Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Shannon Sharp. Welcome to a very special editional club,
Speaker 1: Sha Shay. As you can see, we're in the gym
Speaker 1: and my next guest. While he might not be able
Speaker 1: to live that, he can more than handle his own
Speaker 1: on the football field Heisman Trophy within a two time
Speaker 1: national champ AP College Player of the Year of the
Speaker 1: first receiver to receive that on a SEC Player of
Speaker 1: the Year. DEBONTI spill all my life, the grinding all
Speaker 1: my life, sacrifice, hustle back price. One a slice got
Speaker 1: the Broner dice to swade all my life. I've been
Speaker 1: grinding all my life, lush all my life, the grinding
Speaker 1: all my life, and sacrifice hustle back price. One slice
Speaker 1: got the brolla dice to swade all my life. I've
Speaker 1: been grinding in all my life. Devonte, how you doing,
Speaker 1: brou I'm good. I can't a play. You can't a play.
Speaker 1: You ain't cal mean the palm trees. I know it's
Speaker 1: the little coldest little cold right now. But how you
Speaker 1: liking Cally? I like it? You got some very interesting
Speaker 1: news you want to share with us today? You did
Speaker 1: something today? What's going on? I just signed with klus
Speaker 1: Sports just feel like it was a better business decision
Speaker 1: with me, just more that I can do and more
Speaker 1: that I can get out with them. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of agents out there. Obviously you had your choice
Speaker 1: the big names, and if I'm not mistaken, Clutch just
Speaker 1: got into this business from a football aspect. I think
Speaker 1: last year I think they signed Jeffer Kuder, I think
Speaker 1: they had Chase Young and now you the Heisman Trophy winner.
Speaker 1: What was it about Clutch that major say, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is the fit for me, just outside of football,
Speaker 1: just you as a person, just building your brand, just
Speaker 1: putting you out there, just making it more than just football.
Speaker 1: Right now, people just seeing me as DEVONTEE. Smith the
Speaker 1: football club and Devonte Smith the person. So you wanna
Speaker 1: you wanna be? Obviously football is gonna be proud of.
Speaker 1: That's the way you're gonna pay the bills and make
Speaker 1: a name for yourself. But you want to be outside
Speaker 1: of football. You want to be bigger than football? Yes, sir, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go back to this season. Because you had a
Speaker 1: season for the Ages, Covid hit there was touching goal.
Speaker 1: We might not have a season. Man. I came back
Speaker 1: to play because I would have played my senior get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play for another national championship. What was
Speaker 1: going through your mind when it was touching goal the
Speaker 1: SEC might not play this year. Uh, it was tough
Speaker 1: just knowing that I came back just to get my
Speaker 1: degree into play another year. I mean, I got to degree,
Speaker 1: but it's like what I'm gonna do for this time, NA,
Speaker 1: that's a long time just to be working out. So
Speaker 1: it was tough. But just kept believing. They kept going
Speaker 1: through the protocols and things like that, and it happened.
Speaker 1: Did you know this season was gonna be special for you?
Speaker 1: I felt like I was gonna have a good season
Speaker 1: the season I had. No, I didn't expect that, but
Speaker 1: I felt like I was gonna have a pretty good
Speaker 1: season because if you look at it your junior year, obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's very difficult for you to get
Speaker 1: some shine in Alabama, especially the previous year. You got
Speaker 1: two first round picks playing the very positions that you played,
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy and Henry Rugs, and so you come back
Speaker 1: and you're thinking to yourself, But I got Jalen Waller
Speaker 1: on the other side. He gonna get some shine too.
Speaker 1: I got Nigi in the back for you. When did
Speaker 1: you know this offense could be special? The summer just
Speaker 1: everybody just buying into everything the team, not just offense defense.
Speaker 1: Everybody just buying into it and know that the protocols
Speaker 1: we gotta go through, keeping your bubble on your personal bubble.
Speaker 1: Small things like that. Like everybody was locked in. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody came back even when we wasn't able to go
Speaker 1: to the school and work out. Like everybody found the
Speaker 1: way and just to make it happen. Right, Matt Jones
Speaker 1: tour a couple of years ago, he gets in jured,
Speaker 1: Mac comes in, he plays, well, did you know he
Speaker 1: was gonna play this well? Yeah, just the work that
Speaker 1: he put in, I mean, like first one in, the
Speaker 1: last one out type guy. I mean knew he was
Speaker 1: gonna come in and do what he do. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's in the film room every day. He takes you
Speaker 1: three in the morning and telling your stuff on film.
Speaker 1: It's three in the morning, right, he's locked in. What
Speaker 1: is it like going to Alabama the factory Because you
Speaker 1: guys produced wide receivers, offensive line, and you guys produced
Speaker 1: put guy in the NFL like no other college has
Speaker 1: done it. All in recent memory. What's it like going
Speaker 1: there competing every single day. I mean, it's different. It's
Speaker 1: a mindset thing. I mean, it's not for everybody. I
Speaker 1: mean you have to be willing to go in there
Speaker 1: knowing that it's not gonna be and you're gonna compete
Speaker 1: every day. Just knowing that the guy that's right on
Speaker 1: side of you compete, the guy that's gonna take your job.
Speaker 1: So just knowing, and then like everybody's just genuinely happy
Speaker 1: for each other. I mean, it's no alamasity or nothing
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, you go out there, you see
Speaker 1: the guy next to you that you grind with every
Speaker 1: day doing good, you just happy for him. That's cause
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I'm like, okay, you decide to go to Alabama,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get why you decide to go there.
Speaker 1: You're like, hold on, Jerry Judy's going there. You've heard
Speaker 1: of him, Henry Rugg's going there, Jayleen Waddle, why would
Speaker 1: you do that? Uh, it wasn't just a meet thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I wanna go there for me, But
Speaker 1: then again, you want to go to the win national championship.
Speaker 1: You know you're not gonna winning by yourself, so you
Speaker 1: gotta have some dogs with you, right, So you go
Speaker 1: to Alabama. You know one thing, you're gonna play for
Speaker 1: the SEC title. You're probably gonna compete for a national title.
Speaker 1: But in the process, coach saban as you said, it's
Speaker 1: a factory and guys know you might be starting today
Speaker 1: and it might be second team, thirteam tomorrow. So how
Speaker 1: do you how does Devon how did DeVante Smith get him?
Speaker 1: Get his mind? Says, you know what I'm going to compete.
Speaker 1: I know what they got, I know what they produced
Speaker 1: at this position. But I'm a dog. I can I can,
Speaker 1: I can win a job there. Uh. It come down
Speaker 1: control what you control. I mean, like you control yourself
Speaker 1: for every day. You control how hard you go out
Speaker 1: and practice every damn work. So just controlling that and
Speaker 1: everything else gonna handle to itself. I mean, the coach
Speaker 1: is gonna see they watch film every day, we watch
Speaker 1: FAMI every day. They gonna see who putting the work in.
Speaker 1: Judy rugs yourself waddle Obviously MEEGI is back the next year.
Speaker 1: What's that meeting room? Like, what's what you know? Obviously
Speaker 1: you're gonna get everybody's best you You Alabama, You're gonna
Speaker 1: get everybody's best regardless. And then when now you're the receiver,
Speaker 1: now you're like, you get an extra tension. Uh. It's
Speaker 1: just that knowing that when someone is giving your best
Speaker 1: is knowing that they're doing that for a reason. You're
Speaker 1: doing something right right, because if you wasn't doing something right,
Speaker 1: there just be like, oh man, it's just another little team.
Speaker 1: But like people know like, okay, this is Alabama, Like
Speaker 1: they gotta be doing something right. This player gotta be
Speaker 1: doing something right. So it makes you excited just knowing
Speaker 1: that you're gonna get everybody else best, and it just
Speaker 1: makes the game fun him. But not only is it
Speaker 1: the best on the offensive side, you're going against past thirteen,
Speaker 1: the second who's gonna be a first round pick? You
Speaker 1: win against Privon Diggs last year, you gonna get a
Speaker 1: Minka you go. You going against guys that's gonna be
Speaker 1: first round picks on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: What's that like? Because that's a game in practice, I
Speaker 1: mean it's intense. I mean you have your guys like
Speaker 1: Pat Minker that don't talk and just sit there and play.
Speaker 1: Then you have guys like this that's gonna talk. The
Speaker 1: whole practice. So, I mean it's fun just going out
Speaker 1: there knowing that you're going against them and you just
Speaker 1: make each other better and everybody just happier at the time.
Speaker 1: So do you know, like, Okay, I beat Pat. If
Speaker 1: I can beat Pat passed, one of the best in
Speaker 1: the in the league, what chance is the guy of
Speaker 1: the other team, what did he have it? If I
Speaker 1: can beat Minka, if I can beat Certain, if I
Speaker 1: can beat Digs, these guys on the other team have
Speaker 1: no chance. Uh. It definitely get your confidence boots, just
Speaker 1: knowing that you go out there and you practice against
Speaker 1: the best every day. So it's like, okay, I did
Speaker 1: this on Pack. It worked. It worked on Pack, and
Speaker 1: it should work on everybody else. So like it just
Speaker 1: gets your confidence boots every day. Uh are you a talker?
Speaker 1: I can't be at times? So so so who get you? Who?
Speaker 1: Who got you riled up? Was it Certain? Was it did?
Speaker 1: Was it Minka? Who gets you? Like? Okay, oh you
Speaker 1: want to talk? Okay, So it's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: these type practice. It was for show. Digs did talk
Speaker 1: all day, not gonna stop Okay. So you look at
Speaker 1: it and says, okay, I'm going here top notch receivers. Okay,
Speaker 1: they got top notch guys, And are you thinking, like,
Speaker 1: did you ever think that did I make a mistake?
Speaker 1: Should I've come to Alabama? Should I've gone to my
Speaker 1: hometown team LAS? You should have gone somewhere else? Man,
Speaker 1: this because you catch the national champion the touchy down
Speaker 1: the national championship game. But it wasn't like you got
Speaker 1: a whole lot of shine that your freshman year and
Speaker 1: then your sophomore years kind of down, and then you
Speaker 1: your junior year even though you guys don't have great
Speaker 1: team success, you blew up. Because I'm watching you in
Speaker 1: the LSU game, I'm like, man, not a little you
Speaker 1: can play? So did you did it? Never cross your mind?
Speaker 1: I made a mistake, man, be cause I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm splitting ref with Rugs and Sugs and all these guys.
Speaker 1: I'm splitting refs. I need to be on the field
Speaker 1: all the time. Uh. I wouldn't say it was necessarily
Speaker 1: getting down and just like I need, I made the
Speaker 1: wrong choice. It was more of like what more could
Speaker 1: I do? Right? Yeah? I wouldn't. I wouldn't satisfied with
Speaker 1: my touch of my freshman year. That's everybody that's part
Speaker 1: of the game. I mean, you just want more for yourself.
