Speaker 1: What's Good Commanders Family. I'm Bradford with Jujim. This is
Speaker 1: the Next Man Up Podcast. Our next man Up today
Speaker 1: is no other than Jamon Davis. Jamie talks about his
Speaker 1: game winning interception in his hometown. He talks about growing
Speaker 1: up in a military background with two military parents, and
Speaker 1: he tells us the wildest thing he ate in Okinawa, Japan.
Speaker 1: All that and much more, starting right now, What's good
Speaker 1: command This family? My name is Bronco with Junia and
Speaker 1: this is the Next man podcast where we sit with
Speaker 1: your favorite Commanders player and looking to the guy behind
Speaker 1: the helmet. Right, It's not so much exit and nose,
Speaker 1: It's more about the man behind the helmet.
Speaker 2: And we have a great man here today.
Speaker 1: We have online back of former first round pick out
Speaker 1: of Kentucky, Jamie David Jami.
Speaker 2: How you doing brother, that I'm good.
Speaker 3: I'm glad to be here today.
Speaker 1: Hey man, I'm happy to have you here, man, because
Speaker 1: we got you fresh off of a game winning and
Speaker 1: it's just what we're gonna call it, right, a game
Speaker 1: winning interception.
Speaker 2: Man. Take us through that moment and take us through
Speaker 2: that whole play.
Speaker 4: Honestly, it was a surreal feeling to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: just knowing they thought they had a little bit of
Speaker 4: a mixed match when he motioned out there to one,
Speaker 4: I just I don't know. I let instincts take over,
Speaker 4: try to play whatever I expected to come. It was
Speaker 4: either going to be the double move go or the
Speaker 4: slant inside. So just like I said, I just try
Speaker 4: to let instincts take over and try to get a
Speaker 4: good play for the team.
Speaker 3: I guess it turned out good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I heard the competitor in you right there
Speaker 1: just say like they thought they had a mismatch. How
Speaker 1: does it feel as a player being on those eyes
Speaker 1: because you're on an island out there right like you
Speaker 1: know they're maybe coming to you.
Speaker 2: Man, what does that feel like?
Speaker 1: Is that like a sense of pride where you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: y'all think y'all got me, but y'all really know.
Speaker 3: Definitely. I mean that's that's one of them things where
Speaker 3: you got to blow up and show everybody who you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, in my eyes, I'm always trying to step
Speaker 4: up and make whatever plays I can for this team.
Speaker 4: So that just really really boiled down to for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, Well we're gonna talk a little more football later,
Speaker 1: But like I said, this is more about the man
Speaker 1: behind him and get to know who you are and
Speaker 1: you know where you're from and what makes you you.
Speaker 1: So first thing I'm gonna ask you peace state pride.
Speaker 1: We hear that in this building quite a lot, quite
Speaker 1: a lot. Peace state pride?
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: That was?
Speaker 4: I mean, just being proud for of where you're from.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm a kid from South George. That was
Speaker 4: something that me and Chris Rodriguez actually started back in
Speaker 4: Kentucky and then a bunch of other guys that was
Speaker 4: on the team notes from Georgia as well. They kind
Speaker 4: of took key to it, and we just was like, Hey,
Speaker 4: wherever we go, we're gonna take that home state pride
Speaker 4: with us, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Where does that pride come from? Though? Like? Why
Speaker 2: are y'all so proud to be from where y'all from?
Speaker 4: Cause it's just like you don't typically you don't really
Speaker 4: see a whole lot of guys when we got to
Speaker 4: Kentucky that was coming from Georgia and places like that,
Speaker 4: So we just, I don't know, we just took it
Speaker 4: and ran with it, and I guess to this day
Speaker 4: we still be going around seeing every now and in
Speaker 4: peace state pride.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, for your hometown and you and you carry
Speaker 1: that for you put on for your hometown, but your
Speaker 1: hometown puts on for you too. So you got your
Speaker 1: jersey retired back at your old high school. You got
Speaker 1: the key to the city by the man. They spoke
Speaker 1: about you, man, talk us about that and like what
Speaker 1: it means to have your hometown be behind.
