Peter’s Big Slick KC Weekend Recap and Greg Olsen | The Season with Peter Schrager

our guests this week is one of my favorite people not only in sports media but just in general we have the best time when we talk and we haven't in a while we had him on during the season and since then he has won best Analyst at the sports emmies we're not going to harp on that too much he's too humble for that but let's bring in Greg Olsen uh former Carolina Panthers Legend Chicago Bear Legend and now TV Superstar what's up Greg what's up buddy how are you I'm doing awesome I real quick on the Emmy just congratulations man like it's appreciate it it's of those deals where you don't you tell yourself you don't need validation and then I'm sure you hear your name called and you look at your peers and you say for a second I could appreciate just how cool it is it was I mean anytime you're nominated right Chris Collinsworth Troy Aman I mean John Smoltz I mean Bill RAF I mean these guys are legends they've been doing this for a long time and especially obviously in the NFL circles with Troy and Chris I mean they they've been they called my games when I was a rookie you know 20 years ago so it's it's pretty cool and listen I I had a guy a teammate tell me this a long time ago he says no matter how old you get you're never too cool for a pat you know for an attab boy you know a pat on the back or Everyone likes to be told good job Everyone likes to have you know confirmation that the hard work is paying off whether you're a high school kid or a 40-year-old adult I think everyone likes it so listen it was cool it was fun it was a great experience I had never been to the Emmys before I didn't go last year and told myself you know the next time I was nominated I would go me and my wife had a great couple days in the city enjoying that and um it was awesome who was the coolest person you met that you'd never met before at the sports EMS oh that's a great question you know I metant you know it's it's super cool because you walk into the room obviously I'm sure you know like you walk into the room the cocktail hour beforehand the cocktail hour was great my big regret is that we didn't get to the cocktail hour early enough we went we went for dinner at the hotel and it always takes longer to get everywhere in New York than you plan and I wish I would have had like another 30 40 minutes of the cocktail because you're just getting going you have a cocktail you're shaking hands you're seeing people that you've either you've met before but you haven't seen them in a while or just people you've watched on TV right Ernie Johnson right I've seen him a thousand times doing NBA games obviously college basketball and everything they do and that show is awesome and you know you have a chance to shake his hand and ask him how he's doing and learn so you know just people that you see on TV all the time you feel like you know them but you never have actually been in the same room as them so it it was a lot of really cool interesting people there um some I had met a bunch and others you know like Ernie for the first time so it was uh it was super cool I'll never forget we got nominated for good morning football a couple years in a row so I got to go to a few and we're in the cocktail there and it was actually the year we ended up winning and we're standing there and I get a tap on the shoulder from this really tall guy and at first it's jarring because I did not know how tall he was in person and he's like hey I know we're competition and we're nominated and you guys are nominated but I am just such a huge fan of your work and I looked up and it was Scott Van Pelt so for all the years that we've been doing this I'd never seen him in person and I'd never worked with him and and I'd never actually been in the room with him so I was I mean even me who's been in this for a while like to see one of these guys in person it's like oh you're like a real life person you're not just on my TV yeah but it's funny along those lines I'm I'm in the bathroom like they're they're whisking all of us like out of the cocktail hour and trying to get us into the auditorium the you know the theater or whatever and um I'm coming out of the bathroom there's like a line of a handful of guys and I thankfully watch my hands or everybody's watching you so you wash your hands and as I'm walking out I see Jay Wright and I had never met Jay Wright before but he was there but now you're like in the bathroom so like the most humbling like yeah is it is a weird for anyone who has ever met someone or like had someone say hello to them in the bathroom like you just got done taking a leak yeah he saw me wash my hands did he really see me wash my hands do I he wash his hands yeah but like he hadn't peed yet he was still in line so I knew I was safe there so like you're doing all these like mental gymnastics and you're like ah whatever I'm just going in hard hopefully know you know my hands a little wet because and you give him like Hey sorry my hands are wet I just washed my hands and you know you're meeting Jay Wright in like a Auditorium bathroom as a bunch of guys are taking a leak before the show starts so it's um it's you know all that stuff is very unpredictable did you have any say in what they submitted like good morning football gets a submission but I didn't see what like the Final Cut was like I'm a control freak with my own stuff this is your name like I was as an individual I had nothing to do with it but like do you have Final Cut of like what they submit to the Emmys they did so it's funny you ask that because my first year I did not right so um you know when Jacob Olman who kind of heads up a lot of the production teams and whatnot he called me two years ago um you know I was well I guess my first year was like a merging emerging whatever it's called I didn't win then my year two same category emerging