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Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Shannon Sharp. Welcome to a very special editional club,

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Speaker 1: Sha Shay. As you can see, we're in the gym

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Speaker 1: and my next guest. While he might not be able

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Speaker 1: to live that, he can more than handle his own

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Speaker 1: on the football field Heisman Trophy within a two time

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Speaker 1: national champ AP College Player of the Year of the

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Speaker 1: first receiver to receive that on a SEC Player of

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Speaker 1: the Year. DEBONTI spill all my life, the grinding all

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Speaker 1: my life, sacrifice, hustle back price. One a slice got

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Speaker 1: the Broner dice to swade all my life. I've been

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Speaker 1: grinding all my life, lush all my life, the grinding

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Speaker 1: all my life, and sacrifice hustle back price. One slice

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Speaker 1: got the brolla dice to swade all my life. I've

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Speaker 1: been grinding in all my life. Devonte, how you doing,

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Speaker 1: brou I'm good. I can't a play. You can't a play.

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Speaker 1: You ain't cal mean the palm trees. I know it's

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Speaker 1: the little coldest little cold right now. But how you

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Speaker 1: liking Cally? I like it? You got some very interesting

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Speaker 1: news you want to share with us today? You did

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Speaker 1: something today? What's going on? I just signed with klus

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Speaker 1: Sports just feel like it was a better business decision

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Speaker 1: with me, just more that I can do and more

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Speaker 1: that I can get out with them. There are a

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Speaker 1: lot of agents out there. Obviously you had your choice

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Speaker 1: the big names, and if I'm not mistaken, Clutch just

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Speaker 1: got into this business from a football aspect. I think

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Speaker 1: last year I think they signed Jeffer Kuder, I think

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Speaker 1: they had Chase Young and now you the Heisman Trophy winner.

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Speaker 1: What was it about Clutch that major say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: this is the fit for me, just outside of football,

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Speaker 1: just you as a person, just building your brand, just

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Speaker 1: putting you out there, just making it more than just football.

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Speaker 1: Right now, people just seeing me as DEVONTEE. Smith the

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Speaker 1: football club and Devonte Smith the person. So you wanna

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Speaker 1: you wanna be? Obviously football is gonna be proud of.

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Speaker 1: That's the way you're gonna pay the bills and make

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Speaker 1: a name for yourself. But you want to be outside

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Speaker 1: of football. You want to be bigger than football? Yes, sir, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to this season. Because you had a

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Speaker 1: season for the Ages, Covid hit there was touching goal.

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Speaker 1: We might not have a season. Man. I came back

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Speaker 1: to play because I would have played my senior get

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to play for another national championship. What was

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Speaker 1: going through your mind when it was touching goal the

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Speaker 1: SEC might not play this year. Uh, it was tough

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Speaker 1: just knowing that I came back just to get my

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Speaker 1: degree into play another year. I mean, I got to degree,

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Speaker 1: but it's like what I'm gonna do for this time, NA,

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Speaker 1: that's a long time just to be working out. So

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Speaker 1: it was tough. But just kept believing. They kept going

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Speaker 1: through the protocols and things like that, and it happened.

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Speaker 1: Did you know this season was gonna be special for you?

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Speaker 1: I felt like I was gonna have a good season

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Speaker 1: the season I had. No, I didn't expect that, but

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Speaker 1: I felt like I was gonna have a pretty good

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Speaker 1: season because if you look at it your junior year, obviously,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's very difficult for you to get

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Speaker 1: some shine in Alabama, especially the previous year. You got

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Speaker 1: two first round picks playing the very positions that you played,

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Speaker 1: and you're thinking to yourself, But I got Jalen Waller

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Speaker 1: I got Nigi in the back for you. When did

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Speaker 1: you know this offense could be special? The summer just

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Speaker 1: everybody just buying into everything the team, not just offense defense.

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Speaker 1: Everybody just buying into it and know that the protocols

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Speaker 1: we gotta go through, keeping your bubble on your personal bubble.

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Speaker 1: Small things like that. Like everybody was locked in. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Mac comes in, he plays, well, did you know he

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Speaker 1: was gonna play this well? Yeah, just the work that

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Speaker 1: It's three in the morning, right, he's locked in. What

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Speaker 1: is it like going to Alabama the factory Because you

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Speaker 1: there competing every single day. I mean, it's different. It's

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Speaker 1: So just knowing, and then like everybody's just genuinely happy

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Speaker 1: like that. I mean, you go out there, you see

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I'm like, okay, you decide to go to Alabama,

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Speaker 1: You're like, hold on, Jerry Judy's going there. You've heard

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Speaker 1: of him, Henry Rugg's going there, Jayleen Waddle, why would

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Speaker 1: You know you're not gonna winning by yourself, so you

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Speaker 1: to Alabama. You know one thing, you're gonna play for

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Speaker 1: the SEC title. You're probably gonna compete for a national title.

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Speaker 1: But in the process, coach saban as you said, it's

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Speaker 1: and it might be second team, thirteam tomorrow. So how

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Speaker 1: do you how does Devon how did DeVante Smith get him?

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Speaker 1: Get his mind? Says, you know what I'm going to compete.

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Speaker 1: I can win a job there. Uh. It come down

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Speaker 1: control what you control. I mean, like you control yourself

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Speaker 1: everything else gonna handle to itself. I mean, the coach

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Speaker 1: FAMI every day. They gonna see who putting the work in.

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Speaker 1: Judy rugs yourself waddle Obviously MEEGI is back the next year.

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Speaker 1: What's that meeting room? Like, what's what you know? Obviously

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get everybody's best you You Alabama, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: get everybody's best regardless. And then when now you're the receiver,

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Speaker 1: just that knowing that when someone is giving your best

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Speaker 1: Minka you go. You going against guys that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: What's that like? Because that's a game in practice, I

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Speaker 1: So do you know, like, Okay, I beat Pat. If

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Speaker 1: I can't be at times? So so so who get you? Who?

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Speaker 1: Who got you riled up? Was it Certain? Was it did?

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Speaker 1: Was it Minka? Who gets you? Like? Okay, oh you

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Speaker 1: these type practice. It was for show. Digs did talk

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Speaker 1: Should I've come to Alabama? Should I've gone to my

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Speaker 1: can play? So did you did it? Never cross your mind?

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Speaker 1: I made a mistake, man, be cause I you know,

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Speaker 1: all the time. Uh. I wouldn't say it was necessarily

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Speaker 1: And then just locked in on things I need to improve.

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Speaker 1: That National Championship game, it leaves seems like they're playing

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Speaker 1: What's going through your mind? Don't drive? So you can

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Speaker 1: you like, if I catch this as a game with

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Speaker 1: that play a lovel you are a hero in Bamalore.

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Speaker 1: You call a game winning touchdown that doesn't happen off

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Speaker 1: an international championship game. You caught the game winning touchdown.

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Speaker 1: So nobody had a great, better start and a better

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Speaker 1: it's all God. I mean, like just believing in him,

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Speaker 1: just trusting our training from day one. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: it just happened to come to the game. How does

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Speaker 1: that play change your life? It didn't change much. I mean,

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Speaker 1: still the same me. I feel like people really didn't

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Speaker 1: wherever I met you, come guard me. So that so

423
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,160
Speaker 1: that was the first time that you requested pass from

424
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,920
Speaker 1: ten services for the entire week of practice. Usually I

425
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,760
Speaker 1: just go over to this side, but they'll be like,

426
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 1: oh I emotion, they'll do something mail. But I was like, nah, man,

427
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,879
Speaker 1: this the week like ain't trying to hit none of that,

428
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 1: but like we gotta get it this week. So so

429
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 1: you that you know what, as I'm talking to you,

430
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,639
Speaker 1: that seems so far out of your personality. That's not

431
00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 1: like you. It's just it was up about that game

432
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 1: huh Yeah. It was just like, man, I've been on

433
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 1: the winning side, I've been on the losing side. We've

434
00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:22,920
Speaker 1: both been on the losing side. So I was like,

435
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to have that feeling I had my

436
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,159
Speaker 1: sophomore yet, man, like I came back for my degree

437
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 1: and this I got one. I'm like, ain't nobody from

438
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: stop me from getting my second goal. So I was like,

439
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna make this happen. You go off. I don't

440
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 1: think we've seen anything like this in a National Championship game.

441
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 1: I don't think we've seen anything in the game of

442
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 1: this magnitude because normally a lot of times the Highsman

443
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 1: Trophy he's on the And I think what worked in

444
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 1: your favorite is that the banquet circuit was Nuthering Boyd

445
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 1: because of COVID, so you wouldn't have to go eat

446
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 1: these dinners and you miss practice and miss all this stuff.

