Speaker 1: This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at
Speaker 1: production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John and this
Speaker 1: is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it.
Speaker 1: They's getting down to do it. Good do it. We
Speaker 1: asked the questions you always want to know, but no
Speaker 1: one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard
Speaker 1: about it, then we're about to let you know. It's
Speaker 1: all You're gonna go, all right, you're shot in a
Speaker 1: chair and folder Jones, I mean, uh, Steve. Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: you know, I had no chance of talking. I saw
Speaker 1: this article about uh offensive tackle Isaiah Wilson, who just
Speaker 1: three days after Miami Dolphins traded for him, was recently waived.
Speaker 1: And we were talking a little bit before this, and
Speaker 1: I guess it spurred up some some things maybe you
Speaker 1: wanted to hit on in terms of what what this
Speaker 1: brings about from from seeing something like this happened in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Well, it's just with everything going on, I
Speaker 1: think sometimes people have this, uh false sense that NFL
Speaker 1: player or potential first round draft pick, seventh round draft
Speaker 1: pick now and say, oh, this is this is the
Speaker 1: opportunity of lifetime. How can this person do this? And
Speaker 1: so we start off by talking about is that, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move past him and just kind of putting
Speaker 1: in the category of this. What this young man is
Speaker 1: displaying has no different than someone who did not play sports,
Speaker 1: who has tricked off an opportunity for some reason, we
Speaker 1: put this, We put people in sports category position like
Speaker 1: how dare you screw up? And so one of the
Speaker 1: things I one of many things that I know really
Speaker 1: which is really hard to decipher and figure out this
Speaker 1: if I use the same analogy of we remove the
Speaker 1: athlete and we just plug in the name and a place.
Speaker 1: One thing I know about, um, just the world where
Speaker 1: where we are. You can go to any community right
Speaker 1: now and you know less in the middle class, but
Speaker 1: you can go into any community right now where there's
Speaker 1: poverty and what is it chaos, termol, things are happening,
Speaker 1: things are said. There's just so much going on, and
Speaker 1: that's hard to just turn away from and and say, well,
Speaker 1: I'll just ignore. Like you can only play so many sports.
Speaker 1: At some point when the game's stopping, you go home,
Speaker 1: you go back to wherever you are. It will affect you.
Speaker 1: And so you have that chaos. You have that termoil,
Speaker 1: and then you have that's on the outside, then you
Speaker 1: have what's happening on the inside. And then you get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to go to a college and play football,
Speaker 1: go to class. But you still can't turn off the images.
Speaker 1: You still can't turn off the things that these men
Speaker 1: and women have. Young men and women have experiences. They
Speaker 1: were young men and women. So now they become adults
Speaker 1: and then they get drafted. Those things don't leave, they
Speaker 1: don't change. Yeah, you may have money too, maybe cloak
Speaker 1: those images, but they're still there there when they're laying
Speaker 1: in the bed in that nice big bed, now it's
Speaker 1: instead of sharing the bed with four other relatives, now
Speaker 1: they're just by themselves. So with him, I think, yes,
Speaker 1: he's in a place where he gets to choose. Yes,
Speaker 1: doesn't need help, absolutely, But sometimes we don't even know
Speaker 1: that we need help. We don't even know because if
Speaker 1: you have had something happened to you and it's never addressed.
Speaker 1: When you become that doctor m hm, you become that professor,
Speaker 1: when you become that government official, that football coach, that
Speaker 1: football player, that quarterback, that podcaster, audio video guys, whether man,
Speaker 1: whether girl, all that has done is you now are
Speaker 1: those things with the same baggage and stuff you've grown
Speaker 1: up with? This is with the title. Now that's it.
Speaker 1: Now you just say football player there that do you
Speaker 1: have some sort of bagage? You had some sort of
Speaker 1: trauma you know, yeah? Or who was sexually assaulted, who
Speaker 1: was molested as a kid, who witnessed their mom or
Speaker 1: dad passed or o d or whatever the case. My
Speaker 1: point being, you're coming from something, yes, and if it's
Speaker 1: and it's not, if it has never been addressed, that
Speaker 1: issue that has never been addressed, Now you're just adult.
Speaker 1: If you have not been heard or listened or cared with,
Speaker 1: you become a lawyer or a doctor that has never
Speaker 1: been cared to listen to and you still haven't dealt with.
Speaker 1: And we don't know what neighborhood he's come from or
Speaker 1: what trauma he's going through, but just evident on making
Speaker 1: choices that's relevant to to whomever it is, right like
Speaker 1: life at the end of the day becomes about choices
Speaker 1: and whether it is you know, he's been arrested on
Speaker 1: do you do you watch charges? Or has had a
Speaker 1: trespassing warning and I don't know what that's for. Or
Speaker 1: what's up underneath. It's definitely not good. It's not good.
Speaker 1: You never read a trespass that was with good intent.
Speaker 1: But but where I where I do read this is
Speaker 1: just saying somewhere along the lines, something is probably going
Speaker 1: on in this young man's life right to where something
Speaker 1: has happened. But at the end of the day, it
Speaker 1: does come down to choices, right, And that's why I
Speaker 1: think I'm here, and that's what I'm here to say
Speaker 1: this for us, it comes down to choices, But it
Speaker 1: also comes down two. Really, I'm coming from the angle
Speaker 1: of the people who are saying call them all kind
Speaker 1: of names and saying, how dare he? As if these
Speaker 1: individuals you've never screwed up an opportunity, you didn't mess
Speaker 1: up in college. That's one of the things that if
Speaker 1: you were to keep follow around some of these regular
Speaker 1: folks show how they act at the at the local
Speaker 1: happy hour on Snapchat. Oh it might be some folks
Speaker 1: losing it. We all make hold on. Here's what I
Speaker 1: love listening to. I love listening to the radio station.
Speaker 1: I like listening to Steve Harmony and in the morning,
Speaker 1: I always love listening to UH to Nephew Tommy's prank phone,
Speaker 1: because what's interesting is, here's say something, and then you
Speaker 1: know it's a prank. But you hear the the person
Speaker 1: on the other call, you hear him lose themselves, and
Speaker 1: you'll start to hear him like say stuff. You'd be
Speaker 1: like yeah. And it's just I always find it interesting
Speaker 1: on those prank phone calls because they sound so buttoned up,
Speaker 1: and then when this and he keeps pressing them, keep
Speaker 1: pressing them, and then they get really uneducated. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever's in you, if you get if you get squeeze
Speaker 1: hard enough, what's in you will come out? Oh? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know. It's just the it's the differences. We're not
Speaker 1: they're not writing the articles. Yeah, you're not on public display.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's the interest. Get exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's worth pointing out because right
Speaker 1: now a lot of people are throwing under his name
Speaker 1: and saying, man, he's really screwing up this this opportunity.
