Speaker 1: What's a good Commandi's family Brian Coo with j here
Speaker 1: and this is the Next Man Up podcast. We talk
Speaker 1: to your favorite Commanders players, not so much about x
Speaker 1: N knows more about the man behind the helmet.
Speaker 2: And our next man is no other than Sam Cosmy.
Speaker 1: Sam talks about his family ties, inspiring his incredible work ethic.
Speaker 1: He talks about being overlooked early in his career and
Speaker 1: what that did for him today. And of course he
Speaker 1: showed love to his new baby girl that Sam Cosby
Speaker 1: is our girl dad. And we talk about all that
Speaker 1: and much more. All that starts right, What's good Commanders Family?
Speaker 1: I'm brod who and this is the next Man of podcasts.
Speaker 1: We talk to your favorite Commanders players, not so much
Speaker 1: about X and OS, more about the player behind the helmet.
Speaker 1: And our next man up is no other than our
Speaker 1: big guy, Sam Kasey saying, how.
Speaker 3: You doing today? I'm doing great. Appreciate you on this and.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you beating here. I know you guys are busy. Man,
Speaker 1: we're on the back end of the season.
Speaker 2: But like I said, we.
Speaker 1: Don't really want to talk too much about football. We
Speaker 1: want to know who you are as a person. Man,
Speaker 1: we want to start from the beginning. So you said
Speaker 1: humble Texas, right, not humble, but humble.
Speaker 4: Age is silent. I don't know why, but that's how
Speaker 4: it's pronounced.
Speaker 1: All right, talk about that and like what it means
Speaker 1: being there, because I know you love Texas a lot
Speaker 1: and that's home for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, growing up there. My family
Speaker 4: still has the same household that I grew up in.
Speaker 4: You know, that's just the area I've always been in,
Speaker 4: loved and seeing it develop and do all that. So
Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot a lot of you know,
Speaker 4: like connections there and stuff like that. You know, most
Speaker 4: of my family have a massive family and so all
Speaker 4: of them are pretty much there, you know, thirty minutes
Speaker 4: outskirts of that area. So you know, it's just it's
Speaker 4: it's home to me, you know.
Speaker 1: And they say Texas Well, they have this argument right
Speaker 1: where like Texas, Florida, California they talk about the best
Speaker 1: football states.
Speaker 2: Yeah, would you put Texas up there.
Speaker 3: At the top? Well, it has to be, right, it
Speaker 3: has to be.
Speaker 4: It's like Friday Nights is like it's almost like, you know,
Speaker 4: other than church, you know, it's it's it's second you know,
Speaker 4: so it's like it's there's nothing like it, and you know,
Speaker 4: the support that we get from parents and all that
Speaker 4: type of stuff. They're so invested into it ever since
Speaker 4: grow up in little you can do and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the Little League. Parents are crazy, you know,
Speaker 4: crazy for it. So yeah, I mean it's it's almost
Speaker 4: like a religion of its own.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It seems like I have a cousins that live out there,
Speaker 1: like you know, nephews and stuff like that that play
Speaker 1: at a very like you know, they're this big playing
Speaker 1: the tiny little kids playing, but they're getting like big
Speaker 1: championship rings. Yeah, things like that to compete. Did you
Speaker 1: get to do that when you.
Speaker 2: Were a kid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we though when they started introducing like
Speaker 4: the rings, Yeah, I thought it was so cool when
Speaker 4: I started doing selectball, so like that was like going
Speaker 4: into like end of elementary into middle school type of thing.
Speaker 4: They started introducing like when you want Championhi, you got
Speaker 4: a ring? I actually got a couple that my dad.
Speaker 4: Everything I get that you know, from you know, you know,
Speaker 4: high school college. Now I just give it to my
Speaker 4: dad and he keeps it and he loves it, cherishes it.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's it's definitely really cool to get
Speaker 4: one of those. Now kids are getting all the time,
Speaker 4: and it's really really cool. It's crazy like.