Speaker 1: So it was just more of like what more can
Speaker 1: I do? What do I need to improve to get better?
Speaker 1: And then just locked in on things I need to improve.
Speaker 1: That National Championship game, it leaves seems like they're playing
Speaker 1: cover too to It does a great job of holding
Speaker 1: the safety stairs, the safety down. You do a great
Speaker 1: job of keeping your whip that balls in the air.
Speaker 1: What's going through your mind? Don't drive? So you can
Speaker 1: you like, if I catch this as a game with
Speaker 1: that play a lovel you are a hero in Bamalore.
Speaker 1: You call a game winning touchdown that doesn't happen off
Speaker 1: an international championship game. You caught the game winning touchdown.
Speaker 1: So nobody had a great, better start and a better
Speaker 1: finish in Alabama history than Smith. It was just, man,
Speaker 1: it's all God. I mean, like just believing in him,
Speaker 1: just being in the right place at the right time,
Speaker 1: just trusting our training from day one. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: something that we did in practice plenty of times and
Speaker 1: it just happened to come to the game. How does
Speaker 1: that play change your life? It didn't change much. I mean,
Speaker 1: still the same me. I feel like people really didn't
Speaker 1: notice me until like my junior years, so like I
Speaker 1: was still kind of like under rate off still but
Speaker 1: nothing really changed. So you know, no, no free he departe,
Speaker 1: that's de parte caught the game winner. Nah, I ain't
Speaker 1: get none of that play junior year, hold on, so
Speaker 1: they buy passed the rest of your freshman year, you'll
Speaker 1: signed bore years. And that didn't happen until your junior
Speaker 1: year when you're walking out, don't nobody really noticed you?
Speaker 1: For real? Like right, ain't nobody really knows me? You
Speaker 1: got a helmet on all the time. So and plus
Speaker 1: you're not like physically impo. You're not like an offensive line.
Speaker 1: But I mean you could just like be a normal
Speaker 1: guy walking the class and just walking around class. They wouldn't,
Speaker 1: you know, wouldn't like wouldn't put two and two together? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you like that? Yeah? I like. I like when
Speaker 1: it's just low key y'a. Don't like all the attention.
Speaker 1: So you get to walk around the cameras and then
Speaker 1: really people don't really know who you are. You get
Speaker 1: to blend in and get the gold plays's without all
Speaker 1: the attention, the extra attention. Yeah, I just keep it
Speaker 1: low key, nobody be all over me. I don't like
Speaker 1: the cameras and all that. What's it like playing for
Speaker 1: coach Saber? It's great, man, I mean it's the best,
Speaker 1: the best. I mean, even with him, it's trash talk.
Speaker 1: We had practice, he talking, he talking about how he
Speaker 1: can cover me and things like that. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just competitors in us. Is he intense because he seems
Speaker 1: like a very intense person, very non said, very matter
Speaker 1: of fact. Tell you what he wants, expects you to
Speaker 1: go out there and do it. If he can't get
Speaker 1: it done, when you gonna have a problem. I mean
Speaker 1: that comes with the game. But it's definitely. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you got a coach that's not like that, then
Speaker 1: that's probably somebody you wouldn't want coaching. Would you say
Speaker 1: his coaching style is firm but fair most definitely. I
Speaker 1: feel like he he has everything structured right, but it's
Speaker 1: fair for everybody. I mean, it's his way, but it's
Speaker 1: great for everybody. It's good, it's good structure. It's gonna
Speaker 1: get everybody right. You say Alabama isn't for everybody? What
Speaker 1: is Some of the things that you would say are
Speaker 1: the most important traits that a player needs to have
Speaker 1: in order to go to Alabama and have success. You
Speaker 1: gotta be disciplined. I mean everything nothing changes. Schedules always
Speaker 1: stayed the same. It's not much changed there. So you
Speaker 1: just have to be disciplined just to get to everything
Speaker 1: on time like they own and off the field, going
Speaker 1: to class like it, don't it, don't go, don't none
Speaker 1: of that go buy Alabama. Coach Saban is a stickler
Speaker 1: for time. He wants you punctual. If the meetings at
Speaker 1: eight thirty, he expects you there at the twenty nine sitting.
Speaker 1: Then you see do not walking through the door as
Speaker 1: he's standing up the talk. So in your four years
Speaker 1: there have Coach Saban ever got upset at you? Is
Speaker 1: it something that you've done that made Coach Saban upset? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a game. I threw a punch, Oh you
Speaker 1: got fifteen? Yeah, they threw me out the game. So
Speaker 1: I want to know what was that conversation? Like as
Speaker 1: you're going to the sideline because he's gonna meet you.
Speaker 1: The one thing I know about coach Saban, when you
Speaker 1: guys get penalties, he's meeting them on the sideline. So
Speaker 1: he met you what did he say, she got on
Speaker 1: me curse? Yeah, I mean that's how you can't do
Speaker 1: But I mean I knew, I knew I was in
Speaker 1: the wrong things like that, But when we got back
Speaker 1: to the locker room, he was just like, you can't
Speaker 1: do that, Like that's part of being disciplined, right, I
Speaker 1: gotta let it go. So you come back, you win
Speaker 1: a national championship. Is Alabama everything you thought it would
Speaker 1: be and more? Did you get everything out of Alabama?
Speaker 1: Obviously you went to play at a very high level,
Speaker 1: get to the NFL, get a degree, You got that,
Speaker 1: But Hogsman Trophy, AP Player of the Year never been
Speaker 1: done for a wide receiver, SEC Player of the Year,
Speaker 1: all these records, it was Alabama everything you thought it
Speaker 1: would be, everything and more. And just with individual success
Speaker 1: comes team success. Right, I wouldn't win none of them
Speaker 1: awards if we was two win whatever, if we wouldn't
Speaker 1: winning tho games, I wouldn't win an awards. So I mean,
Speaker 1: like it's everything that you expect and more. Just with
Speaker 1: your teammates too, just them buying into every little thing,
Speaker 1: the principles and the values of the team. So if
Speaker 1: they don't do that, then I don't win the stores
Speaker 1: that I win the Heisman Trophy. It was probably around
Speaker 1: week six, week seven, all of a sudden you start
Speaker 1: hearing Devantage Smith, Howsman Trophy, Howsman Trophy. When you first
Speaker 1: heard that, what did you think? I try to block
Speaker 1: it out. I was like, that's nonsense, man, y'all just
Speaker 1: over here talking man. There's no way on for them
Speaker 1: win this, right, Okay? So week eight you put up
Speaker 1: a Master game and then the LSU game you just
Speaker 1: go off. I think you have three with three four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You make the one hand catch over Stingley and on
Speaker 1: the seventh route, and now it's really starting to pick
Speaker 1: up steam. It's really starting this dude, You're like, hold
Speaker 1: on this although looking for real though this might happen. This, this,
Speaker 1: this might happen. It hit me like I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: y'all serious about this? I was like, but I was
Speaker 1: still in my head like it's no way. I mean,
Speaker 1: like my quarterback in it, he's throwing it to me,
Speaker 1: he's throwing it everybody else. I was like, if anybody
Speaker 1: gonna win, it's gonna be here. Might normally get to
Speaker 1: love the receiver catching a bunch of touchdown for somebody
Speaker 1: got to be throwing them to it. Yeah. I'm like,
Speaker 1: if it's anybody going to this team, it's gonna be mad.
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all serious, But nah, y'all ain't that ship. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then you had Auburn. It was like you kept stacking these,
Speaker 1: not just one hundred yard games or the touchdown you
Speaker 1: kept putting one fifty one eighty two hundred two three
Speaker 1: touchdown games. Okay. Now we get to their SEC title
Speaker 1: game Florida. You go off again. You're like, hold on,
Speaker 1: do you really tell me we undefeated? I got all
Speaker 1: these stats, this highly crothing thing. Trevor Lawrence had a
Speaker 1: kind of a little off the year. Uh he had
Speaker 1: he was had COVID issues. Man, oh, they might call
Speaker 1: they might they might actually call my name. I kind
Speaker 1: of after the Florida game, I kind of was like,
Speaker 1: Naji might get it. Nagi kind of went off day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had five. Yeah, So I was like, man, y'all
Speaker 1: talking about me. Y'all need to be talking about me,
Speaker 1: Like he went crazy to day. So I was like,
Speaker 1: it's really Nagia Max. I was like, I might be opinion,
Speaker 1: but I ain't gonna win that man. So you're sitting there, Max,
Speaker 1: right here. You're sitting right there, the two twenty twenty
Speaker 1: Hogsman Trophy winner University of Alabama. Did you think they're
Speaker 1: gonna say Davante Smith or Mac Jones. I thought they
Speaker 1: would say make Jones, honestly did. And when they said
Speaker 1: my name, I was like kind of stuck, like this
Speaker 1: can't be real, Like they can't be giving you this
Speaker 1: right now, Hosman Trophy. I mean Alabama, we know Alabama's history.
Speaker 1: They go sixty seventy years and never have a Hogman
Speaker 1: Trophy winner, and then the last ten years they got three.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just a blessing. I mean,
Speaker 1: just being around those guys that you're around it helps you.
Speaker 1: So just going there every day, I mean it's not
Speaker 1: something that you expect, but like when you're just doing
Speaker 1: everything right and just have a God first, just everything
Speaker 1: you have playing, it's gonna work out for you. Just
Speaker 1: not with you, but with the team too. I look
Speaker 1: at your team, and I don't know if we've ever
Speaker 1: seen a team. I'm not saying you guys, but you
Speaker 1: win the Blitting the Car Award. You're Sinner wins the
Speaker 1: Rimmington Award, Leatherwood wins the top Offensive Lineman, You're running back,
Speaker 1: Dope Walker your quarterback, the Golden On, Johnny Unitis, you
Speaker 1: heisman to Blitt the car. I don't know if I've
Speaker 1: ever seen an offensive team when every you got every
Speaker 1: award that an offensive player could win, outside of the
Speaker 1: Matthew Award, which goes to the Outstanding Tight and obviously
Speaker 1: call Pits won back. Did you know you guys had
Speaker 1: this kind of talent? Like I said at the summer Man,
Speaker 1: everybody was brought into everything. I mean when was going
Speaker 1: over by landa house during the summer, working out by herself, right,
Speaker 1: he got a whole it gym sitting in his garage.
Speaker 1: So like I'm like, bro, like we're really buying into this.
Speaker 1: Like it's gonna be a crazy year this year. So
Speaker 1: I kind of figured, like we donna do something crazy,
Speaker 1: Like we're gonna win this. Natty, I knew it from
Speaker 1: the beginning, just like we worked too hard. We wouldn't
Speaker 1: go let nobody take that away from us. So obviously
Speaker 1: you got the LSU. You won't rematch you, you won't
Speaker 1: revenge because of what they did to you last year.
