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Lil Wayne speaks about the NFL and Matt Cassel

Hey folks, Lil Wayne recently spoke on the NFL, specifically the draft and the Kansas City Chiefs. Check it below and let me know what you think in the comments or forums.


I got a chance to hang out with Mark Sanchez a little bit at ESPN the Magazine’s Super Bowl party in Tampa back a few months ago, and let me tell you something about him that people haven’t really been talking about. He’s a good Cali kid who loves his family. I say this because he’s acting like he’s excited to be going to New York, but I wonder how difficult it’s going to be for him to leave his family and his life on the west coast behind. People don’t talk about this kind of stuff because athletes are supposed to be supermen, but let’s face it: he’s just a kid. And he’s a wonderful kid who probably wants to have Sunday dinners with his mom and dad. How is he going to feel not being able to do that for the first time in his life? And how is he going to feel taking serious criticism for the first time in his life? How’s he gonna feel looking up into the stands when the Jets are 1-2 and seeing “You suck Mark Sanchez—and so does your Grandma!” signs up in the stands at home games? He’s going to wish he were playing any place but New York. Now, the argument is “Well if he’s great then he’s great on the biggest stage in the world and he’ll be a superstar.” Sure. I think he will be successful, and shout out to him because I love the dude. But I think success will take a little while.

I’d been preparing for so many years—waiting for my moment. I mean, sure I was in the game but I was overshadowed in my own group by Juvenile and I just kept plugging away. And then last year after I sold a million records in the first week my life basically went from one day I’m watching TV, to the next day I’m watching TV and I can’t find a channel without me on it. That must be how Matt Cassel feels right now. He just plugged away in high school and then as a back-up in college and in the NFL and then he got his opportunity and seized the hell out of it. And how he’s a rich man and with his own team in Kansas City—just like that. And since that same kind of thing happened to both of us right around the same time, I’ll always pull for him.