1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: What's a good Commandi's family Brian Coo with j here 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: and this is the Next Man Up podcast. We talk 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: to your favorite Commanders players, not so much about x 4 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,399 Speaker 1: N knows more about the man behind the helmet. 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: And our next man is no other than Sam Cosmy. 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: Sam talks about his family ties, inspiring his incredible work ethic. 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: He talks about being overlooked early in his career and 8 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: what that did for him today. And of course he 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: showed love to his new baby girl that Sam Cosby 10 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: is our girl dad. And we talk about all that 11 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: and much more. All that starts right, What's good Commanders Family? 12 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: I'm brod who and this is the next Man of podcasts. 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: We talk to your favorite Commanders players, not so much 14 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: about X and OS, more about the player behind the helmet. 15 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: And our next man up is no other than our 16 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,919 Speaker 1: big guy, Sam Kasey saying, how. 17 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 3: You doing today? I'm doing great. Appreciate you on this and. 18 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: I appreciate you beating here. I know you guys are busy. Man, 19 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: we're on the back end of the season. 20 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 2: But like I said, we. 21 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: Don't really want to talk too much about football. We 22 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: want to know who you are as a person. Man, 23 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: we want to start from the beginning. So you said 24 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: humble Texas, right, not humble, but humble. 25 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 4: Age is silent. I don't know why, but that's how 26 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 4: it's pronounced. 27 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: All right, talk about that and like what it means 28 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: being there, because I know you love Texas a lot 29 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 1: and that's home for you. 30 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, growing up there. My family 31 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 4: still has the same household that I grew up in. 32 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 4: You know, that's just the area I've always been in, 33 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 4: loved and seeing it develop and do all that. So 34 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot a lot of you know, 35 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 4: like connections there and stuff like that. You know, most 36 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 4: of my family have a massive family and so all 37 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 4: of them are pretty much there, you know, thirty minutes 38 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 4: outskirts of that area. So you know, it's just it's 39 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 4: it's home to me, you know. 40 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: And they say Texas Well, they have this argument right 41 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: where like Texas, Florida, California they talk about the best 42 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: football states. 43 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, would you put Texas up there. 44 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 3: At the top? Well, it has to be, right, it 45 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 3: has to be. 46 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 4: It's like Friday Nights is like it's almost like, you know, 47 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 4: other than church, you know, it's it's it's second you know, 48 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 4: so it's like it's there's nothing like it, and you know, 49 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 4: the support that we get from parents and all that 50 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 4: type of stuff. They're so invested into it ever since 51 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 4: grow up in little you can do and all that stuff. 52 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 4: I mean, it's the Little League. Parents are crazy, you know, 53 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 4: crazy for it. So yeah, I mean it's it's almost 54 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 4: like a religion of its own. 55 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:19,399 Speaker 3: Yeah. 56 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: It seems like I have a cousins that live out there, 57 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: like you know, nephews and stuff like that that play 58 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: at a very like you know, they're this big playing 59 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: the tiny little kids playing, but they're getting like big 60 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: championship rings. Yeah, things like that to compete. Did you 61 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: get to do that when you. 62 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 2: Were a kid. 63 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we though when they started introducing like 64 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 4: the rings, Yeah, I thought it was so cool when 65 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 4: I started doing selectball, so like that was like going 66 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 4: into like end of elementary into middle school type of thing. 67 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 4: They started introducing like when you want Championhi, you got 68 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 4: a ring? I actually got a couple that my dad. 69 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 4: Everything I get that you know, from you know, you know, 70 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 4: high school college. Now I just give it to my 71 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 4: dad and he keeps it and he loves it, cherishes it. 72 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 4: So you know, it's it's definitely really cool to get 73 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 4: one of those. Now kids are getting all the time, 74 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 4: and it's really really cool. It's crazy like. 75 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: In every sport, baseball, they getting these big old race 76 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: and I think it's so so cool, and I think 77 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: it's a testament to like how serious Texas takes their sports. 78 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 2: No. 79 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: Now, for you, when did you realize like, oh, hey, 80 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a football player, like this is what 81 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be doing. 