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Randy Moss on Cowboys Revenge Game, Edelnut Origins, Wideout Woes & an All Dog NFL Team | EP 181

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Randy Moss on Cowboys Revenge Game,  Edelnut Origins, Wideout Woes & an All Dog NFL Team | EP 181

Randy Moss, a legendary NFL wide receiver and Hall of Fame inductee, shares insights into his journey from West Virginia to the NFL, emphasizing how cross-sport experiences—especially basketball—shaped his athletic mindset and game intelligence. He recounts pivotal moments like his time at Nike Camp, where he realized he could compete at a higher level, and his college days at Florida State, which boosted his confidence. Moss highlights the values of humility and authenticity from West Virginia culture, which grounded him through tough beginnings. He reflects on key career milestones, including his rookie year with the Vikings, his game against the Cowboys, and his unforgettable first meeting with Tom Brady, which deepened his understanding of football strategy. Randy also shares stories of mentorship, teamwork, and community, underscoring how personal relationships and real-life experiences fueled his success. The episode blends humor, heartfelt storytelling, and deep lessons about perseverance, adaptability, and staying true to one’s roots—making it both entertaining and inspiring for fans of the game.

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Jason, when it was time for you to call it quick, what's the number one thing in your mind you knew you were going to miss about the game? I knew I was going to miss competing. You see, it's, it's, it's Ellie in the background. I miss it so funny. Do you go upstairs? No, why not? Is that the oldest one? This is my second. You say hi. You say hi to the greatest receiver ever to play football? No, no, no, no. Say hi to Randy Moss. Are you guys going to go wire right now? Hi, Randy Moss. I'm not going to miss. That's so epic. I'm not a sweetheart. How are you? You can get up. I love you. Let's go, man. Bye. Man, let me uncle tap you in my eye. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, baby. Nice. Welcome back to New High to One Drew Show brought to you by Expedia, the one place you go to go places you can go anywhere. And it helps you figure out everything else to do while you're on the go. And it's where you go to do that. We are your host and Travis Kelly is in my big brother Jason. Because he got a Cleveland Heights Ohio representing the US of a, again, subscribe on YouTube. One through plus wherever you get to pockets. Follow the show at also media at new heights show with one S. We got a bunch of fun clips throughout the week. And that's where I like to watch the show is the fun clip. So make sure you follow us on also media. And Jason is now going to tell the people that are listening to this show. What we have coming up. How did 90% is we got another amazing episode for you guys? Spotted some of your fan mentions. And we're also going to build an NFL roster entirely out of dogs. Oh, Randy Moss is here. That's right, baby. Oh, you got lost. That's right. That's right. Oh, yes, straight cash, homie. Before we get into that, let's get into a little bit of that new news. Yeah, new news. New news. We are pre-taping this one. I'm sorry, no real new news. Currently we're on location, grabbing some incredible guest conversation. Not saying who it is, but we might be one of the goats of a sport that you love. To who? Yeah, so I guess that's the new news. Yeah, all right. Nice. Let's keep this thing moving into fan mentions. Fan mentions is brought to you by one of our favorite drinks of all time. I think Ed Kelsey might be one of the top buyers of this drink. At least the diet version. It's brought to you by Pepsi. Shout out to Pepsi. All right, Ira, NFL put out the NFL combine then and now. How about that? Look at these pictures. Gah, Lee, I was so fat. You're fat. You're not fat in this photo. It's kind of, it's not not the best photo, but. Yeah, the old straight on where you can see the double chin. How much did you weigh in that photo? I was a good 268, I think. I'm not sure. What was my combine height and weight? I was 6378, so I think I was like 258 or something like that. You're 6'4" and 787? Yeah, 6'4" 787, yeah. Yeah. Either way. Just 365. Yeah. Oh, man. Did you scroll down a little further? Jesus, Jason, you forget the trigger. Oh, my God. Why do you look so different? Why is your nose so fucking thin? Cricket? Dude, I don't know. Oh, my goodness. Why do you look like this? I don't know. I look like I'm going to get. If you show me that picture back in the day, I mean, that's not my brother. That guy's getting strip-searched for sure. It's like the NFL purposely tries to get the most unflattering pictures of rookies. I don't know if it would have mattered what angle they got. I mean, I think I was just an ugly son. He really grew into being a nice handsome boy. So handsome. Look at you on the right there. You all golden, get some sun. You even at the shore? Yes, yes. Yes. Those pictures are always taken in the heat of summer. That first one to let this February. February and Cincinnati training for the job of your life. Did you see the other guys they put out? No. I'll run through them real quick. Hold on. Who else we got? Oh, Josh Allen. Yeah, Allen. Jay Allen, don't look too bad. Smooth car right there. No, looks more artistic now. Do you understand what I'm saying? Don't see any difference at all. Young King Henry. Jetta. Young Jetta. A Raj, not much different. Kind of has a Lloyd Christmas. Go back. The Lloyd Christmas going on there a little bit. Yeah, the straight across. It's just, I mean, it kind of looks similar. All right. All right. What do we got next? What do we got next? This guy will never age. He'll look like this until he's fucking 90 years old. I think you're right. Burrow. Burrow, I mean, I feel like Joey Burrow. Yeah, just again, another guy who probably trained up north didn't get a lot of sun. Second one, a little bit more sun. CMC, another guy is going to look the exact same until he's fucking 90 years old. Kind of look like a military cadet. Oh, pantymolmes. pantymolmes still looks the same. Still looks the same. Yeah, not a big difference. Looks like he's got a billion-hour smile, though. He's much happier. Much happier, man, in a deedous gear. No, then he was an underwear member back then. Baker. Baker, still. Yeah, baked looks pretty similar. A little beard. A beard, a beard. Yeah. Oh, that boy. George has just been growing his hair ever since. He's just hasn't stopped. He grew up being his hair. Gee, kiddo, man, what'd he do? Fucking love that guy. Oh, shit. Nice. Nice. Glad we look different. There's one thing for sure is that at the comment, they take the most unflattering angle in lighting picture they possibly can. Yeah, especially. Boost that morale. For us, pale, white in the winter. Uh, kinda guys, yeah. Yes, let's move on to everyone loving Jason's content. Oh, yeah. You are. Yeah, I'm telling you we're fucking crushing it with the content right now. Yeah. Yeah, click this link. We're a quick bringing it. I think Jason Kelsey is quickly becoming one of my favorite follows on TikTok because everything he posts, it just kind of feels like either a grandpa decided to record a video and maybe did it on accident and posted it or a toddler took his mom's phone and is running around filming everything and just posting it without editing it. Like his last video I saw was him just like taking the subway. That's it. That's like those progressive commercials, where it's like you're slowly turning into your parents and they're trying not to let you do it. I mean, I feel like a grandpa using TikTok. I really do not get it one bit. You've got to be a special, like, to be really, like, good at it. You got to be a special version of person, I think. And you are. You're a very special version of somebody. You're authentic. You're authentic. And that's what people fucking love the most about you in terms of the content you create. And I'm not going to lie. I'm right there with them, dude. I fucking die laughing at everything you do, whether it's riding the subway or creating a garage beer commercial about beer powder. It's fucking gold, man. The subway was fun. It was a great subway. I thought it was a fun video. I don't know. Then it was fun. And you knew exactly what you were doing. You knew what the people wanted idea. Guys, it was like, well, you fucking stop. Like, if you have any idea how long it took me to make that dumbass video, that's the one thing. I'll always feel so fucking dumb, man. There was a point early on in my career when like the reels and everything really started getting going. And I would make them. And then I wouldn't make them. And then I would just do one because I felt like I had to keep it going. And then it was just, there was so many like stories that I just felt were so pointless. And some of the shit I was doing was so pointless. I just felt dumb doing it. And you're clearly having a blast with it. It's the best, dude. Not feeling dumb is like one of your superpowers. Oh no, I mean, I feel dumb all the time. I feel dumb wearing this hat right now. It looks great. Just embraced it. From our new Heights Reddit page. Our fantasy forfeit this year. All right, recreating the GQ shoot for a calendar. This is fucking nice. I mean, that's fucking pretty damn good. I mean, he's got a fucking dumb pat. Yeah, man. And that's he's got the head till all of it. He's got the chest hair. He's got the gut. He's got the sloppy tits. He's fucking great, dude. Very nice. Very nicely done. No air out loud. Love that. We're based in Glasgow, Scotland. Oh, Scotland. Nice. Nice. Dude, to try and find somewhere in Scotland that resembled that exact, yeah, exactly. That's pretty good right there. Well done. Very well done. Hi, I need to know. Yeah, I got a shout out for the Simpsons. How about this trend? Do you see this? No, I do not. Can you please? I mean, I didn't get a shout out. They just like mentioned my existence, which. That's a shout out. I'm not crazy. That's a shout out in my book. We fucking grew up in the heart of the Simpsons, man. Not that it's not still the heart of the Simpsons, because they're still rolling, but. Awesome things. I'm gonna do one. Roll it down for ya. Eat two steaks, homies, pretzels, water eyes. We're gonna pop up in some cases and tell these beers. Oh, nice, dude. You're just gonna have random people coming up to you trying to fucking yank your beard off. We're not weird off. If it's Marge or anybody with the Simpsons? Or, yeah, I'm in. All right, that doesn't for fan mentions, brought to you, Bob. Pepsi. All right, let's get into this Randy Mouse interview, baby, straight cash, homie. I've never been more excited. Here we go. Oh, ho, ho, ho. Our guest today is six foot four wide receiver from Rand West Virginia. He's a four time old pro six time pro baller, the 1998 offensive rookie of the year, and the 2007 comeback player of the year. He holds the record for the most receiving touchdowns in a single season. He's second all time in career touchdowns, fourth all time in career receiving yards, and he is a member of the 2018 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Just a legend. We didn't pay him to come on our show, but if we did we'd be using straight cash on 92% is please welcome Randi Ready to play again. Let's get that's all I'm trying to do get them juices. We know you can go out there and break somebody off man You already know just throw it up baby just throw it up. Thanks for having me on guys, man I know you got the number one podcast out there, and you know, I really don't I really I really don't do many podcasts, right? But when I but but but y'all y'all to the brothers the realness of let you out and put on the field and out the field Yeah, I gotta come and show y'all some love mantle. Thanks for having me on. That's why you're the realest big guy We can't thank you enough. You already know with your absolute legend in the NFL and I even more so just being you Everybody is has seen the personality kind of come out since the NFL And it's just it's so cool to have you on this show with us, man, because you are you guys the legends that we grew up watching and everything getting you guys on this show is like Taking me back to my childhood and like I'm living out a dream. I didn't even know it was possible man So I appreciate you joining us today brother. Yeah, no doubt no doubt. It's the personality off the field like the the entire essence of Randi I mean you are the greatest highlight player in the history of the NFL like is there anybody else that has better highlights the Randy Moss there's an entire catch anytime somebody who goes up and gets it you got balls if you're talking about my position No, but if you're talking about players that ever played the game. I mean, I I think I think Barry Sanders was a human highlight real But but you know you're talking about my position No, but but at the same but at the same time guys, you know, just just being able to Stay ground and keep myself grounded and it's it's how it was really about to work you putting it, you know And you know a lot of people, you know don't really understand my background in the sport of basketball and The thing that I've always tried to tell people Jason was that and trapped you I've seen it in your game in The field of play, you know where you have 50 60 70 yards to go before you score That's when I use my quickness, you know my elusiveness and my speed But once you get down to the red zone It's all about boxing out body placement going up and get the rebound So that's where I put the game of basketball into my game and that's where that's why I say if it if you put into hard work Didn't hard work pays off. So like I say the plays that I make a I put the working to be able to make those plays we can't talk hoops Without talking about your west Virginia days in high school rocking with Jason Williams, man Legendary duo growing up. Did you guys both know that you guys had like something special that both of you We're gonna go pro and in your respective sports man Jason like a quick short story Jason while we were in Elementary school. We we played I think two years of pop Warner against one another and Jason was a phenomenal football player phenomenal athlete And every sport that I played Jason played or every sport he played I played the only sport Jason really didn't play or or do it was track as far as baseball basketball And football, you know, he excelled at all three of the sports just like I did And you're talking about honorable mentions all conference and things like that Jason was that type of athlete But I think he got kind of discouraged Myself more year his junior year where the quarterback was already sort of in place So he can really focus on basketball so there was like Jason's last year of playing football with his 11th grade year or his 10th grade year So we played a basketball we we traveled to country with one another But I think the the craziest moment for me was just playing against a lot of these former NBA players that we played against in middle school and in high school and then of course that I branched off and made it to the NFL But just seeing some of the guys that we played against in a you excel on on a professional level So that was kind of like some some crazy surreal moments at the same time. That's so yeah, man It's awesome. It's awesome. You were talking about the crossover guys like