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So more Sean, I, I, you know, I got to tell you from the Superbowl, I see you on national commercial. I see you on a Starbucks commercial. Uh, I get through to NBA all-star week and you're hosting one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Uh, a community fan fest event with the entire Oakland and the Bay area coming out. You did it your way, a real way. Uh,

on top of that, you're also in a little show called euphoria. Last I checked, it's the number one show in the, in, in the U S how you do it. So Marshawn, take me through your will win couple of weeks of all this incredible stuff you've done. I mean, shit. Uh,

You can't just go put me on the spot, man. Fresh, you know, I apologize. Look, I'm just saying fresh. You know how I move, man. Sean, I want to ask you something real quick and a real note. You were close to someone very much in your life, the former owner of the Seahawks, Paul Allen. And this past few days, you received the Paul Allen Humanitarian Award. Take me through that award and what that meant to you.

Man, look, Fresh, you're going to have to let me chew on something. You got to let me eat one time for the one time. But to get that award was pretty big. As I was sitting there and me and Babs was talking, and I look on the award thing, and I realized this ain't something that I'm not really good at receiving shit.

But then when I seen, like, my name and it had Paul Allen name on it and being awarded an award in his name, that was big for me because, you know, towards the end of my career, me and him started to, we had, we started to conversate. You know, like I said at the award show, like, this would actually respond to me. Like, I mean, you know, we would have conversations and, you know, I could ask some questions about, you know,

You know, whether it was some investments that came my way or if I was looking for real estate, what should I be looking at? Like, you know, he he he was he would chop it up with me because everything that I would hear about him was like, oh, you know, Paul Allen, he's, you know, kind of different. You know, you don't really talk to people and, you know, all this, that and the third. But I just remember him coming to one of my foundation dinners that we were having and

And the response that I got from a few people that was up on the third floor was like, "Hold on, he really coming to your event?" And it was like, "Yeah, he said he was gonna play his guitar and hella shit." And I'm like, "They like, 'Well, you know he don't come out, right?'" And I'm like, "Nah, I didn't know." But we reached out and he said he was gonna come mobbed through. And I just remember about the first, what, two, three minutes he was there,

I'm like, yeah, we taking shots of patronacy. By the way, I was right with you. Me, you, him, and Michael Bennett. Remember that? Michael Bennett. And you had your boy Joe was there, too. Yep. Joe Montana. Yep. And I'm like, they like, man, I don't know what the hell is going on, but...

He took a shot of patronacy with you. And then, I mean, you know, we sat at the table and I mean, I just was chopping it up with him on some, on some cool on a year. Feel me like what's up with it, bro. And it was solid to me. So I don't understand, like, you know, that was other people's perception of him, but you know, for me, he was solid. So being able to get this award, you know what I mean? And his name is,

Yeah, I mean, it's full circle for me. Yeah, I mean, and to me, it's a real life respect. And like I said, I mean, you know, it made it a little easier to accept that award because I know, you know what I mean, what it mean. And then, I mean, you know, all the philanthropy work that he was doing. Like, I remember he called me one time.

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I'm like, all right, cool. I'll be up there one time. Like, well, I'm in the Philippines right now. I think I just found a Japanese, a Japanese fighter ship at the bottom of the Philippine Ocean. But I'll be in Seattle. I'll meet you there like at four o'clock or some shit. I remember getting off the phone like, hey, fresh. I got to get to Seattle right now. We got to go. You like what? I'm like, yeah, man. Paul just called me, told me we got to get up there.

Like, well, shit, we going. I say, yeah, this motherfucker just told me he was in the middle of the Philippine Ocean, found a Japanese cruise ship. And we went and got on our private PJ. Yeah, I mean, and we went up to Seattle and we had an interesting conversation with that gentleman. But I mean, you know, to get that award was huge. Ever wonder what it would be like to be mentored by today's top business leaders? My podcast, This Is Working, can help with that.

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Former, I want to say this, same high school as me, different time, the mean streets, Monta Vista High School to junior college to UCLA football player to then scout with the Patriots, Broncos, 49ers, and newly named last year, general manager and executive of the year of the Washington Commanders, the hottest GM in football ever.

Adam Peters. What's up, guys? Beast mode? What's up, big dog? Adam, I just told Marshawn, I keep telling him about the mean streets of Monta Vista and Cupertino, and he's like, come on, man.

What the fuck is mean about them streets? There's a couple blocks. There's a couple blocks that are tough, you know? Yeah, a couple tough blocks. Yeah, if we start getting into where the Migos hanging out at, then, you know what I mean? Well, Adam, throughout these last 15 years as I represent him or Sean, I've told him that I grew up in the mean streets of Cupertino, and he came down one time to my mom's house. He's like, dude, mean streets.

Come on, bro. But Marshawn, you'll love Adam. Adam's like me, dude. He's a state school, public school kid, grinder, scrapper, junior college player at West Valley College to UCLA to now the grind of an NFL scout and now a current GM, Marshawn. He's been battling for a long time. Have you ever heard your background ran down like that?

