Speaker 1: Drafted as a production of tree Fort Media, Clutched Sports
Speaker 1: Group and I Heart Radio. We're so excited and we
Speaker 1: cannot wait to speak to later when you're in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, welcome back to Drafted. In this episode, we'll
Speaker 1: take an exclusive look at the final forty eight hours
Speaker 1: of our four first round hopefuls, McKay, Beckton, Chase Young,
Speaker 1: Levisca Chenault, and Jeff Okuda. We're going inside the moments
Speaker 1: before the Polish TV appearances and rehearsed interviews, inside their lives,
Speaker 1: and into their homes as they experience what they hope
Speaker 1: is their last two days before becoming professional football players. Atlanta,
Speaker 1: trying to trade up, the tits, trying to trade back.
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, I really don't know, because
Speaker 1: you've already controlled everything. Yea. Enjoy the ride, man, Yeah
Speaker 1: for sure, coach, you're calling me man. Their dreams of success,
Speaker 1: super Bowl rings, pro Bowl selections, multimillion dollar contracts that
Speaker 1: will all come later. Right now, their only goal is
Speaker 1: getting picked as high as possible. Okay, we go, Grandpa.
Speaker 1: I really don't With a draft only two days away,
Speaker 1: the pressure on every player intensifies. I think the pressure
Speaker 1: of any first round pick, A lot of times come
Speaker 1: from within within their circles, within their family setting, within
Speaker 1: their mindset of comparisons of those who are in the
Speaker 1: draft process with them, and so I think that's self
Speaker 1: inflicted pressure. Rich Paul had of Clutch Sports on some
Speaker 1: of the challenges facing all the players in the draft,
Speaker 1: and especially these four highly touted athletes. When we try
Speaker 1: to explain I tried to explain it to every guy
Speaker 1: being drafted. There can only be one team to take you.
Speaker 1: When you get there. The process of proving yourself no
Speaker 1: matter where you're going to draft start saw all over again.
Speaker 1: And most importantly, you have an opportunity and what you
Speaker 1: do with that opportunity is up to you. The difference
Speaker 1: is prior to all other times that you were in
Speaker 1: this position in terms of a new environment coming from
Speaker 1: Uni league to middle school, to high school to college.
Speaker 1: The difference in this situation is you're now pro, and
Speaker 1: when you're pro, there's a ton of expectation that comes
Speaker 1: along with it. Former Louisville offensive tackle McKay Beckton's feeling
Speaker 1: the stress of such high expectations and it's starting to
Speaker 1: show in some unexpected ways. I'm just saying why you
Speaker 1: can't use that one day? I gotta walk all way
Speaker 1: to the moon. Come on, it's a charger right here.
Speaker 1: It does the same thing we got. Thank you said
Speaker 1: keep that phone. That's why I got the box too.
Speaker 1: Even something is mundane as a phone charger can reveal
Speaker 1: the apprehension these athletes face with tens of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars on the line. Oh, Colin heard, Colin heard? I
Speaker 1: mean this in this top five? How risk proce? Wait?
Speaker 1: What do that mean? HW? Risk prospect? What do that mean? Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm terrible. Dang dang. It's because being chosen as a
Speaker 1: high pick is about a lot more than pride and achievement.
Speaker 1: The financial difference between the first and last picks of
Speaker 1: round one is over twenty five million dollars. Falling even
Speaker 1: five spots at the top from number one to number
Speaker 1: six will cost a player ten million bucks. That's a
Speaker 1: heavy burden for anyone, let a own a twenty one
Speaker 1: year old. They told on a documentary on this is
Speaker 1: dumb though for like doing this right now. I just
Speaker 1: want to get drafted. All this extra stuff it's just
Speaker 1: uncalled for. Seriously, this is Simone Beckton McKay's mom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm saying it like it's easy. I don't understand she
Speaker 1: was tolerant. Yeah I did. Yeah, it's telling you definitely
Speaker 1: love the damn mm hmm. I'm get because of me,
Speaker 1: because it's you, because I'm I just wanted to face.
Speaker 1: That's Sarah Walker, McKay's former academic counselor at Louisville, checking
Speaker 1: in on how he's holding up as the big day arrives.