Davante Adams talks about how in his route He's he's he's thinking as if he's like on the court a ball handler on the court Right and his quickness and And how he how he switches up his tempo to make it seem more effective and more fluent and it's awesome to hear you say that because I think a lot of guys get caught up in high school and And even younger parents are trying to get them to just focus on one sport with a special Jason a huge on a big advocates on making sure you get out there play all the sports get get an understanding of the Handai and all all these different sports and not focus on them until until after a I don't know middle school or high school or Whichever one you choose to prolong in college. There's carry over for sure you learn from one sport You can take it and you can apply it to another one like I feel like I'm a better alignment because I did two years of wrestling in middle school Right now. I don't know if that's real or not, but you you learn about leverage when you wrestle no doubt no doubt Randy, he was the one he was the one you didn't want to fucking see out there, man I can only imagine this guy had pimples all over his face you as soon as you start wrestling with the pimples are popping and like the blood Or gunpuses coming down his face like Sweating his ass obvious the sweaty mitt like just messing. He's just purposely not wearing deodorant I'm gonna make you feel me The nasty son of a buck man actively should lead their options open, you know because like you said you And you know Jason that to say that your your position at center where leverage is very important as like like you really could hang your hat on Yeah, man if I wasn't done wrestling then my game would have been what is a professional So I mean like you say you've been able to take another sport and then put it into your professional sport And man, that says a lot. Yeah, absolutely and I think it's and it works for all of them like I mean basketball definitely feels like the most Obligable especially if it's if you have ball skills complete athleticism most of the best receivers tight ends I feel like a lot of those guys were hoopers growing up. It just feels like there's a big carryover But I do want to go back a little bit to those days with Jason Williams. What is it about guys from West Virginia? I golfed with this dude and had the most fun Outing of my life at the drone bed is golf out in this past year feels like you're the same way It feels like Nick Sabin even here in him talk like there's a authenticity in a realness that there's I don't even know how to describe it But I just it feels like I love everybody that I meet from West Virginia and I don't exactly know why what is it about West Virginia that It feels like guys that come out of it like They're not trying to be anything. They're they're very grounded in who they are that proud of who they are and They don't take shit from nobody. That's pretty much a vibe I get yeah, everybody that is that is us But I to answer your question. I just think that if you come from humble beginnings I think that really what's keep what keeps a person grounded and I think that everyone that I've seen from West Virginia all the Celebrities, you know, just being humbled and keep it grounded because one of the biggest things that I said and my all the fame Speech back in 2018 just growing up and nobody caring about who I was or who we were, you know I grew up in an uncorporated community and and still to this day my community is still uncorporated so I just think that You know being able to grow up in some some real you know type of Surroundings and understanding what's real in life you learn that at a very young age coming out of the state of West Virginia And I just where I'm from the county. I just think it's the whole state as a whole and what you see is what you get So I know there's a lot of people, you know struggling back at home and you know That's one of the things that really kept me grounded guys of you know going back and doing charity events and going back home I even took my hall of fame jack I even took my hall of fame jacked back home and the reason why because I wanted to give the key It's something something real to see something real to touch and it's like back where you guys are from it's like when you see the the Cal State brothers you know on television playing winners super bows now you seeing them you know endorsing themselves is kind of like When you go back home and seeing people that you grew up with or their children and things like that So I just want to be able to give hope to people, you know, they grew up like I did so I just think that you know It just answers your question about people being from West Virginia. I know what it's like I know what it's like, you know when it comes to hard times and That's something that I never forget and I try to relate that message, you know throughout my whole life I love that Randy. That is so good. We got to get into a little bit of Story that Julian Edelman told us Our guy our guy friend of the show you played with them as a rookie I couldn't I couldn't imagine having a better vet than the Randy Moss In the building and he said he unique named them Edelnut Edelnut Where did that come from? I don't know where Edelman Edelman I don't I know it sounds crazy But you know, you know how to comedy and juxtas in the locker room You just try to find humor day-to-day just to get your day by he tells a story about Me being on the phone with he called it mama malls and You know just briefly, you know, I grew up in you know, and you know, of course in Ram, West Virginia You know, my mom would grow up in the church and You know, I grew up a drummer and so Okay, when it when it when it comes to You know profanity and things like that, you know, my mom being the christian. She is he doesn't want any swearing going on nowhere around her. So, at that time, I'm in a locker room and Julian's behind me, Cussin, and I forgot who he was talking to, but he would be in love. But he'd seen me on my phone and I was smiling and I was basically telling him to be quiet, to hold on, and I'm on the phone. And then he was like, "What? What am I doing?" That's the thing. You know, so it was like one of those crazy moments that I would hear later from my mom, Randy, you were dead in the background, Swayer. And I was like, "Oh, my God." So, that was like one of those crazy moments that I had to hear from my mom later on in life, in the background, Swayer. So, that's where that moment came from, but it was actually a crazy moment again time. - That's awesome. - When you saw Julian come in because he was a quarterback at Kent State, man, did you see something in him immediately? Like did he have that effect or would he walked in the building? - The thing about New England and how they were running their offense about before I became a patron, you look at all those small, shifty receivers, you have the small shifty, yeah, you have the small shiftyers running backs. You know, they had a guy like Kevin Falcon and they brought in a later sweep feet wide and those other guys. But then, you know, just looking at the past before I became a patron, they had a guy like, they had a guy by the name of Troy Brown. Went to Marshall. - Yeah. - I studied his game. I was a big fan. - Two way player. - I was a big fan of he is. And I was just looking at, I think Troy was coming off in these surgeries. So we bring in myself. We bring in Welker and Edelman at the same time. So they're trying to figure out, you know, where they can put Julian Edelman coming out of Kent State as a quarterback. So all the gadget plays they knew they had in Julian. But I just think being a Swiss Army knife of getting in and out of clots, he had to learn that. And I didn't have a problem throughout a 14 year career teaching the guy in a game. I think it's the more you know, the better it helps you as a team. - Oh yeah. - And so I really didn't have a problem with Edelman or anybody teaching him the game. And I think that I just saw, you know, his speed, his swiftiness, but at the same time, you guys know as a young rookie, his willingness to want to learn the game. So that's really what took me over the top with him. And then he tells a story about me giving him money to beat the guys. And I, you know, your lame draft picks, some guys may be a undrafted, you know, free agent, but they still got a chip being to feed the veteran. So I just thought at that time, and I don't know how much he was making, but that's always been my heart just for the guys. And you know how to bet. Again, you know how we get the vets to be ruthless. - Especially y'all, the alignment, you know, the donuts, the food and whatever's not there, you guys are go crazy. So that's what I was thinking about. - That's right. Well, that's awesome, man. All right, let's flash it back a little bit to West Virginia again. All right. So your 1994 West Virginia player the year in football, also won the West Virginia player the year in basketball, twice, you said you were more of a hooper. At what point did it transition? Did you know football was the future? - The summer of '94, Jason Nike used to run a camp where they invite the best players around the country to a remote location and just ball for the weekend. Well, Jason was, you know, he's a year older than me and I always played a year. Most guys do when it comes to like A, even things like that. So the following year, I went to the Nike camp. I got to invite me and another guy by the name of Gene Neighbors ended up going to LSU, playing Point Guard for them. And speaking of Gene, Gene was the only guy that I ever seen give Jason Fitz as a Point Guard. He used to go at it. And if you ever ask Jason, say, Jason, did you and Gene Neighbors used to go at it? - Yeah, they did go at it. - So I go to Nike camp and, you know, I'm sitting up there not really feeling good about it because I'm saying, you know, Kevin Darnett, I'm just saying guys, you know, six, seven, six, 11, seven footers and so I'm sitting up there and asking myself, can I compete? Do I belong here? So at the time, you know, we were sitting here talking about, you know, keeping your options open of playing all the sports you can actually play. Well, out of the seasonal athlete, that just like maybe you guys were, you know, whatever season it was, that's what sport I played. - Of course. - Those guys like Kevin Darnett, there was a guy by the name of Ron Mercer, Adam Tennessee ended up playing for the Chicago Bulls. All those guys were all year around Jim Ryan. So that year, we ended up playing the team out of California that had the number one ranked underclassmen by the name of Shay Cotton. You don't believe it? You can go believe it. There's only been-- - Shay Cotton. - Shay Cotton. There's only been three phenom in the history that I've been living. Moses Malone, Shay Cotton, LeBron James. I'm not only three phenom that I've ever heard about. I've seen two of them. I didn't see Moses back when he was in high school, but I've seen Ron and I've seen Shay. And he wasn't phenom. But anyways, we played them. He's a left-hander. Well, he embarrasses me. I come back-- (laughing) Yeah, I mean, he totally, totally, totally embarrass me. This guy is an underclassmen, but he's the number one rated player in the country. But like I say, Kevin Darnett was the number one rated player because he was a senior that year. And Shay was, I think Shay was maybe a sophomore that year, but he's the number one player. Anyways, I get embarrassed. So then I'm already feeling a certain type of way. Well, we get a reign delay. I'm on a court. Kevin Barnett's out there playing. So me and him somehow getting to a one-on-one match. I asked Kevin to remember this, and he kind of looked at me as like, "Well, Kevin, I've got great memory." I remember this. I remember, like, it was yesterday. (laughing) So using my, so using my speed with basketball, guys, I try to get to the rim and try to lay it up as high as I possibly could over the white box, okay? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, you gotta be up there. Kevin Darnett gets up on the basketball Jason and pins my ball with the top of his hand. So I'm already feeling discouraged from Shay Cotton and what he did to me. And then Kevin Darnett did this to me. So then when I go back home, they say, "Hey, man, you went to Nike Camp. Mouse, how did it go?" I said, "Fuck, ball player." That's what I'm going to be. (laughing) I said, "Man, I'm ready for football." Yes, I am. And it's really a true story. I mean, I'm putting a little bit of humor into it, but at the same time, that was a true story that wouldn't have happened to me, that really changed my mind of playing basketball. And then it's like, dude, I don't even think I can compete with those guys. So let me stick to football. That is amazing. That's such a good story. KG ended up going straight to the NBA from there, right? Well, yeah, from high school, but see the thing about it, it was kind of crazy because we had a couple of nights out where we seen each other. And of course, we supported one another. We ended up taking the iconic picture together. But like I said, I just told, you know, just Kevin, just more of the things that, when you grow up playing against certain guys, you know, I get fueled, I was fueled in height, seeing other guys that I played and competed against to make it to the next level. And that's when I started, you know, when I got to college and seeing Kevin on that level. And I was like, hey, man, I could really compete. And I remember going to Florida State in my freshman year. You know, coming out of West Virginia where the talk is, you know, we don't, we don't breed athletes. And if you do, they don't compete, you know. So I think that I had a lot of, a lot of questions about my game at Florida State, but then I left Florida State, went to Marshal and I had a lot of confidence. And the reason why I had a lot of confidence because a lot of the guys professionally came back to Florida State and trained. Traveyor love this one. So during the off season, everybody, they beat me on my door, beat me on my door. Country boy, country boy, come on outside. Come on outside. Everybody wanted to smoke. So I'm sitting up here like, you know, what's going to, hey, man, the pros around here, training, come and get some, come and get some. So I mean, it was guys like Devon Bush's, Devon Bush, senior, he was still in the National Football League. He went to Florida State, you know, just a lot of the past guys that made it because Florida State was putting athletes in the league like right left. So I get out there and those guys are talking, oh, you're the country boy here about way anyways. I go out there and bear in still guys. I handle my business. And then, and then right after that, the spring comes. The spring comes, I have a great spring. And then I go back to, to Western Virginia, serve some jail time and then up getting, you know, thrown out of Florida State. But anyways, getting back to the story of the confidence factor of being able to have the confidence coming from Florida State. And then from the AU basketball court to Florida State, seeing guys drafted that I played with at Florida State, seeing guys drafted that I played AU ball against, you're talking about confidence and not looking back. And then also the trials and tribulations of this, you know, coming from the state of Western Virginia. Dude, it was destined for me to really get out there and just rip my teeth and just don't get it. - Heck yeah, man, heck