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Speaker 1: Man Up Podcast. I am your host, Brian Colbert Junr.
Speaker 1: And our next Man Up is our new running back
Speaker 1: and in the league for a minute.
Speaker 2: It's only getting better.
Speaker 1: His shirt even says it one percent better every day.
Speaker 1: Welcoming in Austin Eckler.
Speaker 2: Brother, you having man I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, compound and interest, that's what it's about, a little
Speaker 3: bit every day and it starts adding up, Yes.
Speaker 2: Sir man, and last time we sat here.
Speaker 1: So it's funny because as you guys can see, we
Speaker 1: are in a different room than the studio.
Speaker 2: You know, we're getting some new things changed. But imagine last.
Speaker 1: Time you will hear you were signing your contract right, yeah,
Speaker 1: sitting right over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, take it. Are but in in to the papers?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then right after that you came to the studio
Speaker 1: and me and you had our interview when we sat
Speaker 1: and talked and you had just getting your feet wet
Speaker 1: in the DMV man, I mean you had just got here.
Speaker 1: So how has it been justin since?
Speaker 3: Yeah, when we first talked, I don't I didn't have
Speaker 3: enough time to really appreciate the area or the culture.
Speaker 3: But been around a little bit, been to a community event,
Speaker 3: been around some of the fans as well at our
Speaker 3: home game now the preseason, so looking forward to to
Speaker 3: more of that during the season. Been down to DC
Speaker 3: a little bit as well, feeling the love from the community,
Speaker 3: taking a few pictures with fans. So I'm starting to
Speaker 3: feel what people are talking about. And they're like, Oh,
Speaker 3: you're gonna love it out here because everyone that we've
Speaker 3: talked to, My wife's in the room as well, in
Speaker 3: the background for those of you who can't see it,
Speaker 3: They're like.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're gonna love the East Coast. You're gonna love DC.
Speaker 3: It's really clean, like a lot of history, great food,
Speaker 3: and it's definitely been that, so it's growing on us.
Speaker 1: This is definitely the best place to be on the
Speaker 1: East Coast. Now people will say it might be the South.
Speaker 1: I don't feel that way.
Speaker 2: I feel like this is the East just like you do.
Speaker 2: But this is definitely a great place to be. Mess.
Speaker 1: We're happy you're getting acclimated in, you know, the next
Speaker 1: man up. We talk extras and those, but we talk
Speaker 1: a lot about the player behind the helmet. But before
Speaker 1: we do that, you mentioned preseason. Yeah, you cause a
Speaker 1: little trouble. I don't know if you really you caused
Speaker 1: a little trouble what we did want. So we are
Speaker 1: doing our sidelines what me and you are doing our
Speaker 1: sideline interview, and I asked you about Jayden and how
Speaker 1: he was in the huddle in the pocket, and you revealed,
Speaker 1: because nobody else knew this, that Jayden checked out of
Speaker 1: a screenplay to make that.
Speaker 2: To them, I gave away too much, gave away so good.
Speaker 2: So I was gonna ask, did you get any heat
Speaker 2: for that? But clearly you didn't hear about it. No,
Speaker 2: I didn't hear about that.
Speaker 3: Well, but I tell you, I mean I didn't get
Speaker 3: no heat about it either. I was just making sure
Speaker 3: we were good. Okay, that's all me. That's how I
Speaker 3: think we're good. Yeah, No, I mean, don't worry.
Speaker 2: We changed, We changed our plays, we changed our signals.
Speaker 2: That's what it is. We got you anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think that was a great moment and
Speaker 1: great insight because it would allow Dan Quinn allowed Jayden
Speaker 1: to talk about that moment and not a lot of
Speaker 1: rookies are going to check out us something their first
Speaker 1: NFL drive. Jayden did, then, I think that encompasses what
Speaker 1: we've seen from Jaden. You talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: what you've seen from not only that one Precon games.
Speaker 3: I was the last time we talked, but since Yeah,
Speaker 3: something that I appreciate, you know about just any quarterback
Speaker 3: coming in is really the communication.
Speaker 2: I want to see the communication be alive.
Speaker 3: And that tells me a few things actually, But first
Speaker 3: of all, it tells me, Okay, you care enough to
Speaker 3: come and be on the same page with me, and
Speaker 3: you you want to see that that connection happen, and
Speaker 3: you're going out of your way to make it happen.
Speaker 3: And what also tells me, because he's a rookie, is
Speaker 3: that he wants to step into that leadership role as well,
Speaker 3: because he doesn't have to do that. He could easily
Speaker 3: behind hide behind the rookie. Oh I don't know, Like
Speaker 3: I'm just going to kind of, you know, let things
Speaker 3: come to me. He's the one that actually out there
Speaker 3: making it happen, right, stepping up as a leader.
Speaker 2: To go and communicate. So I love that about him.
Speaker 3: And then as far as just his mentality of being
Speaker 3: on the field, wants to continue to compete, you know,
Speaker 3: we gotta get this.
Speaker 2: Guy to slide, you know, things like that.
Speaker 3: You know, he's learned be a pro, and so it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we love that fire in him, you know, and so
Speaker 3: he'll continue to learn, like I mentioned, how to be
Speaker 3: a pro and just continue to progress down this path.
Speaker 3: And the trajectory that he's going down is a pretty
Speaker 3: steep one right now. So I'm looking to see him
Speaker 3: continue to grow exponentially.
Speaker 2: And he recently was named the starter.
Speaker 1: What was that first conversation, like when you found out
Speaker 1: he was going to be your starting quarterback?
Speaker 2: I'm sure you had an idea, but yeah, got that official.
Speaker 3: You know how this league works, man, If you get
Speaker 3: drafted second overall, Heisman you're you're expected to be in
Speaker 3: that role. Man, So it doesn't mean you're gonna get
Speaker 3: that role. Like, you still got to go out there
Speaker 3: and earn it. Like, don't get me wrong, Like you
Speaker 3: don't just come in and walk in and get a spot.
Speaker 3: You got to make sure that you check the boxes
Speaker 3: saying yep, okay, he did that. He was a leader,
Speaker 3: He made good decisions, he did all the things he
Speaker 3: needed to do, and that's exactly what he came in
Speaker 3: and has done. And so he still has a long
Speaker 3: way to go. Just because quarterback. I've been around some
Speaker 3: of the greats, been around Philip Rivers who had been
Speaker 3: there year seventeen, and I've seen what a true veteran
Speaker 3: quarterback with that many years of experience looks like. Also
Speaker 3: been around Jay Herb you know, out in LA and
Speaker 3: see him grow into you know, for four years we
Speaker 3: played together. And so I Jayden's on the right track
Speaker 3: based off of what I've seen from those other guys.
Speaker 2: And we know you're gonna help to being here.
Speaker 1: And like I said, we'll talk football a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I want to talk about the man behind the helmet,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of layers to you there's.
Speaker 2: A lot of layers to me.
Speaker 3: I had a coach tell me one time that I'm
Speaker 3: probably the most unique person in the in the NFL.
Speaker 2: That's a great compliment to have because there's a lot
Speaker 2: of personalities. There's a lot, there's a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, you're you're an investor, you're a gamer,
Speaker 1: you're a businessman, you're a husband, you're all of these things.
Speaker 1: And I want to focus on that because we got
Speaker 1: wife here right now. So course we don't want to
Speaker 1: bury the lead, right You just got married recently. Tell
Speaker 1: us about the wedding. Where did you get married and
Speaker 1: tell us about your wife.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so we got married recently out in Las Vegas,
Speaker 3: and so it was a beautiful wedding. Shout out to
Speaker 3: my wife for basically planning the whole thing. She's all
Speaker 3: small right now. So yeah, it was an amazing time.
Speaker 3: Got our families together, and we're continuing to you know,
Speaker 3: make this, make this journey a beautiful thing, and looking
Speaker 3: forward to spending some time together out here on the
Speaker 3: East Coast.