Speaker 1: But we just we don't know what his backstory is,
Speaker 1: and we don't know what the root causes are for
Speaker 1: him to do whatever he's deciding to do. M hmm.
Speaker 1: It's tough yeah, but we hope he gets everything that
Speaker 1: he needs and somehow he bounces back. And this is
Speaker 1: not about football, no, not not, not at all, not
Speaker 1: at all. It's not about how quickly he can get
Speaker 1: back on the field, because that I see that a
Speaker 1: lot too. Like people always wonder how quickly is he
Speaker 1: going to get back on the field, or even with
Speaker 1: uh tyger Wood is getting injured recently, how quickly is
Speaker 1: he going to be able to get Like, let's think
Speaker 1: about his quality of life first that ever run across
Speaker 1: your mind? Is he going to have the same quality
Speaker 1: of life? So no different than from that to this, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, let's think about Isaiah Wilson's quality of life
Speaker 1: because he's a human. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: people don't really look at because you're entertainment. And when
Speaker 1: you no longer can do it, get rid of so transactional,
Speaker 1: get rid of them. Let's move on. Let's let's replace them,
Speaker 1: thank goodness, than replacing these some of these other daddies
Speaker 1: who working late, speak on it, speak on it. So
Speaker 1: all right, Well, who we got come up on the
Speaker 1: cut to a podcast Rookie Spotlight series. We've got Sean Wade,
Speaker 1: a cornerback for Ohio State University. He is up in
Speaker 1: the NFL draft process. Shawn Wade on the cut to
Speaker 1: a podcast. So you may be familiar with Steve Smith.
Speaker 1: You may be familiar with the whole phrase ice up, son.
Speaker 1: This is our version of our own icebreakers. So there
Speaker 1: are random questions and maybe something that's random as E
Speaker 1: forty or two short in the versus battle. There may
Speaker 1: be a follow up, there may not be, but Smithy,
Speaker 1: go ahead and get first one. All right, you ready? Okay,
Speaker 1: you can only eat the same plate of food for
Speaker 1: one year. What will be the items on that plate?
Speaker 1: That's hard party, some type of seafood. Crowds strump, it's
Speaker 1: just whoa, whoa, whoa? What do you scrimp or shrimp?
Speaker 1: Hey man, don't let him have that one. Don't let
Speaker 1: him have no let him know where you're from and
Speaker 1: that you accordingly to where you from. I got at them.
Speaker 1: So if you kind of inswine Florida, I get crimped.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna laugh because my my grandmother sayd scrimp.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's cool, but it just threw met that. Probably
Speaker 1: all crowds, Oh, it's just drum and but you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: little sausages and corning and probably what I eat your food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: full year, you're gonna eat seafood. You're gonna eat seafood
Speaker 1: and sausage. Yeah, I can do that every day, all right,
Speaker 1: the seafood or the sauceage, the seafood. Don't don't listen.
Speaker 1: This is my segment. I love like just a random
Speaker 1: just and it's also loves it gets it gives you
Speaker 1: an opportunity to show your personality. But also you know,
Speaker 1: joking around and you know, I know I also come
Speaker 1: across and come off very serious all the time. So yes,
Speaker 1: shocking never So this is this is good for me. Um,
Speaker 1: you have the opportunity. You will be drafted. But take
Speaker 1: us in the mind you're drafted. Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: What have you been eyron to buy? Mhm? Property? Probably
Speaker 1: you know what answer is, that's that's what you really,
Speaker 1: that's the real answer. I'm not into all the cars
Speaker 1: and all that. I'm about my mama house and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But my thing is property. I'm in the
Speaker 1: real estate, so I'm definitely want to get some type
Speaker 1: of property and things like that. M hmm. Okay, they
Speaker 1: know somebody who knows somebody who knows something about it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my um, my girlfriend her dass. That's all
Speaker 1: that real estate stuff I got other family members and
Speaker 1: people that's just like mentors that that helped me understand
Speaker 1: that stuff. Like, it's still a lot of ha to
Speaker 1: learn because I've been in this for our process of
Speaker 1: I've been locked into. But that's just the things that
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. UM. I like I like houses.
Speaker 1: I like upgrading houses. Um. One of my goals is
Speaker 1: the upgrade a lot of the houses in Jacksonville. It's
Speaker 1: like a lot of houses and things like that, and
Speaker 1: just helping families out at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of families at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's kids still standing in the same room until fourteen
Speaker 1: fifteen in high school and then have nothing. So that's
Speaker 1: just one of my goals. And that's how I just
Speaker 1: want to help you. Mm hmm. That's pretty good, brother, man.
Speaker 1: It's surprising to hear him talk and talk about his
Speaker 1: goals and aspirations and to know that he's a defensive player.
Speaker 1: Man three already coming out guns all right, last, this
Speaker 1: is the last one right here, yea, you can go
Speaker 1: forty four to four at Ohio and lose to Michigan
Speaker 1: every year, or go four and forty four and beat
Speaker 1: Michigan every year. But that's a hard one. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna I'd rather be Michigan. I'd rather beat them. I
Speaker 1: had to go on four or forty four. All right,
Speaker 1: that's cool, that's I like. Let's let's get down in
Speaker 1: um to the meeting potatoes of it. Man, your favorite
Speaker 1: favorite sports team? Growing up? Favorite sports? They ain't got
Speaker 1: a sports And I got a favorite athlete on. My
Speaker 1: granddad played ten years and the lead back in the day.
Speaker 1: My favorite athletes on obviously grew up watching him. You know,
Speaker 1: the tattoos, the braids and all that stuff, all the
Speaker 1: headbands and things I was. I was a basketball player,
Speaker 1: so that that's other things I love about him. He
Speaker 1: just a great athlete, all right. So where are you from?
Speaker 1: And the place you call your hometown? All right? So
Speaker 1: I'm originally from a gummy all Obama. But the place
Speaker 1: I caught my hometown that jas And then you grew up.
Speaker 1: I grew up in a military family. Yeah, so how
Speaker 1: was that for you as a kid? It was hard.
Speaker 1: I'm moving around everywhere. I started all my sports all school.
Speaker 1: I started all that in Italy. Sisters born in Italy.
