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Bijan Robinson Talks His Rookie Year + His Relationship With Arthur Smith · Bussin' With The Boys

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Speaker 1: John, Welcome to busting with the boys. As I was
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Speaker 1: sitting down, you had some very choice I was just
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Speaker 1: coming out of nowhere. You were ranking Texas running what
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Speaker 1: he said, he said, better than any running back that's
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Speaker 1: came out of Michigan. He said, Ricky Williams, Earl Campbell
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Speaker 1: himself better than any running by this came into Michigan.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Ricky Williams the goat smoking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Earl Campbell really good ball player. And you've
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Speaker 1: had one year in the league. But I mean, we
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Speaker 1: got to But we're talking.
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Speaker 3: College I'm biased, but there's been like I mean, you
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Speaker 3: got you got.
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Speaker 2: Fifty five touchdowns. But what you say about Blake Krn's touchdowns.
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Speaker 4: No, I mean no, I mean.
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Speaker 3: Blake he's one of the best running backs COLLG football history.
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Speaker 3: I give him that, But there was a lot of
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Speaker 3: them touchdowns, one.
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Speaker 2: Of the best college football history.
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Speaker 4: Respect him heavy, I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you saw in the draft this year at
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Speaker 3: the first running back taking off the board was from Texas.
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Speaker 4: From Texas, how'd.
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Speaker 2: Y'all do against Washington? How'd that go?
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Speaker 1: We handled it for you? The next week, y'all did
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Speaker 1: y'all did their business? Should win a national championship.
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Speaker 3: You're right, You're right, but and congratulations, thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, we'll get that one next year.
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Speaker 4: The coup.
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Speaker 3: I think I think we're really good, even just us
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Speaker 3: going to SEC, Like, I think we have like a
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Speaker 3: really good chance of doing some good stuff.
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Speaker 4: I mean, even we got everybody coming from the portal.
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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, you guys in Ohio State, what are they
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Speaker 2: going to?
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Speaker 5: Are they going to build the couture? How is it
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Speaker 5: playing for? How is it playing for? Coach sark Man?
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Speaker 3: It was so much fun, like just having you know
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Speaker 3: him as is not necessarily a father figure, but like
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Speaker 3: an older brother to come and like actually coach me
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Speaker 3: and just take me in. And what was cool is
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Speaker 3: like me and sark I was with them for the
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Speaker 3: rise of what he has now. So you know, with
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Speaker 3: like those those struggles that we went through, like that
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Speaker 3: was like what we had to go through. And now
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Speaker 3: seeing him, you know, be you know, respected around the
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Speaker 3: whole college football everybody that that knows football, like it's
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Speaker 3: pretty sick. Ain't gonna lie, but he's definitely the dude
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Speaker 3: that I respect a lot, especially for like making me
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Speaker 3: who I am today as a young man.
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Speaker 4: But I love that dude.
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Speaker 1: Man, Dude, Texas is such a dope university. We had
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to go there and check it out.
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Speaker 4: Where'd y'all go?
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Speaker 2: We went? We were warning Austin last spring.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 1: But the uniforms just like how everyone kind of rides
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Speaker 1: to the Longhorns there, it's a it's a university.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy and it's cool because like like Texas, like
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Speaker 3: it's not a it's not a college town, but it
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Speaker 3: feels like a college town because I bade the campuses
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Speaker 3: and then you got like downtown like five minutes away.
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Speaker 2: So I love it so much.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're coming up through high school, like what
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Speaker 1: what made you choose Texas?
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Speaker 3: Just just a lot of prayer, bro Like, like you know,
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Speaker 3: my faith is my big it is my biggest thing.
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Speaker 3: So I just knew like that's where God wanted me
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Speaker 3: to go. And I mean what three years later, like
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Speaker 3: he was right. But it was more so like the
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Speaker 3: coaches there. I mean, I had like my first running
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Speaker 3: back coach because Drake and he he was like the
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Speaker 3: best college running back coach in the country. I mean
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Speaker 3: he had like Ezekiel Elliott at Ohio State, like he
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Speaker 3: did so many, he had so many guys. So when
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Speaker 3: I went to him, it was like a no brainer.
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Speaker 3: And my first year, like it was hard. It was hard,
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Speaker 3: bro because I had I had COVID, so it was
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Speaker 3: a COVID year for me. I came in in the summer,
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Speaker 3: so I didn't have like that spring that spring development.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was.
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Speaker 3: It was a good time, like just going there and
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Speaker 3: learning from him at first, and then obviously he got
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Speaker 3: a head coaching job and then the rest.
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Speaker 2: Was history because any other school that came close State.
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Speaker 3: So I hate to hear this, I hate to hear this,
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Speaker 3: but like so I silently committed to Ohio State for
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Speaker 3: a week.
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Speaker 5: Silently committed for the second time we've heard that. I know,
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Speaker 5: it's like that little yeah for a week.
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Speaker 2: I'm just letting you know, Yeah, that side girl talk again.
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Speaker 4: Here, That's what it was. And it was like it
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Speaker 4: was more so.
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Speaker 3: It was more so like people and players like in
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Speaker 3: my ear telling me like you got to go here,
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Speaker 3: you should go here, like we're gonna build the dynasty here,
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Speaker 3: They're gonna be amazing, which could have been true, but
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Speaker 3: I just knew, like, you know, I could I could
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Speaker 3: really go to Texas for you know, a forty year
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Speaker 3: decision and like not just football, but I can become
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Speaker 3: somebody here and always come back here and always like
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Speaker 3: feel like this is this was always the place for me.
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Speaker 4: And then I mean that was the main decision.
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Speaker 3: But yeah for a week, man, And I told the
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Speaker 3: coaches like that was the hardest conversation in my life.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, how when you decommitted?
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Speaker 4: How was it was tough?
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Speaker 3: It was tough because I called I called the coaches
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Speaker 3: and I was like, hey, look like.
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Speaker 2: For you right now, immated last Monday.
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Speaker 3: I committed on Monday. Yeah, now Saturday, and I called them.
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Speaker 3: I was like, you know, this just isn't the.
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Speaker 4: Place for me.
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Speaker 3: Like having to say that to like a grown man
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Speaker 3: and then him be like what are you talking about?
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Speaker 3: Like I I sent all my running backs away like
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Speaker 3: you were only one of was getting only guilt trip.
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Speaker 4: It was man, it was crazy.
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Speaker 5: It's got to be a heartbreak whenever that. Yeah, because
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Speaker 5: he's a fire. I mean he was the man.
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Speaker 2: He is the man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah he's continued to stay yeah, man, then they fizzle out,
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Speaker 1: still staying the man.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate it. Yeah, Like it was just it was.
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Speaker 3: It was just tough, like to have that conversation as
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Speaker 3: a seventeen year old kid.
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Speaker 2: And then him going the ran. You still just be like,
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Speaker 2: I know, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 3: It was like I was with my family and they're
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Speaker 3: just like like.
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Speaker 1: Get him on speakerphone, Yeah, this phone, I know, coach,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, coach.
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Speaker 4: It was the biggest.
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Speaker 5: Position coach and knowing like who they've mentored coach, Yes,
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Speaker 5: what was the big pivotal.
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Speaker 2: Thing for you?
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Speaker 3: Was it that it was a position coach because you're
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Speaker 3: just like you're gonna be with him your whole time,
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Speaker 3: so I think and he and even just talking to
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Speaker 3: like other running backs you know before before I got there,
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Speaker 3: and like Reggie Bush, like his position coach in college
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Speaker 3: was that was his guy. Like he said, this is
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Speaker 3: the position coaches was most important because if you don't
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Speaker 3: agree with him and he doesn't agree with you, then
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Speaker 3: you're not playing and he doesn't trust you. And then
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Speaker 3: he's he talks to the head coach like he's the
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Speaker 3: most important important guy for yourself. So even hearing that,
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Speaker 3: I was like, all right, so let me like actually
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Speaker 3: build a relationship. And then the crazy thing is like
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Speaker 3: nowadays in nil and stuff. Bro, No, No relationships are
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Speaker 3: being built like and then that's why you see so
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Speaker 3: many transfers and so many kids going to other places
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Speaker 3: because they're getting promised one thing and then they're not
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Speaker 3: producing on the field. So after one year and not
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Speaker 3: even after one year, after one some like like spring semester,
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Speaker 3: like they're leaving and I'm like, bro, Like, first of all,
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Speaker 3: it looks bad in my opinion, but it's like you
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Speaker 3: should have been building that relationship with the coach and
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Speaker 3: knowing you can have that trust with him before you
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Speaker 3: even get there, so you understand that when you're there,
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Speaker 3: like you know what's gonna come, you know what's about
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Speaker 3: to happen beforehand. So I think that's kind of where
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Speaker 3: college football is changing. And I get it, like you
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Speaker 3: got to make your money and stuff.