Speaker 2: It's the first time we've really.
Speaker 3: Been in the same place for a long amount of
Speaker 3: time now, and it's been it's been great.
Speaker 2: So far.
Speaker 1: Hey man, congratulations, appreciate that. And that's beautiful that I
Speaker 1: can see how she loves you and supports you. And
Speaker 1: so she's a dancer.
Speaker 3: Indeed, she's a dancer, very talented dancer, very very talented dancer,
Speaker 3: tap dance, ballet, jazz, hip hop, anything you name it,
Speaker 3: she got it.
Speaker 2: What about you? You cut a rug a little bit. I
Speaker 2: cannot cut it. I am very stiff.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: You know, I got a little rhythm sometimes, but it's
Speaker 2: in spurts. She says, she's a dancer, So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take a work for in spurts. Though in spurts it's
Speaker 2: not maintained. You know, you know, everyone's got like a
Speaker 2: move or something. You know you're feeling.
Speaker 3: I got a little too stiff, little movie, got a
Speaker 3: little little hot little job.
Speaker 1: So with the wedding, right, like we know that there's
Speaker 1: that that first dance, that first moment. Yeah, marrying an
Speaker 1: actual legitimate dancer, did you have to learn like a
Speaker 1: whole choreograph thing?
Speaker 2: Like what was that? Absolutely? So you know for us
Speaker 2: we choreographed something.
Speaker 3: It was very basic, like there was some traditional dancing
Speaker 3: in there. But then when the chorus would come we'd
Speaker 3: have like our little routine that we do just to
Speaker 3: put a little flair on it, okay, and the flares
Speaker 3: continue to get a little bit bigger and bigger. But
Speaker 3: it was it was just enough for me where I
Speaker 3: was able. I was able to.
Speaker 2: Wrap my head around it and actually nail it. It
Speaker 2: wasn't too technical, man. I wish hopefully.
Speaker 1: I know you're not going too but I would love
Speaker 1: for you to send me that video so I can
Speaker 1: watch it because I'm sure you did a great job.
Speaker 1: And the way she's small and supporting you, man, that
Speaker 1: is a beautiful thing. So again, congratulations on that business now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the husband, you know, that's the most important thing.
Speaker 1: But now you have a businessman as well. Tell us
Speaker 1: about that. Man, You do so many different things, not
Speaker 1: just for yourself, but you also work to inspire other
Speaker 1: athletes and other people to get into business.
Speaker 2: Tell us all about it, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for myself, you know, my journey to the NFL
Speaker 3: and I that conversation that I had with that coach
Speaker 3: where they told me I was really unique is because
Speaker 3: for me, I wasn't really aspiring to be in the
Speaker 3: NFL like that wasn't like my north star. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: that's because I came from a really, really small town
Speaker 3: and was grew up in the cowboy life. You know,
Speaker 3: have ridden bulls in my life, riding horses like that's
Speaker 3: me in the cowboy hat, like that was me out
Speaker 3: there in the cowboy life. And then got into some
Speaker 3: traditional sports, but continued to progress through that and then
Speaker 3: you know, found a love for football. That was my
Speaker 3: best sport. Didn't have any Division one offers or anything
Speaker 3: like that. I grew up around around entrepreneurs. I grew
Speaker 3: up building barbier fence in the summers, and if you
Speaker 3: know anything about manual labor, it's not fun, you know,
Speaker 3: especially out in the summer. Barbarier fence will definitely teach
Speaker 3: you how to work hard. And so that's that was
Speaker 3: a blessing in disguise. You know, hated every minute of it,
Speaker 3: but definitely learned how to work. And that mindset has
Speaker 3: stayed with me ever since, even still to this day.
Speaker 3: And so going into college, as I mentioned, I didn't
Speaker 3: have any Division one offers, went to a small school.
Speaker 3: So my anticipation for me in the future was, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to get some type of degree and
Speaker 3: use my mind to get my next opportunity. And so
Speaker 3: I really focused on my education and also really took
Speaker 3: football seriously because I did have a small scholarship and
Speaker 3: that a Division two, you don't get a full ride, right,
Speaker 3: and so to increase your scholarship, you got to continue
Speaker 3: to get all conference, all Americans. So I'm hyper locked
Speaker 3: in on football and my education. And that was what
Speaker 3: it was for me growing up, and that's kind of
Speaker 3: what has continued to progress me forward into different businesses
Speaker 3: and things like that, because that's I've always had a
Speaker 3: passion for it.
Speaker 1: And I mean, you've seen so much success in nfol
Speaker 1: Yes they maybe that wasn't your initial dream, but you
Speaker 1: made it.
Speaker 2: You have this success.
Speaker 3: So let's talk about that. Yeah, because you know, going
Speaker 3: into college, you know, I start my first year. I
Speaker 3: actually left the day I graduated, Like I threw my
Speaker 3: hat up in there, and I'm like, I'm going to
Speaker 3: get acclimated to this team.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go dedicate myself.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get up there in the summer and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna start going to work like I'm ready to work,
Speaker 3: Like let me get myself going, let me get my opportunity,
Speaker 3: let me get my life on its feet and start
Speaker 3: pushing it forward. And for me, it was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: football is the first thing I can get into. School
Speaker 3: doesn't start until the fall, but it's the summertime. So
Speaker 3: I'm up there working out. I got myself a summer job.
Speaker 3: I was a rat guy taken down. You know, you
Speaker 3: want to go down the guns from river, I could
Speaker 3: take you down the river winnaissance.
Speaker 2: Man, That's what it was at the time. Man, you
Speaker 2: don't have to get it how you live it, you know.
Speaker 3: So I had to pay rent somehow, and I was
Speaker 3: up in the mountains, and so I'm doing that and
Speaker 3: I'm one of the strongest guys on the team already
Speaker 3: already lived in the weight room before then.
Speaker 2: Like that was my passion.
Speaker 3: That was my getaway, and that was my therapy, was
Speaker 3: getting in the weight room. And my work ethic just
Speaker 3: because of the upbringing that I had was a lot
Speaker 3: different than the guys around me.
Speaker 2: Like for me, this it.
Speaker 3: Wasn't just playing football, Like I'm not just playing football
Speaker 3: like this, this is my life in my hands right
Speaker 3: here right Like for me, this is the opportunity that's
Speaker 3: going to bring me to the next one.
Speaker 2: So I can't let this slide. I can't just go
Speaker 2: about this casually. It's not casual.
Speaker 3: There's so much that rides on this for me to
Speaker 3: have some type of success, because that's going to show
Speaker 3: and project the magnitude of my next opportunity.
Speaker 2: I didn't know if it was gonna be in the NFL.
Speaker 3: I thought I was going to be in the business route,
Speaker 3: so I wanted to make sure I didn't have a
Speaker 3: ton of debt coming out. So I want to continue
Speaker 3: to increase my scholarship, so I'm locked in school finally starts.
Speaker 3: I'm locked in making sure I'm getting good grades, all
Speaker 3: of that stuff as well. And then you know, my
Speaker 3: freshman year, there's only three seniors on the team, so
Speaker 3: leadership was terrible.
Speaker 2: Seniors had left or transferred out or quit.
Speaker 3: And I remember my freshman year, our first away game,
Speaker 3: we go on the on the road and everyone's messing
Speaker 3: around talking during meetings, on their phone during meetings, and
Speaker 3: our offensive ordinary gets up and he's like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: does does anyone have anything to say?
Speaker 2: And I was I came from a.
Speaker 3: Culture we never lost, We didn't lose games, you know,
Speaker 3: And like I said, this is more than just football
Speaker 3: to me. And so I was like, I got to
Speaker 3: say something, you know, and I wasn't really a leader
Speaker 3: at that time, but I got up in front of him.
Speaker 3: I hey, coach, I got something. I remember my voice
Speaker 3: just trembling because I'm so nervous. But I cared so much,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, you guys are treating this like a vacation.
