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Speaker 4: Welcome into the Next Man Up. I'm your host, Brian

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Speaker 4: Corb Junior, and I'm sitting here with a year two

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Speaker 4: Welcome in and our next man up, Mike. He's saying

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Speaker 4: it so it's a good brother. Hey you doing, Bro,

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Speaker 4: Appreciate you having me and I appreciate you. Bro's it's

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Speaker 4: been dope to see you and year two well from

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Speaker 4: you yourself. Man, what has been different about year two

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Speaker 2: I think I would just say for myself, like just

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Speaker 1: Now. You know, last year I was primarily outside. This year,

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Speaker 2: So just making those adjustments to the game, because you know,

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Speaker 2: Kind of really just you know, when when they told

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was taking reps at both, studying both

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Speaker 4: It's been cool seeing you live in your truth man

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Speaker 4: just be unapologetically you brother. I appreciate you. Man. In closing,

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Speaker 4: They say your work defines who you are Monday through Friday,

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 6: Man, Every opportunity I can get to, you know, just

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Speaker 6: to the super Bowl, like my first year, Like I was,

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Speaker 6: I was super hyped about that, and you know, I

438
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Speaker 6: always knew, you know, what the fan base was like

439
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Speaker 6: and stuff like that, so I was just excited to,

440
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Speaker 6: you know, get to d C and and really get going.

441
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Speaker 6: And you know, at first it was it was a

442
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Speaker 6: little bit of a tough role, just kind of going through,

443
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Speaker 6: uh my rehab process and and everything. But I mean

444
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Speaker 6: the staff, the trainers, they did everything and just really

445
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Speaker 6: took their time, took.

446
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Speaker 5: Their time with me.

447
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Speaker 6: And I mean first first year, I really didn't expect

448
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Speaker 6: to play at all, and I end up making the

449
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Speaker 6: team and it kind of went from there.

450
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Speaker 4: It's funny out before you had said that very last sentence,

451
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Speaker 4: I was gonna ask you, like, it's wild to think,

452
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Speaker 4: knowing what we know now, what you were able to accomplish,

453
00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:51,359
Speaker 4: you sitting there being like, oh man, I might not

454
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Speaker 4: even get drafted, having that doubt, like wondering, oh man,

455
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Speaker 4: am I even good enough to get drafted in these

456
00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,320
Speaker 4: first seven rounds? When does that switch? Does it switch

457
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Speaker 4: soon as the phone gets called? Where does that confidence

458
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Speaker 4: start to come in where you stop downing yourself as

459
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Speaker 4: much and you start feeling like, Okay, I actually belong here,

460
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Speaker 4: I'm supposed to be here.

461
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Speaker 6: I think it's one of those things that I know

462
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Speaker 6: for me, it kind of came with time because there

463
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Speaker 6: was a physical adjustment period for me with that again

464
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Speaker 6: coming from the knee injury and stuff. I still had

465
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Speaker 6: a lot of doubts and I didn't really feel like

466
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Speaker 6: myself once I joined the team, and I didn't get

467
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Speaker 6: to practice, I didn't do any of the mini camps

468
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Speaker 6: or anything like that.

469
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Speaker 5: So it really did take a while for me.

470
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Speaker 6: And thankfully I had some phenomenal running backs Alfred Moore's,

471
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Speaker 6: Darrell Young. Those guys are really helping me throughout the

472
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Speaker 6: whole entire process. And honestly, the moment or the one

473
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Speaker 6: game that made me feel like all right, I belong

474
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Speaker 6: here was the one play that actually helped me make

475
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Speaker 6: the team that year, and that was our I think.

476
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Speaker 5: It was our last preseason game.

477
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Speaker 6: Against the Bucks, and Coach just threw me back there

478
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Speaker 6: on punk return. He was like, I want you to

479
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Speaker 6: go catch a couple of punts and I was like, man,

480
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Speaker 6: I ain't did this since I was in high school,

481
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Speaker 6: and I ended up I think the first one I left,

482
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Speaker 6: I kind of let just fall and roll for a

483
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Speaker 6: few yards and I kind of got cursed out about it.