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Speaker 2: No, not thinking too much long term, thinking like what
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Speaker 2: did I get here? Now? Exactly did you ever get
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Speaker 2: tempted by some pre in I l in I l.
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Speaker 3: I never did never no once't say names.
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Speaker 2: Yeah pre and iol.
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Speaker 3: I didn't have but I didn't have it. I didn't
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Speaker 3: have an io when I came. I know, so like
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Speaker 3: even like the under the table stuff like it just
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Speaker 3: never came across an don't name names. Did anybody ever
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Speaker 3: try under the table stuff?
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Speaker 4: And then they tried.
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Speaker 3: They tried with my coach, my high school coach, and
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Speaker 3: he was like, nah, like this isn't who like this
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Speaker 3: is you got the wrong kid, Like he's not going
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Speaker 3: to come here off of begging or off of trying
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Speaker 3: to get him with some money, so that he that
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Speaker 3: that all got sent away.
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Speaker 2: Arizona man.
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Speaker 1: Top five what that's the top five football stay Taylor.
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Speaker 2: In the country. It is, Come on, are you from
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Speaker 2: in Arizona.
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Speaker 4: Tucson, Arizona?
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Speaker 2: You A give you any interest? Zero?
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Speaker 4: None? Like you have a you have a a s U.
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Speaker 2: No a s U over U of a though.
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Speaker 4: Like you like I feel like if a s.
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Speaker 3: U was was a consistently really good team, like they
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Speaker 3: would get everybody.
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Speaker 1: Because the thing that's wild to me about as U
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Speaker 1: is like they have all the makings to have a
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Speaker 1: good team. They have great weather, beautiful people there, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of nightlife you can just bring like, hey, yo,
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Speaker 1: we can create something beautiful.
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Speaker 2: And you have so much fun. That's to say, so
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Speaker 2: much money in Phoenix, so.
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Speaker 3: Much you have and you have all these different areas
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Speaker 3: like sponsors that will sponsor you, but I.
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Speaker 1: Don't know, it was never you talk about building relationships
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Speaker 1: and how it's become way more transactional in college coming
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. This is truly where it's a transactional business.
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Speaker 1: Like you can what's the phrase you use, you love
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Speaker 1: me but don't trust me? Yeah, yeah, I love you,
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Speaker 1: but don't ever trust me. Right, that's the kind of
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Speaker 1: the mindset of all these coaches. They want to build
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Speaker 1: a relationship. At any point. If you're not doing your job,
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Speaker 1: we'll see you later, no doubt. Do you Are you
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Speaker 1: aware of that and still continue to build relationships regardless, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I'm definitely. I'm definitely aware of it.
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Speaker 3: You know, I've seen that firsthand, Like you know, guys
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Speaker 3: have been here and then next day, like they're not
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Speaker 3: here anymore. And like my freshman, my freshman my first
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Speaker 3: year last year, you know, just just during reco MINTI camp,
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Speaker 3: like I was with so many guys up to that point,
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Speaker 3: and then when we start with the team, then a
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Speaker 3: lot of them are here and it was like it
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Speaker 3: was like a shock to me. I was like, it's crazy.
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Speaker 3: I just built a relationship with these kids, Like with
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Speaker 3: these dudes and then now they're not here no more,
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Speaker 3: and it's like, okay, so now you kind of see
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Speaker 3: like where the business is. And then even even like
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Speaker 3: coaches too, next day they're here, one day they or not.
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Speaker 3: And I'm like, right, like this whole time we've been gelling.
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Speaker 3: And but I see it, like like that statement right there,
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Speaker 3: I feel it's true. But for me, I think it's
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Speaker 3: still important to you know, build a relationship with those
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Speaker 3: coaches because you know, like I was just telling him,
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Speaker 3: like like Lord Willing, I could stay here in my
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Speaker 3: whole career, but say I'm not, and say those coaches
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Speaker 3: are somewhere else. Like you built those relationships so like
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Speaker 3: they trust you, so when you're somewhere else and they're
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Speaker 3: somewhere else, then they'll then they'll.
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Speaker 4: Like bouch out for you and pick you up.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: So that's why I think it's like, that's why I
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Speaker 3: think you should keep keep the relationship out the whole time.
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Speaker 2: Talk Talk Talk Us through your rookie year.
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Speaker 5: I listen to your podcast you did on the Pivot,
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Speaker 5: which is right before the drafty you do go the
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Speaker 5: first round, which is awesome, and talk about that process
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Speaker 5: getting draft in the first round and then kicking off
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Speaker 5: your rookie year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I mean so so during that process, Like
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Speaker 3: it's a long process. So just from from when I'm
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Speaker 3: done with my last year in my junior year and
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Speaker 3: then up to the draft, Like those five months, five
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Speaker 3: six months are long, and it's repetitive of talking to coaches,
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Speaker 3: going doing combined training, doing interview training, Like I'm doing
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Speaker 3: so many things and.
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Speaker 4: For me, like I love to do other stuff.
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Speaker 3: So I want to be an actor when I'm done
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Speaker 3: playing football one day. And I've been doing like acting classes,
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Speaker 3: but that's those acting classes have been helping for the
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Speaker 3: interview training because like it gets you comfortable and talking
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Speaker 3: to coaches and get you comfortable and being in different
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Speaker 3: areas with a lot of people in one setting. So
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Speaker 3: like me having to go through that was was alarm process.
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Speaker 3: But and then on top of that, like I was
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Speaker 3: in the controversy of should you take a running back
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Speaker 3: in the top ten, Like yeah, should you you know, yes,
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Speaker 3: you know, he might have the talent, he might be
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Speaker 3: the most talented, but like should you still do it?
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Speaker 4: Should you invest in it?
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Speaker 3: So I was like hearing all that type of stuff too,
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Speaker 3: and like it was It was weird because like some
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Speaker 3: days I'll be walking walking just on the street and
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Speaker 3: you see a TV in a restaurant and it's like
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Speaker 3: your face is the one that's up there on like
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Speaker 3: should you do this?
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Speaker 4: Should you do that?
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Speaker 3: I'm like, and then that's the questions that I've been
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Speaker 3: getting asked. So like that was like a definitely a
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Speaker 3: different process for me. But I think when you do
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Speaker 3: get drafted, like that was, it's like the best frienally
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Speaker 3: ever obviously, and going to the draft like experiencing that,
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Speaker 3: you know, if you have the opportunity to do that,
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Speaker 3: I think you you most definitely should as a player.
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Speaker 3: But then when I got here, you know, that's when
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Speaker 3: we started started rookie mini camp and like that's what's
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Speaker 3: about to happen right now here, and it's crazy like
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Speaker 3: that was a year ago, but like that was I
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Speaker 3: think that was like a really great process for me,
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Speaker 3: rooky mini camp, because for me, like, yeah, I play more.
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Speaker 3: I played running back, but I play other positions too,
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Speaker 3: Like I play receiver, play slot. You can line me
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Speaker 3: up anywhere. So like I really appreciate, you know, Arthur
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Speaker 3: Smith for doing that to me because you know, with him,
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Speaker 3: with him doing that for me, like now where I'm at,
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Speaker 3: the game just like slowed down so much, like instantly
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Speaker 3: because I'm learning so many different things.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, from linebackers to coverages to everything.
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Speaker 3: So and then obviously with the season, like yes, it
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Speaker 3: was definitely a blessing of a season, you know, for myself,
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Speaker 3: but even just learning, you know, how guys are, how
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Speaker 3: coaches are, like it.
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Speaker 4: Was, it was definitely a fun a fun, fun time
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Speaker 4: for me.