Yeah, a couple times, yeah. Yeah, you hear how Doug just run your whole background down? Yeah. You sound pretty accomplished, my boy. Well, he's kind of bragging about himself, though. He's like, he's just like me. He did all this stuff. Yeah, you feel? Yeah.

Well, I got to be honest with you more, Sean. I saw Adam yesterday and we had a few we had a few we had a lot. But this way, we had a long lunch for many, many hours. And for me, it lasted about nine hours. Put it that way. Adam had to go to work. But I had about a nine hours lunch that turned into a lunch to a dinner with a few cocktails in between. Yeah, I was going to ask you how many how many drinks was involved in that?

There was a few, right, Adam? There was a few. You had a lot. You had a lot. My big night was the night before. I was still struggling. My boy drank like a guppy. Well, I want to tell you a funny story, and I'm not going to name the other GM that was there, but there was a GM there, Marshawn, that came to have a drink or two, and he was going to go to Mass today.

and there's a Friday Mass or Thursday Mass, and let's just say he missed the Mass, and he missed a few more things. So his intentions were pure, but I think my cocktail soda lime got the best of him, and he missed the Mass. So it's all good. I don't think that's something you should be bragging on. No, no.

I don't think you'd want to tell them about that, but you know what? That happens a lot here. A lot of things are missed here, but those types of deals get done during those situations. Not so much, you know, in a regular meeting, but when you're hanging out and you're talking and you're being honest with each other and being straight. And so I actually had a good conversation with him too, and hopefully we'll get something done, but that's kind of how this place is, you know, like,

you know, you're not in your regular meetings. You're really not doing a lot of shit. It's when you're kind of in the meetings after the meetings is when the real talk goes down. Well, Adam, before we get to that, before we get that, Adam, I was like me and Marshawn, it was like the origin story on things in life. And, you know, a lot of people don't know and our listeners like you get done with UCLA, played football there. And then instead of going to be a software salesman, instead of investment banking, instead of whatever it may be, you get into being a scout.

How does one go from college to a scout? Because a lot of people don't know how that is. How did you do that when you left UCLA years ago? Yeah, it's really just a function of I didn't know what I wanted to do. Like I had zero plans with my life. And I didn't really realize how not good I was at football until I realized it really late. I always thought I was better than I was. But by the time I realized, okay, I'm probably not going to be doing this for a living, I

I wanted to stay in that. I was a psychology major and there's not a whole lot of cool psychology jobs. It's really beneficial learning about it because you can talk to people a certain way and you understand people a certain way a little bit more, but I wasn't going to be a psychologist. So I was like, I want to stay in football. So the year after I finished playing, I was still, still in school. So I decided to stay and start working in the, in the football office. So I worked in the football office with,

A dude, Randy Taylor, who is our director of operations. Had some great coaches. Guys that are still in the league today. Do you ever play for BNME, Marshawn? I didn't get to play for them, but I got a pretty good relationship with them. Yeah, so he was a coach then. John Emory was a coach then. My coach at the time was...

Don Johnson, God rest his soul, is an incredible man and D-line coach. So those guys kind of all took me under their wing and allowed me to work there. And so I worked there for, you know, whatever, six, seven dollars an hour, just doing whatever I could to go and get sandwiches, coffee, you know, watching tape. So he was grinding, Doug. You hear that? Real grinding. Yeah.

So, Adam, all your friends leave college. They're making $100,000, $60,000, $70,000. What was your salary starting out with the Patriots as a scout? It was a hard negotiation. They said, you're making $18,000. I said, okay. $18,000. I drove out there. I said, all right, I'm in. So I took a Penske truck.

from Westwood up to the Bay Area, loaded a bunch of shit in there. It was towing my, I had this like old Acura Legend. This thing was actually awesome, six feet. Like I could haul ass in that thing. - Yeah. - Towed that on the back, drove across country to New England and then shit. - Hold on, hold on. You didn't even fly, you drove? - Drove.

Five days. Made a few stops. Almost died a couple times right through a snowstorm. I was going to say, that snow up there is... Yeah. Ooh, shit. Yeah, it was during the spring and hit a massive snowstorm on like I-80. Went through like Montana, Wyoming. Almost drove off the side of the road. It was a wild trip, but it was all meant to be, man. It was cool and a lot of cool people in New England. Won a lot of games and then really kick-started my career.

Oh, shit. So you was over there when I came and had my little run in Buffalo then? Yeah, I went to New England in 2003 to 2009. And I started, and you won't remember this, but obviously I knew you really well because I became a West Coast Scout in 2006. So I was scouting your area. So I was coming to Cal all the time. I'd park up in that bullpen. Yeah. Be in those meeting rooms when all those fuckers were in the trees, you know? Yeah.

Hippie Hill, baby. Hippie Hill. Hippie Hill, Adam. That ain't Hippie Hill, man. It wasn't in the hill. It was in the trees. In the trees. They built the community. Yeah. That's right. But I'm going to tell you this. Them trees still there. Yeah, they wouldn't take them down. They couldn't. They tried it. Yeah. Man, look, let me tell you an interesting story about that. Not to get sidetracked, but...