Speaker 1: I was there for a little bit. I came back
Speaker 1: to the States and I was with my grandma. She's
Speaker 1: she take care of foster kids. So I've been around
Speaker 1: that that system, been around a lot of different kids
Speaker 1: that didn't have nothing on white, black, hispanic, A. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all when I was with her for like two or
Speaker 1: three years, and my brothers were her for a couple
Speaker 1: of years, and we got up and moved to Jacks.
Speaker 1: But I've been in jatspl sin. So what's what's the
Speaker 1: good and the bad about being a military kid? On
Speaker 1: the good is you get to travel and see a
Speaker 1: lot of things. Um bad is you just always up
Speaker 1: and moving. And it's a lot of good friends that
Speaker 1: you make even when you're young, and now you're gonna
Speaker 1: make new friends and things. And with me, I'm very quiet,
Speaker 1: so I already don't talk to people, already already kind
Speaker 1: of hold myself. And so it's already heard opened that
Speaker 1: shelf for me. So you know, we read that your
Speaker 1: dad said you were very sheltered. Mm hmm. How would
Speaker 1: you describe the way you were raised the way I was?
Speaker 1: But I would say they kept me out of the streets.
Speaker 1: That's what he means by celtic. Um, I feel like
Speaker 1: the things that a lot of my friends got an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do, I didn't get the opportunity to because
Speaker 1: they always kept me in sports. They always kept me
Speaker 1: in the classroom, you always kept me traveling. You said
Speaker 1: you played other sports, but I want to really go
Speaker 1: down that other sports. So what other sports did you
Speaker 1: fall in love with? Did I fall in love with?
Speaker 1: Definitely basketball? Um, that probably the only one. That's because
Speaker 1: that's all I played. And you know it's at who
Speaker 1: I seasons basketball season and the summer travel basketball, So
Speaker 1: that's all I played. And you got seven on seven,
Speaker 1: So it really was basketball. I liked that, like I
Speaker 1: ain't really like baseball, didn't like soccer, and ain't like
Speaker 1: track like that. It was just basketball. And I was
Speaker 1: a pure basketball player. In middle school, elementary, I used
Speaker 1: to play up all the two years above my age group.
Speaker 1: So I always played it up and I was just
Speaker 1: very good at it. So so attending high school, Trendy
Speaker 1: Christian Academy in Jacksonville, you guys want the state championship
Speaker 1: all four years, Bro, who was on your team besides
Speaker 1: you for to have that powerhouse because Florida part of
Speaker 1: Big three Florida, actually California, Texas and Florida Florida. We
Speaker 1: made that known. I'm sorry. California, Florida, Texas. Okay, is
Speaker 1: it is it? Like? Is it? Is it? Florida number
Speaker 1: one and it's a close second California. It's like it's
Speaker 1: Florida and whoever you want to put after. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I young feller e r yeller, fella. You know majority
Speaker 1: of the Hall of Famers in the league aren't from Florida. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: it ain't. Okay, I'm just I'm just listening, but I
Speaker 1: love this receive a defensive back. The state of California
Speaker 1: has more Hall of Famers in the NFL then Florida. Okay.
Speaker 1: In state of California is exterdinary big too. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's a lot of big places that don't understand
Speaker 1: a lot of people that come out of cald of
Speaker 1: I gotta do my research on this. I can't argue.
Speaker 1: I can't argue about that. You can't, it's facts. Actually
Speaker 1: did my research, so I can't come back from you
Speaker 1: about well, Okay, whatever team you get drafted with will
Speaker 1: most likely be on Thursday Night football, and when I
Speaker 1: see you can come up to me and say, damn,
Speaker 1: you was right. We are bigger state, all right, and
Speaker 1: we also have bigger ballers. Back it down. He is
Speaker 1: preparing for his NFL career already. He is not going
Speaker 1: back down from this what I received. Come on, I
Speaker 1: don't love It's fun, yeah, but who who are some
Speaker 1: of the other guys were on your high school team
Speaker 1: that maybe you went to college or whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be. I mean you guys in Florida playing winning
Speaker 1: championships all four years. That's not an easy task out
Speaker 1: at up. So we got we got a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Kevin Taller, he's still in the lead right now. He
Speaker 1: got Jeff Holland, he was good. A lot of our
Speaker 1: coaches played in league. Um because Scott he played for
Speaker 1: the Patriots back in the day. He wanted Super Bowl
Speaker 1: with them. You got Ross, he played with the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: You got Jamie Harper came out of Clempson Uch the league,
Speaker 1: played for the Titans. You got um. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people. The one that got his arm car from
Speaker 1: Miami that played for Miami on kids and Norton. It
Speaker 1: was it was a big news. He played for US,
Speaker 1: I played with him. We just got a lot of
Speaker 1: people that came up there. I was there for right now,
Speaker 1: played for Miami Dolphins. This is a lot of people
Speaker 1: you got. Um Isaiah end up going to Virginia Tech. Yeah, James,
Speaker 1: that's that's my mentor. He really was one of my
Speaker 1: mentor he got. He actually molded me into who I
Speaker 1: am in the day for real. So Isaiah is awesome man.
Speaker 1: Great body control man, I mean, ball can be thrown
Speaker 1: in the clouds feet come back down. He's great. I
Speaker 1: just said, here's ability neal body control coming out of
Speaker 1: college watching me. Just very good body control. But now
Speaker 1: we just had a lot of people. So and then
Speaker 1: coaching this coaching south over there is unbelievable be man.
Speaker 1: He just he just kept everybody on his way and everything.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of people from different side of Jacks.
Speaker 1: We got north, south, south side people that's on the
Speaker 1: west side area, but going in Trinity. So it's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that that that sacrifice they do for
Speaker 1: their family and the school and things like that. So
Speaker 1: Sean was for sure ball and he was a USA
Speaker 1: today High school Football Player of the Year, and he
Speaker 1: won the Lockheed Martin Defensive Back of the Year awarded
Speaker 1: by the Army All American Balls. So definitely capped off
Speaker 1: a great high school career with with with some really
Speaker 1: good accolades before attending Ohio State. We have to take
Speaker 1: a break and the morning thing, we gotta pay some bill.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm here for, a brother, cut to a
Speaker 1: podcast dot com. Do you love football? I love football.
Speaker 1: That's that's the reason why I play. If I ain't
Speaker 1: love at one be I just just had to answer.
Speaker 1: So what do you love about football? The most I
Speaker 1: love about football? Ain't got a lot of contact. I
Speaker 1: love it hit at the end of the day. Contact
Speaker 1: and just the friendships you make out there at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. And I love to compete too, lot, Pete.
