Speaker 1: Guys, welcome to Renee all day. Joining me today, Chase Brown?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 1: How good? How are you feeling?
Speaker 2: I mean it's weeks we're going to week eighteen. Body
Speaker 2: feels good to be at this point. Yeah, yeah, everything's good.
Speaker 1: I was very excited to realize that I'm staying down
Speaker 1: with you, a fellow.
Speaker 2: Canadian, fellow Canadian, fellow.
Speaker 1: Canadian here in Cincinnati or here in the NFL. Uh.
Speaker 1: What's the first thing you do when you touch down
Speaker 1: in TiO?
Speaker 2: The first thing you do when you touched on on
Speaker 2: to I mean, if you're not from there, you gotta
Speaker 2: go see the cee In Tower.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you know what. I never recommend that.
Speaker 2: What what do you recommend?
Speaker 1: What would you say, say the aquarium?
Speaker 2: The aquarium, Well, that's right next to it. It's right
Speaker 2: next to it. I would say go to the sea
Speaker 2: In Tower because then you can see everything. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: you can have dinner up there, you know what. Relax
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: I've not been to that restaurant.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're gonna have bele Oh for real.
Speaker 1: Like I was really little, I actually don't think I've
Speaker 1: been to the Santa Tower since I was really little.
Speaker 2: Well, you got to go back.
Speaker 1: I guess I do so for you specifically when you
Speaker 1: get home to Canada, what do you want to do?
Speaker 2: Relax a little bit? Maybe I don't know, I haven't
Speaker 2: even thought about it yet. Maybe get some more tattoos?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, that's really all. Maybe that's what I
Speaker 2: would do.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like it. So you, of course have a
Speaker 1: twin brother plays for the Eagles. How competitive are you
Speaker 1: guys with each other throughout the season and just like
Speaker 1: career wise?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you can imagine. I grew up with
Speaker 2: that dude. We did everything together. Yeah, college ball, lived together,
Speaker 2: so got extremely competitive. Even with people that like we
Speaker 2: lived with. It was just always like who can do
Speaker 2: this better? Who's gonna eat cleaner, who's gonna do this
Speaker 2: one thing better?
Speaker 1: So hanging out with twins can be such a trip
Speaker 1: to you. Guys are like on each other. You guys
Speaker 1: talk about.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah all the time, all the time. He can't
Speaker 2: do anything right, he can't do a single thing right.
Speaker 1: Who's the better trash talker the two?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I'd take it all the way.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, do you guys have that like weird twin
Speaker 1: connection where you just like know if something's going on
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 2: For sure, Like when anytime I watch his games and yeah,
Speaker 2: oh god, it's like the loudest thing ever. I'm yelling
Speaker 2: at the TV. I feel like I'm there, like he's
Speaker 2: playing the post like I'm back there doing it too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so how much are you guys checking in with each.
Speaker 2: Other all the time? I'll probably call him right after this,
Speaker 2: probably just to see And most of the time I
Speaker 2: can't even get a hold of him because he's it's
Speaker 2: like trying to get ahold of the president. That's what
Speaker 2: are like. Me and my roommates say, yeah, he never
Speaker 2: picks up the phone ever, Right, I always pick up
Speaker 2: for him, but he'll turn me back and we'll catch
Speaker 2: up talk about our days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, usual. Okay, So I find this fascinating because
Speaker 1: growing up in Canada, we don't know a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that play in the NFL. We all know somebody
Speaker 1: that plays in the NHL. That's always like we went
Speaker 1: to school with a guy, we know a guy, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. We don't know a ton of guys that
Speaker 1: play in the NFL. So your journey to go from
Speaker 1: living in London Ontario to moving to Florida and going
Speaker 1: to high school to pursue this dream. It's rare to
Speaker 1: hear that. Can you walk me through how you were
Speaker 1: able to even achieve that and pull that off and
Speaker 1: be here now in the NFL?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean number one, it took a world class
Speaker 2: you know, they can nobody could match up to, you know,
Speaker 2: the support system that my brother and I had with
Speaker 2: the Whost family. My mom, my grandma coaches. So I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna start there. But grew up in London, Ontario,
Speaker 2: bounce around a little bit, ended up having this opportunity
Speaker 2: to play football in Florida, went there, moved in with
Speaker 2: his host family.
