WEBVTT - Brian Robinson Jr. Talks Comeback Season | Next Man Up | Washington Commanders 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:04.160 What's Good command Is Family? 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.760 Brian Corper Junior here with your starting running back Brian 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.880 Robinson Jr. He is our first guy up on our 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.320 Next Man Up Podcast. We're talking about him being a 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:15.840 mama's boy. We're talking about the way he's acclivated into 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.120 this offense. We're talking about his mentality and also, b Rob, 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.080 lets us know what him and our Commander's family needs 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:28.360 from the commander's fans. In week three, What's Good Commander's Family? 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.840 Brian Coper Junior here, And this is your first ever 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.159 episode of the Next Man Up Podcast where I sit 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.440 down with your favorite Commanders players and we get into 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.080 the guy behind the helmet. You know, we're not really talking, 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.160 excell and as we're talking more about life, more about 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.199 what makes these men who they are, and when it 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.320 comes to stories, I don't know if there's a better 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.440 one in the NFL right now. So of course my 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:52.200 first guest had to be Brian Robinson Jr. Our starting 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:53.880 running back, second year man out of Alabama. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:54.800 Brother, how you doing today, man? 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:55.040 Great? 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.120 I'm doing good man. I appreciate you. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:57.279 Man. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.320 Now I gotta go right into last Sunday Bro two 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.560 touchdowns and crunch time in the fourth quarter. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.000 What was going right for you, Sunday. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.800 Man, just really getting the rhythm, you know, finally catching 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.520 the rhythm of the game, and you know, just seeing 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.440 you know how that was going to attack me, and uh, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.480 you know what was the best best way for me 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:19.440 to attack them? 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:19.880 Man? Uh? 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.880 You know by the time they start feeding me the ball, 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.759 I had it all figured out. You know, I knew 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.880 how I wanted to attack. Yeah, I just made the 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.040 most of my opportunities. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.240 And brother, you definitely made the most of your opportunity. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.080 And after one of your touchdowns, we in Mount High, 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.039 but you jumped into the fans, right, you jumped into 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.320 the stands You got a bunch of Commander fans there. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.600 What was that like? Knowing that Commander fans? 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:42.720 Was that? 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.200 Did you know they was there when you jumped in? 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:44.360 Like? 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:45.480 What was that? What was that? Like? 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.600 What's how went into celebration mode? 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.320 You know I had already kind of went towards the 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.800 back wall and I seen a huddler Commanders fans and 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.200 I was like, you know, if I'm gonna do it, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.120 I'm gonna do it now, you know, right here in 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.800 front of them. So you know that was that sighting man, 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.720 like I always you know, I've seen people jump jump 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.840 over the wall and you know, jump in the stands stuff, 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.440 you know, in the league, and you know that was 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.920 my first time just you know, getting an opportunity to it. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.840 Just it was a clear opportunity. I just took it. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.600 Is it a little switet of being able to do 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.359 that and like an opponent's territory, like really be able 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.040 to vibe with your fans even though you're not home. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:21.320 Yeah. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.760 I think that was probably what kind of influenced it 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.600 a little more like I don't even like, I don't 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.040 even think about jumping in the stands when I'm at home, 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.440 but like, you know, to just jump in their stands 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.079 with my fans and you know, you know, make it 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:35.919 feel like home just a little bit. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:37.360 You know that that felt good? 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:37.720 Yeah. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.520 Man, we got a lot of football to talk about. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.800 But before that, man, I want to really get into you. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:42.080 Man. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.480 Like I said, you got an amazing story and you've 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.640 been through a lot of trials and tribulations. Not a 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.120 lot of people have a rookie season like you had. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.520 You know what I'm saying. You have the incident, you 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.200 come back and you really show out, you know what 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.799 I mean, you come back very quickly. October ninth, twenty 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.000 twenty two. What does that day mean to you? 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:01.000 Uh? 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.680 That was a breakthrough day for me, you know, you know, 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.680 being able to just you know, come out of the shill. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.880 You know that I was, I was hitting under you know, 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.240 you know, dealing with all the things I was dealing with, 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.960 you know, mentally and physically, and just finally being able 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:16.800 to just come from under this shilling, you know, just 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.320 you know, you know, you know, step back into my element, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.040 you know, going back into you know, doing doing what 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.000 I love to do, you know, in front of you know, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.480 exciting people and fans you know who, uh who was 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.919 very excited and loved to see me back on the field, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.080 and I uh, you know, all that energy you know, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.160 just kind of kept me going in the right direction mentally, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.880 so uh you know I was more than no prepared 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.120 to you know, get back on the field. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:39.560 Yeah. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.960 Man, you mentioned those mental hurdles you were going through. Man, 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.200 talk about that a little bit. You know, that's that's 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.320 four weeks that you were not expecting to miss, right 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.720 your rookie season. It's got to be a lot of questions, 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.800 maybe some self doubt, what was going through your mind 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:52.760 during that process and that healing process. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:54.040 Uh, not that. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.080 I was just really disappointed, you know, from you know, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.200 what I was dealing with. You know, a lot, been 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.200 through so much my life to get to this point, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.440 and you know, just worked so hard put in you know, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.720 you unconditional time and no effort, you know, to get 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.960 to this point. And uh, finally you know, got drafted, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.040 or after spending five years in school, finally got drafted. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.880 You know, guy here, you know, got started to get 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.120 comfortable here, you know, around the people and you know, 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.240 the fans and uh you know, the guys in the 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.480 locker room. And you know, right as soon as I 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.280 got comfortable about it, go into my rookie season, you know, uh, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.120 I almost get everything taken away from me, you know, 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.040 just at a blink of an eye, you know, with 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.120 something that literally had nothing to do with me. And 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.279 that's probably the most disappointed thing about it, you know, 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.840 just having to deal with that face to face, you know, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.880 and you know, you don't really you know, set yourself 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.720 up for that and you just got to deal with 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.960 it in a moment. But you just got to keep striving, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.200 and you know, expect to come out there back end, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.120 you know, with your head up high. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.480 What did you learn about yourself during that time? 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.039 I just really learned that I'm a super super resilient 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.919 you know person, you know, and I don't have you know, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.760 a lick of quitting me. You know, I'm a fighter, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.279 you know, regardless of you know, what I'm dealing with 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.400 or battling with. It can be the you know, the 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.360 worst thing, you know, like having two gunshot wounds, one 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.680 in the hip and one on in the knee and 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.680 my dominant you know, running leg and still having the 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.760 mindset that you know, uh, I'm gonna recover from this 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.279 and I'm a comeback and I'm a I'm still gonna dominate, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.000 you know, and never never doubting that, you know, I'm 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.000 a be able to shape back from this and still 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.040 come and dominate. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.680 You know, at this level, you've definitely came back and 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.400 dominated man. And you know, going through these things, sometimes 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:43.520 we could feel like one on the island. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:44.760 Sometimes we feel a little alone. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.480 Who is there for you during this process of the 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.080 healing process and getting back that helped you keep your 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.479 mind right, that helped you stay strong. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.960 Was anybody particular that helped you in that. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.200 Uh, I get credit. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.000 You know everybody around this building, you know, uh you 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:03.160 know Coach Bavera, mister Mayhew, Coach Jordan, you know, everybody 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.200 in the training room. You know, they really comforted me, 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.680 you know during that time. And my family and my 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.880 mom she uh you know she had to you know, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.160 put down work for a couple of weeks to you know, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.280 you know, fly up here, you know, just take care 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.279 of me at home and make sure I was good, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.919 you know until I got up and moving back on 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.960 my feet. And uh so you know I had you know, 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.240 you know people in my corner. You know that you know, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.159 I really care about that really care about me. That 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.719 you know, just showed me you know how much you 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.680 know they care about me and my mental and uh 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.680 and wanted me to you know, get back you know, 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:36.599 to myself again. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:37.200 Yeah. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.200 And I'm sure you had a whole city behind you 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.080 as well, tuscal Loose, Alabama that where're from, right, talk 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.040 about Tuscaloosa and what that did for shaping the man 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:46.240 that is Brian Robinson Jr. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.640 H Just you know, growing up there, you know, very 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.960 very very limited resources. You know, you just you gotta 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.480 you gotta be a different you gotta you know, want 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.560 to you know, stand out, want to stick out, you know, 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.120 in order to get you know, the recognition that you want, 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:03.640 you know, in order to make it. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:04.040 Up out of that. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.600 And U uh it was a grind. It was a process, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.760 you know, you know, it's a journey. But I appreciate 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.200 you know, every every single step of the way. You know, uh, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.920 all the lessons I learned, you know, uh, you know, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.880 all the people I met, you know, people that came 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.440 in my life and left out of my life, you know, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.679 staying at home and touch Clusive to go to school 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.520 at the University Alabama. Uh, you know, you know, it 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.520 went a little bit longer than I expected as my 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.280 you know, a college career. But if I could go 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.320 back and do it again, I wouldn't. I want change. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.400 I want to change a thing. And you know, touch 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.640 Clusive really you know, made me the man I am today. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.480 You know, I literally being in touch cluse to my 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.800 whole life, literally from the time I was born. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.600 Until you know, Washington called me. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.600 So I'm very thankful you know, from you know for uh, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.440 you know what I came from and you know what 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.240 has helped me, you know, turn myself into. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.280 And man, we're thankful that you ended up here, man, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.480 and that you went through that journey to get to 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.880 this point. And you said it yourself right, Tuscalusive made 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.400 you the man you are. But a lot of that 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.320 also is that support system you mentioned your mom. You 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:09.920 mentioned your mother. Now me, I'm a mama's boy. I 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.240 don't know if you want to call yourself moms. Well, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:12.760 my mama's boy. And I know you and your. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.560 Mom have a really close relationship. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.200 Can you talk to us about you and your mother's relationship, 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.520 what she's done for you, the sacrifice she made you mentioned, man, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.560 she put her job on hold for you just to 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.320 make sure you was healthy. Man, talk about all those 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:24.960 sacrifices and what this lady has done for you. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.440 Honestly, that was probably just the minimum of you know, 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.520 sacrifice I felt like she'd have made for me in 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.800 my life. You know she was she was a single parent, 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:38.440 you know, uh, with three kids and a knucklehead young 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.800 boy like me, and you know, I was a handful 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.120 I was allowed to deal with. But she, you know, 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.880 she you know, she went above and beyond, you know, 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.600 to make sure that I was always staying on track. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.800 You know, doing the right things, going to school and 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.160 for the right purpose. And you know, if I wanted 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.040 to play sports that you know, I was gonna I'm 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.720 gonna take it serious. And uh you know, she didn't. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.679 She didn't like slack off of me. She didn't know, 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:02.920 give me, you know, any room to you know, just 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.680 slack off. And she stayed on me, you know, every 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.360 single you know, step of the way. And the older 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.720 I got, the more I started to understand, you know, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.040 you know what she was hounding it to me, you know, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.680 as a snow growing up, and you know, you know, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.520 as I got older and started to understand it, and 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.880 I just started, you know, just to continue to apply 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.280 everything she taught me, and you know how she raised me. 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.640 I just continue to apply that to my you know, 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.600 my daily routine and my lifestyle. And uh, I just 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:29.840 keep that in the back of my head. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:31.839 And now that you're older, and now that some of 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.880 those sacrifices she made, we're seeing them pay off in 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.720 real time. Right, what are your conversations like, now, do 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.640 you guys have those moments where you like, Mama, look 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.080 like it was all worth it? 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:41.440 Like, do you guys have those moments together? 