Speaker 1: That's all I've been done my whole life. So and
Speaker 1: it's the support that God bless me to to to
Speaker 1: compete that with you to day. It's a basketball And
Speaker 1: this is when I chose for me so so so
Speaker 1: I had a Trinity Christian one of the schools were
Speaker 1: recruiting you. And then why did you ultimately pick Ohio State?
Speaker 1: So I had a lot of schools recruit me. You
Speaker 1: only had to top five another Dame Alabama Virginia said, um,
Speaker 1: that too, uh, and then Florida. Those are those school
Speaker 1: and you know states. I want to go far from
Speaker 1: home though, UM want to. I just want to mature
Speaker 1: and get something new at the end of that. I
Speaker 1: want to get out of the South and learn something
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. Like I just just
Speaker 1: how you gotta be Like I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of people stay close to home and it don't work
Speaker 1: out and things like that. And it was the other
Speaker 1: school I was better for. You just didn't want to
Speaker 1: be far from your family and grow up like that.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to grow up and I just
Speaker 1: like to coach Combs and coach Myers. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it was a great coaches. You know.
Speaker 1: Coach did a lot of great things out Florida and
Speaker 1: then the schooling and the alumni system out of how
Speaker 1: it state is amazing. Like you wanted to talk in
Speaker 1: the nation the world for real. So at the football,
Speaker 1: I know, be successful. Just make sure to make a
Speaker 1: lot of friends outside of football. Things like that. Smart yeah,
Speaker 1: and tell us about your uh, your best friend Kobe,
Speaker 1: what what happened? And why have you chosen to keep
Speaker 1: his memory alive? I told to keep his memory alive
Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm not gonna say it's my fault.
Speaker 1: Back the end of the day, I feel I could
Speaker 1: have pushed him to do better and do more things.
Speaker 1: And he just did a lot of things for me.
Speaker 1: He made sure I was always straight, took care of
Speaker 1: me and things like that. The year before before he
Speaker 1: died out the year but a couple of months before
Speaker 1: he died, he was staying with me. Um he was
Speaker 1: gonna was for some pay for about tra Trinity. He
Speaker 1: was coming to work out some things like that and
Speaker 1: eventually like he just he just faded away and he
Speaker 1: was like he don't want to do it no more
Speaker 1: so a live man. We're gonna let you do what
Speaker 1: you do. And then he just got back in the
Speaker 1: streets and that's just how it happened. And me and
Speaker 1: my other friend, we just felt like it was my
Speaker 1: fault because he was at my house all the time,
Speaker 1: was takeing care of the feed him, been closing his
Speaker 1: back when we needed clothes, taking my home to get closed,
Speaker 1: to come back over and things like that. Not fo
Speaker 1: I actually just kept on pushing them to to do
Speaker 1: better things. And then before that he was the week
Speaker 1: before he died, he was running military too. So it's
Speaker 1: just it was and a lot of that is from
Speaker 1: my dad just trying to help him and my family
Speaker 1: just trying to help him. So when you talk about
Speaker 1: your family, man, how much how much your family and
Speaker 1: such a part of who you are today, Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a bit part because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: my dad really didn't have a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know this, but my dad, Um, he got kicked out
Speaker 1: of the house when he was young. He was living
Speaker 1: across street while his family was across the street. And
Speaker 1: things like that, and he was living his best friends.
Speaker 1: So like he had a hard. Mom was my mom
Speaker 1: and my grandma. She was a singer. She was a
Speaker 1: single mom at the end of the day, taking care
Speaker 1: of my my mom and things like that, and she
Speaker 1: had it hard. So and then they both had it
Speaker 1: hard and they both sacrificed a lot. Mom was a
Speaker 1: model when she had me, and she could have made
Speaker 1: big money, but she sacrificed that just to how to
Speaker 1: meet And I had to get that back to it.
Speaker 1: So just the characteristics that I have right now is
Speaker 1: from them. Like my dad gets back to everybody. He
Speaker 1: made sure everybody is straight and at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, that's the type of person he hasn't hear
Speaker 1: mold at it be, you know, playing all the Ohio
Speaker 1: state and with your current NFL draft status and then
Speaker 1: playing on the teams and going back to that school.
Speaker 1: You got Chase Young, defensive player, defensive Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: Nick Bolson. You know, you got so many guys that
Speaker 1: you either play with for a little bit of time
Speaker 1: or are so fresh out they still come back to
Speaker 1: the school. How is how important is that for a
Speaker 1: young man like you? Obviously your freshman year. Each year,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm guessing your freshman year. You're kind of like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is amazing. Now it's just the norm. Oh, you know,
Speaker 1: just just hanging out with jas, you know, just to
Speaker 1: defensive Player of the Years, you know, Rookie of the Years.
Speaker 1: Like that's something that you can't always cultivate. That doesn't
Speaker 1: happen at every school, but for you guys, it's a norm.
Speaker 1: Does that help you feel like you're dreams are playing
Speaker 1: in the National Football League can really become real? You
Speaker 1: know what? What did those guys mean to the to
Speaker 1: the for your school, but also for you personally when
Speaker 1: you have been able to be at practice shore possibly
Speaker 1: sitting in the same chairs or some of the greats
Speaker 1: that made to the Hall of Fame, but then also
Speaker 1: some future like yourself and current players that are two
Speaker 1: years ago you were playing on the field with and
Speaker 1: now they're there there in the league. Yeah, so it
Speaker 1: just sill the worth that they put in. They like
Speaker 1: with Bosa, you got Marks, Shawn, you got Denzel Just
Speaker 1: it shows you when you're younger and you're looking up
Speaker 1: because and they Chase had somebody to look up to,
Speaker 1: and that was Bosa. And it was Jalen Holmes and
Speaker 1: autumn boys and that that that work ethic got a
Speaker 1: start and Chase when we got to as freshman, it
Speaker 1: wasn't like that at first, Like at the end of
Speaker 1: the day was like after all this at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we came in they wen't know what
Speaker 1: was coming into and just being around them players and
Speaker 1: just installed the work ethic and the things that we
Speaker 1: have to do on the field to just to be successful.