Speaker 1: Like how does that opportunity come up?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: Because even in like I was trying to say before,
Speaker 1: it's like my high school, nobody really played football. So
Speaker 1: how do you get to the point that you're like there,
Speaker 1: you're in it to be scouted, to be able to
Speaker 1: move down to the United States.
Speaker 2: To do that? I see, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: allowed to use the word scouted, but it was an
Speaker 2: academic scholarship, so that's how it worked out.
Speaker 1: Okay, got it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So anyways, my brother and I played football. We
Speaker 2: want to take it to the next level. But you know,
Speaker 2: we saw a couple of guys make this prep school move.
Speaker 2: It's actually you know, Jesse Lukita he plays for the Cardinals,
Speaker 2: and then John Metchi he plays for the Texans. So
Speaker 2: those are kind of the first two guys that did
Speaker 2: it of the fall. Yeah, so we kind of knew, like, hey,
Speaker 2: if you know there's something we wanted to do, kind
Speaker 2: of have to follow their footsteps. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 2: eventually we made the move down there. Lovely whole family.
Speaker 2: I mean we it was kind of a crazy turnaround.
Speaker 2: We met, we talked with the school or whatever on
Speaker 2: like a Tuesday, and then and talk to the host
Speaker 2: family on a Wednesday, moved in with them two days later,
Speaker 2: just you and your brother. So my mom Roe was
Speaker 2: down but yes, it was just my brother and I
Speaker 2: with the family. Yeah. So yeah, that was a crazy turnaround.
Speaker 2: But where it took us, it's you know, it's priceless
Speaker 2: everything that did for us. I mean we I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be seeing with you here today, like if it wasn't
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy how things kind of fall into place
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. But to think of
Speaker 1: like you and your brother being in London, moving to Florida,
Speaker 1: going to high school together. You guys go to Illinois together.
Speaker 1: It's like the first time you guys have really been separated.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of rocking a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I definitely miss him. Yeah, I wish, I
Speaker 2: wish I saw my roommate. But he's doing, you know,
Speaker 2: big things on Philly and that's where he's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: That's just you know, you gotta you gotta trust you know,
Speaker 2: God and your journey, and you know, wherever opportunities are
Speaker 2: you you got you can't you can't pass up on them. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: can you imagine? And if he's like, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: just not going to go to you. No, it just
Speaker 2: doesn't work out that way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know, your grown men, you for your own past.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe one day we'll buy a house together.
Speaker 1: There you go, There you go. I was just watching
Speaker 1: the show twin Love, hosted by my friends The Bella Twins.
Speaker 1: But it's like a whole thing on how like twins
Speaker 1: kind of operate in their relationships outside of each other.
Speaker 1: It's it is a whole thing. Renee All Day is
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Speaker 1: a little bit about your family. Obviously, you're close with
Speaker 1: your brother, You're close with your mom. She drove you
Speaker 1: down to Florida's been with you guys the whole time.
Speaker 1: You guys lived with your grandma for a little while.
Speaker 2: Uh huh yeah. Yeah, So my mom, my mom was
Speaker 2: bouncing around a little bit. She was struggling, and I mean,
Speaker 2: my grandma has always been that rock for us, who
Speaker 2: always supported us any any way she could. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's our rock, that's you know, my anytime my mom struggled,
Speaker 2: my name was always the first one to help when
Speaker 2: she could and do whatever she could to make sure that,
Speaker 2: you know, my brother and I were Okay. So she's
Speaker 2: she's amazing.
Speaker 1: Did she get to come down here yet?
Speaker 2: She's she came down for one game. She came into
Speaker 2: the Seattle game. She said, I never want to stand
Speaker 2: through a game like that again. You guys should just
Speaker 2: you know, finish it earlier. I'm like, you know, that's
Speaker 2: just how these NFL games go. Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't talk to me about Draft Day. That
Speaker 1: was obviously a really emotional day for you. I saw
Speaker 1: the videos, but to be able to see that dream
Speaker 1: come true for you, all those emotions kind of pouring
Speaker 1: out of you, Yeah.
Speaker 2: No doubt. I mean number one. So my brother went
Speaker 2: on day two, and I mean, he we kind of
Speaker 2: threw this big party and he really wanted this like
Speaker 2: big party, everybody around everything. So I didn't really I
Speaker 2: kind of knew I was about to go day three.
