Speaker 1: What's Good command Is Family?
Speaker 2: Brian Corper Junior here with your starting running back Brian
Speaker 2: Robinson Jr. He is our first guy up on our
Speaker 2: Next Man Up Podcast. We're talking about him being a
Speaker 2: mama's boy. We're talking about the way he's acclivated into
Speaker 2: this offense. We're talking about his mentality and also, b Rob,
Speaker 2: lets us know what him and our Commander's family needs
Speaker 2: from the commander's fans. In week three, What's Good Commander's Family?
Speaker 2: Brian Coper Junior here, And this is your first ever
Speaker 2: episode of the Next Man Up Podcast where I sit
Speaker 2: down with your favorite Commanders players and we get into
Speaker 2: the guy behind the helmet. You know, we're not really talking,
Speaker 2: excell and as we're talking more about life, more about
Speaker 2: what makes these men who they are, and when it
Speaker 2: comes to stories, I don't know if there's a better
Speaker 2: one in the NFL right now. So of course my
Speaker 2: first guest had to be Brian Robinson Jr. Our starting
Speaker 2: running back, second year man out of Alabama.
Speaker 1: Brother, how you doing today, man?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good man. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Now I gotta go right into last Sunday Bro two
Speaker 2: touchdowns and crunch time in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: What was going right for you, Sunday.
Speaker 4: Man, just really getting the rhythm, you know, finally catching
Speaker 4: the rhythm of the game, and you know, just seeing
Speaker 4: you know how that was going to attack me, and uh,
Speaker 4: you know what was the best best way for me
Speaker 4: to attack them?
Speaker 3: Man? Uh?
Speaker 4: You know by the time they start feeding me the ball,
Speaker 4: I had it all figured out. You know, I knew
Speaker 4: how I wanted to attack. Yeah, I just made the
Speaker 4: most of my opportunities.
Speaker 1: And brother, you definitely made the most of your opportunity.
Speaker 2: And after one of your touchdowns, we in Mount High,
Speaker 2: but you jumped into the fans, right, you jumped into
Speaker 2: the stands You got a bunch of Commander fans there.
Speaker 1: What was that like? Knowing that Commander fans?
Speaker 3: Was that?
Speaker 1: Did you know they was there when you jumped in?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What was that? What was that? Like?
Speaker 3: What's how went into celebration mode?
Speaker 4: You know I had already kind of went towards the
Speaker 4: back wall and I seen a huddler Commanders fans and
Speaker 4: I was like, you know, if I'm gonna do it,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it now, you know, right here in
Speaker 4: front of them. So you know that was that sighting man,
Speaker 4: like I always you know, I've seen people jump jump
Speaker 4: over the wall and you know, jump in the stands stuff,
Speaker 4: you know, in the league, and you know that was
Speaker 4: my first time just you know, getting an opportunity to it.
Speaker 3: Just it was a clear opportunity. I just took it.
Speaker 2: Is it a little switet of being able to do
Speaker 2: that and like an opponent's territory, like really be able
Speaker 2: to vibe with your fans even though you're not home.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that was probably what kind of influenced it
Speaker 4: a little more like I don't even like, I don't
Speaker 4: even think about jumping in the stands when I'm at home,
Speaker 4: but like, you know, to just jump in their stands
Speaker 4: with my fans and you know, you know, make it
Speaker 4: feel like home just a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know that that felt good?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, we got a lot of football to talk about.
Speaker 2: But before that, man, I want to really get into you.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Like I said, you got an amazing story and you've
Speaker 2: been through a lot of trials and tribulations. Not a
Speaker 2: lot of people have a rookie season like you had.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You have the incident, you
Speaker 2: come back and you really show out, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, you come back very quickly. October ninth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. What does that day mean to you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: That was a breakthrough day for me, you know, you know,
Speaker 4: being able to just you know, come out of the shill.