Speaker 1: In every sport, baseball, they getting these big old race
Speaker 1: and I think it's so so cool, and I think
Speaker 1: it's a testament to like how serious Texas takes their sports.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Now, for you, when did you realize like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a football player, like this is what
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be doing.
Speaker 3: With uh, you know, I didn't really know.
Speaker 4: I mean when I started playing football, I was nine
Speaker 4: years old and I originally played soccer and I was
Speaker 4: way too aggressive when it came to I got way
Speaker 4: too many red cards.
Speaker 3: They put me a goalie.
Speaker 4: My mom, I remember I was going to uh she
Speaker 4: was driving to school and I was like, you know,
Speaker 4: I want to play football, And you know, the first
Speaker 4: thing she said was, you know the coaches really mean
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: So I was like, oh, no, you know, I want
Speaker 3: to try it out and do it. You know.
Speaker 4: It stuck and in high school I didn't really I
Speaker 4: didn't know the whole like recruiting process or any of that.
Speaker 4: Like my family, they they came from a different country,
Speaker 4: and they didn't know any of that. So like for me,
Speaker 4: it was just like when college started, like wanting to
Speaker 4: talk to me and stuff, I was just very foreign.
Speaker 4: I'm like, this is a thing, like I can actually
Speaker 4: go to college playing football, you know, for free. Like
Speaker 4: that was mind boggling to me to be true, way
Speaker 4: too good to be true. And I was like, you
Speaker 4: know when that first offer came in and and I
Speaker 4: was I was over the moon for it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean when it comes.
Speaker 4: To that, I just it's it's just crazy looking back
Speaker 4: at that, for sure.
Speaker 1: And you can tell your parents meet a lot to
Speaker 1: you a couple of times just already talk about them.
Speaker 2: You said they're immigrants.
Speaker 4: Right, Yes, so my family came from first generation here.
Speaker 4: I'm first generation here. They came from Romania and met
Speaker 4: at they went to the same Romanian church by the
Speaker 4: metal coffee shop and got Yeah, I got this whole
Speaker 4: history of me being here and doing all that. So, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, it's really cool to have that heritage and
Speaker 4: that culture. I have a massive family here in Texas,
Speaker 4: you know, and with that comes with you know, a
Speaker 4: lot of sport, a lot of love, really really close
Speaker 4: family and so yeah, I mean They've mean the world
Speaker 4: to me, and they've done so much for me just
Speaker 4: you know, they had to learn so much as of.
Speaker 3: VI right going through this whole football process.
Speaker 4: I mean, my mom was like she didn't know an
Speaker 4: ounce of football, you know, and now she's like she's
Speaker 4: over here to call and plays and doing this type
Speaker 4: of stuff.
Speaker 3: She's locked in for sure.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's really special what they did for
Speaker 4: me and how much they sacrificed for me.
Speaker 1: That's so cool because you see like here immigrants and
Speaker 1: you're like, that can't be easy.
Speaker 2: It cannot be easy moving.
Speaker 1: From one country to another, Yeah, and just completely starting
Speaker 1: a life, and you growing up seeing that, hearing the stories,
Speaker 1: knowing what they had been through to get here, how
Speaker 1: did that change your perspective and like make you look
Speaker 1: at them different?
Speaker 4: You know, Like the biggest thing that I took from
Speaker 4: all that was I never took anything for granted, especially
Speaker 4: like you know, growing up we didn't have They provided
Speaker 4: a lot for us, but wouldn't obviously have I income
Speaker 4: from a household that like you know, we had all
Speaker 4: the little nice things here and there, you know, like
Speaker 4: it was they they did everything they could to provide
Speaker 4: for us. And do give us a great life and
Speaker 4: we had, you know, and seeing how hard my dad
Speaker 4: and my mom worked and did all that, like it
Speaker 4: was just like a testament to them. So you know,
Speaker 4: my dad would always tell me, it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: depends on how how much hard work you put in
Speaker 4: is how much you're going to get out type of thing. So,
Speaker 4: you know, everything I do, I kind of kind of
Speaker 4: take that mentality, and because I've seen it. You know,
Speaker 4: like my dad works his tail off. He worked his
Speaker 4: tail off for us, you know, just to provide and
Speaker 4: do all that. And you know that's something that I
Speaker 4: always appreciated.