yeah. - That's such a good story. From one flip side to a Nike invite to realize the, you know, this might not be the thing. And then on the other flip side, going down to Florida State and realizing like, oh, yeah, I got something over here. - Right. - That's a dope dynamic. - I feel the same way because people, a lot of times people ask like, when did you know you could go to the NFL? I was like, I kind of started knowing what I saw guys go and I was playing against them. There was the same way in college, like, I'm like, man, am I good enough to play in college and then I'm playing against Thaddeus Gibson over at Euclid. And I'm like, I can beat Thaddeus, and he was committed to Ohio State. So I feel like I'm right there. And then all of a sudden, you're in college and you see guys that your teammates will go and you're like, okay, I might get a shot at this thing. And what was it like? You just mentioned going from Florida State, going back to West Virginia. Marshall. What what was that like? It was hard for me guy and the reason why is because what I struggled with you know as far as my You know my upbringing didn't get into that high school, you know fight, you know getting sentenced to to some jail time and You know it's kind of like that, you know throughout my whole life I think a lot of the people around the state seen my talents and you know wanted me to be a mountaineer And you know followed the mountaineers they you know competed against another day with a national championship in the late 80s So you know, I've always followed the mountaineers the follow marshal You know in the divisions that they were in and the players that they've been putting their program But I just always wanted to get out Jason and and just being able to get out and then coming back home It was kind of crazy to me and like I said being able to see those guys Pull up in the Lexes and you know the Mercedes and seeing a lot of things that I didn't see growing up So when I came back home, it was kind of depressing for me because I kind of failed myself and And I think that being able to get an opportunity to play football again I got with Marshall, you know I had a great group of guys as far as my as far as my teammates, you know Just being able to uplift me in certain situations in certain moments. We went undefeated my first year So I think that you know a lot of the stuff that you know I took from Florida State. I took the marshal man and and like I say the rest of this history You can look at the record buffs. You can look at the scoreboard So I took it I just took a lot, you know from Florida state, but at the same time like I told you what fuel me To go out there and try to make it to the top. I didn't want to take that little bump in the road You know going back home to Marsha. I just took that as another opportunity to go reach my goal Hell yeah man. Hell yeah. Well worked out. Hey kid did Thank you for presenting sponsor expedient when it comes to travel We're all about keeping it simple. 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Oh What was what was it like going Playing on astral turf every single home game or every single week Well the thing about it is I played on astral turf Astral turf a lot in high school too So it was kind of like I played an astral turf in high school played on astral turf in college And then when I got drafted to the Minnesota Vikings they were on astral turf So it was kind of like you had to understand how to play on it because if you don't understand how to play on it It could really you know as far as the cutting you know as far as the joints on your knees And then also the scrapes and cuts on your body. I mean, I don't yeah, I don't I don't really know my degrees As far as burns first second or third degree, but I've seen a man. I've seen a man on game day To have his whole arm stripped from here all the way down To his wrist and it was like your velvary man. It was pure white. Oh my god So like I said, I had to learn like I said, I had to learn how to play on it But at the same time, you know, just been able to to make the transition to you know the grass or the field turf I mean, I enjoyed every moment of it though because I played on the worst one stadium in That we played in high school lakewood high school and that was that was only really the the only chance I ever had to play on astral turf when you came in the league it would you had all All fields. It was astral turf. It was baseball fields and then it was baseball fields. Yeah. Yeah, like you were playing on the infields You were playing on astral like it's that's a crazy dynamic We could play in about field turf now And it's like man guys were playing on carpet and uh and running on a mile They were running the second base out there. I'm gonna tell you one of my month one of my craziest moments Of course, I don't think I've ever wanted to feel like I don't think I've ever wanted to feel like But they used but they used to have a wall the visitors locker room. Did you ever hear about that wall? I don't think I've heard about this all the former players And I don't even know how how far it goes back. I know it's back in the 70s I mean you got from Walter Payton, you know, refrigerator Perry You got all the got what anyways when they come into the visitors locker room, but oh that we signed this wall And you can sign in whatever you would want, you know We're gonna keep y'all's whatever So Walter Walter Payton being, you know, my favorite player growing up I signed my name there he is. I mean, I saw Jerry Rises. I've seen all these players that are in the visiting locker room You can sign this wall. You can say what you want and then put your autograph on it Then I said well, what did they do with the wall when they built the new stadium? I don't know, but that was one of the craziest moments going into the back We got to find that wall. There's no way they let that get get out of there. I can't believe that's this is gotta be This is something somebody's basement. They're doing a good job They couldn't have demolished it with all the autographs and all the gistry just or it was a brick. It was just a brick wall That was kind of like holding up the stadium. I say over 100 to 150 athletes on that wall. That's crazy I can't believe they didn't incorporate it in the new stadium. They should like it should be enshrined I got to add I got to fight figure this out. Yeah really All right, you mentioned get playing with the Vikings right You get draft first of all what was draft a like we ask everybody who got draft like what was that process like my draft day Was kind of crazy because of the expectations that I had that I was going to be a cowboy and wow Okay, I just know this now now I told you about my background about my mom been in church in christian and My mom was you know really into church. She really wasn't into sports You know how you guys take that visit to a team and then they host you or whatnot, you know Tell us yeah, that was a little different. They hosted a lot of players. They didn't host you You know individually. So I come back home, you know thinking that I'm going to be a cowboy So I come back telling everybody on my hometown or tell my mom and then my mom is like, okay, son If you say you're going to be a cowboy then you're going to be a cowboy So I remember on draft they sitting there, you know, you got the ESPN Camera there in the house that I was in and I remember my mom sitting there with a bible on her lap And it was kind of crazy because I was like okay mom, you know, you hear I know you over there praying But it's kind of weird that my mom's here in this sport type of moment and so When I tell her I'm going to be drafted and they know the eighth overall pick the Dallas Cowboys select Greg Dallas and that was my You know supposed to be selection and so like I said, I see my mom's you know energy and facial expression and then I was filming a certain type of way So I just think that you know, I know there's more to this and we don't have time for it But you guys you too the council brothers you guys don't understand as far as there's been a lot of a lot of blood as far as the family blood that goes through the National Football League. But I think it's been successful. As a pair of brothers, man, I think that's really what I tip my hat and convince you guys for, because that's really hard to do. You know, you got one brother over here having success. You got another brother. You guys are really competing against each other, but at the same time, you still have to love. So anyways, my brother played for the Minnesota Vikings before I was drafted. He went to Ohio State. He backed up Corey Kason or Lando, I mean, Corey Stringer and Orlando Place. And so, my brother called me first. He's like, "Hey, man, Coach Green wants to talk to you." That's like, "Ah, man, I'm not really into it." "Oh, Randy, I'm going to draft you, okay, whatever." So, 'cause I was like I said, man, I was already depleted from, you know, not getting, you know, the eighth overall pick. So when it came to the Vikings pick, they picked me up, and then all of a sudden, you know, I get to call, and I'm like, you know, things coach, you won't regret this. All I wanna do is just play football, man. It's been a bumpy 24-hour road for me. I was in the emotional wreck. I was like, "Coach, I just want to play football." That's all I wanna do. So, I go back that night, get ready to get on my plane, and I ended up breaking my ankle. So, if you ever look at my rookie trading card, you'll look at me and Dennis Green on a practice field, and I have an air cast on my foot because on draft night, I had to get my mind away from not getting drafted. I went and played basketball and broke my ankle. Broke ankle and broke my ankle. What? So, I, you know, hobbled through a airport with a Chicago air hobbled. They seen me jumping. They went and got a wheelchair for me, took me to my gate, and then all of a sudden, I went to Minnesota. They got me to gate, brought me to the coaches, and the first thing they'd done, Timmy was took me straight to the doctors and put the food on it. What did they say? They could say that they knew my history. They knew my background. So, I mean, it's like, it's like, okay, things happen. So, like I said, it was like, it was a crazy moment. But like I said, just being able to get drafted, my brother called me, and I was just like, like the Minnesota Vikings wanted. So, me and I fair in Minnesota for my first couple of years, but I have my brother with me. - Man, that's so cool, man. - You got your revenge on the Cowboys. - Home. - Talk about Thanksgiving. What was that game like? Did you know coming into it, you were gonna go off of that much? - No, I really didn't. I think that you know how you sit at home as a kid. And you see all the athletes like score touchdown. And all of a sudden the camera goes right to that athlete. And I know both of you guys have done it because I've seen it. How am I? - You have a right? - Yes. - No doubt about it. - Every time we do it. - So, my biggest thing was being on that stage, Thanksgiving day, I just wanted to say hi mom. That's all I wanted to do. So, that game, we're in the cold tub because we just played on Sunday. Y'all guys know how important the cold tub is. - Oh yeah. - So, I didn't want to get the cold tub but the veterans forced me in there and I went up and having those three cancers that I caught in the game. But I think for me, just going up there and just being able to ignore the noise of seeing familiar faces because I remember when I took that trip before the draft, I seen some faces, you know, as far as the recruiting and the scouts and things like that. So, me going out there just seeing some familiar faces I had to be able to ignore that. But at the same time, put my focus on going out here and having a great game. But then, all the things that I'll say this, with that game, with my mind being everywhere. You know, my wide receiver coach, you know, Dott rest is so hovered Alexander and Chris Carter, Jake Reed, our wide receiver core 3D. We all stayed together that game and it was my rookie year. I mean, I know my coming out party was the Green Bay Monday night. But that game against Dallas guys, it was kind of like it was so emotional. And it was kind of, we've all been in a zone before, you know, where you think like every block I'm going to get and there's no ball that I'm going to drop. You know what I'm saying? - For sure. - That game right there, I know it was just three balls throw my way, but I was like, dude, I was in a zone that day and I was going to not let anything stop me. - Three balls for 163 yards and three touchdowns. That's a heck of a day. - I think my hat on that one. - One of the producers of Cowboy Fan Group in Texas. He has this in there, we gotta ask. And we know you're involved to Boulder. Do you still have that same game of Dianne's plan? - Probably. (laughing) (laughing) - Because they turned it down. - What a thing about it. Quick crazy story, I gotta tell you this guys and the guy that the Cowboy Fan you're going to be sick at this store real quick. (laughing) When I get to Dallas, I'm already sitting up here wondering about what is my bag going to be like, okay? So I come down to the lobby and wanted to secure the guys, tells me he said, "Hey, Randy, you're not going to come to dinner tonight. "We're going to, there's Mr. Jones sent the limousine "to get you and the limousine is going to take you "over the prime times house." And I'm like, I've never met Dianne Sanders. I'm like, oh my God, I'm a little crazy. So that's crazy. - I go to Dianne Sanders house. He tells me, you know, the story of a man and love to play with you. Jerry Jones wants you, wants me to talk to you. So, God, there was no way that I was going to leave in Dallas that, you know, in my mind, I was believing that I was going to be a Dallas Cowboys. So. - That is crazy. - What a pump fake, man. - Right. - Yeah, for the pump fake. So, back to what you were saying, it wasn't, it had nothing to do with if Dianne was playing or not. One thing that I'll tell you that Chris Carter was always up for the big games that we played the big guys. Like we had, and he is Williams, Hall of Fame brother out of Arizona Cardinals. - Yep. - And we played James Hastie and Dale Carter corner backs out of Kansas City at the time they were both pro bowlers. So, being a veteran player, you know, he always used to tell me about a man, you got to be worried about this, when you got to worry about this, when I remember talking about Dianne, and he was like, I don't know if he's going to play, but if he does, you got to watch out for this. You got to watch out for that. So, I was just up to the moment of my rookie year, knowing what things to give, and everybody talking about me and Dianne Sanders, and I was like, man, I can't not worry about Dianne. That's like, that's how it was. - Yeah. - 'Cause I really was, guys. I really was really focused at games. - Was there a DB throughout your entire career that you kind of like give the tip of the cap too, that you just, he always made your job just that much harder? - Yeah, and I'm not ashamed to say his name. The Real Revis was in that. - That he was on. - Yeah. The Real Revis, he was just in that. I mean, and the thing about it, what was you going to ask him, what made him good? - Yeah, because it wasn't like he was like this crazy, like fat, like I mean, he was, but what made him so good at corner? - I mean, without stating obvious, you know, guys study, you know, they study techniques, they