1 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:08,799 Speaker 1: Best advice that he gives me, really, just try to 2 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: outward everyone. Try to outward you know, everyone you compete against, 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: trying to outward fear, try to outward everything. I feel 4 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: like now I'm really just going out there, playing free, 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: playing faster. What are we all going to be saying 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: about Rashad Perriman at the end of the two thousand 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: seventeen season. Welcome into the lounge. We are going to 8 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: be joined by another great guest, somebody that I know 9 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Ravens fans are looking to hear from. Why don't we 10 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: even preview it like that? Because the name of the 11 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: guests is in the title. They know who give it away. 12 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: I don't understand why you try to create this excitement drama. Yeah, 13 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: this drama. And it's like, we're gonna tell you in 14 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: a second anyway, we'll stop doing that. Future opens. But 15 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 1: I'm Ryan Mick, your Garrett Downing, and I'm gonna read 16 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: the email. Let's just jump right into it. You've got 17 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: an email from Benjamin Leton in I hope I pronounced 18 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: that last name correct, Benjamin uh And they say, Hi, 19 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: I'm a longtime fan from Sweden. Here another international fan, 20 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: another international fan. They say since I don't live in 21 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: the US, I have a question that I heard that 22 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: I haven't heard an answer to. I know you need 23 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: a backup quarterback and we have a good one for 24 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: the moment and Ryan Mallett, but why not turn to 25 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: one that's in house. I guess you were in house 26 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: than Ryan, even though he has changed the wide receiver. 27 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: What about Keenan Reynolds. I don't know enough about him, 28 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: but wouldn't he be a good backup for Joe Flacco? 29 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: Keep it up, guys, signed Benji. Well, thanks for the email, Benjing. 30 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: If you have questions or comments, do you want to 31 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: email the show. You can do that at the lounge 32 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: at Ravens Thought NFL dot net. Um. Simply put, I 33 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: mean Keenan Reynolds is not really built to be an 34 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. He's not really big enough. He doesn't have 35 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: a huge arm. I mean they ran a triple option running. 36 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: He was more of a glorified running back in college. 37 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: He was he was, he ran in the show, he 38 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: ran their offense. Yeah, but he wasn't a quarterback in 39 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,399 Speaker 1: the sense like Joe Flacco is a quarterback who's throwing 40 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: a forty yards down the field. If it's you know, 41 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: he was a running back in that Navy who could 42 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,839 Speaker 1: throw exactly, so he could be the only option there. 43 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: I think is as a trick play kind of guy. 44 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: Sure that if as a receiver, then you like hold 45 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: that one, kind of like the Patriots did with Julian 46 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: Edelman against the Ravens. He was a college quarterback, made 47 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: the transition wide receiver. You kind of hold onto that 48 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: one of the bag of tricks. So we're not going 49 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: to talk too much about that because we might got 50 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: out of the bag. But yeah, so thank you very 51 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: much for the question. Benji, I do have to say 52 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: from Sweden, as beautiful as I hear it sounds, being 53 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 1: that I have family in Norway, big rivals Norway Sweden 54 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: go I'm on what's the Benji? Benji? I'm on Benji side. 55 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: Why would you go against my family? Because I go 56 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: against everything that you say? Okay, fair enough inro So, 57 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: without any further ado, we want to welcome in Brashot 58 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: pirmin alright, So Brashot starting out, we got to talk 59 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: about that sick video that we put on the website. 60 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: You're catching balls off the jugs machine. That was that 61 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,119 Speaker 1: was pretty hard. That got me hyped up. Were those 62 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: balls coming as fast as they looked on the video 63 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: or give us a little behind the scenes kind of 64 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: pretty here. I don't think it will come as fast 65 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,079 Speaker 1: as it looked. It looked pretty fast, and I don't 66 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: know how they did it and make it look like 67 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: it would come and extreamly fast. But I liked it. 68 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: You know. I was kind of sketchy about doing that 69 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: first quick, you know, just so behind the scene type 70 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: of grab. But it came out. It came on nice. 71 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: And you were in the dark, which as another element 72 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: of the whole thing. That's what made it pretty hard. 73 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: As we made it hard. So I feel like you 74 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: feel going fast, They weren't. It worked out too good, 75 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: it was. It was pretty dark. So one time Garrett 76 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: and I were in the gym, so we're getting ready 77 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: to play some basketball whatever. The jugs machines in there, right, 78 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: and so we it in there. We're like, how fast 79 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: do you think we can catch one off this thing? 