Speaker 3: This is some bullshit, like we need to be locked in.
Speaker 3: We're here, we're on a business trip, you know. And
Speaker 3: it didn't come out as as smooth as that, right,
Speaker 3: because I'm trembling, you know, like nervous. I'm starting to
Speaker 3: get to your eye because I cared so muchy since
Speaker 3: you know, I'm eighteen up there, I got some twenty
Speaker 3: year olds of the room. I'm the young guy, and
Speaker 3: ever since then, I was a captain. But then, like
Speaker 3: I just my emotion played into it so much because
Speaker 3: that was the intensity that our rot to the things
Speaker 3: that I'm involved in. And it was no different for
Speaker 3: my business side as well, as I continued to build,
Speaker 3: you know, in the real estate. That was my first passion.
Speaker 3: That was my first thing that I was learning about.
Speaker 3: I was going to get into oil and gas.
Speaker 2: That's what I went to school for. Energy management.
Speaker 3: I was going to use capital from that to get
Speaker 3: into to get into real estate and start house hacking
Speaker 3: and start house flipping and get into a real estate portfolio.
Speaker 2: So that was plan A. I was Plan A.
Speaker 3: That was Plan A. I was planning, not a bad
Speaker 3: plan B or C being an Well, you know, the
Speaker 3: NFL wasn't planned B. It just wasn't necessarily in the
Speaker 3: plans at all. Right, it was like, okay, yeah, that
Speaker 3: would be great if that happened.
Speaker 2: But I'm knowing for my school has ever gone the NFL.
Speaker 1: So you're trying to use logic to plan out your
Speaker 1: life as any man is.
Speaker 3: Right, thinking of, okay, what's what's a path that if
Speaker 3: I do well, I can see the most success at
Speaker 3: the earliest age for myself.
Speaker 2: And I had never been around the atmosphere around NFL professional
Speaker 2: sports at all.
Speaker 3: And so after my junior year, well, I had great
Speaker 3: year my freshman year, you know, Freshman of the year,
Speaker 3: great sophomore year.
Speaker 2: Like there we were. We were terrible. We were terrible.
Speaker 3: We want two games my freshman year, four games, four games,
Speaker 3: and seven games my senior year. But I still average
Speaker 3: two hundred yards a game and two touchdowns, right, And
Speaker 3: so I'm I'm out here dominating.
Speaker 2: You're getting dominating.
Speaker 3: And after my junior year, my coach comes to me
Speaker 3: and he's like, hey, man, like you have some NFL
Speaker 3: scouts asking about you.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the heck like NFL scouts. I'm blown.
Speaker 3: I'm like, these are like mythical beings to me, right,
Speaker 3: Like you mean NFL scouts, Like they're calling, they're calling
Speaker 3: up to Western.
Speaker 2: You know, I've never seen one on campus before.
Speaker 3: And sure enough, after my senior year, they're on campus
Speaker 3: and they're watching me practice. And then it became real
Speaker 3: for me, Like okay, like this is a real opportunity
Speaker 3: for me. But you know, all throughout my my college career,
Speaker 3: like I lived in the gym, I do our morning
Speaker 3: weight room. We're a team with the team, and then
Speaker 3: there's like three of us that after weights and after
Speaker 3: study hall and after school and everything, we'd be back
Speaker 3: in the gym and we're, you know, we're just being guys,
Speaker 3: you know, pushing each other.
Speaker 2: You know, you gotta get your bigger you know, you can't.
Speaker 3: Do that, you know, just just testostero boosting.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: And so that was what we did, and that's how
Speaker 3: I continue to get really strong and stay really fit
Speaker 3: in shape. And that was the mentality a year round.
Speaker 3: And when you're around that type of energy of just
Speaker 3: push better. It got to be better, it got to
Speaker 3: be better. Then it just brings in with the mentality
Speaker 3: of myself that this is not just a game. This
Speaker 3: is way more than that, Like you immerse yourself into it,
Speaker 3: you know, and it's more survival instinct because it's not
Speaker 3: just I'm just doing this because it's fun and I
Speaker 3: want an opportunity. It's like, no, this is my life
Speaker 3: that's on the line. I got to get it done.
Speaker 3: And that continued to stay with me as I got
Speaker 3: into the to the league as well. So, like I mentioned,
Speaker 3: it wasn't that the NFL's Plan B. It just wasn't
Speaker 3: in the plans. Until about my junior year it was like, okay,
Speaker 3: now that's Plan A because that's the bigger opportunity. Now
Speaker 3: that's on the table, and it's exactly how I treated it.
Speaker 3: And so for me it was okay, if this is
Speaker 3: a real thing. I finished my senior year, had another
Speaker 3: great year, was like one hundred ninety yards a game. Again,
Speaker 3: it was all right, I'm gonna drop out. I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm gonna take the semester off.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go train because if this is really
Speaker 3: something that's an opportunity for me, I'm putting every ounce
Speaker 3: of my energy into it, so that at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, I can say that was everything. That
Speaker 3: was everything you could have got for me.
Speaker 1: And that's clearly your personality. Your work ethic is everything
Speaker 1: to you. Right, You're gonna put everything into the main task.
Speaker 1: So with being an NFL player, you end up becoming
Speaker 1: one of the best to ever do it at your position.
Speaker 1: How do you stay that locked in on the NFL
Speaker 1: but still do all of these other things that you're
Speaker 1: also locked into.
Speaker 3: How how do you jumble to Yeah, So that's kind
Speaker 3: of the blessing and the curse almost because I've been
Speaker 3: building myself the way I've been building myself it was
Speaker 3: business first. I still have built up my capabilities to
Speaker 3: be able to pursue things in the business world as
Speaker 3: far as my understanding of real estate. That was really
Speaker 3: where I first started. And so after I played my
Speaker 3: rookie year of NFL had some capital.
Speaker 2: I had already had.
Speaker 3: Plans to start getting into real estate through my business route.
Speaker 3: Now I had an earlier capital than I was expected.
Speaker 3: So now I started getting into some house hacking, started
Speaker 3: buying multi family houses back in Colorado and built up
Speaker 3: a portfolio there and started to build relationships.
Speaker 2: If you've heard anything about.
Speaker 3: Business, you know relationships are huge in business, and so
Speaker 3: I was already starting to accumulate these relationships even before
Speaker 3: I got into the NFL, And so once I got
Speaker 3: into the NFL, it just gave me more capital right away.
Speaker 2: So now I'm able to deploy even more than I
Speaker 2: thought I was.
Speaker 3: Going to be able to, and really started to build
Speaker 3: a portfolio of real estate in Colorado, and that just
Speaker 3: continued to feed my ability to learn and my capabilities
Speaker 3: to expand, and.
Speaker 2: So continued to do that.
Speaker 3: Then started my first real estate fund, and we bought
Speaker 3: a big portfolio out in Kansas City, Missouri. Moved a
Speaker 3: few house hacking crews or house flipping crews out there,
Speaker 3: about four of them, and we were flipping some houses
Speaker 3: ten thirty one and some saving some as well and
Speaker 3: keeping them in the portfolio.
Speaker 2: And now we're looking at Alabama.
Speaker 3: And so what the theme of it is, I've continued
Speaker 3: to expand the capabilities that I have by not only
Speaker 3: increasing my knowledge, but also supplying supplementing myself with team
Speaker 3: members that I can trust and put in place to
Speaker 3: help me build these portfolios up.
Speaker 1: And this is all while trying to make it infol rosters,
Speaker 1: were trying to build a career, because again, you went undrafted.
Speaker 2: This isn't the.
Speaker 1: First round guy that just has all the time in
Speaker 1: this world. It's not somebody that just knows they're going
Speaker 1: to be a starter. You're doing all of this while
Speaker 1: still trying to make this dream come true.
Speaker 2: And so that's why I say it's a blessing and
Speaker 2: a curse.
