Speaker 1: All right, check this out.
Speaker 2: Y'all back again with another episode of the Shuffle. I'm
Speaker 2: your host Chase B and we are jointing here today. Man,
Speaker 2: one of my favorite receivers in the league. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, young boy? Pulled up Tank there. How
Speaker 2: you're feeling, bro?
Speaker 1: So I'm good. How you doing, chilling? Man?
Speaker 2: You know, I got a lot of love for Tank Man,
Speaker 2: because first of all, you probably even noticed, but you know,
Speaker 2: I went to how which is the HBCU. Know, Tank,
Speaker 2: you started out at Alabama and m which is then HBCU,
Speaker 2: which is very important to me. You know what I'm saying, Kids,
Speaker 2: get your grades right, go to school all that. But
Speaker 2: so what was it like starting out out of HBCU
Speaker 2: just even I know, like the facilities ain't even the best,
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, but just to take it from there
Speaker 2: to the professional level.
Speaker 1: I was it starting out at Alabama?
Speaker 2: And for me it was good because I went there
Speaker 2: with my best friend, one of my best friends out
Speaker 2: of high that's important. So I was like kind of
Speaker 2: I got comfortable quick, you know, and I had some
Speaker 2: familiar faces that got along with so at the beginning,
Speaker 2: it was cool to be honest, the whole thing was
Speaker 2: cool to just like I knew where I wanted to
Speaker 2: be at in life. I knew, like, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: hard to go to the fail from HBCU, no matter
Speaker 2: how goods you do there, it's still gonna be hard.
Speaker 2: So I really made that decision because of that. But
Speaker 2: like academically it was good. You know, it was a
Speaker 2: great school. Football was great. You know, the head coach Maynard,
Speaker 2: he was good, the receiver coach, everybody was cool.
Speaker 1: It was just just what I had to do. So
Speaker 1: do you think just think that do you think.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of even with like Maker Maker
Speaker 2: going to Howard and stuff like that, do you think
Speaker 2: HBCUs will ever get that. I don't want to say
Speaker 2: that notoriety because people know you know where there are,
Speaker 2: but just do you think they'll ever be those like
Speaker 2: prominent of a program to get more people to the
Speaker 2: professional level and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Really be like a force in you know, making the
Speaker 1: playoffs and like stuff like that.
Speaker 2: That'll be hard because you got all the pwis like Florida,
Speaker 2: all the big schools with his money, with the money
Speaker 2: and they generated money through there and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So it'll be hard. But when Dion was at Jackson State, oh,
Speaker 2: the first one, I felt like it was gonna be
Speaker 2: like going up and up for it and it was
Speaker 2: gonna help a lot of players out. But then he
Speaker 2: made he had to make his business, real business decisions.
Speaker 2: So I don't really feel like I hope. So you know,
Speaker 2: I wish, I wish, I hope. So, you know, because
Speaker 2: it's some good ball players, a lot of great athletes,
Speaker 2: great football players, basketball players, however you want the name,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of great athletes that in the HBCU,
Speaker 2: and you know they just ain't had the opportunity to
Speaker 2: go to a PWI individually. It's just get these teams
Speaker 2: to the level of the p wis, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: So obviously then you went to j CODE. Then you
Speaker 2: uh got your shown on at U of H. So
Speaker 2: really you've been here for a while, you've been here
Speaker 2: st for a minute. Just describe those a couple of
Speaker 2: years that you had a at U of H because
Speaker 2: y'all dominant when you was there. So I was at
Speaker 2: my phone. Was that just you know, being on our
Speaker 2: team and eventually ended up on the Texas. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: first thought shout out to coach Hoguslon and my receiver
Speaker 2: coach d and my other one, Tyrone Carry Tyrone Carry.
Speaker 1: But man, that was like some of the best years
Speaker 1: of my life for surely. They for sure helped me
Speaker 1: out a lot. You know.
Speaker 2: Coming from Juco, I didn't really have too many offers.