484
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Speaker 5: But it is what it is.

485
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Speaker 6: And then my second opportunity, I ended up taking it

486
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Speaker 6: for a sixty nine yard touchdown and literally it was

487
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Speaker 6: so it was so weird because that was around the

488
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Speaker 6: time that I was supposed to pretty much play the

489
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Speaker 6: rest of the game, you know, being a young guy whatever.

490
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Speaker 6: I was supposed to play the rest of the game,

491
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Speaker 6: and my running back coach came to me and he

492
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Speaker 6: was like, he was like, you're done. And I was like, okay,

493
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Speaker 6: but I'm asking my teammates like what does that mean?

494
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Speaker 5: And they were like, bro, you just made the team.

495
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Speaker 6: And I was like I was like, ain't no way,

496
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Speaker 6: and they were like, bro, trust me, you just you

497
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Speaker 6: just made it off that one play and.

498
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Speaker 5: I was like this is this is crazy. And I

499
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Speaker 5: mean that was really honestly the turning point for me.

500
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Speaker 4: And when you talk about that moment where you're like, Okay,

501
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Speaker 4: this is real. Now I'm going to make this NFL roster,

502
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Speaker 4: I'm going to be on this team. Yes, that's a

503
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Speaker 4: big moment, but that's when all the work starts, right,

504
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Speaker 4: That's when everything gets going.

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Speaker 1: Man.

506
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Speaker 4: When you think back then, what was your goal at

507
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Speaker 4: that point once you had finally made the NFL, right,

508
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 4: cause that was the goal. Right. It's hard to see

509
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Speaker 4: past that until you actually do it. But now you're

510
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Speaker 4: in the NFL, now you're realizing, okay, man, not only

511
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Speaker 4: am I going to make this team, but I might

512
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Speaker 4: even have a role as my career progresses. Yeah, what

513
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Speaker 4: was your goals for yourself back then? Do you remember that?

514
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Speaker 5: Not really? Honestly, Again, like it's just me being a

515
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Speaker 5: young guy.

516
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Speaker 6: It was number one to just do whatever I can

517
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Speaker 6: to make the team. And then it was really just

518
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Speaker 6: to prove them right. And why they drafted me because

519
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Speaker 6: they knew they could have I'm sure they knew they

520
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Speaker 6: could have waited to pick me up as an undrafted

521
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Speaker 6: free agent or whatever. But the fact that you know,

522
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Speaker 6: like I said, I think I played maybe twelve games

523
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Speaker 6: my last two years, and even with that coming off

524
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Speaker 6: a knee injury, back injury, or a spinal injury, y'all

525
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Speaker 6: still decided to give me a shot.

526
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Speaker 5: And it was just the biggest thing was to just

527
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Speaker 5: prove them right.

528
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Speaker 6: And you know, I honestly knew that I still didn't

529
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Speaker 6: feel like myself at that time. I wasn't running nothing,

530
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 6: nothing about me physically felt good. Honestly, and I was

531
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Speaker 6: just really trying to grind and get myself back to

532
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Speaker 6: that version of me that they decided to draft off

533
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Speaker 6: two season ended injuries, and it took. It took, it

534
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Speaker 6: took a while. It definitely took a while. And even that,

535
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Speaker 6: even that rookie year, I mean I only did special teams.

536
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Speaker 6: I think I'm not sure how many players I even

537
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Speaker 6: got on offense, but basically just a return guy, and

538
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Speaker 6: it honestly did not go well.

539
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Speaker 5: And I ended up.

540
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Speaker 6: Getting hurt again, hurt my shoulder and had to have

541
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Speaker 6: had to go on I R and have a season

542
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Speaker 6: endo surgery, and so it was just like, all right,

543
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Speaker 6: here we go again. You know, now I gotta battle

544
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Speaker 6: this and I gotta again. I'm still trying to prove

545
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Speaker 6: like you did, y'all didn't make a mistake by drafting me.