Speaker 1: You saw the Outstanding offense that they had those two receivers,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrows Edwards, a layer offensive line, and so you
Speaker 1: go out and statistically, you guys had a better season
Speaker 1: miles two games than what they had the previous year.
Speaker 1: Was that your mindset? Uh, it was more just about us.
Speaker 1: We wasn't really worried about what somebody else did. It
Speaker 1: was more about us, Like we control what we do.
Speaker 1: We control out on destiness. So like we the coaches
Speaker 1: they can only do so much right, they can only
Speaker 1: help us, but ultimately that's us going out there. We
Speaker 1: out there running the place. You in position now, Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's on you guys to take Yeah, they gonna
Speaker 1: put us in a position. Now we gotta go out
Speaker 1: there and execute it. So it was more like you
Speaker 1: gotta do this at this this step, this depth. So
Speaker 1: like you gotta be brought into those things some places.
Speaker 1: If you don't be there at the right time, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna work right. First semifinal game against Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: what's your thought process? What's the team thought process going
Speaker 1: into this game? I would say as offensive like offensively,
Speaker 1: it was like nobody played us how they played on,
Speaker 1: how they what they showed on film, right, So like
Speaker 1: they played a lot of man on everybody. So we
Speaker 1: was like, it's no way they come out here. They're
Speaker 1: gonna play man on us. They played a good little
Speaker 1: bit of it. So like once we got to the game,
Speaker 1: were like, okay, like they really gonna sit up here
Speaker 1: and do this. Let's just take what they give us
Speaker 1: and let's just do what we do. And that's all.
Speaker 1: It was just doing what you do, not trying to
Speaker 1: be something that you're not. Just being yourself. Right, you
Speaker 1: dispatch a Notre Dame and you get to the Ohio
Speaker 1: State going into that game, Ohio State is probably one
Speaker 1: of the few teams that can match you athlete for athletes.
Speaker 1: They're loaded. You look at what they do. I think
Speaker 1: they've got three of the last four deferensive rookies. Little year. Uh,
Speaker 1: the dbs go to the NFL. The wide receivers playing
Speaker 1: in the NFL, so they're as talented as Alabama. What
Speaker 1: was your thought process going into that game? Because Wade say,
Speaker 1: y'all know who I won't? Why why y'all asking me
Speaker 1: the kind of questions? You know who I won't? He
Speaker 1: needs to see me so you hear him talk like that,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking. I mean, that's just like any
Speaker 1: other game. You always got the big target on your back.
Speaker 1: Everybody't want to shot at you. So I just approached
Speaker 1: it like another game. And then just going up to
Speaker 1: Pat just talking to him, I'm like, broh, this the
Speaker 1: last one. Like they gonna give you they best. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you my business, like if it real, I
Speaker 1: want you in front of me like this the last
Speaker 1: follow me. I want you to follow this the best
Speaker 1: against the best, Like we gotta do this. So it
Speaker 1: was me and him every day that week going there.
Speaker 1: They're like, I don't care if I'm in the slide
Speaker 1: wherever I met you, come guard me. So that so
Speaker 1: that was the first time that you requested pass from
Speaker 1: ten services for the entire week of practice. Usually I
Speaker 1: just go over to this side, but they'll be like,
Speaker 1: oh I emotion, they'll do something mail. But I was like, nah, man,
Speaker 1: this the week like ain't trying to hit none of that,
Speaker 1: but like we gotta get it this week. So so
Speaker 1: you that you know what, as I'm talking to you,
Speaker 1: that seems so far out of your personality. That's not
Speaker 1: like you. It's just it was up about that game
Speaker 1: huh Yeah. It was just like, man, I've been on
Speaker 1: the winning side, I've been on the losing side. We've
Speaker 1: both been on the losing side. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to have that feeling I had my
Speaker 1: sophomore yet, man, like I came back for my degree
Speaker 1: and this I got one. I'm like, ain't nobody from
Speaker 1: stop me from getting my second goal. So I was like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make this happen. You go off. I don't
Speaker 1: think we've seen anything like this in a National Championship game.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've seen anything in the game of
Speaker 1: this magnitude because normally a lot of times the Highsman
Speaker 1: Trophy he's on the And I think what worked in
Speaker 1: your favorite is that the banquet circuit was Nuthering Boyd
Speaker 1: because of COVID, so you wouldn't have to go eat
Speaker 1: these dinners and you miss practice and miss all this stuff.
Speaker 1: You were still able to stay in your routine and
Speaker 1: sometimes Hoisman Trophy winners it's anticloud magic what they get
Speaker 1: to the National Championship game. It's like, Bro, you want
Speaker 1: the national chick, you want the Higsman, And that's the
Speaker 1: kind of performance you put up, but you had a
Speaker 1: performance for the ages. What was going through your mind
Speaker 1: in the first half of the game really just our
Speaker 1: game plan, Like I kid you not men. Coach Sart,
Speaker 1: Like right before second quarter we walk into the other
Speaker 1: side and I'm like, Coach Sart, what the play is?
Speaker 1: And then we both just say the the same play
Speaker 1: at the same time. I'm just like we locked in,
Speaker 1: Like it's no way we both say the same play
Speaker 1: at the same time, Like that's what we're thinking about running.
Speaker 1: We running touchdown, So we like we really locked in.
Speaker 1: Like did you think it was gonna be this easy?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you had any easy than what
Speaker 1: you had in that game. Now that's the best of
Speaker 1: the bathroom over there, and you made it look you
Speaker 1: made it look easy. I ain't think it was gonna
Speaker 1: be like that. Like it's a higher state. They just
Speaker 1: they just beat Clemson. Yeah, they feeling good about they
Speaker 1: sell like they gonna come with it. So like and
Speaker 1: then like when you go out there in warm up,
Speaker 1: you kind of like get a field for it, right,
Speaker 1: you see him running out of them going through their routine.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, Like they got a nice one squad.
Speaker 1: They yoked up. They got the nicest athletic program like
Speaker 1: we do. They try. I mean, they got feed them.
Speaker 1: Guys can run. They always test well. When they go
Speaker 1: to the combine, You're like, okay, okay, this gona this
Speaker 1: gonna be the matchup. This is what everybody wanted to see.
Speaker 1: If this is a game you want to watch on
Speaker 1: the Nason Championship. This it right here is it? You
Speaker 1: get going, You're like, okay, catch the first one, Okay,
Speaker 1: catch the second one, and I think maybe your third
Speaker 1: or fourth catch. You get to the house, You're like, dude,
Speaker 1: in trouble, this is too easy. Did you start because
Speaker 1: he requested your services? He said, y'all y'all asking me
Speaker 1: a question. Who I want to guard? Y'all know who
Speaker 1: I want to guard? So did you start talking, you
Speaker 1: start getting you know, normally guys start feeling good, like,
Speaker 1: oh you sure you wanted this? Now you can back
Speaker 1: out at any time and go to the other side
Speaker 1: because it's a problem over here. It was more just
Speaker 1: like going to the sideline. Like coach Sark. It was
Speaker 1: always getting people what they want to see, right. So
Speaker 1: like every week somebody to say something is up there,
Speaker 1: and he just like getting people what they want to see.
Speaker 1: So it's just like, that's what that's what they want
Speaker 1: to see. We're gonna give it to him. So it
Speaker 1: was just like, all right, let's do it. I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Whatever y'all want me to do. I'm here. We run
Speaker 1: whatever y'all want to run. I'm here. I'm ready. So
Speaker 1: you didn't really see anything to him. I said something
Speaker 1: one time after the after the deep ball. Then I
Speaker 1: was like, just keep giving I was even more, just like, man,
Speaker 1: just keep giving me the ball. You have three touchdowns
Speaker 1: over two hundred yards in the first half, and like
Speaker 1: the first play because I'm saying, you know, I'm saying
Speaker 1: to myself after I see it, where you're going? I said,
Speaker 1: he going for over three. I think he gonna get
Speaker 1: over three hund I said he gonna put that National
Speaker 1: Championship game rugging so far to there. Nobody's never gonna
Speaker 1: get three hundred. I said, he might get four if
Speaker 1: they can get it close. But I know he's going
Speaker 1: over three. And then you dislocate your finger. What went
Speaker 1: through your mind? You like? Did you like I dislocated
Speaker 1: my finger? Like damn, I leaving all these y'all are
Speaker 1: these touch dollars of the field. When it happened, I
Speaker 1: didn't feel it like I just looked at it and
Speaker 1: it was like it looked weird. So I went to
Speaker 1: the side. I'm like, I think my finger came out,
Speaker 1: so they tried to put it back in. And the
Speaker 1: whole time in the ten I'm just sitting there saying, like,
Speaker 1: if you just catch the ball, your finger don't get dislocated. Right,
Speaker 1: So I'm just like you, I did that to myself.
Speaker 1: You just catch the ball. We will never be in
Speaker 1: this situation. So you you were disappointed that you dropped
Speaker 1: the ball because if you had caught it clean the
Speaker 1: first time, it's a routine play. You get ten yards,
Speaker 1: eight twit ten yards, and you go back to the
Speaker 1: hotel and you live to see another day. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that was your night. You end of the night with
Speaker 1: a historic performance in the first half, your player of
Speaker 1: the game. But you think about what could have been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's always about what you could have done better.
Speaker 1: And and I'm just like my last play, I remember
Speaker 1: me just dropping a pass and dislocating my finger. Brouh
Speaker 1: Sandwich did between you dropping a pass, you got a
Speaker 1: national champion, your national Champion I Hieber Trophy eighty eight
Speaker 1: playing a year. You good, you good under one drop.
Speaker 1: You you're preparing for the draft. Now what's your prep been? Like? Uh? Really,
Speaker 1: just rehabbing the hand. You know, up about it. It's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to get with it with the hand.
Speaker 1: So just doing what I can, Just doing every little
Speaker 1: thing that I can't, all the little details and things
Speaker 1: like that, just my shoulder work, rotator, cust things like that,
Speaker 1: because I mean it's not no bench right now, it's
Speaker 1: not none of that, Like you can't do it? Yeah
Speaker 1: I can't. But here I was like, dang, I said,
Speaker 1: that's why that's getting off press. How is the hand?
Speaker 1: We getting getting better? You had to have circle on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a ligament. Bone was kind of stuck in
Speaker 1: the ligament, so I had to go in and just
Speaker 1: move it. So but you really wanted to come back,
Speaker 1: you like anything. If they could have put that fig
Speaker 1: they could have put that back in. You gonna tap
Speaker 1: it up, take them two fingers together. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I was trying my best and I sat up nothing
Speaker 1: for a minute, like, man, we gotta do something, and
Speaker 1: they didn't. Got so bad. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I can't. It was paying for her. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: take the drilling. That's drilling there. You're like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to get back in there, like oooh ooh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're preparing for the draft. You can't do it really
Speaker 1: any upper body. So you're running, you're you're running routes.
