Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to Renee all day. We've got Cam
Speaker 1: Taylor Brett here in the house. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm doing good and I just finished practice,
Speaker 1: so you know, I think I'm great, feel feeling good,
Speaker 1: feeling loose. I'm glad that we got you before the
Speaker 1: shower because I heard that you take really long showers.
Speaker 1: What is going on in there? What is the beauty routine?
Speaker 1: Do you have a routine in the shower kind of
Speaker 1: water just to hit me a little bit, just relaxing,
Speaker 1: You know, you don't. You don't have the long time,
Speaker 1: especially like here though, but you know, when I get
Speaker 1: the shower, when everybody's kind of leaving, okay, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got my time to myself, take my time. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I do take long showers. Do you have like a
Speaker 1: skincare routine that you do? I need to try to
Speaker 1: You've got a great skin, you look great. We gotta
Speaker 1: continue it though I slack sometimes to reed, but other
Speaker 1: than that though, yeah, I kind of try to keep
Speaker 1: everything together. Yeah, yeah, looking good. Okay. So as I
Speaker 1: was getting ready for this interview, I was I was
Speaker 1: on the plane and I was flipping through your Instagram
Speaker 1: and saw the video of when you get the call
Speaker 1: coming to the Bengals twenty two draft. Let me tell you,
Speaker 1: I got very misty eyed on the plane. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was the altitude or what, but it
Speaker 1: got to me. What was that day like for you
Speaker 1: to get that call to know you did it? It was,
Speaker 1: honestly everything that you dreamed of. It played out exactly
Speaker 1: that way, like a movie that I already seen in
Speaker 1: my head when I was little, kind of called everything out.
Speaker 1: I didn't know the team, you know, of course, but
Speaker 1: you know, just having the opportunity to have your name
Speaker 1: called on you know, that stage now that I'm here,
Speaker 1: it was amazing, such like goose bump to just see
Speaker 1: that and like, you know, I want to get into
Speaker 1: like the journey of you getting there, but like just
Speaker 1: imagining what that road is like to get to that
Speaker 1: point to getting that phone call. I saw your mom
Speaker 1: had tweeted out too that it had been a long
Speaker 1: road for you to get here. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: What was what made the road long? What was that
Speaker 1: like journey like for you? Injuries as in high school,
Speaker 1: you know, I really thought I was done was playing
Speaker 1: football at the time. You know, with two knee injuries.
Speaker 1: And I was sixteen, seventeen years old. I was like
Speaker 1: my uncles who were forty haven't had two knee surgeries,
Speaker 1: and you know, so I was just young. Uh really,
Speaker 1: like I said, I thought it was over. My mom
Speaker 1: was always there to tell me that nobody's gonna forget
Speaker 1: about you. You need to keep going. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: once I had by my side, that's my eight one
Speaker 1: day one. Yeah, I couldn't turn back a good move.
Speaker 1: Our mom love our moms. Okay, so you get the
Speaker 1: call you're coming to the Bengals. What was your first
Speaker 1: What kind of went through your head first when you
Speaker 1: realize that it was Cincinnati that you were going to
Speaker 1: come to. Yes, I was happy. Yeah, on my top
Speaker 1: thirty visit, I had a great time here, just sitting
Speaker 1: down with coach Burt's you know, Coach Taylor and coach
Speaker 1: Lou had great conversations and I just it just felt
Speaker 1: like this was somewhere that I was supposed to be
Speaker 1: and that was actually the top team that my agent
Speaker 1: had on like the draft board. And you know, he
Speaker 1: did his thing. He was right, yeah, put up right.
Speaker 1: How was your relationship with coach Taylor changed from day
Speaker 1: one to where you're at now. Honestly, it's been the same.
Speaker 1: You know, he has a switched up on me, you know,
Speaker 1: even though I'm ricky or anything. And I appreciate that
Speaker 1: the most. You know, I had my ups and downs
Speaker 1: most definitely just learning experience, but he's always been there
Speaker 1: to pick me up, you know, never down to me,
Speaker 1: you know, just pushing me forward. What was what was
Speaker 1: your role on the team when you were out you
Speaker 1: were sidelined with an injury earlier in the season. What
Speaker 1: was your role on the team during that the hype man? Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: everybody's energy was there, you know, you know, despise, you know,
Speaker 1: Joe throwing an interception. I'm running down to the offense
Speaker 1: and hey guys, we'll be okay, you know, go back
Speaker 1: out there and get it, you know, just running up
Speaker 1: down the sideline and make sure anybody needs anything. And
Speaker 1: I aint like a trainer at times, just grabbing things
Speaker 1: for people. But you know, I just wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that I was doing something for the team, you know, positive,
Speaker 1: to help them out. Was there something that you learned
Speaker 1: while sitting on the sideline and not being able to
Speaker 1: be active and just taking in that first year, for
Speaker 1: the first couple of games. Rather oh yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, especially from guys that were on
Speaker 1: the field and situations that they were in, what we
Speaker 1: got hit on, what we could have did differently, And
Speaker 1: that kind of helped me out, you know, when I
Speaker 1: first started playing. And even though it's even better, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Cam Juice, What is the origin story to this? I
Speaker 1: was searching high and low and I could not figure
Speaker 1: out exactly where this started. What is the story behind it?