447
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 1: You were still able to stay in your routine and

448
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 1: sometimes Hoisman Trophy winners it's anticloud magic what they get

449
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,120
Speaker 1: to the National Championship game. It's like, Bro, you want

450
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 1: the national chick, you want the Higsman, And that's the

451
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 1: kind of performance you put up, but you had a

452
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 1: performance for the ages. What was going through your mind

453
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 1: in the first half of the game really just our

454
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 1: game plan, Like I kid you not men. Coach Sart,

455
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 1: Like right before second quarter we walk into the other

456
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,159
Speaker 1: side and I'm like, Coach Sart, what the play is?

457
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 1: And then we both just say the the same play

458
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 1: at the same time. I'm just like we locked in,

459
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 1: Like it's no way we both say the same play

460
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: at the same time, Like that's what we're thinking about running.

461
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 1: We running touchdown, So we like we really locked in.

462
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 1: Like did you think it was gonna be this easy?

463
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if you had any easy than what

464
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 1: you had in that game. Now that's the best of

465
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: the bathroom over there, and you made it look you

466
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 1: made it look easy. I ain't think it was gonna

467
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: be like that. Like it's a higher state. They just

468
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 1: they just beat Clemson. Yeah, they feeling good about they

469
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 1: sell like they gonna come with it. So like and

470
00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 1: then like when you go out there in warm up,

471
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: you kind of like get a field for it, right,

472
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 1: you see him running out of them going through their routine.

473
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, Like they got a nice one squad.

474
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: They yoked up. They got the nicest athletic program like

475
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 1: we do. They try. I mean, they got feed them.

476
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: Guys can run. They always test well. When they go

477
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 1: to the combine, You're like, okay, okay, this gona this

478
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: gonna be the matchup. This is what everybody wanted to see.

479
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:21,680
Speaker 1: If this is a game you want to watch on

480
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 1: the Nason Championship. This it right here is it? You

481
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: get going, You're like, okay, catch the first one, Okay,

482
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 1: catch the second one, and I think maybe your third

483
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: or fourth catch. You get to the house, You're like, dude,

484
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: in trouble, this is too easy. Did you start because

485
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: he requested your services? He said, y'all y'all asking me

486
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: a question. Who I want to guard? Y'all know who

487
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: I want to guard? So did you start talking, you

488
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 1: start getting you know, normally guys start feeling good, like,

489
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,120
Speaker 1: oh you sure you wanted this? Now you can back

490
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 1: out at any time and go to the other side

491
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 1: because it's a problem over here. It was more just

492
00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 1: like going to the sideline. Like coach Sark. It was

493
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 1: always getting people what they want to see, right. So

494
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: like every week somebody to say something is up there,

495
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: and he just like getting people what they want to see.

496
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: So it's just like, that's what that's what they want

497
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: to see. We're gonna give it to him. So it

498
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: was just like, all right, let's do it. I'm ready.

499
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 1: Whatever y'all want me to do. I'm here. We run

500
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 1: whatever y'all want to run. I'm here. I'm ready. So

501
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: you didn't really see anything to him. I said something

502
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: one time after the after the deep ball. Then I

503
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: was like, just keep giving I was even more, just like, man,

504
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 1: just keep giving me the ball. You have three touchdowns

505
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: over two hundred yards in the first half, and like

506
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: the first play because I'm saying, you know, I'm saying

507
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 1: to myself after I see it, where you're going? I said,

508
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 1: he going for over three. I think he gonna get

509
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 1: over three hund I said he gonna put that National

510
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 1: Championship game rugging so far to there. Nobody's never gonna

511
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: get three hundred. I said, he might get four if

512
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: they can get it close. But I know he's going

513
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: over three. And then you dislocate your finger. What went

514
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: through your mind? You like? Did you like I dislocated

515
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 1: my finger? Like damn, I leaving all these y'all are

516
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: these touch dollars of the field. When it happened, I

517
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 1: didn't feel it like I just looked at it and

518
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 1: it was like it looked weird. So I went to

519
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: the side. I'm like, I think my finger came out,

520
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: so they tried to put it back in. And the

521
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: whole time in the ten I'm just sitting there saying, like,

522
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: if you just catch the ball, your finger don't get dislocated. Right,

523
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: So I'm just like you, I did that to myself.

524
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: You just catch the ball. We will never be in

525
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: this situation. So you you were disappointed that you dropped

526
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: the ball because if you had caught it clean the

527
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 1: first time, it's a routine play. You get ten yards,

528
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: eight twit ten yards, and you go back to the

529
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: hotel and you live to see another day. Yeah, so

530
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: that was your night. You end of the night with

531
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: a historic performance in the first half, your player of

532
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: the game. But you think about what could have been. Yeah,

533
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 1: it's it's always about what you could have done better.

534
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: And and I'm just like my last play, I remember

535
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: me just dropping a pass and dislocating my finger. Brouh

536
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: Sandwich did between you dropping a pass, you got a

537
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: national champion, your national Champion I Hieber Trophy eighty eight

538
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: playing a year. You good, you good under one drop.

539
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 1: You you're preparing for the draft. Now what's your prep been? Like? Uh? Really,

540
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: just rehabbing the hand. You know, up about it. It's

541
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: kind of hard to get with it with the hand.

542
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: So just doing what I can, Just doing every little

543
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 1: thing that I can't, all the little details and things

544
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 1: like that, just my shoulder work, rotator, cust things like that,

545
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,959
Speaker 1: because I mean it's not no bench right now, it's

546
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: not none of that, Like you can't do it? Yeah

547
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: I can't. But here I was like, dang, I said,

548
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: that's why that's getting off press. How is the hand?

549
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: We getting getting better? You had to have circle on it. Yeah,

550
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: I had a ligament. Bone was kind of stuck in

551
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: the ligament, so I had to go in and just

552
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: move it. So but you really wanted to come back,

553
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 1: you like anything. If they could have put that fig

554
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: they could have put that back in. You gonna tap

555
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: it up, take them two fingers together. Yeah, I was.

556
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 1: I was trying my best and I sat up nothing

557
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: for a minute, like, man, we gotta do something, and

558
00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 1: they didn't. Got so bad. I was like, all right,

559
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: I can't. It was paying for her. Yeah, I can't

560
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: take the drilling. That's drilling there. You're like, okay, yeah,

561
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: I want to get back in there, like oooh ooh no, yeah,

562
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: you're preparing for the draft. You can't do it really

563
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 1: any upper body. So you're running, you're you're running routes.

564
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: Are you training with a lot of other guys that's

565
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 1: preparing for the draft? Yeah, it's it's a nice little

566
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: bit of us over there, cause you're down in Tampa right, Yes,

567
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: sir hm, I figured you'd come out of the la.

568
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: I want to ask you. You get start. You you

569
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:34,959
Speaker 1: leave Louisiana the boot. Normally top guys in Louisiana they

570
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: stay home. Why did you leave? Stay at home? It's

571
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: never really me. I always wanted to just get away,

572
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: just get away from there. I wanted to be somewhere

573
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: well people can't just pop up on me. But it's

574
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 1: close enough to well, my my mom, my brother, my pops,

575
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: like they can just come in right around me. But

576
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: I don't want everybody just popping up one So you

577
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: you want to get away, you ain't wanting the home.

578
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: It's like, ain't debt take well, bro, were here yeah,

579
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 1: I had to get away from all that. You're from

580
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: a small town. What was it like growing up in

581
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: that town? Everybody was really family. I mean like you

582
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: be on your street and it's just like you can

583
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: go from house to house like it's family. So like,

584
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 1: it was never nothing too crazy. It wasn't. It wasn't

585
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: the safest place, but it wasn't the roughest either, right,

586
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: But it was just more like you say, because everybody

587
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: know each other, like they his mom went to school

588
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: with your mama, so like y'all know each other now,

589
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: y'all growing up together. They grew up together. So it

590
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: was like everybody that grew up there knew each other.

591
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: Your three four star recruit, but your under size. I mean,

592
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be a big man. You're never gonna

593
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: be a big man. I don't think you ever have

594
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: to worry about being overweight, so you would eat whatever

595
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: you want to. I'm looking at your bone structure. Three

596
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: hundred pounds two fift that's not gonna happen. That was

597
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: the knock coming out of high school that he's too

598
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: small now reports So I don't know if it's true.