Speaker 2: I had three offers, Central Michigan Accurant, and then Houston
Speaker 2: was my last off I got right And when I
Speaker 2: came here, it was funny because my coach he was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you ain't gonna like it here. I mean, he was like,
Speaker 2: you ain't gonna leave here when you come. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: from Florida, Like I'm going back home. And then once
Speaker 2: I got here, I was like, it was like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, for sure, Houston with some of the beast
Speaker 2: years of my life. So growing up in Florida, were
Speaker 2: you I wanted to ask you obviously a big thing
Speaker 2: on the field to speed.
Speaker 1: Were you a track guy growing up? You never just
Speaker 1: natural just always play football football? Yeah, because I feel
Speaker 1: like just naturally the three states.
Speaker 2: I feel like with the fastest guys of Florida, Texas,
Speaker 2: in California, I put Georgia there.
Speaker 1: Georgia too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I put Georgia from Georgia got
Speaker 2: to put them. And that's exactly why I asked you
Speaker 2: because I don't know were you like it on the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Did you watch a lot of y Yeah? So you
Speaker 2: saw no allows when the one one hundred? Yeah, and
Speaker 2: did you see what I said about uh here beat him?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What'd you think about that?
Speaker 2: It depends on what raised I feel like in the
Speaker 2: sixty and then he got him in a I feel
Speaker 2: like we could get him in the sixty probably, but
Speaker 2: like one hundred two hundred.
Speaker 1: That's where technique really get involved. He just wanted to
Speaker 1: go and like we're not. We're not about to do it.
Speaker 1: Go so it's like we're not about to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you've been in Houston for like the last for
Speaker 1: five years.
Speaker 2: What are like some of your favorite things of the
Speaker 2: city just outside of the football field, like Fairit place
Speaker 2: to eat on fair, place to go chill.
Speaker 1: I say, I like to go to State forty eight. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we all go there like as a group, like
Speaker 2: met you, j everybody. We go there a couple of times. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Trail Burgers, Yeah, and you know what's Blue check Vere. No,
Speaker 2: That's why I'm looking for the barbecue spots here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he got like a food truck though it's a food truck, Okay.
Speaker 2: He liked by like old Spanish trailers. Yeah yeah, I
Speaker 2: ain't gonna like smack busting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I got to ask you, being for Florida, who
Speaker 2: got better food out of Houston in Florida, out of.
Speaker 1: Houston and Florida. Yeah, dam out of us in Florida, Houston, Florida.
Speaker 1: Probably gotta go in Houston. Yeah, yeah, I probably gotta
Speaker 1: go in Houston. What's your favorite living home though, So
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really remember.
Speaker 2: Because Florida, I feel I got more like especially it's
Speaker 2: like a lot of Caribbean influence making food a lot
Speaker 2: of hate your food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. He used to feel
Speaker 1: like more like for like the barbecues. Yeah, I like barbecue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you like.
Speaker 2: So I was talking to uh Takaymi and Temmy Lost
Speaker 2: Time just about music and the pre game playlist.
Speaker 1: So who first of all, who did you grow up
Speaker 1: listening to? Color? Of course? Right? Yeah? Or what's your
Speaker 1: top three? Cadex on? I don't got a top three,
Speaker 1: just all I like out everyone you have a favorite album?
Speaker 1: For him. Ah, probably like institution. Yeah, no, I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lie. It's a lot. It's like he don't put
Speaker 1: some fast stuff out of there.
Speaker 2: What's the joint with transgressional? I think that's my favorite.
Speaker 2: I think yeah, yeah, I think that's my favorite. Collect trim.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the what's your pre game playlist? What's going?
Speaker 1: I heard your game? I think liked Got the whole
Speaker 1: foot n Bro. I don't even play him with my headphones.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get he's gonna get.
Speaker 2: In the locker room, but he for sure. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: say when I when I'm getting ready, I listen to
Speaker 2: Kodak for sure. Like before the games, I listened to
Speaker 2: Koda like when I'm warming up and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Young boy mm hmmm, Gunna. Sometimes a couple of people.
Speaker 2: But like before the game is like the chill and relaxed.
