1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Welcome to a new episode of Falcons and Focus. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: I am Karen Walker, joined with Tory mcelhaney and New 3 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: Falcons tight end Charlie Warner. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: Welcome. 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 3: So you've had a day already. 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: You just told us this was your seventeenth interview and 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: I'd like to think we kept the best for last. 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 4: Well to welcome you, we do have a gift for you, 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 4: so our social media. Well, first off, before before we 10 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 4: do anything, are you a Taylor Swift fan? And I 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 4: hope the answer is no, no, no, no, gosh is 12 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 4: your wife? 13 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 2: No? 14 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 4: Dang it? Okay, Well, any who, We're still going to 15 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 4: give you this gift becauselets they are friendship bracelets. Our 16 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 4: social media producer Amanda is making friendship bracelets for all 17 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 4: the free agents. So we have one for your wife, 18 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 4: one for your son, and one for. 19 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 2: You where the okay, welcome home to you and. 20 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 4: Then where the players play for your. 21 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 2: Sonkay sweet Well, thank you all. 22 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 4: So officially welcome to Atlanta. But awesome, this is not 23 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 4: a place that is unfamiliar to you. I was gonna 24 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 4: say say welcome, but I know it's like welcome, welcome. 25 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 2: Back, welcome home, right there? Yeah, welcome home. 26 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 3: Have the Georgia had on. 27 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 2: Yep, yep. I was raised about an hour northeast of 28 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 2: here in Ravend County and then went to Uga. So 29 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 2: I spent my whole life in Georgia until you know, 30 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 2: I got drafted to the forty nine ers. But it's 31 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: great to be back. 32 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, when you so, we'll go back. Because when we 33 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 4: got the notification that hey, like we're signing Charlie Warner. 34 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 4: Are good? Okay, I can't wait to tell Amanda. So 35 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 4: we were just kind of doing some research and everything, 36 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 4: and a picture popped up of a sign in your hometown. 37 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 4: I know you know where this is going, but there's 38 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 4: a sign in your hometown that's kind of like welcome 39 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 4: to like Tiger Georgia or Raven County. It's like the 40 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 4: home of Charlie Warner. And it's a picture of you. 41 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 2: Yep. It's right outside Ankers Barbecue, right off for forty 42 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 2: one going north before you get to Clayton. Yeah, big sign, 43 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 2: welcome to Raymond County home and Troiler Water. 44 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 4: So how long has that sign been there? 45 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,279 Speaker 2: I think four years now. I think after I got drafted. 46 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: I think after I got drafted they put it up 47 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: sometime maybe in the fall or spring, so three or 48 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 2: four years. Yeah, So, Matt, I can't tell any times. 49 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 2: I've gotten pictures, you know, from people I barely know, 50 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 2: to people you know, they're like, man, past your sign again, 51 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: you know, like either someone's going up to the mountains, 52 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 2: you know, or going up to Cherokee or you know, 53 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 2: just going fishing up there. They'll send it to me. 54 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 4: So is it kind of like weird or is it 55 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 4: something that you I mean, I'm sure there's an appreciation 56 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 4: for it, but also kind of just every time you 57 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 4: go home, it's like there's my face. 58 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 2: It's it's not weird, it's I think it's cool. You 59 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: know that, you know, the hometown loves me and they 60 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 2: honor me like and that in that way. I haven't 61 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 2: got a picture in front of it yet. I haven't. 62 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: I haven't. I haven't stopped to take a picture with 63 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: it yet. I need to. I need to get my 64 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 2: son and hold him next to it. He'd love that. 65 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 2: He'd look at me like a weirdo. He's like he'd 66 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 2: look at me on the picture. But I need to 67 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 2: do that. 68 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to get a second sign with you 69 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: and your falcons jersey. 70 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:57,399 Speaker 4: Yeah. 71 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 2: Well the thing is that, yeah, that jersey in the 72 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 2: red from just a little different colors. It's like a 73 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 2: garnet almost. Glad to change that. 74 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 4: So I'm glad that you were talking about your hometown 75 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 4: because I feel like we can't talk about your story 76 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 4: without talking about the place where you come from. And Tiger, 77 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 4: Georgia is not a very big place. As someone who's 78 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 4: from a town called Chickamauga, Georgia, I understand, small town 79 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 4: North Georgia, we get it. But for you, you also 80 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 4: were the youngest brother of seven yeah, little sister, yeah, 81 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 4: and then three older brothers. What was growing up like 82 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 4: in your household with kind of that support system with 83 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 4: your family and having that many brothers and sisters and 84 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 4: y'all also lived on like a tunnel land too, like 85 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 4: five and a half acres, well, yeah. 86 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 2: Like ten acres, but we but the best thing is 87 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 2: we backed up to Chattahoochee National Forest, which is thirteen 88 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 2: thousand where I was at, So it's all public lands. 