599
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: You can reckonmen form wrong. You wait, one hundred and

600
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: twenty pounds as a freshman in high school. Yeah, yeah,

601
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty. Yeah, how much you weigh as

602
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: a senior? Probably one fifty, one forty five. You didn't

603
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: get a whole lot of weight, So I guess you

604
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: didn't go. You didn't go to your friend's house and

605
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: eating though, cause and some high between four years, you

606
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: gotta gave board to twenty five pounds. So you go

607
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: to Universe of Alabama at one forty five, one fifty

608
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: you walk on campus. Coach Safer take a look at you,

609
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: And what did he say? It was just like you here,

610
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: like we gotta put some weight on you. We got

611
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: you here. Now you gotta just put the weight on you.

612
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: So you start lifting, you start eating. It's like you

613
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: eat whatever you want, as much as you want. Yeah,

614
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: it was just like shakes just every little second, like

615
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: you gotta be eating somewhere. It's a little protein ball

616
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: where it's a shake right after you work out, just

617
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: whenever you're doing nothing, just eat even though all that.

618
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: What are you weighing now? One seventy one seventy I

619
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: said when someone asked me to say critique, who did

620
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: you remind you of the first name came in by

621
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: head was Marvin Harrison. You're about the same Bill, You're

622
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: about the same size. Barbie could run routes. Uh you

623
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: run X. I mean maybe that's an Alabama thing where

624
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: you guys are very technically and fundamentally sound at running

625
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: the route tree. Who does your game remind you of? Uh?

626
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: Defonte Adams, Keenan Allen, just from the releases to the

627
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: route running, just every little detail like if something not right,

628
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come out of them like, br I ain't

629
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: do this right, Like I ain't feel comfortable with that.

630
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: So you figure you feel the only way a guy

631
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: gets gets a jam on you or stop you in

632
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: the route. It was something you did, not really something

633
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: he did. So when you're in the meeting room, you're

634
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: in the meeting room with Judy, and Judy is very

635
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: Judy can run the routs you run routes. Rugs is

636
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: more of a speed guy, Jayleen and speed, but he

637
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: can run routes Sauso. So are you guys critiquing you, like,

638
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: but I got you on that one, bru, I got

639
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: got you that dig your dig They look like, oh, yeah,

640
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: for sure, it's every day just going in there like,

641
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I did this way with any of my

642
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: release this way, but than the areas that's every day

643
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: with anything that we do. So is that something that

644
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: you guys, because I'm you look at you know, you

645
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: go back and it starts with Julio and you go

646
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: Ridley and you go for uh, well you go Julio, Amari, Ridley,

647
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: h Judy yourself rugs. Is that something that those guys

648
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: passed down like each one teach one. Yeah. When I

649
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: came to my freshmanal, That's that's how Calvin was just

650
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: showing us everything. Look, route routes, releases, things like the

651
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: very of the detail, and you know, them guys all

652
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: coming from South Florida, Him, Coop, you, they just like

653
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: that's what we've been doing, Like that's just how it

654
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: is in South Florida, the route running down there, like

655
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: that's what they do, right. So it was just like

656
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: you watch those guys and you just take every little detail,

657
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: just soaking in. How do you guys? Most of you

658
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: guys have very similar personalities. I mean, Julio doesn't do

659
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,719
Speaker 1: much talking, Coup does no talking, You do no talking.

660
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know much about Judy, but

661
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem like a talker. Wow, I mean, what's up?

662
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: I mean you got skilled like that, You're supposed to

663
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: be talking because I talk. I let him know you.

664
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to you the first half and

665
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: just so he don't feel left out, I'm gonna give

666
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: it to him a second half. Y'all gonna get it today.

667
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: It's more people. People don't like when they when they

668
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: talk and you don't talk to him, Like when you

669
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: like when they talk to you, they want you to

670
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: talk back. Yeah, but when they talking you don't talk back,

671
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: They like, like you really feel like like, damn, you

672
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: want to talk to me today? Like, nah, I'm not

673
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: gonna say that. I'm just gonna keep working like I'm like,

674
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: I want you to keep working at gets to it. Ye.

675
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: See see just what you ask for now. See I

676
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: was minding my own business. I had no intentions of

677
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: talking to said anything. But see now I got to

678
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: give it to you. I usually just give you a

679
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: look like like I just look at you and I

680
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: laugh or I shake my head like okay, yeah, this

681
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: is what you ask for. Okay? Were your parents surprised

682
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: where your where your your neighborhood surprised that you didn't

683
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: choose the LSU and you chose to go to Alabama. Uh,

684
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say my family was surprised because I told

685
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: him like, I'm not going now, Like I know it's

686
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: job I want me to do, but it's not happening.

687
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: I gotta go somewhere else. So I feel like neighborhood

688
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: was probably a surprise, but my mom, pop, grandfather, they

689
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: weren't surprised because I already told him. So that once

690
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: you you it was made. You made up in your

691
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: mind I'm not going to LSU. It came down between

692
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: Alabama and who It was just all Alabama. It was

693
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: all so the only place that you really had set

694
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: your mind on was going to Alabama. Yeah, so what

695
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: happens in Alabama or not for your scholarship, then we

696
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: would have just had the role where we had had

697
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: to figure something out. So because you didn't put all

698
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: your eggs in that basket. Wow, that's so you're small.

699
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: You're one hundred and twenty pounds as a freshmen. You

700
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: end up at one forty five your senior year. In between,

701
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: did you were your high school team? Would you would

702
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: you guys very good. Yeah. We went to the state

703
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: twice in my four years, y'all. Now we lost both

704
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: of 'em. What happened? Now they lose? It was my

705
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: senior year week we lost a boy folk. We had

706
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: a couple of mistakes on the one yard line, so

707
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: that cost us. So your wide receiver, did you play

708
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,439
Speaker 1: any other positions? Play safety? Corner? I ain't leave the field?

709
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: Oh you were you wet? So the mass your wet? So? Uh?

710
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: Your your corner skills? Who are your corner skills? You?

711
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: You don you reavers? I give you more of a

712
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: guild more. Oh you step by guil Oh you you

713
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: you're putting hands on people. I can I switch it

714
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: up every nine and then? Oh so y'all got sophisticated

715
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: dog because when I was in high school, Oh, you

716
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: played straight made and everybody it was made. I got you.

717
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 1: Yeah got that, you made football. I got you. That's

718
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: how it was. They we played a team that had

719
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: a good receiver. That's who I got. They had some

720
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: O receivers that I just go play. So you so

721
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: you you travel, you picked up freque reply males? You

722
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,919
Speaker 1: just okay? Yeah you shut it out. Hey, I only

723
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: gave up one touchdown. One touchdown was at safety double

724
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: scenes cover three. I had to choose the side. I

725
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: chose the wrong side. I want to know what it

726
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 1: seems to me, Coach Saban didn't have to do a

727
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: whole lot of selling of you because your mind was

728
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: made up. You wasn't going to LSU. So I was

729
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: gonna I was gonna ask you what kind of what

730
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: kind of sales would pitch the coach Saban give you?

731
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: But he really didn't have to give you any did it.

732
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: Actually it wasn't as easy as everybody thought. Like he

733
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: didn't offer me at first because it was the size things.

734
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: So it was just kind of like, we need you

735
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: to gain some weight before we offer you. But my

736
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 1: mentor he just kept bringing me back to the camp

737
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: and it was just like all right, every time he

738
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: come he killed the best dbs, Like all right, I

739
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: don't even care about the size, and I'm just offering.

740
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: And like once he gave it to me, I was

741
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: kind of in my feelings college like okay, you ain't

742
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: gonna offer me because of my side, n I ain't

743
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: coming here. But then that's when I started realized, like

744
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: all right, you gotta make the most of this opportunity.

745
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: It's like, get out your feelings. Just do us best

746
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: for you. Right. It seems that coach Saban develops up

747
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: more than a player coach relationship. He's almost like a

748
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: father figure to these guys because he's genuinely happy. He said,

749
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: I this is the He said something that he isn't

750
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: normally say because coach Saban has six national championships since

751
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: he's uh been back at the University of Alabama. But

752
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: he said something that this was this was his favorite team.