546
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Speaker 6: So that was really the probably the biggest, uh, the

547
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Speaker 6: biggest goal was to really just get healthy and prove

548
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Speaker 6: the organization right because.

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Speaker 4: Historically it's almost unheard of for a running back that

550
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Speaker 4: has multiple injuries at alone one injury in college to

551
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Speaker 4: still get drafted, because we understand how this game goes.

552
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Speaker 4: When you do get drafted, knowing that you maybe not

553
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent, but also knowing that you have already

554
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Speaker 4: had to deal with two bad injuries. I got to

555
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Speaker 4: imagine a young Chris Thompson is just like, dude, listen,

556
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Speaker 4: I don't ever want to get injured again. I don't

557
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Speaker 4: ever want to see an injury while I'm in the NFL.

558
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Speaker 4: I have to imagine that's where your mindset was at,

559
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Speaker 4: right it.

560
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Speaker 6: Was, and I will tell you from experience that is

561
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Speaker 6: they that is the worst mindset you can ever ever

562
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Speaker 6: have playing football, because if you play ball with that mindset,

563
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Speaker 6: you're absolutely gonna get hurt again. And you know that

564
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Speaker 6: was kind of one of those things too that as

565
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Speaker 6: I got older, I started realizing the power of the

566
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Speaker 6: mind and what you say, what you think, is how

567
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Speaker 6: you're going to react and play and practice. And if

568
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Speaker 6: I'm out there trying to play injury free, something some

569
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Speaker 6: kind of freak accident or whatever is gonna happen. And

570
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Speaker 6: you know, I think, again that was me being a

571
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Speaker 6: young guy like I gotta stay healthy, I gotta prove

572
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Speaker 6: him right.

573
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Speaker 5: All of that was actually having like a little small.

574
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Speaker 6: Freak accidents happened that hit my rookie year that just

575
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 6: caused me to have my shoulder injuries seemed like it

576
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 6: seemed like it was nothing. And honestly, I didn't even

577
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Speaker 6: tell my coaches until like after the game what happened.

578
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Speaker 6: I just continue to play through it. And it was

579
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Speaker 6: because I was one just in fear that, look, I

580
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 6: might get cut because they.

581
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 5: Already drafted me and I wasn't ready.

582
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 6: Now I get here and I'm still not ready to play,

583
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Speaker 6: and I honestly was trying to just just grind it

584
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 6: out for a while until I really couldn't fight it anymore.

585
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 6: But yeah, you cannot go into playing, especially football, playing

586
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 6: the game of football with that, with that type mindset,

587
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 6: because it's not gonna end well.

588
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Speaker 4: When you're carrying that, it's like it's haunting you, right,

589
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 4: It's like your biggest fear. Probably, so when you do

590
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 4: suffer that injury rookie year and then honestly deal with

591
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 4: injuries pretty much your whole career, Man, how do you

592
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 4: deal with that mentally? Because that has to be the

593
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 4: most deflating thing. Again, it's your biggest fear and now

594
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 4: you're facing it, now you're in it in real time. Man.

595
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 4: What was it like dealing with that?

596
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 5: Oh? Man? It was Uh, it was. It was tough.

597
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 6: It was tough, and you know it was of what

598
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 6: seven years I was on the team, I was healthy

599
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 6: for once.

600
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 5: I played one sixteen game season, and.

601
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:21,959
Speaker 6: That was very frustrating because again, like it's just little

602
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 6: freak stuff happening.

603
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 5: And I can remember every injury that I had.

604
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 6: Because because it was just so like it was just tough.