you know whatever did win this never had seen my reels for those I had no idea what they what they submitted or anything but then this year it was a new category you know this is like no more like emerging like you have to be in with all the big boys now this is the emerged yeah yeah you've already had the merged um and and I did actually see it so Jacob was cool enough he shared they have a whole team at Fox they do an unbelievable job the best they are incredible and I I watched it and I was like if I was watching that that guy's pretty you know like you all a I have no not that guy's good you know and he does a great job putting that together so it was cool and um so I did see it I don't think I gave them any feedback I don't think I said do this that I don't sometimes I don't remember what I said if you told me hey what was the best thing you said in the NFC Championship Game I'd be like I don't remember who played you know like I don't know I just make it up as they go but um they obviously did a good job and very fortunate to uh let me ask name called um does the last year's Super Bowl did that qualify for this year's tape that's a really good question my my assumption is it ends the season so my guess would be the playoffs of this past season probably the Packers versus I think my Super Bowl yeah my Super Bowl I called went into like when I was like a merging like the the two years ago yeah two ago you were awesome in that ners lion game but I remember the the Packers Niners game right you were on that call also yeah we had Packers ners in the divisional round and pie made all those big clutch plays and you you were fantastic in that final drive and I'm assuming that's probably what Jacob was banking on yeah I think it was a lot of playoff stuff and you know those are the moments right th those are the moments everybody wants you guys didn't have a good game the first 10 weeks of the Season you guys had blowouts every week we we have this funny like group uh like group text threat of you know production guys and and Aaron and Tom and Kevin and myself and the guys in the truck and researchers and it's like this big group chain and every week Jarrett the research guy at Fox who's unbelievable at what he does Jarrett would send hey just updating America's game of the week average margin of Victories 22.3 points we have not we've had one game within 14 points in the fourth quarter we're like thanks Jared we're well you know we're well aware you know it was just blowout after blowout after blowout and then playoffs came and it caught fire and we just had game after game after game the NFC Championship was awesome so that the playoffs made up for what was a very weird regular season because we didn't have a ton of like Thrillers we had one early we had Detroit lost to Seattle in week two in an overtime game that was awesome and we had a couple here and there we just didn't have a lot of drama at the end so the playoffs definitely made up for it mcaffrey got this new deal I saw you liked uh his his video on Instagram now I'm a new Instagram user I can see who likes what you were his teammate what was your best mcaffrey story when he first walked through those doors oh mcaffry is the best I'm going to his wedding here in a couple weeks I texted him last night I texted him last night after I saw the deal come through and I was like dude I don't know if you know what you're in store for but your bar Bill totally just don't even look at it because we are about to blow your wedding this tab we're going to run up on you all the guys are coming in town for it is gonna be an absolute so it's not going to be one of those weddings where they give you out a coupon and you get one free drink no I don't know I'm just assuming it's not gonna be I think everything him and Olivia are gonna do is pretty high high high brow but even if it's not we're opening up the bar like this is non-negotiable and mcaffry is's getting the bill so we got like all of our old teammates a bunch of our buddies we're all going out there both ners guys and panther guys so we're going to get together we haven't been together in you know probably a couple years you know since we've all kind of gone our separate ways we're in a million you know who's the crew like I love this so it's it's obviously you yeah keeley's flying up Ryan khil Jonathan Stewart um I'm talking like Panther guys Jonathan stu um who else is in our group uh JJ Janson who's still playing in you're like 100 Long Snapper right yeah Greg van Ren we call him gvr he's a really good buddy of eyes offense alignment played for the Raiders last year um yes so and then I think like KD and use Che and you know all the 49er guys so it's kind of a a cross between the old Panther guys when Christian was young and now just guys throughout the league and it's uh we are we are much looking it's it's here in like three weeks so it's the end of the month so we're uh we're pretty excited about it what's your memory of when it clicked like oh this guy's for real so my first ever interaction with mcaffrey you're gonna love this so we he was not allowed to come to our offseason training because certain colleges that aren't on semesters they're on like um yes quarters it's like super super smart schools trimester or quarters or system or whatever they call it and I don't know if the rule is still the same I haven't followed it but when I was playing schools that were on the quarters of the trimester system because school at those universities was still in session in the summer even if those kids were done with school graduate whatever it was you were not allowed to be at the NFL practices it was like a super obscure situation so mcaffrey was losing his mind he couldn't come to like a mini camp he couldn't come to the first maybe couple weeks of OTAs but I met him for the first time at Ron Rivera's charity event he ran like a bowling