Davante Adams Calls Out The Packers, Shares Honest Opinion On Rodgers & Why He’s A Raider | Ep 13

On today’s episode of The Rush, we welcome one of the best wide receivers in the NFL Davante Adams. Together the guys talk about his former QB and team, Raiders and much more. Make sure you subscribe so you never miss an episode of The Rush.

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0:00-1:20 Intro
1:20 – 5:20 Jordan Love
5:20 – 6:57 Quarterback Development
6:57 – 11:30 Davante’s Early Career
11:30 – 12:30 Maxx Bouncing Back
12:30 – 13:45 Manscaped Ad
13:45 – 14:34 Not Making All-Pro
14:34 – 18:34 Maxx’s Mentality
18:51 – 22:00 Team Mindset & Effort
22:00 – 23:18 Josh McDaniels
23:18 – 24:50 Learning the Playbook
24:50 – 26:21 NFL Distractions
26:21 – 27:32 Making Big Plays
27:32 – 27:55 Milk Carton
27:55 – 29:20 Avoiding the Noise
29:20 – 30:30 Clean Slate
30:30 – 32:32 Dealing with Media
32:32 – 38:10 Being a Leader
38:10 – 40:42 Media Giving the Truth
40:42 – 45:33 Players Giving Davante Issues
45:33 – 47:21 WR Position Changing
47:21 – 51:31 Basketball and Academics
51:31 – 56:02 Raiders Starting 5
56:02 – 1:00:00 Expectations Next Season
1:00:00 – 1:02:40 Greatest Catches All Time
1:02:40 – 1:04:28 Mount Rush of WR’s
1:04:28 – 1:06:32 White Corners
1:06:32 – 1:12:48 Golf
1:12:48 – 1:18:30 Rush Mail
1:18:30 – 1:19:24 Outro

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best receiver coming out regardless of
what number I went I was the best one I
have the best hands in the world y’all
think I’m the best right now I haven’t
even shown you [ __ ] not even comparable
I’m not comparable with any other
receivers you know it’s a doggy dog
League like everybody wants to be that
guy this [ __ ] means way more to me than
it does to you know I’m one of the best
I know I’m the best I’m here to dominate
bro I’m all proo that mean Devonte did
his [ __ ] this year I want to do the [ __ ]
everybody can’t do when I say I’ve never
played with a dude that is as locked in
and self-motivated and determined to be
the best as this dude right here never
in my life bro never I’m Not Looking
Back the only thing I’m going to do is
get better that’s that’s it Point Blank
period playing for the dopest
organization the moment I stepped
through this building it was way more
competitive than we were in Green
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Bay up
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all right y’all welcome back to the rush
it’s your boy Max Crosby I got my
brother broen roback Daran Terrell we
got a very special guest in the building
Devonte Adams not to Uno big shout out
to Eight lounge jeppi Bravo Resorts
World for uh giving us this beautiful
venue clearly you know you’re very vocal
about quarterbacks um you know you have
your opinions and things like that you
know we go back and forth have long
conversations in the locker room um you
were with Jordan love for a few years
years what are your thoughts on him
where do you see him uh going with his
career cuz I I remember after we played
him he was getting a ton of [ __ ] people
are doubting him and I’m like this
[ __ ] is cold like just wait till
he gets his grow yeah you know look I’m
I’m like the the poster child for you
make a decision and you live with it you
know at the end of the day so I’ll never
regret anything I mean I don’t care if
it came here and my career went to [ __ ]
like you got to make decisions and roll
with them if you if you one of them
people that gets hung up on you know in
hindsight this and that then I mean
you’ll lose your [ __ ] mind play in
this game so I don’t I don’t regret
anything but what I will say is that not
that I doubted him in any way because I
definitely seen it um you know I seen
the the potential in there but it was
similar to kind of what we saw earli in
the season is kind of what I was um able
to to to watch while I was in Green Bay
CU as Aaron’s in there all the Reps that
I’m getting are going to be with him
yeah and um you know we we built up what
we built so basing it off of that and
then having a young guy that had no
experience for me it was tough to stay
in that position and say this is what’s
best for me for sure like you know
especially with all of the back and
forth um of of everything with the
Packers of you know contract stuff the
year before you know I basically told
him like if we if y’all can figure this
out now going into this last year my
deal cuz I had no security I was
basically playing under worse than a a
tag that year my last year in Green Bay
I was like the 20th highest paid
receiver in the league should never
happen it was crazy right so I tell him
I’m like look erens has his stuff kind
of back and forth every year I’ll ignore
all of that if we can just do this a
year early knock this out and I proven
it I mean I had two back toback all Pros
I’m like the more I play it’s not going
to make it easy so you might as well
just figure this out and and then they
threw some deal at me that was just like
almost was like I barely made me even
want to play for him that year but I was
like you know what I’m going to be there
I’m going be in Camp I told him you’re
not even going to notice that I’m
irritated or nothing I’m going be the
player I’m supposed to be and then I
obviously wien did that and uh you know
it raised up the stakes and made it
tougher so now the Packers wanted to
figure out and I’m going back and forth
like how do I distinguish if this is the
right thing to do versus going where I
feel like it’s definitely the right
thing to do playing with a guy I already
have experience with um you know we we
put up a lot of touchdowns and and yards
in those two years we played obviously
it’s college but I don’t have anything
to base it off of with Jordan so I’m
going off of I’m playing the numbers
what makes most sense you know Derek was
you know at one point in the league you
know he was a MVP candidate like you