Speaker 1: Are you training with a lot of other guys that's
Speaker 1: preparing for the draft? Yeah, it's it's a nice little
Speaker 1: bit of us over there, cause you're down in Tampa right, Yes,
Speaker 1: sir hm, I figured you'd come out of the la.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you. You get start. You you
Speaker 1: leave Louisiana the boot. Normally top guys in Louisiana they
Speaker 1: stay home. Why did you leave? Stay at home? It's
Speaker 1: never really me. I always wanted to just get away,
Speaker 1: just get away from there. I wanted to be somewhere
Speaker 1: well people can't just pop up on me. But it's
Speaker 1: close enough to well, my my mom, my brother, my pops,
Speaker 1: like they can just come in right around me. But
Speaker 1: I don't want everybody just popping up one So you
Speaker 1: you want to get away, you ain't wanting the home.
Speaker 1: It's like, ain't debt take well, bro, were here yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to get away from all that. You're from
Speaker 1: a small town. What was it like growing up in
Speaker 1: that town? Everybody was really family. I mean like you
Speaker 1: be on your street and it's just like you can
Speaker 1: go from house to house like it's family. So like,
Speaker 1: it was never nothing too crazy. It wasn't. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the safest place, but it wasn't the roughest either, right,
Speaker 1: But it was just more like you say, because everybody
Speaker 1: know each other, like they his mom went to school
Speaker 1: with your mama, so like y'all know each other now,
Speaker 1: y'all growing up together. They grew up together. So it
Speaker 1: was like everybody that grew up there knew each other.
Speaker 1: Your three four star recruit, but your under size. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be a big man. You're never gonna
Speaker 1: be a big man. I don't think you ever have
Speaker 1: to worry about being overweight, so you would eat whatever
Speaker 1: you want to. I'm looking at your bone structure. Three
Speaker 1: hundred pounds two fift that's not gonna happen. That was
Speaker 1: the knock coming out of high school that he's too
Speaker 1: small now reports So I don't know if it's true.
Speaker 1: You can reckonmen form wrong. You wait, one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty pounds as a freshman in high school. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty. Yeah, how much you weigh as
Speaker 1: a senior? Probably one fifty, one forty five. You didn't
Speaker 1: get a whole lot of weight, So I guess you
Speaker 1: didn't go. You didn't go to your friend's house and
Speaker 1: eating though, cause and some high between four years, you
Speaker 1: gotta gave board to twenty five pounds. So you go
Speaker 1: to Universe of Alabama at one forty five, one fifty
Speaker 1: you walk on campus. Coach Safer take a look at you,
Speaker 1: And what did he say? It was just like you here,
Speaker 1: like we gotta put some weight on you. We got
Speaker 1: you here. Now you gotta just put the weight on you.
Speaker 1: So you start lifting, you start eating. It's like you
Speaker 1: eat whatever you want, as much as you want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just like shakes just every little second, like
Speaker 1: you gotta be eating somewhere. It's a little protein ball
Speaker 1: where it's a shake right after you work out, just
Speaker 1: whenever you're doing nothing, just eat even though all that.
Speaker 1: What are you weighing now? One seventy one seventy I
Speaker 1: said when someone asked me to say critique, who did
Speaker 1: you remind you of the first name came in by
Speaker 1: head was Marvin Harrison. You're about the same Bill, You're
Speaker 1: about the same size. Barbie could run routes. Uh you
Speaker 1: run X. I mean maybe that's an Alabama thing where
Speaker 1: you guys are very technically and fundamentally sound at running
Speaker 1: the route tree. Who does your game remind you of? Uh?
Speaker 1: Defonte Adams, Keenan Allen, just from the releases to the
Speaker 1: route running, just every little detail like if something not right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come out of them like, br I ain't
Speaker 1: do this right, Like I ain't feel comfortable with that.
Speaker 1: So you figure you feel the only way a guy
Speaker 1: gets gets a jam on you or stop you in
Speaker 1: the route. It was something you did, not really something
Speaker 1: he did. So when you're in the meeting room, you're
Speaker 1: in the meeting room with Judy, and Judy is very
Speaker 1: Judy can run the routs you run routes. Rugs is
Speaker 1: more of a speed guy, Jayleen and speed, but he
Speaker 1: can run routes Sauso. So are you guys critiquing you, like,
Speaker 1: but I got you on that one, bru, I got
Speaker 1: got you that dig your dig They look like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, it's every day just going in there like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I did this way with any of my
Speaker 1: release this way, but than the areas that's every day
Speaker 1: with anything that we do. So is that something that
Speaker 1: you guys, because I'm you look at you know, you
Speaker 1: go back and it starts with Julio and you go
Speaker 1: Ridley and you go for uh, well you go Julio, Amari, Ridley,
Speaker 1: h Judy yourself rugs. Is that something that those guys
Speaker 1: passed down like each one teach one. Yeah. When I
Speaker 1: came to my freshmanal, That's that's how Calvin was just
Speaker 1: showing us everything. Look, route routes, releases, things like the
Speaker 1: very of the detail, and you know, them guys all
Speaker 1: coming from South Florida, Him, Coop, you, they just like
Speaker 1: that's what we've been doing, Like that's just how it
Speaker 1: is in South Florida, the route running down there, like
Speaker 1: that's what they do, right. So it was just like
Speaker 1: you watch those guys and you just take every little detail,
Speaker 1: just soaking in. How do you guys? Most of you
Speaker 1: guys have very similar personalities. I mean, Julio doesn't do
Speaker 1: much talking, Coup does no talking, You do no talking.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know much about Judy, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem like a talker. Wow, I mean, what's up?
Speaker 1: I mean you got skilled like that, You're supposed to
Speaker 1: be talking because I talk. I let him know you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to you the first half and
Speaker 1: just so he don't feel left out, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: it to him a second half. Y'all gonna get it today.
Speaker 1: It's more people. People don't like when they when they
Speaker 1: talk and you don't talk to him, Like when you
Speaker 1: like when they talk to you, they want you to
Speaker 1: talk back. Yeah, but when they talking you don't talk back,
Speaker 1: They like, like you really feel like like, damn, you
Speaker 1: want to talk to me today? Like, nah, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say that. I'm just gonna keep working like I'm like,
Speaker 1: I want you to keep working at gets to it. Ye.
Speaker 1: See see just what you ask for now. See I
Speaker 1: was minding my own business. I had no intentions of
Speaker 1: talking to said anything. But see now I got to
Speaker 1: give it to you. I usually just give you a
Speaker 1: look like like I just look at you and I
Speaker 1: laugh or I shake my head like okay, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is what you ask for. Okay? Were your parents surprised
Speaker 1: where your where your your neighborhood surprised that you didn't
Speaker 1: choose the LSU and you chose to go to Alabama. Uh,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say my family was surprised because I told
Speaker 1: him like, I'm not going now, Like I know it's
Speaker 1: job I want me to do, but it's not happening.
Speaker 1: I gotta go somewhere else. So I feel like neighborhood
Speaker 1: was probably a surprise, but my mom, pop, grandfather, they
Speaker 1: weren't surprised because I already told him. So that once
Speaker 1: you you it was made. You made up in your
Speaker 1: mind I'm not going to LSU. It came down between
Speaker 1: Alabama and who It was just all Alabama. It was
Speaker 1: all so the only place that you really had set
Speaker 1: your mind on was going to Alabama. Yeah, so what
Speaker 1: happens in Alabama or not for your scholarship, then we
Speaker 1: would have just had the role where we had had
Speaker 1: to figure something out. So because you didn't put all
Speaker 1: your eggs in that basket. Wow, that's so you're small.
Speaker 1: You're one hundred and twenty pounds as a freshmen. You
Speaker 1: end up at one forty five your senior year. In between,
Speaker 1: did you were your high school team? Would you would
Speaker 1: you guys very good. Yeah. We went to the state
Speaker 1: twice in my four years, y'all. Now we lost both
Speaker 1: of 'em. What happened? Now they lose? It was my
Speaker 1: senior year week we lost a boy folk. We had
Speaker 1: a couple of mistakes on the one yard line, so
Speaker 1: that cost us. So your wide receiver, did you play
Speaker 1: any other positions? Play safety? Corner? I ain't leave the field?
Speaker 1: Oh you were you wet? So the mass your wet? So? Uh?
Speaker 1: Your your corner skills? Who are your corner skills? You?
Speaker 1: You don you reavers? I give you more of a
Speaker 1: guild more. Oh you step by guil Oh you you
Speaker 1: you're putting hands on people. I can I switch it
Speaker 1: up every nine and then? Oh so y'all got sophisticated
Speaker 1: dog because when I was in high school, Oh, you
Speaker 1: played straight made and everybody it was made. I got you.
Speaker 1: Yeah got that, you made football. I got you. That's
Speaker 1: how it was. They we played a team that had
Speaker 1: a good receiver. That's who I got. They had some
Speaker 1: O receivers that I just go play. So you so
Speaker 1: you you travel, you picked up freque reply males? You
Speaker 1: just okay? Yeah you shut it out. Hey, I only
Speaker 1: gave up one touchdown. One touchdown was at safety double
Speaker 1: scenes cover three. I had to choose the side. I
Speaker 1: chose the wrong side. I want to know what it
Speaker 1: seems to me, Coach Saban didn't have to do a
Speaker 1: whole lot of selling of you because your mind was
Speaker 1: made up. You wasn't going to LSU. So I was
Speaker 1: gonna I was gonna ask you what kind of what
Speaker 1: kind of sales would pitch the coach Saban give you?
Speaker 1: But he really didn't have to give you any did it.
Speaker 1: Actually it wasn't as easy as everybody thought. Like he
Speaker 1: didn't offer me at first because it was the size things.
Speaker 1: So it was just kind of like, we need you
Speaker 1: to gain some weight before we offer you. But my
Speaker 1: mentor he just kept bringing me back to the camp
Speaker 1: and it was just like all right, every time he
Speaker 1: come he killed the best dbs, Like all right, I
Speaker 1: don't even care about the size, and I'm just offering.
Speaker 1: And like once he gave it to me, I was
Speaker 1: kind of in my feelings college like okay, you ain't
Speaker 1: gonna offer me because of my side, n I ain't
Speaker 1: coming here. But then that's when I started realized, like
Speaker 1: all right, you gotta make the most of this opportunity.