study, you know, formation, things like that. But by him being not as fast as, you know, a champ Bailey or Dianne Sanders, the man was athletic. Beyond, you know, when I say athletic, if you study a guy like the Real Revis, go back to his highlights back when he played basketball in the state of Pennsylvania. Okay. - Okay. - There's a homework. - Yeah. - Okay, so when I go back to do my study, and I already went back to his high school, looking at his skillset because I remember the release, I did a release his rookie year, and then the second year I came back. I tried to do the same release and I'm like, oh my god, he got there. So it was kind of more like he did his homework on me. Now it's time for me to do my workshop. I thought I did, but I had to really go into my study mode with a guy like him because he was so good. And I just think that the way he knew how you stepped, how he knew body language, along with having a great defense of coordinated on a guy like Rex Ryder, and then later on going to, you know, Bill Bella, change defense. So like I said, the Real Revis was a 90 study, but I think one of the things that he really did get a credit for was how I'm good of an athlete he was. Just not as a cornerback of the man with the hell of a guard too. Heck yeah. When I got to go up against him, he was so stout and strong. He had great patience. He never opened his hip. It was crazy. Do you remember the time when they took you out of the three point stance and they let you get out here and line up at that wild receiver? Oh yeah. Well, because the crazy thing about it was Travis, kind of like we knew, you know, it's football fans. Like, hey, this man right here can play some football. So then all of a sudden, now you, they, they, they detach you from the tackle and let you get out there to two point stance and then you really get to see how shifty you were as a player and I live, Jason. Yeah, that was a perfect, I'd be president right there. I don't, don't look at the shoulders. You're going to get lost, right? You're going to get lost in the shoulders. Be able to go and get certain guys like, you know, a Charles Woods and a champ Bailey and the Real Revis. A lot of this stuff was important because of, if they do their study and, and, and learn how to be patient at the line, you definitely have success against most wild receivers in today's gang man pass. I love it. I got to, we usually ask, what is your welcome to the NFL moment? But you made the Pro Bowl, your rookie year and we're second team all pro. It doesn't sound like you had a welcome to the NFL moment. That was like, I mean, I guess it was a Cowboys game. I guess it was the Green Bayer Cowboys game. Like they're positives. It was, my welcome was like facing off against Ray Lewis for the first time. I'm like, man, I can't believe I'm trying to block Ray Lewis. Do you have any moments like that? I think what was crazy for me and it, it was Monday night. There was Monday night in Lambo. And I remember, I don't remember the result of the play, but I remember walking back to the huddle and I'll walk right past Reggie White. And just, just as, you know, - Just get filled. aura. That's a big stird defense. Yeah. That's all I don't get his hands on me. God damn. No, because I mean, there's already a clip of him throwing Chris Carter out the way he's trying to chip the ads, but I think. So imagine that that that throw, but I think that that was a moment for me. I think to just not looking at the actually the the the stats and the yards. I just think being able to look and seeing that I'm on the same football field as Reggie White. And then there was another clip of me talking about my coaches telling me, hey man, sit down man, come arrest your legs. I was like, no, that's Brett far. That's Brett. So it's just crazy moments like that. I just remember Brett far being on the field. Barry Sanders been on the field or then walk and pass Reggie White said the rookie. So it's kind of like the guys you grew up watching and now you're on a field playing against them or with them. That's probably my surreal moments. Oh yeah. I had one of those surreal moments when we played the Patriots for the first time. I saw Tom Brady and person man. Live in an action in a super suit wearing the 12 man. How was it when you went to the Patriots? What's it? Was it a night and day? Like difference from. Anywhere you had ever been or what was it like meeting time for the first time? We can have fun on this on y'all's podcast. All they've checked this out so y'all know, so y'all know so you know Saturday night. Before the game. We're in a hotel. We're the visitors, right? So you know what we're on two floors and you know, you got the security on both floors of all this pretty stuff. So we're the Raiders. We play on Sunday. I fly back to Minnesota. So what are my former teammates? Is that the hotel getting ready for the Monday night? Well guys, I drive down to their hotel, sneak in the hotel and go up the exit out of the exit stairs and get up on their floor. All right. Jason, you're looking at me like ready. Like what is this, Randy? Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. There are probably four or five hours before they go to the stadium on Monday night. I sneak in their hotel. Brady for the first time trial meeting for the first time. And I said, "Love, dude. I'm a cut straight to it." I said, "Dude, I want to play with you. Whatever you can do to get me up here. Do it." So the next thing you know, I gave him a daffy month, gave him some love, walked out that night. I watched the game. Brady's first time ever in his career. He throws five touchdowns against the Minnesota bite. So I'm still not for thinking, "Oh, I'm on the run. I'll throw Brady a little bit." Oh no. So being given the opportunity to get traded from Oakland to the Patriots, the number one thing that I wanted to do Jason Travis offensive players, I wanted to know everything that Brady knew. As far as Jason, the checks, you know, when I'm hot, when it's a sight, when you're changing the protections, give him everything that Brady knew I wanted to know. Because if it had something to do with me, I wanted to hit the ground running. And I had expectations that end up getting a hamstring injury that forced me out of preseason. And so actually my first actual game going out here really doing it was week one against the Jets. So like I said, I was coming out for hamstring injuries. But anyways, the rest of this history about the 23 touchdowns and the record breaking season. But like I said, I just wanted to know everything that Brady actually are possibly knew that it helped my game out. Not enough guys play this game through the eyes of the quarterback, man. It's crazy how much you can you can benefit off of understanding the whole grand scheme of things. And you know, I think even at a young age, man, like playing quarterback, I felt like helped me out so much more because I understood the progressions. I understood, you know, where that that positions eyes were before every single snap. Man, that's awesome to hear brother that because it really did seem like you guys were in sync, especially if somebody was playing too low or a safety came down or you already know it was it was up top all season that year. I got to ask you while we're on this quarterback receiver dynamic quarterback, receiver drama is like a tale is old as time. I remember playing freshman football, Travis, we bring this up all the time. I'm wide open. I'm getting mad at like, don't be the ball. Like what is happening here? Why you not so I got it when you're seeing quarterback receiver drama, are you always on the receiver side of thing? Like what whose fault is it usually in your mind? I think it's a 50 50 and I'm and the reason why I say it's a 50 50 is because you're taking guy like I'm going to give you just a prime example of what we're looking at right now. You take a guy like Aaron Rogers. Okay. Yeah. And it's like Aaron Rogers has some bathrooms where he looks, you know, where he might throw the ball to the bathroom and then like it's nothing. No body, no body language, no emotion. Okay. Then all of a sudden the very next player couple plays the receiver drops the ball. Now Aaron is all like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's pissed. Yeah. He's pissed. So like I say, you know, not single and Aaron out because I mean he's had a phenomenal career and doing some great things. But when you look at, you know, to answer your question, Jason, I think it's just a 50 50 split because we have our times. We have where we're not in the right place or, you know, we might have went too far to the quarterback wasn't expecting us to be, but at the same time they could get rushed and try to get the ball out of our hands. But to that point in the history of the game. Travis, you and Pat as far as the anticipation of me knowing where you're going to be before you even turn your head or get out of your break, that should be study. And I really mean that and I'm not saying it just because you're sitting here on this podcast because you talk about the art and the science of sports. But at the same time that quarterbacks are really maize when you want to say, I want to see my, I want to see my wife receiver create separation and get open. No, Patrick knows what the route is, where you're going to stop your body language. And like I say, one of the, that's one of the most beautiful things to see when it comes to quarterback receiver combination is that of what you guys created. That means the most coming from for you big guy and I'll tell you why, man, sometimes he surprises the shit out of me. I don't know because I'll turn my head around and and maybe break off my route different or maybe even just run or completely different route that was called right, right. Pat is just right on cue right on the money every single time, man, he just knows we've, that's what happens when you, when you golf together and you play drinking games together, man, you just. He said, down to have a beer with the guy you started getting his head, let me, let me ask you just, you know, football talk, you know, I like to tell you we could do this all day. All day, baby, just our position when it comes to the chemistry that you guys between you and Patrick, that you guys created. How did y'all create that chemistry, bro? I mean, like, I know that you're going to say practice. I know, no, it's not just practice. Like what type of belief that like y'all's conversation, like, how do y'all make that talk to me, man, tell me. You already know, I think you already know it's over. It's all the reps. It's all the reps, but at the same time, I think there is just a natural understanding of your backyard football. Like, paddle, paddle, tell you from the, from the get go. I used to come into, I came into this thing with Alex Smith. He's, he's more seven step that balls coming out, you know what I mean, and you got to be there. Pat's kind of like, yeah, I'm around my seven step, but I could, I could, you know, airtime wanted to do something with my feet, my seven step might not be, I might stretch my drop this time. So his timing is, is more just feel out the game and I kind of have that similar timing as well. And I remember I went up to pat one time and was like, all right, man, if they go this coverage, I'm going to run it like this and run it like that. Hey, what do you think if I give him a nod here and taking extra like tick to get out of my break. He was just like, no, man, just get open. The guys is that he's trusting me to get open. He said, I don't care how you run this route. You just get open and that ball is going to be there on time. And it really shows that, you know, not trying to throw it at Jason. I'm not going to leave you out my brother. When I look at your game, I looked at more of your game. Totally in of your career. And the reason why is because both of you guys toward the end of your, or at the end of your careers, you were playing at a high level. So they both basically put the council brothers together. And I would have to ask Jason, when we talk about gentlemen, when we talk about chemistry, throughout your whole career, who is that player and they probably is going to have to be a guard. Yeah, that you would say a dude, I would just have to give him this look and he already know we're going to mall whoever's in the front of who have that player in your career that you just, it's not even worth. It's a look who is that player. That's tough. I had so many of them. I would say the guy that I knew like we didn't even need to communicate. We were just always on the same page is probably Brandon Brooks. Like Brandon Brooks, he only, he won a football with us, but he had a shorter career. He was incredible. He was big, strong, and he had a good feel for the game. He was an athlete playing offensive line. Oh wow, the best line. I played with like Howard Mudd used to tease the game like what's past block? Anybody how do you play basketball just the quarterbacks to hoop just keep him in front of him like coach I need some more technique. I need you to give me something more than that Guys that conceptualize the game like that were the most fun to play with when you play with guys That were too robotic and too much like an offensive lineman. It was harder to At just to the in-game stuff happening if you know what I mean like I didn't even need to say Something to Brandon. He we just both knew with this guy in this position the linebacker right there Right that we were gonna hit the block this way right like why else wouldn't we hit it that way But another guy you might have to communicate with throughout the week like hey We really need to take this one more vertical or hey you take more of them I'm gonna push him on top of you because of this backer's gonna fall off It is in a stack position on this play right but Brandon knew it Isaac say Molly was another guy that knew that The best feel player I ever played with was Jason Peters J.P. Okay. J. J. J. P. We we we have an alert call. I'm not gonna say it because they still use it But he would alert me that there was edge pressure Okay, and I'll be looking out there. There's no safety cap I'm like man. How does this do know that this pressure is coming. I'm like whatever. I'm going out there Sure enough. They bring the nickel right there's certain guys that just understand spacing and alignment right and Those guys were so valuable on game day because they didn't you didn't need the coaching on the field They just could go out there and play and those are the guys that I was jailed with the best for sure The Lane Johnson, uh, I got to throw him up there too. That was like my second brother for a long time in Philadelphia Like we got drafted two years after me. We did our whole career together Still doing this thing out there. Right. I just didn't do a lot of communicating with Lane. Lane was more all the way out there in the edge It was more like you said guards. Well, I gotta ask you guys. I know this is y'all's interview But you know, I've acted I know trap. I know everybody speculating Jason you first I know what I missed When I told when when I told the people that you know, I was going to hang it up and I remember crying And my my wife. I remember hearing the car door slam and my daughter and my wife came in and I have to you know Like my face and do I look pretty stuff because I didn't even want to see I didn't want it I did not want my wife to see like baby. What's wrong with you? Nothing. Yeah, so I think to my point my