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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Postgame Show: Ricky Williams

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.732.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Ricky Williams joins Dan and the crew to discuss the devaluation of the running back, why a person would be a "glutton for punishment," being the best at what you do, Ricky's ideal age to be, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I don't actually know how familiar Ricky is with the subject matter I'm about to put

0:17.7

in front of him because I imagine him, you know, out in the hills, growing cannabis,

0:22.7

living his most peaceful life and not exactly checking his phone for NFL news.

0:28.0

I think you'd find it interesting Ricky that the average NFL running back is now in a position

0:33.8

where he will be paid less than kickers. They've made the position that you made, you know, great

0:39.8

and that made you great. They've made that position something so disposable, so interchangeable

0:47.2

that they will burn through the bodies of running backs very quickly and now the running backs

0:52.8

should unionize inside of their own union because they're so devalued. Have you been following any

0:59.2

of what's been happening with passing game football that has at least in part rendered the running back

1:05.3

if not obsolete pretty close to it and certainly not valuable? Well, I mean, I haven't been following

1:10.7

the statistics, but in following the NFL, I've seen that running backs aren't getting too much love,

1:17.8

not like when I played. And what do you think is happening there? Like, do you have any sort of

1:22.7

theories? Do you even care that that's something that's happening? That's something that you dedicated

1:26.7

your life to because I don't think Ricky, people understand how hard it was to be great at what it is

1:32.0

you were great at. So that's being thrown in the garbage can. This thing that you cared about for

1:37.2

10 years in an unreasonable way. Yeah, I don't care, but I think it's fascinating. I think it's

1:42.5

really interesting. And I think, you know, I'm halfway serious about this, but I think I'm part

1:48.0

of the reason. And I, you know, because you can't depend on them. And I think, I think for a

1:55.7

couple of reasons, one is because it's a difficult position where you get beat up so you can't depend

2:00.8

that they're going to stay healthy and you can't depend that they're going to keep on doing it over

2:05.2

and over again because they get worn out. And two, it's like there's a certain kind of person

2:11.3

that chooses to play the running back position. You know, I think you can say that for all the

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