Speaker 1: This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at
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Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and John and this is cut to it.
Speaker 1: Good do it, Good do it. Let's get down to
Speaker 1: do it. Good do it. We asked the questions you
Speaker 1: always want to know, but no one ever asked, let's
Speaker 1: cut to it. You ain't heard about it, then we're
Speaker 1: about to let you. Now it's all man. I got
Speaker 1: a little favorite on the emphasize on little little favorite
Speaker 1: because he played dB a little bit of shade on
Speaker 1: the front, a little qualified and Captain Petty is in
Speaker 1: the building, checked in, locked and loaded. Man. We got
Speaker 1: a cornerback phenom shut down when you shut down? Slight right? Uh,
Speaker 1: Darius Slay, cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles, making that boot coop,
Speaker 1: deciding also that he might he he may want to
Speaker 1: switch over receiver because they played pain a lot more hits,
Speaker 1: his weekend hits, his Twitter feet. Welcome to the cut
Speaker 1: to a podcast, Darius Slay, how you doing dogs? And
Speaker 1: I'm good man, everybody doing it that we're good man.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you coming on, bro, sir, appreciate you. Well, let's
Speaker 1: jump right on them because I was going back in
Speaker 1: my in my memory bank, and I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out when did I when did I have it?
Speaker 1: Uh interaction with slayh and I and I believe when
Speaker 1: I was with the Baltimore Ravens, I was. I was
Speaker 1: on that veteran schedule in the preseason um and Slay
Speaker 1: says through the media, I would like to have a
Speaker 1: Steve Smith Jersey Remember that? Yeah? Yes, Can I tell
Speaker 1: you what I was really thinking? Please? Okay, First of all,
Speaker 1: you know, let's be honest in Detroit, and I felt
Speaker 1: privy to this. When you play in the a f C,
Speaker 1: you don't pay attention to the NFC. When I was
Speaker 1: in the NFC, I did not pay attention to the
Speaker 1: FC because I only played the ANFC teams every four years.
Speaker 1: So in the beginning, I was like, Man, I don't
Speaker 1: know who the hell Darius slays, right, but I didn't
Speaker 1: say it. And one nickel for the insult. Okay, two
Speaker 1: nickels for the insult. You know, I'm retired, So my my, my,
Speaker 1: my funds that left. Ye. Well, I am on the
Speaker 1: fix in come, always been on the fix income. I
Speaker 1: will never reveal how much you like, but or however
Speaker 1: still going forward, I'm like, man, this dude, if I
Speaker 1: was playing, he's trying to soften me up. He's trying
Speaker 1: to make me not go at his neck before we play.
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking. I didn't say that. I
Speaker 1: didn't say that in the media. Man that came to
Speaker 1: me like, uh, my coach came to me right that
Speaker 1: there had hardware. He said, that's the wrong jersey that
Speaker 1: asked for. He said, he trying to dog you ever played?
Speaker 1: I said, I understand that, you know I watched this game,
Speaker 1: but damn, I still can't get their jersey that they
Speaker 1: was like, now hear what my jersey's des whately said.
Speaker 1: The reason I don't hear what my jers I might
Speaker 1: roughly up in you want my jer guy said, Damn,
Speaker 1: I said, let me lock it dad. If he played,
Speaker 1: I I ain't even gonna play the games with it. Was.
Speaker 1: It's one of those funny things that, um, you know
Speaker 1: we're starting on the back end, first pause, but you
Speaker 1: know we're just gonna get them to talk ball. Was
Speaker 1: just understanding like this the dB I was talking to somebody,
Speaker 1: and I and and is clogging my memory jogging it up?
Speaker 1: Is you know. I guess that's that's one of the
Speaker 1: regrets I did have with playing. I wasn't a nice
Speaker 1: opponent like I really grew playing the game in such
Speaker 1: a fierce competitive way that opponent or teammate, if you
Speaker 1: were on the other side of the football, I did
Speaker 1: not see you as friend. I saw you completely only
Speaker 1: as folk. I had my lenses of foe on. No friendship,
Speaker 1: no hank, no shaking hands like if I suld do hand,
Speaker 1: I would intentionally give him the dead fish like before
Speaker 1: the game, right like I was. I was playing Carolina
Speaker 1: two thousand eight, we play Seattle Seahawks had a former
Speaker 1: teammate went to college with uh um Andre Diyson, right,
Speaker 1: His brother was Kevin. Kevin Diyson, Tennessee Tens play with
Speaker 1: me as well. A lot of Dison family, great dudes.
Speaker 1: We went to college together. You know, we all grew
Speaker 1: up together. Where a whole bunch of girls trying to
Speaker 1: get some nuts and we got them right and super
Speaker 1: pauls Um Extreme extreme part one more tea Steve, you're
Speaker 1: out of the game, and so yeah and so so
Speaker 1: Drake shakes my hand before the NC Championship game again
Speaker 1: Seattle game to dead fish right, And I just was
Speaker 1: so in work mode. I was in worker B mode.
Speaker 1: I never really I always respected the defender. And my
Speaker 1: respect for the defender was in the off season, like
Speaker 1: going to get the player like yourself. I had to
Speaker 1: train my butt off in off season because I knew
Speaker 1: you were gonna shadow well, So that means I had
Speaker 1: to move. I had to put bricks on the house, right,
Speaker 1: and that means in football terms, going forward, right, I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't dance at the line because if I dancing line,
Speaker 1: you're a great shadow guy. That that that plays right
Speaker 1: into your bag of tricks, Mr Magician, right, So doing
Speaker 1: all of those things, that's the one you know for circle,
Speaker 1: That's one of regret is I never was able. I
Speaker 1: was always on versus the defender. I was never relaxed.
Speaker 1: And so when you asked me for my jersey, you know,
Speaker 1: I missed it. But I was just in a different
Speaker 1: mindset just because even as I was older, you know,
Speaker 1: y'all were younger, right, you know, and when you know
Speaker 1: you when you thirty eight years old and you gotta
Speaker 1: play seventy plays, and back in the day, I would
Speaker 1: have good twenty I give you twenty five good routes.
Speaker 1: I can go full speed man when I was in
Speaker 1: my third man had about but I had but in between.
Speaker 1: But so what did I do with the other routes.
Speaker 1: I had to be strategic, had to be smart. I
Speaker 1: had to use my head in my mind versus my athleticism,
Speaker 1: because your athleticism it does start to leave you. Right.
Speaker 1: But if you don't know the game from the inside out,
Speaker 1: now you just you know, you just as a as
Speaker 1: as old coaches to tell me, You're just a blind
Speaker 1: dog in the me house. You're smelling and sniffing everything,
Speaker 1: but you have no you have no idea where the
Speaker 1: hell you're going, right, So you know, so, um, that's funny,
Speaker 1: is I was just thinking about it, like what what what?