question You know Jason when it was time for you to call it quick What's the number one thing in your mind? You knew you were going to miss about the game. I knew I was going to miss competing and playing and Game day what I didn't know I was going to miss was the locker room and everybody tells you you're going to miss it Oh, man, it's hard until you remove from it. Yeah, so that you really understand that there ain't anything else that's Replicate to this like guys from all over the country you're coming together for a specific task and yeah It's just it that ends up being for sure What I miss the most is just being in the locker room with the guys and I purposely go back Still to try and get that but yeah, I think that's the and then I also miss The regimented miss of it right that makes sense like I yeah, I mean, I'm happy. I don't have it But I also there was a self like there's a productivity in my own head that I knew Every day I'm gonna go in I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna lift and I'm gonna watch tape And then I'm gonna go out and dominate on game day and I'm gonna do it with my voice right that's way I would answer No, that was mine because I said there's all types of things that you could actually say but I think for my was The locker room itself senior brothers, you know, man from different walks of life that you're coming together for one call So like I said for me try if I you know the reason why I ask that because I like I said I know the time is coming I don't know when but I know you know the time is coming I don't know if this was the last or if there wasn't but if there is if this was the last What do you think that you'll miss most about you know the game man? I think it's just those Those moments in in the big games man the the feeling of of having to rise to the occasion Be there for you know 70,000 that are all counting on you out there outside of just the the guys that you go to war with you guys go to battle with man Those moments of of rising to the occasion in the heat of the battle You know in the playoffs and and and and all the big games out there man Those that's a feeling that I know I'll never get again and I think that's that's uh that's something that Um, you know those are the those are the things that you cherish the most and especially you know if if you're fortunate enough to be in the playoffs and And uh and make runs at it man the satisfaction that you get and the the successful feeling you get of all the hard work that you put in is finally paying off and And uh, I think that'll that'll be one of the things I missed the most man for sure Well, look I know we don't I don't know how much time we got but mine You know from a football standpoint when we talk about a moment You know Jason you talked about the you know the competing part I had a 14-year career and you know, I've had a lot of moments, but I think really the 23 touchdowns Yes, I think the moment I think the moment for me because being a kid trap is more like seeing Jerry Rice I mean her and more with the big tall receiver that Barry Sanders had in Detroit Seeing guys like that that I grew up and then coming into that's why I was just telling you guys of what it felt to be just seeing Miles Garrett break that Single season cycle record because I like I said it's not an individual thing But when you have an opportunity to go break a record, you know as an individual That was my you know moment, you know, it's a real moment for me of all the hard work that I've put in Jason Out of your whole career There's one defining moment for you not yeah, not the Eagles not the media for you as a ball player What's your defining moment throughout your professional career that you put you that you can hang your head on? We had a lot of successful years where running backs had a lot of yards You kind of take that a little bit like I'm I had something to do with that right like you bring up your The touchdown record that you hold or that you broke like there are The great it is an individual record, but it is kind of a team record, too Right no doubt there are other people and that's the greatest thing about this game right but I would say honestly for me I had awful season in 2016 played like trash right like almost got cut from Philadelphia a lot people don't even remember it Philadelphia's do probably but the next year I put a lot of work in in the offseason. I started getting better with my technique and It was like everything clicked so much better that year. I made my first all pro okay neck that season Following me having just an awful year Really catapulted me into what ended up being my career. Okay. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah This was really the defining moment was the response I had to almost getting cut almost Like everybody thinking I'm I'm a way out of the league. Fuck that. I'ma go in here. I'm work my ass off. Right. I studied my technique got better with my leverage And I came back and it was the best year in my career and we happened to win the shoot balls out of it. Okay 2017 I was on cloud not so I didn't break a touchdown record, but I broke the Jason Kelsey record for all of the line That's kind of that's it for me. Yeah. Okay for me. Oh man I'd say The coolest moment was being on the mountain top with Jason man playing in the Super Bowl against the the Eagles the first time and And being at the Super Bowl with Jason having our family kind of get put on a pedestal. Our mom was the NFL mom of the You know, she was on every TV screen left and right Because there are two boys were playing each other in the Super Bowl man That was uh when I look back on some of my favorite memories man being on the field Both being captains there for the coin toss looking at each other from across the uh the field man. It's just It's a memory. I'll never fucking forget now is definitely the pinnacle man the guy that I started doing this thing with When I was five years old in the backyard just throwing the ball around. I don't know if I've ever asked this The first touchdown you scored against the field of Eagles. I know you remember it Travis. Yeah. Was that like you taking out an entire frustration of being a younger brother in one moment? We got to pull up the highlight this dude caught a shovel pass it like the 20 okay With all the way down and jumped like he lost into the end zone from the five jumped into the end zone I had never seen this like 15 feet ready You know when you you get the ball in a fast break and you just see the lane. Yeah, you just like I'm going up. I'm taking up this It was like Jordan, man. Oh, guys. Yeah, no 100% yeah, that was forget my ass beat all all those years when I was younger I finally had a chance to make it even yeah, he's officially way more athletic than I Thank you to our sponsor all stage checking all state first could save you hundreds on car insurance That's smart. 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And I think that's one of the biggest things because I sit up and talk about you got lost every week. And I talk about the DB, not getting his hands around and talking about the hand diet coordination that the wide receiver needs. I think that's very important, you know, as you get older, no matter, you know, how old you get like Mike Evans is still, you know, still out here making plays. And you think about it, Mike Evans was not always the fastest wide receiver. But as far as his athletic ability, his hand out coordination, Jason just put it in his vicinity. So to answer your question, I still think I can still go out here and maybe get close to, you know, 10, 11 touchdowns a season. Would you be open to it if a team called is Randy answering the phone? We're on right now as far as, you know, my, you know, happy, happily married, my kids are thriving and, you know, doing our things. I think for me, there have to be the right call, the right team. Because the only thing I'm really missing right now is a Super Bowl ring. So if the right call and the right opportunity came and the team gave me an opportunity to come out there and just be a red zone threat, I could put that 80 fold back on. Let's go, man, you get me, man, you get, man, I'm thinking about this, man, this is epic, man, that's what Phillip River has got everybody thinking we just, just one more, just one more, baby, just one more. Phillip Rivers had anybody around here. He had feet, like Pat Cam Newton cutting up on his podcast. He had everybody around that played the game of football really thinking they could put some WD 40 on their joints and still come out here make some happen. I love it, man. Are there any like quarterbacks right now that you're like, man, I would go crazy playing with that guy. Quarterback wise, there's a lot of quarterbacks that I like. And the reason why Travis, just because the game has changed, you know, so much of, of God has been in the pocket, but, you know, Pat is phenomenal and not just being, just going back there, just slinging the ball. One of the things that you said about your quarterback, and I'm not just saying it because you're, you know, we're sitting on this podcast. I just think that a quarterback being able to buy time for his past catcher is very important. You know, you know, you have guys coming through here like, like Jason, I remember you telling the stories about you going going against Aaron Donald, you know, all of them, all the, I mean, guys are so bigger, faster, stronger now in this, in this day and Asian, this game and, you know, having a quarterback to be able to give you a little bit more time to work your craft is what I look at right now. And I think that if you're just talking about three quarterbacks that comes to mind, I love Joe Burrows game. I love Patrick Mahomes game. And then of course, you know, I think it'd be, you know, a guy like Josh Allen, I love his game. But like I said, I just think just more of the of the quarterbacks, being able to buy some time because I like I say, you know, you're getting double, you're getting triple. Well, let me work through this double and this triple coverage. And like I say, Travis, you've done it plenty of time. So your question, I think those three guys really stand off the charts right now. That'd be good one right there. Is it true? You'll never stress on game day? The thing of the stretch, you know, a game with this. But hopefully you guys can definitely attest to this. It's kind of more like getting down and touching your ankles or, you know, you know, loosen your hamstrings up. That's not the stress that I meant. Meaning that if I see you across the room for me, Travis, you're sitting over there bumping and your head falls. Well, I'm a bunch with you that all of a sudden we start jumping around before we know we're both swept. So basically, that's what I meant that I don't stretch on game day. I rely on my brothers to help me stretch. So this more of the, you know, the jumping around that we do all the, you know, the, I mean, some guys have a little false enthusiasm in there. But like I say, it's just more like getting around your brothers and, you know, us, you know, bringing, bringing the energy out of one another. You gotta do it together, too, man. It's, it's, you can't just let one guy try and be a man. Everybody's got to bring it. We got one more for you, the big dog. Then we let you get out of here. As someone who's perfected the lateral, I've taken notes from the legends. You have one of the most iconic football plays of all time. Can you walk us through that whole play? Was that like a designed situation or? No, it was really, we, we actually were playing the Broncos at home. And I remember, you know, of course, the last play. And I think that at the time, my quarterback, Dante, Dante always had a strong alarm. But I think in that case, I don't think that Dante could have got it to the end zone from where we were. So he rode out to the right. And I remember that it was more like just a, just a hell married. Yeah. And so he throws the ball and I get up and catch it. And the one thing about it, you know, being a pass catcher, Travis, like, we have to decide kind of like at the last minute, do we want to hands it or do we want to body it? So it was more like in the situation, the ball was hanging in the air a little too long. And I said, what do I do here? So basically, I body the ball. I got up, I body did. So when I came down out the side of my peripheral, I see a purple jersey. So and now we're on the court. And now I see, you know, like I said, man, anytime I see that play, it's kind of like 11 guys, you know, playing heads of football, because like Jason, you said, it's not the moment is everybody doing their job. So yes, I know that I got the, you know, recognition from throwing it on my head. But Jason, where would I be if you guys, my offense line at the time, what not have held it up for Dante, the offensive line, the running backs protection. And like I say, a lot of the things that we accomplish, you know, on the football field has to do with 10 other guys. That's why I've never, I've never, ever singled myself out as an individual, no matter what the play looks like. I know that 10 other guys have to do their job for me to accomplish mine. I kind of dog. There's been a lot of 10 other guys accomplishing jobs in the NFL. Nobody has ever lateraled a ball like that. And nobody ever played the game like Randy Moss, baby. Randy, thank you so much for joining us. I do not want to get crazy on the ending of the show. But the lecture guys know what being on this show really means to me. You already know what I was battling. You know, throughout, you know, my cancer and just coming up on my one year anniversary. I told you guys about my brother and what, you know, my brother went to Ohio State, my brother ended up dying. I went to the Hall of Fame in 2018, all right. My brother passed away in 2019 and, you know, things went, you know, great as the relationship. When I tell you guys, when I look at you guys and see the things that you guys love and your relationship, it's a, when I say that I get jealous about it, it's not a jealousy jealousy. It's more on that I wish I would have had that type of relationship with my brother. And, and the reason why I'm telling you this, because I remember after one of after y'all's game, Traff, you came up and kissed your big brother on it. You remember that? Oh, yeah. You know, there's anybody in all of sports history. Look, ball, basketball, anything that really felt that probably love. Hey, you guys, where's it at? Young, give me some man. Hey, congratulations on your success, man. This podcast and your career, man. Thanks for having me, y'all. God, much love to you. God, damn, man. What a just a special dude, man. The best, the absolute best. He's so fucking down there that's so just himself, man, and he's always just being the most giving person. You know, I mean, if I, he's, he's the most shared off your back, kind of guy, man. And we got to get you. We got to catch a fish with the big guy. I just just started getting into the old wildlife, man. I'm fishing is one of those things. Bass fishing specifically, I haven't really done. - I've done a bunch of fly fishing as you know, Travis. A bass fishing is one thing that I've never done. Everybody raves about it. Even fly fishermen, they'll talk about taking poppers down and hitting the bass, especially like in June, July, once they start coming up, water gets more, or you do some top water fishing, and they really attack it. Apparently it's a lot of fun. So we love, I mean, I jump