 I'm sure by now y'all have seen some headlines, you probably read some quotes about some stuff that Bart Scott said in regards to Ed Reed versus Troy Palomalu. But so we don't get anything misconstrued, we don't have anything misunderstood, and we don't have anything misquoted. Let's just go ahead and listen to those exact words. Greatness like that. Is it hard to hear other people called great? It kinda is. I mean, because it's different levels to the greatness, right? And it's different, I think it's different wings to the hall of fame. I think that coming up, Troy Palomalu is gonna go to the hall of fame. And he's very deserving of going to the hall of fame. But to mention Troy Palomalu and the same breath as Ed Reed, to me it's disrespectful. Wow. Because- I have always put them above a lot of other people. It's like those two and Ronnie Lott and Brian Dawkins for me. See, but Ronnie Lott and Brian Dawkins is the same type of player. It's levels to this. You have to say Ed Reed, the closest thing to Ed Reed, you gotta say when you think about safety, it's like Ed Reed type that can do both. So when you think about Palomalu, what they should do is, and whenever you think about a zone scheme, you have same flat, which same flat can turn, the scene becomes man to man. The flat, if your guy number two goes to the flat, you just basically a zone to the flats. But you think about it, you got the same flat, three receiver hooks, same flat. Sometimes you have the free man who's just playing on instincts that is free and he can do whatever he wants. He's reading the eyes of the quarterback. And so this will be Ed and this will be Troy. So Troy is always the free man who really has no responsibility. And Ryan Clark was the guy that was forced to make him right. No matter what he did, you make sure you make him right. If he jumps up because he feels something, it's a fake, make sure you lean over the top of Troy Palomalu. Or he's the three receiver hook, which is basically what they devised for middle linebackers. So that's why Troy could play at the line of scrimmage because he knew all he had to do was drop. And what was Ed doing? What would Ed be doing? It is baiting, paid manning on a speed turn, getting over the top and closing on like double pump moves to Dallas Clark or Marvin Harrison or Reggie Wayne. He's playing the whole bitch. So you see Palomalu more in the Dawkins. He's up yet, yes. Who's with Ed Reed? Is there anyone close to him? Charles Woodson. Rod Woodson. Like guys who were able to bait people. I, wow. Those are some pretty powerful words there from one bought Scott when it came to the comparisons to Ed Reed and Troy Palomalu. And I, wow. That was actually my first time listening to the entire thing because I had heard like bits and pieces of it, but I had never listened to the entire thing at once. So with that being said, the part that really got me was when he said that saying those two, they're naming the same sentence as disrespectful. I completely disagree with that. I don't care how big of a Ravens fan I am, how big of an Ed Reed fan I was. That saying that is disrespectful because Troy Palomalu, like, yeah, he did make a good explanation. He made a very detailed explanation and it's obviously something that he's been thinking about for a long time or something that he's had in his mind for a while because of how he broke it down very specifically, how he talked about the scenes and how he talked about with Ryan Clark. Ryan Clark was the person who was supposed to have the responsibility and Troy Palomalu was more the guy that was free to roam around and really do what he wanted. But with Troy Palomalu, like, no, man, I know they did technically play different positions. Ed Reed was more free, Troy was more strong, but they were both amazing, man. Like even if you just take, if you just go strictly by the plays that Troy Palomalu made against the Ravens alone, I mean, besides in his last game versus the Ravens, I think was his last game ever was a playoff game where we just doled them, but overall, if you just go by the plays that Troy Palomalu made alone against the Ravens, then he probably got a hall of fame career based off of that. But he was amazing, man. Troy Palomalu was amazing at what he did and it's like, with them both being safeties, you gotta compare them to because they both played in the same air. They both played around the same time and they both had plenty of games where they went up against each other's teams and they both made so many plays over the years, man. Me, in my opinion, I would give it to, I would give the edge, the nod to Ed Reed simply because I mean, it's not by that much. I mean, he did get a lot more interceptions than Troy Palomalu and he got more interception yards and I think he got more touchdowns as well. But I think Troy leads him in something else. Maybe it's like force fumbles or something or maybe it's sex, I forgot what it is, but what those two specialized in is what they specialized in and that made their game as safeties that much better and that much stronger. And