Geno Smith, Potential Trade, Christian WIlkins & Raiders Training Camp #raiders #genosmith #nfltrade

Geno Smith, Potential Trade, Christian WIlkins & Raiders Training Camp #raiders #genosmith #nfltrade

Hello everybody. This is Hondao Carpenter, your Las Vegas Raiders beat writer on SI and the host of the Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast. Excited to be joined by this sweet baby. Listen, she’s wearing bobby pins in her hair. I have not seen you with bobby pins in your hair. And Shannon, it’s going to be probably mid mid 80s, probably 41 years. I’m not that old. I know you’re not that old, but anyways, you saw that. I know she’s 56 and you don’t look it. We’re going to have to start over. No, we’re not. She’s 52. But she I always tease her that she’s older than me. And the funny part is when people don’t argue. But you got the bobby pins in and you got that the sparkles for the under eye. What is that called? The under eye stuff? Eyeliner? No, the sparkles that you have up here on the top of your cheeks. Blush. Rouge. Rouge. Rouge. But anyways, I’m liking the bobby pins. It reminds me of the Shannon is a little girl that well teenage girl that I was in love with. Looks good. Look at I loved her when she was a little girl and love her when she’s a grandma. Man, am I blessed or what? All right, let’s get going now. Nobody cares. That’s right. We are literally 24 hours from the start of training camp. 24 hours. What is that for? You’re as excited about football as anybody. Yeah, but that just means more travel for you. I miss my honey when you’re gone. 24 hours away from trip. So excited. I’m so what? You’re so excited. Oh, all right. I have to tell you, everybody was sending me the real of me talking about the chlorophyll raising up to heaven and she’s behind me mocking me last week. I wasn’t. Well, I didn’t say anything to No, but you were mocking me. I had people from the Raiders send it to me. It was pretty funny, though. This See, you didn’t even know what was going on around you because you were so talking. I’m not going to give a name, but you’ll know who um our general manager friend who who you love his wife and you and her are close. She sent it to me and he sent it to me. That was That was a great one, though. That was funny. He’s like, “You got to get Shannon. If she’s going to be on your show, she’s got to quit mocking you.” Oh, no. That was great. It was so funny. All right, let’s get going. Hondo, I know that you know Kurt Cousins. I am a huge Raider fan living in Minneapolis and I once met him at an autograph signing and we talked about you. He is very fond of him. He is he is very fond of you as you are of him. My question is I would have loved to see him in Las Vegas more than Gino Smith. What do you think? Mike and St. Paul Raider Nation for life. Uh Mike, first of all, I I do know Kurt and and his mom and dad and his brother Kyle very well and um wonderful people, wonderful family. Um very good guy. What you see is what you get with him. There’s no phony with him. Um absolutely not. I made this comment when the Raiders hadn’t signed Gino and a lot of people asked me because I know that I know him. Would I want him in Vegas? No, I I don’t. I don’t think that was the answer. I think Kurt has a lot less years be and uh ahead of him than behind him. I think the Raiders needed a guy that you could count in to come in for a few years and either develop a guy or be here and uh as a guy and I think Gino was a perfect fit. And if you think I’m I’m just saying that, excuse me, if you think I’m just saying that because Gino’s here, I actually said that before Gino was even available. I don’t think Kurt would have been a good fit here. I just don’t. And and I love him and I want him to prosper. I want the Raiders to prosper. I don’t think that’s a marriage that would have worked. And by the way, to all of you, thank you for watching us. I should have done this at the beginning. Shannon joins me and reads your email. So if you have email questions that you want asked, send me an email. SpartanNation mail. SpartanNation mail. M a [email protected]. put in the subject line, Raiders Q&A. Give us your name. Fire away. We’d love to to listen to your emails. Now, remember, you’re only allowed one per week per URL address. If you do more than that, we just send you to spam. If you send me multiple, you go to spam. Just do one and roll the dice. All right, let’s go. All right. Hi, Hondo. I love listening to your podcast and I try to listen to it every day when possible. I have a question as a start of preseason nearers. What are the key differences between