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, I played quarterback from eighth grade until senior year,
Speaker 1: and my name's Cam. He really started the Cam Juice thing,
Speaker 1: but he didn't take it anywhere, okay, And while he
Speaker 1: was at Arbor and I was like, man, I gotta
Speaker 1: do so with that, but I didn't. I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: And then somebody said out the Blues, like Cam, you
Speaker 1: got the juice. I was like, you're right, You're right,
Speaker 1: and I kind of just went on with it. My
Speaker 1: name was a Cam anymore. It was juice to everybody,
Speaker 1: and that's where it went. And I kind of just
Speaker 1: pushed it while I was in Nebraska. Towards the end,
Speaker 1: I want to do an NL deal and I kind
Speaker 1: of blew up from there. Amazing. It's a great nickname
Speaker 1: to have. Some of those nicknames they don't always land,
Speaker 1: but when you can like fully own it and that
Speaker 1: just kind of like becomes your name. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. Your relationship with the Boys and Girls Club,
Speaker 1: Why is that something that's so important to you? I
Speaker 1: grew up there, basically you can say that's another home
Speaker 1: for me. They've been there from the start, Like I said,
Speaker 1: after school programs, you know, summer camps, doing everything that
Speaker 1: was the fun that I had during that time, and
Speaker 1: just being around those kids. You know, you build some
Speaker 1: great relationships with a lot of people and you still
Speaker 1: have the relationship till this day, just because you were
Speaker 1: at the Boys and Girls Club. So what I want
Speaker 1: to do for those kids is beyond anything else, you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to show them that they can be
Speaker 1: something that I did. Go to the Boys and Girls Club.
Speaker 1: This is not a somewhere to be embarrassed or anything.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody has their own route, you know, you
Speaker 1: just take your way. Yeah, no, absolutely, those kids must
Speaker 1: get like so when you're able to go around and
Speaker 1: kind of like show them you've been there and the
Speaker 1: you know, the role that you're able to play for
Speaker 1: those kids. Um, you go in there, you get to
Speaker 1: like talk to them a bunch, and like it's really
Speaker 1: spend that time. I'll try to do everything I can.
Speaker 1: I'm really one having fun. If you ask me why
Speaker 1: I'm in attendance there. How has your life changed in
Speaker 1: the last year. Yeah, I don't know, it's changed a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot. Man. Just I see my family a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, and in Nebraska, I didn't see them a lot,
Speaker 1: but they've made their way to every possible game, and
Speaker 1: even while I was not playing, and I think that's
Speaker 1: helped me a lot. The speed of the game. You know,
Speaker 1: I knew it was going to be a lot faster,
Speaker 1: but you know, as time going by, you know, it
Speaker 1: slowed down for me. Most definitely just been with a
Speaker 1: group of guys like this. Yeah, I've never been with
Speaker 1: a group of men that are so connected. That seems
Speaker 1: to be like the big thing from these interviews I've
Speaker 1: been doing throughout the season, that just seems to be
Speaker 1: like the same constant note. It's like how specialist locker
Speaker 1: room is to bond amongst you guys, Like it just
Speaker 1: seems like such a special time to be a part
Speaker 1: of this team. Do you really feel that? What like,
Speaker 1: what is that energy? Like? Obviously you feel that we
Speaker 1: can all feel that, but what like what is that like?
Speaker 1: I think you can just kind of sit on the
Speaker 1: field as everybody is clicking. You see you know, the
Speaker 1: offense going, you see the defense going, even special team
Speaker 1: is going, and you know that just we just feed
Speaker 1: off each other. You know. You have the stand in Morrigans,
Speaker 1: you know, one of my former teammates, but he brings
Speaker 1: the energy each and every day, you know what they
Speaker 1: expect out of him. Yeah, and you have other guys
Speaker 1: who just always up and jump in and you just
Speaker 1: it feeds on to everybody. And you know when you
Speaker 1: have that uh and you're soaking, it's close knit. You
Speaker 1: know that you can't be stopped, you know, and that's
Speaker 1: our being away man totally. Um, what's on your bucket list?
