1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: I always felt like that belong and I feel like 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: that's that's that's what, that's the reason why I'm here. 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: My mom was telling me, I'm gonna see Daddy's gonna 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: see Daddy. And my sister was already here too, so 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: telling me I'm gonna We're gonna see Dad. I wasn't 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: showing it because I felt like everybody else want to 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: go to America, like everybody wants to come to America. 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: One game I knocked I completely knocked the quarterback out 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: one game, and like every I saw how happy everybody was, like, Oh, 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: that's what I'm supposed to do. This, Welcome into the lounge. 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: We're on a roll here. There are eight games in 12 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: a row. I say we because you know we played 13 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: the games. Yes, right now we're playing awesome, great um. 14 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: But anyway, it's it's it's a fun ride and we're 15 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: getting ready for another big game up in Buffalo against 16 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: a very good team, the Buffalo Bills, who are nine 17 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: in three. It's just crazylous. It's just crazy. Like when 18 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: you look at the schedule and you think about how 19 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: like I did not expect the forty niners to be 20 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: coming into last week's game at ten and one. Did 21 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: not expect the Bills to be sitting here at nine 22 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: and three. It's just crazy how every single game there's 23 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: no let up. No, I mean, I feel like when 24 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: we look back on it, the Ravens will have the 25 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: most difficult schedule in the league. Well, it's always look 26 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 1: at the records. Yeah, well when you look at also 27 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: when you look at like say power rankings, the top 28 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 1: eight teams, the Ravens have played like the other seven 29 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: teams that are in that top eight, it's crazy. The 30 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: only the only exception is like the Packers, Saints and 31 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: maybe the Vikings are in that list. But yeah, crazy yeah, Seahawks, 32 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: forty Niners, Chiefs, Patriots, Texans, every team from the a 33 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: f C. It's crazy. Um. All right, So we last 34 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: week did the meat draft and we're gonna get into that, 35 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: which we got a lot. I always pulled a small sample. 36 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 1: I could have kept going, but to take it easy 37 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: on you, we will do that after our interview, all right, 38 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: because we want to dedicate the right amount of time 39 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: to it. So before we get into the meat draft emails, 40 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: let's welcome in our guests. The bus running back Gus 41 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: Edwards Gus. Obviously the nickname is taken off Gus the 42 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: bus took off last year. It's nothing new when you 43 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: picture yourself as a bus. Are you a school bus, 44 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,399 Speaker 1: greyhound bus? What kind of bus were we talking here? 45 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: The fastest? I like that answer, what's the fastest bus? 46 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: I don't a good bus with the spoiler on it. 47 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: My favorite part has been really the gifts and the memes, 48 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: Like I love when you have a long run and 49 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: I'm just like Google bus gift and I'm like the 50 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: one with the flames, that's the one that's your favorite, 51 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: one with the flames. That's the fastest bus I've ever seen. 52 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny that you bring up the speed 53 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: part because as I don't know if you know this, Ryan, 54 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: but like there's a lot of games, so after the games, 55 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: I'll look at the next gen stats that show basically, 56 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: and I've told this to Gus before, but basically the 57 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: fastest player, ball carrier or in a given game. And 58 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: there's been several games where he has been the fastest 59 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: ball carrier on the field. Really picked the fastest bus 60 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: he go. He doesn't get credit for his feed. I'm 61 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: saying it, like, you know, there's a couple of games 62 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: like nineteen around twenty miles an hour, like, there's been 63 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: a couple, no joke, he's been moving quicker than Hollywood. 64 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: You talk a smack about that. That's not my game, sack. 65 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: It's yeah, I'm pretty sure. I like Man and everybody 66 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: thinks about Lamar Hollywood like you're saying, yeah, even Mark, 67 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: you know, be like, hey Mark, did you check this out? 68 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: So that's just how fun has this season been for you? 69 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: I mean, you're running the ball really well, but in 70 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: a different role than you ended last year. As he's 71 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: been a blast. Man, I can't complain. We're winning. Um, 72 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: the running back room is having a lot of success. 