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Speaker 1: Arthur Mallett joining the pod this week. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: So we were just talking about gumbo. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: gumbo later on in the in the podcast. But you know,
Speaker 1: I was reading some stuff online and I was watching
Speaker 1: actually some of your high school highlights. You were a
Speaker 1: punter in high school all districts. Yeah, man, I was
Speaker 1: a punter. I played soccer whatever that had a ball,
Speaker 1: I really did it. I tried to see what I
Speaker 1: was best at. What do you what were you averaging
Speaker 1: as far as gross and then I honestly couldn't tell you,
Speaker 1: but I definitely had like five or six inside the twenties,
Speaker 1: like only two or three yard Okay, And does does
Speaker 1: Boyer know that you were a punter? No, he doesn't know.
Speaker 1: I try not to, you know, try to take anybody's job.
Speaker 1: You think I'm pretty good. Yeah, I definitely could a
Speaker 1: little trickery too. That's they saw that. Yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: I fake punt run for first down in your school.
Speaker 1: That is interesting. The soccer background, Well, what got you
Speaker 1: going in that direction? Um? Actually, man, I didn't play
Speaker 1: football to my senior year in high school. Senior year, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I was a basketball soccer guy. Um, and
Speaker 1: then it kind of translated perfect to the football field
Speaker 1: because with soccer I need the endurance to footwork. I
Speaker 1: played striker and I played goalie. And then the basketball
Speaker 1: was a real defensive guy and I played points. So
Speaker 1: it just worked hand in hand with football as being
Speaker 1: a defensive back. So it kind of like helped me
Speaker 1: out a lot. But that's late in your career. That's
Speaker 1: got to give a lot of people hope out there
Speaker 1: who are young athletes, aspiring scholar athletes, maybe on the
Speaker 1: collegiate level, But what made you make that transition? Senior
Speaker 1: year of high school, I was a senior. I wanted
Speaker 1: to try everything. Me and my friends were sitting down
Speaker 1: on the bench. One day, He's like, man, come play football.
Speaker 1: I'm like, let's do it. Yeah. I did it, and
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it. It's nothing's like football.
Speaker 1: You have to take all eleven to be able to
Speaker 1: be successful. And other other sports I played, like soccer
Speaker 1: and basketball, one individual can get hot and you can win.
Speaker 1: With football, everybody has to be on the same page.
Speaker 1: To win. So that's your brotherhood and his camaraderie. So
Speaker 1: I love it, and you loved being a dB from
Speaker 1: day Wanner? Is that something that I play safety and
Speaker 1: defensive back and I did punt return, So I mean
Speaker 1: I loved it. I mean I wasn't getting hit, so
Speaker 1: that was the great part about I was doing the hitting.
Speaker 1: And it was high school Like, if you're an athlete,
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna be successful. So were you a
Speaker 1: physical soccer player? Because I don't think a lot of
Speaker 1: people give soccer players enough football without passed To be honest,
Speaker 1: yea it is. Um, Yeah, I definitely was. Um that's
Speaker 1: why they had me at striker than forward and it
Speaker 1: was pretty dope. How about using your head? Almost got one?