both of them, they were game changers on defense for their teams. They made such a big difference on defense for their teams and both of them were guys, I know we always hear the stories about with Bill Belichick, he was like, Oh, you got a what? He told Tom Brady on his little play sheet, wristband, whatever. He told him, hey, watch for 20 every play and that was Ed Reed, obviously. Watch out, watch to see where he is every play. But if you watch Troy Palomalu play two, then he was somebody that quarterbacks needed to watch for every single play because this guy was capable of making so many different plays in so many different ways. Troy Palomalu was the king of jumping over the line of scrimmage. He was the king of that, getting blocks on field goals, getting, just getting tackles for losses, sacks. I remember, ooh, never forget the, so many Raven Steelers games, classics, man. Oh, they were classics. I hope they can get back to how they were, even though it's a different era now. But I just remember Troy Palomalu making so many plays that just, because for the longest, Joe Flacco and the Ravens could not beat the Steelers when they had Big Ben. But another part of that equation was Troy Palomalu. And he made so many plays that just took us out, that took us out. Like Joe Flacco, first year 2008 ASC championship. Willis McGay, he had just got knocked out the previous drive. And it was like, oh, our hearts were already sinking a little bit, but we were like, we still got a chance. We still got a chance to really, to do this, to come back. Come on, rookie Flacco. We know you're young, but you can do this. What does Flacco do? Drop back, Troy Palomalu pick, and no, no, no, not just a pick, but a pick six. So he intercepted the ball and scored. And then there was another play, I mean, they've been countless Sunday night football games, Monday night football games, all that between the Ravens and Steelers. But Troy Palomalu, it was either third and shorter, maybe it was fourth and short. And the Ravens, they were trying to steal the game. And Troy Palomalu, he timed the snap and he jumped it and ended up tackling Flacco in the backfield. I think he forced the fumble and all, but it was just, it was wild, man. It was wild. See, even more wild than the kids screaming out there, man. So they already knew what time it was. But I don't think it's disrespectful at all for Troy Palomalu to be mentioned in the same sentence as Ed Reed, because both of them were amazing at what they did. We just had a question from subscriber episode talking about who my favorite stealer was, what was my favorite Ravens Steelers game and who was my favorite stealer? And I said on offense, it was, offense, it was Heinz Ward, because of just that greediness, man. He would knock you out and he would smile in your face. And he was very frustrating as a Ravens fan. He was very frustrating to go up against. He was very frustrating because you would see him knock one of our guys down and it's to be sitting there just cheesing, just to sit there cheesing. But, and then on defense, it was Troy Palomalu for obvious reasons that we stated throughout this video. But Ed Reed, he was talked, he was asked who the goal was, who the best of all time was. And let's listen to his response. To my team sport, you know, color didn't matter to do the things we've done. Not one player on the football field can do it without the other 10 guys. There's no goat. There's no greatest of all players who's the best football player. It's impossible to say that. Stats don't matter. Well, leave it up to Ed Reed to be the most humble guy in the world and take that approach, man. You can't argue with that. It is true, but at the same time, football is an ultimate team sport because it's not like basketball where one guy could just, he could just literally take over. In football, if your offensive line ain't blocking then your quarterback's not gonna get it as that amazing receiver for a touchdown. If your linebacker's not tackling and then that run is gonna go, instead of going for five, it can go for 50. And if that running back gets to the second level of the defense, it can go for even more. But my point is that he's right. It is an ultimate team sport. He is right because one man cannot do it without the other. It takes everybody, but he's still the best. I just, he probably just didn't wanna say it. I'll say it for him, though. But anyway, boy, Scott, again, I understand what you're saying. It was a nice breakdown or whatever, but I disagree. I know I didn't, I wasn't out there on the field or whatnot and I don't understand football like you understand it, but from my perspective, from what I saw, Troy Parlamalan was, he was amazing in his own ways as well, man. And again, like I said earlier, both of them were safeties and both of them specialized in different aspects of the game of football. And both of them, they made game-changing plays over and over and over and over and over for their respective teams. So anyway, team keeping clean, appreciate y'all. Love y'all and I'm out.