DESEAN JACKSON - MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME EPISODE 398

Million Dollaz Worth Of Game

NFL legend DeSean Jackson and his brother Byron join the show to promote their new documentary, 'Go Deep,' currently streaming on Amazon Pri

Key takeaways

• DeSean Jackson's documentary 'Go Deep' features raw footage captured by his brother Byron since DeSean was six years old.
• The modern NFL has shifted toward extreme passing volumes, with players like Tyreek Hill reaching much higher catch totals than previous eras.
• DeSean credits the discipline of veterans like Brian Dawkins and B.J. Vert for teaching him professionalism during his rookie season.
• The late Bill Jackson, DeSean's father, is credited as the foundational influence who instilled a necessary work ethic through strict discipline.
• DeSean has transitioned into coaching at Delaware State University to provide guidance to young athletes based on his own mistakes.

Main topics

• Go Deep Documentary
• NFL Evolution
• Philadelphia Eagles History

Notable quotes

If you want it, get your ass off that couch.

Conclusion

The episode provides an intimate look at the grit required to succeed

Transcript preview

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Speaker 5 (1:42) You're now tuned in to me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, million Speaker 1 (1:45) dollars Speaker 5 (1:46) worth of game. Let me tell you a story now. See, see, one thing about this is this. One thing that I love, I love when I talk to top flight athletes, not just regular athletes. I'm talking about next level athlete. I always go back to when I was playing for Seton Hall, right? And I got transferred to Penn State back in the day. And it was like, I was playing, I was like two different sports. I was playing basketball. I was a wide receiver for Penn State at the time. So it was like, when I get with wide receivers, it's like when we talk, it's just like, damn, I'm just reconnecting with yesterday. And to see this guy right here, right? To see the things that he done, some of the stuff that he done, I introduced in the sports back when I was playing with Penn State. A lot of moves, a lot of returns, a lot of that stuff. I've been did that shit. You know what I mean? So when he get credit, I do feel some type of way. So we argue on the side about the shit he done and what I done. You know what I mean? What Gil didn't do. It's just deep. But when you're an athlete, athletes just connect. I mean, especially when you're a multi-sport athlete like me. You know what I mean? Yeah, bring it in. You can bring him that food. He can eat that right here, man. No, no, he good. I mean, so it's just like, see, that's the discipline of an athlete. Jack, when you came to Philly, you knew you was coming to my town, my sports town. First Speaker 8 (2:56) of all, man, before we go any further, we got the legendary, Speaker 5 (2:59) legendary Speaker 8 (3:00) Deshaun Jackson in the building. D-Jack! Speaker 5 (3:04) What's happening, man? What's going on, man? Listen, man, let me ask you a question. We always hear all this stuff now, all this stuff coming out. Did anybody ever try you in the locker room, man? Anybody ever try me? Speaker 6 (3:15) Yeah, I mean, you remember Hank Basket? Oh, he probably don't know that name. Yeah, I know Hank Basket. What team did he Speaker 5 (3:20) play for? He Speaker 6 (3:21) played for the Eagles, Speaker 5 (3:22) man. Oh, man, that was my team. You talk about you was a two-sport. Speaker 6 (3:24) That wasn't my team at the time. So, look, I was a rookie, man. You remember that? Donovan Manette had the white parties. All white parties? You ever attend one of those? Speaker 8 (3:33) So I'm a rookie, right? Me and my boy Speaker 6 (3:34) T-Font. You remember T-Font? Yeah, Speaker 7 (3:36) I know T-Font. My guy. Shout out T-Font. Shout Speaker 6 (3:38) out my boy T-Font. So, you know, the rookie dinners, you know, you got all this stipulations. They talk about when you're a rookie, you got to spend X, Y, Z. You got to dinner. You got to go do this. And you got to be accounted for all that, right? So I remember Donovan Manette had the white party. And we go. And they was like, yeah, Jack, you got this bill. You got to pay for this bill. So they came up. You know, they got like. 10,000 worth of bottles and all this at Donovan Manaz party. Remind you, this is a party. I'm thinking we getting there. We getting for free. We going there. We got to pay for the ticket. We got, like, man, this dude got all this money. He making people pay his own teammates to get in the party. So we get in there. Towards the end of the party, Hank Bassett came up to me and hand me a receipt talking about this show, Rookie Dinner for the year. You know, rookies