753
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: This was his most special team. Why do you think

754
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: he said that? Uh, just everybody just like everybody bought

755
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: into everything about the team. It was no selfishness or

756
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: nothing like that. It was no individual it was like

757
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: team everybody. Like not everybody had COVID like before we

758
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: even came back, but it's just like the few people

759
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: that we didn't have, like everybody bought into Like you

760
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: just can't be out here doing this and that. And

761
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: it was like you don't have players going out to

762
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: parties and things like that. Like everybody come to practice,

763
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 1: going home, we're around each other if we at home,

764
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: and that's about it. Like everybody bought into everything. Like,

765
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: wasn't nobody around here just messing around. Yeah, that's really

766
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: hard because you're a college kid and are part of

767
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: being college is doing college kid things, going out to parties,

768
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: doing certain things. But you realize, now not only is

769
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: this about being selfish for you, but you're putting the

770
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: team at risk because not only could you possibly be infected,

771
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: but now you come back and you infect the whole

772
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 1: the entire team. Yeah, so it was just just like

773
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: you said, like, it's not just about you, gotta think

774
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: about the people around you. So like you coming you,

775
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: we're in a meeting room with everybody. Then you have

776
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: COVID and now it's like all right, we were just

777
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: in a team meeting, so like now everybody got a quarantine. Now,

778
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: you guys your junior year, you guys used to play

779
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: something with rock paper scissors. How did that come about?

780
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: And how did coach Saban look at that? Because I

781
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: see you guys were playing that and then it kind

782
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: of went away. It was a one time thing. Like

783
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,959
Speaker 1: we were just sitting in the huddle and they called

784
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: the play and usually we do like just lifting, right,

785
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: So when they called up play me and she was like, nah,

786
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: I'm taking this route, and he was like, nah, I'm

787
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,919
Speaker 1: taking out, Like well, we're gonna have to rot Peper

788
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: Scissor song and then we just end up doing it

789
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: and then like yeah, everybody just blow it up and

790
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 1: coach saving He had a little meen with us. It

791
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: wasn't nothing crazy though, but it was just like, all right,

792
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: we understand what you're saying. All right, we've done doing that.

793
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: Nothing right. I'm what's your favorite route to run? A

794
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: glance route? We cause a bang aid skinny skinny post

795
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: five step slant. Yeah, why why do you like that

796
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: route so much? H It's just so much I can

797
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: do from a release, just that and then like you

798
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: can make it look I can play with a split,

799
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: I can be tight, I can be wide, I can

800
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: be in the divide like, I can do so much

801
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 1: with it. And you'll never know what's coming. But you know,

802
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: that quarterback, you gotta be there because that safety coming. Yeah,

803
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: that safety and be coming with bad intentions. So if

804
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: he's if he leaves you, the thing is with that route,

805
00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: you want him to protect you. Yea. The worst case,

806
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: it's words putting on my back shoulder, let me turn

807
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: and do this, so he hit me in the back.

808
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: Don't make me do this. Yeah, and let it hit

809
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: me in my face, because they're gonna be problems. Yeah

810
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: between me and you not be in the same thing me,

811
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: you gonna have a problem. Yeah, it's a trust thing.

812
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: I mean you always trust your quarterback to make the

813
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 1: right read and do the right thing. And then it's

814
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: just like your angle helps you a lot too. You

815
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: stay flat, then your back and automatically beat him. Right.

816
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 1: So when you you go into the game, you got

817
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 1: your favorite route, and so I had a favorite route,

818
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to make everything look like that route.

819
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: So my steps if I'm running you know, basic cross

820
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,919
Speaker 1: with you you know ten or twelve yard crossing the route.

821
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: But I'm also making the the out rout look like that.

822
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: I'm also making the seven route look like that. I'm

823
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: also making the dig look like that. So is that

824
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: how you Is that how you're thinking? You're like, I

825
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: want everything to look like this, but then I'm gonna

826
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: fall off the table and out route. Yeah, you make

827
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: everything look the same, like you gotta drive off the ball.

828
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 1: You gotta look at the person that you're going against,

829
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: like you can't be looking down like look like if

830
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: I run every route, and I'm looking at you. You'll

831
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: never know what's kind of right sales speed and don't

832
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: slow down in the break. Just every just stick your

833
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: foot in the ground and just go because when you

834
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: start slowing down, then he knows what's gonna come. You're

835
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: gonna start leaning to the way you're going. So just

836
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: full speed, looking at him and just keep going, always

837
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: full speed through it. Well, you guys, you the Alabama receivers,

838
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: you guys do a very good job of that of

839
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: not tipping your routes off, not decelerated, because a lot

840
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: of guys you like that in the corner is gonna drive.

841
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: He see you breaking, you start chopping what routs you run?

842
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: Chopping like that? It's like everything if everything is speed

843
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: with you guys. I see you guys fall off the table?

844
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: Is that one two three four five? I'm off the table?

845
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: One two three four five. I'm in. You guys are

846
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: sitting up, and you guys are very good with your show.

847
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: You guys are constantly moving, constantly moving. It's more just

848
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: like it's a feeling like when you start running the routes,

849
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: you just feel like when it's supposed to happen, right,

850
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: So it's like you never running route counting your steps.

851
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: If you running around counting your steps, then you're not

852
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: gonna be running full speed because you're trying to count

853
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: the steps. So it's more of a feel like okay,

854
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: I'm running, and then you just feeling and it just happening.

855
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: You just break. But the thing else is that like

856
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: in the like in practice, we always ran the routes

857
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: a little deeper because we know come game time that

858
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: clock's gonna speed up. And so is that how you're

859
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: thinking that, Okay, I know they said fourteen, but I

860
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna be able to get the fourteen,

861
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 1: so I'm probably gonna have to hit this thing at twelve. Yeah,

862
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: it was like that at times because you get the

863
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: practice and the lines don't be always white like they

864
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: be missing sometimes, so you just like before the play,

865
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: I look like, okay, I supposed to be here. I'm

866
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: gonna go a little bit deeper than that since I

867
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: can't really tell this line at right. So your position

868
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: coach is he really a stickler or like get your depth,

869
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: get your depth, get your depth. You're too quick. You're

870
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: too quick because everything needs to tie up time up.

871
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: Like you said, when you're coming out of your break

872
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: on that glass route, Mac Jones, backfoot need to be

873
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: hit and he needs to be driving the football. You're

874
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 1: throwing that fall off the table to the speed out.

875
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 1: When that's back foot hit, you need to be falling

876
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: off the table. But something like I said, you know

877
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: you get jam. You know, hey, I know you like

878
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: to think you're gonna win every route, but sometimes you

879
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: get jam. It's gonna have to you have to speed

880
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, So if you get hugged up at

881
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: the line, I mean, it's still timing. So you just

882
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: get what you can. And I mean the bar is

883
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: still supposed to be out right, So it's a timing thing,

884
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: not more just like yeah, depth is it. And they

885
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: always get on us about our depth. I mean like

886
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: if you get a clean release and stuff and you

887
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: don't get your depth, then all right, what you're doing

888
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 1: this for? But like if you get hung up, then

889
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: like of course you've got to cut cut it short

890
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 1: because it's timing and you can be you know, don't

891
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: be modest here. Do you believe you had the greatest

892
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: Alabama career? If any players to Severn come through Alabama, Uh, nah,

893
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: who had a better career. I don't. I don't know

894
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: who I had better, but I wouldn't. I wouldn't say myself.

895
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean, how many I don't know how many guys

896
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: have been won the Heisman, when AP Player of the Year,

897
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 1: SEC Player of the Year, twenty three touchdowns. Uh, when

898
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: you look what you did, you had the greatest on

899
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: field and off field as far as awards of any

900
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: receiver in history. Now, it's hard for me to believe

901
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 1: that there's been a player that comes through the University

902
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: of Alabama. Now I go back to Alabama, I was

903
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: a little I was a lot older than you, and

904
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: so I go back way with coach Bryant. I don't

905
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: know if there's been a player that had the career

906
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: that you've had. When you think about it, you stayed

907
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: four years, two national titles, a Housman Trophy, AP Player

908
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: of the Year, SEC Offensive Player of the Year, the yard,

909
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: the catcher, the touchdowns, like it said Calvin Ridley, Julio Jones,

910
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, Jerry Judy, Rugs Waddle, You're name in front

911
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: of all of them. It's but I consider myself as

912
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: of course, I consider myself as the best right receiver

913
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: that came through, but players had Olio. Oh, I would

914
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 1: tell who You heard that Elio? You heard what he said? Really,

915
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: he's Amari. He said better than you. That what he said.

916
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 1: I ask you back. I said, you's the best player

917
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: he said, receiver. Yeah, I consider myself as the best

918
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: receiver to come through there. I mean it's been some

919
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: great guys like Julio Coop, but I mean we still

920
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 1: watch film with them. I mean it's stuff that I

921
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: took out they tool box that helped me get to

922
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: the wild outside. I mean, like I don't get to

923
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: where I am without them without watching them, watching Julio,

924
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: watch watching him run all the glass routes in Atlanta

925
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: and things like that. So, I mean, like that's stuff

926
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: that I had just put my toolbox and I'm like,

927
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: y'all help me get here. Can you believe Julio is

928
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: that size and can run and move like he can? Yeah,

929
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: he came around with us once something and ology like, bro,

930
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: you too big to the big dude. People don't realize.