Speaker 1: I don't want to check up, yawn, but I do
Speaker 1: not have the Yeah I don't. I'm literally you're gonna
Speaker 1: laugh for I like already like here like already, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, already. Oh I'm going to bed. The bond
Speaker 1: between an athlete like McKay and the people who helped
Speaker 1: him grow and succeed can be extremely close, thanks to
Speaker 1: years of working together towards their shared goals, graduating with
Speaker 1: a degree and getting to the NFL. Thinking about all
Speaker 1: the days when you were displaying ye, I don't want
Speaker 1: to do this. I don't want to football, And I
Speaker 1: was like, so, what, like, how are they gonna work?
Speaker 1: Like are they? Before? No, we we got like they
Speaker 1: gave us like cameras to like they give us like
Speaker 1: I phones and like they're gonna call the I phone
Speaker 1: and then we're just gonna be tuned in. And whenever
Speaker 1: I get picked, they're gonna put the camera on me,
Speaker 1: and I just I gonna go hmm. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I got this, I got this. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be of shirts or like over here. I
Speaker 1: got you. Okay, Well, I don't want to keep you,
Speaker 1: but I feel I'm super excited. Thank you, and um,
Speaker 1: I will not send you a finding. All right, all right, hey,
Speaker 1: all right, we're talking about media safety because you can buy.
Speaker 1: I don't care, honestly, I really don't. I don't care
Speaker 1: who haven't paying me. I don't care. Well, I go, Grandpa.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. M Former Ohio State defensive lineman
Speaker 1: Chase Young, another presumed top pick, deals with the same pressure,
Speaker 1: you know, And I'm like, it's a Bruce optimistic two
Speaker 1: one for the one for the dude. Yeah, he's hitting
Speaker 1: the weights to work out some pre draft. Jenner's no good.
Speaker 1: I come to you because you did tell me he
Speaker 1: said you're going to locker room talk about phones. Who
Speaker 1: was like, if you're in the locker room and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be you on your phone. Okay, so he's now
Speaker 1: I'm just drugging h m hm up three h four,
Speaker 1: uh more, one more, one more, let go. He was saying,
Speaker 1: you're go in the locker room. He telling me, I
Speaker 1: stopping my Maybe it's just like, don't worry about nothing else,
Speaker 1: focus on football, said, and take care of you for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life. He said, You're on your phone.
Speaker 1: He gon me, in the league too long, You're gonna
Speaker 1: locker room on your phone. He's just saying, like, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna in, just focus on everything else basically on
Speaker 1: your phone or like just on your like type ship
Speaker 1: you guys be in the league. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but if you're going there, your football right. Why. Even
Speaker 1: someone is seemingly unassailable as Chase, arguably the most dominant
Speaker 1: defensive player in college this past season, and someone whose
Speaker 1: former teammates described as a cool, laid back guy, even
Speaker 1: he finds himself mentally struggle with his typical workout as
Speaker 1: the draft nears and the pressure intensifies, making sure though
Speaker 1: that um keeping it locked up even when I sit down,
Speaker 1: no about how fast it's alway I'm gone, instead of
Speaker 1: doing yeah when you count count wa wa two because
Speaker 1: it funk out my mind said, and I'm sorry because
Speaker 1: you I was doing that. Nah. I'm just saying with
Speaker 1: these johnps, I don't like hearing six teams. I like,
Speaker 1: why why two? So many? Right? They said, think this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the drafts never ending scrutiny can unnerve any prospect, and
Speaker 1: with newfound millions coming their way, these rookies suddenly faced
Speaker 1: never ending financial and business propositions on top of the
Speaker 1: football stress. If I know you've heard probably some of
Speaker 1: the horror stories of rumors that go on in this
Speaker 1: business to the amount of debt that these players get
Speaker 1: in and uh, the rules that are being broken before
Speaker 1: they even get into league. Clutch Sports Group agent to
Speaker 1: Marius Bilbo, this is a very transactional business. The word agent.
Speaker 1: And I tell all my clients. If I say real
Speaker 1: estate agent, I'm here to sell your home. You know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make me a bad person, but I'm here
Speaker 1: to sell your home. If I say insurance agent, I'm
Speaker 1: here to sell your insurance package. Prem get my percentage
Speaker 1: and move on. And it's the same thing with NFL agents.
Speaker 1: I saw so many agents from baseball and football come
Speaker 1: in and one thing I knew they couldn't do. It
Speaker 1: couldn't relate to me. They only cared about the sport.