event that Christian was in town for and I'll never forget like I'm just over there we're just shooting catching up and obviously I'd watched him play in college and knew what a study was he he did not throw one ball he did not hit a pin he sat next to me and was like how do you guys do pass protections yes how do you guys do the and like he was me and him had like an hourlong conversation on pass protection our formation our route tree he's like I it's killing me that I'm not at you know spring OTAs everything as a veteran you want to hear right like that's I'm like this guy I knew was a stud I watched him obviously at 11 o'clock Eastern every weekend when Stanford was when he was running all over everybody and um he wanted nothing to do with the event he wanted nothing to do with bowling he wanted nothing to do with walking around shaking hands as our top 10 you know first round pick he was killing me about just what is he missing installs what should I know how do we do protections how do we set the mics where do I scan formation alignments and I was like this dude's just different like when you there's a lot of guys like hey he's a ball player like this guy just truly loves ball he's like in the dictionary you look that up is mcaffrey like he is WI tied very different he is Allin he's just a very he he acted as a rookie how most guys don't figure out taking care of their body training nutrition diet all that he was doing that as an incoming rookie you know takes some guys eight 10 years to really figure out what that means to be a pro so he was wise Beyond his years obviously physically talented but just his approach and mindset and and everything he does is what makes him him and then he happens to also will be fast and strong and all that but that's all secondary for him I you know it's it's amazing this 49ers team in that era and you've called so many big games over the last few years including an NFC Championship game that was cut short including a NFC Championship game where they did get over the hump and get back to the Super Bowl it it's one of these deals where like I have to think those guys to go through another offseason and you know KD so well from tight end University and obviously youed check has been the league time like it has to just kill these guys if they haven't gotten a chip yet oh I I mean I I lost one so I I kind of know what it's like walking out as the confetti Falls and the other teams colors and you go back into the the reality of the locker room that it's over right there's no best of three best of five we'll go get him next time like it is over the finality of the end of a postseason in the NFL is unlike any other sport because you get one shot right so I've lost an NFC Championship game won an NFC Championship game lost the Super Bowl never got back to win another Super Bowl like it it just so for these guys in this core well Christian making it for the first time but you know KD and those guys made it you know just a few years ago and to get there twice and come up short twice especially this year obviously was a was a tough ending like it's hard man I think it just shows how many things have to go your way to not only make a Super Bowl but the chips to fall your way and the breaks to go your way to win a game especially in an era where momes and Kelsey and Andy Reid you know that's a that's an historic you know that's like winning when Brady and the Patriots like to steal one out of that era you got to have a lot of things go your way yeah maybe Brady got knocked out in the AFC Championship that's what happened our year and we couldn't take advantage of it against Denver but like that's kind of what Kansas City is now and you know San Francisco Kyle Shanahan might have two Super Bowls if it wasn't for Andy Reid having Patrick Mahomes and vice versa so it sometimes you're the you're the product of your era and your time but I think those guys still have a long Runway they got a cheap quarterback I mean like payment wise obviously he's a stud but I'm saying they got a ride they got another year maybe they can continue to pay all these guys on defense take advantage of pry playing for free in essence and take advantage of this window yeah and you're GNA call a bunch of those games uh over the next several years so we'll see whether that thing ever gets done I one of the things I love about you we'll get together at like a fox event and we'll talk NFL for about three seconds like we just did and then we'll get right into Youth Sports I've got a seven-year-old son we're just starting he's hardcore basketball this thing is called the Brooklyn Basketball Academy and it is like there's eight teams in the league we have practices like I don't coach because they have they don't have father coaches they have like actual guys who are like recent you know college basketball players I mean they coach and JJ reick uh overseas a lot of the league and then there's like random yeah random Brooklyn dads you'd love like Brian Westbrook's kid is in the league and like I see him at the games like it's just it's random it's great that's awesome and my son loves it and I could see myself jumping in head first and diving in and I know how passionate you are and you've taken it to the next level talk about Youth Sports and like where you see this thing going yeah and it's easy right especially when you see your kid it's easy as a parent when you see your kid your son or daughter really fall into something in your case it's basketball or baseball and my my daughter's recently just within the last six to 10 months gotten into you know girls basketball and she's like really embracing it and wanting to improve and practicing like as a parent it's very easy to see once the light goes on for them and it clicks it's easy to find yourself saying okay there's never enough we need more practices we need more games we need more scrimmages