Speaker 1: What's good, Commanded Family, this is the Next Man Up Podcast.
Speaker 1: We have some great guests on for you. We have
Speaker 1: our guard who just got the bag, Sam Cosmy joins
Speaker 1: the show to talk about this season and how building
Speaker 1: chemistry has been with this new look team. Then things
Speaker 1: get real with our guys, super Bowl champion Brian Mitchell.
Speaker 1: We talked about the things that motivate him to be
Speaker 1: great and it is such a great conversation. All that
Speaker 1: now on Next Man Up. Commander Family, Welcome into the
Speaker 1: Next Man Up Podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Brian Cooper Jr.
Speaker 1: Here with the very special guest, our guard Sam Cosey. Man,
Speaker 1: that's what we call you, bag man right now. Man,
Speaker 1: it's crazy because last time I seen you, it was
Speaker 1: the last season. The season was just starting. I think
Speaker 1: the last time we talked.
Speaker 3: Right, No, I uh, it was towards the end of season.
Speaker 2: Towards the end of the season.
Speaker 3: If you look at the like weird was like out here?
Speaker 2: Oh you remember?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I looked rough.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's a look you got to have
Speaker 2: when you're like a big brag.
Speaker 3: Well I didn't, I didn't cut it the whole season.
Speaker 2: What was that for? Why?
Speaker 3: It was playing good, and I just didn't cut it.
Speaker 3: It was just kind of like superstitious.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I haven't cut my hair either since then, too, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that the only ongoing superstition you have right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The hair, Yeah, for sure, if he makes phe me.
Speaker 2: But I haven't cut my hair in like twelve that's a.
Speaker 4: Years, so we all have the same man.
Speaker 1: Well, I brought that up because, man, this is the
Speaker 1: last time we spoke. You got you some little money,
Speaker 1: maybe got you a nice bag man to me, I
Speaker 1: want to bring that up, not to count your pockets,
Speaker 1: but you got that right before the season started. So
Speaker 1: much it changed new ownership, new coaching staff. You were
Speaker 1: one of the last man standing from last season. How
Speaker 1: great was that to get that vote of confidence from
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff, a new front office before you
Speaker 1: even hit the field for a regular season game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know I I they went back and watched
Speaker 3: my tape as as they did with everybody else. You know,
Speaker 3: they said early on that they saw something and they
Speaker 3: really enjoyed what they saw on tape, and so you know,
Speaker 3: they they wanted to do something, and you know, through
Speaker 3: training camp and through all that, I still proved myself
Speaker 3: each and every day. You know, that was the process
Speaker 3: of its own and you know, just gave them confidence
Speaker 3: and showing them who I really was. Uh and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, honored and privileged that they were able to
Speaker 3: make me one of the first guys to extend or
Speaker 3: the first guy to extend under this regime, and super
Speaker 3: super thankful.
Speaker 2: And you're such a driven and hungry guy now that
Speaker 2: you got the money.
Speaker 1: Is that even extra motivation now to just go out
Speaker 1: there and give it everything you got?
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. Like it kind of takes a little
Speaker 3: bit of a weight off my shoulder, and like I
Speaker 3: could play free, like I was playing free, but like
Speaker 3: there's still that like thing in the back of your head,
Speaker 3: like I'm working towards something now just I just get
Speaker 3: to let it all go, you know. And it's been fun.
Speaker 3: These past three games have been really really fun, and
Speaker 3: you know, I've just been able to just play care
Speaker 3: free and that's that's the best way I play football,
Speaker 3: is kind of you know, not having to worry about
Speaker 3: that and just just go out there and play football.
Speaker 1: Then you hit it down and yeah, sure, And you're
Speaker 1: such a humble and like down to earth guy. Have
Speaker 1: you had like one of those crazy first bag purchases.
Speaker 2: Yet, Like, have you.
Speaker 1: Done anything to where you're like, you know what, almost
Speaker 1: floris on myself just a little bit.
Speaker 3: I haven't done anything for me, but when I first
Speaker 3: got here, I bought it home. I grew out of
Speaker 3: real quick with two dogs and a baby and my wife.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm six six, she's six ' three.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Our clothes are very big.
Speaker 4: Good for y'all.
Speaker 3: We have a very small closet right now. So I
Speaker 3: got a new new spot. That was one of the
Speaker 3: first things that I want to do is just be comfortable.
Speaker 3: But nothing necessarily for me yet, so maybe something I
Speaker 3: don't know, we'll see somehow.
Speaker 1: That doesn't surprise me at all. But congratulations on the
Speaker 1: new crib man. I know that I know you loved
Speaker 1: your family so much and that's a part of your life.
Speaker 1: So let's just give it to a little bit of football, man,
Speaker 1: because before we move any further, we got to talk about.
Speaker 2: Monday night football.
Speaker 4: What a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys showed so much and I feel like
Speaker 1: you guys answered a lot of questions. Man, How great
Speaker 1: was that moment to be able to go out there
Speaker 1: and perform on the biggest stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, kind of going to that game, we're
Speaker 3: very prepared and when you offensively, we have to fire
Speaker 3: on all cylinders. Just because of the week before, we
Speaker 3: shut ourselves in the foot a couple of times, especially
Speaker 3: in the red zone. If we didn't do that, that
Speaker 3: game could have turned out completely different in a good way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, we still won the game, but it wouldn't
Speaker 3: have been as close. And so being able to be
Speaker 3: able to go back and clean those things up and
Speaker 3: be able to do it the next week was really
Speaker 3: cool to see, like, hey, we knew we went in,
Speaker 3: we sat down like, hey, these are the things we
Speaker 3: need to do, blah blah blah blah. You know, obviously
Speaker 3: eliminate the penalties, and we were on the same time.
Speaker 3: We're just we were just working as one. It was
Speaker 3: really cool to see. I've never been I was probably
Speaker 3: one of the first games I've ever been a part
Speaker 3: of where I'm like, I don't I don't think anything
Speaker 3: they could do just can stop us right now. Wow,
Speaker 3: you know, we were just in sync, and so it
Speaker 3: was really cool to be a part of, especially in
Speaker 3: the light like in the jungle and doing all that
Speaker 3: versus you know, everybody's the crowd and everything like that
Speaker 3: going against you and being able to shut them up
Speaker 3: and do that. I mean it was just so cool
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 2: And everybody's counting you out right.
