Latest / NFL Game Previews / Amon-Ra St. Brown on being the NFL's top paid receiver, how the Lions are coming for the NFC throne
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Welcome on in.
- 0:06Speaker 2: I appreciate y'all tuning in to Off the Edge with
- 0:08Speaker 2: Cam Jordan. I'm super excited to sit here with the
- 0:10Speaker 2: pro bowler, with the man who's made a name for himself.
- 0:13Speaker 2: I mean, already has a phenomenal name. Amamra same brown
- 0:17Speaker 2: yeah man. From a fourth round pick to big payday today,
- 0:23Speaker 2: it's all last because it ain't no more funny money.
- 0:24Speaker 2: That fourth round is a he he that that that
- 0:27Speaker 2: big bag just came through because we're not gonna drop
- 0:29Speaker 2: their numbers because we all seen it.
- 0:30Speaker 1: But I love it for you. First of all, congratulations
- 0:33Speaker 1: on all your success.
- 0:35Speaker 2: You know, you first got drafted to Detroit and Detroit
- 0:37Speaker 2: was struggling, and now y'all just hit a whole NFC
- 0:40Speaker 2: championship game. I needn't know what that what that new
- 0:44Speaker 2: money feel like. It ain't even hit the count yet,
- 0:46Speaker 2: so I ain't felt it yet.
- 0:48Speaker 1: I haven't felt nothing yet. It's just still in the air.
- 0:51Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have nothing. But now I'm super thankful,
- 0:54Speaker 1: grateful for everyone, you know, the whole Lines organization, Shela Ford,
- 0:59Speaker 1: I mean, Brad Holmes, Mike Disner, Saws and everyone involved,
- 1:04Speaker 1: my agent, my family, my coaches, my teammates, everyone. I
- 1:08Speaker 1: wouldn't you. I wouldn't be here without them today. So
- 1:12Speaker 1: I'm just super thankful. You know, this time three years ago,
- 1:15Speaker 1: I got drafted around this, you know, around this time,
- 1:18Speaker 1: and to be here now, drafted in Detroit kind of
- 1:21Speaker 1: like a full circle moment for me. Absolutely, you had
- 1:24Speaker 1: you have some dogs, you know what I'm saying.
- 1:26Speaker 2: At the time, Galla Day was going crazy. Marv Jones
- 1:29Speaker 2: before he returned, it was going crazy. You came in
- 1:33Speaker 2: a young buck and you know, my boy, I'm great,
- 1:37Speaker 2: great friends with my guy, Marv Jones, you know, a
- 1:39Speaker 2: great dude. You know he went to my college, know
- 1:41Speaker 2: since he was a jitterbug, and so he was like, Bro,
- 1:44Speaker 2: he's really gonna be the next one to see you blossom.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Bros.
- 1:47Speaker 2: It's been amazing, been amazing. Uh you talk about just
- 1:50Speaker 2: you know, being the Pro Bowls together. Uh, had had
- 1:53Speaker 2: a chance. I told you really had a chance to
- 1:55Speaker 2: sit down with with with your pops. He was telling
- 1:57Speaker 2: me how you you know, lived in Uh you used
- 2:00Speaker 2: to go off and live in Germany. Does that feel
- 2:03Speaker 2: like you knowing that the world is so broad, does
- 2:06Speaker 2: that help you really hone in like you can travel whenever,
- 2:08Speaker 2: but help your phone hone in on football or did
- 2:11Speaker 2: that get you away from football? What does traveling abroad
- 2:13Speaker 2: do for you? You know, I was kind of That's
- 2:15Speaker 2: something that I was used to growing up. Like a
- 2:18Speaker 2: lot of kids, I feel like growing up, they did vacations,
- 2:22Speaker 2: but they would go to like Colorado, they'd go to
- 2:24Speaker 2: Lake Harves, so I've never been there in my life,
- 2:27Speaker 2: go to like these legs whatever. Me and my family
- 2:29Speaker 2: they would go, we're going to We're going out the country.
- 2:31Speaker 2: We would take cruises all the time, like almost every
- 2:33Speaker 2: year go to Germany, go to Europe. My mom's from Germany,
- 2:37Speaker 2: so we'd be there every summer as kids. So for me,
- 2:41Speaker 2: for our family in liver cruising next to Cologne. For
- 2:45Speaker 2: our family, like traveling was getting out the country far away.
- 2:50Speaker 2: For a lot of kids that I grew up with,
- 2:51Speaker 2: they were just like they're growing, like I said, to
- 2:52Speaker 2: the lakes whatever. So it was normal for me, Like
- 2:54Speaker 2: every summer I was in Germany, we'd take cruises to
- 2:57Speaker 2: Saint Thomas, to Mexico, why whatever.
- 3:00Speaker 1: It was. So that was part of you know, my
- 3:03Speaker 1: dad and my mom, they that was part of their thing.
- 3:06Speaker 1: They want us to travel and see the world. And
- 3:08Speaker 1: as a kid, that's all I really knew and I
- 3:10Speaker 1: was used to it. So when I was traveling, you know,
- 3:12Speaker 1: when I was in Germany the summer, it was just
- 3:14Speaker 1: like another home for me, like a second home. My
- 3:17Speaker 1: grandparents were living there, so we stayed at their place,
- 3:20Speaker 1: played soccer there, different sports whatever. It was even worked
- 3:23Speaker 1: out there. My dad was still back home in California
- 3:25Speaker 1: doing his thing, working whatever. He'd come visit to. But
- 3:28Speaker 1: it mostly just me and my two brothers and my
- 3:30Speaker 1: mom and then my grandparents. But it was awesome. And
- 3:33Speaker 1: we went to school in Paris for when I was
- 3:35Speaker 1: in third GA first semester. That was great. Got to
- 3:38Speaker 1: experience that whole thing. Uh, their culture is a lot different.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Still play soccer, yeah, everything, basketball, played basketball going and
- 3:46Speaker 1: also not in France, not in Germany. Obviously it's not
- 3:48Speaker 1: as big there. But when I was back home playing
- 3:50Speaker 1: all those big though, yeah, it's getting bigger, a little bigger,
- 3:53Speaker 1: but doing all that stuff I was. I mean, I
- 3:56Speaker 1: feel like, looking back at it, like I was, really,
- 3:59Speaker 1: I'm grateful that they did that for me because it's
- 4:02Speaker 1: tough to do. Man, it costs a lot of money,
- 4:04Speaker 1: and my parents didn't have the most money in the world.