931
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: People don't realize how big Julio Fullio probably about two

932
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: thirty yeah, thirty five, You're like, bro, let me, let

933
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: me get a little bit of that. Then let me

934
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: get to like two hunter. But you know you're not

935
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: gonna be you probably the highest you ever gonna wait

936
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: probably when eighty. You know you realize that, don't you. Yeah?

937
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: This is it. This is what you got anybody to draft?

938
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 1: The bonte smells like bruh, y'all get all the protein

939
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: that you want? Is it? Yeah? That's how I look

940
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: at I mean, like people say, I'm not eating it up,

941
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: like like I eat all day every day, Like it's

942
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: just not gonna happen. This is who I amn't right,

943
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: So I mean like I accept it. I mean, like

944
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: if you are accept it or you or you're not.

945
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it is what it is. Where would you

946
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: like to play? I mean, you got a lot of

947
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: mock graphs. Some have you going third, some have you

948
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: going seven, eight, some have you going to the you know, leven.

949
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: What's the ideal landing spot for uh? I just want

950
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: to be somewhere where it's a team, where they gonna

951
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: throw the ball, where they're gonna throw the ball, and

952
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: where it's a team. I mean, like you can go

953
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: to some of these teams and it's just like you

954
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: have players. It's all about the money. It's not like

955
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: it's not about the game, right. I wanna go somewhere

956
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,399
Speaker 1: where like it's a team, like we were gonna We're

957
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: not here just doing this for a chick. We're doing

958
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,399
Speaker 1: it here to take care of our families and to win.

959
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: I mean like, I'm not trying to go nowhere. It's

960
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: like we're gonna lose every game, Like all right, I

961
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: got my chicken. I'm I'm out. Like nah, I wanna win.

962
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: I want to go somewhere with family, like you feel

963
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 1: like it's family, like I enjoy coming here every day.

964
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to walk in a building like man

965
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: here I come with these dudes. They ain't trying to

966
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: get better like I wanna go somewhere gonna I'm gonna

967
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: make the person cross from me better. They gonna make

968
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: me better. They ask you a question. I think at

969
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and they ask you who is better,

970
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: macor Tour And the report is before you even they

971
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:27,280
Speaker 1: even finished it. You said, Mac, what's the differences between

972
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: the two quarterbacks? They both two great quarterbacks. I mean

973
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: they both play differently, Mac more of a I'm gonna

974
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: watch film. I know what you're gonna do. It's not

975
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: nothing you're gonna show me that I haven't seen and

976
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: tours more of a like I'm gonna get in the game.

977
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: I figured it out. Okay, I see you doing this now.

978
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna come more instincts. But I mean

979
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: they're two great quarterbacks. I mean everybody operates differently. It's

980
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: just like with Judie. It's like, I'm a route runner.

981
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna beat you like this, Like I run routes.

982
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: That's if I do rugs. It's speed. I'm gonna beat

983
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: you with speed. Me it's route running, water speed, route running.

984
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: It's like everybody has the different way of being successful,

985
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: and I mean that's the that's their ways. Are you

986
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: gonna run the forty? Nah? You play faster than you

987
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 1: probably with time. That's what you think, don't, isn't it.

988
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: I don't know why people think I'm slow, because I'm

989
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: really not. I mean, like you can run for three yeah,

990
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: I believe I could. I mean I ran tracking things

991
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: like that, Like I'm just long. It looks slow, but

992
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: like if you put some fry, you put somebody outside me,

993
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: you'll be like, Okay, he not slow. That's that's what

994
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: I got that's I think that's the thing that some

995
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: of the the culture Ohio State said, you don't realize

996
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: how fast he's moving until you're up close. So you're

997
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, you look at somebody on feel me, You're like, okay, you,

998
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: but then you get there and you see them, You're like,

999
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: damn dude moving. Yeah, that's that's how I look at

1000
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: It's just like y'all on the outside looking in. But

1001
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: like if you on this field looking you'll be like, oh, yeah,

1002
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: like he moved. You run you can? Can you out

1003
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: run rugs? Nah? I can't. But I ain't gonna say

1004
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 1: a right. What about water? Nah? It depends water. It

1005
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 1: depends on what it is. I believe he would give

1006
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: me an the forty, but I believe we ran like

1007
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: a sixty or something like that. I'd get him water

1008
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: or waddle of rugs. Who's fast? It depends on what

1009
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: you're running forty, I take water. You take water in

1010
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 1: the ford. I take water in the forty. Wow, you

1011
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: do realize Rung ran for two seven? Yeah, so what

1012
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: you're expected is water gonna if he's gonna run the forty,

1013
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: I don't know, cause I would have looked. Do you

1014
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: think it was a blessing and the curse. Do you

1015
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: believe you'd have been able to put up the numbers

1016
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: had Waddle stayed healthy? Nah, I know I wouldn't have.

1017
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: But I mean, like I believe both of us would

1018
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: have had great seasons. It was like, you can't you

1019
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: double one, the other one gonna eat, right, vice versa.

1020
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: So I mean like if he would have played, Nah,

1021
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't have want to hide it probably

1022
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 1: would have wouldn't hide becau back go through Like I

1023
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to hidean I mean, I believe blinding the

1024
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: car could have probably went to either one of us, right,

1025
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: So I know like he would have played one hundred percent.

1026
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have want to Hidsman. So you got are

1027
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: you and Water working out together now? Nah? He's training

1028
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Okay, So I watched you when the Hidsman

1029
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: and your mom was a lady, your father was a lady.

1030
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: You're happy. What's gonna be what the what is the

1031
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: draft gonna be like? Because that's not the end of

1032
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: the journey, that's just the beginning. Yeah, because you just said,

1033
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,320
Speaker 1: well I want to get drafted. No, no, no, no, no,

1034
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: he said, I want to play. So that's the that's

1035
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: the start of a new journey. Uh, it's really just

1036
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: I don't like being around a lot of people. So

1037
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be you and your Mom's gonna be

1038
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: a small group. Yeah, it's gonna be a small group.

1039
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 1: I don't like having too many people around me and

1040
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: things like that, so yeah, it's gonna be a small group.

1041
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: And then what about the cook out. Man, you know

1042
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: y'all could got man, y'all gotta have some bull Dang,

1043
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: you're gotta jump jumber lives and two fade. Y'all gotta

1044
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: have some gumbo. Man, you can't have your five people

1045
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: to eat all that. We was talking about that last

1046
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: night about food and stuff like that. We might do

1047
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: something after, but as far as like draft night, it's

1048
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: gonna be small. But after we might have like something

1049
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: at the park or something like. Okay, okay, So you

1050
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: you this is gonna be a culmination because obviously, you know,

1051
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: you go to Alabama and obviously you want to get

1052
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: a degree, but you believe Alabama was gonna put you

1053
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: on the track, the path to get to the NFL.

1054
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: So this will be the start of a new as

1055
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: I mentioned, the start of a new journey. So what's

1056
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 1: the emotion is gonna be like, uh, just you knowing

1057
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,760
Speaker 1: that you came here for this and it was everything

1058
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: that you wanted and more so, it's just like, this

1059
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: is what I expected. I appreciate every little thing that

1060
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 1: they've done for me, and it's just like everything that

1061
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: y'all y'all soul to me. It was that it was no, Oh,

1062
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like this, and it wasn't everything that

1063
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,240
Speaker 1: they told me how it's gonna be. It was exactly

1064
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,919
Speaker 1: like that. So I mean, like I feel like that's

1065
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: part of the reason that I did go there. It

1066
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: was just like they kept it real with me from

1067
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: from the jump. It was no, always gonna be this,

1068
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: and it wasn't. It was like, everything was exactly what

1069
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: you told me. Are you gonna bring your mom and

1070
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: dad to wherever you go or they're gonna stay back

1071
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: in Louisiana. Oh, mom says she's gonna come, by doubt it.

1072
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: I think she's just gonna stay. She's not going to

1073
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: leave Louisiana. Hum, Nah, what did coach say you You

1074
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,800
Speaker 1: mentioned that it was what you thought it would be

1075
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: At the University of Alabama. What did coach Saban promise you?

