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QOTD: Who’s someone you’ve always thought was misunderstood?
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00:00Shout out to Aziz Alshair, a name that you hear a lot and for various different reasons.
00:05But in this instance, he is the Texans nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award,
00:10which, according to the National Football League, is the most prestigious award that they hand out every year.
00:14According to me, okay.
00:15But all right, it's a good thing.
00:17Obviously, you want to salute the people that are in their community.
00:20And Aziz is absolutely that, right?
00:22Like, Aziz, you know, does stuff with the United Way.
00:24One of the things that's always been crazy about him is, like, you hear him talk, and it is just...
00:30It's like two different people.
00:31We had an opportunity to sit down with him in training camp.
00:34And it was like, the time went in a flash.
00:36Is this the same guy?
00:37I wanted to be like, hey, hold on after we get off air, because I would like to talk to you some more,
00:41which is really unfair to someone who just did a whole bunch of football stuff.
00:45But he is a fascinating dude, and it just feels like people do not understand him
00:49because he plays with the physicality that D'Amico Rhimes wants every given down.
00:53And especially, it wasn't back-to-back, but in the same season, he has that kerfuffle on the sideline
00:59against the Bears, I believe.
01:00Yeah, I guess that's not the physicality that he asked for.
01:02And then the Jaguars thing.
01:04Yeah, I think the main thing was the Jaguars thing, where he was just completely out of control.
01:08But I always show the Bears thing, too.
01:09It's like, see?
01:10Yeah.
01:10Yeah, see?
01:11He's a dirty...
01:11And it really put a narrative out there.
01:15Look, and we were kidding around it this week, about it this week, about throwing a guy down.
01:19I mean, but every time I see a suplex in football, I'm like,
01:22one, I know you watched wrestling when you were a kid, but then two, you know that they don't like that.
01:29Yeah.
01:29I'm not even mad, like, yo, how could you do this?
01:31It's just like, you know that they don't like that.
01:34So don't.
01:34So, but anyway, there is a perception out there about Aziz that is, frankly, you know, it's not true.
01:42So the question of the day, it doesn't have to be just sports.
01:45You know, who's a person that you thought was always misunderstood?
01:49You know, I think Aziz fits into that category.
01:51Yeah, no, 100%, especially when we're sitting here looking at the way that it gets talked about.
01:57And I think the thing that made it real egregious was after the Jacksonville thing where Trevor Lawrence slides,
02:02one, the lack of context of that dude was playing with that, like, hurt clavicle or whatever,
02:07and then people pretend like him going and missing time after that was because of the head injury,
02:11as if he did not have that shoulder injury to begin with, right, that was actually keeping him out.
02:16And two, it went on for like four days.
02:18It went on a long time.
02:20It was a national story.
02:22It created a lot of arguments.
02:23Yeah.
02:24Yeah.
02:24He just kept talking about it.
02:25But to that end, who were the people or the players or, you know, otherwise that you believe were deeply misunderstood?
02:31I think Cam Newton is one.
02:33Cam Newton just had a reputation.
02:36Just had a reputation.
02:37You know, but he was actually incredibly professional even when he was at Auburn, you know, and that came out bad.
02:44But, you know, he was a professional quarterback even when he was at Auburn.
02:48Hell, at Blinn when he played there.
02:51Just he's a pro.
02:52He did it the right way.
02:53He understands the game.
02:54One of the reasons that he's so popular now as an analyst is because he really understands what the game and how the position is played.
03:00He just played it different.
03:01Yeah, I think that that's part of the misunderstanding is I do wonder, and maybe I'm expanding this too far, so let me know if you think I'm tripping.
03:09It felt like people thought he didn't know football because he was just a physical freak.
03:13No, that dude understands football incredibly well.
03:15One of the most fun little clips that you'll see pop up was who was it defensively that was like, oh, he's doing this.
03:22He's like, oh, so you watch tape.
03:23Watch this.
03:24Yeah.
03:24And, like, that is because he had such confidence in executing his offense.
03:27He's like, yeah, if it's third and short, I'll run over you, but also I can make this work.
03:32So I thought that there was that.
03:33He does have some goofy stuff, but that's more showed up afterwards, after his career, or, like, later on.
03:39Did he make a watching joke at one point on the podium?
03:43Something to that effect where I was like, ooh.
03:44Oh, no, it was like a women talking football thing.
03:46Oh.
03:46It was actually to a reporter.