The police came and was trying to get those people out the trees. Now, like I said, they had a community up there. They had buckets. I'm talking about trash buckets full of piss and shit. And when the police would come up, they would throw that shit on the police. And when we would come up for practice, you could smell all that shit and piss just everywhere. But

Those trees are still there to this day. Yeah. That was like a non-negotiable when they built the new stadium. The new stadium. Yeah. They couldn't kill those trees. They say you build it around these trees. These trees ain't going nowhere. Adam, let people know back then, early on, what does a scout do? I mean, so you're the West Coast scout, what, trying to find the best player? I mean, what did that job entail in that grind early on?

Yeah, I think, you know, it's it's it is a grind. And again, when you're an area scout, you're not making a lot of money just driving all around. And my area was huge, like all the way out, you know, up from the Bay Area, all the way up to Washington, over to Idaho, down to Utah, all the way down like New Mexico. So I just drive around in a circle all fall.

Put like 30,000 miles on my car all fall and just stop at these schools. Cal was one of them we went to a lot and just try to find guys. And Marshawn was... Hold on. They don't give you no budget to fly? Not in the area, Scout. No, you just drive. Now, you get a car stipend or you get like mileage.

But not until you graduate into a national scout or director, you're not flying anywhere. You're just driving, just wearing out your car. So, you know, those drives are long on the West Coast, man. Hell yeah, they long as fuck. Yeah. So I get like, ah, shit, what did I listen to? I listened to, you know, like this.

We can get into this too, Marshawn, some Bay Area rap. But I would just listen to shit fucking on a loop. I'd be listening to Mac Dre for like hours and hours and hours. Well, look, man, you picked a good artist to listen to if you're going to be driving from fucking Washington to New Mexico. Like, God damn.

But Marshawn, you know what these scouts did back then? All they cared about is their damn Marriott points. They all stayed in Marriott's because they all want to get their damn points. And Adam's probably how many points of Marriott's do you have right now, Adam? I use them all. Some guys like hoard them and they keep them forever. But I would I would I get like a million points in a year.

And then I would just use them all in the summer for like my summer vacation. But some guys have like tens of millions where they just hoard them. And I don't know whether to use them, but I would just blow it all every summer. So the cool thing, Adam, for the listeners is that, you know, I mean, there's 32 GM jobs in the world. Okay. It's probably one of the most coveted things in the world. So for 20 some odd years, you were banging from New England to Denver to the 49ers to

And last year you got named the general manager, which is the creme de la creme in terms of a football other than owning a team. It's the GM. Did you ever think that day was not going to come in terms of all the stuff you went through, the grinds, the drives, the battles, the late night dinners, the waffle houses, all the stuff you went through? Did you ever think that day wasn't going to come?

You know, I always wanted to come, but there was times, yeah, for sure, where I was worried and where I was like, man, I'm not going to, you always have bumps in the road, right? You know, through your school life, through your career, through your playing life. And so there was a lot of times where I was real frustrated, either with my performance or the situation or everything. But I think what was cool is I was very, very fortunate to be one with, you know, four great organizations. So I'm sorry with New England. It was

it was like a dynasty then and learned how to win and learned how to, you know, work really fucking hard. Then go to Denver and we were really good. We won five straight division titles and learned from, from John Elway, from Gary Kubiak, from Matt Russell's, some really like just really cool people. And then getting to San Francisco and being with John and Kyle and John's like,

you know, the biggest influence on my life and my career as a man, as a personnel person, as a leader. And so there was a lot of times where I was worried and frustrated and everything, but I was really, really lucky to be around a lot of great people and allowed me to get this opportunity. So how they look at your performance is based off of the players that you recommend? Like, all right, we got Marshawn Lynch right here, I think.

he'll be a good fit here. I come in, I'm a good fit. That's points to you, right? Yeah. So if I come in and I'm ass and I'm trash, then it's like, hey man, what the fuck? You losing points for that, right? Yeah, and there's so much that goes into it, right? Not just how good you are as a player and you're fucking awesome. So then give me the breakdown and then use me as a player.

And this is riding on your GM job. You know what I mean? If this player works, then we give you the opportunity to at least interview for the job. What does it look like? You got Marshawn Lynch sitting right here. 2007 draft.

Yeah. So it was you and you had all day was your draft class, right? By the way, hold on, Adam. Thank God there was no cell phones back then. Too much, Sean. How you doing? We ain't going to get into all of the ups. I apologize. Go ahead, Adam. I apologize. Go ahead, Adam. Hey, that goes for all of us, man. Trust me. That wouldn't be it if we had those back then. But, yeah.

