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Speaker 1: Rounds one and two are in the books. And Chase Young,
Speaker 1: Jeff Okuda, Mackay Beckton, and Leavisca Chenault each experienced the
Speaker 1: life changing moment they were hoping for with the second
Speaker 1: pick in the NFL Draft Washington Red skoot for like
Speaker 1: Chase Young, definitely a surreal moment, you know, a grateful,
Speaker 1: grateful moment. It's just the feeling I probably will never
Speaker 1: get again. I can see tex Yeah, but four more
Speaker 1: of our players haven't heard their names called yet, kishon On,
Speaker 1: Tremaine Ancram saying Bassie and Bryce Hall still watching. Wait
Speaker 1: is round three gets underway. I was let them know
Speaker 1: where you know what, who he is and conversions what Antonio.
Speaker 1: I don't wonder if they have the conversations now, they'll
Speaker 1: make that a whole run on running back. I know.
Speaker 1: If Washington drafts running back Antonio Gibson out of Memphis
Speaker 1: with the second pick in the third round, he becomes
Speaker 1: the seventh back selected so far. For Kishawn Vaughan, it's
Speaker 1: painful seeing yet another running back get chosen over him.
Speaker 1: I mean it was mentally like just frustrating. Now Muslim
Speaker 1: team's name was telling me all bullshit. I mean that
Speaker 1: kind of played like it's a dating that you just
Speaker 1: kind of run and game when people that's kind of
Speaker 1: what it is. Men. I personally, I didn't get any
Speaker 1: calls um doing like first second round or nothing like that.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to bank a boat bullish it.
Speaker 1: The mother teams were saying to me. The only positive
Speaker 1: from these other running backs getting picked Keyshan moves up
Speaker 1: the draft board of every other team that still needs
Speaker 1: a ball carrier, and no other backs are drafted as
Speaker 1: the third round continues. Okay, Bruce Arians still on the porch,
Speaker 1: Jason Light still running around with all the kids. Where
Speaker 1: does Tampa go? I know some of you have asked
Speaker 1: about the M and m's. They're still within reach and
Speaker 1: they are getting lower, I promise you. With the seventies
Speaker 1: sick in the NFL Draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select
Speaker 1: key Shaan Vaughan running back Vanderbilt, and just like that,
Speaker 1: Keishawan Vaughn is going to the NFL. Vanderbilt head coach
Speaker 1: Derek Mason, I think Keishawan Vaughan is gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those names that people talk about, you know, in
Speaker 1: seven or eight years, you we talk about man who
Speaker 1: man Tampa Bay took him in the third round? Who
Speaker 1: boy and man did they get to steal? I've been
Speaker 1: arounding this long enough. I look at Alvin Kamara. I mean,
Speaker 1: where you're taking is not always indicative of what you're
Speaker 1: capable of doing. There's too many examples of it. You know,
Speaker 1: across the board. There's some guys that get big contracts
Speaker 1: that never live up to the big contracts, and there's
Speaker 1: other guys who wind up being you know, Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: You look at Russell Wilson, and you know guys like
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and they've made the world look at him.
Speaker 1: You know, men differently just in terms of, you know,
Speaker 1: what they've been able to do. And so I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay got a great running back and and you know,
Speaker 1: make Keishan found the right fit. He's gonna make people
Speaker 1: remember his name. He's been doing it his old life.
Speaker 1: Being remotely drafted in the third round is not how
Speaker 1: Keishawan saw this paramount moment in his football career playing out.
Speaker 1: But that goes for most, if not all draftees and
Speaker 1: Tooth was in the twenty probably would have been different.
Speaker 1: Um No Corona because it's like, it's like when I
Speaker 1: wanted to do the mic and I forgot, Like then
Speaker 1: I'd be like, damn, I forgot threw the mike. So
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of how this will how this went.
Speaker 1: I wish we could have like the cameras and all
Speaker 1: that you feel me, no mike, no cameras, only Keysha
Speaker 1: on his family taking in all the twists and turns.
Speaker 1: The Jeff didn't go the way I thought. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of kind of surprises. Curer balls at you
Speaker 1: all the time on kind of unexpected picks. This is
Speaker 1: not the team that I thought I would end up on.
Speaker 1: But we was thinking more like the teams like the Rams, Titans, Chiefs.