- 4:06Speaker 1: They were still you know, working and whatnot. So just
- 4:10Speaker 1: showing you all the world. Yeah, definitely, learning different languages.
- 4:13Speaker 1: I think that also opens your brain up a different way,
- 4:16Speaker 1: different way of thinking. So, man, I'm blessed to have them,
- 4:20Speaker 1: you know, do that from when.
- 4:22Speaker 2: Yeah, man, look I've got I've got a sister that
- 4:25Speaker 2: lives in Hamburg, Germany. Now her husband is it was
- 4:29Speaker 2: a German football player NFL player. Yeah, so you know,
- 4:33Speaker 2: they've got a couple of kids out that way, and
- 4:35Speaker 2: it's like like they're getting a completely different experience whether
- 4:39Speaker 2: they're playing soccer or dancing or whatever. It's not what
- 4:43Speaker 2: we're used to. So last year I took the kids.
- 4:45Speaker 2: I was like, first of all, Cleveland game was too
- 4:47Speaker 2: damn cod How you play in Detroit, Like, y'all have
- 4:50Speaker 2: indoor doors, but y'all practice.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Where indoors to for you have a home game with indoors.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Yeah, but during training camp out it's April, fam and
- 4:58Speaker 2: we're in sweatsuits right now, it's still cold. Anyways, I
- 5:01Speaker 2: got grip I got gripes. I got off the plane
- 5:05Speaker 2: in shorts and a T shirts. I said, I think
- 5:07Speaker 2: I think I picked the sweater. It's eighty five in
- 5:10Speaker 2: New Orleans, it's ninety some degrees in Arizona, my gripe.
- 5:14Speaker 2: But anyway, so like, you know, just this traveling bit.
- 5:16Speaker 2: We played Cleveland last year and I got so cold.
- 5:18Speaker 2: I said, yo, baby, pactic bags. She's like, what is
- 5:20Speaker 2: like soon a season of We're gone Gone, moved to Spain,
- 5:23Speaker 2: been a month out in Madrid, a month in Barcelona.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Homeschool and the kids, and I'm like, we should have
- 5:27Speaker 2: put them in school there because then they really like
- 5:30Speaker 2: would have been forced to learn that little cerebral cortext
- 5:32Speaker 2: would have had to open up.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 5:33Speaker 2: So I mean, it's it's great to just see how
- 5:36Speaker 2: you know that can happen because again, you got an
- 5:38Speaker 2: older brother. I met your older brother some years prior.
- 5:40Speaker 2: You got a younger brother that's gonna be upcoming soon.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Like that, that legacy push for you is clearly deep
- 5:45Speaker 2: in the family.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Is definitely just growing up, you know, with the type
- 5:50Speaker 1: of parents parents that we had. My dad was super
- 5:54Speaker 1: into the sports, you know, pushing us.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Also shout out to the middle children.
- 5:59Speaker 1: By there, he's actually the youngest, the youngest, Yeah are
- 6:02Speaker 1: you Yeah, I'm the youngest. The middle is usually the
- 6:06Speaker 1: best child, never, but I guess the youngest always the
- 6:09Speaker 1: young The youngest is the baby. The youngest gets to
- 6:11Speaker 1: learn from the oldest, Yeah, but gets baby the entire time.
- 6:13Speaker 1: So you're not really scratching claw to try to win.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Everything that was okay, but no having like the parents
- 6:20Speaker 1: that I had. Mean, my dad was at all my
- 6:22Speaker 1: I don't think he missed one game of my life,
- 6:24Speaker 1: whether it was football, basketball, soccer. Maybe one because he
- 6:27Speaker 1: was working, but he came to every event, was coaching
- 6:31Speaker 1: me before the game, after the game, during the game.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Coach used to hate him. He was whistling during the game,
- 6:35Speaker 1: tell me what to do. Coach used to get mad.
- 6:37Speaker 1: But I was used to it. Man, I'm gonna be
- 6:39Speaker 1: a listen to my dad. Whatever he tells me, I'm
- 6:40Speaker 1: gonna do. You heard him through the coaches do the
- 6:42Speaker 1: coaches whatever was. I'm looking over the coaches over time,
- 6:46Speaker 1: so I'm looking at my pops. I got you about
- 6:48Speaker 1: he does. Sometimes you know, I'm like, damn, my dad's
- 6:51Speaker 1: over here, young and like I'm just trying to play
- 6:53Speaker 1: fun whatever, and he's over here coaching me at But
- 6:56Speaker 1: I mean looking looking back on it, Like I see now,
- 6:59Speaker 1: I see younger kids, I see other dads doing I'm like,
- 7:02Speaker 1: I already know how he feels like. He's probably like, damn,
- 7:04Speaker 1: my dad's here again. But like that's the type of
- 7:06Speaker 1: dad you want. Like a lot of kids wish they
- 7:07Speaker 1: had a father in their life like that. So I'm
- 7:10Speaker 1: glad he was, you know, a part of my whole journey.
- 7:12Speaker 1: I mean, he's he was a bodybuilder himself, so he
- 7:15Speaker 1: knew what it looked like former mister Olympia he was.
- 7:19Speaker 1: I mean, bodybelding is a solo sport. There was no
- 7:22Speaker 1: team in it, so he had to do everything on
- 7:23Speaker 1: his own, eat, workout, trained, sleep. His whole regiment was
- 7:28Speaker 1: just himself. He had no help from, no coach, nothing else.