89 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 2: So you could just, you know, mom, close that door. 90 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 2: You weren't allowed to back in the house, you know, 91 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 2: you drink the hose water and stay outside, you know, 92 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 2: so you just took off in the woods. You know, 93 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: you talk about my my brothers, my sisters as well. 94 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't a support system at first. It 95 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 2: was a it was a no, I couldn't compete. I 96 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 2: just got I just got beat up growing up, you know. 97 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 2: And so I got beat up all the time growing up. 98 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 2: And I definitely I've always attributed so much my toughness 99 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 2: and just a lot of my work ethic. And you know, 100 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 2: my my siblings were my heroes growing up, you know, 101 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 2: my older siblings, my brothers and sisters. So I attributed 102 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 2: so much to them. But yeah, it wasn't a spport 103 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 2: system first. It was a lot of beating up. But 104 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 2: then as it got older, they definitely have been my 105 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 2: biggest fans and always supported me. 106 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 4: Y'all. You talk about being outside all the time, What 107 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 4: was kind of the biggest trouble that y'all ever got into? 108 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 4: Because I imagine that y'all were just out in the wilderness. 109 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 2: You know, I can't talk about getting into I mean, 110 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 2: we never we were We were good at not getting caught. 111 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 2: I'll just leave it at that. We were good. Yeah, 112 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 2: you can't know. She probably still don't know. 113 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: Half of the minutially little suspicious of you. 114 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 2: No, we never did any too bad. We were mostly 115 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 2: good kids, but we definitely we're definitely a little dumb sometimes. 116 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 2: I don't know how one of us didn't get severely 117 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 2: hurt or die. To be honest with you, we did 118 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: some stupid stuff. 119 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: So yeah, and alas here we are though you guys 120 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: all survived. 121 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 2: Yea survived. 122 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 4: You made a comment it was like right when you 123 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 4: were being recruited to Georgia about like when you were 124 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 4: growing up, you like whenever someone would ask like who 125 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 4: you looked up to, it was like it wasn't like 126 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 4: a professional athlete or some movie star or musician or anything. 127 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 4: It was like my brothers or the answer, how did 128 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 4: their influence shape you, not just as a young kid 129 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 4: growing up and looking up to them, but even now 130 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 4: in your adulthood. 131 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, all did some dicking to find some of these interviews. 132 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 2: Was it a good job? Yeah? I mean you said 133 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 2: it like Tiger George of a small town. I thought 134 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 2: the world fell off on that county line, you know, 135 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 2: like we never left that much. You know, like if 136 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: we did, we're you know, all together, you know, but 137 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 2: you know, I didn't watch a lot of TV, didn't 138 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: watch a you know, so everything I knew was my family, 139 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 2: you know, and so my older my older three brothers specifically, 140 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 2: you know, I just I always followed their footsteps. You know, 141 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 2: if they did something dumb, I'd do it, or you know, 142 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 2: or I'd learn to not do it, you know what 143 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 2: the result was. But yeah, they were they were always 144 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 2: just such a you know, just my leaders and my 145 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 2: my examples. And I looked up to them so much, 146 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: and even today, you know, watching them grow, you know, 147 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 2: you know, one's married with three kids ones and the 148 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 2: other one's married. The other one actually works right in 149 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 2: here in fire Brand. So they're just they're still my 150 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 2: best buddies. You know. We talk all the time. And 151 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 2: so thankful as a as a younger brother to have 152 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: great older brothers in my life, because a lot of 153 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 2: a lot of men can't say that, and I'm very 154 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 2: thankful to have good ones. 155 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: Was that part of the reason you ended up deciding 156 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 1: to stay in state for college? 157 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 2: Family, I'd say, so, yeah when people ask me that 158 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 2: one Actually I try to put myself back in like 159 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 2: seventeen year old Charlie's mind, and I really can't remember. 160 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 2: I think at the end of the day. Yeah, I 161 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 2: was like, I was like looking between like Clemson and Georgia. 162 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 2: It was like which one's closer. Clemson's right across the 163 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 2: lake and Georgia's right down for forty one it was like, 164 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 2: I can't quite remember, I definitely want to stay close 165 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 2: and uh but then whenever I do look back on 166 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 2: old pictures, I'm like, man, I wore a lot more 167 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 2: Georgia gear than I thought, Like I didn't know how 168 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 2: much Georgia gear I actually wore growing up until I 169 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,559 Speaker 2: look back at my mom's Facebook or the photo album 170 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 2: in the back of the house, and so I was 171 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 2: always a big Georgia fan, even though I can't quite 172 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 2: remember those days. But uh, yeah, I definitely think family 173 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 2: was a big reason of picking Georgia. 