Speaker 1: You have those moments where you know people you know
Speaker 1: you have nothing to lose out there. What is that
Speaker 1: moment when you say, like you said, you said your
Speaker 1: guys are hitting on all cylinders?
Speaker 2: Was it a particular play?
Speaker 1: It was just something you felt when you wake up, like,
Speaker 1: what is How did you know that it was going
Speaker 1: to be something special that day?
Speaker 3: I think off the first drive, Wow, you know we
Speaker 3: were we were moved down the field pretty well the
Speaker 3: first drive and then you know, honestly, like I said,
Speaker 3: kind of going back for the week before, we were
Speaker 3: able to move down the field really easily. In the
Speaker 3: aspect of just getting down to the red zone, we
Speaker 3: weren't able to capitalize, but you know, we have a
Speaker 3: lot of weapons.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Jayden is a tremendous young quarterback. I'm happy everybody can
Speaker 3: kind of see that now. I mean we all knew that,
Speaker 3: but you know, being able to see him take control
Speaker 3: of the offense well and his confidence back there really
Speaker 3: just seeps into everybody else.
Speaker 4: On the offense.
Speaker 3: You know, QB is the highest paid position in the
Speaker 3: league for a reason. You know, a lot of people
Speaker 3: say they get the keys to the to the team essentially,
Speaker 3: and that's for a reason, you know, because they are
Speaker 3: a big part of how far your team can go,
Speaker 3: you know, and with having him back there and with
Speaker 3: having him have his confidence, his swagger doing his thing,
Speaker 3: like I said, it seeped into everybody else. We felt
Speaker 3: that and uh yeah it was. It was, like I said,
Speaker 3: we did something special.
Speaker 2: So it was definitely some special man. That's so great
Speaker 2: to see. And it's not an easy thing to do.
Speaker 2: Like I don't think people.
Speaker 1: Realize like this, there's a lot of excitement going on.
Speaker 1: It's a new look offensive line. There's a lot of things.
Speaker 1: You guys got to build chemistry, new center, new guard,
Speaker 1: rookie tackle. How has it been building that cambaraderie with
Speaker 1: these new guys, because again, like you said, it seems
Speaker 1: like you guys kind of clicked right away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: We, I mean we just we're like the same guys.
Speaker 3: It's like taking a cloth and just making smaller pieces.
Speaker 3: We fit in really well together and you know, really
Speaker 3: humble guys, really hard working guys, easy to talk to
Speaker 3: when it comes to over communicating, smart guys, smart smart line.
Speaker 3: We I always say, it's like we're all when there's
Speaker 3: a play or something like that, we kind of all
Speaker 3: like something's messed up. We kind of are antennas, all
Speaker 3: of us. You know, it's not like just one guy.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like it's kind of cool to see
Speaker 3: just how in tuned we are all on that old line.
Speaker 3: So we're all trying to be five guys working as one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then with a rookie, I'm sure it's a
Speaker 1: little tougher because they haven't had to do this before, right,
Speaker 1: they're learning from your guys. Your guys example, Brandon Coleman
Speaker 1: had a heck of a game. How great is it
Speaker 1: to be to see him develop so quick and get
Speaker 1: comfortable with you guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know he's a quiet, quieter guy, but as
Speaker 3: being a rookie, that's where you need to be exactly.
Speaker 3: You know, he's starting to let his personality out a
Speaker 3: little bit more. But he's a hard working guy. Just
Speaker 3: you know, he listens to us. He's very smart, very
Speaker 3: in tuned, and you know, has a really good foundation,
Speaker 3: has a lot of good tools on his belt technically,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, props off to him for for
Speaker 3: having a great game. And you know, I think everybody's
Speaker 3: able to see that, and I'm excited. I mean, he
Speaker 3: you know, he could be really really good, really good.
Speaker 1: And and you guys are going to ironshops, iron right,
Speaker 1: and you guys going up against a new look defensive line.
Speaker 1: You got a couple of returning people, but a lot
Speaker 1: of different people as well. You're going up against them
Speaker 1: training camp, So you could talk about it, who's been
Speaker 1: the toughest person to guard so for through training camp,
Speaker 1: through practice, who's been the toest person to the block?
Speaker 3: I mean I primarily go against Pain, So me and
Speaker 3: Pain always have a lot of battles. I mean, he
Speaker 3: gives me a great looks. I give him great looks.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's every every reps a battle with me
Speaker 3: and him. So I don't really go against anybody else
Speaker 3: in a sense, it's just me and doron the majority
Speaker 3: of the time.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that makes an interesting relationship between.
Speaker 3: You two training camps. It's not like training camps we
Speaker 3: don't really talk to each other. We kind of know
Speaker 3: just after once we're in a team sitting, you know, setting,
Speaker 3: and the season is more relaxed than that aspect, but
Speaker 3: it's it's a it's a it's a constant battle between.
Speaker 1: Us be Robin Austin Eckler getting so much love do
Speaker 1: you take pride in that as alignment when you're running backs?
Speaker 1: So getting that recognition and getting these plays, does that
Speaker 1: like kind of like a little badge.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The thing I love about those two is you know
Speaker 3: they understand the aspect of like showing love up to
Speaker 3: the online and you know, we we kind of go
Speaker 3: based off each other.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: How however, you know, good he's doing is kind of
Speaker 3: like how good we're doing type of things. So we
Speaker 3: got two guys back there, we know a really special
Speaker 3: one can make big plays and so like that just
Speaker 3: makes us want to block even harder for those guys
Speaker 3: to to do that. And h two really good guys
Speaker 3: and like I said, love ball run really hard and
Speaker 3: you know takes multiple guys to take them down. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we have a really good relationship and well you know,
Speaker 3: we we know what we want to do for those
Speaker 3: guys and and vice versa. So it's it's from from
Speaker 3: QB Wide Receivers running back to us like it's just
Speaker 3: it's all like Gelling and I love it.
Speaker 2: We love that.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: We can't wait to see you guys this Sunday.
