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Speaker 1: Hey guys, Chris Harry with you on the Chargers Podcast Network,

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Speaker 1: and it is the Backstage Chargers Podcast presented by your

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Speaker 1: Southern California Toyota dealers. Mike and Ike are back this week.

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Speaker 1: Kicker Michael Badgeley in defensive end Isaac Raschell sat down

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Speaker 1: with running back Justin Jackson. Let me just tell you

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Speaker 1: it was hilarious, it was informative. I know you guys

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Speaker 1: Here's Mike and Ike with Justin Jackson. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Mike and Ike Show and not the Candy a

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Speaker 1: Show with Michael Badgeley and Isaac row Cheer. Will we

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Speaker 1: bring players on and we hear their story from their perspective,

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Speaker 1: and today we have wonderful Justin Jackson. Yeah. Yeah, Let's

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Speaker 1: let's introduce this guy first. All right, Ike, here we go.

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Speaker 1: This guy from Carol Stream, Illinois, attended Glenn Bard North

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Speaker 1: High School, went to Northwestern, played running back, the running

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Speaker 1: back and he's a seventh round selection by Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Charged in twenty eighteen. Justin Justin Jackson, how you doing, man?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great. You know. I appreciate you guys having

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Speaker 1: me on, I feel like this is gonna blow up,

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Speaker 1: so just in case, follow coming in hot with the

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Speaker 1: shoutouts to start. Okay, that's since since you brought up

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Speaker 1: the IG right off the bat, I gotta know, since

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Speaker 1: you've kind of like came on the scene, has the

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Speaker 1: IG grown? Oh, it grew a lot. It actually grew

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Speaker 1: a lot. Last year after the Pittsburgh game, I got like, oh, hey,

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Speaker 1: because you were starting. You were starting then because EQ

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Speaker 1: was hurt. No, No, that was that game Eck was playing.

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Speaker 1: So X started and then I came in. And then

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Speaker 1: the next game I think was yeah, because Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Q was hurt. That's right now, That's what I was

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Speaker 1: saying you, RB One. I was letting you know. I

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Speaker 1: was pumping your tires at that point, and I was

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Speaker 1: just trying to get like Badge, I know, listen, his

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Speaker 1: life changed that Yeah, well they've changed three different times.

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Speaker 1: It changed that game. Listen, there are times a charm. Now.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize this, but you kind of came back

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Speaker 1: into the scene with the Chargers right around the time

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Speaker 1: I came in. Yeah, yep, I was on practice squad

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Speaker 1: and then I got promoted for the Niners game. Niners

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Speaker 1: game shout out to Well, here's here's the thing, all right,

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Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, this is all in Wikipedia, so if

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Speaker 1: we get anything wrong, blame them, not us, okay, which

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Speaker 1: is super true, which is also a fun fact about him.

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Speaker 1: He had no idea that he even had a Wikipedia page.

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Speaker 1: Show I guess I made it. Yeah, well the show Man.

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Speaker 1: That's it. I feel like that's standard now, like for

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Speaker 1: any NFL athlete, there's like a Wiki page. It's actually

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Speaker 1: crazy how in depth these go. And I think the

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Speaker 1: funnest fact on here is the fact that your dad's

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Speaker 1: name is Phil Jackson, and then my brothers he's Phil

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Speaker 1: Jackson the second. So it's great. I'm sure they've gotten

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Speaker 1: a lot of Lakers slash Chicago Bulls. He's got a

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Speaker 1: whole rundown of Yeah, you know, what would you compare

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Speaker 1: your father two or your brother? Would it be the

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Speaker 1: dumpster fire Phil Jackson in New York? Oh? The old

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Speaker 1: the old dumpster I'm not gonna put that on my dad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can't do that. Um, I mean, my dad's the best.

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Speaker 1: So which which best bulls? You had to go bulls, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they had Jordan. I'll go with that.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, but let's let's let's go back

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Speaker 1: to square one here, no doubt, Yeah, let's take it.

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Speaker 1: We'll go ahead. Yeah, we kind of just want to

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Speaker 1: How did you get started? It's actually a funny story.

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Speaker 1: So my brothers two years older than me, and I

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Speaker 1: and everything. We go through all that stuff, and at

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Speaker 1: like you're like, all right, you're not getting It's back

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Speaker 1: light it up. And then you get to Glenbard North

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Speaker 1: I hope Zeb listens to this. It's easy to say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, he was a high school president. You weren't.

