WEBVTT - DeVonta Smith 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.440 Hello, I'm Shannon Sharp. Welcome to a very special editional club, 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.960 Sha Shay. As you can see, we're in the gym 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:09.520 and my next guest. While he might not be able 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.280 to live that, he can more than handle his own 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.000 on the football field Heisman Trophy within a two time 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.680 national champ AP College Player of the Year of the 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.400 first receiver to receive that on a SEC Player of 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:24.920 the Year. DEBONTI spill all my life, the grinding all 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:29.800 my life, sacrifice, hustle back price. One a slice got 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.280 the Broner dice to swade all my life. I've been 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.360 grinding all my life, lush all my life, the grinding 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:40.040 all my life, and sacrifice hustle back price. One slice 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.839 got the brolla dice to swade all my life. I've 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:47.159 been grinding in all my life. Devonte, how you doing, 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.480 brou I'm good. I can't a play. You can't a play. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.559 You ain't cal mean the palm trees. I know it's 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.040 the little coldest little cold right now. But how you 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.520 liking Cally? I like it? You got some very interesting 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.520 news you want to share with us today? You did 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.240 something today? What's going on? I just signed with klus 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.880 Sports just feel like it was a better business decision 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.440 with me, just more that I can do and more 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.840 that I can get out with them. There are a 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.119 lot of agents out there. Obviously you had your choice 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.840 the big names, and if I'm not mistaken, Clutch just 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.560 got into this business from a football aspect. I think 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.280 last year I think they signed Jeffer Kuder, I think 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.520 they had Chase Young and now you the Heisman Trophy winner. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.160 What was it about Clutch that major say, you know what, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.120 this is the fit for me, just outside of football, 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.160 just you as a person, just building your brand, just 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.200 putting you out there, just making it more than just football. 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.480 Right now, people just seeing me as DEVONTEE. Smith the 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.000 football club and Devonte Smith the person. So you wanna 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.520 you wanna be? Obviously football is gonna be proud of. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.320 That's the way you're gonna pay the bills and make 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.960 a name for yourself. But you want to be outside 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.800 of football. You want to be bigger than football? Yes, sir, Okay, 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.040 let's go back to this season. Because you had a 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:01.640 season for the Ages, Covid hit there was touching goal. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.040 We might not have a season. Man. I came back 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.840 to play because I would have played my senior get 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.560 an opportunity to play for another national championship. What was 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.079 going through your mind when it was touching goal the 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.919 SEC might not play this year. Uh, it was tough 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.840 just knowing that I came back just to get my 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.200 degree into play another year. I mean, I got to degree, 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.280 but it's like what I'm gonna do for this time, NA, 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.480 that's a long time just to be working out. So 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.840 it was tough. But just kept believing. They kept going 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.800 through the protocols and things like that, and it happened. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.359 Did you know this season was gonna be special for you? 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.560 I felt like I was gonna have a good season 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.760 the season I had. No, I didn't expect that, but 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:39.120 I felt like I was gonna have a pretty good 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.680 season because if you look at it your junior year, obviously, 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.520 I mean, it's it's very difficult for you to get 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.320 some shine in Alabama, especially the previous year. You got 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.960 two first round picks playing the very positions that you played, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.919 Jerry Judy and Henry Rugs, and so you come back 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.600 and you're thinking to yourself, But I got Jalen Waller 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.440 on the other side. He gonna get some shine too. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.520 I got Nigi in the back for you. When did 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.720 you know this offense could be special? The summer just 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.160 everybody just buying into everything the team, not just offense defense. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.480 Everybody just buying into it and know that the protocols 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.560 we gotta go through, keeping your bubble on your personal bubble. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.960 Small things like that. Like everybody was locked in. I mean, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.799 everybody came back even when we wasn't able to go 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.639 to the school and work out. Like everybody found the 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.160 way and just to make it happen. Right, Matt Jones 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.280 tour a couple of years ago, he gets in jured, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.720 Mac comes in, he plays, well, did you know he 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.360 was gonna play this well? Yeah, just the work that 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.400 he put in, I mean, like first one in, the 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.480 last one out type guy. I mean knew he was 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:41.880 gonna come in and do what he do. I mean, 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.240 he's in the film room every day. He takes you 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.240 three in the morning and telling your stuff on film. