**Joe Haden** (0:00)
So didn't him be able to do that? Call him now quickly, hey, good merch, look, you know what I'm saying? This is Coach, you know what I'm saying? No hard feelings, but we're gonna have to move on from you. And those are those real, like when you see the hard joints, those are real life conversations. Then when coaches are getting fired, having to tell their staff, hey guys, you know what I'm saying? It's been amazing, but they're letting me go.
That's like real life things that would business people and people in the world, you can see.
**James Harrison** (0:26)
That's something I don't like about that, dude.
I don't like that, dude. That's out of control, bro. I don't understand that.
You don't get to, you know what I'm saying? That reaction, some guys, for me, it's different.
I'm a roll and just keep going or whatever it may be. But you're putting their most lowest point, dude. You got guys that have played this game, dude. You know, their whole life, bruh. Like, this is what they've been told that they can do. This is what they are. This is everything they know. And there's nothing else that they understand or can apprehend at that time. And they young, dude. And now you're telling him you ain't good enough to be here. And this, he being told this in front of the whole world, dude, man, this is some bullshit that the PA should be stopping and protecting players from. Like, this is, this don't make sense, dude. Like, I shouldn't have to be as a player sitting here losing my job the first time ever. That is mentally disturbing. And you're talking about, you want to worry, y'all worried about guys' mental health? That right there, putting the man live, as he losing a job that he's been told his whole life, he's the greatest at, and now he has to figure out what to do from that point. That right there is mentally, like, that's something that some people can't recover from, dude.
**Joe Haden** (1:51)
I feel you, and that hits, that hits, but that's when at the same time, now, what the dudes got to start realizing, Plan A's, Plan B's, everybody's like...
**James Harrison** (2:02)
No, dude, I understand what you're saying, Joe, and we understand that.
**Joe Haden** (2:05)
I ain't.
**James Harrison** (2:06)
When did you make your Plan A and your Plan B? I get to you, I didn't have no time before year five or six.
**Joe Haden** (2:12)
No, it wasn't. I mean, it wasn't.
**James Harrison** (2:15)
You were going year by year, man, and it was what it was whenever they got done. So they cut you week one. Now what?
**Joe Haden** (2:24)
I was going to be a personal trainer. I was going to try to start a jam.
**James Harrison** (2:28)
Now, at what point, though, would you have given up on that dream? That's why guys do, that's why so many guys find it hard to let go of the game, because they don't get to leave it when they want to leave it, and the game leaves them.
And now, they're fighting for their life, trying to get back into it, because that's all they know. That's all they can think about. Now, they're trying to get into it and coach, and whatever it is that they can do, man.
**Joe Haden** (2:53)
I feel you, but that's where I'm saying that we can't put, that's from a jit, though, from a kid. We got to start understanding you can't put all of your eggs in one basket, because the percent of people that are going to make it to the pros, you know what I'm saying? You can go to college for free. You can be able to go to school for free, but starting off from the beginning, always knowing like, boom, league for sure, that's going to be able to get you to pay for school, and then have you plan on like, what are you going to school for? It's not just going to school to be like, I'm going to be this.
**James Harrison** (3:21)
If I told you that as a kid, if your dad told you that as a kid, hey man, don't you put all your eggs in one basket.
**Joe Haden** (3:30)
No, no, see, I was like working hard, I was doing the same thing like with-
**James Harrison** (3:37)
I'm telling you, don't put all your eggs in the same basket when I say, son, make sure you get your grades.
**Joe Haden** (3:43)
Yes, good grades, that's the same thing.
**James Harrison** (3:45)
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