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Speaker 1: But but you were a three sport athlete and you

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Speaker 1: You'll figure it out for the for the resident. I

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Speaker 1: He puts his hand on it my shoulder, and he goes, Mike,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you should be in this class. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I want to hear about this Illinois high school football.

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Speaker 1: And I, like Loki took that to like heart, Like

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I had you know, pretty good stass

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Speaker 1: so you know, sorry, I guess I just wanted him

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Speaker 1: to show up to the game. I'm glad he didn't

423
00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,400
Speaker 1: come because we got completely thrash that game. It's out

424
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: of character for Northwest, it isn't. We didn't show up

425
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 1: that day. We actually ended up playing Tennessee, who at

426
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,920
Speaker 1: the time had Kamara on the team, and he just

427
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,679
Speaker 1: destroyed us. So he's a beast. He's another good running back.

428
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,120
Speaker 1: Not to brag on you some more, but you are

429
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 1: ahead of him in all time rushing for college football.

430
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,159
Speaker 1: So whatever that's true, that's true. Um, But looking at

431
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,040
Speaker 1: these stats, what kind of fast forward? Um, you look

432
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,159
Speaker 1: at the running backs that are in the top for

433
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,159
Speaker 1: all time rushing rights when we were looking at it

434
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 1: this morning, these guys were drafted first round, second round,

435
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 1: third round, fourth round, fifth round, sixth round. Not many

436
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 1: top ten guys were seventh round. I think there's one

437
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 1: and it's Justin Jackson. Talk to us a little bit

438
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 1: about that process. Was it frustrating? What were your expectations? Yeah?

439
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,359
Speaker 1: I think it was frustrating, um, especially because you know,

440
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 1: I went to the combine. I felt like I did

441
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 1: really good I had. I was like top five and

442
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 1: a lot of different categories. I was like tied for

443
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 1: six on the forty time him and all the type

444
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 1: of stuff. So I felt like I did everything I

445
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,119
Speaker 1: could and I had to do to kind of improve

446
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,199
Speaker 1: my draft stock or whatever. Talk to talk to him.

447
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: We did this with his job. But let's read these

448
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: freakish numbers, because you just said I think I had

449
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 1: a pretty good draft. I had a pretty good uh everything,

450
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 1: and you okay, mister fifty five hundred fifty five hundred

451
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 1: wresting yards on top of this in the Big ten,

452
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, sorry, let me let me let me

453
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 1: read these numbers out for you. Your forty yard dashes

454
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 1: A four five, you're four to five guys. Coach to stage,

455
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: I will say, I round down your four four nine,

456
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 1: and you got foot, you got football, you got you

457
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 1: got you got football speed. So if someone's chasing you're

458
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,120
Speaker 1: probably right around a four two for one. Who knows

459
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,440
Speaker 1: no give Your three callum was a six to eight one.

460
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: Your vertical jump was at thirty eight and a half

461
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:55,119
Speaker 1: inches elite. That's that's elite. That's elite. Your bench pressed

462
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: through thirteen rips, I was like, what did you get?

463
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,359
Speaker 1: Like five? I got twenty five. But I'm also a

464
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: day line, big strong. Your broad drump was ten foot

465
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: two inches, So you're coming from the big ten. You'll

466
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 1: five hundred, and you've put up these numbers, so in

467
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,719
Speaker 1: your head you're thinking, yeah, I'm gonna be maybe day one,

468
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 1: day two kind of guy. Yeah. I mean that I

469
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 1: think that just goes to show and and this is

470
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,360
Speaker 1: why I always think that's that of like the majority

471
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: of the NFL is like lower drafted guys to undrafted guys.