we need more training who's the best trainer who's your kid working like y it's easy once you see it for them to just like I will give you every resource every possible thing I'm going all in I want you to be your best version of whatever you want to be yeah of course and and again I think it's in we we're all doing it out of Good Intentions right your child tells you they really want to pursue something you can see them actively enjoying it pursuing it like improving like they're not just saying it like you you can tell a kid who's in there or who just got dropped off by his parents for practice like you can tell the difference and then as a parent your first instinct is I will get you every bit of support training lessons team whatever to say what you want to do and it's a very fine line and some of that I've learned the hard way right I've I was a dad was eight-year-old baseball and I'm like this is this is our life we're not going on family vacations we got to get ready for the North Carolina Cal Ripken state championship it's the biggest thing in the world by the way and by the way they're eight yeah they're Rising third graders for whatever second grade so like when you go through it it's just so easy to get caught up in it and I've again learned some lessons the hard way some things good some things bad and really look at it now that we approach Youth Sports as one simple goal in our house well I should say two separate goals in our house a in my opinion there is no greater vehicle for young children to learn real life experiences than youth sports playing with kids you might not come from the same backgrounds coaches you may or may not dis agree with um a coach who's really hard on you you don't play a lot you lost playing time you're on the depth chart you're coming off the bench you're the six man whatever that is that you're on a team that's not just your friends from class you're on a team with kids from other schools yeah yeah maybe you're a little uncomfortable in the beginning you got to come out of your shell like there's so many great life lessons that you can create through Youth Sports and to me that's number one across the board and then the second part of that approach is can you go one day play for your middle school and then one day your high school and have a really fun School experience on at least one if not multiple teams if you check those boxes your sports journey is a success in my book like that's how we approach it that's what we harp on our kids anything beyond that is gravy I love this love this and how did you I mean because you said you originally were traveling the east coast and you did you have a moment or did you have a governor in your like wait a second we're let's slow let's take it step take a step back like is that because to me I don't know where the the G I know myself if my son wants to do it I'll go to all ends to be do you want to go to New Jersey and play in a tournament for an half hour we'll drive four hours like I could see that happening oh don't don't get me wrong we still do it right so my my older son we're for both my sons my my 12-year-old and my 11year old both of their teams I coach my 11-year-old my my other son plays for a different organization both their teams we're going to spend a week in Myrtle Beach from Tuesday to Sunday next week and we'll play between between the two of them they'll play 16 17 baseball games between two separate teams I mean two boys two separate teams like we're in then a week after that we're going down to East cob which is down outside of Atlanta we're gonna play in a five-day National perfect game baseball tournament with my older son and we're going to Mississippi my daughter's basketball team went to Greensboro my son my younger son's baseball team is gonna play a tournament in Charleston in July like so I'm not sitting here saying like oh we just take it easy I mean we we try to match the enthusiasm of the kid we try to match it if the kids's really in and the parents are dragging them back that's probably not fair yeah if the kids's half assing it and the parents are all in that's also a bad scenario totally it's like we try our best to match our enthusiasm our we will drive to the ends of the Earth we tell our kids all the time we will do whatever you want to do but you got to do it and you've got to do it with every everything in your power you've got to be willing to go to Every practice every game I don't want the second this looks like we're doing it against your will we're done yeah I love it um and it's easier said than done it's easier said than done I watched some of your stuff you were at the John's Hopkins University last month at the project play Summit and you were discussing this and that's why I'm bringing because you had you know parents coaches Olympians medical and health experts and you're doing doing this and now you've taken it to like the media thing talk about your youth Inc podcast and what you're working on because I think there's an untapped market for parents like me who are going into this thing blind and then also parents like you who you're looking for maybe peers and others that you can kind of bounce ideas off of in a sea of all of these private coaches and all of these travel teams and all of the money that is out there of people trying to suck you dry for these Youth Sports yeah no question so so you're exactly right so two years ago I I was out dinner with with a couple of my buddies um Ryan khil Vince vaugh humble Bragg both those guys are really good buddies of mine and I was pitching them this idea I was like Hey we've been approached by a couple different podcast platforms and they're like what ideas does Greg want to talk about and I was like I don't know I don't know if I want to just like break down Sunday's game or totally how to run routes is a tight end like there's more to it right I want