82 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 3: With uh, you know, I didn't really know. 83 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 4: I mean when I started playing football, I was nine 84 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 4: years old and I originally played soccer and I was 85 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 4: way too aggressive when it came to I got way 86 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 4: too many red cards. 87 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 3: They put me a goalie. 88 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 4: My mom, I remember I was going to uh she 89 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 4: was driving to school and I was like, you know, 90 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 4: I want to play football, And you know, the first 91 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 4: thing she said was, you know the coaches really mean 92 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 4: you know. 93 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 3: So I was like, oh, no, you know, I want 94 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 3: to try it out and do it. You know. 95 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 4: It stuck and in high school I didn't really I 96 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 4: didn't know the whole like recruiting process or any of that. 97 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 4: Like my family, they they came from a different country, 98 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 4: and they didn't know any of that. So like for me, 99 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 4: it was just like when college started, like wanting to 100 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 4: talk to me and stuff, I was just very foreign. 101 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 4: I'm like, this is a thing, like I can actually 102 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 4: go to college playing football, you know, for free. Like 103 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 4: that was mind boggling to me to be true, way 104 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 4: too good to be true. And I was like, you 105 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 4: know when that first offer came in and and I 106 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 4: was I was over the moon for it. 107 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean when it comes. 108 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 4: To that, I just it's it's just crazy looking back 109 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 4: at that, for sure. 110 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: And you can tell your parents meet a lot to 111 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: you a couple of times just already talk about them. 112 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 2: You said they're immigrants. 113 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 4: Right, Yes, so my family came from first generation here. 114 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 4: I'm first generation here. They came from Romania and met 115 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 4: at they went to the same Romanian church by the 116 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 4: metal coffee shop and got Yeah, I got this whole 117 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 4: history of me being here and doing all that. So, uh, 118 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 4: you know, it's really cool to have that heritage and 119 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 4: that culture. I have a massive family here in Texas, 120 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 4: you know, and with that comes with you know, a 121 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 4: lot of sport, a lot of love, really really close 122 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 4: family and so yeah, I mean They've mean the world 123 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 4: to me, and they've done so much for me just 124 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 4: you know, they had to learn so much as of. 125 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 3: VI right going through this whole football process. 126 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 4: I mean, my mom was like she didn't know an 127 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 4: ounce of football, you know, and now she's like she's 128 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 4: over here to call and plays and doing this type 129 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 4: of stuff. 130 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 3: She's locked in for sure. 131 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 4: So you know, it's really special what they did for 132 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 4: me and how much they sacrificed for me. 133 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: That's so cool because you see like here immigrants and 134 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: you're like, that can't be easy. 135 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 2: It cannot be easy moving. 136 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: From one country to another, Yeah, and just completely starting 137 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: a life, and you growing up seeing that, hearing the stories, 138 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: knowing what they had been through to get here, how 139 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: did that change your perspective and like make you look 140 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: at them different? 141 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 4: You know, Like the biggest thing that I took from 142 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 4: all that was I never took anything for granted, especially 143 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 4: like you know, growing up we didn't have They provided 144 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 4: a lot for us, but wouldn't obviously have I income 145 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 4: from a household that like you know, we had all 146 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 4: the little nice things here and there, you know, like 147 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 4: it was they they did everything they could to provide 148 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 4: for us. And do give us a great life and 149 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 4: we had, you know, and seeing how hard my dad 150 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 4: and my mom worked and did all that, like it 151 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 4: was just like a testament to them. So you know, 152 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 4: my dad would always tell me, it's like, you know, 153 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 4: depends on how how much hard work you put in 154 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 4: is how much you're going to get out type of thing. So, 155 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 4: you know, everything I do, I kind of kind of 156 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 4: take that mentality, and because I've seen it. You know, 157 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 4: like my dad works his tail off. He worked his 158 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 4: tail off for us, you know, just to provide and 159 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 4: do all that. And you know that's something that I 160 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 4: always appreciated. 