at the chance to bring catch some fish with Randy Moss. - You think Randy's ever lost a fish? - Straight cash, homie. - Come on now. - I don't even got a stretch on game day. - All right, well appreciate, Randy Moss, for jumping in. Now we gotta get to some no dumb questions for you 92%ers. And all right now, before we get out of here, it's time for a special edition of no dumb questions brought to you by Hills Pet Nutrition. - We first came to 92%er submission asking us how we would field a football team with dog breeds, and we partnered with Hills to make our picks from Ryan Luttsch. - 949 of all game anyways. Episode two of asking no dumb questions from Northeast Ohio. Shout out to Northeast Ohio. Which dog breed best describes you guys? One for on field and one for off field, and the follow up with all of these. Players as dogs or cats because, well, players as dogs. Players as dogs, players as breeds of dogs. All right, where are we starting with this? And seals knows there's no such things as I'm question, especially about pets. Let's start with the first question. What is your on field dog breed? - Are we repeating this or are you just asking this? - I'm asking you, this is gonna go in. I'm gonna walk us through this one. - What dog breed is me on the field and what dog is-- - Who is Jason Kelsey on the field as a dog? - Off field, I feel like I'm a bloodhound. Just like that bloodhound on the porch with his lips, sagging over the sides of his teeth, like just not moving unless he smells something and then he's getting after it and it's time to work. - No chance. - I don't, you're so active. - That's what I'm saying to you. - You're such a liar. - No, you have way too much energy. - You were just all over Italy. - You look at what you're wearing. - That's when I smell. That's when I smell something, I'm in. When I get a scent, I'm active. - You're getting a lot of scents. You're getting a lot of scents. - I got a good sense of smell, okay? - Okay, I'll buy it. - All right, you've kind of talked to me like half into it. - It's fine. - Still, you are not. You present so much lazier than you actually are. You are so fucking busy. - You can ask Kylie. - Kylie, Kylie, am I lazy? Am I lazy? Am I lazy? - See, she said no. She said no. - No, she said no. - You're a hard-working man. - You are. - I think I'm very lazy. - You are not sitting on the porch waiting for a scent. No, you're a fucking go-gitter. You're out there hunting. - You're out there hunting. - All right, who's Travis Kelsey? - Travis Kelsey, off the field. I mean, it's gotta be like a golden retriever, right? It's like just like all American, freaking, great personality. Everybody loves him. - Yeah. - Like to be active, they'll play fetch. - They'll play some fetch. - You throw a ball, Travis's gonna go get it. - Harry's fuck, yeah, I can see that. - Shedding, yeah, yeah, yeah. - On the field, which one are you going first, Travis? - Yeah, on the field, Travis, who is he? - I don't see that damn it. - Does it change? - I don't freeze, man. It definitely changes. It's not as nice on the field. - I'm still pretty friendly, but I'm a competitive. - Good ball skills. - You're still kinda like, yeah, you're an active, active one. - Are we in the retrievers category? - I know, or like a short-haired pointer? - I mean, you kinda threw out the Irish wolfound out there. And at first I said no, because I didn't think they had good hips, 'cause I got really good hips. - Dude, they can run. - They can run, they got some viciousness to 'em. - They're not big ball skills, they're really not vicious at all. Unless as you're a crown dog. - Oh, okay, well, that's the only time I've only see it about their play. - No, they're not interested in chasing balls. - You gotta love that as a tie-down. You have to love, you gotta love the chase in the balls. - You gotta be willing to do the dirty work. - Well, like a German shepherd. - I mean, German shepherds can get here. - You're still making big. - They're not that big. - You know, don't get me wrong, I'm not fucking, I'm not like the Bronx and the Jimmy Graham's in the world. You know what I mean? Like those guys are like three inches taller than me. - You're six, four and seven eighths. - Yeah. - I feel like you're a great Pyrenees on the field. - Oh. - They're like herd protection dogs, right? So I'll put 'em out at the flock in case any wolves get nearby. So I'll get physical. - I'll give you great Pyrenees. I like great Pyrenees. - And I'm a teen guy, and they run in packs. - That's right. - Yeah. - I'm in. - All right, I'll take you great Pyrenees. - Great Pyrenees, 'cause they also like from a distance can kind of give you a lab. Look, they're just much bigger. I like that. - Yes. - Yes. - They're friendly as shit too. Everybody's out there. - Well, no, they can be. - I think they can be. - They can be. - They can, they can be, but they're also like, they were bred to protect. - Where are the Pyrenees Mountains? - Now we're a waste sidetracked. - Are there Pyrenees Mountains? - That's why they're the Pyrenees. - Oh. They know that. - Southwest Europe. - Right? - France and Spain. - There you go. - All right, who's Jason on the field? - Jason on the field? - What dog is Jason on the field? - Dude, he's a special breed of a lion, so it's like, you gotta have, I don't know what dog. See, I don't know dog breeds like this. I need help. - I'll do a mastiff. I like a mastiff. - Feel like a common door protector. It's gotta be another herding dog. - Try to look at the herding group here. Ooh, what about a Belgian Malinois? - Not bad, not bad. - Why do we want a herding? - Well, like, you're an offensive lineman. You're kind of like, you're in the protection realm. - Yeah, I buy that. - But there's like herding dogs. Like, you can't be as athletic as the great Pyrenees. Ooh, have you ever heard of a, oh my gosh. It looks like a fucking, it looks like a lion. Maybe he called something a lion. - You're telling something about it? - African. - Chao chao. - No, it's like an African. - It looks like a lion? - I think it's called something African. Maybe it was a lion, something of the day. (laughing) - I'm thinking like something that isn't like, overly like athletic, just like, is gonna stand its ground. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm gonna protect the house, you know what I mean? It's like Betten Mastiff. - It's a Betten Mastiff. - You ever seen them suckers? - Yeah, that's a big boy. - Yeah, I can see it. - Oh man, that's a Jason dog. Look at that guy. - Trying to figure out the hairy one. - Look at that guy. That's a Jason. - An ancient guard dog, hell yeah. That's that fucking guy right there. - That's Jason Kells. (laughing) Pulling around the edge. That's Jason Kellsie. Devetten Mastiff, let's go. - I knew there was some sort of mastiff. I knew it was on the right track. - All right, where are we at now? - We can click, what's the rest of a football team? What are we looking for in a quarterback? - Quarterback, you want a good leader. - See, that's that German shepherd. - Yeah, I was about to say German shepherd. I would say Border Collie, but I don't know, that has the size. - I don't know, I don't know. - Border Collie. - Border Collie be a good safety. - I think Border Collie is safe to your defensive back. - You see, go after the freaking grinsby. It's like they're very good in space. - 'Cause I was also thinking Jack Russell on defense too. - Jack Russell? - Yeah, no, they're scrappy. - No, they're scrappy little guys. - What in it? - Where else are they going? - What do you mean? - Where else would you put them? - Oh, I'm not putting them on offense. - No, on defense. - Oh, I think you've got a defensive back. - Or like in your nickel? - I would say maybe a nickel. - Maybe a nickel. - Jack Russell's morbidness, otherwise this way outside, Jack Russell's area, it's like a little small dog. - Is that the dog from Mask? - I think they're bred to hunt mice maybe? - They will wrecks a mice. - I don't know, I love those dogs. Those dogs don't, they don't need to be on the football field. - Oh, wow. No, I'm telling you, they play, they play bigger than themselves. - Who are they guarding? - Who's our wide receivers? What were cyber, okay. So if we're going German Shepherd quarterback, what are you putting out there, wide out, gray hounds? - Yeah. - I wonder what gray hounds do. They don't have gray ball skills. - Dober mints. - I was gonna say dober mints are d-ans, right? - Mm. - They got that big chest on them too. - It could be linebackers maybe? - It could be linebackers. - It feels like more of a defensive position. I kinda like. - Dober mints feels like a defensive dog, right? - Yeah. - So who's your wide outs? - I want a Belgian malin' wall as all my linebackers. - They're very good dogs. - I like Border Collies at corner. - Border Collies at corner. That's good. - I don't think they got speed. - Border Collies? - Bro, they fucking fly. - Not compared to like a taller dog. - Dude, they fucking fly. - They can move. Border Collies can move. - They can move, but I think they're more safety movement. I don't think they're cool. Corners got to be like the fastest dog breed. - So what do you put in there? - That's where your gray hounds, Carpenter. Gray hounds might be too, they might not be agile enough. - That's what I'm saying, that thing. - Gray hounds don't want it bad enough. Okay, have you met a gray hound? - No. - Gray hounds don't have that dog in them. They're very skittish. - Never met a gray hound. I've been on the gray hound so many times though. - Okay, yes, yes, yes. - Love the bus. - Okay, where are we at? What about running back? What do you want it running back? - Linebackers got to be Belgian malin' wall. - What's the one, not the German Shepherd, but there's another dog breed that is fucking unbelievable. More athletic than a Shepherd, but a little bit-- - Vesla, Vesla is on my corners. Those things can fucking haul ass. They're agile as shit. Am I even putting her wide out? - Ooh, that's a good choice. - Vesla? - Whip it at wide out. (laughs) - Whip it's like your darren's brawls. Kind of line 'em with a lot of places. Little, kind of sneaking it. I want to throw-- - What kind of offensive are we running? If I'm on the shiny hands, I'll often. So I'll put a whip at a runner-back and it'll get yards. - Okay, so we've got quarterback. We got running-- wait, did you sign on running backs? - We did not say a runner-back. - Running backs, okay. - I'm trying to think of a dog that has that mentality. - Yes, maybe we're putting Doverman on defense, right? - Yeah, Doverman's on defense. - Border Collie wouldn't be a bad runner-back. - Border Collie's not a bad. But I feel like I want Border Collie going out. - I can see Border Collie at receiver. The number one Frisbee dogs on the planet. - Yeah, gotta be receiver. - Border Collie, why are we on a Rhodesian Ridgeback? Is that too big? Current power with him. Why am a Reiner's not a bad one, either. You also have the Australian Shepherd. You could run the Australian Shepherd out of your back. If you'll keep the Border Collie on defense, Australian shepherds, what you want on the back field. - It's too pretty. (laughing) - Running backs can be pretty. - Oh, Jake just said Dalmatian for running back. I don't love that. - Ew. - Yeah, that's why Jake's not invited to this. - Well, Australian cattle dog, kind of another like herding breed, low to the ground. - I just feel he's gotta be a little bit bigger. - You're running one power out of this thing. - What's a blue healer? - Ooh. - I'll do a blue healer. - It's not a bad, it's not a blue healer. - No. - What about like dogs that are sled pullers? What are like a husky? - Or a malamute? - Husky's not a bad choice. - I don't hate husky. I mean, I think that's the team, boys. I think we got it. - Do we sit whatever are detackles? We didn't do detackles? - Ooh, detackles, yeah. Maybe that's your chow. - I mean, that's gotta be your big, just fat, freaking. - Yeah, St. Bernard. - St. Bernard was the thing I was thinking too. - Beethoven. - Just drooling and getting freaking slabber all over the place. - St. Bernard. - Yeah. - That's a tackle. I think we're good. That's our team. - Not a bad team. - Okay, I'm being asked to recap the team real quick. We had a German Shepherd running back, we did husky. Let's do a sliding dog. Our wide receivers, what do we throw out there? That was our-- - Border Colley. - Border Colley. - Then we say the Greyhounds? - I thought we said Greyhounds don't have good ball skills. We're gonna do both. Greyhounds, we have one Greyhound, one Border Colley. - There you go. - Border Colley for sure though. - Got a Greyhound to take the roof off the other thing, but then Border Colley can freaking run all the way up. - That's good call, and call. - Running the crossing routes, crossing routes with the Border Colley. - We can all look the same. - Yeah, tight ends, what do we have? - Great Pyrenees. All St. Bernard defensive ends, we had our Dolbyman's, linebackers were Malinois's, safety Border Colley. - Veeces at corner. - Veeces at corner. Okay, let's team. (high-pitched music) (laughs) - I don't think they're singing the national anthem. - Yeah, he told me once in the Olympics. - And that is our time to wrap the segment. (laughs) - Oh, we're just getting started. - All right, now that we've built our team, they'll need the right nutrition for game day and every day. Pet Parris No Hills is the best fuel for their MVP because your only human, Hills is here to help with the rest. - That's right, and that's also a wrap-up on No Dumb questions brought to you by Hills Pet Nutrition. - All right, and that's it for this episode of New Heights. Thank you to Randy Moss. Make sure you subscribe to the New Heights channel on YouTube and follow New Heights on the Wondering App where we're having each podcast. You can listen to new episodes of New Heights, and free right now by joining Wondering Plus in the Wondering App or on Apple Podcast. All right, now, once again, New Heights is a Wondering Show brought to you by Expedia, the place you go to go places. That's right, the place you go to lock in all the places that you want to go. Follow the show on all social media, add New Heights show with one after fun clips throughout the week and thanks to our New Heights production team. We appreciate you guys more than we could ever say and to the 92%ers. We sure love you guys for listening to us, laughing at us. Thank you. (upbeat music) Randy came on and we talked to him about the Edelnut story. The infamous giving you the nickname Edelnut and he gave us a little more information. He said he was actually on the phone with his mother and you were swearing and that's why he called you Edelnut 'cause you were being a little, were you swearing in front of Mrs. Moss? - We'll be clarifying this story. This is on Christmas, Christmas day. - Yes, yes. - We're in a locker room. It's Christmas, you know, early day, no post meetings. We get to go have a good dinner with the boys. Everyone's jolly in the locker room. I go to Randy, I go, "Hey, Randy." And I can hear he's talking to his mom. I said, "Tell my mom I said, "Berry Christmas." Randy goes to me and he goes, "Edelnut, if you ever talk to me, "well, I'm talking to my mother, fucking mother." (laughing) I was slapped to shit out of you or something. And I'm a rookie. I was so scared. I was like, "Oh, man." I just disappointed him on Christmas. (laughing) - I probably was cussing, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Moss, "if you heard any cuss words."