got to pay for the dinner and shit. It's like, you got to pay 10,000. And I must've looked at his ass crazy. I said, man, I'm not paying that 10,000. You better go give that shit to somebody else. I'm not paying for that. Speaker 8 (4:23) Yeah. Speaker 6 (4:24) That was somebody trying me, but I'm like, hey, basket. I'm like, bruh, I mess with you, dog, but Jack ain't paying that one, dog. How do you? Hold on. Was that the only time you ever got tried? That was the only time I ever got tried. Anything else, ain't nobody ever tried. You know, I'm LA. You know, I got the team tied in. Your Speaker 8 (4:43) memory fucked up. Speaker 6 (4:45) Your memory Speaker 7 (4:46) fucked Speaker 8 (4:46) up. Bro, Speaker 7 (4:49) I'm the Eagles guy. What you talking about? Your memory fucked up. Matter of fact, Speaker 8 (4:54) when you played for the Eagles, he worked for the Eagles. Okay. What are we talking about there? Sean Keegan, my camera Speaker 6 (5:02) guy. Okay, remind me. So how my memory messed up? What are we talking about? Speaker 8 (5:06) You know, everybody used to come to the studio. Speaker 6 (5:09) You, Speaker 8 (5:10) Sante, just name them. They get Marty Gileard. Where you going with this? You don't remember you Speaker 7 (5:22) fired off on Marty in practice? Well, he was a receiver. Yes, he was a receiver. Fuck you. Yes. Fuck. You Speaker 6 (5:33) probably got some shit on me. That's a lot of shit I don't remember, man. I Speaker 7 (5:37) was Speaker 6 (5:37) there like 20 years ago. Yeah. Speaker 7 (5:39) He was right there, too. I wrote the story up. He said, I was right there. He said. He said that the guy with the dreads wouldn't let it go. He wouldn't. I do remember that. I Speaker 8 (5:50) can't remember what it was about, though. I can tell you what it was about. You and LeSean wouldn't fucking stop. Speaker 7 (5:59) He got mad. Y'all started going back and forth. You started gangbanging all in practice. Fuck out of here, cuz. Speaker 8 (6:11) And then you fired off on him. And it got broken up and he was mad as shit. I talked to him that day. He was mad as shit. He was like, I Speaker 7 (6:23) need my gift back. He was Speaker 8 (6:26) mad Speaker 7 (6:28) as shit. Listen, Speaker 8 (6:30) this with the NFL coming to play too, right? He was like, Keeley, man, I ain't want to leave out that motherfucking building without getting my gift back. He was mad as shit. Country nigga too. Speaker 7 (6:42) He ain't bullshit. He was like, Speaker 8 (6:46) Fucking coaches walked up on me talking about, Speaker 7 (6:49) you Speaker 8 (6:51) know you're the fifth receiver on the team. And if they have your ass getting cut. You touch Speaker 5 (6:56) his hand, boy, he say your ass getting out Speaker 8 (6:59) of Speaker 5 (6:59) the field. Is that deep? Yeah. Speaker 8 (7:02) Shout out to my man Marty, though. He is a good dude. That's a good dude. He was mad as a motherfucker, man. You brought some shit up with that one. Yeah, see. I remember. Speaker 6 (7:12) Now, when Speaker 5 (7:13) you're looking at the league today, right, versus when you play, is there any difference? Speaker 6 (7:17) Hell yeah, they throwing the ball. Them there 70, 80 times a game, man. See, Speaker 5 (7:21) I Speaker 6 (7:21) look at the game now. When we was playing, you had to set up the pass through the run. You know what I'm saying? Nowadays, they come out with just pass, and they want to put 80 points up on the board, man. With Caleb Williams in the first game, he scored like 59 points. So, I mean, I'm just looking at the dynamics of the game. Like, even going back to a few years ago, you got Jalen Wilder, you got Tyreek Hill. When they was playing in Miami, like. Them dudes getting like 115 catches. The most catches I had in one year was 83 catches. And you got to think, my attempts, I was probably getting maybe 100 attempts. These dudes now getting like 150 attempts, man. So the era has changed. It's more about putting points up. And, you know, you can't hit as hard now because if you hit somebody hard, they're Speaker 5 (7:59) going Speaker 6 (7:59) to throw you out the game. So I think it's set up for high scoring and for like a lot of passes now. Speaker 5 (8:04) That's deep now. Now, who was your best teammate that kept you on point, kept you on line when you was in it? When you was on the team, what team was you on when you Speaker 6 (8:12) was? Damn, that's a good question. That really Speaker 5 (8:14) was like, man, always good. That person could really get to you and be like, man, stay locked in, man. Speaker 6 (8:20) Who was that? I would probably say, man, when I was younger, man, I'm Speaker 5 (8:24) going Speaker 6 (8:24) to say two people. So when I was younger, it was Brian Dawkins. When I first came to the