Behind the Uniform with Rod Moore: "Maybe it's my last season, or not..."

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little you know heart sunk I I'd be lying to you if I didn't say I was I know how you must have felt cuz it's you it's your career but I was like oh not my man not my man not my dog that and I think that was the reaction that everybody had when they heard that that you got hurt man so let's just start off first with how are you doing phys physically and then how are you doing mentally I'm doing real good and both honestly uh physically I'm just doing rehab every How Rod Moore has been since his injury day um it's coming it's a day byday thing I have good and bad days where I'm like why is it still hurting and then there's days where it feels great M so you just got to you know train your mind to be able to deal with those things and I mean I have a great support system on the team and at home that's really helping me through this so uh mentally and physically I'm doing really good you know the the sad truth is this is not something that you haven't dealt with you know having to fight back from from injury I do Wonder though having to go through a more a more serious injury this time did you find it necessary to be picked up more did you have to lean on people more this time to help help you kind of fight back through it mentally uh I kind of would say a little bit because like I mean I've been injured a good amount of times in my life and I've had multiple surgeries uh like you know my my first me I was out with the shoulder and then uh last year I had the knee surgery but then I missed a couple games and that time that's where I was kind of I needed a lot of people because I was kind of blaming other people for what happened and why it happened but like this time I'm I'm kind of just more so I mean I look at it as just it's just a a trial trial and tribulation I have to attack every day and uh I come back better on the other side cuz so everything happens for a reason firm believer of that so and know just staying trying to stay close to the Lord get closer to the Lord so as far as prognosis is concerned that they what Rod’s recovery timeline and how he feels about playing again was like the optimistic timeline like hey this is the best it could possibly be as far as timeline going back and then what did they say is like you know doctors kind of give you a range they say this is the quickest you can come back and this is probably the more realistic timeline so what what did they kind of tell you as far as that was concerned it more so it's more so of a said timeline it's kind of just I would say between 7 to 10 months or anywhere in that ballpark so it's all depends on just how my rehab goes and when that day comes for me to be able to make the decision if I want to play or just keep doing rehab and getting stronger that's when it it would be but I don't know cuz there's a lot of things that kind of have to go right or may could go wrong in that in that process to be able to give a set time yeah and so how you know how do you uh determine where where to do your rehab and who to do your rehab with like do you do you do it at Michigan did you did you contemplate doing it elsewhere like how did you determine where to do your rehab and who to do it with so I really I didn't get surgery here I went to LA and I had got surgery and I was advised by a couple people to go there just because um I just thought of it as because this is a big injury and like for my future plans I really need the best hands to be working on my leg and so it was a I had the opportunity to be able to do that that so that's what I chose to do but I I did some rehab out there then I came back and now I'm doing rehab here so I think I'll probably doing rehab here up until you know the season's over with and then it depends where I go elsewhere from there so what is your what do rehab Rod’s rehab routine look like for you rob like what's your routine every day really is just uh we got well right now it was in the summer in custa really what I rehab and I'll have like a lift at 7:30 every day and then after that I do like my kind of just my rehab I either do like some stuff in the training room or some stuff in the weight room with the trainers it depends on what day it is we flop days and stuff so it's really that and then uh yeah that's really it so you know there there's a piece of this that Rod’s role with the team currently would make it very easy as you focus on rehab you focus on your on your future yeah you got the team that's your guys those your brothers but it'd be very easy to divorce yourself from what it has going on it being the team you haven't done that it it feels like talking to the guys you made a conscious effort to be involved in making sure you have a role in what's going on on the on on the team man so take me through that because I think that's just you but I mean you you got a that's a I think that's a choice so take me through that choice it is me but it's also it was a point in time when I went out to LA it was probably towards the end of spring ball and then and went into the spring game so I wasn't there for none of that and like it was good to be away like especially at the time like my mind was everywhere you know how that goes like the first month but it was good getting away but at the same time like I I really missed like the team I missed everybody just to the feeling cuz I do that every day that's kind of my routine every day so it's kind of different when I was out there and so um it just and then also like the support they showed when I was gone like they still were calling me calling my phone checking up on me and so when we came back it was just like like talking to my parents and like just everybody in my circle is like you still got to impact this team in a way that you can and you can only cuz it's like you're not going to be on the field but you can still can have a voice like you're one of the leaders on the team you can't just go in the shadows and hide behind the curtains you just got to still be there and push everybody cuz I mean at the end