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00:00SportsGrid New Orleans, Kayvon Thibodeau, Bobby O'Keriki. Lot of wings here on the
00:04bounty set. Blue cheese ranch? Regular ranch? I don't like either. I'm straight wings.
00:11Really? No sauce. Well, but you usually eat wings? Yeah. And you just go
00:17straight? No dip. That's wild to me. If you got a dip, they're not prepared well enough.
00:22You don't mind spice? Is that a hot take? I think it is. You do? See, I can't do spice,
00:28which is probably unsurprising. Well, you shouldn't have spicy wings. I try not to,
00:31but if I do, blue cheese then kind of covers it up and I'll make it through. That's how I feel.
00:37All right, let's get into some league news. Myles Garrett requested a trade. We saw the
00:43Cooper Cups situation the other day. I'm just curious if you guys are looking around the league
00:47a little bit and seeing more player movement, if it's a little more NBA-esque, and if that's
00:53something I'll go to you first, Kayvon, that you're taking notice of around the league.
00:56Well, you know, it's funny. We were talking about this before, but there's this old tale
01:02that loyalty over everything in the olden days, and a lot of old head football players will,
01:09they'll say they stayed on the same team, but honestly, it's a business at the end of the day.
01:14So for a guy like Myles Garrett, he's done it all. I mean, he's at the top of the game. He's
01:17at the height of his career. And I can understand him wanting to win. And sometimes I've heard that
01:25franchises, you know, for whatever reason, aren't set. Like, you know, there's franchises that
01:30haven't won yet, haven't won a Super Bowl. And it's like, as a player, it's on the players to
01:36win, but it's on the franchise to put together the team to let the players go out and do so. So,
01:42you know, at this point, you can't fault a guy like him for wanting to succeed.
01:48What do you think about it, Bobby?
01:49You know, I think it's a good trajectory of players taking their ownership and, you know,
01:54direction of their careers. Yeah, like you said, not loyalty is dead, but it is a business.
02:01It's a two-way street.
02:03Two-way street. Guys want to make money, guys want to win, and guys want to play for the love
02:07of the game.
02:07There's no loyalty in finance.
02:08And it is tough when you got an organization on a five-year plan, and you as a player,
02:13you're on a one- to two-year plan.
02:14Sure.
02:15Like, conflict of interest. So, you know, guys are taking ownership of their careers.
02:20I think, I love the NFL, but I'm also a big NBA guy.
02:23Like, on the day Miles requests to trade, Cooper Cuff's like, yeah, they're going to
02:27trade me here. I don't want to leave.
02:28He's probably, you know, he's an all-time rim.
02:30So, that's sometimes how it is.
02:32And I think that's interesting then.
02:34Do you guys ever, I don't know if you're close, if there's a relationship, but do you ever,
02:38let me shoot Miles a text, hey, New York's great.
02:40We're doing things here.
02:41You kind of have to let guys do their own thing.
02:44I mean, if you got close buddies, I lobby, come to the Giants all the time.
02:47Yeah.
02:48But yeah, mutual respect throughout the league.
02:51If you see a guy going through a situation, you see an opening on your team per se.
02:56Guys have different relationships with their front office, etc.
02:58So, while it is a business, you know, some guys can play pseudo agents in effect.
03:03Yeah.
03:04The quarterback position probably dictates how much the team is on the one-year plan,
03:09two-year plan, five-year plan.
03:11You know that you guys are up in the air going into the season.
03:15Is that something that, I know it's February,
03:17but are you keeping tabs on the draft and what you're hearing around the team potentially doing,
03:22Kayvon?
03:23We're kind of sitting back right now.
03:25It's a little time before the draft.
03:26There's a little time before everything.
03:28Right now, I think, you know, I can say for both of us that we're really just kind of focusing on
03:33resetting ourselves and resetting our minds to, you know,
03:37back to that energized state where we can go and get ready to, you know, take on this next season.
