1 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: All right, Joey, you are no stranger to Saint Vincent College. 2 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: How many camps do you think this is for you? Now? 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 2: I said, this is like number five. I think so, yeah, 4 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 2: camp five for me? 5 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: Does it feel completely different or is it still like 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: I know this place I've been here. 7 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 2: It feels a. 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 3: Little different because I'm the one actually like practicing, but 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 3: still like when I wake up in the morning and 10 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 3: take my walk to breakfast and everything, I still get 11 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 3: that same old feeling. 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: Go back to when you were little, when you were 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: here at Saint Vincent, just as Joey Porter's kid. What 14 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 1: do you remember most about being able to run around 15 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: not just the fields, but the locker rooms. I know 16 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: you guys played race cars, you do all kinds of 17 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: crazy stuff, not football related. 18 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, really just talking with all the football players and 19 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 3: all the guys, getting knowledge from them, and really them 20 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 3: taking me under their wing. 21 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: So every time I get a. 22 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 3: Chance to talk to a guy or a ball b 23 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: I just try to give them as much information that 24 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 3: I can because I remember when I was in their shoes. 25 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 3: That's all I wanted to do was talk to a 26 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 3: guy that was in the NFL. So I just try 27 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 3: to give that back. 28 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: And then when you became a ball boy, take me 29 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: through just like what a typical day was like for 30 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: you here at camp. 31 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 2: So I was I was a halfway ball boy. 32 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 3: I didn't get to do I didn't get to do 33 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 3: all the stuff the ball boys day, which I was 34 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 3: kind of glad because they used to do a lot 35 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: of stuff. We had to wake up early, we had 36 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 3: to scrub the footballs, we had to put the tarp 37 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 3: on the field in the rains, and like some stuff. 38 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 3: Me me and Dino Mason and all my other cousins, 39 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 3: was like, yeah, we're not doing that, So like we'll 40 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 3: stay back and we do our like sidework off we 41 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 3: had like with the strengths coaches and stuff like that. 42 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: So it was fun. Definitely talk to me. 43 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: About George Pickens and maybe the little battle that is 44 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: brewing between you guys. It's good versus good. It's in 45 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: the right environment, but how is that helping you as 46 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: you start your rookie season. 47 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 3: I feel like it's getting me ready. You know, ironshock 48 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 3: and iron That's what coach I always say. We got 49 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 3: to compete and both of us is not shining away 50 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 3: from competitions. So that's just gonna make us better. 51 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, who's a bigger trash howker. 52 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 3: I'm gonna say me? Oh, you know, I always gonna 53 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 3: lead to me. He trash talked a little bit, but 54 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 3: I feel like I I got some good stuff on my. 55 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: Side too, Patrick Peterson, I feel like, you know, being 56 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: drafted to team your dad played for, but then having 57 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: a chance to work with a guy like that. You 58 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: talked about it the night you were drafted and how 59 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: important that was. What have you learned from him that 60 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: maybe you didn't expect to learn. 61 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 3: It's so much. I can't even just talk about one thing. 62 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 3: He just been a real good asset to me and 63 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 3: the team in general. Just sending over with me after practice, 64 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 3: teaching me the nuggets of the game, going through film, 65 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 3: teaching me different ways how to do different coverages. I mean, 66 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 3: he's really been a real help to me since I've 67 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 3: been here. 68 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: You said that you were gonna do anything that he did, 69 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: including play golf. Has that happened yet. Have you got 70 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 1: out on a course with him? 71 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 2: Not yet? 72 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 3: But I have been talking to talking golf with them 73 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 3: here and they're it's hard eighteen holes. I can't do 74 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 3: that now it gets too hot and everything. But he says, 75 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 3: you got to slowly work in us. So that's what 76 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to do. 77 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: You talked earlier in camp just about your confidence. The 78 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: Steelers know what they got. You're going to have that confidence. 79 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: Of course, we know who your dad is, the confidence 80 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: that he played with. How did you get your own 81 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: confidence and how early did it start? 