Speaker 4: You know that I was, I was hitting under you know,
Speaker 4: you know, dealing with all the things I was dealing with,
Speaker 4: you know, mentally and physically, and just finally being able
Speaker 4: to just come from under this shilling, you know, just
Speaker 4: you know, you know, you know, step back into my element,
Speaker 4: you know, going back into you know, doing doing what
Speaker 4: I love to do, you know, in front of you know,
Speaker 4: exciting people and fans you know who, uh who was
Speaker 4: very excited and loved to see me back on the field,
Speaker 4: and I uh, you know, all that energy you know,
Speaker 4: just kind of kept me going in the right direction mentally,
Speaker 4: so uh you know I was more than no prepared
Speaker 4: to you know, get back on the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, you mentioned those mental hurdles you were going through. Man,
Speaker 2: talk about that a little bit. You know, that's that's
Speaker 2: four weeks that you were not expecting to miss, right
Speaker 2: your rookie season. It's got to be a lot of questions,
Speaker 2: maybe some self doubt, what was going through your mind
Speaker 2: during that process and that healing process.
Speaker 3: Uh, not that.
Speaker 4: I was just really disappointed, you know, from you know,
Speaker 4: what I was dealing with. You know, a lot, been
Speaker 4: through so much my life to get to this point,
Speaker 4: and you know, just worked so hard put in you know,
Speaker 4: you unconditional time and no effort, you know, to get
Speaker 4: to this point. And uh, finally you know, got drafted,
Speaker 4: or after spending five years in school, finally got drafted.
Speaker 4: You know, guy here, you know, got started to get
Speaker 4: comfortable here, you know, around the people and you know,
Speaker 4: the fans and uh you know, the guys in the
Speaker 4: locker room. And you know, right as soon as I
Speaker 4: got comfortable about it, go into my rookie season, you know, uh,
Speaker 4: I almost get everything taken away from me, you know,
Speaker 4: just at a blink of an eye, you know, with
Speaker 4: something that literally had nothing to do with me. And
Speaker 4: that's probably the most disappointed thing about it, you know,
Speaker 4: just having to deal with that face to face, you know,
Speaker 4: and you know, you don't really you know, set yourself
Speaker 4: up for that and you just got to deal with
Speaker 4: it in a moment. But you just got to keep striving,
Speaker 4: and you know, expect to come out there back end,
Speaker 4: you know, with your head up high.
Speaker 1: What did you learn about yourself during that time?
Speaker 4: I just really learned that I'm a super super resilient
Speaker 4: you know person, you know, and I don't have you know,
Speaker 4: a lick of quitting me. You know, I'm a fighter,
Speaker 4: you know, regardless of you know, what I'm dealing with
Speaker 4: or battling with. It can be the you know, the
Speaker 4: worst thing, you know, like having two gunshot wounds, one
Speaker 4: in the hip and one on in the knee and
Speaker 4: my dominant you know, running leg and still having the
Speaker 4: mindset that you know, uh, I'm gonna recover from this
Speaker 4: and I'm a comeback and I'm a I'm still gonna dominate,
Speaker 4: you know, and never never doubting that, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: a be able to shape back from this and still
Speaker 4: come and dominate.
Speaker 2: You know, at this level, you've definitely came back and
Speaker 2: dominated man. And you know, going through these things, sometimes
Speaker 2: we could feel like one on the island.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we feel a little alone.
Speaker 2: Who is there for you during this process of the
Speaker 2: healing process and getting back that helped you keep your
Speaker 2: mind right, that helped you stay strong.
Speaker 1: Was anybody particular that helped you in that.
Speaker 3: Uh, I get credit.