605
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 6: I'll just say that it was just tough. And literally

606
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 6: my shoulder. I did my shoulder twice. I remember both

607
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 6: plays that that happened. I mean, obviously my ankle, and

608
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Speaker 6: I think I probably took my ankle injury probably the

609
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 6: worst because I was I would say at that time,

610
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Speaker 6: like I'm literally in the prime of my career. I

611
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 6: was twenty six years old as a backup. I wasn't

612
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 6: even starting. I think I was top five in all

613
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 6: purpose yards in the league and everything, and it was

614
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 6: just again, a freak accident happening. A guy chasing Kirk

615
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Speaker 6: Cousins and just happened to roll into my ankle while

616
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 6: I got my back turned and I'm blocking, and and

617
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Speaker 6: it's like, man, can I can I ever get a break?

618
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 5: And that was the most frustrating part because out.

619
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Speaker 6: Of all that time there, It's like the fans only

620
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 6: got a glimpse of what I could be and they

621
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 6: fell in love with that, which is why I well

622
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 6: forever love that fan base, because I mean they they

623
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 6: showed me love like no other, and I never fully

624
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 6: gave them the real version of They saw that for

625
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 6: like eight games and twenty seventeen of like, all right,

626
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 6: that's the Florida State guy that we drafted. But you know,

627
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 6: it was always everything was always like short lived.

628
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Speaker 5: I mean even the year after that.

629
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Speaker 6: I mean, we brought Adrian Peterson in and that first

630
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 6: game me and him we had against Arizona, we had

631
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Speaker 6: I think we had like two hundred and almost three

632
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Speaker 6: hundred total yards.

633
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Speaker 5: Me and him just combined that game and I was like,

634
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 5: all right, I'm bad. And then it just just went

635
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 5: downhill from there.

636
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 6: It got broken ribs and just all kinds of stuff happening,

637
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 6: and I'm like, can I ever get a break? But

638
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 6: you know, I look back on it now and I'm like,

639
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 6: I guess that was just kind of part of my journey,

640
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 6: and it's just a story that I have that I

641
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 6: can tell and you know, be able to speak to

642
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 6: kids and just basically give them that story of me

643
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 6: just continuing to fight and never never giving up. And

644
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 6: you know, I think the biggest part of that is

645
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 6: finding and my running back coach was on me about

646
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 6: this all the time, is.

647
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 5: Being great at what makes you you.

648
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 6: Don't try to be anybody else, don't try to don't

649
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 6: try to do too much. Figure out what it is

650
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 6: that you do well, and be great at that. And

651
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 6: once I truly like tapped into that, I realized that

652
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 6: what I am and what I brought to the football team,

653
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 6: what I could bring to the organization, even just as

654
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 6: a person, is hard to find.

655
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Speaker 5: And I still even talk.

656
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 6: To my running back coach, coach Jordan, and he's like,

657
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 6: every time I talk to him, he like, man, I'm

658
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 6: still trying to find a Chris Thompson.

659
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 5: And I even tell my son about it, and he like,

660
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 5: what does he mean?

661
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 6: And I just kind of break it down to him

662
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 6: on what he means by that, and I'm like, I,

663
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 6: you know, I figured out what it was about me

664
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,959
Speaker 6: that made me who I am and I felt like

665
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 6: I really truly tapped into that. And again, injuries caused

666
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 6: me not to what a reason that I, you know,

667
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 6: couldn't consistently show that. But that was one of the

668
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 6: things that kept me around as well, because you don't

669
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 6: see guys staying on the team for seven years and

670
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 6: was hurt for six of them. But when you bring

671
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 6: something special, they're gonna keep you around and continue to

672
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 6: trust and believe in.

673
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 4: And I appreciate that insight so much. And that's why

674
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 4: I love being able to talk to the legends because

675
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 4: I mean this. I mean, you seen what's happened to

676
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 4: our current commanders, right. There's injuries across the board, and

677
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 4: a lot of times you're not prepared for that. A

678
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 4: lot of times you don't know how to deal with

679
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 4: those things because like you said, it haunts you. It

680
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 4: can get very very dark. And even whils I'm talking

681
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 4: to you now and you took like a big sigh

682
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 4: and talked about it, I don't feel like the fans

683
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 4: got the scene. Yeah, do you ever shake that? Man?

