but when you start. getting miles of feed when you start. getting people depending on you. um when you start looking at your. parents getting older losing your. grandparents losing your parents like. life changing you know you you're not. that young that 20 year old ripped body. stud not you that that 40 year old beer. belly you know that's that's still got. to get stuff done so. um just figuring it out you say if I. would have moved or if I would have if I.

would have looked just if I would have. asked this question you know I mean. um ask yourself questions you don't need. to rush to make a decision you got time. you don't need to be on someone else's. time. um. so you got time and if it's. uncomfortable to you if it's something. don't feel right if you got any you know. past just pass on you know what. even though this might be good in a year. or two from now it might pay out big.

it don't sit right with me so and if it. don't sit right with you leave it alone. you know if it's something that's on you. that you need to research further. research it but make sure you're. informed make sure you get the answers. that you need before you do anything you. know and that's in life that's that's in. life period make sure you're informed. before you do anything you don't have to. make a a rational or a quick decision to. move forward. let's transfer it on the field currently.

who are you best for running backs in. the NFL. man you know being that. it's gonna always be the same because. it's only like four or five backs they. get opportunity so for me I I would say. in no particular order. um. I would say Derrick Henry uh Dalvin cook. Alvin Kamara and uh McCaffrey.

used to be at a lot in the locker room I. I I've noticed as he was born and I. never thought I'm like I'm looking at. this dude like dude I remember you was. this big it run around in the locker. room playing football with your older. brother and I'm like dude one of the. best running backs in football. man I ran into Eddie Mack right and I. was I was ecstatic to see Eddie Mack and. uh I brought up Christian I'm like man. your son Paul you know what he said.

that's from watching all of your Zone. plays and you know it was just one of. those smiles to say you never know the. impact that you have on people who's. watching right and and just to. constantly continuously try to be a role. model right and. um you you never know like you never. know who you're impacting but when you. look at Christian McCaffrey I just think. the situation that they put him in and. the opportunities that he get. expose his talent a lot of guys don't.

get the opportunity to Camaro get going. to get the ball cook gonna get the ball. and here we go get the ball other guys. they don't know if they're gonna get 10. or 15 uh touches right that's run the. pass you just don't know because you got. running back by committee yeah uh game. plan change you you know you watch uh so. many teams back in the day used to be. Elway Montana far like these guys are. going to have 40 passes and you know the.

other quarterbacks might have 25 passes. now every quarterback throwing the ball. 60 times a game so a running back you. know the opportunity is not there for a. running back to shine like it was in my. day yeah I think the thing is now those. guys that you mentioned now Derek Henry. is not going to catch that many passes. but he's gonna get his 25 touches the. bill to carry those guys are going to. get their catches because they're going. to run it and they're going to catch it. that's the difference you look at Kamara. he's gonna get 15 20 touches and. everybody they might not all be runs but.

he might get 10 catches in 15 carries. Christian McCaffrey he's going to get. 25-30 touch of the game and it might be. 20 and 10. Dalvin cook is the same thing. how would Clinton pour the fair in. today's game. it would be tough because for me like I. wasn't I would I felt like I could do. everything now you have so many. specialists like oh man I got to put. this guy in for this play I got to put. this guy in for this play like bro I can. run every play anything that needs to be.

done I can do it right I want to go out. there I know the ball going to Rod Smith. but I can run this post route like let. me run it right you know. um I know the ball going to Shannon. sharp but let me line up it tight ends. so. um I felt like I could do everything uh. so I think what would be hard is the. game plan I hey I remember Asian used to. say all the time like bro you're The. Last of a Dying Breed like we gone after. after you we don't have you know Frankie.

G end up lasting 15 more years but. um the every down back the the first. second third down back right uh the guy. that could do everything is is kind of. missing you know and I think again you. look at Kamara you look at uh McCaffrey. they they could be every down bags but. they get spelled too you know Murray was. the the short yardage Gold Line and uh. the guy that come in on this occasion.

right it wasn't just Camaro and they had. Ingram as well so. um they were a running back by committee. although Camaro got his shine on and. still gets his shine on it's like the. talent that that I felt like I brought. to the game uh was totally different. like I could do it all baby I want to be. in a short yardage Gold Line I want to. be in and spread I want to be in the two. minute like I want the first down the. second down you know I can run the. screen I can run the draw whatever I can.

do it. I think that one of the best things that. you think that people don't talk about. is your Blitz pickup and I tell people. this all the time I watched Pope the. cleat guy and he enjoyed it because he. said this is my opportunity because. you've been beating on me all day you. gonna run up in here and not see me. because I'm gonna be behind behind this. guard and when you by the time you think. about oh I'm about to get this. quarterback your feet in the air because. I don't hit put my helmet right up under. your chin and I we you know we used to.