Speaker 1: To continue to be myself and play confident because it's
Speaker 1: about it, you know, off the field to do list?
Speaker 1: I need to go to vacation. Where would you vacation?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take my family probably to Santorini. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go to Greece. Yeah, my mom always going
Speaker 1: to go there and I didn't even know that. I
Speaker 1: just looked it up online one day and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's pretty that's what we need to go. Yeah, amazing,
Speaker 1: can't wait. Gosh we had a long season though, so
Speaker 1: we'll get there. Yeah. Yeah, you'll get there. You'll get there,
Speaker 1: and you'll enjoy it when you get there for sure. Um,
Speaker 1: what was your best moment for twenty twenty two the year? Honestly, Uh,
Speaker 1: just playing football your whole life and you know you
Speaker 1: picked that sport. You know a lot of kids play
Speaker 1: a lot of sports growing up, but eventually they're going
Speaker 1: to pick that one sport and stick to that. That's
Speaker 1: what I kind of did at an early age and
Speaker 1: I didn't turn back. So just having an opportunity, like
Speaker 1: I said, to have your name called it the NFL Draft,
Speaker 1: that is Surrea. How old were you when you knew
Speaker 1: football was the sport for you? I was like six
Speaker 1: years old. I told my mom at six, like six
Speaker 1: years old, I'm going to buy you a house and
Speaker 1: just have the opportunity to do that that maybe it
Speaker 1: honestly just been able to give back to her, move
Speaker 1: her out of Montgommery and you know, to another place
Speaker 1: in a big house. I was like, yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: do that, and I did it. Yeah, you know, So
Speaker 1: that that was probably the biggest thing for me. I
Speaker 1: was like your first memory at six years old of
Speaker 1: like being like understanding and loving football, and like the
Speaker 1: NFL was there like a player that you loved or
Speaker 1: a team that you loved. The Saints where was my
Speaker 1: favorite team? Because I played for the Montgommery Saints, and
Speaker 1: that's how I kind of went. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's the team. I'm more, Yeah, that's that's me right there.
Speaker 1: But I think it was just the physical aspect of
Speaker 1: the game, uh kind of. They used to call me
Speaker 1: be Smoke growing up because I used to shit tears
Speaker 1: and I play. I played running back, so anytime I
Speaker 1: would get like you would hit me hard or something,
Speaker 1: I was just and I mean in the backfield as
Speaker 1: soon as they say go anybody see my way just no,
Speaker 1: I can have a fifty yard touchdown, but I see
Speaker 1: the safety coming, I'm gonna run him over then go score.
Speaker 1: That's how bad it was. So I just love the
Speaker 1: physical part of it and how just between the lines
Speaker 1: it's a legal fight, man. Yeah, and you can't you
Speaker 1: can't do anything about it. That's what I love about it. Physicality. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: New Year's resolutions, what do you got? Are you a
Speaker 1: resolution guy? Really? Not really, I wouldn't say so for
Speaker 1: the sake of the interview. Can you be one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: When you think about I mean, gosh, look at what
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two brought for you. Yeah, like it's God's
Speaker 1: gotta be hard to talk. But now you're here, you're
Speaker 1: in it, it's happening, you're living it. How can you
Speaker 1: possibly make twenty twenty three better? Changed by eating happens?
Speaker 1: I'm saying that. Okay, I'm a snacker, most definitely. My
Speaker 1: metabolism is very high. I gotta eat the right way
Speaker 1: and because I just eat. Most definitely, I've been win
Speaker 1: the same weight maybe like maybe ten pounds, were like
Speaker 1: two or five. I was one nine five all through
Speaker 1: college two or five. I've never gained or lost that weight.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love it. I love it. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: going to hold on to that right now. What is
Speaker 1: the snack that you're like, I can't like be contained
Speaker 1: around it? Really? Pop tart guy, It's a good carp though.
Speaker 1: You know I do love pop tarts. I love life
Speaker 1: Saver gummies. Okay, I do, yes, I do, okay, But
Speaker 1: I also love my teeth. So that's why I really
Speaker 1: need to change it up, because I don't want no cavities. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: We've got the good long showers we got to get.
Speaker 1: The teeth are right, they're good. Let's just keep that.
Speaker 1: You're right awesome. Well, listen, I know you've got another
Speaker 1: interview to get too. I will not keep you from that.
Speaker 1: Really lovely to meet you. Congratulations and all of your success,
Speaker 1: and I continue to crush it. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: out right