Speaker 1: What were you running in high school? I ran a
Speaker 1: fo or four, But it's crazy when I went to
Speaker 1: the combine, I ran a four six. Nobody would ever
Speaker 1: guess when I tell them, like, all my teammates be like,
Speaker 1: what you're run your forty four six? But the real
Speaker 1: like what so how this? Well maybe that goes. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's why the reason I didn't get because that reason
Speaker 1: like four six five, four six six. How much did
Speaker 1: you prepare for the forty yard dash itself, because to me,
Speaker 1: it's all about technique, right, it's not necessarily about speech,
Speaker 1: it's about your Yes, it's about the start. And then
Speaker 1: I had horrible starts as soon as I it was
Speaker 1: my first time running the forty at the NFL Combine
Speaker 1: on the laser, Like, like, how would you prepare for that? Right? So, uh,
Speaker 1: first two steps I popped straight up and that was
Speaker 1: a wrap. All right? So I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: about this. I just wanted to check the name before.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to. I didn't want to mess it
Speaker 1: up here. You said you're basketball player. I was watching
Speaker 1: this video and I think if I miss pronounced name,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Assistant basketball coach Mike Hagan said that your
Speaker 1: senior year you weren't shooting too hot. You worked on
Speaker 1: your shot, and then you made a buzzer beater in
Speaker 1: the state championship. Uh three for the win? Is that true? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 1: All right? So I want to know more about that
Speaker 1: moment where you probably like two point three seconds left. Um,
Speaker 1: we get the ball at half court. Uh, I passed
Speaker 1: it into one of my teammates. Is funny you were
Speaker 1: you were? I was inbounded. So this is before I
Speaker 1: took the shot. I'm passing into one of my teammates
Speaker 1: and we crossed the half court and he's about to
Speaker 1: travel in our coach cause the time, all time time
Speaker 1: we're like, oh crap. So uh, we get somebody else
Speaker 1: to inbound the ball. And like I tell me from
Speaker 1: like bro, if I'm in a corner and nobody's there,
Speaker 1: I know I can't that shot, but good on it
Speaker 1: for so long. So I wrap around the key and
Speaker 1: I'm opening the corner. He throws it to me. Susan
Speaker 1: and Swiss. Where do you guys play that? We played
Speaker 1: at home? We played in Louisiana at our stadium, so
Speaker 1: it was pretty dope. What was it like for you
Speaker 1: growing up in New Orleans? A lot of people go
Speaker 1: down there, a lot of tourists. Obviously in New Orleans
Speaker 1: has been through a lot over the years. For someone
Speaker 1: who comes from there, Um, how would you describe that area?
Speaker 1: It's one of a con man. The culture there's is
Speaker 1: so totally different from everywhere else. I would say, if
Speaker 1: you haven't been, go, Like for a tourist, if you
Speaker 1: haven't been, definitely go. Man. Um, the food is great,
Speaker 1: the people are nice. Um, there's so much that you
Speaker 1: can get into. I mean I lived there all my life, literally,
Speaker 1: and I haven't been to all the restaurants there. I'm
Speaker 1: a big foodie, so that's a challenge to me. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good food. I love it, man,
Speaker 1: I love a culture there. People are great. Food is great,
Speaker 1: and that's all I need. I mean, I love it.
Speaker 1: What are must do is for people who go down there,
Speaker 1: because you just said your foodie, So give a couple
Speaker 1: of restaurants. And also what about some history. What are
Speaker 1: they taking? Um? So seafood definitely, that's uptown New Orleans.
Speaker 1: So I was born and raised. Then you got like
Speaker 1: you got like Neo's is a great spot to go.
Speaker 1: You got your best creole cuisine, you have like a
Speaker 1: to fee, you have your crawfish, you make you want
Speaker 1: to go back home now. Then like if you want
Speaker 1: like seafood platters, you go to Mr. Eds and anything
Speaker 1: that you want there in the city you can get.
Speaker 1: It is popados in the south too. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: like more like fast food. Yeah, but that's more like
Speaker 1: Texas's not even by us. And we were talking before
Speaker 1: about your gumbo, your recent seafood only guy or trending
Speaker 1: that way. First of all, tell us about the gumbo. Ok,
Speaker 1: what what's your what's your rest be? Without giving away
Speaker 1: too many secrets, here, nice little gumbo base. Obviously, I
Speaker 1: have to get everything. The tricky part about is I
Speaker 1: have to get everything next day shipped up to here.
Speaker 1: Are two day shipped up to here, like I can't
Speaker 1: even get it from up here, so it will be
Speaker 1: a lot of like Zadaran stuff, uh, keen crabs, Crawfords, tales,
Speaker 1: all types of crazy stuff like that. But it has
Speaker 1: to be frozen the next day ship up here, like
Speaker 1: I can't get it up here to make it, so
Speaker 1: it's dope. How often do you find yourself cooking? Not
Speaker 1: too often because you know, you know, Marcus and the
Speaker 1: fellas are taking care of you downstairs. Yeah, they're taking
Speaker 1: care of me. Man. Marcus is a really good cook actually, man,
Speaker 1: so I love it. Um. Yeah, you have to let
Speaker 1: you know you're not eating meat right all right? Well
Speaker 1: he made land the other week. It was really good.
