I say, Nick Saban is the Bill belichicker college football, and when he was at LSU, he was really building a dynasty there.

And you would have two to three hundred thousand people outside of the stadium every Saturday, and everybody is wasted.

Good thing I didn't go here for school because I wanted to be in the NFL.

Welcome to Dudes on Dudes.

I'm Join Edelman and I'm Rob Gronkowski and this is the show where your favorite dudes talk about their favorite dudes.

And today we're joined by our favorite pal of all time, Steven Ridley.

The talk LSU football, our Patriot days and modeling his game after Adrian Peterson.

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The dog got the bullet wound right there?

And then how are you white?

We get going on this one, buddy?

Huh?

Whit we get going on this one?

My dog's over here, fresh off of ir Man.

Here surgery here, Oh dude, I'm all the place to.

Hear both feet that one's easy though, Man, you're gonna come right back.

And they wanted to look at you.

You have one of your best shows I've ever seen you do.

You broke down a Patriot training camp.

Last show like no other.

I just kept asking questions.

It was great.

It's a Jewels show.

Oh he was killing it.

I mean I wasn't there, so I couldn't break down anything.

Jewels was there.

And you pay attention though when you're there.

I try to You're kind of like more of a coach I was.

I want to see.

I'm comparing and contrasting to like you.

It's so crazy.

I think back on our training camps when we were at our peak, bro we were like a high.

We were an oiled machine.

Like there was rarely balls in the ground.

A bad day was if we didn't go eighty five percent on in you know, with with the within the past game, like it was so clean, like everything was clean.

We were fucking pros, that's true, you know.

And I go to these camps and I try to see, you know, the good teams, Like I went and saw Kansas City before the Super Bowl.

They look clean, they look sharp, they were all everyone was using their time effectively organized organized.

Man, then I've gone to some camps where you're like, you know, this is all right.

It's like it's like crap, shoot, it's like of high school camp, but everyone's all over the place.

And then I've been to camps though, where like you go and you're like, man, they look shitty and then they go out and they're hella good.

So I don't know, it's it's crazy.

It's I mean, I really think it's just the standard that was set where we were when we were Yeah, you know, I just remember us starting periods over because Tom was pissed that it was too many balls on a round three early in the period.

You know, he was like, man, start this shit over.

Were really started up.

But that was our standard, you know what I mean, Like we really had the athletes there, the pieces were there.

You know, we knew what we were capable of, and like we weren't accepting the mediocre shit.

And having a standard like that makes you a consistent ball team.

So you can say that, Jules, like you said, you saw a team not have such a great camp, but they were all over the place, But then they would go out and ball.

But then the following week they would be all over the place.

Again, when you have a standard and you set the standard high and it's there every single day, well, the consistency is there every single day as well, and if it does dip, it will always come back up as well the following days.

And if it goes too high, it'll come back down, you know, because you can't always be at the high high, but it will always be there to to you know, this at at the base level of where it needs to be when you have a true, true standard in the organization one percent.

If you guys don't know by now, we have Steven Ridley here in the Nut House on dudes on dudes, we're just talking about camp.

It's camp season right now and everyone's you know, as athletes.

I feel do you feel I feel it?

Does your body like tell you right now even though you've been retired for whatever how many years that like, man, should I should be fucking running right now because it's camp season.

Like we've been doing this since we were eight years old.

Do you have those feelings?

I do?

I mean, I can't lie.

I was talking to my mom about this a couple of days ago, flying back home, just being out in Cali for a while, I'm getting soft.

But I go back to Louisiana, flying to New Orleans, and you step off that plane, man, heat and when you step off the plane, it's like the heater's blowing, the fans blowing the heat.

There's a fire behind the fan, and it's just like it's thick.

Bro.

And then I think back to the dedication of how locked in we had to be for this time of year.

I was going home and I'm running hills on the Mississippi River in one hundred degree heat, one hundred degree humidity, and it's thick, and you got to be crazy.

You got to be committed, you gotta be a dog, you gotta want it.

But that's what made us different because we really had to get out there and get it in these kind of conditions.

But it is a time of year that you know, it's like, man, I got to be gearing up, ready to go, because everybody's grinding right now.

We want to get out the blocks and be ah.

So that was the Patriotay, it's how we were cut back in the day.

If you don't want me to talk about us a little bit, we are.

Joined here by Stephen Ridley let me give him a little introduction.

He's a national champion at the University of not the university, but at Louisiana State University ls Tiger.

He's a Super Bowl champ.

He kills ducks and sinks putts.

He's our good friend, Stephen Ridley, great friend on the field since the very beginning when he became a rookie, all the way till now.

Our friendship will last for a lifetime, which we would great state, rid You've been the real deal ever since the beginning of meeting you on the field, off the field, in the meeting rooms.

You're always just a straight shooter and we appreciate that of you.

Brother Robby g And we were talking just now a little bit before we started this episode about working out and how you have to go through that grind and when your body wasn't feeling it when you were in middle of training camp, you still had to go out there and participate.

But we were talking about how we still love the grind like that, but also at the same time, when your body is telling you, hey, we need some rest, it's nice to sit back and relax and let your body rest and chill out.

And then when you're ready to work out again.

You're ready to work out again.

How do you view that?

And how are you viewing your you know, life with your body now?

Ever since you stopped playing the game of football, and especially because you have a wonderful wife Alexis who runs that gym in Woodland Hills and is an unbelievable fitness trainer and keeps your ass in shape a little bit as well.

But how's your body doing these days after the football that you played in your career?

Man?

I think first verse you you took the words out of my mouth with wife, Man, I got to give it to her.

I mayriored a good lady.

I don't always like to be around her, but she keeps you in shape.

Man keeps being.

Told you he's a straight fucking shooter, and his wife knows it too.

Man, Because I go home and get back to Mississippi, see mom and dad eat the good Southern cooking is fried catfish, you know.

But then you come home to wife and I kiss her on the cheek and a hugger, and then she's looking at me the next morning at six thirty am because she's out the door.

Baby's going to work early and the next question that comes out, baby, I love you.

Are you coming to the gym today to work out?

So it's like I have a permanent coach, you know what I mean?

And so that's how I look at my body right now.

But I'm not pushing and grinding as hard as we used to because people don't realize the work that we put in on the hell days when nobody in their right mind would even be out there.

We had to push harder and go further.

And so now it's like the luxury of being able to say, I ain't working out today, I ain't working out tomorrow either.

Might drink a beer on Wednesday, you know what I mean?

Like I can do that, but I'm not gonna go well, we just say too long without getting back in that gym at some point in time, because you get sloppy pretty quick.

But how good does that feel?

Like your mind's telling you after like three days all it's time to work out, So then you don't really push yourself.

It just feels good to go into gym.

Yea work out hard, let all the endorphins release, and then you don't have to worry about it again for another two three days.

That's the difference from grinding every single day to now, you know, while deserve being retired and just grinding when you need to say in the shape that you just need to be for living life and more.

For me, I think it's just like that sweat.

Like you said, it might not always be like moving the weights.

Like I laugh because I go to the gym and the gym that my lady works at just training over in Chat'sworth Man, people are pushing weights in there.

It's active, they have a great community.

And here I am ex NFL player.

You know, I'm not like labeled on my chest that that's what it is.

But people who know know I used to play bro I'm not moving over thirty five or forty five pound dumbbells.

No shame in it either, you know what I mean.

But by the time my lady gets done making me do single edged squats and I'm doing split jerks with these weights and moving it at functional movements, It's like, hey, it'll get you.

It doesn't take much.

So I look at it today as like we're just trying to do the opposite of what the people in front of us did.

Everybody retire back in the day, and they blew up.

You see players now retire and everybody's getting a little bit skinnier, you know what I mean.

So it's just a generational thing, it's a time thing, and it's just being smarter.

But I think we all had enough hits and banged it out long enough that the workout is uh, just when we need it.

Maybe the older guys got beat up a little more now too, because just like those guys are in the technology of getting back like has been different in these last twenty years.

I would say then, you know, like you look at guys that played in the seventies or those those guys got beat up, man, Like, we got guys that are beat up too.

We're beat up.

But the technology and the advancement, and I would say medicine knowledge as well, it is so much higher now where you know, instead of just fucking you can't just give up on everything.

We're kind of educated that if you want to feel goods and you have to work for it and you still keep it in your routine at some point.