Speaker 4: You know everybody around this building, you know, uh you
Speaker 4: know Coach Bavera, mister Mayhew, Coach Jordan, you know, everybody
Speaker 4: in the training room. You know, they really comforted me,
Speaker 4: you know during that time. And my family and my
Speaker 4: mom she uh you know she had to you know,
Speaker 4: put down work for a couple of weeks to you know,
Speaker 4: you know, fly up here, you know, just take care
Speaker 4: of me at home and make sure I was good,
Speaker 4: you know until I got up and moving back on
Speaker 4: my feet. And uh so you know I had you know,
Speaker 4: you know people in my corner. You know that you know,
Speaker 4: I really care about that really care about me. That
Speaker 4: you know, just showed me you know how much you
Speaker 4: know they care about me and my mental and uh
Speaker 4: and wanted me to you know, get back you know,
Speaker 4: to myself again.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you had a whole city behind you
Speaker 2: as well, tuscal Loose, Alabama that where're from, right, talk
Speaker 2: about Tuscaloosa and what that did for shaping the man
Speaker 2: that is Brian Robinson Jr.
Speaker 4: H Just you know, growing up there, you know, very
Speaker 4: very very limited resources. You know, you just you gotta
Speaker 4: you gotta be a different you gotta you know, want
Speaker 4: to you know, stand out, want to stick out, you know,
Speaker 4: in order to get you know, the recognition that you want,
Speaker 4: you know, in order to make it.
Speaker 3: Up out of that.
Speaker 4: And U uh it was a grind. It was a process,
Speaker 4: you know, you know, it's a journey. But I appreciate
Speaker 4: you know, every every single step of the way. You know, uh,
Speaker 4: all the lessons I learned, you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: all the people I met, you know, people that came
Speaker 4: in my life and left out of my life, you know,
Speaker 4: staying at home and touch Clusive to go to school
Speaker 4: at the University Alabama. Uh, you know, you know, it
Speaker 4: went a little bit longer than I expected as my
Speaker 4: you know, a college career. But if I could go
Speaker 4: back and do it again, I wouldn't. I want change.
Speaker 4: I want to change a thing. And you know, touch
Speaker 4: Clusive really you know, made me the man I am today.
Speaker 4: You know, I literally being in touch cluse to my
Speaker 4: whole life, literally from the time I was born.
Speaker 3: Until you know, Washington called me.
Speaker 4: So I'm very thankful you know, from you know for uh,
Speaker 4: you know what I came from and you know what
Speaker 4: has helped me, you know, turn myself into.
Speaker 2: And man, we're thankful that you ended up here, man,
Speaker 2: and that you went through that journey to get to
Speaker 2: this point. And you said it yourself right, Tuscalusive made
Speaker 2: you the man you are. But a lot of that
Speaker 2: also is that support system you mentioned your mom. You
Speaker 2: mentioned your mother. Now me, I'm a mama's boy. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you want to call yourself moms. Well,
Speaker 2: my mama's boy. And I know you and your.
Speaker 1: Mom have a really close relationship.
Speaker 2: Can you talk to us about you and your mother's relationship,
Speaker 2: what she's done for you, the sacrifice she made you mentioned, man,
Speaker 2: she put her job on hold for you just to
Speaker 2: make sure you was healthy. Man, talk about all those
Speaker 2: sacrifices and what this lady has done for you.
Speaker 4: Honestly, that was probably just the minimum of you know,
Speaker 4: sacrifice I felt like she'd have made for me in
Speaker 4: my life. You know she was she was a single parent,
Speaker 4: you know, uh, with three kids and a knucklehead young
Speaker 4: boy like me, and you know, I was a handful
Speaker 4: I was allowed to deal with. But she, you know,
Speaker 4: she you know, she went above and beyond, you know,
Speaker 4: to make sure that I was always staying on track.
Speaker 4: You know, doing the right things, going to school and
Speaker 4: for the right purpose. And you know, if I wanted
Speaker 4: to play sports that you know, I was gonna I'm
Speaker 4: gonna take it serious. And uh you know, she didn't.
Speaker 4: She didn't like slack off of me. She didn't know,
Speaker 4: give me, you know, any room to you know, just
Speaker 4: slack off. And she stayed on me, you know, every
Speaker 4: single you know, step of the way. And the older
Speaker 4: I got, the more I started to understand, you know,
Speaker 4: you know what she was hounding it to me, you know,
Speaker 4: as a snow growing up, and you know, you know,
Speaker 4: as I got older and started to understand it, and
Speaker 4: I just started, you know, just to continue to apply
Speaker 4: everything she taught me, and you know how she raised me.