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Speaker 1: Was it the hardest thing for you was the speed
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Speaker 1: of the game at first? Or what was the biggest
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Speaker 1: culture shock for you diving to the NFL your first
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Speaker 1: couple of games.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it wasn't really the speed of the game,
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Speaker 3: because dudes are a little faster than college. But I
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Speaker 3: think it was more so like dudes are smarter in
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Speaker 3: the league, so like you're not going to see a
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Speaker 3: lot of guys like miss their gaps. You're not gonna
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Speaker 3: see a lot of guys under pursuit, and dudes are
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Speaker 3: always chasing the ball somewhere somehow. But I think you know,
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Speaker 3: when you when you get a grasp of it and
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Speaker 3: understand it, then then y'all you'll start to click. But
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Speaker 3: when you find your rhythm. Then then it's like you're
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Speaker 3: playing collegeball game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, when that camerangle came out, you're shifting around and
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Speaker 5: that shit was nasty.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and for me, So for me, like in college,
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Speaker 3: like I would bring out the shifts and stuff sometimes,
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Speaker 3: but like not a lot. But I think I think
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Speaker 3: now in the NFL it gives me way more freedom
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Speaker 3: to do that because dudes are coming from different angles
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Speaker 3: in different areas and you're always trying to get yards,
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Speaker 3: but you're always trying to find a way to like
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Speaker 3: make somebody miss because somebody's always right here.
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Speaker 4: So I get to like.
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Speaker 2: Obviously just slow a process down that I can.
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Speaker 3: I'll feel a defender coming any which way, and then
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Speaker 3: I know I have to do something real quick because
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Speaker 3: if I don't, like they're going to make a tackle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So like breaking tackles for me is like it's a
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Speaker 3: fun thing, which is interesting.
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Speaker 2: Breaking tackle is a fun thing. Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: It's fascinating to hear him talk about it because it's
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Speaker 5: it's like clearly he's like, I've added more shift shiftingess
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Speaker 5: to my game, but basically because the game has gotten faster,
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Speaker 5: he's developed quicker.
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Speaker 3: There is That's exactly it so like because the game's
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Speaker 3: gotten faster, like I have to get faster in my
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Speaker 3: process and.
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Speaker 1: Just set your head, I'm going to get faster and well.
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Speaker 2: Even his instincts it ends up coming.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's like you're in the I don't
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Speaker 3: even know how to explain it if you could, if
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Speaker 3: I if I, if I could, It's like you're in
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Speaker 3: a I haven't seen a John Wick.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you have seen John Wick?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: So there's like the scene and like John wait two
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Speaker 3: and like they were all surrounded him and he was
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Speaker 3: just like looking around like trying to find anything, but
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Speaker 3: they were all attacking him. But like that's kind of
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Speaker 3: like what you're in when you're going up against.
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Speaker 2: And you're figuring it out.
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Speaker 3: You're figuring it out, just feeling one thing to the
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Speaker 3: next and versus fast. But then when it slows down
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Speaker 3: then it's like then that's when it gets dangerous.
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Speaker 2: John Wick or Jason Bourne Wick.
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Speaker 4: Have you seen Jason? I have?
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Speaker 3: I have?
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Speaker 4: I have seen them all. I haven't seen him.
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Speaker 3: But okay, that's right, Okay, I can't say I can't
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Speaker 3: say that if I haven't seen them all.
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Speaker 2: You can stand on business. I'm whatever you want.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad to have your opinion on busting with the boys.
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Speaker 2: Yea who in a straight fight?
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Speaker 4: John Wick is like never lost to me.
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Speaker 2: He actually loses frequently.
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Speaker 4: He does.
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Speaker 1: He does frequently gets a lot of help, but he.
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Speaker 4: Loses in a way that he looked like he won.
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Speaker 2: Like he does.
16:37
Speaker 4: He does.
16:38
Speaker 1: You got to go back and wants the Jason Bourde movies.
16:40
Speaker 1: He never actually gets his ass beat. There's not one
16:43
Speaker 1: scene he's like that tactical. He's always one step ahead
16:46
Speaker 1: of the game. John Wick. How many times in those
16:48
Speaker 1: movies JP was he just his ass was saved?
16:53
Speaker 2: The last movie he's going up those damn stairs.
16:54
Speaker 1: He gets his ass kicks seventeen times and gets his
16:56
Speaker 1: ass saved. It's great, but it's a great movie. No
17:00
Speaker 1: we did it. You talk about like things clicking for you.
17:04
Speaker 1: At what point the season last year, we're like, okay,
17:06
Speaker 1: like I'm officially finding my speed. Rob is to touch
17:09
Speaker 1: above everybody else.
17:11
Speaker 3: So that first game of the season, I like had
17:16
Speaker 3: this touchdown and when my first touchdown, like I made
17:19
Speaker 3: this move and broke a couple of tackles. At that point,
17:23
Speaker 3: I was like, oh shoot, like I could do this
17:26
Speaker 3: like at a high level. But then the second game
17:29
Speaker 3: we played the Packers, and like I walked on the
17:33
Speaker 3: field and obviously, like God gifted me with talent and everything,
17:38
Speaker 3: but then it's like you walk on the field and
17:41
Speaker 3: like everything's just slowing down. It's like slow motion, and
17:45
Speaker 3: like I'm in the huddle, and when I like break
17:48
Speaker 3: the huddle, it's like I'm backing up and they're like
17:50
Speaker 3: moving slow.
17:52
Speaker 4: It's like some it's insane.
17:54
Speaker 3: And so when I when the ball snaps, like I'm
17:57
Speaker 3: anticipating everything like quick quick, and I mean, that was
18:03
Speaker 3: an awesome game, but it was just like the and
18:05
Speaker 3: I never even explained this, but it was just like
18:07
Speaker 3: the process of like what I was processing during that
18:09
Speaker 3: game and then the rest of the season.
18:12
Speaker 2: It was something that like I was like, man, this
18:15
Speaker 2: is pretty cool.
18:16
Speaker 3: And obviously like you got to watch a lot of
18:17
Speaker 3: film and that's all that film study and everything like
18:20
Speaker 3: that to anticipate everything, but actually like feeling it and
18:24
Speaker 3: seeing it that fast, it was pretty It was pretty dope.
18:27
Speaker 5: Last year, Like on the outside looking in, I want
18:30
Speaker 5: to say it was maybe the middle of the year.
18:32
Speaker 5: Your workload would shift around and I feel like Coach
18:35
Speaker 5: Smith would get questioned about it and wouldn't say too
18:37
Speaker 5: much about anything happening behind the scenes or wouldn't really
18:40
Speaker 5: tip off anything that's going on. Is there anything that
18:43
Speaker 5: was happening in the middle of the year to where
18:45
Speaker 5: your workload was shifting or to where you're hearing the
18:49
Speaker 5: same stuff the external noise and whatever conversations you're having
18:52
Speaker 5: with Coach Smith's behind closed doors, Like you know, people
18:55
Speaker 5: who are curious about what.
18:56
Speaker 6: Was going down last year? Is there any insight to that? Yes, Oh,
19:01
Speaker 6: it was more so of me hearing the external noise.
19:04
Speaker 6: And like, you know, fantasy football is a big thing.
19:07
Speaker 2: It's so like I had you, I had.
19:10
Speaker 3: So like a lot of people had me on their
19:11
Speaker 3: fantasy team, so we would get lot.
19:12
Speaker 2: Of check your dms.
19:17
Speaker 3: But yeah, like here in the middle of the season,
19:19
Speaker 3: you know, so so Coch Smith was you know trying
19:21
Speaker 3: to you know, make me comfortable in the game and
19:26
Speaker 3: make me comfortable with situations, and you know he was
19:30
Speaker 3: just you know, trying to protect me and do what
19:32
Speaker 3: every coach like because what Coach Smith didn't want to
19:35
Speaker 3: do was was Derrick Henry me year one, like twenty
19:40
Speaker 3: eight carries, twenty five carries like you're taking all this
19:42
Speaker 3: workload year one because he was trying to like gradually
19:46
Speaker 3: get me, get me ready to eventually do all that
19:50
Speaker 3: type of stuff.
19:51
Speaker 2: But probably from all over the field.
19:53
Speaker 3: You're right, and like at the be end of the season,
19:56
Speaker 3: like those first five games, like it was I was
19:58
Speaker 3: like rolling, and then like in the in the middle
20:02
Speaker 3: of the season, it was more so okay, it's like
20:05
Speaker 3: let's get him, let's get him back to like gradually
20:08
Speaker 3: kind of you know, getting them right.
20:11
Speaker 5: Were you injured, Whe's there stuff going on towards saying, hey,
20:14
Speaker 5: we want to Okay, I know we're we're picking up
20:16
Speaker 5: your workload, like let's kind of maybe mitigate some of
20:18
Speaker 5: the reps in the middle of the year and start
20:20
Speaker 5: to make a run at the end of the year.