Speaker 1: So last question, we could fans expect to see when
Speaker 1: y'all take on the Arizona Car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we've been training and preparing all week.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna bring some of that stuff from
Speaker 3: Monday to Sunday and just keep riding on that. And
Speaker 3: so you know, I think you're gonna see an explosive
Speaker 3: offense again, you know, and when it comes to defensively
Speaker 3: and everything like that. I mean, they've been on top
Speaker 3: of their thing too, So I'm excited to see what
Speaker 3: we could do on on Sunday. I think we're still
Speaker 3: working on things and and doing that, but we have
Speaker 3: the right guys, the right coaches, uh to make things happen.
Speaker 2: Sam Man, We can't wait to see it. Man.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time. And we know
Speaker 1: you're a busy man. As you can tell. It's laid
Speaker 1: out here. We are burning the midnight oil. But this
Speaker 1: is what it's all about, Sam, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Command is family. This is your next man up, Sam
Speaker 1: Cosmic appreciate it. Areciate now, Command and his family. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go a little earlier in the day. We're in
Speaker 1: the dark right now. We're gonna go a little early
Speaker 1: in today. When we caught up with Super Bowl champion
Speaker 1: Brian Mitchell.
Speaker 2: For this next man up. It's a legend.
Speaker 1: The Pride of Louisiana played quarterback, honestly, played every position
Speaker 1: in the book. Holds the record for most point return yards,
Speaker 1: most kick return yards, most total yards to Super Bowl champion.
Speaker 1: He's a broadcaster here him on the radio. I could
Speaker 1: go all day about this brother, my guy, Brian Mitchell.
Speaker 2: What do he appreciate you being on him?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, yes, sir man.
Speaker 1: And so you know, we talked exits and those a
Speaker 1: lot post game, pre game, we out.
Speaker 2: Here to do that.
Speaker 1: I gotta talk to you about the man behind the helmet,
Speaker 1: because man, like I work with you all the time, bro,
Speaker 1: and like I feel like the thing that made us
Speaker 1: bond real quickly is just our love not only for
Speaker 1: what we do in broadcasts.
Speaker 2: But I love for the game of football.
Speaker 1: So my first question has to be where did you
Speaker 1: get your love of the game of football.
Speaker 5: I grew up with I'm the youngest of seven kids,
Speaker 5: and my street it's one way in, one way out,
Speaker 5: and all my it was all relatives.
Speaker 4: And you know, I've always played with people that were
Speaker 4: older than me.
Speaker 5: And then when I started to finally find my little way,
Speaker 5: you know, they were five six, four years older than
Speaker 5: I was. And uh, you know, my dad one day
Speaker 5: watched us play on I had like a two acre
Speaker 5: lot on side of my house and we were playing
Speaker 5: and he was like, man, you're kind of good.
Speaker 4: At this thing.
Speaker 5: He said, all those guys are older than you. And
Speaker 5: he said, man, if you score a touchdown today, I'm
Speaker 5: a cook for y'all.
Speaker 4: My dad's a chef.
Speaker 5: And my dad did a spread for us and he
Speaker 5: was like, he said, I'm really doing this for my son,
Speaker 5: you know, my baby son, because I was handling it,
Speaker 5: and you know, I just loved it. But you know,
Speaker 5: he instilled in me in the early age, like, you know,
Speaker 5: you can play sports if you have your grades, you know,
Speaker 5: and he talked about that student athlete thing, and it
Speaker 5: just made me like, I loved it so much because
Speaker 5: I was able to level the play and field with
Speaker 5: gods that were bigger and older. But also, you know,
Speaker 5: I saw as I got a little older. It made
Speaker 5: me realize, discon take me somewhere, and I put all
Speaker 5: my effort I could into it.
Speaker 1: When was that moment when you realize, like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I can do something with this football thing.
Speaker 5: Well, when I got in the ninth grade and I
Speaker 5: was at blackmin Junior High School eight and ninth grade
Speaker 5: and the senior high school across town ten eleven twelve,
Speaker 5: I was the starting quarterback for the eleven twelfth g eighteen.
Speaker 5: They had to take me over, and it made me
Speaker 5: at that point realize that I know I could play
Speaker 5: this game with them, you know. And the thing about
Speaker 5: it like, just like we were watching our quarterback right now.
Speaker 5: Jaden a young guy who came in and he puts
Speaker 5: so much work into it that nobody was giving him
Speaker 5: a problem a byt being young, they were giving him
Speaker 5: respect and credit from being a worker. And in the
Speaker 5: ninth grade, I was that guy, you know, because I've
Speaker 5: always had to work. I'm five and a half years
Speaker 5: younger than my brother next to me, and I used
Speaker 5: to want to be with him everywhere, and the things
Speaker 5: I did around him, I had to do a little
Speaker 5: bit more to keep up, and when I got into.
Speaker 4: Ninth grade, I was ready to go.
Speaker 5: And the guys realized that and they saw it, and
Speaker 5: then you know, the rest is history. Because I already
Speaker 5: knew if I didn't have a three point ohor better,
Speaker 5: it wasn't two point oh in my house, three point
Speaker 5: oh A bet, I wasn't gonna play football. And then
Speaker 5: when it did, it made me become you know, I
Speaker 5: love sports, but it made me also become a better
Speaker 5: student as well, because my dad was like, look, dude,
Speaker 5: if you could do that, you could definitely do the
Speaker 5: easy thing.
Speaker 4: Because nobody was trying to hit you in the classroom.
Speaker 1: And you are so athletic. You did so many things.
Speaker 1: I think you told me the other day on pregame
Speaker 1: that like you had played off, it's a lot. And
Speaker 1: then at one point, so what makes you realize, Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to be a quarterback. When you have rushing ability,
Speaker 1: when you can catch, you can do all these things.
Speaker 1: What made you stick to quarterback?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to be the quarterback. Oh the coach said,
Speaker 4: I'm going to be quarterback.
Speaker 5: Because when I was in the so in the sixth grade,
Speaker 5: I was a center, and then midway through they moved
Speaker 5: me to a running back, and they're like, man, you
Speaker 5: fasting everybody on team. Because there was ae hundred and
Speaker 5: thirty pounds league. I was five seven and a half
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty pounds. I wasn't fat. I was just
Speaker 5: big at that size. And then as I moved move up,
Speaker 5: so I get to eighth grade, I mean, I'm a
Speaker 5: running back, and every time we had to throw a
Speaker 5: deep pass, we threw a half back pass. He said,
Speaker 5: you know why, I would just move you to quarterback.
Speaker 5: And he moved to the quarterback in the eighth grade. The
Speaker 5: ninth grade. Boom, I'm doing what I told you earlier.