NFLs, OTAAS, mini camps, and training camps in terms of purpose, structure, and timing? Are any positions or groups, rookies affected more during any of these phases? I would just like a summary to better understand the difference in purpose between them. Thanks, Handle. Walter Tracy in California. Okay, Walter, great question. First of all, um the first one, OTAAS, used to stand for optional team activity. Now, it’s called organized, but it’s still optional. Players don’t have to go to that. They usually do. um the smart ones if there’s something coming up will go to the coaches and and veterans, not young ones or guys on the border of making the team, but the veterans will go and say, “Hey, you know, my mom’s having surgery or you know, I have a family emergency and and are you okay with me not being there?” And the coaches appreciate that, but it is it is optional. In fact, every time I call it optional team activities, some guy in his mom’s basement who wants to be authority, you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s organized. Well, yeah, that’s what it means now, but it used to mean optional, and the players and management still call it optional. Um, and and so that’s more of a it’s just an install really. They’re getting on the field, they’re exercising, they’re just kind of finding out where is guys health in the healing process. Um, it gives coaches a chance to maybe um share some things about where the vision of the team is going changes. Uh, you know, there were some changes this year, a lot actually. Um, mandatory mini camp is exactly what it sounds like. It’s mandatory. that one. And again, in an OTAAS, it’s optional. It’s a lot more laid-back. Um, and there’s absolutely no hitting. Mandatory mini camp, no hitting, but it’s not optional. They watch a ton of film. It’s kind of like a uh mandatory mini camp is kind of like training camp, except there’s no hitting. Um, but it’s very intense. And then training camp is absolutely intense. It is 150 m an hour fast. I mean, you’re installing hundreds of plays. In fact, I was talking to an NFL quarterback today who’s getting ready to head to camp and uh was just chatting with him. He’s a friend and and um I asked him, I said, you know, tell me what’s the hardest part of a training camp when you got a new coordinator or whatever. cuz I was talking about Chip Kelly and I wasn’t talking to Gino and he said, “I’ll tell you the hard part is you’re learning probably 300 plays in 30 days. You’re learning 10 plays a day and then as the season goes on, you could be learning 30 more a week.” Wow. Yeah. So, he goes, “Literally, you get to the end of the season and he goes, you have somewhere between 800 and a,000 plays you have to have memorized.” Holy smokes. And remember, you’re talking 15 words. Mhm. So, beta, draft, zebra, right zip, left corner, action, Omaha, Spongebob. I mean, there are all the And then all of the different installs, all the different um uh all the different um uh audles. I mean, there are so much. Anybody that thinks the football players are stupid, you’re literally ignorant. There is nothing stupid about it. It is a lot of hard work. And uh so yeah, there’s the three differences. That was a good that was a really good question. Hondo, thank you for addressing addressing Christian Wilkins in your latest podcast. Could you give an opinion if you think he plays week one now? Why Bradley? Um why what? Why Bradley? Why Bradley? Is that like why? Just the letter Y. The letter Y. Okay. Um, let me say this to you. And I don’t know if you’re a man or woman, so I’m just going to call you why. Um, I’m not going to give an opinion. I have shared with you all along that everybody I’ve talked to expected him to be ready by the start of the season. Okay. I want you to know after the team um put him on the pup list, physically unable to perform until they start cutting players, he can come back at any moment and not have to miss time. Once they start cutting players, then he’s out for a minimum of the first four games. The advantage of of putting him on the pup list though is you get to add another player to your roster. So, you get to, you know, look at another guy. They don’t need Christian Wilkins ready for training camp. He’s a star. They need him ready for the season. I’m going to tell you this. I I don’t give medical opinions, but in talking to everybody I talked to, and I I did not talk to everybody in the organization. I talked to three people and said, “What are your thoughts?” And they all were like, “Man, he’s doing everything that’s asked. He’s working hard.” And all of them were optimistic. He’ll be ready