20:21
Speaker 3: So yeah, but it was that, but it wasn't like
20:23
Speaker 3: because of the injury and at the same time, like
20:25
Speaker 3: my workload was becoming excessive, and you know, I was
20:30
Speaker 3: I was running go routes, I was motioning, I was
20:33
Speaker 3: doing all types of stuff, running the football, blocking in
20:37
Speaker 3: on third down. And you know, for me, like we
20:41
Speaker 3: have Tyler Algiers, he's the other running back. He's super good,
20:45
Speaker 3: and you know, we played off each other really well,
20:48
Speaker 3: and which obviously helped both of us a lot, but
20:52
Speaker 3: you know, it was more so like doing all those
20:54
Speaker 3: extra things to to be the decoy for the defense,
20:58
Speaker 3: you know, because if I go on motion and then
21:00
Speaker 3: that everybody's up, yeah, then it would shift on the
21:04
Speaker 3: defense and it could open somebody else up. So like
21:06
Speaker 3: that was that was where his thinking was. And yeah,
21:09
Speaker 3: it you know, my worklow wasn't a lot like it.
21:11
Speaker 3: It would decrease in terms of like getting carries and stuff,
21:16
Speaker 3: but he was just trying to, you know, gradually get
21:18
Speaker 3: me right in different situations. Because obviously, like towards the
21:21
Speaker 3: end of the season and then it started picking up again,
21:23
Speaker 3: but it was just at like the middle point of
21:25
Speaker 3: the season.
21:27
Speaker 4: That that's where his and that's where his mind was at.
21:29
Speaker 2: Now are you guys talking through this wall, it's all going.
21:31
Speaker 3: Down as Yeah, like we're all we were always on
21:34
Speaker 3: the same page.
21:35
Speaker 4: We're always on the same page.
21:36
Speaker 3: Obviously everybody else didn't agree with it, but we always knew,
21:41
Speaker 3: you know, what the plan was. And he told me
21:42
Speaker 3: what the plan was before the season even started, and
21:45
Speaker 3: I was perfectly okay with it. But and everybody was
21:49
Speaker 3: but I mean as you start getting questions from the
21:53
Speaker 3: media and as you start going on like there it is, yeah,
21:57
Speaker 3: there it is, And then you have you have fantasy
22:00
Speaker 3: you know players, you know, and on social media like
22:03
Speaker 3: what's going on?
22:04
Speaker 4: What was happening? Like, so it.
22:06
Speaker 3: All tied in, but we were always like on the
22:10
Speaker 3: same page. And then towards the end of the season,
22:12
Speaker 3: that's what everything started to pay back up.
22:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you uh, when this is all going down
22:16
Speaker 1: and like you're getting this heavy workload. Then towards like
22:18
Speaker 1: the middle lull, Yeah, everyone started to ask questions. At
22:21
Speaker 1: any point, did you want to be like, hey, this
22:23
Speaker 1: is part of the plan. Did you ever want to
22:24
Speaker 1: speak up for that situation or you just kind of
22:26
Speaker 1: had to sit back and let the noise be noise.
22:28
Speaker 3: I just kind of sat back and let let the
22:30
Speaker 3: noise be noise, and you know, yeah, I'll get media
22:33
Speaker 3: questions from the media, and I was just kind to
22:35
Speaker 3: tell them like like you just said, like you know,
22:37
Speaker 3: this is all part of the process. You know, this
22:39
Speaker 3: all guy's plan, like which it was like and just
22:42
Speaker 3: for me just understanding mentally and physically where where I
22:45
Speaker 3: was at. But then you know, when when when things
22:50
Speaker 3: did start, you know, picking up. Then then we saw
22:54
Speaker 3: the end the vision of it. But that middle like
22:57
Speaker 3: three four weeks, it was like yeah, like what's happening?
23:02
Speaker 3: And but we we knew the whole time, like where
23:05
Speaker 3: we were going with it.
23:07
Speaker 5: What kind of jump do you see yourself making going
23:08
Speaker 5: into year two? Like what are your what are your
23:10
Speaker 5: goals and aspirations for b Jhon Robinson?
23:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously, Bro like to to elevate as
23:16
Speaker 3: a teammate. So I want to be like I want
23:19
Speaker 3: to leave by example in a way that you know,
23:21
Speaker 3: everybody will be on the same page, you know what
23:23
Speaker 3: I'm doing, and you know, for me, I think it
23:26
Speaker 3: was really good to have, you know, the vets that
23:28
Speaker 3: we did have last year because I learned so much
23:30
Speaker 3: from them. Like even like Kalays Campbell like Bro, like
23:33
Speaker 3: he's ultimately he's got that voice too, got that voice.
23:36
Speaker 2: Yeah.
23:36
Speaker 4: Yeah.
23:37
Speaker 3: He would just sit down with me, Like he sat
23:39
Speaker 3: down with me at the end of the season and
23:41
Speaker 3: he was like, yo, be like you can really be
23:42
Speaker 3: the best running back in the NFL for a long time, Bro,
23:45
Speaker 3: And he was saying, but you shouldn't go in every
23:48
Speaker 3: day saying that like you obviously you're very humble, but
23:52
Speaker 3: you should. You should just do it by your work
23:54
Speaker 3: and just show everybody because for me, like I'm big
23:57
Speaker 3: with finishing, so like after a run, I finished always
24:00
Speaker 3: in the end zone. Sometimes coaches hate that, but you know,
24:03
Speaker 3: my coaches like are cool, like they love it because
24:05
Speaker 3: it shows everybody else like that's what we got to do.
24:08
Speaker 3: And you know, for me, I think just me doing
24:11
Speaker 3: that type of stuff in practice, and you know, even
24:13
Speaker 3: just asking questions to other players on what their goals
24:17
Speaker 3: are and where they want to see each other because
24:19
Speaker 3: obviously I think as a team, you know, we want
24:22
Speaker 3: to win the super Bowl, like like but that's what
24:25
Speaker 3: everybody says, Like everybody's like, we want to win super Bowl,
24:28
Speaker 3: we want super Bowl. But it's like, what are you
24:29
Speaker 3: going to do you know as a team, you know,
24:32
Speaker 3: and when nobody's watching, And you know, I think team
24:36
Speaker 3: dinners like stuff like that are always a big thing
24:38
Speaker 3: because you build.
24:39
Speaker 4: So much chemistry.
24:40
Speaker 3: And that's why I appreciate like even Kirk, because we
24:43
Speaker 3: be out there, you know, grinding every single day on offense,
24:47
Speaker 3: like trying to just build the most chemistry because obviously
24:50
Speaker 3: we're on the field. Then that's what what we're trying
24:53
Speaker 3: to do is be great. And then for me, like, yeah,
24:54
Speaker 3: obviously I have these goals that I that I set
24:57
Speaker 3: for myself, and I set stronomical goals, like I think
25:02
Speaker 3: I even said an interview that I want to get
25:04
Speaker 3: two thousand yards, but like it wasn't me saying that.
25:07
Speaker 3: It was just the goal I have to set for
25:09
Speaker 3: myself because obviously, like we have Tyler al Jerry, like
25:12
Speaker 3: we have you know, that one two punch, and I
25:15
Speaker 3: just want us to just kill the.
25:18
Speaker 5: You're not saying it to diminish anything else. You're saying like, yeah,
25:21
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get two k facts facts, So like
25:23
Speaker 5: you can take that and run with that quite a bit.
25:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, with uh you brought up Kirk cousins, like
25:28
Speaker 1: what was your reaction when Atlanta signed Kirk and how
25:31
Speaker 1: has your relationship grown since.
25:32
Speaker 2: You've met him?
25:33
Speaker 4: Man? I mean I was happy.
25:34
Speaker 3: Man, I was happy, you know, just because like, yeah,
25:38
Speaker 3: I mean I feel like, yeah, he is a top
25:39
Speaker 3: ten quarterback. But you know, I think because you know,
25:42
Speaker 3: with his faith, just how good of a dude he
25:44
Speaker 3: is to other people, to his teammates.
25:49
Speaker 4: That's why I was excited like I.