Speaker 3: I always saw.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's he's so such a hard worker, you know,
Speaker 4: and it's really cool being able to like observe that
Speaker 4: and see that from my dad and be able to
Speaker 4: take that and you know, not only in my everyday
Speaker 4: life but on the field and doing all that type
Speaker 4: of stuff.
Speaker 1: I love hearing you guys talk about your dads. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like when I was growing up, you always like, oh.
Speaker 2: Shout out to my mom, shut out to moll.
Speaker 1: Dads didn't always get a lot of love. And it
Speaker 1: seems like you all, younger cats really got love for
Speaker 1: your dads.
Speaker 2: Your dad's were very very present. So that's so cool.
Speaker 1: And you know a lot of times, like me growing
Speaker 1: up and going through life, I think about the things
Speaker 1: my dad has said, right, I think about things advice
Speaker 1: he gave me.
Speaker 2: You've got a lot going on lately.
Speaker 1: What is some advice from your dad that you ring
Speaker 1: true in your head constantly? What's the one thing he
Speaker 1: constantly told you that you're like, yeah, Pops, she was right.
Speaker 3: You're talking about my new addition.
Speaker 1: It could be that. Man, I mean, you are father.
Speaker 1: We were gonna get into that a little later. We
Speaker 1: could jump into it right now. You are a girl dad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a girl dad for sure. It's one of
Speaker 4: the I mean, it's such a special moment to go
Speaker 4: through and be a part of and and do all that,
Speaker 4: and you know, being able to hold your baby girl
Speaker 4: and do all. You know, it's just like there's nothing
Speaker 4: like it. There really isn't. And uh, my dad he
Speaker 4: just always told me and tells me to like cherish it.
Speaker 4: And you know, he knows like what type of man
Speaker 4: I am, you know, and like I the things that
Speaker 4: he's told me, like the way he raised me, all
Speaker 4: that type of stuff, like I'm taking, I know, to
Speaker 4: take to my my daughter, you know, how to how
Speaker 4: to treat a rite with respect and all that type
Speaker 4: of stuff. And and uh, you know, I have two
Speaker 4: little sisters, so uh you know they.
Speaker 2: Had a little practice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, like I I, I treat them
Speaker 4: with all, you know, so much love, and I care
Speaker 4: for them so much, like they're almost like my daughter's
Speaker 4: almost that type of thing, you know, So it's like, uh,
Speaker 4: they're my little sisters there. You know, I protected them.
Speaker 4: I did all that, you know and that type of stuff.
Speaker 4: So my dad always told me to do that. So
Speaker 4: that's what I do for my little baby girl.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 2: I have no doubt you're gonna do that.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about your baby girl a little later.
Speaker 1: But let's let's go back to you being a young
Speaker 1: man choosing where you're gonna go to college. So clearly
Speaker 1: family's a lot to you. Like you said, you have
Speaker 1: a lot of family in Texas. So was that always
Speaker 1: the goal to go to college somewhere in Texas and
Speaker 1: be close to your family.
Speaker 2: Was that kind of the goal?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: If I'm gonna be honest with if it wasn't for football,
Speaker 4: I probably wouldn't have gone to college like I was.
Speaker 4: I was like educally like my mom always like I
Speaker 4: had really good grades in high school, like I scored
Speaker 4: really high on my SAT like I did all that.