can’t you can’t say anything you know
you cannot like Derek personally but you
got to respect what he’s done and that
he he solidified you know my decision to
to come here so you know that’s a really
wordy way of saying at the at the time
when I was there I hadn’t necessarily
seen enough to say this is for sure what
I should do but in hindsight like we
talked about I mean a kid is a [ __ ]
baller man I’m I’m so happy for him and
you know I I haven’t really had a chance
to truly sit down and talk with him but
I just I want to tell him at some point
like you know I I definitely don’t
regret changing but I’m super proud of
what you’ve done and um you know if if
there was a way I could pull you over
here and you know and drag you with me
like that you know that would have been
cool too cuz you know obviously we saw
what he did at the end of the year but
um I don’t regret what I did but at the
same time it’s it’s definitely you look
back on it you like damn that boy kind
of B could he be the next one could he
be I mean I think he is I think he shown
that and he’s starting to come into his
own I mean you can see the way he’s
talking in front of the media and
everything it’s just like a whole
different person than what I saw when I
was there and that comes with experience
facts how much of that is like him
learning too because I’ve heard just
through the Great Vine like just his
dropback stuff like that they want you
to mimic and miror what Aaron’s doing
and you can kind of tell in his
mechanics now like there’s a lot of
Aaron in his game mixed with his own
little his own little [ __ ] to it for
sure but like so I feel like it just
takes time and that’s what people don’t
get in this league especially at that
position so I guess to ask you you’re an
OG in the game your top two not two like
we talk about do you feel like guys do
not get enough CH like time to develop
in this league especially at the
quarterback position for sure I mean
undoubtedly the the only tough part
about it is that it’s like how much time
do you give a guy I think in his case he
didn’t they didn’t give him any time cuz
he wasn’t on the field like you can say
whatever you want about the three reps
he got while you know Aaron was you know
had Co against the Chiefs my last year
there so like he had a couple reps but
that’s like saying that Aiden wasn’t
going to be anything because you see you
know the the end of the the Chargers
game or whatever you can’t just you
can’t write these guys off it’s a it’s a
learning process and it’s the position
that takes the most learning to in order
to get comfortable at that you know you
can see a couple guys that come in you
got you got the the the bastards to the
rule like CJ they come in and they they
look like those LSU receivers where it’s
like bro I thought quarterback was
supposed to be hard and you come in just
like coolers the other side of the
pillow throwing darts throwing it
downfield like literally making the game
look easy so there’s certain people that
come in and kind of make it seem like
other guys are behind when really they
are right where they’re supposed to be
based off of the experience that they
got so for me I think that it was it was
trash that they basically tried to bury
him before he even got on the field um
because you got to see you can’t you
can’t uh you can’t count your what you
say you can’t count your chickens to
they hatch so at the end of the day
that’s basically what the deal was with
me too same similar to my career you
know they they tried to write me off
early and then once I figured it out and
started coming along they were like oh
we was tripping yeah you know and and
that’s basically what happened with him
that’s a good point I want to ask you uh
what feeding off that what in your
career what was like your biggest
learning point that propelled you to
like Hall of Fame status I mean because
that’s what it is at this rate well I
mean obviously I don’t know how much
y’all know like like real details about
early on in my career but you know my
first year I come in and I have I’m
playing with two pro bowlers I’m playing
with Jordi Nelson and Randle Cobin I’m
the clear three at this point and I’m
saying that even now like I wasn’t ready
to be getting you know 100 plus targets
you know in in a season so I came in and
didn’t really have much expectation I
was kind of a kid out of Fresno State it
wasn’t big school where they’re like
this dude’s got to perform this first
year so I came in did well enough that
first year and then um you know you go
into my second year Jordy gets hurt
tears his ACL and preseason against the
Steelers now I’m thrusted to number one
cuz cobs in a slot and I’m thrusted to
one and we got James Jones He joins the
bunch and long story short that year was
just not it I mean that I think it was
week two I hurt my ankle and I was
basically I missed like three games that
year because of the ankle but I was
fighting through it all year and I was
behind every ball I’m dropping stuff and
like it just wasn’t I wasn’t able to put
myself the best version of me out there
and you know my game is getting off the
spot like you got a bum ankle you really
mess it up pretty bad like that’s going
to be able to limit your ability to meet
it to Showcase like even now like I’m a
better player than what I was but if I
had that same injury I guarantee you I
wouldn’t look like what I look like on a
normal Sunday regardless of the growth
and all of that and the experience
that’s come with the you know the amount
of time I’ve been out there but you need
those reps in in order to kind of build
your confidence and then you know I had
one touchdown that year and then I I
went you know I was on the verge of
basically being cut so I was thinking
you know am I even going to be a packer
after this I’m looking I got to delete
social media this whole year cuz if I if
I go on Twitter or Instagram anything