Speaker 3: Blessing because it allows me to have some type of
Speaker 3: experience and a lot of different industries and actually go
Speaker 3: and actually move and actually deploy in those industries. But
Speaker 3: also a curse because I am I'm so just locked
Speaker 3: in on building things because I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 2: Like that is who I am.
Speaker 3: Like I see an opportunity, I want to build around
Speaker 3: that because I know that it can it's going to
Speaker 3: be an opportunity for me to progress my life, to
Speaker 3: find fulfillment with that, and I want to continue to
Speaker 3: expand you know, they see I'm not sure at one
Speaker 3: percent better every day, like how can We continued to
Speaker 3: compound interest in different ways, and so real estate was
Speaker 3: the first one. Then started getting into the NFL and
Speaker 3: started to build a community, and so I started doing streams.
Speaker 3: I built a company called Gridiron Gaming Group. We did
Speaker 3: a bunch of it was basically a bunch of athletes
Speaker 3: and entertainers I put together in a group and we
Speaker 3: would like do things around the super Bowl and around
Speaker 3: the Indy five hundred. We have a driver in there.
Speaker 3: We did stuff around. We had Alisha Gray from you know,
Speaker 3: the w W NBA. She went the Olympics, and so
Speaker 3: we had a good crew in there. Did a bunch
Speaker 3: of stuff in the streaming world. Learned some stuff from that.
Speaker 3: Then I got into tech from that because I realized
Speaker 3: how hard it is for athletes to really set up
Speaker 3: their own tech or do fan engagement. So now I've
Speaker 3: started an app as well, and then I've done I've
Speaker 3: done a few shows as well, too big in the
Speaker 3: fantasy space. So the moral of the story behind me
Speaker 3: after putting a real estate aside is I've realized that
Speaker 3: there's so much power in community that I want to
Speaker 3: figure out. And I've been continued to build around communities.
Speaker 3: How can I build either build a community, or help
Speaker 3: others build their community, or help others tap into their
Speaker 3: existing community. And so that's where my focus is off
Speaker 3: the field when it comes to my endeavors.
Speaker 2: And you've done that.
Speaker 1: You've not only done that for yourself, like you said,
Speaker 1: you've helped others as well. And I guess I talk
Speaker 1: to you all day also, but I know you're a
Speaker 1: busy man.
Speaker 2: But there's definitely something we got to hit on, and
Speaker 2: it's experienced.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talked about an app you create it tell us
Speaker 1: all about experience and how people can download, help people
Speaker 1: be a part of it, tell us all.
Speaker 3: So I mentioned I started getting into the tech business,
Speaker 3: and what I really realized in the especially in the NFL,
Speaker 3: is that us as players have such a short bandwidth
Speaker 3: when it comes to things outside of football that we're
Speaker 3: not really passionate about. There's a few outliers that people
Speaker 3: are really passionate about something they'll do it all day.
Speaker 3: But one of the things that we all have is
Speaker 3: a community, whether it's from the name on the front
Speaker 3: of our jersey right here, Washington Commanders or the name
Speaker 3: on the back.
Speaker 2: We have some type of community.
Speaker 3: Some type of fan base there, and there's so much
Speaker 3: value in that. You see that from all the brand
Speaker 3: deals that get done, and it's like that's great, like
Speaker 3: make your money on brand deals. But it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: are those people really interested in a fifteen percent off
Speaker 3: you know, coupon.
Speaker 2: Sure, maybe they are, but they're more interested.
Speaker 3: In what you're doing right and being involved in what
Speaker 3: you have going on. And so I created Experience to
Speaker 3: allow outside fan bases to be able to tap into athletes.
Speaker 3: But knowing that athletes have a short bandwidth, so I
Speaker 3: made it as easy as possible to do different types
Speaker 3: of engagements with people like myself. So if you want
Speaker 3: to get your jersey signed, or you want to get
Speaker 3: anything signed in the sports world, you can now go
Speaker 3: on to Experience and you can go to fan mail
Speaker 3: and then you buy the fan mail offering and send
Speaker 3: in your stuff to get signed. So we have a
Speaker 3: few of our guys like Marcus Mariota's on there, Jonathan Allen, myself,
Speaker 3: Luke McCaffrey, So like right now you can go on
Speaker 3: there and get your stuff signed by our guys, or
Speaker 3: if you want to like a personalized video, right, if
Speaker 3: you want to root us on for the game the
Speaker 3: opener against Tampa, like you can go in there do that,
Speaker 3: you can have a video chat with us.
Speaker 2: So different types of engagements that are on there.
Speaker 3: We manage it for the athletes because we know, like
Speaker 3: I said, their bandwidth is short.
Speaker 2: So it's an engagement platform.
Speaker 3: So if you want to download it, it's experience and
Speaker 3: it's spelled e k S as my last name is Ekler, right,
Speaker 3: experience you know e k s p r uh and
Speaker 3: then the rest of experience. So yeah, definitely check it
Speaker 3: out if you want to get something signed. We have
Speaker 3: have some guys and we have like we have like
Speaker 3: ninety guys uh in professional sports on there right now,
Speaker 3: so we'll continue to expand.
Speaker 1: All right, man, I'm gonna need my eckless signature to
Speaker 1: go need Well, you're here.
Speaker 2: So the people on the West coast, how they can
Speaker 2: get their stuff right exactly now, they got to have
Speaker 2: to do it now.
Speaker 3: They can get a sign because they can't come to
Speaker 3: training camp or be at the games, right, but they
Speaker 3: can download Experience and it's and that's Apple anywhere, right, Apple, Android,
Speaker 3: both of them.
Speaker 2: Austin. Man, it's been such a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I could sit and talk to you all day.
Speaker 1: I mean, why even talk exits and those when we
Speaker 1: got somebody like here, right, But I do have.
Speaker 2: To get a man, I'll do it all. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: What I do have to ask is my last question,
Speaker 1: because we do have Tampa Bay coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, our first game.
Speaker 1: When this is your first time we're in an NFL
Speaker 1: game wearing burgundy and gold, what can fans expect?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 3: Man, Look, we have a lot of new pieces in
Speaker 3: our in our offense, not just off as the whole team,
Speaker 3: from head coach to ownership to players. And when I
Speaker 3: was actually talking to Adam about this, I was like, man, like,
Speaker 3: it's it's really special to see what we've built here
Speaker 3: as far as guys who've been there, done that, veterans
Speaker 3: that have had success in this league. Right, putting ourselves
Speaker 3: especially on offense around Jaydeen, with guys that have had
Speaker 3: like I've mentioned, a lot of success and our veterans
Speaker 3: leaders as well, and really can put Jaden in a
Speaker 3: great spot to lead us, you know, as a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 3: even with Tyler up front at center. And so I
Speaker 3: don't know what the outcome is gonna be, but I'll
Speaker 3: tell you this, man, I'm super excited for what we've
Speaker 3: been seeing a practice and what we've been putting together
Speaker 3: because we've been putting in the results, are putting in
Speaker 3: the details, putting in the time to make sure that
Speaker 3: the results can hopefully be what we desire. We can't
Speaker 3: control results, but we control our inputs, you know. And
Speaker 3: that's what I'm all about. It's it's about it's about
Speaker 3: getting better, continue to stay on the rise.
Speaker 2: And so I can give you that I can give you.
Speaker 3: We're gonna give everything we can to make sure that
Speaker 3: we're winning games out there and putting our best foot.
Speaker 1: Forward one percent better every day. Also, that's all we
Speaker 1: could ask for.
Speaker 2: Man. I appreciate you, man, it's been so cool. It's
Speaker 2: nice to me and wifey.
Speaker 1: Man, you know you've got moves to may go explore
Speaker 1: the city a little bit, Austin.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time, brother, for having
Speaker 2: me on.