for the start of camp. I mean, for the start of the season, not camp. So there still remains some optimism. The fact that he’s still working is very optimistic, right? And do I hear the same sense of he’s going to be ready for the start of the season? I don’t. But I don’t but they’re very optimistic. So all I can go on is that I don’t give opinions. I’m married to a medical lady. If I gave a medical opinion, she would punch me in the face. You really wouldn’t, but she would chew me out bad. I don’t give up all opinions. Don’t give She has a cup that says, “Don’t let Google interfere with my nursing degree and my 38 years of experience as a nurse.” I I told you she’s 56. Jeers, you keep aging me. I know, but um I will tell you this. I just wouldn’t do that. It would be reckless and irresponsible. So all I can tell you is what the people in the building think and I’ve talked to some doctors and with this type of injury their exact words were I can’t really comment because I don’t know all the particulars you know sometimes you know a broken fibia a broken tibia a broken wibia or conflibia is there are those bones okay but tibian fibia but no okay they may be able to say oh that’s this this and this but there’s too many things here we don’t know, but I’ll just tell you the people in the building I talked to still remain optimistic he’ll be ready for the start of the year. All right, Hondo, do you think the Raiders add any more players before the season? Keith C, I do. I do. I think that they’re going to add at least one um at least one. But yes, I do think there’ll be there are going to be people uh that aren’t on the roster right now um that I think at least one will be on the 53 man that isn’t on the roster right now. Awesome. Hondo, did you watch the new season of Quarterback, good or bad? I always wait for recommendations of TV since I work so much. See Mley, guess what? You look forward to the show every year. Yeah, I love the show. I didn’t like it last year at all. I hated it um for reasons I don’t need to get into, but I hated last year’s. And I Last year was the first year I heard NFL players hate it. And it was a it was very good. Well done. Pton Manning does a great job with it. It wasn’t that they hated it. It was the the TV show Hard Knocks is my favorite. I love Hard Knocks and I like that because although the team influences it, it’s pretty realistic. There were a lot of things last year on that show. It was called cornerback last year. But there were a lot of things on that show that knowing and having a front row and behind the scenes. Let’s just say there were some things that uh were represented with Devonte that I probably didn’t agree with and I don’t think I don’t think others did, but it was well done. Um, I I thought this year, if you don’t know, it’s it’s it’s Joe Burrow, Kirk Cousins, and um uh Jared Goff. I thought it was exceptionally well done. Exceptionally well done. And I thought um because I have strong connections to all three quarterbacks in their situation, I thought it was done really. Again, last year, I don’t blame Payton for that. I it was Devonte, but I thought it was extremely well represented. I like the way they do it. They film it in season, so it’s very raw, but they’re just not allowed to show it until the end of the till the season’s over. I think that’s smart. I think it’s br So yeah, I highly recommend it. Okay, Hondo, I watched Gino Smith a lot living up here. What do you see that maybe I don’t that makes you like him so much? Jimmy N in Tacoma, Washington. Well, a couple things here. I think this is a great question. Matter of fact, this question kind of excit You said Jimmy was his name in Jimmy in Tacoma. All right, Jimmy. Nice to meet you. Uh I love Tacoma in the SeaC area. Um let me just say a couple things. Um I I do like Gino. I’m not pretending, you know, he’s an elite NFL quarterback. I think he’s in that 10 to 15 range. I think he’s a very good quarterback. I don’t think he’s Joe Burrow. I don’t think he’s Patrick Mahomes, but that’s not a slam on him. I think that first of all, he is a tremendous leader and you got to have leadership at quarterback and it and sometimes the problems with young teams uh who have young quarterbacks is those guys are still learning the game. Well, you can’t learn. I mean, can you imagine being a driver’s instructor and you’re 15 with a permit, right? And you can’t lead. Uh I I Shannon and I were laughing about this. We celebrate Dexter’s birthday early because his birthday is in the middle of training camp and I just don’t have time during training camp. And we were sitting there with him at uh