Speaker 1: It was like, I don't know if if either of
Speaker 1: you like lamb. I've had it. I like it, I've
Speaker 1: never had You've never had lamp. It's, uh, you never
Speaker 1: had lamb tips come on the way Marcus makes them.
Speaker 1: They're they're amazing and yeah, and it was just yeah,
Speaker 1: so Marcus is a chef here, I got I got
Speaker 1: a bone to pick with him though. About six months ago, no,
Speaker 1: maybe it's about even a calendar year, he says, you
Speaker 1: don't need the red meat, man, stop stop eating the
Speaker 1: red meat. So now, over the last couple of months,
Speaker 1: you know what he's been doing. He's been doing basically
Speaker 1: the Keto diet. He's been eating nothing, but basically you're
Speaker 1: no carbs. Wait wait wait, wait wait, that is mean
Speaker 1: he eats red meat though he is he is though
Speaker 1: he's eating the red meat. Oh yeah, he's Yeah. I
Speaker 1: thought he's just eating chicken and fish. No, I think
Speaker 1: he's definitely eating red meat. I've seen it go yeah yeah, man,
Speaker 1: So I gotta imagine listen, I use such an interesting
Speaker 1: background because playing soccer, he decided you're gonna play football
Speaker 1: senior high school. There are a lot of guys in
Speaker 1: the National Football League who played community college ball man.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was rough Yeah, yeah, community college Juco was
Speaker 1: rough man. Because obviously I didn't play football for a
Speaker 1: long time. And that's when I really found my passion
Speaker 1: for the game. Uh, it's kind of like similar to
Speaker 1: the NFL. It's a fifty two man roster Juco um
Speaker 1: and at the staters you only get four slots on
Speaker 1: each side. So far the state on on offense for O,
Speaker 1: the state on defense. So where did you go to school?
Speaker 1: I went to Copia Lincoln in Mississippi, and Mississippi one
Speaker 1: red light, a diner, a family dollar, and a gas station.
Speaker 1: That's it. The closest McDonald's wildfle House was like thirty
Speaker 1: minutes away. I didn't have a car. It was horrible.
Speaker 1: And Juco is where eat greedy came to life, right
Speaker 1: because you had four meals that would last year a weekend, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the whole weekend. They'll get out on Thursday. So I
Speaker 1: had Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Those those meals. Was
Speaker 1: that's what all I had. I didn't I didn't have
Speaker 1: a job or anything. So that will help make sure
Speaker 1: they cook some a little bit different for me for
Speaker 1: the weekend that I could eat and won't get bored
Speaker 1: about it. Was it hard for you to keep? It
Speaker 1: was tough? Yeah, I can honestly say what were you
Speaker 1: playing that. I was playing a corner. I don't know
Speaker 1: about what was you. I was probably like one seventy five.
Speaker 1: I was a shrimp. Man, that's a little shrimp. One
Speaker 1: seventy five, one year, two years there before Memphis comes calling.
Speaker 1: How did that all work out? Um? Actually? Man? Uh yeah?
Speaker 1: Two years of Juko transfer to University of Memphis. But
Speaker 1: I had like a lot of offers. I had a
Speaker 1: person to work out with Obama. I was actually about
Speaker 1: to go there, but the way my grades were in
Speaker 1: transcripts were coming out of high school and Juco, it
Speaker 1: didn't mesh. So I told myself I wanted to be
Speaker 1: a big fish in a small pond and play right away,
Speaker 1: exactly coming from Juco. You know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: I chose Memphis, man, and we flipped a program around
Speaker 1: and there have They have a great program now and
Speaker 1: we're probably gonna play our first in first New year
Speaker 1: Evilo this year? Why Memphis? Like, well, what made you feel? Okay?
