NFL Players Are More Athletic Than NBA Players - Shannon Sharpe & Davante Adams Discuss

I think I think football players are the most athletic they can jump the highest they can run the fastest they're the strongest they're the toughest yeah I'm not saying that other other sports baseball or whatever sports but I'm talking about if you talk about athlete for athlete football baseball basketball football as far as vertical jump because we vertical jump standing still they get a step they running jump they get a run even for the combine they for the combine as far as flat out speed ability oh no yeah it's it's not even close these dude like I said the physical aspect is just one piece but then when you get into the speed and and you know they they they agile but just being able to move on grass is different is is and plus y'all got like four plays in basketball we got 150 we got a it's a whole and a d and a dude try to knock your block off and and we going to change the play you might get three calls in the Huddle too these boys don't even be going to college for more than five minutes half the time in the NBA so I don't know how much they going to be able to retain like that yeah we we got too much go we got too much on our plate AER said he know 30 dudes in the NBA right now they can go play NFL yeah he said but ain't nobody in the NFL that could play in the NBA yeah that's look I ain't trying to go viral in look I'll say this I I understand what what he's what he's saying these NBA dudes are extremely athletic they be 68 and being able to move similar to what a football play player will be doing out there but we not talking about going and doing a a a combine we talking about the physicality that come with to go play in an NFL game and and being callous enough to understand like like if my dad run out there and just fall on the ground right now he going to be hurt yes let alone getting hit and then falling on the ground like I think like just think about somebody that you know that even even when you were in the league somebody that was your age think about them just getting hit let alone like that's not even the fall part think about how many people you know that and fell and got hurt let alone getting smacked and and fall on top of you you fall on the ground the ground hard you fall that hurt and dude fall on top of you boom boom boom boom boom bo all of that is going on and that's what the whole game is yes these dudes ain't getting out of one football game let alone talk about being able to play in the NFL there zero shot I don't know who I would pick you could look at some of the the the physical specimens you got some Julio looking dudes in the in the NBA maybe but I'm saying if they had had look had LeBron or Russell Westbrook or some of these other guys chosen 100% yes different but to just go and say oh here the help here some shoulder pass go play no sir no I I can't get behind that and say that now it's it's a it's a hard enough argument and and I'm not here to say more NFL could go to the NBA versus the other way around but if you if you ask me I I know a handful of guys that that I know could have made that you know and and I'm saying even done this from the initial Point not like now like it's tough man like you got first of all you got to be big as hell and all the big dudes is the big dudes in the NFL so what you you ain't going to put C Miller he's 68 but who who he going to go guard on the on the perimeter nobody that's what I'm saying you know what I'm saying like I'm not I'm not going to sit here and act like it's it's easy but I could have did it but how motivated were you and I tell people this all the time my only motivation was to get my family out of the environment that I grew up in cuz I didn't want my kids to spend one day in a life in which I had to live so let alone an hour not even a day right how motivated were you to get your family knowing the upbringing nine people and sleeping on the couch and and and in your grandmother's home how motivated was Devonte to leave that environment I mean it was it was my driv and force man and and honestly I'm glad that I had a wakeup call in high school that that kind of got me on the right track as far as academics because because you know I wasn't really focused the way that I was supposed to you know in in early in high school and that was going to lead to me having to take a whole alternate route to to get where I needed which you know nothing wrong with the with the the Jo route but you know you you can get lost in the saw especially coming from where I come from a lot of people end up in that and and get lost in it you know you ain't guaranteed nothing you don't you you might have a quarterback that's okay but you you know we we need somebody that know that can sling it to to be able to we play a dependent position cor correct exactly if I'm playing running back back you know that's that's on me you know the the the old line got a block and you got to be a good scheme and all that but you get that pill in your hand you got more to do with you know you got more more to say about what you do than than on the outside right so for me I just had to get a little bit more mature you know throughout as it pertained to understanding the big picture you know in high school and and locked in and once I once I got there and understood and conquered that academic aspect and got to a point where I realized that I was on my way I I feel I couldn't let nothing get my way I I knew my whole life growing up every time I played you know at any level of basketball whatever I was always one of the best ones if not the best ones so it wasn't a talent so for me it was just about the right opportunity and making sure I checked the boxes of you know what I had to do you know academically and and I want to say check the boxes cuz that make it seem like I was just trying to get by which was some of it maybe that was but to a certain extent I wanted to make sure I did what I had to do so that I could you know get there cuz school for me like I didn't want to be a doctor so it was essentially a means to an end because you you got I made you the eligibility hey there you go and and then once I once I got my head on my shoulders I said this is this is something that I can use to and for me I never even really thought too much about I need to provide for my kids cuz I wasn't even on that wavelength you know that that mental wavelength at that point but your immediate family that you that you saw going through everything that you was going through exactly which is why that same house that that I lived in and grew up in and slept on that couch last year this so basically 12 months ago I was able to team up with CBS and go and completely renovate her her entire home in in in two weeks so went and did that just to give back to her because it's not easy doing that you know obviously my parents did a great deal for me and living with my mom and dad being separated I would go and stay with my mom then when I stay with my dad that's that's was the situation that I had and that's the only situation I ever had so I didn't really know anything different but once I got to the outside and I seen I had to I feel like I really needed to pay that forward to to my people you dealt with a lot of death growing up friend uh drug uh drug sales gang violence uh I think you had a cousin that got murdered how did those situations impact T well I first I just I thank my parents man I got great parents I I thank them for for really helping me be you know exposed to it as far as knowing what's going on but almost to learn from it and and stay away from that type of stuff okay I've never had any type of legal you know run-ins where you know I've made any bad decisions and part of that was that healthy fear of my parents like they they already they instilled it in me and and I knew the difference between you know right and wrong so even even though I may have been you know goofing off in the classroom freshman and sophomore year in high school or something like that or you know not not you know giving my all in into my academics I was always a maturemindedgamers whole thing I still live by to this day is I never want to be able to say I just made the worst mistake of my life and it's a lot of dudes that I grew up with and that's still around still paying for it that's still paying for it and still saying that almost day by day like damn I just made the worst decision you know so to have parents that had me in um Elementary School 45 minutes away from the hood you know getting on a school bus and having my day be a lot longer but ultimately allowed me to be around a completely different crowd where I could focus on school and not have to worry about fighting in school and you know drugs being in the school and Elementary like how it was where I grew up and you know people getting killed like I got friends that I played you know early early childhood basketball with that I didn't even get to see you know graduate high school and and that's a crazy thought when you're an adult now like at that point I'm thinking you know so many people you grow up in the hood you see kids 13 14 getting killed because they they get into it so early so it's not that that crazy to you at that point those are just your friends but then once you start to be an adult you think about what if my kid like at that you know I got a I got a 5-year-old almost I'm like that's about 7 years from now like you know the thought of that is insane to think about that so for me to recognize that it just that's my driving force you know to continue to do what I do to you know make sure my my kids see the the light and and don't ever have to see stuff like that want to join Club sh Shay become an official member by hitting that subscribe button where you never know who's going to be joining us for drinks and conversation don't be late to the party because you know we like to do something before to something