Speaker 1: It's like, get out your feelings. Just do us best
Speaker 1: for you. Right. It seems that coach Saban develops up
Speaker 1: more than a player coach relationship. He's almost like a
Speaker 1: father figure to these guys because he's genuinely happy. He said,
Speaker 1: I this is the He said something that he isn't
Speaker 1: normally say because coach Saban has six national championships since
Speaker 1: he's uh been back at the University of Alabama. But
Speaker 1: he said something that this was this was his favorite team.
Speaker 1: This was his most special team. Why do you think
Speaker 1: he said that? Uh, just everybody just like everybody bought
Speaker 1: into everything about the team. It was no selfishness or
Speaker 1: nothing like that. It was no individual it was like
Speaker 1: team everybody. Like not everybody had COVID like before we
Speaker 1: even came back, but it's just like the few people
Speaker 1: that we didn't have, like everybody bought into Like you
Speaker 1: just can't be out here doing this and that. And
Speaker 1: it was like you don't have players going out to
Speaker 1: parties and things like that. Like everybody come to practice,
Speaker 1: going home, we're around each other if we at home,
Speaker 1: and that's about it. Like everybody bought into everything. Like,
Speaker 1: wasn't nobody around here just messing around. Yeah, that's really
Speaker 1: hard because you're a college kid and are part of
Speaker 1: being college is doing college kid things, going out to parties,
Speaker 1: doing certain things. But you realize, now not only is
Speaker 1: this about being selfish for you, but you're putting the
Speaker 1: team at risk because not only could you possibly be infected,
Speaker 1: but now you come back and you infect the whole
Speaker 1: the entire team. Yeah, so it was just just like
Speaker 1: you said, like, it's not just about you, gotta think
Speaker 1: about the people around you. So like you coming you,
Speaker 1: we're in a meeting room with everybody. Then you have
Speaker 1: COVID and now it's like all right, we were just
Speaker 1: in a team meeting, so like now everybody got a quarantine. Now,
Speaker 1: you guys your junior year, you guys used to play
Speaker 1: something with rock paper scissors. How did that come about?
Speaker 1: And how did coach Saban look at that? Because I
Speaker 1: see you guys were playing that and then it kind
Speaker 1: of went away. It was a one time thing. Like
Speaker 1: we were just sitting in the huddle and they called
Speaker 1: the play and usually we do like just lifting, right,
Speaker 1: So when they called up play me and she was like, nah,
Speaker 1: I'm taking this route, and he was like, nah, I'm
Speaker 1: taking out, Like well, we're gonna have to rot Peper
Speaker 1: Scissor song and then we just end up doing it
Speaker 1: and then like yeah, everybody just blow it up and
Speaker 1: coach saving He had a little meen with us. It
Speaker 1: wasn't nothing crazy though, but it was just like, all right,
Speaker 1: we understand what you're saying. All right, we've done doing that.
Speaker 1: Nothing right. I'm what's your favorite route to run? A
Speaker 1: glance route? We cause a bang aid skinny skinny post
Speaker 1: five step slant. Yeah, why why do you like that
Speaker 1: route so much? H It's just so much I can
Speaker 1: do from a release, just that and then like you
Speaker 1: can make it look I can play with a split,
Speaker 1: I can be tight, I can be wide, I can
Speaker 1: be in the divide like, I can do so much
Speaker 1: with it. And you'll never know what's coming. But you know,
Speaker 1: that quarterback, you gotta be there because that safety coming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that safety and be coming with bad intentions. So if
Speaker 1: he's if he leaves you, the thing is with that route,
Speaker 1: you want him to protect you. Yea. The worst case,
Speaker 1: it's words putting on my back shoulder, let me turn
Speaker 1: and do this, so he hit me in the back.
Speaker 1: Don't make me do this. Yeah, and let it hit
Speaker 1: me in my face, because they're gonna be problems. Yeah
Speaker 1: between me and you not be in the same thing me,
Speaker 1: you gonna have a problem. Yeah, it's a trust thing.
Speaker 1: I mean you always trust your quarterback to make the
Speaker 1: right read and do the right thing. And then it's
Speaker 1: just like your angle helps you a lot too. You
Speaker 1: stay flat, then your back and automatically beat him. Right.
Speaker 1: So when you you go into the game, you got
Speaker 1: your favorite route, and so I had a favorite route,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to make everything look like that route.
Speaker 1: So my steps if I'm running you know, basic cross
Speaker 1: with you you know ten or twelve yard crossing the route.
Speaker 1: But I'm also making the the out rout look like that.
Speaker 1: I'm also making the seven route look like that. I'm
Speaker 1: also making the dig look like that. So is that
Speaker 1: how you Is that how you're thinking? You're like, I
Speaker 1: want everything to look like this, but then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: fall off the table and out route. Yeah, you make
Speaker 1: everything look the same, like you gotta drive off the ball.
Speaker 1: You gotta look at the person that you're going against,
Speaker 1: like you can't be looking down like look like if
Speaker 1: I run every route, and I'm looking at you. You'll
Speaker 1: never know what's kind of right sales speed and don't
Speaker 1: slow down in the break. Just every just stick your
Speaker 1: foot in the ground and just go because when you
Speaker 1: start slowing down, then he knows what's gonna come. You're
Speaker 1: gonna start leaning to the way you're going. So just
Speaker 1: full speed, looking at him and just keep going, always
Speaker 1: full speed through it. Well, you guys, you the Alabama receivers,
Speaker 1: you guys do a very good job of that of
Speaker 1: not tipping your routes off, not decelerated, because a lot
Speaker 1: of guys you like that in the corner is gonna drive.
Speaker 1: He see you breaking, you start chopping what routs you run?
Speaker 1: Chopping like that? It's like everything if everything is speed
Speaker 1: with you guys. I see you guys fall off the table?
Speaker 1: Is that one two three four five? I'm off the table?
Speaker 1: One two three four five. I'm in. You guys are
Speaker 1: sitting up, and you guys are very good with your show.
Speaker 1: You guys are constantly moving, constantly moving. It's more just
Speaker 1: like it's a feeling like when you start running the routes,
Speaker 1: you just feel like when it's supposed to happen, right,
Speaker 1: So it's like you never running route counting your steps.
Speaker 1: If you running around counting your steps, then you're not
Speaker 1: gonna be running full speed because you're trying to count
Speaker 1: the steps. So it's more of a feel like okay,
Speaker 1: I'm running, and then you just feeling and it just happening.
Speaker 1: You just break. But the thing else is that like
Speaker 1: in the like in practice, we always ran the routes
Speaker 1: a little deeper because we know come game time that
Speaker 1: clock's gonna speed up. And so is that how you're
Speaker 1: thinking that, Okay, I know they said fourteen, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna be able to get the fourteen,
Speaker 1: so I'm probably gonna have to hit this thing at twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like that at times because you get the
Speaker 1: practice and the lines don't be always white like they
Speaker 1: be missing sometimes, so you just like before the play,
Speaker 1: I look like, okay, I supposed to be here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go a little bit deeper than that since I
Speaker 1: can't really tell this line at right. So your position
Speaker 1: coach is he really a stickler or like get your depth,
Speaker 1: get your depth, get your depth. You're too quick. You're
Speaker 1: too quick because everything needs to tie up time up.
Speaker 1: Like you said, when you're coming out of your break
Speaker 1: on that glass route, Mac Jones, backfoot need to be
Speaker 1: hit and he needs to be driving the football. You're
Speaker 1: throwing that fall off the table to the speed out.
Speaker 1: When that's back foot hit, you need to be falling
Speaker 1: off the table. But something like I said, you know
Speaker 1: you get jam. You know, hey, I know you like
Speaker 1: to think you're gonna win every route, but sometimes you
Speaker 1: get jam. It's gonna have to you have to speed
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, So if you get hugged up at
Speaker 1: the line, I mean, it's still timing. So you just
Speaker 1: get what you can. And I mean the bar is
Speaker 1: still supposed to be out right, So it's a timing thing,
Speaker 1: not more just like yeah, depth is it. And they
Speaker 1: always get on us about our depth. I mean like
Speaker 1: if you get a clean release and stuff and you
Speaker 1: don't get your depth, then all right, what you're doing
Speaker 1: this for? But like if you get hung up, then
Speaker 1: like of course you've got to cut cut it short
Speaker 1: because it's timing and you can be you know, don't
Speaker 1: be modest here. Do you believe you had the greatest
Speaker 1: Alabama career? If any players to Severn come through Alabama, Uh, nah,
Speaker 1: who had a better career. I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: who I had better, but I wouldn't. I wouldn't say myself.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many I don't know how many guys
Speaker 1: have been won the Heisman, when AP Player of the Year,
Speaker 1: SEC Player of the Year, twenty three touchdowns. Uh, when
Speaker 1: you look what you did, you had the greatest on
Speaker 1: field and off field as far as awards of any
Speaker 1: receiver in history. Now, it's hard for me to believe
Speaker 1: that there's been a player that comes through the University
Speaker 1: of Alabama. Now I go back to Alabama, I was
Speaker 1: a little I was a lot older than you, and
Speaker 1: so I go back way with coach Bryant. I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's been a player that had the career
Speaker 1: that you've had. When you think about it, you stayed
Speaker 1: four years, two national titles, a Housman Trophy, AP Player
Speaker 1: of the Year, SEC Offensive Player of the Year, the yard,
Speaker 1: the catcher, the touchdowns, like it said Calvin Ridley, Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, Jerry Judy, Rugs Waddle, You're name in front
Speaker 1: of all of them. It's but I consider myself as
Speaker 1: of course, I consider myself as the best right receiver
Speaker 1: that came through, but players had Olio. Oh, I would
Speaker 1: tell who You heard that Elio? You heard what he said? Really,
Speaker 1: he's Amari. He said better than you. That what he said.
Speaker 1: I ask you back. I said, you's the best player
Speaker 1: he said, receiver. Yeah, I consider myself as the best
Speaker 1: receiver to come through there. I mean it's been some
Speaker 1: great guys like Julio Coop, but I mean we still
Speaker 1: watch film with them. I mean it's stuff that I
Speaker 1: took out they tool box that helped me get to
Speaker 1: the wild outside. I mean, like I don't get to
Speaker 1: where I am without them without watching them, watching Julio,
Speaker 1: watch watching him run all the glass routes in Atlanta
Speaker 1: and things like that. So, I mean, like that's stuff
Speaker 1: that I had just put my toolbox and I'm like,
Speaker 1: y'all help me get here. Can you believe Julio is
Speaker 1: that size and can run and move like he can? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he came around with us once something and ology like, bro,
Speaker 1: you too big to the big dude. People don't realize.
Speaker 1: People don't realize how big Julio Fullio probably about two
Speaker 1: thirty yeah, thirty five, You're like, bro, let me, let
Speaker 1: me get a little bit of that. Then let me
Speaker 1: get to like two hunter. But you know you're not
Speaker 1: gonna be you probably the highest you ever gonna wait
Speaker 1: probably when eighty. You know you realize that, don't you. Yeah?