that I see I mean it’s not one positive
thing out there I think I was like you
could look it up but I think I was 112
out of 116 PFF receivers that year damn
and I don’t even know who those other
for is but I feel bad that they was
playing that bad cuz I was out there
bullshitting and I it wasn’t by you know
it wasn’t like I wasn’t locked in or I
didn’t know my book and all this stuff I
just was dealing with some mental stuff
and then um you know that next offseason
I just took the onus to say I’m going
put everything into my game I went back
and watch college highlights all type of
[ __ ] to make sure remind myself like man
what the [ __ ] you the best one you’re
the best receiver coming out regardless
of what number I went I was the best
[ __ ] one so if I’m coming out and I
really believe that so I’m like man
watch this [ __ ] look at this looking at
even highlights that I had throughout
and I’m like I can do this man like the
I’m I’m thinking I’m overthinking this
thing like I’m I’m starting to come down
on myself question whether or not I can
C I can catch the ball I’m like bro I’m
the I have the best hands in the world
like why am I tripping off of this and
I’m saying that like at that point I
hadn’t proving it on the field but I
know I can catch so I’m like I’m not out
there saying this on TV like bro I got
the best hands in the world like you
know
cuz right so I’m like man I’m I’m really
him so at the end of the day and before
him was alive like I don’t think that
was a thing yet now they give away him
Awards and [ __ ] Timothy right right I
was I just golf with with Keenan he
calls himself he and
Island it’s all over
the so then that third year 2016 I
bounced back and then 12 tugs and then
you know after that point I had missed a
uh Pro Bowl so it was it was time to
lock in and do what I had to do and I
proved it to myself and once I really
showed it and people started talking
about me being one of the best y it took
until maybe 20177 to get to you know
those type of conversations but once I
got there you know I started getting
even hornier off the the excitement you
know for a lack of better words I’m I’m
sitting here I people talking about my
name and I’m two things happen you
either completely [ __ ] the bed when
people start talking about you like you
want of the best cuz that’s a different
type of pressure or you turn up and
really like cuz in your mind in my mind
like y’all think I’m the best right now
I haven’t even shown you [ __ ] I just put
together like my first thousand yard
season what are you talking about
all right watch this watch this and now
you got your Chemistry with Aaron at
that point so now it’s you know in your
head it’s over with it’s over with bro I
went in every game like just like can I
just completely like take over today it
wasn’t about winning or like can I have
a game that I’m happy about like can I
really dominate like to the point where
it’s it’s not even comparable I’m not
comparable with any other receivers and
that’s essentially what happened for for
a good stretch that shit’s crazy bro and
it’s funny me I don’t mean to we’ve
obviously had these personal
conversations but people know me and you
are obviously close and [ __ ] talk
about this all the time but this dude’s
inspired me so much and our stories are
weirdly similar in that way like y’all
know it too like after my second year I
had a down year after my rookie year and
I was like like PFF I was legitimately
120 out of 128 or something and I went
back to the I went back to the drawing
board I watched all my film I’m like I
know I can [ __ ] do this [ __ ] it just
really comes down to you at the end of
the day and making up your mind like
nobody’s going to [ __ ] stop me and
putting the work behind it put the work
in behind it cuz if you have it in your
mind you already have the the confidence
in yourself now you just need to do some
[ __ ] to kind of back that up and then
once you have something really like like
a body then now it’s like like what what
are we talking about everybody already
feels that way about me so now it’s just
putting together the stats and as you go
year by year and keep putting together
you know remarkable Seasons then now
just who you are it’s not what you did
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that’s it and that’s how he become the
best and that’s he I mean he told me
this it was our first year together and
I was so [ __ ] hurt when I didn’t make
all pro I’m like this is [ __ ]
[ __ ] like I [ __ ] know I’m one of
the best I know I’m the [ __ ] best I
know and he’s like bro just keep doing
what you’re doing and just refine
everything you’re doing because I knew
in my head like I watched the film but
this [ __ ] his confidence is out
the roof and like that [ __ ] helped me
cont this what happened this season went
back got all pro but at the end of the
day it’s like all right what’s next how
the [ __ ] can I get better I know I
wasn’t even at my best you know after
this season you’re like I know I can be
better you’re a first team All Pro
period That’s how I feel I haven’t even
made first team I’ve had two all pros
and there second team I’m like I feel
like it’s disrespectful but at the same
time like I’m disrespecting myself
because I know I could [ __ ] do more
so that’s why I [ __ ] with this dude he’s
I mean he’s that mentality you got is
why you the player that you are now and
honestly bro I could say this like I’ll
say this [ __ ] on the top of a mountain
toop like i’ of any player I’ve ever
played with I’ve only played with maybe
one other guy that that brings and I
can’t even compare it because you can
talk about Aaron Rogers but it’s a whole
different position so you can’t the type
of strain that you have to bring to
other position so like aon’s locked in a
different level he’s his football
acument his his intellectual ability and
his his creativity just his mind in
general is what makes him him but as