73 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: So um, I'm still a part of the team. I 74 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: feel like I'm yeah, i feel like I'm having a 75 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: good season and I'm contributing. It won't get something contributing 76 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: and we're winning. I'm happy. Do you feel like that 77 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: You've got a ton of you? I feel like down 78 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: the stretch around here, when you get into December and 79 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: obviously hopefully January football, there's gonna be some games just 80 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: like you had last year where you're gonna have a 81 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: huge role and you're still pretty fresh. I feel like 82 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: this year, Yeah, I don't. I didn't even hit a 83 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: hundred carries yet. I don't think. Um somebody told me 84 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: that like this week, But I don't think I hit 85 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: a hundred of your carries. So I feel great. Um, 86 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: I feel terrific actually, and I'm just preparing like for 87 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: for whatever carries I get and hopefully it comes soon. 88 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: You probably had a hundred carries in your first three 89 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: games last year, right were you? I mean, because you 90 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: had such a big workload last year and you stepped 91 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 1: in by the end of that year. Were you a 92 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: little banged up last year? I actually got banged up, 93 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: banged up my second start. Um, so I spranged my 94 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: ankle and I pretty much played through it. So like 95 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 1: the whole season, I was pretty like I was hurting. 96 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: This year, I feel great. It's crazy. Can you tell 97 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: us a little bit about what your off season was like, 98 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: because I feel like you came in in like different 99 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: physical shape, like you just turned up faster. Did you 100 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: lean down a little bit? Yeah? I love I love 101 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: some weight. I kind of went on a pesketarian diet. 102 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: I love some weight. I came in at like two 103 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: thirty one. Um, I feel great man, and I think 104 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: it helped me a lot as far as my my stamming, um, 105 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: just getting in and out of my cuts quicker. Did 106 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: it feel? Do you still feel a strong Yeah? I 107 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: feel I feel as strong as strength hasn't hasn't left on. 108 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: We lift enough around here to keep it up all season. 109 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: So yeah, he's hair is what fish? But no meat? 110 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: No meat? Oh we just had a meat drafts to 111 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: have been to how tough has have been to forego meat? 112 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: For me, it hasn't been that bad because like, um, 113 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: I'm a chicken guy, so I just had to give 114 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: up chicken only really I didn't eat too much red meat, 115 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: so you didn't need any pork. I don't. I never 116 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,559 Speaker 1: you never got out. I've had, I have swine before. 117 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: It's just never been my thing. Oh wow, I'm not 118 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: gonna tell my draft the turkey baking Oh no, so 119 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: much better than record. Yeah, Oh that's that's because the 120 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: backstory is on the last podcast, we basically set up 121 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: a group of twelve meats and we did a fake draft, 122 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: and he took pretty much every pork product you could 123 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: possibly have, bacon, pork. And so you're saying, I'm basically 124 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: we didn't even put fish on there. What what do 125 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: you miss? What do you miss the most? They? Um, 126 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: so I'm Liberian and in Liberian like, Um, a lot 127 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: of our dishes they put they put like chicken and 128 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,119 Speaker 1: like the flavoring with the chicken. That's the only chicken 129 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: I kind of miss. I don't really miss like any 130 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: other type of chicken. This eup. But when I'm eating 131 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: like an African dish. Yeah, so it was your mom. 132 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: Are you first generation or the first generation? I came 133 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: here when I was five, Okay, so so do you? 134 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: I mean five? I feel like your memories are just 135 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: kind of starting. Then. It's funny, I don't. The only 136 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: memories I have of Liberia is like it's crazy, but 137 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: it's like the only the day I was leaving, Like 138 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: I remember the day I was leaving, when I was 139 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: taking pictures and everything. I just remember that day that. 140 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,119 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's like big moments in your life 141 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: stick with you. So do you remember like the feelings 142 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: that you had? I remember that, Um why I was 143 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: taking the pictures. Um, I was being very humble about it, 144 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: like I was excited, but in all the pictures, like 145 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: I look like I'm sad that I'm leaving, but I 146 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: was so happy to even because my father was already 147 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: here and I hadn't seen my father, and my mom 148 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: was telling me, going to see Daddy's gonna see daddy. 