Speaker 2: So in the back of my head, I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know if we should really do this.
Speaker 2: And next thing I know, I mean, there's news cruise,
Speaker 2: there's probably like two hundred people at this draft party.
Speaker 1: And you guys in London for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were back home and he gets drafted. I
Speaker 2: don't get drafted that night. I'm like, you know, I
Speaker 2: just saw him get drafted. He knows where he's going,
Speaker 2: and he's all excited and like, man, like, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm pumped up for you, but I don't know where
Speaker 2: I'm going yet. So what was that.
Speaker 1: Drive home like for you to know where your brother
Speaker 1: was going and you're kind of waiting there with the
Speaker 1: dot dot dot Yeah you're gonna do it?
Speaker 2: Was I mean just mixed emotions. Just that's probably the
Speaker 2: most stress I've ever been becaues. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: I see the fourth round go by, fifth round comes up,
Speaker 2: and I mean, we're getting to the end of the fifth,
Speaker 2: fifth round, so I'm like, oh my gosh, like where
Speaker 2: am I gonna end up? And then eventually I see
Speaker 2: pop up and it's I went they didn't say Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: but it's at Ohio. Okay, I'm like, Ohio, who is?
Speaker 2: And then it's coach Zach and I just I didn't
Speaker 2: even I just I mean you see the video. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was crying like a baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so cool when moments like that can happen
Speaker 1: and just be like totally vulnerable to the work you've
Speaker 1: put in to landing where you're supposed to land. You
Speaker 1: and your brother both go like crazy.
Speaker 2: No, definitely a cool moment. I'll never forget that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like all this stress built up, you don't feel
Speaker 2: like your foreheads about to hit the floor, and the
Speaker 2: next thing you know, it's all gone. Yeah, you're excited
Speaker 2: with this opportunity and just making the most.
Speaker 1: Of it, so everything settles in. You know where you're going.
Speaker 1: Now you can kind of understand I'm going to the Bengals.
Speaker 1: What did that mean to you to realize that this
Speaker 1: is a team that you were going to go play for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean championship caliber team, you know, superstars and walk. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so many good players, so many guys to i mean
Speaker 2: learn from. So as a young player getting their feet
Speaker 2: wet in the NFL. So I was I was mainly
Speaker 2: excited about that, you know, getting to work with Coach
Speaker 2: Hill and coach Cali and just start this NFL journey.
Speaker 2: That's what I was really excited about originally. And then
Speaker 2: you know that turns into you know, meeting new guys
Speaker 2: in the locker room and you're making new friends, I
Speaker 2: mean moving to a new apartment. So yeah, there's so
Speaker 2: much that, so much change and transition that happens.
Speaker 1: Life's happening life, Yeah, so many life things. You talk
Speaker 1: about those superstars in the locker room, and there really
Speaker 1: is some like huge notable names on this roster. Who
Speaker 1: were some of those guys that you were able to
Speaker 1: kind of observe and learn a little something from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously, I mean you have Jamar t, Tyler, Joe,
Speaker 2: and then I mean even Mike Thomas, he's been the
Speaker 2: NFL for yeah. I mean, I don't know. I think
Speaker 2: he's in year twelve or thirteen. He's been in the
Speaker 2: NFL forever, and I just I respect that, Yeah, and
Speaker 2: I'm like longevity that. So I'm asking I'm asking him questions.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of observing, you know, the other guys from
Speaker 2: you know, a little bit away. I'm not like exactly
Speaker 2: all up in their face or anything, but you know,
Speaker 2: I'm seeing how they work, you know, the way they
Speaker 2: the way they practice, what they do after practice. And
Speaker 2: I kind of added some of those things in final routine,
Speaker 2: just you know, just by observing.
Speaker 1: So, you guys have a really tight rookie group this year.
Speaker 1: What is that about? It seems like I just keep
Speaker 1: hearing the buzz about how tight you guys all are.
Speaker 2: It was all the rookie success meetings we have like that,
Speaker 2: but a lot of us actually worked out together pre draft.