Speaker 3: You like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely it It was a blessing, man, just getting
Speaker 4: a chance to go back home and see everybody once
Speaker 4: everything had took place, and you know, just trying to
Speaker 4: give them a good role model for somebody to look
Speaker 4: up to, because you know, coming up, I didn't really
Speaker 4: have a whole lot of different examples of people that
Speaker 4: you know was in a positive light. So whether it
Speaker 4: was you know, a football player, president of the United States,
Speaker 4: whatever it is, you want to be, just trying to
Speaker 4: give them something to stand on to realize like, hey,
Speaker 4: if you put your mind.
Speaker 3: To it, you can do it at the end of
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 4: So you know, like I said, just once I got
Speaker 4: a chance to go back and have everything take place.
Speaker 3: So what it did, it was truly a blessing.
Speaker 2: For me.
Speaker 1: Man, that's so cool and definitely a blessing. And you know,
Speaker 1: you say you're from Georgia, but you weren't born in Georgia.
Speaker 1: You were actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, right, Yeah, And
Speaker 1: the reason you were born in Hawaii is, oh, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. That's what we do here.
Speaker 1: We want to get to know the person. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. The reason you were born Hawaii is
Speaker 1: because both of your parents served in the military. First
Speaker 1: things first, thank both of them for their service. Man,
Speaker 1: it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: Both of my parents served as well.
Speaker 1: And we had Jeremy Reeves on a few episodes ago,
Speaker 1: and we talked about like the difference. What's just like
Speaker 1: growing up as a military kid, Like, you know, they
Speaker 1: cost military brats or whatever. And you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people know, you know, the service that our parents do,
Speaker 1: but don't really understand what that takes the toilet takes
Speaker 1: on the household.
Speaker 2: Right, talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 1: Talk about what it was like growing up in a
Speaker 1: military family, not just one military parent but two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the no brainer is the deployments. That
Speaker 4: probably was the most stressful thing, Like knowing that my
Speaker 4: dad had to go and you know, serve overseas and
Speaker 4: stuff like that, and that it just requires you to
Speaker 4: be a lot more disciplined as far as trying to
Speaker 4: step up and be the man of the house, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. And you know, for my mom,
Speaker 4: she was always one that had to step up as
Speaker 4: well to try to run everything the right way for
Speaker 4: us and just providing for me, my brother and my sister,
Speaker 4: and I just I don't know, I just took he
Speaker 4: to it and try to be a really disciplined guy
Speaker 4: as that I went throughout life. And you know, it
Speaker 4: was always just the thought of in the back of
Speaker 4: your mind, like they always making the ultimate sacrifice at
Speaker 4: the end of the day for you.
Speaker 1: And you talk about deployments and a lot of people
Speaker 1: might not, like, I know what that is, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people might not know what really a deployment. It
Speaker 1: tells you mind explaining to the people what a deployment
Speaker 1: is and what that meant when your father had to
Speaker 1: go get deployed or go on a TDY.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was. It depends on what was
Speaker 4: going on specifically at that time. I mean, you got
Speaker 4: of course, like things like nine to eleven that takes
Speaker 4: place and you got to step out right and do
Speaker 4: whatever it takes to keep this country safe at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, and you just it was always
Speaker 4: a stressful feeling sometimes because.
Speaker 3: You never know what could end up happening.
Speaker 4: You don't really you know, you're not really there to
Speaker 4: be around your dad or anything like that. So, like
Speaker 4: I said, it was real stressful and it was definitely
Speaker 4: some tear shit. I'm not even lied about that one
Speaker 4: at times. But at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 4: he did what he needed to do.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And I remember the moments where, like my mom, she'd
Speaker 1: leave for a whole year, be out on some desert somewhere,
Speaker 1: and I'm a kid, I don't know what she's doing.
Speaker 1: I don't really know what's going on, but I know
Speaker 1: my mom's not home. You mentioned your dad being gone sometimes.