149 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: And my sister was already here too, so telling me, 150 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna, We're gonna see dad and your sister. So 151 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: I was so pumped, but I couldn't. I wasn't showing 152 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: it because I felt like everybody else want to go 153 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: to America, Like everybody wants to come to America. And 154 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: how long had it been had it been since you 155 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: saw your sister and your father? Um? No idea? Um? 156 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: I think my dad came here like late nineties and 157 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: I came here two thousand and one. Oh, so you 158 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: hadn't met him yet. I didn't know my dad. I 159 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: didn't have like too much memories of him until I 160 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: came here. Yeah. Wow, that's crazy and and uh sorry, 161 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna just found this interesting. I'm just questions about it. 162 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: But I mean, what what was it that, like what 163 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 1: your dad came here and then your mom just I mean, 164 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: was there something in Liberia where you're like, I need 165 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: we need to get out of here it's time or 166 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: what was it that brought my family here? All right? 167 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: So my my aunt one, this um, my aunt one 168 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: is lottery in Libarria where you get a trip to America. 169 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: She wanted and she came here on the visiting um 170 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: visa and she got a job and then basically like 171 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 1: ended up getting her green card and everything was allowed 172 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: to stay. And then there was a war going on, 173 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: and my but they could only bring a certain amount 174 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: of people. So my dad, um, my mom and my 175 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 1: dad was debating on who was gonna come, and my 176 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: my mom was like, um, go with go with my 177 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 1: sister because she was older and she needed to get 178 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: in school. So she telled him to go with my sister. 179 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: And then she was like, you control her. You'll be 180 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: able to control her more being your male than I would. 181 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: So they them too came and then later he sent 182 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: for us. That's incredible, and they moved to New York. 183 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: Here they came to stand on. That's incredible. Do you 184 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: have any memories from when you first arrived in New York? 185 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: I remember the first food. The first thing I had 186 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: was Chinese food. The first food. How much of a 187 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: challenge was it when you're young? Kid. You know, basically 188 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: it's not just moving obviously, you're you're changing countries, cultures, um. 189 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,119 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, but it's a different environment, yeah obviously. 190 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: And so how big of a you know, challenger was 191 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: it to try to navigate all that? In my in 192 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: the neighborhood I grew up with, there's a lot of librarians, 193 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,959 Speaker 1: so it wasn't too bad. But um, the most challenging 194 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: part about it was just pretty much like I mean, 195 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: we we spoke English, but it was like kind of 196 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: a broken English, and then like trying to get along, 197 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: trying to like um relate to other kids like they 198 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: didn't understand Like in school. I mean, it's enough Liberians 199 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 1: in the community, but when you go to school, it's not. 200 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: Everybody in your classmate isn't. So it's like it was. 201 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: I remember it being hard to like communicate with everybody, 202 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: and um, it kind of took me a while longer 203 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: to like, it took me like a longer time to 204 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: start writing and like speaking out loud because I was 205 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: shy about how I sounded and stuff. So you know 206 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, And have you been back at 207 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: all or not? Now I haven't been back. I need 208 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: to go back. That's something you definitely wanted. You feel 209 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: still very like connected to the culture, like to you 210 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: and your family. You talked about your mom's cooking and yeah, 211 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 1: my mom actually just left. She left last week to 212 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,719 Speaker 1: go to libraria. Um, she wanted me to go with her, 213 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: but um, she couldn't wait any longer because she's like 214 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,679 Speaker 1: in the process of building the house and stuff. So 215 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: she she just went ahead and did that. So at 216 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: what point in your childhood did football become your thing? 217 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 1: I think I started playing football when I was eleven. Um, 218 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: crazy story. I was. Um, like one day one of 219 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: my one of my friends had told me something about 220 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: a dog, that he had a dog. I went over this. 221 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: I went to his house to see the dog, and 222 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: he was just messing with me to give me a 223 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: come pick him up, pretty much. And we go walking 224 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: on the street and we meet this guy and he's 225 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: just like, we asked him for directions so somewhere, and 226 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: he just kept throwing the football at me and I'm 227 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: catching it. He kept throwing it at me but not 228 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: telling me directions to where trying to get And then 229 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: he later he goes, do you want to play football? 230 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: And then I I went and I tried out and 231 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: I've been playing ever since. Like a coach, Yeah, he 232 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: was a coach. He was actually like he's actually like 233 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: a rapper to um. He actually it's the guy that 234 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: discovered fifty cents. That's crazy. His name is um Um 235 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: Sam Barnes, but his rap name was Tuned. I don't 236 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: know if I ever heard of him from track Masters. 