174 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 4: So the now that we're kind of shifting into your 175 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 4: college years, uh, I actually covered you with I was 176 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 4: with Dognation at the time as like a freelance I 177 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 4: know you don't remember me. 178 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 3: It's okay. 179 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 4: I went up to Charlie yesterday and I was like, 180 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 4: remember me, and He's like no, why. 181 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 2: There was so many people like did you do those 182 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 2: post practice interviews? Like yeah, okay, Ice Crum you can't 183 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 2: ever tell who's in front of you age just all 184 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 2: you see is a camera room. 185 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 4: It was like there were many times where I just 186 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 4: got hit in the head over a camera. 187 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 2: They just whack in the back and I'd just be like, all. 188 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 4: Right, I'll get out of here, don't mind me. But 189 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 4: something I remember about your recruitment because I did follow 190 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 4: it so closely at the time, was you were almost 191 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 4: recruited to Georgia and they were like, maybe we'll turn 192 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 4: him into a tight end, Like maybe that's something we'll do. 193 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 4: It's it was almost trying to figure out like that 194 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 4: coaching staff specifically was like, what do we do with 195 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 4: this kid? He can do a lot of different things. 196 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 4: He's very versatile. He's played a lot of different positions 197 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 4: in high school. So for you in those first couple 198 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 4: of years, what was the process to get to the 199 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 4: point of being like full time tight end, this is 200 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 4: your niche, this is where you can become something here. 201 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're right. I mean I played, you know, 202 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,959 Speaker 2: from Ravend County. I played running back receiver you know, 203 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 2: the wildcat formation, you know, and then I played mostly 204 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 2: safety on defense. So I was just all across the 205 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 2: field and obviously was not going to go to Georgia 206 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 2: and play running back or you know, play safety. So 207 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 2: I remember them asking me, hey, do you don't play 208 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 2: defense like d n you know whatever else linebacker or 209 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 2: do you want to like try a tight end? And 210 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I'll like, you know, I'll try 211 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 2: tight end. I think I was like I don't want 212 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 2: to play defense. I remember saying that. But yeah, basically 213 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: when I when I got there, they kind of already 214 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 2: slotted me to the tight end spot. I'll be honest, 215 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 2: probably not fast enough to be a receiver, you know. 216 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 2: So I was like, I'm the I'm the six ' 217 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 2: five dude, he's not fast enough for receivers. So and 218 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 2: I was like two hundred pounds probably two of five 219 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 2: back then, so I was put weight on them and 220 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 2: you know, try them at tight end. And so it 221 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 2: was just a lot of big learning curve. I can 222 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 2: really remember, like my training camp freshman year, how sore 223 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 2: my hips were from getting in a three point stance. 224 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 2: I literally, no, I've never done it, So I can 225 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 2: funny memory about training can I remember literally like a 226 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 2: weekend be like, oh my gosh, my hips like are 227 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 2: killing me. As an eighteen year old, I was like, 228 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 2: what is wrong with me? But it was just getting 229 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 2: used to be on three point stands and exploding off 230 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 2: the ball with three point stands. So it was a 231 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 2: big learning curve, but uh, obviously it's it's been it's 232 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 2: been a fun ride. And to learn how to do 233 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 2: it and learn how to contribute to the team as 234 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 2: a freshman sophomore, you know, to to learn how to 235 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 2: do it and helped the team win games. Was was 236 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 2: a fun learning curve. 237 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 4: Was there ever a point during that time where you 238 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 4: look back on and it was like this was the 239 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 4: moment that it clicked for me that there is a 240 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 4: not just a future at this position at the college level, 241 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 4: but even something that you could see a professional future 242 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 4: in at the position. 243 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 2: Man. Uh, I don't know about a moment I can 244 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 2: definitely remember. As a freshman and even sophomore sometimes I 245 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 2: still like had like a I didn't want to put 246 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 2: my hand. I felt more comfortable standing out in the slot, 247 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 2: you know, about to go run a route or even 248 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 2: block on the perimeter. I felt more comfortable with Uh. 249 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 2: It definitely started to turn like junior year of like 250 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 2: I almost liked being close to line of scrimmage with 251 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 2: my hand on the ground more so maybe then. But 252 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 2: I never knew like I was gonna have a career 253 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 2: in the NFL. Like I didn't know, Like it was 254 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 2: just a meshing of bringing my skill set of being 255 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 2: a receiver and running back into learning how to be 256 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 2: a gritty, you know, run blocker to then transforming into 257 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 2: what I know still could try to be you know today. 