the other night at his birthday party and we bought him these magnetic logos uh Legos and we talked about that’s the disadvantage of having seven brothers and sisters and parents. I’m 54. She’s 56. But having And that’s not true, by the way. It’s a good thing he’s going away next week. Anyways, or tomorrow. Not going away, just going to be gone a lot. Well, yeah. But to me, that’s going away. But I will say this. Um, we we talked about how there he doesn’t get Legos cuz we’ve stepped on too many with seven biological children. Yeah, he’s really he is missing out. I mean, these magnetic things are cool, but I He’s not. He’s not getting Legos. I’m just putting my foot down. Not Lincoln Logs are just as bad as No, they’re not. Lincoln logs are not as bad as Legos. But my point to you is is there are things after seven children that I would hope with us being in our Me 54, youu um that I think we do better as parents and yeah, I I I would say 100% better. And so I just think he brings age. He has completely failed and people gave up on him and trashed him and he didn’t quit. He’s resilient. He’s very accurate with the football. He loves the game. He plays with emotion. He is a great leader. He’s supportive of people. He’s a very hard worker. I I’ve said this the day they signed him. The best thing that happened to Aiden Okonnell in 2025 was Gino Smith arriving. and and he’s going to learn a lot from Gino. And I again, do I think he’s a, you know, an elite NFL quarterback? I don’t. Do I think he’s a really good one? I do. The Raiders didn’t overpay for him and he’s going to come in and do a ton. So, that’s why um you know, there are some things on film that I think, man, I wish he wouldn’t do that, but he’s also not Patrick Mahomes or Joe Burrow or Josh Allen. And so I’m I’m golden with that. I’m golden with that. I think he’s very good. I think he’s the second best quarterback in the AFC West and I think he is is going to have a really big year. It’s going to be fun to watch. Mhm. Hondo, I rented the movie Show Me the Father about the new Raiders um RB coach. Wow. Was all I could say. Thank you for the recommendation, Joseph. You awesome. Yeah, I anybody if you want to see a great movie about the new Raider um running back coach who’s a tremendous man. I told you the Raiders stole him when they got him on Pete Carol staff. They stole him. Um what you need to do is it’s called Show Me the Father. You can go online and buy it. It’s not expensive, but get that movie. Watch that movie. Phenomenal movie. Awesome. We both love it. Would you recommend it to anybody? Yeah, everybody. It’s a great movie. Yeah, it’s a great date night movie. It’s a great movie to watch with your kids. It’s just a great great movie. All right, Hondo, you have talked a lot about the Raiders offensive line. Do you still think that they are better in 2025, Randy C? Yes, of course. 100 100. Um, they’re going to be significantly better. Do I think they’re going to be the best in the NFL? I do not. I think there’s too many young players that are growing up. And and young players make young player mistakes. Mhm. I uh I’ll tell you a great story. I was talking to a young man um today at church. Literally, he was sitting on a bench at church and he was going through a tough time. I didn’t know him and he was struggling with a decision he had made. Then he made a wrong decision. And I I looked at him and I said, “Brother, welcome to the club. Every human being has made a bad decision in their life and you’re young. You got a lot more to make.” And I said to him, “But you know, you’re be grateful. Everybody has a past. Everybody has a future. and I I just told him it’s okay, you know, and move on. And I think that that is young players make young player mistakes and what happens is they make all this money and they’re large human beings, right? And so people don’t think of them as kids. Oh, for sure. I mean, I’ll give you an example. Jackson Powers Johnson, Delmare DJ Glaze, the mule. These two young bucks, they are just two of the nicest hum Jordan Meredith. Just three of the nicest human beings you’ve ever met in your life. If you don’t like those three, you’re the problem, not them. Okay? But they’re all big, massive men, strong men, but they’re still kids and they’re going to make mistakes. And oh by the way, when you’re going up against elite players, those guys make a lot of money, too, right? They’re good, too. And I remember one time I I was have I was talking to Kurt Cousins and Kurt and I were joking about something and he literally said, “Uh, the guys on the other side of the ball, they’re on scholarship, too.” And