quarterbacks it’s not about you know
chasing people down and really like
seeing a ball in the air running and and
really straining it’s not that’s not the
word you think of when you think about
the quarterback right so when you think
about all the other positions that’s
really more so what it is and it’s not
aon’s fault like that you play it’s more
mentally training for him correct and
and physically tough and all those type
of things but when when I when I say
I’ve never played with a dude that is as
locked in and selfmotivated and
determined to be the best as this dude
right here never in my life bro never
not at any point have I and I always you
Max is the type of dude I always joke
with him I don’t know I I ask him
sometime how long you want to play and I
always tell them I’m like bro you going
to play 18 years because it just comes
down to how healthy you stay basically
it’s you’re going to be nobody’s ever
going to get rid of you unless they
can’t pay you like that’s literally all
it’s going to come down to if they can’t
[ __ ] afford you bro because there’s
there’s the type of players that are
great because of circumstance and then
there’s the type of player that are
great because they do [ __ ] right all the
[ __ ] time and then it it leaves
nothing but more opportunities to do
well you know what I mean like you’re
going to the more he’s out there the
better it’s like it’s like [ __ ] pro
golfers versus me I don’t if I play in a
tournament the more holes I play it’s a
higher likelihood of my score getting
worse overall me I’m going to probably
have more Bogies than birdies and bars
as we go sure and and tiger they want to
play as much golf as they want because
Scotty and all these dudes it’s going to
beus 14 at the end tournament going
record and that’s what we’re doing you
know what I’m saying we want we want as
many opportunities a lot of dudes a lot
of wi outs and DN don’t want all those
snaps because they got six good reps out
of the game in them not [ __ ] two reps
that not even bad I’ll say two reps that
are not as great as what they would like
and that’s this dude and it’s and it’s
really because maybe the dude stepped up
maybe he [ __ ] he had a a voice in his
ear saying step up right now Max is
coming around it’s it’s not even like he
killed the dude but that’s the one of
the Reps he didn’t like was the one that
the guy just so happened to [ __ ] get
away from him you know what I mean some
[ __ ] like that it’s not like you know
the guy scored on it scored or I got put
on my back because I just took a play
off like it’s none of those it’s all
full goal and I’m just the I’m a better
player and this [ __ ] means way more to
me than it does to you and that’s these
two dudes right here 100% no that’s
facts I mean that’s that’s the
difference you can be like you know
coaches can only do so much but at the
end of the day like they can tell you
where to be [ __ ] mindset everything
they could improve that but if you don’t
want that [ __ ] deep down you’re never
going to become the best version to
yourself and that’s why we get along so
well this dude will be on the field and
camp like he could catch 20 balls in a
row win every single one-on-one but he
might his foot might be out on one of
them and you’ll be like no [ __ ] that I’m
going again like we’ll be on Fridays
we’ll be in Fridays and I’m supposed to
get two reps my [ __ ] knees blown in
half and I’m like I’m not coming off the
field till I’m getting a sack or I’m
getting a tfl and then I’m like all
right coach I’m good they just look at
me crazy but it’s the same way this
[ __ ] dude is running post routes week
17 the same way he’s running it in
training camp or OTAs and that’s what
makes a team special and that’s what I
know we’ve been you know we’ve been
together two years we’ve had losing
records both years and I know it [ __ ]
I can’t even sleep at night and I know
you’re the same way I just I can’t even
I can look at him after a game and we
just [ __ ] know there’s no words that
even need to be said but that’s what
motivates me even more it’s cuz when we
turn this [ __ ] around it’s going to be
[ __ ] different you know I mean we
we’re playing for the dopest
organization and that [ __ ] is going to
be different bro I can’t wait yeah the
Raiders is it symbolizes I can’t name
two better dudes than y’all two right
here for millions of reasons swag
mentality dog like I could go down the
list but uh yeah you two definitely
represent the organization to to the
fullest do you guys see that being
infectious right you’re on the defensive
side you’re on the offensive side
usually on a team you don’t you might
have a couple guys that have that
mentality like it wasn’t perfect I’m
going to do it again right now do you
guys see that kind of being infectious
to the rest of the team where it’s not
just a facade it’s actually genuine they
want to up their standards because of
you guys million perc bro I mean this
there’s there’s certain people like like
I always go back to Aaron when I when I
think about greatness I think about on
this team I think about this dude and I
think about Aaron man
loves every interview every person there
either LeBron guy and Aaron he’s when
that’s both it’s over you can have him
all day if I had you and Aaron in here
right now we would record for like four
hours
easy give you all the stories yeah 100%
but but a dude like Aaron man like
certain people like like he’s a vocal
leader and and I love that because half
half I love it because I don’t have to
open my mouth as much you know and as as
you go like it’s certain people that
speak like I think we’re we’re the type
of guys that we
speak consistently or every every day we
got a speech for the team that listen
but the more you I found that the more
you give out like guy like Josh Jacobs
he gets people listen to him because
when he does speak you know he means
something about him so you know I try to