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.240 We actually had the moments where I sit back and 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.840 I just kind of talk about like all the stuff 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.480 that I didn't admit when I was young, you know, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.199 like I sit there and you know, I finally come 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.520 to truth about stuff that I probably kept a secret 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.520 from her, stuff that like she just didn't know about it, 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.760 and we just you know, we just talked like adults now, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.800 you know, I just kind of, you know, I just 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.000 tell her about like I'm like, man, you remember, like 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.040 you probably don't remember, but I did this and you 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:08.800 didn't know about it. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:09.640 Now I'm telling you. 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.880 Know right, you know, you know, and I just feel 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.200 like we had a point out where like, you know, 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.400 she knows what, you know, what she raised me into, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.319 she knows you know, my intent, you know know how 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.840 my mind is set, and uh, you know when we 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.480 have those types of conversations, like you know, I don't 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.040 expect her to like, you know, throw a fit at me, 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.360 like how she probably would back you know, ten fifteen 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.160 years ago, but you know it just we continue to 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.040 build that relationship and I think we you know, we 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:38.320 got a pretty strong relationship. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:38.640 Yeah. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.720 Now it's just me and you talking, right, Anybody else 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.520 is say, anybody watching? So can you give me one 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.520 of those inside stories where you're like, Mom, this is 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.240 what was one of those things you had to break 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:48.800 to tell her? Like, Mom, did you know I was 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.440 getting into this when I was at the crib? Like 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.079 do you add one of those you can share with 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:53.920 us as appropriate for the command. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:55.679 So I was in the house. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.640 It was just me and my sisters, like my oldest sister, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:04.200 my oldest she she just turned thirty one, okay, so 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.000 that was the oldest step was in my house. And 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.520 my middle sister she is twenty nine right now. So 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.360 my mom used to work all the time, so it's 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:13.920 like just me and my sisters in the house. I 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.120 used to be getting so aggravated and annoyed just being 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.600 in the house with them all the time. So so 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.680 one day I had some fireworks. I had like a 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.360 little small little wonder the little light up fireworks. I 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.880 must have lit up the firework and threw it on 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.880 my sister bed in the in the crib. So I 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.880 lit the firework up and I threw it on my 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.160 sister bed and it popped and. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.880 Everybody just got to flying every way. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.000 And she told me she was gonna tell on me, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.800 like to just get under my skin for like the 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.640 next week two weeks, Like she just kept picking with me, 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.160 like like if I ain't do something, Yeah, she tryed 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.040 to hang it over my head for like two weeks 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.360 and then like eventually I just like, you know what 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.160 you can tell on me now, like I don't even care, 0:11:58.480 --> 0:11:59.920 Like I don't even care to tell now you know 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.360 about to keep hanging it over my head. So she 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.160 really didn't never tell on me. And then like eventually, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.400 like I had the conversation I taught I told my 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:08.640 mama about it, Like. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:09.920 She was livid. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:13.960 To this day. So she had no idea that you 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:14.840 actually had done that. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:19.120 There was no like smoke like any like nothing on 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:20.240 the walls or nothing like that. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.560 Oh you lucky that she didn't pay like she used 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.240 to work so much, so when she go home, she 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.040 ain't paying that much attention. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:26.800 To what we got going on. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.040 Then you know, by that time she getting home, we 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.640 almost in bed getting ready for the next day. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.400 So like she ain't paying attention for real. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.800 So I'm really waiting up to see if my sister 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.440 gonna tell on me when she get home. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.599 You know, those similist stories are fun, man. You know 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.719 another story I heard actually, because I mean clearly you 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:45.320 a big dude. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:46.480 Now you're a big guy. You got to be a 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:47.600 big guy to be running back, right. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.680 I heard your mom used to have to walk around 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.160 with your birth certificate because it's certain sporting events. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.679 They didn't believe you was the age that you were 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:55.680 saying you wasn't that true? 