258 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: At this point now, could you have ever imagined playing 259 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: a different position? 260 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 2: Actually, I actually can. I can imagine myself playing outs 261 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 2: linebacker and like in a three four defense where like 262 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 2: your outsline backers are like set in the edges and 263 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 2: pass rush. I feel like I'd have been a decent. 264 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 3: One, you know, defense down then. 265 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 2: I don't know, because I actually love defense, Like I 266 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 2: remember being. 267 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 3: Like panic decisions. 268 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 2: I know, I remember being like eight that was like 269 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:38,719 Speaker 2: Georgia like all State defense player of the year my 270 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 2: senior year, and I was like, but I was just 271 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 2: playing safety, so like I couldn't imagine playing go and 272 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 2: playing you know, just like I never played tight end. 273 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 2: I couldn't see myself playing defensive end. But I feel 274 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 2: like I could have done it. I don't know, maybe 275 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 2: maybe that's not even me to thing, but I feel 276 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 2: like I had the body type at least to go 277 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 2: try it. 278 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 4: I like it now. Something that I loved about y'all's 279 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 4: group at Georgia specifically, was there were a lot of 280 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 4: this is funny, but there are a lot of guys 281 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 4: who I feel like every time I talked to one 282 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 4: of y'all or saw one of y'all, it was like 283 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 4: conversations about hunting and fishing like that was deeply embedded 284 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 4: in y'all's like group of friends. I think about like 285 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 4: conversations with like Jake from and what were some of 286 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 4: your favorite stories from those times with that group, like 287 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 4: off the. 288 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 2: Field, Yeah, you hit it on the head. I thought 289 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 2: we had a really good group of just good old 290 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 2: boys and the team that loved to hunt and fish, 291 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 2: and you know, it was just so many of us. 292 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 2: It was just it wasn't It's not a hobby to us, 293 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 2: you know, it's just our way of life and our 294 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 2: passion to be outdoors to If it's springtime, you know, 295 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 2: we're turkey hunting and bass fishing. If it's fall, you're 296 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 2: the limited time you have you're trying to go to 297 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 2: your hunt or something. You know, or shoot some doves 298 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 2: or something, and you know, it was just who we were. 299 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 2: And so you know, me and Jake were roommates. Obviously 300 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 2: there's a bunch of other guys like to hunt and fish. 301 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 2: So whenever we had the time, we were always trying 302 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,079 Speaker 2: to get out in the outdoors and and you know, 303 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 2: wed a line or do something. So it was just 304 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 2: such a such a release to us, but also just 305 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 2: a drive together. We you know, there ain't no option 306 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 2: to not go do it. We like it's like in 307 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 2: us to bring us out in the woods to go 308 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 2: do it. So it was just always a part of us. 309 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 2: And we had a lot of good trips. You know, 310 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 2: I can even like sometimes after a game, we'd be 311 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 2: like Saturday night we drive down to wherever and then 312 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 2: hunt Sunday morning. You know you'd be dog tired, but 313 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 2: you you know, you want to go do it. So 314 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 2: a lot of fun memories like that. That and me 315 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 2: and Jake are still buddies today. We both live in 316 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 2: Athens and still you know, hang out all the time. 317 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 4: So do y'all have like your favorite you don't have 318 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 4: to tell you don't have to disclose this information to 319 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 4: the public, but do y'all have. Did y'all have like 320 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 4: a secret spot in Athens that you're like, we could 321 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 4: go here and fish, we could go here and hunt. 322 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 4: Was there ever a place like that? 323 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 2: We had a few places, Yeah, but the close to 324 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 2: Athens it's hard to find. The big properties. Most usually 325 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 2: got drive an hour like Greensboro, Eatonton or you know 326 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 2: a little further away. But no, we definitely had some. 327 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 2: We definitely had some great spots that we have some 328 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 2: great memories at some that we we still talk about 329 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 2: today and we'll hold on to forever. 