Speaker 1: Welcome in Command his family to the next man up.
Speaker 1: This is the one y'all all have been waiting for,
Speaker 1: because I'm sitting here with our new.
Speaker 2: Free agent, d Bo Sam.
Speaker 1: He came in through a trade and he's here now
Speaker 1: to be part of the Berkeley and Debo.
Speaker 2: First things first, Welcome in brother, Nah for sure.
Speaker 3: Thanks for man, Yes, sir, blessing man looking around the studio.
Speaker 2: So let's get right into it.
Speaker 1: Because unlike all the other people that we've spoken to
Speaker 1: that came in and signed, you were acquired, we went
Speaker 1: out and got you man, what went through your mind
Speaker 1: when you found out you were being traded to the
Speaker 1: Washington Command.
Speaker 2: So what's so crazy is, you know, I'm pretty familiar
Speaker 2: with ap for sure.
Speaker 3: And before anything happened, you know, I talked talked to Kyle,
Speaker 3: talked to John about you know, the next step of
Speaker 3: you know, of my journey. And you know, it wasn't
Speaker 3: it wasn't no like bickering back and forth. It was
Speaker 3: like we had a conversation like grown man. But after
Speaker 3: that granted you know, me permission to go out there
Speaker 3: and seek a trade. I got on the phone with
Speaker 3: my agent. My agent text me he was like yo,
Speaker 3: who's your top three? And so people might think this
Speaker 3: is fraud, but like this was my number one word. Okay,
Speaker 3: so this was my number one because you know, I've
Speaker 3: been watching JD a lot because of Brandon, like you
Speaker 3: that's I use right here.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: So I seen them last year and I'm just like, yo, man,
Speaker 3: like these boys went to the NFC Championship, so they
Speaker 3: building something.
Speaker 2: And you know, me my career, my journey with the Niners.
Speaker 3: You know it's NFC Championship, this is that and the
Speaker 3: third So I'm just like, yo, Like they just went
Speaker 3: an NFC championship, so like they getting used to winning,
Speaker 3: so like why not?
Speaker 2: So you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And I'm kind of familiar with AP and kind of
Speaker 3: no Ontario good bit.
Speaker 2: So it's just like man.
Speaker 3: And then once I got the call like crazy because
Speaker 3: like it was my Pottner, my Pottner posted and his
Speaker 3: close friends because we had just landed in New York
Speaker 3: to watch the tank fight and we was on the
Speaker 3: plane and John Lynch had called me and told me
Speaker 3: it was like yeah, man, it just happened. And I'm
Speaker 3: like I'm landing to get ready for the fight, and
Speaker 3: I just start tweaking, like on the plane, like going crazy.
Speaker 2: Because that's what you wanted to this way you want.
Speaker 3: To get It was crazy because I'm on the plant
Speaker 3: like johnn is like, man, how you feeling like? I
Speaker 3: didn't have any words at the time because it was
Speaker 3: so much excitement and he was saying so much. But
Speaker 3: I was trying to pay attention what he was saying.
Speaker 3: But I was just so excited in the moment. I'm
Speaker 3: just like, man, Like, it was just it was just
Speaker 3: a blessing to be here for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Man, now that you're here, you get this reception
Speaker 1: you walk through this building. Man, this is different for
Speaker 1: you because you have been with your previous organization your
Speaker 1: whole career.
Speaker 2: Now you get to be somewhere different.
Speaker 1: Man, what was today like for you as you walk
Speaker 1: through these doors, as you get this welcome in and
Speaker 1: you know this is your new home now.
Speaker 3: Man, it was crazy. I guess somebody in the building,
Speaker 3: you know, like I'm a young boy fan. They had
Speaker 3: to yp you rocking. They had to yb rocking in
Speaker 3: the front.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It felt like I was walking to the stadium with
Speaker 3: how crazy everybody was going.
Speaker 2: Man, it was just it was more than just a
Speaker 2: welcome to me.
Speaker 1: Many sure, and everybody that sat in this chair, whether
Speaker 1: they have decided to sign or whether they got traded,
Speaker 1: they mentioned that they peaked what was going on here
Speaker 1: from the outside, just like you. You said you saw
Speaker 1: what Jaden was doing and and talked about him a
Speaker 1: little bit in your words, why do you feel like
Speaker 1: this is the best place for you to take that
Speaker 1: next step in your career because you're still.
Speaker 2: A young man. I'm just give you. I know ap
Speaker 2: for one.
