WEBVTT - Rookie Spotlight: Shaun Wade 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.680 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John and this 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.960 is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.520 They's getting down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.880 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.040 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.680 about it, then we're about to let you know. It's 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:42.360 all You're gonna go, all right, you're shot in a 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.879 chair and folder Jones, I mean, uh, Steve. Over the weekend, 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.280 you know, I had no chance of talking. I saw 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:55.200 this article about uh offensive tackle Isaiah Wilson, who just 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.280 three days after Miami Dolphins traded for him, was recently waived. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.480 And we were talking a little bit before this, and 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:03.720 I guess it spurred up some some things maybe you 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.400 wanted to hit on in terms of what what this 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.280 brings about from from seeing something like this happened in 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.760 the NFL. Well, it's just with everything going on, I 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:21.040 think sometimes people have this, uh false sense that NFL 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:26.440 player or potential first round draft pick, seventh round draft 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.080 pick now and say, oh, this is this is the 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.480 opportunity of lifetime. How can this person do this? And 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.800 so we start off by talking about is that, but 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.600 I'm gonna move past him and just kind of putting 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.120 in the category of this. What this young man is 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:49.800 displaying has no different than someone who did not play sports, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:54.240 who has tricked off an opportunity for some reason, we 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:59.840 put this, We put people in sports category position like 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.280 how dare you screw up? And so one of the 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.320 things I one of many things that I know really 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.200 which is really hard to decipher and figure out this 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.600 if I use the same analogy of we remove the 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.000 athlete and we just plug in the name and a place. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.680 One thing I know about, um, just the world where 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:29.000 where we are. You can go to any community right 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.400 now and you know less in the middle class, but 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.880 you can go into any community right now where there's 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:43.800 poverty and what is it chaos, termol, things are happening, 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.080 things are said. There's just so much going on, and 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.440 that's hard to just turn away from and and say, well, 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.920 I'll just ignore. Like you can only play so many sports. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.720 At some point when the game's stopping, you go home, 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.520 you go back to wherever you are. It will affect you. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:06.919 And so you have that chaos. You have that termoil, 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.280 and then you have that's on the outside, then you 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.320 have what's happening on the inside. And then you get 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.880 an opportunity to go to a college and play football, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.680 go to class. But you still can't turn off the images. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.120 You still can't turn off the things that these men 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.160 and women have. Young men and women have experiences. They 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.639 were young men and women. So now they become adults 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.560 and then they get drafted. Those things don't leave, they 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:43.480 don't change. Yeah, you may have money too, maybe cloak 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.960 those images, but they're still there there when they're laying 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.119 in the bed in that nice big bed, now it's 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.000 instead of sharing the bed with four other relatives, now 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.960 they're just by themselves. So with him, I think, yes, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.240 he's in a place where he gets to choose. Yes, 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.240 doesn't need help, absolutely, But sometimes we don't even know 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:12.880 that we need help. We don't even know because if 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:19.640 you have had something happened to you and it's never addressed. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:27.520 When you become that doctor m hm, you become that professor, 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:33.160 when you become that government official, that football coach, that 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:42.680 football player, that quarterback, that podcaster, audio video guys, whether man, 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:47.520 whether girl, all that has done is you now are 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:54.599 those things with the same baggage and stuff you've grown 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.880 up with? This is with the title. Now that's it. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:03.560 Now you just say football player there that do you 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.240 have some sort of bagage? You had some sort of 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.360 trauma you know, yeah? Or who was sexually assaulted, who 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:13.080 was molested as a kid, who witnessed their mom or 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.400 dad passed or o d or whatever the case. My 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.440 point being, you're coming from something, yes, and if it's 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.760 and it's not, if it has never been addressed, that 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.800 issue that has never been addressed, Now you're just adult. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.040 If you have not been heard or listened or cared with, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.000 you become a lawyer or a doctor that has never 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.039 been cared to listen to and you still haven't dealt with. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.320 And we don't know what neighborhood he's come from or 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.240 what trauma he's going through, but just evident on making 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.880 choices that's relevant to to whomever it is, right like 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.200 life at the end of the day becomes about choices 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.960 and whether it is you know, he's been arrested on 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.240 do you do you watch charges? Or has had a 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.800 trespassing warning and I don't know what that's for. Or 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.720 what's up underneath. It's definitely not good. It's not good. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.880 You never read a trespass that was with good intent. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.520 But but where I where I do read this is 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:12.120 just saying somewhere along the lines, something is probably going 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.839 on in this young man's life right to where something 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.839 has happened. But at the end of the day, it 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.480 does come down to choices, right, And that's why I 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.160 think I'm here, and that's what I'm here to say 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.479 this for us, it comes down to choices, But it 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:27.600 also comes down two. Really, I'm coming from the angle 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:32.960 of the people who are saying call them all kind 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.680 of names and saying, how dare he? As if these 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:41.240 individuals you've never screwed up an opportunity, you didn't mess 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.920 up in college. That's one of the things that if 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.440 you were to keep follow around some of these regular 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.640 folks show how they act at the at the local 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.159 happy hour on Snapchat. Oh it might be some folks 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.560 losing it. We all make hold on. Here's what I 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.520 love listening to. I love listening to the radio station. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.520 I like listening to Steve Harmony and in the morning, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:15.240 I always love listening to UH to Nephew Tommy's prank phone, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.840 because what's interesting is, here's say something, and then you 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:24.120 know it's a prank. But you hear the the person 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.160 on the other call, you hear him lose themselves, and 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.040 you'll start to hear him like say stuff. You'd be 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:35.400 like yeah. And it's just I always find it interesting 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.720 on those prank phone calls because they sound so buttoned up, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.640 and then when this and he keeps pressing them, keep 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:47.640 pressing them, and then they get really uneducated. Oh yeah, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.000 whatever's in you, if you get if you get squeeze 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.760 hard enough, what's in you will come out? Oh? Absolutely, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.240 you know. It's just the it's the differences. We're not 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.960 they're not writing the articles. Yeah, you're not on public display. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.840 That's that's that's the interest. Get exactly what you're saying. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.880 And I think that's that's worth pointing out because right 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.560 now a lot of people are throwing under his name 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.280 and saying, man, he's really screwing up this this opportunity. 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.200 But we just we don't know what his backstory is, 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.480 and we don't know what the root causes are for 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.760 him to do whatever he's deciding to do. M hmm. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.920 It's tough yeah, but we hope he gets everything that 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.120 he needs and somehow he bounces back. And this is 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.960 not about football, no, not not, not at all, not 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.439 at all. It's not about how quickly he can get 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.040 back on the field, because that I see that a 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.480 lot too. Like people always wonder how quickly is he 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.079 going to get back on the field, or even with 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.520 uh tyger Wood is getting injured recently, how quickly is 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:44.920 he going to be able to get Like, let's think 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.640 about his quality of life first that ever run across 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.319 your mind? Is he going to have the same quality 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.440 of life? So no different than from that to this, Like, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.520 you know, let's think about Isaiah Wilson's quality of life 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.240 because he's a human. At the end of the day, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.600 people don't really look at because you're entertainment. And when 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.359 you no longer can do it, get rid of so transactional, 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.160 get rid of them. Let's move on. Let's let's replace them, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.679 thank goodness, than replacing these some of these other daddies 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:18.480 who working late, speak on it, speak on it. So 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.800 all right, Well, who we got come up on the 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.760 cut to a podcast Rookie Spotlight series. We've got Sean Wade, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.840 a cornerback for Ohio State University. He is up in 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:36.200 the NFL draft process. Shawn Wade on the cut to 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:45.559 a podcast. So you may be familiar with Steve Smith. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.560 You may be familiar with the whole phrase ice up, son. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.200 This is our version of our own icebreakers. So there 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.400 are random questions and maybe something that's random as E 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.320 forty or two short in the versus battle. There may 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.440 be a follow up, there may not be, but Smithy, 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.680 go ahead and get first one. All right, you ready? Okay, 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:08.720 you can only eat the same plate of food for 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:14.600 one year. What will be the items on that plate? 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:21.040 That's hard party, some type of seafood. Crowds strump, it's 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:26.400 just whoa, whoa, whoa? What do you scrimp or shrimp? 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.160 Hey man, don't let him have that one. Don't let 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:39.200 him have no let him know where you're from and 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.959 that you accordingly to where you from. I got at them. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:49.160 So if you kind of inswine Florida, I get crimped. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.840 I ain't gonna laugh because my my grandmother sayd scrimp. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:11:00.480 Yeah that's cool, but it just threw met that. Probably 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:05.400 all crowds, Oh, it's just drum and but you know, yeah, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.640 little sausages and corning and probably what I eat your food. Yeah, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.120 full year, you're gonna eat seafood. You're gonna eat seafood 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:18.640 and sausage. Yeah, I can do that every day, all right, 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:31.199 the seafood or the sauceage, the seafood. Don't don't listen. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.440 This is my segment. I love like just a random 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.000 just and it's also loves it gets it gives you 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.640 an opportunity to show your personality. But also you know, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.120 joking around and you know, I know I also come 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.960 across and come off very serious all the time. So yes, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:53.319 shocking never So this is this is good for me. Um, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.840 you have the opportunity. You will be drafted. But take 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.640 us in the mind you're drafted. Blah blah blah blah. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:08.360 What have you been eyron to buy? Mhm? Property? Probably 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.680 you know what answer is, that's that's what you really, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.200 that's the real answer. I'm not into all the cars 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.320 and all that. I'm about my mama house and all 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.520 that stuff. But my thing is property. I'm in the 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.360 real estate, so I'm definitely want to get some type 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.400 of property and things like that. M hmm. Okay, they 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.200 know somebody who knows somebody who knows something about it. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.840 Oh yeah, my um, my girlfriend her dass. That's all 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.600 that real estate stuff I got other family members and 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.280 people that's just like mentors that that helped me understand 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.079 that stuff. Like, it's still a lot of ha to 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:38.760 learn because I've been in this for our process of 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.120 I've been locked into. But that's just the things that 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.800 I wanted to do. UM. I like I like houses. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.520 I like upgrading houses. Um. One of my goals is 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.600 the upgrade a lot of the houses in Jacksonville. It's 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.200 like a lot of houses and things like that, and 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:52.800 just helping families out at the end of the day. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.800 Like a lot of families at the end of the day, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.880 it's kids still standing in the same room until fourteen 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.079 fifteen in high school and then have nothing. So that's 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:02.319 just one of my goals. And that's how I just 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:08.000 want to help you. Mm hmm. That's pretty good, brother, man. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.040 It's surprising to hear him talk and talk about his 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:16.120 goals and aspirations and to know that he's a defensive player. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:25.400 Man three already coming out guns all right, last, this 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.199 is the last one right here, yea, you can go 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:34.480 forty four to four at Ohio and lose to Michigan 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.959 every year, or go four and forty four and beat 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:47.680 Michigan every year. But that's a hard one. I ain't 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:54.400 gonna I'd rather be Michigan. I'd rather beat them. I 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.480 had to go on four or forty four. All right, 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.120 that's cool, that's I like. Let's let's get down in 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.680 um to the meeting potatoes of it. Man, your favorite 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.560 favorite sports team? Growing up? Favorite sports? They ain't got 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.199 a sports And I got a favorite athlete on. My 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.280 granddad played ten years and the lead back in the day. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.400 My favorite athletes on obviously grew up watching him. You know, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.720 the tattoos, the braids and all that stuff, all the 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.280 headbands and things I was. I was a basketball player, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.360 so that that's other things I love about him. He 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:27.080 just a great athlete, all right. So where are you from? 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.880 And the place you call your hometown? All right? So 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.720 I'm originally from a gummy all Obama. But the place 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.040 I caught my hometown that jas And then you grew up. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.560 I grew up in a military family. Yeah, so how 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.400 was that for you as a kid? It was hard. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.400 I'm moving around everywhere. I started all my sports all school. 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.080 I started all that in Italy. Sisters born in Italy. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.200 I was there for a little bit. I came back 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.240 to the States and I was with my grandma. She's 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.200 she take care of foster kids. So I've been around 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.360 that that system, been around a lot of different kids 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.760 that didn't have nothing on white, black, hispanic, A. Yeah, 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.200 all when I was with her for like two or 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.400 three years, and my brothers were her for a couple 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:07.840 of years, and we got up and moved to Jacks. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.840 But I've been in jatspl sin. So what's what's the 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.160 good and the bad about being a military kid? On 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:15.680 the good is you get to travel and see a 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.680 lot of things. Um bad is you just always up 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.880 and moving. And it's a lot of good friends that 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.200 you make even when you're young, and now you're gonna 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.480 make new friends and things. And with me, I'm very quiet, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.920 so I already don't talk to people, already already kind 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.000 of hold myself. And so it's already heard opened that 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.840 shelf for me. So you know, we read that your 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.520 dad said you were very sheltered. Mm hmm. How would 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.600 you describe the way you were raised the way I was? 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.360 But I would say they kept me out of the streets. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.560 That's what he means by celtic. Um, I feel like 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:49.880 the things that a lot of my friends got an 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.280 opportunity to do, I didn't get the opportunity to because 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.160 they always kept me in sports. They always kept me 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.680 in the classroom, you always kept me traveling. You said 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.680 you played other sports, but I want to really go 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:05.520 down that other sports. So what other sports did you 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.040 fall in love with? Did I fall in love with? 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.840 Definitely basketball? Um, that probably the only one. That's because 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.000 that's all I played. And you know it's at who 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.360 I seasons basketball season and the summer travel basketball, So 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.280 that's all I played. And you got seven on seven, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.800 So it really was basketball. I liked that, like I 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.720 ain't really like baseball, didn't like soccer, and ain't like 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.960 track like that. It was just basketball. And I was 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.000 a pure basketball player. In middle school, elementary, I used 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.240 to play up all the two years above my age group. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.320 So I always played it up and I was just 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.440 very good at it. So so attending high school, Trendy 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.440 Christian Academy in Jacksonville, you guys want the state championship 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:47.320 all four years, Bro, who was on your team besides 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:52.040 you for to have that powerhouse because Florida part of 0:16:52.080 --> 0:17:01.680 Big three Florida, actually California, Texas and Florida Florida. We 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:10.240 made that known. I'm sorry. California, Florida, Texas. Okay, is 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.240 it is it? Like? Is it? Is it? Florida number 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.280 one and it's a close second California. It's like it's 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:21.080 Florida and whoever you want to put after. Okay, So 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:28.640 I young feller e r yeller, fella. You know majority 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:35.000 of the Hall of Famers in the league aren't from Florida. Okay, No, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:41.760 it ain't. Okay, I'm just I'm just listening, but I 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:46.040 love this receive a defensive back. The state of California 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.119 has more Hall of Famers in the NFL then Florida. Okay. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:55.119 In state of California is exterdinary big too. Yeah, I 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.240 mean it's a lot of big places that don't understand 0:17:58.720 --> 0:17:59.960 a lot of people that come out of cald of 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.160 I gotta do my research on this. I can't argue. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.840 I can't argue about that. You can't, it's facts. Actually 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:08.840 did my research, so I can't come back from you 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.800 about well, Okay, whatever team you get drafted with will 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.119 most likely be on Thursday Night football, and when I 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:20.119 see you can come up to me and say, damn, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:27.800 you was right. We are bigger state, all right, and 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:32.800 we also have bigger ballers. Back it down. He is 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.480 preparing for his NFL career already. He is not going 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:41.320 back down from this what I received. Come on, I 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:45.159 don't love It's fun, yeah, but who who are some 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.640 of the other guys were on your high school team 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.600 that maybe you went to college or whatever the case 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:55.160 may be. I mean you guys in Florida playing winning 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:00.200 championships all four years. That's not an easy task out 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.440 at up. So we got we got a lot of people. 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.359 Kevin Taller, he's still in the lead right now. He 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.800 got Jeff Holland, he was good. A lot of our 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.439 coaches played in league. Um because Scott he played for 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:12.800 the Patriots back in the day. He wanted Super Bowl 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.840 with them. You got Ross, he played with the Seattle Seahawks. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.600 You got Jamie Harper came out of Clempson Uch the league, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.639 played for the Titans. You got um. There's a lot 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.560 of people. The one that got his arm car from 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.639 Miami that played for Miami on kids and Norton. It 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.280 was it was a big news. He played for US, 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.320 I played with him. We just got a lot of 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:32.879 people that came up there. I was there for right now, 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.120 played for Miami Dolphins. This is a lot of people 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:40.200 you got. Um Isaiah end up going to Virginia Tech. Yeah, James, 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:41.879 that's that's my mentor. He really was one of my 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.800 mentor he got. He actually molded me into who I 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.400 am in the day for real. So Isaiah is awesome man. 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:52.639 Great body control man, I mean, ball can be thrown 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:59.040 in the clouds feet come back down. He's great. I 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.480 just said, here's ability neal body control coming out of 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:06.520 college watching me. Just very good body control. But now 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.639 we just had a lot of people. So and then 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.160 coaching this coaching south over there is unbelievable be man. 