80 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: So we turned up it's like fifteen miles per hour 81 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: or whatever. We're standing like ten feet away, catch it 82 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: all right? You know. We decided to jack it up 83 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: a little bit, not that high that it was like, 84 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: they start whizzling over our head. Literally, we're hitting the 85 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: deck on these things. I seriously thought I was gonna 86 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: go blind, like one hitting in the face. It ain't good. 87 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: So who wasn't. Then we came back up. We asked 88 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: Ja Kobe how fast he takes up to you? Yeah? 89 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: He was like, what fifty something? Yeah? So how fast 90 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: do you take the balls off the jugs machine? At? 91 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: Reading about a normal good speed? We were literally scared 92 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: were standing here. I know that there's no camera, but 93 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: we were ducking, just like sticking our hands out there. 94 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: You can try to hurt you got you gotta be 95 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: on your p's and queues. Super show. We figured, you know, 96 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: we gotta ask you a little little football questions that 97 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: we'll get into. Some of the more personal stuff is 98 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: our fans. You know, they like to talk about wide receivers. 99 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever noticed that before, but 100 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: they're kind of obsessive wide receivers. So did you know 101 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: that you're in possession to have a pretty big role 102 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: on this year's offense the way things stand right now? Yeah, 103 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: I do know that I've been here, I've been hearing 104 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: a lot about it, and I can't wait. Yeah, so yeah, 105 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: I mean, just what are the emotions knowing that you 106 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: know that it looks like right now you'd be in 107 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: one of those two starting positions and have your chance 108 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: to really flourish this here. What are the emotions knowing that? 109 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: Basically just excitement? Man, you know you've been waiting for 110 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: this moment all along, so now I just find he coming. 111 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: You know, you kind of get excited, but at the 112 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: same time, just try to still take it day by 113 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: day in uh, not even really look too far ahead, 114 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: you know, just continue to get better, daddy, right. You know, 115 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: everyone's a little different in terms of how they handle hearing, 116 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: like the outside noise. When you hear people say, oh, 117 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: the Ravens need to add receiver or this that's there's 118 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: a question mark at that group. Does that motivate you? 119 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: Does that bother you? Like, how do you take outside criticism? 120 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: H as? I feel like it motivates me in a way. 121 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: But at the same time, I mean, if I just 122 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: happened to run across it, then you know, did not 123 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: see it, but I really don't really pay attention to it. 124 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: I feel like, if it's not in this building, you know, 125 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: the guys that go to ward with you know, every day, 126 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: every Patty is every game. Then I really don't too 127 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 1: much care for it. But at the same time, you know, 128 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: you do here. You know sometimes uh you hear from 129 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: you know, different people, you know, even Fannyman, but sometimes 130 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: you say something about it, so it will definitely will 131 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: motivate you, right, So obviously it makes its way back 132 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: to you. I mean, what are your expectations for this year? 133 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: We talk about it and everyone has different expectations. He 134 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: can do this for that, but from you, like, what 135 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: do you expect to accomplish this year? I'm gonna spending 136 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: a huge year for me, be honest, which you know, 137 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: just be consistent, being accountable. Is it something I mean, 138 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 1: obviously there are the team goals, but is there something 139 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: in you that that writes down your personal goals or 140 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: whatever it is? Like, do you really chart them and say, 141 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: all right, here's what's on my white board. Now I'm 142 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: shooting for this, you know, yeah, more definitely. I mean 143 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: I write down goes into you. You know, of course 144 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: the team goes to win the championship, they win the 145 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: super goal, but oh yeah, I write down his personal 146 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: goals every year, man, you know, always the cat from 147 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: time to time, you know, to make sure that I'm 148 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: gonna check and try to reach those goals? Have you 149 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: written them? Yea? We gotta get the answer. We gotta 150 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: get behind the scenes a little bit here. Have you 151 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: written them? Okay? All right, but they're gonna be loftier? 152 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: Like what were last year's goals? What did you write 153 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: down last year? Do you remember you? Do you remember? 