Speaker 1: They never asked a question of what if it doesn't
Speaker 1: get you. The multimillion dollar contract are set you up
Speaker 1: for life, and that was what I was really intrigued by.
Speaker 1: I played for a couple of years, went out to
Speaker 1: Arizona and Dennis Green was there, had a chance to
Speaker 1: build some friendships with an Kwan Bowden watch Larry Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: a close in person. Was released from them, went to
Speaker 1: Dallas under Bill Parcels. I was actually the third quarterback
Speaker 1: behind bledso Romo, and then I was running scout team
Speaker 1: quarterback getting chased by the markets where and those guys
Speaker 1: all the time. Roy Williams, so I saw a lot
Speaker 1: in my football career. Um was always business minded and
Speaker 1: that's what I did for myself. I always had a
Speaker 1: passion for sports, but I knew it would end, you know,
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to help a professional athlete get in
Speaker 1: the league, right, that's the easy part. But who wants
Speaker 1: to help them get out when it's over? That's the
Speaker 1: hard part. And I only hope that these guys that
Speaker 1: signed me can look beyond the agent and get inspiration
Speaker 1: as a professional. You know, you meet a guy like
Speaker 1: Leviska and you hear the stories the dress and while
Speaker 1: they were grown out, you meet his mom, Annie, who
Speaker 1: was a college basketball player, and you know how she's
Speaker 1: you know, fault to raise her sons while keeping her
Speaker 1: husband's memory alive. And you know, you can see it
Speaker 1: in his eyes. You can see that he's he's passionate,
Speaker 1: but you can see there's something there that's that's still hurting,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, you know that a
Speaker 1: young boy who's played football wants to see his father there. Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't had no dream at all. And that's Levisca
Speaker 1: Channelt wide receiver from the University of Colorado, another first
Speaker 1: round hopeful. Now, I really had no dreams playing it
Speaker 1: any sports. To the others, it was not until I
Speaker 1: got got around it and I started doing it, and
Speaker 1: I started like just overcoming obstacles and just overcoming just
Speaker 1: you know, the hard times and just realizing like basically,
Speaker 1: I'm built for this. And then of course I couldn't
Speaker 1: play basketball because of my hand in ninth grade, because
Speaker 1: I really was gonna play basketball when I got two older,
Speaker 1: I want to play basketball. I don't want to play football.
Speaker 1: So I was gonna play basketball. But my hair and
Speaker 1: length bread So yeah. The Dinesoto, Texas high school basketball
Speaker 1: coach had a rule about no long hair, and Laviska
Speaker 1: had grown his signature dreadlocks as a way to honor
Speaker 1: his deceased father. Got the dress. It was like a
Speaker 1: little bit aufterwards when I realized and you know, just
Speaker 1: thought about it, and I was like, yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: I shouldn't come my hair not only does it like
Speaker 1: represent something, and also like it's just like part of
Speaker 1: my fashion. So I love my hair. When Laviska heard
Speaker 1: the no longer hair rule, his mind was made up.
Speaker 1: His basketball career was over. Instead, he focused on football,
Speaker 1: but that path was far from a straight trajectory. Here's
Speaker 1: Leavisca with his family together in a house outside of Dallas,
Speaker 1: trying to sort out exactly how he got to this moment,
Speaker 1: only days away from the NFL. Then firstman year use
Speaker 1: the varsity kicker, Well, hello, hello, I didn't kick in too,
Speaker 1: but I went on varsity, you know. No, I was
Speaker 1: kicking it and punning for my team. And then when
Speaker 1: he played in middle school, well he really showed out
Speaker 1: Pop Warner. I wasn't running to the super Bowl two
Speaker 1: years in the row. I was like a blull bag
Speaker 1: running back. Yeah he was tough. One time I got
Speaker 1: Tim Bold think you was boy. You remember I grabbed
Speaker 1: he dragged out Tim boys one time. They were never
Speaker 1: They didn't know that about level. He dropped dragging all
Speaker 1: the way to the end zone from like five yards away.