Speaker 4: But like for us, it wasn't like college wasn't necessary,
Speaker 4: like you go do it type of thing. But it's
Speaker 4: like if you want to, but it's like, why do
Speaker 4: I want to go in debt where I could just
Speaker 4: go work and start working my way up to something,
Speaker 4: you know. That was kind of my mindset. Obviously I
Speaker 4: wanted to go to college, but again for football, I
Speaker 4: got the opportunity to do that. And you know, I
Speaker 4: originally committed to the University of Houston, hometown co chairman
Speaker 4: at the time when I ended up going to Texas,
Speaker 4: and I was a low recruited cat like I was.
Speaker 3: I was on the barrel type of thing. So like.
Speaker 4: You know, so when they went there, it took a
Speaker 4: while for them to it was two weeks before signing
Speaker 4: day they offered me. They struck out on so many
Speaker 4: guys they finally offered me, And like us or for
Speaker 4: my family, Texas was kind of like that, like the Mecca,
Speaker 4: the Mecca, h you know, so It's like, I'm not
Speaker 4: passing that up. But you know, I got to college.
Speaker 4: I was like four fifth string office lineman amongst all everybody.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It's like I was one of those developmental guys. So
Speaker 4: uh but yeah, when I had the opportunity, I mean
Speaker 4: they were so thrilled that I was going to Texas.
Speaker 2: So you were thrilled as well.
Speaker 3: I was. I was stoked.
Speaker 4: I mean that was a uh that was a school
Speaker 4: that I always repped all the time. Like my parents
Speaker 4: would go to Ross and if they had Texas here there,
Speaker 4: I always ask them like can I get sure? Can
Speaker 4: I get something? You know, like Ross or Marshalls, you know,
Speaker 4: like that type of thing. So like, uh, yeah, I
Speaker 4: was always trying to rep Texas.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: They clearly made the right decision. Man, You go to
Speaker 1: Texas and now you said it. You said you weren't
Speaker 1: one of the top guys. You were at gaming of
Speaker 1: the bottom of the depth chart. Yeah, what did being
Speaker 1: able to overcome that become a starter, become a big
Speaker 1: man on campus? What was that like for you? Especially
Speaker 1: when you're young, you're a teenager. That's not easy to do. Man,
Speaker 1: How did you stay focused? How did you accomplish that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so like kind of going back to my my
Speaker 4: dad's way of like working. You know, I was a
Speaker 4: really really light guy. I knew I had to put
Speaker 4: weight on. A lot of the testament was to my strength.
Speaker 4: Coach Yancey McKnight. He helped me a ton through that
Speaker 4: whole process. I sat down with him like, hey, like
Speaker 4: I know what, I know what where I'm at, and
Speaker 4: i know what I need to do and I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to do everything to do it.
Speaker 4: So like when I tell you, I was always in
Speaker 4: the weight room, like always lifting always. Like my eating
Speaker 4: habits at first was just like on point, like you know,
Speaker 4: like I it was like cars, a ton of protein,
Speaker 4: you know, limited sugar, that type of stuff. Like I
Speaker 4: was on top of it. I ate Chipotle. Would you
Speaker 4: look at that they old chipotlet. But if you Rice
Speaker 4: has everything, you have everything.
Speaker 3: I eat that for like.
Speaker 4: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner type of thing. Like I was
Speaker 4: so dedicated to doing that. And you know, as the
Speaker 4: years kind of progressed, I was able to put weight
Speaker 4: on and then I was always kind of like more
Speaker 4: athletic when it came to a big guy. So like
Speaker 4: I think that it kind of goes back in the background,
Speaker 4: like me playing soccer. That helped a ton, you know,
Speaker 4: just being able to be such a big guy. But
Speaker 4: I was able to move with all the smaller kids
Speaker 4: instead of doing all that type of stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I just used that to my.
Speaker 3: Ability to go up.
Speaker 4: And as I started putting more weight on and doing
Speaker 4: all that, that's when I started being able to perform
Speaker 4: really high and do all that. So yeah, a lot
Speaker 4: of my testament goes to obviously like my dad's worth
Speaker 4: ethic and looking at him, knowing that I got to
Speaker 4: put in the work, and then my strength coach.