154 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: Did you hit him? Where? Did you come up a 155 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: little short? I won't flash, that's right, that's hey man, 156 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: you if you're not even high, I mean, where the 157 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: hell are you aiming? If you're writing down I want 158 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: to have ten catches for a hundred yards this year. 159 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: I wouldn't like to hear that either. Well. I gotta 160 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: believe that one of the goals probably last year that 161 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: you did hit is you wanted to stay healthy, right, 162 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: and you did? And I feel like that kind of 163 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: gets lost a little bit, you know, like because obviously 164 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: your rookie year went the way it did, and then 165 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: you have the knee injury leading into last year and 166 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: there was just a question like is this is this 167 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: player going to be able to stay healthy? How nice 168 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: was it for you to be able to say, Okay, 169 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: you know what, I can stay healthy and playing the 170 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: entire season. Well, I feel like that was big. You know, 171 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: all along, I knew the actor stay healthy, and I 172 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: feel like that wasn't like something that I was just 173 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: nervous about me the injuries that happened to my rookie year. 174 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: I feel like it was just some freak incidence, you know. 175 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: But I've never really thought of myself as like injury 176 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: prone or anything like that. So that was my inspectation, 177 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: my goal because it stay healthy all year and it happened. 178 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: So she continue a bid on that this year. Can 179 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: we go back? And I want to kind of go 180 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: through the start of your career so that fans really 181 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: understand what how difficult it was for you. You know, 182 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: I don't don't think since you were kind of away 183 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: from the spotlight for your rookie year, fans didn't really understand, 184 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: you know, they were kind of left guessing, and so 185 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: I just want to talk about that from your perspective, Um, 186 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: what how how difficult was that? I mean to obviously, 187 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 1: you get draft in the first round, you have high 188 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: hopes for yourself, and then to suffer the first injury 189 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,599 Speaker 1: and especially think oh, this is only gonna be a 190 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: couple of weeks or whatever, you know, just taking back 191 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: that time and how difficult it was for you. It 192 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: was very difficult. Man. I feel like, uh, you know, 193 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: just thinking bad. I just feel like when it first happened, 194 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: you know, I thought it was was just a mind of setback, 195 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: and then it seemed like it was just it was 196 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: just getting worse. I guess, you know, it was just 197 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: bad news at the bad news because I thought I 198 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: really didn't think I was gonna come back. And then 199 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: you know, later later in the season, I realized that, 200 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't gonna happen, so that that was 201 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: just bad news on top of bad news. So it 202 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: was it was pretty hard man. You know, I'm glad 203 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: I got through, but you know, look back at it, Uh, 204 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: it was it was real. It was real tough, I understand, 205 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: did you not? You know, was it hard for you 206 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: to go to games, you know, and be there and 207 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 1: probably wanting to be on the field, and knowing that 208 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: you know, you're putting in all the work behind the scenes, 209 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:18,599 Speaker 1: but you you could you could stand there on the 210 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: sidelines when you couldn't step onto that field. Was it 211 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 1: hard for you did you not want to go to 212 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: games because it was so difficult. Yeah, I feel like 213 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: that was that was maybe being one of the hardest 214 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: things about it really. Yeah, you know, just having to 215 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: go to the game and knowing that you're not gonna 216 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: get in, and you know, just being being in the 217 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: whole environment. It was, No, you can't really take any 218 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: part of it. That was that was the toughest I 219 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: think for me to what you do? Oh what did 220 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: I do? I think I went there, I went into 221 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: some games. In some games, I just I just couldn't go. 222 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,079 Speaker 1: Like mentally, I wasn't right. It just wasn't gonna sit 223 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: good with me at all. See you watching him? Yeah, 224 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: for the most part it with your family. So your 225 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: parents came up from Florida to watch it there. Yeah, 226 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: because that year, you know, they had bought all their tickets, 227 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: you know, to travel in their bands, so they had 228 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: all these tickets to come up you know, watch me 229 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: you play boy. I wasn't playing for the year. So 230 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: they said, no, no need to their money go away. 231 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: So they still came and we just watched it together. 