330 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 331 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: I want to fast forward a little more to one 332 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,079 Speaker 1: of the flashier parts of your career then with Draft Night, 333 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: because clearly the tight end position worked out. 334 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 3: Yeah. 335 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: I saw a story where you missed the forty nine 336 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: ers call. 337 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was just in that day. It was 338 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 2: a mess. Yeah, it was you know, the COVID to 339 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 2: like everyone, no one was doing anything. I was. I 340 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 2: was a day three guy anyway, so I was gonna 341 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 2: be at the house. But you know, when Tiger we 342 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 2: were off Bridge Creed, we had pretty bad We have 343 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 2: pretty bad service down there and in the house it's 344 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 2: pretty spotty. Plus I had I was a cheap. I 345 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: hadn't had any money at the time, and I didn't 346 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 2: want to spend the full price on the phone, so 347 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 2: I bought a used iPhone off eBay. Yeah, so I 348 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 2: bought a used fun off eBay, And yeah, for sure, 349 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 2: it was like refurbished a bunch of a bunch of 350 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 2: crap a phone off eBay mixed with horror service in 351 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 2: the sticks. It was just like I looked down all 352 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 2: of a sudden, there's like four miss calls and like 353 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 2: my wife was getting a call because I guess I 354 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 2: guess she was on like emergency, I think or whatever. 355 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 2: So I think I called back on her phone and 356 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 2: it was like a and I don't I don't remember 357 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 2: who it was, but they're like Charlie. Because I called. 358 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 2: I was like, hey, this is Charlie and you're like, hey, 359 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: we're trying to draft you. Man. I was like I'm 360 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 2: right here, like I'm yeah, I'm ready, you know, and 361 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 2: they're like, well, this is you know, the fortnights we're 362 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 2: trying to draft you. I was like awesome, you know, 363 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 2: but it was just it was such a crazy, like 364 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 2: ten minutes. It was. Yeah, I'd say to say I 365 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 2: bought a new phone the next day at Walmart, and 366 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: you know, it was just it was a it was 367 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 2: a mess. And then and the WiFi was horrible, you know, 368 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 2: trying to do an interview. It was just a big mess. 369 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 4: But that's hilarious because I I would love because you know, 370 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 4: they always like record those phone calls. 371 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 2: For oh yeah, like the interviews after fans thought I 372 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 2: was so upset that the Niners drafted me, like this 373 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 2: guy don't want to be a night here, Like he 374 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 2: looks mad they drafted them all this. It was really 375 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 2: it was just my face was frozen. I couldn't hear 376 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 2: what anyone. 377 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 3: Was saying over here. 378 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 2: I'm like, I literally walked to the bathroom. I thought 379 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 2: the service was better and it just was a big mess. 380 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 2: And I was like, no, I'm excited. I was so 381 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 2: happy drafted, but everyone's like, we don't want this guy. 382 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 2: You don't want to be here. So it was just 383 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 2: a funny story, like no I do. 384 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 4: I just don't have any service at all. 385 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: It's crazy that they called your wife like it's in 386 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: case of emergency. 387 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure if I can remember, I think they 388 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 2: call her because I think I called back on her. 389 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 2: Maybe I called back on hers, but something. It was 390 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 2: just it was just a while. 391 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: They never got in hold of you. 392 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 2: You have on the clock, you can't reach them. 393 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 4: Who's the next on the board, Let's get him. My gosh, 394 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 4: when you know you get the call, and it would 395 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 4: have been great when you get the call and you know, 396 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 4: you go through that process, you finally get the phone 397 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 4: from Walmart that works. You know, it ended up working out. 398 00:16:58,400 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, they had iPhones. 399 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 4: The COVID nineteen pandemic was happening at that time, and 400 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,919 Speaker 4: that I think was a big shock to the system 401 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,719 Speaker 4: obviously for everybody, but for you specifically. You picked up 402 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 4: and moved across the country. First time living out of 403 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,360 Speaker 4: the state. I think I said, first time like ever 404 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 4: really leaving the state for you, What was what were 405 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 4: those initial like first months, like. 406 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 2: You know they were To sum it up, I'll to 407 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 2: say I was. It was weird. For sure, everything was 408 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 2: shut down. But like when I think back to that, 409 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 2: I think of me and my wife. We just had 410 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 2: gotten married in June and drafted in April, married June, 411 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 2: and then you know, I went out to training camp 412 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 2: first before she came out. But when training camps over, 413 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 2: you have more of a life to do things. But 414 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 2: my first memories are just me and my wife. You know, 415 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 2: she's my best friend, and like there was nothing to do. 416 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 2: You couldn't go out to eat, you couldn't do anything. 417 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 2: So it was just me and Sydney, you know, my 418 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 2: best friend, my wife, you know, the woman who's going 419 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 2: to spend the rest of my life with. So we 420 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 2: were just we were just meshing as a married couple, 421 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,479 Speaker 2: you know, living together for the first time, and like 422 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 2: figuring out what all that meant and how that was 423 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,719 Speaker 2: going to go away from everybody we knew. So there 424 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 2: wasn't like a hey, Mam and deed to come on 425 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 2: the weekend, or hey, a friend's coming over. It was 426 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 2: just me and her for six months straight. So honestly 427 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 2: look back on that time as such a blessing for 428 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,919 Speaker 2: us too, to just really grow as a married couple. 