1076
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: It was going to be that. He told me, like,

1077
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: you work, you're gonna get what you deserve. He didn't

1078
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: promise you a starting job. Yeah, that's that's that was

1079
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: the main thing with me. Like everybody like, oh, you

1080
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 1: come here, you're gonna play, And I'm just like, how

1081
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,359
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna play? I can come and step

1082
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: foot on campus and something can happen to me and

1083
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: then I don't play, Like how did you know I'm

1084
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: gonna play? So it was just like, nah, you come here,

1085
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: it's not no guarantee. We're not giving you nothing, like

1086
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,439
Speaker 1: you gotta earn it, like you're gonna earn to play,

1087
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: You're gonna work to play. So it was just like that,

1088
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:01,879
Speaker 1: And I'm mean, I'm all for it, all for the work.

1089
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 1: I don't want nothing given to me, Like make me

1090
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,280
Speaker 1: work for it. What was your first day of practice?

1091
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: Like you go to Universe, You're at the University of Alabama.

1092
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: All these four or five star, three star recruits here

1093
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: and DeVante one hundred all one hundred and fifty pounds,

1094
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 1: what was that first day of practice? Like? Uh, really,

1095
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: it was just like another day. I mean, you go

1096
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: out there, you see the guys like make them running,

1097
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: Tony and all of them. You see them, they're like

1098
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: they yoked up, so you like they kind of realize

1099
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: here about was like end of the day. I mean

1100
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: like I ain't here from nothing. They bought me here

1101
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 1: for a reason, so like just go out here and

1102
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:39,720
Speaker 1: just beat myself. Get through the first day, you like, okay,

1103
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: because normally that first day, the first day of practice,

1104
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,839
Speaker 1: I mean you fresh, it's the second the third day

1105
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: with that sword to start to sneak to sink in

1106
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 1: and you got to push through it. And all of

1107
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: a sudden, the lay that that that fast twitch. Don't

1108
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:54,959
Speaker 1: want to turn over and coach the sun. You gotta

1109
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: get out, Devantet. You gotta get out the bright sun.

1110
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: We don't have all day. Come on, come on, Devonte,

1111
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: hustling up. I run a lot, like I can run

1112
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: all day, so I didn't necessarily had that problem with

1113
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: like dead legs. Like I always was like I can

1114
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: run all the day, I'm not gonna get tired, right,

1115
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: But it was more of like all right, my feet

1116
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: hurting right, So it's like you gotta take care of

1117
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: your feet. You gotta cold to besides and stuff like that.

1118
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 1: So that's when I really like, Okay, it's the the

1119
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: treatment and stuff like that. The maintenance you gotta get

1120
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 1: into that, Like you gotta take care of your feet.

1121
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: That's when I first started getting a pair of cures

1122
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I was like, Okay, you really

1123
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: gotta take care of your feet. That's the only thing

1124
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:32,879
Speaker 1: that's really this slong. You down, You gonna run all day,

1125
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: but your feet hurting. You gotta take care of it.

1126
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: You mentioned you could run, You ran track? Would you run?

1127
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: I ran everything from one hundred, two hundred, four hundred

1128
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: triple jomp? What who? What do you do? Trip jomp?

1129
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 1: For the fourth? Yeah, I don't do man. I beat you.

1130
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: I'll beat the breaks up, y'all. I thought you. I

1131
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,439
Speaker 1: thought you're gonna say fifth Oh nah man nah nah?

1132
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: So what was your specially? What was the bed? Like

1133
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: every track meet, DeVante Adams is gonna enter this event,

1134
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: the four hundred and triple jump you a four hundred? Yeah,

1135
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: I love it for a hundred. That's my favorite race

1136
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: to watch you. I love the four about four and

1137
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: the four and the open Poort. Now, only thing I

1138
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: didn't like about the photo. I ain't had nobody on

1139
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: there women, so it was a lot to make up.

1140
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah that that kind of get that, that

1141
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: kind of getting group from and they expect you to

1142
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: because I let brou dude, I'm a hun y'all, what

1143
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,959
Speaker 1: else you wanted to do? Le teen? I can make teen,

1144
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 1: but y'all get the fu futher y'all, y'all push you

1145
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: the out of limit? Yeah? If plus you beat up

1146
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: a round, A whole bunch of other beings you beat up.

1147
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: I was a long jump and trip and jumped through

1148
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: the desk, ran both of the relay teams. I'm like, bro,

1149
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: what what what come up? Brou? I mean all that

1150
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: I ain't got no more legs. Yeah, but yeah, most

1151
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: definitely four hundred like that. That was my worridors. I

1152
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,439
Speaker 1: love it. You go to the state the poor. Yeah

1153
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: you win. I came in second. What you what you

1154
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: tying for? Eight? That's that's a decent time. That's a

1155
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: decent time. I mean. So the guy that beat you

1156
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: did he go somewhere? Did he play football? I don't know,

1157
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: but we didn't practice. We just showed up to track.

1158
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 1: Me and j Rand kind of food this is that,

1159
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: hey man, That's just how it is where we were from.

1160
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: You just show up. Yeah, we didn't say that I

1161
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,359
Speaker 1: tried practice with football practice. You just show up. Well, yeah,

1162
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it was. And track, you know, you

1163
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 1: ran track to try to get out of spring football.

1164
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 1: It was Nah, you're doing both of 'em. Let me

1165
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: ask you question where I'm from. Back when I played,

1166
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 1: we used to have what we called jamborees, So we

1167
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: would play a whole game, but we would play two

1168
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,439
Speaker 1: different teams. We would play one team for a half

1169
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: and then we would play another team for a half

1170
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: and then once That's how did y'all ever do? Though?

1171
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:34,840
Speaker 1: Our jamboreees is just one team for a half, But

1172
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 1: we did have some scrimmages where it was like three teams.

1173
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 1: Then you just do certain drives against them. So the

1174
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: only position you ever played with wide receiver, corner and safety.

1175
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 1: You never played quarterback. You never played another position. I

1176
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: played one snap of quarterback. It didn't work out for him.

1177
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: What happen you do a pick? Nah, you got blasted.

1178
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 1: They snapped the ball or roll and I picked up

1179
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: and you got lasted. Yeah, you gotta jump seat. See

1180
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: you gotta jump on it. You gotta jump on the ball.

1181
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: It did everything to be it. Okay, yeah, I thought

1182
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: it was gonna be a hero just then, but not

1183
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: never played running back. No, yeah, I see I was running.

1184
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: I started as a running back. But I got tired

1185
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: of say my bad, shop my bad, I missed that block,

1186
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: so I don't worry about it. I must switch position

1187
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,320
Speaker 1: in that way. I know who tackling me because I

1188
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: got worried about nobody said my bad. Yeah, Alabama, So

1189
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 1: from Louisiana, small town of Louisiana, high school star when

1190
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: your high school start, would you say you would you

1191
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: consider yourself a high school star? Yeah? Are you the

1192
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: Are you the the best player to come out of

1193
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 1: your high school? I think I am. I mean it

1194
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:37,800
Speaker 1: got and I had some people that came out of

1195
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: my high school. Anybody we know, uh, anybody played major

1196
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 1: college and go to the next level. Play a n

1197
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: P J. Franklin. No, okay, so it's less the record.

1198
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: It was guys like that. So you're the best player

1199
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: in your high school, You're the best player at Alabama.

1200
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,320
Speaker 1: So now you gotta to finish off this trip factor.

1201
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,879
Speaker 1: You gotta be the best player whoerever you go. Yeah,

1202
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: I mean that's how you want to be. You want

1203
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:12,439
Speaker 1: to be the best players. You can be best player

1204
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: you everywhere you go, just knowing that, Like, that's that's

1205
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: what you want to get to. You want to to

1206
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: You wanna be the best. You're playing this to be

1207
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: the best. So I mean, like that's ultimately what you want.

1208
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:24,959
Speaker 1: What do you want people to know about Davonte Smith

1209
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: that they don't know besides the football player? I mean

1210
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: obviously they know you're next. You're not outstanding football player.

1211
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: You won the Heisman Trophy back in the you there

1212
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: are very few guys that can say they won the

1213
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy, player of the Year, two time national champ.

1214
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: What are some what are some of the things you

1215
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: would like people to know about DeVante outside of football?

1216
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: What do you like do? What are your hobbies? What

1217
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: do you like to do? Uh? I sit in the

1218
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: house all day. Honestly, I don't do nothing. I don't

1219
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: go out. I see you got a movie, guy? You

1220
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: don't bowl top golf? I mean I bought me and rugs.