Speaker 1: This is it. This is what you got anybody to draft?
Speaker 1: The bonte smells like bruh, y'all get all the protein
Speaker 1: that you want? Is it? Yeah? That's how I look
Speaker 1: at I mean, like people say, I'm not eating it up,
Speaker 1: like like I eat all day every day, Like it's
Speaker 1: just not gonna happen. This is who I amn't right,
Speaker 1: So I mean like I accept it. I mean, like
Speaker 1: if you are accept it or you or you're not.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is what it is. Where would you
Speaker 1: like to play? I mean, you got a lot of
Speaker 1: mock graphs. Some have you going third, some have you
Speaker 1: going seven, eight, some have you going to the you know, leven.
Speaker 1: What's the ideal landing spot for uh? I just want
Speaker 1: to be somewhere where it's a team, where they gonna
Speaker 1: throw the ball, where they're gonna throw the ball, and
Speaker 1: where it's a team. I mean, like you can go
Speaker 1: to some of these teams and it's just like you
Speaker 1: have players. It's all about the money. It's not like
Speaker 1: it's not about the game, right. I wanna go somewhere
Speaker 1: where like it's a team, like we were gonna We're
Speaker 1: not here just doing this for a chick. We're doing
Speaker 1: it here to take care of our families and to win.
Speaker 1: I mean like, I'm not trying to go nowhere. It's
Speaker 1: like we're gonna lose every game, Like all right, I
Speaker 1: got my chicken. I'm I'm out. Like nah, I wanna win.
Speaker 1: I want to go somewhere with family, like you feel
Speaker 1: like it's family, like I enjoy coming here every day.
Speaker 1: I don't want to walk in a building like man
Speaker 1: here I come with these dudes. They ain't trying to
Speaker 1: get better like I wanna go somewhere gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make the person cross from me better. They gonna make
Speaker 1: me better. They ask you a question. I think at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and they ask you who is better,
Speaker 1: macor Tour And the report is before you even they
Speaker 1: even finished it. You said, Mac, what's the differences between
Speaker 1: the two quarterbacks? They both two great quarterbacks. I mean
Speaker 1: they both play differently, Mac more of a I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch film. I know what you're gonna do. It's not
Speaker 1: nothing you're gonna show me that I haven't seen and
Speaker 1: tours more of a like I'm gonna get in the game.
Speaker 1: I figured it out. Okay, I see you doing this now.
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna come more instincts. But I mean
Speaker 1: they're two great quarterbacks. I mean everybody operates differently. It's
Speaker 1: just like with Judie. It's like, I'm a route runner.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna beat you like this, Like I run routes.
Speaker 1: That's if I do rugs. It's speed. I'm gonna beat
Speaker 1: you with speed. Me it's route running, water speed, route running.
Speaker 1: It's like everybody has the different way of being successful,
Speaker 1: and I mean that's the that's their ways. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna run the forty? Nah? You play faster than you
Speaker 1: probably with time. That's what you think, don't, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why people think I'm slow, because I'm
Speaker 1: really not. I mean, like you can run for three yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe I could. I mean I ran tracking things
Speaker 1: like that, Like I'm just long. It looks slow, but
Speaker 1: like if you put some fry, you put somebody outside me,
Speaker 1: you'll be like, Okay, he not slow. That's that's what
Speaker 1: I got that's I think that's the thing that some
Speaker 1: of the the culture Ohio State said, you don't realize
Speaker 1: how fast he's moving until you're up close. So you're
Speaker 1: you know, you look at somebody on feel me, You're like, okay, you,
Speaker 1: but then you get there and you see them, You're like,
Speaker 1: damn dude moving. Yeah, that's that's how I look at
Speaker 1: It's just like y'all on the outside looking in. But
Speaker 1: like if you on this field looking you'll be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: like he moved. You run you can? Can you out
Speaker 1: run rugs? Nah? I can't. But I ain't gonna say
Speaker 1: a right. What about water? Nah? It depends water. It
Speaker 1: depends on what it is. I believe he would give
Speaker 1: me an the forty, but I believe we ran like
Speaker 1: a sixty or something like that. I'd get him water
Speaker 1: or waddle of rugs. Who's fast? It depends on what
Speaker 1: you're running forty, I take water. You take water in
Speaker 1: the ford. I take water in the forty. Wow, you
Speaker 1: do realize Rung ran for two seven? Yeah, so what
Speaker 1: you're expected is water gonna if he's gonna run the forty,
Speaker 1: I don't know, cause I would have looked. Do you
Speaker 1: think it was a blessing and the curse. Do you
Speaker 1: believe you'd have been able to put up the numbers
Speaker 1: had Waddle stayed healthy? Nah, I know I wouldn't have.
Speaker 1: But I mean, like I believe both of us would
Speaker 1: have had great seasons. It was like, you can't you
Speaker 1: double one, the other one gonna eat, right, vice versa.
Speaker 1: So I mean like if he would have played, Nah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't have want to hide it probably
Speaker 1: would have wouldn't hide becau back go through Like I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to hidean I mean, I believe blinding the
Speaker 1: car could have probably went to either one of us, right,
Speaker 1: So I know like he would have played one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have want to Hidsman. So you got are
Speaker 1: you and Water working out together now? Nah? He's training
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Okay, So I watched you when the Hidsman
Speaker 1: and your mom was a lady, your father was a lady.
Speaker 1: You're happy. What's gonna be what the what is the
Speaker 1: draft gonna be like? Because that's not the end of
Speaker 1: the journey, that's just the beginning. Yeah, because you just said,
Speaker 1: well I want to get drafted. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: he said, I want to play. So that's the that's
Speaker 1: the start of a new journey. Uh, it's really just
Speaker 1: I don't like being around a lot of people. So
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be you and your Mom's gonna be
Speaker 1: a small group. Yeah, it's gonna be a small group.
Speaker 1: I don't like having too many people around me and
Speaker 1: things like that, so yeah, it's gonna be a small group.
Speaker 1: And then what about the cook out. Man, you know
Speaker 1: y'all could got man, y'all gotta have some bull Dang,
Speaker 1: you're gotta jump jumber lives and two fade. Y'all gotta
Speaker 1: have some gumbo. Man, you can't have your five people
Speaker 1: to eat all that. We was talking about that last
Speaker 1: night about food and stuff like that. We might do
Speaker 1: something after, but as far as like draft night, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be small. But after we might have like something
Speaker 1: at the park or something like. Okay, okay, So you
Speaker 1: you this is gonna be a culmination because obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: you go to Alabama and obviously you want to get
Speaker 1: a degree, but you believe Alabama was gonna put you
Speaker 1: on the track, the path to get to the NFL.
Speaker 1: So this will be the start of a new as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, the start of a new journey. So what's
Speaker 1: the emotion is gonna be like, uh, just you knowing
Speaker 1: that you came here for this and it was everything
Speaker 1: that you wanted and more so, it's just like, this
Speaker 1: is what I expected. I appreciate every little thing that
Speaker 1: they've done for me, and it's just like everything that
Speaker 1: y'all y'all soul to me. It was that it was no, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like this, and it wasn't everything that
Speaker 1: they told me how it's gonna be. It was exactly
Speaker 1: like that. So I mean, like I feel like that's
Speaker 1: part of the reason that I did go there. It
Speaker 1: was just like they kept it real with me from
Speaker 1: from the jump. It was no, always gonna be this,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't. It was like, everything was exactly what
Speaker 1: you told me. Are you gonna bring your mom and
Speaker 1: dad to wherever you go or they're gonna stay back
Speaker 1: in Louisiana. Oh, mom says she's gonna come, by doubt it.
Speaker 1: I think she's just gonna stay. She's not going to
Speaker 1: leave Louisiana. Hum, Nah, what did coach say you You
Speaker 1: mentioned that it was what you thought it would be
Speaker 1: At the University of Alabama. What did coach Saban promise you?
Speaker 1: It was going to be that. He told me, like,
Speaker 1: you work, you're gonna get what you deserve. He didn't
Speaker 1: promise you a starting job. Yeah, that's that's that was
Speaker 1: the main thing with me. Like everybody like, oh, you
Speaker 1: come here, you're gonna play, And I'm just like, how
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna play? I can come and step
Speaker 1: foot on campus and something can happen to me and
Speaker 1: then I don't play, Like how did you know I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play? So it was just like, nah, you come here,
Speaker 1: it's not no guarantee. We're not giving you nothing, like
Speaker 1: you gotta earn it, like you're gonna earn to play,
Speaker 1: You're gonna work to play. So it was just like that,
Speaker 1: And I'm mean, I'm all for it, all for the work.
Speaker 1: I don't want nothing given to me, Like make me
Speaker 1: work for it. What was your first day of practice?
Speaker 1: Like you go to Universe, You're at the University of Alabama.
Speaker 1: All these four or five star, three star recruits here
Speaker 1: and DeVante one hundred all one hundred and fifty pounds,
Speaker 1: what was that first day of practice? Like? Uh, really,
Speaker 1: it was just like another day. I mean, you go
Speaker 1: out there, you see the guys like make them running,
Speaker 1: Tony and all of them. You see them, they're like
Speaker 1: they yoked up, so you like they kind of realize
Speaker 1: here about was like end of the day. I mean
Speaker 1: like I ain't here from nothing. They bought me here
Speaker 1: for a reason, so like just go out here and
Speaker 1: just beat myself. Get through the first day, you like, okay,
Speaker 1: because normally that first day, the first day of practice,
Speaker 1: I mean you fresh, it's the second the third day
Speaker 1: with that sword to start to sneak to sink in
Speaker 1: and you got to push through it. And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the lay that that that fast twitch. Don't
Speaker 1: want to turn over and coach the sun. You gotta
Speaker 1: get out, Devantet. You gotta get out the bright sun.
Speaker 1: We don't have all day. Come on, come on, Devonte,
Speaker 1: hustling up. I run a lot, like I can run
Speaker 1: all day, so I didn't necessarily had that problem with
Speaker 1: like dead legs. Like I always was like I can
Speaker 1: run all the day, I'm not gonna get tired, right,
Speaker 1: But it was more of like all right, my feet
Speaker 1: hurting right, So it's like you gotta take care of
Speaker 1: your feet. You gotta cold to besides and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So that's when I really like, Okay, it's the the
Speaker 1: treatment and stuff like that. The maintenance you gotta get
Speaker 1: into that, Like you gotta take care of your feet.
Speaker 1: That's when I first started getting a pair of cures
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I was like, Okay, you really
Speaker 1: gotta take care of your feet. That's the only thing
Speaker 1: that's really this slong. You down, You gonna run all day,
Speaker 1: but your feet hurting. You gotta take care of it.