Speaker 1: We all learned that from them, Like you know day
Speaker 1: like Denzel you got, Damnon, got Marshawn, watching um Malie
Speaker 1: Hooker's tape on film and things like that, and I
Speaker 1: just that's just how it is, Like the how the state,
Speaker 1: the coach they got unbelievable coaches. It's strength. It's really
Speaker 1: the strength coaches stuff. It's really them. They installed that
Speaker 1: worth and they installed everything, and it's like that's who
Speaker 1: we went seven. Like Coach Meet does a wonderful job
Speaker 1: of building characteristics of players there, Like it's really them
Speaker 1: that that puts all that into players. Coming from Florida
Speaker 1: going to Ohio State, what was that transition Like, oh,
Speaker 1: it definitely was different. I want to had like four flooded,
Speaker 1: flood of kids on the team at the moment, and
Speaker 1: then you know that snow was that snow, That code
Speaker 1: was a little bit didn't not it was. It was
Speaker 1: a bit of difference, but now it was. It was
Speaker 1: great just making new friends and understanding how just to
Speaker 1: grow up. Then being far from home because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I don't know where I go
Speaker 1: to l a and be far from homes and then
Speaker 1: day you just got to learn how to grow up
Speaker 1: and and take care of yourself and the things that
Speaker 1: my dad had, how to fix your tire, how to
Speaker 1: change the engine, how to change It's just a little
Speaker 1: stuff that you gotta learn as a man. And I'm
Speaker 1: glad he installed that at me. But in the day
Speaker 1: or house, they're still talking stuff. We've got a thing
Speaker 1: called real Life Landsdays where we have a person that
Speaker 1: comes in and talk about real life things such as
Speaker 1: financial stuff and and things like that, banking types stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all everything. It's not even just that. Sometimes one time
Speaker 1: we had them talking about sexual diseases and why you
Speaker 1: should wear a call them and things like that. It's
Speaker 1: like it's everything because a lot of people don't teach
Speaker 1: you that stuff. You don't know. They don't. So it's
Speaker 1: just a lot of things they taught us how to
Speaker 1: treat the women, things like that, and it's changing the
Speaker 1: narrative and things like that. That stuff with me forever
Speaker 1: because a lot of people don't treat one it right,
Speaker 1: and some woman's just don't respect yourself nowadays. So at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's just just you just
Speaker 1: gotta keep on learning. And that's the things that the
Speaker 1: House state does. I'm not sure the pro what the
Speaker 1: protocols were at o't have state, and but I'm interested
Speaker 1: what what where some of your experiences in trying to
Speaker 1: attend schools during the pandemic when it first started, before
Speaker 1: you know, before they went into lockdown, before all that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, I know a little bit of what I experienced,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't in school because I I can't imagine
Speaker 1: I had the ability to be at home and still
Speaker 1: have the roller coaster trying to figure things out. You know,
Speaker 1: you weren't at home. You're in the place that you know,
Speaker 1: you weren't familiar with necessarily when a health scare like
Speaker 1: this happens. So I was wondering, what what did you experience?
Speaker 1: And you know, for you personally. So during my experience,
Speaker 1: my experience are different from a lot of people. Right
Speaker 1: when the country sat down, I had surgery two days
Speaker 1: before and I was stuck in Philly. Wow. Um, I
Speaker 1: wasn't filling my mom and I was doing like treatment
Speaker 1: there and I was gonna stay there for like two
Speaker 1: weeks ago treatment so I can get back. But I
Speaker 1: had to hurt him at home because you know, they
Speaker 1: shut the country down on the airports and want none
Speaker 1: of that. And my thing was I couldn't do nothing.
Speaker 1: I was just stuck on the couch because I couldn't
Speaker 1: work out. I wasn't getting no therapy from nobody really
Speaker 1: like that was doing it like twice a week and
Speaker 1: it was like thirty to thirty minutes to an hour.
Speaker 1: Wasn't like it was you know how it's hot it
Speaker 1: is at school. Different, Yeah, so with me, it was
Speaker 1: it was just definitely hard and I just felt like
Speaker 1: I couldn't work on minecraft at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like they were sitting us workouts and things like that,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't do doing that stuff and the coaches
Speaker 1: do that. And that was my experience. But from people
Speaker 1: that's from my city, like Taioreking things. They were just
Speaker 1: working out every day and just trying to trying to
Speaker 1: just trying to stay mobile and things like that and
Speaker 1: actually keep their families safe because a lot of people
Speaker 1: have got COVID and died from me and things like that.
Speaker 1: So we were just trying to stay safe and things.
Speaker 1: But and then the day when we got back to school,
Speaker 1: it was it was different. We couldn't sit by each other,
Speaker 1: We had to wear masks for seven um we didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't shut down. Plenty of times we didn't. It
Speaker 1: was crazy And I haven't fans in the stadium not
Speaker 1: be able to hear fans chair here here, the band
Speaker 1: play the band and things like that. Like it was
Speaker 1: a big impact, especially for the freshman coming in. Like
Speaker 1: you know, at the freshman all you want to do
Speaker 1: is go out and have fun. And they cadn't do that.
Speaker 1: They couldn't experience like college lifestyle like they wanted to,
Speaker 1: And it was it was definitely different from them. And
Speaker 1: then it's another thing, like you know that spring football
Speaker 1: is a very very important college especially for a freshman
Speaker 1: coming in for peoples trying to get a new job.
Speaker 1: So having the spring we just can't installed that, and
Speaker 1: and and the freshman and how hard we're work and
Speaker 1: how to play is working things like that, they couldn't
Speaker 1: really learn football. It was just it was just hard
Speaker 1: for everybody because our defense is brand new from nineteen.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of we had a lot of
Speaker 1: people that was their first year starting and we missed
Speaker 1: the camp at camp during football seats, I mean during
Speaker 1: school like that. I ain't never heard of camp during school. Um,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day because now you gotta
Speaker 1: go back and focus on school work. When you usually
Speaker 1: do camp, you just straight football and that's all it is.
Speaker 1: So uh, it definitely was different with everything. And at
Speaker 1: the end of the day and we we we we
Speaker 1: all had just sacrifice and that's that was the way.
Speaker 1: We use a lot of sacrifice and just keep on fighting,
Speaker 1: don't worry about the outside noise and things like that.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of things going on, but with
Speaker 1: different cases. We had times where we had twenty people,
Speaker 1: half of our coaches were going, half of the players
Speaker 1: were going, and that was like two weeks during the season,
Speaker 1: like if not having everybody so well, this saging we
Speaker 1: got it's called let's talk ball and so really We
Speaker 1: just want to get more into things from just you're
Speaker 1: playing career in Ohio State too, what's going on right
Speaker 1: now with your draft process? So question one, playing Ohio
Speaker 1: State Michigan your big rival, what is that like? Playing
Speaker 1: in that game from your freshman year in progression through
Speaker 1: your career in Ohio State the funnest and most intense
Speaker 1: then you ever played um in football? For sure, we
Speaker 1: do so much for that game. After that game that
Speaker 1: we start the clock and it's like every week we
Speaker 1: do like a hundred hundred, but three hundred and something,
Speaker 1: push up, sit up, pull down, different things. Until we
Speaker 1: played we played the team up. We don't want to
Speaker 1: call him and calling team up North. Then it's just
Speaker 1: it's just very intense saying how how how the robbery
Speaker 1: is and how we always fighting and and things like that.