Speaker 1: I mean, it takes a humbleness in all that work
Speaker 1: right and grinding and knowing like hey, I could have
Speaker 1: went somewhere else, so maybe a smaller school and been
Speaker 1: the man.
Speaker 2: Immediately she chose the long route. You chose the harder
Speaker 2: route for you.
Speaker 1: When was that moment when you were like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: like I'm here, like I'm the man now, Like I've
Speaker 1: put in that work and now I'm here to show
Speaker 1: you guys who I really am.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So like my sophomore year or my retro freshman year,
Speaker 4: I played and I was really light and I had
Speaker 4: a good season, and I was going to my junior
Speaker 4: year and I bumped up like twelve twelve fifteen pounds
Speaker 4: and I started like halfway through like really playing some
Speaker 4: good ball, and there was somebody talks about like, hey,
Speaker 4: he could like come out and go to the draft.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what the NFL? Are you serious? Like that's
Speaker 4: not even that was not even again, college was never
Speaker 4: a thought. NFL was never a thought. So like those things,
Speaker 4: I was just trying to play football, right, you know,
Speaker 4: like just play football, have fun, do my job. And
Speaker 4: that was my basis of what I was doing. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean junior year was when of the talks are like,
Speaker 4: hey he could come out, you know, and I'm like
Speaker 4: what And so yeah, that's kind of when I started
Speaker 4: like oh, I actually has a shot to do something.
Speaker 1: That is so wild because then you get drafted, you
Speaker 1: go what second round? Yeah, I mean that is crazy
Speaker 1: for somebody that didn't even assume that they were going
Speaker 1: to make it to the NFL. But you made it
Speaker 1: and you get that call from Washington.
Speaker 2: What was that like for you? Man? What was that moment?
Speaker 2: Like take us back there?
Speaker 4: I mean, never my Waller's dreams, what I've ever imagined
Speaker 4: being and this position. I mean, you know, a lot
Speaker 4: of people take you know, could take this for granted.
Speaker 4: I did not, you know, I mean this meant not
Speaker 4: only so much to me, to my family, to the
Speaker 4: testament of what they did for me and all this,
Speaker 4: like all the investment that did to put into me,
Speaker 4: all the all the long car trips we go and
Speaker 4: go to games and travel and do all that, and
Speaker 4: you know the amount of hours they put into just
Speaker 4: taking care of me and doing that. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just it was you could see it on the table.
Speaker 4: It was just so much emotion just came to that.
Speaker 4: You know, it was so cool. It was really really special.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man.
Speaker 1: And then your first year, you know, you're troubled with
Speaker 1: a few injuries, and you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: young guys on this team, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: young people that watch and like look up to you
Speaker 1: and say, oh man, I want to be the next
Speaker 1: Sam Cosmy.
Speaker 2: How did you mentally overcome that?
Speaker 1: Because nobody expects that, right, nobody expects their rookie season
Speaker 1: to be having to deal with injuris, having to miss time.
Speaker 1: How did you mentally overcome that and keep.
Speaker 4: Going uh, you know, like rookie year, a lot of
Speaker 4: guys say it's like a blur, and mine was for
Speaker 4: sure a blur. It was definitely difficult because I that
Speaker 4: was the first time I really got the injury bug,
Speaker 4: because I came back from a high and low ankle
Speaker 4: sprain on the same ankle, and then the same game
Speaker 4: I came back, I tore my hip flexer. So like
Speaker 4: I never had injuries in college, like I was always healthy.
Speaker 2: That was brand new feet.
Speaker 3: It is this whole new experience for me.