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.880 It's three in the morning, right, he's locked in. What 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.440 is it like going to Alabama the factory Because you 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.560 guys produced wide receivers, offensive line, and you guys produced 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.200 put guy in the NFL like no other college has 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.440 done it. All in recent memory. What's it like going 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.280 there competing every single day. I mean, it's different. It's 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.240 a mindset thing. I mean, it's not for everybody. I 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.840 mean you have to be willing to go in there 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.000 knowing that it's not gonna be and you're gonna compete 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.920 every day. Just knowing that the guy that's right on 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.520 side of you compete, the guy that's gonna take your job. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.360 So just knowing, and then like everybody's just genuinely happy 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.320 for each other. I mean, it's no alamasity or nothing 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:26.960 like that. I mean, you go out there, you see 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.560 the guy next to you that you grind with every 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.240 day doing good, you just happy for him. That's cause 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.000 I'm thinking, I'm like, okay, you decide to go to Alabama, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.680 and we're gonna get why you decide to go there. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.400 You're like, hold on, Jerry Judy's going there. You've heard 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.240 of him, Henry Rugg's going there, Jayleen Waddle, why would 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.640 you do that? Uh, it wasn't just a meet thing. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.080 I mean, yeah, I wanna go there for me, But 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.240 then again, you want to go to the win national championship. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:52.760 You know you're not gonna winning by yourself, so you 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.680 gotta have some dogs with you, right, So you go 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.640 to Alabama. You know one thing, you're gonna play for 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.839 the SEC title. You're probably gonna compete for a national title. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:06.000 But in the process, coach saban as you said, it's 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.960 a factory and guys know you might be starting today 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.200 and it might be second team, thirteam tomorrow. So how 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.200 do you how does Devon how did DeVante Smith get him? 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.560 Get his mind? Says, you know what I'm going to compete. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.400 I know what they got, I know what they produced 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.920 at this position. But I'm a dog. I can I can, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.040 I can win a job there. Uh. It come down 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.920 control what you control. I mean, like you control yourself 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:31.440 for every day. You control how hard you go out 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.640 and practice every damn work. So just controlling that and 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.640 everything else gonna handle to itself. I mean, the coach 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.640 is gonna see they watch film every day, we watch 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.360 FAMI every day. They gonna see who putting the work in. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:46.440 Judy rugs yourself waddle Obviously MEEGI is back the next year. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.160 What's that meeting room? Like, what's what you know? Obviously 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.360 you're gonna get everybody's best you You Alabama, You're gonna 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.159 get everybody's best regardless. And then when now you're the receiver, 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.640 now you're like, you get an extra tension. Uh. It's 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.560 just that knowing that when someone is giving your best 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.360 is knowing that they're doing that for a reason. You're 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.159 doing something right right, because if you wasn't doing something right, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.080 there just be like, oh man, it's just another little team. 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.600 But like people know like, okay, this is Alabama, Like 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.840 they gotta be doing something right. This player gotta be 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.640 doing something right. So it makes you excited just knowing 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.320 that you're gonna get everybody else best, and it just 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.680 makes the game fun him. But not only is it 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.120 the best on the offensive side, you're going against past thirteen, 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.960 the second who's gonna be a first round pick? You 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.080 win against Privon Diggs last year, you gonna get a 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.680 Minka you go. You going against guys that's gonna be 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.000 first round picks on the other side of the ball. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.200 What's that like? Because that's a game in practice, I 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.520 mean it's intense. I mean you have your guys like 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.000 Pat Minker that don't talk and just sit there and play. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:48.920 Then you have guys like this that's gonna talk. The 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.960 whole practice. So, I mean it's fun just going out 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.520 there knowing that you're going against them and you just 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.200 make each other better and everybody just happier at the time. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.280 So do you know, like, Okay, I beat Pat. If 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.040 I can beat Pat passed, one of the best in 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.160 the in the league, what chance is the guy of 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.960 the other team, what did he have it? If I 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.840 can beat Minka, if I can beat Certain, if I 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.080 can beat Digs, these guys on the other team have 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.320 no chance. Uh. It definitely get your confidence boots, just 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.360 knowing that you go out there and you practice against 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.600 the best every day. So it's like, okay, I did 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.200 this on Pack. It worked. It worked on Pack, and 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.000 it should work on everybody else. So like it just 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.920 gets your confidence boots every day. Uh are you a talker? 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.880 I can't be at times? So so so who get you? Who? 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.720 Who got you riled up? Was it Certain? Was it did? 