232 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: I remember, you know, I think it was near the 233 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: end of the season or maybe right after the season 234 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: when you did the press conference. I think it's right 235 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: after you went on i R and you talked then, 236 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: and you talked about how your parents came up and 237 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: how that was so helpful to you to have them 238 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: kind of come up and talk to you during that time. 239 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: What did that mean to you to have them to 240 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: spend that time with you, and how much did you 241 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: kind of need that that family support. Oh, I feel 242 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: like I need that a lot, to be honest with 243 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: you know, uh, a lot of things I do. I 244 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: feel like athletes just handle on my own, you know, 245 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: but them them coming up and just being there with 246 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: me during the games and things like that would bid 247 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: for me because you know, they always you know, they're 248 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,199 Speaker 1: my parents, so they always got something encouraging and say, 249 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: you know, some pods of words and just looking at 250 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: things and having a positive outlook about everything. So I 251 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: feel like that was huge. Was was that? I mean 252 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: this question We're gonna go on and talk about other 253 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: difficult things, but was that the hardest point? Would you say, 254 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: was that your lowest moment then when you were injured? Um, 255 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: I mean of a year of difficulties from you, But 256 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: you know, I remember when you came back, you talked 257 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: about how you felt like you were like depressed. You know, 258 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: do you still look back that as the hardest moment. Oh, 259 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,559 Speaker 1: that's tough, ah, because I mean that year was just 260 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: crazy for me. Yeah. Yeah, So I don't I don't 261 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: even know what I can rank as a well. That 262 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: was just it was just a lot of challenging moments 263 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 1: for me. So I don't think that was I mean, yeah, 264 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: it was tough. Football means a lot to me, but 265 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: you know, I had stuff, some family stuff going on, 266 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: you know, not my best friends. You know, it was 267 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: a lot of things that was going on. So yeah, right, 268 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: Obviously what you're kind of talking about is with Trey, 269 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: you know, and and Trade passes away in March of 270 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,559 Speaker 1: that year in the accident. You know, I don't know that, 271 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: you know, people didn't necessarily know that you guys. I 272 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: didn't at the time that you guys were so close. 273 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: Can you talk about how that friendship kind of developed 274 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: and how you guys became as closer friends as you were. Oh, basically, 275 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, trade trade from Miami. 276 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: All my family from Miami, So my dad and his 277 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: his dad knew each other. Basically a lot of his 278 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: family and my family knew each other, so, uh, but 279 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: you didn't know each other back then or anything like, no, 280 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: I met him, but he wasn't like but um, trade was. 281 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: He was also cool one of my cousins who was 282 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: like maybe a year on year younger than me. Uh 283 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: So once we once we got up here, we just 284 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: kind of like clip. Like I knew that my family 285 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: knew his family, and I knew that one of my 286 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: cousins was cool with him. So I had asked him, 287 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: you know, was he cool with my cousin? And then 288 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: we just clipped and he was telling me like he 289 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: used always talking. He said, it hit dad. I used 290 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: to talk about my dad all the time, and it's 291 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 1: you know, from then on, it was just yeah, And 292 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: I would imagine that he was somebody you kind of 293 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: leaned on when you were going through all the injuries 294 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Was was he a guy that 295 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: was a real resource to you then to kind of 296 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: try to keep you up? Yeah? Yeah, I feel like 297 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: he was a big part two like my family and 298 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: him and Bobby for the most part. To receive cork 299 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: because just because you know Trade, uh, you know, I 300 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: really during that year, I wasn't really talking much at all, 301 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: Like I just coming in facility, you know, just do 302 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: what I gotta do and theyd be that. But when 303 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: I do talk, it was mostly to Trade, you know, 304 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: so uh, anytime like after practice or anything, like, I 305 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: was over his house all the time, so it was 306 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: he was just you know, always telling me he knows, 307 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: just positive things. Right then after is that obviously, then 308 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: you have your dad's health scare. I mean it's like 309 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: things seem to just get worse. How crazy was that 310 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: with your dad's struck that you went through, and you know, 311 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: you went down there immediately and stayed at the hospital 312 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks and stuff like that. I 313 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: mean at that point, you're like, what the hell is 314 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: going to happen next year? You know, Yeah, that's that's 315 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: exactly what I was thinking. That's exactly what I was thinking. Yeah, 316 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: my dad his his stroke was huge scare. So it 317 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: was just like, you know, stuff was happening. I think 318 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: that was maybe a little less than a month after 319 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: Trade died, So it was just it was just like 320 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: anything any football was really at that time because I 321 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: was healthy, so at that time football was going to 322 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: be really the positive thing I had, So I feel 323 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: like other than that, everything