Speaker 1: They could even tap on him. So he's been running
Speaker 1: over right, So I saw it him. So when you
Speaker 1: went to that stage where a Nang grading all this stuff,
Speaker 1: I saw you. I'm already owen that trampoline bar Junior
Speaker 1: Calves boom jumping out the house jump down. Strength coaches
Speaker 1: aren't known to use the leaping off the roof onto
Speaker 1: a trampoline method, so it's difficult to gauge with impact
Speaker 1: that had on developing Leavisca's thirty plus inch vertical. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. Yeah, we definitely, I think kind of
Speaker 1: jump on the roof jump. You know, my cousins came
Speaker 1: and got on the trampoline. We were small in so
Speaker 1: when we got in there, we jumped on fine jump
Speaker 1: next or next thing, I don't know. Maybe at one time,
Speaker 1: I just kept following my leg like you're stuck in up.
Speaker 1: Remember when policies to get up there and we spread award.
Speaker 1: He started just like I used to be scared of
Speaker 1: bass ye. I was trying to see here one tongue.
Speaker 1: And now remember when we was trying to do conflict.
Speaker 1: I love I love when we play football and all
Speaker 1: the time. The trampoline is only part of the story.
Speaker 1: But I was on Lang grade B team. I just
Speaker 1: started parents season I was ten grade. Was oh my god,
Speaker 1: I had one touchdown. I think it wasn't until telling
Speaker 1: It was until like I was doing scout team against
Speaker 1: varsity and I'm out there like bawling against these like
Speaker 1: way older than like two years older than me, so
Speaker 1: and they're saying, like you're gonna be good, You're gonna
Speaker 1: be good. So that's when I really started. Was like okay,
Speaker 1: so like tenth eleven grade back the time. He talking
Speaker 1: about when he stored Scott and I told him abuse
Speaker 1: to look, who better than me? That's why I always
Speaker 1: say I'm something like you need. That's why they called
Speaker 1: me magic. But who better than me? That's Lepisca's mom,
Speaker 1: Annie A k A. Magic. She was a star basketball
Speaker 1: player at the University of Dubuque, and she passed athleticism
Speaker 1: and a love of sports to her kids, along with
Speaker 1: the mindset to win. He had to go out there
Speaker 1: and he had to pause. You don' remember that time
Speaker 1: we had and you was a little down. I remember
Speaker 1: clar today. I said, son, you gotta keep your head up,
Speaker 1: you gotta keep running. Who better than you? It's somebody
Speaker 1: doing something that you think, Wow, that's that's good. Not
Speaker 1: what they're doing. If they don't want to show you,
Speaker 1: just take notes. So that's what I said. You don't
Speaker 1: know when that speech who better than Me? I mean,
Speaker 1: you didn't say a lot. I don't remember the exagg speech.
Speaker 1: These ideas and her speeches created a certain culture within
Speaker 1: the Chanault household. We would compete in so many games,
Speaker 1: like in the house far as, like girls versus boys,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of a water fight. They say, you're
Speaker 1: just like flicks and water on somebody and the other
Speaker 1: person go overboard, and it just got out of hand.
Speaker 1: So now we're like getting buckets in and we just
Speaker 1: founded anything with water. We're just throwing it like we
Speaker 1: got the water holes went in the house with the
Speaker 1: water holes. Now who you know, like going in the
Speaker 1: house with the water holes, Like you gotta know, this
Speaker 1: is somebody that's very competitive to do that. So, like,
Speaker 1: regardless of how simple was, it just we met it.
Speaker 1: Everything competitive, and I think that's what just made me
Speaker 1: so tough. And I think that's why the whole family
Speaker 1: just so tough. Whatever. We had like five football fields
Speaker 1: behind our neighborhood and I'm ten years old at the time,
Speaker 1: nine years old somewhere around there, and we were go
Speaker 1: older and play football and I'm playing with two plus
Speaker 1: year old people and I'm ten years old and I'm
Speaker 1: just out there having fun with it and like not crying,
Speaker 1: you know, just out there compee. So I think my
Speaker 1: younger years it was definitely just made me so tough.
Speaker 1: And I always wish that we can get back to
Speaker 1: that level. Now instead of worrying too much about when
Speaker 1: and where Levisca will go, they're putting demarius advice into practice.
Speaker 1: What are y'all prepared to do? You know, it's six months.
Speaker 1: I want to see myself as a or I want
Speaker 1: to be in this position is six months, don't wait.
Speaker 1: They want to translate le Visca success on the gridiron
Speaker 1: into something bigger off the field. It goes for six
Speaker 1: months your way, like like, do you have anything specifically
Speaker 1: like you you're the boss, you see you do you
Speaker 1: have anything sific tasks that you won't each want to do?