Speaker 5: And I just kept playing it. I played it all
Speaker 5: the way through college. And then I began to look
Speaker 5: at it in a way like I was I realized earlier.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not gonna be that tall.
Speaker 5: I'm probably not gonna play quarterback in the league, but
Speaker 5: I could run the football at quarterback because they're gonna
Speaker 5: look at the quarterback everything. I'm gonna touch the ball
Speaker 5: every snap. And I just looked at it like that,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go out there show him I have. I
Speaker 5: have the ability to pass the football. But I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be durable, i'mna run the football, and it worked.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 1: I talked to Doug Williams about this about how much
Speaker 1: the league has changed. You see all these black quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and leave it. When you were playing, especially in college,
Speaker 1: that was a rarity, especially for being an athletic black man.
Speaker 1: You know, was it tough being a black quarterback and.
Speaker 4: The soulf No, it wasn't.
Speaker 5: I had seen the come through, you know, so that
Speaker 5: was part of the reason I wanted to play, watching
Speaker 5: Warren Moon do the things he did. But my coach
Speaker 5: Don Jones, the white guy, he came to me and said,
Speaker 5: that guy over that eight ninth grade tell him report
Speaker 5: to the varsity field.
Speaker 4: We want him to play over here.
Speaker 5: And coach Jones basically people wouldn't believe this, but you know,
Speaker 5: you hear they questioned guys today about being able to
Speaker 5: call their own plays and things of that nature. I
Speaker 5: played the ninth grade year, then my tenth grade year.
Speaker 5: He said, I need you to really learn the offense.
Speaker 5: I said, what do you mean. Remember Willie Satellite Toddon
Speaker 5: in the Missippi Valley That's where Jerry Rice went. He said,
Speaker 5: we're gonna do that. I'm like, what do you mean, Coach,
Speaker 5: I say, they don't go all up. He said, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: So in the tenth grade, I went from the sideline
Speaker 5: to the football and I called the plays starting in
Speaker 5: the tenth grade. So if he had that much confidence
Speaker 5: in me, why do I give a damn what the
Speaker 5: other people say. You know, you got people in the
Speaker 5: stand saying what their son, my son should be playing
Speaker 5: this that, and you know, no, he shouldn't be.
Speaker 4: He can't play. He sucks. He on the bend. And
Speaker 4: Coach put me out there.
Speaker 5: And one thing I've always been, I've been a guy
Speaker 5: where this is what I think God gave me talent.
Speaker 5: My thank you to God has take my talent as
Speaker 5: far as I can. My daddy always believed in me.
Speaker 5: My thank you is to make sure I go out
Speaker 5: there and make him proud. Coach Jones decided that I
Speaker 5: was the guy. So I want to prove that he
Speaker 5: made the right he made the right decision.
Speaker 4: I got.
Speaker 5: I went to college Nelson Stokey. He said, you out guy,
Speaker 5: you know, so why would I go out there and
Speaker 5: do nothing but try to make him see that he
Speaker 5: made the right decision And then when I got drafted.
Speaker 5: I didn't play part return ever in my life kick
Speaker 5: return over in my life. But the fact that Joe
Speaker 5: Gibbs and Wayne Severe thought I can do it, become
Speaker 5: good at it, and say thank you to him by
Speaker 5: making sure that everyone believed that they made the right decision.
Speaker 5: That's just the way I live.
Speaker 1: It was it tough in that moment, though, because you're
Speaker 1: a college quarterback, you're a very successful college quarterback. You said,
Speaker 1: you know that maybe he didn't have the height to
Speaker 1: play quarterback. But was it a hard transition knowing that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to give this position up and try
Speaker 1: something else in the NFL.
Speaker 5: I ran the ball one hundred and fourteen times my
Speaker 5: freshman year, probably one eighty the next year, right around
Speaker 5: two hundred my junior year, and like two thirty my
Speaker 5: senior year. I scored five nine, fifteen nineteen touchdowns. I
Speaker 5: knew those numbers like that were gonna be looked at
Speaker 5: as a runner, and I had no problem with it,
Speaker 5: no problem at all, Because I tell people this, my
Speaker 5: dream wasn't to play quarterback. My dream was to play
Speaker 5: in the NFL. If I wanted to play quarterback, I
Speaker 5: was offered a one million dollar guaranteed contract for three years.
Speaker 5: That was more than what I signed for in the
Speaker 5: NFL my first two years. But I ended up making
Speaker 5: more money after those first three years because we did
Speaker 5: win a Super Bowl. I want a lot of damn
Speaker 5: and centives. But I could have gone to Canada. Saskatchewan
Speaker 5: rough Riders had my rights and I could have gone
Speaker 5: to Canada if I wanted to a quarterback. But my
Speaker 5: dreams would never CFL. It was always NFL, you know.
Speaker 5: And my family got a chance to see me play
Speaker 5: in the NFL. My dad passed away right after my
Speaker 5: rookie season, you know, and then I was able to
Speaker 5: go on to the Super Bowl. My mom and all
Speaker 5: of them saw that, and my sister would always say,
Speaker 5: you know, I wish Daddy was here to see it.
Speaker 5: I said, he sees it. Yeah, he lives through me,
Speaker 5: you know. That's the whole thing about it. And I
Speaker 5: get teary eyed. My dad, My dude. But I knew
Speaker 5: when that man told me I was a Metro, I
Speaker 5: can do anything, and I began to live by that.
Speaker 4: I was gonna do whatever the hell I wanted to do.
Speaker 2: See, man, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: Man, the way that our parents impacted, especially your fathers,
Speaker 1: and you could tell you got a lot of love
Speaker 1: for your dad. And when did you know, because you
Speaker 1: had all these people that believed in you, had these
Speaker 1: coaches that believe you, had your father that believed in you.
Speaker 2: When you get out.
Speaker 1: There in this new position, when did you know I
Speaker 1: can do something with this return thing, Like I'm special at.
Speaker 5: This well, God has this great sense of humor, because,
Speaker 5: like I told the Saskatchewan rough Riders, I'm going to
Speaker 5: try the NFL if this new thing don't work out,
Speaker 5: I'm coming to Canada. And I forgot the exact date,
Speaker 5: but it's August nineteen ninety. We're in Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
Speaker 5: playing against the Atlanta Falcons. First kickoff, catch it, touchdown.