Speaker 1: What was my experience with big place sligh and and
Speaker 1: that was my experience. I didn't get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: gets to play against it because I was you know again,
Speaker 1: I was on that veteran uh, I was on that
Speaker 1: veteran preseason. I was also coming off of that a
Speaker 1: massive double rupture Achilles as well, so I just wasn't
Speaker 1: there yet. So it was I thought it was good
Speaker 1: because if I believe, if I would have played. I
Speaker 1: don't think you would have been on this podcast. You
Speaker 1: he'd be like, man, bump that dude like that. Now,
Speaker 1: respect between the lines. I know how to go down.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it to talk about respecting between those lines.
Speaker 1: What is your mindset? I mean, we know you. It's
Speaker 1: a big place, like you're all pro you you're a
Speaker 1: pro bowler. What's your mentality is you approach playing cornerback? Uh? Man,
Speaker 1: I just try to win every up. You know the
Speaker 1: DV Man, you gotta have a quick mind. You know,
Speaker 1: we gotta let plays go. You know. Uh, these professionals
Speaker 1: in this game, and most likely I was traveling all
Speaker 1: the time, so I'm always saying the best, So you
Speaker 1: know it's in this game some people could really like
Speaker 1: lose confidence, but I always kept my confidence high. Man.
Speaker 1: I've been around a great leaderships in my room. So
Speaker 1: I just go out there and just trying to win
Speaker 1: the most I can. With the war of reps. I
Speaker 1: could win and most likely I come out on top
Speaker 1: a lot of time, you know, not even for single time.
Speaker 1: How easy or or I don't say easy. How much
Speaker 1: confidence for you is built up in practice heading into
Speaker 1: the game a lot, man, Because uh, I got some
Speaker 1: good I had goods. I had great scout guys. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't know people don't know how pointing to scout
Speaker 1: guys is definitely for the dB uh dudes. I had.
Speaker 1: I sprained to a guy how how I received the work,
Speaker 1: and they do a very detail and walking walking through
Speaker 1: out of your mind? What do you mean I'm interested
Speaker 1: in here? Like for instance, I had like me, I
Speaker 1: was just going against Tail was my robbery guy, you know,
Speaker 1: in in the division up north. So I was in
Speaker 1: Detroit and Ty was in the Green Bay. So I
Speaker 1: have a guy to work my patience. You know, that's
Speaker 1: a guy that Dante was a guy that's patient level.
Speaker 1: You know. Shoot, he would dance a lot at the
Speaker 1: line releases and made sure you put everything into the
Speaker 1: release that you got. And you know, for me, work
Speaker 1: my patience, made sure I'm we're here ready for it,
Speaker 1: and work my mind. And that's what he's doing. Man.
Speaker 1: So I had I had a great relationship with mostly
Speaker 1: my scout guys because that's why I said, to be
Speaker 1: the best, you gotta know you know your opponent. I
Speaker 1: made sure my scout guy knew my opponent. So what's
Speaker 1: the what's the rooting your confidence. I mean you keep
Speaker 1: you mentioned confidence a few times. What's the root of it? Man,
Speaker 1: I just got a lot of I don't know. I
Speaker 1: can't hear this planting. Man, I was really just going
Speaker 1: from man, you know you just got it was just
Speaker 1: built dingy. You know, uh, you gotta have you gotta
Speaker 1: come somewhere because I didn't. I didn't have some confidence
Speaker 1: dudes that sorry as hell. Yeah, I've been around, dude,
Speaker 1: but I didn't been around for dudes. I looked the park,
Speaker 1: can't and you look at you go back on film
Speaker 1: boys getting done dirty. So I need something a little
Speaker 1: bit more than man. I was just born with it,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of bumps, a lot of bumps
Speaker 1: walking around with confidence from where from? So you're down
Speaker 1: south Georgia, boy, I don't know why people will have
Speaker 1: confidence that dance su Steth for winning. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of dbs. I'll give the example of it.
Speaker 1: Let's let's walk down this road of a dB. Have
Speaker 1: you ever seen this? Out of a dB? The quarterback
Speaker 1: overthrows the ball. The d B that's say, happens to
Speaker 1: be five nine or three fourths right? Why are you
Speaker 1: looking at me. You know I'm looking at you because
Speaker 1: I'm talking about myself, right, you ain't you shorter than me?
Speaker 1: Talking around up? Try to try to steal my height
Speaker 1: up so the dB. So the quarterback happens to throw
Speaker 1: high pass. The receiver that's five nine jumps up, he
Speaker 1: misses about his fingertips and then the flies baby dB
Speaker 1: done this, you can't catch it? And then came get
Speaker 1: the facin't go you do. Got some guys out there,
Speaker 1: but like you had nothing to do with that over
Speaker 1: to the home ball. Yeah, I'm gonna professor. So man,
Speaker 1: I know what the dude gout? You know when you
Speaker 1: really could have got that as as a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver, that is like like my pop,
Speaker 1: that's like somebody smacking coum on a public bus. Right,
Speaker 1: So when you look back and you see him doing
Speaker 1: the no flies zone, when you know, good and well
Speaker 1: it was just a non contestable ball, you what's your thoughts?
Speaker 1: I rolled? I'm talking about I'm talking my head like
Speaker 1: I got I rolled. Come on bro, no, no, not
Speaker 1: come on bro, Nina. Let my TV didn't doubt me out. Man.
Speaker 1: If it's like that, I'm like he got you know,
Speaker 1: you know in your mind or you running or I
Speaker 1: run a great comeback and then the balls in the
Speaker 1: dirt and he over there, Oh boy, if you don't
Speaker 1: get your right and then that's where I go, all right,
Speaker 1: and then you know, obviously if the ball is thrown
Speaker 1: like that, we can't I'm hot. Don't even throw me
Speaker 1: another pass right now. Let me calm down, but we
Speaker 1: can get that run plate coming to my side though.
Speaker 1: That's about that, coach, Toby saving and run play this
Speaker 1: last like you know you light, I'm ready, I say,
Speaker 1: God like this. Come on in preseason, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: like to see. Do you know why in pre season?
Speaker 1: Would you like to know why? I think about it?
Speaker 1: Think about it from a dB side? You you you guessed.
Speaker 1: You guess what's in age and eights? Mind right now,
Speaker 1: go ahead, cut to it. I mean, my guest wasn't like,
Speaker 1: I know how you play. I've been watching for a
Speaker 1: long time from the South, so I've been watching Carolina
Speaker 1: for a minute. So I'm like, man, every time I
Speaker 1: see him, he trying to doll with somebody. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about every time you have you you basically you try
Speaker 1: to base you the last one have your hands on
Speaker 1: the dby you know something like why, I'm like, why
Speaker 1: are you always doing it? So I asked me, would
Speaker 1: you like to know? Yes, you know I always gonna ask. Okay,
Speaker 1: well ask me, not ask me, because that's murder. I
Speaker 1: can call h hand of the DV last man if
Speaker 1: I well first, when I do it in the preseason,
Speaker 1: that let's everyone know. Either buckle up your chin strap
Speaker 1: and come with it, or we could take this playoff.