Speaker 4: I just continue to apply that to my you know,
Speaker 4: my daily routine and my lifestyle. And uh, I just
Speaker 4: keep that in the back of my head.
Speaker 2: And now that you're older, and now that some of
Speaker 2: those sacrifices she made, we're seeing them pay off in
Speaker 2: real time. Right, what are your conversations like, now, do
Speaker 2: you guys have those moments where you like, Mama, look
Speaker 2: like it was all worth it?
Speaker 1: Like, do you guys have those moments together?
Speaker 4: We actually had the moments where I sit back and
Speaker 4: I just kind of talk about like all the stuff
Speaker 4: that I didn't admit when I was young, you know,
Speaker 4: like I sit there and you know, I finally come
Speaker 4: to truth about stuff that I probably kept a secret
Speaker 4: from her, stuff that like she just didn't know about it,
Speaker 4: and we just you know, we just talked like adults now,
Speaker 4: you know, I just kind of, you know, I just
Speaker 4: tell her about like I'm like, man, you remember, like
Speaker 4: you probably don't remember, but I did this and you
Speaker 4: didn't know about it.
Speaker 3: Now I'm telling you.
Speaker 4: Know right, you know, you know, and I just feel
Speaker 4: like we had a point out where like, you know,
Speaker 4: she knows what, you know, what she raised me into,
Speaker 4: she knows you know, my intent, you know know how
Speaker 4: my mind is set, and uh, you know when we
Speaker 4: have those types of conversations, like you know, I don't
Speaker 4: expect her to like, you know, throw a fit at me,
Speaker 4: like how she probably would back you know, ten fifteen
Speaker 4: years ago, but you know it just we continue to
Speaker 4: build that relationship and I think we you know, we
Speaker 4: got a pretty strong relationship.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now it's just me and you talking, right, Anybody else
Speaker 2: is say, anybody watching? So can you give me one
Speaker 2: of those inside stories where you're like, Mom, this is
Speaker 2: what was one of those things you had to break
Speaker 2: to tell her? Like, Mom, did you know I was
Speaker 2: getting into this when I was at the crib? Like
Speaker 2: do you add one of those you can share with
Speaker 2: us as appropriate for the command.
Speaker 3: So I was in the house.
Speaker 4: It was just me and my sisters, like my oldest sister,
Speaker 4: my oldest she she just turned thirty one, okay, so
Speaker 4: that was the oldest step was in my house. And
Speaker 4: my middle sister she is twenty nine right now. So
Speaker 4: my mom used to work all the time, so it's
Speaker 4: like just me and my sisters in the house. I
Speaker 4: used to be getting so aggravated and annoyed just being
Speaker 4: in the house with them all the time. So so
Speaker 4: one day I had some fireworks. I had like a
Speaker 4: little small little wonder the little light up fireworks. I
Speaker 4: must have lit up the firework and threw it on
Speaker 4: my sister bed in the in the crib. So I
Speaker 4: lit the firework up and I threw it on my
Speaker 4: sister bed and it popped and.
Speaker 3: Everybody just got to flying every way.
Speaker 4: And she told me she was gonna tell on me,
Speaker 4: like to just get under my skin for like the
Speaker 4: next week two weeks, Like she just kept picking with me,
Speaker 4: like like if I ain't do something, Yeah, she tryed
Speaker 4: to hang it over my head for like two weeks
Speaker 4: and then like eventually I just like, you know what
Speaker 4: you can tell on me now, like I don't even care,
Speaker 4: Like I don't even care to tell now you know
Speaker 4: about to keep hanging it over my head. So she
Speaker 4: really didn't never tell on me. And then like eventually,
Speaker 4: like I had the conversation I taught I told my
Speaker 4: mama about it, Like.
Speaker 3: She was livid.
Speaker 1: To this day. So she had no idea that you
Speaker 1: actually had done that.
Speaker 2: There was no like smoke like any like nothing on
Speaker 2: the walls or nothing like that.