Speaker 5: At that moment, I guess if I was doubting myself.
Speaker 5: The man upstairs gave me a message that you can
Speaker 5: handle this, dude. And then I come off the field
Speaker 5: and Wayne Severe said, you haven't done a damn thing yet.
Speaker 5: You don't kick off covering, you better be on the tackle. Okay,
Speaker 5: I was on the tackle, But I love like these
Speaker 5: coaches and they used to come at me and my
Speaker 5: stuff they did nothing my daddy didn't do.
Speaker 4: But there as a military guy, you know, I grew
Speaker 4: up that way.
Speaker 5: You know, it's hot as hell out here today, But
Speaker 5: if my pop was here, I probably would have been
Speaker 5: up by five thirty outside feeding out chickens and ducks, cows,
Speaker 5: all that stuff we had.
Speaker 4: I was on the farm. I did everything I had.
Speaker 5: To do because if I wanted to play football, I
Speaker 5: had to take care of all that stuff early, you know,
Speaker 5: And I did it. So I knew at that moment
Speaker 5: for sure the new position would work. And then I
Speaker 5: had guys on my team, Joe Howard Johnson, Walter Stanley,
Speaker 5: guys who took a lot of big interest in.
Speaker 4: Me and helped teach me the game of return.
Speaker 5: Mel Gray, who played for the Detroit Lions, helped teach
Speaker 5: me the game of the return. So I got to
Speaker 5: the point where Meil and I had a conversation. We say, look,
Speaker 5: this position has been just a throwaway position forever. Let's
Speaker 5: make it sexy. Let's make people have to get it done.
Speaker 5: And I would have to. I would like to believe
Speaker 5: that I had something to do with Devin Hester coming along.
Speaker 5: Mail had something to do with Devin heskirt. Because we
Speaker 5: were so good at it, teams had to go look
Speaker 5: for something like.
Speaker 1: Us mentioned your father, you're losing in me your rookie year.
Speaker 1: What was the last game he saw you play?
Speaker 5: Ooh, man, he wasn't at the game. He saw the
Speaker 5: playoff game. We had a playoff game on TV and
Speaker 5: he saw that. And but I'm gonna take to go
Speaker 5: back and it's is show you how tough my dad was.
Speaker 5: My dad had a heart attack around December of my
Speaker 5: rookie season, and I go home, thinking I'm going to
Speaker 5: be there, be caught for him me. I walk in
Speaker 5: in the hospital. He said, what the hell are you
Speaker 5: doing here? I said, man, you had a heart attack.
Speaker 5: I'm coming to check on you. He said, boy, you
Speaker 5: better get back and do your job before somebody take
Speaker 5: your job. He said, where am I at? I said,
Speaker 5: you're in the hospital. Say I'm where the people can
Speaker 5: help me. You can't help me. Go back and do
Speaker 5: your job. And that mindset stuck with me, dude, because
Speaker 5: I saw it in him while I was growing up,
Speaker 5: and when I got to the league.
Speaker 4: Can you start to question things a little bit when
Speaker 4: little things go bad?
Speaker 5: And when that happened later I'm like, I can't complain
Speaker 5: about nothing else, you know. So he saw me after
Speaker 5: the in the game. He was probably not when he's
Speaker 5: me in and then he in up passing away in February, so.
Speaker 4: You know, but he left me. What's uthing? I tell
Speaker 4: you that. I can tell you that he.
Speaker 2: Left you with a lot, man.
Speaker 1: You tell just by the way like hearing you talk,
Speaker 1: it's so funny, like how similar our fathers were and
Speaker 1: growing up like that. So I really appreciate you sharing that.
Speaker 1: And then he got to see you win a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: He got to watch you from above win a super Bowl? Man,
Speaker 1: how special was that moment? Knowing that all the hard
Speaker 1: work you and your dad laid out comes to this
Speaker 1: moment and you hear now winning the super Bowl?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: It was great, man, because when we get there, I
Speaker 5: was We we stayed in the little nice hotel area,
Speaker 5: but we were close to everybody. But the night before
Speaker 5: the game, Coach Gibbs took us out into this All
Speaker 5: I saw was snow for days and then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, boom, a hotel popped up. I'm like, we're
Speaker 5: gonna get some quiet. I'm here, and when those things happened.
Speaker 5: I always found myself thinking, and I just sat there
Speaker 5: and went through my whole life, like the times that
Speaker 5: I was in the yard running around that when I
Speaker 5: told you he cooked to When I had a game
Speaker 5: in college, I think I had two hundred and seventy
Speaker 5: one yards rushing, two hundred and five yards passing, and I.
Speaker 4: Walk off the field like I was the stuff.
Speaker 5: I was it, And that dude told me you should
Speaker 5: have had over three hundred rushing, over three hundred passes,
Speaker 5: but you wanted the showboat instead of that. And he
Speaker 5: was able to tell me the exact place and for
Speaker 5: people out there and may think, oh he was too No,
Speaker 5: he wasn't hard on me. He knew me. And then
Speaker 5: I had a game. I had about one hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty yards total. He said, you couldn't have got nothing
Speaker 5: else out of that game, and I didn't believe him.
Speaker 5: And when I got to the film, my coach said
Speaker 5: the exact thing my dad said. So he was the
Speaker 5: one that when they was when I started to get
Speaker 5: too high on myself, he knew how to constructively make
Speaker 5: me realize I could have done better. And when I
Speaker 5: thought I was not good enough, he was constructively. He
Speaker 5: was able to constructively let me know that dog, you
Speaker 5: couldn't have got nothing else out of that. And everyone
Speaker 5: everyone says, my whole family, all my brothers and stuff.
Speaker 5: They don't have to call it. They don't have the
Speaker 5: round head. Me and I have a round head, and
Speaker 5: my dad they all took out of my mom. It's weird.
Speaker 5: My oldest sister has the same round head. And then
Speaker 5: I have it the beginning and the end, you know
Speaker 5: the rest of it in between. You got my mama head.
Speaker 5: So we always said we got big brains over we
Speaker 5: got big heads.