1221
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: We'll go bowl and stuff like that. But mostly sitting inside,

1222
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: play Call of Dude and cook. That's about it. Oh

1223
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: you cook, I do a little song. No, let me

1224
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: take this back. Do you just throw the stuff in

1225
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: a pot? I mean you might be you might be

1226
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: one of the more potluck type of guy. You put

1227
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff in the pot and you look it. No, kid, nah,

1228
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: I'm can't. You can't you cook? I can cook? Okay,

1229
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: So what's the dish? What? What? What's your dish? What's

1230
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: your goat through dish? Jump a loaf? Oh my goodness, okay,

1231
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: so what's so special about your jump a lie? It's

1232
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: just the flavor of it, Like it's I like mine spicy,

1233
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: but anyting spices that's gonna like make you be like,

1234
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: oh but see that. But see that's what y'all doing Louisiana.

1235
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: See y'all pay if it's so hot, you ca that's good? No,

1236
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: that's not good. If I got to do rugs made

1237
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: me realize that I gave him some all some sausage

1238
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: one time. He was like, brou I don't ever bring

1239
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 1: this side some fat, Like it's not even that hot.

1240
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: I had to realize that like our hot. It's like, yes, yes,

1241
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: that's how y'all be doing it down there. Y'all be

1242
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: putting all the spike that stuff down there. Man, look here,

1243
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: if I got to do all that, no, it's not

1244
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 1: I can't taste it. I'm blowing. I gotta drag one.

1245
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: I can't even taste the food. That how you cook lectency.

1246
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: You already told me you like it like spicy, but

1247
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 1: not too spicy, And you just told me your spicy

1248
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: is different than somebody that's not from Louisiana spice. I

1249
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: kind of got away from that though. Like at the beginning,

1250
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, I'm gonna have a spice, but

1251
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: then I had to realize, like all right, eating all

1252
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 1: this spicy food and going out there running like nah,

1253
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: if it works out like that, you gotta throwing it

1254
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 1: down right. So okay, jumber live what about gub? You can?

1255
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 1: You could gumbo? I never I never did gumbo. I

1256
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 1: never did it. I was I was thinking about getting

1257
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: into it, but I just ain't got around to it. Faith,

1258
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: I did it too fake before, Bude, No, never did

1259
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: I don't don't. I'm not big, Boom, You're not big.

1260
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: But you know, Lousia, y'all year everything. So y'all try

1261
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 1: to alligator, y'all e turn or y'all so so so

1262
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: what are some of the delicacies that you probably take

1263
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: it in? Turkey eggs, neck bones, pig feed. Just put

1264
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: stuff in a ball pot. See, I told you that

1265
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: just toold y'all your pot. Look, he thought a whole

1266
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. I hope you don't put all that

1267
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,919
Speaker 1: stuff in one pot together. You ain't putting turkey necks

1268
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 1: and neck bone and chicken feet in the same pot,

1269
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 1: like you. That's that's how you do it, man. How

1270
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: you gonna come out taste the saying, No, I want

1271
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: a part of neck bone, I want a part of

1272
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: turkey necks. I want a part of chicken feet. I

1273
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: don't want all that together. That's too much. That's that's

1274
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 1: too much. That's too much stuff you gotta get and

1275
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 1: put in another pot. That's too much. How about we like, okay,

1276
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:38,439
Speaker 1: for this meal, we're gonna have turkey necks. Okay, next

1277
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: week or in two weeks or a month, we're gonna

1278
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 1: have neck bone. Now, if if it's just me and

1279
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: like it's a couple people, but then I do it

1280
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: like that. But if it's like a family gathering, nah,

1281
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna put it all in one pot. That's how

1282
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: y'all do it that there? Yeah, no, we'll do it

1283
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: like that South. It's Georgia. It's all come out. Understand.

1284
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: If you want to put the turkey necks in some

1285
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: collar green or you want to put the nags on

1286
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: you know, uh uh uh uh ham hogs and some

1287
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: black eyed peas. Nah, But you can't put all those

1288
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 1: meats in one point. You put your turken, eggs and

1289
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: neck balls, all that in one thing, and then you

1290
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: put your corn, your potatoes, your side, and you put

1291
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 1: all that one Okay, I get I get that, but

1292
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 1: not not all the meats. You'll be fine, man, I'm

1293
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: telling you you're gonna nah. That's that's that's too much

1294
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: to say. I'm tasting. I'm getting sticky with with the

1295
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: chicken feet and chicken I'll know abou chicken feet Nah,

1296
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 1: I ain't, ain't. But you like turkey that yeah, okay.

1297
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:36,800
Speaker 1: And you like oxtails neck ball? Yeah? Okay? What about corn?

1298
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 1: You cook corn bread? I mean what you just eat meat? Yeah?

1299
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: I can do corn bread, red beans with the corn breads.

1300
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: So what do you learn to cook from your arm? Yeah?

1301
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:46,919
Speaker 1: Watching and you watch your mom cooked. Just you see

1302
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 1: in the kitchen like you're gonna go on. They're like,

1303
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 1: what you cooking? All right? Then you watch it like

1304
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: your mom. Let you be in the kitchen watching with cooking.

1305
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: See my grandma didn't play that. We'll get your you

1306
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: know what out of here. Grandma ain't played that, Mama.

1307
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 1: Grandma ain't. She don't want to nobody now to kick

1308
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: my mama. She's gonna let you come in there and watch.

1309
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: So can you cook dessert, sweets, cakes, pies? I can

1310
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 1: do like brown and stuff like that, but like I

1311
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 1: ain't too big on on the bacon and stuff like

1312
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:15,680
Speaker 1: take too long. Yeah, So are you gonna cook your

1313
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: own meal? Are you gonna have a catering service? Are

1314
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: you gonna have somebody to prepare your meals for you?

1315
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: I like cook my own stuff. I like if everybody

1316
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: don't know the season food, so like, if it's not

1317
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: season right, I'm not gonna I'm gonna take You know,

1318
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: you can't be eating oxtails and neck boat doing the NFL.

1319
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 1: You do, really, I think you do realize. I know

1320
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:35,959
Speaker 1: I know that, But still though every food you gotta

1321
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: season it right. Though, you gotta no matter what it is,

1322
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: you gotta have it that that flavor with it, Like

1323
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 1: everybody can't cook stuff with the with the right look.

1324
01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 1: You know what, it's a good thing. You can't gain

1325
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: weight because I'm getting impression you really like you're a foodie.

1326
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: You like to eat. Yeah, I eat a lot. Just

1327
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: it ain't going I don't know where it's going. So

1328
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: you so you would you prefer to go out and

1329
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 1: eat or you prefer to stay at home and make

1330
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 1: it yourself during the season. I'd ready to go out

1331
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: cause I'd be I'd be tying one, dude, I just

1332
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: want to come home, right, relax? So, well, who were

1333
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 1: in the NFL? The NFL seas So who gonna be

1334
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 1: doing the cooking? My girl? Oh she good cook. Yeah,

1335
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: she's from Louisiana, y'all? High school? Nah, we met in college? Okay,

1336
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: Oh she from met She from Lousiana with the Alabama two. Yeah,

1337
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: what the heppen? Y'all? Guess y'all would destined to be

1338
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 1: together there that I don't know I'm going to happen

1339
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:30,280
Speaker 1: like that. Hey, I'm glad it worked out that way.

1340
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 1: I'm glad it worked out for you. So from high

1341
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: school to college to now, how would you rate DeVante

1342
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 1: Smith success on a scale of one to ten. Uh,

1343
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,919
Speaker 1: I give it a seven. I ain't done yet. I said,

1344
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: got some things, I got a companies. I mean this,

1345
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: like you said, this is just the beginning. I gotta

1346
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: go to the next level. Nine, the next just the

1347
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: next step to us. So I mean, like I say,

1348
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: probably a seven, and then once I get through this,

1349
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: if it goes the way then I picture the goal,

1350
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: then we'll probably get to a teen. What's uh, what's

1351
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: some of the goals you'd like to set for yourself

1352
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 1: in the NFL? Uh? Of course Pro Bowl, things like that,

1353
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 1: thousand yards, seas and stuff like that. But I mean,

1354
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:24,919
Speaker 1: like trying to get a gold jacket. I mean, I ain't.

1355
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: I ain't come this far for nothing. I ain't come

1356
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 1: this far just to come this far. Yeah, I ain't

1357
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 1: come this far, just come this far. I mean, I'm

1358
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: trying to get a gold a jacket. Somebody gonna be

1359
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 1: store a lot of money, more money than you ever

1360
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: imagine you're receiving at one particular time. What's gonna be

1361
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith big purchase. I'm gonna get Pops a truck,

1362
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 1: I mean a range row or pickup truck. Now, I

1363
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be a range rong range roll, but just night.