03:48Yes.
03:48It was a female reporter.
03:49Yeah, that's right.
03:50Come on.
03:51Maybe I should change my mind.
03:52Anyway.
03:52You were like, well, take him off the board here.
03:55You know, a weird one for me.
03:56I'm curious what you guys, you know, people that you think are misunderstood.
03:59A weird one for me is J.J. Watt.
04:03Oh, yeah.
04:03I misunderstood him.
04:04People just thought, this guy is so corny.
04:08It's all fake.
04:09It's all for PR.
04:10Here.
04:11You and Reggie both, huh?
04:12I was like that the whole time until I moved down here.
04:15Yeah.
04:16And then kind of saw him up close and personal as far as, like, what he did with Harvey and all that stuff.
04:21And I was just like, oh, okay, that's really him.
04:23So it's true.
04:23Yeah, but I think it comes from, like, a general mistrust of, like, this person can't be this good.
04:27Can't be that good.
04:28And then also, it didn't help that, like, he started getting to the Captain America status.
04:32It was like, all right, so we're just going to put the Golden Boy on.
04:34Yeah.
04:34That's where I was just like, man.
04:36And then he had his shoe, the J.J. Watt shoes.
04:39I'm like, y'all corny asses walking around with some J.J. Watt shoes.
04:43He ain't all that.
04:44And the thing of the fact of the matter.
04:45I changed my tune, by the way.
04:47The fact of the matter is, he is every bit of that.
04:49Every bit.
04:49He's real.
04:50And more, probably.
04:51Yes.
04:52How about you guys?
04:53Well, one of the first ones that came to mind for me is a basketball one, because I just don't understand it.
04:59We had him here in Houston, and I wonder if that helped or hurt, at least here in the city of Houston.
05:04Russell Westbrook.
05:04I've never understood the great amount of hate for Russell Westbrook, because I think a lot of the things that people hope for or say that they want in an athlete, he absolutely typifies.
05:15That dude is all about his family, right?
05:17Like, people hate the, oh, flashy.
05:19He's never been flashy.
05:20He don't go out.
05:21What he likes doing is going home, being with his family.
05:24He is deeply committed to the community.
05:26Wherever the community is that he's at, he's deeply committed to that.
05:29Family man.
05:30Faithful.
05:31Hard worker.
05:32Like, I think that's one of the things that turned him off in Houston was that we know that James Harden, while being really good, not always the most diligent in his work.
05:40Bro, you out here kicking it?
05:42That upset him.
05:42We trying to practice, man.
05:43Come on.
05:44That upset him.
05:45And I'm like, all of those things, if you put that on a generic player X, does this, you go, oh, I love that guy.
05:51And then you go, Russell Westbrook, and people go, ah!
05:54I don't know.
05:54I just don't understand it.
05:55Yeah.
05:56Yeah, the one that comes to my mind was Marshawn Lynch.
05:59I feel like, yeah, because I feel like Marshawn Lynch, we kind of, I mean, we joke about the whole, you know, I'm just here so I don't get fined and all of that stuff.
06:08But to me, I feel like Marshawn Lynch was, when I think of players that are kind of, I don't want to call them camera shy, but just, you know, not kind of, I don't even know how to phrase it.
06:19He was just very private.
06:20Yeah, not, yeah.
06:22Incredibly private.
06:23Yeah, or just kind of standoffish when it comes to people and media and stuff like that.
06:27Not in a bad way, but just his personality.
06:30I feel like he was the front man of that.
06:33And at the time, a lot of people didn't understand it.
06:35A lot of people felt like he was just kind of being an a-hole and stuff like that.
06:40But some people aren't really camera people like that, man.
06:45I know he's growing into it now, but at the time as a player, man, I think a lot of people aren't that, you know,
06:51they don't want to sit in front of the camera and just give you everything like that.
06:56And I felt like that was a little bit misunderstood.
06:58What about celebrities?
07:00Or just other people of note that you feel are misunderstood?
07:06One that came to mind only because, you know, it's someone that I've, I don't know how to put this.
07:13But Charlie Sheen, Charlie Sheen to me has got demons, like Johnny Manziel.
07:18You know, Johnny Manziel might fit in this list.
07:20He's got demons, but as people, they're fantastic people.
07:26They just can't shake, you know, their addictions or where they go in their private life, you know,
07:33chemically, et cetera, alcohol, all that stuff.