684
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 4: Does it still haunt you to this day? Do you

685
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 4: have regrets? I mean, you can't control being injured, right,

686
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,239
Speaker 4: but like you said, there are still positives. A man

687
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 4: plays seventy years for an organization. Like you said, even

688
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 4: though you're injured for six that kept you around for

689
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 4: a reason. That's a very positive outlook to have after

690
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 4: the fact, but when you're in it, when you're living it,

691
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 4: I gotta imagine, man, it's really really tough to ever

692
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 4: shake that that monkey, that monster on your back.

693
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's tough.

694
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 6: It's tough, and I mean I still my wife will

695
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 6: tell you I still deal with it at home.

696
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 4: And.

697
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 7: She she brings up the years pretty often and she knows, like,

698
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 7: I love it, but I have a limit with how

699
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 7: much I want to talk about it because it's still

700
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 7: you know, it's still like.

701
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 6: Hurts me because I even look at, you know, the

702
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 6: bigger picture of things, obviously, like I played football my

703
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 6: whole life because I love it, but it also helped,

704
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 6: you know, me and my family financially very well. And

705
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 6: it's kind of one of those things where because I

706
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 6: didn't you know, I wasn't available a lot, and these

707
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 6: injuries pretty much cut my career short.

708
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 5: You know, it affected it affected my pockets as well.

709
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 6: And I think that's the part too that hurts that

710
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 6: I don't like to where I don't like to talk

711
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 6: about it a lot because it's like.

712
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 5: I there was.

713
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 6: A lot that was left out there, and even going

714
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 6: back to that seventeen season, Like you know, for me,

715
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 6: it's not it's it's never been about the money, but

716
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 6: it's like I wanted to experience what it was like

717
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 6: to maybe have even even have the chance of being

718
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 6: talked about making a making a Pro Bowl and things

719
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 6: like that, and it was like that was that was that.

720
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 5: Potentially that year, you know what I'm saying, And it

721
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 5: was just like boom, that is just over. It's just

722
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 5: over and done with. So it's it's still tough. And

723
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 5: even you know, my friends and stuff here, they're always.

724
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 6: Like, man, you you walk around and you just act

725
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 6: like you aren't who you are, and I'm like, partly,

726
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 6: you know, that's me, that's just that's just who I am.

727
00:35:55,440 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 5: But it's also like, you know, I tell and.

728
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 6: Stuff like I don't I don't feel like I failed,

729
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 6: but I I feel like I still didn't.

730
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 5: I still wasn't able to give or show my all.

731
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 5: And that part right there is what like honestly still

732
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 5: still bothers me.

733
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 4: And you're human. You're allowed to have those real moments,

734
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 4: and I appreciate you being transparent and sharing it because again,

735
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 4: there's going to be NFL players for years and years

736
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 4: to come. That have to go through the same type

737
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 4: things that have delt with injury. We see it all

738
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 4: the time, and you were really ahead of your time,

739
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 4: like you were really that like real like embodiment of

740
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 4: that change of pace back, that third down back. And

741
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 4: I know it doesn't always feel like it, but I

742
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 4: hope that this interview, when you see the comments and

743
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 4: people showing you love, that you do realize you were

744
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 4: still able to accomplish so much more than other people. Right,

745
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 4: Like the average lifespan for running back I think three

746
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 4: or four years in the NFL. You got eight of them, right,

747
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 4: seven of them with the same franchise.

748
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: Man.