Speaker 2: Like I compete against Charlie all the way through college
Speaker 2: pretty much, and I didn't like him until until I
Speaker 2: get here. But it's just he's a you know, I
Speaker 2: played against them at Iowa and then against them at Purdue,
Speaker 2: and then Yeah, I knew Andre from the Senior Bowl
Speaker 2: trained with DJ and Fort Lauderdale. I think Jordan might
Speaker 2: have been there. I don't know. I think Battle is
Speaker 2: that I don't remember. Yeah, maybe he went to maybe
Speaker 2: he was there for like two days and then went
Speaker 2: to Exos or something. But yeah, I kind of met
Speaker 2: everybody throughout the draft process before, so I knew. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's why everybody's kind of close. Everybody kind of knew
Speaker 2: each other one way or had some sort of connections.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, it wasn't like totally.
Speaker 2: It's not like everybody's brand new. It's okay, like I
Speaker 2: know you and then you know, it's just you just
Speaker 2: meshed better that way.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this chip on your shoulder
Speaker 1: because I feel like you must have one. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've seen it from in terms of you know, the
Speaker 1: draft and how that all went down, and in my
Speaker 1: research of getting ready for this interview, it seems like
Speaker 1: a lot of people keep going, wow, you're really fast,
Speaker 1: and You're like, yeah.
Speaker 2: A little bit, I can move a little bit.
Speaker 1: Does it shock you that people are sort of seeing
Speaker 1: you in that light of going wow the table?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, maybe a little bit. I mean, if you
Speaker 2: watch my film I Hit twenty two in college. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like twenty two I don't know, twenty two five. Let's
Speaker 2: hit twenty two five. I hit something like that in college,
Speaker 2: so I could move and then, I mean maybe they
Speaker 2: just didn't see the tape or think that I could run.
Speaker 2: I mean I ran a four four to three. Yeah,
Speaker 2: super athletic at the combine. And I think I've always
Speaker 2: just I mean, I felt like I was underestimated in
Speaker 2: the in the pre draft.
Speaker 1: Do you like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think, you know, coming in as
Speaker 2: a fifth round pick. I mean my mindset has never changed.
Speaker 2: It's always been to go in and make an impact somehow.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I mean at first it was special teams and
Speaker 2: you know, going as hard as I could, running as
Speaker 2: fasts I could down the field after that touchdown like that, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, obviously that turns heads, and scoring and
Speaker 2: making big plays turns heads. But I think, you know,
Speaker 2: consistently doing that is what I want to keep doing.
Speaker 2: I mean, just showing like if you give me space,
Speaker 2: I can finish these big plays. I can make people miss.
Speaker 2: I can run in between the tackles like you know
Speaker 2: I can. I can do this. You know I can
Speaker 2: compete at this level yeah. Yeah, So that's just that's
Speaker 2: just kind of what I carr on my shoulder week
Speaker 2: to week, And I mean I just want to keep
Speaker 2: getting better.
Speaker 1: What are some other things that you want to bring
Speaker 1: from this season into next Just experience mainly.
Speaker 2: I mean that's the only way you can take steps
Speaker 2: forward in this league is getting more comfortable on the field,
Speaker 2: you know, pre snap recognition, being a smarter player next
Speaker 2: year and taking all of that and just going into
Speaker 2: you know, year two full speed, no hesitation, full confidence,
Speaker 2: just you know, ready to you know, bring Cincinnati what
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we've worked so hard for him.
Speaker 2: We deserve.
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Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: That's all happening on the field. Let's talk off the field.
Speaker 1: Your fashion game is on point. That is a common
Speaker 1: theme here amongst you Bengals. You guys bring out some
Speaker 1: top choice outfits. Has that Have you always been like
Speaker 1: this or did you kind of kick it up a
Speaker 1: notch now that you're here.
Speaker 2: I had to kick it up a notch. Maybe my
Speaker 2: fashion game from week one or preseason even to I mean, shoot,
Speaker 2: week seventeen. Yeah, I mean has completely changed. So I
Speaker 2: think once I got off IR, I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get a bunch of fashion motivation. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get some motivation.
Speaker 1: And then where's that motivation come from? Who are we
Speaker 1: saving on Instagram? What are we looking at for some
Speaker 1: good outfit?
Speaker 2: I want to tell my secret, but no, I I
Speaker 2: scroll on TikTok, like my whole TikTok, like every talk.