Speaker 1: We had like four teams who we thought would have
Speaker 1: been for those who picked me. And I had just
Speaker 1: talked to simple Bait like three four days right before
Speaker 1: the drafts. At the moment I was drafted about Temple Bay,
Speaker 1: it was just crazy as hell, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I get a call, answered the call, family screams loud
Speaker 1: as hell in the background, and they kind of just
Speaker 1: threw me for a curve ball. So I'm like, chick out.
Speaker 1: It was like three Folk picks because I was watching
Speaker 1: on TV and Timber Bay was like nothing, three Folk
Speaker 1: picks away, So I ain't even think of this type
Speaker 1: of Bay call type of Bay and up call it
Speaker 1: like man, we want you for the grab it in
Speaker 1: the stay around. And once I got the phone, temper
Speaker 1: Bay still went up here. It was probably another pick
Speaker 1: or two. So I'm just casually walking around the crib
Speaker 1: and then my pops he was just like going with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I'm like yeah, He's like, oh man, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody just got hype. And then they say, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm getting picked on the TV, and so I was.
Speaker 1: It was just crazy and then out of that my
Speaker 1: phone was just going crazy. I can't even answer a
Speaker 1: Kyle Well, that was a good experience for me. Keyshawn's
Speaker 1: long road to pick seventy six, from tough neighborhoods to Nashville,
Speaker 1: through a major injury, to the coaching carousel at Illinois,
Speaker 1: all the way to this year's struggle his senior season,
Speaker 1: it all led to one of the best situations in
Speaker 1: this year's draft. He's joining a loaded team with Super
Speaker 1: Bowl aspirations. I mean, it's just crazy to me being
Speaker 1: able to like play with these guys that iut watch
Speaker 1: growing up, like Tom Brady. He's been in the leave
Speaker 1: like twenty years or something like that, and that's I'm
Speaker 1: twenty three, So damned in my whole life been watching
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and never would have thought that would be
Speaker 1: my quarterback when I get drafted. But the going there
Speaker 1: with a lot of experienced players who I feel, uh
Speaker 1: will help me and benefit me as far as going
Speaker 1: owning off the field as a player, I do feel
Speaker 1: like it's a way kind of lift off your shoulders
Speaker 1: because me, I'm more of a cast this type of person,
Speaker 1: so I was kind of moving just to make sure
Speaker 1: I was able to get to the league. Then I
Speaker 1: mentally I can be kind of more relaxing, more myself,
Speaker 1: Like I was trying to kind of trying to tell
Speaker 1: my own story, my way, and that's kind of something
Speaker 1: I'm able to do now. It's a happy ending to
Speaker 1: keep you on's drama filled collegiate career, but to him,
Speaker 1: it's only a beginning. I'm trying to start every day
Speaker 1: trying to earn that starting spot every day. And that's
Speaker 1: just the mindset that you need to keep pushing. Especially NFL,
Speaker 1: you can get cut and so this ain't college where
Speaker 1: you can they just keep you on the team. Now
Speaker 1: you can get cut, go home. So it's even the
Speaker 1: seriousness behind the game has ramped up even more, knowing that, um,
Speaker 1: this is your career, this is your job. You ain't
Speaker 1: not keep that job, especially you've got people, got families
Speaker 1: and all. Let's taking care of people. I mean, you
Speaker 1: always gotta have something to prove because the moment you
Speaker 1: get too comfortable, that's when you could lose it all.
Speaker 1: So I'm standing on my toes with everything. But like
Speaker 1: any running back for me, all the seven running backs
Speaker 1: that were before me, UM, I got their names in
Speaker 1: my phones, which team they went to, and all of
Speaker 1: them teams are playing to kill when I when I
Speaker 1: play them, and um, their coach will have to be
Speaker 1: mad as hell that he has scouting Keshavan, who he
Speaker 1: skipped over in the two thousand and twenty draft. And
Speaker 1: that's my goal with all them teams. UM. One of
Speaker 1: the teams even reached out and said good luck to me.