sit around and watch like the airport. you got that one we be in the Huddle. like yeah they're like hey sharp I got I. got one where do you see it on video. hey you but you you know what's crazy. I think as as time went on where you. started to realize and this I think this. is missing too like in situation of. football the defense got a blitz in. certain Gap yeah you know they can't. they don't just get to pick a gap if he. got to come up to a gap he got to come. up there yeah same way as a running back.

like hey you're supposed to be here or. the receiver got to run right here when. I started to realize that and I'm saying. like man you gotta run in between this. Center and guard like you don't run. through there blind yeah but you're. trying to get through full speed you're. trying to find me and all this just. attack you at the line like I know you. gotta enter right here and when you. enter I want to make sure you don't. enter anymore and uh one of my favorite. and I I think we came to Denver in 05 I.

think I finally got an opportunity to. play the Broncos at 05 and I've always. been an Al Wilson thing and they had Al. Wilson and Nate Webster who I played. with violence and these were always two. of my favorite players because they. played a game with. the way it's supposed to be played they. coming down here and they land that. longer and I'm looking across and I see. Alan I see me and I don't think I'm. thinking of is boy these boys gonna try. to kill me yeah so I gotta try to kill.

them and Al Blitz that egg yeah. when I seen this book go by my ear I. said oh I got I got it and they slowed. them down you know I remember Al. um when we were getting ready to play. the Dolphins and whatever that the issue. was he had with Ricky Williams but I. remember Al all week long saying I'm. gonna punish Ricky Williams I'm gonna. take him out of this game and when we. got in the game he delivered so.

um that was one of my favorite Blitz. pickups was was my old former teammate. and Al Wilson you understood the thing. that made you great at Blitz pickup and. what I try to explain to people on. social media you got to close the. distance because you're much smaller you. let I don't care how tough you are you. let a man get a running start and you. standing flat-footed he's gonna sit your. butt in the quarterback's lap so what. you do is close that distance and like. when he hits that a gap you put your.

helmet right up on his chin if whatever. Gap he hits even if it's the edge I used. to tell you I said poke get there quick. because if you get you get there quick. you don't have to worry about because. they do it all this juking and then try. to get there and be ready to unload them. take your shot that's all you got to do. take your shot and you get it one time. you good for the rest of the day. hey but you know what's crazy that's. what made me turn into a blocker you. know along with Coach Salinger because. it was required for us to block at Miami. but remember we used to have to cut the.

line of scrimmage and uh we played the. Jets and I think Abraham or even sean. Ellis. um need me in the head and almost. knocked me out. and I was like man forget this I'm I'm. jumping in their chest from here on. right and I remember I used to fake like. I was gonna cut to get guys to stop and. just dive in their chest and then they. just took off from there like meeting. them at the line of scrimmage uh knowing. I know you got to come in between this.

little Gap so I died early by the time. by the time you come through this Gap. I'm already in the airplane. but fall back or move back but you're. not getting to the quarterback so uh. that was my only concern I just wish if. I would have known then what I know now. I probably would have never threw a. block like I would have saved my body. and I only got through 77 yards or that. 700 yards that I needed uh to become the. all-time lead Russia for the Redskins.

go back to to Miami you mentioned some. of the guys you played with Sean Taylor. Ed Reed uh Santana Moss Andre Johnson. Frank Gore Willis McGahey Brian McKinney. and Trail roll I mean uh Philip Buchanan. list goes on and on what would those PR. uh Shockey uh uh what were some of those. practices like. man competitive you know I kid you not I.

remember when I got to Denver and seeing. our team and realizing the team I played. on in college was better and y'all used. to give me a hard time when I because I. was Miami all the way why each sleep I. believed in us and we didn't beat the. hell out y'all you do know that though. we beat the hell out y'all oh yeah yeah. y'all probably would have but we we. could have beat somebody now everybody.

wasn't gonna beat us. I don't think so hey this is what you. got to understand y'all had like. let's just say for the sake of argument. you guys had 20 guys go to the NFL from. that team. everybody in the NFL. is in the NFL they got 53 guys they're. going to the NFL so ain't no College he. beat no protein poke even evenly. Cleveland back then that was terrible. and even the Jag and even even the uh. Houston Texas boy they're hung 50 on.

y'all listen. I believe I believe in the talent that. we had now. if you could actually like you said. those guys are all in the NFL so it's. tough to say what a college team could. be the NFL team because the NFL is grown. men in college you're still finding your. way in the NFL your identity is there. like I'm grown and I don't see like I. don't see any of this right for those. guys that. um that I played college ball with when.