Speaker 4: Oh you lucky that she didn't pay like she used
Speaker 4: to work so much, so when she go home, she
Speaker 4: ain't paying that much attention.
Speaker 3: To what we got going on.
Speaker 4: Then you know, by that time she getting home, we
Speaker 4: almost in bed getting ready for the next day.
Speaker 3: So like she ain't paying attention for real.
Speaker 4: So I'm really waiting up to see if my sister
Speaker 4: gonna tell on me when she get home.
Speaker 2: You know, those similist stories are fun, man. You know
Speaker 2: another story I heard actually, because I mean clearly you
Speaker 2: a big dude.
Speaker 1: Now you're a big guy. You got to be a
Speaker 1: big guy to be running back, right.
Speaker 2: I heard your mom used to have to walk around
Speaker 2: with your birth certificate because it's certain sporting events.
Speaker 1: They didn't believe you was the age that you were
Speaker 1: saying you wasn't that true?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So like my little league football games, I just come
Speaker 4: out having a game, probably had like four or five
Speaker 4: touchdowns first quarter, first half or something like that, and
Speaker 4: something light. Yeah, and the first thing, you know, the
Speaker 4: opposed team would want to do is you know, they'll
Speaker 4: do that for anybody they thought was just too talented
Speaker 4: or too big for you know, the kids that was playing,
Speaker 4: which is understandable. Like if I had a kid on
Speaker 4: the field and they had my kid running up against
Speaker 4: some prototypical type of no young guy, I'm like, hold
Speaker 4: on something, right, they make sure, you know, so it's
Speaker 4: a fusic no times where they just stop the game
Speaker 4: and check my birth certificate to make sure I was
Speaker 4: you know the age, you know, the age group in
Speaker 4: the weight limit, you know, to be playing like a
Speaker 4: skill position in like seven eight years old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that gotta be a little ego boost though
Speaker 2: for like a seven or eight year old kid right
Speaker 2: to be like, yo, I'm this good that they checking
Speaker 2: my birth certificate. That kind of tell you then, like, okay, man,
Speaker 2: I might be onto something with this football thing.
Speaker 4: I didn't think about it much then because I was
Speaker 4: just I was just having so much fun just being
Speaker 4: you know, being a young boy just playing playing ball.
Speaker 4: Like I was just having so much fun, Like I
Speaker 4: want thinking about like, you know, who was paying that
Speaker 4: much attention to me to stop the game to check
Speaker 4: my age? Just be kind of like it really kind
Speaker 4: of used to annoy me because I'm like, bro, I'm
Speaker 4: the same age as everybody else. I might be just
Speaker 4: a little bit more more than them, But that don't
Speaker 4: mean you gotta you know, isolated, right, you gotta do
Speaker 4: me like that. So that was like that's kind of
Speaker 4: how I used to feel about it. I didn't like,
Speaker 4: I didn't like it, wow, Like I ain't think it
Speaker 4: made me feel feel good, you know, Like I just
Speaker 4: didn't like the fact that like they used to just
Speaker 4: judge that, like like I would go out and play
Speaker 4: with some kids just try to make myself look good
Speaker 4: or something like that, I'm the age group, you know,
Speaker 4: appropriate age, appropriate size, deal with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And a lot of folks can't fathom greatness R,
Speaker 2: especially when they haven't seen it before, and clearly you're.
Speaker 1: One of one.
Speaker 2: When was that moment when you were like, Okay, this
Speaker 2: is for real, Like this is I really can make
Speaker 2: a lifestyle, really a career out of this football thing.
Speaker 1: When did it hit you?