of the day I still want this team to win like I want us to do to go back to back so I'm going to do whatever it takes to help everybody be good good as I was or even better so yeah man you know part of part of what made you such a good Rod’s football preparation sets him apart player and what's going to make you a really good player again is your preparation man I I I say the same thing about will it it was the thing that made you as young players be on the field is you guys prepared like vets as rookies like you were old souls as youngsters in your playbook studying film and I was talking to what reason why I bring it up I was talking to Zeke he was sitting there a couple days ago he's like man I wouldn't like that he's like Rod he just you know he was one of my mentors he's one of the guys that's kind of put Rod Mari these are guys that I I look up to to kind of help me get to where I need to be and so a story came up and you kind of take me through it this was uh probably I guess it was before the injury um I guess it was maybe you and Discipline with the team post-2024 Championship some other team leaders kind of looked around and kind of saw guys wasn't doing what needed to be done or it wasn't looking like it need to look call a team meeting and called them together saying hey y'all this is not how it's supposed to go so I mean spring is over tell us the story kind of take us through what happened what you saw or however it went about holding it the team accountable and this is again kind of plays into the role that you still have on the team I think it was more so cuzz you have a whole new really everything in that building and when it kind of shifted and stuff it was It was kind of hard to see who like the leaders were cuz D there I mean what all of our leaders left on kind of a lot on both sides of the balls I would say and so um it was a point in time where we were kind of going like bumping heads with each other just arguing about stuff when we were when we were kind of saying stuff to them so it was just hold on we got to nip this in the B Because when we were freshman my class wasn't the best class when we came in and then the uh Wheels in them class they were actually good but they there were still like team meetings held to really set the standard so that's and we came together as leaders and was like I think we need to set the standard of this team when you say pause when you say your class wasn't very good Will's class was really good you mean and how they prepare how they play what do you mean by that talking about just is like we our class got into some stuff I got I got you and then uh yeah I mean they were kind of more like they came in his class came in on like I can't I don't even know how to say it they was just on it like they was coming to play and take your spot that was his class but back to what we was talking about uh yeah so you you you were talking about you were just butting heads the lead left and I mean there was always a meeting that was a standard being set so I think we just came together and was like I think we need to you know set the standard of this team let them know how it's going to be and it's not no gray areas of who's what and what's going on so that's what the me was about and it it was cool from there like we knew what to do was Setting the tone to keep the winning mentality going that mostly was that mostly setting the tone with with young guys or was that something it needed to be set with guys that had been here but what but just hadn't been in leadership roles before uh I think it was a little bit of both honestly it was everything that's what I think what took into it um like some of the young guys needed to be let let know like we need y'all to step up and be a leader at in your at in your class like cuz you played you know so and then there's guys that we have to do that with in my class is like bro we're senors now like it's us it's our team so we got to be the ones to you know set this tone set the standard and step up yeah that that's real that's you right definitely expect that from you uh and it kind of also rewinds the tape The decision to stay together or leave as a team a bit to the decision to come back cuz Colston told a story he said it wasn't a foregone conclusion that we were all going to come back like it there were some very real offers on the table Yeah out here uh some very real opportunities that we all could have taken advantage of giovan ohadi was like I I wasn't starting and that was kind of part of the the offer it was like Hey you could come here and start and get all this bread and take care of your whole family so he said I had to pray to stay you know cuz I had some opportuni so he said the the the vet some of the older guys had to come together he told the story of like a round table where y'all kind of came together yeah I forgot all about that I think I was me I was like bro yo hold on we need to meet cuz that's when um coach herb was gone that's what like soon as coach herb left like after that lift the whole building was just like oh like oh shoot like hold on like they took everybody for real but it was like I I was like n we got to go upstairs and see where everybody heads at cuz a lot of stuff was floating around I'm like if we stay together I think like me and Donovan was more like bro we got to stay together cuz like we benefit each other you know like especially that defense bro I wouldn't be like really where I am for like without the guys in front of me like the linebackers the guys up front and the guys on the outside I mean we help each other so yeah it was a little it was like a lot of guys in it was probably 20 20 in there we was in that room just talking everybody was spitting their thoughts yeah so again the the influence you bringing them together kind of hashing it all out and then Co said okay we came out of that meeting it was like okay we going to give him a chance to see you know stay together and give them a chance to see if they can get it right now the nil is is looking right is looking much better around it would have been an emotional decision like if they would if