82 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 3: I feel like it started at a young age, right 83 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 3: when I put my pads on. I always wanted to 84 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 3: play football. He inspired me to play the game, and 85 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 3: he just always told me don't play because I did 86 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 3: play with your own love, and I feel like it 87 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 3: just to poured away. We always got that fiery chip 88 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 3: on our shoulder. We want to talk, we want to 89 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 3: compete in That's what I got, So I'm gonna show it. 90 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: So you feel like when you were in Little League, 91 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: you were that kid that other parents went, oh, yeah, 92 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: that kid's pretty good. 93 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I had mama's crime and everything like that. 94 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 2: That was my goal definitely. 95 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: When you signed your contract with the Steelers, it was 96 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: on your birthday, and it also was in Benedict Hall 97 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: here on campus where you used to play. I think 98 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: it's a ball boy ping pong, right, yeah, I mean 99 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: how full circle can that get? 100 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 3: I mean it was crazy right when they picked the room. 101 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 3: I'm like, I used to play ping pong in this room, 102 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 3: like with all my friends and all the ball boys. 103 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 3: So it's the craziest A three sixty that that's where 104 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 3: I signed it on my birthday. I used to have 105 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 3: my birthday parties here. Now that I actually got my 106 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 3: own things, it's crazy. 107 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: It's crazy in terms of Draft night. 108 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 3: Now you've been motivated to another level because we guess proof. 109 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and take it personally as you should. 110 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: The clip went viral. Have you gone back and watched 111 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: that or is that just something you know exactly what 112 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: he said in that moment? 113 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I go back and watch that here and there, 114 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 3: just because there was such a great moment that was captured. 115 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 3: We didn't even know that there was rolling. I forgot. 116 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 3: I was miked up because it was just such an 117 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 3: emotional moment for everybody that was with me. So yeah, 118 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 3: if I want to get motivated or just see a 119 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 3: great clip, I just go to that and it gets 120 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 3: me fired up all over again. 121 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: Des Are you surprised how well it was received by 122 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: the public. 123 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 3: No, not really, because they got to see my dad 124 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 3: on that side. Everybody used to see my dad as 125 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 3: a trash talker. Take your hand up, you might be 126 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 3: able to block somebody wish you to block me, block 127 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 3: me if he. 128 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: Wanted to always up and fiery. 129 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 3: But they got to see a chance of him really 130 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: just being a father to a son. And I feel 131 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 3: like that was a great moment captured. 132 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 2: For both of us. 133 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,559 Speaker 1: You know, the Steelers are about to go on the clock. 134 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: How long did that period of time feel? 135 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: I felt like forever it did, And I honestly didn't 136 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 3: feel like Irones didn't know what the Stellers were going 137 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:14,799 Speaker 3: to do at that moment. 138 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 2: I didn't like I was like, Oh, yeah, they're gonna 139 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:17,919 Speaker 2: pick me, They're gonna pick me. I just sat there. 140 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 3: It was like, whatever happens happened, especially after last the 141 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: night before, I really didn't know what was gonna happen 142 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 3: because the draft is so crazy, like my dad was 143 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 3: telling me, so I really just prepare for anything. 144 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: At that moment, whose decision was it to jump in 145 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: the car and go to the facility. 146 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 3: Uh it was Omar's Yeah, I was, I was. I 147 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 3: was at home and then he was like, come down 148 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 3: to the facility. I was like, you sure right now. 149 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, you're right across the streets. So I'm 150 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 3: like all right, and then I brought my whole family. 151 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 3: Everybody was excited. I took a couple of photos and everything, 152 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 3: and it was a great moment. Definitely, so so. 153 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: Crazy training camp, the pads went on the first preseason game. 154 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: Do you get amped up for that? You get a 155 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: little bit of nerves. What are the feelings for it? 156 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 2: I feel like it's all more. 157 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 3: I'm really excited, you know, if my first time really 158 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 3: putting on the Steller jersey, going out there with the 159 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 3: guys and going against another opponent. We've been going against 160 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 3: each other for a little while now, so the fact 161 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 3: that I could hit somebody else and cover somebody else, 162 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 3: I'm really excited about that.