237 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: It's like a big thing. He came up with jay 238 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: Z and everything. It's crazy. Did he did he try 239 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: you out as a rappers? He kind of, he kind 240 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,559 Speaker 1: of like stopped doing that. Just does football right now. 241 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: Her first coach, Yeah, shout out to sound out Hurricanes. 242 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: Yeah that's very cool. So then when like when did 243 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: you realize all right, like I'm starting to kick people's 244 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: butts here, like I could do this in college all 245 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: that stuff. Um, it took me a while, honestly. Um. 246 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: I remember going through like Springboarl and what what was 247 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: going on at all? I was playing defensive end and 248 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:06,559 Speaker 1: then one game, one game I knocked I completely knocked 249 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: the quarterback out one game and like every I saw 250 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 1: how happy everybody was, like, oh That's what i'mupposed to 251 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: do it. I just just took off after that. And 252 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you were probably a big kid. Yeah, yeah, 253 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: I was. I was big, but I was kind of skinny. 254 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: I was just always tall, Okay. And so you first 255 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: played defense. At what point did they say, let's give 256 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: this guy a chance on the offensive side to see 257 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 1: what we can do with the rock. I didn't start 258 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: playing offense until I think like my third year, and 259 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: I was I was playing receiver. I always wanted to 260 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: play running back. I didn't get to play running back 261 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: until high school. Until high school, like early in high school, 262 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: and I just showed up. I showed up UM at 263 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: my high school and just put myself at running back. 264 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: Even though I never played it. I could put myself 265 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: at running back. It was like already like the line, 266 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: everybody up, everybody go with the position. I just wanted 267 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: to running back. And then so then you go to 268 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: the University of Miami. I'm curious how you ended up 269 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: there being a guy that grew up in New York. UM. 270 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: I got recruited by Al Golden. He was UM head 271 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: coach there and he was kind of from New Jersey area, 272 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: which was a big part of my recruit and I 273 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: thought that UM and being from the area, I could 274 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: really like trust him and it was my dream school 275 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: like mine, Like I said before, the Mine literal League 276 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: team was standing on in hurricanes so like and like 277 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: our logo and everything was like the whole team was 278 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: kind of like designed after the Miami Hurricane. So I 279 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: was kind of like that was kind of like, yeah, 280 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to go there at the whole time. So 281 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: it was a dream come true. Is it kind of 282 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: cool this week to go up against Frank Gore? I'm 283 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: sure that's a guy like that was the guy you 284 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: looked at. Definitely, definitely is And I met him a 285 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: couple of times actually while I was in Miami. I 286 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: got a couple of workouts and with him a couple 287 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: of times. So he'll be terrific. Like career that he 288 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: has just like phenomen also and then you end up 289 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: being a graduate transfer transferring the Rutgers. How does that? 290 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: How does at work? Like? What led you to being 291 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: a graduate transfer? So? Um, my junior season, I got hurt. 292 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: I got a list Franks here, and um I was 293 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: able to get that that year back after I got 294 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: my degree, I was they didn't they allowed me to 295 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: play um without sitting out because I was a graduate 296 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: and I just decided to go to Rutgers because I 297 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: wanted to go back home. At the time, I just 298 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: my son was on the way, so I needed help 299 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: with what I felt like my mom could help me out. 300 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: I'll be close to home and family and everything. So, yeah, 301 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: that's really cool. How old is your son? Now? Oh, 302 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: that's cool. So then you go and do the draft 303 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: and you go on drafted. Obviously that was that? Did 304 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: you expect to get drafted? And was that Some guys 305 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: have memories of a draft weekend and they think it's great, 306 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: it's amazing. Was that a terrible memory for you? Like? 307 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: It was one of the worst days of my life? Honestly, 308 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: it was so bad that like I just didn't want 309 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: to be home, Like I didn't want to be home 310 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 1: so bad. Like after I figured I figured out where 311 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: I was going, Um, I drove up to my my 312 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: my friends school. He was going to Buffalo. He was 313 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: University of Buffalo, like six hour drive. I drove up 314 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: there just to get away from everybody, because