everybody would have left you got to we had to sit down and think like about your future before you made that decision yeah man you you played such a valuable role in the retention of the team the development of so many guys Zeke told the story but you keep coming up in different stories he was Working with Coach Clinkscale like clink he was like clink bro he was like man he said he did something in practice and he said man clink was on me and he was like man I he said you know I'm a laidback dude but he was like he I he I was I was going through it and he said I had to walk off by myself he said R came over he's like look man just calm down this is that's just how he is you got to know how he know focus on don't get you down on yourself and don't ignore that let's get back over here and get this work right so but that that was another example of you kind of picking up one of your teammates uh yeah like with Clint I mean I dealt with him for three years and then like my parents are kind of like how he was like I knew how to kind of deal with hard coaching and hard parenting so when he was yelling at me I'll get mad but I'll be like all right don't let this like really affect what you're doing and then when I seen Zeke doing that I was just like you just got to bro you got to chill like he just trying to take you to where he want to get you and then to teach you you can stay there like basically so you just got to be able to deal with that yelling cuz it was just a whole lot of yelling that's what made everybody mad he was just always yelling like like what you yelling for dude and then he'll be in your face like trying to be cool and I'm like no watch out dog but N Clean bro I really I miss clean if you want be honest I miss clean I'm not it's nothing against coach Morgan but we all miss clean yeah yeah yeah hey you know different coaching styles for sure and so what about coach Working with Coach Morgan Morgan uh you know that was one of the things that that Zeke talked about he said you know is different doesn't mean better it just means different you know coach Morgan has a different way about a way of going about things where he explains more than he yells and that can work too and he said that's that's working for me uh and so what are your impressions of of coach Morgan so far a as a coach obviously you I know you're not on the field but you can observe and so what do you see of him and how he's really connecting with the guys for one he's real smart uh he connects with everybody cuz like there was um there kind of a hard some guys like don't respond to yelling well so when you see like somebody that comes in is chilling like they kind of it's kind of more like of a they can they'll listen a little better you know but I think he been real good with coach Morgan he he knows the defense cuz you know he knows coach Min and all that so he kind of he knows everything and then he kind of he's not um he has input from everybody else too like and then trying to make sure you're learning it the right way not just one way so it's it's been real good everybody's loving coach Morgan so yeah man you you said he knows the defense is Michigan’s defense is not simple not simple at all that that's the other thing that you know you guys and this is something that the Washington dudes kind of found off their hard way like they came out they it was yeah they they couldn't deal with y'all up front they couldn't deal with y'all on the back end either because y'all y'all had them confused back there and that was the other thing that really kind of they had me confused not that often though I mean how many how many bu like two three coverages that but how many variations did y'all have right y'all had a lot of y'all was doing a lot of stuff didn't y'all we did some stuff that I I ain't never seen like before we had our own spin to a lot of stuff I'll say that see yeah so when you have that much stuff it's going to be some bus right so you know I obviously y'all wasn't perfect but y'all do a lot of complex things back there and they were like man these dudes they're so different with how they with how they can throw a lot of different defense at Will the defense style change next season? you and so that led to a lot of questions is is that going to change and it doesn't feel like it is no it's not going to change at all everybody has their own style of the defense same defense different variations of the defense I don't think it's going to change at all um we kind of got the same Basics different Spin and then we just got the players that do it that know how to do it my man R said I busted so was it was that what happened on that when when the duns a was running when he was running open he dropped the ball or he over when he over cuz you ain't see me and Mikey look at each other he was in my face I was like oh yeah I did that what what happened somebody I thought it was a few like a few um like a field simulat like a it was supposed to go to the field and I was supposed to play a different spot in the same coverage ran to the same spot as somebody else and left the half and the half was wide open he was wide open he the second time that wasn't me he it looked like it was me but that wasn't me hey but he had got his head beat in so much by that point yeah he was shook he was shook missing throws that he had missed all season long so I'm curious Who’s taking over Rod and Mikey’s spots on the defense? what you think about the the void on on defense because Mikey was a Savage Mikey was alltime great I he's a gifted athlete but the way he thought the game was on a different level and you do the same I mean you you think the game right so Mikey graduates you're obviously out hurt who feels that void on the defense now with him gone and with you out who do you see stepping in I'm not talking about the physical part you got athletes that can do what you guys do but who can think like you guys think who do you see feeling that boy I say Mari right now Mari is Ernest um oh shoot uh will will is is a young guy he I mean he has to he's been playing for three years and then uh Mason and kg like really the leaders