else was just nat us 324 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: so honestly, and when that happened, I mean, the only 325 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: thing that really at me and my family do with 326 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: it being strong, you know, praying and thinking positive. But 327 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: it's always that thought in the back of the head, 328 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: and you have just tragedy. At the tragedy, it's just 329 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: that thought in the back of your head, like what's 330 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: gonna happen this? Right? I don't think I've ever seen 331 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: anybody used to prayer hands emoji on Twitter more than you. 332 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: You stay prayed up on Twitter. I feel like religion 333 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: has been a huge thing your Your faith has been 334 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: a huge thing for you over the past couple of years. Yeah, 335 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: for the most part. I mean that's just how we 336 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:32,239 Speaker 1: are raising. I feel like, uh, just going through specially 337 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: since I've been in NFL, just going through all these 338 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: strategies and things like that, these um these situations, like 339 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: that's really the only thing that really helped me the most, 340 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: you know, besides my family and things like that. Just 341 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: staying positive and strong and keeping faith. So, oh yeah, 342 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: that's what That's where I'm rocking with. You know. It's 343 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: interesting you talk about how football is kind of like 344 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: a release and that's an outlet where you can go 345 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: and you can kind of get away from everything else 346 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: that was going on. But I'm curious, is it difficult 347 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: to kind of like motivate yourself to go and get 348 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: ready to go to practice or whatever it is when 349 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: you have all this other stuff? But how do you 350 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: kind of balance that? It's a hardest set. Man. You know, 351 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: I'm excited to go to practice today because there's all 352 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 1: this other big life stuff that's going on where football 353 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: the game doesn't seem so significant anymore. I mean, yeah, well, 354 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 1: especially like you know, when I had to when I 355 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 1: eventually came back, uh from from my dad's here, it 356 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: was it was it was pretty tough. And even with trade, 357 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: because you know, I was just so used to doing 358 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: certain things like like me and trade, like you know, 359 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: always joking before were going outside, or it'll just be 360 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: like the smallest thing, like I'd be excited to go 361 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: to practice, but then it's the slightest thing. Or if 362 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: I hear Bobby say something, or you remind me or 363 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: something that my dad used to say to me, like uh, 364 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: when it was time to practice, like things I need 365 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: to work on and something like that. So, uh yeah, 366 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: I used to. I used to always be positive and 367 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,199 Speaker 1: then it's just like fighting emotions all day for the 368 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: most part, because you know, you you're excited about practicing, 369 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: but the smallest thing that happened makes you think about 370 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: trade me, think about my dad, and you gotta fight 371 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: that to kind of get back into the you know, 372 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: the positive mood. So it just so Didy fight And 373 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: how much does that affect you on the field. I 374 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: mean a lot of the game is mental concentration, and 375 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: when you're having these thoughts, it's got to be tough. It. 376 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:28,919 Speaker 1: I feel like if it affected me a lot, but 377 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: I feel like I did a good job with handling it. 378 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so uh you know for the most time, 379 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: I mean it did it does cross my mind, but 380 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm I do a good job at 381 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: you know, stepping back in and into the proper mind 382 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: set quick. And this is you know, this is positive 383 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,919 Speaker 1: that we've obviously been talking to, you know, very difficult 384 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: stuff that your your dad that was making some good 385 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: progress and right, I mean he's doing pretty well. Where 386 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: is he and his recovery he's doing, He's doing very good. 387 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: Just I feel like, I mean, he still has he 388 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: still has ways ago. Everyone knows that, but just the 389 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: properties he made now is just incredible. Like I'm just 390 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: I'm just happy now like that, like he's here, Like 391 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: I feel like I do want him to shake all 392 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: the way back, and I feel like he will, but 393 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: just amount of time. But at the same time, you know, 394 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: he had a three percent chance of living, So just 395 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: for him just to still be on here with him, 396 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: you know, I can't really complain at all. Yeah, is 397 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: he's still giving you a lot of tips about being 398 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: a wide receiver? He might, you know, he can't move 399 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: like he used to, you know, but I think he's 400 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: still got some words of advice for you. Oh yeah, 401 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: definitely he still still nothing much has changed at all. 402 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:42,879 Speaker 1: You know, I still got a sense of human He's 403 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: still get on me about you know, uh, just telling 404 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: me a lot of tips and pointers about things that 405 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: I need to work on. Like he's everything is still there. 