Leroy proves to be a flip flopper! We hear from Andre Johnson and Devin Hester who were enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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00:00Uh, this weekend, a couple of canes getting into can, uh, congratulations
00:04to Andre Johnson and Devin Hester.
00:06Let's hear a little bit from Andre Johnson who started off his speech,
00:10thanking the city of Miami and the people in the city.
00:13Carol city, Miami, Florida is where it all began for me growing up in Miami.
00:22There was so many things I experienced as a kid, like watching the Miami
00:27Dolphins from the front, from my grandmother's front yard on a jumbo
00:31trunk and things just a part of me, my being, the way I talk and the fact
00:38that I believe if you work hard, you get to play hard, whether good or bad.
00:43Each of those experiences helped to mold me into the man I am today.
00:48The people from Miami, they deserve a round of applause.
00:58And I want to thank them to know that that quiet kid, I made it.
01:10That is Goosey's right there.
01:12And he is, he is quiet.
01:14Good voice though.
01:16Yeah, for sure.
01:17I didn't realize he lived that close to the stadium.
01:20Yeah.
01:20Yeah.
01:21He, he sounded like he was living in no blocky blocky.
01:25Exactly.
01:25I said, he's making it seem like, right.
01:27Like I've drew, I may have driven by with my family, Audrey Johnson, as he's
01:31attempting to get me to park in his driveway, I don't think they did that
01:36as much by a hard rock, Andrew Johnson.
01:39Uh, also of course, from Miami high, uh, Udonis Haslam also went to Miami.
01:45I was in the crowd.
01:46He went to go support a guy, Andre Johnson.
01:48And, uh, here's him talking about his time at Miami high, whether it was
01:53his teacher, Lily coach, or just someone in the neighborhood.
01:56They always pushed me to be great.
01:59Not just in football, but in life, my mother made a decision
02:04that changed everything for me.
02:07Even now, I still tell her sending me out of my zone district to go to
02:13school, to Miami high was a game changer.
02:22Miami high showed me something different.
02:25It taught me about work, working hard.
02:28It taught me about work ethic.
02:30It taught me about a brotherhood.
02:33My high school put me in a different environment and my environment.
02:38The guys showed me something different that I had never experienced before.
02:42They showed me something about supporting each other and wanting guys to be
02:47successful and to push you to go to college and be successful.
02:51I'm so thankful to my Miami high teammates.
02:53The guys that are here and the guys that are back home.
02:56Thank you guys.
03:02And I'd like to thank my head coach, Nigel Dunn, who was here today.
03:07Thank you, your staff for pushing me beyond my limits.
03:11Thank you, coach.
03:17Oh, wow.
03:19Beautiful.
03:20Absolutely beautiful.
03:22Well, this is probably the most I've ever heard him talk.
03:25I'm not going to lie to you.
03:26Well, listen, he's the most I've ever heard him talk for sure.
03:29I mean, he's fought more than he's talked.
03:30Right.
03:31Yeah.
03:31I've seen him literally fight.
03:33What was it?
03:34Uh, Cortland Finnegan, everybody like, wait, but you know, what's funny in that
03:43altercation, everybody's like, well, we know it's not Andre Johnson, right?
03:51Nobody.
03:54Uh, this was Andre Johnson.
03:56Of course, uh, this was him reflecting on his Miami hurricane stint.
04:01In 1999, I enrolled in the university of Miami.
04:07I'm very thankful to Bush Davis for giving me a scholarship and giving me a chance
04:14to play at the school that I truly love playing at the university of Miami was
04:19a dream come true for me.
04:21I always wanted to be a hurricane.
04:26The school was only 15 miles away from my house.
04:29Being that close.
04:30I always heard about the hurricanes and I always felt that that was where I wanted
04:36to be.
04:39Everybody cheer for the hurricanes.
04:41The U was where I was given the blueprint, what it was to be a professional.
04:47You didn't have a choice.
04:50You had to live up to a standard.
04:52Everybody was great.
04:54And you didn't have to worry about the coaches because the coaches, because the
04:58players held you to that standard.
05:01At the university of Miami, we was able to win a championship in 2001.
05:07Right now, that's still the best team to ever play college football.
05:17Oopsies galore.
05:20Wow.
05:21He's right.
05:22Not lying, dude.
05:23Not lying.
05:24He wrote.
05:25Good take.
05:26Good take.
05:27Best team ever.
05:30Deep.
05:30Deep.
05:31Deep.
05:31Deep.
05:32Deep.
05:32Deep.
05:33Deep.
05:33Deep.
05:34Deep.
05:34Deep.
05:35Deep.
05:35Deep.
05:36Deep too.
05:36There's people who barely touch the field.
05:38And you know, you know, you know what, you know what, and that is one of the things you
05:45want to talk about how Miami did it.
05:49Like we live in a day and age right now, where if you don't get it right now, you
05:55think you can go somewhere else and get it.
05:58And they had NFL starters sit for two years.
06:04Yep.
06:05And, and, and yeah, Reggie Wayne and Santana Moss in front of them.
06:10Right.
06:11And, and, and I think people get lost that part of that journey is the work you put in
06:20to reach the level of those guys.
06:21So you can play.
06:23If you never pushed to have to work hard for something, then when you finally get it, you
06:30don't know what it's like to keep it.
