 So YouTube team keep it clean What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video That's toy Smith Toy Smith is hanging it up he's retiring from football and That was shocking I Didn't see that happening I did not think that that was in his plans. I Just I just knew somebody's gonna pick him up. I just knew that he was gonna get another job I just knew that that it wasn't over for him. I just knew that I Just knew someone was gonna happen Somebody's gonna get him like I know he's a free agent whatever but somebody's gonna pick him up Because it's worse receivers than a Tory Smith that had been getting picked up so I Was just waiting to see what would happen Cuz I was a little shocked even when he got released from the Panthers because he um First they asked him to take a they had him take a pay cut when they were signing Gerald McCoy So it's like okay. He was willing to take a pay cut for y'all to sign Gerald McCoy and then Boom they end up cutting them and again another example why the NFL is a very dirty business. It's a very dirty business But I just I knew somebody was gonna get him Whether the Panthers brought him back or whether somebody else scooped him up, but it didn't happen And I would see like cuz I he's one of the few players that I actually do follow on Instagram Cuz I don't really follow many players on there nothing that I had nothing not that I have anything against following players on anything like that But I just don't but he's one of he's one of the only players that I follow on Instagram the only player I follow on there a Tory Smith and Lamar Jackson and Really think that's it. Yeah, that's it. Those are only two players I follow on there and That that just that that shows you a lot I guess about me Not that I have anything against other players or whatnot, but I just I don't know It's you kind of feel like a certain connection with some people or some players and whatnot And Tori Smith, he was special me. He was special. He was he was probably the only The only free agent Well flakka was to but not it was with Tori Smith. It was just different man But with flakka was more shock with Tori Smith. It was more hurt Because I didn't see it coming. He was the only Ravens player That when they left to go to another team like my eyes got watery man because I will never forget I was in publics. I was in publics and I was I was getting we were getting flowers. I don't know if I was getting flowers for my wife I don't know if if we were both actually that me and my wife And we were just getting flowers for like to put in the kitchen table or something But I was in publics getting flowers and I had my phone started vibrating I looked at my phone and I picked it up and I was like, what? like y'all can even like look up the video to if you want to but um It was it was Tori Smith reading a letter or it was a letter that uh It was written out that he addressed to the Ravens and like the Ravens fans and whatnot. Just thanking him for everything I'm thanking him for the uh, the great five years And it was really nice But when I read it, I'm like, well, I couldn't believe it. I was just I was shocked. I was hurt I was sad because Tori. I like Tori Smith a lot man. I had liked him a lot and It's if you kind of say like talking about it now, but he was Like when you talk about like some my all-time favorite Ravens There's the obvious ones, but there's Tori Smith to he is definitely On that list because he always seems so humble He never was like a flashy type of dude He and he was from Merida. He was from Merida. I remember when he got drafted second round 2011 he got drafted and I remember the preseason game. I Think was against the Redskins. I forgot who was against but It was a preseason game and he was just dropping stuff. I'm like, man Like this is who they drafted really and like really Tori Smith. This is the guy This is one of their receivers that they drafted. He just kept dropping dropping dropping. I'm like, man, this guy He's not gonna be good. He's not So then the first season came and went I think the Ravens played a bill I don't remember who the Ravens play. I think they played the bill, but I don't remember but um First game of the season came and went. I think the Ravens won. I don't remember but Lee Evans got hurt So then the second game of the season Ravens played the Rams and it was Tori Smith time Because he was gonna step in with Lee Evans being hurting. I'm like, oh, okay And I never forget I was I was in our apartment Oh, it's just my apartment at the time because me and my wife we weren't married yet So I was in my apartment. I was making something. I don't know what I was making But I had the game that I was watching on a live stream in the kitchen on the laptop So we were playing the Rams. It was in St. Louis, and I'm watching and Flacco threw it up So Tori Smith boom touchdown I'm like, okay, cool. Let's go So then another play Flacco threw it up to Tori Smith touchdown, and I'm like, okay, let's go So then another time Flacco threw it up to Tori Smith Touchdown and I'm like, okay, let's go this dude's career literally his first three catches went for touchdowns His first three catches in his career for who can say that? Who can say that? Mark, he's round almost it but just missed it but it but Tori Smith first is his in his career Especially with the Ravens because that's that's what the best that's what the best of his career was that Was with the Ravens and he