You know, a lot of those it's tough because I did it my first couple of years where you're just like, I'm done.

I don't want to do anything with football.

You're exhausted, but like you realize that you always have to work in order to feel good, because that's you know, our body's been through a lot, but you know you have to work for that.

It reminds me of like that that rehab process.

You know how when we all had those injuries that we were going to be down for a couple of weeks.

And when you first get that injury as a player, you go in there and you hit the rehab hard because you're trying to get on the field.

And as soon as you get on that field, you're like what that dog kicks in You're like, I'm back, Like, look screw the rehab.

I'm ready to go home and lay down and chill.

But we would so quickly go right back to being hurt or filling that little tweet if you don't do what keep doing that rehab and that stuff after So like that's kind of where our body is now.

It's like we're not lifting to go out there and be gladiators and bank rehab shit.

We're just trying to stay where or we don't hurt.

The SWM rehab house for the rest of our lives.

We want to feel good and pain free.

You gotta stay moving, man.

So really, who are your guys in the locker room in New England.

Looking at two of them?

Man, not just saying that because y'all are here, but I'd have to say, man, we had a we had a great group.

Man, We really did for my four years that I was up there and got to do it.

When I think of the Jamie Collins, the Brandon Boldens, the Amondola's, the Edelman's, the Gronkowskis, the Shane Verreens later at blunts, you know what I mean, the Chandler Jones is bro I mean, like like you just look at the guys that were on our rosters that really were quality guys that we kicked it with a lot like.

And that's why I think that was different.

On playing for eight teams in eight years, my first four were in New England, I think our nucleus and how close we were win loser draw as a team those four years in New England was bar nne bro.

We had a really dope team.

It's because we were also blessed that we had a lot of continuity.

A lot of teams don't have continuity, you know, what I mean.

You get to play four years in a row with a lot of the same guys, that's a blessing because you know each other.

We all kind of know how to work, you know what I mean, and then you get to add to your game.

We were cool.

It was cool to be in an environment that had that template, you know what I mean?

Yes, yes, And when I think of that, I say, we go back to that bar being set.

Man.

We all wanted to be great, you know what I mean.

I can't speak in locker rooms now because I'm not there, but like I feel, there's a lot more individuals playing ball now than team guys, and so for us, it was always like a position thing, like we knew the tight ends bro Chico Gronk, who man, look at the receivers, Jewels, Brandon Lloyd, Dion Branch was there when I first got there.

Wes was there when we first got there.

But you look at these guys that are there, It's like, man, all these guys were going and like full go on the field every day.

Tell people all time.

If you didn't practice in New England, a lot of times you didn't play.

It wasn't like we didn't get I'm not gonna say we didn't get any off days, but Bill had that set that if you weren't on that field Monday through Friday most times until y'all got to the back end, man, you're you're going.

To be truly established as a player in order to be able to miss a day and then have him start you still like at least four or five years in the league and proven as well.

Tom Brady, Oh he's gonna miss thirty and say, well, that's cool, he's been playing twelve years.

Yeah, he didn't do that until late though, Bro, Late and yeah, he never did that when you were.

In And I even say my first four I never saw Tom and the people like Mude host Tom and you said, I'm like, Tom is really who y'all see like he is, Like he didn't.

Start getting veta, he didn't start taking vetage.

I want to say, like thirty nine, and that's crazy, and that's before that, like, and that's that's seen a couple forty year old quarterbacks now and that's because of Tom.

Like usually that people were done at like thirty seven, bro.

But that was the bar that was set for our whole roster.

Though.

You know what, I'm saying, like every room was competitive.

Like I look at this like we were splitting.

I was splitting even though like my money year, we were splitting carries.

Bro.

We had a stable of backs, Shane O, Woodhead, Blunt Boulding.

Hey, one of us went down, it was just like you're gonna slide the next minute there, you know what I mean.

But as a unit, when you're up there and we're playing championship football and we have a standard that Hey, look we're playing practice, how we do the game, how we do walkthroughs, and nobody's messing around.

Billy Oh is gonna fire your ass up if you're not on your p's and q's.

Josh mc daniel would throw a fit in a minute and take you to get out of there, you know what I mean.

Like it was a tight ship, bro, Like we were just about business, you know.

So it's different.

The captain of the ship was always the standard holder.

Tom Brady TV, what was your favorite on field moment while you were with the New England Patriots.

I know you played for about six other teams after the Patriots, but like you have a lot of great moments there as well a lot of great stories but what was your favorite patriot on field moment?

Favorite patriot?

Don't feel honey, I know mine.

I'm gonna tell you mine after about you, about you Rid, after you know you tell me about yours.

But oh, mine will always stick in my head for the rest of my life what you did to this defender.

I'm gonna tell you mine first.

Actually, yeah, I'm gonna tell a little story first.

You can, you can finish it off.

But we're in London.

We're in London, man, We're playing the Saint Louis Rams in London.

Yes, they were Saint Louis Rams at the time.

Man, whatever, well, Sam Bradford, I remember the first drive through like a forty yard bomb.

We were down seven nothing.

I was worried, like, you're really gonna lose with Rams.

We're making a comeback kid.

Rid is having a good game.

But Bill was emphasizing the whole entire time throughout the week.

Hey guys, you're not wearing your fucking normal cleats.

The field sucks in London, the grass is high.

You're gonna slip.

Everyone's wearing seven studs.

I don't care.

I don't care how big of a stud you are.

You're wearing seven studs.

Even if you're a twenty stud guy, you're wearing seven studs and they're gonna be three quarter quarter inch studs as well.

Everyone listens, Everyone listens, and then all of a sudden, it's like the third whatever quarter and Ridg's in a full blown fight about his cleats and they didn't recognize that he didn't have his stud cleats on, so then boom, they're just going at it.

You can tell that part, but I just remember after that they somehow still put you in.

I think everyone else went down or something.

You can finish off the store, but I remember this moment after that fight really got a handoff.

I blocked my guy.

You ran right behind me to my right.

You're about five yards in front of me now, and I'm just watching you make some guys miss do your thing.

And then all of a sudden, you went full speed, put your shoulder pads down an absolutely fucking truck, the Saint Louis Rams Safety like I'd never seen anyone get trucked before.

And I'm sitting there blacking my guy and went this guy was knocked out that unconscious because of your run.

I will always remember that for the rest of my life.

Running angry man, Yeah, running angry And.

Thank you with Coach Boucher for emphasizing us those stunt cleats.

Story down right, yeah, break it down.

What really happened?

What happened you?

You pretty much own it eighty percent of the way.

And we went to London, okay, and Coach said, like Grunk said, seven studs.

Everybody has to have seven studs.

Well, under Armoer was a new company.

Okay, it was still early on.

Tom was an under Armour.

Ray Lewis was an under Armour.

Julio Jones I was one of the first backs out there that was what under armour wearing my boxing boots, you know what I mean?

But I couldn't even wear my boxing boots because they were molded.

So under Armour really didn't have many seven stud cleats.

I'm not gonna say they didn't have any.

They didn't have many.

You know, I'm about my swag, bro, gotta be straight now, you feel good, play good, you look good.

We'd always had like these superman looking fucking cleats, and shit, keep going Advisor.

Gotta have a swaggy man, gotta have it swaggy.

But if you get out there to London, and Coach said, have the cleats, and so when I looked up, I asked the equipment guys.

I'm like, okay, what am I gonna do about seven studs?

Because I know I personally didn't have any.

I've never owned a pairman ever sent me a pair, so I didn't have any.

When I got to my locker, the only things that were seven studs where all my under armers were molded, and they had a pair of Nike seven stud cleats.

So I'm like, I'm not wearing those.

I'm sponsored by under armer.

So I go out there and we played the first couple of series and bro I'm having a decent game.

Like I get down there to the goal line.

This is the part because there's a reason why Bill does everything.

And I look back now I'm like, Coach, okay, you got it.

Get down there on the goal line.

We're supposed to be running in for a touchdown.

And I slipped on the goal line.

And when I slipped on the goal line, like my knee went down and I went this hide and here comes coach fears real maybe run over to the sidelines.

I get up to got caught.

Bro Ulf up up, should have been able to run in.

And when I slipped, Coach looked at him and he says, I said, am I going back in?

You know I'm trying to get the tuddy.

I'm right there were handled it slipped down and he was like, nope, Coach said you down, no seven studs.

I said, what said?