Speaker 1: It's funny your grass that looks just like you too too.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Devin Heston, yep, and you mentioned being you
Speaker 1: feel like maybe like you're doing it humbly. I feel
Speaker 1: like maybe I'm one of the guys that changed the game. Well,
Speaker 1: Devin Heston this all Fame speech said it. He said,
Speaker 1: guys like Brian Mitchell changed the game for me. Being
Speaker 1: revered like that by someone that's this moment, that's Devin
Speaker 1: has this moment, that's his all Fame moment.
Speaker 2: And he shouted you out. How did that feel?
Speaker 4: That felt great?
Speaker 5: You know, I talked to so many people about the
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame, and my whole thing is my resume
Speaker 5: is done. I can't do nothing else on it. So
Speaker 5: either I am or I'm not, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And when a guy like Devin on his moment, takes
Speaker 5: that chance and shout out myself and Josh crib that's
Speaker 5: a lot of other guys out there. Like you heard
Speaker 5: me just talk about Mel Gray, you know. Mel Gray
Speaker 5: really got me going. And Mike Mike Neahms when I
Speaker 5: sat there and learned everything I could about returning. I
Speaker 5: watched Mike Nailms. But the ultimate thing is when a
Speaker 5: guy takes that time, you're humble.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I am a person who totally believe in myself, but
Speaker 5: I never ever just go past someone taking their time
Speaker 5: to say thank you or I'll put you out there,
Speaker 5: because not everybody does.
Speaker 4: That, and especially on their moment, you know.
Speaker 5: So it made me feel terrific, and I would always
Speaker 5: say that. I remember Miguel sais is a look hard
Speaker 5: and I got to it, says Brian Mitchell could have
Speaker 5: played in our day, bet Miguel Sayers, and I was like, well,
Speaker 5: Gail Sairs said that to hell these voters. And then
Speaker 5: now Devin going into the hall. He says it. Yes,
Speaker 5: I feel that makes me a arrive, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. But that may not be good enough for
Speaker 5: some people around me. But I've had enough. People said
Speaker 5: when I played football games, they kicked away from me.
Speaker 4: I was with the Eagles, whatever I was let go.
Speaker 5: But John Gruton said, we were worried about one person, Brian.
Speaker 5: They kicked the first off, I go seventy five. They
Speaker 5: squib kicked the rest of the day. That shows you
Speaker 5: that when people try to say you weren't that coach
Speaker 5: thought I was.
Speaker 4: He got ready for three phases. Worried about me.
Speaker 2: Should Ryan Mitchell be in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, because all the things that are being finally
Speaker 5: reached are broken. You think about it. When you look
Speaker 5: at the record books, they're breaking my stuff. I know
Speaker 5: a lot of people return and things like that. But
Speaker 5: when I left this game, I was at the top
Speaker 5: of almost everything special teams wise, and then on top
Speaker 5: of it, I went down to tackle people.
Speaker 4: I was able to play quarterback.
Speaker 5: I was very effective at running back, but you know
Speaker 5: what the coaches said, I was more important as a returner.
Speaker 5: So my thing is, But when you look at the
Speaker 5: actual return stuff. I left in charge of all of that,
Speaker 5: and a lot of them still sit and a lot
Speaker 5: of them won't ever be broken.
Speaker 2: Well, and this is somebody that never returned a kick.
Speaker 5: I got to the league. That is what you start
Speaker 5: paying me. Boy, I got to be good, he said.
Speaker 1: Listen, I gotta keep this back coming in. Now you
Speaker 1: look at the game. Now it's different again. The returns
Speaker 1: are so much different. Now, what would Brian Mitchell do
Speaker 1: in today's NFL.
Speaker 5: I would have to be acting just like the young
Speaker 5: buck wearing number thirty. Right now, I'll be returning on them. Listen, man,
Speaker 5: you remember you and I had a conversation before the
Speaker 5: season started, preseason I think it was, and then training camp.
Speaker 5: I say, it's gonna take running back tights. You to
Speaker 5: be good at this because right now it looks more
Speaker 5: like an offensive play running through the line. The first
Speaker 5: touchdown this year was DJ Dallas, Yes, running back then
Speaker 5: Austin and they called it back but then he had
Speaker 5: a big one again, Yes Cincinnati, because they hit the line,
Speaker 5: full speed receivers, defensive backs that return, they hit the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage and they worry about the big people. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they start to stutter, and then when you stuttering, you
Speaker 5: allowing people to run to you.
Speaker 4: When you hit and go.
Speaker 5: People don't like it, they say I would love it,
Speaker 5: because I'm gonna tell you I have twenty three, three
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty. I might have twenty eight thousand and
Speaker 5: three thirty if I ran through that stuff right there.
Speaker 5: You don't have no momentum to come and hit me. Please, Barb,
Speaker 5: I'm about to give you a damn headache. I'm serious
Speaker 5: because I use this thing, and I used the biggest
Speaker 5: show to pass and running back a where and I
Speaker 5: did not mind sharing them with people.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned number thirty watching Austin Eckler do that
Speaker 1: and somebody like you, of course, like we talked about
Speaker 1: this too. I was actually surprised your jersey wasn't retired,
Speaker 1: just to all the things you had done. But I
Speaker 1: feel like you take pride and seeing that number thirty
Speaker 1: out there, especially when God's out there balling.
Speaker 5: I take pride when someone plays well yeah, because we've
Speaker 5: had some guys in number thirty, I kind of felt
Speaker 5: that they were just trying to shut me. But the
Speaker 5: ultimate thing, I remember when Austin got the number, and
Speaker 5: I would say finally I could be proud. Yes, and
Speaker 5: people like, well, man, he didn't play well last year.
Speaker 5: I said, look, man, that dude had injuries last year.
Speaker 5: Now you find out he had two high ankle springs.
Speaker 5: I watched him play. See this is the difference between
Speaker 5: me and a lot of other guys. I look at
Speaker 5: the league and I look for guys that are someone
Speaker 5: that you may not think or someone that probably came
Speaker 5: from He wasn't drafted, he's late, a guy that went
Speaker 5: to a smaller school. I pull for those guys, you know,
Speaker 5: people that are a little small like Tanner. I was
Speaker 5: always a friend of I mean a fan of Tenne
Speaker 5: before he came to Washington. But when you see Austin
Speaker 5: and I used to watch how much he lived and
Speaker 5: the work he put into and then you look at
Speaker 5: the level of success he had, you have no choice
Speaker 5: but to respect that dude.