to do something I'm really into and I'm like well the thing I do the most is coach and be a youth sports parent like I do it before I came into this I'm in my Charlotte Christian which is where my kids go to school t-shirt because we have 8 to 11 a middle school football workouts Tuesday Wednesday Thursday all summer all all summer long like we're living this Youth Sports World so anyway so I'm like the thing I do the most is Youth Sports the thing that my wife and I stress the most about is are we doing it correctly every dinner we go to with friends after five seconds it's your kid play everyone has the same ation across the whole country so I'm like if I'm a guy who's lived in in his whole life I grew up the son of a high school football coach I played and made a career out of it and now it's come full circle that I'm the dad youth coach and there's a lot of times that I'm doing it wrong there's a lot of times that I look back on a game practice and say I needed to be better I needed to handle that situation better my kid your kid whatever there's a there's a pod here there's an idea that is the birth of you think so it was originally Standalone podcast and we had 45 episodes of conversations with Olympians coaches mental health experts sports performance um name it across the Spectrum current former professional athletes and everybody and really about the best practices of what their lessons were growing up in sport how they apply it now going forward and really some cool conversations from there we said okay hold on this is bigger than just me hosting a singular podcast so we have now launched you think reimagined which is a it's a two-prong two two different sides of the company one is a Content platform we are in cont we have talks and and contracts with all different types of um like they're going to head up their vertical football basketball girls soccer volleyball softball and they're going to be like their um ambassadors for their vertical their Sport and they're going to produce content from how to make practice uh plans to how to teach a girl how to feel the ground ball to shoot a basket and not just like how highlights videos of these kids I think isic Grassroots foundational I got to take over my kids eight-year-old basketball practice how do I get started I want to teach my seven-year-old kid how to make a lefty layup but I also want to be able to drive home in the car with my kid after he goes over three with three strikeouts and not really blow this as a dad which we've all had our moments that were probably not our most proud of right and all of those conversations are going to live all of this information the the the education the coaching the mental health the sports performance everything around the atmosphere of Youth Sports is going to live on a singular platform called youth.in youth.in is going to be the site and then on the other side of that there's going to be a commercial e-commerce platform we have a really cool partner Ryan Bas who's a partner of ours founding this who came from Fanatics who really understands the e-commerce retail idea and he understands how bad that landscape looks right now to get this t-shirt made by your kids team takes six months so there's going to be an e-commerce play that's only going to serve the Youth Sports Performance the Youth Sports environment and then also the e-com the the media content company which will serve boys girls across the landscape of all things Youth Sports um and just continue to further conversations we're having right now which are going on all around the country all the time it's every conversation like my buddy Adam he played lacrosse in high school and then didn't play in college his son is I think third grade and is like one of the best lacrosse players in all of Long Island and that sounds like a pipeline to uh Harvard Johns Hopkins but like how do you keep the love for the like there's all these different hurdles like okay so he's this outstanding player in third grade what do you do from here to that college scholarship offer that's the question that's the bridge right well that's and that's and I think that the cart before the horse is what's happening in a lot of different families and households and I don't blame people right it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of having the best fourth grader the best fifth grader the best eighth grader whatever that timeline is but the thing everyone has to remember if the only goal of your kid waking up at 7 a.m. on Saturday mornings and driving an hour for a soccer tournament or a lacrosse tournament or a football game or whatever it is if the only reason we're taking our kids and doing all of this Rat Race every single week is so that they play beyond the high school level every family should quit doing it right now it's not worth it good cough it's not worth it it's too hard there's too many variables if that's the only only objective you should just save your time save your energy and go on summer vacation because the the odds of it happening there's one a school on average now back to what we said earlier if the idea is to get the the journey yeah the process and that's where that's where my friend's coming from like I he's like I'll do anything I'll travel to Philadelphia for a tournament because the kid loves it and he's making great like it's awesome yeah and if that kid never plays a minute of college cross but he has a great high school and Junior High and high school career that's not a failure that's amazing that's that's the dream the dream is the journey and if you maximize that journey and you put in the work and you don't miss a practice and you grind and you deal with fail your adversity make the team get cut whatever that ups and downs roller coaster of your childhood is to begin with if it's the same in sports and you come out as a high school senior confident and strong