I ain't got seven studs.

He was like, Rid, we told you this in New England.

I said, okay.

I said, well, coach, what do you want me to do underarman to even make seven studs?

He says, put on seven studs.

Rid.

I'm like, I don't know what you And I said, well, Coach, I said, look, it's all good if you pay the fine form under armor.

I'm gonna wear these Nike seven studs.

I was like, If not, I'm gonna lose everything I got.

Like I said, I'm third round.

I ain't got no money, but I have going on on the sideline.

This is on the sidelines because I'm not and it's.

An argument, fall out argument because I ain't.

No soft talk.

I can't understand this because I'm over one hundred yards bro.

Like in the first couple of quarters, like I ended up going one sixties.

You slip at the goal line, slip on to bea Zach.

You had fifteen carries for one hundred and twenty seven yards in a TV that game.

Impressive impressive stats right there.

Bill, come over to the conversation.

Bill, Bill kind of got out there.

When I was men Fears weren't seeing out eye on this.

I wasn't really backing down too much because all I'm thinking in my head is I'm gonna be the one to lose my deal on a seven stud cleat.

And there's not even any available.

The many but there there wasn't any, or there was, there was, there was.

There's a couple though.

I'm guessing they had some, because when I got back to Boston we had some seven stud cleats we did in under armour, but they weren't in London where we had them.

They just had what you can do.

I had to put on the nikes and spat them up.

And you'll see when we go back the second half.

I had to spat over the cleats because I asked Coach Fiers and said, Coach Fears, well, look, if y'all are gonna pay the fine, I said, I'll rock them.

I said, but if not, I can't wear Nike when I'm an under armer guy.

What would y'all?

Do you know what I mean?

So I got bench mister quarter, got cussed out by Bill and Ivan.

What Bill say?

Bill was like, just put on the fucking cleats were in and shut up.

I'm like, I love that great, thanks straight for what else to do?

So he he did it to me and I spatted those because up went out there the second half and I was just running so mad.

This is gross, was the teacher, and it rids the kid that never listened to the teacher, but the principal always come in, would come in.

All right, So so you ran that guy over with the Nike cleats.

Nikes were all spatted, Nikes that were spatted up.

And if you don't know what spat is, I mean you gotta be like, you know the old school bollers that had to take all the way down where you can't release see much but the toe.

But basically, y'all, you know, Rick was just trying to be a smart businessman and protect my protect my sponsorship, and it cost my ass a couple of yards, a couple of benching, some lashings, getting cushed out.

But hey there it is right.

There and smooth, still swaggy, still swaggy.

Well it was old school.

I mean, guys still spat then you guys spat.

No one spats now so many people smart, really, no one spat.

There's gonna be some.

There's gotta be some like O g kid now coming out.

Well let me let let me tell you something.

If you were those I had seven eight clean for the whole entire game, you would have been like me.

I had one hundred and forty six yards, eight catches and two t d's if you had those studs.

In the time.

Yeah, in London like as well.

And I had the guards celebration.

Yeah yeah.

I give props to Chandler Jones.

I went into the training room the night before.

I was like, Channing, I gotta do something for the London fans, Like what can I do?

And chann looks at me, He's like, you can do marching of the guards and march back and forth.

And I was like, oh, okay, special had tackling one catch eight yards, but that's okay.

I think I had.

That's okay.

You were playing some special teams that game.

You gotta tackle.

I gotta tackle inside the five that Slaton's offside and we had to rekick dog.

Come on, we did get crazy if there these numbers broken hand.

Remember this is my first game back with the broken hand with the club.

I had a.

Yeah, got about that.

I had a claw on my hand.

I broke it against the Ravens.

Damn well.

That was my favorite on field moment.

And a quick summarration, what was your favorite.

Field moment, most memorable moment.

I just think I think of my boys, my teammates, Rian Mallett, Dog resting Para Mount Dog one five man, my first game in fox Bro as a rookie.

I remember them throwing Mile out there with me, and it really went this simple.

I mean it was like we were played against each other Arkansas at LSU.

I knew a little bit about him, but that was our first time going through practice and kind of getting on the field against the Jacksonville Jaguars and so it's preseason.

I ended up, I think running for two touchdowns and catching up touchdown.

But Mallet really looked at me and was like, rid just go up the sideline like we were playing like some backyard football and McDaniel's ripped our ass for it, score it on it.

Mal dog threw it up.

You know, Mal didn't care, but basically Mal was like, man, look just go with it.

Rid, I got you, Like the backer can't guard you.

I'm like, how do you know?

I don't even catch balls off the back of anywhere my first and second down back.

But we're playing backyard football preseason.

I go over there, malth throws me a bomb in the end zone.

I think it was probably like a thirty or forty yard catch, maybe the longest of my career.

But that was one of those times I was like, man, I might be able to ball in the league a little bit.

And then it was in Foxborough.

It was the first game, so I think I started out on the right foot, you know, in Foxborough for the fans.

So I always look at that and I just think a male dog man just not really cared and thinking he was Tom Brady as a rookie that he could just check a play and call it however you wanted to.

But it worked out and we still got cussed out, is what it is.

RP.

Maldog Rip.

We'll be right back after this quick break.

I always remember you always talking about LSU and how crazy.

It was playing there.

What's it?

I went to Kent State, Yea, I went to the University of Arizona.

I had five hundred and eighty six people at my senior day game.

I think maybe a thousand.

It was a little snowy.

Can you explain to us the environment and the the time you had in LSU, like just and what it's like just to be a LSU Tiger Because I look at an outsider looking in I'm like, man, those SEC it's just different how they treat the football.

What is tell us dip into sometimes when you see an SEC program on TV and just overall everything about it, it feels like and he's like, it's better than playing on an NFL team sometimes.

Can you describe to us, like what it was like.

I feel like you're putting the battery pack on my back right now, and I'm gonna let you all know, Mac.

Guy middle of middle of a pack in the Pac ten Like we want to hear what it's like.

What was it like to be the best SEC champions National champion?

Okay, well let's say this.

As a kid, you come up in Nachi's, Mississippi, an hour from the steps of Tiger Stadia.

There's as many LSU fans Louisiana State University fans living in Mississippi as there probably is in Louisiana.

You don't find many Mississippi State or Old miss Rebels living in Baton Rouge.

But that shows you the influence that LSU really has on the whole South because LSU, when it comes down to the Purple and goal and the Tigers football is life.

Bro.

When I say life, it's everything.

And I grew up in the era that I came in when Nick Saban was leaving, so I was watching that program be developed by one of the best coaches.

I say, Nick Saban is the Bill Belichicker college football.

And when he was at LSU, he was really building a dynasty there and he left and went to Miami.

But as a recruit me coming in, I was watching the JaMarcus Russells, the larn Landrys, the Glenn Dorsey's, the Tyson Jackson's, the Dwayne Bows like all of those names I just named, y'all are all regards to what they did in the pros.

They were all top ten picks.

All these boys were on the same team when I was getting recruited and watching going down there.

So we go back to the Standard and set in the bar.

And what I saw, you know, in Baton Rouge.

And so I'm getting recruited and I go down there and once you get there, not exaggerating at all, it was during this time you would have two to three hundred thousand people outside of the stadium every Saturday.

This is not made up.

The stadium sits between ninety and one hundred thousand, and everybody is wasted.

I'm telling you like, it's like they are there to watch their tigers play.

They shut the city down.

Everybody's in purple and gold.

If you're on the visiting team, they don't care.

If it's your kid, your grandmama, your daddy, you're getting cussed out if you're not a Tiger.

They drinking every what's in what's in, no telling.

Beers by the keg.

I mean we got got keg stands going.

It's gonna be Crown Royal crawfish, crawlfish.

What's the tailgate?

Course?

Of course, for sure, the Rockies are cold, they are, and I mean the beer is flowing.

It's just a it's a ship show.

It's like a Marty grawl.

But every Saturday, because this is what everybody in the South is looking forward to.

Now, are they a classy fan?

Like I always like, like what is what's what's the like?

Old Miss?

They all come in like skirts and like.

They're kind of they're kind of are they like a little yuppy Old Miss guys are kind of nice and tight like baton rouge.

People have the culture like you know, like you looked on our sidelines.

We had Little Boosy on the sidelines.

We had Webby on the sidelines.

I'm not making this up.

Wayne came through, Snoop came through.

I mean, you name the you name the stars that wanted to come be somewhere.