Speaker 3: I know that he's about He built a night of
Speaker 3: his organization, so he know what winning is about, and
Speaker 3: he knows.
Speaker 2: Like what it takes.
Speaker 3: So it's like he got the mind of like, all right,
Speaker 3: I already kind of know what it takes to get
Speaker 3: over the hump, get to the super Bowl like he's been.
Speaker 2: He's been to two. It's just so like it's just
Speaker 2: it's just like.
Speaker 3: A building culture. But it's already built. The platform is
Speaker 3: already there. So I'm not coming here to be like yo,
Speaker 3: I'm coming to turn his team around. I'm just coming
Speaker 3: to be another hand, you know what I'm saying, to
Speaker 3: help this team try to get over the hump. You
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying so like, man, it's just it
Speaker 3: was just crazy, bro, not a lot to you.
Speaker 1: And it's dope to want to be somewhere, but for
Speaker 1: that place to really want you. And you know you
Speaker 1: made headlines today because and yesterday because the commanders decided
Speaker 1: to show you how much they're invested in you, how
Speaker 1: much they need you.
Speaker 2: I ain't gona counch are.
Speaker 1: Pockets like that, But in a world full of guarantees, man,
Speaker 1: you got yourself a guarantee here before you even were
Speaker 1: able to step on that field. Man, what is that
Speaker 1: voter confidence from a place that you have not played
Speaker 1: for yet?
Speaker 2: Mean to you?
Speaker 3: Man, that means I mean not only for me, But
Speaker 3: it's just like it kind of shows like how much
Speaker 3: belief they have you in a sense. You know, they
Speaker 3: can go off with what they've seen. Of course, anybody
Speaker 3: can go off what they seen. Anybody can be like, yo,
Speaker 3: devo is this, Devo is that? But it's like for
Speaker 3: them to make that big of a decision, not coming
Speaker 3: in the building, not meeting anybody, not stepping on the grass,
Speaker 3: it's just like it's just I'm already motivated for one
Speaker 3: like that was another that was like another gear in
Speaker 3: the sense you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So it's like, man, I can't come in here and
Speaker 2: just let them down. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And one not not also just them, but myself my family.
Speaker 3: So it's just like it's not just about me at
Speaker 3: that point.
Speaker 1: And you say to yourself, everybody wants to say who
Speaker 1: you are, what you have left all these things. But
Speaker 1: from the man's mouth himself, who is Deebo Samuels as
Speaker 1: a football player? Man, it's so many words, man, Like
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 2: It's just I just keep it simple. Man, I'm just
Speaker 2: a dog. I'm just a dog.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I've seen my boy JK. And I've seen my boy
Speaker 3: JK in here like man, jkban Rockets since South Carolina
Speaker 3: days we played together in college, so like he got.
Speaker 2: That same dog.
Speaker 3: Like it's just man, it's just I think it's something
Speaker 3: that South Carolina water.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: But I can feel your happiness and your excitement right now.
Speaker 1: You said you a dog when you answering a wide
Speaker 1: receiver room full of dogs. You got Terry Man, you
Speaker 1: have your coach and Bobby Ingram from South Carolina so
Speaker 1: many games in the league. Man, you are coming to
Speaker 1: a room full of dogs. How can you add to
Speaker 1: that and help elevate everybody's game?
Speaker 3: Man, Like I just said, Man, I'm just I'm just
Speaker 3: coming here to help, not coming here to take over anything.
Speaker 3: I'm just coming to be the guy that they need
Speaker 3: me to be and try to get over this hump.
Speaker 3: But yeah, man, I've been knowing Terry for a good
Speaker 3: long for a long time, been watching him and just
Speaker 3: see it every year, every year, and the things that
Speaker 3: he's done, not bashing anybody, not saying nothing about nobody's
Speaker 3: been here, but like to consistently do what he do
Speaker 3: with all the quarterbacks that he's had, is that is tremendous.
Speaker 2: Like you can't that's not something you can coach.
Speaker 3: I hear how hardy work, I hear everything about him,
Speaker 3: But like, man, you never read one thing about Terry
Speaker 3: saying this. Saying that is just hey, this is strictly
Speaker 3: about ball and work. So like I definitely applaud like
Speaker 3: how long he been doing it. I mean we got
Speaker 3: drafted together, so like you know, we're going on your seven.
