WEBVTT - Sam Cosmi Comes 'From Humble Beginnings' | Next Man Up | Washington Commanders 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:02.960 What's a good Commandi's family Brian Coo with j here 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.360 and this is the Next Man Up podcast. We talk 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:07.640 to your favorite Commanders players, not so much about x 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:10.399 N knows more about the man behind the helmet. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.560 And our next man is no other than Sam Cosmy. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:18.280 Sam talks about his family ties, inspiring his incredible work ethic. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:20.799 He talks about being overlooked early in his career and 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.360 what that did for him today. And of course he 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.960 showed love to his new baby girl that Sam Cosby 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:28.960 is our girl dad. And we talk about all that 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:34.680 and much more. All that starts right, What's good Commanders Family? 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.760 I'm brod who and this is the next Man of podcasts. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.760 We talk to your favorite Commanders players, not so much 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.320 about X and OS, more about the player behind the helmet. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.120 And our next man up is no other than our 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:46.919 big guy, Sam Kasey saying, how. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.400 You doing today? I'm doing great. Appreciate you on this and. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.120 I appreciate you beating here. I know you guys are busy. Man, 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:52.680 we're on the back end of the season. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:53.400 But like I said, we. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.120 Don't really want to talk too much about football. We 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:56.760 want to know who you are as a person. Man, 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.320 we want to start from the beginning. So you said 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.080 humble Texas, right, not humble, but humble. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.680 Age is silent. I don't know why, but that's how 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:06.360 it's pronounced. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.720 All right, talk about that and like what it means 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.280 being there, because I know you love Texas a lot 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:12.039 and that's home for you. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.760 Yeah, I mean, you know, growing up there. My family 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.560 still has the same household that I grew up in. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.760 You know, that's just the area I've always been in, 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.240 loved and seeing it develop and do all that. So 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.760 you know, there's a lot a lot of you know, 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.039 like connections there and stuff like that. You know, most 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.480 of my family have a massive family and so all 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.280 of them are pretty much there, you know, thirty minutes 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.160 outskirts of that area. So you know, it's just it's 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.240 it's home to me, you know. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.319 And they say Texas Well, they have this argument right 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.720 where like Texas, Florida, California they talk about the best 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.000 football states. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:48.880 Yeah, would you put Texas up there. 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:50.960 At the top? Well, it has to be, right, it 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:51.400 has to be. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.600 It's like Friday Nights is like it's almost like, you know, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.360 other than church, you know, it's it's it's second you know, 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.880 so it's like it's there's nothing like it, and you know, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.680 the support that we get from parents and all that 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.600 type of stuff. They're so invested into it ever since 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:09.720 grow up in little you can do and all that stuff. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.360 I mean, it's the Little League. Parents are crazy, you know, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.880 crazy for it. So yeah, I mean it's it's almost 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:19.080 like a religion of its own. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:19.399 Yeah. 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.800 It seems like I have a cousins that live out there, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.560 like you know, nephews and stuff like that that play 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.240 at a very like you know, they're this big playing 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.520 the tiny little kids playing, but they're getting like big 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.200 championship rings. Yeah, things like that to compete. Did you 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:31.960 get to do that when you. 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:32.280 Were a kid. 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.799 Yeah, I mean we though when they started introducing like 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.120 the rings, Yeah, I thought it was so cool when 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.720 I started doing selectball, so like that was like going 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.480 into like end of elementary into middle school type of thing. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.400 They started introducing like when you want Championhi, you got 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.400 a ring? I actually got a couple that my dad. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.560 Everything I get that you know, from you know, you know, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.840 high school college. Now I just give it to my 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.160 dad and he keeps it and he loves it, cherishes it. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.880 So you know, it's it's definitely really cool to get 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.560 one of those. Now kids are getting all the time, 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.240 and it's really really cool. It's crazy like. 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.200 In every sport, baseball, they getting these big old race 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:09.600 and I think it's so so cool, and I think 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.920 it's a testament to like how serious Texas takes their sports. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:13.120 No. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.720 Now, for you, when did you realize like, oh, hey, 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.640 I'm gonna be a football player, like this is what 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:19.720 I'm supposed to be doing. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.880 With uh, you know, I didn't really know. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.600 I mean when I started playing football, I was nine 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.720 years old and I originally played soccer and I was 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.000 way too aggressive when it came to I got way 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:33.120 too many red cards. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:34.440 They put me a goalie. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.480 My mom, I remember I was going to uh she 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.560 was driving to school and I was like, you know, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.320 I want to play football, And you know, the first 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.200 thing she said was, you know the coaches really mean 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:45.560 you know. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.560 So I was like, oh, no, you know, I want 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:48.600 to try it out and do it. You know. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.880 It stuck and in high school I didn't really I 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.080 didn't know the whole like recruiting process or any of that. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.560 Like my family, they they came from a different country, 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.880 and they didn't know any of that. So like for me, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.440 it was just like when college started, like wanting to 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.600 talk to me and stuff, I was just very foreign. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.640 I'm like, this is a thing, like I can actually 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.360 go to college playing football, you know, for free. Like 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.320 that was mind boggling to me to be true, way 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.040 too good to be true. And I was like, you 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.159 know when that first offer came in and and I 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:20.880 was I was over the moon for it. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.960 But yeah, I mean when it comes. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.400 To that, I just it's it's just crazy looking back 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:28.320 at that, for sure. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.240 And you can tell your parents meet a lot to 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.160 you a couple of times just already talk about them. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:34.839 You said they're immigrants. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.360 Right, Yes, so my family came from first generation here. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.440 I'm first generation here. They came from Romania and met 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.600 at they went to the same Romanian church by the 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.240 metal coffee shop and got Yeah, I got this whole 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.680 history of me being here and doing all that. So, uh, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.000 you know, it's really cool to have that heritage and 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:58.080 that culture. I have a massive family here in Texas, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.240 you know, and with that comes with you know, a 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.760 lot of sport, a lot of love, really really close 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.919 family and so yeah, I mean They've mean the world 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.039 to me, and they've done so much for me just 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.039 you know, they had to learn so much as of. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.600 VI right going through this whole football process. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.920 I mean, my mom was like she didn't know an 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.480 ounce of football, you know, and now she's like she's 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.159 over here to call and plays and doing this type 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:25.479 of stuff. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.159 She's locked in for sure. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.080 So you know, it's really special what they did for 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.599 me and how much they sacrificed for me. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.159 That's so cool because you see like here immigrants and 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:36.840 you're like, that can't be easy. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.200 It cannot be easy moving. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.480 From one country to another, Yeah, and just completely starting 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.839 a life, and you growing up seeing that, hearing the stories, 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.360 knowing what they had been through to get here, how 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.480 did that change your perspective and like make you look 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:50.080 at them different? 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.520 You know, Like the biggest thing that I took from 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.920 all that was I never took anything for granted, especially 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.400 like you know, growing up we didn't have They provided 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.880 a lot for us, but wouldn't obviously have I income 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.960 from a household that like you know, we had all 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.520 the little nice things here and there, you know, like 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:13.039 it was they they did everything they could to provide 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.760 for us. And do give us a great life and 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.839 we had, you know, and seeing how hard my dad 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.480 and my mom worked and did all that, like it 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.120 was just like a testament to them. So you know, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.080 my dad would always tell me, it's like, you know, 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.680 depends on how how much hard work you put in 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.919 is how much you're going to get out type of thing. So, 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.320 you know, everything I do, I kind of kind of 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.279 take that mentality, and because I've seen it. You know, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.240 like my dad works his tail off. He worked his 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.080 tail off for us, you know, just to provide and 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.920 do all that. And you know that's something that I 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:41.680 always appreciated. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:42.200 I always saw. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.640 I mean, he's he's so such a hard worker, you know, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.840 and it's really cool being able to like observe that 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.920 and see that from my dad and be able to 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.040 take that and you know, not only in my everyday 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:55.719 life but on the field and doing all that type 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:56.160 of stuff. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.479 I love hearing you guys talk about your dads. Yeah, 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.400 Like when I was growing up, you always like, oh. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:01.680 Shout out to my mom, shut out to moll. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.680 Dads didn't always get a lot of love. And it 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.360 seems like you all, younger cats really got love for 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:06.720 your dads. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.760 Your dad's were very very present. So that's so cool. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.840 And you know a lot of times, like me growing 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.040 up and going through life, I think about the things 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.360 my dad has said, right, I think about things advice 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:15.880 he gave me. 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.040 You've got a lot going on lately. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.440 What is some advice from your dad that you ring 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.960 true in your head constantly? What's the one thing he 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.800 constantly told you that you're like, yeah, Pops, she was right. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.360 You're talking about my new addition. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.160 It could be that. Man, I mean, you are father. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:31.360 We were gonna get into that a little later. We 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.440 could jump into it right now. You are a girl dad. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.760 Yeah, I'm a girl dad for sure. It's one of 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.440 the I mean, it's such a special moment to go 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.280 through and be a part of and and do all that, 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:47.120 and you know, being able to hold your baby girl 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.760 and do all. You know, it's just like there's nothing 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:53.160 like it. There really isn't. And uh, my dad he 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.720 just always told me and tells me to like cherish it. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.320 And you know, he knows like what type of man 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.680 I am, you know, and like I the things that 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.560 he's told me, like the way he raised me, all 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.840 that type of stuff, like I'm taking, I know, to 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.520 take to my my daughter, you know, how to how 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.520 to treat a rite with respect and all that type 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.800 of stuff. And and uh, you know, I have two 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.800 little sisters, so uh you know they. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:19.640 Had a little practice. 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.880 Yeah, yeah, you know, like I I, I treat them 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.920 with all, you know, so much love, and I care 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.800 for them so much, like they're almost like my daughter's 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.480 almost that type of thing, you know, So it's like, uh, 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.520 they're my little sisters there. You know, I protected them. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.360 I did all that, you know and that type of stuff. 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.400 So my dad always told me to do that. So 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:38.880 that's what I do for my little baby girl. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:39.240 For sure. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:40.679 I have no doubt you're gonna do that. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:40.839 Man. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.680 We're gonna talk about your baby girl a little later. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.200 But let's let's go back to you being a young 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.400 man choosing where you're gonna go to college. So clearly 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:49.800 family's a lot to you. Like you said, you have 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.040 a lot of family in Texas. So was that always 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.160 the goal to go to college somewhere in Texas and 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:55.040 be close to your family. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:55.800 Was that kind of the goal? 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:56.080 You know? 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.120 If I'm gonna be honest with if it wasn't for football, 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.959 I probably wouldn't have gone to college like I was. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.000 I was like educally like my mom always like I 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.880 had really good grades in high school, like I scored 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.319 really high on my SAT like I did all that. 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.080 But like for us, it wasn't like college wasn't necessary, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.840 like you go do it type of thing. But it's 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:15.960 like if you want to, but it's like, why do 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.160 I want to go in debt where I could just 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.240 go work and start working my way up to something, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.120 you know. That was kind of my mindset. Obviously I 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.920 wanted to go to college, but again for football, I 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:31.400 got the opportunity to do that. And you know, I 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:36.839 originally committed to the University of Houston, hometown co chairman 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.720 at the time when I ended up going to Texas, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.839 and I was a low recruited cat like I was. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.000 I was on the barrel type of thing. So like. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.200 You know, so when they went there, it took a 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.280 while for them to it was two weeks before signing 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.520 day they offered me. They struck out on so many 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.400 guys they finally offered me, And like us or for 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.480 my family, Texas was kind of like that, like the Mecca, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.440 the Mecca, h you know, so It's like, I'm not 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.400 passing that up. But you know, I got to college. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.200 I was like four fifth string office lineman amongst all everybody. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:11.360 You know. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.160 It's like I was one of those developmental guys. So 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:16.640 uh but yeah, when I had the opportunity, I mean 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.679 they were so thrilled that I was going to Texas. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:21.320 So you were thrilled as well. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:22.320 I was. I was stoked. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.559 I mean that was a uh that was a school 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.440 that I always repped all the time. Like my parents 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.480 would go to Ross and if they had Texas here there, 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.160 I always ask them like can I get sure? Can 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.680 I get something? You know, like Ross or Marshalls, you know, 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.600 like that type of thing. So like, uh, yeah, I 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.480 was always trying to rep Texas. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:38.760 Well. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.840 They clearly made the right decision. Man, You go to 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:42.640 Texas and now you said it. You said you weren't 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.319 one of the top guys. You were at gaming of 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.640 the bottom of the depth chart. Yeah, what did being 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.960 able to overcome that become a starter, become a big 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.040 man on campus? What was that like for you? Especially 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.480 when you're young, you're a teenager. That's not easy to do. Man, 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.160 How did you stay focused? How did you accomplish that. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.280 Yeah, so like kind of going back to my my 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.680 dad's way of like working. You know, I was a 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.800 really really light guy. I knew I had to put 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.320 weight on. A lot of the testament was to my strength. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.520 Coach Yancey McKnight. He helped me a ton through that 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.520 whole process. I sat down with him like, hey, like 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.080 I know what, I know what where I'm at, and 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:18.600 i know what I need to do and I'm. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.320 Going to do everything to do it. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.120 So like when I tell you, I was always in 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.280 the weight room, like always lifting always. Like my eating 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.720 habits at first was just like on point, like you know, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.760 like I it was like cars, a ton of protein, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.880 you know, limited sugar, that type of stuff. Like I 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.320 was on top of it. I ate Chipotle. Would you 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.440 look at that they old chipotlet. But if you Rice 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:43.600 has everything, you have everything. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:45.040 I eat that for like. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.840 Breakfast, lunch, and dinner type of thing. Like I was 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.439 so dedicated to doing that. And you know, as the 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.320 years kind of progressed, I was able to put weight 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.959 on and then I was always kind of like more 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.320 athletic when it came to a big guy. So like 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.560 I think that it kind of goes back in the background, 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.320 like me playing soccer. That helped a ton, you know, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:05.840 just being able to be such a big guy. But 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.240 I was able to move with all the smaller kids 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.600 instead of doing all that type of stuff. So yeah, 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:17.320 I just used that to my. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:16.840 Ability to go up. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.640 And as I started putting more weight on and doing 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.760 all that, that's when I started being able to perform 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.400 really high and do all that. So yeah, a lot 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.400 of my testament goes to obviously like my dad's worth 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.520 ethic and looking at him, knowing that I got to 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.760 put in the work, and then my strength coach. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:32.920 I mean, it takes a humbleness in all that work 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:34.839 right and grinding and knowing like hey, I could have 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.760 went somewhere else, so maybe a smaller school and been 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:37.040 the man. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.640 Immediately she chose the long route. You chose the harder 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.160 route for you. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.439 When was that moment when you were like, oh wow, 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.360 like I'm here, like I'm the man now, Like I've 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.360 put in that work and now I'm here to show 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:49.320 you guys who I really am. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:49.600 Yeah. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.200 So like my sophomore year or my retro freshman year, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.400 I played and I was really light and I had 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.680 a good season, and I was going to my junior 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.000 year and I bumped up like twelve twelve fifteen pounds 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.480 and I started like halfway through like really playing some 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.640 good ball, and there was somebody talks about like, hey, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.880 he could like come out and go to the draft. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.520 I'm like, what the NFL? Are you serious? Like that's 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.720 not even that was not even again, college was never 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.440 a thought. NFL was never a thought. So like those things, 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.560 I was just trying to play football, right, you know, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.880 like just play football, have fun, do my job. And 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.640 that was my basis of what I was doing. So yeah, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.440 I mean junior year was when of the talks are like, 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.320 hey he could come out, you know, and I'm like 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.120 what And so yeah, that's kind of when I started 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.880 like oh, I actually has a shot to do something. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.720 That is so wild because then you get drafted, you 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.960 go what second round? Yeah, I mean that is crazy 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.280 for somebody that didn't even assume that they were going 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:50.880 to make it to the NFL. But you made it 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.040 and you get that call from Washington. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.480 What was that like for you? Man? What was that moment? 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:56.520 Like take us back there? 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.199 I mean, never my Waller's dreams, what I've ever imagined 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.720 being and this position. I mean, you know, a lot 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.120 of people take you know, could take this for granted. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.640 I did not, you know, I mean this meant not 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.680 only so much to me, to my family, to the 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.000 testament of what they did for me and all this, 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.520 like all the investment that did to put into me, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.959 all the all the long car trips we go and 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.440 go to games and travel and do all that, and 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.320 you know the amount of hours they put into just 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.480 taking care of me and doing that. So yeah, I mean, 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.440 it's just it was you could see it on the table. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.800 It was just so much emotion just came to that. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.400 You know, it was so cool. It was really really special. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:37.000 Yeah. Man. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.240 And then your first year, you know, you're troubled with 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.520 a few injuries, and you know, there's a lot of 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:42.760 young guys on this team, and there's a lot of 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.360 young people that watch and like look up to you 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.000 and say, oh man, I want to be the next 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:46.800 Sam Cosmy. 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.040 How did you mentally overcome that? 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.720 Because nobody expects that, right, nobody expects their rookie season 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.760 to be having to deal with injuris, having to miss time. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.280 How did you mentally overcome that and keep. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.800 Going uh, you know, like rookie year, a lot of 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.320 guys say it's like a blur, and mine was for 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.720 sure a blur. It was definitely difficult because I that 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.120 was the first time I really got the injury bug, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.080 because I came back from a high and low ankle 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.040 sprain on the same ankle, and then the same game 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.680 I came back, I tore my hip flexer. So like 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.080 I never had injuries in college, like I was always healthy. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:23.840 That was brand new feet. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.440 It is this whole new experience for me. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.920 Luckily, I had Brandon Sheriff here and he was dealing 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.520 with a knee thing, and I learned a lot from 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.720 him on like how to get through that. But yeah, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.360 I mean it was definitely you could say, like a 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.160 darker time, you know, because it's a new spot. I've 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.760 never been outside of Texas besides then, and I went 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.840 to California for training. But that was you know, that 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.600 was good. That was a great time. But this is 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.480 I'm on my own. I go I come here, I 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.080 go to my apartment by myself, and it's just football 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.680 by myself, football by myself. So when the football aspect 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.120 got kind of taken away, I was just strictly like 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.720 focused into just trying to get my body right, you know. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.600 And so yeah, I learned a lot from Brandon. I 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.440 learned a lot for myself. I learned a lot about 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.080 my body and and doing that type of stuff. 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.680 What was the hardest part about them days when you 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.040 had to go home and be alone? 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.120 Yeah, I mean you go to an apartment that like 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.200 it's just like I didn't have a lot of lights 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:18.560 in there. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:18.960 You know. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.280 It's just like I always said, my two my two 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.600 friends were my two TVs and the and the thing. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.360 Oh wow, Like it's just like, you know, you're by yourself, 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.080