WEBVTT - DARIUS SLAY 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.640 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.920 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:13.000 Steve Smith Senior and John and this is cut to it. 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.959 Good do it, Good do it. Let's get down to 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.759 do it. Good do it. We asked the questions you 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.239 always want to know, but no one ever asked, let's 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:30.040 cut to it. You ain't heard about it, then we're 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:40.319 about to let you. Now it's all man. I got 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.120 a little favorite on the emphasize on little little favorite 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.760 because he played dB a little bit of shade on 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.080 the front, a little qualified and Captain Petty is in 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:54.840 the building, checked in, locked and loaded. Man. We got 0:00:55.080 --> 0:01:01.960 a cornerback phenom shut down when you shut down? Slight right? Uh, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:06.080 Darius Slay, cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles, making that boot coop, 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.120 deciding also that he might he he may want to 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.360 switch over receiver because they played pain a lot more hits, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:21.119 his weekend hits, his Twitter feet. Welcome to the cut 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.200 to a podcast, Darius Slay, how you doing dogs? And 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.160 I'm good man, everybody doing it that we're good man. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.600 Appreciate you coming on, bro, sir, appreciate you. Well, let's 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.640 jump right on them because I was going back in 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.600 my in my memory bank, and I was trying to 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.720 figure out when did I when did I have it? 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.880 Uh interaction with slayh and I and I believe when 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.120 I was with the Baltimore Ravens, I was. I was 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:50.160 on that veteran schedule in the preseason um and Slay 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.240 says through the media, I would like to have a 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:58.360 Steve Smith Jersey Remember that? Yeah? Yes, Can I tell 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:03.320 you what I was really thinking? Please? Okay, First of all, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.640 you know, let's be honest in Detroit, and I felt 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.200 privy to this. When you play in the a f C, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.960 you don't pay attention to the NFC. When I was 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.680 in the NFC, I did not pay attention to the 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.480 FC because I only played the ANFC teams every four years. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.880 So in the beginning, I was like, Man, I don't 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.400 know who the hell Darius slays, right, but I didn't 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.680 say it. And one nickel for the insult. Okay, two 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.080 nickels for the insult. You know, I'm retired, So my my, my, 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.079 my funds that left. Ye. Well, I am on the 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.720 fix in come, always been on the fix income. I 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:48.840 will never reveal how much you like, but or however 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.640 still going forward, I'm like, man, this dude, if I 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.640 was playing, he's trying to soften me up. He's trying 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:01.800 to make me not go at his neck before we play. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.040 That's what I was thinking. I didn't say that. I 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.720 didn't say that in the media. Man that came to 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.799 me like, uh, my coach came to me right that 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.480 there had hardware. He said, that's the wrong jersey that 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.360 asked for. He said, he trying to dog you ever played? 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.960 I said, I understand that, you know I watched this game, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.520 but damn, I still can't get their jersey that they 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.919 was like, now hear what my jersey's des whately said. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.400 The reason I don't hear what my jers I might 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:29.760 roughly up in you want my jer guy said, Damn, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.000 I said, let me lock it dad. If he played, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.360 I I ain't even gonna play the games with it. Was. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.920 It's one of those funny things that, um, you know 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.520 we're starting on the back end, first pause, but you 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.920 know we're just gonna get them to talk ball. Was 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.640 just understanding like this the dB I was talking to somebody, 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:53.320 and I and and is clogging my memory jogging it up? 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.000 Is you know. I guess that's that's one of the 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.480 regrets I did have with playing. I wasn't a nice 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:07.120 opponent like I really grew playing the game in such 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:13.560 a fierce competitive way that opponent or teammate, if you 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.800 were on the other side of the football, I did 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:21.400 not see you as friend. I saw you completely only 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.960 as folk. I had my lenses of foe on. No friendship, 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:31.000 no hank, no shaking hands like if I suld do hand, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.400 I would intentionally give him the dead fish like before 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.400 the game, right like I was. I was playing Carolina 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:43.119 two thousand eight, we play Seattle Seahawks had a former 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.720 teammate went to college with uh um Andre Diyson, right, 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.600 His brother was Kevin. Kevin Diyson, Tennessee Tens play with 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.320 me as well. A lot of Dison family, great dudes. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.000 We went to college together. You know, we all grew 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.080 up together. Where a whole bunch of girls trying to 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:02.640 get some nuts and we got them right and super 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:11.720 pauls Um Extreme extreme part one more tea Steve, you're 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:16.160 out of the game, and so yeah and so so 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.600 Drake shakes my hand before the NC Championship game again 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:24.440 Seattle game to dead fish right, And I just was 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.800 so in work mode. I was in worker B mode. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:31.839 I never really I always respected the defender. And my 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:36.280 respect for the defender was in the off season, like 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.200 going to get the player like yourself. I had to 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.080 train my butt off in off season because I knew 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:42.760 you were gonna shadow well, So that means I had 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.240 to move. I had to put bricks on the house, right, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.960 and that means in football terms, going forward, right, I couldn't. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.200 I couldn't dance at the line because if I dancing line, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.400 you're a great shadow guy. That that that plays right 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.840 into your bag of tricks, Mr Magician, right, So doing 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.359 all of those things, that's the one you know for circle, 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.040 That's one of regret is I never was able. I 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:08.080 was always on versus the defender. I was never relaxed. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.720 And so when you asked me for my jersey, you know, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.280 I missed it. But I was just in a different 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.080 mindset just because even as I was older, you know, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.920 y'all were younger, right, you know, and when you know 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.360 you when you thirty eight years old and you gotta 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.479 play seventy plays, and back in the day, I would 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.280 have good twenty I give you twenty five good routes. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.680 I can go full speed man when I was in 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:41.880 my third man had about but I had but in between. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:44.960 But so what did I do with the other routes. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.600 I had to be strategic, had to be smart. I 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:54.159 had to use my head in my mind versus my athleticism, 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.279 because your athleticism it does start to leave you. Right. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.640 But if you don't know the game from the inside out, 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.520 now you just you know, you just as a as 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.000 as old coaches to tell me, You're just a blind 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.719 dog in the me house. You're smelling and sniffing everything, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.360 but you have no you have no idea where the 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:16.200 hell you're going, right, So you know, so, um, that's funny, 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.280 is I was just thinking about it, like what what what? 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.760 What was my experience with big place sligh and and 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.720 that was my experience. I didn't get an opportunity to 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.880 gets to play against it because I was you know again, 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.000 I was on that veteran uh, I was on that 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.000 veteran preseason. I was also coming off of that a 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.120 massive double rupture Achilles as well, so I just wasn't 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:41.200 there yet. So it was I thought it was good 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.960 because if I believe, if I would have played. I 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.040 don't think you would have been on this podcast. You 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.600 he'd be like, man, bump that dude like that. Now, 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.760 respect between the lines. I know how to go down. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.000 I appreciate it to talk about respecting between those lines. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.280 What is your mindset? I mean, we know you. It's 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.320 a big place, like you're all pro you you're a 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:05.240 pro bowler. What's your mentality is you approach playing cornerback? Uh? Man, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.640 I just try to win every up. You know the 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.480 DV Man, you gotta have a quick mind. You know, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.840 we gotta let plays go. You know. Uh, these professionals 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.800 in this game, and most likely I was traveling all 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.600 the time, so I'm always saying the best, So you 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.400 know it's in this game some people could really like 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.640 lose confidence, but I always kept my confidence high. Man. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.240 I've been around a great leaderships in my room. So 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:24.840 I just go out there and just trying to win 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.280 the most I can. With the war of reps. I 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.680 could win and most likely I come out on top 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.600 a lot of time, you know, not even for single time. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:35.560 How easy or or I don't say easy. How much 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.520 confidence for you is built up in practice heading into 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.520 the game a lot, man, Because uh, I got some 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.920 good I had goods. I had great scout guys. You know, 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.040 they don't know people don't know how pointing to scout 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.199 guys is definitely for the dB uh dudes. I had. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.360 I sprained to a guy how how I received the work, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.200 and they do a very detail and walking walking through 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.280 out of your mind? What do you mean I'm interested 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.240 in here? Like for instance, I had like me, I 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.679 was just going against Tail was my robbery guy, you know, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.280 in in the division up north. So I was in 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.040 Detroit and Ty was in the Green Bay. So I 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.520 have a guy to work my patience. You know, that's 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.800 a guy that Dante was a guy that's patient level. 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.880 You know. Shoot, he would dance a lot at the 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.920 line releases and made sure you put everything into the 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.480 release that you got. And you know, for me, work 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.360 my patience, made sure I'm we're here ready for it, 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.679 and work my mind. And that's what he's doing. Man. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.959 So I had I had a great relationship with mostly 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.800 my scout guys because that's why I said, to be 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.120 the best, you gotta know you know your opponent. I 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.760 made sure my scout guy knew my opponent. So what's 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:36.600 the what's the rooting your confidence. I mean you keep 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.880 you mentioned confidence a few times. What's the root of it? Man, 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.679 I just got a lot of I don't know. I 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.240 can't hear this planting. Man, I was really just going 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:45.960 from man, you know you just got it was just 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:50.240 built dingy. You know, uh, you gotta have you gotta 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.280 come somewhere because I didn't. I didn't have some confidence 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.560 dudes that sorry as hell. Yeah, I've been around, dude, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.360 but I didn't been around for dudes. I looked the park, 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.000 can't and you look at you go back on film 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.040 boys getting done dirty. So I need something a little 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:04.640 bit more than man. I was just born with it, 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.240 because there's a lot of bumps, a lot of bumps 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.480 walking around with confidence from where from? So you're down 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.440 south Georgia, boy, I don't know why people will have 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.880 confidence that dance su Steth for winning. You know, it's 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.000 a whole bunch of dbs. I'll give the example of it. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.320 Let's let's walk down this road of a dB. Have 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.320 you ever seen this? Out of a dB? The quarterback 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.800 overthrows the ball. The d B that's say, happens to 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.320 be five nine or three fourths right? Why are you 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.600 looking at me. You know I'm looking at you because 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.760 I'm talking about myself, right, you ain't you shorter than me? 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.679 Talking around up? Try to try to steal my height 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.200 up so the dB. So the quarterback happens to throw 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:54.040 high pass. The receiver that's five nine jumps up, he 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:59.880 misses about his fingertips and then the flies baby dB 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.840 done this, you can't catch it? And then came get 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.600 the facin't go you do. Got some guys out there, 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.000 but like you had nothing to do with that over 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.880 to the home ball. Yeah, I'm gonna professor. So man, 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.079 I know what the dude gout? You know when you 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:24.079 really could have got that as as a wide receiver, 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.200 as a wide receiver, that is like like my pop, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.520 that's like somebody smacking coum on a public bus. Right, 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:32.280 So when you look back and you see him doing 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:33.839 the no flies zone, when you know, good and well 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.079 it was just a non contestable ball, you what's your thoughts? 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.840 I rolled? I'm talking about I'm talking my head like 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.160 I got I rolled. Come on bro, no, no, not 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:50.040 come on bro, Nina. Let my TV didn't doubt me out. Man. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.719 If it's like that, I'm like he got you know, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.840 you know in your mind or you running or I 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.200 run a great comeback and then the balls in the 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:01.920 dirt and he over there, Oh boy, if you don't 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:06.640 get your right and then that's where I go, all right, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.360 and then you know, obviously if the ball is thrown 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.800 like that, we can't I'm hot. Don't even throw me 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.280 another pass right now. Let me calm down, but we 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.160 can get that run plate coming to my side though. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.839 That's about that, coach, Toby saving and run play this 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:29.280 last like you know you light, I'm ready, I say, 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:35.560 God like this. Come on in preseason, you know, I'm 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.880 like to see. Do you know why in pre season? 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.240 Would you like to know why? I think about it? 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.240 Think about it from a dB side? You you you guessed. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.080 You guess what's in age and eights? Mind right now, 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.520 go ahead, cut to it. I mean, my guest wasn't like, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.080 I know how you play. I've been watching for a 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.480 long time from the South, so I've been watching Carolina 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.080 for a minute. So I'm like, man, every time I 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.960 see him, he trying to doll with somebody. I'm talking 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.719 about every time you have you you basically you try 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.120 to base you the last one have your hands on 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.760 the dby you know something like why, I'm like, why 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.560 are you always doing it? So I asked me, would 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.760 you like to know? Yes, you know I always gonna ask. Okay, 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:15.480 well ask me, not ask me, because that's murder. I 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:20.600 can call h hand of the DV last man if 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.679 I well first, when I do it in the preseason, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:28.280 that let's everyone know. Either buckle up your chin strap 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.200 and come with it, or we could take this playoff. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:36.920 Either one. I'm cool, but you stop. You let me 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:44.199 know so we can tussle or we can watch. I 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.600 don't mind getting up. I don't mind getting the minus. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.839 If it's a toss the other way. If it's a 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.200 toss to the left and we're on the right, I'm 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.920 not gonna move. But if you ask move, that's gonna 0:13:54.920 --> 0:14:00.160 cost you. Because yes, you know, coaches, b you know 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.800 you've been in the defense room. We gotta run back side. Okay, choose, 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.320 choose your poison. Would you like to get a negative 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.880 by the coach or when you get this talk you 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:14.439 want to get this Caesar salad. Oh, I gotta take 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:23.400 the season exactly. And so by doing that in the preseason, right, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.880 and then the other thing is it also to let 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.960 guys know, like, look, you ain't the only one that 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:35.960 can hit. This is not this is not just your world. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:42.320 This is our world. My philosophy is really this. See 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.560 there's a difference between you being on your birthday and 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.600 it's being Christmas. See, on your birthday, you just get gifts, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.440 you get flowers, you get cards. Everybody wakes you up, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.400 they send you text messages. It's all about you. But 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:00.360 in Christmas everybody gets to unwrap their gifts. M so 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.560 everybody wins. So we can have it Christmas or you 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:09.040 can get your motherfucking gifts all seventy two players in 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:14.920 the past and run game. You let me know. That's 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:19.160 that's how that's why I feel you. I feel that's 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.720 very understanding exactly. So you sound like a brother that 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.840 like Christmas. Like Christmas. No, no, no, I'm on them 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:32.760 open up. Okay, Well that's gonna get your tossed. I 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.760 gotta get yourself. It's a little bit, you know, but 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:40.960 I like my birthday. Yeah, not on football field. What 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.600 you want some socks here you go, new shoulder pads 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.520 here you go. All right, what's like you said on 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.520 the other day, on on social media. You said you 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.920 are top five. I'm not gonna ask you the top 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.200 five right now? Who the who are the five corners 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.320 that you love that you grew up watching, grew up 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.560 watch watch? Yeah that's good, okay, okay, I'm up watching 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.160 the Champ. You know, he's from folksting right now down 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:07.600 from so I we're watching Champ and uh rod Woodson 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.560 of course. Uh. I got an opportunity to learn the 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.720 more you know about Rod Woodson the o g one. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.160 You know, so because I had lived with him for 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.200 like two weeks for my pre draft, so I understand 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.000 his game. And of course Dion, you know I stayed 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.000 with him too for a minute in preseason. Uh A reevers, 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:33.640 you know, so I love me some reevers. Damn headache? Yeah, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.520 I love patient. Listen, dude, I've seen that the line 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.040 of screaming in the long, long time, and you know 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:46.520 the best technique. Oh yeah, yeah. Ain't nobody messing with him? Yeah? 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:51.160 He's very patient, very patient, Yeah, very patient. Yeah. You 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.040 know you talked about growing up in Georgia. What's your 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.760 what's your family experienced? Like, what's some points of your 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.360 mom in your life? And she's very important to meet us. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.680 So it's crazy, you know. But my mom like my 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.920 big sister because she had me at thirteen. I'm the 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.720 only child, so you know, uh while she growing up, 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.800 you know, she's still trying to raise me as a 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.840 high school kid. Yeah, so you know we're busted. Like 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.840 that's like my big sister. So she talked me how 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.159 to changed the tire. She has a single mom. You know, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.640 my daddy was there, but a little with my mom 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.920 for the most part. But yeah, so she talked about changed, tired. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.440 She told me how to do everything or changing. She 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.080 put them on. She don't just want to show them out, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.560 put my paths in. So you know that's my that's 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:35.240 my lady. So yeah, we we brought tight. Yeah that's 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.359 when I saw that information. I wasn't sure how to 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.080 broach it a little bit just because of you know, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.320 being being so young. I can't imagine, you know, I 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.240 we haven't you know my kids. My oldest is twenty 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.959 four right now, and our youngest is seven. Ten is seven, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.879 and so that large gap and we see sometimes a 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.359 little Deuce wants to play with his big brother Peyton 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:04.280 Man Peyton twenty four pet over here, like man gonna 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:10.400 work on the sales too bad the same way, Yeah, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.240 Pett like, Man, I love you, but dang bro like 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.760 we ain't we well can play Lego so many times, 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.159 right show? But pe shout out to p He's a 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.600 great big brother. So I I was trying to every 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.639 guest we have on that, I try to relate and 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:27.359 try to put myself in your shoes, and so I 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:33.320 was just imagining what that dynamic has been like now. Um, basically, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.680 your mom is thirteen years older than you, fourteen years 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:44.159 older than you and living life mom and son, but 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.639 living life obviously in a way a different, completely different 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.000 way the way you were raised, and you being able, 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:53.760 um to also assist your mom and that you know, 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.000 how has that been for you? She's been good, man. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.879 You know, watch another going through my college days hard, 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.239 you know, you know, college money, you know, because she's 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:05.919 trying to pay help bills at the house. So you know, 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.680 I had that's my group, my friendships with guys in college. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.560 Man staying at day house with Thanksgiving and we have 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.960 to go all way home when the duke go in Mississippi, 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.119 so it's a long travel there. But uh, you know, 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:17.840 we worked it out. Man. She always made sure I 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.880 stayed on my grind, had me focused, you know, and 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.879 be honest, Ma, I always appreciate it because I had 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.439 me a child too, at a fifteen years old. You know, 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.159 she took my son and while I was in school, 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.800 raised him. You know, uh mind my son just turned fifteen. 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.400 So yeah, we're gout. Therena went there on the same path. 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.159 So you know, she did the same thing my grandma 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.119 did for her while she was in school, raised my 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.479 raised me. So you know, we kind of gotta understanding. Man. 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.080 We kind of got a great bard and you know, 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:43.760 we kind of got a good game playing going. Man. 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.280 I was I was that walking through that being fifteen 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.400 years old. You know, man, Man, it was scary. Man. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.960 You know what I'm saying. My daddy always told me said, 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.600 uh it was good. He just leave it up. Somebody 0:19:54.600 --> 0:20:00.480 ain't no a baby come with it. I ain't maybe 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:11.520 for the dude, not at I understand we're not a 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:18.320 fifteen Well, I was like Jesus for the dude. Man, 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:23.200 I ain't had no idea. I had no idea what chocolate. 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.080 Ain't the man you'll come with him? Even the one 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.240 that do come, it ain't right. It ain't up to date. 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.960 I ain't seen one. I've seen one. I got four kids, 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.120 I didn't seen one, and every single one of them, 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.600 every man I had from the last one. It didn't 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.439 work for the first one, and the damn so they 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.199 worked for the second one and they don't work. The 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.880 pages ain't even readable for the third and each child 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.160 you toss it out the window. Yeah, man, it was rough. 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:51.520 How did you How did you balance all of that? 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:53.879 How did you balance all mean school? How do you 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:55.919 balance having a child and you still try to go 0:20:55.960 --> 0:21:03.080 to recess? That Reid was open outside school out and 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.520 she on the way to work, Hey, get your son, Hey, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:08.280 I can't go hang with the homies. Wpposed to say that? 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.000 Nah na no, So the homies got to come to 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:12.399 the house some time to kick it with me. But 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.399 uh yeah, man, she she made make sure I was apparent, 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:16.960 and she didn't let me just go ahead and have fun. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:18.320 She couldn't do it. So she's like, I ain't you 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:20.480 ain't gonna do it either. Let me just walking through 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.800 that because that's this opportunity. You know a lot of 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.480 people will, let's be honest, they will hear that and 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.719 they will go, Wow, you know, so your responsible right, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.359 going to do right. You know Memoi had child when 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:38.400 we were young too. Yeah, so uh man, I'll take 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.840 it in as an opportunity because I ain't gonna When 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:44.200 I was growing up, you know, with a single mom, 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:46.000 I kind of looked to the streets a little bit 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.320 as a as a male figure. You know, so I 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:50.760 kind of grew up a little rough and um. When 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:52.080 I had him, and he he kind of open my eyes 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:53.359 up a little bit because I think I wanna be 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.520 while I'm at the day without him, open open you 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:00.159 up yours to what because I had a responsibilit of it. 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.199 You know, growing up, I ain't handing none. I just 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:04.280 was like here, being reckless and really looking for gunan's. 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:05.800 You know, my mom was doing the best thing she could, 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:07.720 but ain't nothing like a father, you know. So I 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:09.800 was looking for it in the streets in the wrong way, 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:13.040 doing going out the wrong path, you know, fighting doing everything. 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:15.440 When I had him and I settled down real quick, 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.359 and you know, just because I had a job to do, 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:20.520 my mom made sure this is my job. Now, this 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:22.320 is a job that you gotta do. You gotta provide, 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:24.160 you gotta be a father. You gotta be a guy 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:26.800