161 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 3: I always saw. 162 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 4: I mean, he's he's so such a hard worker, you know, 163 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 4: and it's really cool being able to like observe that 164 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 4: and see that from my dad and be able to 165 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 4: take that and you know, not only in my everyday 166 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 4: life but on the field and doing all that type 167 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 4: of stuff. 168 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: I love hearing you guys talk about your dads. Yeah, 169 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: Like when I was growing up, you always like, oh. 170 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 2: Shout out to my mom, shut out to moll. 171 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: Dads didn't always get a lot of love. And it 172 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: seems like you all, younger cats really got love for 173 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: your dads. 174 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 2: Your dad's were very very present. So that's so cool. 175 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: And you know a lot of times, like me growing 176 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: up and going through life, I think about the things 177 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: my dad has said, right, I think about things advice 178 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: he gave me. 179 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 2: You've got a lot going on lately. 180 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: What is some advice from your dad that you ring 181 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: true in your head constantly? What's the one thing he 182 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: constantly told you that you're like, yeah, Pops, she was right. 183 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 3: You're talking about my new addition. 184 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: It could be that. Man, I mean, you are father. 185 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: We were gonna get into that a little later. We 186 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: could jump into it right now. You are a girl dad. 187 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a girl dad for sure. It's one of 188 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 4: the I mean, it's such a special moment to go 189 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 4: through and be a part of and and do all that, 190 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 4: and you know, being able to hold your baby girl 191 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 4: and do all. You know, it's just like there's nothing 192 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 4: like it. There really isn't. And uh, my dad he 193 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 4: just always told me and tells me to like cherish it. 194 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 4: And you know, he knows like what type of man 195 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 4: I am, you know, and like I the things that 196 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 4: he's told me, like the way he raised me, all 197 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 4: that type of stuff, like I'm taking, I know, to 198 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 4: take to my my daughter, you know, how to how 199 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 4: to treat a rite with respect and all that type 200 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 4: of stuff. And and uh, you know, I have two 201 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 4: little sisters, so uh you know they. 202 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 2: Had a little practice. 203 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, like I I, I treat them 204 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 4: with all, you know, so much love, and I care 205 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 4: for them so much, like they're almost like my daughter's 206 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 4: almost that type of thing, you know, So it's like, uh, 207 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 4: they're my little sisters there. You know, I protected them. 208 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 4: I did all that, you know and that type of stuff. 209 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 4: So my dad always told me to do that. So 210 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 4: that's what I do for my little baby girl. 211 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 3: For sure. 212 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 2: I have no doubt you're gonna do that. 213 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 3: Man. 214 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about your baby girl a little later. 215 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: But let's let's go back to you being a young 216 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: man choosing where you're gonna go to college. So clearly 217 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: family's a lot to you. Like you said, you have 218 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: a lot of family in Texas. So was that always 219 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: the goal to go to college somewhere in Texas and 220 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: be close to your family. 221 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 2: Was that kind of the goal? 222 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 3: You know? 223 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 4: If I'm gonna be honest with if it wasn't for football, 224 00:08:58,120 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 4: I probably wouldn't have gone to college like I was. 225 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 4: I was like educally like my mom always like I 226 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 4: had really good grades in high school, like I scored 227 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,319 Speaker 4: really high on my SAT like I did all that. 228 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 4: But like for us, it wasn't like college wasn't necessary, 229 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 4: like you go do it type of thing. But it's 230 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 4: like if you want to, but it's like, why do 231 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 4: I want to go in debt where I could just 232 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 4: go work and start working my way up to something, 233 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 4: you know. That was kind of my mindset. Obviously I 234 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 4: wanted to go to college, but again for football, I 235 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 4: got the opportunity to do that. And you know, I 236 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 4: originally committed to the University of Houston, hometown co chairman 237 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 4: at the time when I ended up going to Texas, 238 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 4: and I was a low recruited cat like I was. 239 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: I was on the barrel type of thing. So like. 240 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 4: You know, so when they went there, it took a 241 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 4: while for them to it was two weeks before signing 242 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 4: day they offered me. They struck out on so many 243 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 4: guys they finally offered me, And like us or for 244 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 4: my family, Texas was kind of like that, like the Mecca, 245 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 4: the Mecca, h you know, so It's like, I'm not 246 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 4: passing that up. But you know, I got to college. 