I knew 315 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: how my parents felt, you know what I mean, Like 316 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: I knew they was looking forward to Wait, they don't 317 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: really understand the process. So like they probably felt like 318 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: it was over feel me and they was just like, oh, 319 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: just trying to be there for me, and I just like, 320 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: you know, I just need to get away. So but 321 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: I'm here now, I'm happy and God is good. Did 322 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: you go into that expecting to be drafted there? I 323 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: definitely thought I was gonna get drafted. I thought I 324 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: was gonna get drafted late. That's where everybody was telling 325 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: me agents and stuff. But I didn't work out. And 326 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: what led you to picking the Ravens, Um, I just 327 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: felt like it was a great fit. Um, it was 328 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: close to home. It was I looked at the roster, 329 00:16:54,120 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 1: I felt like, um, I fit in perfectly, and I um, 330 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: I felt like it fit my my min style to 331 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: play with the physicality and stuff. So yeah, so then 332 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: you start the year on the practice squad, you end 333 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,360 Speaker 1: up getting moved to the active roster, and then once 334 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: you get the ball in your hands, it was kind 335 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: of never looked back. It's I feel like that's is 336 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 1: that sort of in the story of your career that 337 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: was the case. You said you know that running back 338 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: in high school, UM, just is it? At what point 339 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: did you kind of feel like I belong here, like 340 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: I can hold my own and the NFL is where 341 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be. I've always felt that way, and 342 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: like I always I always felt like that belong and 343 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: I feel like that's that's that's what, that's the reason 344 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: why I'm here. You know what I mean, You can't 345 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: you can't come out there and not be a guy 346 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: with confidence. I feel like you need confidence that the 347 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: seed in this lead and it's it's it's been great 348 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: I have. When I came in, I had a running 349 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 1: back coach that that that really have faith in me. 350 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: Coach Thomas Um pushed me every day. And I've just 351 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 1: been surrounded with with a bunch of great guys. Because 352 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that go into free agency, 353 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: go to a cheam and they're just in bad situations. 354 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 1: I came into a great situation and that was a 355 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: big part of my That's a big part of why 356 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: I'm here right now. I think what's really cool about you, too, 357 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 1: is is just how you've embraced this change of roles. 358 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: Like we talked about before, I mean, you were the 359 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 1: starter last year and excelled. I mean in terms of 360 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 1: yards per carry, I mean there are a few guys 361 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,679 Speaker 1: in the league better than you. Then the Ravens go 362 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: and Sein Mark Ingram, you know, a bona fide starter, Heisman, 363 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: Triffy Winner, all that stuff, his credentials, and you moved 364 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: into a number two role. And but the way you've 365 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: handled that with grace and humility, I think it's been 366 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: really impressive. Was that difficult to to kind of see 367 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,239 Speaker 1: that happen, that new get that news that all right, 368 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 1: I probably won't be the starter? How did you handle that? 369 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: I'm a competitor, so I didn't. I never saw it 370 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: as in like, oh man, they're they're looking down at me, 371 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: or they don't think I could do. I sawways like 372 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: let's let's go to work and let's make a uh 373 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: just find a place for you whatever road they give you. UM, 374 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: excel at that man. Mark has been great, honestly, Um. 375 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: He's had a tremendous successful the team. He's a big 376 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: part of record right now, and he's been a great 377 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: leader to the team. He's a friend of mine off 378 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: the field, somebody that I I've I've watched since um 379 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: since like high school. So it's it's been great to 380 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: just um see him come in and have the success 381 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: that he is he has. I feel like he Um, 382 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: he's a great teammate because he also helps me with 383 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 1: my game and UM, he's he's an open um. He's 384 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: an open mind when I come to him. Every time 385 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: I come to him about what I'm doing wrong or 386 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: what can I do better, He's always willing to help 387 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: me out. And it's been great to have him in 388 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: the room. Honestly, what's his energy and how's that affected 389 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: because he's got a different kind of you know, you're 390 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 1: like a calm dude. He's always at eleven. How's that 391 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: kind of affected you? It's money, it's funny for real. Um, 392 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 1: He'll he'll get you going out there on the sideline. 