Interview with NY Giants Kayvon Thibodeaux & Bobby Okereke

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00:00SportsGrid New Orleans, Kayvon Thibodeau, Bobby O'Keriki. Lot of wings here on the

00:04bounty set. Blue cheese ranch? Regular ranch? I don't like either. I'm straight wings.

00:11Really? No sauce. Well, but you usually eat wings? Yeah. And you just go

00:17straight? No dip. That's wild to me. If you got a dip, they're not prepared well enough.

00:22You don't mind spice? Is that a hot take? I think it is. You do? See, I can't do spice,

00:28which is probably unsurprising. Well, you shouldn't have spicy wings. I try not to,

00:31but if I do, blue cheese then kind of covers it up and I'll make it through. That's how I feel.

00:37All right, let's get into some league news. Myles Garrett requested a trade. We saw the

00:43Cooper Cups situation the other day. I'm just curious if you guys are looking around the league

00:47a little bit and seeing more player movement, if it's a little more NBA-esque, and if that's

00:53something I'll go to you first, Kayvon, that you're taking notice of around the league.

00:56Well, you know, it's funny. We were talking about this before, but there's this old tale

01:02that loyalty over everything in the olden days, and a lot of old head football players will,

01:09they'll say they stayed on the same team, but honestly, it's a business at the end of the day.

01:14So for a guy like Myles Garrett, he's done it all. I mean, he's at the top of the game. He's

01:17at the height of his career. And I can understand him wanting to win. And sometimes I've heard that

01:25franchises, you know, for whatever reason, aren't set. Like, you know, there's franchises that

01:30haven't won yet, haven't won a Super Bowl. And it's like, as a player, it's on the players to

01:36win, but it's on the franchise to put together the team to let the players go out and do so. So,

01:42you know, at this point, you can't fault a guy like him for wanting to succeed.

01:48What do you think about it, Bobby?

01:49You know, I think it's a good trajectory of players taking their ownership and, you know,

01:54direction of their careers. Yeah, like you said, not loyalty is dead, but it is a business.

02:01It's a two-way street.

02:03Two-way street. Guys want to make money, guys want to win, and guys want to play for the love

02:07of the game.

02:07There's no loyalty in finance.

02:08And it is tough when you got an organization on a five-year plan, and you as a player,

02:13you're on a one- to two-year plan.

02:14Sure.

02:15Like, conflict of interest. So, you know, guys are taking ownership of their careers.

02:20I think, I love the NFL, but I'm also a big NBA guy.

02:23Like, on the day Miles requests to trade, Cooper Cuff's like, yeah, they're going to

02:27trade me here. I don't want to leave.

02:28He's probably, you know, he's an all-time rim.

02:30So, that's sometimes how it is.

02:32And I think that's interesting then.

02:34Do you guys ever, I don't know if you're close, if there's a relationship, but do you ever,

02:38let me shoot Miles a text, hey, New York's great.

02:40We're doing things here.

02:41You kind of have to let guys do their own thing.

02:44I mean, if you got close buddies, I lobby, come to the Giants all the time.

02:47Yeah.

02:48But yeah, mutual respect throughout the league.

02:51If you see a guy going through a situation, you see an opening on your team per se.

02:56Guys have different relationships with their front office, etc.

02:58So, while it is a business, you know, some guys can play pseudo agents in effect.

03:03Yeah.

03:04The quarterback position probably dictates how much the team is on the one-year plan,

03:09two-year plan, five-year plan.

03:11You know that you guys are up in the air going into the season.

03:15Is that something that, I know it's February,

03:17but are you keeping tabs on the draft and what you're hearing around the team potentially doing,

03:22Kayvon?

03:23We're kind of sitting back right now.

03:25It's a little time before the draft.

03:26There's a little time before everything.

03:28Right now, I think, you know, I can say for both of us that we're really just kind of focusing on

03:33resetting ourselves and resetting our minds to, you know,

03:37back to that energized state where we can go and get ready to, you know, take on this next season.