like pick a a happy medium but but Max
is like the more of the spokesperson for
the team cuz that’s how it’s been but
even before I got here and I’m not going
to come in and change that nor do I want
to like he loves that and and and I love
that he loves that and he does a good
job with it not everybody can address
the team every day because you have to
has really come from your heart to be
able to to do that um but a guy like him
he’s a vocal leader but then also like
when he hurt his knee he had a couple
practices where he wasn’t out there and
he’s he’s getting treatment and you know
they got to [ __ ] take care of him you
leave it up to him he would have went
and ran it into the ground I’m sure but
they got to do whatever they can to keep
him off the field so he’s ready for
Sunday um so a couple practices you’ll
notice like not not that it’s like bad
but you can see the difference of when
like the big dog is out there and it’s
not even about screaming and saying hey
Malcolm like this or that not that
Malcolm’s one of the guys but just
anybody whether it’s a linebacker safety
or whatever you it always maybe maybe
not for from here to here but it’s
always like a little different when the
big dog is not out there yeah guys can
you know whether it’s just how clean
they get like like me if I’m not out at
practice or whatever for whatever reason
OTA or something like I I’ll get
feedback from EB he’ll be like yeah the
guys was about two yards three yards
short on on these rounds accountability
yeah like yeah like they you know not
not the greatest finishes and stuff like
that so A lot of times we don’t even
have to say certain things but that
greatness that we you know put on
display every single day in practice
it’s infectious to the guys and they
like well [ __ ] if these all Pros are
doing it like I’m not going to be the
one not doing it and that’s the similar
mindset that I had when I got in the
league is that came in and saw Jordy and
Randle finishing Jerry R style 80 yards
down the field I’m like God damn but I’m
not like hey do I got to do follow suit
we G you almost don’t want to like let
them down like in a weird way like
they’re up here and I want to get to
that level which I’m sure that’s like
how Trey Tucker and those guys look at
you% and it’s like if Tay’s out here I’m
going to run my [ __ ] two two yards year
I’m gonna come down you know the route
this that and the third cuz I want Tay
you know what I mean it’s not like it’s
a validation but it probably is that’s
their Go 100% is and I’ll tell you this
Josh McDaniels gets a lot of [ __ ] but
one of the things that he said to me
that was like the realest and I really
never even had a coach stress it like
the way that he did with me he said you
know it was a couple things in practice
or in games where it was a couple loes
or something and he was like I need you
to go talk to these dudes because I can
get in there and scream at them but the
more that they’re worried about letting
their brother down that [ __ ] will mean
way more than you know me getting on him
or whatever it’s kind of like like your
literal brother or cousin talking to you
growing up versus your dad saying you
know go clean your room I guarantee you
my cousin never did this but my cousin
when they came in my room be like bro
what the [ __ ] clean your room I’d been
like oh [ __ ] like my [ __ ] must be yeah
my [ __ ] tur this not not a good spot you
know what I’m saying so it’s kind of
that that type of feel where you like
you said your your brother your brother
do it a certain way they like well I’m
not going to be the one to not do it you
know he’s doing it I got to I got to
step up too plus how it’s also like how
did Max and how did Tay get so great
they must have been doing this extra sh
Mak making sure like the technical [ __ ]
is down crafting and all that so yeah I
think it’s a million moving Parts but
it’s dope to see the the elevation that
he’s had but also just see like the
connection you guys had together and
just elevating all the way through like
just from the outside looking at it’s
been do no doubt I mean you guys you
guys have the first like the first year
guys coming in here soon right and then
like you you took that big jump it’s
like you after that second year what do
you see like the biggest um I’d say
blocker for people not being able to
take that the ability is there is it the
complacency is it the inability to learn
the system like what what is it I would
say you know what this it’s a it’s a
good question that you asked about the
system because on the outside like
growing up when I would be following NFL
like watching Hard Knocks and stuff like
that you would see people like
struggling quarterbacks and different
things like that with with picking up
the system I haven’t noticed that since
I’ve been in the league that guys truly
like in training you’ll see the guys
that are that get cut you know when they
have that small window to learn it by
you know but as it pertains to the year
like once you get in the groove not very
many people truly truly struggle with
the The Playbook at
least never like I can’t figure this
this game out but it’s like if you can’t
[ __ ] figure that out that’s a PR and
I mean you’ve had [ __ ] like 20
coaches in [ __ ] four years too so
definitely have yeah you got you
probably got smarter I was one of the
guys who got CAU on Hard
Knocks yeah for real who you’re exactly
talking about I’m over here like
reminiscent my brain this is awful yeah
this shit’s real though I would say is
the complacency is more once you you’ve
like reached a certain level of success
I see in the league and there’s guys
that just say you know I’m going chill
now I got I got a bag like a bag
whatever their respective bag is and U
you know it may not be a Max Max Crosby
bag but they they’ll get like you know
25 million and that that’s a lot of
money you know and they’ll say you I’m
straight like I’m not about to be out