I go, “Exactly.” And it was just funny. But you know, they’re going against good players and every game, this is why I laugh. Anytime you meet an alleged football player who tells you all he did was kick butt and he never got his butt kicked, he is a liar. Bubba Smith. The great Bubba Smith. What makes me feel What are you laughing at now? It just makes me laugh when I think about him. I know. We love you. My whole thought process as you were speaking was the great Bubba Smith and then you said it. I know. Uh Bubba Smith, a dear friend of ours. We love Bubba. Grateful for Bubba. Um God rest his soul. What a No, God don’t rest his soul. He’s alive and doing well, but we love Bubba and uh appreciate him. And obviously he’s died, but you know, what a wonderful football player. Most people only know him as an actor because they’re too old to remember him as a player. I mean, they’re too young. But I remember Bubba one time we were sitting down having a sandwich and Bubba may have had a well we just say him and I may have had a few sandwiches but we’re having sandwiches and we’re at Arts and um with George Pearles and uh we’re sitting there and we’re talking about some of his best football memories and he probably spent an hour talking about getting his butt kicked the people who kicked and he goes and I kept a list brother Hondo I had a list and I was going to get him back. And I I So I always laugh. If Bubba Smith was getting his butt kicked, everybody’s getting their butt kicked. Yeah. And that’s just part of it. That’s part of the game. And so what I would just say to you is is that these young players are going to make mistakes because they’re young. So just give them grace. But I think their offensive line’s going to be much better. And I think they’re not even going to be as close to how good as they’re going to be next year. Awesome. Yeah. Hando my man. What up? I heard you saying you wouldn’t trade Dylan Parmum or Theer Munford if they didn’t win starting job. Please explain that if they aren’t going to play and have value. Pat P. Pat P. Thank you for that Pat. And uh first of all, you I I’ve said this to you many times. The best teams don’t win the championship. It’s the deepest team. Everybody gets hurt. Everybody gets hurt. I was talking to a buddy of mine that doesn’t play for the Raiders, plays for another team, and I asked him today, I said, “How you feeling?” He goes, “Well, for the next seven months, this is the healthiest I’m going to feel.” He goes, “I’m going to hurt for the next seven months. It’s the game of football.” And it So, these are really good players who’ve played at a very high level who are young. So, you don’t want to lose them cuz they’re they’re high functioning players. They’re just not a body. So, that if you lose a guy, you got somebody, you know, you could sign me to be your backup quarterback. I I know. And but my point is is is just because I was there, I was a body doesn’t mean if Gino goes down, you can win. And my point is is that’s so hard to get depth. Now, here is where the question is is if John Spitech says, “Listen, for what I’m going to have to pay them, it won’t work to have them be backups.” Then you trade them. But you trade them now because you’re not going to trade them at the end of the year because they’re, you know, they’re coming to the end of their deals. So anyways, I that’s why again I could see a scenario where they would get traded and if John Spy Tech says, “Listen, they’re not going to play and I’m not going to risk just losing them. I’m going to get them at their highest peak of value.” I could see that and find it justifiable. But man, if you could get a deal with both of them, get another ex a three-year extension at a really reasonable price, maybe put incentives for snaps, so if guy gets hurt or if they win the job back, their their value goes up, I think you sign those contracts right now because you just don’t want to give away depth. You just don’t want to do it. And and uh again, I’m about building a championship, not just this year. Yeah, for sure. All right. Not football. Uh oh. D. This next question is nothing to do with football. So if that’s all you care about, you can leave now. Thanks for watching. God bless you. If you stay, don’t pitch and moan and complain cuz we warned you. All right. There’s actually two. Oh, we got two. Usually we do one non- football question a week. All right. We’re going to do two. Hello. Dear Hondo, I am going into college and pursuing a career that will make me a public figure like you. Do you have any advice? Ryan S. Wow. Yeah, I do. Live with the power and the courage of