406 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 1: So you know, I can't complain. How much did he 407 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 1: really shape you, not only as a person but as 408 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: a wide receiver? You know how much the he pushed 409 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: you and was he constantly watching tape with you? You 410 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: know what was that like, oh, coming up, it was 411 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 1: basically he was very hard on me. Like once he 412 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: found out that football is really what I like, what 413 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 1: I wanted to play, and what I wanted to do, 414 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: then you know, he really turned it up. That's all 415 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: we did, like football, football, football, And even in college 416 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: when I used to come home in the off season here, 417 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 1: we'll sit down and watch games. Even uh and even 418 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: in the NFL, like my first year when I wasn't playing, 419 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: were still come back and watch games, even if you 420 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: know I wasn't playing, Like watch just different different games, 421 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: seeing what I can do better, seeing what you know 422 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,880 Speaker 1: people do really good at it, you know, just trying 423 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 1: to learn stuff from everybody. So that's I kind of 424 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 1: still got a mindset. So when I, like, I just 425 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 1: left from home from other day weekends, so I we 426 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: sat on the couch and I put on the game 427 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: like Ruined Games, and we just watched it. And when 428 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: you're watching it, you know, obviously there's a technical stuff 429 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 1: it is there a piece of advice that you know, 430 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 1: I don't know if there's one that really stands out 431 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: that he's given you over the course of your NFL 432 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: career in terms of kind of whether it's work, you know, 433 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: the work you put in, whether it's being able to 434 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: maintain a positive attitude. I don't know what it is, 435 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: but is there a piece of advice from him that 436 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: really stands out to you? Basically his his advice is 437 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: the best advice, best advice that he gives me. Really, 438 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: just uh, try to outward everyone. Try to outward you know, 439 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 1: everyone you compete against, trying to outward fear, try to 440 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: outward everything? How much of it? Because I'm sure he 441 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: looks at you and he says, man, if I had 442 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: the speed that shot had and the size or that 443 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: you have, I could have done even better in my 444 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,919 Speaker 1: tend your career. You know, like he looks like at you. 445 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: I feel like, as like this huge mountain of potential. 446 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 1: How much do you carry a feeling of like, man, 447 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: I just want to bust through and just show put 448 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: it all together and show the kind of receiver I 449 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: can be. Oh yeah, I feel like that's that's it's 450 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: me a real bad you know. I feel like he 451 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 1: always tells me he says that as crazy that you 452 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: said that, because he says that like to the t 453 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: a lot. So um, you know, I know how much 454 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: potential I got as well, so and you know, I'm 455 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: just ready to put it all together and it's going 456 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 1: to come together. Is there a You know, it's interesting 457 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: when Marlon Humphrey came here this year's first round pick. 458 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: His dad played in the league, played at Alabama, and 459 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: I talked with both of them and they kind of 460 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: joked about there being a little bit of competition, a 461 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: little bit of a rivalry between them. Do you feel 462 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: any sense of that with your dad? Yeah, most definitely. 463 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: My dad is that would never stop. I don't think 464 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: even if he knows on bettering him his pride, just 465 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: want to let him, you know, accept it. Even now, 466 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: Like when I go home, I told I always tell 467 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: him that I'm going to be betting you, and he 468 00:22:53,160 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: was like, shoot, or you're not, so never stop. That's funny. 469 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: So I mean, let's rewind him last year. I mean, 470 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: you go through all that stuff, your rookie season and Maxiley, 471 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: your dad. You know, thank god he's makes recovery. But 472 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: then you have another setback heading into last year with 473 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 1: the a c L another knee injury. Uh. How much 474 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: do you feel like that? You know, you didn't come 475 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: back until the last preseason game, like right before the season. 476 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: How much did that take away or set you behind? 477 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: Put you behind the eight ball even going into last season. 478 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: I mean, it put me behind a lot because you know, 479 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: I haven't really I think I just started practicing maybe 480 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: that week of the New Orleans game for preseason, so 481 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 1: you know, it was it was a lot of things. 