749
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 4: So I hope you do find, you know, peace and

750
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 4: solace the fact that you still accomplished so much and

751
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 4: you are so revered out here. I know it might

752
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 4: not always feel like it because you're out in Jacksonville

753
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 4: right now, but I hope when you do come to

754
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 4: the DMV and you come around your Burgundy and Gold family,

755
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 4: that you do feel that and feel that value because again,

756
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 4: you still were able to accomplish a lot. But I

757
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 4: know that's easier said than done for me, because we

758
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 4: all want to do more. Right. It's funny you mentioned ALFREDS. Morris.

759
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 4: We had him on the show not too long ago,

760
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 4: and he broke down in tears because even him, somebody

761
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 4: who would accomplished a lot as well, didn't feel like

762
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 4: he had done enough, didn't know what his identity would

763
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 4: be like after the game. Man, So like, I understand

764
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,959
Speaker 4: how tough that is and how has it been being

765
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 4: a retired running back, Because it's hard when you carry

766
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 4: those things. You feel like you got unfinished business, like

767
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 4: you let food on your plate, right, and now you're

768
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 4: going to walk around with that for the rest of

769
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 4: your life because now you're retired. Now you're not going

770
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 4: back on that field no more. Man, has that been

771
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 4: tough to deal with? And how have you found ways

772
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 4: to just move forward in your life?

773
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 5: I would say my first one or two years.

774
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 6: Out, I couldn't even watch football and.

775
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 5: That was tough because my son, I mean, he lives.

776
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 6: And he eats and breeze football like he's just that's

777
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 6: all he wants to do. And he just used to

778
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 6: that did you see this?

779
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 5: Did you see that? Did you?

780
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 6: And I'm like, no, I didn't see it, and I

781
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 6: can't you know, I couldn't tell him like I don't, right,

782
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 6: now I really don't like watching football because it hurt

783
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 6: to watch it, and I would say probably like last year,

784
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 6: I really started to get over that and then I

785
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 6: was like, I don't even want to go back anymore.

786
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 5: I don't miss it.

787
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 6: I'm at that point now where I'm like, I do

788
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 6: not miss at all, just playing, like I miss being

789
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 6: around the guys in the locker room and stuff like that,

790
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 6: but the rest of it, I do not miss it

791
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 6: at all.

792
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 5: And so now I'm watching I'm watching ball a lot more.

793
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 6: Me and him, you know, College NFL, like Saturdays and

794
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 6: Sundays is just football on and going on pretty much

795
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 6: all day, and me and him just sitting down and

796
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 6: having conversations and stuff about certain things.

797
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 5: And because he.

798
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 6: Plays quarterbacks, so I got to kind of help him

799
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 6: break down the game in a totally different way. But

800
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 6: it's I've gotten over that part now, and then what

801
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 6: really kind of helps me get through now is.

802
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 5: Just being dad.

803
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 6: Just being involved like heavily in my kids' lives and stuff.

804
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 6: And again, like my son playing football, I'm at his

805
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 6: practices and stuff every day, so I'm still I'm still

806
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 6: involved in it. It's just the physical part of it.

807
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 6: You know, I that's the part I don't miss at all,

808
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 6: and so I'm still involved with him with that and

809
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 6: my daughter with gymnastics and stuff. We're at gymnastics practice

810
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 6: pretty every other day and so that's kind of been

811
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 6: helping me get through it. And actually lately I've been

812
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:34,439
Speaker 6: just trying to be a little more active and been

813
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 6: kind of sort of getting back into my like level

814
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 6: of football training that I used to kind of do

815
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 6: when I was prepping myself, like during the off season

816
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 6: and everything, and that has.

817
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 5: Been helping me. Helping me as well. Where I'm you know.

818
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 6: Probably an hour and a half two hours worth of

819
00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 6: work field on field and then weight room stuff, and

820
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,919
Speaker 6: that's kind of been that's kind of been helping me too.

821
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 6: And although I'm dealing with a lot of some physical

822
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 6: injuries and issues or whatever from my playing days, I

823
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 6: still I just kind of be smart with it.

824
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 5: But that has been helping me as well. And then

825
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 5: I just newly stepped into.