06:32Right.
06:32You don't, you don't, there's no hard work putting in, put into it.
06:36So all these guys transferring all over the place because they can't play right now.
06:42Well, what are you going to do when you play?
06:45Because you've never been pushed.
06:46You've never had to work for something.
06:49And so I think every time I tell the story to somebody that's telling me their kid is
06:55transferring, I always mentioned those Miami hurricanes and that.
06:59Dude, you had two, three first rounders in the same room waiting for an opportunity to
07:04play it.
07:06Like, that's just the nature of it.
07:08You got to work for it.
07:09You don't get it right away.
07:10It's not that nature anymore though.
07:12It's definitely like it's forever changed.
07:13Yeah.
07:14Yeah.
07:15Forever.
07:16Like it's, you know, but I think it's, it's, I I'm torn because I think if your coach can
07:24I'm torn because I think if your coach can get up and leave and go get a more lucrative
07:29deal, you should be able to.
07:30Yeah.
07:31And, but the other thing is there's a fine line in being ready and not getting opportunity
07:39and not putting in a work and think you deserve an opportunity.
07:43And I think we're getting caught up now in this day and age where the kids don't want
07:49to work for it and they just want it given to them.
07:53And you're not going to be successful if it's given to you all the time, because there's
07:56going to be, you're going to get to a certain level in this sport where they're not going
08:01to care where you got drafted and they're not going to care.
08:05And nothing has to be given to you because if they give you a lot of money and you think
08:10you deserve something else, they'll just cut you.
08:12And then you got nothing.
08:19I think he's talking to us Leroy, but his mic is muted again.
08:22Apologize.
08:23I was coughing.
08:24Devin Hester is, uh, he reflected on a grownup in south Florida and heading over to
08:30UM.
08:31How much my first year in high school football, I took a 22 yard handoff for a touchdown.
08:38And when I got to college, the first time I played in an Orange Bowl, the first field
08:43game, I took a 97 yard kickoff turn back for a touchdown against the Florida Gators.
08:53Every glimpse of me trying to go to the next level, it would always happen on the first
08:57play.
08:58It was a sign that let me know that football was meant for me.
09:02I love this game more than I can say, and more so it loved me back.
09:08Wow.
09:09I loved him.
09:12You know, he'll always be remembered to me as a guy without a position, right?
09:18Not a bad, in a bad way.
09:20He was so talented that they tried him as so many different positions, but nothing actually
09:28really stuck except return.
09:30And it's unfortunate because nowadays he would strive.
09:34I mean, he would, there's a lot of guys that you have problems finding spots for and trying
09:40to work them on the D on, on the offense that now they would be welcome.
09:46Yeah.
09:47But also like the, he mentioned this a little bit in the speech that they took away his
09:51best thing, you know, like they, they basically eradicated the kickoff, you know, that sucks.
09:56Now, hopefully this is going to fix it this year.
09:58We'll get a little bit more, uh, innovation and, uh, and hopefully get some more special
10:04teams being a thing.
10:06Uh, here was Devin Hester just reflected on growing up in South Florida and going to the
10:10Canes.
10:12Where I grew up in Revere beach, Florida football was all we did for recess PE to every after
10:19school activities.
10:20We was always on the field.
10:22My first coach was Carl Bowden, which is Antoine Bowden's dad.
10:28He taught me discipline and always threatened to beat my tail.
10:31Whenever I got out of line at age of 10, I was coached by coach Ramsey, his discipline
10:39and passion gave me the love to give back to my community.
10:44When I got to Suncoast high school, I was honored to be coached by Carl Gibbons.
10:50He threw me right in the fire from day one by putting me on the varsity football team
10:54as a true freshman.
10:56And when the university of Miami recruited this young kid out of Revere beach, Florida,
11:00they gave me a full scholarship to play for the best universe in the world.
11:04We, we had some issues in the beginning when another school tried to get me disqualified,
11:10but the youth, they stayed by my side.
11:13Christina for student council, spend countless hours helping me study and prepare for tests.
11:21And my strength and conditioning coach, Andrew Swayze, pushed me to the limit that never
11:25felt I can go that far.
11:27Pushed me to the limit that never felt I can go that far.
11:31And coach Dan, appreciate you for putting that big S on my chest.
11:37Most of all, coach Larry Coker kept his promise for keeping that number four jersey clean
11:43until I was able to wear it.
11:46Oh, I'd be Coker.
11:47Got a shout out.
11:48Yeah, he didn't get the shout out with Andre Johnson.
11:53Yeah.
11:53You don't really need a coach.
11:58You know,
12:01Larry Coker is a sweetheart.
12:02Everybody, everybody just thinks of him as like stool pigeon.
12:05Just sat there.
12:06Didn't blow it.
12:07Well, we've, they've said that a lot.
12:09They said in Dallas when, when, when the old Miami coach left and then came in.
12:19Switzer.
12:20Switzer.
12:21Yeah.
12:21Babysitter.
12:22I saw him at the Pro Bowl one time and he goes, there ain't no way in hell.
12:29You're 225.
12:36We'll take a quick break.
12:37As Dade South says, Marcos is Larry Croker.
12:40He's right.
12:41He's not right.
12:42He's not right.