and you know hey I've been through a lot these last five years through Sports through school I'm prepared now to go to college and just be a normal Citizen and a normal contributor to society mission accomplished and those lessons will carry with you throughout your life the problem is that is not how most I don't want to say most that is not how all families view the Youth Sports path and that's why it's getting very scary interesting we could do we could do a whole podcast platform based on this and you are uh all right I want to hit before we go uh two really cool things the first thing is tight end University you guys have been doing this for years you've got sponsors attached to it and I truly think it's one of the coolest things that we have in our offseason schedule it's become one of those Milestones it's like combine pro days free agency draft schedule release tight end University uh when is it this year is it is it Nashville again are we going back to Nashville and tearing up Broadway like we do every year we are we're going back to Nashville again um that's where that's where it started that's where KD who really was like the brain behind the whole thing it really started very casually I had just retired that spring KD sent me a text we had gotten to know each other we have the same Marketing Group you know the guys at Rubicon that you you know rasket and those guys so I gotten to know know George just my last couple years in the league and he texted me hey man congrats great career enjoy retirement if by any chance you ever come down to Nashville there's like five or six tight ends you know hackinson down there and you know a bunch of guys if you ever come down we'd love to pick your brain come work out with us and just have like a day and I was like yeah sounds great and then like we're like let's build on this and it got to like 10 guys 20 and we're like okay this is now bigger than just like a bunch of guys come in work out in the morning and then go drink beers on Broadway and have a great time like there's more to this right so we're now in year four and last year we had like 80 85 guys and stop really that many oh yeah all pro or what or college only nope only professional professional oh my God yeah we had yeah so we had um you know so so Kelsey Travis Kelce KD and myself the three of us kind of own and operate the whole kind of entity of te but yeah we had we had over 80 guys last year um we do it at Vanderbilt they give us great access to their team meeting rooms their facilities their Turf their indoor outdoor grass Turf whatever we need and um yeah it's you know it's it's a fun mix the guys are just off of otaa so there's just enough work right there's classroom there's work there's field you know we're getting real work and then there's also a lot of like Fellowship in camaraderie Monday night when we get there there's a welcome party we're having beers we hang out welcome everybody Welcome the new guys right so I'm a young undrafted or maybe I was a young first round pick fifth round pick whoever I am I'm Brock Bowers or I'm an undrafted free agent that I'm hoping to make the roster in two months I walk into this hotel I walk in I got KD Kelsey Darren Waller Mark Andrews L I got the the best guys you've watched in the last couple years welcome you with open arms with open arms we're take you know and and the camaraderie of the position and the ab have chills I love this it's super cool right so that's Monday night then Tuesday is our work day Tuesday we're at the we're at the facility we do a couple hours of indoor classroom there's presentations Kelsey's given presentations with film clips on Route running and had um undress coverages and KD talking Run game and we've had Dallas Clark coming years past gronowski did a you know run after catch tape about mentality I mean over the years we've had some really cool presenters and then we go out on the field and we do like actual routes um last year Zack Wilson came as a quarterback um Josh Allen um Trey Lance I mean we got some we get some quarterbacks that come and throw it around so and then that night we this year we have like a big concert a big you know obviously we're in Nashville so we got some live music and a concert so it's a it's a perfect balance of fun and fellowship but also when it's time to work we work like we always tell the guys you're not coming in for a three-day trip to Nashville we're coming in to work and get better and then we're also GNA have a lot of fun when the work is over but it's got to be in that order to make the event work and so far it's been very successful oh I love that is there a text chain with all the tight ends in the league that just is like an ongoing inside jokes and like all you guys no there's not well if there is I'm not on it if there is I'm not on it they call me dad they call me dad because I'm the one that's like pulling everyone like okay like come on guy this guy come over here like stay on track thank our sponsors Kelsey's on top of the bar we're like you gotta thank Bud Light you know like come on but um it's awesome man but you know I what I think the coolest part of all of it is it doesn't matter what the next step of your career is right you got undrafted rookies that are just hoping to make a practice squad an active roster you got practice squad guys coming back for year two or three who are hoping to make the opening day 53 you got backups that want to be starters starters that want to be pro bowlers guys that want whatever that next tier is but when these young guys come in and they line up to run routes on Tuesday day one of fieldwork the guy at the front of the line is Travis Kelce and George KD and last year Darren Waller and Mark Andrews and down the line and they are full speed running routes they could big time everyone and be like I'm Travis Kelsey I don't need to run routes June 17th but they're