Fred Smoot

The Miami Dolphins culture is currently falling apart from the inside

That apple was rotting before it hit the ground. It feel like that house is just falling apart. You go into survival mode. Everybody in the building goes into survival mode... It's like jumping overboard. They like let the kids and the children go first. I gotta go too.

Pumpkins are useless food that only hippos and squirrels actually enjoy

I got a vendetta against everything pumpkin... nobody likes pumpkins, we're just forced to do a lot of stuff that we just forced to do as human beings... The only animal [that eats it] is the hippopotamus and squirrels.

The Commanders are legitimate Super Bowl contenders this season

No, we thinking Super Bowl. It's been generations since we could think Super Bowl and just to be in that window to think Super Bowl is a privilege... Congratulations to the team by the way. We moving back to the nation's capital.

The Indianapolis Colts are a legitimately good team without a clear-cut weakness right now

The Colts have really jumped off the screen. Like even if they had lost a game, I'd still be like, that's a good football team. Yep. That's a legit good football team.

The Denver Broncos are a beauty queen with a dead tooth in her mouth

The Broncos right now... a good analogy for this is a beauty queen with a dead tooth in her mouth. You walk up to her, she looking at you, then you start to talk to her and you be like, yeah, I see why now. See that dead tooth in your mouth? That had just killed everything I felt before I got here.

Jaden Daniels is a better quarterback than Jared Goff and Jalen Hurts

My quarterback is better than yours. That's what I told him to give [Jared Goff]. Well guess what I'm gonna say against the Philadelphia Eagle, my quarterback is better than yours. So at the end of the day, the quarterback position sometimes with fine state.

The Commanders are a Team of Destiny

I told you when I was visiting that this was biblical... everything's going like, you know, sometimes it takes the football gods for things to follow your way... We here because we supposed to be here. Alright, we are a team of destiny.

Jaden Daniels is a Jedi force multiplier who makes everyone better

We got a Jedi, a quarterback Jedi 5. The, the, the ultimate force multiplier. It's, it's changed everything... He's shown you, I am the ultimate force multiplier. I'm gonna make everybody around me better no matter what.

The 2001 NFL Draft class will eventually have 10 Hall of Famers

I want y'all to go back through this class. Draft pick for draft pick, we might have the most dense class in each position. When it's all said and done, we might have 10 yellow jackets in that draft.

Travis Hunter will be drafted as a cornerback and only used as a part-time 'spot' wide receiver in the NFL

I think when he gets drafted, [Hunter], they will draft him as a corner. And they would spot play him as a wide receiver. Because if he gets on a pro team, he can legitimately be your best corner, but he's probably gonna be your third best receiver.

Cornerback is the hardest position to play in all of sports

I think cornerback is the hardest position to play in sports... we are taught to lie... we paid to steal. The more we steal, the more rich I am.

There are only two guarantees in life: you are a past baby and a future ghost

The only guarantees is you are a past baby and a future ghost. That's it. That's fact. That's it. Now in between that's up to you. But we know for a fact we don't remember stuff from being no baby... and we ain't gonna remember much about being a ghost.

Sean Taylor was on track to be the greatest safety to ever play

I just always wish I could have seen him play out the career... Ed Reed was like, yeah man. Like he is. So when you got a guy like Ed Reed agreeing with you... he had Ed Reed's ball skills... but he hit like Ronnie Lott. If God's building a safety. His name is Sean Taylor.

Aaron Rodgers is the hardest quarterback to play against regardless of his receivers

If you got Aaron Rodgers throwing to you, I don't care what the last name on the back of the receiver's jersey is, Aaron is going to put the ball in places I can't get it. He's going to throw his out routes out of bounds. He's going to throw his fade routes at the back of my head.

I would be perfect in today's NFL because of the rule changes

Oh, I would love it. It would basically fit me perfect. I was a true cover guy... when you're playing in the NFL, hitting somebody, really crushing them is a sin. So I'm perfect in this NFL. I'm going to go out here and I'm going to intercept balls and I'm going to play football.