- 7:30Speaker 1: So he knew what it looked like to put the
- 7:31Speaker 1: work in and he kind of instilled that on us.
- 7:34Speaker 1: And then my mom she was, you know, making sure
- 7:36Speaker 1: we're on top of our school with homework, test taking
- 7:39Speaker 1: the essats in different languages, learning different languages, reading books
- 7:43Speaker 1: on the wad of school whatever it was, learning vocab words.
- 7:45Speaker 1: If we want to go out, we gotta learn a
- 7:46Speaker 1: certain amount of vocab words. So she was honest about everything.
- 7:49Speaker 1: So it was like two heads boom. I got my
- 7:52Speaker 1: dad over here, my mom over here. But for me,
- 7:55Speaker 1: like I said, it's all I know's what I was
- 7:57Speaker 1: used to. It's the life I lived. And now it's
- 8:00Speaker 1: just like I get a you know, be this grown
- 8:04Speaker 1: or think I'm growing twenty four year old that I
- 8:07Speaker 1: feel like, you know, they shape me to a good
- 8:09Speaker 1: human being.
- 8:10Speaker 2: Okay, okay, man, I just need to know, like, you know,
- 8:14Speaker 2: if your dad was mster Olympia, are you does that
- 8:16Speaker 2: even allow you to be a foodie? Like you've been
- 8:18Speaker 2: counting calorie since like day one.
- 8:20Speaker 1: To see the people actually always ask me that, like
- 8:22Speaker 1: what do you eat? My dad actually lets to see
- 8:24Speaker 1: whatever you want. Like growing up, it was like you
- 8:26Speaker 1: can have really whatever you want. We just got to
- 8:27Speaker 1: make sure we get enough protein in our system. But
- 8:30Speaker 1: other than that, like we want ice cream, go ahead
- 8:32Speaker 1: have it. Because our body types are kind of different
- 8:34Speaker 1: than most, it's hard for us to gain weight. Like
- 8:36Speaker 1: we can eat whatever we want, we won't gain weight.
- 8:38Speaker 1: We have to make sure we have the right amount
- 8:39Speaker 1: of protein, lifting weights, make sure we're geting at least
- 8:42Speaker 1: four meals in a day.
- 8:43Speaker 2: So in terms of lifting waste like you believe in
- 8:46Speaker 2: religiously lifting weight? Are you a meat head?
- 8:48Speaker 1: Like? Are you are your a gym rat? I feel
- 8:50Speaker 1: like you can call me a gym ro. I don't
- 8:51Speaker 1: feel like I'm a gym rat, but my team is
- 8:53Speaker 1: probably will tell me I'm I'm in. They're lifting weight.
- 8:55Speaker 1: It's crazy, but I mean, for that's it's the life
- 8:58Speaker 1: I live.
- 8:58Speaker 2: I'm on the other side, I don't really wait you
- 9:00Speaker 2: hate I gain weight. I gain w easy. Like so
- 9:03Speaker 2: Pops played tight end for thirteen years for the Vikes, right,
- 9:07Speaker 2: he's six ' five. Moms is like five seven, so
- 9:10Speaker 2: I get the shoulders from her side of the family,
- 9:12Speaker 2: like uncle's six two sixty three, but they wide as
- 9:16Speaker 2: they are tall when I was younger, Like in my
- 9:17Speaker 2: mind they were huge, right because they were thicker than Pops.
- 9:20Speaker 2: So I'm just looking like, all right, I'm just the
- 9:22Speaker 2: best both worlds. I got height and with and you
- 9:25Speaker 2: sit there like, dang all, everybody's talking about way, protein, creatine,
- 9:29Speaker 2: whatever you want. I'm not on. I'm on, Like, yeah,
- 9:31Speaker 2: I'm on water and running. But that's like my life
- 9:34Speaker 2: is the opposite. I'm like, they're like, can you lift
- 9:36Speaker 2: my teammates to tell you, like, if I lift spearingly,
- 9:39Speaker 2: I'm here to really run, Like if I can't get
- 9:41Speaker 2: more cardio in, I'm really not happy.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Let me know how my brother's left in when you
- 9:44Speaker 1: see him, probably let me know if he's getting it in. Okay, okay,
- 9:47Speaker 1: you know he says in Chicago he was one of
- 9:49Speaker 1: the strongest. I'm over here throwing up this way. I'm
- 9:51Speaker 1: all right. Oh he was talking talking crazy. Okay, Now
- 9:54Speaker 1: I said, now I got someone in New Orleans. I
- 9:56Speaker 1: can keep an eye on you. I know what's coming
- 9:59Speaker 1: from it.
- 10:00Speaker 2: So and so don't he might be the strongest already,
- 10:02Speaker 2: like we got she, we got She She Shahid, and
- 10:06Speaker 2: then we got Chris Ove No, no fast, That's what
- 10:08Speaker 2: I'm saying, track baby.
- 10:08Speaker 1: So he might be the strongest stuff soft rip. Yeah,
- 10:11Speaker 1: maybe on his squads. You know, he's six five, so
- 10:13Speaker 1: he's not trying to go all the way down like
- 10:15Speaker 1: those reps don't don't those don't count. He's going like
- 10:17Speaker 1: half reps on a squad, Like I don't care how
- 10:18Speaker 1: tall you get your down, like all the way down.
- 10:22Speaker 1: So do you guys, do you have you had a
- 10:24Speaker 1: pound for pound contest? Yet bro, I mean he's I'm
- 10:28Speaker 1: strong than him on bench bench press, So I squat
- 10:31Speaker 1: more than him, he's gonna be I do I curl
- 10:33Speaker 1: more than you? Who cares about a curl? Like? You
- 10:35Speaker 1: can have stronger biceps? Go ahead, I squat more, you
- 10:37Speaker 1: have bench more than those are two? What else? Well,
- 10:39Speaker 1: the main lift? I don't deadlift, No para clans, not really,
- 10:42Speaker 1: no no power cleans. And if we did those, I
- 10:44Speaker 1: feel like so so maybe the curls is part of
- 10:47Speaker 1: the three minutes conversations. Want to man.