Speaker 1: I simply them laughing face back. That's kind of how
Speaker 1: how this go now? Like I said earlier Vandy, the
Speaker 1: only thing that that it's the reason why I'm able
Speaker 1: to under underdog nombers. Don't lie you lining up my
Speaker 1: stats with any other SEC running back, any other running back,
Speaker 1: I got good stacks. Um dominated the biggest stage of
Speaker 1: them all on so, like I said, them, teams would
Speaker 1: have to see me. I'm just ready to play in football.
Speaker 1: Keyshawn is already eager to start his next chapter, but
Speaker 1: with the draft approaching the halfway point, hundreds of other
Speaker 1: hopefuls like Bryce Hall worry they're running out of time.
Speaker 1: The third round of the draft, I'm driving them all.
Speaker 1: Jets got a whole lot of picks. Just like I said,
Speaker 1: the Jets got hell of picks. Yeah, point I this
Speaker 1: is the Blake and I hand while I gave birds
Speaker 1: dead as a long time getting closer, huh gotta be.
Speaker 1: Nine cornerbacks were taken in the first two rounds, and
Speaker 1: the tenth was picked right after Kishan. So Bryce keeps
Speaker 1: moving up the draft boards and he and his family
Speaker 1: try to stay optimistic that he'll find an NFL home soon.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for joining us for another special life.
Speaker 1: No excitement, just another night, just get it Saturday. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this isn't destined to be his night. You're a star,
Speaker 1: is the lay around. Let's for tomorrow. It's at noon tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you right, Yes, sir, I'm with y'all. Love y'all, Love y'all.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that we got it. Appreciate y'all, Love you too.
Speaker 1: This is a big getting in here though, already know
Speaker 1: so ten thirty on Saturday, Day three at the draft.
Speaker 1: Fourth round starts in about an hour. That's the saying Bassie,
Speaker 1: former Wakeforest quarterback and current undrafted NFL prospect. I need
Speaker 1: to get out of the house because this family all
Speaker 1: around me, she's given me anxiety. Honestly, Um, every text
Speaker 1: that comes in just makes it build. And I know
Speaker 1: it's cool, people showing love, pushing me good luck. I've
Speaker 1: just been trying to stay calm throughout it. But now
Speaker 1: that the day that actually pick at drafted this here,
Speaker 1: you know, built up a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: feelings with me. So I'm about to go drive and
Speaker 1: clear my head a little bit, my head a little
Speaker 1: bit and now I'm hoping for needed happy already so
Speaker 1: I can get back to work. I forgot a hair
Speaker 1: cut earlier this morning on this crazy coronavirus stuff going on.
Speaker 1: Parents works, happy thought, But I'm gonna get drafted to
Speaker 1: Let need to cut for all these saying, Bassie's still
Speaker 1: out there. Any kind of distraction is beneficial right now
Speaker 1: because today the pressure ratchets up again. Rounds four through
Speaker 1: seven take place this afternoon. Then it's all over. If
Speaker 1: players don't get picked today, that could mean the end
Speaker 1: of their football career forever. And that's something is saying,
Speaker 1: finds himself dwelling on some article. So wanna sent me
Speaker 1: If the job of a cornerback is to versus front
Speaker 1: the nearest waters here from catching the ball, the wait
Speaker 1: forest cornerback, he's hang bass He's one of the better
Speaker 1: players at his job. Yeah, you think over the past
Speaker 1: three seasons, Bessie worked up thirty five passes at the
Speaker 1: cash point, more than any other cornerback in all of
Speaker 1: college football over that period of time. His lack of
Speaker 1: size five n likely contributed to his slide down the board.
Speaker 1: Lack of size. So if I was one itch taller, Bro,
Speaker 1: if I was totally just taller, was two inches taller,
Speaker 1: that ship is so wild to me, Bro, Like that's
Speaker 1: so loved me. The article is correct, of course, if
Speaker 1: it's saying we're two inches taller and a few pounds heavier,
Speaker 1: he likely would have already been drafted. He has the speed, physicality,
Speaker 1: and stats. The problem him is only one person has
Speaker 1: consistently been able to see past the sayings limiting size.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that's my boy. We're gonna get rocked
Speaker 1: or dead baby like long rods. Hello, We'll see sweet
Speaker 1: rack I can. I would just saying you rack find
Speaker 1: the one that did. I've been doing that, said our
Speaker 1: steep brother, who, while the saying's mom expects a champagne
Speaker 1: moment for her son today, he's focused on trying to
Speaker 1: hold it together because the last four rounds of the
Speaker 1: draft and his final chance at his lifelong dreams are
Speaker 1: fast approaching. We'll be right back. What up, you're still
Speaker 1: I'm in Atlanta. That's another highly touted prospect who hasn't
Speaker 1: been picked yet. Offensive lineman Tremaine Anchrum and his friend
Speaker 1: from Clemson Desmond on the phone, just seeing where you
Speaker 1: had that. Make sure you're still in positive spear. Hey, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you know this is only just a step of the journey.