Speaker 2: I'll be listening to run Way a little bit. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: calm down, check it out. And just also being in Houston,
Speaker 2: I've seen very interesting like the fashion game and all
Speaker 2: that type of stuff. Do you shop all out out
Speaker 2: here or do you like to travel to I be
Speaker 2: out here. I'd be on line too, to be honest,
Speaker 2: but I like to I don't really like on line
Speaker 2: too much because I fit my stuff.
Speaker 1: Where in person. But I'll be out here.
Speaker 2: I go to like the gallow and Webster and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, and if I really want something, I just
Speaker 2: pick it up online and order lad to get dropped off.
Speaker 1: But even than that, I'm out here. What's your favorite
Speaker 1: brands right now?
Speaker 2: My favorite brands? Yeah, I gotta go with Diggs brand.
Speaker 2: You know, I'll be wearing a lot of DIGS stuff.
Speaker 2: The shoes got comeing out crazy. I'm gonna family and friends, alright,
Speaker 2: I know that, I say, Belinciaga. Yeah, l V just
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff other than you and DIGS. Who
Speaker 2: you think is the freshest on the team right now?
Speaker 2: Probably l T Oh, yeah, l T two.
Speaker 1: We gonna take you. We take you all right without
Speaker 1: l T and DIGS seven step in this game up?
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. I seen y'all getting the right.
Speaker 2: If you're getting into the way, I say, met you
Speaker 2: be having some pieces too. Yeah, So just back to
Speaker 2: football real quick. I know this is your second year here,
Speaker 2: a lot of people really excited to get you back
Speaker 2: on the field, and all that I know it was
Speaker 2: cut a little short last year.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, we ain't worry about
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 2: But now, yeah, you're right for real, but now you're
Speaker 2: part of the you one third to seven one three.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying with you, Cej and Diggs.
Speaker 2: What's the energy just been like? Even preseason in practice
Speaker 2: and training camp?
Speaker 1: What's the energy been like?
Speaker 2: Just knowing Digs is here and you coming to your
Speaker 2: second year feel like it's a whole new energy to
Speaker 2: Miko's here again.
Speaker 1: And you gonna just went crazy last year. Energy good though.
Speaker 2: Everybody ready to play. On preseason, we probably get out
Speaker 2: there for a couple of snaps and we sit down.
Speaker 2: We be like I'm trying to get in for real,
Speaker 2: like we just ready to ball. You know.
Speaker 1: It's been a long long time coming for me for sure.
Speaker 2: Seven ready to get back out there. You know it's
Speaker 2: Digs a fresh face here. He wanted to get out
Speaker 2: there in front of the fans, right, Nico just ball
Speaker 2: last year, you still got met You and everybody else.
Speaker 1: We all ready to just get out there and go
Speaker 1: to work.
Speaker 2: You know. So yeah, what's the biggest lesson you think
Speaker 2: you learned your rookie year and how you gonna use
Speaker 2: it this year, you think biggest lesson like football wise, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I say, just like every week is a new week.
Speaker 2: Taking care of your body. Like even if you're feeling good,
Speaker 2: you got to take care of your body because it
Speaker 2: could change fast with playing here. You know, we practice
Speaker 2: hard and go out there on Sundays and playoffs. So
Speaker 2: taking care of your body weekend and week out, staying
Speaker 2: on top of the things you need to, like studying
Speaker 2: your place play book, yeah, and then going out there
Speaker 2: and just having fun, you know, not not treating the
Speaker 2: game bigger than what it is. You know, it's a
Speaker 2: kids game at the end of the day. So going
Speaker 2: out there every day and just having fun, putting a
Speaker 2: smile on your face and no care that confidence. You
Speaker 2: came in real hot. I'm not gonna lie your rookie season.
Speaker 2: Did you even have likes when it came to like
Speaker 2: your first couple of games in the league or was
Speaker 2: it just straight to work? But I'm weird. I'd be
Speaker 2: seeing like people cry like when they got dragged for real.