- 10:52Speaker 2: So you know, you come in young, and you clearly
- 10:55Speaker 2: built a core. They're building a core racket. They extend you.
- 10:58Speaker 2: They just extended a big p like knowing that you
- 11:02Speaker 2: have that core intact, knowing that you have Aaron Glenn
- 11:04Speaker 2: over there, knowing that you have Dan Campbell over there.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Solid guys. Look from when you started to now Dan Campbell,
- 11:09Speaker 2: what is Dan camp third year?
- 11:11Speaker 1: Third year came in We came in together.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Right, So like third year, all you know is like
- 11:16Speaker 2: how to grind that that'll either shift your mentality or
- 11:19Speaker 2: make your mentality.
- 11:20Speaker 1: And it seems for you in major mentality.
- 11:21Speaker 2: When I'm thinking about that, it's just like what propelled
- 11:24Speaker 2: you guys to go from what you were not this
- 11:27Speaker 2: last season, but two seasons ago to what you are now.
- 11:30Speaker 1: That's a great question. I mean, I think for us,
- 11:33Speaker 1: like we went through so much. I mean, when I
- 11:35Speaker 1: first got there, it was, you know, a bunch of
- 11:37Speaker 1: new guys, new head coach, coach Campbell and he.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Came on talk about I'm about to fight kneecaps.
- 11:42Speaker 1: So far. They all told me when I got DT,
- 11:44Speaker 1: have you seen then interview of your coach? I said,
- 11:45Speaker 1: what interview? The bodykneecaps? I know, idea what they were
- 11:48Speaker 1: talking about. I haven't seen it. Like I just got drafted.
- 11:50Speaker 1: I'm just happy to get your right. I'm just happy
- 11:52Speaker 1: to be here. Like I didn't watch any Detroit football
- 11:55Speaker 1: going up. They want on my TV, they weren't shown.
- 11:57Speaker 1: So I was just like, now I haven't heard of it,
- 11:59Speaker 1: and I finally whatever. But when we first came in,
- 12:01Speaker 1: it was, like I said, everyone was new. Jared just
- 12:03Speaker 1: got traded. They got rid of a bunch of guys.
- 12:07Speaker 1: You know, new coaches come in, they get get rid
- 12:08Speaker 1: of their old guys, try to get their new guys
- 12:10Speaker 1: in whatever. And I just remember looking at the ross
- 12:13Speaker 1: when I got drafted. It was because I want to
- 12:15Speaker 1: see who you know who was in the room. It
- 12:17Speaker 1: was me Tyroll Williams. I don't know if you remember
- 12:20Speaker 1: who he is. He played with the Chargers and the Raiders, Brashaw, Perriman, Quintes,
- 12:25Speaker 1: cephiz Khalif Raymond, who still us to this day. He's
- 12:28Speaker 1: a beast. So we actually came in together. He's still there.
- 12:32Speaker 1: And then who else Tom Kenny's and our practice squad,
- 12:35Speaker 1: Victor Bolden.
- 12:37Speaker 2: How long can a guy be on a practice squad?
- 12:38Speaker 2: I've always wondered this. I like guys being practice squad
- 12:41Speaker 2: like for like eight years now, and I'm like.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Bro, how long can you just be? Anyways? Yeah, so are?
- 12:46Speaker 1: I mean I look at the Ross. I don't know
- 12:48Speaker 1: any I really don't know any receiver on the on
- 12:49Speaker 1: the team. I mean I've heard the guys, but no
- 12:52Speaker 1: one that I really know. I probably knew two players
- 12:55Speaker 1: from the from the roster, Jared Goff and I think
- 12:57Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift. The rest had no idea. So I come in.
- 13:00Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm just trying to, you know, make some plays.
- 13:02Speaker 1: I'm trying to get on the field do whatever I can,
- 13:05Speaker 1: and I can I didn't know anything about the league.
- 13:07Speaker 1: So I was a rookie coming in and a lot
- 13:10Speaker 1: of people are telling me, like, this is not what
- 13:11Speaker 1: it's supposed to look like. It's supposed to be a
- 13:12Speaker 1: little different, like whether it's practice, whether it's the plays
- 13:16Speaker 1: were calling, whatever it was, And I didn't know much.
- 13:17Speaker 1: I just came in and was trying to make plays,
- 13:19Speaker 1: get on the field in any way that I can,
- 13:21Speaker 1: and so we stuck with it. We ended up winning
- 13:23Speaker 1: three games my rookie year. The first game that we
- 13:26Speaker 1: actually when I caught my first touchdown against the Vikings
- 13:28Speaker 1: like a game winner walk off. It was crazy. That
- 13:31Speaker 1: was our first win. S life flegs. Yeah, crazy, first win, this,
- 13:34Speaker 1: that and the other. We only win three games three
- 13:36Speaker 1: thirteen to one. My rookie year. We ended up drafting
- 13:40Speaker 1: was Aiden Hutchinson. We get Jamison Williams, a bunch of
- 13:43Speaker 1: other guys in that class. Like, okay, we got some
- 13:46Speaker 1: pieces now, same coaches for the most part. Ben Johnson
- 13:50Speaker 1: off with the cordinator, took over halfway through the season
- 13:52Speaker 1: kind of, and then he was finally promoted to the
- 13:53Speaker 1: offensive coordinator my second year. Then we go nine and
- 13:56Speaker 1: eight that year. We ended up you know, we started
- 13:58Speaker 1: winning six and then started winning games were crazy, the
- 14:01Speaker 1: crazy almost made the playoffs. Were like before we played
- 14:04Speaker 1: the Packers the last game of the season, We're like, if
- 14:06Speaker 1: the Rams, it was Rams Seahawks, we needed uh Rams
- 14:10Speaker 1: to win. Seahawks end up winning.