25:50
Speaker 3: Knew he can come in here and you know, Joe
25:53
Speaker 3: right away with all of us, because you know, I
25:56
Speaker 3: think the cool thing that Terry obviously Raheem, Arthur Blank,
26:01
Speaker 3: Arthur Smith, what they all did is like they got
26:03
Speaker 3: really talented dudes, but they got really good dudes at
26:05
Speaker 3: the same time. And obviously he's a good dude. So
26:09
Speaker 3: I think he would come in here and you know
26:12
Speaker 3: immediately like Joe with the team, and that's that's really
26:14
Speaker 3: what he did. And I mean our relationship is strong already,
26:17
Speaker 3: and you know, just having talks with him and understanding
26:21
Speaker 3: like where his his vision is and you know where
26:23
Speaker 3: he's coming from and how you know he wants everybody
26:26
Speaker 3: on the offense to you know, have the best seasons
26:29
Speaker 3: that they've ever had. Like that's that's huge for a
26:32
Speaker 3: quarterback coming in because obviously, you know, when you're a quarterback,
26:36
Speaker 3: like you know, you want that like.
26:38
Speaker 4: Me, me me type of glory.
26:40
Speaker 3: But with him, it's like it's all of us and
26:42
Speaker 3: we're off on the eat in this offense. He's a
26:44
Speaker 3: worker and everything else, even a meeting proven meetings, like
26:50
Speaker 3: like he's telling you exactly how he how he sees it,
26:52
Speaker 3: how he wants it how it should be, and I
26:55
Speaker 3: mean I never had that, so like having that and
27:00
Speaker 3: even like in practice, he'd be like, this is where where.
27:04
Speaker 4: It should go. This is where how how I see it?
27:07
Speaker 3: And he he hits it there every time and it's
27:09
Speaker 3: like this is the game change right here.
27:12
Speaker 1: So seen your facial expression too about Kirk.
27:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exciting. Seen crypt chains yet, like the change
27:20
Speaker 2: around No, no, no, does he have the chain? Is locker?
27:22
Speaker 4: His ultimates.
27:26
Speaker 2: They came out yet I can't wait to put a
27:30
Speaker 2: chain on there. You know what, what else do we
27:34
Speaker 2: have for Bjeon?
27:35
Speaker 5: I got I got one. Hey, the Bjon Mustards and
27:38
Speaker 5: the mustard. Let's talk about the brand of the mustard.
27:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the mustard came out like two years ago,
27:45
Speaker 3: and you know it was all it was all from
27:47
Speaker 3: like an idea of two guys, David and Craig. They
27:50
Speaker 3: are the other owners of the mustard too, and they
27:53
Speaker 3: came with this like whole presentation of like.
27:57
Speaker 4: What it it's going to become, like what it should be.
28:00
Speaker 3: This is before anything, and we're like in the top
28:02
Speaker 3: golf like meeting room. So they came with it and
28:07
Speaker 3: at first I was like it's kind of cheesy lokey,
28:11
Speaker 3: like you know that, you know, this is a little weird.
28:14
Speaker 3: But uh, like they had like billboards and like murals
28:17
Speaker 3: and they had like it's selling in stores, and I
28:21
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, this sounds really good, but I mean
28:24
Speaker 3: I just don't know how it's gonna be, so like.
28:26
Speaker 2: Is it gonna sell?
28:27
Speaker 4: It's gonna sell.
28:28
Speaker 2: Yeah.
28:28
Speaker 3: So the two months later it came out in that summer,
28:33
Speaker 3: and you know, it was like a big thing, like
28:36
Speaker 3: the pr and everything, and people were like like this
28:39
Speaker 3: dude has his own mustard. Like that's kind of where
28:41
Speaker 3: it was at first, and so people started buying it
28:43
Speaker 3: online and then like a whole bunch of people, like
28:47
Speaker 3: we saw we saw an order cell from like a
28:50
Speaker 3: little bit to like it just skyrocketed out of the
28:52
Speaker 3: blue and so we like made merch we made all
28:56
Speaker 3: types of stuff, and I think the first six once
29:00
Speaker 3: it was out and it was during that football season,
29:03
Speaker 3: it was like the highest selling condiment in the US.
29:07
Speaker 2: What congrats on that?
29:09
Speaker 4: It was pretty cool.
29:10
Speaker 2: That's a big game too.
29:11
Speaker 1: Some big dogs in that game, Hines, Yeah, big, some
29:15
Speaker 1: big dogs.
29:17
Speaker 3: And it's crazy because you know, even even in like
29:20
Speaker 3: the grocery stores like in Austin. Obviously we're trying to
29:23
Speaker 3: get it across the country and in every grocery store.
29:27
Speaker 3: But like every week you'll go to the grocery store
29:31
Speaker 3: and it's gone, and then you'll have every other condiment
29:34
Speaker 3: still there and they're just like keep reloading it. So
29:38
Speaker 3: and it's cool because I mean people like when they
29:41
Speaker 3: get the mustard, like they'll like take a picture with it,
29:43
Speaker 3: like they're like happy about it.
29:45
Speaker 4: Like you don't.
29:45
Speaker 3: You're not going to hines, you catch up or muster
29:49
Speaker 3: like settle, you know, and it's like it's not cool,
29:55
Speaker 3: but it about to buy it up. Maybe the probably
30:03
Speaker 3: they did, like obviously like somebody, you're open for.
30:06
Speaker 5: Business business, have you done anything creative marketing wise yourself
30:12
Speaker 5: outside of like marketing planes, Like right now I'm thinking
30:14
Speaker 5: to myself.
30:15
Speaker 2: Was pretty creative. He needs to have the mustard, like you.
30:18
Speaker 5: Know, somebody one of the equipment guys has in the bag,
30:19
Speaker 5: but he has it out on the field. Not out
30:21
Speaker 5: on the field, but on the sideline and after he scores,
30:24
Speaker 5: it's like he jogs over to the sideline and just
30:26
Speaker 5: takes a shot of the mustard, which that right there
30:28
Speaker 5: is just I mean, so there's your advertising. Yeah, if
30:33
Speaker 5: you have water, just a bottle, you just go right back.
30:36
Speaker 5: It's like Marshawn eating the Skittles.
30:37
Speaker 4: That's a matter of fact. Like that one's free.
30:40
Speaker 3: We've done like marketing stuff obviously with the commercials and stuff,
30:45
Speaker 3: but that one right there, like after a touchdown and
30:48
Speaker 3: like somebody just throw it in the like throw it
30:50
Speaker 3: from the crowd, like throw it at me.
30:52
Speaker 2: You know, we can do a lot in the sideline. Yeah,
30:54
Speaker 2: get a couple throw to the fans and let them
30:56
Speaker 2: do it.
30:56
Speaker 1: Let them do it, bro keep it under the goalpust
30:58
Speaker 1: a hot dog and the mustard score touch down, put
31:00
Speaker 1: the mustard on top that that would probably be a
31:02
Speaker 1: fine though. That's all right, He's fine for sure, right on.
31:07
Speaker 4: That's it.
31:08
Speaker 2: It's nothing. It's a long term play you could do.
31:10
Speaker 1: So yeah, well one hundred percent has to have the
31:15
Speaker 1: design of your mustard and.
31:16
Speaker 3: Then we have like the mascot. We have the mustard maskot.
31:18
Speaker 3: So yeah, so it'll be at all the games.
31:20
Speaker 4: It's me.
31:22
Speaker 3: On my phone like yeah, but yeah, he's just at
31:25
Speaker 3: all the games, like at the Falcon games, like it's
31:28
Speaker 3: in the stadium for re at Texas games, like they're
31:32
Speaker 3: just walking around just and it's a big attraction, Like
31:35
Speaker 3: it's pretty cool.
31:35
Speaker 2: I can't wait for you to negotiate your second contract
31:37
Speaker 2: to Arthur Blake and your mustard. You're going to do this.
31:40
Speaker 2: This is the only condiment you're allowed to happen there.
31:43
Speaker 1: And he just sits there and twittles his mustache, agrees confidently,
31:47
Speaker 1: shakes your hand. I know we're about to slow this
31:51
Speaker 1: thing down a little bit. But and see, did you.
31:53
Speaker 4: Ever play the game and loved it?
31:55
Speaker 2: Loved it? How heartbroken are you that you're not going
31:58
Speaker 2: to ever be at the game very much? Just missed
32:00
Speaker 2: that time? You will be? I think Legends.
32:04
Speaker 3: Twenty five, Yeah, that'd be cool, but I'm heart broken
32:08
Speaker 3: bad like I was three years two years off, two
32:12
Speaker 3: years off.
32:12
Speaker 1: I hated to bring that up. But it is coming
32:14
Speaker 1: out really soon, it is. And so when it comes
32:16
Speaker 1: out there, you're.
32:17
Speaker 4: Gonna play July.
32:18
Speaker 1: July, middle of July. They're like announcing everything. I think
32:21
Speaker 1: next week or something.
32:23
Speaker 4: Stuck on that game.