247 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 4: I was like four fifth string office lineman amongst all everybody. 248 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 2: You know. 249 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 4: It's like I was one of those developmental guys. So 250 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 4: uh but yeah, when I had the opportunity, I mean 251 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 4: they were so thrilled that I was going to Texas. 252 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 2: So you were thrilled as well. 253 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 3: I was. I was stoked. 254 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 4: I mean that was a uh that was a school 255 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 4: that I always repped all the time. Like my parents 256 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 4: would go to Ross and if they had Texas here there, 257 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 4: I always ask them like can I get sure? Can 258 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 4: I get something? You know, like Ross or Marshalls, you know, 259 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 4: like that type of thing. So like, uh, yeah, I 260 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 4: was always trying to rep Texas. 261 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 2: Well. 262 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: They clearly made the right decision. Man, You go to 263 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: Texas and now you said it. You said you weren't 264 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 1: one of the top guys. You were at gaming of 265 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: the bottom of the depth chart. Yeah, what did being 266 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: able to overcome that become a starter, become a big 267 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: man on campus? What was that like for you? Especially 268 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: when you're young, you're a teenager. That's not easy to do. Man, 269 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: How did you stay focused? How did you accomplish that. 270 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, so like kind of going back to my my 271 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 4: dad's way of like working. You know, I was a 272 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 4: really really light guy. I knew I had to put 273 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 4: weight on. A lot of the testament was to my strength. 274 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 4: Coach Yancey McKnight. He helped me a ton through that 275 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 4: whole process. I sat down with him like, hey, like 276 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 4: I know what, I know what where I'm at, and 277 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 4: i know what I need to do and I'm. 278 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 3: Going to do everything to do it. 279 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 4: So like when I tell you, I was always in 280 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 4: the weight room, like always lifting always. Like my eating 281 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 4: habits at first was just like on point, like you know, 282 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 4: like I it was like cars, a ton of protein, 283 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 4: you know, limited sugar, that type of stuff. Like I 284 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 4: was on top of it. I ate Chipotle. Would you 285 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 4: look at that they old chipotlet. But if you Rice 286 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 4: has everything, you have everything. 287 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 3: I eat that for like. 288 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 4: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner type of thing. Like I was 289 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 4: so dedicated to doing that. And you know, as the 290 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 4: years kind of progressed, I was able to put weight 291 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 4: on and then I was always kind of like more 292 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 4: athletic when it came to a big guy. So like 293 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 4: I think that it kind of goes back in the background, 294 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 4: like me playing soccer. That helped a ton, you know, 295 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 4: just being able to be such a big guy. But 296 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 4: I was able to move with all the smaller kids 297 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 4: instead of doing all that type of stuff. So yeah, 298 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 4: I just used that to my. 299 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 3: Ability to go up. 300 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 4: And as I started putting more weight on and doing 301 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 4: all that, that's when I started being able to perform 302 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 4: really high and do all that. So yeah, a lot 303 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 4: of my testament goes to obviously like my dad's worth 304 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 4: ethic and looking at him, knowing that I got to 305 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 4: put in the work, and then my strength coach. 306 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: I mean, it takes a humbleness in all that work 307 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,839 Speaker 1: right and grinding and knowing like hey, I could have 308 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: went somewhere else, so maybe a smaller school and been 309 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: the man. 310 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 2: Immediately she chose the long route. You chose the harder 311 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 2: route for you. 312 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 1: When was that moment when you were like, oh wow, 313 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: like I'm here, like I'm the man now, Like I've 314 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: put in that work and now I'm here to show 315 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: you guys who I really am. 316 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 317 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 4: So like my sophomore year or my retro freshman year, 318 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 4: I played and I was really light and I had 319 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 4: a good season, and I was going to my junior 320 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 4: year and I bumped up like twelve twelve fifteen pounds 321 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 4: and I started like halfway through like really playing some 322 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 4: good ball, and there was somebody talks about like, hey, 323 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 4: he could like come out and go to the draft. 