But, you know, so the way we looked at it in New England is we always valued, you know, your versatility. What could you play on all three downs? So,

And I had cross-checked all the running backs. So not only did I do all the dudes on the West Coast, but I did all the running backs. So my number one running back that year was Marshawn. And because I knew what he could do, not only on first and second down, but on third down. You're like dynamic in the pass game too. So you're looking for a guy who fits your scheme. It's not so much who is the best guy, most talented guy, but who fits your scheme, who fits your culture. And the more and more that I've –

done this, how they fit is more important than the talent. Talent's always extremely important, but you have to have that mix. So finding a guy who fits what you do and fits in your locker room and like you're a competitor and loves ball and all that stuff, that those

Those are where we make the mistakes. We don't make the mistakes on how good a guy is. You make the mistakes on how much he fits, how well he loves it, you know, is how much of a competitor he is. And that's every mistake that we've made is because I've made is the biggest ones because of that.

I can only imagine. This is interesting, Marshawn, and I'm going to ask you this question, Adam. Looking back to Marshawn in 2007, okay, coming from Oakland, going to Cal, forget the talent and all that, right? Forget all that because you know that was there. Would you have drafted him to Buffalo because you're taking a kid from a different part of the country to Buffalo, right?

Would you, would you, was that a good move? And Marshawn, same call up question to you. Would you have drafted yourself to Buffalo knowing that that's that organization might not have been ready for you back then? Adam, you first. Yeah, that's a great question. I think if I was at Buffalo, I don't know who the GM was at the time, but. Buddy Nix. No, it wasn't Buddy Nix.

It was Marv Levy. Oh, Marv Levy, yes. It was Marv? Yeah. Yeah. And rest in peace, Dick Jerome, man. Did they spend a ton of time with you or just a little bit of time with you before the draft? Who was that, Marv? Yeah, whoever in Buffalo, like the decision makers. Did they fly you out? Did you do a 30 visit? Did you do any of that stuff? Well, I mean, I did all that. I spent a lot of time with Marv and with –

Dick Geron. Yeah. Like I had to go up there. Then I did the combine meetings and all of that shit. So, yeah. So, I mean, if they spent all that time with you and they felt comfortable that you'd be a good fit there, then that's, I think it's just a matter of how much work you do. I can't like say he should or shouldn't have done it. I mean, that's a long fucking way from home and Buffalo is a lot different than the Bay.

But, you know, as long as you have the right culture and the right people, you know, guys can thrive in different environments. But, you know, that's the biggest thing is understanding and getting as much information as you possibly can to make the best decision. And if they did that and they thought that,

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Adam, you'll love this, and then we'll get to the combine in a minute, but it was funny. So Marshawn's going through all the visits and all that stuff, and back then, everyone wore suits to the visits, and this means, guys, before the draft, players will go in, and the teams will bring them in for a visit for a day to meet the coach and the owner and whatnot. And so I'll never forget, Marshawn, I picked you up at Cal, woke you up like at 6 in the morning, you were flying to Dallas.

and I pick him up, drop him off at the Oakland airport at him, and as he gets out, I say, hey, what, you forgot your suit bag. I throw him your suit bag. He took the suit bag, ripped it up, threw it right back in the car. I said, I'm not wearing that shit. I said, bro, what do you mean? He's like, I'm not wearing that. And he'd never forget. He said, if Jerry Jones doesn't like me for who I am,

not what I wear, then I don't need to be a cowboy. And he told Jerry the same thing. And that was the first time a player said, I'm not going to go through this process and fake it and wear something I'm not comfortable in. And Marshawn didn't do it. And it was such an eye opener for me as a young agent thinking, you know what? How cool is that? Because Marshawn drafts him for who he is. He's not going to make put a suit on to fake it. And Marshawn was the first player really to do that, which is pretty cool.

Yeah, he's ahead of his time. He really was. Man, that shit was almost career suicide. Now it doesn't matter, man. I mean, look, well, I mean, you know, it's got to start somewhere. Yeah. I'm just thinking, just as your process as a player, because I know we're going to get some young players who, I mean, it's...

probably going to look at this and see, you know what I mean? What is it that a GM, I mean, I know you said if he fits the culture and, you know what I mean, talent is obviously a big deal, character, but in, I mean, no particular order, but what does that process look for you? Yeah, it starts really with, you know, where I started as an area scout.

In the area scouts, my job as an area scout when I went to Cal was not just to know my point of contact, but I knew Coach Gould. I knew Coach Mihaljevic. I knew all those dudes. I developed such relationships with them that that way I could have a real conversation with them about...

who you are, you know, who you are as a person. What time do you get in? Like, what do you do extra? Like, how much time do you put in on it? How much do you love it? How much of you are a competitor on the field? Do you play through injuries and all that? So you, as an area scout, you know, your job is to be an expert in your area and know fucking every single thing about Marshawn Lynch.

And then he brings that back to the college director. And then we have meetings and the GM. So all my, my,

Now all my information I get from our scouts and they tell me in the better the scout the more they know because the more people they're tight with so Understanding everything that makes you tip man. Not I mean everything that's their job. What do you do at night? Do you homebody to go out? Do you you have a girl the I mean like all that stuff Do we know everything about these guys possible in order to make that decision like fucking everything? So is it the all right cuz look man, I used to think this was bullshit. I

So now it sounds like it's the GMs who do this. But I mean, I got drafted and then I will come back home maybe like maybe three, four years after. And I go to some of the same stores that I used to go to as a kid. The guy in there used to call me Mars Bars. Hey, Mars Bars, Mars Bars. He's like, man, a couple of years ago, man, some people came in here asking me questions about you and shit.