It's lit in Tiger Stadium on Saturday night, bro, and we're playing all Louisiana music.

We're gonna have the vibes, right, I mean, you go there now.

I wish y'all boys would come.

Grunk took me up on the offer back and that's why I rock with my dog.

He came down and so it was.

But now they have it like a night bro.

It is.

It was wild.

I was literally like a good thing.

I didn't go here for school.

I want I want to be on the New England Pages.

I won't even be in the NFL.

Dude, what what?

Because what what?

I would have got caught up?

What was it?

Was it the bye week or the off week?

That super Bowl?

It was Super Bowl because it was your second year in the league, my third year in the league.

Because that's when I was going crazy.

Yes, I was running crazy, going crazy, and I was like, Grunk gave me his words, a grid I'll come and I'm like yeah, And I knew Grunk like the party.

Grunk got it in, but I always sell.

I'm like Grunk partied hard, he played hard.

Was the first night party with Gronk, first time.

I partied with Grunk.

Was the first memorable party.

We were always partying on the short bus before the world bus was freaking awesome.

I was the first memorable party.

Was We're both both in trouble, but I'm just saying you had that party at the house over in.

The house and it had legit.

It was legit, a great atmosphere.

It was.

It was.

A lot of players here talk about the best part about it was like I didn't I only knew Rid a little bit, and I just remember like, oh ship, we need some help, like we need some help, back up.

This is we need back up.

I called rides.

I God, I never know.

We never hung out before, but we've been great friends in the locker room all that I go.

But I need you at my house right now.

And I got you to bring all the rookies that you can possibly bring because I need back up.

This is this is one hundred percent true story.

And when you walk in this house, I'm gonna easy say in one house there was seventy five to one hundred people that I did not know that were not my teammates.

It's when we were a little bit of a young kids, young Bachelor's maniacs, Young Bachelor's Maniacs, Young Bachelor's Ultra trip.

Well, oh, that was one of the best trips of my life.

That was awesome because that was my first time.

What year was this by twelve, twenty twelve or twenty eleven.

Twenty fourteen?

Was it the last year?

It was the same year after I blew out my ACLMCL.

So I blew out my ACLMCL in like November, I think of twenty thirteen, so it was February March of It was March of twenty fourteen, because I came back for the twenty fourteen season and we won the Super Bowl in February of twenty fifteen and I got Comeback Player of the Year that year.

So March of two thousand, yeah, fourteen, we all went down to Miami.

We went to Ultra.

We had a great group.

We had all your friends, all my friends, a penthouse in Miami.

Man, it was just one of the best times.

It was the first time we truly got outside of the Boston area.

We did, and we just took over.

Man.

We're hitting pool parties.

Hitting pool parties.

We were in DJ booths and I just remember us really being They were giving us the VIP treatments and we were just bouncing from stage to stage and then the DJ booths.

But you look out and it's like you see these flags from people like all over the world.

You remember that because it was like when who was a Swedish house mafias, like on their last tour and their last show, and you look out there and you see these flags and these people and it's like, bro, I guess this is how they look at us on Sundays when we're out there playing and doing everything.

But the atmosphere that it was in Miami was like that was one of the biggest parties I think I've ever been on.

And we ended up migrating from stage to stage, ended up on a yacht somewhere out there like in Miami, and it's like a typical Miami party that it's everything in over the top, but it's so normal down there, but in us being there, bro it was one of those parties that I'd say it was noted the books that it was.

It was one of the best.

It was top because it was a three or four day banger that we were down there.

Just it was you know, I mean outside of all this partying, I just read whenever I'm hanging with you, man, it's always a party.

We don't even have to hit the bar anymore.

We don't have to go to the club anymore Friday night when we were twenty three years old.

That's what I love about you, man.

You bring the juice every single day whatever you're doing, You bring the mood up in the room every single time.

You just overall just bring that vibe where you just make everyone else feel that vibe as well.

And that's why we appreciate you man.

And back in the day.

Yeah, it was going out to Miami and partying and bringing the vibe.

But what's so cool, man, is that you haven't changed one bit.

Yeah we're slowing down, we're coming down, but you bring that vibe just here on the podcast.

You bring that vibe just playing pool, you know, bring that vibe just going out to a restaurant.

That's what I really appreciate about you throughout the whole time of knowing you, man, and just lifting up everyone's spirit.

Man, It's much appreciated.

Man, I love it.

Bro.

We always had really good cool toys.

D Rid was the guy, like on the off day, all the guys would go to Rid's house.

He lived up on this area in North Battle Bro that had like a fire lane where he had like all these side by sides, quads, dirt bikes, he had every fucking toy.

Throw it out there, I throw it out there, I find I'm gonna let you keep on with this.

I gotta give my got to give my people a shout out now.

Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

It took me thirteen plaariss to finally sign a deal with players this past year.

Y'all, let's go and I tell people all the time.

I'm like, if y'all could hear the stories of back in the day on our off days, and here you are telling it.

We were just trying to do anything on a Tuesday to get away from the football field for a second.

Yeah, but we spent many off days on Tuesdays, random tuesdays, riding the power lines, just going to go ahead Juel Mansfield power lines.

On top of that, Rick got me to buy a Polaris I think it was five fifty ccc five fifty cc four wheeler, and then also got Polaris side by side as well.

How much you get builded all the cash.

Too, he did right after Mom's Route one who Thankovich now owns mom Sokovich.

Yeah, he's a part owner shout out, putting some money in his pockets back in the day.

He appreciate that, dude.

It was it was, it was our life though.

I mean, we had to we had to do something, you know.

We couldn't get too far because it was a Tuesday.

We had could work on Wednesday.

But I just remember us riding and it went from the side by sides and the four whelers to Jules and Dola ended up on the pit bikes that just retired, was retired about two months ago.

We finally had to just say that was it.

We threw him out, had them, but they lasted with twelve years, fifteen years.

They lasted fifteen years, but they lasted seven drives.

He drove him seven times.

He bought them from China.

It was like they were like cheap, but they were bad asses.

Yeah, yeah, you know, they're the little Chinese turb bikes.

They were great.

But like, dude, they were like one twenty fives, like they were fun.

We would go follow you guys on the trails.

You were crazy.

It was where did this love of all these like you were basically like Rob DEERDECKX Fantasy Factor.

Bro Hey, look at that.

That's a goal to meet that guy one day too, because he definitely motivated me coming up.

But growing up in Mississippi Deep Deep Country, you know, it's it's a different lifestyle down there.

So that's why I became a great athlete because it was ball, it was hunting, fishing, and it wasn't too much outside of that to do.

And now living in California and being blessed and fortunate, we've worked and got on the side.

Look whe we're at you know, this guy's got housing three or four different states.

We can go get entertained whenever we want.

Just like, what city do we want to be in today?

And we go do Mississippi.

You don't have that luxury.

So it's like you have to have a simple life and be thankful for what you got.

And we grew up off the land, you know.

So if I wasn't shooting and killing shit, you know, I was trying to ride and go fast and race and try to find an adrenalin rush somewhere.

And if it wasn't there, then we're on the field, working out, trying to get better at the game.

So it was like it wasn't that many options.

But once I got out of the South and got up to New England, got to get around.

Y'all boys made the team.

I laughed, because as soon as I made some money, I took fourteen K and went and bought two snowmobiles, you know what I mean, and had those That might have been a bad investment, but hey, look, you know, country boy out the South, what else am I supposed to do?

So I got up there and got my stomach.

Under arm or fined you for those Nike spatted cleets.

You would have never been able to buy those snowmobiles.

You see the connection there?

Oh my gosh.

So this is the outdoor world has always just been something that's that's been a part of me.

But it's good because not a lot of people get to do it.

So it's always fun when you can bring people out to see it and experience, and then it's like you kind of recruit people.

It's just it's crazy for me.

This is gonna sound weird, but you were like the first black dude I ever met that had like lifted trucks, road dirt bikes.

You were like Bubba Stewart.

I never met like band, you know what I mean?

Yeah, And like I it was just crazy.

You shoot guns like you hunt.

You were like super.

It was you were like the first country like cool black dude I met that like went to country concerts and stuff.

My god, I never met you before.

I appreciate it.

They don't have that in Cali.

It's a little different, you know what I mean.

Yeah, they don't have that in Buffalo, New York either.

That's what I say.

Come out the South babity slickers, rock the boots.