429 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 2: That that rookie season. We missed everybody, but it was 430 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 2: really good for us to have that time just being her, 431 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 2: not to rll on anybody, to figure things out on 432 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 2: our own. So yeah, it's that's what I remember most about, 433 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 2: just picking up and moving. I'm so glad that I 434 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 2: the Lord blessed me with a with an awesome you know, 435 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 2: uh wife and Sydney to do it all with. 436 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 4: Do you have what was something I guess that you 437 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 4: learned about y'all as a couple during that time, because 438 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 4: like what you said, like this is the only person 439 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 4: year around outside of the guys on the team, which 440 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 4: even at that point in time, it was difficult to do, 441 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 4: to go through meetings and everything because of all the other. 442 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 2: And you weren't technically allowed to you weren't supposed to 443 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 2: hang out. 444 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 4: Out, right. 445 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I learned about me and Sydney. I don't know 446 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 2: if we learned like I don't know if I can 447 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 2: think back to like what we learned. It was more 448 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 2: just yeah, it's more just just figuring out, you know, 449 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 2: like things you didn't like or disliked. And I can't 450 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 2: remember if like you know, I can remember, like I 451 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 2: remember would tell her like put the toothpaste thing back on, 452 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 2: th man. She still does it today sometimes, like put 453 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 2: it back on. Yeah. But there wasn't many things that 454 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 2: were too bad. Man. We just we we we really 455 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 2: loved living together and figuring that out as a married couple. 456 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 2: And uh, yeah it was just you look, because you 457 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 2: look back on how bad that year was for a 458 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 2: lot of people, but we were so we had such 459 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 2: a great year, you know, getting drafted, married, living together 460 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 2: the first time and figuring it all out was was 461 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 2: so fun. 462 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 3: It's like a makeshift honeymoon almost. 463 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was literally six months, five months, you know. 464 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 2: I think she might have flown back once or something, 465 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 2: but it was like it was just us, you know. So, yeah, we. 466 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: Were looking into the forty nine ors, social media too, 467 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,360 Speaker 1: and the rookie hype show. I want to hear about 468 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: your performance to Brooks and Dun's. You did that when 469 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: there were no fans there yet. 470 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 4: Taren told me about this and I said, he did what. 471 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 2: Y'all did some digging good job, guys. 472 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 3: You we'll be around all the time. 473 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,360 Speaker 2: Nice. No. Yeah, so that was like a rookie thing 474 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 2: you had to do. Usually there's like a I don't 475 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 2: know how y'all do it here, but there's long line 476 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 2: of fans. You know, everyone's watching practice, and you got 477 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 2: to go over there and pump the fans up. 478 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 4: In training camp. 479 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 2: Yeah right, because nobody was there. Nobody was there, but 480 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 2: I still had to go do it and I sold out. Man. 481 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 2: I had a brand new man. I literally ran over 482 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 2: there to nobody did a front roll like really hurt actually, 483 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 2: like I rolled, landed on my feet real hard, hurt 484 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 2: my back too, and I'm just like I'm on my 485 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 2: like you know, knees, just shreding the guitar, you know, 486 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 2: on the opening, and uh, they loved it, you know, 487 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 2: because if you do bad, you're supposed to do it again. 488 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 2: So I sold out for for nobody. Yeah, I sold 489 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 2: out for my guys who we are a hundred yards 490 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 2: behind me watching. 491 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 4: So yeah, honestly, probably for the best that no one 492 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 4: was there, right, I'm gonna. 493 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: Try to find a way to sneak that song into 494 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 1: the training camp playlist. 495 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 2: I think that I think the fans would have liked it, though, 496 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 2: you do think there's usually guys go over there and 497 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 2: just like, you know, I was trying to do something different. 498 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe they would have. Maybe they'd been like. 499 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 2: This guy, I don't know, they're probably like, this is 500 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 2: country music. I'm not kidding the country I. 501 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 4: Know, I forget You're in the Bay Area at this point. 502 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,880 Speaker 1: I'm guessing country music is your favorite and getting into favorites. 503 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: We have a rapid fire section towards the end of 504 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: the show. 505 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody gets like the same generic five questions. 506 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 3: But one of yours is a plot twist. 507 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, one of yours. We've changed a lesson making. 508 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 2: It harder on me than anyone else. 509 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 4: No, I don't. 510 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 3: Think it's hard, all right. 