472
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 1: Is because I think the whole draft process is like, um,

473
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: you know, who looks the best, or who has the

474
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 1: measurables or who you know they think they can mold

475
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 1: into this type of player. And I think they look

476
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,120
Speaker 1: past a lot of like just football, like a good

477
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: football player, And that goes to you know, how you like,

478
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: what does your film look like in the games? I mean,

479
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 1: I think they just look for. Like these freakish athletes

480
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: get like first round, second round grades a lot of times,

481
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: not even really off what they did in college is

482
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,640
Speaker 1: about what they think they could potential, right, And that's

483
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 1: why I think you see more or guys in the

484
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: top rounds that you know don't end up working out,

485
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: and more guys not only do they have a chip

486
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 1: on their shoulder when they're a lower draft pick, they

487
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 1: feel like you really have to work harder to get ahead,

488
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: but also like these are really good full of players

489
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,679
Speaker 1: who maybe just didn't have this measurable that you know,

490
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: this Scott was looking for or something like that, you

491
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So that's kind of how I felt,

492
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,239
Speaker 1: and like I said, that just added motivation to me

493
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: coming in to the Chargers. So you're sitting around on

494
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,479
Speaker 1: draft day, Yeah, and I'm sure you're like, this could go,

495
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 1: this could go either way. What are you thinking? Well,

496
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: it was wild, you know, and I figured I wasn't

497
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna gonna go day one and day two, like I'm like,

498
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,880
Speaker 1: you know, shoot, you know I might get that phone call. Yeah,

499
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: I might get the phone call, you know what I mean,

500
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: and then the host, so you don't, you know, not

501
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: day two, and then Day three, I'm sitting around like, Okay,

502
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna call today, fourth round, fifth rounde, I'm

503
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: definitely gonna call whatever. And then I it's literally fourth fifth, say,

504
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm haven't got a call, seventh round, and it's like

505
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: the last five or six picks, and so at this

506
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: time I'm like, Okay, I'm probably not gonna get drafted.

507
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to pick it till like I don't

508
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: want to be missed irrelevant, right, you don't want to

509
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 1: be not get picked. And but yeah, it was. It was.

510
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 1: It was a crazy three days, like super stressful. When

511
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: I finally got that called a charger, it was like

512
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: one of the teams I really wanted to go to.

513
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: I always wanted to be on the West Coast because

514
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: I've just been in Chicago my whole life. So it

515
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: just it really worked out perfectly. Well, I will say this,

516
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: you know, as sad as you guys may have been

517
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: on your Day three, Okay, you guys, get a phone

518
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: call here seventh round picks. I'm still sitting there, are

519
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: waiting to pick a team. You know, I didn't get drafted.

520
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: I called myself an eighth rounder. Okay, that's what it is.

521
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,680
Speaker 1: You are, mister irrelevant. No, no, no, no, those guys

522
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: get that guy's actually drafted. I was just sitting there.

523
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: I had to pick a team. So for you guys

524
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: to actually get a phone call, it's a blessing. Listen,

525
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: we're both seventh rounders. We share the same birthday, a

526
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 1: twenty second, we share a lot of things. It is

527
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 1: a blessing to bless to get drafted. And you can

528
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: be so frustrated. I was so frustrated for two days.

529
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not getting a phone call. Granted I

530
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: had four sacks in my whole career, I shouldn't win

531
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: any higher than I did. But when you finally get

532
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: the phone call, so you're like, it's the best thing

533
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: in the world. Everything's out the window. Let's go enjoy this.

534
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: This is huge, huge for the team. Um so I

535
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: definitely feel you. Yeah. And then now that you've been here,

536
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: what's it been like being a seventh rounder, trying to

537
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: prove yourself, trying to overcome the odds, started on practice squad.

538
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: Now we're here, talk to us a little bit about me.

539
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: I was just because last year during training camp, you know,

540
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: I entered my hamstring, and so I wasn't able to

541
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: play until the last game, and I was like, so

542
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: I didn't really play that well, and so I was

543
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 1: just happy that I was still around, you know, because

544
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: you know a lot of a lot of times when

545
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: you get hurt, you don't get that opportunity to really show,

546
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: you know, improve yourself. So I was just happy to

547
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: be here. I didn't care a practice squad, I didn't

548
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: care anything anything up. And so once I finally got

549
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,719
Speaker 1: healthy and um, you know, I was able to you know,

550
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: practice and really show what I could do. It took

551
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: what three or four weeks before I got the call up,

552
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: and I just felt I just felt like I could

553
00:26:57,920 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: just put my head down and work and show them

554
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,439
Speaker 1: what type of back I could be. Um, you know,

555
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: then I could put myself and get get an opportunity.