Speaker 1: What did that do for you as a man? Like
Speaker 1: now that you're a man right now, right, you could
Speaker 1: sit back and look on those moments and say, like
Speaker 1: you said, you have to grow up, right, you have
Speaker 1: to grow u pretty quickly. How did that help form
Speaker 1: the man that you are today? Those moments where you
Speaker 1: know one of your parents was not around for an
Speaker 1: extended period of time.
Speaker 4: It was one of those things for me where I
Speaker 4: just whatever I wanted to do, I tried to always
Speaker 4: put my mind to it so I could be better than.
Speaker 3: Him, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So that's that's probably the reason why even on the field,
Speaker 4: I try to be so precise with certain things, and
Speaker 4: I don't really like to make a lot of mistakes
Speaker 4: because I'm my own self critic and just I think
Speaker 4: that's one of the main discipline things that I got
Speaker 4: from that is just knowing that he over there makes
Speaker 4: whatever sacrifice, so the least that I can do is
Speaker 4: trying to be perfect. And most of the things that
Speaker 4: I do in life.
Speaker 1: And growing up the way you did, like a lot
Speaker 1: of us going pro in sports, especially the way we
Speaker 1: move around and things like that isn't really a reality, right.
Speaker 1: We don't know a lot of people that grew up
Speaker 1: military that made it pro, that made it to a
Speaker 1: high level in college because a lot of times you
Speaker 1: don't get all of those resources opportunities. What is that
Speaker 1: pride like where you talk about your peach State pride,
Speaker 1: but you also have pride of somebody that has made
Speaker 1: it through what a lot of people don't realize it
Speaker 1: is a really tough battle growing up as a military kid.
Speaker 4: I mean, I definitely take all of that into the
Speaker 4: hard work that was behind the scenes, because yeah, it
Speaker 4: was definitely really hard just coming from a military background
Speaker 4: and not really having the same opportunities as most civilian kids.
Speaker 3: And it was just, you know.
Speaker 4: I had got a quote when I was younger, and
Speaker 4: I kind of just stuck with it throughout life is
Speaker 4: you can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum
Speaker 4: wage work ethic. And I also said it to my
Speaker 4: high school before I left, and it was just something
Speaker 4: that I took he to just realize, like if I
Speaker 4: wanted to even get this far and not just to
Speaker 4: get this far, like I'm gonna have to work at it,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So yeah, for sure, And it's something that you've also
Speaker 1: taken pride in showing other kids what they can do,
Speaker 1: Like you just went to I think this past summer
Speaker 1: you went to a military base. You held camp for
Speaker 1: only military kids. Like sounds a little crazy, but like
Speaker 1: for a military kid like I would have loved to
Speaker 1: have an opportunity like that, and we didn't really like
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of people that go out of
Speaker 1: their way to do that just for military kids. How
Speaker 1: cool was that? Why was that so important? Talk about
Speaker 1: that a little bit, Yeah it was. It was definitely
Speaker 1: pretty cool.
Speaker 4: I got a chance to get out there and learn
Speaker 4: how to use chopsticks the right way, expand my.
Speaker 3: Food horijha a little bit, but yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was pretty cool just going over there and kind
Speaker 4: of giving them a chance to see like it doesn't
Speaker 4: matter that you come from a military background or anything
Speaker 4: like that, like, yeah, you can still be, you know,
Speaker 4: the same person that you dreamed of growing up to be.
Speaker 4: So I just like went out there, of course, to
Speaker 4: try to show them, like whether it's a military installation
Speaker 4: here in the States or even across the world, like
Speaker 4: I'm gonna just always try to step up and show
Speaker 4: them something different.
Speaker 1: And you say, out there, we're talking about Okinawa in Japan, right,
Speaker 1: So I actually went to middle school. My sister went
Speaker 1: to high school out in Japan, So like that's pretty far.
Speaker 2: It's different.
Speaker 1: You know, you you were born Hawaii but only stayed
Speaker 1: a year, so you're not really used to be overseas
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: What surprised you out there? Being out in Ocnalla I.
Speaker 3: Think first and foremost was that flight. Man, you caught me.