you expect to do that I think think they're all just coming together and being able to do that and lead the defense so we got some guys coming in too so I think once the season goes on they'll be able to speak up a lot more yeah so again we're going to get back to talking more about rod and kind of what your outlook is but right now this is the time of the show where we get into that financial literacy piece it's that that part where we help uplift these young men and women by the way which is coming soon in their financial Journeys when it comes to This n era we call it the financial literacy boot Financial Literacy Bootcamp Intro [Music] camp so in this financial literacy boot camp we have engaged a couple of Partners one of those Partners is University of Michigan Credit Union which uh for their history they made a habit of getting young people used used to banking getting used to thinking about their finances and wellness and education saving and budgeting even thinking about taxes at an early age so it's a natural transition to start doing that with student athletes I was like hey you guys uh you know we see a need can you help fill it they said absolutely and so they put together what they called their playbook for prosperity [Applause] [Music] UMCU Playbook for Prosperity [Applause] um saver or spender can there be in the middle yeah of course in the middle tell me more though yeah kind what I mean I like I don't like spending money on things that don't have a lot of worth but sometimes I do do that at the same time so that's why I would say I'm in the middle all right yeah yeah it's important to have a positive money mindset I I I'm telling you um that will serve you well just you know get good help and stuff like that but you know be positive about things I'm telling you you're not sure get yeah R anything what helps you get through the months financially I also have a couple different accounts like my business account LC and then my personal account that's I have another account that I started when I was coming out of high school that I use for different things like that and then um at the beginning of the month when I'm getting paid I pay off all the stuff like my bills my rent before I make any other purchases beautiful one of the first things that that I that I teach with you know money management or budgeting is have a good sense of needs versus wants take care of those important bills those needs get those paid all that kind of thing and just let everything fall from there good stuff so R I know uh you and some of your teammates made it over the University of Michigan Credit Union uh recently and they took you through the paces of some Financial Wellness initiative so what were some of your takeaways from your time at umcu uh couple of my takeaways were uh pay pay pay everything off on time and uh just be conscientious of that and then planning going like having a planner of when how much money you spend and how much money you earn as well as uh being intentional where you put your money um um you could be making the same amount as someone and someone else and you put your money somewhere else and they could be making more at the end of the day in the long run so I think just being intentional and being smart with your money so were you a guy that made a habit of like whether credit cards bills you pay everything on time yeah I pay everything I try to I try to I'm G say I try to were you were you already aware of how much it could affect your credit score if you missed the payment no I didn't know that one that was kind ofo cuz if you had a high credit score and you just accidentally miss a payment by a day then it's like dang you just messed it up yeah so were you were you the the low credit score guy the middle guy middle I was in the middle you were in the middle yeah did they did was that based in reality or is that no I was just it was just handed out they just they okay they we just roll playing right now all right I'm proud of you then young brother I'm proud of you that's great that you are taking seriously paying down those bills paying them on time because you miss one payment as I think it was Colston who said man I didn't realize you miss a payment your score goes down 30 points and then it takes you like a year to get it back up so pay those credit card bills on time and the other thing you got to think about is not getting a whole bunch of credit either you know all those credit inquiries all those lines of credit those are all things that can affect credit score so taking you through those Paces very important now are you a guy who budgets you budget your money very much at all uh I'm I'm going to say I'm in the middle of that in the middle of that okay all right so that but see that's better than not budgeting at all spend money on stuff that brings you Joy I promise you'll have a a wonderful life but with en reason yeah how do you do it um I I have an Excel spreadsheet I it's a little old school but it it works for me um I I just I have it I have it organized I I built it myself I just have it organized where I I kind know I know I know um and it just it's it's just sort of you know why I do it Rod it's because I need the transparency I just like to see it I just don't want to keep things up here and then if if I'm faced with a decision I'm able to kind of look at this and kind of see how the the months going and stuff like that so yeah I've got to I'm happy to share what I use it's just an easy spreadsheet it's just I like to see it all right so umcu didn't have a bad case with Rob Moore you already doing a lot of things you're supposed to do helping you lay that Foundation which they've been doing with young people for a long time we hope to do that with more young people and more student athletes and spreading the word with a playbook for prosperity [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right so ra if umcu lays the foundation then our friends at Morgan Stanley helps build on that Foundation by talking about investment strategies Building Wealth growing your finances so I'm Cur what have been your takeaways from talking to the