Speaker 1: You know'm just telling you where you was gonna go.
Speaker 1: That's all welse for me. Where are your family going? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're straight. I mean my mom is a doubt her
Speaker 1: over the day, and then my dad's he's anxious as hell.
Speaker 1: You know how he can get Yeah, yee's calm here. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you make it worse on everybody. It's just tough seeing
Speaker 1: like a bunch of guys that you know you're better than,
Speaker 1: get taken in front of you. That's exactly what you're
Speaker 1: saying yesterday, like he was literally saying the same. Is that, man,
Speaker 1: It is what it is. Though, it's all gonna sort
Speaker 1: yourself out. You're good, man. I appreciate you. Glad you've
Speaker 1: got with friends. Man, Man, I might say, after after
Speaker 1: what we were doing at Clipson, ain't nobody was sitting
Speaker 1: in the land till god right. We only to girls
Speaker 1: in there and trying to figure it out, like damn
Speaker 1: his crack out the whole town. Hey, boys passing down
Speaker 1: everybody's ass cheeks. Man. I was like, I'm not working now,
Speaker 1: so I'm just be studying. Hey, we're gonna have them
Speaker 1: time to kick it all right, to appreciate you too. Today,
Speaker 1: Tremaine faces the same situation as a thing and tries
Speaker 1: to block out some of those same creeping doubts as
Speaker 1: saying struggles with entrance into the NFL. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm always gonna be an NFL player ever since my
Speaker 1: junior year of college. So you know, I knew it's
Speaker 1: meaningful putty well before this weekend, and whatever half of
Speaker 1: this weekend's not gonna change that. All people that have
Speaker 1: told me I can do and help me get to
Speaker 1: my goal, you know they still hold on. Hopefully that's
Speaker 1: all I need. Day three with draft Day three picks
Speaker 1: U excited, you know, hopeful. Uh, sometimes a little entitlement
Speaker 1: that you know you're supposed to have success, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be chosen this that in the third but little
Speaker 1: against just like a little bit of air against. So
Speaker 1: you try to stay level aheaded and just sit there
Speaker 1: and be grateful for the opportunity that you had. I
Speaker 1: think that's the best thing that we can call it on.
Speaker 1: Who is the opportunity? Because not everybody has one. They're
Speaker 1: so rare. But that's one thing. Just because you work
Speaker 1: hard don't mean things are going to go your way.
Speaker 1: You work hard just for the sole purpose of working hard.
Speaker 1: Because which it's what you're supposed to do. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Despite the confidence Tremaine was expressing, he just turned off
Speaker 1: his recorder, the same way Kishan might have forgotten to
Speaker 1: turn his on once the draft began. This might say
Speaker 1: more than their words about the mental toll these players
Speaker 1: are under, especially as the rounds progress and their draft
Speaker 1: prospects dimmed. How's your burn you on? Yeah? Yeah, can
Speaker 1: you use your charger? Day three? Day three? Um, it's
Speaker 1: you're gonna see how it didn't shake up for the draft.
Speaker 1: So stay tuned. Let's go. Bryce Hall and his girlfriend
Speaker 1: Enzel jockey for position on the couch as the fourth
Speaker 1: round begins. Keep kidding, we're gonna need to hit. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna have to? Because they look at me com
Speaker 1: binding My else. Stress is showing, even for Enzel. With
Speaker 1: the final day officially underway, three quick picks in the
Speaker 1: fourth round put the Giants on the clock back and
Speaker 1: that's my god, you're annoying. His dad is Derek Home's
Speaker 1: a former NFL wrong back. This is this is a
Speaker 1: smart kids. Yeah, don't already waimately just at the school
Speaker 1: for the next two years. Yeah, that's my guy. Though
Speaker 1: he's good I like him, but yeah, he was at
Speaker 1: the combine. He's real cool. I could see him like
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a good players because he's like you
Speaker 1: could tell he was hungry. Yeah, he got chipped to.