Speaker 1: Like it's something in your mind that you said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I want you to take care of this, and I
Speaker 1: want you to take care of this and I want
Speaker 1: you to take out if it's idea, you were here
Speaker 1: to support you. Now I hear what you're saying, fight
Speaker 1: tak Yeah, because I have that. Well, my vision is
Speaker 1: to keick off this clothing line for him to visit
Speaker 1: is two loves. Finish that out, take care of that
Speaker 1: because it's it's way passed. We got the ship of
Speaker 1: Scores group we're attacking, we got our text out, We've
Speaker 1: got everything is ask a little bit legit to go.
Speaker 1: So what you do, everything that you buy, everything that
Speaker 1: you like that POWs everything that goes on in your business.
Speaker 1: So but with that being said, I'm just telling that
Speaker 1: that process ground had already been said all it. So
Speaker 1: that's the focus. If you want to do something, make
Speaker 1: sure that he's making money also with along with you.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because you believe it or not.
Speaker 1: We gotta profit him too. So anything you go to
Speaker 1: you remember he's about so whatever. His lines and things
Speaker 1: are this up to him. So he got a lot
Speaker 1: of show things to think about to Trump, just just
Speaker 1: put that out there. It's a lot for a twenty
Speaker 1: one year old, especially as he approaches the eve of
Speaker 1: what's hopefully the biggest day of his life. But living Cassette,
Speaker 1: his family has never been short on competitiveness or ambition.
Speaker 1: I want to get my own shot. Um. I want
Speaker 1: to drive for a minute because I love to drive.
Speaker 1: Love love like. Um. After that, once I can tell
Speaker 1: you I'm going to come out and I'm gonna hire
Speaker 1: someone to drive for me. They do a help of people,
Speaker 1: get another truck and soon um, then I'm going to fashion.
Speaker 1: I'll just working in school. Being a single mom. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of work. Yeah, Like you gotta be for him.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, be a ghostwriter after
Speaker 1: their life type of other stood too and as gonna say,
Speaker 1: it's a media plane like I wanted to be. I
Speaker 1: don't know about all the bad ground. Yes, I want
Speaker 1: to get back in nursing too, let me squee I
Speaker 1: want to be. I don't know how. Yeah, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get a farm gone, so we can make our
Speaker 1: own food. We gotta go out and at nobody else food.
Speaker 1: And he could be eating right. He knows exactly what's
Speaker 1: in his food. The Renault family has big plans for
Speaker 1: life after draft day, but all that has to wait
Speaker 1: until after his name is called. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Former Ohio state cornerback Jeff Okuda is another likely high
Speaker 1: first round pick in these last forty eight hours. He's
Speaker 1: characteristically focused on the moment, any little detail, detail, where
Speaker 1: she did, where she didn't do, anything about you say
Speaker 1: some conversation have this coverage asking thing. Do you remember
Speaker 1: that conversation. Yeah, that's Damarius Bilbo again, the agent we
Speaker 1: heard from earlier, from seeing some of the things take
Speaker 1: place in the media that we talked about a week ago. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you are the Unitedate Temple. But being that a lot
Speaker 1: of these teams know that they can get a corner
Speaker 1: at five or six. As we're Jaalen Ramsey the ladder
Speaker 1: or Pastor Pieters and have gone. They are using a
Speaker 1: third you know, gained some draft capital and picks across
Speaker 1: the draft. We fully expect me to be a top
Speaker 1: team given the top seven day top poltick. That's based
Speaker 1: on how those birth were paying uh if they stayed good.
Speaker 1: This might seem trivial, but as we noted, the difference
Speaker 1: between a few spots in the top ten is millions
Speaker 1: of dollars and NFL contracts have few we're guarantees than
Speaker 1: the other major pro sports. So watching those early first
Speaker 1: round picks unfold can be excruciating for the top prospects.
Speaker 1: Every time they hear a different player's name called instead
Speaker 1: of their own, they'll know they just missed out on
Speaker 1: another million or more. Preparation and knowing what to expect
Speaker 1: can at least help them deal with some of this
Speaker 1: pressure and stress. Yeah, we talked about the market and
Speaker 1: marketability and spots. Obviously you know tachot there and that's
Speaker 1: the most money you're gonna need the top of the
Speaker 1: big but other markets, if there's a lamp pocket that
Speaker 1: trades of um, that's a combination of a first five
Speaker 1: thing and needed a great market that we can definitely
Speaker 1: use you with some other stuff, so you know, and
Speaker 1: that whole But they're ready here. I will kind of
Speaker 1: learn through if there's any trade after the second ummaller
Speaker 1: go from there to make sure you're communicate with us.