made he made so many plays He made a lot of plays for Ravens like a lot from his rookie year Like even in the in the AFC championship game. We could have won. I never forget where it was like a comeback route Tori Smith ran about 10 to 12 yards came back He turned around came back Flacco hit him. He caught the ball and the cornerback I forgot who it was tried to tackle and missed him Tori Smith ran up field ran up field Dove I think it was a touchdown too But I remember the the playoff game the mile high miracle game where he lost champ barely twice I just remember that the first game in a Super Bowl season the very first play was like a 52 52 Y'all bomb the Tori Smith It's just like this guy made a lot of plays over the years and it's plenty more I know y'all can remember that I can remember too Because it's just so many of it was it was just so many of and he and but one of the biggest ones Was uh the night that his brother had died Um his brother his brother had died in the morning in the motorcycle accident, but For somebody and everybody deals with stuff differently, but for somebody to Still play football to still go to your job to still go to work when you dealing with something like that That that takes a lot man Because I I don't think I could do it man But for somebody to go to go to your job no matter what you do and you dealing with that That's a lot man But he did it and he didn't the thing about him He he didn't go to work that day and just show up He didn't just go to work that day and clock in and say okay. Yeah, I'm here But I'm dealing with this he went to work. He showed out. He showed up and he showed up and That was that was a very special moment That that year And he he just always been somebody of great character He speaks well. He definitely uh, he loves his family. I love seeing their stories and stuff They always be cracking me up him and his kids And his daughter she done got super big I like I'm talking like I know them or something But I'm just saying about what would I be seeing because I feel like like they just had the daughter And then I saw a video the other day and she like crawling around and she like big and like whoa But he he put he put on for Marilyn man. He put on for Baltimore man. He really did He really does he always doing stuff like in the community and stuff Um, I think he actually got like a little park up there He always had his um his little basketball game that he would do every single year no matter what team he was with He would always have his annual basketball game. I'm pretty sure he'll still probably do it Um, but this is cool, man This is cool that he uh, he retires sort of on his own terms Um, it's nice that he didn't get knocked out the game. It's nice that I get it ain't like oh, man Well, he took this shot and he never came back to football after that. No so um That's cool So he was a raven He was a 49er He was an eagle He was a panther Most success obviously came with the ravens, but he did get a superbowl with the eagles as well So that was nice that and he was part of that history I mean the superbowl is historic enough, but he was I think that was this first Superbowl and Is it ever was it just in like 50 some years? Either way, it's this is the superbowl the first one they got in and literally forever Um, so he got to be part of that But this guy has um, he just made a really big impact Uh with the ravens and he was somebody that I always cheered for Even after he left the ravens. I was always rooting for tory smith Because it's it's some people that you just uh You just you just always um You just always want them to do good And you know, they can't do good and whatever they do But you just always rooting for them and hope they do good No matter what they do no matter where they go No matter if they are part of your favorite team or not or a team you like or not whatever, but um He was definitely somebody uh That that I rooted for no matter what and no matter where he went so With him retiring still rooting for no matter what he does no matter where he decides to go Um, he can he's easily going to get a job somewhere if he wants to be a commentator be a special guest ESPN from time to time You know, they're going to be down for it. Um, and with that he will be able to guest star here and then and then uh Still be with his family and whatnot Um, this will be nice for his family because his kids will have all this his older son I think like maybe like five or something like that. I don't know Then as he got his youngest son who's probably like three or four or something like that Then he got his daughter. Um, and of course his wife But now with him being grounded because that I'm sure that was a lot because for them to move from Baltimore To all the way to the west coast to san francisco um Then from san francisco To philly So you back to the east coast then from philly to north carolina And then it's like man, that's like I couldn't imagine man I couldn't imagine going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. Um, that would be a lot That would be a lot. Um Just for me alone But then to have a family like for me and my wife and my son that would be a lot But for him for his wife his son and his other son and his daughter like oof That's a lot. But anyway Tori smith. I don't know if you'll see this or not. Congratulations. Uh Good good career real good career. Um, but even better person So just like Tori Smith with the NFL I'm out