And I'm like, man, what the fuck is you talking about? He like, man, I don't know, man. Maybe they was with the NFL. And I'm like, man, get the fuck out. I had no idea. I didn't think nothing of it. But then I went to my elementary school and they asked me some like, hey, Marshawn, you know, I see you doing your football shit and whatever. But, you know, some people came here a couple of years ago asking you questions.

Is it really that deep? It's not always that deep, but I think if someone's going to spend that much, you know, a first-round pick, some guys are psycho. Like, I never did. The farthest I would go in high school, I wouldn't go in elementary school. But I know some guys that were area scouts with me out there that would just, like, they would drive around Oakland and they would ask people shit. And that's a little, like...

on the stage. Like, that's a little overdoing it. That was just like a myth. Like, man. All right. Yeah. So look, man, so that shit is true because like nowadays, you know, you got, well, I guess they make it easy now because they got this social media shit. How much of that do you look at when it comes to, I want to check this guy out in a little deeper depth?

Would you go and check social media and all that kind of shit? We have a team of people that look at the social media and we'll flag it. This is millions and tens of millions of dollars. So, you know, whatever we spend on that to help us not make a catastrophic decision is worth it.

So, Marshawn, that's interesting because you and I talk about all the time these owners being impatient and the owners wanting results. And so there's some teams, as you know, Marshawn, in the league that they can't find a quarterback. Your old team, the Raiders, can't find a quarterback.

And so Adam here, it's fate or whatever you call it. He gets the Washington, and guess what? He's got the number two pick. And who does he get? The quarterback of probably the next 20 years. So Adam, take me through how great that was. That motherfucker is raw. That motherfucker is raw. And that would be Jayden Daniels. Well, whatever kind of investigating you did,

You need to if it was the P.I. that you put on him, you need to go put that motherfucker on everybody because she he would have found something special. He's special. And, you know, it's cool is we did. We went back to high school and back to everywhere, you know, talking about him in the same way.

The story was the same every time. This is a man. This is a competitor. This guy loves ball. This guy would do anything to win. I mean, it was like you couldn't hear every single story. High school coach, Herm Edwards, college coaches,

Private quarterback coaches, you know, guys that play with them. Like we talked to IU, like IU loves them. Like, I mean, every single step of the way, teammates, whatever it is, support staff.

It was just like, this is a dude. Now he's reserved. He's laid back. So don't let that fool you. Like, this is a fucking dog competitor that will fucking raise the level of your team. And that's what he did, man. And so you got to rely on all those sources. But when you hear it,

over and over and over. It's the same thing. That gives you a lot of confidence to pull that trigger. Damn. Yeah. So you get this guy, Adam, as a rookie GM, and it's like, you look pretty good with this guy, don't you? I mean, it's a pretty good get, isn't it? Ha ha!

Yeah, it's funny. You get like, you almost feel guilt because I just feel really, really, really blessed, really lucky that he was there and that it doesn't happen every draft. And so, yeah, we're very lucky. I feel guilty sometimes, but just very happy for our organization. Well, Marshawn, it's pretty cool. Your brother and your former teammate, Bobby Wagner, and him have become very close. And Dan Quinn, big head ass. Yeah.

He would love him, too, man. You would love playing for DQ, man. He's incredible. I did play with DQ. Oh, shit, that's right. Yeah, shit. I played with him. Not as a head coach, but as a DC. Yeah, not as a head coach, but... Yeah. We used to sit down and he used to throw some defenses at me, make sure I stayed on my shit. And then he got Bobby over there commanding everything. So, shit, that's... You know what I mean? Yeah.

I know he got something big, but I wish you would have brought Cable with him. Yeah. No, we talked to him. We talked to Cable. He was great. Man, Cable. Because them two, they tight. Yeah. He's a good dude. We had a good talk with him. But Cable might be just a little bit too gangster for y'all up there right now, man. Y'all probably got to get y'all feet wet then come bring in a gangster partner, Cable, up there. You know what I mean?

So, Adam, it's interesting. We, you know, as actually, you know, a year ago today, you saw Jay Deannis the first time and we're actually at the scouting combine in Indy. And by the way, I've been here for six days and I think I've lost about five years of my life. I got actually I went to I went to go get an IV today. Truthfully, the place was closed. I was kind of pissed off. Right.

What people don't understand is that, you know, they look at the combine, Adam, and they see the stuff on TV, the 40-yard dashes. They see the broad jumps, all that. What nobody understands is the seven days of what we go through here as an agent, as a former player, and a GM. And, you know, from my perspective, it's funny. I'll never forget. This is my 32nd year at the combine, 32nd year here. I'll never forget early on in the process back then, you know, you went from the combine right to free agency.