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Randy Moss reflects on his legendary NFL career, highlighting his record-setting receiving touchdowns and Hall of Fame status.
  2. He shares a heartfelt story about his early life in West Virginia, where basketball and football shaped his athleticism and mindset.
  3. Randy emphasizes how experiences like playing against elite athletes at Nike Camp and at Florida State helped him realize his football potential.
  4. He credits his success to cross-sport lessons, particularly from basketball, which improved his game’s agility, alignment, and decision-making.
  5. Randy highlights the authenticity and grounding of West Virginia athletes, shaped by humble beginnings and real-life challenges.
  6. He recalls key moments in his career, such as his rookie year against the Cowboys and his first meeting with Tom Brady, which fueled his passion and growth.
  7. He shares a humorous anecdote about being a “country boy” at Florida State and the pride of returning to West Virginia after college.
  8. Randy reflects on the importance of mentorship, teamwork, and staying connected to roots, especially through charity and community ties.

Summary:

Randy Moss, a legendary NFL wide receiver and Hall of Fame inductee, shares insights into his journey from West Virginia to the NFL, emphasizing how cross-sport experiences—especially basketball—shaped his athletic mindset and game intelligence. He recounts pivotal moments like his time at Nike Camp, where he realized he could compete at a higher level, and his college days at Florida State, which boosted his confidence. Moss highlights the values of humility and authenticity from West Virginia culture, which grounded him through tough beginnings.