03:43Can I ask you about the draft process?

03:46Yet again, from my further out view, I found your process a little interesting

03:50because I think this tends to happen where by the time you're a sophomore, you're a star.

03:55So then there's another year and it feels like all the time they try and find something wrong.

04:01And I feel like more often than not, that guy then always has

04:05a very good career because it's like we've overthought this.

04:08Were you aware of those things in the process and what you have thought that all played out?

04:13Well, you know, I think it's all entertainment.

04:17And that's the part as a human being that you forget that when the season is done,

04:22like after this Super Bowl is over, everybody still has a job to do.

04:27So they have to find stories and find things to create.

04:30And the only thing to talk about during the offseason is the draft process.

04:33So at that point, everybody's rewriting the same stories.

04:37So the only thing you can do is, you know, change the story,

04:40change the narrative and try to get, you know, people watching and keep people engaged.

04:43So I understood that coming through.

04:47But I would say I didn't understand the impact that it actually had

04:53on GMs, on people, on conversations.

04:56You would think that professionals would lean to their own opinions.

05:03But, you know, everybody is kind of impacted, you know, by each other.

05:08So one thing like one thing we say in league is we all touch each other's money.

05:11Right.

05:12Meaning that second time I've heard that today.

05:14That's the sport.

05:16Yeah.

05:16And the media plays a part in that in New York.

05:19More specifically, it plays a bigger part because of the market.

05:22So, you know, I think that you just got to continue to keep your head down and grind.

05:27You know, obviously, with these guys coming up,

05:29there's not much that they can do about their draft position as of now.

05:33Yeah.

05:34So, you know, I think you just continue to, you know, be true to yourself and,

05:38you know, enjoy it while you're in it.

05:40Did you, Bobby, feel a difference playing in Indy to New York media wise?

05:44100 percent.

05:46I think the media attention, attraction and, you know, fan engagement

05:51was probably about five tenfold.

05:53Yeah.

05:54Honestly, for better and worse.

05:56I'm sure.

05:58I mean, it's New York City, the media, the amount of people,

06:03the traffic before and after game day.

06:04It's a lot.

06:07And one thing about media in New York, they are super messy.

06:11And the only thing that can clean up a mess is bounties.

06:15There you go.

06:15Pick her up.

06:16There you go.

06:18We are here in New Orleans Super Bowl weekend.

06:22Please eat some wings, watch some football and use bounty after.

06:28Let me ask you this.

06:29You're a pro.

06:31Um, you played week 18 against Philly.

06:34There's a lot of conversation about the record in Saquon.

06:37If he decided to play, if they let him play, whatever it was,

06:40you guys would have known going into the game.

06:42He was chasing the record.

06:43I would have tried to kill him.

06:44I would have tried to.

06:46And I told him to.

06:46I texted him.

06:47I said, you're not playing.

06:48What?

06:49Yeah.

06:49I wanted him to try to get the record.

06:51And I would have tried to kill him every time they handed the ball off now.

06:55But I had much love to him.

06:56And I'm super excited.

06:57Not going for the Eagles.

06:58Hope the Eagles and the Chiefs lose.

07:01A lot of respect to Saquon.

07:02A lot of respect to what he did for us.

07:04And, you know, what he's going to continue to do in his career.

07:07You feel the same way, Bobby.

07:08Don't say that.

07:08You wanted him to go for it.

07:09And I would have tried to kill him every play.

07:11Facts.

07:11I would have tried to take his head off every play.

07:13I do think that's why they didn't let him go for it.

07:16There's no way that you guys are going to be like, yeah, come.

07:19Here's the record.

07:20He already had the 200.

07:21Yeah.

07:21No chance.

07:22Bobby O'Karaki, Kayvon Thibodeau, bounty, wings.

07:25It's great stuff around here in New Orleans.

07:27The quicker picker upper.

07:28You can't have football without wings.

07:30You can't have wings without bounty.

07:32There we go.

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