You know, we like four by four's and jacked up trucks.

But it's just, man, it's country living at the end of the day.

But I tell people all the time, and I can humbly say this, man, I'm just I'm a unicorn, you know.

And I couldn't leave the house as a kid any kind of way.

I grew up in a house full of women.

They were always on me about my fits, like it had to match.

You had to be, you know, presentable.

They didn't let you do so even though I'm from the country, my parents raised me to have like some style and some swag to it.

But I never got away from my roots.

Man.

So like I always wanted to just make a grip of money so I could go back and buy a piece of property where I could just shoot mallards all day and in bite my boys down to come and shoot.

Because it's a competition deal.

It's like in my dream, I would have me like a driving range out there for one hundred yards where I could hit golf balls and then you turn around on the back side and we might be shooting skee you know what I mean.

But it's all good fun competition.

But that's just kind of that's the country boy dream man.

So that's where it came from.

That's Misissippi roots and your boy man.

It was.

It was.

It was sick all the way from Mississippi out here to La in the Hollywood world.

What about that race with Kevin Hrt back in the day, about what it was a year and a half ago, two years?

Didn't you have forgot how did that come about?

And didn't he like pull his uh app you really think he was gonna get you, like he thought he had a chance.

For his kid, rido.

What it was?

What happened?

I was I was a little thicker.

I was a little thicker, and we were at a we were at a party in the backyard, and keV is like everybody says, you meet the stars.

I met him in person a few times.

keV doesn't really change up too much, you know, like he's gonna talk his ship and poke his fun.

But he was just on one that day, like he just wanted the race man cup, like poking avy here and there, but all in good fun.

And then he finally just came up to me and was like, man, we're gonna do this or not?

He said, Bro you're wearing fucking crocs, man, get out of my face.

Talk about race it.

He was like, no, I'm serious.

I'm an Olympic swimmer.

He's like, believe it or not, I raced Michael Phelps in the pool, like I could.

I can do that too.

But I watched him bro like on the basketball court.

He was betting money, shooting around the horn like, going around the arch, he was hitting shots.

He's small, but he's a big athlete.

I'll give it to him.

And he's got big confidence.

You know, you got a lot of money, a lot of coaches and shit too.

Now he got big confidence.

And then he got me.

He looked at me and he was like, if you think you can get me, He's like, would you bet the house on it?

Going back to having big money, way more money than I got.

I'm like, what house are we talking about betting here?

keV?

No, I'm not betting my house on racing.

You who you are?

How many hundreds of millions in your pocket?

Don't have a job, you work out every day.

I don't know what you got going on.

If you're saying you're this fast and you're pressing me for freaking thirty minutes straight.

I'm sitting over here, Cord and wondering, like, what do you have?

You know what I mean, I haven't run full speed since I left the Steelers.

But I'm not gonna let short guy talk me out of this right now.

So I said, let's go, and I told him.

I was like, we're going outside.

He said, my shoes are in the truck.

He said, perfect.

So we went outside, got down.

You know, your boy had to stretch a little bit, dynamic lace up.

Oh yeah, Bro laced up, laced up the shoes, tied them tight, stretched the hammies a little bit, and uh, you know, I got down in the four point stance.

I'm in business, so.

Three what do you mean?

Four appointment track?

Track, daddy track, daddy bro track, both hands down.

keV was sitting up their standard stagger stance.

You know, did you know?

You know my get outs lethal.

I can't get past the yards but forty forty.

So that's why I was like, all right, let's let's see what he's got.

But we got out there and keV was he was trying.

He wasn't moving, He wasn't moving.

And when I tell you he was running.

We ran the first one, and he accused me of jumping, said I jumped off side, gaped him two or three links.

He wanted to run it back again.

And when he ran it back again, that's when the blowout happened.

And it was like a freaking sniper was on the roof.

You know what we're saying, when that hamsh grabs.

You, I'm not laughing.

You just said, bro hey, and what it sounds like when it grabbed him.

Dog.

You just saw it in his face, I mean, and in his defense, tore the hammy, tweaked the groin and tore a lower ab.

Oh man, he was going.

That means he was trying.

I just thought he was trying.

Thought are a lower app, no, roy hammy and lower asp and lower ass.

So and that was on the second one.

So that's why we said.

We were out there drinking tequila, having a good time.

And next thing you know, we went to.

The thirty six.

You can't be sprinting on tequila.

B bad idea all the way around, all the way all the way around.

So what was the bet?

You get anything?

I didn't, bro I didn't have I didn't have it in me to to bet the house as keV said, I didn't.

But every money don't make money.

It don't don't don't make money.

And I probably I probably should have taken that bet.

But when you haven't opened up your gate in years, that's scary.

It is, So you're a little worried as well.

Oh a lot of work.

I work, and I was drinking to dehydrated.

We know how that goes when you're drinking sometimes, so like everything's activated, like you're good to go.

You know, you have like two sprints in you as well.

Yeah, you're looped up before it all goes on you.

It worked, man, it worked in your favor.

Yeah, you're a party jesus.

Well, the party was actually a Boss who is Kevin's trainer, and Boss actually owns a gym just train over in Chatsworth where my girl works.

Boss and Kevin have had a relationship for like twenty something years like that.

So Boss's birthday was at his house and he was throwing a house party there and so everybody just pulled n came through.

Yeah.

The name of the gym is just trained, all right, and it's just trained over in Chatsworth.

And if you're looking for a good gym, man, good people, good energy, great vibes.

They get it in over there Monday through Friday.

We've done a few workouts there.

They really do.

It's a great atmosphere.

It's a fun place to go and train.

And because every time you go to the gym you don't feel like getting it in.

Sometimes you got to go in there and the people, the energy lifts you get you going.

Look at that form, man, look at that form, little lean you got the high knees.

Going drive phase.

Yeah, you still got it mine, man, You'll always have it.

I can't say that the power that that's your game.

The exposed her.

No, he's kind of with you.

There's a couple of steps in the whole.

Right on him, so he would never catch you.

But he was kind of with you have first the.

First ten, bro, he was with you.

You were rolling.

I'll take anybody for the first ten.

You know that.

But after me, if I'm in front of the first chance, I.

Was smoking in the first ten.

You can't even move your neck.

I want to like Frankenstein.

I was smoking, just.

Like a robot.

And you're telling freaking k Red, you're gonna give me, give me six weeks, give him six weeks.

Six Look yeah, fresh off of I r we hadn't played a snap around my man.

Look well, you know, man, anytime somebody starts all by saying, well, lady, gentlemen, the aged money all my men, women out.

There that are forty years old and above.

It's not a game.

Respect that age.

Respect that age or that age will will make.

You respect it.

I was just forced to respect it.

It's just public surface announcement because I know people may see me out and I don't want you to be alarm.

But I'm in a wheelchair.

Yeah, in a wheelchair.

Why we're gonna try to.

Jump out there and do some young stuff.

Try to go out there and do some young some young man stuff.

And I was told to sit my ass down.

Shouts out to Steven wildly.

I'm gonna go to put this story out there.

But shape was based off who's faster.

Those who know me know I'm pretty fast.

Steven said, keV Ain't no way you're gonna beat me.

Steven his ex NFL running back play for the Patriots.

Very good guy.

I said, Steve, you can bet it.

He said beat I said, bet We get out there, we go run the forty year old dash forty yard dash, guys, I blew all my ship, tore my lord abdomen, my abductors are torn.

I don't even know what that is, but I tore him total.

To I can't walk.

He's funny.

Sit my ass down.

What are we competing for at this age?

Why are we?

Like?

What am I doing?

Why did I even race?

Got to be the stupidest man alive?

Bro Bro, And I have to say with him, Kevin, you never know if he's joking or snuffs.

Right.

So after the race, when he said that he tore his ship, I didn't know if he was like embarrassed and leaving because he didn't want to be there, because we raced twice and he got beat.

But when he said these words to me, I knew he wasn't playing.

He was like, no, I need to go to the doctor.

He was like, everything is hot.

I was like, oh, he ain't.

He ain't playing around, you know, because you know how it is if you tear a muscle, you get that you feel it.

It's bleeding.

Bro.

So when he said that everything's hot, he hopped at the car.

His wife ride with him and they left the party.

But they left in like the next day.

The wheelchair.

I'm just like I felt bad.

But it's like, bro, you gotta respect ageet.