Speaker 1: Either one. I'm cool, but you stop. You let me
Speaker 1: know so we can tussle or we can watch. I
Speaker 1: don't mind getting up. I don't mind getting the minus.
Speaker 1: If it's a toss the other way. If it's a
Speaker 1: toss to the left and we're on the right, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna move. But if you ask move, that's gonna
Speaker 1: cost you. Because yes, you know, coaches, b you know
Speaker 1: you've been in the defense room. We gotta run back side. Okay, choose,
Speaker 1: choose your poison. Would you like to get a negative
Speaker 1: by the coach or when you get this talk you
Speaker 1: want to get this Caesar salad. Oh, I gotta take
Speaker 1: the season exactly. And so by doing that in the preseason, right,
Speaker 1: and then the other thing is it also to let
Speaker 1: guys know, like, look, you ain't the only one that
Speaker 1: can hit. This is not this is not just your world.
Speaker 1: This is our world. My philosophy is really this. See
Speaker 1: there's a difference between you being on your birthday and
Speaker 1: it's being Christmas. See, on your birthday, you just get gifts,
Speaker 1: you get flowers, you get cards. Everybody wakes you up,
Speaker 1: they send you text messages. It's all about you. But
Speaker 1: in Christmas everybody gets to unwrap their gifts. M so
Speaker 1: everybody wins. So we can have it Christmas or you
Speaker 1: can get your motherfucking gifts all seventy two players in
Speaker 1: the past and run game. You let me know. That's
Speaker 1: that's how that's why I feel you. I feel that's
Speaker 1: very understanding exactly. So you sound like a brother that
Speaker 1: like Christmas. Like Christmas. No, no, no, I'm on them
Speaker 1: open up. Okay, Well that's gonna get your tossed. I
Speaker 1: gotta get yourself. It's a little bit, you know, but
Speaker 1: I like my birthday. Yeah, not on football field. What
Speaker 1: you want some socks here you go, new shoulder pads
Speaker 1: here you go. All right, what's like you said on
Speaker 1: the other day, on on social media. You said you
Speaker 1: are top five. I'm not gonna ask you the top
Speaker 1: five right now? Who the who are the five corners
Speaker 1: that you love that you grew up watching, grew up
Speaker 1: watch watch? Yeah that's good, okay, okay, I'm up watching
Speaker 1: the Champ. You know, he's from folksting right now down
Speaker 1: from so I we're watching Champ and uh rod Woodson
Speaker 1: of course. Uh. I got an opportunity to learn the
Speaker 1: more you know about Rod Woodson the o g one.
Speaker 1: You know, so because I had lived with him for
Speaker 1: like two weeks for my pre draft, so I understand
Speaker 1: his game. And of course Dion, you know I stayed
Speaker 1: with him too for a minute in preseason. Uh A reevers,
Speaker 1: you know, so I love me some reevers. Damn headache? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love patient. Listen, dude, I've seen that the line
Speaker 1: of screaming in the long, long time, and you know
Speaker 1: the best technique. Oh yeah, yeah. Ain't nobody messing with him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He's very patient, very patient, Yeah, very patient. Yeah. You
Speaker 1: know you talked about growing up in Georgia. What's your
Speaker 1: what's your family experienced? Like, what's some points of your
Speaker 1: mom in your life? And she's very important to meet us.
Speaker 1: So it's crazy, you know. But my mom like my
Speaker 1: big sister because she had me at thirteen. I'm the
Speaker 1: only child, so you know, uh while she growing up,
Speaker 1: you know, she's still trying to raise me as a
Speaker 1: high school kid. Yeah, so you know we're busted. Like
Speaker 1: that's like my big sister. So she talked me how
Speaker 1: to changed the tire. She has a single mom. You know,
Speaker 1: my daddy was there, but a little with my mom
Speaker 1: for the most part. But yeah, so she talked about changed, tired.
Speaker 1: She told me how to do everything or changing. She
Speaker 1: put them on. She don't just want to show them out,
Speaker 1: put my paths in. So you know that's my that's
Speaker 1: my lady. So yeah, we we brought tight. Yeah that's
Speaker 1: when I saw that information. I wasn't sure how to
Speaker 1: broach it a little bit just because of you know,
Speaker 1: being being so young. I can't imagine, you know, I
Speaker 1: we haven't you know my kids. My oldest is twenty
Speaker 1: four right now, and our youngest is seven. Ten is seven,
Speaker 1: and so that large gap and we see sometimes a
Speaker 1: little Deuce wants to play with his big brother Peyton
Speaker 1: Man Peyton twenty four pet over here, like man gonna
Speaker 1: work on the sales too bad the same way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Pett like, Man, I love you, but dang bro like
Speaker 1: we ain't we well can play Lego so many times,
Speaker 1: right show? But pe shout out to p He's a
Speaker 1: great big brother. So I I was trying to every
Speaker 1: guest we have on that, I try to relate and
Speaker 1: try to put myself in your shoes, and so I
Speaker 1: was just imagining what that dynamic has been like now. Um, basically,
Speaker 1: your mom is thirteen years older than you, fourteen years
Speaker 1: older than you and living life mom and son, but
Speaker 1: living life obviously in a way a different, completely different
Speaker 1: way the way you were raised, and you being able,
Speaker 1: um to also assist your mom and that you know,
Speaker 1: how has that been for you? She's been good, man.
Speaker 1: You know, watch another going through my college days hard,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, college money, you know, because she's
Speaker 1: trying to pay help bills at the house. So you know,
Speaker 1: I had that's my group, my friendships with guys in college.
Speaker 1: Man staying at day house with Thanksgiving and we have
Speaker 1: to go all way home when the duke go in Mississippi,
Speaker 1: so it's a long travel there. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we worked it out. Man. She always made sure I
Speaker 1: stayed on my grind, had me focused, you know, and
Speaker 1: be honest, Ma, I always appreciate it because I had
Speaker 1: me a child too, at a fifteen years old. You know,
Speaker 1: she took my son and while I was in school,
Speaker 1: raised him. You know, uh mind my son just turned fifteen.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're gout. Therena went there on the same path.
Speaker 1: So you know, she did the same thing my grandma
Speaker 1: did for her while she was in school, raised my
Speaker 1: raised me. So you know, we kind of gotta understanding. Man.
Speaker 1: We kind of got a great bard and you know,
Speaker 1: we kind of got a good game playing going. Man.
Speaker 1: I was I was that walking through that being fifteen
Speaker 1: years old. You know, man, Man, it was scary. Man.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. My daddy always told me said,
Speaker 1: uh it was good. He just leave it up. Somebody
Speaker 1: ain't no a baby come with it. I ain't maybe
Speaker 1: for the dude, not at I understand we're not a
Speaker 1: fifteen Well, I was like Jesus for the dude. Man,
Speaker 1: I ain't had no idea. I had no idea what chocolate.
Speaker 1: Ain't the man you'll come with him? Even the one
Speaker 1: that do come, it ain't right. It ain't up to date.