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:56.000 Yeah? 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.600 So like my little league football games, I just come 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.360 out having a game, probably had like four or five 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.440 touchdowns first quarter, first half or something like that, and 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.080 something light. Yeah, and the first thing, you know, the 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.520 opposed team would want to do is you know, they'll 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.960 do that for anybody they thought was just too talented 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.440 or too big for you know, the kids that was playing, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.560 which is understandable. Like if I had a kid on 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.200 the field and they had my kid running up against 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.680 some prototypical type of no young guy, I'm like, hold 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.280 on something, right, they make sure, you know, so it's 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.679 a fusic no times where they just stop the game 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.360 and check my birth certificate to make sure I was 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.599 you know the age, you know, the age group in 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.640 the weight limit, you know, to be playing like a 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.720 skill position in like seven eight years old. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.760 Yeah, yeah, that gotta be a little ego boost though 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.360 for like a seven or eight year old kid right 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.080 to be like, yo, I'm this good that they checking 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.199 my birth certificate. That kind of tell you then, like, okay, man, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.000 I might be onto something with this football thing. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.360 I didn't think about it much then because I was 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.640 just I was just having so much fun just being 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.080 you know, being a young boy just playing playing ball. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.480 Like I was just having so much fun, Like I 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.400 want thinking about like, you know, who was paying that 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.480 much attention to me to stop the game to check 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.199 my age? Just be kind of like it really kind 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.079 of used to annoy me because I'm like, bro, I'm 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.160 the same age as everybody else. I might be just 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.520 a little bit more more than them, But that don't 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.200 mean you gotta you know, isolated, right, you gotta do 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.360 me like that. So that was like that's kind of 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:28.920 how I used to feel about it. I didn't like, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:30.880 I didn't like it, wow, Like I ain't think it 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.600 made me feel feel good, you know, Like I just 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.520 didn't like the fact that like they used to just 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.880 judge that, like like I would go out and play 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.000 with some kids just try to make myself look good 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.040 or something like that, I'm the age group, you know, 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.680 appropriate age, appropriate size, deal with it. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.160 Yeah, And a lot of folks can't fathom greatness R, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.640 especially when they haven't seen it before, and clearly you're. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:54.120 One of one. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.560 When was that moment when you were like, Okay, this 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.360 is for real, Like this is I really can make 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.080 a lifestyle, really a career out of this football thing. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:02.880 When did it hit you? 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.560 I think it was the transition from pee wee football 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.240 in the middle school. When I took that transition, I 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.520 was a little nervous. I went to a you know, 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.040 one of you know, the best middle schools in my 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.840 city at the time, so you know, it was some 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.400 it was some ball players over there, and uh, you 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.920 know the fact that I just you know, came straight 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.320 in and uh, you know, going from pe weed to 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.120 middle school, it's like, you know, always making that next 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.560 that next jump gonna have you feeling like am I 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.880 ready for the next level? Like you know, it's like 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.920 going from you know, D one to the NFL. You're 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.840 still thinking about it, like, h like, I know, I 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.600 played you know, SEC D one ball, but am I 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:39.880 ready to do that in the NFL? 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:40.120 Though? 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.160 You know, so taking that jump from pee wee to 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.800 middle school and just coming straight in and you know, 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.400 fitting right in, you know, being you know fast enough, 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.600 you know, physical enough, you know, having already having a 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.360 playmaking ability to you know be on the field with 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.240 those guys like started to help me, you know, gain 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.960 the confidence and I started get on the field actually 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.640 play with those guys and you know, being a playmaker 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.560 that I always being just at the next level already. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.200 You know, I just kind of had that in the 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.200 back of my head, like I got to take a 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.480 step or two, you know, every year so that I 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.480 can you know, be a step or two ahead of 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.680 the guys in my in my in my class, or 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.760