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Former Patriot Linebacker Rich Ohrnberger Crashed His Car to Avoid Being Cut

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0:00 foreign [Music] so uh you're a fan of the Patriots aren't you ████ you I hate the New England Patriots what about the Buccaneers all right okay do you like rich hornberger who's that who's that he's on the Patriots who's linebacker dude hackers hello hornbacher hornbacher I love their cookies I don't know all right so uh oh orange yeah back when Rich orenberger was uh was playing for the Patriots as linebacker uh he woke up late for practice I heard about this when this happens like the coach is gonna ████ cut you so in order to avoid that he uh

0:51 basically had five minutes to get 15 minutes to the practice there's no way he was gonna make it so he intentionally crashed his car in order to have an excuse he crashed into another person he sees a human no another person's vehicle Oh I thought he was ran someone over dude that's a good excuse I'm really gonna have an excuse me did a little bump she's like a church band with like one it and then uh yeah he pays the guy for like the damage and everything like he had his whole like ████ planned out and then he was able to go to practice with that story and he didn't get cut that's tight how did the truth come yeah he's later he talked about it on podcast very recently he talked about it on his podcast oh because he doesn't play for the Patriots anymore but oh he's okay

1:42 you got it but now he's revealing how he ████ crazy situation got the ████ yeah exactly he was so ████ terrified about chicken yeah yeah what is what would happen yeah I don't know much you guys know who Jonas Gray is no Jonas Gray is is he had one of the most amazing games I've ever seen and I know because he was against the cult so it was ████ really sucked actually he he was a running back and he scored five touchdowns in one game wow which is crazy nobody ever heard of him in their ████ Al Bundy did oh that's right no ma'am no man oh man nobody ever heard of Jonas Gray in their whole ████ lives and all of a sudden he comes out of nowhere he scores five touchdowns against the Colts we had a horrible run defense all that ████ but still credit to Jonas Gray right so then all of a sudden Sports Illustrated has

2:33 Jonas Gray on the cover like everyone's talking about Jonas Gray and like holy ████ this like this is the next big running back and all this ████ so the next week he shows up late to practice and then Bill Belichick is like hey take a seat on the bench they run practice without him right then they go for the next game they make it they bench them the whole ████ time they bench them for the rest of the year he gets cut at the end of the season nobody's ever ████ heard of him again just because he was late because he was late to practice that's how hardcore it is Bill Belichick is hard and that's like throwing away like literally millions of dollars yeah absolutely for him and he's probably like cost benefit analysis crash into this car pay a couple G's or lose my ████ seven eight figure shout out to that guy that guy that's it and now I get it now I get it do you agree do I agree with that

3:23 ████ no that's ████ crazy yeah what do you mean like you don't agree with Bill doing doing that benching that dude dude I'm not one the greatest coach of all time Bill Belichick came up like his father's military right so oh okay he learned like from watching all that and his dad had a particular way I think of of disciplining the game and I think that he carried that into it because you know what this is this is our version of I can't come to work right now I'm sick like people always got a fake cop in the middle of the conversation he was like I'm crashing my car nobody does that ████ at this office what kind of car was it it was like uh what is an old vans like a church van

4:13 you know no no what was his car oh he didn't say he didn't say we probably had a nice one because I'm yeah he's like yeah if I had a nice car it was one of those Dodge ones with the big like Korean writing on the side with Methodist church I saw this one interview with the um with the Korean Jesus yeah I saw this one interview with like a uh I forgot which I don't really watch football but he's like I guess like a highly regarded football coach and they asked them like hey during that one draft how come you had the the the option to pick the number one draft pick but you picked number 30. why did why did you make that decision was it Tony Dungy I forgot but he said number one he goes yeah he's really really good but he goes but off the field Behavior he really likes to party so he'll party every single night and the problem with that is he has the genetics and the

5:05 capability to party and play his ████ ass off tomorrow the big problem is he takes one through eight with him to the party and somebody does that even though you have the best player on the team he like trashes the team he goes this number 30 guy he's the guy that I know that I guess he's probably like the hall monitor of the group but he's like no one parties with him around and so he he brings up the entire team so he's like that's why I picked him and it was such a like I guess like a mind-blowing moment to people yeah it's like Moneyball 30 over a number dude that makes a lot of sense because think about it that talented player has all the influence right so you're like I'm a robot dude other ████ think they're probably aligned with him so they're like yeah I'll go party like Michael Jordan's partying he's like yeah but he probably can't Jordan yeah right he didn't though no he didn't yeah oh no he didn't kept playing that's right he did it he kept practicing but that's the