- 14:12Speaker 2: You guys played what was that like the Packers at
- 14:14Speaker 2: the end of the year last year and like ended
- 14:16Speaker 2: up losing it.
- 14:17Speaker 1: We beat them, beat him.
- 14:18Speaker 2: So I think I think we needed the Packers to
- 14:20Speaker 2: win and they tricked it off it. No, we ended
- 14:23Speaker 2: up like y'all beat them and we like squashed our hopes.
- 14:26Speaker 2: So Packers didn't make it.
- 14:27Speaker 1: We didn't make it. We squashed their hopes. But we
- 14:29Speaker 1: ended up nine to eight. Pretty good season from when
- 14:31Speaker 1: we came through thirteen to one, no doubt. And then
- 14:33Speaker 1: so we can kind of tell as a team, like
- 14:35Speaker 1: the we're getting better every year, pieces are coming together.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Then we had another good draft that last year, you know,
- 14:40Speaker 1: Jamior Gibbs, the Porta Brian branch, that whole class was good,
- 14:44Speaker 1: got some pree agent guys, and then shoot Man's the
- 14:47Speaker 1: MCY championship last year. But I mean, I feel like
- 14:49Speaker 1: now going into the next season just the NFC Championship game.
- 14:52Speaker 1: It took me like ten years to get the NFC
- 14:53Speaker 1: Championship game.
- 14:54Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so, I mean, so the early success is
- 14:57Speaker 2: its wondrous it.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Is, but like you never know, you might not ever
- 15:00Speaker 1: to go there again. That's what you know. Coach told
- 15:01Speaker 1: us in the locker room at the end, at the
- 15:03Speaker 1: end of the game, He's like this, realistically, if I'm
- 15:05Speaker 1: being honest, we might ever be here again. And that
- 15:09Speaker 1: kind of hit home for me. It's like, I mean,
- 15:12Speaker 1: Jared's been to one Super Bowl and he hasn't been
- 15:14Speaker 1: to one one yet and he did that like early
- 15:15Speaker 1: in his career. So I mean the Bengals, they just
- 15:18Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl, but they haven't been back yet.
- 15:19Speaker 1: So you never know. In this especially in the NFL,
- 15:21Speaker 1: it's so hard to do certain things back to back.
- 15:24Speaker 1: That's why you look at teams like the Chiefs and
- 15:26Speaker 1: teams are always winning like it's dynasty. It's crazy like
- 15:28Speaker 1: to do that. So we understand that that's going to
- 15:31Speaker 1: be hard to even you know, get to the playoffs
- 15:33Speaker 1: or get back to what it was. But we feel
- 15:34Speaker 1: like we got the guys in our roster on our team.
- 15:36Speaker 1: In the locker room the coaches to do it again.
- 15:39Speaker 1: But we just gotta we gotta go up and harder
- 15:40Speaker 1: because the target on backs and even bigger facts.
- 15:42Speaker 2: No, no, for sure, you think about you know, the
- 15:45Speaker 2: surgeens of Jordan Love and your division. The Chicago Bears
- 15:50Speaker 2: traded for Keenan Allen in your division, Keenan who was
- 15:53Speaker 2: one of the best route runners in the game. If
- 15:55Speaker 2: you want to watch technique work on what a route
- 15:57Speaker 2: runner is, you're up there. He's up there, buddy from
- 16:02Speaker 2: Denver who just got traded. Young Buck has Jerry Judy
- 16:05Speaker 2: has nice routes when he acts right. But you just
- 16:08Speaker 2: you just look look at like that realm, that division
- 16:12Speaker 2: got that much tougher. Do you still see your guys
- 16:14Speaker 2: at the King of the Hill? And then you know,
- 16:15Speaker 2: let's not you know, let's not forget the Minnesota Vikings,
- 16:18Speaker 2: who who knows what they could do?
- 16:21Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, Yes, But like you said, there's
- 16:24Speaker 1: so much happened this last offseason. I mean, like I said,
- 16:27Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, Boom, DeAndre Swift with US went to the
- 16:31Speaker 1: Eagles now is with the Bears. Bears probably get Kleb
- 16:34Speaker 1: Williams on the draft Vikings, who knows they're going to
- 16:38Speaker 1: the quarterback. They got Justin Jefferson. They got pretty solid defense.
- 16:42Speaker 1: They believe that they got Aaron Jones too. Packers got
- 16:46Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs at running back, Jordan Love at quarterback. They
- 16:50Speaker 1: got young white eyes that I think are crazy at
- 16:52Speaker 1: Green Bay. They're all really good. I love watching them play.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Their defense is stingy. Got a young, young DB's crew
- 16:58Speaker 1: in Green Bay. So I think our division is won
- 17:01Speaker 1: the best, especially with what happened the last off season.
- 17:03Speaker 1: But you never know what happens on And then they
- 17:05Speaker 1: paid you right, and they paid me. But that's besides
- 17:08Speaker 1: the point man.
- 17:09Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, you taught your top receiver and
- 17:12Speaker 2: they paid you as the highest the highest paid receiver,
- 17:15Speaker 2: which means the Lions organization values you at that peak.
- 17:19Speaker 1: So you can't talk about everybody else with to talk
- 17:20Speaker 1: yourself like. I just want to know.
- 17:23Speaker 2: I said, good job on the contract extension. But to
- 17:26Speaker 2: be the highest paid at your position, what does that
- 17:28Speaker 2: feel like?
- 17:28Speaker 1: I mean, it's cool, it's it's definitely, it's a it's
- 17:31Speaker 1: an honor, it's a blessing that you know the Lions
- 17:35Speaker 1: were willing to do that for me. They see me
- 17:37Speaker 1: have that value. But let's not forget we got guys
- 17:41Speaker 1: coming up. Justin Jefferson is about to get paid, no doubt, Chase.
- 17:44Speaker 2: No, we're about tomorrow. We're about today. We can we
- 17:46Speaker 2: can't count. We can't count for tomorrow.