folks in Morgan Stanley have you started to think about or have you actually gotten involved and Rod’s journey so far with financial wellness starting to put some money away starting to invest I thought about it I haven't yet started I need to I think I just need to get a little bit more knowledge and education in that area of where to invest and what to look for when invest in like numbers and numbers wise so I just don't want to invest into something I really don't know what I'm getting out of it yeah man so we going we're going to be very uh we're going to be encouraging right now to my young brother Rob we going to say Hey you put the a little bit of money aside in college a little little bit of this nil money that you're bringing in I see your chain you like you're doing all right you know you're doing all right getting a little bit a little piece of it couple percentage points off to the side and don't touch it for 30 years you come back in retirement and that money is much much bigger that's kind of been the message that I've gleaned from some of your teammates and obviously is in some of the tutelage that's been coming across from your time with Morgan Stan yeah seems to me that you are not a very uh uh you're not a very risky individual you're a more risk averse guy yeah you kind of like middle of the road yeah I'm in the middle I don't like I don't like that risk I don't especially when it comes to money I don't want to like you know put my trust into some else where I don't have any control over and it's it's like dang you could have maybe not have did that or then you could come out on the good side so it's just like it depends on what it is also yeah well that's where it pays to have the right people advising you and that's why education is key and getting with the right people that can help educate you in that area is very important and that's why we've gotten this financial literacy boot camp [Music] together so R uh coming back around to talking about how this plays out for you the rest of the way you got your rehab and you said you got some decisions to make about how you handle things moving Who has been helping Rod along his recovery journey forward who are you leaning on other than obviously yourself and how you're feeling and your doctors who are the people that you ask for for advice to help color that decision on how you going to move moving forward cuz here's you got to be careful to not make emot an emotional decision you going to feel real good and you going to look around let's say the team is doing real well and emotionally it might be like yeah let's go but how do you make sure that that's the best decision for for Rod how do you keep from making an emotional decision decision in that moment I think that's more of like talking with my family um any agencies that I in contact with um my coaches and really just the training staff and especially the Doctor Who did my surgery like when was I get the green light from him I mean yeah that'll give me some Grace but I still got to feel like I can do it too cuz it could be a yes from the doctor but you mentally or physically may not be ready to go so why why not why not Why Rod still wants to play for Michigan just make that I mean is there something wrong with just saying you know what I'm not going to even put that on the table I'm not going to even consider coming back right now I'm just going to focus all my energy on getting ready for the draft why I do that uh cuz I'm of course I'm I'm want to play especially if it's maybe my last season or not I still want to play cuz it's guys that I really want to play with again and then it's just like I'm not really kind of forcing to play cuz if I can't play I can't play but at the same time I do want to so if if the opportunity is able to present itself I'm going try I'll try to get back on the field but so you you just said something that I hadn't even thought about frankly you said maybe it's my last season or not would you even contemplate another year would that even be on the table for you maybe but it have to be a hell of an nil D some some got to keep me here about that one it had to be nil on another level yeah now the conversation is nil you know you can put together nil deals that can work some things out which brings me to that conversation cson said look the meeting you put together where you said hey we got to figure out if we going to stay together or not y'all ultimately decided to stay together put your faith that they going to take care of you and he said yeah man there was a before the national championship and there's an after the national championship he said we okay they taking care of us now would you would you agree with that assessment of things I want to hear things from from your perspective because you always keep it real with me so what would you say that's true that's most definitely true it's before the NY and after the NY for sure uh yeah I think they they realize like you got to take care of the I mean bro it's been since 1997 since we brought Natty here so you better take care of your guys that did it you know what I'm saying so um yeah it was a before and then it was after and after feeling real good I hear that man and so you know as far as some of these guys that you're Working with Zeke Berry helping tutor and Mentor now that are coming up Mari said something the other day down at big media today he said man I'm watching this young Zeke Barry and I'm watching how smooth he is and I see a lot of Dax Hill in I'm thinking I'm thinking whoa that's that's saying a lot Mari you know Mari don't he don't all Ain't No Cap in him so for him to say that means a lot but still I'm like whoa so I know you I know you don't you always Gonna Keep It Real you agree with that assess I do I think I do agree with that because bro Zeke just be so smooth like he may not had do no DB word but he's still going to come out there and look like he just smooth he got it naturally and the way he moves the reason why I think he said that cuz bro that they move kind of alike like as far as hit movement feet and stuff like that and aggressive like just