Speaker 4: I think it was the transition from pee wee football
Speaker 4: in the middle school. When I took that transition, I
Speaker 4: was a little nervous. I went to a you know,
Speaker 4: one of you know, the best middle schools in my
Speaker 4: city at the time, so you know, it was some
Speaker 4: it was some ball players over there, and uh, you
Speaker 4: know the fact that I just you know, came straight
Speaker 4: in and uh, you know, going from pe weed to
Speaker 4: middle school, it's like, you know, always making that next
Speaker 4: that next jump gonna have you feeling like am I
Speaker 4: ready for the next level? Like you know, it's like
Speaker 4: going from you know, D one to the NFL. You're
Speaker 4: still thinking about it, like, h like, I know, I
Speaker 4: played you know, SEC D one ball, but am I
Speaker 4: ready to do that in the NFL?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 4: You know, so taking that jump from pee wee to
Speaker 4: middle school and just coming straight in and you know,
Speaker 4: fitting right in, you know, being you know fast enough,
Speaker 4: you know, physical enough, you know, having already having a
Speaker 4: playmaking ability to you know be on the field with
Speaker 4: those guys like started to help me, you know, gain
Speaker 4: the confidence and I started get on the field actually
Speaker 4: play with those guys and you know, being a playmaker
Speaker 4: that I always being just at the next level already.
Speaker 4: You know, I just kind of had that in the
Speaker 4: back of my head, like I got to take a
Speaker 4: step or two, you know, every year so that I
Speaker 4: can you know, be a step or two ahead of
Speaker 4: the guys in my in my in my class, or
Speaker 4: you know, around my age group, you know. And I
Speaker 4: just seen that, like, you know, I was a step
Speaker 4: or two ahead of most.
Speaker 3: Guys that was around my age group.
Speaker 4: And I knew if I just outworked some you know,
Speaker 4: outwork guys and just you know out competed those guys
Speaker 4: you know, year up the year. Uh, you know, it
Speaker 4: would set me up for you know, successful and.
Speaker 1: To constantly outwork your piers.
Speaker 2: Right, It's not something easy to do, especially when you
Speaker 2: keep going higher levels, higher levels, higher levels. Talk about
Speaker 2: your mother and the way she used to work and
Speaker 2: the way she used to grind and get after it.
Speaker 2: How did that affect your work mindset? And say, yo,
Speaker 2: this time, I get after it every day.
Speaker 4: It's like my mom she very independent, self motivated, you know,
Speaker 4: and you know, I just see her, you know, work
Speaker 4: so hard and just be so independent, like, you know,
Speaker 4: just bring her own energy to just make sure that
Speaker 4: we was good.
Speaker 3: And you know, just.
Speaker 4: Seeing that, you know, and I'm like, I'm a I'm
Speaker 4: a bad player. And when I'm out here on the field,
Speaker 4: I'm a competitor too. You know, I hate to lose,
Speaker 4: you know, just all of my traits, like I just
Speaker 4: I hate to lose. I'm a competitor. I'm self motivated,
Speaker 4: like I got all those traits. And just seeing how
Speaker 4: hard my mom do it by herself, it was like
Speaker 4: it was hard for me to make an excuse on.
Speaker 3: Why I couldn't apply myself.
Speaker 4: And she used to, you know, hold me accountable to
Speaker 4: you know, all the small things, even when I was young,
Speaker 4: So like it was hard for me to you know,
Speaker 4: not apply myself when you know, just see how hard
Speaker 4: she used to just go, you know, for us at home,
Speaker 4: and she used to do it all by myself.
Speaker 2: And man, I mean clearly it helped you get to
Speaker 2: where you're at. Man, I don't think many people could
Speaker 2: have handled the obstacles you had your rookie year and
Speaker 2: come back so quickly. I mean, four weeks out, come
Speaker 2: back week five. We talked about October nine. Now, brother,
Speaker 2: you got the coldest walk out I've probably ever seen. Man,
Speaker 2: I need to go back there with you. I need
Speaker 2: you to talk to me about that many men's playing.
Speaker 2: Did you know the song was playing? Did you know
Speaker 2: that was coming? What's going through your mind right there? Man,
Speaker 2: you are finally fulfilling your dream to be on an
Speaker 2: NFL stage.
Speaker 4: Talk about it, man, I honestly I was so emotional,
Speaker 4: Like I didn't I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't know about the song preference.