324 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 4: I'm like, what the NFL? Are you serious? Like that's 325 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 4: not even that was not even again, college was never 326 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 4: a thought. NFL was never a thought. So like those things, 327 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 4: I was just trying to play football, right, you know, 328 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 4: like just play football, have fun, do my job. And 329 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 4: that was my basis of what I was doing. So yeah, 330 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 4: I mean junior year was when of the talks are like, 331 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 4: hey he could come out, you know, and I'm like 332 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 4: what And so yeah, that's kind of when I started 333 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 4: like oh, I actually has a shot to do something. 334 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: That is so wild because then you get drafted, you 335 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: go what second round? Yeah, I mean that is crazy 336 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: for somebody that didn't even assume that they were going 337 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: to make it to the NFL. But you made it 338 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: and you get that call from Washington. 339 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 2: What was that like for you? Man? What was that moment? 340 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 2: Like take us back there? 341 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 4: I mean, never my Waller's dreams, what I've ever imagined 342 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 4: being and this position. I mean, you know, a lot 343 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 4: of people take you know, could take this for granted. 344 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 4: I did not, you know, I mean this meant not 345 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 4: only so much to me, to my family, to the 346 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 4: testament of what they did for me and all this, 347 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 4: like all the investment that did to put into me, 348 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 4: all the all the long car trips we go and 349 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 4: go to games and travel and do all that, and 350 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 4: you know the amount of hours they put into just 351 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 4: taking care of me and doing that. So yeah, I mean, 352 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 4: it's just it was you could see it on the table. 353 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 4: It was just so much emotion just came to that. 354 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 4: You know, it was so cool. It was really really special. 355 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. Man. 356 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: And then your first year, you know, you're troubled with 357 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: a few injuries, and you know, there's a lot of 358 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: young guys on this team, and there's a lot of 359 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: young people that watch and like look up to you 360 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: and say, oh man, I want to be the next 361 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: Sam Cosmy. 362 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: How did you mentally overcome that? 363 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: Because nobody expects that, right, nobody expects their rookie season 364 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: to be having to deal with injuris, having to miss time. 365 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: How did you mentally overcome that and keep. 366 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 4: Going uh, you know, like rookie year, a lot of 367 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 4: guys say it's like a blur, and mine was for 368 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 4: sure a blur. It was definitely difficult because I that 369 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 4: was the first time I really got the injury bug, 370 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 4: because I came back from a high and low ankle 371 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 4: sprain on the same ankle, and then the same game 372 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 4: I came back, I tore my hip flexer. So like 373 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 4: I never had injuries in college, like I was always healthy. 374 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 2: That was brand new feet. 375 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 3: It is this whole new experience for me. 376 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 4: Luckily, I had Brandon Sheriff here and he was dealing 377 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 4: with a knee thing, and I learned a lot from 378 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 4: him on like how to get through that. But yeah, 379 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 4: I mean it was definitely you could say, like a 380 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 4: darker time, you know, because it's a new spot. I've 381 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 4: never been outside of Texas besides then, and I went 382 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 4: to California for training. But that was you know, that 383 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 4: was good. That was a great time. But this is 384 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 4: I'm on my own. I go I come here, I 385 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 4: go to my apartment by myself, and it's just football 386 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 4: by myself, football by myself. So when the football aspect 387 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 4: got kind of taken away, I was just strictly like 388 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 4: focused into just trying to get my body right, you know. 389 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 4: And so yeah, I learned a lot from Brandon. I 390 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 4: learned a lot for myself. I learned a lot about 391 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 4: my body and and doing that type of stuff. 392 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: What was the hardest part about them days when you 393 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: had to go home and be alone? 394 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you go to an apartment that like 395 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 4: it's just like I didn't have a lot of lights 396 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 4: in there. 397 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 2: You know. 398 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 4: It's just like I always said, my two my two 399 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 4: friends were my two TVs and the and the thing. 