Eagles, yeah, B-Dawg, man. For one, I ain't never had a teammate to try to kill me in practice. He came, I caught, I was a rookie. I caught my first pass. I caught like a fire hitch and he came down like the Wolverine. You know how you call it, doing all that twist. I'm up, we came down and tried to smack him. I ducked, I said, man, we ain't practice. He was like. But now B. Dortman, I remember I was a rookie and I had fun, but we was playing Chicago Bears. And I think Peanut Tillman had punched the ball out. You know, he was a legend for that. And I fumbled, I came back to the sideline. I never had nobody cuss me out without cussing me out. If that makes sense. You know, he's all about the Lord and he don't cuss. So he turns into an alter ego, but he cussed me out. And I just think he held me accountable. You know what I'm saying? And he like taught me a lot, you know, how to play the game and how to be a professional on and off the field. So I would say him. And then my second would probably be like Trent Williams. He's like one of my close friends, you know, and I played with him in Washington. And, you know, he always just like, Jack, you got to calm down. You too high headed. You know, he kind of kept me level headed because I was always turnt up and just like, man, you just got to play the game with these folks. Speaker 5 (9:29) You now being the coach, right? Yeah. A young athlete, you know, a lot of things changed since when you was in college and now. For sure. And all Speaker 1 (9:36) type of thing. Speaker 5 (9:38) Where do accountability stand now with these young athletes? Speaker 6 (9:42) Man, I think accountability is first and foremost the ultimate, you know, like that's number one in anything you do. Like being a coach now and kind of going back to when I was playing, like. I understand from a coach's perspective why my coach was the way they were on me. Because, you know, when you're a player, you not understand. You just think you can do however you want to do it. You got attitudes. You mad. I give me the ball this, that, and the third. Or, like, why my coach being so hard on me? Why he disciplining me for this and that? So, when you're a star player, you got to get disciplined a little harder. Because, like, if the team sees the star player being disciplined and being yelled at and certain things that… you know, he's not going to let you do it. Then it's like, everybody got to fall in line. So I feel like now that I'm in this position, like you got to own up to the accountability. Like when you wrong, you right. You know, you late, like every little thing. Cause I think a lot of people don't understand like how hard it is being a professional athlete. And then to football, like we play once a week, like the amount of work leading up to the game, the turns, the wins and losses on Saturday or Saturdays or Sundays, whenever you plan. I think like going back, I really didn't understand that. I was like, man, my coach tripping about practicing on Tuesday and the game ain't till Saturday. Like I'm trying to make it till Saturday, but it's like, if you bull, if you Bush and all the, all the way through the week and you just think you're going to show up on Sunday or Saturday and just automatically going to be right. Like you fooling yourself. So that's kind of the respect for the leading up to the work that leads up to the game. I think I respect it a lot more now. Speaker 8 (11:02) If you could go back and do just one thing different, like. You know what, if I could go back and change something and do one thing that I felt as though it would have made me even greater, what would that have been? Speaker 6 (11:19) I don't like to live with regrets, but I mean, that's a great question. I just feel like... My attitude, I feel like my work ethic, like a lot of shit came easy to me. Like I was effortless. I ran routes easy. My hands was natural. I was fashion everybody on the field. So like for me, it was like, I don't feel like I worked as hard as I could have worked. But what's crazy about this documentary I got coming out now is like people are going to be able to really see all the hard works, all the trials and tribulations that I had to go through. Like there was a lot of things that people didn't see and they just was like, oh, he ain't working hard just because this shit came easy to me. But it's like, If you only knew, if you could peel back the layers and see the shit my dad had to go through, my brothers, like, you know, me as a little kid, everybody like doubted me. Like, they said, like, man, you too little. 150, 160, you ain't going to make it. You short, you 5'9". Like, so for me, I think everything leading up to it was just like always easy for me. So like, if I could go back, I just probably, and with the success