Speaker 1: He's like real, real cool. He want of those dudes,
Speaker 1: probably like before before the before the season started, he
Speaker 1: like hit me up because our old strength staff. And
Speaker 1: he was like, you know, like he hit me up.
Speaker 1: He was like, no, I want to learn from me
Speaker 1: type of thing, like what what can I you know,
Speaker 1: I want to get some wisdom side stuff. He's like real,
Speaker 1: he's he's hungry. He's gonna be a good player. Round
Speaker 1: four continues and Bryce doesn't receive any calls. His family
Speaker 1: tries to make sense of what's happening, looking on Twitter
Speaker 1: and the Internet for clues. He had so many fans,
Speaker 1: so much love out there. Yeah, literally a man ting
Speaker 1: tweets right now like guys, y'all trip at Brice Hole
Speaker 1: is selling the board that yeah said, Bryce houses Brice
Speaker 1: House on board. This is absurd tweet. He got most
Speaker 1: tweets and the six more cornerbacks are taken throughout round four,
Speaker 1: saying in Bryce are not among them. There wasn't uncertainty
Speaker 1: that Bryce could play and play the game. The uncertainty
Speaker 1: from the NFL was how how held to seek? This
Speaker 1: is Bryce's college coach, Bronco Mendenhall. I'm watching his University
Speaker 1: of Virginia star fall all the way through the fourth
Speaker 1: round of the draft. How did the surgery really go?
Speaker 1: They wanted to see him test. They wanted to see
Speaker 1: him run, they wanted to see him jump, They wanted
Speaker 1: to see they wanted a current and a real assessment
Speaker 1: of where is he currently? And then without the ability
Speaker 1: to see that, um, I watched Draft Day and I
Speaker 1: just became furious because I knew who he was and is.
Speaker 1: For every guy that was taken, Like after about the
Speaker 1: second round, my phone was just like battling and just
Speaker 1: almost like smoking because it was like but no one
Speaker 1: just could believe it. My coaches, I'm not even gonna
Speaker 1: show you the threat. I mean, we have an assistant
Speaker 1: coaches threat. However, we learned the business element. They wanted
Speaker 1: proof right, not of what he had done. They wanted
Speaker 1: proof today. Could he run, could he jump, how fast,
Speaker 1: how recovered? Et cetera. Without that proof, Bryce has fallen
Speaker 1: into the final three rounds. Glad you're with us as
Speaker 1: we continue to work our way through the draft to
Speaker 1: take a look at another draft pick of being in
Speaker 1: Cincinet and Bengals in his Kareem mol the defensive end
Speaker 1: out another name. His living room is noticeably quieted as
Speaker 1: they watched the first pick of round five come in.
Speaker 1: The names one of the top defensive line in the
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen recruiting players had a solid career.
Speaker 1: I spect tag rose passer and trailing sacks and pull
Speaker 1: the tenant tackles for loss Levin and Hurry's worse three bubbles.
Speaker 1: The Virginity game was the hickout performance pork league. Karreem,
Speaker 1: you got a couple of sacks in that game, and
Speaker 1: Roy value a Russia. He's a guy who has but
Speaker 1: han U said, Harry up to win the leverage battle
Speaker 1: the steam versatility to play a little inside outside game
Speaker 1: there as well. You get a little versatility, as I
Speaker 1: said with glee, Kareem. But you know he talked about
Speaker 1: a guy who could be a the kitchen baby five
Speaker 1: sacks in a year. He's not gonna be a double
Speaker 1: vision sack guy. Probably a guy who want to spot
Speaker 1: and find a way to get him involved in the
Speaker 1: in the defensive. Yes, sir, this is Bryce. I'm doing well.
Speaker 1: How are you? M m hmm man. It's an honor
Speaker 1: to be a part of the team. Absolutely, absolutely, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Yeah, mm hmm man. It's an honor
Speaker 1: to be a part of the Jests, Yes, sir, let's go. Yeah, right, man,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I appreciate y'all for giving me a shot.