Speaker 1: It's cerppreciated command this family. Our next man up is
Speaker 1: somebody extremely special. Nine years in the NFL over eleven thousand,
Speaker 1: all purpose yards with eighty touchdowns. Two Pro Bowls went
Speaker 1: to the U played here in Washington. Now, if you
Speaker 1: hear this brother's name, you think of Washington. When you
Speaker 1: hear Washington, you think of this brother's name. Our next
Speaker 1: man up is no other than running back Clinton Porters, Clint.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Bro good Man? What's going on?
Speaker 2: Oh Man?
Speaker 1: Happy to have you here, man, this these are exciting times.
Speaker 1: And Bro, we saw you on the sideline of our
Speaker 1: last preseason game at the Crib. It was Commanders Field
Speaker 1: now it's Northwest Stadium. How they feel to be back
Speaker 1: on that field, man, I saw you got a lot
Speaker 1: of love.
Speaker 5: Man, It's always good to be back at Let's say, man,
Speaker 5: you know, I think it bring back so.
Speaker 4: Many memories and then just.
Speaker 5: The feeling, you know, the smell of the football, the
Speaker 5: fall season, the fans, everything that we do. It for
Speaker 5: the stuff that you kind of miss when you retire,
Speaker 5: you know, not even the competition. It's just the love
Speaker 5: that you get from the people. So anytime myself on
Speaker 5: that field, it's always special.
Speaker 2: And I saw you had your kids, which you brought
Speaker 2: the fan with you.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of times when we're doing these things,
Speaker 1: that we're in it and our kids are watching us
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: It's normal to them.
Speaker 1: They don't realize how special their parents are the.
Speaker 2: Things that we're doing.
Speaker 1: Do your kids realize how special their dad was, and like,
Speaker 1: really what it is when they step on that field
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 5: But you know, I think it's getting to that time
Speaker 5: now that they're involved in sports and they're having their moment,
Speaker 5: you know, to leave the field that you know, their
Speaker 5: juniors being recruited to leave the field and bring them
Speaker 5: to NFL State Stadium. I think the encouragement just to
Speaker 5: see like, oh, this is what it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: I think that was great for them.
Speaker 4: So to be able to have them to bring them along.
Speaker 5: You know, when their kids, you kind of want them
Speaker 5: shelter from it right that they're getting into their own
Speaker 5: and at the point of this could be you, you know,
Speaker 5: and the next year or two, you know, you step
Speaker 5: it on college fields and receiving a receptions. Just trying
Speaker 5: to make sure you understand like all this goes with it.
Speaker 5: It's not just on feel you know, you got to
Speaker 5: be the people's person. You got to be for your fans,
Speaker 5: you know, like to see that twenty sixth jersey throughout
Speaker 5: the stadium and it's like people don't even know you there,
Speaker 5: but like, hey man.
Speaker 4: You know what nice jersey.
Speaker 5: Let me sign that or to see that one of
Speaker 5: that eighty nine, you know, like it's just one of
Speaker 5: those Like we ten fifteen years removed from doing anything
Speaker 5: and you're still getting to love. So just trying to
Speaker 5: teach them how to deal with people, how to appreciate
Speaker 5: the fans, how to make sure the fans know going
Speaker 5: above and beyond taking pictures, signing some autographs, like you know,
Speaker 5: like this comes with it.
Speaker 1: Man, that's great to hear, and I'm glad you're getting
Speaker 1: the flowers you deserve because again, man, like if you
Speaker 1: asked me about Washington growing up, I'm thinking about Clinton
Speaker 1: Port it's off the rip or Sean Taylor, right, So
Speaker 1: you like, that's how heavy your name was, and that's
Speaker 1: how much you did for this fan base. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the vibes and the energy of the actual facilities
Speaker 1: and the players and the coaching staff. You were around
Speaker 1: for a few coaching staffs. You got to see a
Speaker 1: lot of things. How is this time different because we've
Speaker 1: heard from all of the ledgers about the energy is
Speaker 1: just different.
Speaker 2: The energy is just different. How has it been different
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 5: I think in talking to the players, you know, talking
Speaker 5: to Jonathan Allen, talking talking to Crowder, the expectations, you know,
Speaker 5: understanding what's expected of you, having it clear, it's already
Speaker 5: laid out. These are the standards. You know, you got
Speaker 5: a standard, this is what we'll buy by, this is
Speaker 5: what we do and getting it done. So when you
Speaker 5: don't have that standard, when you don't have that discipline,
Speaker 5: when you don't have that identity, I think it's harder
Speaker 5: for players, you know, because everybody kind of and chaos
Speaker 5: and creative, and all of a sudden you got a
Speaker 5: voice and coach Quinn, you got a new ownership group
Speaker 5: with a different vision. You got so many intricate pieces
Speaker 5: that want to see you. When you know, just the
Speaker 5: energy for the city to be back in position of
Speaker 5: like exciting, you know, to have energy to want to
Speaker 5: be at the stadium. Would it being no distractions and
Speaker 5: just about football? You know, I think it's been quiet
Speaker 5: for a couple of years and now it's like switching
Speaker 5: over to it's about football at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: wins and losses, and you want to see a winning product.
Speaker 1: And I think what helps with that excitement, right is
Speaker 1: a rookie like Jaden Daniels, having a rookie quarterback like
Speaker 1: that that could come out and just be dynamic. What
Speaker 1: have you seen from Jaden and grown eyes and what
Speaker 1: have you heard from you know, coaches, former teammates about
Speaker 1: Jaden Dames.
Speaker 5: Well, I think when you look at Jayden Daniels, just
Speaker 5: his has his path to the NFL. You know, I
Speaker 5: saw him at Arizona State. Then seeing at LSU, you know,
Speaker 5: to actually be a fan, to see the progress, to
Speaker 5: see the work you put in, how your how your
Speaker 5: teammates started you at Arizona State compared to the appreciation
Speaker 5: and love you got at LSU, the elevation it took,
Speaker 5: you know, how you lifted the team, uh and carry
Speaker 5: the care the a story franchise, you know, and then
Speaker 5: you go out and you win the heism and then
Speaker 5: all of a sudden you're second pick in the draft.
Speaker 4: You know, you come out in.
Speaker 5: The draft with a lot of quarterbacks, you kind of jump,
Speaker 5: you know, jump through the hurts. I thought he was
Speaker 5: the best quarterback uh in college football. So to be
Speaker 5: able to land him and put weapons around him without
Speaker 5: the distraction. I think his play making ability and all
Speaker 5: that speak for itself, you know, having an opportunity to
Speaker 5: speak with him on the sideline. The advice I gave
Speaker 5: my sman, the city would love you. Just go out
Speaker 5: and perform. This city would love you. You don't have
Speaker 5: to get into it back and forth, you don't have
Speaker 5: to listen to the nay sayers. Go out and perform
Speaker 5: the city. The city I love you. And you know,
Speaker 5: I think he was really receptive to that advice.
Speaker 1: I mean, when it comes to rookies, I don't know
Speaker 1: if any rookie came into the league and had an
Speaker 1: impact like what you did, right, grinning offensive Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year when you came in.
Speaker 2: Talk about that advice you gave the Jaden.
Speaker 1: What advice would you give to rookies as a whole
Speaker 1: on being able to be successful and find success in
Speaker 1: that first year in the NFL?
Speaker 5: Man, You know, like for me coming in as rooky,
Speaker 5: I was the second round draft pick and that created
Speaker 5: the biggest chip on my sup of pine. You know
Speaker 5: a lot of these kids don't have a chip. They
Speaker 5: don't have it. I made it, you know, I made it.
Speaker 5: You haven't made a play for me, going in the
Speaker 5: second round was like a slap in the face saying
Speaker 5: four guys go in front of me that. I felt like,
Speaker 5: you gotta be kidding, you know, and aunt put the
Speaker 5: body of work together.
Speaker 4: You know. It was like one of those.
Speaker 5: Animosity like, Okay, every team I play, I got to
Speaker 5: make sure they understand they should have drafted me. I
Speaker 5: got to make them wish you know what, we messed up.
