Speaker 1: All right, Joey, you are no stranger to Saint Vincent College.
Speaker 1: How many camps do you think this is for you? Now?
Speaker 2: I said, this is like number five. I think so, yeah,
Speaker 2: camp five for me?
Speaker 1: Does it feel completely different or is it still like
Speaker 1: I know this place I've been here.
Speaker 2: It feels a.
Speaker 3: Little different because I'm the one actually like practicing, but
Speaker 3: still like when I wake up in the morning and
Speaker 3: take my walk to breakfast and everything, I still get
Speaker 3: that same old feeling.
Speaker 1: Go back to when you were little, when you were
Speaker 1: here at Saint Vincent, just as Joey Porter's kid. What
Speaker 1: do you remember most about being able to run around
Speaker 1: not just the fields, but the locker rooms. I know
Speaker 1: you guys played race cars, you do all kinds of
Speaker 1: crazy stuff, not football related.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really just talking with all the football players and
Speaker 3: all the guys, getting knowledge from them, and really them
Speaker 3: taking me under their wing.
Speaker 2: So every time I get a.
Speaker 3: Chance to talk to a guy or a ball b
Speaker 3: I just try to give them as much information that
Speaker 3: I can because I remember when I was in their shoes.
Speaker 3: That's all I wanted to do was talk to a
Speaker 3: guy that was in the NFL. So I just try
Speaker 3: to give that back.
Speaker 1: And then when you became a ball boy, take me
Speaker 1: through just like what a typical day was like for
Speaker 1: you here at camp.
Speaker 2: So I was I was a halfway ball boy.
Speaker 3: I didn't get to do I didn't get to do
Speaker 3: all the stuff the ball boys day, which I was
Speaker 3: kind of glad because they used to do a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff. We had to wake up early, we had
Speaker 3: to scrub the footballs, we had to put the tarp
Speaker 3: on the field in the rains, and like some stuff.
Speaker 3: Me me and Dino Mason and all my other cousins,
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, we're not doing that, So like we'll
Speaker 3: stay back and we do our like sidework off we
Speaker 3: had like with the strengths coaches and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So it was fun. Definitely talk to me.
Speaker 1: About George Pickens and maybe the little battle that is
Speaker 1: brewing between you guys. It's good versus good. It's in
Speaker 1: the right environment, but how is that helping you as
Speaker 1: you start your rookie season.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's getting me ready. You know, ironshock
Speaker 3: and iron That's what coach I always say. We got
Speaker 3: to compete and both of us is not shining away
Speaker 3: from competitions. So that's just gonna make us better.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, who's a bigger trash howker.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say me? Oh, you know, I always gonna
Speaker 3: lead to me. He trash talked a little bit, but
Speaker 3: I feel like I I got some good stuff on my.
Speaker 1: Side too, Patrick Peterson, I feel like, you know, being
Speaker 1: drafted to team your dad played for, but then having
Speaker 1: a chance to work with a guy like that. You
Speaker 1: talked about it the night you were drafted and how
Speaker 1: important that was. What have you learned from him that
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't expect to learn.
Speaker 3: It's so much. I can't even just talk about one thing.
Speaker 3: He just been a real good asset to me and
Speaker 3: the team in general. Just sending over with me after practice,
Speaker 3: teaching me the nuggets of the game, going through film,
Speaker 3: teaching me different ways how to do different coverages. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's really been a real help to me since I've
Speaker 3: been here.
Speaker 1: You said that you were gonna do anything that he did,
Speaker 1: including play golf. Has that happened yet. Have you got
Speaker 1: out on a course with him?
Speaker 2: Not yet?
Speaker 3: But I have been talking to talking golf with them
Speaker 3: here and they're it's hard eighteen holes. I can't do
Speaker 3: that now it gets too hot and everything. But he says,
Speaker 3: you got to slowly work in us. So that's what
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to do.
Speaker 1: You talked earlier in camp just about your confidence. The
Speaker 1: Steelers know what they got. You're going to have that confidence.
Speaker 1: Of course, we know who your dad is, the confidence
Speaker 1: that he played with. How did you get your own
Speaker 1: confidence and how early did it start?