I'll never forget Marshawn. Like 95, I was doing a deal and I met this guy named Bill Pauly in the former GM of the Colts who was an old school guy. You know, he said, hey, meet me at eight o'clock in the morning. Well, the night before I'm out drinking, partying, not knowing what to expect. I meet this guy out and he's ready to get a deal done. I had no idea what I was doing. I'm like, oh,

Oh, my God. I said, hey, I said, Mr. Pullian, I'm going to have to get back to you when I get back. I had no clue how to get a deal done eight in the morning back then. But the combine, Adam, has evolved to now this massive week of, you know, financial advisors are here. Businesses are here. Equipment companies interviews the whole deal. But it's a huge job fair for a lot of people. But take me through quickly, Adam, how this has changed from when you started it out.

Yeah, I mean, it's a huge thing. It's a, let me say, a tentpole event for the NFL. It's a big, big deal now. And, I mean, it's on TV. It didn't used to be on TV. It used to be kind of a free-for-all. Like, when I first started, when you were a scouting assistant, when it started at, like, in order to interview players, you had to, like, fight for guys. It wasn't organized. There wasn't formal interviews or anything. So you'd be fighting other scouting assistants to get –

interview these guys for your coaches there would be fistfights there'd be like guys pushing punching yelling like I had a guy like chasing after me for like three days because I took the guy that he wanted in order to interview for our coaches so a lot's changed it's a lot more organized it's a lot bigger event like you said but there was no I mean there was no fanfare to it at all well Adam speaking of fights I don't know if you heard this more Sean there was a fight last night or the night before in Indy between two media members

Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport got in a fight, ironically, at a Starbucks. And Jordan's dad is, I can't make this up, bro. They got in a fight at a Starbucks. Yes. Because they got, I don't know what happened, but these motherfuckers get in a fight at a Starbucks at 4 o'clock in the afternoon during the combat. How about that? Yes. Yes.

Man, so how long do they still, I mean, I can remember they was measuring every goddamn thing on us. Yeah, they measure your hand like that. They measure every fucking, like. You sit and reach, you know, they measure your joints. They measure, yeah, they do it. Oh, it sounds like it's gotten even more extensive. I remember wingspan. Did you do wingspan or did you just do your arm?

They just introduced Wingspan like a few years, like maybe five, ten years ago. You know what I mean? Oh, shit, man. I just remember sitting back there behind this little fucking curtain and motherfuckers talking about, uh, yep, they go to me. And all you can hear from out the crowd is like, I mean, it was like an auditorium, I guess, with all these, you just heard Hella writing on them. Yep, yep. Sure.

Oh, man, what the fuck going on out here? Like, man, they got motherfuckers on the chopping block. Like, what the fuck going on? Well, Marshawn, the funniest part is that these guys get, you know, they get to interview players for 15 minutes, as you know, or maybe it wasn't back then, but it is now. And I never forget, like, these are the meetings. And again, I'm not going to name any GMs or personnel people, of course, but they'll ask some young kids, so, you know, do you drink? Do you party a lot? Whatever.

And, you know, kids get to, you know, no, I don't smoke pot or I don't drink that much, whatever. And these guys will kind of get in. I'm like, I've heard you do this. I've heard you do that. And then I see these same GMs at two in the morning that are damn near passed out in the hallway of the hotel, can't find the room they're in. And I'm like, listen, you were the fucking same guy that grilled my client about partying too much as a 19-year-old. You're 55 years old, and you can't even make back your room you've been drinking so much. Oh.

Am I right, Adam? I've seen guys asleep on the couch in the lobby as we're going to the weigh-ins in the morning. And everybody's walking by them.

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So, Marshawn, here's a funny story. So last year, Adam gets the job, and there's a steakhouse here called St. Elmo Steakhouse, a real famous steakhouse since like 1942. And we go there for a big dinner last year. It's a late dinner, and it's me and Adam and six, seven other people. And we're sitting there and having some drinks, not even that much food. And so about midnight, the bill comes, and the waitress puts the bill next to me.

And I look at him like, I'm sorry, I think that must be for the wedding. There's a wedding rehearsal in the other room. And all of a sudden I look up and she's still sitting there. And she's like, no, this is your bill. And I said, it was $6,900. And I'm thinking to myself, we have no bottle of wine. None of us even had any steaks. I said, I think this is the wrong check. And she's like, no, this is the right check. And I said, well, how do you figure? And she's like, well, you ordered this tequila.

And so, you know, the Classe Azul, the blue tequila that's usually like 50 bucks a glass, no matter where in the country, maybe it's 40 bucks, 50, 60, whatever. She's like, no, no, you ordered the Classe Azul Ultra Nueva Black Bottle Tequila. And this was $675 a glass. Yeah, I had like six or seven of them myself. I'm like, oh, my God.

And I said, no, no, no, I didn't order this. She's like, yes, you did. I said, all right, was your manager around? And she's like, no. And so I didn't want to make a big deal. So I paid the bill. I come back the next day and I said, listen, I don't want to be the guy that like has the bill. I says, not about the money. I got the money. Yes, I do, Marshawn.