Get off the tequila, man, get off the tequila.

Maybe yeah, fuition race in six weeks.

We'll be right back.

After this quick break, let's jump into the dude that Steven Ridley wanted to break down.

Set the clock.

Let's get our ai anopsis.

So let's explain the rid kind of what we do here on our show, Dudes on Dudes.

We we talk usually about a dude or two or three each episode rid and we break them down.

We talk about his game for about ten minutes, what type of player he was, but overall, after the ten minutes we try to put it.

We put label the guy and label them into a category of what type of dude they are.

And there's five different categories that you can label them.

One is dog, the others studs odd.

There's a whiz, a dude's dude, and a freak whiz being a guy that is innovative.

This guy's brilliant, he's revolutionized something.

A freak being a Randy Moss dude that's just this isn't that just doesn't look like a doesn't.

Look like he doesn't see like a freak of nature.

Stud is someone who's had the pedigree his whole life.

He's supposed to be that Burrow, Joe Burrow.

You know guys that were first of all draft pick Heisman got you know what I mean, they.

Always thinking to steal him a dog.

Is another that is so motivated, had to maybe go the long road, but always like physically mentally fucking tough, will bite your face off.

Not liked by many people, but fucking respected by everything.

And then you got the dudes.

Dude who is like a glue guy in the locker room, the guy in the locker room that was, you know, a vibe guy.

He he he knew how to be a great leader.

He was the guy that would cool the the room when it need to be cool, but light it up if it need to be lit up.

Yeah.

So now let's get on to the AI synopsis of the guy's a dude.

We're supposed to be talking that.

We'll be talking about that Ridley picked here today.

Standing at six foot one and weighing two hundred and twenty pounds, this dominant running back was selected seventh overall in the two thousand and seven NFL Draft.

The year I graduated from high school.

He grew up in Palestine, Texas, and starred at Oklahoma, where he sat an NCAA freshman rushing record and was a Heisman finalist.

He holds the NFL single game rushing record with two hundred and ninety six yards and was named twenty twelve NFL MVP after nearly breaking the single season rushing record.

He went on to play fifteen seasons in the NFL for seven different teams.

Let's get on Adrian Peterson.

Geez and wrinn.

What's the first thing.

Let's let's get his headshot.

Oh yeah, first we need rich headshot up here.

Man, I forgot about you.

Man, about the headshot.

I didn't forget about you.

I forgot about the headshot.

So let's get your your big ass up there, and let's get this smooth, smooth criminal Adrian Peterson up here as well.

Put those one of the best running backs to play the game.

But what's the first thing you think of of Adrian Peterson?

Why did you pick him?

I think an ap I remember everybody called him a d all day ab and I just remember him Oklahoma.

Oh, you know when I was coming up playing ball, I'm watching this guy run in Oklahoma, and I just remember as a running back, like how aggressive downhill and violent he ran, Like you just didn't want to be in his way, And so as running back me, that's what jumped out to me on his film.

And I always kind of like to say, I tried to pattern my game after that, like I just wanted to be somebody that you didn't want to tackle for four quarter was an Ap was really that guy.

I think for the years that he was on in college and the pros when he was healthy, he was electric.

Man, He's electric every guy.

He's never hung out.

I've bumped shoulders with him a few times.

I had a friend of mine who was a real, real close with Ape, and I think it was my second year after I ran for a lot of yards.

He got Ap to sign something and has a picture and it's still in my house till this day because that was my favorite running back and he actually signed it and gave it to me.

But no, I hadn't had a chance to sit and kick it with Ap for a period of time.

I'd love to do that though, just to pick his brain because he was he set the bar back in the day.

I would have to say he.

Was like he was explain how dominant he was at Oklahoma.

I think back to those days, was like Reggie Bush was kind of doing this thing.

Reggie Reggie arguably best football player in college with history, but.

Both of them same position, two night and day, different running backs.

So when I think of ap, Ap was that guy that really just wore a defense down, like you knew, everybody knew in the ballpark he was getting the rock and you couldn't stop him.

So for a running back to really have that dominance as long as he did, and then people know that he's the stud, he's the man that they have to stop for that game and they couldn't stop him for how many years fifteen in college and foreign I mean fifteen in the pros and foreign college.

That's two decades right there.

So for me, I tip my hat and I say, it's hard to say who's better.

What are the few traits that makes him so good in your eyes?

His explosiveness, His explosiveness, him being able to finish a run, and then the physicality he played with.

And I could tell that you know, he definitely was your favorite running back because that's kind of the way that you molded your game as well.

Read you were explosive off the line of scrimmage.

You were a physical guy.

It was hard to take you down.

You plowed through defenders.

Not one guy was tackling you, just like Adrian Peterson.

So that's cool, man, that's really cool that you get the look up to him and mold your game after him as well.

And now we're here talking about him here on dudes, on dudes.

Well what's your You said two unbelievable running backs in college football, and you know you could argue in both and pro certainly a d.

Reggie had a really good career as well.

But college football Mount Rushmore of running backs.

Reggie's up there, top for sure.

But what's the college what's the Mount Rushmore?

You get four to four.

Top four in college time, So we're going, I'm gonna go Reggie.

Reggie's up there, I must say a p I will go.

I was younger, but I remember watching these boys down in Miami.

Willis McGahee, will.

Year, that's you.

That's your four right there.

I don't know if that be the but like what.

About what about uh?

Was Barry Sanders who want a heisman?

That was before my you know, Barry was a little bit before my time, Like he was there, and it's like, who did I watch like my era that I Ricky Williams I was.

That was the next guy.

I was about to say, Ricky was nasty in Texas, man, I.

Mean, Ricky Williams was a fucking load.

Yeah.

So when I think of backs like that, and even Cedric Benson, ya remember him back in the day, these are the guys that I like watch.

So when I see the game now, it's like to be a running back, you got to be like a fifth or sixth receiver catching the rock off the backfield.

Well back when I was coming up, we're banging it out with linebackers that are two fifty two sixty, you know what I mean.

So you had to be a bull.

And when I think of a bull and like dogs in between the tackles, Reggie did something that no back can do.

Ap I would have I would have Ricky up there as well.

I would And who were going for the for the fourth?

I would say the McGahee, man, nasty he did?

They did?

I tore mine twice?

You know, I'm kind of gonna look at guys that had to dig deep and come back.

We know what it is college.

So you have who Reggie, Reggie ap Ap, Ricky Williams, Ricky Williams.

I'd say either that I mcgahere, Clinton Porters.

Both of them were you go, let's come McGahee.

Then all right, let's go.

So these are the mount Rushmoores of Stephen Ridley, people that he watched yes at running Back.

Yes, yes, patter of my game off of watch film before I was even watching film.

These are guys I was looking at like I want to be like that when I get older.

That's that's a solid for ap.

Dude.

He ran for two thousand yards after an a c L.

He was eight months out.

Okay, it's it's not human, no, and that that's that's like not that was like the I remember that being the first time someone came back that fast after the a c L and had success.

He was he was legit probably like it's kind of like when the first person to break the four minute mile, and then after that, like seventeen people did it in that next very next year, but no one in the feet of time could beat it until that one person and right after that a year later, like fifteen or whatever.

Number amount of people beat it.

Because someone did it, It's like first time someone went eight eight months.

Now, that's like the standard.

That's the standard.

Yeah.

Yeah, because it is an ACL recovery, blew it out as normally like a nine month recovery, you know what I mean.

I feel til eighteen and it takes time.

But you know, some guys come back and do it a little quicker.

But for him at the running back position, and then how he was dominating before the ACL and then came back and did that the very next year, That'll never happen again, man, because they literally put the load on them right fresh off surgery.

Most times they try to slow play you and let you come on back and get healthy.

Back in the day, they were like apee feed them, you know what I mean.

So he was, I mean he rushed or he tears his ACL, he toured in December in December, comes back and gets twenty ninety seven yards, thirteen touchdowns, six point three a carry nine months after a c O MC.

And he's the last running back to win MVP, which is rifle.

Still yeah, still off of that season, Off of that.

Season, I mean, if anyone was gonna do it'd be it would be Saquon this year.

There's one last year.

Well one trade as well that we haven't talked about, and it's it's his vision.

He can see down the field.

He can see defenders coming at and make him miss.

That's what makes him such a great running back, as well as strength with his physical traits and his strength obviously, but he runs upright, which is what you really don't see out of a running back.