Speaker 1: Answer your phone any you don't know, UM, don't worry
Speaker 1: about the area code. Okay, all right, perfect. We're so
Speaker 1: excited and we cannot wait to speak to you later
Speaker 1: when you're in the NFL. Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I'm saying as the hours remaining wind down, that was
Speaker 1: close to Jeff, continue to reach out. What up, boss?
Speaker 1: What's ups? Just chilling to figure out where you're gonna
Speaker 1: be living in a few weeks. Yeah. This is Jeff's
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning coach who has been working with leading
Speaker 1: up to the draft. Well where are you right now?
Speaker 1: You're still in town? Yeah, I'm that apartment still Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: got it. You've been staying in shape. Yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: conditioning it every other day, doing push ups all that.
Speaker 1: I didn't do the same workout that you sent the
Speaker 1: first time, the conditioning, but I just like kind of
Speaker 1: like added on to it, like change direction stuff. So
Speaker 1: I'm getting it in. I've got another one. And we
Speaker 1: read vamps that I sent to you as well. I'm
Speaker 1: just added tode your attitude, your bridge account been there
Speaker 1: and uh and get that, all right? But what Atlanta
Speaker 1: trying to trade up? The Troit is trying to trade back?
Speaker 1: I think so, I mean, I really don't know. Like
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be a trode for a
Speaker 1: long time, but I don't know if it still might be.
Speaker 1: But I just don't know, like who's trying to trade up?
Speaker 1: I got you. I got you. It's like you've already
Speaker 1: controlled everything. Yeah, so enjoy the ride, man, Yeah for sure, coach.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you calling me, man, Yeah, no problem, I'm gonna jump.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to say I was thinking about you,
Speaker 1: and I'll be watching and I'll swing in. Congrats. Taxa
Speaker 1: is gonna get thrown into the next text message, would
Speaker 1: I'll be good? Alright, appreciate it. OK. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: put in manus order from our dishwasher my sink to
Speaker 1: the but that little switch things not working on the
Speaker 1: sink anymore. Tens of millions of dollars on the line,
Speaker 1: a lifelong mission to reach the NFL so close he
Speaker 1: can feel it. And this is what Jeff o'cuda is doing.
Speaker 1: It's a perfect example of his uncanny ability to stay
Speaker 1: focused on the present, or what scouts call his Zen
Speaker 1: like patients, one of the many qualities that make him
Speaker 1: so dominant on the field. Yeah. Yeah, it's not working.
Speaker 1: And I put I put a mate. Yeah yeah, when
Speaker 1: I when I plucked the switch, it doesn't turn on
Speaker 1: two three zero one. Okay, I put it in a
Speaker 1: request or talkson on Monday, I think, No, no one's
Speaker 1: got back to me. Okay, let me see if I
Speaker 1: can out there today. Okay, thank you, And uh, they
Speaker 1: don't have to. I'm about to leave for the day,
Speaker 1: are they they don't have to be here, right, Nope,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be there, all right, cool, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Have a good one. Beyond all the usual
Speaker 1: anticipation in scrutiny, this year's draft and the coming season
Speaker 1: involve other unprecedented challenges. It's a Jeff again. Uh, I
Speaker 1: got a call from somebody that they gotta Fermanece comes
Speaker 1: to my apartment. They have to ask me some questions, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: just for a quick question here. How did they be
Speaker 1: going so hard? That's going good? Can't complain that's good.
Speaker 1: It's just pore a good question. To be tested positive
Speaker 1: for COVID nineteen. No, have your trouble to any countries
Speaker 1: within the last forty five days for which the CDC
Speaker 1: has issued a pandemic related Level three travel help not
Speaker 1: is alrighty? Have you come into contact with any individual
Speaker 1: that has tested positive for COVID nineteen No, sir, do
Speaker 1: you currently have a fever of more? Already and make
Speaker 1: a quick call a man's and have him head up
Speaker 1: there for you shortly, sir. Okay, thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Have a good A potential first round picks like Jeff McKay, Levisca,
Speaker 1: and Chase normally would fly to the city hosting the draft.