32:24
Speaker 2: You're a gamer.
32:25
Speaker 4: I'm a gamer.
32:25
Speaker 2: What your game with? Spa gamer? And after dude combo.
32:29
Speaker 3: There it is so like I love I love FIFA
32:32
Speaker 3: mm hmmm, I love like I love two k Maden.
32:35
Speaker 3: I'm okay at like UFC like that's my stuff right there.
32:39
Speaker 2: Okay. So would you say you're the best gamer in
32:41
Speaker 2: the locker room.
32:42
Speaker 4: Absolutely not.
32:43
Speaker 3: There's a couple of dudes that are actually like real
32:46
Speaker 3: like so like Coop, he's unbelievable.
32:54
Speaker 2: Can't count. Can't count kickers. They have more time than
32:58
Speaker 2: everybody else to do they That's true.
33:00
Speaker 4: That is true.
33:00
Speaker 3: Even even in college, like the kickers were just like
33:03
Speaker 3: just way better than me for for no reason.
33:04
Speaker 5: And I was like, come on, man, all the games,
33:06
Speaker 5: ping pong, all.
33:08
Speaker 1: We had kickers in college that it was like not
33:11
Speaker 1: their day to kick. So I'd be like walking out
33:13
Speaker 1: to practice and they'd be like, oh, we're going to
33:14
Speaker 1: the movies.
33:16
Speaker 2: God damn it, it was they were going to the movies.
33:19
Speaker 1: Yea Kern and uh who was Ryan.
33:25
Speaker 2: Suck up? Ryan suck Up?
33:26
Speaker 5: And Kern would be breaking down, like we're in meetings
33:29
Speaker 5: and they'd be breaking down golf courses. They just be
33:32
Speaker 5: playing out golf trips and breaking down.
33:35
Speaker 2: We're going like we have a break to go to
33:36
Speaker 2: the bathroom and stuff.
33:37
Speaker 5: You kind of go in, hey, what do you guys
33:39
Speaker 5: and they're like literally breaking it get like stapled papers
33:41
Speaker 5: and everything, breaking down golf courses.
33:43
Speaker 2: Speaking of golf, like who's your favorite golfer? Tiger Woods?
33:47
Speaker 2: All right, I'm just kidding.
33:50
Speaker 1: I don't watch enough Max Homa Okay, oh yeah, that's
33:53
Speaker 1: that's one.
33:54
Speaker 5: He's been on the pot. He's one of the Scottieffer sure. Yeah,
33:58
Speaker 5: just kind of came on. He kind of came on
33:59
Speaker 5: to the scene this year by yeah.
34:03
Speaker 3: Golf, I'm not golf, but I'll watch it and I
34:05
Speaker 3: played it.
34:07
Speaker 2: You watch golf?
34:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, for really, you have it on and you're like
34:10
Speaker 1: you're stuck to the TV watching watch it.
34:13
Speaker 2: Watch get behind that man, he said, he I played
34:16
Speaker 2: on PlayStations.
34:17
Speaker 4: And that's kind of why I watch it.
34:19
Speaker 2: Good are you can you hoop?
34:21
Speaker 4: Nahed?
34:27
Speaker 2: I was gonna go. I was gonna get him going. Yeah.
34:29
Speaker 5: I mean we asked coach raw this, like who's got
34:33
Speaker 5: the best athletes NFL or NBA?
34:35
Speaker 4: NFL?
34:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's no question.
34:38
Speaker 3: Like, no, no NBA player can play NFL, but no
34:45
Speaker 3: NFL player can play in the NBA.
34:47
Speaker 1: Oh you're trying to line down the middle. There's nowhere
34:49
Speaker 1: to go.
34:49
Speaker 2: Both think so who Devin fun is now JP Okay,
34:52
Speaker 2: but that's awesome, Like that's awesome for us.
34:54
Speaker 4: One in a million, like and a lot of guys.
34:57
Speaker 2: Michigan guy to talking on nasty about Michigan guys here,
34:59
Speaker 2: we don't.
35:00
Speaker 4: That's great, Whitecorn. No, I'm talking about the NBA.
35:08
Speaker 1: I mean I don't watch basketball watch Actually I focus
35:13
Speaker 1: on football. Dude're a football guy, all right?
35:17
Speaker 2: No, no, No, offensive line we had fourteen of them
35:20
Speaker 2: in the league.
35:20
Speaker 1: That's more than any other college. That being said, Atlanta
35:23
Speaker 1: Falcon's office line talks to me, how awesome Jake Matthews
35:25
Speaker 1: is He's Is he the longest tenured Falcon?
35:28
Speaker 4: Yeah?
35:28
Speaker 2: It is? He just uh is it greaty?
35:33
Speaker 4: And is he? Yeah? Yeah?
35:35
Speaker 1: Is Jake talking about Jake's personality like your classic offensive
35:37
Speaker 1: lineman keeps to himself.
35:39
Speaker 3: No, no, not, He's got to like open, like when
35:41
Speaker 3: he opens up to you, like Jake's my dog. Yah,
35:45
Speaker 3: that's my dude, man. I mean obviously all five of
35:48
Speaker 3: them are. I mean the whole office line room is
35:50
Speaker 3: like super dope. But like when you meet Jake, I mean,
35:53
Speaker 3: when you know Jake, he's just like the most laid back,
35:56
Speaker 3: chill dude. I mean talks about everything, can talk about everything,
36:00
Speaker 3: and he's still funny, Like he still has that funny
36:03
Speaker 3: personality side to him. That's my dude, man, Like for
36:06
Speaker 3: a vet, that's the what I want to have.
36:09
Speaker 1: Can you do me a favorite? We have a segment
36:10
Speaker 1: called Tier Talk. Yeah, and Tier Talk is basically ranking
36:14
Speaker 1: whatever whatever the topic is. Can you tear talk me
36:17
Speaker 1: your three favorite players on the Atlanta Falcons?
36:22
Speaker 4: Okay, I feel like that's like a trick question.
36:23
Speaker 2: You can give an honorable mention, you just got to answer.
36:26
Speaker 2: It's gonna suck for you to hear this.
36:31
Speaker 4: Man.
36:31
Speaker 2: I love everybody. Started three, started three, started three. If
36:36
Speaker 2: there's an.
36:36
Speaker 1: Honorable mention, going throw a few in there. If you
36:38
Speaker 1: need to take a minute too, we got we got time.
36:40
Speaker 4: Yeah.
36:42
Speaker 3: So number three, I'm gonna have to say matthew Ber No, no, no,
36:47
Speaker 3: I'm playing man.
36:48
Speaker 1: Sorry, Matt, that's gotta be tough, brother.
36:53
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna say Zach Zach Harrison number three, Matthew
36:59
Speaker 3: Berger around number two, and then Tyler Alger number one.
37:05
Speaker 2: No audible mention, audible mention. Uh.
37:11
Speaker 4: The rest of the I'm gonna say.
37:16
Speaker 3: Liam, he's our long snapper, that's a fire dude, fire
37:22
Speaker 3: dude or Jesse.
37:25
Speaker 2: Bass I find a very interesting.
37:26
Speaker 1: Jake Matthews did not make that after talking so nice.
37:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, your team, your team, I am. I am close everybody.
37:35
Speaker 5: How about your top three running backs in the NFL
37:38
Speaker 5: right now? And if you could give a little synopsis
37:40
Speaker 5: on what makes him great?
37:41
Speaker 4: All right, then I'm I'm well, my first one.
37:44
Speaker 3: Number one is christ McCaffrey just because, like you know,
37:48
Speaker 3: his his stopping start is incredible, and you know, I
37:53
Speaker 3: watch this game so much, like I compare my game
37:56
Speaker 3: to his just the most because I feel like we
37:59
Speaker 3: do the most similar of So I'm gonna say, I'm
38:01
Speaker 3: gonna say him, and then I'm gonna say Brice Hall
38:06
Speaker 3: is the other one, okay, just because like his patience,
38:09
Speaker 3: how he you know, invades, breaking tackles, how he getting
38:13
Speaker 3: he still has a long speed, He's the other one.
38:18
Speaker 3: And then my third I'm gonna have to go with
38:24
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to go with who probably Saquon I mean, yeah,
38:33
Speaker 3: I know his like his situation has been tough, but
38:35
Speaker 3: like I think just raw just give the talent for
38:39
Speaker 3: a running back, I think he got that and his
38:42
Speaker 3: like lateral movement, how he can bend and make cuts still, like.
38:47
Speaker 4: How big he is, Like I think he's he's the
38:49
Speaker 4: other one.