Speaker 1: I ain't seen one. I've seen one. I got four kids,
Speaker 1: I didn't seen one, and every single one of them,
Speaker 1: every man I had from the last one. It didn't
Speaker 1: work for the first one, and the damn so they
Speaker 1: worked for the second one and they don't work. The
Speaker 1: pages ain't even readable for the third and each child
Speaker 1: you toss it out the window. Yeah, man, it was rough.
Speaker 1: How did you How did you balance all of that?
Speaker 1: How did you balance all mean school? How do you
Speaker 1: balance having a child and you still try to go
Speaker 1: to recess? That Reid was open outside school out and
Speaker 1: she on the way to work, Hey, get your son, Hey,
Speaker 1: I can't go hang with the homies. Wpposed to say that?
Speaker 1: Nah na no, So the homies got to come to
Speaker 1: the house some time to kick it with me. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, man, she she made make sure I was apparent,
Speaker 1: and she didn't let me just go ahead and have fun.
Speaker 1: She couldn't do it. So she's like, I ain't you
Speaker 1: ain't gonna do it either. Let me just walking through
Speaker 1: that because that's this opportunity. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: people will, let's be honest, they will hear that and
Speaker 1: they will go, Wow, you know, so your responsible right,
Speaker 1: going to do right. You know Memoi had child when
Speaker 1: we were young too. Yeah, so uh man, I'll take
Speaker 1: it in as an opportunity because I ain't gonna When
Speaker 1: I was growing up, you know, with a single mom,
Speaker 1: I kind of looked to the streets a little bit
Speaker 1: as a as a male figure. You know, so I
Speaker 1: kind of grew up a little rough and um. When
Speaker 1: I had him, and he he kind of open my eyes
Speaker 1: up a little bit because I think I wanna be
Speaker 1: while I'm at the day without him, open open you
Speaker 1: up yours to what because I had a responsibilit of it.
Speaker 1: You know, growing up, I ain't handing none. I just
Speaker 1: was like here, being reckless and really looking for gunan's.
Speaker 1: You know, my mom was doing the best thing she could,
Speaker 1: but ain't nothing like a father, you know. So I
Speaker 1: was looking for it in the streets in the wrong way,
Speaker 1: doing going out the wrong path, you know, fighting doing everything.
Speaker 1: When I had him and I settled down real quick,
Speaker 1: and you know, just because I had a job to do,
Speaker 1: my mom made sure this is my job. Now, this
Speaker 1: is a job that you gotta do. You gotta provide,
Speaker 1: you gotta be a father. You gotta be a guy
Speaker 1: that he looks up to. Guy you wanna be like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta be a prime example of what
Speaker 1: a man should be. And uh, you know she led
Speaker 1: me the right way. I try to do my best.
Speaker 1: Add I think I'm doing a great job at it, man,
Speaker 1: but nobody's personally. I continue to keep trying to strive
Speaker 1: into that area. But you know, without him, and I
Speaker 1: probably won't be. While I'm mad, I want to kind
Speaker 1: of motivated as a kid trying to go to the
Speaker 1: league even though I was talented, because it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: walk from it just it's just it was just this
Speaker 1: so uh but yeah, he kind of set me down.
Speaker 1: Maybe really understand the blessing I was really given and
Speaker 1: I took advantage of it. I love cut to It
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm here for. A brother cut to a
Speaker 1: podcast dot com You have to go to junior college.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I ain't do no work, man. I started
Speaker 1: doing no work from from young days until I had
Speaker 1: to understand that work not not doing school. When you
Speaker 1: were in school in high school, you know what, psychologically,
Speaker 1: how did you how did you balance staff down to
Speaker 1: school and no, just how did you balance? You know
Speaker 1: you should have did you work, but you didn't. You
Speaker 1: you obviously talented football player, mm hmm, but understanding talent
Speaker 1: without education sends you nowhere, seeing me nowhere? So psychologically,
Speaker 1: what were you thinking in playing junior college and you know,
Speaker 1: having a child battoting between being pulled from kicking it
Speaker 1: with the boys in the streets hunkering down doing work
Speaker 1: that Let's be honest, you really want to do? No,
Speaker 1: I don't care if you play sports or not. No
Speaker 1: kid really likes to sit down, and do you know
Speaker 1: being being in school for eight hours and then go
Speaker 1: do four hours of homework. I don't care how smart
Speaker 1: you are, that's not really what they want to do now.
Speaker 1: They may want to do it sometimes, but not all
Speaker 1: the time, not not for the not for the nine
Speaker 1: months that school is is in session. I had a
Speaker 1: great like when I had my kids, I got I
Speaker 1: had great godparents because of my god that here was
Speaker 1: a great role model. So they really set me down
Speaker 1: and asked me what I wanted to be in life,
Speaker 1: how I want to be an example from my kids. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I just kind of like locked in.
Speaker 1: I want a smart guy. I want the bright guy.
Speaker 1: But I knew what I had to do to make
Speaker 1: sure I stayed elgible to play. So when it came
Speaker 1: to school, I ain't know. I just did enough to
Speaker 1: get by. You know, if it's at if it's a
Speaker 1: if it's a seventy on the paper, getting a six
Speaker 1: and seven, man, look here, And if it's a sixty seven,
Speaker 1: I'll do anything from a little three points to get
Speaker 1: a seventy. So and then you know, So that's what
Speaker 1: it was with me. I had kind of like they
Speaker 1: had a game plan for me. So if my grade
Speaker 1: wasn't that good, I just you know, I wouldn't get
Speaker 1: to ask questions. I have to go ask teacher what
Speaker 1: I could do for some anstra credit anything, that's that's
Speaker 1: the I did good by myself. I kind of understood
Speaker 1: like I got a great relationship with people like I
Speaker 1: wanted the guys that kind of like a happy, old
Speaker 1: lucky kid. I always had a smell on my face
Speaker 1: and I was already very speciful because that's where I'm from.
Speaker 1: So if I had and so the teaching never just
Speaker 1: my just like hunt, hunt, do this get some actual credit?
Speaker 1: So I could have did it just the maj sture.
Speaker 1: I was eligible. I did it. But that was smart. Man.
Speaker 1: You don't say you're not smart like that was smart.
Speaker 1: Don't Yeah, yeah, grads don't mean you ain't smart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know some really smart people. Dumb as hell? Correct,
Speaker 1: you know you're right, stone cold stupid. You hit you
Speaker 1: hella right, like a lot of stupid because you got
Speaker 1: the grades don't make you smart. There's a difference, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of CEO CFO CEO walking around dumb
Speaker 1: as hell. Listen, I have a conversation with you, like, damn,
Speaker 1: I didn't get that job because he got a degree.
Speaker 1: Got got a degree from here. Boy can can't put
Speaker 1: together to two pencils. So through all of that Junior College,
Speaker 1: Mississippi State, all that as you went through your journey.
