WEBVTT - Jamin Davis and his Peach State Pride | Next Man Up Podcast | Washington Commanders 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:03.840 What's Good Commanders Family. I'm Bradford with Jujim. This is 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.400 the Next Man Up Podcast. Our next man Up today 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.000 is no other than Jamon Davis. Jamie talks about his 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.920 game winning interception in his hometown. He talks about growing 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.759 up in a military background with two military parents, and 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.640 he tells us the wildest thing he ate in Okinawa, Japan. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:25.480 All that and much more, starting right now, What's good 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:27.319 command This family? My name is Bronco with Junia and 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.200 this is the Next man podcast where we sit with 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.600 your favorite Commanders player and looking to the guy behind 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.159 the helmet. Right, It's not so much exit and nose, 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.880 It's more about the man behind the helmet. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.479 And we have a great man here today. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.919 We have online back of former first round pick out 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:43.600 of Kentucky, Jamie David Jami. 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:44.720 How you doing brother, that I'm good. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:45.680 I'm glad to be here today. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.960 Hey man, I'm happy to have you here, man, because 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.080 we got you fresh off of a game winning and 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:52.760 it's just what we're gonna call it, right, a game 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.200 winning interception. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.440 Man. Take us through that moment and take us through 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:57.040 that whole play. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.000 Honestly, it was a surreal feeling to be honest with you, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.200 just knowing they thought they had a little bit of 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.080 a mixed match when he motioned out there to one, 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.880 I just I don't know. I let instincts take over, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:08.800 try to play whatever I expected to come. It was 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.399 either going to be the double move go or the 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.479 slant inside. So just like I said, I just try 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.399 to let instincts take over and try to get a 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:16.240 good play for the team. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:17.319 I guess it turned out good. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.280 Yeah, And I heard the competitor in you right there 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.560 just say like they thought they had a mismatch. How 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.200 does it feel as a player being on those eyes 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:24.880 because you're on an island out there right like you 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.760 know they're maybe coming to you. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:27.480 Man, what does that feel like? 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:28.720 Is that like a sense of pride where you're like, oh, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.200 y'all think y'all got me, but y'all really know. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:31.880 Definitely. I mean that's that's one of them things where 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.560 you got to blow up and show everybody who you are. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:33.840 Yeah. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.080 I mean, in my eyes, I'm always trying to step 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:37.839 up and make whatever plays I can for this team. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.160 So that just really really boiled down to for me. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:40.480 Yeah. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.200 Man, Well we're gonna talk a little more football later, 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:43.600 But like I said, this is more about the man 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.480 behind him and get to know who you are and 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.680 you know where you're from and what makes you you. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.960 So first thing I'm gonna ask you peace state pride. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.520 We hear that in this building quite a lot, quite 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:54.640 a lot. Peace state pride? 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:55.160 What does that mean? 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:55.880 That was? 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.400 I mean, just being proud for of where you're from. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.920 I mean, I'm a kid from South George. That was 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.280 something that me and Chris Rodriguez actually started back in 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.640 Kentucky and then a bunch of other guys that was 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.400 on the team notes from Georgia as well. They kind 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.160 of took key to it, and we just was like, Hey, 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.120 wherever we go, we're gonna take that home state pride 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:11.880 with us, you know what I mean? 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.040 Yeah? Where does that pride come from? Though? Like? Why 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.040 are y'all so proud to be from where y'all from? 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.520 Cause it's just like you don't typically you don't really 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:19.880 see a whole lot of guys when we got to 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.240 Kentucky that was coming from Georgia and places like that, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.520 So we just, I don't know, we just took it 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.040 and ran with it, and I guess to this day 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:27.800 we still be going around seeing every now and in 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:28.600 peace state pride. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.760 Yeah, man, for your hometown and you and you carry 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.280 that for you put on for your hometown, but your 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.240 hometown puts on for you too. So you got your 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.200 jersey retired back at your old high school. You got 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.240 the key to the city by the man. They spoke 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.120 about you, man, talk us about that and like what 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.559 it means to have your hometown be behind. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:43.640 You like that. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.280 Yeah, definitely it It was a blessing, man, just getting 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.440 a chance to go back home and see everybody once 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.120 everything had took place, and you know, just trying to 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.120 give them a good role model for somebody to look 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.160 up to, because you know, coming up, I didn't really 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.000 have a whole lot of different examples of people that 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.600 you know was in a positive light. So whether it 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.080 was you know, a football player, president of the United States, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.520 whatever it is, you want to be, just trying to 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.399 give them something to stand on to realize like, hey, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:07.360 if you put your mind. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:08.160 To it, you can do it at the end of 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:08.519 the day. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.640 So you know, like I said, just once I got 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.480 a chance to go back and have everything take place. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.560 So what it did, it was truly a blessing. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:14.840 For me. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.200 Man, that's so cool and definitely a blessing. And you know, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.880 you say you're from Georgia, but you weren't born in Georgia. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.560 You were actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, right, Yeah, And 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.640 the reason you were born in Hawaii is, oh, man, 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.320 you know what I'm saying. That's what we do here. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:28.440 We want to get to know the person. You know 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.120 what I'm saying. The reason you were born Hawaii is 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.880 because both of your parents served in the military. First 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:34.600 things first, thank both of them for their service. Man, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:35.160 it's a big deal. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:36.880 Both of my parents served as well. 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.880 And we had Jeremy Reeves on a few episodes ago, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.640 and we talked about like the difference. What's just like 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.840 growing up as a military kid, Like, you know, they 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.000 cost military brats or whatever. And you know a lot 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.640 of people know, you know, the service that our parents do, 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.280 but don't really understand what that takes the toilet takes 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:52.960 on the household. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:54.520 Right, talk about that a little bit. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.160 Talk about what it was like growing up in a 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.440 military family, not just one military parent but two. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.080 Yeah, I mean the no brainer is the deployments. That 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.240 probably was the most stressful thing, Like knowing that my 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.400 dad had to go and you know, serve overseas and 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.120 stuff like that, and that it just requires you to 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:10.640 be a lot more disciplined as far as trying to 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.040 step up and be the man of the house, you 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.400 know what I mean. And you know, for my mom, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.280 she was always one that had to step up as 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.080 well to try to run everything the right way for 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.279 us and just providing for me, my brother and my sister, 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.040 and I just I don't know, I just took he 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.080 to it and try to be a really disciplined guy 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.080 as that I went throughout life. And you know, it 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.280 was always just the thought of in the back of 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.560 your mind, like they always making the ultimate sacrifice at 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.240 the end of the day for you. 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.039 And you talk about deployments and a lot of people 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.320 might not, like, I know what that is, but a lot 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.760 of people might not know what really a deployment. It 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.400 tells you mind explaining to the people what a deployment 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.200 is and what that meant when your father had to 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.200 go get deployed or go on a TDY. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.719 Yeah, I mean it was. It depends on what was 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.000 going on specifically at that time. I mean, you got 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.000 of course, like things like nine to eleven that takes 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.280 place and you got to step out right and do 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.960 whatever it takes to keep this country safe at the 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.839 end of the day, and you just it was always 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.640 a stressful feeling sometimes because. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.040 You never know what could end up happening. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.200 You don't really you know, you're not really there to 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.520 be around your dad or anything like that. So, like 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.800 I said, it was real stressful and it was definitely 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.720 some tear shit. I'm not even lied about that one 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.640 at times. But at the end of the day, you know, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:13.520 he did what he needed to do. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:14.480 I guess, yeah, yeah. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.880 And I remember the moments where, like my mom, she'd 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.880 leave for a whole year, be out on some desert somewhere, 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.000 and I'm a kid, I don't know what she's doing. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.279 I don't really know what's going on, but I know 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.520 my mom's not home. You mentioned your dad being gone sometimes. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.039 What did that do for you as a man? Like 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:29.560 now that you're a man right now, right, you could 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:30.880 sit back and look on those moments and say, like 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:31.960 you said, you have to grow up, right, you have 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.000 to grow u pretty quickly. How did that help form 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.400 the man that you are today? Those moments where you 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.000 know one of your parents was not around for an 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:38.840 extended period of time. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.320 It was one of those things for me where I 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.440 just whatever I wanted to do, I tried to always 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.280 put my mind to it so I could be better than. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:45.880 Him, you know what I mean. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.200 So that's that's probably the reason why even on the field, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.400 I try to be so precise with certain things, and 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:52.960 I don't really like to make a lot of mistakes 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.760 because I'm my own self critic and just I think 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.560 that's one of the main discipline things that I got 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.960 from that is just knowing that he over there makes 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.840 whatever sacrifice, so the least that I can do is 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.240 trying to be perfect. And most of the things that 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:04.039 I do in life. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.360 And growing up the way you did, like a lot 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.960 of us going pro in sports, especially the way we 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.240 move around and things like that isn't really a reality, right. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:13.680 We don't know a lot of people that grew up 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.000 military that made it pro, that made it to a 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.840 high level in college because a lot of times you 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.880 don't get all of those resources opportunities. What is that 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.640 pride like where you talk about your peach State pride, 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.359 but you also have pride of somebody that has made 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.000 it through what a lot of people don't realize it 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.880 is a really tough battle growing up as a military kid. 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.320 I mean, I definitely take all of that into the 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.640 hard work that was behind the scenes, because yeah, it 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.279 was definitely really hard just coming from a military background 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.560 and not really having the same opportunities as most civilian kids. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.440 And it was just, you know. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:43.880 I had got a quote when I was younger, and 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:45.680 I kind of just stuck with it throughout life is 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.800 you can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.479 wage work ethic. And I also said it to my 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.240 high school before I left, and it was just something 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.480 that I took he to just realize, like if I 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.320 wanted to even get this far and not just to 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.440 get this far, like I'm gonna have to work at it, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:06:58.960 you know what I mean. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.040 So yeah, for sure, And it's something that you've also 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.840 taken pride in showing other kids what they can do, 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.120 Like you just went to I think this past summer 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.880 you went to a military base. You held camp for 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.400 only military kids. Like sounds a little crazy, but like 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.080 for a military kid like I would have loved to 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.320 have an opportunity like that, and we didn't really like 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.040 there's not a lot of people that go out of 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.360 their way to do that just for military kids. How 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.880 cool was that? Why was that so important? Talk about 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.239 that a little bit, Yeah it was. It was definitely 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:25.680 pretty cool. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.080 I got a chance to get out there and learn 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.280 how to use chopsticks the right way, expand my. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:31.920 Food horijha a little bit, but yeah, it was. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.360 It was pretty cool just going over there and kind 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.480 of giving them a chance to see like it doesn't 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.640 matter that you come from a military background or anything 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.840 like that, like, yeah, you can still be, you know, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.960 the same person that you dreamed of growing up to be. 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.200 So I just like went out there, of course, to 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.360 try to show them, like whether it's a military installation 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.240 here in the States or even across the world, like 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:52.920 I'm gonna just always try to step up and show 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:53.720 them something different. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.840 And you say, out there, we're talking about Okinawa in Japan, right, 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.000 So I actually went to middle school. My sister went 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.200 to high school out in Japan, So like that's pretty far. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:01.840 It's different. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.239 You know, you you were born Hawaii but only stayed 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.480 a year, so you're not really used to be overseas 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:06.760 like that. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.800 What surprised you out there? Being out in Ocnalla I. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.800 Think first and foremost was that flight. Man, you caught me. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.720 They caught me off guard, Like, yeah, it was definitely 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.720 a long flight, but I think that the thing that 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.560 was most surprised, and just seeing how like diverse the 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.560 food was out there. That was like that was one 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.400 of the main things for me, Like just seeing raw 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.240 sushi cooked made it right in front of you and 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.480 stuff like that, and just seeing like how they were 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.839 just so accustomed to eating and I'm just it kind 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:33.600 of threw me off. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.319 With some of them. They was eating ill and stuff 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.319 and I was like, I don't know, man, did you. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:38.880 Part take it? 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.160 What did you have that was like the best? When 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:42.959 you're like, yo, if I go back to Japan, we'll 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:43.640 running at back. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.880 They had something called skewers or something like that. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.960 I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.400 like it was basically something fried on a stick and 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:53.760 I bit it and I put like a little bit 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.280 of some type of sauce they gave me on it, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:56.760 and it was just hooked. I was like, yeah, if 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.839 I ever came back, I would definitely order that, like 0:08:58.880 --> 0:08:59.960 two or three more times. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:00.800 Yeah, for sure. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.040 And we know what the kids get from that right, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.040 seeing the NFL player, seeing what their future could possibly be. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.319 What do you get from that? What do you get 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.040 from giving back and having these youth camps? 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:11.560 What does it do for you? Well? 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.280 I mean for me, I'm the kind of guy that 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:14.960 I don't really try to do anything just for the 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.640 cameras or anything like that. I just want to show 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.120 them like it's really genuine coming from a guy that 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.040 you know, I understand what it feels like to have 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.559 a military parent and just you know, just like I 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.480 said before, trying to give back as much as possible 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.360 every chance I get. And before we get into the football. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:29.640 So I got a couple football questions. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.120 We'd like to get to know you, right, we'd like 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:32.960 to get to know the things about you that maybe 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.679 a lot of people wouldn't know. And I just found 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.360 out you're a NASCAR fan. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.439 Now, I'll be honest. Man, not a lot of brothers 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.280 is into Nascar. How did you get into that? Man? 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:42.319 Talk about that a little bit. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.200 Man, that's just that's another thing coming from South Georgia. Yeah, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.480 you get hooked to certain things around cars, and I 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.760 don't know, it's just Formula one, Moto GP, NASCAR, you 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.800 name it with race, and I just I got into 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.360 it and I just got accustomed to seeing I'm a 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.000 forty eight Jimmy Johnson back then up time winning almost 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.679 every Sunday, and I just from there I got hooked 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.120 and he was my diehard guy. So I don't know, 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.080 I just ever since then, it just stuck with me. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.400 Even like I said, just watched the races past Sunday, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.800 so we off in the playoffs, and I don't know, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.440 it's just something that always was stuck with me. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.600 And you met Jimmy Johnson, right, like you talk about 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.199 him being one of your guys. You got to meet him, 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.360 talk about Dan and like you're an NFL star, right, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.240 you're a bigger first round pick, but you have your 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.640 own favorite athletes man talk about me to him. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.560 Yeah, that was definitely just a real feeling because it 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.920 was honestly, was kind of everything I expected to be. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.599 He was a real down to earth guy. He was 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.080 also giving little pointers and stuff like that about going 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.320 into my rookie season and knowing it was gonna be 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.440 ups and downs, and it was just it was like 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.280 I said before, it was all of it was just. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.120 A blessing and just enjoyment. For me to take it 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:43.559 all in. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.240 And it's cool to know that, like even to this day, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:47.600 like I could pick up the phone and call him 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.360 or just shoot him a text let him know like hey, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.840 how you doing, or you know, just it was a blessing. 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:52.480 That's fire. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.640 And I don't think a lot of people realize like 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.679 the parallels between a sport like Nascar and a sport 0:10:58.840 --> 0:10:59.400 like football. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.199 He said, Jimmy gave you some point and some cues. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.360 What are those parallels where you see, like, you know, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.520 I respect this in Nascar and I use. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.000 This on the field on game day. 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.800 Well, I mean, like, for example, I'm a defensive guy. Yeah, 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.400 and you gotta trust the man next to you. Got 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.080 to have all eleven guys to the ball. Well, in Nascar, 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.120 it takes the whole team. You got to make sure 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.000 that you're precise on the pit stop because the quicker 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:19.600 you get him out, the quicker he can get back. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:20.839 Onto the track to do what he needs to do. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.680 So it's simple things like that that you know, it 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.920 has its different parallels where you know, everybody got to 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.480 be on point or whatever they're supposed to do to 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:29.400 get the job done. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.079 Well, whatever it is that you're doing, man, keep doing it, because, man, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.400 you have looked very impressive this season, especially we talk 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.520 about your interception. Let's talk about this defense a little bit. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.760 Now we're three and three, we got that win. Do 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.719 you feel this defense is starting to come into their own? 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:43.400 Absolutely. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.560 I mean it was one of those things for us 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.560 where like I said before, backs against the wall, we 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:48.920 never gonna fold at the end of the day. We're 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.960 not gonna really worry about what the outside people got 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.400 to say about what we got going on in our 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.960 locker room, and we just gonna always play to our 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.120 standing at the end of the day, continue to play fast, 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.040 fly around, and make whatever plays we need to make. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.880 This coaching staff particularly spoke very highly of you. They're 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.480 behind you quite a lot. What is it like playing 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.319 for this coaching staff and this defense, especially coach del 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.280 Rio saw him out there after you got his meeting. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.360 What has it been like playing and learning from these guys? 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:13.720 Nothing short of a blessing. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.480 I mean, it's really good having guys that played in 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.480 your position where you can go back and ask them 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.839 what do they see on this particular play or if 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:22.679 it's something that I'm struggling on, Like you know what 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.800 I'm saying, just asking them different things that I can 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.800 try to get myself one step ahead of the game on. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.280 So it's really beneficial as well. So like just going forward, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.960 I'm just gonna always take heap to what they're saying. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.520 And then last question for you, second to last question, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.120 got the interceptions. That's your hometown stadium, right, I mean, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.280 that's your hometown stadium. You make a play like that 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.160 in front of your hometown. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:45.040 What did it feel? 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:46.600 I mean, yeah, it wasn't for the foul because it 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.360 was against them, but how did it feel to do 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:49.480 that back home? 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.160 It was pretty great, man, just because back then it 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:53.920 was a Georgia Dome at the time, and I always 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.600 used to say, like when I did go to Atlanta 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.360 that I wanted to play in there, but to grow 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.360 up and actually play like that, And there was honestly 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.120 a weight lifted off my shoulders because I wanted to 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.080 get an interception, but I didn't expect it to actually 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:06.800 happen in that particular state. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:08.880 So yeah, it was pretty cool. That was dope. Man. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.319 We're glad you're making those interceptions for us. Man, We're 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.640 glad you're a commander not somewhere else. I need you 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:15.679 to do one more thing from you. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:15.880 Man. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.719 That's your ISHO camera right there as you look into 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:18.800 that camera right down, and I need you to tell 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.280 Command of fans that aren't familiar with your game, who 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:22.880 is Jamie Davis. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.240 Jamie Davis is an absolute dog. I'm gonna fly around 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.000 and make whatever plays I can while I'm here, and 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.760 I'm gonna always take here to do everything that you 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:30.600 guys want me to be. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.000 Well, Jamie, Man, we appreciate you sitting here with us. Man, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.679 we think you would take your time. We know you're busy, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.160 we know you're working hard. Command's Fail. This is Brian 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.200 Coople Junior with the Next Man Up Podcasts. I'm here 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.720 with your starting linebacker, Jamie Davis. Jamie, thank you for 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:46.600 your time, brothers Lam appreciate you love podcast. Well, we 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.760 have a lot more for you on the Commander's Podcast network. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:50.080