And that's what not what's what you're not taught growing up as a kid.

It's always have you know your shoulders down.

He runs straight up right.

But he's such a physical freak of nature that when the guys come at him and he so fluid, he can just put his pads down at the last second and the defender wasn't expecting that.

And that's what gets him, that that little advantage of that unexpectancy of him putting his pads down and lowering his shoulder and just trucking the.

Guy being in front of all.

And that's why he was so hard to tackle it as well, because he could run up right, have the vision, be able to get in full speedch stride.

But then heism of being able to duke and just put his pads down faster than and then you've seen anyone else do it at the running back position.

I mean, he was a freaking to me, it was just like a horse out of a stable, bro like he just like his gait and how aggressive he really used to run.

And like you say, most running backs, that's what they want you, they want, you know, tuck down and low.

But Ap was like, man, you let him out the gate, it's a home run, you know what I mean.

If you come to him, you're getting punished.

But it was he was just a he was he was a he was the guy.

Week eight, two thousand and seven versus San Diego Chargers, Minnesota wins thirty five to seventeen.

Adrian Peterson rushes thirty times for two hundred and ninety six yards in the league three touchdowns, broke off a sixty one yarder, beat the previous record holder by Jamal Lewis, who had a two hundred and ninety five yard game in two thousand and three, which I remember that game when he was at the Ravens, like that's insane.

Thirty touches in the NFL, y'all, When do you see that now I.

Wonder how many touches he for a while, like averaged during his career at twenty plus.

I'm talking like throughout a whole season.

Like I would say by the game, I would say he was probably touching when he was really rolling.

Back in the day, he was getting that ball fifteen to twenty five times a game.

You don't see that much often ever.

Now Ever, you know, you got a lot of these two back systems, so you got to keep the guys healthy.

Yeah, he's this is crazy, and for him to do it how he did, But that's like where we look at it.

It's like, man, if we had like going back to us playing back in the day, we would have to have like a serious injury to our to our offense, you know, like tight down two of our receivers down that we really have to lean on the run game where somebody's gonna really get the ball twenty to thirty times a game.

You'd always rotate it, try to keep a guy fresh, try to prolong your team and keep us healthy going to the back end.

But that's that old school ball that we grew up watching.

That that's how the running backs had to get it out, you know, back in the day, it was twenty to thirty carries, and you owed the team one hundred and one hundred and fifty yards.

Look at how many carries you had throughout right there.

Those are all the carries as years.

Two hundred and thirty carries, three hundred and sixty three carries, three hundred and fourteen carries, two hundred and eighty three carries, two hundred and eight carries, three hundred and forty eight carries, two hundred and seventy nine carries, got banged up, twenty one carry season, three hundred and twenty seven carries, and then it starts getting a little you know, but look at how that's that's a lot of carries.

Look those first one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Hey, let's just say the first ten nine years, nine ten years.

Look at those numbers, and that's in how many games, that's how many game seasons?

Sixteen he's total that.

Like you said, he's a stabled horse.

Hello, bro like and he was, and he was he was that guy.

I mean, everybody wanted to be if you want to be a power back, that's what you were watching.

I mean it was he was.

He was.

He didn't think that nobody else could do in the game.

I was in Pittsburgh my senior year when he was drafted, you know, top ten into the NFL, and I would go to the you know, other high schools when we were playing basketball into their arenas and everyone was wearing Adrian Peterson jersey.

Even being in Pittsburgh with the Steelers there, I've seen an agent Adrian Peterson jersey at least ten different other other places that I was playing at there would be like one or two kids in the crowd with Adrian Peters you know, AP jersey on.

It just shows well, you know what type of player he was.

Even in the steel City, people were representing AP because that's how big of a beast he was as a player.

He was the NFL at one point, you know, he really was.

He was the face of the NFL, and it was like everyone wanted to be a running back too as well when he was when he was in his prime prime coming out of college and in the NFL.

Remember at the Fiesta Bowl against Boise State with the Statue of Liberty game where Boise beat him?

Is that State?

Yeah, the Statue of Liberty, Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

Running back proposed to his girl run right after.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I do remember that.

But he had two tugs in that.

I mean, he was a monster at Oklahoma time.

We got to determine when what kind of dude this guy is?

All right, Rid, your your guest.

Out of the types of dudes we have, what kind of dude is Adrian Peterson?

Is he a stud?

Is he a freak?

Is he a dog?

Is he a whiz?

Or is he a dude's dude?

And why?

I mean, yeah, he's a stud, freaking dog and all that.

But I mean, Rid, you can only pick one category that he represents the most.

I will have to say, you gotta give him, give him that purple man.

He's a freak.

He's a freak.

He's a once in a once in a generation player.

I mean, he really is.

Why Because I don't think you're gonna see as many people with the breakaway and the physicality and do it for the duration that he did it College and Pro with that label on his back and everybody knew it, like name somebody else who was that dominant college and pros.

We just saw it for ten years.

We know he did it four years in college and had the ACL came back the next year and do that.

Come on, that's a freak.

That's a freak.

And on top of it, looks like a freak of nature too.

I mean his biceps are just popping out of his arms, mannequin's freaking veins just all over to place six packs.

He's a frizzle chest chisel legs as well.

Don't want those.

That's a freak of nature.

You don't want that.

So on three gronk one two three, free freak.

We'll be right back after this quick break.

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This week's Chillis Dude of the week is Steven, and we're gonna ask Ridley rid patent system of questions to see what type of dude you are.

Well, let's give a cheer real quick, where the red Thanks for being here on dudes on dudes, not a problem, wonderful stories, Take it easy, Take it easy, all right, and we're gonna be asking rid our patent system of questions to see what kind of dude he is.

We already know he's a dog.

Though we know he's whoa we don't know yet.

We're gonna ask him the questions to really determine and stamp it just what exactly he is.

All right, you know what you are?

You ready for this?

Red, Let's go get my notes.

I gotta take some notes.

Any wrong answers and he's got questions for you.

Now, Okay, I got some questions.

Here we go, Joels, Are you starting it off or you want me to ask the first question?

I'll start it off.

You started off, Steven?

Did you wear flip flops in the shower?

No?

So you got some nasty feet.

I gotta take care of my dogs.

Do I have to do that your pedicures?

Now?

So you went bare knuckleberry in the shower.

It's at work always, oh Ran barefoot at home in the grass and the fields, and barefoot, Bro barefoot.

He's quick.

Connect with nature, connects with nature?

All right, who's the most famous person in your phone?

You might be up there, Bro, I ain't up there, I say you keV Yeah, one person he way more famous than men.

Heart's pretty famous.

So you already.

You probably don't have Brady's new phone number though, so it's got a I hadn't ha kevv yeah, okay, process of elimination?

All right?

What sports did you play in high school?

In position of each sports?

Start with football everywhere?

Football everywhere.

Basketball was a power for no jump shot, great first step, we're going to score.

Oh so b ball, football player on the court, power.

Forward, and then we say power.

We go.

Baseball played catcher.

And baseball you're an athlete.

Would you hit in the lineup?

Three?

Okay?

Three?

Three hitter?

Three hitters alive and tell you wanted me to clean it up?

They put me back.

You get on base, get on base, and.

He's putting things in.

And then track track track four sport athletes, track one hundred, two hundred and four one four too through the shot put.

Okay, it's a baseball, football, basketball track.

That was pretty much it, all right, pretty much it.

Next question, what was the.

Song on your high school highlight reel?

Throw it Up?

By Little John in the East Side.

Book, Man Bro, can you sing a little bit?

Throw it up?

Mother, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up.

If you throw it up get out the club.

Yeah, that was that banger.

A little John had little bangers screaming the whole time.

What star recruit were you out of high school?

I was a four star, four star linebacker, outside linebacker.

Jules is coming for you, man, line up in that slot.

I don't know about Robbie g I wouldn'tant to see right.

But you were a four star linebacker, not even running back.

You were a recruit as a linebacker.

The go to LSU.

The only school that offered me running back boys was LSU and the University of Southern Mississippi.

Everybody else wanted me as an outside line back, the real side line of sideline.

Oh man, I don't know this about you.

We're telling you for over ten years and I didn't even.

Know that defense.

Oh man.

So yeah, I played instincts.

I bet you had, man, I just sea ball, getball.

That's killer instincts.

Yeah.

How many college offers.

Did you get?

Man?