Speaker 2: I don't cry. Yeah, Like first game, I thought I
Speaker 2: was gonna be like kind of ancients and nervous, but
Speaker 2: of course I'm nervous before any game. Let's just stay
Speaker 2: like into the boss. Now, after the first play, I'd
Speaker 2: be like, I'm good. Yeah, but like as far as
Speaker 2: like my anxiety was too hot, So I'm like I
Speaker 2: was cool. I was to play to be honest, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I never had like, you know, like weird feelings. Do
Speaker 2: you have like a favorite route that you run? Do
Speaker 2: you think you have a route that you best at?
Speaker 2: Should I even say that? From all the dvs that
Speaker 2: might be watching it, I could reign the route. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I don't really have a route and my best that,
Speaker 2: but the post route I like to don't Yeah, I
Speaker 2: like to go SCO and I like to go from Afar.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I say like post route is what I
Speaker 2: love to run, but it out. So I got to
Speaker 2: ask you this because I've seen some things on the
Speaker 2: interne right, and I know you're off time. You like
Speaker 2: to play a little Call of Duty. Yeah you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying now now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you put the game to get on there
Speaker 1: after this? What do you run on on Call of dudio?
Speaker 1: Are you playing multiplayer? You're playing Resurgence, Resurgence, Yeah, Resurgence.
Speaker 1: I'm with the guys. He'll be on with my own
Speaker 1: boys back home.
Speaker 2: That's how we stay in touch for real, exactly, on
Speaker 2: the game whenever we get free time. So I've been
Speaker 2: Resurgence Quad exactly.
Speaker 1: That's what I can get your division before we leave.
Speaker 1: We'll be on the when I leave you together. If
Speaker 1: you ain't stepping up, I'm stepping on my life. So
Speaker 1: it was a learning curved though.
Speaker 2: I started, like I started playing cards like probably two
Speaker 2: three years ago. But now it's like, all right, we're
Speaker 2: ready to step I'm saying. And homies, we get debs
Speaker 2: all the time. Yeah, yeah, we'd be big map resurgers
Speaker 2: all that time. So you and your sophomore sophomore, junior.
Speaker 1: Year, sophomore junior year, you know what I'm saying that,
Speaker 1: But we're getting killed though, get killed.
Speaker 2: We're getting you know what I'm saying. But you're getting
Speaker 2: the game. I mean, researchers, I give you.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a good eight. No, researchers, I get
Speaker 1: you a good eight now for real, not every game,
Speaker 1: but that's your best game, like eight nine. You like,
Speaker 1: I'm on, I'm step I'm me curred. You were getting
Speaker 1: my best game? Yeah, I go for like nineteen.
Speaker 2: The see I'm still I'm in an eighteen eleven range,
Speaker 2: but like on the normal like seven. Yeah, that you're
Speaker 2: highest hard it is, you know now and you can
Speaker 2: be cheating too. I'm not gonna lie. I've been watching
Speaker 2: streamers and all that they be having the ship on
Speaker 2: the screen with for real, I ain't mad at you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I played. When I leave here, I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 2: live lot to the n C double A different than
Speaker 2: you running.
Speaker 1: I'm running USC offense. Yeah, you got to Donna ce Ma.
Speaker 1: Are you playing online? Because it came out doing camp
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's too much time. You got no time
Speaker 1: recruiting players and like get time. I just go see it.
Speaker 1: One of my partners on it. Yeah, and I play
Speaker 1: them online? Yeah for real?
Speaker 2: Yeah with unless you got some you want. Shout at
Speaker 2: the homies sold, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, shout
Speaker 2: out to the homies.
Speaker 1: Real and I tell you we can't wait to see
Speaker 1: back on the field. Bro for last she was way
Speaker 1: too shortly. Everybody really excited to get y'all back out there.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, I'm gonna come to as many games as
Speaker 2: I can and support the squad all the way to
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You for me for real? Yeah, we need that. We
Speaker 1: need everybody to pack the stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every game year, it's gonna be lit about to
Speaker 2: be live for real, y'all got the energy and everybody
Speaker 2: got no tickets for nobody family ticket.
Speaker 1: Don't hit me neither.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie, get up, chase for I don't
Speaker 2: even know if I got a plus one to this joint.
Speaker 1: Man for real. Not appreciate you, brother. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see back on the field man. K Yes, sir, Yes, sir.