393 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: For um. He's always locked in. I know he jokes 394 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: a lot, but he's always locked in. And it's just 395 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 1: been fun to watch him. And I see all the 396 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: little clips and stuff that's going around. I think it's 397 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: hilarious because that's who he is. You know what I 398 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,479 Speaker 1: mean is it's great that child capturing that And just 399 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: for you, as we get into this final stretch of 400 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: the regular season, I mean, this team is offense. You 401 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 1: guys are playing so well, what do you feel like 402 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: the sky's a limit for this group. You're sitting here 403 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 1: tended to you got the first seed, Like, I feel 404 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: like there's no stop in this thing right now. It's 405 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 1: it's it's fun, man, it's fun. We're winning. We have 406 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: all our goals in um in front of us. Uh. 407 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 1: We're playing great football on every aspect. We're playing great 408 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,479 Speaker 1: special team, great offense, great defense. And um it's just 409 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: with a bunch of guys that you you like coming 410 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: to work with every day. So yeah, he's been making 411 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: it even much better. Two more questions for you, Hey, 412 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: have you ever met Jerom Beddest? And would you introduce 413 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 1: yourself as the busy on the bus? Would it? Just 414 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 1: to see what his reaction would be, because I remember 415 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: last year something came wanting. He was talking about how 416 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: I'm not big enough to do it. Did he say 417 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: I forgot about that? You're right he did kind of 418 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: throw a little shade. Yeah, he was like, well, first 419 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: of all, a bus is yellow, and then he said 420 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: something about because I'm like and then he was like, 421 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: are you're gonna call yourself the bus? You have to 422 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: fill out your jersey? Wow? Well, I mean Jerome he 423 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 1: was a wide boy you know he had the pounds 424 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: right here. He was getting it off there on the 425 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: next gen. Seriously, seriously, he wasn't talking about twenty And 426 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: second question is you said you have a two year 427 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: old at him when you sing the wheels in the 428 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: bus with your two year old to have a little 429 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 1: extra meeting, you know, like he's he's started singing that song. Now. 430 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: It's crazy, but I've never I've never him. Really this Garrett, 431 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: your social media next time, next time this kid around. 432 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: We need Gus, we need a little minibus and Gus, 433 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: we gotta make that video. I like it all right, Well, Gus, 434 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: thanks appreciate it. Man. Well, really interesting stuff from Gus. 435 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 1: It's cool insight that come from Iberia. And I feel 436 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 1: like I learned a lot about Gus. Yeah. Absolutely. You 437 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: know you kind of alluded to it at a point 438 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: during the interview like he's a quiet guy, he's a 439 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 1: serious guy. Um, but I think that he's kind of 440 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: opened up over the past. It's tough as an undrafted 441 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: rookie and you start getting the ball and you just 442 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 1: don't want to stay the wrong thing, and you just 443 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: are happy to be here and you just want to 444 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: not mess that up. And then over time you get 445 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 1: a little bit more comfortable and kind of figure out 446 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: what this NFL thing is, what the media thing is, 447 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: and he has started to open up a little bit. 448 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: It was just awesome to hear a story. Yeah, and 449 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: I think you know you you kind of talked about 450 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: this a little bit too. Is I think he's gonna 451 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: be a bigger player down the stretch here we get 452 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: into these December games. The gravings, I mean, they've been 453 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: running the ball a lot all year, but as the 454 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: hits kind of pile up on mark Ingram, Gus Edwards 455 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: being the number two hammer that he is, Uh, he's 456 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: gonna have, He's gonna make some big plays, including in 457 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's right, I'm saying it already. Uh yeah. 458 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: I remember think back to Bernard Pierce during the Super 459 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: Bowl year, and we love to talk about this because 460 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: we love Bernard Pierce as a rookie running back. Yeah, 461 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: he was great. He was awesome that year and you 462 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: kind of forget about some of the big place he made. 463 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: I think Gus Edwards gonna have a very similar impact. 464 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: You know when mark Ingram talked about how he you know, 465 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,239 Speaker 1: splitting carries over the course of his career, how he 466 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: felt like that left him fresh going into this season. 467 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,159 Speaker 1: I think it's similar for Gus for this year. And 468 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: we're not talking about it over a course of an 469 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: eight year career. But like he's fresh, he is fresh, 470 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: he's ready to go, and I think that he's going 471 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 1: to play a really important role on this team down 472 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 1: the stretch. So now it's let's getting into picked that 473 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: everyone's been waiting for. But which is the Meat Draft? 