400 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 4: Oh wow, Like it's just like, you know, you're by yourself, 401 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 4: Like it's not easy. You're young, young, Yeah, you just 402 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 4: like I don't want to go out and do stuff. 403 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 4: There's you know in the area. It's more suburb area, 404 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 4: so there's not tons of stuff to do around here. 405 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 4: So it's like, yeah, it's quote unquote kind of depressing 406 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 4: for sure. So yeah, I mean, just but I knew 407 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 4: that's the one thing I did. I knew that better 408 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 4: times were coming. That was the biggest thing the mindset, 409 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 4: like better things times are coming. Because again going back 410 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 4: to if I keep working hard, better times are coming. 411 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: Yep. 412 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 4: You know, so just keeping that mindset of like it sucks, 413 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 4: like especially that second. 414 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 3: Injury coming back. 415 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 4: I mean I was in the dumps, like I worked 416 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 4: so hard to get back from my high and low 417 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 4: inkle sprain. You know, it's not an easy injury. And 418 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 4: for that to happen, I mean, I'm like, all right, 419 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 4: gotta do it again, you know. 420 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 1: So yeah, and it worked, man, because clearly second year, 421 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: it's been been a good year for you. Man, You've 422 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: shown who you are, You've shown you belong here as 423 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: a starter for you. How has this year been different 424 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: than that first year? And what have you felt that 425 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: it's just been different for you? 426 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 3: You know, so. 427 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 4: Just to be able to like, you know, grasping the 428 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 4: knowledge of like the guys that I've had around me, 429 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 4: the older cats, that type of stuff. Being able to 430 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 4: you know, like ball slow down. You always kind of 431 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 4: hear that, like as as time as plays kind of 432 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 4: go and all that type of stuff, like just the 433 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 4: football slows down and your knowledge of the game just increases. 434 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 4: And so being able to have that like knowledge allows 435 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 4: you to have like that savvy especially on the on 436 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 4: the field of like yeah, I know what's going on, 437 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 4: I know what's coming, I know what's going to happen. So, yeah, 438 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 4: that's just having your head on your shoulders and not 439 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 4: feeling like you're just like a chicken with his head 440 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 4: cut off, you know, like that's the rookie year, you know, 441 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 4: and then that you know, going to that that just 442 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 4: feels way better knowing what's happening and that type of stuff, 443 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 4: and then you can start working on your craft and 444 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 4: really do all that. 445 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 3: So that's been able. 446 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 4: That's been the thing that's been able for me to 447 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 4: just hone in in. 448 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 1: And here's somebody that was very fortunate because you're coming 449 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: on to a team, especially last season as well, where 450 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: it's full of studs on that defensive line. Yeah, going 451 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: up against some of the best defensive linemen in the. 452 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: League day in and day out. What did you get 453 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 2: from those battles? 454 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I got I gotta put on my 455 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 4: ass a lot, you know what I'm saying. So, like, 456 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 4: you know, having these those guys to go against, like 457 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 4: Tess and Chase especially a tackle and now you know 458 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 4: this year. 459 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 3: Being able to go against Rawn, you know, you learn 460 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 3: a lot. 461 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 4: You learn a lot from you know what it is 462 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 4: like going against some of the best and you're always 463 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 4: trying to you know, you're never you're never failing. You're 464 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 4: just like you're taking this and if you allow yourself 465 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 4: to learn from it, it's not you're not failing, you know. 466 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 4: So those those are especially in practices and stuff like that. 467 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 4: So being able to take that and grow from that 468 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 4: was it was huge. 469 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: Year three for you has to be very very special 470 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 1: because you had your baby grow. 471 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 2: What did that do for you? 472 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 1: How did that change your mentality from this rookie that 473 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: comes in here, doesn't know whether you're out there all alone, 474 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: and now you're a father. 