Speaker 1: Who are some of your biggest mentors? Uh, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I had so you know, rest of piece to uh
Speaker 1: my agent, I had Eugene Parker. So uh that's why
Speaker 1: I had gotta introduced to Rod Woodson and Dion, you know,
Speaker 1: because I was his agents. So through my dropt process. Now,
Speaker 1: like I said, I got a whole month working with them,
Speaker 1: two guys you know, film watching it from different point
Speaker 1: of view, from an athlete to standpoint and then from
Speaker 1: a guy that kind of wasn't more of a technician
Speaker 1: and you know, so man, they just really just took
Speaker 1: me in the wing man. I was really blessed man
Speaker 1: with Tom run of myself a great paper. Got real
Speaker 1: lucky on that. I said, Like I was real blessed
Speaker 1: man because like nobody don't get that. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: one years old coming from this every you know, going
Speaker 1: to Dion house, hanging with him the house by house
Speaker 1: and openly you know, good like living good. I'm starstruck.
Speaker 1: Every Jersey ain't got any house. I'm taking a picture
Speaker 1: of it. They don't we know through the house, ain't
Speaker 1: it stand that was standing I'm scared to go to
Speaker 1: their pantry. But sorry, no stomach grumbling. I don't want
Speaker 1: to over ask, hey, over statement welcome, But goodness, man,
Speaker 1: I'm moving here with de honey Rod like it's a blessing.
Speaker 1: So I just really took a great vantage of that. Man.
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's rewind it a little bit. Man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do somebody. We're gonna do some icebreakers based off
Speaker 1: what you said. Man broke. No, no, this is I
Speaker 1: got some icebreakers right now. This man tell us something
Speaker 1: talking about you in the House of Dion. You know
Speaker 1: you're going from Mrs You. You went from the basement
Speaker 1: to the penthouse. Tell me tell me some of your
Speaker 1: favorite snacks that you was uh that you you was
Speaker 1: spying on the Dions pantry. So, uh damn. I've got
Speaker 1: a little you know, a little peanut little rolls like
Speaker 1: they're like like they look like and they look like
Speaker 1: what gonna simmer rolls, but they're not like they're the
Speaker 1: peanut little rolls and they come in to a little
Speaker 1: brown box, uh, the pe like the peacan wheels. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was smacking up on them. It was bad about it.
Speaker 1: They don't come into they just come in one little bag.
Speaker 1: So I'm grabbing like three, I'm like chilling. Man. I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: well don't I don't think. But he had a bunch
Speaker 1: of boxes. You might not know he knew they was missing.
Speaker 1: Somebody had to eat him. No, I'm not me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, that's pretty dope, man. Tell us growing up
Speaker 1: play the Mississippi from Georgia right in a deep, deep,
Speaker 1: deep deep south. Right, tell me something of your heroes
Speaker 1: growing up as a kid, and you gotta name him though,
Speaker 1: like he doesn't have to eat be anybody important. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about heroes in your life. Man, my hero mine.
Speaker 1: You know, my my oldest son for sure. You know,
Speaker 1: like I said, changed my life. And uh and my
Speaker 1: god dad. You know my biggest hero what your god?
Speaker 1: My god named Johnny Davis. Yeah, man, shoot, when I
Speaker 1: gotta said, when I my story going on? My uh
Speaker 1: my mom had moved to Atlanta and I ain't gonna move.
Speaker 1: I had all the scholarships, all the offers at my
Speaker 1: at my high school. So I'm like, man, I can't leave,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to start fresh. I'm my my brand,
Speaker 1: so you know her her my stepdad moved to Atlanta
Speaker 1: left me down there in Atlanta. I mean brother George
Speaker 1: by myself. You chose now, you chose picked up. You
Speaker 1: said they left me. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I said I left myself, but they ain't leaking out.
Speaker 1: Chose to pitch stay though, and uh you know at
Speaker 1: the time, and my mom couldn't just pay both friends.
Speaker 1: So it was rough. So me and my son, right,
Speaker 1: I'm walking to my grandma stay like probably like ten
Speaker 1: blocks down. I ain't want to go stay at my
Speaker 1: grand my house. I just like, you know, me and
Speaker 1: my son, I want to bring too men. You know
Speaker 1: I had my sponsibility. Man, My god dad has seen
Speaker 1: me when my mama had couldn't pay the bill. My
Speaker 1: god dad has seen me walking and uh that's when
Speaker 1: he became my guy dad. He's seen me walking. But
Speaker 1: here's my coach and uh and picked me up and
Speaker 1: told me that you mean you conna live with me?
Speaker 1: You know that's what maybe gone. So took me out
Speaker 1: of the house, you know, move me in with his kids,
Speaker 1: just my two god brothers. So what's that? What's that
Speaker 1: do for you? Man? What for you? For your heart? Wash?
Speaker 1: It hit me, He'll hit me hard. Like you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying because I had a lot of family
Speaker 1: back at home, and you know that I wasn't going
Speaker 1: down the rown path of Meno because, like I said,
Speaker 1: I was really kind of like a bad kid. And
Speaker 1: him for him to open his doors up to me
Speaker 1: like that man really just kind of like touched my
Speaker 1: heart that really, like he no, he did not see
Speaker 1: that I could be like a crafty, but he's just
Speaker 1: doing was you know, what was on his heart, what's
Speaker 1: best for me. And even though he like he got
Speaker 1: to brain this to his wife, his other kids, like
Speaker 1: he got another amount of feed in here with two
Speaker 1: because I had a son and you know, and his
Speaker 1: wife and my brothers, my guy. But it's kind of
Speaker 1: setting me with open orange. You know. It's just like
Speaker 1: we're good and um, you know, and I always appreciate
Speaker 1: the man I bought to my draft date. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody was mad at the crib man. Yes, your guy, daddy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: ain't my dad? And then in my daddy you know,
Speaker 1: so that's I always looked at it. Wow. So how
Speaker 1: you know, knowing all of that, you know, how does
Speaker 1: that work for you now? Psychologically? With you made it right?
Speaker 1: You've what you make in a game, it takes people
Speaker 1: ten years to make a quarter of it. How do
Speaker 1: you balance the wants? How do you balance people asking
Speaker 1: you for things? Now that you're here right at the
Speaker 1: top of the mountain. However, when you're at the bottom
Speaker 1: mountain with them, you know they were they were just
Speaker 1: fending for themselves as well, right, And I and I
Speaker 1: phrase it that way, it's just because you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's always this this this great responsibility, right, and it's
Speaker 1: just great expectation from people, right, the people that they
Speaker 1: didn't have enough to help you. It's not their fault,
Speaker 1: but it all of a sudden, this this expectation. Now
Speaker 1: that you've made it, so you can help them because
Speaker 1: you you've got enough to feed. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: enough to feed a whole a whole village, which is true.
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna start your village,
Speaker 1: but to to to feed the whole village, right, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of needs and wants. How do you
Speaker 1: balance that? Man? How do you how do you how
Speaker 1: do you decipher? How do you and the wife decipher
Speaker 1: between the yes and the nose? Yeah? Well I had
Speaker 1: to you know, when I was a rookie was tough,
Speaker 1: you know, just because I first got it, got the money.