482 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: I haven't really ran roused for any quarter advance or 483 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: anything like that, so it was it was just tough 484 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: to get just getting back in there, getting emotion, getting 485 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 1: grew whatever. I feel like you've all boarded out, planned out. 486 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: You feel like you and Joe because I remember Joe 487 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: talking about this and you kind of talked about it 488 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: how you guys had to kind of get on the 489 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: same page and really the entire offense, but you two 490 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,439 Speaker 1: are a big piece of that. Do you feel like 491 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: now that you guys are you're on the same page. 492 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 1: It took some times when you finally feel like you're 493 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah. Do you know we've been working every day, 494 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: you know, running rounds and stuff, so I feel like 495 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: he's really paying off and really getting on the same 496 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: page every day this offseason so far. You're saying, yeah, nice, 497 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: that's that's awesome news. I feel like I go back 498 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: to that Buffalo game. Man, your first game, your first 499 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: NFL catch. That had to be one of the sickest 500 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: catches of any Ravens receiver last season, the one ever 501 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: stuff on Gilmore. I'm sure you know, the one. I 502 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: don't have to tell you about that catch. What was 503 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 1: the emotion of making that when your dad was at 504 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,719 Speaker 1: the game, came up for the game. Is it your 505 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 1: birthday too, something like that. No, it might have been 506 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: a date after or before, Okay, it was right around 507 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: your birthday, but just your first game. I mean exactly 508 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: what what was the emotion of that catch in that game? Oh? 509 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: Assitement really for the most part. I mean I mean 510 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: after I made that catch, I just knew that I 511 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,199 Speaker 1: had a lot more in me, Like that was just 512 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: a kind of like a relief, like, yeah, oh I 513 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: did it. That is my first catch, the first pass 514 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: ever thrown to me in the league, well regular season game. 515 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: So from then a I was just like I thought, 516 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 1: you know, the Scott was amended because I could keep 517 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 1: doing this over and over right. So when you when 518 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 1: you look back at last season, how do you evaluate 519 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 1: it in your mind? How do you feel like it went. 520 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: I feel like it went okay. You know, definitely could 521 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 1: have been a lot better. Uh, I feel like I did. 522 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: I was starting to pick it up more as a season, 523 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: you know, progress, But I feel like you just went 524 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: all right. You know, it shouldn't win a lot better 525 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: and I got a lot of things that I need 526 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 1: to work on from last season. You know, what would 527 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 1: your dad say about it? He probably being with Neil 528 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 1: a little worse than you have a little more critical 529 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: thing that goes back to the competition thing. He's gonna 530 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: keep me grounded, is your dad? Ever? As fast as 531 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,199 Speaker 1: you are, you think, well, I guess I should get 532 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: him on the horn. He probably said, yes, right, he will, 533 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: but um no, if I had no he was close, Yeah, 534 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: really was. He was like a speed receiver. Yeah, speed 535 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: and just tough, right, but he was. He was clothed, 536 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: but he wanted I don't think so. Remind me, what 537 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 1: did you run at your pro day? For two? And 538 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: John Ross ran at the Combine this year? What for too? 539 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: I think I think John Ross for you know, he 540 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: wrote the record. I think he was a four two two, 541 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 1: four to five. I think he was four two two 542 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: at the commins we should do we should do our 543 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 1: research before doing these interviews. I wasn't planning to ask 544 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: you about the funny. I just thought about it as 545 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: we were sitting here. And that's the combined record. You 546 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 1: didn't run at the combine right just per day. Had 547 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 1: you run of the combine, do you think we would 548 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: be talking about you with the with the record? Yeah? So, 549 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: I like, I mean why not? What was your time 550 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: in the forty I think it was four to five? Yeah, 551 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: breaks seven? Seriously, I don't seriously think you got sub seven? 552 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: Is that? Do you and Mike debate who's faster? Mike 553 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: wallas full time of the time, And somebody asked, you know, 554 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: Mike got a lot of pride by it, so too. 555 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: You know he's not short on confidence? Yea at all. 556 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to spit him and say 557 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: that you know that he's fastening. I mean that he's 558 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: not fasten me. But I think, yeah, he deep down 559 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,959 Speaker 1: and side he knows, you know, super shot. I'm curious, 560 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: how would you say you're a different wide receiver? Like 561 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: what things have you improved improved on? How are you 562 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: a different wide receiver? And then I can question a 563 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: different person than you were a year ago, for you 564 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: sat down and talk to you this time a different receiver. 