the front of the line demonstrating full sweat full sweat lather working like they're not just there to check the box they're there setting the standard and if those guys can do it nobody else in the place has an excuse that they're not full speed that they're not taking this as a real practice so when those guys set the tone the way they do it's just easy to control everybody else because you say all right you want to be them getting a front row seat just do do that and go that hard that fast anything less than that you got no shot you're getting a look at what the best practice like firsthand I I would I would I would like to your thoughts on this so I've known Kelsey for years in a media way and then more personally through this big slick event that I do in Kansas City that I just got done with now I had known Kelsey for years we've always had great interactions I've done multiple interviews on fox forum for you know the pregame show all this stuff starts dating Taylor Swift and obviously I haven't seen him since I did a couple of their game I was at their games he says what's up like I was at the AFC Championship game we talked at Midfield but like I didn't know I was with him this past weekend in Kansas City he's the same Travis Kelce as he was before dating Taylor Swift and I mean so cool so good to everybody looks you in the eye asks you how your family's doing like I was so happy to to see that all of this super stardom from the past 12 months has not changed him one bit well you want you want to hear it's so funny that you say that because you're spot on and Travis is one of my favorite dudes and GRE I would be H every once I would think that maybe this is the year he says you know what I I love tight end University but like I've got to be with her or I gotta be in I'm in Tokyo you know wherever no he he made it a point hey I'm committed to this I mean he's a obviously a key draw a key role he's one of the you know the three of us kind of control it and run it and you know obviously his involvement goes a long way and The credibility and whatnot but just more back to you just talking about him as like a person and just staying kind of he's always been who he is he's the most fun guy to be around when it's time to have fun he's the hardest running routes the fastest sweating CLE dirt when it's time to work but the coolest thing about him is and it's so funny you say that because yesterday I posted an Instagram pick my my my younger son celebrated his three years of his heart transplant they called him heart adversary so like kids that have transplants in his case a heart transplant they celebrate those kind of like a second birthday kind of thing it's like a tradition in the transplant world so we celebrated that so June 4th was his threeyear anniversary of his transplant first comment on I showed my kid I screenshotted it first comment on my Instagram post Travis Kelsey way to go TJ you're the man or you know whatever he said I mean he could have double clicked it and just kept swiping but like three years ago we had te right the day when TJ got out of the hospital so he had his June 4th he had his heart transplant and then like two weeks later was the inaugural teu Kel's there all the tight ends are there our little saying that summer that everybody in town war was play for TJ and that was like the saying and the kids had bracelets I got pictures of Travis Kelce running around at teu George KD all these guys play for TJ t-shirts on and now three years later he's the first one way to go TJ my man hope to see it you know he didn't have to do that and when I show your when you show your 11-year-old kid that that's wining highlight highlight their life hey speaking of TJ I know you've got a really special weekend uh up ahead what do you got going on in the Carolinas I can't wait to get you down dude Tre you got to come to this so we have a place outside of Charleston called Kiwa um in called Kiwa Island they've played the PJ Championship there a couple times at the ocean course like a real prominent course down there do we spend a lot of our summer a lot of our holidays it's about four hours from Charlotte and um so we our our foundation called the hardest yard we had always served the Charlotte Community LaVine children's hospital where TJ got all of his care we fortunately have been able to grow and and really build our program here in Charlotte and for a second location we now have partnered and brought our program to MUSC Children's Hospital which is the largest Children's Hospital in South Carolina so LaVine children's in North Carolina muc children's in South Carolina they're the two big like cardiac Trauma Center centers that unfortunately if your kid ever needed like serious serious Medical Care those are the centers that you would go to in this Carolina region so we uh we're having our third annual um Kwa Island um hardest yard golf event guys flying from all over the country it's um it's this upcoming Sunday and Monday so June 9th and 10th and we play golf we have dinners we have a welcome concert you know couple last year you'll love the shgs last year after golf on Monday we go back to my house a bunch of the musicians and players and guests who come they kind of come back to our house just to hang after Golf and Jamie Johnson the country singer you know sings in color and he whips out his guitar and he's sitting on my back patio and he's playing acoustic of you know in color and sitting around drinking beers having it's just it's a really cool event I got I'm gonna get you the date you're in next year all the money goes to again MUSC children's hospital and our hardest yard program there in Charleston and uh we just look for more centers that we can kind of bring what we do to and um it's just a it's a fun weekend and you get a lot of our family and friends from around the country together for it so it's super cool