Speaker 1: You know, as a kid, we tell all your home
Speaker 1: whether yeah, we when I make it, we all made it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So when I had my
Speaker 1: second child, you know, so I like, danmg, I gotta
Speaker 1: look at life different. And then my god dad and
Speaker 1: my mom have already been saying it, like hey, slave,
Speaker 1: say your money. You know, whatever you do, it is
Speaker 1: what you do. What do you do for us is
Speaker 1: that's how you're do it. Like I said, I was
Speaker 1: really blessed man, I had one I got you know.
Speaker 1: Of course I ran into some guys that just want to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, ask me for money. That's just how I dope.
Speaker 1: But the one that I deetly care about, deeply love about,
Speaker 1: and really risk their lives to like come out there
Speaker 1: and you know, stick their neck out for me, they
Speaker 1: don't ask me for nothing. You know, they just kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know, even though I offer it, they
Speaker 1: don't ask for nothing. They kind of just want to
Speaker 1: be to be supportive, so they'd be more to guys
Speaker 1: like come to the game. You know, they always byd
Speaker 1: their tickets to come to the flight to the game
Speaker 1: away Like, so I always show my appreciate singo you
Speaker 1: know we need to go out to eat or you know,
Speaker 1: I'll do a little great you know, surprised on one
Speaker 1: they birthday or something like that. So I don't read
Speaker 1: it to some people that you know that be just
Speaker 1: asking for money or whatever whatever. But you know I
Speaker 1: love them, but yeah, they don't fect me out of
Speaker 1: my godparents. And because they don't ask for no, you know,
Speaker 1: it'd be different that they did because I feel away.
Speaker 1: But they don't ask for nothing. They just like, hey,
Speaker 1: what do you do for us? It's what you do
Speaker 1: and re appreciation. So the kind of people that kind
Speaker 1: of ask for stuff, I kind of weed them out
Speaker 1: the answers. No, it ain't hard for them. They like
Speaker 1: I said, I would give us your best version of no.
Speaker 1: Uh see. The thing about me is now that the
Speaker 1: fact they've got I phones, right, you know that's where
Speaker 1: you're going stupid. That's why I go to Android stupid,
Speaker 1: said nobody. Ever, I kind of got because like it
Speaker 1: tells you, if you read it, then you don't see
Speaker 1: that read you your receipt off. You gotta try to
Speaker 1: re receipt off. No, I keep it on for they
Speaker 1: can do. I don't read it, and you want that's
Speaker 1: your note, you know, like, hey, yeah, I read it.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna address it. They're gonna
Speaker 1: see me ten thousand texts. Nah, I ain't gonna right back.
Speaker 1: It's like what I always what I try to do
Speaker 1: is I will wait, even if i'm help, I'll wait
Speaker 1: because I believe if I wait, that that allows them
Speaker 1: to think about other resources, right, because you know, when
Speaker 1: we get to ask, it's perceived as the hell Mary
Speaker 1: throw right, it's you know, you know you're only gonna
Speaker 1: get half of the truth. Always yeah, oh I'm about
Speaker 1: to lose my house or I'm about to lose my car. Now, well,
Speaker 1: you ain't telp me he ain't paid in seven months? Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe wait to the last the last minute, and it's
Speaker 1: not it's not like yes, and and then waiting to
Speaker 1: the last minute seven months of none payment. That's a
Speaker 1: big check. So what I've tried to do, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you do this, I don't. I try to only
Speaker 1: write two entities. So if you call me and say, man,
Speaker 1: I'm behind two car payments, cool, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: send me the information. I shoot, yeah, who I send
Speaker 1: it to? If you really let's let's say you're driving
Speaker 1: a forward, if you really need that Ford payment taken
Speaker 1: care of, take a picture of that of your bill,
Speaker 1: I can I can pay it online for you. Right,
Speaker 1: online payments. They don't authorize anything. They accept whoever is paid.
Speaker 1: I write a check. No, no, you you got to
Speaker 1: write it to to the to the entity. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: then think about it if if you don't write it
Speaker 1: to the end of Let's just hypothetically say it's a
Speaker 1: two thousand dollar bill. Well, if I give you two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars or you know, zail or ven Mo or
Speaker 1: cash app, whatever whatever you're looking for, if I sending
Speaker 1: that to you, all of a sudden, on your way
Speaker 1: to wherever you're going, you're gonna pass some places that
Speaker 1: that two thousand dollars is gonna be tickling your pocket. Right,
Speaker 1: you know what? Oh mind getting I do? Need? You
Speaker 1: know Walmark? That Walmart got this new uh inch curve
Speaker 1: on sale. You know, a little one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars ain't gonna hurt. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, boo boo boo. And then they're back to
Speaker 1: square one. That that has happened when I've sent people
Speaker 1: money then all of a sudden, as for a week
Speaker 1: later saying no, no, no, what happens is I learned
Speaker 1: that they lost their car. Like when I go back home,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what happened to your car? Well what happened
Speaker 1: was yeah, And so that's what we do. We pay entities.
Speaker 1: So if you know what I mean, all the time, man,
Speaker 1: my edition went out? Okay, cool? How much they say
Speaker 1: to replace it? Oh, it's about and I do housing stuff,
Speaker 1: so I know I know how much it would be. Like,
Speaker 1: oh it's you know it's aboutkay? Is that inshurts? No,
Speaker 1: we'll do the insurts. Go ahead, take care of I
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be about forty three hundred dollars, but
Speaker 1: I'll pay you. I'll pay it. Just run it up,
Speaker 1: send me the bill. I'll take care of. You'd be
Speaker 1: surprised how many people don't follow through. Hey, you catch
Speaker 1: a lot of thus like that, and then can't you
Speaker 1: catch them just because they're looking for something else? Right?
Speaker 1: And the reason I know is, shoot, I was that
Speaker 1: per same person. Right. We grew up in we we're
Speaker 1: in a family we grew up in the same neighborhood.
Speaker 1: We grew up in the same d n A. I
Speaker 1: know how we think. Right, we're trying to get a
Speaker 1: come up. Cut do it, cut do it. Let's getting
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Speaker 1: know what you're looking forward to, Uh this offseason? Tell
Speaker 1: us how O T A s are going for you?
Speaker 1: You know, um for the Philadelphia Eagles. Just everything that's
Speaker 1: going on. Are we going? Good? Man? Just working out? Um? Shoot,
Speaker 1: I'm the old head now, you know. Uh, I got
Speaker 1: more years and all the whole dvs together. You know,
Speaker 1: I got some young guys in the room, well first
Speaker 1: and second year guys. So we're just working and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get around right. You know, I got TV
Speaker 1: young boys. Man, they'd be trying to be out heads
Speaker 1: just to be think it's cool that I'm in the league.