Speaker 1: We we just we really don't like them on the game.
Speaker 1: We have jerseys on the floor. We're stepping on their
Speaker 1: jerseys every wee spitting on them. We got everything crossed
Speaker 1: out like that. Junk. I junk is real for us.
Speaker 1: And that's why I said I'd rather go for in
Speaker 1: forty four and forty four and four because we put
Speaker 1: so much into that game, and we just we just
Speaker 1: don't like them. And I talked to a lot of
Speaker 1: teams that played the Team Up that played for Team
Speaker 1: Up North, and they don't do the same thing that
Speaker 1: we do. So I don't know what it is with them,
Speaker 1: but any typing up, oh man, I had a follow
Speaker 1: up question there, but right not anymore never never right there?
Speaker 1: I mean Stephens said why you were talking? He said,
Speaker 1: that's the most intense game you played in in college? Yea,
Speaker 1: in college? Oh yeah, in college. NFL is different. So
Speaker 1: especially depending on which the vision go in, you're going
Speaker 1: that uh a f C North, man, I think tense,
Speaker 1: like uh, you know, I played in NFC NFC South
Speaker 1: and it was originally NFC West and NC, so I
Speaker 1: went to ANFC North. That's a different type of rival.
Speaker 1: We played Thursday night, Friday morning, hit me with a
Speaker 1: mac Troy, the whole bunch of brothers there. I remember
Speaker 1: having my big welcome to the a f C North. Um.
Speaker 1: I was still actually playing with the Panthers. And if
Speaker 1: you go back, I can't remember which one. I think
Speaker 1: it's the one with Michael Vick on it, but they
Speaker 1: jake along threw me a little turkey hole. It was
Speaker 1: covered to turkey home, got up, got it down, and man,
Speaker 1: I saw every coming. Ed hit me so hard and
Speaker 1: I called it like that hit me. So he hit
Speaker 1: me in my shoulder and flipped me and I literally
Speaker 1: landed back on my on my on my body. Man.
Speaker 1: It was like so that was my welcome to the
Speaker 1: NFC North. I always knew it was different, but you
Speaker 1: don't really know. You know, you can watch it and
Speaker 1: go think it looks different, but then when you experience it,
Speaker 1: everything my knees hurt, they hurt a little bit different,
Speaker 1: you know. So do you have a welcome to the
Speaker 1: Big ten football type of play when you you know freshman, sophomore, junior, Well, oh,
Speaker 1: mine would definitely be my freshman. It wasn't even a
Speaker 1: big team game. It was spring ball and springboard, my
Speaker 1: freshman first going in the spring ball going against each other,
Speaker 1: and I got, I got ran, slept over, stiff on.
Speaker 1: It was. It was bad and it was It wasn't
Speaker 1: even about uh scholarship. It was about walk on and
Speaker 1: I was gonna remember. Yeah, I felt embarrassed, but I can't.
Speaker 1: I came back and want the game for us, So
Speaker 1: I was I was okay, after that, but I was
Speaker 1: I was embarrassed though, Like that's why I knew I
Speaker 1: had to hit the weight around, get bigger, different things
Speaker 1: like that. So how has the draft process been for
Speaker 1: you so far? I've been straight, Um, a little bit
Speaker 1: frustrating because I got a couple of injuries that I'm
Speaker 1: still dealing with it from the season. Um, I took
Speaker 1: turf till during the season. I didn't have to get surgery, luckily,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, it's still not healed up.
Speaker 1: I didn't got the quarters on shot, I didn't have
Speaker 1: everything for it, and it's still it's still biting, messing
Speaker 1: with me. So that I've been a little frustrating, It's
Speaker 1: still a blessing because I'm in this in this position
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. A lot of people
Speaker 1: want to be in my position. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day. I just gotta go play football. That's that's
Speaker 1: all that matter right now. You know, no matter what
Speaker 1: around you go, you should go play football. And the
Speaker 1: big money is always in next contract. So are given
Speaker 1: an opportunity, M what number would you like to wear?
Speaker 1: I got I got too many? Um, that definitely too
Speaker 1: wear one the only one one. But I got definitely
Speaker 1: two folk. I could go twenty one, twenty Um, I
Speaker 1: could see myself in forty one. I like that for
Speaker 1: some reason. So by water and pop oneing U twenty four,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's calledge. Number twenty one is just a
Speaker 1: is a I like twenty one, You like twenty You're
Speaker 1: gonna like twenty three. Those numbers, you're just gonna like,
Speaker 1: um number, what's up? Um? It is what it is.
Speaker 1: But I don't want no, really no thirty number. If
Speaker 1: I do it, probably thirty three. All right. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just go ahead and put that out there and
Speaker 1: ask you the question. But it's not gonna be in
Speaker 1: the way that you think. So I'm a veteran, you know,
Speaker 1: play to play sixteen years. You're fresh, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: a rookie. Mm hmm. We're all known for. You're only
Speaker 1: as good as your last game. In your last game,
Speaker 1: it wasn't your best game. How are you using that
Speaker 1: to prepare yourself? And before you answer, here's what I
Speaker 1: here's why I asked that. As you think about it.
Speaker 1: In International Football League, and you know, even in football
Speaker 1: at college, but so much so in the league, guys
Speaker 1: will watch film on on young players and all you
Speaker 1: can do is go back to college. But then also
Speaker 1: when you start looking at film on a guy in
Speaker 1: the league and you start to see guys that, well
Speaker 1: maybe this guy, this guy did get them like this,
Speaker 1: and I know I'm better than that guy, so I
Speaker 1: can do this. How are you mentally preparing yourself when
Speaker 1: that veteran comes out, when this young fresh lad, ambitious dB.
Speaker 1: Now this wide receiver is now gonna say something, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do you like, Oh boy, did you he
Speaker 1: did you like this? Um? This is how I'm do you.
Speaker 1: How are you mentally being prepared or have you? Have
Speaker 1: you even thought about that? That? What about that? About
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I just know myself, I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna let nobody get in my head like you do.
Speaker 1: All the talking, that's what you do. Like I ain't
Speaker 1: ain't part of my game. I let I let my
Speaker 1: plate talk at the end of the day. And at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I know what I can
Speaker 1: do on the field. So like whatever that whatever y'all
Speaker 1: saw in that, ain't that win't me at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. Like like I said, I was fighting
Speaker 1: injuries things like that, and you ain't got to know that.