He reflects on key career milestones, including his rookie year with the Vikings, his game against the Cowboys, and his unforgettable first meeting with Tom Brady, which deepened his understanding of football strategy. Randy also shares stories of mentorship, teamwork, and community, underscoring how personal relationships and real-life experiences fueled his success. The episode blends humor, heartfelt storytelling, and deep lessons about perseverance, adaptability, and staying true to one’s roots—making it both entertaining and inspiring for fans of the game.

FAQs

Randy Moss misses competing the most, as he has always been driven by the experience and challenge of playing the game.

Randy Moss applied basketball skills like quickness, elusiveness, and body positioning to his football game, especially in the red zone where he focused on boxing out and maintaining strong alignment.

At Nike Camp, Randy Moss faced elite players like Shay Cotton and Kevin Darnett, which made him realize he couldn’t compete in basketball and shifted his focus to football.

A memorable moment was when Randy broke his ankle during a basketball game on draft night, leading to a delayed draft day and a significant emotional turn in his rookie journey.

He often cites the Real Revis as one of the most difficult cornerbacks he faced, noting his patience, strong presence, and ability to anticipate plays.

Facing players like Reggie White and Tom Brady created surreal, emotional moments, as he felt he was on the same field as athletes he grew up watching, which was both intimidating and inspiring.

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