Speaker 1: So when I that was my first visit, in my
Speaker 1: my first official visit in last So when I went there,
Speaker 1: I went in the weight room and I saw hard
Speaker 1: they work because I work hard man, coming from junior college,
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, that's why I want to
Speaker 1: be period. Like I saw hard they worked. It's probably
Speaker 1: like twenty five degrees on the field. They had ice
Speaker 1: all over the turf and they're getting it in and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I won't be a part of this.
Speaker 1: How did that personal workout go? MA? It was actually
Speaker 1: pretty good. Uh. They had like two other five stars
Speaker 1: in me, so it was just three guys were working out.
Speaker 1: I do the drills or whatever, and I'm done. They
Speaker 1: told me to stop early. They've seen enough and I
Speaker 1: ran my forty form. I ran the four four. I
Speaker 1: just didn't get the offer because of the transcript stuff.
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe I'm wrong here. But to bring
Speaker 1: things full circle, when I watched the video about your
Speaker 1: assistant coach talking about you working on your jump shot
Speaker 1: two weeks straight and then it pays off, I feel
Speaker 1: like it's almost kind of like a small snippet, almost
Speaker 1: like a microcosm of you and your work, ethic and life.
Speaker 1: You work hard at basketball pays off Juco. Same thing,
Speaker 1: Eat Greedy. Now you're in the NFL undrafted. What is
Speaker 1: it about the dirty work that you almost kind of like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about You're talking about yeah, and you.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a true testimony of where I
Speaker 1: come from. I mean, we're probably one of the poorest
Speaker 1: cities besides the you know what I'm saying, in New
Speaker 1: Orleans is very poor. Um, and it's just like, man,
Speaker 1: I came from worse. I can work hard and grind
Speaker 1: like this is nice, nice facility is good, hot tubs.
Speaker 1: I work hard like man, that's nothing. That's that's the
Speaker 1: easy part. I mean I like it. Other people may not,
Speaker 1: but that's that's cool to me. Like as long as
Speaker 1: I can just keep my head down the working and
Speaker 1: focus on one goal, Like I feel like I could
Speaker 1: be successful with anything. With what I've been through in
Speaker 1: my past. Well you got the great work ethic. But
Speaker 1: maybe during the offseason to get a chance to go
Speaker 1: down to Beal Street. What's it all about. I've been
Speaker 1: down the Bill Street probably like two or three times
Speaker 1: in college after big ones. But it's pretty cool. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of culture. They're good barbecue spotes down there.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like and that was another reason why
Speaker 1: I went to if it was kind of similar to
Speaker 1: New Orleans. M Bill Street is like Bourbon Street for
Speaker 1: New Orleans for Memphis, So I mean Bill Streets pretty dope?
Speaker 1: Did chet down there? Yeah? Jazz? I'm I actually make music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I make music. I don't wrap or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but I make instrumentals and beach like that more classical
Speaker 1: and uh, it's pretty dope. Where did that start? Actually?
Speaker 1: Junior college, I had an iPad and that's when uh,
Speaker 1: I forgot what it was called. Like they had loops
Speaker 1: and iTunes where you can make your own beach, and
Speaker 1: I was kind of messaging, Yeah, garage, man, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what it's called. So I download a garage band and
Speaker 1: I was playing around with it and I enjoyed it
Speaker 1: because I don't really go out and do anything like that,
Speaker 1: so I'm like more a home body. I'm on Xbox
Speaker 1: and I'm making beach and that's what I do you
Speaker 1: talk to any of the all those because obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of guys have different music interests and interests on
Speaker 1: the team, but I feel like a number of the dbs,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we we all listened to the same about
Speaker 1: the same thing. Like I'm not going to say obviously,
Speaker 1: when people look at my playlist, they're like, are what
Speaker 1: are these people on your phone. But I definitely have
Speaker 1: their music too, Like I'm don't put me in charge
Speaker 1: of the OX card in the car, car and nothing
Speaker 1: like that, because you probably won't know what I'm listening to.