38:50
Speaker 2: So it's a solid list. That's a good list. I
38:52
Speaker 2: want to say those three, that's a good list.
38:54
Speaker 4: Put myself in there.
38:55
Speaker 2: The boy.
38:56
Speaker 1: I know, I was thinking that tale, but I didn't
38:58
Speaker 1: want to be such a home Henery.
39:00
Speaker 6: Ah see Actually I mean him in his prime, like
39:04
Speaker 6: you know he's he's Hall of Famer.
39:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's yeah, most definitely he had two k Yeah,
39:10
Speaker 2: he did behind this offensive line that year five games.
39:16
Speaker 2: What's up? I'll take that. Come on, take credit for that, though.
39:22
Speaker 4: Who's who's your top three?
39:27
Speaker 2: Just podcasters?
39:29
Speaker 4: Yeah?
39:30
Speaker 7: Matter, yeah, podcast podcasters, rogans Rogan's one. But what makes
39:38
Speaker 7: him the one, Like his ultimate curiosity, he's so present
39:42
Speaker 7: and he's so his ability to be so curious about
39:44
Speaker 7: the subject at hand and be able to break that
39:47
Speaker 7: down and have information about it is. I think that's
39:50
Speaker 7: a that's a one of one talent.
39:52
Speaker 2: In his range.
39:53
Speaker 5: I mean, he can literally crazy range anybody on and
39:55
Speaker 5: he does his he does his prep work.
39:57
Speaker 1: He's what what was that supposed to go three first?
40:01
Speaker 6: But he's yeah, yeah Brogan, God, what about full seeing like.
40:09
Speaker 4: Boys, Yeah, dogs.
40:11
Speaker 2: Those guys are awesome.
40:12
Speaker 1: I don't know, But like, what's the category that we're
40:17
Speaker 1: talking about when it comes to podcasts like that?
40:19
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, just whatever the.
40:21
Speaker 1: Oh I'm talking about. There's like so many podcasts. And
40:23
Speaker 1: then Milk Boys have a massive audience. They do a
40:25
Speaker 1: great job and their content is amazing. But are we
40:27
Speaker 1: talking about uh, their interviews, how they approach the interview,
40:31
Speaker 1: those types of things, because then I think it does
40:33
Speaker 1: change a little bit because their their audience is insane.
40:35
Speaker 2: Okay, and those guys, they are good dudes.
40:37
Speaker 4: And then I would say, just like interviews.
40:40
Speaker 5: Interviews, just being the well, like I would say, you
40:46
Speaker 5: heard of him, Okay, armchair quarterback, he's our armchair expert.
40:52
Speaker 5: He's really good man who I found myself listening to
40:58
Speaker 5: a lot. I mean, THEO there.
41:02
Speaker 4: So funny.
41:03
Speaker 2: And I feel like he's developed over time too.
41:05
Speaker 5: He's a lot more comedy in the start, because obviously
41:07
Speaker 5: he's a comedian. But I feel like he's starting to
41:09
Speaker 5: get he's starting to create a range and a variety
41:11
Speaker 5: for himself where he's handling himself well in all these conversations.
41:14
Speaker 4: I like that is he like in Atlanta.
41:18
Speaker 2: He's in nae ye, Nashville. I think he's put between
41:20
Speaker 2: the Nashville maybe l A. I'm not sure. Yeah, he
41:23
Speaker 2: do Nashville. He was doing the pod with the shop
41:26
Speaker 2: right for a minute.
41:28
Speaker 5: Yeah, ye, but yeah, that's a solid three. You got
41:34
Speaker 5: Rogan and Armchair Expert back Shepherd. I've never seen armer
41:39
Speaker 5: expert one time, but I'll co sign it.
41:42
Speaker 2: What's another? What's to think? Because Shoals has a really
41:46
Speaker 2: good one. Yeah, yeah, but.
41:47
Speaker 1: I've seen I've seen his clips. I've never really watched
41:49
Speaker 1: the show. I think he's really good.
41:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's hard, I know there's something. Yeah, I don't
41:57
Speaker 5: digest a whole lot. I mean, and that's based on
41:59
Speaker 5: like what I listen to, Like we can't we can't
42:02
Speaker 5: not talk about the boys part of my take.
42:03
Speaker 4: P m T.
42:04
Speaker 5: They're like the number one sports pod. They have been
42:07
Speaker 5: for a long time. Kelsey Brothers have a great pod.
42:10
Speaker 4: That's a good one.
42:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're massive spin chickles all Barcel everybody with Barsel
42:14
Speaker 1: listening all the Barcel pods. Yeah, pm T probably is
42:17
Speaker 1: like they would probably be up there with Rogan the
42:20
Speaker 1: Poppy too.
42:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, they don't see and being at the
42:23
Speaker 5: top for as long as as long as they have
42:25
Speaker 5: each other having the same sense of humor, like they
42:27
Speaker 5: do a great job.
42:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's that's there.
42:31
Speaker 5: You go.
42:31
Speaker 2: There's there's your top whatever.
42:33
Speaker 1: Top twenty six, right, there was your top left tackles. Okay,
42:41
Speaker 1: my top left tackles. Trent Williams is one easy above
42:46
Speaker 1: and beyond dog man the best one. He's the best one.
42:56
Speaker 1: I wish I had a list to look at. So
42:59
Speaker 1: I'm trying to go through. Okay, Matthews, I think Seattle.
43:08
Speaker 2: That's West.
43:10
Speaker 1: Tunsil is probably in there. Yeah, I'm just trying to
43:13
Speaker 1: run through it all because like, uh, I think Jake's great.
43:17
Speaker 1: I think who's hot, Tunsil, Houston is Tunsil, He's nasty.
43:24
Speaker 2: Who's saints? They got nobody? Well, no, respective, I'm just
43:29
Speaker 2: trying to think of names. Yeah, let me do I'll do.
43:36
Speaker 1: Trent Tunsil. Let me get Dean Dawkins for three. Honorable
43:43
Speaker 1: mention to our boy, Jake Matthews. I still hold a
43:46
Speaker 1: lot of animosity towards him.
43:50
Speaker 2: Lass Room.
43:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were sitting like in a room outside of
43:54
Speaker 1: Radio City and we kind of like started talking because
43:57
Speaker 1: we were both doing the you know, top tackles in
43:59
Speaker 1: the drive, kind of sizing each other up a little bit,
44:01
Speaker 1: but like being respectful the same guy. I'm kind of
44:03
Speaker 1: both doing the uncomfortable thing together. And so I was like, Hey,
44:05
Speaker 1: where do you want to go? And he's like, honestly
44:07
Speaker 1: kind of looks around as if somebod's actually listening to
44:08
Speaker 1: us for tackles. He's like, Atlanta would be sick. I
44:11
Speaker 1: was like, dude, same. And then that Monday before the draft,
44:14
Speaker 1: Atlanta flew to me and they're like, if you're there
44:16
Speaker 1: at six, be ready, and I'm like, I'll be there.
44:19
Speaker 1: I will be there around six. Comes around and I'm
44:23
Speaker 1: like fired up, and the phone starts ringing on Jake
44:27
Speaker 1: Matthew's table and he's like two tables away from me too,
44:29
Speaker 1: and his family started celebrating. I was so fucking mad.
44:33
Speaker 1: I was so tight because that's where I wanted to go.
44:35
Speaker 1: I was like, al sick flower Branch. I came down here,
44:37
Speaker 1: checked it out. Arthur Blank was kind of dope too.
44:40
Speaker 1: Seems like a couple of guys not himself personally. I
44:44
Speaker 1: made the re correct phone calls to get things done,
44:45
Speaker 1: and I respect that if you're able to get away
44:47
Speaker 1: with that, and so for me, I was like, yeah,
44:49
Speaker 1: I'd be kind of sick. And then Titans called me
44:51
Speaker 1: and I was mad about that because they had two tackles.
44:54
Speaker 2: I was mad as about it.
44:56
Speaker 4: Wait, so you're with Arthur Smith.
44:57
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's that's our guy. He was one of
45:00
Speaker 2: the boys.
45:00
Speaker 5: Man.
45:01
Speaker 2: He was a control guy when I first got there.
45:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, we would do these pursuit drills where they like
45:06
Speaker 1: hold up balls in the corner of the end zones
45:08
Speaker 1: and we would just run and try to punch the
45:09
Speaker 1: ball out and I would literally beat the ship up.
45:12
Speaker 2: I would run about, tackling the ground, start punching the ball.