07:36You know, I think both those guys kind of fit in that category.
07:38Charlie Sheen was tough, though, because there was a lot of that that came through his own words.
07:42So it felt like how much misunderstanding has happened when it's you bringing it to the table here.
07:47But I hear you because I think when you have that different perspective, it's always interesting,
07:51which is why I'm really interested to see, like, how deep in the archives you can go with this
07:55from, like, players that you had an opportunity to see up close and personal
07:58where you get that different perspective.
08:00Some other ones, some ones that are coming in on the text line.
08:03Somebody said John Lopez is my nomination for being misunderstood.
08:05Is that good or bad?
08:07I have no earthly idea.
08:09How did you how did you feel about because someone brought up Mad Max, Vernon Maxwell?
08:14Do you feel like he's misunderstood?
08:16I feel like he's there might be some misunderstanding in that, like,
08:20his code is different than I think a lot of other people's code.
08:23And there is like a level of morality.
08:25It just doesn't sit right with some people, I imagine.
08:28I think Vernon Maxwell is one of those guys that kind of has two personalities, you know,
08:33and he can be, like, he's gotten in fights in locker rooms.
08:37He's got, Akeem Olajuwon's slapped the bleep out of him, you know, for his words.
08:41His words, yeah, his words.
08:43You know, he has, he has, he's pushed buttons and not been, you know,
08:48the highest of character people over the years.
08:50And yet, on the other side, he is a guy that does a lot of good stuff.
08:55And when you sit down and talk, and I covered him from his rookie year, you know,
08:59when I was on the NBA beat, he was a rookie, you know, and you're like,
09:02how does this guy, you know, get this?
09:05Oh, that's how he gets the reputation.
09:06But he doesn't, he doesn't seem like that bad all the time.
09:09What about somebody like a Ron Artis?
09:11That's a really good one.
09:13Very, very big.
09:13That's a really good one.
09:14Because also, and this is where it gets real interesting,
09:17because there's, there's a lot of that that's also mental illness that happens,
09:20which changes the dynamics.
09:21But yeah, like, I think that, yeah, that, that he was very misunderstood.
09:25Does Dylan Brooks strike you as misunderstood?
09:27I think that that's just kind of, I think that would fit.
09:29I think he kind of wants you to take him that way.
09:31I think that that's part of the persona that he adds.
09:33And it works, because look at the way that his teams play.
09:36They're always physical.
09:37And he, I think he does it to an end.
09:40But he's well liked.
09:41He is.
09:41By media and.
09:43Yeah, his teammates and all that stuff.
09:44I think it's just when he's on the court.
09:46Kind of like a, I don't want to compare him to Aziz,
09:49but when you're on the court, it's a different person.
09:52Yeah.
09:53Captain Jack, Stephen Jackson.
09:55You know, the Golden Triangle Zone.
09:57And then one of the ones that I wanted to throw up here,
09:59because Arian Foster definitely was, right?
10:03Arian Foster was just, he was kind of like just a different kind of nut.
10:08But nobody ever called him a bad guy.
10:11No, but I don't think you have to be a bad guy to be misunderstood.
10:13I think that he just, for the culture that football typically brings,
10:17he was a different dude.
10:18And I think that leads to some misunderstanding.
10:19Is Russell Wilson fall in that category?
10:22No.
10:24I mean, technically misunderstood.
10:26However.
10:27He wants you to misunderstand.
10:28A lot of people dislike, I mean, not even just,
10:31I ain't talking about his peers and nothing,
10:32but just on social media, people don't like him.
10:36It's like, why?
10:37That's a good reason.
10:40Yeah, that one's too complex.
10:42That was too complex to do.
10:43He ain't doing nothing but loving his family.
10:44Is he?
10:46He's corny.
10:47There's a level.
10:48Well, it's not even just corny.
10:49Fake is something that people don't want to apply.
10:51He's what we thought J.J. Watt was.
10:52Yeah, well.
10:53He's what we thought J.J. Watt was.
10:55And I still don't even know how actual fake it is,
10:57but at least it has the appearance of fake,
10:59and sometimes that appearance matters.
11:00J.J. Watt still has some, like,
11:02he still can be very genuine, though,
11:05where you'd be like, okay, he's one of us.
11:07He'll quote a Paul Wall lyric or something like that,
11:11or a Houston rap lyric.
11:12Right.
11:13Do stuff like that.
11:13Mm-hmm.
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