Speaker 1: So what are you listening to? Like? What? What are
Speaker 1: more underground guys? Um? More guys that basically rap about
Speaker 1: for rap, for purpose, um work, hard motivational rappers. That's
Speaker 1: the type of music I listened to. But and when
Speaker 1: you say under an old school guys like jay Z,
Speaker 1: this type of guys and Eyes and all those guys,
Speaker 1: it's funny how you saying jay Z is old school,
Speaker 1: I guess he is. I think of him in terms of, wow,
Speaker 1: he's he's a couple of years older than me. But
Speaker 1: that's that's the time that that's sad time. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: What about geography and culture in terms of are you
Speaker 1: drawn to music down south as well? Oh yeah, a
Speaker 1: little bit. Obviously. I grew up to like Little Wayne
Speaker 1: and those guys because I'm from there. But it's crazy
Speaker 1: because I like a lot of West Coast rappers um
Speaker 1: like Dom Kennedy um, and then up no rappers like
Speaker 1: jay Z, Biggie and all those guys. So It's just
Speaker 1: it's weird that the Southeast area with music. It's okay
Speaker 1: to me, but I've ventured off to the other places. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what was the first song growing up that you
Speaker 1: knew every single word too? That's tough. It has to
Speaker 1: be wheezy. Yes, it's definitely wheezy. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: Hustlers music by Little Wayne that I don't know. I
Speaker 1: can't spit out the lyrics, but I know the song.
Speaker 1: So so you started, you're on a career. You didn't
Speaker 1: get drafted because the start in the forty at the combine,
Speaker 1: but the slow slope. But the Saint signed you. What
Speaker 1: was that like for you going back home and getting
Speaker 1: your first opportunity to National Football League in your hometown.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it was dope. Um. It was tough also, Um,
Speaker 1: I can honestly say because it was a lot of
Speaker 1: people that came up to me, a lot of people
Speaker 1: that wanted things obviously, um, but tickets definitely. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, i can't do it. I'm undrafted and I'm
Speaker 1: not playing every week, so this can't come out of
Speaker 1: my check. But it was definitely a blessing though it
Speaker 1: motivated me to get on the field quickly. It motivated
Speaker 1: me to learn fast, and it motivated me not to
Speaker 1: be us about my craft. Is it true that you
Speaker 1: texted Seohn Payton and he thought you were an intern? Yes?
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, I'm ready, let's go. He's like,
Speaker 1: who is this? I'm like, it's hard to coach. Yo,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, let's go. You didn't even sign it. I
Speaker 1: ain't signed a contract and I'm like, let's go, man, go.
Speaker 1: So you were like jacked up obviously off coaches like
Speaker 1: did you like Peyton? It seems like, I mean, but
Speaker 1: but not only is he smart, it seems like a
Speaker 1: regular dude, Like he's a players coach man. He makes you.
Speaker 1: He lets you enjoy your work. If you work hard
Speaker 1: and you and you do what you're supposed to, He's
Speaker 1: gonna let you enjoy your your benefits from it. And
Speaker 1: how loud is the super Dome. I'll tell you guys
Speaker 1: a quick story. So my first, my first playoff game
Speaker 1: was in the super Dome and we're playing Carolina. It
Speaker 1: was so loud. It's nervous. Remember that game. It was nervous, nervous, nervous.
Speaker 1: I'm running off the tunnel we get to the sundade
Speaker 1: of national anthem comes and not just after national I
Speaker 1: just Taggan calls me Willie Beam, Willie Beam. Everybody left,
Speaker 1: every like, I'm like, I'm nervous, man, I'm nervous because
Speaker 1: it meant a lot to me obviously, but it was loud.
Speaker 1: I just I wasn't expecting. But how many game I was,
Speaker 1: of course, best of teams. Yeah, so every special team's
Speaker 1: out there. I was out there. You guys had a
Speaker 1: nice leading that game and then Cam made a charge.
Speaker 1: Yeah at the end. Yeah, but you grab that victory,
Speaker 1: and then who do you play? Who do you play?