Speaker 1: That's all I wanted. Mm hmm man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: An honor, man, I can't wait to get to work,
Speaker 1: yes sir, Yes, sir, you're mcause we don't we don't
Speaker 1: compromise on it at all time. I love that. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. Thank you. Can I really appreciate that. Okay,
Speaker 1: damn man, make sure you can what great you know? Yeah, sir,
Speaker 1: it's an honor to be a Jet. Can't wait. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hey man, we're sorry to have you. Thank you. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. It's
Speaker 1: the Jets. Yeah, welcome, all right, baby, Oh, let's go. Physicality,
Speaker 1: you gotta work for them in some of the path
Speaker 1: of protection. Moving on, we have time when that is
Speaker 1: the most in school history, and you see the return
Speaker 1: average there as well, that you're getting more than one thing.
Speaker 1: That's Bryce's teammate Joe Reid being selected one and fifty
Speaker 1: first overall by Los Angeles, seven picks before Bryce is
Speaker 1: about to officially go to the New York Jets. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back. The significance of getting drafted, discovering his
Speaker 1: future team, becoming an NFL player all starts to sink it. Now,
Speaker 1: I know this good. We don't care, we don't care.
Speaker 1: What color are they? Green and white? Yeah, you go,
Speaker 1: And I'm definitely about to reach out to him. So okay, right,
Speaker 1: so tell us what is the call sound like? When? Hey,
Speaker 1: it's right, is all they say? Yeah, yeah, we were like, um,
Speaker 1: I think it was. I honestly don't know. But they
Speaker 1: put me on the They put me on the phone
Speaker 1: with all the coaches, like, they put me on the
Speaker 1: phone with the GM. They put me on the phone
Speaker 1: with the defensive coordinator, the head coach, the defensive back coach.
Speaker 1: So I talked to pretty much all of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so crazy Greg Williams. Yeah, I don't even remember, like
Speaker 1: who dark like crazy Greg Williams, screamer who greet Williams?
Speaker 1: Who's that right, Oh is he? I have no idea
Speaker 1: streamer love it what my dB coach at Virginia was
Speaker 1: a screamer too, so I won't be It won't be
Speaker 1: something I'm not used to. Yeah, wow, I don't think
Speaker 1: I want those ones after that Rice Hall Corn Virginia
Speaker 1: d J Jet. He had some injury issues that took
Speaker 1: him out of the combine, so he hadn't sort of
Speaker 1: worked his way through this year. Yeah bad. He who
Speaker 1: have broken legs like you can see here the athleticism
Speaker 1: watch him as a return but as a corner, you're
Speaker 1: talking about somebody that's six one and a quarters one
Speaker 1: or two pounds with good length, So you have to
Speaker 1: go to get up and press. As you see right here,
Speaker 1: that's what he does. He gets with that one hand,
Speaker 1: stab and press. You can find and play with football
Speaker 1: when he has those opportunities about those pretty fluidant as
Speaker 1: that recovery speeah, I'm preci I questioned a little bit
Speaker 1: of his vision and his instincts, but you have a
Speaker 1: tremendous athlete developed there. Bryce talks to the media and
Speaker 1: gathers himself after finally discovering his new team. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of emotions right now, to be honest, thank
Speaker 1: you bad crazy m hm. Oh yeah, I just put
Speaker 1: it on. Why you want to say something? What happens next?
Speaker 1: No idea. I gotta figure that. No, I tried to.
Speaker 1: He called me and I was on like a zoom
Speaker 1: call with them, and I called him back. So he
Speaker 1: hasn't until yet. But I definitely have to figure that out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they were like one of the teams that
Speaker 1: like obviously I interviewed with them at the combine and
Speaker 1: then like I zoomed called their defensive coordinator and everybody
Speaker 1: else somebody else with them, but and I had planned
Speaker 1: an official visit with them, So it's about it. But
Speaker 1: so you guys have a need that corner. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know they have a need, but like the start,
Speaker 1: I mean I talked to the I talked to the
Speaker 1: DV coach and he was like, you know, it's wide open.