Speaker 1: They want to be slaggy, they want to tom in
Speaker 1: Man the blessing to standing here. Y'all got to get
Speaker 1: the work. Y'all coming for the show. We're trying to
Speaker 1: y'all need to stay, your workers need to stay. Let's
Speaker 1: let's hoover an, let's let's let's talk. Let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: Because there's you know, as an old head, you know,
Speaker 1: doing TV, a lot of people come across I come
Speaker 1: across people all the time. They're talking about shade. I'm
Speaker 1: hating and like oz Man Stevie hating on such and such.
Speaker 1: And I had to have a conversation with a gentleman
Speaker 1: um I won't name. I had to look. I had
Speaker 1: to look to brother and nine and I asked him.
Speaker 1: I said, um, what I'm ma jealous of? And I
Speaker 1: looked him up and down, like from his shoe to
Speaker 1: the top of his head. What am I you in
Speaker 1: your career? You've got your money, you got a girl,
Speaker 1: you got a family. I got a girl, I got
Speaker 1: a family. I'm not sure what I what you have
Speaker 1: that I'm missing? I and I looked at him. He
Speaker 1: was he was he was kind of dumbfounded. I was
Speaker 1: dumbfounding in the conversation I had to have anyway. But
Speaker 1: it's it's just the fact that like I have to
Speaker 1: explain these young guys and oh man, you hating? What
Speaker 1: am I hating about? You? New generation weird? Like the
Speaker 1: new generation is like you know, oh man, you know
Speaker 1: I joke out I've loved now that I'm I'm oning
Speaker 1: Captain Petty right, But they're like, oh man, you're throwing shade.
Speaker 1: How sixteen year vet and google my Google how much
Speaker 1: money I made over my career? What shade of my throwing?
Speaker 1: Uh money shade? I've had all the top I've had
Speaker 1: all the top cars right on the new car that's
Speaker 1: come out that's doing Trucker's Lambeau. But I had to
Speaker 1: I had to Bentley Truck, I had several G wagons.
Speaker 1: I had to let's see, um everything. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: had everything. I didn't had. I had to christ the
Speaker 1: three D when it was the boot egg Bentley and
Speaker 1: I got to had I had the baby Billy. The
Speaker 1: baby Billy was in the business account. I want to
Speaker 1: one of those in high school, So man, I listen,
Speaker 1: it's a baby. I had the baby Bentley and then
Speaker 1: I rolled up on a real Bentley. Uh Man, I
Speaker 1: turned that baby billy in. I said, that thing is
Speaker 1: a rip off. That baby billy. I rolled up. We
Speaker 1: was both bumping, but when we hit gas, that real
Speaker 1: billy said boom. Baby billy said, I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I need to save my money. It took me. It
Speaker 1: took me, It took me my going in my ninth year,
Speaker 1: I bought a used one. I said, okay, thing, and
Speaker 1: now now I'm electric. You don't hear me. You don't
Speaker 1: even hear me. Take off, man, I listen. I paid
Speaker 1: twenty one dollars the other day for phill up. M Hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta thing. I was wriggling my shoulders every time.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, boy, um man talking talk about
Speaker 1: these young guys though. You're talking about how they they
Speaker 1: like to show up. You know, they're just happy to
Speaker 1: be in the league, participation, um salaries, trophies, right right.
Speaker 1: I was trying to I told my young buzzer of
Speaker 1: the day, man, uh, I said, man, when you even
Speaker 1: when you get drafted, man, the next day, they're looking
Speaker 1: to replace you. You know what I'm saying, That's just
Speaker 1: how the business is. You know, you don't it don't
Speaker 1: matter like that's what the point about standing because they're
Speaker 1: looking at for somebody to replace you right now today
Speaker 1: they drafted you to be replacing, so I'll be just
Speaker 1: locked down. I would learn that from my O. G
Speaker 1: shea man. Him Matt is a thirteen year od vet
Speaker 1: that came from Jason Beta, King of Detroit. He just
Speaker 1: he always he made me never feel comfortable, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Don't get comfortable slave, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's why I never did. You know, I always have
Speaker 1: enjoyed my time in the league. But between them lines
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to learn in that meeting room, trying
Speaker 1: to get everything packed down, everything pulls post me in
Speaker 1: the even chilling feed up, like man, you'll better come
Speaker 1: on with it. Like so yeah, then you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know how they operated. But you only got one
Speaker 1: shot and you only gotta you only got a little span.
Speaker 1: You know, you only in your prime between twenty one
Speaker 1: and seven. Said, if you know what, you gotta make
Speaker 1: all the money you can now, because most likely a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that come out and lead, most guys
Speaker 1: don't want to work, really work work. They want to
Speaker 1: join something they really want to do, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's like prob. You know, like some people want to
Speaker 1: be podcasts, some people want to be whatever whatever, But
Speaker 1: people ain't really trying to really have to put in
Speaker 1: the whole, another off the whole, another job. Why do
Speaker 1: you why do you think that is? Huh? I said,
Speaker 1: why do you think that is? Why do you think
Speaker 1: that is? Like, while you're working, it's hard. I don't
Speaker 1: understan why you're working. It's hard for to just be average.
Speaker 1: You know. I don't want to be average. I want
Speaker 1: to be able to be sit back and enjoy my
Speaker 1: kids and all that kind of stuff. I got a
Speaker 1: different motivation and all that. I want to be able
Speaker 1: to join. I don't want to be at the work
Speaker 1: and have to miss my kid game or something because
Speaker 1: I got to clock in somewhere because I didn't do
Speaker 1: what I posted it five years ago. You know, when
Speaker 1: they only want to think it costs is hard work.
Speaker 1: You know, talent go down quick. You know. The consistent
Speaker 1: guys work hard, you know, And that's what I've been
Speaker 1: consistently working hard and hard, work out to beat talent
Speaker 1: every day. You know. It's just different when I put
Speaker 1: you you the O G slate, Now where you see
Speaker 1: yourself in ten years. Oh, man, I honestly see myself
Speaker 1: man being like, uh, ain't like a coach. So to
Speaker 1: my kids, my kids, yeah, I want to coach them up,
Speaker 1: but I want to try to tell you. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lie to you. I want to put my feet up. Man.
Speaker 1: I would working hard ten years, but my body up
Speaker 1: for so. I want to watch my kids grow up. Man,
Speaker 1: they played them out. Yeah, my boys played football. I
Speaker 1: want to play baseball. A little girls. You know, I
Speaker 1: got a baby girl. She could probably be in some track,
Speaker 1: you know. So I just want to just talk to
Speaker 1: you right now. Don't let him do dance. Please, do
Speaker 1: not let them look at my little girl. A little boy.
Speaker 1: So she's the only little girl, so she's like a
Speaker 1: little tom boy. Let me tell you something, man, dance competition,
Speaker 1: we're not in that. My daughters more like that, Shane
Speaker 1: and Bro. I'm telling those as competitions. One super inappropriate.
Speaker 1: You got them kids dressing like that, dancing like that,
Speaker 1: and then it's all day long for twenty five seconds.