Speaker 1: In a round after that? Who do we do? Remember
Speaker 1: that we went to Minnesota, uh book and McFarland was
Speaker 1: talking about that last night, the Minnesota miracle. He kind
Speaker 1: of yes, I don't want to get off I don't
Speaker 1: want to get off track here. He kind of used
Speaker 1: that in the wrong uh phrasing, but it was a
Speaker 1: right phrase. But anyway, the Minnesota miracle. Jeez. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: losed to Minnesota, and then come back next year and
Speaker 1: we try to do it again and we lose with
Speaker 1: the p I Wow. Now I'm a Jet though, so
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. Have you ever have you ever been
Speaker 1: part of an ending like that where that that game
Speaker 1: is over, the you know over? Yeah? Are you like
Speaker 1: almost in shock though when it first happens? Are you
Speaker 1: I'm looking for every reason for him not to have score,
Speaker 1: and I'm like he had to step out. It had
Speaker 1: to be something like holding, something like no touchdown, go home.
Speaker 1: I think you guys win Super Bowl that year? Yes? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What about last year? I think last year too, could
Speaker 1: have could have, but you weren't. You were in Indianapolis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was an indie for a while, like six games.
Speaker 1: That was my first time actually really playing real football,
Speaker 1: like on defense, corner um againting something. My first star
Speaker 1: was against OAR and Brady played pretty decent. Now, Rex
Speaker 1: Hogan is assistant GM here with Jets. He came from Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: How much you think that that kind of helps you
Speaker 1: in the process, Is that here's a guy who not
Speaker 1: only sure he's got game film on you, but he's
Speaker 1: watching you at practice each and every day. Yeah it
Speaker 1: helps out a lot. Man. I think they know how
Speaker 1: hard at working and this, this this game means a
Speaker 1: lot to me. Um, and I want to win. I
Speaker 1: want to win and I want to win. That's that's
Speaker 1: my main goal. What is this season meant to you? Man?
Speaker 1: You've you've been out there on the field ten games.
Speaker 1: If we talked a little bit about your history and
Speaker 1: your truck, but now it's like, okay, this starts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this season, man, it means a lot to me. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people that was in
Speaker 1: my position, that would have been in my position when
Speaker 1: they did what I did, waited three years to kind
Speaker 1: of get to play a little bit and and earn
Speaker 1: some stripes and and do good. It means a lot
Speaker 1: to me. It shows me that, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I persevered through the tough times, and now that I'm
Speaker 1: getting more comfortable with playing and and and learning on
Speaker 1: the fly and starting and and being more experienced, that
Speaker 1: I'll be good. Do you feel like because your first
Speaker 1: you're a football was as a senior in high school,
Speaker 1: you're almost learning more than what someone your age that
Speaker 1: started playing in sixth grade is learned. Yeah, I would say, Um,
Speaker 1: when I started late, especially when I went to junior college,
Speaker 1: I feel like I had a uh, I had to
Speaker 1: double up on my work, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When I went to Jucho. I had to train two times.
Speaker 1: It's harder because these guys been doing this since there
Speaker 1: were small um, so I really never took days off
Speaker 1: after Thursday night game. We played on Thursdays in Juco,
Speaker 1: so it's a communital college. Everybody would leave. So Friday
Speaker 1: Saturday I would work out. I work out twice a day,
Speaker 1: left and run because I was small man, so I
Speaker 1: needed to figure out what would be best for me
Speaker 1: to be successful going into four year college and be
Speaker 1: able to play in and get into the NFL. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I worked out my I worked my butt off.
Speaker 1: I can honestly say I just double worked. I had to.
Speaker 1: Everybody had it. When a guy told me, he said, man,
Speaker 1: you're not You're not going against the people just in
Speaker 1: junior college. You're going against everybody in the world that's
Speaker 1: trying to get to the league. And when he told
Speaker 1: me that, I'm like, yeah, you're right. I gotta double up.
Speaker 1: I gotta work. What was the draft day experience or
Speaker 1: draft we got experience? Like for you did did your
Speaker 1: agents say, hey listen, got a chance, or you get
Speaker 1: some calls around six seventh round? What's happening? I thought
Speaker 1: I was going to get drafted. To be honest, my
Speaker 1: senior year, I had a really good season. I did
Speaker 1: the um NFL PA Bowl. I was a late transferred
Speaker 1: to the Senior Bowl. I did the Combine. I mean,
Speaker 1: so you you had to talk to a lot of teams.