Speaker 1: They do endless media appearances, picking out new suits, carefully
Speaker 1: planning the moment they walk across the stage and shake
Speaker 1: the commissioner's hand. But in almost everything is up in
Speaker 1: the air. Literally. I wake up every morning waiting to
Speaker 1: walk outside and see zombies. I'm like, is this a
Speaker 1: scary movie? Like is this one of these sci fi
Speaker 1: flicks that you know you hear this alarm and you
Speaker 1: just start seeing people walk down the street and like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is that? Agent to Mary is Bilbo again?
Speaker 1: So you know, my job for the players is to
Speaker 1: get information because there's this huge disconnect because we're dealing
Speaker 1: with something that nobody knows what it is. And not
Speaker 1: only are they going through their first draft experience, but
Speaker 1: they're going through during a pandemic. So it's gonna be different.
Speaker 1: Well I be able to have a rookie mini camp
Speaker 1: o t a s where am I just gonna be
Speaker 1: thrown in the fire? You know what I'm saying. Can
Speaker 1: you can you imagine a Chase Young standing across from
Speaker 1: an eight year veteran in camp and it's like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: where's that rookie that's coming in with me? This is
Speaker 1: why I gotta go against the first day, you know,
Speaker 1: So you can hopefully say that they will be the
Speaker 1: first and the last draft class that experiences something like this.
Speaker 1: Here's Chase and how he's hoping to manage this year's
Speaker 1: unusual situation. A few things have to change is we're
Speaker 1: definitely taking taking steps to be more healthy, keeping hand synthesizer, gloves, masks,
Speaker 1: those types of things in the car, you know, not
Speaker 1: going out um to too many places for obviously what
Speaker 1: I wear. Can't with a Gucci suit anymore because I
Speaker 1: believe it's in Italy, they said, and they won't get
Speaker 1: here in time, so I'll be wearing a brand called
Speaker 1: John Elliott. I'm a designer based out of California. Might
Speaker 1: have to change how we're doing a draft. A lot
Speaker 1: of my friends and family will be outside, and after
Speaker 1: I get drafted, I don't go outside and just greet
Speaker 1: them as safely and healthy as possible. And yeah, only
Speaker 1: a few people in the house, but you know that's
Speaker 1: how I'm planning on on doing the draft. I'm definitely
Speaker 1: grateful for this whole opportunity. Um. I pray to God
Speaker 1: every night and I think him for every time I
Speaker 1: wake up, um, and and and can sleep in and
Speaker 1: wake up again. Um. So I'm definitely grateful for this opportunity. Um,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna show it. I'm gonna give everything I have.
Speaker 1: What I've really been doing is making sure that the
Speaker 1: players understand that there are people out there that are
Speaker 1: really facing life of death situations. So remain humble. Understand
Speaker 1: that you're still blessed. You got to college and got
Speaker 1: an opportunity get a free education, that's number one. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't have that debt on yourself. You don't have
Speaker 1: a debt on your mom. You know, even if you've
Speaker 1: got a guy who is an undrafted guy. You know,
Speaker 1: who makes the roster. Now you're going to the league.
Speaker 1: You're gonna make more than most doctors make. You know,
Speaker 1: just say salary, you know, So be thankful for those
Speaker 1: things and that's when the bigger blessings come. And this
Speaker 1: is the time where we focus on people and not
Speaker 1: be that selfish athlete that's just worried about myself. Coming
Speaker 1: up on the next episode of Drafted. The neighborhood that
Speaker 1: Keyshan and I both grew up in. You grew up fast,
Speaker 1: Keyshawn Vaughan. When I first had the dream of benefits
Speaker 1: five six years old. Me having that dream is kind
Speaker 1: of something that helped me on a straight path. You
Speaker 1: have a lot of kids to come through and play
Speaker 1: with a lot of passion, and play with a lot
Speaker 1: of hard, tough, grimy and have a lot of grit.
Speaker 1: I've coasted a lot of great bags in my seventeen
Speaker 1: years of coaching in Metro Nashville. Then he's the best
Speaker 1: by far. I'm a big person who want to prove
Speaker 1: people wrong. So I mean he's been underdog. Somebody care
Speaker 1: with much pride, and I knew I had to get
Speaker 1: surgery I Really like broke into tears right when they
Speaker 1: told me was not an internal lane. Drafted as a
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