- 17:48Speaker 1: I mean day. Right now, you say highest paide wide receiver,
- 17:52Speaker 1: we say, Omar, there's dude's coming up. Dude's coming up
- 17:56Speaker 1: for some big extensions. So it's cool, definitely cool. Like said,
- 18:00Speaker 1: I'm blessed, I'm honored.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Wait a year A step my question.
- 18:03Speaker 1: I love that.
- 18:05Speaker 2: Stay tapped in. We'll be right back.
- 18:21Speaker 1: Now.
- 18:21Speaker 2: Just you know, you entering that podcast era which we've
- 18:23Speaker 2: talked about you and your brother podcast. They had the
- 18:28Speaker 2: Quarterbacks TV show. Whatever I heard you're on the receivers
- 18:32Speaker 2: version of the Netflix show Receivers now right, they pivoted,
- 18:36Speaker 2: they came. You know, they were talking about doing a
- 18:38Speaker 2: defensive end thing.
- 18:39Speaker 1: What receiver after? I don't know, Greg, would be great
- 18:44Speaker 1: to see you know that timeline probably after Probably I
- 18:47Speaker 1: have a question for you, d N Is that different
- 18:48Speaker 1: than outside linebacker? Absolutely? I don't understand the difference. What
- 18:51Speaker 1: is Miller outside linebacker? Is he's an edge rusher? What
- 18:56Speaker 1: is Michael Parsons edge rusher? For sure, he's not an
- 18:58Speaker 1: outside linebacker. Do you think he can do it? And
- 19:00Speaker 1: does do you think? Do you think Mica and aid
- 19:03Speaker 1: and are similar talents in terms of what rushing the
- 19:06Speaker 1: passer in terms of down.
- 19:09Speaker 2: Second down, and third down. To be defensive end, you
- 19:12Speaker 2: normally have to do both.
- 19:14Speaker 1: I mean Ones is Ones just heavier, so one can
- 19:17Speaker 1: do what once faster and ones not as fast. So
- 19:20Speaker 1: one can do what set the edge and the other
- 19:23Speaker 1: the other. They both can rush the passer, so they
- 19:25Speaker 1: can both set the edge. I'm glad that they had
- 19:29Speaker 1: to m hm. So I'm trying to think of someone
- 19:33Speaker 1: like hmm, Miles Garrett. What is he defensive end?
- 19:39Speaker 2: Absolutely he will can't He'll go to a two point
- 19:42Speaker 2: but he puts his hand in dirt and you're still
- 19:44Speaker 2: You're still afraid.
- 19:44Speaker 1: Of So what makes you outside line making rest of
- 19:46Speaker 1: the defensive end?
- 19:47Speaker 2: Well, that depends if you drop and coverage more or
- 19:49Speaker 2: if you just rush up the field.
- 19:50Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys that just rush up you dropping.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Coverage every three or four games. But where am I?
- 19:57Speaker 2: Where are my hand in the ground? And if can
- 19:59Speaker 2: you slide into can you be a four?
- 20:01Speaker 1: Four?
- 20:01Speaker 2: I can you be a five?
- 20:02Speaker 1: So you said mother's outside linebacker. Absolutely, he's not dropping.
- 20:05Speaker 2: The coverage, not anymore. But all he is is what
- 20:09Speaker 2: he's pass rushing. Yeah, is he holding that edge like that?
- 20:13Speaker 1: You can run? You can run towards his edge? Can
- 20:15Speaker 1: you run towards mind? Absolutely not. But it's just so
- 20:19Speaker 1: like when it comes down to get a contract, like
- 20:23Speaker 1: what are you you rather be? What gets paid more?
- 20:26Speaker 2: Probably an outside linebacker might might be a little bit more.
- 20:28Speaker 1: Really your t J t J. Why is like.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Nick Boss right there? Might he might have ed who's
- 20:35Speaker 2: the highest paid edge rusher right now?
- 20:37Speaker 1: Bosa?
- 20:40Speaker 2: That's a defensive end right there. But we get classed
- 20:43Speaker 2: up in it, and there's a difference between outside linebacker
- 20:45Speaker 2: and defensive end.
- 20:46Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean for me, it's just like they're both.
- 20:48Speaker 1: I mean it's like that slot yeah right right, So
- 20:56Speaker 1: as a slot merchant, I get it.
- 20:57Speaker 2: Yeah, Like there's there's things that you can do that
- 21:00Speaker 2: like you know, if you look back at it and
- 21:01Speaker 2: you looked at a you know, whatever, whatever your bigger
- 21:04Speaker 2: receiver is, can they do the same thing?
- 21:07Speaker 1: I see?
- 21:08Speaker 2: So it just depends on your role, Like you may
- 21:10Speaker 2: be able to do it all. Some guys can't. You
- 21:13Speaker 2: can get flex to a Y or get flex to
- 21:16Speaker 2: a Z, go in and flex to a slot like
- 21:18Speaker 2: you can do whatever you need to do. Me I
- 21:22Speaker 2: can do. I can do it all and have done
- 21:23Speaker 2: it all. I can drop in the coverage and running
- 21:25Speaker 2: with a tight end. Would prefer to do so to
- 21:26Speaker 2: show the wheels I do.
- 21:28Speaker 1: I do enjoy it. Now.
- 21:29Speaker 2: Do I want to get sticky with a receiver, Absolutely not?
- 21:31Speaker 2: And do I want to be exposed in zone coverage?
- 21:34Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
- 21:35Speaker 1: So I'd rather just be a franchise tag. You'd rather be.
- 21:39Speaker 1: Franchise tag is the one that gets paid more, which
- 21:42Speaker 1: is what the d N currently.
- 21:44Speaker 2: I believe the d N for a while it was
- 21:45Speaker 2: outside linebacker.
- 21:46Speaker 1: And who's who decides that the teams?