Speaker 1: Just being at all those places, I felt like I
Speaker 1: was gonna get drafted. So I actually had a draft
Speaker 1: outing at one of these restaurants in Memphis because I
Speaker 1: thought it was going to many people. It was. It
Speaker 1: was probably like a good twenty thirty. I didn't tell
Speaker 1: a lot of people, but um, I didn't get drafted.
Speaker 1: It was tough. But Sean Payton called me, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: I'm going to get drafted in the seven round. That like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get you, We're gonna get you. But nope,
Speaker 1: they didn't get me. And I signed free agency. But
Speaker 1: that kind of put a chip on my shoulder because
Speaker 1: the guys that I said it was getting drafted in
Speaker 1: front of me. I'm like, Okay, really, I know I
Speaker 1: can play. Yeah, I know I could play this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and listen. And that's the story. I think when you
Speaker 1: look at all these rosters in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: that's sure their first round picks, second round picks, whatever.
Speaker 1: But you really can build your rosters through getting guys
Speaker 1: like you the undrafted. There's so many stories, so many
Speaker 1: stories of undrafted free agents have come and there are
Speaker 1: big time contributors from Look at the Kyle Phillips this
Speaker 1: year on your team, Lena defensive line tackles and tackles
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Everybody's talking about, Oh yeah, Tennessee doesn't
Speaker 1: have any of these players. And I'm like, you know
Speaker 1: any players. I don't know if Kyle Phillips looks okay?
Speaker 1: Did you ever? How big is Elvis down in Memphis?
Speaker 1: Isn't that his thing? He's pretty I mean, he's all right,
Speaker 1: but I figured I figured he's like, he's definitely an
Speaker 1: icon down right. But what's the name the house? Isn't
Speaker 1: that in Memphis? Yeah? It is? It is? It is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about What about the city? Um, you're living
Speaker 1: out here in Jersey. How often did you guys get
Speaker 1: a chance to get together? Maybe the dbs go out
Speaker 1: in the city, have a dinner and stuff like, we
Speaker 1: go out every once in a while. I'm like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm when I go out, everybody's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what But now I'm more of a home body man,
Speaker 1: Like I just wish we were a little bit closer
Speaker 1: because I'm a foodie, like I already, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So what's your favorite kind of food? Then
Speaker 1: I try anything, man, anything, Yeah, I'm I'm I'm all game.
Speaker 1: It's good, it's good for you. And as long as
Speaker 1: it's not red meat, white meat, and fish. Ye. When
Speaker 1: you start your holiday shop and Christmas around the corner,
Speaker 1: I started actually Monday, Cyber Monday, Black Friday. You got
Speaker 1: after it online. I had to. I had to. I
Speaker 1: got a big family. I'm gonna this is a five.
Speaker 1: So everybody, yeah, you're the you're the oldest, that's right,
Speaker 1: So this blends how old are they? One of their names.
Speaker 1: We got Juan, rob Brion, Kawanda, and Henry um there.
Speaker 1: So the youngest is eighteen and then everybody from eighteen.
Speaker 1: So we're like, we're all close because like it was
Speaker 1: like mom, you're pregnant every other year, every two years,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So we were real closely
Speaker 1: each But let me ask you this, Uh, from your background,
Speaker 1: obviously as you should be proud of where you are now,
Speaker 1: how do you stay humble outside of giving back to
Speaker 1: the community. Oh man, I got a long way to go. Um.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I do this little thing, uh every year.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see what I could do it up here.
Speaker 1: It's called coats and cuts, So I'll give out coats
Speaker 1: because it's going to be freezing here. Man, obviously it's
Speaker 1: snow on the stuff. And I give our haircuts to
Speaker 1: the homeless. That's the one thing I do and I'm
Speaker 1: looking for somebody to help me out to do it
Speaker 1: this year up here up your jersey. I feel like
Speaker 1: you should talk to about that. And yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: head Zadi goats and cuts, like all right, well, do
Speaker 1: you have anything else? Oh man, I'm actually getting hungry.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about gumbo. Alright, alright, Arthur, We appreciate you
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