Speaker 1: You mentioned you could run, You ran track? Would you run?
Speaker 1: I ran everything from one hundred, two hundred, four hundred
Speaker 1: triple jomp? What who? What do you do? Trip jomp?
Speaker 1: For the fourth? Yeah, I don't do man. I beat you.
Speaker 1: I'll beat the breaks up, y'all. I thought you. I
Speaker 1: thought you're gonna say fifth Oh nah man nah nah?
Speaker 1: So what was your specially? What was the bed? Like
Speaker 1: every track meet, DeVante Adams is gonna enter this event,
Speaker 1: the four hundred and triple jump you a four hundred? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it for a hundred. That's my favorite race
Speaker 1: to watch you. I love the four about four and
Speaker 1: the four and the open Poort. Now, only thing I
Speaker 1: didn't like about the photo. I ain't had nobody on
Speaker 1: there women, so it was a lot to make up.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah that that kind of get that, that
Speaker 1: kind of getting group from and they expect you to
Speaker 1: because I let brou dude, I'm a hun y'all, what
Speaker 1: else you wanted to do? Le teen? I can make teen,
Speaker 1: but y'all get the fu futher y'all, y'all push you
Speaker 1: the out of limit? Yeah? If plus you beat up
Speaker 1: a round, A whole bunch of other beings you beat up.
Speaker 1: I was a long jump and trip and jumped through
Speaker 1: the desk, ran both of the relay teams. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: what what what come up? Brou? I mean all that
Speaker 1: I ain't got no more legs. Yeah, but yeah, most
Speaker 1: definitely four hundred like that. That was my worridors. I
Speaker 1: love it. You go to the state the poor. Yeah
Speaker 1: you win. I came in second. What you what you
Speaker 1: tying for? Eight? That's that's a decent time. That's a
Speaker 1: decent time. I mean. So the guy that beat you
Speaker 1: did he go somewhere? Did he play football? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but we didn't practice. We just showed up to track.
Speaker 1: Me and j Rand kind of food this is that,
Speaker 1: hey man, That's just how it is where we were from.
Speaker 1: You just show up. Yeah, we didn't say that I
Speaker 1: tried practice with football practice. You just show up. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it was. And track, you know, you
Speaker 1: ran track to try to get out of spring football.
Speaker 1: It was Nah, you're doing both of 'em. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you question where I'm from. Back when I played,
Speaker 1: we used to have what we called jamborees, So we
Speaker 1: would play a whole game, but we would play two
Speaker 1: different teams. We would play one team for a half
Speaker 1: and then we would play another team for a half
Speaker 1: and then once That's how did y'all ever do? Though?
Speaker 1: Our jamboreees is just one team for a half, But
Speaker 1: we did have some scrimmages where it was like three teams.
Speaker 1: Then you just do certain drives against them. So the
Speaker 1: only position you ever played with wide receiver, corner and safety.
Speaker 1: You never played quarterback. You never played another position. I
Speaker 1: played one snap of quarterback. It didn't work out for him.
Speaker 1: What happen you do a pick? Nah, you got blasted.
Speaker 1: They snapped the ball or roll and I picked up
Speaker 1: and you got lasted. Yeah, you gotta jump seat. See
Speaker 1: you gotta jump on it. You gotta jump on the ball.
Speaker 1: It did everything to be it. Okay, yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: it was gonna be a hero just then, but not
Speaker 1: never played running back. No, yeah, I see I was running.
Speaker 1: I started as a running back. But I got tired
Speaker 1: of say my bad, shop my bad, I missed that block,
Speaker 1: so I don't worry about it. I must switch position
Speaker 1: in that way. I know who tackling me because I
Speaker 1: got worried about nobody said my bad. Yeah, Alabama, So
Speaker 1: from Louisiana, small town of Louisiana, high school star when
Speaker 1: your high school start, would you say you would you
Speaker 1: consider yourself a high school star? Yeah? Are you the
Speaker 1: Are you the the best player to come out of
Speaker 1: your high school? I think I am. I mean it
Speaker 1: got and I had some people that came out of
Speaker 1: my high school. Anybody we know, uh, anybody played major
Speaker 1: college and go to the next level. Play a n
Speaker 1: P J. Franklin. No, okay, so it's less the record.
Speaker 1: It was guys like that. So you're the best player
Speaker 1: in your high school, You're the best player at Alabama.
Speaker 1: So now you gotta to finish off this trip factor.
Speaker 1: You gotta be the best player whoerever you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's how you want to be. You want
Speaker 1: to be the best players. You can be best player
Speaker 1: you everywhere you go, just knowing that, Like, that's that's
Speaker 1: what you want to get to. You want to to
Speaker 1: You wanna be the best. You're playing this to be
Speaker 1: the best. So I mean, like that's ultimately what you want.
Speaker 1: What do you want people to know about Davonte Smith
Speaker 1: that they don't know besides the football player? I mean
Speaker 1: obviously they know you're next. You're not outstanding football player.
Speaker 1: You won the Heisman Trophy back in the you there
Speaker 1: are very few guys that can say they won the
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy, player of the Year, two time national champ.
Speaker 1: What are some what are some of the things you
Speaker 1: would like people to know about DeVante outside of football?
Speaker 1: What do you like do? What are your hobbies? What
Speaker 1: do you like to do? Uh? I sit in the
Speaker 1: house all day. Honestly, I don't do nothing. I don't
Speaker 1: go out. I see you got a movie, guy? You
Speaker 1: don't bowl top golf? I mean I bought me and rugs.
Speaker 1: We'll go bowl and stuff like that. But mostly sitting inside,
Speaker 1: play Call of Dude and cook. That's about it. Oh
Speaker 1: you cook, I do a little song. No, let me
Speaker 1: take this back. Do you just throw the stuff in
Speaker 1: a pot? I mean you might be you might be
Speaker 1: one of the more potluck type of guy. You put
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff in the pot and you look it. No, kid, nah,
Speaker 1: I'm can't. You can't you cook? I can cook? Okay,
Speaker 1: So what's the dish? What? What? What's your dish? What's
Speaker 1: your goat through dish? Jump a loaf? Oh my goodness, okay,
Speaker 1: so what's so special about your jump a lie? It's
Speaker 1: just the flavor of it, Like it's I like mine spicy,
Speaker 1: but anyting spices that's gonna like make you be like,
Speaker 1: oh but see that. But see that's what y'all doing Louisiana.
Speaker 1: See y'all pay if it's so hot, you ca that's good? No,
Speaker 1: that's not good. If I got to do rugs made
Speaker 1: me realize that I gave him some all some sausage
Speaker 1: one time. He was like, brou I don't ever bring
Speaker 1: this side some fat, Like it's not even that hot.
Speaker 1: I had to realize that like our hot. It's like, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's how y'all be doing it down there. Y'all be
Speaker 1: putting all the spike that stuff down there. Man, look here,
Speaker 1: if I got to do all that, no, it's not
Speaker 1: I can't taste it. I'm blowing. I gotta drag one.
Speaker 1: I can't even taste the food. That how you cook lectency.
Speaker 1: You already told me you like it like spicy, but
Speaker 1: not too spicy, And you just told me your spicy
Speaker 1: is different than somebody that's not from Louisiana spice. I
Speaker 1: kind of got away from that though. Like at the beginning,
Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, I'm gonna have a spice, but
Speaker 1: then I had to realize, like all right, eating all
Speaker 1: this spicy food and going out there running like nah,
Speaker 1: if it works out like that, you gotta throwing it
Speaker 1: down right. So okay, jumber live what about gub? You can?
Speaker 1: You could gumbo? I never I never did gumbo. I
Speaker 1: never did it. I was I was thinking about getting
Speaker 1: into it, but I just ain't got around to it. Faith,
Speaker 1: I did it too fake before, Bude, No, never did
Speaker 1: I don't don't. I'm not big, Boom, You're not big.
Speaker 1: But you know, Lousia, y'all year everything. So y'all try
Speaker 1: to alligator, y'all e turn or y'all so so so
Speaker 1: what are some of the delicacies that you probably take
Speaker 1: it in? Turkey eggs, neck bones, pig feed. Just put
Speaker 1: stuff in a ball pot. See, I told you that
Speaker 1: just toold y'all your pot. Look, he thought a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. I hope you don't put all that
Speaker 1: stuff in one pot together. You ain't putting turkey necks
Speaker 1: and neck bone and chicken feet in the same pot,
Speaker 1: like you. That's that's how you do it, man. How
Speaker 1: you gonna come out taste the saying, No, I want
Speaker 1: a part of neck bone, I want a part of
Speaker 1: turkey necks. I want a part of chicken feet. I
Speaker 1: don't want all that together. That's too much. That's that's
Speaker 1: too much. That's too much stuff you gotta get and
Speaker 1: put in another pot. That's too much. How about we like, okay,
Speaker 1: for this meal, we're gonna have turkey necks. Okay, next
Speaker 1: week or in two weeks or a month, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have neck bone. Now, if if it's just me and
Speaker 1: like it's a couple people, but then I do it
Speaker 1: like that. But if it's like a family gathering, nah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put it all in one pot. That's how
Speaker 1: y'all do it that there? Yeah, no, we'll do it
Speaker 1: like that South. It's Georgia. It's all come out. Understand.
Speaker 1: If you want to put the turkey necks in some
Speaker 1: collar green or you want to put the nags on
Speaker 1: you know, uh uh uh uh ham hogs and some
Speaker 1: black eyed peas. Nah, But you can't put all those
Speaker 1: meats in one point. You put your turken, eggs and
Speaker 1: neck balls, all that in one thing, and then you
Speaker 1: put your corn, your potatoes, your side, and you put
Speaker 1: all that one Okay, I get I get that, but
Speaker 1: not not all the meats. You'll be fine, man, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you you're gonna nah. That's that's that's too much
Speaker 1: to say. I'm tasting. I'm getting sticky with with the
Speaker 1: chicken feet and chicken I'll know abou chicken feet Nah,
Speaker 1: I ain't, ain't. But you like turkey that yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And you like oxtails neck ball? Yeah? Okay? What about corn?
Speaker 1: You cook corn bread? I mean what you just eat meat? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I can do corn bread, red beans with the corn breads.
Speaker 1: So what do you learn to cook from your arm? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Watching and you watch your mom cooked. Just you see
Speaker 1: in the kitchen like you're gonna go on. They're like,
Speaker 1: what you cooking? All right? Then you watch it like
Speaker 1: your mom. Let you be in the kitchen watching with cooking.
Speaker 1: See my grandma didn't play that. We'll get your you
Speaker 1: know what out of here. Grandma ain't played that, Mama.