Speaker 1: I know, I know myself at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: and I ain't worried about what people say and things
Speaker 1: like that. I know I'm a book and that just me. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily ashamed. Oh I know that. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just more. This is a great opportunity to talk to
Speaker 1: the young guys. You're rookie, you know you're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking too, because one of the things also is it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily just talking, but it's also being able to also.
Speaker 1: I give the example mm hmm. I've always struggling my confidence.
Speaker 1: So in struggling my confidence, I've always worked hard. And
Speaker 1: so when I work is when I'm working, I'm already
Speaker 1: in visualizing what I need, the opponent I'm going against,
Speaker 1: and I'm also having so much I had to calm
Speaker 1: down and quiet the negative conversation in my own head.
Speaker 1: And so now if you you add that and then
Speaker 1: say a players going against me and he makes a
Speaker 1: few plays on me, he may not be talking to
Speaker 1: get in my head. He just may be talking. It's like, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm shutting you down. He's not saying it out of Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it just might be happening you know that's his assignment,
Speaker 1: that's he is doing his signing darn well. And then
Speaker 1: got the negative talk. Man, that's a combination of for me,
Speaker 1: a negative cocktail, and so in that you know, being prepared,
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm asking you not necessarily putting on
Speaker 1: front street of your performance, but more that's the part
Speaker 1: about ball up in the league is ten percent of
Speaker 1: it is your skill. The other ninety percent is what
Speaker 1: you're talking to yourself through the week. And then on
Speaker 1: game day, you know, I know you've probably saw why
Speaker 1: receiver drop wanted two passes and you can pick out
Speaker 1: he's done to that exactly. And so you luckily haven't
Speaker 1: had many of those days. You only played four years.
Speaker 1: I played sixteen years. I can tell you right now. Man,
Speaker 1: I was playing I think it was the Indianapolis Coats
Speaker 1: and I and the quarterback throws me a pass and
Speaker 1: we on that turf and some freaking reason, that turf
Speaker 1: monster got me. I was running a deep dig. I
Speaker 1: I do a cattle. I used to do a Cadillac term.
Speaker 1: So when I hit that, when I hit inside that school,
Speaker 1: I'm leaning and but man I hit uh, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I hit and I feel myself. He's throwing
Speaker 1: it on time, and I'm trying to you know what
Speaker 1: you don't do. I'm fighting the fall and I'm going
Speaker 1: and I feel myself I fell simultaneously when the ball
Speaker 1: was on time. You know where the ball hit me?
Speaker 1: Not the head face mask. I was actually Detroit, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but the way the ball hit me,
Speaker 1: I was actually embarrassed. I literally wanted to cry. Dang.
Speaker 1: I was in the huddle and they were like Smithy.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I'm not wow. And that's just
Speaker 1: one of those things. And I think I was in
Speaker 1: my eighth and ninth year, so you still look, you
Speaker 1: still have that even in that right, Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: just you know, but that's that nine percent of I
Speaker 1: knew what kind of player I was, but for that
Speaker 1: split second mm hmm, I had more doubt than I
Speaker 1: usually have in that game at that moment that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it even brings up a question for me, Sean, how
Speaker 1: do you deal with adversity? Because I mean, you've you've
Speaker 1: you dealt with injuries in your in your college career,
Speaker 1: then you had to deal with COVID nineteen, So how
Speaker 1: do you how do you project dealing with adversity as
Speaker 1: you enterest in the NFL and beyond. It's really about
Speaker 1: that self talk, like you was saying, that's that negative
Speaker 1: self talk, keeping up definitely keeping that out your head
Speaker 1: and things like that. I just started like doing therapy
Speaker 1: like people. People dont understand that you need that stuff,
Speaker 1: like you always need help somebody else just to help
Speaker 1: you learn that stuff, learn your ways. Because I was
Speaker 1: looking at something on Instagram. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: black men. They don't like to They don't like the
Speaker 1: point out they flaws and what they go through and
Speaker 1: their negative things like that. So that that's something I've
Speaker 1: been working on myself and things like that and just this.
Speaker 1: It's really the self talk to to help yourself. Man.
Speaker 1: That's that's really the main reason. Yourself talk is your
Speaker 1: biggest fault. A lot of people don't notice that what
Speaker 1: it is. I think it's about that time. Just take
Speaker 1: a little breather. Good do, good do. Let's getting down
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Speaker 1: to podcasts. What can we expect out of you or
Speaker 1: what do you expect out of yourself coming into the
Speaker 1: league after you're drafting? Um, just coming of the league
Speaker 1: actually just being a team player at the end of
Speaker 1: the day and working hard and getting better, progressing, getting
Speaker 1: better learning for all the vets and older guys watching
Speaker 1: them at the end of the day, and it's getting
Speaker 1: better learning defenses because at the end of day, I
Speaker 1: do want to coach, So just learning from coaches and
Speaker 1: things like that. You can learn from everybody and they
Speaker 1: don't have to just be players and things like that.
Speaker 1: You can learn from coaches. So that's my goal for sure,
Speaker 1: to get on the field and start make players on
Speaker 1: special teams. I know on special teams and already know
Speaker 1: alright en, So you gotta make players on special teams
Speaker 1: and and he's got to do your job. And my
Speaker 1: my goal has win Super Bowls. I'm a winner at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. They ain't ain't about yourself.
Speaker 1: It's about the team. And I like to win. I
Speaker 1: like to win games and get rings. So you got
Speaker 1: a bachelor's degree in sports industry, Like what, so that's that?
Speaker 1: It just talks about all aspects of sports. So I
Speaker 1: didn't learn about the law history, um, because the industry
Speaker 1: is a major. It's a major, sure that I didn't yet.
Speaker 1: Yeahrom forty two. They they didn't change the whole degree systems.
Speaker 1: On the last segments called the deep three, the three
Speaker 1: questions that take us beyond who you are as a
Speaker 1: football player. So Smithie, we can give the first one.
Speaker 1: How much pressure do you put on yourself? And once
Speaker 1: you feel that pressure, when he kind of gets to
Speaker 1: that boiling point, how do you release it? I put
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on myself. I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I'm just hard on myself at and then I want
Speaker 1: to be perfect, but it's nothing. It's it's unless were
Speaker 1: it's kind of impossibly perfect because unpressure as perfect as Jesus.