826
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 6: Training guys and specifically trying to focus on like helping

827
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 6: training running backs and stuff, and that's this past Sunday

828
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 6: was like my first session that I had, and I mean, man,

829
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 6: I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

830
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 4: That is that is just so great to hear, man.

831
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 4: It's great to hear that you found ways to heal.

832
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 4: It's great to know that you have been able to

833
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 4: lean on your kids, your family, you know, career pivots,

834
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 4: to be able to get past it, because so many

835
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 4: times people do not get past it. So many times

836
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 4: people do not find ways to heal. And it sounds

837
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 4: like you're healing. I'm just so happy for you, man,

838
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,959
Speaker 4: I'm so happy. I can't wait to see and watch

839
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 4: you with the training and just continue to develop and

840
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 4: you know, continue your life, man, because you have so

841
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 4: much to live for. And I think it's really special

842
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 4: that you've been founding ways to get back to the game,

843
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 4: whether it's through your son, you know, the future of

844
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 4: the league, or just helping other kids and other futures

845
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 4: of the league be able to hone their skills. Chris

846
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,479
Speaker 4: and closing, when you look back, when the fans look back,

847
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 4: when your kids look back. How do you want Chris

848
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 4: Thompson to be remembered? What do you want Chris Thompson's

849
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 4: legacy to be when it's all said and done.

850
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 5: Oh, I think for me, the biggest thing has always been.

851
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 6: How How did I make you feel? And that's the

852
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 6: part that I think about all the time, is at

853
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 6: some point there's gonna be I mean, every year, there's

854
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 6: going to be new guys, new guys coming to organization.

855
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 6: You're gonna fall and as fans, you're gonna fall in

856
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 6: love with new players.

857
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,760
Speaker 5: I mean, I might be one of the biggest fans

858
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 5: of our rookie running back right now, like the stuff

859
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 5: I saw in college, and he didn't again, like me,

860
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 5: he didn't even play a lot. He didn't have a

861
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 5: lot of you know, a lot of downs of football

862
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 5: played in college and everything. And I mean, he's out

863
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 5: there killing it right now. But it's just.

864
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 6: I always wanted to treat everybody well and treat everybody

865
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 6: with respect, and that was one of the biggest things

866
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 6: for me. And I didn't care, you know, I was

867
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 6: one of those guys. I didn't care who you were.

868
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 6: I didn't care if you were the owner, I didn't

869
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 6: care if you were the janitor. I didn't care about

870
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 6: any of that. I'm gonna speak to you and talk

871
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 6: to you and have the same level respect for you,

872
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 6: regardless of who you are, what your job is. And

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Speaker 6: that was the most important. That's that has always really

874
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Speaker 6: been the most important.

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Speaker 5: Thing for me.

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Speaker 6: And I just got to say shouts out to my

877
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Speaker 6: wife too, because and this goes back to one of

878
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 6: violated questions, but she really helped me through this process mentally,

879
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 6: like more than I could even more than I can

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Speaker 6: even explain, and more than I can even thank her.

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Speaker 6: But she was also one of those people that always

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Speaker 6: like reminded me because even for a while I didn't

883
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Speaker 6: I didn't want to even.

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Speaker 5: Go back to Washington.

885
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Speaker 6: I would decline visits all the time, like, oh, I

886
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Speaker 6: can't make it. I can't make it because I got this,

887
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 6: this and that going on, and I literally had nothing

888
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 6: going on. And she was like, why why these people,

889
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Speaker 6: these people love you.

890
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 5: What are you doing. You're just here, You're sitting at home,

891
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 5: You're not doing anything. There's no reason why.

892
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Speaker 6: But it was again, I had to get out of

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Speaker 6: my own way and I had to kind of get

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Speaker 6: over that that pain.

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Speaker 5: And you know, she helped me. She helped me with

896
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Speaker 5: that big time.