556
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: And and then I played three or four games just

557
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: on special teams, never getting any reps. And then you know,

558
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: we had injuries and I had to step up and

559
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: it was you know, Pittsburgh Sunday in that game, Um,

560
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: how bad some MVPs from the game. But you guys

561
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: can get bad, yeah, bad knows when you get that

562
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: opportunity and he you know, and bad obviously was here,

563
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 1: and then you were on practice squad. Oh yeah, and

564
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,719
Speaker 1: then you got called back and you just you have to,

565
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 1: you know, do your thing when your number is called.

566
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: And I'll say this, I'll say this practice squad for kickers.

567
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think about the best job. It's

568
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: got to be the best peace squad kicker. I was like, ah, sure,

569
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: what throw me on there for us. We're like, all right,

570
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: what can I do at practice? You got older guys

571
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: telling you to slow down? Like what can I do

572
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: at practice to prove myself? Because I hate being on

573
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: practice squad. Yes it's a great job. Yes I have

574
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: an unreal opportunity, but I don't want to be on

575
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: practice squad. And everyone wants to play, Yeah, everyone wants

576
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: to play. But as a kick, it's the best job,

577
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: no doubt. But yeah doubt. But that Sunday night game

578
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: when you got that touchdown, I was it was exciting man.

579
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: All I remember it was just like pure Joey because

580
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: I felt like it was I had worked so hard,

581
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: been through injuries, all this adversity, and then I finally

582
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: had a moment and it was just like the culmination

583
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: of like, okay, continue, I'm sorry you felt the inner

584
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: d I felt it, and I felt it um and

585
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 1: so yeah, it was, like I said, just a really

586
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: great moment. And now I'm just trying to build upon that.

587
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: I'm upon this offseason, upon this you know, training cam

588
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: and everything and and really put a you know, carve

589
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: out my spot on this offense because we have so

590
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: many weapons, as you guys know, so just trying to yeah,

591
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: cover my fought in this offense and and and be

592
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: a factor, which you are you and ec kind of scary,

593
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. The due and it's and you guys

594
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: have a unique, unique opportunity this year. But I mean

595
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: you'd degree like you have total confidence in you or

596
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: e especially after last year. Yeah, and that and that's

597
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: what's so great. It is like we kind of had

598
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: this like try this like run through of this right

599
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: when meling down it was you know, me an egg Yeah,

600
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: and so we kind of had this like due already going.

601
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: And now it's kind of just a continuation of that.

602
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: And you know how it is like even with you

603
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: the NFL, you always got to be ready, yeah, always,

604
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: And so you get your shot and you're like all right,

605
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: let me ball. It happened with you last year? You

606
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,959
Speaker 1: got a call after hanging out on the couch for

607
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: five weeks. Oh yeah, I was hanging on my buddies

608
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: in Hoboken, plan plan you planned your Dublin trip, then

609
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: just hanging out. Oh yeah, that was booked back in September.

610
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: But now, uh, I was just hanging out of my count.

611
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: You get a call, hey, come try out or come

612
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: work out for those chargers. And then I, you know,

613
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: I had just flown back from Oakland from a workout.

614
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: So then I come back and I'm like, I really

615
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: got to fly out to California again. So I said,

616
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: all right, might as will make this one count. So

617
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: they liked me enough to keep me around, and yeah

618
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: that was money bad He's a staple. Yeah, now it's you.

619
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: You're you're one of the few. Why did you buy?

620
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: Oh you got a badger. You gotta support your I

621
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: have one of keenan specters too, like you gotta support

622
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: your teammates. He gets it, you know, I mean, I

623
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: get Do you have a clothing line? I don't. So

624
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: you guys like this on your team though, you need him.

625
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: Mister fifty five hundred every once in a while. Um,

626
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: why don't you give yourself a little shout out? I

627
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: like to ask people this. We were talking about asking

628
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: people this, like what do you have going on? You

629
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: already gave your Instagram a shout out? Are you selling apparel?

630
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: Talk to us a little bit about what's going on?

631
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: Oh man, you know, I'm not. I am working on

632
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: a lot of these things, right I'm working on getting

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try have a cameo. I have a cameo.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to a shout out or any

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Speaker 1: me on those. Hey you're a great guest man. You

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Speaker 1: See you guys later, go bobbles baby. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us. On the Backstage Chargers

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Speaker 1: podcast presented by your Southern California Toyota dealers, be sure

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Speaker 1: exciting things cooking all season long, a lot of podcasts

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Speaker 1: up already, a lot more to come, and we want

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Speaker 1: and until next time, I'm Chris Hayred