Speaker 1: So mm hmm, all right, love you, thank you for coming,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you for supportive B Like, how am
Speaker 1: I supposed to respond? Look? Look look at all these texts. Ready,
Speaker 1: what's she doing? Ready? Y? Holy oh my god. I
Speaker 1: feel good. It's just a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 1: of emotions going there right now. Just first off, just
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole weight was just like a roller
Speaker 1: coaster up now I'm dogged down. So then like I
Speaker 1: feel some type of way about that, Like the teams
Speaker 1: that passed on you, you know a lot of highs
Speaker 1: and lows, and and obviously you've got high expectations and
Speaker 1: where you want to see yourself get drafted on this.
Speaker 1: And I just remember seeing dick after pick after pick
Speaker 1: after pick, and it's like you're just waiting, you know,
Speaker 1: I almost thinking like it's my phone, they got the
Speaker 1: right number or something like that, give me the right number.
Speaker 1: They sure like it's my phone working still, But like
Speaker 1: those are some of the things that you know, you
Speaker 1: kind of go through waiting around the process, and then
Speaker 1: when you finally get that call, the GM called me.
Speaker 1: Then I talked to the defensive coordinator, the dB coach,
Speaker 1: all the coaches, I mean, and I just remember after
Speaker 1: the call, just like sitting on the couch, just like
Speaker 1: did I couldn't. I didn't even say anything for about
Speaker 1: like five minutes. I just sat there and just soaked
Speaker 1: it in and just like trying to process it. But
Speaker 1: it took it, honestly, took me like like thirty forty
Speaker 1: five minutes to just like soak it in and realized
Speaker 1: that what happened. And it was so cool because on
Speaker 1: my family, they were around me, they were supporting, they
Speaker 1: were jumping and shouting, and um man, they stuck with
Speaker 1: me through this whole process. You know, three straight nights,
Speaker 1: you know, we're standing up to twelve o'clock waiting to
Speaker 1: hear and waiting to hear it. You know, you go
Speaker 1: and go back to bed and can't really sleep much,
Speaker 1: still thinking, and then you know, finally get that call. Man,
Speaker 1: they were just excited for me. So it's a dream
Speaker 1: come true. So I'm super excited and I can't wait
Speaker 1: to be a Jet get once again. University of Virginia
Speaker 1: head coach brock Omnden Hall to see Bryce saw Thinking
Speaker 1: in the fifth round, UM number one. I was grateful
Speaker 1: that he was drafted and grateful that he's an NFL
Speaker 1: football player. Um that is the biggest bargain in the
Speaker 1: history probably probably of of the NFL draft to get
Speaker 1: Bryce Solomon in the fifth round in my in my opinion,
Speaker 1: in my perspective, and I've had about five players per
Speaker 1: year over my fifteen years go on to play. And
Speaker 1: so I don't have a sample size of thousands, but
Speaker 1: I have a of and of anyone that's gone on
Speaker 1: to play, other than maybe Danny Sorenson who was a
Speaker 1: free agent who's with the Chiefs, who was also an
Speaker 1: amazingly bargain pick. But Bryce hall Um, congratulations of the
Speaker 1: Jets because what they just got for that pick in
Speaker 1: that round, that's unbelievable. So anyway, I was just the pointed, furious, sad,
Speaker 1: every emotion you could possibly have with every pick after
Speaker 1: about the second round until the fifth and then I
Speaker 1: just celebrated like crazy that that it did happen, Um,
Speaker 1: because now I knew Bryce would make the most of it.
Speaker 1: And and well, the Jets will find out what everyone
Speaker 1: will find out soon enough, and then they'll be saying,
Speaker 1: how holy smokes, how did how did we get him? For?
Speaker 1: That is what's going to happen. And the reality was
Speaker 1: is they wanted to see and they told me right,
Speaker 1: they wanted to see run jump stop. Where where exactly
Speaker 1: is he now? Right? How recovered? And so anyway he
Speaker 1: has the chance to to write the next chapter. And man,
Speaker 1: if I'm trusting anyone with the pen, I'm trusting Bryce
Speaker 1: Hall with the pen to write an amazing chapter coming
Speaker 1: up on the next episode of Drafted, I I was
Speaker 1: supposed to go higher. I guess it was Denver, Baltimore, Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: I thought he would have been gone. I'm glad he
Speaker 1: was there for us because we have a vision for him. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think this would be a good place to propose
Speaker 1: to her. Are you nervous? I'm excited. He has no idea.
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