Speaker 1: So I put a lot of pressure on myself. I
Speaker 1: got big ghosts myself. I got told y'all and things
Speaker 1: like that. But how how I'm getting through it now
Speaker 1: is like talking to people different things. I got got
Speaker 1: my girl that I talked to and she has me
Speaker 1: get through that stuff and released all that pressure and
Speaker 1: things like that. You got my family, Um, they helped
Speaker 1: me a lot of things. So that's how I released
Speaker 1: and things like that. But I've been starting to read
Speaker 1: a lot of books and things that's helping me just
Speaker 1: calm down and and different things like that, because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be real the pressure to get to people. And
Speaker 1: that's just how that's just how life is regardless, like,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have pressure. It don't matter what what
Speaker 1: what what what things you're doing like, you always wanna
Speaker 1: have pressure. So um uh, I didn't have times where
Speaker 1: I did great repressure. I don't had times where I
Speaker 1: just sucked with pressure. So that's just how that you
Speaker 1: just gotta learn from it. I mean you alluded to
Speaker 1: big goals. What is your big picture and what do
Speaker 1: you see for your life on and off the field.
Speaker 1: On and off the field, I just want to do
Speaker 1: a lot of good things for the community. Um, not
Speaker 1: for myself, for the community. I just want to make
Speaker 1: sure I help the city. Jobs we allowed up city Montgomery.
Speaker 1: I'll just help kids, I'm in general, um and put
Speaker 1: put kids in better predicaments. I got a lot of
Speaker 1: friends that just didn't have that father figure in their life.
Speaker 1: To just push them to the to the limits and
Speaker 1: understand the bigger gold in life and not just a
Speaker 1: straight life. Um that that's something that I I diffite want.
Speaker 1: Don't take a lot of kids under my built and
Speaker 1: that's that's what my father did. So that's that's something
Speaker 1: I definite want to do for sure. Want to build
Speaker 1: an AU team uh seven on seventeen. Those of goals
Speaker 1: that I've got me my friend, we want to bring
Speaker 1: you want to build a school one day in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: just to help people out and things like that. So
Speaker 1: it just goes that I got for myself and things
Speaker 1: like that and they're on the field. Is just to
Speaker 1: to just be the best meat at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. Don't don't worry about nobody else. Just be
Speaker 1: the best meat and just win games and when win
Speaker 1: the super Bowl, when there's many championships and super Bowls
Speaker 1: as I can in the day, and just be the
Speaker 1: best meat because the best usual only you. So and
Speaker 1: you want to get one tax at its lifetime and
Speaker 1: I'm here, so I just got to do the best
Speaker 1: thing for me. And what God has started. What do
Speaker 1: you fear? What no I fear? Only fest I fear
Speaker 1: is the Lord, I ain't really got no fears like that.
Speaker 1: I don't like roller coasters, but that's like roller coasters,
Speaker 1: but only feel the Lord. But you can choose to
Speaker 1: not get like you just don't up and fall into
Speaker 1: a roller coaster, so you can make that. You can
Speaker 1: make that valid choice to not get on the roller
Speaker 1: and all got monster they at their little fair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't do that. Yeah, so yeah, you don't fear
Speaker 1: nobody we may. Man. I look forward to watch your career. Man,
Speaker 1: I think you don't have a fantastic career. I know
Speaker 1: you're tight about the process and you should be. Um,
Speaker 1: this is opportunity for you, man, take all the time,
Speaker 1: absorb it, remember it, you know, stopping smell of roses too.
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna be meeting with some of these
Speaker 1: general manager some of these head coaches. M hm. You
Speaker 1: one little tidbit ask questions to look forward to watch
Speaker 1: you play, and good luck in the draft, man. I
Speaker 1: know whatever team gets you. Um, you know, I know
Speaker 1: you're not fully healthy, but you know, rest up and
Speaker 1: keep doing you rehabbing stuff, man, and you'll be back
Speaker 1: out there sooner than later. So well appreciate yours do
Speaker 1: athletes in his positions generally recognize how rare this opportunity is.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. We don't can't. Thanks for keeping it. That's
Speaker 1: what I wanted to say, you cannot it is you
Speaker 1: can say you you, you have you do? Oh you
Speaker 1: don't know. Do you think people will have like through
Speaker 1: when people say that rose colored glasses are absolutely yeah
Speaker 1: you have them on there. But it's all it's not
Speaker 1: because they don't care, they're not intelligent. None of the
Speaker 1: negative connotations that you believe. It has to do with
Speaker 1: if you never experienced it, which is hints getting drafted
Speaker 1: the first time. You just don't know what to expect.
Speaker 1: You don't you even when someone's telling you, you still
Speaker 1: don't because it just comes at you so fast. It was.
Speaker 1: It's interesting hearing him say, you only live once, so
Speaker 1: make sure you do the best of make sure you
Speaker 1: take care. Bron I am forty two years old and
Speaker 1: I sit back something sometimes I go, yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: see that one coming. Life still gonna be a learning experience, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and it's always the best teacher. But you can be
Speaker 1: prepped and prepared all you want. You can be prepared
Speaker 1: just like Sean. You can be prepared for spring practice.
Speaker 1: You could be prepared for that, the starting running back,
Speaker 1: but then here comes that non scholarship and just truck you.
Speaker 1: And you don't because you think, oh, I got this.
Speaker 1: I've seen a sweet before. Yeah, I've seen a sweet before.
Speaker 1: You ain't seen it like this brother, because he's coming
Speaker 1: out of seven, that starving like Marvin un scholarship, walk
Speaker 1: on running back? Who got something to play for? Right now?
Speaker 1: He's at a twelve And I know some of y'all listening,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know. Twelve is a lot molden but you
Speaker 1: but you really don't know what the twelve is until
Speaker 1: bang twelve smacks you in the face, runs over you.
Speaker 1: Seven that got decleted, Yeah, and the only thing you
Speaker 1: can think of is something that less brown. Safe. When
Speaker 1: you get knocked down, if you can look up, you
Speaker 1: can stand up. Yeah, but sometimes it hurts going down.
Speaker 1: You get up, you dust yourself off. But there's a
Speaker 1: little bit you know, you don't You're just not sure,
Speaker 1: lovey kid. I think it'd be fantastic. I think I
Speaker 1: don't know how his career is going to go because
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it depends on where he gets drafted,
Speaker 1: how he heals up, tell you what a turf toe
Speaker 1: playing on that artificial turf is not gonna make it
Speaker 1: feel better. Um, but you just being the same. You
Speaker 1: are a unique person, You are well worth it, you
Speaker 1: are competent and most of all, your lovable. I'm Steve Smith, singer,
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