Speaker 4: I ain't know who you know, preferred the song or
Speaker 4: you know, decided to play it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It just kind of like it caught me off guard,
Speaker 4: just as much as it probably caught a lot of
Speaker 4: more people out guard. Like, but I was so emotional,
Speaker 4: just kind of caught up any emotions of you know,
Speaker 4: about to finally be able to get my first career snap,
Speaker 4: you know, and just being able to take the field again,
Speaker 4: and you know, the entrance was you know, it was
Speaker 4: it was it was lit like it was it was exciting,
Speaker 4: you know, just because you know, I was listened to
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes my whole life and like just that specific
Speaker 4: song like men and Man if you listen to it,
Speaker 4: like clearly, like you know exactly what he's saying. Yeah, So,
Speaker 4: like it just was all we was just all working together,
Speaker 4: you know, just for the perfect comeback entrance.
Speaker 1: Real and it really was the perfect comeback.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: And now we're in year two, two games and you
Speaker 2: got three touchdowns? Would you say right now at this point,
Speaker 2: because like I said, you didn't have a regular rookie season, right,
Speaker 2: would you say, right now at this point, you're fully comfortable,
Speaker 2: You're fully back, You fully feel like yourself again.
Speaker 4: I definitely feel like I'm going one hundred miles an
Speaker 4: hour in the right direction. You know, I can't really
Speaker 4: tell you, like, you know, what my body was dealing with,
Speaker 4: just with the trauma like gunshots and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: but it's something that I feel like I can, you know,
Speaker 4: eventually be able to put behind me.
Speaker 3: And it's working progress.
Speaker 4: And I've been working my butt off, you know that
Speaker 4: I've been working my butt off so that I can
Speaker 4: show up on Sundays and you know and look polished
Speaker 4: and you know, look healthy and good regardless of you know,
Speaker 4: what my body is, you know, going through like I said,
Speaker 4: you know uh what I went through, you know, just
Speaker 4: the trauma from you know, the gunshots. It's just a
Speaker 4: work in progress to get you know, my muscles and everything.
Speaker 3: Back up the part.
Speaker 4: So man, I'm enjoying the process, you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: still having fun, you know, making plays on Sundays. And
Speaker 4: I ain't gonna complain. I ain't gonna complain about it
Speaker 4: at all.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's beautiful, man, And a big part of
Speaker 2: this dominance that we're seeing only from you, but from
Speaker 2: this offense is new offensive coordinated, right Eric b Ene
Speaker 2: me talk about Eb for a little bit and what
Speaker 2: him being added to the puzzle has helped you and
Speaker 2: your journey as a second year running back.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Eb, he is his own guy, man,
Speaker 4: like he he literally is himself. You know, he can't
Speaker 4: he can't be nobody but himself, and I respect that
Speaker 4: bottom you know, Uh.
Speaker 3: He pushed us, you know, to limits.
Speaker 4: You know, you know some guy probably never thought their
Speaker 4: reach and push us to those limits as a unit
Speaker 4: and always making sure that we're playing for each other,
Speaker 4: you know, and not letting the guys you know, you
Speaker 4: know create you know, selfish behaviors and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Just make sure that we all playing together. And I
Speaker 4: think that's the biggest thing that he emphasized that really
Speaker 4: helps us, you know, kind of get on the same
Speaker 4: page as an offense. You know, the fact that you know,
Speaker 4: we all got to play for each other eventually, because
Speaker 4: if the line don't block, I can't run. If I
Speaker 4: don't block, the quarterback can't through. And just make sure
Speaker 4: that we all know that, like you know, we were
Speaker 4: all in this together, and just pushing us, you know,
Speaker 4: to those limits that you know, guys never thought that
Speaker 4: they can reach for real.
Speaker 1: And he's clearly pushing you guys.
Speaker 2: And another guy that seems to be getting pushed and
Speaker 2: seems to be doing very well along yourself, as Sam Howell. Right,
Speaker 2: you know, got a young quarterback here. You know a
Speaker 2: lot of expectations was on him coming into the season.