you look all those guys started an era. you know and not only did they start an. air shocking I felt like Gonzalez wasn't. only tight end prior to shocking and. Shockey came in and did it his way you. know Shockey gave you. um so much and then Winslow and Bubba. Franks like these guys changed the tight. end game to to how we see it now when. you look at the Jimmy Graham in in uh. you look at all the the best tight ends.

they kill them and all that that's. shocking that's that's. um uh that's guys from you you know you. look at the running backs Frankie G Edge. me. um. you look at the guys around you know the. impact or the influence when you look at. Julio Jones that was Andre Johnson you. know uh Reggie Wayne running one of the. best route runners in hands that I've. ever seen uh when when you started. talking about Harry Shaun T you know.

running live and Steve Atwater where the. names at prior to these guys that. everybody looked up to now it's Ed Reed. and Shaun T you know I think Phillip. Buchanan uh barring injuries still would. have been one of the best best DBS of. all time he's one of the best that I. ever played with or I ever seen when you. look at Santana Moss uh I talked about. Dante Hall and how he impacted the game. think about Santana in the slot Donald. Santana was an underdog you know what I.

mean Santana was an underdog that always. overachieved he was fast he was Fearless. like he was just a dog you know when you. look at these guys they they change the. game and then when you look on the. defensive side uh you're talking about. entrail Vince Wilfred uh Vilma you know. DJ WIlliams becoming those those. linebackers that can cover tight ends. that can do everything that you can move. around and feel like you didn't have. that prior then you go out and find a.

run I mean a linebacker like like DJ. WIlliams that you can move and uh he. could go play on this side and he can. move to this side Jonathan Vilma who was. who was small and come down hill and. thump you like bro it was Dan Morgan you. know. these people change the the they have an. impact on the way the game is played now. who's your Mount Rushmore you only get. four players you get four might you get. four hurricanes to put on be it Michael.

Irvin be it Ed Reed be it Sean Taylor. Ray Lewis it'd be J Boogie Warren Sapp. Andre Johnson you get four Jim Kelly you. get four players who you for going up. there. that's tough I'm my first one gonna be. be read man I I mean just the respect. that I have for for reading knowing uh. who Reid is and what Reid brought to the. game. uh it read.

um. two through four again. I will put edge up man I don't think. people realize the influence that edge. has had on everybody you know not just. um guys but the effect that he have on. the community off the field uh being. being our LeBron. um. Edge would go up there.

I would have to put I would have to put. sap or Jerome Brown boom output. hey people Boogie before people tired. people don't remember J Boogie but he. was found before sap. yeah I it's it's you can't say south and. not give Jerome brown but just for. just say just for people who who know I.

would say sap okay because he changed he. changed the game so that's Reed. it's uh got one more it's hard to leave. playmaker off. it's hard to leave Ray Ray on but. another one of my favorite players and. you know you don't really give the dude. his roses. Reggie Wayne man just. bro Reggie Wayne was the ultimate like.

bro the man could run routes his hands. was unbelievable like just everything. about him how how he played the game. he's selfish but how he played the game. and it's hard to say Reggie over over. Dre and and playmaker and Lamar Thomas. and all those guys but you only gave me. four so I'm giving you my four favorite. players all right I can live with that. matter of fact I gotta leave Ridge off.

I'm going with Sean I'm throwing. something. you got shot re-edge. and who's the other one. sap. man you put everybody that you played. with up there you think you slick I. ain't played with no saps. with the exception of sap you got Edge. when you didn't play with Edge either. but you got Sean Taylor you got a reed. up there. Hey listen they was dogs they changed. the game if you dog what what they.

brought to the game I don't think you. know how people lose impact the players. like what what what what Eric Crouch was. to Nebraska right or what Charles. Woodson was to the University of. Michigan right you know those guys were. Tori holders to NC State those guys all. in their own way. all got a legacy like that and at one. school you know when you think of Tori. hope you can't think of other guys from. NC State who was that legendary you know.

um Charles Woodson you don't know a guy. who who impacted uh Michigan the way. that that wood impact it uh maybe maybe. talk maybe not old guy that's still that. Braden wasn't even the man in college is. a bad man yeah but he he didn't he. wasn't like he wasn't the plan that he. is now he wasn't nobody saw that coming. when he was in college what Woody did in. the NFL you to do one to Heisman to do. you know you saw that he's playing.

offense and defense so you knew Woody. had could be was going to complete be. great nobody saw Tom Brady doing this. Peyton Manning doing what he did people. like this guy got to be good this guy. calling his own place he a freshman so. he got to be good. yeah like I don't think people you know. the the impact of players like so many. universities have this one iconic player. yeah you know uh when you think of uh of. so many of these teams it's just that.