Speaker 4: Luckily, I had Brandon Sheriff here and he was dealing
Speaker 4: with a knee thing, and I learned a lot from
Speaker 4: him on like how to get through that. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean it was definitely you could say, like a
Speaker 4: darker time, you know, because it's a new spot. I've
Speaker 4: never been outside of Texas besides then, and I went
Speaker 4: to California for training. But that was you know, that
Speaker 4: was good. That was a great time. But this is
Speaker 4: I'm on my own. I go I come here, I
Speaker 4: go to my apartment by myself, and it's just football
Speaker 4: by myself, football by myself. So when the football aspect
Speaker 4: got kind of taken away, I was just strictly like
Speaker 4: focused into just trying to get my body right, you know.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I learned a lot from Brandon. I
Speaker 4: learned a lot for myself. I learned a lot about
Speaker 4: my body and and doing that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: What was the hardest part about them days when you
Speaker 1: had to go home and be alone?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you go to an apartment that like
Speaker 4: it's just like I didn't have a lot of lights
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It's just like I always said, my two my two
Speaker 4: friends were my two TVs and the and the thing.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Like it's just like, you know, you're by yourself,
Speaker 4: Like it's not easy. You're young, young, Yeah, you just
Speaker 4: like I don't want to go out and do stuff.
Speaker 4: There's you know in the area. It's more suburb area,
Speaker 4: so there's not tons of stuff to do around here.
Speaker 4: So it's like, yeah, it's quote unquote kind of depressing
Speaker 4: for sure. So yeah, I mean, just but I knew
Speaker 4: that's the one thing I did. I knew that better
Speaker 4: times were coming. That was the biggest thing the mindset,
Speaker 4: like better things times are coming. Because again going back
Speaker 4: to if I keep working hard, better times are coming.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: You know, so just keeping that mindset of like it sucks,
Speaker 4: like especially that second.
Speaker 3: Injury coming back.
Speaker 4: I mean I was in the dumps, like I worked
Speaker 4: so hard to get back from my high and low
Speaker 4: inkle sprain. You know, it's not an easy injury. And
Speaker 4: for that to happen, I mean, I'm like, all right,
Speaker 4: gotta do it again, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and it worked, man, because clearly second year,
Speaker 1: it's been been a good year for you. Man, You've
Speaker 1: shown who you are, You've shown you belong here as
Speaker 1: a starter for you. How has this year been different
Speaker 1: than that first year? And what have you felt that
Speaker 1: it's just been different for you?
Speaker 3: You know, so.
Speaker 4: Just to be able to like, you know, grasping the
Speaker 4: knowledge of like the guys that I've had around me,
Speaker 4: the older cats, that type of stuff. Being able to
Speaker 4: you know, like ball slow down. You always kind of
Speaker 4: hear that, like as as time as plays kind of
Speaker 4: go and all that type of stuff, like just the
Speaker 4: football slows down and your knowledge of the game just increases.
Speaker 4: And so being able to have that like knowledge allows
Speaker 4: you to have like that savvy especially on the on
Speaker 4: the field of like yeah, I know what's going on,
Speaker 4: I know what's coming, I know what's going to happen. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's just having your head on your shoulders and not
Speaker 4: feeling like you're just like a chicken with his head
Speaker 4: cut off, you know, like that's the rookie year, you know,
Speaker 4: and then that you know, going to that that just
Speaker 4: feels way better knowing what's happening and that type of stuff,
Speaker 4: and then you can start working on your craft and
Speaker 4: really do all that.
Speaker 3: So that's been able.
Speaker 4: That's been the thing that's been able for me to
Speaker 4: just hone in in.
Speaker 1: And here's somebody that was very fortunate because you're coming
Speaker 1: on to a team, especially last season as well, where
Speaker 1: it's full of studs on that defensive line. Yeah, going
Speaker 1: up against some of the best defensive linemen in the.
Speaker 2: League day in and day out. What did you get
Speaker 2: from those battles?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I got I gotta put on my
Speaker 4: ass a lot, you know what I'm saying. So, like,
Speaker 4: you know, having these those guys to go against, like
Speaker 4: Tess and Chase especially a tackle and now you know
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 3: Being able to go against Rawn, you know, you learn
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 4: You learn a lot from you know what it is
Speaker 4: like going against some of the best and you're always
Speaker 4: trying to you know, you're never you're never failing. You're
Speaker 4: just like you're taking this and if you allow yourself
Speaker 4: to learn from it, it's not you're not failing, you know.