- 21:48Speaker 2: That's a great question. I've never understood that, and I've
- 21:50Speaker 2: never had to worry about that. I've always wanted a
- 21:52Speaker 2: franchise tag and never got it. I never like, I've
- 21:55Speaker 2: never even seen free agency, just like hopefully you will never.
- 21:57Speaker 1: See free agency.
- 21:59Speaker 2: I love I love that you know the loyalty runs deep,
- 22:01Speaker 2: you know, like you didn't have to really think about it.
- 22:03Speaker 2: You know you're staying with one franchise.
- 22:06Speaker 1: I'm sure you know.
- 22:06Speaker 2: If you said, hey, I want to see what what
- 22:08Speaker 2: the open season looked like, thirty two teams will be
- 22:11Speaker 2: calling you. Thirty one other teams would be calling you.
- 22:14Speaker 1: You you stok with one? Why Why was loyalty so
- 22:16Speaker 1: important for you? I mean, I really didn't have it.
- 22:19Speaker 1: I mean'm like I said it, I didn't have a choice.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Obviously I was a you got to hear it before
- 22:23Speaker 1: you got yeah. But I think, you know, for me,
- 22:25Speaker 1: just playing on one team, that's something that I always
- 22:28Speaker 1: wanted to do. I feel like growing up as a kid,
- 22:30Speaker 1: like you never know. Obviously it's a business, you never
- 22:32Speaker 1: know what happens. But to be you know, I kind
- 22:35Speaker 1: of have your legacy. If you're lucky enough to have
- 22:37Speaker 1: one be with one team, it just sounds like the best,
- 22:41Speaker 1: the best idea. I feel like that's what most people
- 22:43Speaker 1: want to do, if the situations right, and you know,
- 22:46Speaker 1: Detroit has shown nothing but love. I'm excited. I'm super
- 22:51Speaker 1: happy to be here. The people in the building, the coaches,
- 22:54Speaker 1: coach Campbell, coach Johnson, Antoine Rendo, l my teammates, I'm
- 23:00Speaker 1: just everyone there should go all the way down to
- 23:02Speaker 1: the you know, Tim equipment guy. Everyone is just so.
- 23:06Speaker 1: They're just awesome. They've been great since I've got there.
- 23:08Speaker 1: The fans here are I think the best in the
- 23:12Speaker 1: league compared to you know what I've experienced at USC.
- 23:15Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I see is great. But there's
- 23:17Speaker 1: so much to do in l A. You got the beach,
- 23:19Speaker 1: you got Hollywood, you got actors, actresses, the Lakers, the Dodgers,
- 23:24Speaker 1: the Angels. I can go down. There's so many teams.
- 23:26Speaker 2: Like former former Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush getting his
- 23:29Speaker 2: Heisman back.
- 23:29Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. That's amazing. That's actually great because
- 23:32Speaker 1: now I see has the most hes in college football.
- 23:34Speaker 1: But is that true?
- 23:38Speaker 2: I don't think Cal has any in the last.
- 23:40Speaker 1: You guys are get there, we are Aaron Rodgers and
- 23:43Speaker 1: Jared Goff. That's fine, we got we got Kayla. But
- 23:50Speaker 1: can you claim Caleb he was there for two years?
- 23:53Speaker 1: I mean.
- 23:56Speaker 2: That's can e LSTs you claim Jane Downs? Can you
- 23:58Speaker 2: say that part? Can say?
- 24:00Speaker 1: I don't know when you.
- 24:01Speaker 2: Spend the majority of your career.
- 24:02Speaker 1: Claim Burrow?
- 24:03Speaker 2: I don't think so in my mind, Joe Joe Burrow,
- 24:06Speaker 2: Well maybe because Joe Burrow wasn't a starter at Ohio State, right.
- 24:10Speaker 1: Can Ohio State claim justin Fields? Yeah, all these dude
- 24:14Speaker 1: is transferred. It's transferported against real murky. I'm just a
- 24:17Speaker 1: little guy, so I really just looked like an outside
- 24:19Speaker 1: looking at you. I didn't transfer either. It's like, like
- 24:22Speaker 1: you can really get I feel like one year. Maybe
- 24:25Speaker 1: it's iffy if you're like just one year at the school,
- 24:26Speaker 1: but if you two years and more.
- 24:28Speaker 2: Two years or more, so if you split it down
- 24:30Speaker 2: the middle.
- 24:30Speaker 1: At least two years there, if you run away.
- 24:32Speaker 2: From the school that you felt like didn't show you
- 24:34Speaker 2: enough love, that means that you can claim the other school.
- 24:37Speaker 1: I think so, especially if you didn't play, like right
- 24:40Speaker 1: for sure, if you didn't play, but if you play,
- 24:42Speaker 1: It's like Jay dam has played out a su and
- 24:44Speaker 1: then one for three years and then dimmed for two
- 24:47Speaker 1: claim both. I feel like, but he's gonna claim where
- 24:49Speaker 1: he did better, which he was.
- 24:52Speaker 2: Still he still claim.
- 24:55Speaker 1: It's cool. Fine, it's like going.
- 24:58Speaker 2: But at the same time, like it's like sort of
- 25:02Speaker 2: if you were in high school and you said did
- 25:03Speaker 2: two years when high school went to the rife of
- 25:05Speaker 2: high school for two years, which high school do you
- 25:06Speaker 2: claim same thing to me, high one more better.
- 25:10Speaker 1: All that matters is winning.
- 25:11Speaker 2: At the end of the day, NFL is a winning business.
- 25:14Speaker 1: That's crazy.
- 25:16Speaker 2: Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, all right, So, uh, of course draft
- 25:22Speaker 2: coming up asap. I just want to know, what do
- 25:25Speaker 2: you think that Detroit Liones are picking up in the
- 25:28Speaker 2: first round? Unless because your draft class, no matter what
- 25:32Speaker 2: what round you go in, your draft class is predominantly
- 25:35Speaker 2: judged upon by your first round. What do you think
- 25:39Speaker 2: y'all doing day one?