Speaker 5: We should have took this kid. And you know that's
Speaker 5: what I set out to do. It was all just, man,
Speaker 5: I'm proving people wrong.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: For two years, I'm proving doubters wrong. I'm proving haters wrong.
Speaker 5: All the people who say, oh, this kid should have
Speaker 5: went in front of him, or oh this was the
Speaker 5: second round pick.
Speaker 4: That used to fuel me.
Speaker 5: So I think for guys now, you got to find
Speaker 5: something to fuel you. You got to go out and
Speaker 5: compete a lot of these guys. It's just hey, man,
Speaker 5: I'm here, I'm getting this paycheck.
Speaker 4: You know, I've arrived.
Speaker 5: Compared to playing for the name on the back of
Speaker 5: the jersey that used to mean something like you wanted
Speaker 5: for this to be a household name. You know, I
Speaker 5: think Sean T. Wanted Taylor to be a household name,
Speaker 5: saying Tanna wanted Moss to be a household name. It
Speaker 5: wasn't about the paycheck. We were all get to pay check,
Speaker 5: like all right, we got this check now what you
Speaker 5: know what I mean? So I think it was just
Speaker 5: honest with self. When it comes to playing football, A
Speaker 5: lot of us just like man, I you know I
Speaker 5: played today, Well I called a pass.
Speaker 4: The hell you play receiver?
Speaker 5: They throw the ball, that's the standard, you know, Like
Speaker 5: I don't want to just be average. I want to
Speaker 5: be above above, you know, I want to be household name.
Speaker 1: And in order to become a household name, especially that
Speaker 1: young right, it's not just a chip on your shoulder.
Speaker 1: It's also the people around you that give you that game,
Speaker 1: give you that advice, helping show you like hey man, listen,
Speaker 1: stay focused on the main goal. Who are those people
Speaker 1: that helped inspire you, that helped to lead you and
Speaker 1: just give you game while you were youngster?
Speaker 5: Oh man, For me, I had the I had the
Speaker 5: pleasure of being at the youth and then going to
Speaker 5: the Broncos. So at the you, I think everybody, big
Speaker 5: dog was edged.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Then when you play with guys, the Dan Morgan's, the
Speaker 5: the Santana, the Reggie Wayne and Jeremy Shock and and
Speaker 5: Andre Johnson, like you kind of pick it up. Then
Speaker 5: when you get to the NFL, I got Rod Smith,
Speaker 5: I got Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 4: Terrell Davis, like Al Wilson, Ian Mobley.
Speaker 5: You know, you had so many players, Delta O'Neil, Like,
Speaker 5: you had so many leaders that came off of a
Speaker 5: Super Bowl team, so they were used to winning. They
Speaker 5: knew what the Sanders was, they knew what to expect,
Speaker 5: so it was easy for me to like faul nne
Speaker 5: You know, people always ask like, what was the difference
Speaker 5: in you and Denver and you in d C. And
Speaker 5: always I'm like, d C. I had to grow up
Speaker 5: d C be the fact, you know, I was faced
Speaker 5: on the team of carrying an organization. It's kind of
Speaker 5: like year three, I get this opportunity in my expectations changed,
Speaker 5: Like you're the face of an organization in Denver, I'm
Speaker 5: like fifteenth on the totem pole.
Speaker 4: You had so many guys there from you know.
Speaker 5: Veterans that were leaders that had been in this community,
Speaker 5: that had won championships. Brian Greasie, you know, your fresh
Speaker 5: off of l Way. Tps still around, like Eden McCaffrey,
Speaker 5: Like you're talking about class acts. You got all of
Speaker 5: these guys, and then you come to a different situation.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like I got to take what I
Speaker 5: learned and bring it here. But everybody forget like I'm
Speaker 5: twenty two years old when I come.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you talk about that Denver to Washington transition.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that for a little bit. Because you
Speaker 1: got traded. It was a big trade, probably one of
Speaker 1: Denver's biggest trades. When you ask the fans, what goes
Speaker 1: through your mind when you.
Speaker 2: Hear that news?
Speaker 1: You know, two years you're killing it out in Denver,
Speaker 1: then you get traded. Man, what's the first thing you
Speaker 1: think about when you hear that news?
Speaker 5: Denver biggest trade I think is still one of the
Speaker 5: NFL's biggest trades.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 5: Me for Champ Bailey and what turned out to be
Speaker 5: Tatum Bill. I thought that was huge because I was
Speaker 5: a Champ Bailey fan. You know, growing up, Champ Bailey
Speaker 5: Charles Wilson were really like the last two going both
Speaker 5: ways in college. So everybody kind of had that vision, like, well,
Speaker 5: I want.
Speaker 4: To be like Champ. I want to be like like
Speaker 4: would like and then to get trade of.
Speaker 5: Him, of course as an honor, you know, and then
Speaker 5: everybody look at the careers like, oh well Denver won
Speaker 5: to trade or you know how it went. I would
Speaker 5: never say that, you know, I think the impact on
Speaker 5: the game. I think it worked out for both for
Speaker 5: what he took to Denver, for what he did and
Speaker 5: did in Denver to be able to go out was great.
Speaker 5: But I think what I did in d C, what
Speaker 5: I was actually doing d C, the development I got
Speaker 5: uh to to have then honor plan for coach Gibbs,
Speaker 5: like Man, I was to go from Shanahan to Gibbs.
Speaker 5: You can't Shanahan is up here, you know, it's hard
Speaker 5: to find a better coach, and then you go to
Speaker 5: coach Gibbs, who probably one of the most humble, winning
Speaker 5: is people in life of all time.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: So I thought it was great and you hit the
Speaker 2: ground running literally when you got here.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't think anybody has had a debut for
Speaker 1: Washington like you had first carry housed sixty four yards
Speaker 1: to the crib. Take us back to that moment, man,
Speaker 1: because again you're you know, you have these expectations put
Speaker 1: on you that you said, right, you're here to be
Speaker 1: the face of the team, You're here to be this leader.
Speaker 2: And then you go in housing like that. Man, take
Speaker 2: us back to that moment.
Speaker 5: Man, you know, I just I think when you look
Speaker 5: at the Lavernius, when you look at Chris Samuels, when
Speaker 5: you look at LeVar, you know, just the team coming together,
Speaker 5: that was a moment, like the momentum that carried over
Speaker 5: from that first place. It was just, hey man, here
Speaker 5: go my debuty stadium rocking like many think.
Speaker 4: You know, these people don't know who I am.
Speaker 5: You know, like these people think, oh man, we just
Speaker 5: lost a great which you did, but you didn't. You
Speaker 5: didn't get no no shabby player in return. It was
Speaker 5: one of those like let's make make our stamp and
Speaker 5: everything open up, you know, the old line. That thing
Speaker 5: opened up and it was just like, oh, here here
Speaker 5: you go. You know, you couldn't have drawn that up.
Speaker 5: I don't think anybody in their right mind could have
Speaker 5: been like, hey man, this this is gonna happen.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: It's a taken to the house just to see the reaction.
Speaker 5: Like if you look at the camera view of that,
Speaker 5: like it's Rocke you know what I mean, how often
Speaker 5: do you get that?
Speaker 4: And that's gonna always be an iconic.
Speaker 1: Like you talk about an iconic moment like that, But
Speaker 1: you had a lot here in Washington. What is your
Speaker 1: favorite memory when you sit back and look about your
Speaker 1: time with Washington, what is one of your favorite memories
Speaker 1: that you can share with us.
Speaker 5: Man, that phone call on draft day to get Shanty.