03:43Can I ask you about the draft process?
03:46Yet again, from my further out view, I found your process a little interesting
03:50because I think this tends to happen where by the time you're a sophomore, you're a star.
03:55So then there's another year and it feels like all the time they try and find something wrong.
04:01And I feel like more often than not, that guy then always has
04:05a very good career because it's like we've overthought this.
04:08Were you aware of those things in the process and what you have thought that all played out?
04:13Well, you know, I think it's all entertainment.
04:17And that's the part as a human being that you forget that when the season is done,
04:22like after this Super Bowl is over, everybody still has a job to do.
04:27So they have to find stories and find things to create.
04:30And the only thing to talk about during the offseason is the draft process.
04:33So at that point, everybody's rewriting the same stories.
04:37So the only thing you can do is, you know, change the story,
04:40change the narrative and try to get, you know, people watching and keep people engaged.
04:43So I understood that coming through.
04:47But I would say I didn't understand the impact that it actually had
04:53on GMs, on people, on conversations.
04:56You would think that professionals would lean to their own opinions.
05:03But, you know, everybody is kind of impacted, you know, by each other.
05:08So one thing like one thing we say in league is we all touch each other's money.
05:11Right.
05:12Meaning that second time I've heard that today.
05:14That's the sport.
05:16Yeah.
05:16And the media plays a part in that in New York.
05:19More specifically, it plays a bigger part because of the market.
05:22So, you know, I think that you just got to continue to keep your head down and grind.
05:27You know, obviously, with these guys coming up,
05:29there's not much that they can do about their draft position as of now.
05:33Yeah.
05:34So, you know, I think you just continue to, you know, be true to yourself and,
05:38you know, enjoy it while you're in it.
05:40Did you, Bobby, feel a difference playing in Indy to New York media wise?
05:44100 percent.
05:46I think the media attention, attraction and, you know, fan engagement
05:51was probably about five tenfold.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Honestly, for better and worse.
05:56I'm sure.
05:58I mean, it's New York City, the media, the amount of people,
06:03the traffic before and after game day.
06:04It's a lot.
06:07And one thing about media in New York, they are super messy.
06:11And the only thing that can clean up a mess is bounties.
06:15There you go.
06:15Pick her up.
06:16There you go.
06:18We are here in New Orleans Super Bowl weekend.
06:22Please eat some wings, watch some football and use bounty after.
06:28Let me ask you this.
06:29You're a pro.
06:31Um, you played week 18 against Philly.
06:34There's a lot of conversation about the record in Saquon.
06:37If he decided to play, if they let him play, whatever it was,
06:40you guys would have known going into the game.
06:42He was chasing the record.
06:43I would have tried to kill him.
06:44I would have tried to.
06:46And I told him to.
06:46I texted him.
06:47I said, you're not playing.
06:48What?
06:49Yeah.
06:49I wanted him to try to get the record.
06:51And I would have tried to kill him every time they handed the ball off now.
06:55But I had much love to him.
06:56And I'm super excited.
06:57Not going for the Eagles.
06:58Hope the Eagles and the Chiefs lose.
07:01A lot of respect to Saquon.
07:02A lot of respect to what he did for us.
07:04And, you know, what he's going to continue to do in his career.
07:07You feel the same way, Bobby.
07:08Don't say that.
07:08You wanted him to go for it.
07:09And I would have tried to kill him every play.
07:11Facts.
07:11I would have tried to take his head off every play.
07:13I do think that's why they didn't let him go for it.
07:16There's no way that you guys are going to be like, yeah, come.
07:19Here's the record.
07:20He already had the 200.
07:21Yeah.
07:21No chance.
07:22Bobby O'Karaki, Kayvon Thibodeau, bounty, wings.
07:25It's great stuff around here in New Orleans.
07:27The quicker picker upper.
07:28You can't have football without wings.
07:30You can't have wings without bounty.
07:32There we go.