here doing all this and hurting my body
and you know they don’t practice as hard
and they they take something off but I
would say more of the outside noise and
letting the distractions on the outside
factor in more versus whether it’s like
being in Vegas and letting the stuff
that comes with Vegas distract you and
then you end up you know having a
gambling issue or if it’s you know the
females or or if people you have like I
said my my bad year in 2015 where if I
let that factor in into my confidence
fully like it it it hurt me a little bit
cuz I was a young dude I was came League
I was 21 years old so I’m 22 hearing
people say that I’m the worst in the
league and why did we draft this dude
and this and that like damn like bro
like give me a shot say twiter GM me
right right all these dudes sitting on
there like eating lays probably barbecue
in the mom face right just sitting there
chopping it up with with moms that they
still living with sitting here talking
about Devon Adams and how horrible he is
at his job you know what I’m saying so I
let that stuff factor in for a little
bit but if I would have really let that
take over my mind then that could have
really derailed me and I allowed me to
you know revive my career and and I
won’t even say revive cuz it wasn’t like
a 4 years stretch where I couldn’t
figure it out you know it was a really
bad year but it was it was not good
timing considering I hadn’t done enough
to really fully be all the way confident
you know and I’m a confident person I
believe in myself but like I said you
got to have something behind it so once
I was able to do that it helped me um
but but just letting that outside noise
get into your head that’s what I’ve seen
kind of kill more people than than help
them there’s no doubt and especially
young players that they’re like on the
brink they make a couple big plays and
[ __ ] like that you’re like okay it’s
that time to take the next step I feel
like it’s way more mental Than Physical
you know guys get in their own head and
like they’re scared about what the coach
is going to say if they try to make this
play in a c but if you go and make the
play and then you go do it again you do
it two times and three times then
they’re like okay I can trust them and
that’s the biggest thing like you see
young guys all the time I came in with
first round picks I’ve seen dudes all
the time and like they would make some
plays or were back and forth they’re
consistent have a big game and then two
games you don’t hear about them and then
I think the biggest thing is like dudes
just being being com being comfortable
being uncomfortable like dudes are
scared to like finally just like [ __ ] it
like I’m just going to be the player I
know I can be cuz everybody has ability
like every every d linan That’s come in
I’ve been with five star recruits like
we have guy like jro like J Rob’s team
he’s a festar recruit allamerican like
he’s everyone’s got ability you know
what I mean at the end of the day I
think it’s just the mental side of it
that’s I mean so [ __ ] important and
it’s a battle within yourself at the end
of the day you could have all the
support system but when you’re just
sitting alone and thinking that’s the
only thing on on your mind it’s like
these [ __ ] really think I can’t
do it like I remember when I got put on
a milk carton that was the one for me
and my second year yeah they put me on a
milk Cardon on Twitter I was like this
[ __ ] I was so mad you know what
I mean but I’m like I’m going to prove
this [ __ ] wrong you know what I
mean so it’s [ __ ] like that like you
could really let it affect him if you’re
not mentally strong if you don’t [ __ ]
really love it you can let that [ __ ]
derail your career and I’ve seen it over
and over again bro that the one unique
thing that Gardner said yesterday he was
like I don’t have social media I don’t
watch TV and if it’s if it’s not
sound he said if I’m not if I’m not here
in the in the building then I’m I’m away
from society I don’t hear anything the
only time I do is if somebody screams at
me yeah yeah I don’t think you can avoid
like that’s the thing either like I’m
not trying to avoid I see everything I’m
sure you see everything I don’t go
looking I’m not I’m not searching I’m
not looking after the game good or bad
like I’m not like oh I had like you know
190 today let me let me type my name in
and see what they because I found that
that doesn’t do anything for you either
neither of those make you a better or
worse player regardless like people can
say whatever that doesn’t factor in
unless you let it like do something to
you but if if you don’t let it happen
then it’s not it’s not going to make me
better hearing somebody say that I’m
better now it can it can it can do
something for you internally like like I
said like oh you think that was good
okay well then I it almost gives you
something to look forward to yeah not
but not like I it don’t like if
everybody get on every single person
that has Twitter says Devonte is the
best receiver what is that going to do
for my stats next year what is that
going to do for my effort and the weight
my play style the dog I have my
toughness if I get hurt out there all
that [ __ ] factors in bro so if if if you
let what people are saying good or bad
factor in now you’re just going to be as
good as people talk about you yeah and
that’s not that’s not a good place to be
no facts broad Marinelli my my old D
line coach he’s still we talk damn near
every day he hits me up every I mean
it’s almost [ __ ] every day he’ll be
like how many sacks you got he goes zero
you [ __ ] donkey get to work he says
that [ __ ] at least three times a week he
says it but it’s true like right now
it’s clean slate you have zero
touchdowns zero yards it’s I have zero
sacks zero tfl none of that so it’s that
[ __ ] is real like you can never you can
never get comfortable in this leag
because the next guy is trying to be the