Speaker 3: I feel like it started at a young age, right
Speaker 3: when I put my pads on. I always wanted to
Speaker 3: play football. He inspired me to play the game, and
Speaker 3: he just always told me don't play because I did
Speaker 3: play with your own love, and I feel like it
Speaker 3: just to poured away. We always got that fiery chip
Speaker 3: on our shoulder. We want to talk, we want to
Speaker 3: compete in That's what I got, So I'm gonna show it.
Speaker 1: So you feel like when you were in Little League,
Speaker 1: you were that kid that other parents went, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that kid's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I had mama's crime and everything like that.
Speaker 2: That was my goal definitely.
Speaker 1: When you signed your contract with the Steelers, it was
Speaker 1: on your birthday, and it also was in Benedict Hall
Speaker 1: here on campus where you used to play. I think
Speaker 1: it's a ball boy ping pong, right, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: how full circle can that get?
Speaker 3: I mean it was crazy right when they picked the room.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I used to play ping pong in this room,
Speaker 3: like with all my friends and all the ball boys.
Speaker 3: So it's the craziest A three sixty that that's where
Speaker 3: I signed it on my birthday. I used to have
Speaker 3: my birthday parties here. Now that I actually got my
Speaker 3: own things, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's crazy in terms of Draft night.
Speaker 3: Now you've been motivated to another level because we guess proof.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and take it personally as you should.
Speaker 1: The clip went viral. Have you gone back and watched
Speaker 1: that or is that just something you know exactly what
Speaker 1: he said in that moment?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I go back and watch that here and there,
Speaker 3: just because there was such a great moment that was captured.
Speaker 3: We didn't even know that there was rolling. I forgot.
Speaker 3: I was miked up because it was just such an
Speaker 3: emotional moment for everybody that was with me. So yeah,
Speaker 3: if I want to get motivated or just see a
Speaker 3: great clip, I just go to that and it gets
Speaker 3: me fired up all over again.
Speaker 1: Des Are you surprised how well it was received by
Speaker 1: the public.
Speaker 3: No, not really, because they got to see my dad
Speaker 3: on that side. Everybody used to see my dad as
Speaker 3: a trash talker. Take your hand up, you might be
Speaker 3: able to block somebody wish you to block me, block
Speaker 3: me if he.
Speaker 2: Wanted to always up and fiery.
Speaker 3: But they got to see a chance of him really
Speaker 3: just being a father to a son. And I feel
Speaker 3: like that was a great moment captured.
Speaker 2: For both of us.
Speaker 1: You know, the Steelers are about to go on the clock.
Speaker 1: How long did that period of time feel?
Speaker 3: I felt like forever it did, And I honestly didn't
Speaker 3: feel like Irones didn't know what the Stellers were going
Speaker 3: to do at that moment.
Speaker 2: I didn't like I was like, Oh, yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 2: pick me, They're gonna pick me. I just sat there.
Speaker 3: It was like, whatever happens happened, especially after last the
Speaker 3: night before, I really didn't know what was gonna happen
Speaker 3: because the draft is so crazy, like my dad was
Speaker 3: telling me, so I really just prepare for anything.
Speaker 1: At that moment, whose decision was it to jump in
Speaker 1: the car and go to the facility.
Speaker 3: Uh it was Omar's Yeah, I was, I was. I
Speaker 3: was at home and then he was like, come down
Speaker 3: to the facility. I was like, you sure right now.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, you're right across the streets. So I'm
Speaker 3: like all right, and then I brought my whole family.
Speaker 3: Everybody was excited. I took a couple of photos and everything,
Speaker 3: and it was a great moment. Definitely, so so.
Speaker 1: Crazy training camp, the pads went on the first preseason game.
Speaker 1: Do you get amped up for that? You get a
Speaker 1: little bit of nerves. What are the feelings for it?
Speaker 2: I feel like it's all more.
Speaker 3: I'm really excited, you know, if my first time really
Speaker 3: putting on the Steller jersey, going out there with the
Speaker 3: guys and going against another opponent. We've been going against
Speaker 3: each other for a little while now, so the fact
Speaker 3: that I could hit somebody else and cover somebody else,
Speaker 3: I'm really excited about that.