your convictions. That’s a good one. Don’t be a coward. We live in a society of cowards. Just plain cowards. And don’t be that way. How many times do we get emails, I wish you wouldn’t talk about your faith and and people don’t tune in to watch us talk about politics or faith, but it’s part of who I am. I mean, could you picture me not? It’s such a part of my life. And many of the people we know in football, it’s such a huge part of their life, right? You know, and and listen, people don’t come on here to listen to me preach. I’m I’m not a preacher, but they don’t come in to hear that. And I know that, but it’s still the courage of my conviction. I’m, you know, I’m not going to write things just to get clicks. Okay. I lot there’s been a lot written last year about Shadur Sanders to the Raiders. And I’m sure some people who wrote it, it was the courage of their convictions. But I know there were some that wrote it for clicks and we’re like, “No.” Why? because everyone I talked to in the NFL said he’s he’s not a first round quarterback and I knew the Raiders weren’t interested. So, the reality is you got to stand with the courage of your convictions. And and I’m going to say something to you and it it has to do with my faith, but I want you to hear this. I love science. I enjoy science. Uh, some of you don’t maybe know this because you heard me mention it before on a couple of shows, national shows, but when I get asked, “What would you if you weren’t going to be a a journalist, what would you be?” I wanted to be a physicist, I always thought that would be f awesome. And I had a person say to me one time, “How can you love science and be a person of faith?” And I said, “Because I think science proves our faith, but I’m willing to not believe what I believe.” there somebody can prove it wrong because but I’m I’m not living my life with my head in the sand. And I mean, how dumb is that? And and I I just live with the courage of your convictions. If you feel something, say it. Mhm. Don’t be afraid to be different. Yeah. Don’t follow the crowd. Just first I’ve never ever You’ve known me since September 9th, 1981. Have you ever known me to be a person cowardly or to, you know, not just kind of roll with my own punches, right? And you know what? There’s a lot of men that don’t talk about their wives and a lot of men that that you know don’t talk about and and value their wife. I I praise Shannon because she’s a gift to me. God gave her to me as a gift and I want my wife to know this is how my husband talks about me and but it wouldn’t matter if I treated you poorly when the camera’s off. Correct. And so I want my children I want my daughters to say, “Hey, I want a husband that’s going to love me like like I do you. I want my my sons to say I’m going to love my wife, you know, like dad loves you.” And and so just be a person with courage of your convictions. You know, I I’m going to say something that may surprise you because I never talk politics on this channel and I never will, but we have lots of friends that we don’t agree with. Mhm. Lots of them. And we have lots of people that we agree with politically that we want nothing to do with. When we pick people, it’s do you have the courage of your convictions? Do you have the courage of your convictions? And and be true to that. And so there you go. That’s our question of the week. Got another one. Oh, I’m I forgot. Okay. Hondo and Shannon, I know that you too are very happy, but did you see the kiss cam thing at the coplay concert? If you were giving advice to that guy, you always seem to have wisdom. What would you tell him? Dan S. Don’t break your marital vows. I’m assuming he’s speaking about the CEO. Yeah. Oh, what was it? I didn’t hear the CEO of a company, I guess, that in his the head of HR. I just saw it. Now, Stoddard, that’s one of our be that’s my literally my best friend from high school. Um, Stoddard sent me something about it and I knew it was a cold play and somebody kiss but I didn’t know it was a CEO of a company. Yeah. Um, what I would say is don’t cheat on your spouse. Pretty pretty simple. Yeah. Um, what I would say to you is is that um I want to say this I want to I want to I want to word this right. Um, but don’t cheat on your spouse. Years ago, my dad taught us kids, don’t do business with people who don’t honor their marital vows. Because if they’ll break a vow to the person that they’re supposed to spend the rest of their life with and a vow they made to God, they’re not even going to think twice about betraying you. Now, maybe you’re a person in your past. You’ve broken a marital vow and you’ve asked for forgiveness