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.560 Was it Minka? Who gets you? Like? Okay, oh you 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.240 want to talk? Okay, So it's gonna be one of 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.600 these type practice. It was for show. Digs did talk 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:45.600 all day, not gonna stop Okay. So you look at 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.160 it and says, okay, I'm going here top notch receivers. Okay, 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.080 they got top notch guys, And are you thinking, like, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.960 did you ever think that did I make a mistake? 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.640 Should I've come to Alabama? Should I've gone to my 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.880 hometown team LAS? You should have gone somewhere else? Man, 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.440 this because you catch the national champion the touchy down 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.880 the national championship game. But it wasn't like you got 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.840 a whole lot of shine that your freshman year and 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.000 then your sophomore years kind of down, and then you 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.680 your junior year even though you guys don't have great 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.360 team success, you blew up. Because I'm watching you in 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.320 the LSU game, I'm like, man, not a little you 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:27.080 can play? So did you did it? Never cross your mind? 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:28.880 I made a mistake, man, be cause I you know, 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.000 I'm splitting ref with Rugs and Sugs and all these guys. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:33.920 I'm splitting refs. I need to be on the field 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.560 all the time. Uh. I wouldn't say it was necessarily 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.920 getting down and just like I need, I made the 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.720 wrong choice. It was more of like what more could 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.040 I do? Right? Yeah? I wouldn't. I wouldn't satisfied with 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.040 my touch of my freshman year. That's everybody that's part 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.080 of the game. I mean, you just want more for yourself. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.960 So it was just more of like what more can 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.400 I do? What do I need to improve to get better? 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.840 And then just locked in on things I need to improve. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:00.320 That National Championship game, it leaves seems like they're playing 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.839 cover too to It does a great job of holding 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.440 the safety stairs, the safety down. You do a great 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.040 job of keeping your whip that balls in the air. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:14.959 What's going through your mind? Don't drive? So you can 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:16.959 you like, if I catch this as a game with 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:22.640 that play a lovel you are a hero in Bamalore. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.199 You call a game winning touchdown that doesn't happen off 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:31.120 an international championship game. You caught the game winning touchdown. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.040 So nobody had a great, better start and a better 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:40.120 finish in Alabama history than Smith. It was just, man, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.280 it's all God. I mean, like just believing in him, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:44.800 just being in the right place at the right time, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.640 just trusting our training from day one. I mean, that's 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.520 something that we did in practice plenty of times and 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.400 it just happened to come to the game. How does 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:56.280 that play change your life? It didn't change much. I mean, 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.480 still the same me. I feel like people really didn't 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.839 notice me until like my junior years, so like I 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.439 was still kind of like under rate off still but 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.280 nothing really changed. So you know, no, no free he departe, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.160 that's de parte caught the game winner. Nah, I ain't 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.199 get none of that play junior year, hold on, so 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.800 they buy passed the rest of your freshman year, you'll 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.960 signed bore years. And that didn't happen until your junior 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.199 year when you're walking out, don't nobody really noticed you? 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.160 For real? Like right, ain't nobody really knows me? You 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.280 got a helmet on all the time. So and plus 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.240 you're not like physically impo. You're not like an offensive line. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:30.800 But I mean you could just like be a normal 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.800 guy walking the class and just walking around class. They wouldn't, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.400 you know, wouldn't like wouldn't put two and two together? Yeah? 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.080 Did you like that? Yeah? I like. I like when 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.840 it's just low key y'a. Don't like all the attention. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.920 So you get to walk around the cameras and then 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.160 really people don't really know who you are. You get 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.719 to blend in and get the gold plays's without all 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.160 the attention, the extra attention. Yeah, I just keep it 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.360 low key, nobody be all over me. I don't like 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.079 the cameras and all that. What's it like playing for 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.520 coach Saber? It's great, man, I mean it's the best, 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.640 the best. I mean, even with him, it's trash talk. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.160 We had practice, he talking, he talking about how he 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.120 can cover me and things like that. I mean, that's 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.400 just competitors in us. Is he intense because he seems 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.040 like a very intense person, very non said, very matter 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.000 of fact. Tell you what he wants, expects you to 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.280 go out there and do it. If he can't get 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:17.920 it done, when you gonna have a problem. I mean 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:19.880 that comes with the game. But it's definitely. I mean, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.040 if you got a coach that's not like that, then 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.800 that's probably somebody you wouldn't want coaching. Would you say 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.319 his coaching style is firm but fair most definitely. I 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:35.280 feel like he he has everything structured right, but it's 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.480 fair for everybody. I mean, it's his way, but it's 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.840 great for everybody. It's good, it's good structure. It's gonna 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:47.040 get everybody right. You say Alabama isn't for everybody? What 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.440 is Some of the things that you would say are 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.040 the most important traits that a player needs to have 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.319 in order to go to Alabama and have success. You 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.760 gotta be disciplined. I mean everything nothing changes. Schedules always 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.120 stayed the same. It's not much changed there. So you 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.320 just have to be disciplined just to get to everything 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.880 on time like they own and off the field, going 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.000 to class like it, don't it, don't go, don't none 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.120 of that go buy Alabama. Coach Saban is a stickler 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.840 for time. He wants you punctual. If the meetings at 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.480 eight thirty, he expects you there at the twenty nine sitting. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.800 Then you see do not walking through the door as 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:26.640 he's standing up the talk. So in your four years 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.679 there have Coach Saban ever got upset at you? Is 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.520 it something that you've done that made Coach Saban upset? Yeah? Yeah, 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.280 it was a game. I threw a punch, Oh you 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:43.679 got fifteen? Yeah, they threw me out the game. So 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.520 I want to know what was that conversation? Like as 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.040 you're going to the sideline because he's gonna meet you. 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:51.959 The one thing I know about coach Saban, when you 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.559 guys get penalties, he's meeting them on the sideline. So 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.520 he met you what did he say, she got on 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.800 me curse? Yeah, I mean that's how you can't do 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.559 But I mean I knew, I knew I was in 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.280 the wrong things like that, But when we got back 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.320 to the locker room, he was just like, you can't 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.679 do that, Like that's part of being disciplined, right, I 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:14.880 gotta let it go. So you come back, you win 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.840 a national championship. Is Alabama everything you thought it would 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.640 be and more? Did you get everything out of Alabama? 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.960 Obviously you went to play at a very high level, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.959 get to the NFL, get a degree, You got that, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.240 But Hogsman Trophy, AP Player of the Year never been 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.560 done for a wide receiver, SEC Player of the Year, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.719 all these records, it was Alabama everything you thought it 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:42.439 would be, everything and more. And just with individual success 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.040 comes team success. Right, I wouldn't win none of them 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.400 awards if we was two win whatever, if we wouldn't 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.280 winning tho games, I wouldn't win an awards. So I mean, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.280 like it's everything that you expect and more. Just with 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.679 your teammates too, just them buying into every little thing, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.040 the principles and the values of the team. So if 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:00.880 they don't do that, then I don't win the stores 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.880 that I win the Heisman Trophy. It was probably around 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.000 week six, week seven, all of a sudden you start 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.800 hearing Devantage Smith, Howsman Trophy, Howsman Trophy. When you first 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.840 heard that, what did you think? I try to block 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.520 it out. I was like, that's nonsense, man, y'all just 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.560 over here talking man. There's no way on for them 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.280 win this, right, Okay? So week eight you put up 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.440 a Master game and then the LSU game you just 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.479 go off. I think you have three with three four touchdowns. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.080 You make the one hand catch over Stingley and on 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:38.520 the seventh route, and now it's really starting to pick 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.000 up steam. It's really starting this dude, You're like, hold 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.960 on this although looking for real though this might happen. This, this, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.360 this might happen. It hit me like I was like, oh, 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.760 y'all serious about this? I was like, but I was 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:54.440 still in my head like it's no way. I mean, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.720 like my quarterback in it, he's throwing it to me, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.720 he's throwing it everybody else. I was like, if anybody 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.760 gonna win, it's gonna be here. Might normally get to 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.920 love the receiver catching a bunch of touchdown for somebody 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.560 got to be throwing them to it. Yeah. I'm like, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.640 if it's anybody going to this team, it's gonna be mad. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.360 I'm like, y'all serious, But nah, y'all ain't that ship. Okay. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.600 Then you had Auburn. It was like you kept stacking these, 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.320 not just one hundred yard games or the touchdown you 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.680 kept putting one fifty one eighty two hundred two three 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.320 touchdown games. Okay. Now we get to their SEC title 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.400 game Florida. You go off again. You're like, hold on, 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.520 do you really tell me we undefeated? I got all 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.520 these stats, this highly crothing thing. Trevor Lawrence had a 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.960 kind of a little off the year. Uh he had 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:42.120 he was had COVID issues. Man, oh, they might call 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.120 they might they might actually call my name. I kind 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.400 of after the Florida game, I kind of was like, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.960 Naji might get it. Nagi kind of went off day. Yeah, 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.040 he had five. Yeah, So I was like, man, y'all 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.120 talking about me. Y'all need to be talking about me, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.360 Like he went crazy to day. So I was like, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.080 it's really Nagia Max. I was like, I might be opinion, 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.640 but I ain't gonna win that man. So you're sitting there, Max, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:11.480 right here. You're sitting right there, the two twenty twenty 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:18.040 Hogsman Trophy winner University of Alabama. Did you think they're 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.720 gonna say Davante Smith or Mac Jones. I thought they 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.480 would say make Jones, honestly did. And when they said 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.080 my name, I was like kind of stuck, like this 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.720 can't be real, Like they can't be giving you this 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:35.440 right now, Hosman Trophy. I mean Alabama, we know Alabama's history. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.720 They go sixty seventy years and never have a Hogman 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.160 Trophy winner, and then the last ten years they got three. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.280 I mean, it's just it's just a blessing. I mean, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.240 just being around those guys that you're around it helps you. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.200 So just going there every day, I mean it's not 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.040 something that you expect, but like when you're just doing 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.800 everything right and just have a God first, just everything 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.000 you have playing, it's gonna work out for you. Just 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.440 not with you, but with the team too. I look 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.040 at your team, and I don't know if we've ever 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.359 seen a team. I'm not saying you guys, but you 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.040 win the Blitting the Car Award. You're Sinner wins the 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.240 Rimmington Award, Leatherwood wins the top Offensive Lineman, You're running back, 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.520 Dope Walker your quarterback, the Golden On, Johnny Unitis, you 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.959 heisman to Blitt the car. I don't know if I've 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.560 ever seen an offensive team when every you got every 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.879 award that an offensive player could win, outside of the 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.240 Matthew Award, which goes to the Outstanding Tight and obviously 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.680 call Pits won back. Did you know you guys had 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.920 this kind of talent? Like I said at the summer Man, 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.560 everybody was brought into everything. I mean when was going 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.639 over by landa house during the summer, working out by herself, right, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.080 he got a whole it gym sitting in his garage. 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.240 So like I'm like, bro, like we're really buying into this. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.560 Like it's gonna be a crazy year this year. So 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.480 I kind of figured, like we donna do something crazy, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.760 Like we're gonna win this. Natty, I knew it from 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.480 the beginning, just like we worked too hard. We wouldn't 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.120 go let nobody take that away from us. So obviously 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.720 you got the LSU. You won't rematch you, you won't 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.000 revenge because of what they did to you last year. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.840 You saw the Outstanding offense that they had those two receivers, 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.680 Joe Burrows Edwards, a layer offensive line, and so you 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.439 go out and statistically, you guys had a better season 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.080 miles two games than what they had the previous year. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.639 Was that your mindset? Uh, it was more just about us. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.200 We wasn't really worried about what somebody else did. It 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.399 was more about us, Like we control what we do. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.000 We control out on destiness. So like we the coaches 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.920 they can only do so much right, they can only 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.200 help us, but ultimately that's us going out there. We 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.040 out there running the place. You in position now, Okay, 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:45.840 so it's on you guys to take Yeah, they gonna 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.160 put us in a position. Now we gotta go out 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.639 there and execute it. So it was more like you 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.520 gotta do this at this this step, this depth. So 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.040 like you gotta be brought into those things some places. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:56.840 If you don't be there at the right time, it's 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:02.320 not gonna work right. First semifinal game against Notre Dame, 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.680 what's your thought process? What's the team thought process going 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:11.639 into this game? I would say as offensive like offensively, 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:13.960 it was like nobody played us how they played on, 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.280 how they what they showed on film, right, So like 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.159 they played a lot of man on everybody. So we 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:19.960 was like, it's no way they come out here. They're 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.000 gonna play man on us. They played a good little 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:23.800 bit of it. So like once we got to the game, 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.119 were like, okay, like they really gonna sit up here 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:27.639 and do this. Let's just take what they give us 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.520 and let's just do what we do. And that's all. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.520 It was just doing what you do, not trying to 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.920 be something that you're not. Just being yourself. Right, you 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.360 dispatch a Notre Dame and you get to the Ohio 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:44.600 State going into that game, Ohio State is probably one 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.440