one icon that you look up to but when. you say the University of Miami man it. could go either way you got so many guys. okay well how about this here Frankie G. I will take I will take I'm gonna take. alumni in their Prime. do you I want your best 22. Alabama their best 22 USC their best 22. and Notre Dame their best 22. we're. gonna light it up who win.

um. the best 22 yeah. the only place we would struggle would. be offensive line right. um in the defensive line now I love our. d-line against them I I have Vic uh. Wilford Sapp and Jerome.

bro I would definitely take our d-line. um when you look at at the linebacker. positions you got Ray nah you want to. get 22. you ought to get 22 you get 11. offense level defense you expect I. already know your special team guy you. got Hester so y'all got to so. defense. hey that's a cheat code our our wide. receivers I'm taking uh you talking.

about Mike. Wheezy Andre Johnson okay so you only. get one so since you started three wide. receivers you only get one tied in one. running back since you put it like that. tight end I'm gonna go with shocking. I gotta go with shocking because I know. shock it block in it ain't gonna go. catch that thing uh running back. oh yeah.

hey running running back I'm Gonna Leave. off a full back I I had to go two. running backs you can't gonna do running. back you got three wide receivers you're. trying to play with twins yeah right so. so I got to go one back I might have to. go Frankie G man oh man I might have to. go bro I might have to go Frankie G oh. if I if I got one running back to pick. in his dog you gotta understand I seen. Frankie G before they need interest. right I saw that Frankie G I saw the.

Frankie G that didn't wear socks that. didn't wear underwear. didn't wear gloves that's the. frankincense like I want that Frankie G. okay bro when you see a kid go stick his. foot in some some cleats with no socks. on yeah. yeah yeah he's special okay what state. Florida Georgia Cali Ohio Texas where. they at.

Florida. um. and you know when I say Florida the. first name that that pop up when I say. Florida is Fred T. and Fred T don't get you know Fred T. don't get his credit he don't get his. that's due but when you say Florida. that's one of the Fred T Peter Ward. um Anquan Boldin like bro it's so it's. so much work came out of Florida. um especially in today's game but I'm.

just saying all together uh Florida is. special and you know I'm Mississippi and. Florida Mississippi don't put out you. know we got we got Jerry we got uh. Walter like we got some workouts y'all. ain't put nobody out lately no poke. yeah y'all got Patrick Yeah you got. Patrick Wilson you got Patrick Willis. you got Patrick Willis I'm going with. Florida like I'm not even I'm not even. over Texas Georgia don't have it over. Texas man Texas Texas we having speed I.

ain't never been crazy about Texas our. California players right you give me. your bestie loving in Texas I give you. my best I think Florida's something you. know Texas always been one of those. states that I don't think they have any. the same heart you know what I mean like. Florida winning Florida kids different. but I don't know man Texas Texas got. that heat too I think I think Texas is. important. name your five best Texas players well I.

mean they got running backs you know. like Eric Dickerson and Earl Campbell. now the now Texas is known for. quarterbacks you know they just had Drew. Brees they got Matthew Stafford Kyler. Murray they kind of know known for. quarterbacks now their quarterbacks are. doing you know quarterback doing pretty. good. yeah but you can only start one of them. quarterbacks yeah I ain't never seen two. quarterbacks store pass in the game well. y'all they got y'all think you ain't got. no quarterback for what's your. quarterback from Florida oh you would. take a Lamar there's somebody you take. Lamar.

what with with the work with the. athletes around him heck yeah. heck yeah dude did you always know you. wanted to play growing up in Gainesville. obviously the University of Florida is. in Gainesville did you know you always. wanted to play for the University of. Miami or was Florida an option. I didn't every everything was an option. at that time but Florida wanted me to. play DB so. um Florida missed out spur your call. like Hey we're thinking about offering.

you at DB what did you think I think you. should offer somebody else. uh Miami was just you know what's crazy. Miami my visit to Miami is what did it. like once I got around the guys and. clicked me Santana Bubba Franks like we. were just talking about this it is Hall. of Fame uh induction once I got to Miami. it was like this is where I'm supposed. to be like this is this is what feels.

great to me this is what feels good to. me uh this is where I fit in like this. is where I'm supposed to be so uh it was. a no-brainer Paul man you got my number. I still got the same number. for 25 years it ain't changed so if you. need something you know how to get in. touch with me. hey I need a hundred dollars. [Laughter]. all right bro I'll reach out appreciate. you man I appreciate you Paul be good.

bro stay strong all my life and grinding. all my life. sacrifice. obey the price wanna slice got to roll a. dice that's why all my life I'll be. grinding all my life all my life been. running all my life. [Music]. my life. [Music].