565 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 1: I just feel like a more a lot more comfortable, 566 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: you know, not as not as tense, and I feel 567 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: like now it's like not not really as much thinking 568 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 1: going on, Like I'm really just going out there playing free, 569 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,239 Speaker 1: playing faster, you know, uh, not thinking too much as 570 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: just going out there playing fast and uh catching this guy. 571 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: I feel like incredibly better just hand that coination just 572 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: got credibly better, and uh as a person just just 573 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: for the most part, really just just more positive, you know, 574 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: just whatever whatever I could put I put my mind 575 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: to and really think it believes that it's gonna happen. Right, 576 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: Are you having more fun being in the NFL out 577 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: because it seems like just seeing you around the building 578 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: just seems like you are more comfortable, like you said, 579 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: but it seems like you're enjoying yourself more. Yeah, I 580 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: feel like, I mean, I feel like that's a big 581 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: that's a big part of this. I feel like this 582 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: game not gonna last forever, and you know, uh, just 583 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: being around I feel like you should just have fun 584 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: with your teammates around him every day. You might as 585 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: well have fun. We're working with we we're grinding together, 586 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: uh Paul, but as well have fun. So I feel like, 587 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: you know, just coming in and day to day, you know, 588 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: it's a lot more jokes and throwing around. So it's 589 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: it's I'm having a lot of fun. You don't have 590 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: Steve barking at you though. Steve, he loved having a 591 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: locker next to you. I feel he's giving you a 592 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: hard time. Now he's joking with you. Now, Steve Steve man, 593 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: cool dude. Kind of We all miss Steve, just the 594 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: stuff that he used to say and all the jokes man. 595 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: But um, for the most part, you know, it's just 596 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: all the received was we just all just joke, just 597 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: a big joke, you know. We all we do is 598 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: tell jokes about each other. So I feel like that's 599 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: really what it makes everything more Finn And he's the 600 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: only a couple of walkers down from Sizzle, so that's true. 601 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: You're not too far superscan to finish this up, What 602 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: are we all going to be saying about Brashad Tarriman 603 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: at the end of the two thousand and seventeen season 604 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: and it's seventeen season. I like it I like that. 605 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: That's a good way to end, for sure. I can 606 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: tell you're excited to play some football, man, like bounce 607 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: your knees, just throwing the racketball over in the air. 608 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: You're excited, I can tell, and I'd like it. So 609 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, man, So thank you to Brashad. 610 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: Good stuff from him as always. You know, Brashad is 611 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: not the most like outgoing guy. No he's not, but 612 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 1: but you know he is. He's got a really interesting 613 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: story and been through a lot, and you know, it 614 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: was good to kind of sit down with him and 615 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: talk about, like you said in there, like I don't 616 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: necessarily think that everybody knows all that has gone on 617 00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: behind the scenes, that he's worked really hard, and I 618 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: think it was difficult for him because you know, he 619 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: just wasn't especially going back to his rookie year. He 620 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: wasn't visible, and he wasn't around. It was very difficult 621 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: for him to be at games like he talked about, 622 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: and so that's that's tough, um, And it was it 623 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: was good to hear him talk about that and how 624 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: he's he's worked through that, and I'm just glad to 625 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: see that he's enjoyed it, and I think that that 626 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: will make a big difference this year. Yeah, I think 627 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: he could have a big year. I like Bishop Perryman's 628 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: potential and uh, and you can tell that he's really excited. 629 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: You can tell that a weight has been lifted off 630 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: his shoulders because for over a year plus there was 631 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: a heavy one on him and I think that took 632 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: a toll. And at this point though, that way has 633 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: come off and he's excited to play football and like 634 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: you said, much looser, and he's got all the potential 635 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: in the world, all the talent in the world, and 636 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 1: I think he could be good. I think he could 637 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: be very good this year. So I'm excited about it. 638 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,479 Speaker 1: With that said, that's all we got for you today, 639 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: which was a lot, Which was a lot. Yeah, that 640 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: was not all we got. It was a great podcast 641 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 1: a plus. So make sure you tell us how great 642 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: a podcast by leaving a rating and interview you like that. 643 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: That was a nice ste of a rating and review, 644 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: and email us at the lounge at Ravens dot NFL 645 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: dot net and we'll be back with you next week.