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.200 He just he just kept everybody on his way and everything. 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:16.040 Got a lot of people from different side of Jacks. 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.320 We got north, south, south side people that's on the 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.560 west side area, but going in Trinity. So it's a 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.600 lot of people that that that sacrifice they do for 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.199 their family and the school and things like that. So 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.480 Sean was for sure ball and he was a USA 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.760 today High school Football Player of the Year, and he 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.880 won the Lockheed Martin Defensive Back of the Year awarded 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.280 by the Army All American Balls. So definitely capped off 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.720 a great high school career with with with some really 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:44.120 good accolades before attending Ohio State. We have to take 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.240 a break and the morning thing, we gotta pay some bill. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:55.080 You got checks. I love cut to It and I 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:59.000 love it even more when you download us and subscribe, 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.200 and you can follow us on social media too, Smithie, 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.280 where where at? That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:10.480 What about Twitter? At? Cut to It? Facebook? Cut to 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.520 It featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online? And you 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:16.960 can follow us at cut to It podcast dot com 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.320 where you can buy merch and you can subscribe to 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.439 us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got all my 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:27.880 answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my questions answered. 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:30.480 That's what I'm here for, a brother, cut to a 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:35.400 podcast dot com. Do you love football? I love football. 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:37.400 That's that's the reason why I play. If I ain't 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.720 love at one be I just just had to answer. 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.920 So what do you love about football? The most I 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:46.919 love about football? Ain't got a lot of contact. I 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.000 love it hit at the end of the day. Contact 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:51.520 and just the friendships you make out there at the 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.480 end of the day. And I love to compete too, lot, Pete. 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.080 That's all I've been done my whole life. So and 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.359 it's the support that God bless me to to to 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.760 compete that with you to day. It's a basketball And 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:02.879 this is when I chose for me so so so 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:04.920 I had a Trinity Christian one of the schools were 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.840 recruiting you. And then why did you ultimately pick Ohio State? 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:10.000 So I had a lot of schools recruit me. You 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:19.720 only had to top five another Dame Alabama Virginia said, um, 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.440 that too, uh, and then Florida. Those are those school 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:25.239 and you know states. I want to go far from 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:28.160 home though, UM want to. I just want to mature 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:29.480 and get something new at the end of that. I 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:31.680 want to get out of the South and learn something 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:33.879 at the end of the day. Like I just just 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:35.119 how you gotta be Like I feel like a lot 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.040 of people stay close to home and it don't work 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:38.600 out and things like that. And it was the other 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:40.040 school I was better for. You just didn't want to 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:42.000 be far from your family and grow up like that. 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:43.760 So I just wanted to grow up and I just 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:45.520 like to coach Combs and coach Myers. At the end 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:46.800 of the day, it was a great coaches. You know. 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:49.159 Coach did a lot of great things out Florida and 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.719 then the schooling and the alumni system out of how 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:53.800 it state is amazing. Like you wanted to talk in 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:56.760 the nation the world for real. So at the football, 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:58.680 I know, be successful. Just make sure to make a 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:02.480 lot of friends outside of football. Things like that. Smart yeah, 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:08.080 and tell us about your uh, your best friend Kobe, 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:11.160 what what happened? And why have you chosen to keep 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:14.040 his memory alive? I told to keep his memory alive 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:16.760 because I feel like I'm not gonna say it's my fault. 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:18.080 Back the end of the day, I feel I could 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:20.159 have pushed him to do better and do more things. 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:22.080 And he just did a lot of things for me. 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:24.119 He made sure I was always straight, took care of 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:26.480 me and things like that. The year before before he 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.000 died out the year but a couple of months before 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:29.960 he died, he was staying with me. Um he was 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:31.720 gonna was for some pay for about tra Trinity. He 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:33.800 was coming to work out some things like that and 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:35.800 eventually like he just he just faded away and he 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:36.840 was like he don't want to do it no more 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:38.679 so a live man. We're gonna let you do what 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:40.480 you do. And then he just got back in the 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:43.119