I will say for that matter, I sent out three highlight films and never thought in a million years I would say this, humbler.

I never thought in the million years, I go Division one sent out three highlight films for the three closest D one schools of Natchez, Mississippi which is Mississippi State, Old Miss, and LSU.

All three coaches came to my single a private school, and came to visit, said they wanted to to play.

I went to LSU to be a Tiger.

There you go.

What was your college gpa?

Lo?

We were playing football, bro.

Low, great answer.

Playing that's the Tiger experience.

You better have a low gpa because if it's high, that means you ain't playing.

You ain't a starter.

Have your priorities right, sir?

We were focused on ball.

Okay, that's what it was.

What was your first car?

And what do you drive now?

Oh?

Do?

My first car was a nineteen eighty seven Nissan hard body pickup truck five speed.

My grandpa's truck had some little chrome ds on it.

Drove that from the first ever vehicle.

Learned how to drive a stortion.

I met.

What was your first car?

LSU?

It's just messing with your read.

Ford two fifty Ford F two And what about driving today?

Four F three fifty platinum.

Lifted ling is lifted through the roof with like twenty eights on it.

Moster truck tires, big trucks man, Big trucks four by four is only over here.

Man, what was your first endorsement deal?

First endorsement deal had be undermer was under one.

Go back to a freaking cleat story.

Now remember that with the with the boots, man, you always just had have boxing boots on when.

I was ringing.

Yeah, you look like some Superman shoes.

Cam Newton, Cam Newton like wrestling.

This guy was wearing wrestling shoes like whole Cogan up to hear boots.

With boozlet two tone brought in.

They don't make me live it.

What's the square root of one?

Would be fourteen or twelve?

Twow twelve.

You corrarecked it yourself, really, Coruick, So we'll give it you.

Describe your locker clean.

It was clean, had the boom box, had the tones, did have the boom box organized lots of cleats.

So for sure, name a player you modeled your game after, and it can't be ap because we already.

Know that smo mah okay, that would have been a he would have been if I watched him in college.

He would have easily been on the mountain USh more.

You want to know why you know you know where he's from.

He's from that dirty, dirty, dirty stupid dude, dude, skiddy scap bay, My god, he is.

He's another goat over there.

Skigky scat one and only.

The bait.

I keep on thinking, look it over here.

I haven't looked at the camera once.

I don't think I can't move my neck.

Oh dude, you weren't a pro athlete.

What would you be?

Truck driver?

Truck driver?

That's all.

This has been true to your roofs.

Bro keep it one thousand.

Man, What position group outside of your own did you hang out with the most?

That is a good one.

I'd say the defense though, because I was kicking it with with Jamie a little bit.

Huh so so, but I said, those.

Are your guys because you were a linebacker in high school.

You guys play against each other a lot in practice.

Yeah, like we kind of one on one, you kind of go agat.

So I would say the linebackers pretty good bit.

All right, if a fight breaks out of practice, what are you doing?

Depends?

Man, fight breaks out in practice, we gotta, you know, figure out what what the what it is.

But uh, we're going analyze the situation for he's going.

In for how we're going?

All right?

All right, say fight breaks out of practice someone offensive defense, offense, first defense.

Yeah, excuse my language, fuck up.

I mean we're riding with our side all out.

He's running, running to the running to the running.

The ones we can go.

We can go through these ones pretty quick.

How much you bench bench?

Was?

I think the most ever bench was?

It?

Was it?

Three forty five.

Three flight nothing strong, no strong for a running back.

No, I wouldn't know what that's not low end, I wouldn't I was.

He was you can squat probably Have you ever been fined in for what?

And how much?

Come on, juels, is that a real question.

Yeah, we asked all that.

We asked all the contest.

Everybody multiple times.

I got fined for my jump suits.

I got fined for my moon boots.

I got fined from my vos, I got fined for my cleats, got fine for everything, conduct detrimental with Bill, got fired for shoot a pistol on the camera.

I got fined a lot, whole lot.

He's been fined, he was fine.

Wait wait fat camp, Yes, I definitely got fined.

Has been fine to get This is definitely shaping up to what I think you are.

Oh, it's already in my head.

What but dude, this last book you read.

Last book I read probably be the Bible, man Bible to get it.

What was your fastest forty times?

I'd say the fastest forty time I read would have to be probably a four five seven man.

I never could get under that four five five.

I was like a four five seven, four five eight guy.

I was a high four five guy, all right.

And then last two, what was the first thing you bought when you got your money?

A Camaro that I still have today.

It looks like the Batmobile for anyone.

It really does batmobile looking Camaro.

It's definitely ridly.

I pulled in day one.

Tom told me, rid save your money, man, and I still have the car right now today.

And it written said that as soon as he's.

All been like Tod, if I go bankrupt, man, you can you can back me up.

Though you got plenty, you got plenty of bricks.

You got me looked at his red just savior, but I said, okay, Tom, another supercharger.

And the last question, how do you eat your steak?

Aha?

And there's no shame in me with this one?

Well done.

I like a light bit of pink in my meat.

That's what I'm talking about.

Like, I'm not bloody.

You'm on the same page.

You like like fork and knife?

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

What if it's like a bone and ribbi?

Are you taking the bone?

I'm gonna eat everything off the bone.

The sweet meat on the bone with hands.

Hell yeah, clean it.

That's what's up.

Clean it?

All right, Well, we got to analyze your answers.

Red.

We'll be right back.

We're going to be right here, but we'll be right back to tell you we have we have came up with in a conclusion of what type of dude you are.

So he's he's been fined a lot.

He doesn't listen to doesn't listen to me when he doesn't care about it.

Yeah, it doesn't.

And you can tell him fifty.

Times with the rules, are still do it?

And he doesn't wear flip flops in the showers, discuss, and he doesn't care about all sports.

He doesn't care so as he's getting his energy out the coolers like cooler four star, four star, but he does.

Absolutely no doubt.

If that's why I have the whole time?

All right, all right, all right, we got it.

We got it on three.

It was it was pretty easy.

Yeah, it was easy.

It was unanimous, unanimous yes, one, two, three.

Dog.

Yeah, you're relentless, you are motivated.

You're physically and mentally tough.

You don't give a fuck with people really care about.

Like you walk into showers with when everyone is wearing flip flops because it's sanitary and you go barefooted.

Not so you can be told what the rules are, but you're still going to do your own thing.

You're gonna be fined a lot of money, but it's okay because your swag will always be up.

Yes, we're gonna make it a back.

And you love to play any sport out there.

You played four in high school.

You just love the exactly.

You just love to kick your energy out for sport athlete.

Those are dogs.

If you're doing all of it, you're that's dog ship.

Yeah, gotta and say, I think all your best athletes never really focused on one one sport anyway.

Right, Yeah, and doesn't even know his GPA it was low.

That's that's a dog.

He went to school for one reason, and that was to be a dog.

But you know how to eat, you know how knows how we'll eat.

But the fact that you don't eat the steak with your full hands like the whole time is why you transferred to running back.

Now.

I get it.

Linebackers and crazy dudes.

They eat their steak with their fucking hands.

I'll just pick it up and go at it.

Like when we went to a restaurant in New York with Rob for like the first time.

It was like a fancy ass restaurant.

Rob's got a t bone and he's chewing it off people.

I'm watching these people at like the Polo Lounge or whatever this is.

Look at him like this, like, what is that cave man doing?

Getting it done?

Well?

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Hey, well what an episode, A great episode.

That is.

Thank you again, rid Rick kidrid thank you for joining the show.

It's always good to be with my boys, and thank you for having me back.

Man.

We love having not a pleasure.

Man.

Love what y'all are doing.

Man, I'm not just saying this, y'all killing it, bro.

We got to keep, got to keep the synergy going.

It's been fun, be fun to get to have.

And now that we're going to start bringing more guests on, it's we're going to create a new like we've only had.

You're like our third guest that we've had in the studio.

We've usually kept it a lot shorter.

We went longer with you because we have so much shit to talk about with you.

But you know, we're trying to find a way to do this a lot more when you have.

When we have all three in here, it's just it's a fun environment.

Little in shouting dynamic, you know what I mean, get the bounce, some ideas off shoot it around, but uh, whenever, guys, Hey, look, I'd love to come in and chop it up with y'all boys, and I'm always supporting them.

See y'all moving and shaking.

So y'all just got to keep it going.

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The company is called check it Out.

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