45:15
Speaker 3: Brother. Think I love about him though. It's like, yeah,
45:19
Speaker 3: obviously he's a great coach and like we built the relationship.
45:21
Speaker 3: But like, bro, his dark comedy hilarious like like if
45:27
Speaker 3: you're if you're like if you're like a whisper like
45:31
Speaker 3: something like that. Bro, you can't handle like coach Smith
45:33
Speaker 3: because like he'll joke with you and it's hilarious. Quick, quick,
45:39
Speaker 3: it's hilarious.
45:40
Speaker 4: Bro.
45:40
Speaker 2: Like he's got good group chat humor as well.
45:42
Speaker 3: He does he does oh my gosh, like he put
45:46
Speaker 3: he put us in a group chat some of us
45:48
Speaker 3: off the players and just send the most like crazy things.
45:52
Speaker 4: But like it was so funny.
45:54
Speaker 3: It was so funny, and I mean that's like, man,
45:58
Speaker 3: he can definitely like relationship, but like any player, just
46:02
Speaker 3: office comedy because.
46:03
Speaker 4: I mean that dude was hilarious.
46:04
Speaker 1: Bro, I love that You've just added one more though.
46:07
Speaker 1: Top three coaches you've ever had?
46:09
Speaker 4: Top three coaches?
46:11
Speaker 1: This is this has been a fun transition, I guess, yeah.
46:16
Speaker 4: Like ever in my life.
46:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, well number one, I'm gonna have to
46:21
Speaker 3: go with my high school coach, coach Benet. Then it's Bene.
46:25
Speaker 3: He's kind of like Coach Smith just off like like
46:30
Speaker 3: he's very he's like the greatest coach in Arizona history,
46:33
Speaker 3: high school coach Charlie Rag.
46:34
Speaker 1: But yeah, go ahead, all right, just arguing about whatever.
46:41
Speaker 3: But you know, even even just him like developed being
46:45
Speaker 3: like helped develop me and me to become like a
46:47
Speaker 3: respectable man and just like be a great kid.
46:50
Speaker 4: He was that guy.
46:52
Speaker 3: Uh. But then number two, I'm gonna have to go ahead,
46:57
Speaker 3: Coach Choice to Shark Choice. He was my coach at Texas,
47:00
Speaker 3: running back coach in Texas. I mean, like his energy
47:03
Speaker 3: is like awesome, Like I mean, he brought about it
47:06
Speaker 3: every day every day and then watch I bet, I
47:11
Speaker 3: bet at the end of all this, like Rahim is
47:13
Speaker 3: gonna be my number one. But I'm gonna say he's
47:17
Speaker 3: already like Danner up there, bro, like Rahiem is fun
47:21
Speaker 3: for a month and he's already like that guy. I
47:25
Speaker 3: mean just his presence and like obviously like he's gonna
47:31
Speaker 3: coach you like and get everything out of you, but
47:35
Speaker 3: he's gonna do it with you like you be seeing
47:37
Speaker 3: him on the field like in drills, like in the drill,
47:40
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I just never had a coach like
47:42
Speaker 3: that before. And then even my coach Petriot, he's I
47:46
Speaker 3: guess he'd be like my number three and he's my
47:48
Speaker 3: running back coach now and like my dog for life,
47:52
Speaker 3: that no doubt.
47:54
Speaker 2: I hear. I gotta I have a question.
47:57
Speaker 5: People would assume that a cat like yourself, five star recruit,
48:02
Speaker 5: best you know, drafted top ten, you're the man even
48:06
Speaker 5: currently that somebody like you wouldn't have faced a lot
48:10
Speaker 5: of adversity. What are one of the more trying times
48:13
Speaker 5: you've had in your career as a football player.
48:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, while I faced like I saw.
48:19
Speaker 3: For me, I think I faced a lot of adversity
48:22
Speaker 3: just going to Texas and not having a winning team.
48:27
Speaker 4: Like when we would lose, like a lot of.
48:30
Speaker 3: It would be on me and you know, like we
48:34
Speaker 3: would go eight and five and then it would be
48:37
Speaker 3: like nine to four or something like that, like that's
48:40
Speaker 3: a bad season, like Texas and for me being like
48:45
Speaker 3: the leader of the team, like who people watch.
48:48
Speaker 2: Like you know it was had the guy?
48:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
48:50
Speaker 3: It was hard, like and sometimes I would catch myself
48:54
Speaker 3: like going to Twitter and seeing what people would say
48:56
Speaker 3: and type.
48:57
Speaker 2: In your name's all been there? You shouldn't you know,
49:01
Speaker 2: you shouldn't.
49:01
Speaker 3: I'm like I should not be doing this, but like
49:04
Speaker 3: and I'm glad I did it then because obviously I
49:07
Speaker 3: tripled out and now I don't care like care people think,
49:10
Speaker 3: but like then it was like, all right, what's happening?
49:13
Speaker 4: Like what did I do? What's the small mess up
49:17
Speaker 4: that I did to make.
49:18
Speaker 2: This kind of had a nice game with people?
49:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I had a nice game, But I still
49:23
Speaker 3: want to see, like what's it? So it's like all
49:25
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff was was a learning lesson for me,
49:30
Speaker 3: But it would be like more adversity of like trying
49:33
Speaker 3: to get teammates on the same page as you, and
49:37
Speaker 3: sometimes like teammates went to went to the school because
49:43
Speaker 3: of just the name, like they weren't invested in in
49:47
Speaker 3: the in the in the play, like they just wanted
49:49
Speaker 3: because they want to go to frat parties and say
49:52
Speaker 3: I'm a football player, like that's all. And I was like,
49:55
Speaker 3: that's cool, but I don't think you're really getting none
49:58
Speaker 3: out of it by doing that, Like why don't you
50:01
Speaker 3: want to be a great player?
50:03
Speaker 4: Didn't do it?
50:04
Speaker 2: Like I just didn't know where where the where their
50:06
Speaker 2: minds were up. Yeah, they're messed up.
50:10
Speaker 3: And then even you know even here, like man, this
50:13
Speaker 3: team is is so tight, that we're so close, and
50:17
Speaker 3: like just some of those heartbreaking like losses from last year,
50:21
Speaker 3: like it was it was, you know, really hard because obviously,
50:24
Speaker 3: like those are the ones that you want and those
50:25
Speaker 3: are the wins that you want. But you know, with
50:28
Speaker 3: the NFL, like we we would put ourselves in in
50:30
Speaker 3: some situations where it was just hard to come out
50:32
Speaker 3: of from from some of those games, and then it
50:34
Speaker 3: would end up in a two point loss, three point loss,
50:37
Speaker 3: and it's just like we know, if we won that game,
50:41
Speaker 3: like we would be like easily in the playoffs. But
50:44
Speaker 3: it's like those little things that I had to learn
50:48
Speaker 3: from and come over because I think, you know, God
50:53
Speaker 3: plans everything. You know, you have a setback for huge
50:55
Speaker 3: setups for everything. So like that's where that's where the
50:58
Speaker 3: setup really is, and that's where where we're right now.
51:02
Speaker 3: And I feel like where we're right now is where
51:03
Speaker 3: the setup is is happening.
51:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, So man, we appreciate you coming on.
51:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can tell that you love ball, like you know,
51:10
Speaker 5: being a good teammate, you care, which is going to
51:12
Speaker 5: take you a long way, Like you know, there's there
51:14
Speaker 5: you you you've probably seen it already. There's just guys
51:16
Speaker 5: in the league that you know, they don't take losses hard.
51:20
Speaker 5: They don't see it that way. They don't come in
51:21
Speaker 5: the next day at work and you're just like, man,
51:23
Speaker 5: why don't you care about this the same way I
51:25
Speaker 5: feel like I'm caring.
51:25
Speaker 4: About this, no doubt, no doubt.
51:27
Speaker 2: But you can tell you love ball, man, And we
51:29
Speaker 2: appreciate you coming on.
51:30
Speaker 4: Man. Thanks for having me. Man, this is fire.
51:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do appreciate it. Hey, the mustard move, I'm.
51:38
Speaker 4: Yes, address give you like a care package and.
51:41
Speaker 2: I'll show you the technique and everything.
51:43
Speaker 4: Please do. Yeah, there is a video.
51:45
Speaker 3: There's videos of dudes just like going crazy with it,
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Speaker 3: telling you, yeah, I'm like that's insane.
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Speaker 4: I would never do that.
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Speaker 2: After a touchdown, you will, yeah,