- 25:40Speaker 1: I can't I can't tell you. I have no idea.
- 25:43Speaker 1: The needs people would say it would be receiver, edge corner.
- 25:48Speaker 1: I guess two good.
- 25:49Speaker 2: Edges in the former first round pick he was he
- 25:55Speaker 2: was solid?
- 25:57Speaker 1: Was he with the Saints Davenport? We got him, you guys, Yeah, yeah,
- 26:02Speaker 1: we just picked him up. But just that's what I'm saying, Like,
- 26:05Speaker 1: that's a solid edge anyways. But yeah, that's what you know,
- 26:07Speaker 1: that's what the people say you might need. So but
- 26:10Speaker 1: I didn't say what the people say. I want to
- 26:11Speaker 1: know what I'm not. I'm not in the dribt room.
- 26:13Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 26:13Speaker 2: I'm gonna just throw what what I think years in
- 26:17Speaker 2: my mind the Saints gonna pick up a tight end,
- 26:18Speaker 2: but realistically, the Saints have never traditionally picked up a
- 26:21Speaker 2: tight end or a quarterback in the first round, so
- 26:23Speaker 2: I know we're gonna probably pick up a officer lineman, which.
- 26:26Speaker 1: Is a whole Jimmy's gone, Jimmy, Jimmy, Yeah.
- 26:29Speaker 2: I think he's about to canoe across the uh the Arctic. Yeah,
- 26:37Speaker 2: but he's going on a four MANU pad little mission
- 26:41Speaker 2: across the Arctic.
- 26:42Speaker 1: It's wild.
- 26:43Speaker 2: And we still got Juwan Johnson and we have and
- 26:46Speaker 2: we have Taysom Hill and we have but I hear you,
- 26:49Speaker 2: but there's you know, in the first round, there's a
- 26:51Speaker 2: guy from Siriga that they swears, you.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Know the next one.
- 26:54Speaker 2: He's nice, That's what I'm saying.
- 26:56Speaker 1: He's nice. So you never know.
- 26:58Speaker 2: But in my mind, they're like, I would love for
- 27:01Speaker 2: them to snag a top two because then you put
- 27:03Speaker 2: a thirteen personnel with Taysom Hill, Juwan Johnson and this
- 27:07Speaker 2: new tight end Rock Bowers, who do you guard?
- 27:09Speaker 1: Right?
- 27:11Speaker 2: Whatever that is, They're probably gonna go off with the
- 27:13Speaker 2: lineman and I'm yeah, what else? Alignment are just.
- 27:16Speaker 1: A waste of life? Like what you mean? You need
- 27:19Speaker 1: a lie, a.
- 27:19Speaker 2: Waste of life. In the first round. In the first round.
- 27:23Speaker 2: In the first round, I want to be excited.
- 27:24Speaker 1: I want to be like, oh my god, you want
- 27:26Speaker 1: to we got a game changer you want We've never
- 27:27Speaker 1: been like, ooh, he's a game changer. You want to
- 27:29Speaker 1: be excited to win games? What's important both to be
- 27:32Speaker 1: excited one day or to win games.
- 27:33Speaker 2: I would like to be electric for the rest of
- 27:35Speaker 2: my life by winning games. Yeah, but you can find
- 27:39Speaker 2: a great office lineman in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth,
- 27:41Speaker 2: seventh round, receiver.
- 27:42Speaker 1: In the third. Facts, fourth round. Facts, come on, bro, facts,
- 27:46Speaker 1: these are these are also facts you want to you
- 27:48Speaker 1: want like a four to two guy? Huh? This this class.
- 27:52Speaker 2: Spurs you about your forty. You threw four two out?
- 27:54Speaker 1: You clean, didn't runner four two?
- 27:55Speaker 2: Okay, we're not even going to ask them what they for.
- 28:00Speaker 1: My forty was slow?
- 28:02Speaker 2: Why?
- 28:02Speaker 1: No? It was a four or five four one? Okay?
- 28:06Speaker 1: So who's faster?
- 28:07Speaker 2: You were?
- 28:07Speaker 1: Reconnens, he would tell you's faster? Okay, cool, I'll give
- 28:12Speaker 1: it to him right now. We were to raise I
- 28:14Speaker 1: think you're taking for sure if your gay speed race me,
- 28:17Speaker 1: screw the forty race me I want to see it.
- 28:19Speaker 1: I'm ready faster. If you had to raise me out,
- 28:21Speaker 1: run faster than it's like, if there's an actual competition,
- 28:25Speaker 1: I'm ready.
- 28:26Speaker 2: It's USU man. I appreciate you tapping in, Bro. I
- 28:29Speaker 2: know you got things to do. I appreciate you taking
- 28:31Speaker 2: some time sit down and and chill with your kid.
- 28:33Speaker 1: Appreciate you. You know I'm gonna have to pay it back,
- 28:35Speaker 1: pay for Bro.
- 28:36Speaker 2: I look forward to what you're going to do this
- 28:38Speaker 2: this upcoming season and you know everything beyond. Congrats again
- 28:41Speaker 2: on the contract and to many more Pro Bowls and
- 28:43Speaker 2: All pros. And I say super Bowl, but like two years,
- 28:47Speaker 2: three years, because then I'll be officially retired for sure.
- 28:49Speaker 2: After three years, I gotta be and then you know
- 28:51Speaker 2: you could have your run. I just need one, hang,
- 28:54Speaker 2: I need one play in the mornings right now.
- 28:57Speaker 1: We gotta get that. Yeah, I need that. You can
- 28:59Speaker 1: have it a couple of.
- 29:01Speaker 2: I'm on Ross, Saint Brown. I appreciate you for tuning
- 29:04Speaker 2: in and tapping in with me, giving me all these nuggets, Bro,
- 29:07Speaker 2: from All Pro to a Pro Bowler to now the
- 29:10Speaker 2: highest paid wide receiver in the NFL. Thank you for
- 29:14Speaker 2: coming and blessing the pod now. I also want to
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