511 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 4: Question number one, what was your favorite play of your career? 512 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 4: And this could be high school, college, pros, what childhood 513 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 4: flag football? 514 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 2: If you want to favorite just single play, full. 515 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 4: Play of your career. 516 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my gosh, that's just a brutal question. That's tough. 517 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 2: I mean I don't have a single play. If I could, 518 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 2: I don't know. Man. If I recently, I would say 519 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 2: I have trouble going back in time. Sometimes it give 520 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 2: me time. 521 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 4: But we're talking about recall. 522 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 2: Yes, i'd say, I'd say I'd say winning. You know what, No, no, 523 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 2: this is this just came out. I can remember playing 524 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 2: North Carolina and the Chick fil A kickoff game in 525 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 2: the Old Dome, rookie freshman year. I didn't do anything 526 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 2: specially that game. I can just this isn't even play. 527 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 2: I just remember I remember kind of tearing up running 528 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 2: out of the thing like whoa. Because it was all 529 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 2: Georgia fans. There weren't hardly any North Krolina fans there. 530 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 2: That's just I don't know why that just hit my head. 531 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 2: That's such a cool moment for me of like, big crowd, 532 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 2: Georgia fans, welcome to it, like awesome. It was so 533 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 2: cool to hear how loud the old Dome was, and 534 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 2: you know, to play in front of Georgia fans. That 535 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 2: was one of the That's not even a play, sorry, 536 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 2: but that was a great moment. That was such a 537 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 2: cool moment for me as a young eighteen year old 538 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 2: kid who played, you know for a decent crowded Raymon County, 539 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 2: but to go play for that whatever, however, big the 540 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 2: dome was awesome. 541 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 4: It's crazy too because that was I think one of 542 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:07,400 Speaker 4: the last like. 543 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 2: I think I think it was the last college game. 544 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 2: They might have done a playoff game or chick flad 545 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 2: whatever game. 546 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 4: But uh yeah, and y'all really put it to North 547 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,120 Speaker 4: Carolina that day. I'm pretty sure. 548 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll let you have that one. 549 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 2: We'll consider that it wasn't a play. 550 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 4: So it's a good moment though. I do like a 551 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 4: good moment. 552 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 2: And I don't know, yeah, and I don't know why 553 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 2: that hit my head. It just did. 554 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 4: No I love that. 555 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 3: What about your favorite player growing up? 556 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 2: Favorite player any sport? Yeah, okay, this is a good, 557 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 2: good Falcons question because I love toning In Zalas and 558 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 2: his Falcon's career. I didn't really watch him at the 559 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 2: Chiefs when he was there, but I remember toning In 560 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 2: Zalas like those are prime like starting to when football 561 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 2: is becoming a passion for me, like throughout middle school, 562 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 2: high school. You know, I loved when like me and 563 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 2: my brother, you know, my brother who was a tight end. 564 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 2: We just I loved watching Toning into allus For some reason, 565 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 2: it's he was so he just caught everything. He was 566 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 2: just he knew how to he played. He played the 567 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 2: game of football was supposed to be played, and I 568 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 2: loved watching him play when he's at the Falcons. 569 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,199 Speaker 4: Yeah. I recently did an interview with him for a 570 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 4: project that we're working on in a couple of months, 571 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 4: and I had the flu. So it's on the phone 572 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 4: with him and I couldn't talk and he was like, 573 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 4: now who am I talking to? And I'm like that lady. 574 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 2: He couldn't hear nothing, nothing, And I was. 575 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 4: Like, let's just get into this, and he was like, yeah, 576 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 4: let's do that. 577 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: It was great. 578 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 2: Horrible. 579 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's sounding so sick. 580 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 3: Go chug a gate raide. 581 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 4: Okay, if you could have a superpower, what superpower would 582 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 4: you have? 583 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 2: Teleportation? 584 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:37,120 Speaker 4: Yeah? 585 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 2: How do you not say that? One? You know a 586 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 2: lot of people time is time is money, and time 587 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 2: is valuable. If I could teleport home. 588 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 3: And avoid Atlanta traffic. 589 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, avoid traffic everywhere, and you know, celiport to the beach, 590 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 2: teleport wherever you wanna go. 591 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 4: Mm hmm. That's nice. 592 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: That's my answer to always. 593 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,719 Speaker 2: That's if someone doesn't say that, if they say flying, 594 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 2: it's like. 595 00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 4: There are there have been a lot of flying. 596 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 2: But it's teleportation is better. 597 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 4: Teleportation and flying their planes, right, but like. 598 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 2: Invisibility is like a second behind teleportation. 