JJ Watt reveals hilarious voice memo from Cardinals rookie who learned of his retirement

When J.J. Watt introduced his retirement from soccer with a easy tweet, he put his cellphone down and walked away from it for a bit.

“I knew it will be loopy,” he advised reporters.

As you’d count on, Watt had loads of messages and feedback from pals, household and followers congratulating him on an amazing profession and no matter else you may say to probably the greatest gamers on and off the sphere to ever do it. 

However as he was scrolling by means of his cellphone, Watt obtained a name.

“I’m scrolling by means of it and there’s this quantity that I don’t acknowledge that FaceTimes me,” Watt defined to reporters. “So, I’m like, ‘I’m not going to reply a FaceTime I don’t know.’ So, I simply let it go to voicemail, after which I get a textual content from that quantity. And it’s a voice memo. I’m like, ‘Who is that this quantity?’ So, I play the voice memo, and it’s – I want I may play it so unhealthy. I want so unhealthy.”

Watt went on to say it was “full incoherence” from the voice memo sender, who Watt lastly revealed was Cardinals rookie linebacker Jesse Luketa. And he solely discovered as a result of he despatched an image.

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“An image comes by means of, and it’s Jesse Luketa, our rookie outdoors linebacker, and he has cotton balls in each of his [cheeks]. He simply obtained his knowledge tooth out,” Watt mentioned.

The Cardinals then obtained the voice memo and determined to publish it to Twitter, and it’s as humorous as Watt made it appear. 

“He’s excessive off his a–,” Watt mentioned laughing. “He has no clue what he’s doing.”

“J.J., J.J., on the finish of the season, I would like a signed jersey, J.J.,” Luketa is heard saying within the voice memo. “That’s all I wished to name and inform you. That’s all. Bye, J.J.”

J.J. Watt of the Arizona Cardinals warms up earlier than kickoff towards the New England Patriots at State Farm Stadium on Dec. 12, 2022, in Glendale, Arizona.
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Luketa has briefly performed for the Playing cards this season, because the seventh-round pick of Penn State has largely seen particular groups snaps. Nevertheless, studying from probably the greatest within the sport in Watt has most probably been a dream for the Ottawa, Ontario, native.

Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury mentioned the workforce “had no concept” Watt was going to retire. However with the Cardinals not seeing the playoffs, and Watt about to complete his twelfth NFL season, that thought was contemplated, and a choice was made.

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Watt’s tweet that broke the massive information mentioned, “Koa’s first ever NFL sport. My final ever NFL dwelling sport. My coronary heart is full of nothing however love and gratitude. It’s been an absolute honor and a pleasure,” he wrote.

Watt spent his first 10 seasons with the Houston Texans, who drafted him eleventh total in 2011.

Arizona will shut out their season by going through the Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers of their remaining two video games.

J.J. Watt of the Arizona Cardinals leads the huddle previous to a sport towards the New Orleans Saints at State Farm Stadium on Oct. 20, 2022, in Glendale, Arizona.
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If Watt earns one other half-sack in his remaining two video games, he’ll earn an additional $1 million. That will surely be a great way to stroll out into the sundown of his NFL profession.