Speaker 4: They caught me off guard, Like, yeah, it was definitely
Speaker 4: a long flight, but I think that the thing that
Speaker 4: was most surprised, and just seeing how like diverse the
Speaker 4: food was out there. That was like that was one
Speaker 4: of the main things for me, Like just seeing raw
Speaker 4: sushi cooked made it right in front of you and
Speaker 4: stuff like that, and just seeing like how they were
Speaker 4: just so accustomed to eating and I'm just it kind
Speaker 4: of threw me off.
Speaker 3: With some of them. They was eating ill and stuff
Speaker 3: and I was like, I don't know, man, did you.
Speaker 2: Part take it?
Speaker 1: What did you have that was like the best? When
Speaker 1: you're like, yo, if I go back to Japan, we'll
Speaker 1: running at back.
Speaker 3: They had something called skewers or something like that.
Speaker 4: I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was
Speaker 4: like it was basically something fried on a stick and
Speaker 4: I bit it and I put like a little bit
Speaker 4: of some type of sauce they gave me on it,
Speaker 4: and it was just hooked. I was like, yeah, if
Speaker 4: I ever came back, I would definitely order that, like
Speaker 4: two or three more times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: And we know what the kids get from that right,
Speaker 1: seeing the NFL player, seeing what their future could possibly be.
Speaker 1: What do you get from that? What do you get
Speaker 1: from giving back and having these youth camps?
Speaker 3: What does it do for you? Well?
Speaker 4: I mean for me, I'm the kind of guy that
Speaker 4: I don't really try to do anything just for the
Speaker 4: cameras or anything like that. I just want to show
Speaker 4: them like it's really genuine coming from a guy that
Speaker 4: you know, I understand what it feels like to have
Speaker 4: a military parent and just you know, just like I
Speaker 4: said before, trying to give back as much as possible
Speaker 4: every chance I get. And before we get into the football.
Speaker 4: So I got a couple football questions.
Speaker 1: We'd like to get to know you, right, we'd like
Speaker 1: to get to know the things about you that maybe
Speaker 1: a lot of people wouldn't know. And I just found
Speaker 1: out you're a NASCAR fan.
Speaker 2: Now, I'll be honest. Man, not a lot of brothers
Speaker 2: is into Nascar. How did you get into that? Man?
Speaker 2: Talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 4: Man, that's just that's another thing coming from South Georgia. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you get hooked to certain things around cars, and I
Speaker 4: don't know, it's just Formula one, Moto GP, NASCAR, you
Speaker 4: name it with race, and I just I got into
Speaker 4: it and I just got accustomed to seeing I'm a
Speaker 4: forty eight Jimmy Johnson back then up time winning almost
Speaker 4: every Sunday, and I just from there I got hooked
Speaker 4: and he was my diehard guy. So I don't know,
Speaker 4: I just ever since then, it just stuck with me.
Speaker 4: Even like I said, just watched the races past Sunday,
Speaker 4: so we off in the playoffs, and I don't know,
Speaker 4: it's just something that always was stuck with me.
Speaker 1: And you met Jimmy Johnson, right, like you talk about
Speaker 1: him being one of your guys. You got to meet him,
Speaker 1: talk about Dan and like you're an NFL star, right,
Speaker 1: you're a bigger first round pick, but you have your
Speaker 1: own favorite athletes man talk about me to him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was definitely just a real feeling because it
Speaker 4: was honestly, was kind of everything I expected to be.
Speaker 4: He was a real down to earth guy. He was
Speaker 4: also giving little pointers and stuff like that about going
Speaker 4: into my rookie season and knowing it was gonna be
Speaker 4: ups and downs, and it was just it was like
Speaker 4: I said before, it was all of it was just.
Speaker 3: A blessing and just enjoyment. For me to take it
Speaker 3: all in.
Speaker 4: And it's cool to know that, like even to this day,
Speaker 4: like I could pick up the phone and call him
Speaker 4: or just shoot him a text let him know like hey,
Speaker 4: how you doing, or you know, just it was a blessing.
Speaker 2: That's fire.
Speaker 1: And I don't think a lot of people realize like
Speaker 1: the parallels between a sport like Nascar and a sport
Speaker 1: like football.