Speaker 1: Grandma ain't. She don't want to nobody now to kick
Speaker 1: my mama. She's gonna let you come in there and watch.
Speaker 1: So can you cook dessert, sweets, cakes, pies? I can
Speaker 1: do like brown and stuff like that, but like I
Speaker 1: ain't too big on on the bacon and stuff like
Speaker 1: take too long. Yeah, So are you gonna cook your
Speaker 1: own meal? Are you gonna have a catering service? Are
Speaker 1: you gonna have somebody to prepare your meals for you?
Speaker 1: I like cook my own stuff. I like if everybody
Speaker 1: don't know the season food, so like, if it's not
Speaker 1: season right, I'm not gonna I'm gonna take You know,
Speaker 1: you can't be eating oxtails and neck boat doing the NFL.
Speaker 1: You do, really, I think you do realize. I know
Speaker 1: I know that, But still though every food you gotta
Speaker 1: season it right. Though, you gotta no matter what it is,
Speaker 1: you gotta have it that that flavor with it, Like
Speaker 1: everybody can't cook stuff with the with the right look.
Speaker 1: You know what, it's a good thing. You can't gain
Speaker 1: weight because I'm getting impression you really like you're a foodie.
Speaker 1: You like to eat. Yeah, I eat a lot. Just
Speaker 1: it ain't going I don't know where it's going. So
Speaker 1: you so you would you prefer to go out and
Speaker 1: eat or you prefer to stay at home and make
Speaker 1: it yourself during the season. I'd ready to go out
Speaker 1: cause I'd be I'd be tying one, dude, I just
Speaker 1: want to come home, right, relax? So, well, who were
Speaker 1: in the NFL? The NFL seas So who gonna be
Speaker 1: doing the cooking? My girl? Oh she good cook. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's from Louisiana, y'all? High school? Nah, we met in college? Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh she from met She from Lousiana with the Alabama two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what the heppen? Y'all? Guess y'all would destined to be
Speaker 1: together there that I don't know I'm going to happen
Speaker 1: like that. Hey, I'm glad it worked out that way.
Speaker 1: I'm glad it worked out for you. So from high
Speaker 1: school to college to now, how would you rate DeVante
Speaker 1: Smith success on a scale of one to ten. Uh,
Speaker 1: I give it a seven. I ain't done yet. I said,
Speaker 1: got some things, I got a companies. I mean this,
Speaker 1: like you said, this is just the beginning. I gotta
Speaker 1: go to the next level. Nine, the next just the
Speaker 1: next step to us. So I mean, like I say,
Speaker 1: probably a seven, and then once I get through this,
Speaker 1: if it goes the way then I picture the goal,
Speaker 1: then we'll probably get to a teen. What's uh, what's
Speaker 1: some of the goals you'd like to set for yourself
Speaker 1: in the NFL? Uh? Of course Pro Bowl, things like that,
Speaker 1: thousand yards, seas and stuff like that. But I mean,
Speaker 1: like trying to get a gold jacket. I mean, I ain't.
Speaker 1: I ain't come this far for nothing. I ain't come
Speaker 1: this far just to come this far. Yeah, I ain't
Speaker 1: come this far, just come this far. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get a gold a jacket. Somebody gonna be
Speaker 1: store a lot of money, more money than you ever
Speaker 1: imagine you're receiving at one particular time. What's gonna be
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith big purchase. I'm gonna get Pops a truck,
Speaker 1: I mean a range row or pickup truck. Now, I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be a range rong range roll, but just night.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's what they've been wanting, a little pick
Speaker 1: up truck. So I'm just gonna get him a truck.
Speaker 1: I mean, would you do what mom want? Get mom
Speaker 1: a house, get out to get out of the house
Speaker 1: that week that she in right now, right, she gonna
Speaker 1: move me, She goes, Oh, she gonna stay in. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be in Louisiana. It's gonna be in eight meat
Speaker 1: somewhere right, just not exactly what she had not, but
Speaker 1: somewhere in a meat m So I thought she might
Speaker 1: want to move to New Orleans or oh Na. She
Speaker 1: ain't trying to She ain't trying to go that far. Nah,
Speaker 1: if anywhere, wouldn't be New Orleans. No, No, New Orleans. Nah.
Speaker 1: Pop gets the truck, Mom gets a house. What does
Speaker 1: Vontae gonna get? What? What? What's been since you were
Speaker 1: six years old? What? What car? Have? The vantage? Smith
Speaker 1: always wanted? Uh? I started, I was wanting to like
Speaker 1: a jeep Wrangler, but I hadn't had that already, So
Speaker 1: I can't believe you said that that was my thing
Speaker 1: coming up. Jeep wrangler. Just wanted to sit up hid
Speaker 1: things like that. But I hadn't already had that, so
Speaker 1: I may not. Just I'm really just I look at
Speaker 1: cars almost every day, just trying to figure out, like
Speaker 1: what it is. I wan't is it gonna be continguent
Speaker 1: on where you go, because obviously if you go somewhere cold,
Speaker 1: you gonna have to get an suv. Yeah, you go
Speaker 1: somewhere warm, you can get an suv and a and
Speaker 1: a car. Or you might just say, you know what,
Speaker 1: what could I get that could pass as an suv
Speaker 1: and a car? Maybe it's a g wagon, Maybe it's
Speaker 1: a range Rover. Maybe it's the Bentley truck or the
Speaker 1: or the Rolls truck. Yeah, if I go somewhere where
Speaker 1: it's real cold, then I'm gonna give me something that
Speaker 1: can that can move around in the snow or something
Speaker 1: like that. But but you still want to look nice now, Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still want to look good and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But I do I have been looking into old schools
Speaker 1: or you like old schools? Yeah? What you like? Punty
Speaker 1: act five birds? Man? I thought you gonna say something
Speaker 1: like a sixty nine camera or a seventy or like
Speaker 1: a seventy one coup or something like this man said
Speaker 1: a five birds, yeah, with the with the with the
Speaker 1: with the with the phoenix on the hood. Now what
Speaker 1: you're talking about like a seventy seven or seventy eighty
Speaker 1: five birds? A man, everybody got their preference. Man, This
Speaker 1: man said, a fire You put him up in this man.
Speaker 1: You Oh, they can't. They're not gonna let you pull
Speaker 1: up there at the fireburg. Ay. Man, that's that's that's me, man,
Speaker 1: Just like the car. I got nine, what you got,
Speaker 1: I got an ultimate. I'm keeping it. It ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep that. That's my little gass safer. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's the car. To keep you humble. I keep
Speaker 1: you humble. You're like, look where I started. And then
Speaker 1: you look over there and you're like, man, I gotta
Speaker 1: I got a geat wagon or I got a rolls,
Speaker 1: but I also got this to remind me what it
Speaker 1: took to get that. Hey, man, that stuff there gas
Speaker 1: prices going up. I know I can get a good
Speaker 1: little toying up out of there and not be good. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm cheap. I'm cheap. I want you to be cheap.
Speaker 1: You can be as cheap as you want to be,
Speaker 1: but don't be cheap to yourself what you're working for.
Speaker 1: I worked to get my mom and pops right, and
Speaker 1: they got me here. They've been taking care of me.
Speaker 1: Let me take care of them. So keep the Ultimate,
Speaker 1: but get yourself nice. I'm gonna give me something nice,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna keep the Ultimate too. Hold on, but
Speaker 1: don't keep don't get the Ultimate and didn't get the
Speaker 1: fire birds, and don't get something nicer than the fire birds.
Speaker 1: We're glad to see when we get done construct the
Speaker 1: Ultimate Receiver. I just want you to use Alabama, So
Speaker 1: all Alabamas, from Ozzie Newson to Don Huston to Julio
Speaker 1: to really to yourself the rugs. So hands me speed
Speaker 1: rugs on water size, Julio rot running. Oh that's tough.
Speaker 1: That's tough. Uh. I go Calvin really cause I will say, okay,
Speaker 1: I will take I want really, I want to marry.
Speaker 1: I want you, and I want Judy. As I would say, okay,
Speaker 1: we get ten routs. I like how, I like how
Speaker 1: you got anything? You want to ask me your sues?
Speaker 1: I I know I know who your guys. He said,
Speaker 1: you got your your little thing. I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out something. He's like, oh, yeah, that's that's all
Speaker 1: stuff right there. I'm like, damn, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: like all trying to have a little suit collection. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you see, I'm kind of dressed casual.
Speaker 1: But when you dress two hundred and forty year shirt
Speaker 1: and tie or shirt and jacket two in your forty
Speaker 1: days a year, when you outside of that, you ain't
Speaker 1: really trying to dress up. And I'm not really trying
Speaker 1: to go anywhere that I have to dress up. But
Speaker 1: I think that's that says a lot about the individual,
Speaker 1: because you are professional, and I think at all time
Speaker 1: you should look professional. I understand you're a football player
Speaker 1: and people like, well you're not a banker or you're
Speaker 1: a lot of a lawyer. But I'm a professional and
Speaker 1: I think you should be professional. You shouldn't look professional.
Speaker 1: And when people see you outside of your football uniform
Speaker 1: and it's like, Okay, he's a professional. He take care
Speaker 1: of himself. I try to sue anytime I can't. I
Speaker 1: go to roach just throwing a suit. If if I
Speaker 1: was about your man, that's just me like what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be roude with you. I came here like I
Speaker 1: need to bring a suit, like I was gonna wear
Speaker 1: a suit, and then they were like, oh, nah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna have my own light a little. You
Speaker 1: can't go to the club and no suit? What got it?
Speaker 1: So you ain't going to the club anyway. So so
Speaker 1: you want the old head shot up at the club
Speaker 1: with a shirt with a suit off. It's Stacy Adam. No,
Speaker 1: he's going to the Club's going to the club like this. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I wish you the best of luck, bro. Congratulations on
Speaker 1: the unbelievable career at the University of Alabama. I love
Speaker 1: the way you carry yourself. I love the way you
Speaker 1: you you put your city on, the way you tech
Speaker 1: talk about your mom and your dad, how you gonna
Speaker 1: take care of them. So I have nothing but the
Speaker 1: best best to praise for you. Man. Uh, it was
Speaker 1: a pleasure to watch you, and I appreciate you stopping
Speaker 1: by a club. Sha you ain't giving me some some
Speaker 1: some of your time and uh, like I said, good
Speaker 1: luck in the draft and good luck on your next career.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it all my life and running all my life.
Speaker 1: Sacrifice Hustle Bay, the price wanna slice got the rolling
Speaker 1: dice that s wait all my life. I've been running
Speaker 1: all my life. All my life, the running all my life, Sacrifice,
Speaker 1: hustle Bay, the price, Wanna slice? Got the rolling dice
Speaker 1: that s wait all my life. I've been running all
Speaker 1: my life.