475 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so it's crazy like then this time span 476 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 4: I got married and then not even a year from 477 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 4: when we got married, we have a baby. Like it's 478 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:46,239 Speaker 4: crazy for us, you know, and and uh, you know 479 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 4: obviously you got to mature and do all that and 480 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 4: like I'm a dad now type of thing, and you 481 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 4: there's nothing, it's crazy. There's nothing like when you have 482 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 4: that you know, your kid, that love, that instant love 483 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 4: you know that you have for her. For me, that's 484 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 4: what I felt. I mean, I wasn't when she came 485 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 4: into this world. I was just filled with so much 486 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 4: joy and love and that type of stuff. So Yeah, 487 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 4: it gives me another motivation to play even harder on Sundays. 488 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. 489 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: Has it made it harder or easier to do your 490 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,959 Speaker 1: job knowing that she's home waiting for you, waiting to 491 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: be able to spend time with her dad? 492 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 2: Does it make it harder? Sometimes? 493 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 3: No? I mean I talked to my wife. 494 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 4: I was like, I impressed myself right now because it's like, 495 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 4: you know, it's like I get less sleep, right, and 496 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 4: so it's like being able to come home like here 497 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 4: and still like perform highly and do all that type 498 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 4: of stuff. And you know, I because at the end 499 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 4: of the day, I still want to help and do 500 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 4: that and still be a pro and still be able 501 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 4: to take care of my body and that type of stuff. 502 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 3: But yeah, being able to go home. 503 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 4: I look forward to going home, look for in to 504 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 4: just holding her and just having on my chest and 505 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 4: just having her just she does nothing, but it's just 506 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 4: the cutest little thing. 507 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: So yeah, that's so sweet. Man, that's so sweet. Well listening, 508 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: We're not gonna keep you too long. We know you 509 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: still got more work to do. 510 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 2: Here. We have two games left in the season. This 511 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 2: is iow camera right here. 512 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: Man, Once you look into this camera right here, talk 513 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 1: directly to the command of fans and tell them why 514 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: these last two games are so important and why they 515 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: need to pack out FedEx feel for you guys and 516 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: get real loud. 517 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 4: You know, when it comes to this team, you know 518 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,439 Speaker 4: we have a lot to build on, We have a 519 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 4: lot of potential to go forward, and I hope you all, 520 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 4: you guys understand that each and every Sunday we. 521 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 3: Give it her all no matter what. 522 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 4: Your support means a ton and so having you guys 523 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:42,360 Speaker 4: there will just help us tremendously. So us as players, 524 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 4: we played for you guys. We play for the name 525 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 4: on the front of our chests and name on the 526 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 4: back of our chest. So yeah, that support for you 527 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 4: guys being there would be amazing. 528 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 1: Saying, Man, we can't wait to see you guys ball 529 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: out these last two games. It has been an exciting 530 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: season watching you grow as a player, man, and I'm 531 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: sure you're gonna just get even better now that you're 532 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: a girl. 533 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 3: Dad. 534 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 2: Man say, we appreciate your time, Bro, appreciate you you 535 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:04,640 Speaker 2: so much. Man's fading. 536 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: This is the Next Man Up Podcast, and our next 537 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: Man Up is no other than our big man Sam. 538 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 2: God's be saying. 539 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 3: Thank you so Sank. You appreciate your guys. 540 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: Love podcasts, but we have a lot more for you 541 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:19,959 Speaker 1: on the Commander's Podcast Network. 542 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 2: That's right. 543 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 1: We have the command Center Podcast with Logan Paulson, Fred 544 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: Smooth and Santana mass It's like hanging out with your 545 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: best friends, but you're talking all Commander's football. Then we 546 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: have the Players Club with legends London Fletcher and Santana 547 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: Maas and they sit with your favorite Commander's players and 548 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: they talk football in a way that only those who 549 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: played the game could. Then, of course we have to 550 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: Get Loud podcast with Mike Jenkins and Fred Smooth doing 551 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 1: what they do best, Getting Loud. That show is a 552 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: lot of fun. And then of course we have the 553 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 1: Next Man Up Podcast. We'll be back next Tuesday with 554 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: another one of your favorite Commander's players. All that and 555 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: more can be found on The Commander's Podcast Network streaming 556 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts, or you can watch us 557 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 1: on the Commander's YouTube page.