Speaker 4: So those those are especially in practices and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So being able to take that and grow from that
Speaker 4: was it was huge.
Speaker 1: Year three for you has to be very very special
Speaker 1: because you had your baby grow.
Speaker 2: What did that do for you?
Speaker 1: How did that change your mentality from this rookie that
Speaker 1: comes in here, doesn't know whether you're out there all alone,
Speaker 1: and now you're a father.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so it's crazy like then this time span
Speaker 4: I got married and then not even a year from
Speaker 4: when we got married, we have a baby. Like it's
Speaker 4: crazy for us, you know, and and uh, you know
Speaker 4: obviously you got to mature and do all that and
Speaker 4: like I'm a dad now type of thing, and you
Speaker 4: there's nothing, it's crazy. There's nothing like when you have
Speaker 4: that you know, your kid, that love, that instant love
Speaker 4: you know that you have for her. For me, that's
Speaker 4: what I felt. I mean, I wasn't when she came
Speaker 4: into this world. I was just filled with so much
Speaker 4: joy and love and that type of stuff. So Yeah,
Speaker 4: it gives me another motivation to play even harder on Sundays.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Has it made it harder or easier to do your
Speaker 1: job knowing that she's home waiting for you, waiting to
Speaker 1: be able to spend time with her dad?
Speaker 2: Does it make it harder? Sometimes?
Speaker 3: No? I mean I talked to my wife.
Speaker 4: I was like, I impressed myself right now because it's like,
Speaker 4: you know, it's like I get less sleep, right, and
Speaker 4: so it's like being able to come home like here
Speaker 4: and still like perform highly and do all that type
Speaker 4: of stuff. And you know, I because at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, I still want to help and do
Speaker 4: that and still be a pro and still be able
Speaker 4: to take care of my body and that type of stuff.
Speaker 3: But yeah, being able to go home.
Speaker 4: I look forward to going home, look for in to
Speaker 4: just holding her and just having on my chest and
Speaker 4: just having her just she does nothing, but it's just
Speaker 4: the cutest little thing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's so sweet. Man, that's so sweet. Well listening,
Speaker 1: We're not gonna keep you too long. We know you
Speaker 1: still got more work to do.
Speaker 2: Here. We have two games left in the season. This
Speaker 2: is iow camera right here.
Speaker 1: Man, Once you look into this camera right here, talk
Speaker 1: directly to the command of fans and tell them why
Speaker 1: these last two games are so important and why they
Speaker 1: need to pack out FedEx feel for you guys and
Speaker 1: get real loud.
Speaker 4: You know, when it comes to this team, you know
Speaker 4: we have a lot to build on, We have a
Speaker 4: lot of potential to go forward, and I hope you all,
Speaker 4: you guys understand that each and every Sunday we.
Speaker 3: Give it her all no matter what.
Speaker 4: Your support means a ton and so having you guys
Speaker 4: there will just help us tremendously. So us as players,
Speaker 4: we played for you guys. We play for the name
Speaker 4: on the front of our chests and name on the
Speaker 4: back of our chest. So yeah, that support for you
Speaker 4: guys being there would be amazing.
Speaker 1: Saying, Man, we can't wait to see you guys ball
Speaker 1: out these last two games. It has been an exciting
Speaker 1: season watching you grow as a player, man, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're gonna just get even better now that you're
Speaker 1: a girl.
Speaker 3: Dad.
Speaker 2: Man say, we appreciate your time, Bro, appreciate you you
Speaker 2: so much. Man's fading.
Speaker 1: This is the Next Man Up Podcast, and our next
Speaker 1: Man Up is no other than our big man Sam.
Speaker 2: God's be saying.
Speaker 3: Thank you so Sank. You appreciate your guys.
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