474 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: If you didn't listen last week, go back and listen 475 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: to that, because, uh, it's just great comedy and the 476 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: thing that I some of the times I wonder should 477 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 1: we do a Ravens podcast or should we just do 478 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,959 Speaker 1: a podcast on drafts of random thing just dress. Nothing 479 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,479 Speaker 1: strikes more of a chord with our audience than the drafts. 480 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: We always get more emails. You gotta give me credit. 481 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: I came up with the meat Draft. Yeah that was 482 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 1: that was your credit. Yeah, you know I have Well, 483 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: we'll get into it. I have a few regrets, but 484 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: I'll get into that. Okay. So lots of emails. This 485 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: one might be my favorite one. Mark fad Die Right, 486 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,919 Speaker 1: So I almost fell off the toilet when make one 487 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,679 Speaker 1: was sausage number one. Over All, it was eating a 488 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 1: little too much meat. I try to be objective, but 489 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: this was a landslide for Garrett. Again. Yikes, that's the 490 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: theme here. Alex rights, Hey, guys, I love the podcast 491 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: and your work. I just picked myself up after that 492 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: amazing win on Sunday and that landslide loss that Ryan 493 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: suffered in the meat draft. I mean, it's not even 494 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,959 Speaker 1: a competition. Garrett crushed it a big wing. In all seriousness, 495 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: how hungry were you guys after the draft? I could 496 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: have definitely eaten some pork. Yes, that's the only thing 497 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 1: that's available to the only thing that's available. I know that. 498 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: I mean I won't read all these because this is 499 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 1: just a sample. Does make even trying the mock drafts. 500 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 1: Alex writes, awesome listening every week now that the Ravens 501 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: have excepage themselves as the truth playoff in Super Bowl contenders. 502 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: What's one? This is football, so we don't want any 503 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, get that out of here. Then this 504 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: is a lock draft podcast, and with the mock draft 505 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: on my draft podcast, he suggests that we take the 506 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 1: snake approach next time. I don't think that's about idea, 507 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 1: not that it matters even with better draft position. Make 508 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: doomed himself with this porkst meats. All right, so let 509 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: me get into I think we got the tenor here 510 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: which way the fans are voting. But there was one 511 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: in my favorite I remember that one. Of course, Eric 512 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: wrote Garrett grilled chicken. Come on, man, yeah, totally. It's 513 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,360 Speaker 1: a drafted and you're talking about salads. All right, I'll 514 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: say this, Hey, we should have had ribs on there. 515 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: Ribs not being on the list, which I believe another 516 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: pork product they can be you can get, but I mean, 517 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: come on, yeah, I would some of the other meats 518 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: to get the ribs. Uh. And beef brisket pretty big miss. 519 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 1: Someone wrote in about brisket. Brisket's a good one to 520 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: have on that was a pretty big miss. Uh. You 521 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: wanted to include peasant. I do like feasant. There there's um, 522 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: there's also my father in law. I don't know, I'm 523 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 1: got to pick this up. But here's here's my biggest thing, 524 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: my biggest miss. Steak well done, Yes, thank you was done. Also, 525 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: um was going with pork chop slash pork tender links. 526 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: That's what we discussed before over steak with my third 527 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: round pick. That was a big mistake. It was also 528 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: sauce just number one that I still stand by that 529 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: and more more people that Some people have reached out 530 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: to me, including my friend Andrew Appler ak Renus from college, 531 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 1: and it was like I originally was like, sausage number one, 532 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: are you out of your mind? But then you think 533 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: about how versatile it is. It's just a bad pick. 534 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: Now I think it's good. My father in law was 535 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: tell me we should have had muskrat on there because 536 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,719 Speaker 1: there's an annual muskrat stew festival in late February in 537 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: Maryland in Cambridge. All right, so maybe muskrat might be 538 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: the Maryland food meat of choice. I just got old 539 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: city rat, not muskrat behind my house. Yeah. I don't 540 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: eat any of it. Yeah, um, all right, anyway, I'll 541 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: take the L. I'll take the L and I'll admit 542 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: to it. I'll admit that I got another one. So 543 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: you know who's not gonna take the L. The Ravens. 544 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: They're gonna beat the Bills on Sunday. That's right, That's right. 545 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: I hear bill meat tastes real buffalo. I'm gonna get 546 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: some wild wings. Yeah, you are gonna feast on some 547 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: buffalo who word ba