Speaker 2: How do you feel he's handle that? And just talk
Speaker 2: about Sam Howe as a leader for you guys.
Speaker 4: Sam has been probably one of the most poised guys
Speaker 4: in the whole locker room dealing with you know what
Speaker 4: he's been dealing with. Uh, there's a lot of pressure,
Speaker 4: a lot of pressure to be a quarterback, a lot
Speaker 4: of pressure to you know, be a starting quarterback. And
Speaker 4: you know, you know, franchise like this, and you know
Speaker 4: a lot of you know fans that hyped about it,
Speaker 4: and it's a lot of pressure. And I feel like
Speaker 4: he's probably the most poised. You know, he's humble. He
Speaker 4: you know, he he sticks to the game plan or
Speaker 4: you know what he needs to do to know, perform
Speaker 4: and help the team win. And regardless of you know,
Speaker 4: any ups and downs, you know, he keep his head
Speaker 4: up high and he thinks he's I feel like he
Speaker 4: has the perfect intent, you know, for you know, what
Speaker 4: we're trying to do for this offense and we're trying
Speaker 4: to win games. We're trying to score points, and I
Speaker 4: feel like he has to you know, the right attitude
Speaker 4: you know for uh, you know, as a leader for
Speaker 4: our offense, you know, in our.
Speaker 3: Whole locker room.
Speaker 4: And we just got to continue to just keep him motivating,
Speaker 4: you know, keep him clean, keep him up the ground.
Speaker 4: And I feel like, hell, you know, he will continue
Speaker 4: to impress a lot of people.
Speaker 2: You talk about winning games, baby, y'all two and o
Speaker 2: two and no first time y'all done this since twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know that right What does
Speaker 2: that mean to you right now? Two and on week
Speaker 2: three coming up?
Speaker 4: Does that mean to I mean a lot to me, honestly,
Speaker 4: you know, just you know, it's hard to do in
Speaker 4: this league, very very hard, you know, to win games,
Speaker 4: very hard to you know, remain undefeated, you know, week
Speaker 4: by week. And you know, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 4: that's just you know, part of us taking that next step,
Speaker 4: you know, to be something special, you know, uh. And
Speaker 4: I feel like guys got to keep that in the
Speaker 4: back of their head and realize, you know what what
Speaker 4: we're really up to, you know, this season and what
Speaker 4: we can really accomplish. You know, we we're putting all
Speaker 4: the you know, the right habits out and you know,
Speaker 4: making sure that we stand on top of you know,
Speaker 4: what we got to do to play well and you know,
Speaker 4: not you know, come out of playing slow and try
Speaker 4: to pick up on the back end.
Speaker 3: Just everything we need to do to come.
Speaker 4: Out fast, play fast, and you know, finish the game
Speaker 4: strong and you know, continue to win games.
Speaker 2: And we definitely believe, man, y'all gonna keep winning. We
Speaker 2: got a big, big matchup for week three, Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: We back here FedEx, We back home for the second time.
Speaker 2: That's your ISO cam right there, And need you look
Speaker 2: into that camera right there before I let you go,
Speaker 2: And I need you to talk to the fans and
Speaker 2: say what you need for them when y'all are back
Speaker 2: home at FedEx fil. I know they was rocking week one,
Speaker 2: even though it was raining. What do y'all need from
Speaker 2: the fans week three? Before we end the show week three,
Speaker 2: what we need from the fans.
Speaker 4: We need to show that that y'all gonna show up
Speaker 4: for us consistently, you know, Like we all know, we
Speaker 4: was all expecting everybody to show up, you know, week one.
Speaker 4: You know they was talking about, you know, it's being
Speaker 4: a sellout, you know, for you know, a week two
Speaker 4: weeks prior. We wanted to see if y'all gonna show
Speaker 4: up for us like that consistently, you know, and continue
Speaker 4: to bring the energy that we need in the stadium,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna we're gonna pull out the win for y'all.
Speaker 1: Trust And man, I got no doubt about that.
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