Speaker 4: And then when he came here, I'm like, oh, cool, cool.
Speaker 4: And I asked some.
Speaker 5: Guy on social media where it was with your number?
Speaker 5: I said, I don't care if my number or not.
Speaker 5: I have a right, yes to feel comfortable or not
Speaker 5: with somebody wearing it. When I see somebody put it
Speaker 5: on and they don't make plays, and that don't make
Speaker 5: you feel good, you know, because people don't understand when
Speaker 5: you get a number and you're good at it, it
Speaker 5: becomes a part of you. So you always want to
Speaker 5: see it elevated. And I think arstin elevation like hell,
Speaker 5: and it ain't got nothing to do with me. It's
Speaker 5: because that's who he is.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: You gotta love guys like that man squad over six hundred.
Speaker 5: I did that bench over four hundreds did that?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: I love seeing that type of thing. And you know
Speaker 5: why I started doing it because Barry Sanders did it
Speaker 5: in college.
Speaker 1: And this is in lip service because when we're watching
Speaker 1: these games, b Mitch, when when number thirty has the vall,
Speaker 1: he's Volain Beevich is excited. It's so happy, and it's
Speaker 1: so interesting to me, like when I talk to all
Speaker 1: the legends, because you would play for multiple teams, like
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys like Wonton Fletcher.
Speaker 2: Right, but you chose to make this home.
Speaker 1: You chose to stick around because you could have went
Speaker 1: back to where you're from, Right, What made you decide
Speaker 1: to stick around here and stay closer to Burgundy.
Speaker 5: And go Well, I think When I got my chance,
Speaker 5: it was here in Washington, and the fans always loved me.
Speaker 4: They didn't want me to go anywhere.
Speaker 5: But like when you cut your teeth and you become
Speaker 5: a man, somewhere, that's where you establish yourselves. Like success
Speaker 5: has always been, you don't don't become something and then
Speaker 5: just go back and be and go back to what
Speaker 5: you were. You go somewhere, establish yourself and then your
Speaker 5: people come visit you. And Washington gave me an opportunity,
Speaker 5: you know. And I just say this. When I went
Speaker 5: to Philly, people say they want by Philly fans, but
Speaker 5: you know what those fans said, Yeah, man, if you
Speaker 5: would go in the Hall of Fame, you deserved to
Speaker 5: go in as washing it if you were that longer,
Speaker 5: they understand it.
Speaker 4: And I went back to Washington.
Speaker 5: You know, I went back to Washington because the love
Speaker 5: I got there from people that didn't know me, but
Speaker 5: they saw me grow up. And when I left, they
Speaker 5: didn't want to see me leave. And I left because
Speaker 5: I was kicked out of the door. But I watched
Speaker 5: people with tears in their eyes when I was leaving,
Speaker 5: and chrome men no cry.
Speaker 1: For no dude, But that kind of little man at
Speaker 1: that game admitted a lot to me. So and then
Speaker 1: you make another transition. We talk of all these transitions
Speaker 1: you make from offensive line in a quarterback, from quarterback
Speaker 1: to returner and doing everything else, and then you make
Speaker 1: a transition into media, and you've been doing this a
Speaker 1: very long time as well. What made you make that
Speaker 1: transition and was it tough?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: When I first started, I saw somebody on TV saying
Speaker 5: what they would or would not do, and I got
Speaker 5: pissed off because I'm like, of course you wouldn't You're
Speaker 5: not an athlete. And I started to look for an
Speaker 5: opportunity and I just remember I was I was invited to.
Speaker 4: A w h R event.
Speaker 5: I went there and the lady, Jeanette Tye happened to
Speaker 5: tell me that they were looking for someone to do
Speaker 5: a like a three to five minute sports talk on
Speaker 5: Monday and Friday. Monday to say did you all do
Speaker 5: what you wanted? And Friday, this is what we're planning
Speaker 5: to do. And I was like, I'll do it. Could
Speaker 5: it gave me a chance to have a voice, because
Speaker 5: when you look back to back in nineteen ninety, wasn't
Speaker 5: a ton of athletes really in the media.
Speaker 4: It was a few of them, but not a ton.
Speaker 5: And then five weeks into that to be tem which
Speaker 5: is the station I was working with, that they're there now.
Speaker 5: They they offered me a Monday night football show and
Speaker 5: a little bit later and Channel nine rolled in. I
Speaker 5: started doing like a TV thing on Sunday nights after
Speaker 5: I got back from the games on road trips that
Speaker 5: we got back early and after home games. And the
Speaker 5: toughest thing was everyone thought that I was going to
Speaker 5: allow someone to make me say something I didn't want
Speaker 5: to say, and it was gonna cause friction in.
Speaker 4: The locker room. I'm not that stupid.
Speaker 5: So what I would do after a game, the guy
Speaker 5: that played well, the guy that didn't play well, I
Speaker 5: asked them what they were thinking, what was going through
Speaker 5: their minds. So when I got to the thing the
Speaker 5: next day, you know the question I'm gonna be asking,
Speaker 5: oh man, so and so, they never get what you think.
Speaker 5: What I talked to him after the game, this is
Speaker 5: what he said, and then I could build off of
Speaker 5: what he said. But I don't mind voicing my opinions
Speaker 5: when I have to. And I talked to James Brown
Speaker 5: and Donnie Simpson, two good friends of mine. James Brown said,
Speaker 5: don't change anything about yourself. Just know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: And Donnie Simpson was like, yo, man, I said, Donnie,
Speaker 5: what should I change?
Speaker 4: He say, just hone in on your skills. Be you.
Speaker 5: I could be that, and I kept. I just kept
Speaker 5: being myself. And you know, I learned that in life,
Speaker 5: everybody's not gonna like you. But one thing I get constantly.
Speaker 5: I don't always agree with you been, but you always
Speaker 5: say what you truly believe. It's all I care about hearing.
Speaker 5: You don't have to believe in everything I say, but
Speaker 5: give me the respect that I am willing to voice
Speaker 5: my opinions even if I don't, we don't agree, or
Speaker 5: if you don't like it, but you give me, give
Speaker 5: me the level of respect because I'm gonna say what
Speaker 5: I believe.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say what you believe.