and you’ve changed. Great. There’s grace and there’s there’s doovers. So, this isn’t a death sentence. But again, I uh I have had people that have worked for me that I found out were having an affairs and you know exactly what we did. We just fired them. And I won’t tolerate it. I know I know so many coaches that uh Okay, I’m going to tell you this story. Shannon knows exactly who I’m talking about. We have a very very successful friend who’s a coach who a coach on his staff left and went to a smaller school, a good coach. And people are like, “Wow, why did he leave?” I mean, that’s a step down and he’s a good coach. Well, cuz our friend found out he had been having an affair and walked out and said, “You have two choices. You have 48 hours to find another job or I’m firing you. I don’t want you on my staff coaching and leading young people and thinking that’s unacceptable because how can we ask them to make a commitment to us, a covenant to their team to do all that’s required and then have them being led by people that don’t. Exactly. I think that’s a big deal with us. Mhm. A very big deal. And um I feel terrible for those people’s spouses. Yes, for sure. And so many people were saying, “Oh, too bad. Um, wrong place at the wrong time.” No, that it was wrong thing anytime. Exactly. Exactly. And let me just give you a piece of marital advice. If Shannon comes home, and I know this is hard for you to believe with my sparkling personality, and you’re mad at me, it’s, “Okay, go to bed. We’ll start over tomorrow.” Or, “All right, you go to bed, Hondo. We’ll start over tomorrow.” It’s just that commitment and and everybody has bad days. I know that’s hard for you to believe that Shannon would ever have a bad day with me, but but anyways, uh it’s it’s the reality and and just above all else protect your marriage. Amen. Outside of God, that is the most important thing. We have told our children, you know, we we told this to Dexter the other night. You’re going to grow up and move away and mom is still my girlfriend and still my wife and we’re going to be together for the rest of our lives. And I would really encourage men and women, protect your marriage. Don’t hang around with people who will cover your mistakes. Uh, all of my great friends, if I cheated on Shannon, would call her. They love you. They love me, so they love her. And I think vice versa with yours. Mhm. And we don’t want people in our inner circle who would tolerate that for sure. I remember I had a a very very I wouldn’t call him a friend, but a very good acquaintance who called me and said, “I need some advice.” He goes, Um, I have a buddy who’s cheating on his wife and the four of us are all friends and man, there’s been a couple of close calls and where I’ve had to cover for him. I go, then you’re not a friend. Not a friend. So, and don’t feel bad for the people who got caught. I feel bad for their spouses and their children. And the children is Yeah. children. It’s very, very sad. And again, sad. If you have, don’t live in guilt. That’s what grace is for. That’s what grace is for. Absolutely. But so don’t but you can just make a decision moving forward. I’m going to be a person of integrity. That’s the advice I would give him. Okay. You did what you did. Mhm. So are you going to waller and let it ruin your life? And because it very well could cost him his marriage. Mhm. And and that that’s the reality. And but or you can be a demonstration to your children that when you screw up, here’s how you change your life. That would be the advice I would give them. That’s a good way. Absolutely. All right, everybody. Tomorrow, veterans arrive, training camp begins, let the games begin. Tomorrow in the podcast, I’m super excited. Zeke’s going to join me tomorrow and we’re going to break down the start of camp. We’re gonna have great video for you tomorrow with Pete Carroll. Uh we’re gonna have all kinds of video and coverage. We’re going to be pounding out the coverage. Pounding it out. si.comFLers and on x at hondo carpenter on threads and IG at hondos. And I want to end with this. I have so many people ask me, in fact, one of the Raider players asked me this. His wife wanted him to ask me. and I’ll I’ll tell you off camera it was um he said my wife wants to know if Shannon’s gonna do a like an IG or a Twitter and I told him I don’t think so. What do you think? I don’t have time. Yeah, she’s 56. You got to give her a little break. I love you all. God bless you. He’s in trouble if he doesn’t show up at the next podcast. You’re going to know why. See you tomorrow with Zeke.

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