I gotta prove it, and how do I do it?"

And, and so yes, I felt that way.

And so what I did though with myself is being traded to the Green Bay Packers at that time, so just as, just imagine I'm coming to SNL, and I mighta did, you know, some Nickelodeon, maybe a little bit before that, which I did, right? I-- so being in Seattle, that's kinda like that.

You know, I was on a small, you know, small show, a couple episodes where people knew who I was, and I come from even lower ranks when I was in college.

I run, I played at Nebraska, which was a prominent school at that time, and two national titles.

So that means I, I might have a couple Emmys under my belt coming into this.

But I haven't went into the comedy area like this, so I'm kinda, you know, playing.

So Aman, I'm not gonna ask you to cite these old episodes the last six years, but is there a tone to set in a premiere that can, rocky sketch writing or aside, can just make a solid premiere? That's really what we want.

that.

Yeah.

So what I what's been going on with the pack is just trying to figure themselves out.

Right.

They had a slump of six games prior to the week one loss to the Vikings where they were.

They had the lead at least 10 point lead and then lost the lead and lost the game.

So they came out of that coming into this week's game or this past week's game.

Yeah.

'Cause I've gotta think that LaFleur is going into the season really feeling like there is a ton of pressure on him, and I can't doubt that the players, you know, feel that too.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't, I mean, I'll be honest, I don't know.

Uh, I say for LaFleur, again, for his body of work, very successful.

And then, yeah, I forget, you just reminded me about the San Fr- the 49er game, you know, that happening as well.

You know, any season, any big play, I think back, "What was I doing in my head?" And the, the biggest thing was I was trying to simplify everything.

I wasn't gonna make it, "Oh, man, it's fourth down.

Like, do you feel like this offense is suddenly going to be more Jordan Love's complete show with Josh Jacobs out?

'Cause I've gotta think that LaFleur is going into the season really feeling like there is a ton of pressure on him, and I can't doubt that the players, you know, feel that too.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't, I mean, I, I'll be honest, I don't know.

Uh, I say for LaFleur again, for his body of work, very successful, and yeah, I forget, you just reminded me about the San Fr- the 49er game, you know? That happening as well.

You know, any season, any big play, I think back, what was I doing in my head? And the, the biggest thing was I was trying to simplify everything.

I wasn't gonna make it, oh man, it's fourth down.

If we don't get this fourth down, this is it.

Like, do you feel like this offense is suddenly going to be more Jordan Love's complete show with Josh Jacobs out?

You know, the thing about football – if football in large part is responsible for you dealing with what you're dealing with, Amon, right now, how much is football helping you deal with what you're dealing with right now and the things you learned from football?

It's one of those, it's a cross-sectional, right? Because in football, you learn how to lose.

You learn how to lose gracefully.

You learn how to learn from your mistakes or if you have an injury, how to fight through it and all that.

So this is what Sport and football is done, you know, for us as athletes in general.

So this is I mean, from any sport, any athlete could speak on, you know, getting through a tough moment, either a loss or bad injury that ends their season or whatever.

I've been there.

I will never forget the first time I went to Omaha – to do a show it was in the heyday of the program and for that show I'm on the Peter Brothers and Jared Tomich appeared on the program with me and bro let's just say after the show let's just say we all and I was a younger guy then let's just say we all had a few pops that night on the town wild dudes man wild dudes I want to ask you As somebody who spent time in Omaha as a child and then got to stay home and play ball, man, for those who don't know, how would you describe game day in Lincoln back in the day when y'all were lining up and routinely smashing everybody in the face?

Mm.

"And not be macho man enough and not to talk about it, and then you find out that your best friend is on his deathbed because he got some type of chronic illness going on with his body, where some of the stress is just sharing your information." 'Cause a lot of men, not just football men, but men in general, we don't do that, right? We don't talk about how our hearts are feeling, our chest is feel- you know.

I had a headache today, my back was bothering...

You know, we don't get deep into those conversations of where it might come from.

And so that was kinda like the signal for me, and getting over, you know, having to tell the world, um, but then also letting my f- close family and friends know.

And then obviously, like I said, talking to Tyler that, you know, just a little bit over a week ago.

It just came out because, naturally, because I've been talking about it, and that's something I think I wanna...

What is it some of those things that, you know, is telltale signs, but most important, like, what is it, you know, something outside of just movement that we could do to kinda help encourage guys to be able to communicate what's going on?

Mm.

"And not be macho man enough and not to talk about it, and then you find out that your best friend is on his deathbed because he got some type of chronic illness going on with his body, where some of the stress is just sharing your information." 'Cause a lot of men, not just football men, but men in general, we don't do that, right? We don't talk about how our hearts are feeling, our chest is feel.

You know, I had a headache today, my back was bothering.

You know, we don't get deep into those conversations of where it might come from.

And so that was kinda like the signal for me, and getting over, you know, having to tell the world, um, but then also letting my f- close family and friends know.

And then obviously, like I said, talking to Tyler that, you know, just a f- little bit over a week ago.

It just came out because naturally because I've been talking about it, and that's something I think I wanna...

What is it some of those things that, you know, is telltale signs, but most important, like, what is it, you know, something outside of just movement that we could do to kinda help encourage guys to be able to communicate what's going on?

Yeah.

It was g- it was good stuff for the human body.

Um, and so that's when I got introduced to, you know, a healthy lifestyle of living, alternate things than going to fast food joints, you know.

Fast food joint was a reward in my household.

If I, you know, for my birthday it would be that, you know, let's go to Burger King or McDonald's or Jack in the Box being in, uh, Los Angeles, uh, southern, uh, southern Cal.

Um, but as I grew up and paid attention to the way my mom ate and my sister ate and how sometimes the, the menu would be in the kitchen of our home, I was like, oh, okay, we don't...

I see we don't do that, we don't do that, you know.

... has been the coach almost a decade now.

[laughs]

But yeah, so I'm in Seattle.

I mean, I'm in, uh, Los...

In California.

I'm in Newport Beach.

I went to Costa Mesa, did my combine training.

Shout out to my tr- my coaches, Chuck Williams and Frank Baskerville, outstanding individuals.

Mm.

What's the vibe in the building as someone who was, who was inside those four walls when it all started to go down there?

Um, the vibe for the most of it obviously was like, um, you know, it was, this is gonna be my, our heir apparent pu-potential.

Right? And so I understand the game.

So I'm like, okay, he's drafting the next quarterback that may be in line.

I've been, I got there, Matt Hasselbeck and Aaron Brooks were in the, in the wings, and we knew that at those times, Brett wasn't, you know, coming thing and even coming off the field at that time.

And so again, was the question, okay, yeah this is heir apparent, but we know Brett.

(laughs) He has an Energizer battery in him, does easy keep going and going.

And somehow Isaac Bruce is in the Hall of Fame, but the guy who was a tick better than him is not? Strange.