Speaker 1: And it's been nice seeing you be a broadcaster because
Speaker 1: you put in all that work. I've heard you about
Speaker 1: you on the football field. I feel like you put
Speaker 1: that work into your broadcasting. And the way we were raised,
Speaker 1: our father's man, they raise us to have the mentality worry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is good, but it's not good enough. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is good. Black can do more. Yeah, this is good.
Speaker 1: Black can do better. So you've accomplished all these things. Man,
Speaker 1: you won your Super Bowl, you made it to the NFL,
Speaker 1: You're an accomplished broadcaster. Have you been able to shake
Speaker 1: that or do you still carry that this is good?
Speaker 2: But I can do better?
Speaker 5: Oh no, No, that's gonna be there, be with me
Speaker 5: the rest of my life. You know, when you get kids,
Speaker 5: You know, my I wanted to be great for my son.
Speaker 5: I could be better for the next and I had
Speaker 5: three daughters after that, so I want to be great
Speaker 5: for them. And then now I got grandkids. So and
Speaker 5: that's the best job I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 5: Father and grandfather. But what you do, you always want
Speaker 5: to improve it because like my dad told me, he said,
Speaker 5: you make sure my grandkids lies are easier than yours was.
Speaker 4: So I had to tell my kids the same thing.
Speaker 5: And if we can build that type of culture in
Speaker 5: our family, we can always have somebody looking up instead
Speaker 5: of having a phase where people aren't doing good.
Speaker 4: So I try to keep pushing.
Speaker 1: That and be you know, I lost my father as well,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of times about what our
Speaker 1: conversation will be when I see him again, and what
Speaker 1: we'll talk about and what he'll say to me, What
Speaker 1: do you think your father said?
Speaker 2: When you guys finally get to have that conversation.
Speaker 5: He would probably say job well done, but he'll find
Speaker 5: one thing to say, well, you could have done this
Speaker 5: a little bit better. I would probably bust out laughing
Speaker 5: because I know it. I know what he'll tell me,
Speaker 5: because as he always said, I don't ever want you
Speaker 5: to get complacent. I'm always gonna be trying to push
Speaker 5: you and put is because I love you, and that
Speaker 5: saying sticks with you. You know, people do things sometimes out
Speaker 5: of spite or whatever else, but when someone is doing
Speaker 5: something out of love, you just accepted and move on.
Speaker 5: Because I also know that that love is the thing
Speaker 5: that pushed me and guided me to get to where
Speaker 5: I am and all the things I accomplished because I
Speaker 5: knew that that dude believed in me, and he pushed
Speaker 5: me and made sure everywhere I needed to be or
Speaker 5: what I needed to have something or to accomplish it,
Speaker 5: I had it no matter what, you know, so I
Speaker 5: wouldn't worry about that. But I know he'll be like
Speaker 5: you did, good man, but.
Speaker 1: It's great to hear the way that your father mentioned
Speaker 1: you and these coaches will and now you do that
Speaker 1: as well. You stay closer to the facility. You see
Speaker 1: these guys. You're looking at this team. Now you've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of Burgundy and gold teams, but this is
Speaker 1: a little different. Talk about what you're seeing right now.
Speaker 1: Why there's so much new energy around the building.
Speaker 5: Well, this team went through years where it was like down.
Speaker 5: And I tell people over and over again, no matter
Speaker 5: what people say, we don't listen to it outside, we
Speaker 5: don't worry about this. Well, that's not us.
Speaker 4: You can't help it.
Speaker 5: The way media is today, no matter what negativity is around,
Speaker 5: you're gonna it's gonna get to you.
Speaker 4: And things subconsciously affect people.
Speaker 5: And now when you look at this thing, it looks
Speaker 5: like nothing but newness. A lot of energy is here
Speaker 5: because with Josh and Mitch and Magic and all these
Speaker 5: guys bring in a lot of energy is here because
Speaker 5: of how Dan Quinn and Adam Peters are working this thing.
Speaker 5: And then when you look at it, you have a veteran,
Speaker 5: veteran players like you know Wagner, who probably is going
Speaker 5: into the Hall of Fame, but it's a worker. Yes,
Speaker 5: you know, uh, you have guys on this team, h
Speaker 5: young guys. Okay, I'm awesome, awesome to another one because
Speaker 5: he's a guy who's gonna probably do some unbelievable things.
Speaker 5: But then you have a young guy who's coming in
Speaker 5: here to lead this thing, who has the mindset of
Speaker 5: a veteran old player. I want to work, i want
Speaker 5: to get better, and I'm not satisfied with anything. And
Speaker 5: if I've always said this, if the star of your team,
Speaker 5: Tom Brady, Alex Reveshkin, Michael Jordan, if those guys are
Speaker 5: working the hardest, nobody else has an excuse. Nobody has
Speaker 5: an excuse. So Jade and Daniel rolls in, Heisman Trophy winner,
Speaker 5: second und second pick in the first round, comes into
Speaker 5: your team, whether he thought or whatever, he's a face
Speaker 5: of your franchise. And people say he's in there at
Speaker 5: five something in the morning, he's last to leave. And
Speaker 5: then you look on what happens. You got another little
Speaker 5: guy in mikel Serren Steel.
Speaker 4: He starts doing it.
Speaker 5: He's basically doing stuff on the defensive side that young
Speaker 5: guys don't only do. And then here we go Luke McCaffrey.
Speaker 5: He shows up every time Jamee's there, here's gonna be
Speaker 5: more people. So if the whole mindset of the team
Speaker 5: is to put the work in, you're gonna have success.
Speaker 5: So and I think the players see it now. The
Speaker 5: fans are starting to get a little bit of what
Speaker 5: we get a chance to see at practice and things
Speaker 5: of that nature, and we get to we get you
Speaker 5: get to see what the players are talking about. A
Speaker 5: rookie season is gonna go like this. But we've already
Speaker 5: seen in three games that this kid's special. And I think,
Speaker 5: you know, when you put the work into things, you
Speaker 5: get great things out. And I think he's done what
Speaker 5: he needs to do. So let's sit back and relax
Speaker 5: and get popcorn ready.
Speaker 1: Get the popcorn ready. So many things to be excited
Speaker 1: about with the Burgundy and gold and you know, be missed.
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you, man. You laid
Speaker 1: the groundwork for a lot of us, even in this
Speaker 1: broadcast thing. Man, you've been an o g to me
Speaker 1: and you're gonna help me out a lot. So like,
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