Speaker 3: But he've been doing the six years straight with all
Speaker 3: the things that he've been through, and I think he
Speaker 3: got the right guy quarterback now to just help him
Speaker 3: take over the hemp.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what makes Commander fan so excited
Speaker 1: is the combo of YouTube. Not just the combo of YouTube,
Speaker 1: but what y'all can do in a Cliff Keysbury offense
Speaker 1: man where he just gets the most out of all
Speaker 1: of his players. Have you had to have conversations with
Speaker 1: with coach Cliff coached EQ about what their expectations are
Speaker 1: for you coming into this season.
Speaker 3: I'm not too much expectations. We ain't release that down
Speaker 3: and talk. I talked to the receiver coach a good bit
Speaker 3: and what's so crazy? You know, Cliff was in Arizona,
Speaker 3: so I played them twice a year and I see
Speaker 3: the things that he then we're rundale it at the
Speaker 3: time that he had there, and man, I just he's
Speaker 3: just a guru, like he ready to win.
Speaker 2: He gonna do whatever it takes to win. And I mean,
Speaker 2: that's what I'm here for.
Speaker 1: And it's one thing for coaches that have expectations. It's
Speaker 1: one thing for fans to have expectations.
Speaker 2: But from you.
Speaker 1: Yourself, like you said, you're motivated, you're driven. What are
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel expectations for himself coming into the season.
Speaker 2: Be the first version of myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I'm trying to be in a I'm trying
Speaker 3: to go to a level that I don't think I
Speaker 3: can I could go to if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: You know people say receiver running back.
Speaker 3: This is then the third Like I'm trying to step
Speaker 3: into another another mode. I sit down and like my boys.
Speaker 3: Like one of my boys called me last night and
Speaker 3: I was on the game. He was just like, man,
Speaker 3: what you what you up to? I was like, bro,
Speaker 3: I'm chilling. He was like, you worked out today? I'm like,
Speaker 3: what you mean?
Speaker 2: Did I work out today?
Speaker 3: Like he was like, man, I'm just calling the chicky
Speaker 3: and make sure you tapping in like this new version
Speaker 3: that we want you to be. And like, so it's
Speaker 3: not just me, It's it's my boys I grew up with,
Speaker 3: you know, It's just it's everybody. So like, man, I
Speaker 3: got I'm man, I'm here.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to rock out. Man.
Speaker 1: And you've mentioned during this conversation, you mentioned multiple different
Speaker 1: things that work is motivation to not only get you here,
Speaker 1: but to get you through everything you've already been through. Man.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the word you said added motivation. Man, how
Speaker 1: motivated is Deebo Samuy because I know you see it.
Speaker 1: I know you hear the doubters. I know you hear
Speaker 1: the critics because that's what they're there to do. Man,
Speaker 1: How motivated is Deebo Samuel coming into a season where
Speaker 1: you really are on a proven type mentality.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty motivated for sure, and not only because you
Speaker 3: know people gonna say this, people gonna say that. I'm
Speaker 3: motivated for myself, for my career, what I want my
Speaker 3: career to be, what I want my legis to be,
Speaker 3: what I want to see my son.
Speaker 2: Grow up in.
Speaker 3: He'd be like, Yo, Daddy, you was this. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So I'm not really worried about like
Speaker 3: what the people are talking about. I'm more so worried
Speaker 3: about this for me and like my people, but the
Speaker 3: people around me, the people in my circle.
Speaker 2: So that's just that's just me.
Speaker 1: Hey man, I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that you came here with your family.
Speaker 1: Man. I love that you have a circle and support
Speaker 1: system around you. And one thing you're gonna notice real
Speaker 1: quick is your family got a whole lot bigger because brother,
Speaker 1: these command of fans, they do not play about their players,
Speaker 1: whether it's the bottom of the depth chart to the
Speaker 1: top of the depth chart. They love their God.
Speaker 2: So before I let you go, brother.
Speaker 1: Can you just give a message to the best fans
Speaker 1: in the NFL that Burgundy and Gold family.
Speaker 2: Hey man, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to rock out with y'all, boys, females as well, everybody.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 3: We all one big family at their point. Man, Let's
Speaker 3: make this something that people will never forget.
Speaker 1: Hey de Bo man, we appreciate your time again. Brother,
Speaker 1: congratulations on bea here man. We are so excited to
Speaker 1: have you. My boy dripped out on the ice man.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on everything. Dog can't wait to see you have success.
Speaker 1: Commands family, our next man of the boy in the
Speaker 1: building looking clean with the.
Speaker 2: White Forces, Debo Samuel, appreciate you. Broyes up.