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Speaker 6: And even you know, the whole legend of the game

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Speaker 6: and everything last year, like even with that, I almost

899
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Speaker 6: fought back with that too because I was still you know,

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Speaker 6: just kind of I still kind of had that feeling,

901
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 6: and she was she she really she really pushed me

902
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 6: and and I just had to shout her out for that.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, outside of what I did on the field,

904
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Speaker 6: I just always wanted people to remember me for how

905
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Speaker 6: they felt when when we met each other, even if

906
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 6: I just signed an autograph, like what, you know, hopefully I.

907
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Speaker 5: Just made you feel good. And even in that.

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Speaker 4: Small moment, man may just shout out to Wifey, shout

909
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 4: out to all those people that are just in our

910
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Speaker 4: lives that help us get through. You know, a lot

911
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,919
Speaker 4: of times people just focus on the person, the star,

912
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 4: the athlete, but don't realize how much help we need.

913
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 4: You know, our wives go through so much while we

914
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 4: trace this greatness and trying to do things that nobody's

915
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 4: ever accomplished in our families, and they have to carry

916
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 4: so much weight. So definitely wanted to make sure I

917
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 4: acknowledge that man, shout out to Wifey. And it's so

918
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 4: crazy you mentioned these things because I was just talking

919
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 4: to a good friend of mine about social anxiety and like,

920
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 4: you know, having those moments where when you're when you

921
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 4: have that anxiety where you're like, oh, man, I don't

922
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 4: even want to show up because you're thinking of all

923
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 4: the things that could go wrong, and a lot of it. No,

924
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 4: there's no logic base behind it, but that comes from trauma,

925
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 4: that comes from going through things. So no, that's okay.

926
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Speaker 4: But also know Chris, that this is your home, brother,

927
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 4: like this is your home, and I'm sure you felt

928
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Speaker 4: that when you did the Legend of the Game. But

929
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Speaker 4: I know how anxiety is, man. It creeps up at

930
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 4: times you don't even expect it, even when you think

931
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Speaker 4: you passed it. And I just want you to know.

932
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Speaker 4: I want you to think when you do have that

933
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 4: anxiety next time, it's not for you to pull up

934
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 4: to the DMV. Know that you are going to be

935
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 4: amongst family. You're going to be amongst people that love

936
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Speaker 4: you and value not just what you did on the field,

937
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 4: but for all those things you mentioned, The way you

938
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 4: treated people, the way you made people feel, the way

939
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Speaker 4: you spoke, those are the things that truly matter, Chris Man.

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00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 4: We just appreciate you so much for your honesty man,

941
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,959
Speaker 4: for your vulnerability, and just for sharing that story because

942
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 4: so many people are going through the things you're going through,

943
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 4: whether they're athletes or not. In real time. Chris, so

944
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 4: thank you so much, and again I gotta say it again. Brother,

945
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 4: Just know here in the DMV with the burgundy and gold,

946
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 4: you always got a spot in our hearts. Man, you

947
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:43,879
Speaker 4: always got love and you always have a home here.

948
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 4: So don't be a stranger. We want you to pull

949
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 4: up pretty soon. Man. I want you to pull up

950
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 4: sitting next to me in this studio, in this chair

951
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 4: out here, brother, because that nostalgia does something for us. Man,

952
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 4: and you deserve to bask in all of your greatness.

953
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 4: Even if it wasn't what you necessarily expected, it still

954
00:47:59,160 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 4: was greatness.

955
00:47:59,680 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 5: Brother.

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00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 4: We appreciate you so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 5: Thank you all right, I appreciate you. Man.

959
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 4: Hey, Chris man, bless you, bro. Command this family on

960
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Speaker 4: Next Man Up. Chris Thompson. Seven years in Washington, eight

961
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Speaker 4: year career and he's just getting started in life. Baby.

962
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Speaker 4: We appreciate you, man, Thank you, command this family. We

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Speaker 4: hope you enjoyed this episode of Next Man Up. Remember

964
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972
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