Speaker 1: It's tough. Man. My daughter did I and some of
Speaker 1: those dance competitions. Something my blessing I learned. If the
Speaker 1: last name is vil, good luck on the hotel Charlotte's Ville.
Speaker 1: Hunter's Ville ain't got no big name hotels. It's red
Speaker 1: roof and red roof in Express holiday and holiday and
Speaker 1: Express residency. And you know, it's it's tough. You're sitting
Speaker 1: in something something some sitting in some high school auditorium,
Speaker 1: bumping up bump for what parents terrible, terrible, and then
Speaker 1: you and then you have to wait that to the
Speaker 1: end to find out if you want or not stuff.
Speaker 1: It's a sham. It is then addresses and a makeup.
Speaker 1: You know, ten year old supposed to be having full
Speaker 1: own makeup like that. Not my baby girl. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm glad right now it's gonna change. Don't she only want?
Speaker 1: But you got anything you want to get off your chest?
Speaker 1: There too much to get off my chest. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a I'm a I'm a solid assassin. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do it, not letting film do
Speaker 1: my talking, you know. But I do know people start
Speaker 1: trying me with that top five stuff that people out
Speaker 1: of out of line. Do you do you do you
Speaker 1: get offended by not being in the top five? You know, No,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not trying to be funny. I'm asking because
Speaker 1: I said I said something this weekend. You know, people
Speaker 1: are saying, so somebody said, uh, big talk from a
Speaker 1: slot receiver. First of all, stupid. I didn't play in
Speaker 1: the slot a lot. Really I wish you did, but
Speaker 1: unfortunately I was crazy. Yeah, like, if you're gonna insult
Speaker 1: at lista saw me with the right facts, you know.
Speaker 1: But that's why I'm asking, like, how do how do
Speaker 1: you balance that? I mean, I just kind of I
Speaker 1: don't read too much to do with the fans tall,
Speaker 1: but when there's another professional player, and definitely when they
Speaker 1: accolades don't add up to minds. When I got and
Speaker 1: when he got, come on, man, y'all can be saying this,
Speaker 1: and definitely I don't. That's one thing I don't like
Speaker 1: the talker. I don't like that guy to be like,
Speaker 1: oh man, he right, but how am I right? But
Speaker 1: you don't got no pro, no all pro no nothing.
Speaker 1: So if I'm just all right, you might be some
Speaker 1: garbride Trump, you know, man, straight up and and that
Speaker 1: we and then people be just talking craam like ill
Speaker 1: be ain't kind of I'll be trying to annoy it.
Speaker 1: But then you know, sometimes because I worked too hard
Speaker 1: for this game to be talking about I'm aye or
Speaker 1: you or your system guy? That's real. Yeah, ye, I
Speaker 1: ain't got crazy. No, I'm still waiting for the right
Speaker 1: system I was in, because I remember the system I
Speaker 1: was in. It was not the right system. I haven't
Speaker 1: been in all of I've been the whole man sitsu
Speaker 1: uh system with number man seventy played out of seventy five.
Speaker 1: Then I've been in the zone system. So I don't
Speaker 1: did it all. So what do you prefer? I prefer Man,
Speaker 1: That's what that's like. It's just easy. That's just like
Speaker 1: it's easy for me to read routs. You know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to look at too many other things,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to be sinking multi You
Speaker 1: don't like multitasking, can I? Yeah you can hear, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm multitassing it. I'm running looked up that it's like.
Speaker 1: Then I'll turn it to the receiver so I don't
Speaker 1: win to everything. So you you really just like to
Speaker 1: focus on the receiver, turn your back so you can
Speaker 1: watch him and not have to get sidetracked a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean I could play off too, but I just
Speaker 1: like to press a little bit. Yeah, okay, so that
Speaker 1: being I like to get active. Man, that's why I'm
Speaker 1: out here. I ain't, you know, to get at them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's too easy now. The game too slow now, I
Speaker 1: mean I probably won't get that at them. When I
Speaker 1: was younger, I was trying to understand it. But now
Speaker 1: it's too easy. Really tell when the game just slower,
Speaker 1: it just slower for me. That's why it's too easy,
Speaker 1: you know. Of course I don't know. We're profession and
Speaker 1: I'll get beat. But I've been doing what I get
Speaker 1: beat with, like, uh, back when I was young, I'm
Speaker 1: getting beat. Left it right, So you say it's from
Speaker 1: a surreaper context, so people know, yeah, you you you
Speaker 1: understand your weaknesses. Yeah, I'm like, okay, I gotta do this.
Speaker 1: But back then, man, everything was a weak and just
Speaker 1: blond dogging to me. Well that come on. When I
Speaker 1: was in practice with c J my whole first five
Speaker 1: for years, man, that man was slapping me around, happy,
Speaker 1: losing me thinking I can't do nothing right. Question you
Speaker 1: see J. He's talking about Mega Travis Alvin Johnson, Detroit
Speaker 1: lines and uh, all right, before we let you go,
Speaker 1: then I'll be remiss if I don't ask you. So,
Speaker 1: what was the what was your scouting report on me?
Speaker 1: If we were to play? Oh man, that you go, mate?
Speaker 1: You try you turn uh catches And they said they
Speaker 1: always said not fast, but sneaky fast if you don't
Speaker 1: jam them up. And they said at the high point, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta be physical. And they said, and treat him
Speaker 1: like a running back when you tackle them. You hear
Speaker 1: right there when I wrote, Now, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I like I'm going to get if he played a
Speaker 1: little bit. I gotta know because Hall of Famer, I
Speaker 1: gotta be on my ship, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So already I appreciate that. See something, y'all. Look some
Speaker 1: of the haters that's following us. Cut to it. You here,
Speaker 1: shut down big play, shut down slave. He says, Hey,
Speaker 1: trying to tackle agent. Ay, you're not back in the day.
Speaker 1: It's like a running back. Yeah, yeah, like a running back.
Speaker 1: You know you was we are seen a debo sounds
Speaker 1: before that, there was there was debo, and there was
Speaker 1: deebo before debo. And guess what, and I knew the
Speaker 1: original debo the original debo actually UM used to date
Speaker 1: a girl, I knew mom a Deebo debo, Deebo debo,
Speaker 1: Tiny Lester, Yeah, rest in peace, Rest in peace. But
Speaker 1: it's it'sn't it's it's it's intimidating looking at a brother
Speaker 1: that big and he looked at two different directions. It
Speaker 1: was tough, dog. I ain't like everything you got. He
Speaker 1: gonna you don't know if he gonna hit you what
Speaker 1: looking at whoever he looked at. They're gonna catch these
Speaker 1: Paulls Man. We appreciate your time, bro, Thanks, thanks for
Speaker 1: you being appreciate you. You are a unique person. You
Speaker 1: are well worth it, you are competent, and most of all,
Speaker 1: your lovable. I'm Steve Smith, Singer, I'm Gerard Little John
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