aggression once he gets everything down bro yeah he might he going to be real good all right so what about young Brandon hman man I keep hearing what kind of athlete he is Working with Brandyn Hillman yeah yeah be here come down here crazy like you think he don't care about his life sometime me and car some sometimes we look at each other like yo he crazy be crazy but yeah he's a he be doing flip like he's athlete doing flips and all that stuff so you going to see when he comes back he kind of was out springing with a hammy so he really didn't get to show what he could do but we've seen it in practice like we know how be he'll get you see anybody anybody out there remind you of you remind you of you remind you of young rod nah nah n i nobody doing it like me uhuh I mean I'm real humble but I'm not going I don't compare nobody else to myself I'm a real humble person you know that but yeah I hear you N I hear you man I'm Reminiscing on Rod’s game against OSU I'm still I'm still stuck in your moment against o State that's going to last to the end of time yeah that's one I was just watching that yesterday matter of fact like I watched the whole game on YouTube yesterday but n that's one that was crazy I still don't even believe did that but yeah it's kind of crazy especially cuz you know I'm from Ohio so yeah like I was just back there last week and I've seen a lot of people that I haven't seen in a while and they was just like they hate us but they was just a fan of me because of how like what I did and where I'm coming from how I'm coming from down there so it's just kind of crazy just seeing the love from everybody and then just knowing like d that's going to be in like history forever I'm going to ask you a point of question it's a tough one uh because it Will the defense be better than last year? it it's one of it is asking you to look at it uh from a vantage point that might not include you uh but I heard colon and go they said man I'm looking at this defense as great as it was last year it could be better this year and that was another time where I was like come on man I was kind of almost like I said to Mari like come on man I don't know and they both said it with their chest and so I'm G ask you again you like my barometer on stuff like that you buy that right let me think about this real quick I think we got to see how it goes before making a statement like that cuz like you got to see who we had last year then who we had behind who we had like this year we got to see that like we got to see how that goes first uh like I mean I mean everybody at the position that they're at they kind of been there already so it's that's why I think they're saying that cuz we kind of know the defense a lot more than a lot of guys did so um especially like when I before I got hurt it was going real good like everybody was kind of we were kind of learning new things a little bit but everybody was on one Accord then when I dropped but just watching Everybody they're still just dealing so much together and that's what our defense is everybody has to work off for somebody else so once you get that connection and that jail that defense that's where youu see like it's this is gonna be a real strong defense absolutely man all right so we'll wind this down with a couple of questions number one do you you said you Does Rod still keep in touch with the coaches? miss clean you talked to Clint you talk to coach men you talked to Coach Harbaugh when the last time you you holler at the whole stay in touch when I was in LA okay I seen him talked to them a couple times but uh what kind of advice do do they give you I mean these are guys who are in the pros right now what do they s what are their suggestions about how you you you move forward how you handle things at this point I'm talking about healthwise big picture for oh they was just telling me like to make the best decision that's going to be for myself um there's a couple things that they've told me but um yeah I'm going just make those decisions off of really how I think it should go um trying to think what they what else they were saying when I was out there they were just trying of you know telling me to stay positive like especially the mental aspect of all this because you know the coaches they seen acos a lot and it's my first like it's a big one like it's like I ain't never missed no football season in my life that's kind of that's kind of different but it was just like keeping them telling me to keep a good Mentor well man I tell you what your role on the team is Undisputed these dudes respect you I don't know if you've if you've grasped how much you must have I don't I don't think I haven't if you wouldn't be honest I don't be really seeing it honestly you don't n oh man yeah you you I guess you gotta maybe you got to have people tell you how they talk about you when you're not around yeah yeah man no they they rock with Rod for sure it's love yeah believe buy what you have to say follow what you do you know tell them where to go they G to follow for sure so like they have you just gave a bunch of examples you said come in the room we got to stay together yeah Zeke come over here don't listen to clink you know and do do what you say do there you go man so I'm proud of youe I'm proud of you I mean it'd be very easy to mail it in and you keep coming back man so keep doing that I know we going to see you even if wherever it is in whatever form I know we going to see you on the field again man so keep doing you invest that money man I got you man do it I'm GNA do it I got youest that money R more appreciate it folks it is always real with Rod it Closing is always real on behind the uniform we know we you know we appreciate your support on this platform you can always find the episodes of behind the uniform on our YouTube channel of course we want to thank our great sponsors starting with our friends over at Golden limo who get you to your location on time every time don't forget take advantage of those great opportunities you can find them at Golden limo.com if you have ground trans Transportation 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