next Devonte Adams or Max Crosby or
miles Garrett or [ __ ] Justin
Jefferson and you know it’s a doggy dog
League like everybody wants to be that
guy and it’s you can get there but it’s
once you get there how the [ __ ] are you
going to keep elevating that’s I think
the biggest you know separation for a
guy like you you’ve done it like you
said after your third year you’ve been
to the Pro Bowl every single year you’ve
been all pro like that shit’s stuck in
my mind I’m like I’m not going back
there’s no I’m not looking back the only
thing I’m going to do is get better
that’s that’s it Point Blank period so
you remember last year when I or this
this past season when I talked to the
team I told I got up there and talked to
him because it was some you know we we
had the big Kumbaya I don’t know if
y’all talked about that here
yeah and I got up there and I got a
little emotional just talking to the
team because it was some some stuff
going on as far as like trade talks and
all of this and it was just a lot going
on in the media that wasn’t because of
me and it was it was being misconstrued
by even some of my teammates thought
that I was out there like talking to
like SVP telling them like hey bro I’m
trying to get trade like you know
putting Stu out there talking about you
know going to the Jets and this and that
and it’s like bro like I’m not feeding
any of that that’s not my style to do
that so when I got up in front of the
team you know you talk about w establish
that greatness and stay in there like I
told him I was like look man there’s
certain things that I’m not happy about
but this all this stuff I’m not out here
like like putting this stuff in the mix
and and trying to create more drama for
the team like I promise you anything you
hearing is just what people are
speculating about or whatever so for a
dude like me I’m like look bro y’all got
to
understand I I went to Roger team or one
of team I said hey man what what do you
call me he said Mike he been calling me
Mike since I got here for Michael Jordan
I said bro this [ __ ] is like a drug once
you like achieve a certain level of
success if you truly care about it
enough like I I’m going to get emotional
and not be happy in certain situations
if I’m not being allowed to contribute
and and help the team in the way that I
am capable of doing you know what I’m
saying and I’m here to dominate bro
regardless like if if we just find a way
to score on the first rushing play of
every drive like you won’t hear [ __ ] I
can have zero catches on a year if we go
win a Super Bowl that way but if we are
moving having the ball and moving it
around doing this and we don’t look how
we supposed to offense I’m not going to
be happy with it if I’m not able to
contribute how I’m supposed to and it’s
not because I’m not the player that I am
anymore it’s like that’s going to happen
at some point and we’ll all accept it
and and move on like it’s going to
happen to everybody but of course the
reality is I’m the type of player that I
am not going to like I can’t not be who
I’m supposed to be you know what I mean
and like I said you got to be able to
prove it you say you’re the best we go
show it and if I go if I go five weeks
and having I got two games where I
barely even caught the ball with than
that we got issue if if 17’s not getting
involved and we don’t look good as an
offense because my whole reason why I
hold myself saying I want to be a All
Pro is not for my own you know personal
satisfaction is to uphold a certain
level of play so that I can know I’m
handling my part for this team if I’m an
all proo that mean Devonte did his [ __ ]
this year so now it’s on Max oh Max you
all pro okay well [ __ ] let’s get a
quarterback that can you know and it’s
not about being all prob it’s about
being your your version of All Pro your
your version of that you know what I’m
saying my version of that is being the
best in the world it just so happens to
work out that way so if I can’t if I
can’t go do that now I got an issue with
that you know what I’m saying so that’s
that’s really what it came down to I
just want to be able to display that at
all times yeah do you feel like why do
you feel like there was so much of that
[ __ ] like the rumors and the talking
this year I feel like it’s just
because no one’s seen you not be
successful on the field like you
mentioning early I don’t know how much
you guys know about early on the career
I don’t remember you never being a dog
right so do you feel like it’s just
because the the lack of Team success
people just put it that those two things
together like oh he might not be happy
because he’s used to being successful
going to these these Championship Games
competing for Super Bowls like do you
feel like that plays a part I’m just
curious from your mindset that plays a
huge part well I think that the the team
success is like a it’s unfortunately
bigger for quarterbacks fortunately for
me but unfortunately for the
quarterbacks you know you get you get
attached to that and then when I play
with Aaron I’m almost like an extension
of him a little bit so now having won
games the last three years in Green Bay
and I come here and I’m not great at
faking it bro like I’m not at the end of
the day if I’m not happy like I’m not
going to be creating a whole like
uncomfortable environment but I’m not
going to get in my press conference and
act like it’s okay you know I’m going to
make sure that everybody knows I expect
greatness I’ve gotten used to that so
and I want everybody else to be used to
that too if I get in here and be like oh
it’s fine we yeah we we W it for like
Whatever It Is What It guys are playing
hard and that’s not what it’s about bro
that’s a prerequisite you everybody got
to play hard you know what I’m saying
like that’s what you have to everybody
has to play that way all teams if you
want to be a good team you can’t just
talk about you know we tried like I’m