Speaker 2: He said, Jimmy gave you some point and some cues.
Speaker 1: What are those parallels where you see, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I respect this in Nascar and I use.
Speaker 2: This on the field on game day.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, like, for example, I'm a defensive guy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you gotta trust the man next to you. Got
Speaker 4: to have all eleven guys to the ball. Well, in Nascar,
Speaker 4: it takes the whole team. You got to make sure
Speaker 4: that you're precise on the pit stop because the quicker
Speaker 4: you get him out, the quicker he can get back.
Speaker 3: Onto the track to do what he needs to do.
Speaker 4: So it's simple things like that that you know, it
Speaker 4: has its different parallels where you know, everybody got to
Speaker 4: be on point or whatever they're supposed to do to
Speaker 4: get the job done.
Speaker 1: Well, whatever it is that you're doing, man, keep doing it, because, man,
Speaker 1: you have looked very impressive this season, especially we talk
Speaker 1: about your interception. Let's talk about this defense a little bit.
Speaker 1: Now we're three and three, we got that win. Do
Speaker 1: you feel this defense is starting to come into their own?
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I mean it was one of those things for us
Speaker 4: where like I said before, backs against the wall, we
Speaker 4: never gonna fold at the end of the day. We're
Speaker 4: not gonna really worry about what the outside people got
Speaker 4: to say about what we got going on in our
Speaker 4: locker room, and we just gonna always play to our
Speaker 4: standing at the end of the day, continue to play fast,
Speaker 4: fly around, and make whatever plays we need to make.
Speaker 1: This coaching staff particularly spoke very highly of you. They're
Speaker 1: behind you quite a lot. What is it like playing
Speaker 1: for this coaching staff and this defense, especially coach del
Speaker 1: Rio saw him out there after you got his meeting.
Speaker 1: What has it been like playing and learning from these guys?
Speaker 3: Nothing short of a blessing.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's really good having guys that played in
Speaker 4: your position where you can go back and ask them
Speaker 4: what do they see on this particular play or if
Speaker 4: it's something that I'm struggling on, Like you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, just asking them different things that I can
Speaker 4: try to get myself one step ahead of the game on.
Speaker 4: So it's really beneficial as well. So like just going forward,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna always take heap to what they're saying.
Speaker 1: And then last question for you, second to last question,
Speaker 1: got the interceptions. That's your hometown stadium, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's your hometown stadium. You make a play like that
Speaker 1: in front of your hometown.
Speaker 2: What did it feel?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it wasn't for the foul because it
Speaker 1: was against them, but how did it feel to do
Speaker 1: that back home?
Speaker 4: It was pretty great, man, just because back then it
Speaker 4: was a Georgia Dome at the time, and I always
Speaker 4: used to say, like when I did go to Atlanta
Speaker 4: that I wanted to play in there, but to grow
Speaker 4: up and actually play like that, And there was honestly
Speaker 4: a weight lifted off my shoulders because I wanted to
Speaker 4: get an interception, but I didn't expect it to actually
Speaker 4: happen in that particular state.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was pretty cool. That was dope. Man.
Speaker 1: We're glad you're making those interceptions for us. Man, We're
Speaker 1: glad you're a commander not somewhere else. I need you
Speaker 1: to do one more thing from you.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: That's your ISHO camera right there as you look into
Speaker 1: that camera right down, and I need you to tell
Speaker 1: Command of fans that aren't familiar with your game, who
Speaker 1: is Jamie Davis.
Speaker 4: Jamie Davis is an absolute dog. I'm gonna fly around
Speaker 4: and make whatever plays I can while I'm here, and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna always take here to do everything that you
Speaker 4: guys want me to be.
Speaker 1: Well, Jamie, Man, we appreciate you sitting here with us. Man,
Speaker 1: we think you would take your time. We know you're busy,
Speaker 1: we know you're working hard. Command's Fail. This is Brian
Speaker 1: Coople Junior with the Next Man Up Podcasts. I'm here
Speaker 1: with your starting linebacker, Jamie Davis. Jamie, thank you for
Speaker 1: your time, brothers Lam appreciate you love podcast. Well, we
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