WEBVTT - Listen: Le'Veon Bell (9/9) 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:06.560 Welcome inside the BA MGM Studio. All Right, Official Jet 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:09.560 Podcast Week two. You can listen to us on New 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.600 York Jets dot Com, Apple Podcast, SoundCloud. Be sure to 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.000 leave us a review. Very special guest today, Levy on Bell, 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:21.119 Thanks for joining us. We know you're good at football. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.720 We know you love rap, you love football. What fans 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.040 don't know about you, but we know about you now. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.400 You're a dog lover dog and you have thirteen of 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.160 them and they're all in Ohio, in Ohio, right now, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.559 right now. Okay, So where did the love of dogs 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:41.320 start for me? Probably when I was about four. I 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.120 remember we had this dog. His name was Lucky, and 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.600 my mom had him and he was our first dog, 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:48.920 her my first dog I seen. I was alive and 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.160 I just live Lucky. He's just you know what I'm saying, 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.680 just playing around, And that's why I start I love 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.400 it dogs. Really, when I was like four years old. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.520 Just what kind of dog was Lucky? Like you was 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.160 a Golden Retriever. That's a good first dog. He used 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.560 to I used to love someone because he's literally was 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.440 so good at running with the football. So he was 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.240 like he had these like we had these little nerfball, 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.480 So you were chasing him, to chase him and nobody, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.480 Me and my little cousins, little brothers, as we got older. 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.000 When Lucky got older, you know, we used to put 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.280 him in the yard. He had a ball. Nobody can 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.240 touch him. He wouldn't. He took riety and he would 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.840 like tuck his button everything like he wouldn't let nobody touch. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.560 This sounds like air but to me, like the movies, 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.800 for real, that's he's our first air bud. That's what 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.120 he was. But he went this all perpose. He ain't 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.920 play basketball and baseball. He was strictly football. It starts 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.440 with Lucky. But now you as an adult, grown man, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.800 thirteen dogs? Why the number? Why do you keep on 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:51.160 just going? Um? To be honest, probably because I walk 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:56.600 into pet smart or something trying dog food and cut 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.559 you know what. That's how literally how it starts like um. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.880 And then the Rocks had puppies, So then that's how 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.240 we how I kind of got started. And we sold 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.000 all the puppies and we kept one and then I 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.680 don't know, that's how I started. That's so funny. I 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.079 feel like that's how everyone wants to just keep collecting, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.600 like for me when I go to the grocery store, 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.680 I'm like, I know I want this, like for you, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.560 like you know you need dog food. I know I 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:27.280 need chicken or whatever. Yeah, I've never had that. How 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.200 do you go about the name? You don't have to 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.680 go through all thirteen right now, otherwise their podcast will 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.959 be over. But but how do you go about the 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.120 selection of the name. So at first, we wanted to 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:43.280 start with all bees. Um, so my mom, my mom 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.600 had a dog. His name was Z. He just passed away, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.760 but he was our oldest dog. He was him in 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.320 sixth grade, but Z right, So Z was our first dog. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.959 And after Z, I got beautiful, and I wanted to 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.680 start all bees, right, So that's how I got started. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.720 Then bees and bees and beast going bees and bees, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:09.480 and then I couldn't think it's gonna be more be names. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.119 I can image, like look in the dictionary, like okay, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.920 maybe that, So then it started. Then we gotta we 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.200 got a German chepd her name was Her name is 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.800 Lady right, So then we wanted to have her and 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.400 our other dogs sir. We got sir to made with 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.600 her or whatever. Um, so we just thought of like 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.280 lady and sir, Like, that's how it's gonna start, like ladies, sir. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:39.440 Then yeah, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's just 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.560 crazy how I don't know how we'll started coming both it. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.000 Then one of our dogs name, I would get interesting 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.600 dog names. So then we gotta dog name five. Right. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:48.720 Do you don't know why her name is five? You 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.320 have any idea? And I don't want to be wrong 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.960 and guess wrong. I don't want to guess all right, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.160 So she literally are the fifth puppy like in her litter. 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.400 So that's why I named her five. It was just 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:07.840 literally that like, because I literally couldn't even think of 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.240 at the time of name for because I wanted to. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.800 I wanted to her because she was the smallest dog 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.000 in the letter to it. I just fell in love 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.520 with her, you know what I'm saying. So um, she 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.440 was like, I was like, all right, we're gonna name 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.320 her five. That's what it was. It's stuck to her. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.120 It's stuck. So but it's gotta be tough for you 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.800 up here in New Jersey and you don't have any 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:29.440 dog around right now, right, Well, it's terrible myself. I 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.760 only can play the game or write music or something 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.680 like usually go home, I see beautiful and she just crazy, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.960 you know what I'm saying, so excited to see like, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.360 no matter like, no matter what, she's always happy to 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.280 see me, no matter what. How like dogs, you could 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.080 like lock them away and the kennel and they can 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:47.600 be locked up all day. So we let him out 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:48.720 the kindle all my gun. You let me have the 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.280 kind on, you know what I'm saying. So it's like 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:59.120 Xbox doesn't never never Xbox, girlfriend's mom's sisters, none of them, 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.359 none of them treat So listen, I share this with you. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.440 I got my Reggie at home and he is everything. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.720 You know, no matter what happens during the day, they're 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:14.080 always excited to see unconditional love. Man. But that's what 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.040 it's all about. Um, when you're not writing music, what 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.160 music are you listening to? Oh so I listened to? 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.080 I mean I got a lot of variety, right, but 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:32.280 my go to has lately been like Drake Young Thug Gonna, 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:38.040 T Grizzy. You're like T Grizzy a lot, Travis Scott Losey. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:39.400 There's a lot of people I listen to. What I'm 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:40.880 thinking about. I'm just here. Her name of people. But 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.159 it was like, like literally every day. It's like, you know, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.760 I like Little Keyed, Um, It's it's it's a it's 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.120 a variety of music I listened to. But you know, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.840 I mean, if you want to talk about me, like 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.400 it depends on the move going out there, you're ready 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.400 for a football game, I might listen to something different 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.040 rather than when I'm just riding in the car, just 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:02.600 about to drive home and I know I gotta drive 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.440 for thirty minutes. So but like season open before the Buffalo, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.039 what were you listening to? Grizzy Grizzy Pray for this 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.719 Drip that's my song? What if? What if I asked 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.960 you who you'd want to collab with, Like whether it 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.800 be a current artist, someone you listen to growing up, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:25.200 Who's somebody that you really want to do something with? Um, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.159 I mean I really wanted to I wanted to do 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.719 something big with a little dirt, and I made that happen. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.560 You know, Dirk was um. He worked with me, and 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.320 he's like one of the most humble people I've ever 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.040 met in my life. Because it's crazy. You get a 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.680 lot of a lot of fame and a lot of 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.200 you know, people draw attention to you, it's easy to 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:43.560 kind of go in the shell a little bit. But 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.080 little Dirk was a guy. He was just open minded 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.599 and he worked with an athlete knowing Um, that was 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.839 like huge for me. Um. That song will be dropping 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.120 pretty soon. And uh, Drake is another one, you know, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.080 I want to work with Drake Um. And a girl 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.120 like a girl want to work with two. Her name 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:07.440 is Megan Stallion. Ok. Yeah she good too. Yeah. Like 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.800 people don't know yet, but they will, Yeah, they will 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.400 because I'm gonna make it happy. Man. I'm gonna make 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.040 it happen in some type of way and make it happen. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.120 So just leave me on. But I'll sleep because I yes, 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:20.880 your moll Adams that as well. Because seriously, because anybody 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.920 who gets an opportunity to meet you, your energy, bro. 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.119 You're bringing it everything. You're bringing it on the field, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.600 you're bringing it on the practice field. You're bringing it 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.000 when you go home and you write music. Do you sleep? 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.800 I do sleep. Actually it was hard for me to 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.240 sleep Saturday night. I went to sleep. Well, I went 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.800 to bed and like I probably fell asleep. I went 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.960 I laid down like eleven o'clock and I probably want 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:46.920 to sleep probably eleven thirty and I woke up with 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.920 like five am because I was so ready for the game. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.000 You have ready roll. I woke like five am. Isn't 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.440 that unbelievable? Though, Like I literally couldn't sleep. I feel 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.840 like I was get ready for Christmas. I was going 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.440 to say that, Yeah, this is exactly. It's just like 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:02.920 I'm just up. So I'm just sitting there just trying 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:07.080 to watch highlights and like, let's get Are you watching 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:13.160 highlights to yourself? Honestly no, I mean I've watched highlights 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.200 of myself the night before, but that morning now I didn't. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.360 I didn't. I watched it with myself. So I watched 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.080 say Kwan Barkley. Oh, I see what you're doing. Yeah, 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.960 I watched Klan Barkley. I watched the Barry Sanders, and 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.440 I watched Ladenia Thomason. And are you on YouTube? Doing 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.760 this on YouTube? It's just like one of us because 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.760 you're all over YouTube right now. Why don't you tell 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.800 people what you're doing on your page? Oh with the 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.199 music or the video with everything YouTube? I mean on 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.120 YouTube everything you're blowing up. We got the mic up. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.719 The mike up thing was huge, um because people I 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.439 don't think people really get a sense of hi I 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.840 am off the field, you know what I mean. People 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.720 kind of see me playing football and it's like, oh, 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.040 he's a good football player, and it's that another they 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.280 hear about me in the media, you know, but don't 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:05.120 really know my personality, like just on a daily basis, 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.240 you know. Not think I'm gonna use my YouTube to 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.080 kind of show people like, oh, yeah, this is me, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:11.920 like lady on, build a person, you know, not just 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.480 the football player. Yeah, it's interesting that the guys that 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.680 you took a watch at prior to your first game 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.000 with the Jets, Barry Sanders, he he was always your guy, right, 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.920 my favorit running back, My favorit running back. Yeah, and 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:27.959 I know he loved the Curtis Martin growing up. But 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.000 what stood out to you about Barry Barry He's a 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.760 a lot of people don't really understand. But it was 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.120 his patience, right. It was like this draw play they 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.240 was running with the Detroit lines. I have no idea 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.120 how they were running it, but it was like the 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.559 quarterback could dropped back. Barry Sandral really just wait back 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.679 there they're handing the ball. Then it's like he can 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.760 pick either way to go. And I feel like he 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.120 just was never wrong, like on that draw play, you know, 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.000 I mean, don't get me wrong. He I think he 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.920 he had the most ours loss in his career, right, 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.839 but he was literally losing the yards and try to 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:10.440 gain yards. That's that's literally what it was. It was 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.880 like I respect that, like I he was going for 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.760 the checkler everything. But he's like literally my favorite runner, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.920 you know, and um just about you know, he had 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.480 patience that change the directions unbelievable. I don't even know 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.640 how he was doing it. And um, and his balance, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.640 his balance was his balance and his vision was really 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.960 uh I think underrated, you know, um, but that's what 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.640 really made him who He was his balance, vision and 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.960 obviously everybody knows about his change direction. And Barry Sanders 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.840 really wasn't like the fastest guy, but he was fast 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.280 enough to get you know, to break a long run. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.199 But he wasn't really the fastest guy. He didn't really 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.560 depend on his speed. He changed he he depended on 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.160 his change direction and his vision and his patience. Man, 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.400 we talked about this before, but I go back and 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.680 speaking about highlights. I look at you at Michigan State 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:05.880 and well that's a big, bruising back. Two fifty. You're 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.400 totally transformed, man. And every time I see you on 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.760 the football field now, as we saw against the Buffalo 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.640 Bills in the season opener, you're so explosive. When you 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.240 look back at your metamorphosis as far as wherever you 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:22.160 come from, believable, it's unbelievable. So were on Friday. We 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:23.760 was in the team meeting or not the team in 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.959 the running backs room. UM in the meeting, and we 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.000 was watching my Michigan State highlights and all the running 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:35.320 backs like, whoa, that's you. I was like, no, like, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.319 but it's crazy because my running style was the same. 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:43.880 It's just I was a lot slower and I was stronger. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.080 Like I was obviously strong because I was bigger. So 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.640 D'Antonio had you in the weight room. Yeah you're just crushing, 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.320 but you're probably heavy heavy, squat, heavy bench every time, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.040 you know. And it was just crazy because when I 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.400 look at it was like I still had the moves, 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.360 you know. I was still spinning and you jump over 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:04.320 people like not a breakout game. I was still doing 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.800 all that. It was just now it's now I'm a 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.360 lot more explosive. Now I'm a lot quicker. And I 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.600 think this over the course of my person of my career, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.680 from my junior year to my rookie year to my 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.360 second year in the league, I just understood, like, oh yeah, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.600 I could be a better player if I just make 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.440 me be a little quicker, a little more explosive, you know, 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.960 not have to depend on just if it's a fire 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.040 I run. But I could have been fifteen, you know 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.040 what I'm saying. That's the difference, you know, because you 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.679 want to be explosive in this game, right everybody's not 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.600 really looking for the big rules and back no more, 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:38.480 you know. And I understood that. I knew I could 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.959 catch passes out of the back field, I could run routes, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.400 but I knew people wouldn't really go look at me 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.240 like that if I was to forty. You know what 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.600 I'm saying, I know how to get down to um. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.319 Your Your story is unbelievably, it's unbelievable as far as 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:56.560 the trajectory you were too star recruiters coming out of 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.120 high school. You carry that chip to this day? Do 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:01.720 I do? Just because of the fact that I know 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.160 where I came from and I know you know, a 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.720 lot of people doubted me. I just remember in high 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.920 school just walking around the hallways and I was, you know, 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.960 my close friends and I was talking to They knew 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.400 where my goal was and my dream was to go 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.040 to NFL and stuff. But I don't think a lot 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:23.000 of people would believed it, you know, um or believed 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:24.680 I could do it, you know, even you know my 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:26.640 high school coaches. You know, you got a couple of 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.120 them who maybe I knew I could do it or whatever. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.560 But it's just like I remember, the only person who 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.760 was really always in my corner with my like my mom. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.719 Like my mom was making sure like any camp that 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.719 I wanted to go to, like if I wanted to 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.880 go to Penn State camp or like Akriant Camp or 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.960 Ohio camp or whatever, she made sure she saved up 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.240 enough money, you know, so so we can travel and 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:49.920 go to the camp, you know, and I can kind 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.199 of showcase my talent and then try to get a scholarship. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:53.720 You know, my mom was like in my corner the 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.320 whole time, pushing me. She still is. She means everything 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.079 to everything, like literally everything, because she was here when 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:03.319 you signed. I signed, yep, when I signed, like She's 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.480 gonna be right there at the whole time, the whole time. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.440 Is it true that Ohio State in West Virginia recruited 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:14.240 you to play safety? Yes, West Virginia and Michigan Virginia 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.280 and Michigan Ohio State, it would recruit me for like 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.280 both sides, Yeah, both sides. Um, they was gonna give 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.320 me an opportunity at running back. But they didn't get 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.040 an offer from none of those schools, like no scholarship 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.720 from none of those schools. Do you remind Jamal Adams 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:32.400 that they were coming after you to play safety? HEYT 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.200 worried about that, worry about that. I did not want 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.320 to place they Do you ever think about like for 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.880 someone that's so go, go go, you always bring in 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.240 the energy. You have so many things to do, whether 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.280 it be music, video games, whatever it is. You ever 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.480 take a second and think from even what was talking about, 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.520 even when you were two forty five or a high 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.760 school kid too, star, You ever take a thing or 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.520 take a second to think about like where you are 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.640 now and how different that is even though it's probably 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.080 just a couple of years ago. I do you know, 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.400 and I mean it was born a couple of years ago. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.360 One of those things it feels like yesterday, but it 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.160 also feels like forever if it definitely flew by, Like 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.560 I mean, don't get me wrong, It's like sometimes it'll 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.920 take like me watching like on Friday, me watching the 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.200 Mission State Highlight, and then I'll think about, like that 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.240 is crazy. I was too forty and then I had 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.160 to really transform my body, had to go on this diet. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.840 And ever since I went on that diet, you know, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.480 from my from my junior year, going into my training, 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.880 going into my rookie year, ever since I started that diet, 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:40.080 it changed my life because it's like that's my lifestyle now, 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.120 Like I eat totally different now, you know. So it's 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.200 just crazy, how like just from me like trying to 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.440 change my mindset from my junior year going to the NFL, 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.520 from my rookie year, my whole my whole mindset has 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.360 changed on the way I eat or what I eat 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.280 or what I drink and put it in my body, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.200 you know, and it may be literally who are person 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.520 out in the day, you know, I'm glad that it happened. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.080 When it happened, I was a twenty year old kid 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.520 who made the decision. Now I'm sitting here in twenty 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.640 seven and it made me a person At the end 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.880 of the day, did you feel like you were back 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.840 home again when you put the pads on, you came 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.600 out of that tunnel, you got the ovation, you got 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.600 twenty three touches. I like the fact that you got 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.040 twenty three touches. I think some of the great athletes 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.440 we've ever seen, and you know, for me, it was 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.960 always Michael Jordan's and I we talked about I'm Jay 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.600 last week kind of hurt when I'm Jay went away 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.600 from the game for a little bit and we didn't 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.520 see him. But when he came back, you know, that 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.040 was something else and you were back where you were 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.280 meant to be on the field, and it felt and 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.360 it felt good, you know, because I just know, I 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.280 just remember waking up on that day, waking up yesterday 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.680 and just getting on like my normal my phone, like 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.600 a normal day is looking at my auto text messages 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.480 I had going on Twitter, Instagram, just like so many 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.280 people were just ready for that day, you know, and 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.400 it felt it felt amazing to me. You know. I 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.920 remember when I'm in the warm ups, I'm just thinking, like, man, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.400 we're almost there, and I'm just trying to stay calm. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.040 Like I'm like trying to stay calm, but it's like 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.480 everything give me is like, bro, can we just play 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.000 football already? Like you know what I'm saying. Like I 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:21.159 was just already to play because it felt it has 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.280 been a long time coming, you know, so um, I 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.560 had to sit out all the preseason games and be 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.600 out there with my guys and rout them all and stuff. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.320 So it just felt good to be out there with him, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.719 you know. And obviously not the outcome we wanted, you know, 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.080 but we wanted to make I made sure that, Like, 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.399 I'm glad that I got out of the game healthy 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.840 and I was actually able to play the game again, 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.719 you know, and I had fun doing it. You know, 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.399 that game was fun. It was a rivalry game, you know, 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.080 guys out there having fun, you know, and uh, we're 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:52.960 gonna we're gonna get back to the drawing board and 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.080 get everything right. But I'm just glad that, you know, 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.320 I'm actually back in the midst of things. She getting 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.160 my body when I woke up this morning, I was happy. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.080 I was sure. Yeah, I was like, oh yeah, hurt, 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:09.160 I'm back. Was her favorite play, I mean the touchdown catch. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.119 Obviously you get back in that and so on and 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.119 and that was a beautiful Brad. But you you had 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:18.200 a couple of runs out there, including fourth, and gave 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.840 your team a chance to still gain victory. I never 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:27.760 run my favorite how about backed up? I mean those 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.800 like one of my favorite runs, my favorite play. It 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:32.960 was like a third and seven or something and we 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.200 threw it the crowder, but I had a blitz pick up. Yeah, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.920 I know exactly what you're talking about, and dude trying 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.760 to buy rush and I smack him so hard, like 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.720 that was my favorit play because it's like people must 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.000 have forgotten this, this is what I take prior to 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.240 I take pride and you know, blocking like blitz pick 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.639 up and people trying to buy rush me. I'm like, no, 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.879 that's not happening. Yeah, you're about to do that, and 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:58.080 you got praised for it on Hard Knocks. Yeah yeah, 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.600 because that's somethingbody lookally like more than like a tenure run. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.800 I take way more pride than like pick picking up 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.200 a blitz, especially like a good rusher or something and 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.200 blocking them because that's literally like me versus you. You 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:12.760 know what I'm saying, Like if I get a good run. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.080 I mean, it takes my read and stuff, but I 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.040 depend on everybody up front. You gotta make sure Sam 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.040 put me in the right play. The guys and I'll say, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.440 I gotta do their jobs, you know what I'm saying. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.200 It's like a collected thing and it's like a good 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.239 run that goes. But when it comes to blitz pick up, 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.800 and I know it's it's me verse one, diy, it's 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.719 me versus you, and I win that. That's just that's pride, 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.120 you know what I'm saying. And a lot of guys 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.120 don't really take that, you know, or that prideful about 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:38.879 the bit pick up, you know. And that's what I 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.879 think separates me from a lot of running backs because 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.159 I'm not letting my quarterback get hit. You know what 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.720 I'm saying, I'm not gonna happen. You have an infectious personality. 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:51.120 Your teammates have gravitated towards you. I think you got 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:57.080 miscast maybe because of people's misconceptions of what happened in Pittsburgh. 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.879 You have a lot of love for a number of things. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:08.040 But make no mistake, he loved playing football. Anybody who 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.720 goes out there and watches you a practice. You don't. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:12.280 You have to have to be out there in game. 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.760 You love the game, and uh, you're off to a 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.120