1364
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 1: That's that's that's what they've been wanting, a little pick

1365
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: up truck. So I'm just gonna get him a truck.

1366
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:58,439
Speaker 1: I mean, would you do what mom want? Get mom

1367
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: a house, get out to get out of the house

1368
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: that week that she in right now, right, she gonna

1369
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,240
Speaker 1: move me, She goes, Oh, she gonna stay in. It's

1370
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: gonna be in Louisiana. It's gonna be in eight meat

1371
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:13,120
Speaker 1: somewhere right, just not exactly what she had not, but

1372
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:17,160
Speaker 1: somewhere in a meat m So I thought she might

1373
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 1: want to move to New Orleans or oh Na. She

1374
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 1: ain't trying to She ain't trying to go that far. Nah,

1375
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:25,360
Speaker 1: if anywhere, wouldn't be New Orleans. No, No, New Orleans. Nah.

1376
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: Pop gets the truck, Mom gets a house. What does

1377
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 1: Vontae gonna get? What? What? What's been since you were

1378
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: six years old? What? What car? Have? The vantage? Smith

1379
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: always wanted? Uh? I started, I was wanting to like

1380
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 1: a jeep Wrangler, but I hadn't had that already, So

1381
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 1: I can't believe you said that that was my thing

1382
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: coming up. Jeep wrangler. Just wanted to sit up hid

1383
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 1: things like that. But I hadn't already had that, so

1384
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 1: I may not. Just I'm really just I look at

1385
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 1: cars almost every day, just trying to figure out, like

1386
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 1: what it is. I wan't is it gonna be continguent

1387
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 1: on where you go, because obviously if you go somewhere cold,

1388
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:06,080
Speaker 1: you gonna have to get an suv. Yeah, you go

1389
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 1: somewhere warm, you can get an suv and a and

1390
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: a car. Or you might just say, you know what,

1391
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: what could I get that could pass as an suv

1392
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 1: and a car? Maybe it's a g wagon, Maybe it's

1393
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 1: a range Rover. Maybe it's the Bentley truck or the

1394
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 1: or the Rolls truck. Yeah, if I go somewhere where

1395
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 1: it's real cold, then I'm gonna give me something that

1396
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:25,400
Speaker 1: can that can move around in the snow or something

1397
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 1: like that. But but you still want to look nice now, Yeah? Yeah,

1398
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 1: I still want to look good and stuff like that.

1399
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 1: But I do I have been looking into old schools

1400
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 1: or you like old schools? Yeah? What you like? Punty

1401
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:38,000
Speaker 1: act five birds? Man? I thought you gonna say something

1402
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: like a sixty nine camera or a seventy or like

1403
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 1: a seventy one coup or something like this man said

1404
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 1: a five birds, yeah, with the with the with the

1405
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 1: with the with the phoenix on the hood. Now what

1406
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: you're talking about like a seventy seven or seventy eighty

1407
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: five birds? A man, everybody got their preference. Man, This

1408
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: man said, a fire You put him up in this man.

1409
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 1: You Oh, they can't. They're not gonna let you pull

1410
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: up there at the fireburg. Ay. Man, that's that's that's me, man,

1411
01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: Just like the car. I got nine, what you got,

1412
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 1: I got an ultimate. I'm keeping it. It ain't going nowhere.

1413
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep that. That's my little gass safer. That's

1414
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 1: that's that's the car. To keep you humble. I keep

1415
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 1: you humble. You're like, look where I started. And then

1416
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 1: you look over there and you're like, man, I gotta

1417
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:25,600
Speaker 1: I got a geat wagon or I got a rolls,

1418
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:29,200
Speaker 1: but I also got this to remind me what it

1419
01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 1: took to get that. Hey, man, that stuff there gas

1420
01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 1: prices going up. I know I can get a good

1421
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: little toying up out of there and not be good. Man.

1422
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 1: I'm cheap. I'm cheap. I want you to be cheap.

1423
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: You can be as cheap as you want to be,

1424
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 1: but don't be cheap to yourself what you're working for.

1425
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 1: I worked to get my mom and pops right, and

1426
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 1: they got me here. They've been taking care of me.

1427
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:55,440
Speaker 1: Let me take care of them. So keep the Ultimate,

1428
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 1: but get yourself nice. I'm gonna give me something nice,

1429
01:07:57,960 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna keep the Ultimate too. Hold on, but

1430
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 1: don't keep don't get the Ultimate and didn't get the

1431
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 1: fire birds, and don't get something nicer than the fire birds.

1432
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:11,520
Speaker 1: We're glad to see when we get done construct the

1433
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: Ultimate Receiver. I just want you to use Alabama, So

1434
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: all Alabamas, from Ozzie Newson to Don Huston to Julio

1435
01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:26,719
Speaker 1: to really to yourself the rugs. So hands me speed

1436
01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 1: rugs on water size, Julio rot running. Oh that's tough.

1437
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: That's tough. Uh. I go Calvin really cause I will say, okay,

1438
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: I will take I want really, I want to marry.

1439
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,920
Speaker 1: I want you, and I want Judy. As I would say, okay,

1440
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 1: we get ten routs. I like how, I like how

1441
01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 1: you got anything? You want to ask me your sues?

1442
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 1: I I know I know who your guys. He said,

1443
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: you got your your little thing. I was trying to

1444
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:12,559
Speaker 1: figure out something. He's like, oh, yeah, that's that's all

1445
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:14,439
Speaker 1: stuff right there. I'm like, damn, I'm trying to get

1446
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:17,719
Speaker 1: like all trying to have a little suit collection. Yeah.

1447
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 1: I mean, if you see, I'm kind of dressed casual.

1448
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:24,120
Speaker 1: But when you dress two hundred and forty year shirt

1449
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 1: and tie or shirt and jacket two in your forty

1450
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 1: days a year, when you outside of that, you ain't

1451
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 1: really trying to dress up. And I'm not really trying

1452
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 1: to go anywhere that I have to dress up. But

1453
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:37,440
Speaker 1: I think that's that says a lot about the individual,

1454
01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 1: because you are professional, and I think at all time

1455
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: you should look professional. I understand you're a football player

1456
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 1: and people like, well you're not a banker or you're

1457
01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 1: a lot of a lawyer. But I'm a professional and

1458
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: I think you should be professional. You shouldn't look professional.

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01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:53,960
Speaker 1: And when people see you outside of your football uniform

1460
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,920
Speaker 1: and it's like, Okay, he's a professional. He take care

1461
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 1: of himself. I try to sue anytime I can't. I

1462
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: go to roach just throwing a suit. If if I

1463
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:04,160
Speaker 1: was about your man, that's just me like what I'm

1464
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 1: gonna be roude with you. I came here like I

1465
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 1: need to bring a suit, like I was gonna wear

1466
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:10,519
Speaker 1: a suit, and then they were like, oh, nah, man,

1467
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna have my own light a little. You

1468
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: can't go to the club and no suit? What got it?

1469
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: So you ain't going to the club anyway. So so

1470
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 1: you want the old head shot up at the club

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01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: with a shirt with a suit off. It's Stacy Adam. No,

1472
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:27,760
Speaker 1: he's going to the Club's going to the club like this. Yeah, man,

1473
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:31,560
Speaker 1: I wish you the best of luck, bro. Congratulations on

1474
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 1: the unbelievable career at the University of Alabama. I love

1475
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: the way you carry yourself. I love the way you

1476
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:39,000
Speaker 1: you you put your city on, the way you tech

1477
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: talk about your mom and your dad, how you gonna

1478
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 1: take care of them. So I have nothing but the

1479
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 1: best best to praise for you. Man. Uh, it was

1480
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 1: a pleasure to watch you, and I appreciate you stopping

1481
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: by a club. Sha you ain't giving me some some

1482
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:53,880
Speaker 1: some of your time and uh, like I said, good

1483
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 1: luck in the draft and good luck on your next career.

1484
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 1: Appreciate it all my life and running all my life.

1485
01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 1: Sacrifice Hustle Bay, the price wanna slice got the rolling

1486
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 1: dice that s wait all my life. I've been running

1487
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:11,600
Speaker 1: all my life. All my life, the running all my life, Sacrifice,

1488
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:15,519
Speaker 1: hustle Bay, the price, Wanna slice? Got the rolling dice

1489
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 1: that s wait all my life. I've been running all

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01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:18,240
Speaker 1: my life.