Speaker 1: I'm old guys, Sorry, Facebook, my Space, You're not on TikTok. No,
Speaker 1: I haven't TikTok.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, I'm like too much. Yeah, I just so
Speaker 2: I follow a bunch of fashion people on there and
Speaker 2: kind of I mean get my motivation from that, and
Speaker 2: you know where they're shopping. And I mean I'm trying
Speaker 2: to make it as inexpensive as possible.
Speaker 1: Sure, that's smart.
Speaker 2: I mean, like still have some pieces that are statements,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like a bag or some
Speaker 2: shoes or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta have a couple of staples.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but just making sure it works all together.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, No, that's definitely like the if you buy
Speaker 1: something it's only for one specific thing. That's when you
Speaker 1: get yourself in a bit of a pickle. You need
Speaker 1: to be a little versatile with the pieces.
Speaker 2: No doubt, you gotta be versatile. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 2: my fits I've just been buying for one week, don't
Speaker 2: not really using the pieces after because it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: what is that about?
Speaker 1: I think that's a new thing. People don't repeat outfits anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm myself am guilty. Everything.
Speaker 2: Everything's on camera, Like as soon as you walk down
Speaker 2: this hallway, is it right here? Okay? Right here somewhere
Speaker 2: right here? Yeah, so we walked down that hallway and
Speaker 2: there's a couple of pictures taken, like over with that's
Speaker 2: the last time you can right off? Yeah I didn't,
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 1: Yes, you're on camera.
Speaker 2: It's right off, it's right off, Yeah, it's right off.
Speaker 1: All right off. Okay, So rookie contract with the first
Speaker 1: thing you bought?
Speaker 2: What did you get for Bronco wrapped?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, definitely my financial bise, like, no, don't
Speaker 1: do it too much. Live a little about that.
Speaker 2: And that's what I got. That's what I did for myself.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I've got a little game here for you.
Speaker 1: It's sort of a Canadian quiz. It's sort of a
Speaker 1: this or that. You got to pick up one ketchup
Speaker 1: chips are all dress trips?
Speaker 2: Wow right, I was all dressed kid though, but I
Speaker 2: think ketchup trips? Now?
Speaker 1: Is there one other snack from Canada that you wish?
Speaker 1: We're on the shelves here.
Speaker 2: Just have like, uh, like the Kinder chocolates.
Speaker 1: We do, but the chocolate's not the same.
Speaker 2: Qu wait, not the not the Kinder surprises. The they're like.
Speaker 1: The bars are really good them here, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you went to jungle gyms here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Crazy, it's craziness. Yeah, they've got some lost in there.
Speaker 1: Drake. Or the weekend Drake, I mean that was kind
Speaker 1: of no offense weekend that was an obvious on. Gret
Speaker 1: Ski or Gilmore gret Ski. Butter tart or Joe Louis
Speaker 1: butter tart.
Speaker 2: What what's what I mean?
Speaker 1: It's the chocolate cake with a little like vanilla frosting
Speaker 1: in the middle. You know what Joe Louis.
Speaker 2: Like you can buy from the corner store. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know what you're talking about, Like twinkies. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: know what you're talking. I actually do.
Speaker 1: He's lost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: London Knights, Toronto Argonauts. Are you keeping?
Speaker 2: I always well, I mean one's football on one's hometown
Speaker 2: hockey team.
Speaker 1: The hometown team, and London Knights usually have a pretty
Speaker 1: decent They are pretty good, vitoriously been a pretty good team.
Speaker 1: Ship's Creek or Letter Kenny?
Speaker 2: Do you watch Creek? Letter Kenny? I never watched Creaked those.
Speaker 1: You should watch Letter Kenny. Very Canadian. If you're ever
Speaker 1: feeling a little like nostalgic paying for Canada, it'll get
Speaker 1: you Starbucks or Tim Morton's Starbucks.
Speaker 2: Wow, change totally changed.
Speaker 1: What a change guy, Americana through and through?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's on a show with some show.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for hanging out with me.
Speaker 1: Best of luck with everything still to come in your career.
Speaker 1: I'm super happy that you're here. You've got to sit down.
Speaker 1: You're in the NFL. You did it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're here, we're here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Yeah,