WEBVTT - Listen: Arthur Maulet (12/11) 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.920 Welcome back to the Official Jets Podcast, powered by the 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.280 Amazon Web Services. Here in the bet MGM Casino studio. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.720 Arthur Mallett joining the pod this week. Thanks for joining us. 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.920 So we were just talking about gumbo. We'll talk about 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.479 gumbo later on in the in the podcast. But you know, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.200 I was reading some stuff online and I was watching 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.239 actually some of your high school highlights. You were a 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:29.600 punter in high school all districts. Yeah, man, I was 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:34.120 a punter. I played soccer whatever that had a ball, 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:35.600 I really did it. I tried to see what I 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:37.680 was best at. What do you what were you averaging 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:42.080 as far as gross and then I honestly couldn't tell you, 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.480 but I definitely had like five or six inside the twenties, 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.360 like only two or three yard Okay, And does does 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.040 Boyer know that you were a punter? No, he doesn't know. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.840 I try not to, you know, try to take anybody's job. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.280 You think I'm pretty good. Yeah, I definitely could a 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.639 little trickery too. That's they saw that. Yeah, I saw 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.679 I fake punt run for first down in your school. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.399 That is interesting. The soccer background, Well, what got you 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.080 going in that direction? Um? Actually, man, I didn't play 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.160 football to my senior year in high school. Senior year, yeah, 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.480 I didn't. I was a basketball soccer guy. Um, and 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.800 then it kind of translated perfect to the football field 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.319 because with soccer I need the endurance to footwork. I 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.880 played striker and I played goalie. And then the basketball 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.160 was a real defensive guy and I played points. So 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.440 it just worked hand in hand with football as being 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.640 a defensive back. So it kind of like helped me 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.640 out a lot. But that's late in your career. That's 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.360 got to give a lot of people hope out there 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:48.240 who are young athletes, aspiring scholar athletes, maybe on the 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.280 collegiate level, But what made you make that transition? Senior 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.720 year of high school, I was a senior. I wanted 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.760 to try everything. Me and my friends were sitting down 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.280 on the bench. One day, He's like, man, come play football. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.000 I'm like, let's do it. Yeah. I did it, and 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.160 I loved it. I loved it. It's nothing's like football. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.320 You have to take all eleven to be able to 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.400 be successful. And other other sports I played, like soccer 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.040 and basketball, one individual can get hot and you can win. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.680 With football, everybody has to be on the same page. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.560 To win. So that's your brotherhood and his camaraderie. So 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.840 I love it, and you loved being a dB from 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.000 day Wanner? Is that something that I play safety and 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.079 defensive back and I did punt return, So I mean 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.720 I loved it. I mean I wasn't getting hit, so 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.640 that was the great part about I was doing the hitting. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.040 And it was high school Like, if you're an athlete, 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.880 you're gonna you're gonna be successful. So were you a 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.040 physical soccer player? Because I don't think a lot of 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:44.080 people give soccer players enough football without passed To be honest, 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.359 yea it is. Um, Yeah, I definitely was. Um that's 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.920 why they had me at striker than forward and it 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.799 was pretty dope. How about using your head? Almost got one? 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.760 What were you running in high school? I ran a 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.960 fo or four, But it's crazy when I went to 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.720 the combine, I ran a four six. Nobody would ever 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.880 guess when I tell them, like, all my teammates be like, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.600 what you're run your forty four six? But the real 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.440 like what so how this? Well maybe that goes. Maybe 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:20.639 that's why the reason I didn't get because that reason 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:26.280 like four six five, four six six. How much did 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:31.000 you prepare for the forty yard dash itself, because to me, 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.680 it's all about technique, right, it's not necessarily about speech, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.520 it's about your Yes, it's about the start. And then 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.720 I had horrible starts as soon as I it was 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.280 my first time running the forty at the NFL Combine 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:48.640 on the laser, Like, like, how would you prepare for that? Right? So, uh, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.800 first two steps I popped straight up and that was 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.400 a wrap. All right? So I wanted to ask you 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.280 about this. I just wanted to check the name before. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:58.920 I didn't want to. I didn't want to mess it 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.760 up here. You said you're basketball player. I was watching 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.000 this video and I think if I miss pronounced name, 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:10.520 I'm sorry. Assistant basketball coach Mike Hagan said that your 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.440 senior year you weren't shooting too hot. You worked on 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.960 your shot, and then you made a buzzer beater in 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.760 the state championship. Uh three for the win? Is that true? Yes? Yes? 