I said, it's not about the money. Yeah, you got it from me. Gave my damn 3% back, motherfucker. Yes, I did. I said, but listen, here's the deal. I didn't order this damn tequila. And they're like, well, we're going to check the video monitors. I said, listen, no disrespect to Indiana. No disrespect to St. Elmo's, okay? But if I was to order this bottle, I'd want to be in a yacht in San Tropez. I'd want this bottle coming out with dancing girls and sparklers. I want the bottle at my table.

I didn't order this damn bottle. So this went on for a month. We had to investigate this order. And finally, the manager called me back about a month later, said, I'm sorry, Mr. Hendrickson. You're right. You did not order this. What should we do? And I said, listen, I'll make it easy on you. He charged me 150 glass. I'll still tip the waitress. She was fantastic. They credited me like 4,000 bucks. But

But those are the kind of stories that evolve from the combine. And that was a good one. Yeah, you got a point there, buddy. You got a point there, buddy. That's some shit. Adam, any stories like that you can remember besides that one with me last year?

That was the most recent for sure. I think I told one earlier where, I mean, I had a guy chasing me around all week because then like I'd look over my shoulder and this motherfucker be staring at me because I took his player that he wanted to interview. And it was literally for four days. I had a guy chasing me around the whole time. It was really fucking weird. And it was like, dude, what are we doing here? Like, it's not a big deal. Hold on. Is it still at the...

It was we was it like I think it was like a train station that they turned into the hotel. Same place, Marshawn. Same place. This guy would chase me around the train. Y'all still in there right now? They don't do it anymore. They do everything in the dome now. But it's the same kind of thing. But it's a lot more civilized. The train station. Where you ain't got people chasing your ass down for your interview. Yeah. When I was I went to combine, look, I had about.

You know, I was in some shit or I had some shit going on. So I had to meet with all 32 teams and I had to tell that story all 32 fucking times. And I just, oh my God, I remember coming back like, motherfuckers like, yeah, man, I met with like five teams. And I'm like, five teams? Like, what the fuck kind of? Man, well, who? Man, I got to go talk to my agent because I know this shit ain't right. What you mean five teams?

Man, I'm there with 32 fucking teams today. Like, man, I'm tired as fuck. And then we got to go out there and run and shit. Oh, my. Man, I was hotter than a motherfucker. Like, God damn. But then that's why I tell Doug, he say, well, I mean, you know, that's the penalty you got to pay for it.

doing dumb shit. It sure is, Marshawn, but guess what? Guess what? You evolved just fine. You battled through it. And speaking of the combine, Adam, I know you have to run to go back to interview players and to go basically watch some more 40s and whatnot. But listen, man, I'm really proud of you. You've built an incredible team and you've made it to the pinnacle. Now you've got to go win a Super Bowl in two or three or four. That's the pinnacle.

Right there. That's the pinnacle. That is the pinnacle. You've done it, bro. And I just appreciate the grind and battle to make it through a junior college UCLA walk-on, grinder, scrapper, scout, driving your car through the Upper West and Pacific Northwest and now being in the big chair. And by the way, you've got a good view there. You must have a nice suite, Adam. I think your owner might have some money, huh?

He's got a little bit. He got a couple of dollars. Hey man, go get a deal done with Bobby too, man. I know. I just texted him earlier. We're working on it. Go get a deal done with Bobby, man. He's hard. Marshawn. He's a good negotiator, man. For real. Yeah. I mean, that's my, that's my son, man. Here's the deal. In closing, Adam, why don't you get Bobby on FaceTime today? Put more Sean on FaceTime with Bobby and you can, you can do the deal with Bobby and Marshawn. Well,

I'm going to reach out to him now, but I just seen him over the Super Bowl. I'm like, I'm asking him when he going to hang it up. He like, hang it up. Oh, yeah.

Man, I ain't going no goddamn way. I said, all right, well, shit, man. Go ahead and get a deal done with my boy, man. He's special, man. I know a story about him. So they used to competition Wednesday. They used to like punching at the ball and all that shit. And Bobby was young. He was coming up trying to hit on me and shit. And I just tell him, hey, Bobby, hey, you got to learn how to practice, bro. And I walk away. He looking at me like, what the fuck is he talking about?

He'd come up, he'd do it again. But as he was coming up to me and trying to punch the ball, I just stopped and I dropped it in front of him. He looked at me like, what you doing? I said, I told you, learn how to practice. Don't be coming up trying to hit on me, motherfucker. I got to make it to Sunday. He like, oh, that's what you... I said, yeah, motherfucker. If I waste all my hits on you, then I don't have nothing for Sunday. Like, man, they make me do it, man. You're going to get me in trouble. I said, well, look, man, you either get in trouble during the week

well, we're going to be in trouble on Sunday. How you want to play it? He said, man, I'm going to learn how to practice. He understood. Yeah, he did, man. Smart as hell, but he actually is, you know what I mean, one of the greatest that I've seen do it and one that I play with, so...