5:55 thing that's why locker room is such a thing that's what the locker room mentality is such a thing that they always talk about that yeah but what's locker room because I you know we didn't have that in cheerleading yeah were you like the only one in the locker room and then the other they had the locker room and they're like I had my own locker room by myself it's like GI Jane and ████ you have your own space all lonely just sitting here what locker room mentality and the coaches watching the shower that's like GI Jane yeah but that's you know such a weird scene it's my favorite scene she's like showering and he's like you know they're gonna kill you out here I don't get ████ it wasn't a locker room he's the best coach of all time there's no I don't think in football there's any question about it he's the greatest he's the greatest NFL coach and apparently how he

6:45 got to start was crazy too like he was just like an assistant or something yeah he was assistant coach at for the well God he's done so much he's so Giants Browns so he did little league first and then went his way up worked his way up apparently he's doing military he's like oh literally I can't remember his dad was army or navy but he was he was working there too but they would say like he was a notorious for studying film because nobody wanted to do that kind of job but he was the only one that did that and he did it to the very like he studied old plays not even old plays but just like he was watching so he would his his brain for football is on another level that that most people can't really keep up because he's done all the hard work and he don't even like even when they try to ask him like like dramatic questions and ████ he won't even answer this but you can ask him about a long Snappers play from like the

7:35 70s and he'll ████ remember the play it's weird really so he's pretty autistic but a lot of those guys are like high level coaches they have that same type of like brain and their knowledge for old history of the sport is like very vast there's a reference for it yeah like they love it damn yeah that's what I heard about Jordan too actually are you called year game and he'll tell you like oh that only happened because this person passed it to this person and the other person was like two feet away from the line so they knew they could make that happen like he he has like that almost like that's like me with cheerleading really it's like when they go like this like uh that pyramid kind of lean to the left a little bit you guys you guys know that Bill Belichick was the coach for the Jets for one day right one day one day what happened what happened so yeah so so he

8:26 um he was the head coach for the Jets um and then Bill Parcells who was like his mentor he comes into the Jets organization after saying he was going to step down he comes in the Jets organization and he's like I'm going to be like the GM above you isn't this great news and Bill Bill Belichick's like nah ████ this ████ like I resigned as the head coach of the Jets he put it on a napkin I resign and then yeah he gives a ████ beast right and then the Jets traded him to the Patriots for a first round pick and that's why Bill Belichick is the head coach of the Patriots wow yeah and he's been the head coach for how long it's like 90 2 000 I think or 99 or 2000 don't teams have uh multiple coaches well yeah there's a head coach and then there's a system so like the head is like the CEO or whatever and then he has like right hand coordinators and

9:16 offensive coach defensive coach yeah but Bill Belichick is the defensive coordinator for the Patriots and you know he he there's a lot of talk about how it works with them but nobody exactly knows also different teams have different methods of how coaches run what well yeah but but Bill Belichick so like there's a guy named Matt Patricia who was the Patriots defensive coordinator and then everybody poached him remember going to the Lions I think and then he went to uh well they sucked and then and then everyone's like whoa the Patriots defense is still so ████ good and everyone's like yeah it's Belichick it's not it's not them it's Bellow gem oh okay so why is your favorite team the Eagles he's been doing this to me for two days for some reason

10:06 [Laughter] yeah why he's already in pain or something dude Niners fans are honestly the worst ████ human beings on the planet not Raiders wait so who's your team Colts okay okay have you ever watched a game with Niners fans I thought the Raiders were the worst because they'll stab you oh yeah well yeah but Raider spins the worst Raiders fans don't even watch the Raiders yeah watch he's gonna kick they're just they're just rapping try watching a game with Niners fans honestly even some nice fans might even agree with me on this take okay because like Niners fans are ████ obnoxious oh no that's why they're just socially like obnoxious why I mean they're from San Francisco are they like Giants fans like uh San Francisco Giants fans because people say that about the Giants like the baseball team oh I don't know this much maybe San Francisco fans are just mean maybe

10:57 that's weird because I mean like everyone's nice I know that's what I'm saying I don't think a lot of the fans are from San Fran though they're from like ████ shut up dude take it back yeah I'm not a Niner fan like San Bernardino Pasadena they're all not all Niners fans are from Pasadena that's the biggest thing looks like our fan base is from Hemet [Music]

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