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.120 All right? So I want to know more about that 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:31.440 moment where you probably like two point three seconds left. Um, 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.960 we get the ball at half court. Uh, I passed 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.960 it into one of my teammates. Is funny you were 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.520 you were? I was inbounded. So this is before I 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.760 took the shot. I'm passing into one of my teammates 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.599 and we crossed the half court and he's about to 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.240 travel in our coach cause the time, all time time 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.880 we're like, oh crap. So uh, we get somebody else 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.120 to inbound the ball. And like I tell me from 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.360 like bro, if I'm in a corner and nobody's there, 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.400 I know I can't that shot, but good on it 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.520 for so long. So I wrap around the key and 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.719 I'm opening the corner. He throws it to me. Susan 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:11.640 and Swiss. Where do you guys play that? We played 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.680 at home? We played in Louisiana at our stadium, so 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.520 it was pretty dope. What was it like for you 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.680 growing up in New Orleans? A lot of people go 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:24.520 down there, a lot of tourists. Obviously in New Orleans 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.080 has been through a lot over the years. For someone 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.799 who comes from there, Um, how would you describe that area? 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.200 It's one of a con man. The culture there's is 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.560 so totally different from everywhere else. I would say, if 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.200 you haven't been, go, Like for a tourist, if you 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.200 haven't been, definitely go. Man. Um, the food is great, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.240 the people are nice. Um, there's so much that you 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.360 can get into. I mean I lived there all my life, literally, 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.080 and I haven't been to all the restaurants there. I'm 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.360 a big foodie, so that's a challenge to me. Um, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.039 there's a lot of good food. I love it, man, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.479 I love a culture there. People are great. Food is great, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.560 and that's all I need. I mean, I love it. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.120 What are must do is for people who go down there, 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.599 because you just said your foodie, So give a couple 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.920 of restaurants. And also what about some history. What are 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:19.760 they taking? Um? So seafood definitely, that's uptown New Orleans. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.200 So I was born and raised. Then you got like 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.040 you got like Neo's is a great spot to go. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.640 You got your best creole cuisine, you have like a 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.960 to fee, you have your crawfish, you make you want 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.560 to go back home now. Then like if you want 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.679 like seafood platters, you go to Mr. Eds and anything 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.360 that you want there in the city you can get. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.600 It is popados in the south too. Yeah, but that's 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.120 like more like fast food. Yeah, but that's more like 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.839 Texas's not even by us. And we were talking before 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.239 about your gumbo, your recent seafood only guy or trending 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.960 that way. First of all, tell us about the gumbo. Ok, 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.960 what what's your what's your rest be? Without giving away 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:05.960 too many secrets, here, nice little gumbo base. Obviously, I 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.560 have to get everything. The tricky part about is I 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.480 have to get everything next day shipped up to here. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.119 Are two day shipped up to here, like I can't 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.320 even get it from up here, so it will be 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:22.200 a lot of like Zadaran stuff, uh, keen crabs, Crawfords, tales, 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.760 all types of crazy stuff like that. But it has 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.920 to be frozen the next day ship up here, like 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.520 I can't get it up here to make it, so 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.480 it's dope. How often do you find yourself cooking? Not 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.080 too often because you know, you know, Marcus and the 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.560 fellas are taking care of you downstairs. Yeah, they're taking 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.440 care of me. Man. Marcus is a really good cook actually, man, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.520 so I love it. Um. Yeah, you have to let 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.160 you know you're not eating meat right all right? Well 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.160 he made land the other week. It was really good. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.800 It was like, I don't know if if either of 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.200 you like lamb. I've had it. I like it, I've 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.480 never had You've never had lamp. It's, uh, you never 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.080 had lamb tips come on the way Marcus makes them. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:06.640 They're they're amazing and yeah, and it was just yeah, 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.200 so Marcus is a chef here, I got I got 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.720 a bone to pick with him though. About six months ago, no, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.240 maybe it's about even a calendar year, he says, you 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.520 don't need the red meat, man, stop stop eating the 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:22.240 red meat. So now, over the last couple of months, 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.600 you know what he's been doing. He's been doing basically 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:30.080 the Keto diet. He's been eating nothing, but basically you're 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.760 no carbs. Wait wait wait, wait wait, that is mean 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:34.800 he eats red meat though he is he is though 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.200 he's eating the red meat. Oh yeah, he's Yeah. I 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.439 thought he's just eating chicken and fish. No, I think 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.839 he's definitely eating red meat. I've seen it go yeah yeah, man, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.680 So I gotta imagine listen, I use such an interesting 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.240 background because playing soccer, he decided you're gonna play football 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.160 senior high school. There are a lot of guys in 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.840 the National Football League who played community college ball man. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.320 Yeah that was rough Yeah, yeah, community college Juco was 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.800 rough man. Because obviously I didn't play football for a 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.600 long time. And that's when I really found my passion 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.640 for the game. Uh, it's kind of like similar to 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:17.080 the NFL. It's a fifty two man roster Juco um 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.320 and at the staters you only get four slots on 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.520 each side. So far the state on on offense for O, 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.560 the state on defense. So where did you go to school? 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.160 I went to Copia Lincoln in Mississippi, and Mississippi one 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:33.800 red light, a diner, a family dollar, and a gas station. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.640 That's it. The closest McDonald's wildfle House was like thirty 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.600 minutes away. I didn't have a car. It was horrible. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.440 And Juco is where eat greedy came to life, right 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.240 because you had four meals that would last year a weekend, Yeah, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.680 the whole weekend. They'll get out on Thursday. So I 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.120 had Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Those those meals. Was 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.520 that's what all I had. I didn't I didn't have 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.360 a job or anything. So that will help make sure 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.480 they cook some a little bit different for me for 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.920 the weekend that I could eat and won't get bored 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.160 about it. Was it hard for you to keep? It 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.560 was tough? Yeah, I can honestly say what were you 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.720 playing that. I was playing a corner. I don't know 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.520 about what was you. I was probably like one seventy five. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.439 I was a shrimp. Man, that's a little shrimp. One 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:25.079 seventy five, one year, two years there before Memphis comes calling. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.199 How did that all work out? Um? Actually? Man? Uh yeah? 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.559 Two years of Juko transfer to University of Memphis. But 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.200 I had like a lot of offers. I had a 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.200 person to work out with Obama. I was actually about 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.439 to go there, but the way my grades were in 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.040 transcripts were coming out of high school and Juco, it 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.520 didn't mesh. So I told myself I wanted to be 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.880 a big fish in a small pond and play right away, 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.520 exactly coming from Juco. You know what I'm saying. So 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.480 I chose Memphis, man, and we flipped a program around 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.959 and there have They have a great program now and 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.920 we're probably gonna play our first in first New year 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:06.360 Evilo this year? Why Memphis? Like, well, what made you feel? Okay? 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.920 So when I that was my first visit, in my 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.720 my first official visit in last So when I went there, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.760 I went in the weight room and I saw hard 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.320 they work because I work hard man, coming from junior college, 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:18.840 and I was like, man, that's why I want to 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.640 be period. Like I saw hard they worked. It's probably 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.760 like twenty five degrees on the field. They had ice 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.040 all over the turf and they're getting it in and 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:29.679 I'm like, yeah, I won't be a part of this. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.720 How did that personal workout go? MA? It was actually 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.559 pretty good. Uh. They had like two other five stars 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.319 in me, so it was just three guys were working out. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.360 I do the drills or whatever, and I'm done. They 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.320 told me to stop early. They've seen enough and I 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.240 ran my forty form. I ran the four four. I 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.760 just didn't get the offer because of the transcript stuff. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.960 I feel like maybe I'm wrong here. But to bring 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.000 things full circle, when I watched the video about your 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.439 assistant coach talking about you working on your jump shot 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.960 two weeks straight and then it pays off, I feel 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.920 like it's almost kind of like a small snippet, almost 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:08.280 like a microcosm of you and your work, ethic and life. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.840 You work hard at basketball pays off Juco. Same thing, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.719 Eat Greedy. Now you're in the NFL undrafted. What is 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.200 it about the dirty work that you almost kind of like, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.719 I mean, you're talking about You're talking about yeah, and you. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.120 I mean, that's just a true testimony of where I 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.920 come from. I mean, we're probably one of the poorest 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.679 cities besides the you know what I'm saying, in New 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.440 Orleans is very poor. Um, and it's just like, man, 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.040 I came from worse. I can work hard and grind 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.360 like this is nice, nice facility is good, hot tubs. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.000 I work hard like man, that's nothing. That's that's the 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.400 easy part. I mean I like it. Other people may not, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.840 but that's that's cool to me. Like as long as 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.040 I can just keep my head down the working and 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.200 focus on one goal, Like I feel like I could 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.640 be successful with anything. With what I've been through in 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.520 my past. Well you got the great work ethic. But 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.480 maybe during the offseason to get a chance to go 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.160 down to Beal Street. What's it all about. I've been 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.120 down the Bill Street probably like two or three times 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.800 in college after big ones. But it's pretty cool. It's 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.120 a lot of culture. They're good barbecue spotes down there. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.559 It's kind of like and that was another reason why 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.040 I went to if it was kind of similar to 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.760 New Orleans. M Bill Street is like Bourbon Street for 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.200 New Orleans for Memphis, So I mean Bill Streets pretty dope? 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.720 Did chet down there? Yeah? Jazz? I'm I actually make music. Yeah, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.120 I make music. I don't wrap or anything like that, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.719 but I make instrumentals and beach like that more classical 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:34.640 and uh, it's pretty dope. Where did that start? Actually? 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.680 Junior college, I had an iPad and that's when uh, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.800 I forgot what it was called. Like they had loops 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.280 and iTunes where you can make your own beach, and 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.000 I was kind of messaging, Yeah, garage, man, that's exactly 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.959 what it's called. So I download a garage band and 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.480 I was playing around with it and I enjoyed it 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.280 because I don't really go out and do anything like that, 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.040 so I'm like more a home body. I'm on Xbox 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.079 and I'm making beach and that's what I do you 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.520 talk to any of the all those because obviously a 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.120 lot of guys have different music interests and interests on 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.120 the team, but I feel like a number of the dbs, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.400 oh yeah, we we all listened to the same about 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.240 the same thing. Like I'm not going to say obviously, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.680 when people look at my playlist, they're like, are what 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.440 are these people on your phone. But I definitely have 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.760 their music too, Like I'm don't put me in charge 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.800 of the OX card in the car, car and nothing 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.280 like that, because you probably won't know what I'm listening to. 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.160 So what are you listening to? Like? What? What are 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.800 more underground guys? Um? More guys that basically rap about 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:38.080 for rap, for purpose, um work, hard motivational rappers. That's 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.680 the type of music I listened to. But and when 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.520 you say under an old school guys like jay Z, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.200 this type of guys and Eyes and all those guys, 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.760 it's funny how you saying jay Z is old school, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:53.200 I guess he is. I think of him in terms of, wow, 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.720 he's he's a couple of years older than me. But 0:14:55.920 --> 0:15:01.680 that's that's the time that that's sad time. Yeah, no doubt. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:06.240 What about geography and culture in terms of are you 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.240 drawn to music down south as well? Oh yeah, a 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.760 little bit. Obviously. I grew up to like Little Wayne 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.280 and those guys because I'm from there. But it's crazy 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.760 because I like a lot of West Coast rappers um 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.000 like Dom Kennedy um, and then up no rappers like 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.240 jay Z, Biggie and all those guys. So It's just 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.160 it's weird that the Southeast area with music. It's okay 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.560 to me, but I've ventured off to the other places. Okay, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.760 So what was the first song growing up that you 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.920 knew every single word too? That's tough. It has to 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.360 be wheezy. Yes, it's definitely wheezy. I don't know. It's 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.960 Hustlers music by Little Wayne that I don't know. I 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.240 can't spit out the lyrics, but I know the song. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.600 So so you started, you're on a career. You didn't 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:56.040 get drafted because the start in the forty at the combine, 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.440 but the slow slope. But the Saint signed you. What 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.280 was that like for you going back home and getting 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.800 your first opportunity to National Football League in your hometown. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.560 Oh man, it was dope. Um. It was tough also, Um, 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.000 I can honestly say because it was a lot of 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.600 people that came up to me, a lot of people 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:21.160 that wanted things obviously, um, but tickets definitely. I'm like, bro, 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.240 I'm sorry, i can't do it. I'm undrafted and I'm 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.840 not playing every week, so this can't come out of 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.520 my check. But it was definitely a blessing though it 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.560 motivated me to get on the field quickly. It motivated 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.040 me to learn fast, and it motivated me not to 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.840 be us about my craft. Is it true that you 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.080 texted Seohn Payton and he thought you were an intern? Yes? 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.880 I was like, Yo, I'm ready, let's go. He's like, 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:49.800 who is this? I'm like, it's hard to coach. Yo, 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.400 I'm ready, let's go. You didn't even sign it. I 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:57.200 ain't signed a contract and I'm like, let's go, man, go. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:01.440 So you were like jacked up obviously off coaches like 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:08.240 did you like Peyton? It seems like, I mean, but 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.040 but not only is he smart, it seems like a 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.879 regular dude, Like he's a players coach man. He makes you. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.119 He lets you enjoy your work. If you work hard 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.880 and you and you do what you're supposed to, He's 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.159 gonna let you enjoy your your benefits from it. And 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.040 how loud is the super Dome. I'll tell you guys 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.320 a quick story. So my first, my first playoff game 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.760 was in the super Dome and we're playing Carolina. It 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.919 was so loud. It's nervous. Remember that game. It was nervous, nervous, nervous. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.360 I'm running off the tunnel we get to the sundade 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.760 of national anthem comes and not just after national I 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:48.600 just Taggan calls me Willie Beam, Willie Beam. Everybody left, 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.920 every like, I'm like, I'm nervous, man, I'm nervous because 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.840 it meant a lot to me obviously, but it was loud. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:59.520 I just I wasn't expecting. But how many game I was, 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.200 of course, best of teams. Yeah, so every special team's 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.439 out there. I was out there. You guys had a 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.440 nice leading that game and then Cam made a charge. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.879 Yeah at the end. Yeah, but you grab that victory, 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:12.440 and then who do you play? Who do you play? 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.760 In a round after that? Who do we do? Remember 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:22.840 that we went to Minnesota, uh book and McFarland was 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.239 talking about that last night, the Minnesota miracle. He kind 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.160 of yes, I don't want to get off I don't 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.520 want to get off track here. He kind of used 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:34.359 that in the wrong uh phrasing, but it was a 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.960 right phrase. But anyway, the Minnesota miracle. Jeez. Yeah, we 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.600 losed to Minnesota, and then come back next year and 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.040 we try to do it again and we lose with 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.520 the p I Wow. Now I'm a Jet though, so 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:52.720 that doesn't matter. Have you ever have you ever been 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.440 part of an ending like that where that that game 0:18:55.520 --> 0:19:00.200 is over, the you know over? Yeah? Are you like 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:04.040 almost in shock though when it first happens? Are you 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.040 I'm looking for every reason for him not to have score, 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.120 and I'm like he had to step out. It had 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:13.320 to be something like holding, something like no touchdown, go home. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.040 I think you guys win Super Bowl that year? Yes? Yeah? 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.920 What about last year? I think last year too, could 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.680 have could have, but you weren't. You were in Indianapolis. Yeah, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:25.960 it was an indie for a while, like six games. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.040 That was my first time actually really playing real football, 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.640 like on defense, corner um againting something. My first star 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:38.440 was against OAR and Brady played pretty decent. Now, Rex 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:43.280 Hogan is assistant GM here with Jets. He came from Indianapolis. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:45.639 How much you think that that kind of helps you 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.720 in the process, Is that here's a guy who not 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.440 only sure he's got game film on you, but he's 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.159 watching you at practice each and every day. Yeah it 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.200 helps out a lot. Man. I think they know how 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.080 hard at working and this, this this game means a 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.480 lot to me. Um, and I want to win. I 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.520 want to win and I want to win. That's that's 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.160 my main goal. What is this season meant to you? Man? 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:08.760 You've you've been out there on the field ten games. 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.199 If we talked a little bit about your history and 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.399 your truck, but now it's like, okay, this starts. Yeah, 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.560 this season, man, it means a lot to me. Um. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:19.159 I feel like a lot of people that was in 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.800 my position, that would have been in my position when 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.120 they did what I did, waited three years to kind 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.960 of get to play a little bit and and earn 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.320 some stripes and and do good. It means a lot 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:31.680 to me. It shows me that, you know what I'm saying, 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.320 I persevered through the tough times, and now that I'm 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.560 getting more comfortable with playing and and and learning on 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.600 the fly and starting and and being more experienced, that 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.040 I'll be good. Do you feel like because your first 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.959 you're a football was as a senior in high school, 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:53.320 you're almost learning more than what someone your age that 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.360 started playing in sixth grade is learned. Yeah, I would say, Um, 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.720 when I started late, especially when I went to junior college, 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.000 I feel like I had a uh, I had to 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.040 double up on my work, you know what I'm saying. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.040 When I went to Jucho. I had to train two times. 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.000 It's harder because these guys been doing this since there 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.640 were small um, so I really never took days off 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.600 after Thursday night game. We played on Thursdays in Juco, 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.960 so it's a communital college. Everybody would leave. So Friday 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:22.880