He comforted Heather when she was distraught after blowing it in a reward challenge.
He never made it personal or messy when he targeted or voted people out.
DANNY McCRAY:It’s not happening.
Danny McCray on ‘Survivor’ 41.Robert Voets/CBS
This is where we get back on track and we start rolling through for the playoffs.
And so, sorry to upset you, but it will be “Go Cowboys” on Sunday.
Well, I will point out that the Washington Football Team is undefeated against the Dallas Cowboys.
Ricard Foye and Danny McCray on ‘Survivor 41’.Robert Voets/CBS
Okay, so what’s harder: NFL training camp orSurvivor?
I would saySurvivorbecause you don’t have all the things that you should probably survive in training camp.
You overlapped on the Cowboys with Alan Ball from season 35 ofSurvivor.
Danny McCray on ‘Survivor 41’.Robert Voets/CBS
Have you talked shop with him at all?
You have to rub it in.
Look, couldn’t you just have just said, “Go Bears” when you got voted out?
And with that camera angle, it looked like you were looking right at me when you said it.
So it was more letting him know that that’s the team that I played for.
I assumed that was to Deshawn.
No, Deshawn already knew.
Was that a problem with your game in terms of not making more social connections?
Because we didn’t see as much of that with you.
Now, me, Heather, and Erika weren’t really that close.
I haven’t seen anybody who said anything opposite of that.
Yeah, that’s the interesting thing about me and Deshawn’s relationship.
What was the dynamic with you and Deshawn?
I actually think I do okay.
It depends on who’s sitting there.
So he’s playing excellent.
Heather and Erika are just now starting to show what they’re able to do.
So I think I had a good case for being able to explain my way to a win.
Why weren’t you guys making a move on him?
So as the game goes on, you’re like, “This guy is not an issue.
Why are we worried about the idol?
So it would have worked out for us two times.
What about the move to take out Shan?
When you look back on that now, was that a mistake?
And then after she goes, it’s like dominoes falling from that alliance.
Do you think that was the right call or not?
So when she talks to Liana, she already knows that we’re voting on Ricard.
You said you trusted me and then you stabbed me in the back.”
So it was obvious that at that point she was not going to be a vote for us.
Wow, that is fascinating how that info changes the dynamic of that vote.
I walked around that island almost every day to look for an idol.
And I looked in that same place, ‘cause it was very obvious that something could be hidden there.
I looked in that same place so many times and didn’t see anything.
But that was very, very unfortunate.
I was hoping it was an extra vote that would have saved us.
And you probably never knew how close you were till you watched last night.
I had no idea.
What did you say there and how did he respond?
A lot of us leave a lot of things at home to come out here and play this game.
And we put a lot on the line and there’s an essence to competition.
You play to win so you’re able to win something, right?
That’s the only reason that you would go out there to compete.
And his response, you know, it was what it was.
I won’t really get into that, but it just didn’t float with me.
So I didn’t like it.
I didn’t like it either.
I think a lot of people didn’t like it.
So hopefully, we don’t see it again, and hopefully, he listened to you.
I don’t have big faith in that one.
Yeah, yet another reason why I would never go on reality TV.
So that was literally the first time where I had been in that situation.
It’s just silent.
And that’s always how I know it’s that day.
And it was very, very fulfilling at the end of it.
Were you surprised at how emotional you became after winning that immunity challenge?
My family didn’t even know how I felt about that whole situation at that time.
I guess it was a release, right?
Because you sit there and you wait for a sign your entire life, no matter what it is.
So it was just a great feeling.
You’ve already shed a lot of light on stuff we didn’t see.
What’s something else that didn’t make it to air that you wish we could have seen?
A couple of things.
I caught a few fish, and they show a quick clip of the boat flipping over.
It would have been funny to watch, but it brought me to tears when it actually happened.
I had known the dynamics between Naseer and Heather and how Naseer felt about Heather.
And this is the time to take him out."
We split, we come back and I’m like, “You guys put my plan into play.
Congratulations for being able to do it.”
Everybody was [me]!
“Iwanted Naseer out because he flipped on us.
And he’s the reason that Sydney went home, actually.