599 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 4: The thing is, I don't know if i'd want to 600 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 4: like know what people said about. 601 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 2: Me, like not not even for that just would be cool, 602 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 2: you know, just like this and just like. 603 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so you're doing it to punk people. 604 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 3: All right? 605 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,959 Speaker 4: The best new dad advice that you received when your 606 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 4: son was born? 607 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 2: Oh man, I'd say the best, like my most recent advice, sure, yeah, 608 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 2: most recent, you know is when just you know today, 609 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 2: it's like signing here yesterday or whatever. Is just how 610 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 2: quick the time goes And I've heard a thousand times, 611 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 2: you know, but it's it hits home when I'm like 612 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,479 Speaker 2: people are like, oh, you're going to drive from Athens 613 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 2: every day, you know, over to fire Branch Produs And I'm like, 614 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 2: sound you know. Maybe they're like, well, a couple of 615 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 2: people have said, you know, get a house over there, 616 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 2: because like the time truly does fly by. And then 617 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 2: like like time is just so valuable. Time's worth more 618 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: than money, and they're like, you want to spend every 619 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 2: chance you can get with your kids, and so get 620 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 2: a house over here so you can be done with 621 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 2: practice at four and be home by four twenty or 622 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 2: whatever rather than five point thirty, you know what I mean. 623 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 2: So that one, you know, that one definitely hits when 624 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 2: you hear that from multiple people who are older than me, 625 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,119 Speaker 2: with with multiple kids. You know, man, it goes by 626 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 2: so quick. And obviously I've heard it before, but in 627 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 2: this scenario, you think, oh, Georgia works out, you can 628 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 2: live home. It's like I might actually see my son less, yeah, 629 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 2: if I live over there. 630 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 4: So a good point. Yeah, good advice, all right. 631 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 3: In the last one, last, but not least. Yeah, this 632 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 3: is curiosity. 633 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, so like what we were talking about. Tiger Georgia 634 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 4: is a small town, very like George, true Georgia town. 635 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 4: If it had a brochure and it was like things 636 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 4: to do in Tiger Georgia, what would be on the brochure? 637 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 2: Well, that's easy question, Okay, it would be visiting the lakes. Yeah, 638 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 2: it would go if you're in the fall, I'd be 639 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 2: a leaf looking, which tons of people already do. Drive up. 640 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 2: They all the Florida people drive up to look at 641 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 2: the leaves, get on the lakes. Tons of hiking go 642 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 2: to the drive in Tiger driving, which used to be 643 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 2: like we used to all go local people, you know, 644 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 2: we'd all hop in the van for like ten bucks. 645 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 2: But now it's like a fifteen dollars ahead because it's 646 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 2: like a cool niche thing to do. You gotta go 647 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 2: trout fishing, you can go hunting. There's a lot to 648 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 2: do in Tigers. 649 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 4: Honestly, this is a big brochure. 650 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean Tiger. I mean it's it's. 651 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,199 Speaker 3: A pretty driving sounds like the staple. 652 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 2: It's more happening than it used to be. But it's 653 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,479 Speaker 2: it's a great place to go online and you can 654 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 2: also find some things to do too. 655 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 3: Has a cell phone service gotten better? 656 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 2: I don't know, probably, probably, there's I think there's still 657 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 2: some dead spots, like if you're driving home, I think 658 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 2: it might drop a call, like in the same area 659 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 2: as it did ten years ago. But uh, I think 660 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 2: the Wi Fi has got a little better. I think 661 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 2: because the lakes have gotten so much money. I think 662 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 2: the internet's gotten better. Don't know that's on windstream though. 663 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:12,439 Speaker 2: So that's okay. 664 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: Well, you handled our rapid questions like a pro. And 665 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: before I get into where everyone can find this podcast, 666 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: I need to tell you all about our great sweet 667 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: that is. As the official ticket marketplace of the Falcons 668 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 1: in the NFL, Ticketmaster has a wide selection of tickets 669 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: available for every game. Whether you're cheering on the Falcons 670 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: at home or away, Ticketmaster has you covered. Download the 671 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: Ticketmaster app or find tickets today at ticketmaster dot com 672 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: slash Falcons. 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Honestly, that's where we are. 678 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 4: Anywhere anywhere you can get your podcast. 679 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 2: Apple, Yeah, Apple podcasts, iTunes. 680 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 4: I think it's just Apple pods now. 681 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 2: Anyone to use iTunes anymore? 682 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 3: My parents they still buy music, but. 683 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 2: That helps the artists out more, though technically so I think, 684 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 2: I don't know. 685 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 3: That's a whole different conversation. 686 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 4: Great note to end on. Thank you so much for 687 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 4: joining us. 688 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 2: Go Falcons.