Speaker 5: I think that tops anything that I've done on the field,
Speaker 5: you know, just that that steadiness, Hey, Shan te Shanty,
Speaker 5: we need Shan and and for it to happen, you know,
Speaker 5: I think for that to happen, and then we go
Speaker 5: out in the phone call to get Santana. Just those moments,
Speaker 5: the stuff that you don't see wasn't really on the field,
Speaker 5: but once we started taking the field, when we're coming
Speaker 5: out of the tunnel, uh, and you just got you
Speaker 5: know which we had more guys, But just at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, we knew, hey man, it's gonna
Speaker 5: come down to how we play like we carry this
Speaker 5: We made this thing and go and it was just
Speaker 5: that bond, you know, when you think back, when you
Speaker 5: see it or when when people talk about it or
Speaker 5: discuss it, it's like you can't mention one with doctor other,
Speaker 5: you know, and and uh, that's not often you look
Speaker 5: at teams that won Super Bowls, you have that before
Speaker 5: a team that you know, won one playoff game, you don't.
Speaker 5: So I think to create that bond was was really special.
Speaker 5: You know. That's one of those When you think of
Speaker 5: Troy Aight, mean, you like Michael Hervey, Emmitt Smith. When
Speaker 5: you think of the Buffalo Bills, you like Jim Kelly, Thrman,
Speaker 5: Thomas Andre Reid, you know, Saning fran Montana, Young Rice,
Speaker 5: Roger Craig. You know, it's like it go hand in
Speaker 5: hand with winning. But most of the time, when you
Speaker 5: think of the Skins, unless you're thinking about the Super
Speaker 5: Bowl teams, uh, which which Gary and Art Monk and
Speaker 5: all those guys as Joe, you know, just Darryl Green,
Speaker 5: it's us.
Speaker 4: You know, it's us, and it's hard.
Speaker 5: To change it. Even fifteen years later. You know, Chanty
Speaker 5: died No. Seven, so seventeen years later, that's still may
Speaker 5: we go hand in hand.
Speaker 1: And CP all the sacrifices, all the hard work you
Speaker 1: put in paved the way for so many others, Sean
Speaker 1: Taylor as well, all these guys that you mentioned, y'all
Speaker 1: paved the way for this new era that is the
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders, and we have some tough dogs in the
Speaker 1: backfield with b Rob and Austin Eckler from the OG himself. Man,
Speaker 1: how excited are you to see those two paired up
Speaker 1: because you know, back in the day, man, you had
Speaker 1: to just be the workhorse all carry it all the downs.
Speaker 1: Now you see a different NFL where it's two guys
Speaker 1: working in tandem. What do you expect to see from them?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, like it's crazy because I feel like
Speaker 5: back in the day as the workhorse. When I think
Speaker 5: of Ladell, Betts and rock Cart, Mike said, for what
Speaker 5: we did as a unit, you know, uh, the expectations
Speaker 5: amongst us, I feel like we were we were a group,
Speaker 5: like our relationship, like everything, we were a group. And
Speaker 5: then to go to see the form of the NFL
Speaker 5: where they it's kind of forced, like, hey, everything is
Speaker 5: a tandem, like I think we understood, like here go
Speaker 5: my moment, lead dog when I come out, here go
Speaker 5: your opportunity. But to not be selfish, because I think
Speaker 5: Laddell still did his thing amongst me, having you know,
Speaker 5: the yards that I had Laddell when he got his opportunity,
Speaker 5: came in and capitalized, or Rock came in and capitalized.
Speaker 5: So now it's kind of like this running back by committee,
Speaker 5: and you don't really get the you don't get to
Speaker 5: grind it out. You don't get to feel the effects
Speaker 5: of the running game like we used to just ground
Speaker 5: and pound, where you're gonna get consecutive carries and you
Speaker 5: move in the chain and you know you're getting the
Speaker 5: crowd into it. So now it's kind of like every
Speaker 5: down you're running on and off the field, so you
Speaker 5: don't really get it in simple So to be able
Speaker 5: to see b Rob and Austin come together, you know,
Speaker 5: you gotta make the same work. It's not like Austin
Speaker 5: is just a third down back, Like right, this people
Speaker 5: making plays and he's here to make plays.
Speaker 4: So to be able to see.
Speaker 5: Them and how they're gonna one two or play off
Speaker 5: for each other, it's gonna be exciting. And then I mean,
Speaker 5: you forgot we got Terry, you know, you got you
Speaker 5: got Jade, so you got zach Ertz, you know, like
Speaker 5: these these people that made plays in the NFL, So
Speaker 5: you got weapons around you to go out and get
Speaker 5: it done.
Speaker 1: And CP is so cool to see you when it's
Speaker 1: like man as the as the father, as the ogs,
Speaker 1: as the veteran mans, it's so cool to see this
Speaker 1: and talk to you and like any human being, right,
Speaker 1: we all go through our trials and tribulations, right, we
Speaker 1: all have life things that happen. But you been somebody
Speaker 1: that has said I am leaving my past in the past,
Speaker 1: and I want to move forward. That is something that
Speaker 1: all of us want to do. But it's so easier
Speaker 1: sit and done. How have you managed to move forward
Speaker 1: in your life and be a father, be this old
Speaker 1: g vet for these guys? Man, what is advice you
Speaker 1: can give the people that are also trying to just
Speaker 1: get past trials and tribulations?
Speaker 5: Man, that's life, you know, if you have trials and
Speaker 5: tribulations in life, doing something wrong, you know, I think
Speaker 5: the definition of icon, you know, you think of the people,
Speaker 5: you know, the story that overcome and adversity like you
Speaker 5: want to overcome, you know, like you don't want anything easy,
Speaker 5: although you know some of the things I experienced, of
Speaker 5: course I would love to erase. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: I'm not ducking those smoke. I'm not dodging it, you know,
Speaker 5: like it's part of life, man. And you know, things
Speaker 5: went bad or things went good. You know, people, people celebrate,
Speaker 5: people sell break, you different, you know. So for me,
Speaker 5: it's just kind of one of those grounded, stand level
Speaker 5: head above water, making sure, you know, the next generation,
Speaker 5: the younger generation, however I can.
Speaker 4: Help them avoid to do it.
Speaker 5: You know. Everything else is like, man, A lot of
Speaker 5: people look at it as hey, man, you know what
Speaker 5: he dealt with this.
Speaker 4: I look at.
Speaker 5: Myself as like the stand up individual because the stuff
Speaker 5: I dealt with I shouldn't have been dealing with and
Speaker 5: I had nothing to do with. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: to be able to save your face, to be able
Speaker 5: to look yourself in the mirror, like man, I'm a
Speaker 5: stand up individual, you know what I mean. I'm a
Speaker 5: strong individual. I'm Laura Mississippi, bread born and raised. So amen,
Speaker 5: el I'm gonna walk through hell. Hey dash jack gasoline
Speaker 5: on me. Man to that last bro, I'm gonna keep
Speaker 5: doing it.
Speaker 2: See p men.
Speaker 1: I believe you in that, man, and thank you for
Speaker 1: being such a stand up guy and taking the time
Speaker 1: with us in of course, on that note, what do
Speaker 1: you got going on? And what do you work and
Speaker 1: on what the things that people can follow in and
Speaker 1: support you.
Speaker 5: Man, you know myself, London Fletcher, Nate Clements, Antoine, but
Speaker 5: theay doctor Marty Connor. We got a youth, a youth
Speaker 5: movement going on here in the Carolina's. Carolina Prospect got
Speaker 5: by twenty five to twenty seven kids that we're trying
Speaker 5: to help get in college. I mean, these kids are
Speaker 5: blowing up right in front of our eyes. You know,
Speaker 5: we take these kids to college kind of hand deliver
Speaker 5: them to coaches, and the same caught on fire.
Speaker 4: In one year.
Speaker 5: You know, we went from zero offers and zero stars.
Speaker 5: So we got a couple, couple four stars, about eighty
Speaker 5: ninety offers amongst the group in one year. I think
Speaker 5: that's been ourstanding. And then you know out by Dallas
Speaker 5: Airport we're gonna drop this. Taco Chinos should be opened November.