Yeah, man. Go take care of my boy, man. Go find some more players, Adam. Go find some more players. All right. I got one more for you, Doug. You ready? Yes. We'll go top five Bay Area rappers. Marshawn, you're out of this, Doug. I don't think you know him. Okay. Go ahead, Marshawn. No, he is.

I'm going to see what you got. Who I got? Who's number one? For me? Yeah. Wrap and run. Wrap and run. I got Mac Dre. Number two, Marshawn. All right. Now, if you're just going, I mean, because it's the ways you could go about this. I'm a little older than you, too. So, you know, I got a little further back. You got Messi Marv. Messi Marv leaves a mess. Yeah, you got mess for sure. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, I think one of the originators in still fucking good is too short. See, that's cheating. Well, I mean, you want to go underground? You want to go like RBL Posse? You want to go like Dre Dawg? Yeah, Andre Hicks. Yeah. Yeah, you got to go Dre Dawg. You go Dre Dawg for sure. And just the fact that you said that, I'll give you the pass. You can say one time right now.

You said, hey, I was not expecting you to bring out Dre Dawg, baby. Who else, Marshawn? Who else? Give me two more, Marshawn. You said two more? Yep. Where do you want to go? You want to go in the Bay or you want to go in Oakland? Yeah, let's go Oakland. You want to go Oakland? I'm going to go a group. I'm going to go two groups. The Loneys and the Delinquents.

- Ah, Boonies, man. It sucks 'cause they're just known for one song, but man, when that shit came out, man. - I mean, worldwide they known for one song, but shit. - Yeah. - At home, yeah, that's a little different.

You know, one guy that I always think about, and he's not a rapper, but he's the producer. You remember Kyrie? Kyrie. He did all the stuff for Mac Dre, for Mac Mall, for Ray Love. He did all the beats. He did all the beats, and he just disappeared off the face of the earth. Hey, you know what? I told you, you get one pass.

You get one pass. Never using it, buddy. You never... But I appreciate it. Okay, you really are. You really are old school. Yeah, you really old school, Bay Area. I respect it. Adam, I appreciate that right there. That is really fucking cool, bro. I love that. Yeah, hey, he had the... I know, look, and he excluded you for a reason. I don't know any of those fucking guys. I got...

I love that. Insane down at EPA. Remember them? Yeah. It might be too old for you. Nah, hell nah. You right. You got a, you got Band-Aid and Scoot. The hood stars out at EPA too. Yeah. Mr. Fab, you know, obviously Mr. Fab. Go Toes out there, out that way with Sandho or something like that.

But yeah, man, but then you start getting back this way. Yeah, that's real shit. I mean, you know, I could go younger, too, but. Yeah, I don't know any of the new stuff. We had a couple of guys on our team, like one of Doug's clients, Jeremy McNichols, put me on some new guys. So I got to start listening to that, man, because I'm like, I just listen to shit that I grew up with, man. I understand it, but you went in your bag, my boy. A lot of respect, man, and congratulations on the success that you've been having.

And I know you – because you got a good group over there. Really good group, man. You got a good group over there. Yeah. You know what I mean? With DQ, your quarterback, Bobby. He'd fit right in, man. He'd be right – I mean, this is the kind of guys you like, man.

Oh, no. Can we do a one-year deal with Marshawn Adams? No, no. Over my weight. One-play deal. One-play deal. I could give you a play. No, I couldn't. Look, when I came out of retirement for the Seahawks the last time. I remember that. I was with the Niners. And y'all had them. I don't know who the fuck was y'all left in. It was a big motherfucker. Big.

Big motherfucker. I'm stepping. Man, I came out and tried to hit him with that little chip before I got into the fucking flat. Oh, my whole right side went numb. Boy, I ran straight to the... I chipped him and ran straight to the sideline. Took a knee like, man, hold on.

These little motherfuckers built different. Yeah. That was in Seattle, right? That was when we were in Seattle. Yeah. I remember that. Because we were wondering, why is he not in the game? Yeah, because that motherfucker, my whole right side of my body was numbed in a motherfucker. I said, I'm on. We were in the game, but we were wondering why. Man, I went to the sideline for like two plays. And while I'm down there on my...

When I'm down there on the knee, they give me water. Marshawn, you all right? I'm like, yeah, you know, just shaking back into it. And the whole time I had the fucking epiphany come to my mind. I could be on my couch right now watching this game, smoking a blunt with a shot of Hennessy. And I'm out here trying to hit this big motherfucker. Like, oh, man, I had to shake that shit real quick. Come back to terms. Like, all right, let's get back into the game. But then we went in. Yeah, I mean, they tricked.

Awesome. Well, Adam, listen, you got to run, buddy. What a way to end it on the Bay Area rappers, man. That's awesome. I appreciate the knowledge. You're welcome on Marshawn in Oakland anytime. Yeah, for sure. Thanks, guys. Thanks for the time, man. Good talking to you. Appreciate it, Adam. Hey, what's up, y'all? This is Eric Andre. We made a podcast called Bombing about absolutely tanking on stage.

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