Speaker 5: So man, we're gonna do our thing. Man, come out
Speaker 5: of support. We're gonna figure out how to get involved
Speaker 5: with the team, maybe get one in the stadium, so
Speaker 5: Taco Sunday instead of Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 4: So look forward to that. Man that just keep on vibing.
Speaker 1: I see pe man I live right next to ID
Speaker 1: so Man, I'm hoping I can get some free tacos.
Speaker 4: Man, definitely can get some free tacos.
Speaker 2: All right, CP, I appreciate you, man, Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for your time. Again.
Speaker 1: Man, we're so happy to have you back in the fall. Man,
Speaker 1: don't be a stranger. It's great to see you, man,
Speaker 1: and good luck with all your endeavors. And yeah, man,
Speaker 1: talk to you soon.
Speaker 4: Hey, all right, man, take care of appreciate.
Speaker 2: You, command his family.
Speaker 1: Our next man up is somebody extremely special that took
Speaker 1: the time out of his busy schedule to come kick
Speaker 1: it with us. He's driving through the hills of Connecticut,
Speaker 1: so don't judge him for his bad service.
Speaker 2: But we got a very.
Speaker 1: Special NFL insider as our next man up. Commander, Family,
Speaker 1: our next man up is no other than NFL insider,
Speaker 1: one of the best to ever do it, mister Adam
Speaker 1: Scheff Adam.
Speaker 2: We appreci to Tom, sir.
Speaker 6: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh man, this is great. I mean, we're getting you
Speaker 1: in one of the busiest times of year for you.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things moving on. I could tell
Speaker 1: you got their phone buzzing right now, So we appreciate
Speaker 1: your time. But I have to give you a little
Speaker 1: walk down memory lane real quick because we actually got
Speaker 1: to work together a few years back when I was
Speaker 1: at ESPN as a PA, and you are always so
Speaker 1: kind and nice and so professional. So I just wanted
Speaker 1: to start off by saying thank you, and it's great
Speaker 1: to see you again.
Speaker 4: Ron, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: And uh, it's great to be with you today.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, and you have been a busy man, especially
Speaker 1: with the Commanders. It seems anytime we have something breaking,
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter is the one on the case. What has
Speaker 1: it been like from you seeing this off season unfold
Speaker 1: for the Commanders.
Speaker 6: Oh, there's been a lot of change obviously, when you
Speaker 6: change the coaching staff, when you change the front office,
Speaker 6: and then you change the quarterback. Those are the most
Speaker 6: important positions in an organization. And the Commanders it went
Speaker 6: three to three, there are in terms of making changes.
Speaker 6: So they brought in some people that I think have
Speaker 6: a chance to be really good. Dan Quinn is very
Speaker 6: well respected, very well liked. Adam Peters has got a
Speaker 6: great reputation as the general manager, has the chance to
Speaker 6: do some great things for the Commanders. And if Jaden
Speaker 6: Daniels is what they hope and think he is, then
Speaker 6: rocket ship to the moon, because that's where it all starts.
Speaker 6: You have to have the quarterback. And if they've got
Speaker 6: the quarterback, then that franchise is going to be said.
Speaker 6: You know, I imagine it would be a little bit
Speaker 6: like when RG three came in as a rookie before
Speaker 6: he got hurt. Everybody was really excited. He played well,
Speaker 6: went into the opening game against the New Orleans Saints
Speaker 6: in New Orleans and lit them up, lit them up
Speaker 6: and led the Commanders or Redskins to an upset victory.
Speaker 6: And obviously you guys are hoping now that Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 4: Can do the same.
Speaker 1: And Adam, like you said, right, I'm here and I
Speaker 1: see it. But you you're on the national media. You
Speaker 1: have gotten to see all of these different AFAL teams.
Speaker 1: You're covering them every single day. So in your perspective,
Speaker 1: where are the Commanders at right now? And what do
Speaker 1: you expect to see from them this season?
Speaker 6: You know again, well, I'm expecting improvement and the question
Speaker 6: is how much improvement?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 6: And I think anything is possible in Washington, this upcoming year,
Speaker 6: I think there's gonna be vast improvement. And look, the
Speaker 6: roster has holes. It's a new gene. The newsine just
Speaker 6: took over. It's gonna take some time, but it feels
Speaker 6: like with the three main pieces that they've assembled that
Speaker 6: we talked about, that you're on the pack to building
Speaker 6: what you want to build. That's what it feels like
Speaker 6: to me.
Speaker 1: And you've seen so many different rookie quarterbacks come in
Speaker 1: and come out with a lot of expectations. What have
Speaker 1: you seen so far from Jayden Daniels that makes you
Speaker 1: think you know what he might be the one?
Speaker 6: I haven't seen enough of him, to be honest with you.
Speaker 6: You've seen more of him than I have. I've seen
Speaker 6: him in a preseason game. So again, I just know
Speaker 6: what other personnel people were saying to me during the
Speaker 6: draft process. I had a couple of people who's opinion
Speaker 6: I respect independent of each other, both say to me
Speaker 6: that they felt like Jaden Daniels had a real chance
Speaker 6: to be Lamar jabs two point zero. Now that doesn't
Speaker 6: mean he will be, but it means he's got a
Speaker 6: chance to be. And sports is about memories, it's about hope,
Speaker 6: and there's hope that Jaden Daniels can be exactly what
Speaker 6: other people believe he can be, which is Lamar Jackson
Speaker 6: two point. Now if he is that, If he is,
Speaker 6: what can this team do? And the answer would be anything,
Speaker 6: anything if he's not good, But we don't know that yet.
Speaker 6: We're wait in to see and that's the exciting, intriguing
Speaker 6: part of the upcoming season.
Speaker 1: And we'll get a good taste of that in Week
Speaker 1: one when we head over to Tampa Bay to take
Speaker 1: on the Buccaneers. What do you expect to see from
Speaker 1: that game? And do you feel Tampa Bay is the
Speaker 1: proper test for a rookie or there will be still
Speaker 1: more questions because Tampa Bay isn't that you know, Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packer team, that's that premier playoff team that gives in.
Speaker 4: Tampa Is it not?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, Any road game for a rookie quarterback is
Speaker 6: gonna be tough, toking with. So Jaden Daniels is gonna
Speaker 6: have all the kid no again, And I don't know
Speaker 6: how it's gonna work. If he is what they think,
Speaker 6: He's gonna go out and ball and what are we
Speaker 6: gonna see like that's one of the great exciting questions
Speaker 6: of week one, right, So we'll see how.
Speaker 4: That works out.
Speaker 1: And and we're gonna let you go because we know
Speaker 1: you're busy. We know there's a lot of breaking news
Speaker 1: coming up, but you are mister breaking news. So if
Speaker 1: you had to just give us a guess on what
Speaker 1: moves you see the commanders making in the near future,
Speaker 1: what would you say that would be?
Speaker 6: Well, they just made a ton of him right today,
Speaker 6: they signed Noah Brown, the former Texans wide receiver who
Speaker 6: I've been alike. I think that guy can make place.
Speaker 6: He's gonna join their active roster. They needed some receiver
Speaker 6: help and they get it and Noah Brown. They traded
Speaker 6: John Ridgeway, the defensive tackle, to the Saints in a
Speaker 6: late round swap. They traded John Dodson last year. Like
Speaker 6: they've been busy and active. Like you know, you can't
Speaker 6: make all these moves every single day. So they've made
Speaker 6: a lot of moves. They're gonna continue to make more moves,
Speaker 6: and they're gonna keep trying to build this the right way.
Speaker 2: Adam, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you giving us a national perspective from a
Speaker 1: true NFL inside of animal.
Speaker 2: I hope I'll talk to you soon. Good to see
Speaker 2: you again.
Speaker 6: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Have a great season.
Speaker 2: You two have a great one and enjoy your rest
Speaker 2: of your day.
Speaker 6: Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 4: Take care.
Speaker 2: Got to hear it twice