not in this to try like everybody can do
that I want to do the [ __ ] everybody
can’t do and that’s win and and be you
know one of the best to to do it so
that’s that’s really what it comes down
to me the the winning part and then like
I said not being happy when it’s not
rolling and I think they use that as a
little bit of oh yeah good now the
Packers winning so let’s let’s try to
make it seem like he should have stayed
there and you know I don’t care about
that part of it that is what it is but
um yeah I think that those probably the
biggest reasons why they they they try
to reach with some of that [ __ ] when it
Reigns of pores once you start losing
then all of a sudden there’s drama then
Tay’s not happy Max’s not happy this
dude’s not coach and then they bring all
these rumors it’s just how it goes and
especially being in the market where in
too like the Raiders are [ __ ]
legendary organization so we’re going to
be talked about whether we win zero
games or all 17 I just kind of how it
goes but that’s the media nowadays I
mean there’s so many voices Twitter
there’s so many different things that
it’s just like everyone’s looking for
the controversy it’s not cool to talk
about oh they’re doing really good Taye
is happy and no one gives a [ __ ] they’re
like oh cool but when second there’s a
little bit of drama they’re like [ __ ]
yes that [ __ ] company bro it’s the same
thing on team real bro that’s how you
get the the cancer in the locker room
cuz [ __ ] aren’t getting the
play time they’re not doing this that
and the third then they grab another guy
I feel like it’s the same in the media
it’s like just get the miserable people
together and then they just gang up and
it’s like all it’s over with that’s the
med though they’ll always be that way
always outnumber us too
that’s now it’s all social media
everybody’s in the media there’s Twitter
accounts with dudes or like what’s the
dude Dove CL or whatever the [ __ ] his
name is I don’t even know nobody knows
what this dude looks like I don’t even
know if he’s real I see people talk
about him all the time I’m like I don’t
think this guy has a real [ __ ]
picture in the world out he has a fake
Al made [ __ ] I know exactly you know I’m
talk click on it but I know exactly what
you talk BR yes I hear people bring this
guy I’m like who the [ __ ] is this guy
nobody knows I mean he got 10,000
retweets I’m like bro who why who can
y’all stop feeding into this guy they
feed into it like there’s so many
different ones media Outlets out there
that I respect and I and I like but the
ones that really speak on it like it’s
not too many that really speak on like
things consistently that I can say that
I’m I get behind and I’m not even going
to say who I like and who I don’t like
but dud out there that he can’t even
yeah trust me I’m the same way I see a
couple of them walk in the in the in the
locker room I’m like I’m not speaking or
looking Direction I’m walking the [ __ ]
out but I’ve had times too where I’m
just like I’ll check them I don’t care
like the mic’s not around be like bro
you’re [ __ ] tripping I checked them
about you one of them I checked them
about you one time what they were saying
just some [ __ ] stirring a rumor
saying T Devonte said this I checked
this dude at the [ __ ] Pro Bowl and I
said bro why are you making [ __ ] up he
was just looked at me like so confused
I’m like why are you making [ __ ] up
about Tay I was like there’s already
enough [ __ ] drama now you’re making
[ __ ] up now I was like like he did not
say that [ __ ] and he’s like well that’s
not what I said and I’m like what are we
doing I’m like I’m not here to [ __ ]
bully you but like if you’re making [ __ ]
up that’s like you just anybody can say
anything you know what I mean like
you’re going to walk around like
everything’s cool and you’re just out
there spreading Wildfire I’m like you
deserve to be checked I love it but
there is good dudes like I [ __ ] Hondo
Carpenter [ __ ] love that guy he’s
he’s the best Hondo the taller dude
tucked in uh tucked in
tea uh you would know he has glasses
yeah but he’s a real one like he keeps
he goes both sides he’s talking about
the good the bad in the middle so I’m
like I respect that if the shit’s real
and like you got your sources I mean I I
got to respect it look even if I don’t
like what you reporting at least make it
factual in something that’s that’s real
like you know what I mean like you can
say whatever you want to say I’m not
expecting you to sit here and just give
us just all this praise nonstop but like
just be accurate what what you talking
about cuz you just out here cuz this is
the problem people that that call games
all this stuff they have so much power
and they know they do and I don’t even
think people that are watching it
understand the power that those people
have cuz most of them don’t know
anything and the dude that are that that
are the people that are on there like
color commentating the games these days
they don’t even [ __ ] know like I’ll
tell you somebody that I love I I love I
love Tony Romo he’s he’s a great dude
but I seen him one timeit do do this is
a perfect example of what I’m talking
about and he I mean he’s like damn near
like psychic half the time but he’ll
he’ll do some [ __ ] like this watching
the Chargers game they playing can’t
remember who they were playing but
somebody they had like two people
showing Blitz off the right side right
and it was like supposed to be like like
a like a strong dog or like a storm
Blitz or something like that the safety
he goes watch the safety here he’s going
to Blitz off the edge the safety drops
on the snap drops and runs to the middle
of the field and they and they just rock
the other way they run the ball it was
like a short yard situation run the ball
at him and they get like four yards or
whatever get the first down he goes
that’s on him he’s got a blitz there how
[ __ ] do you know what they schem is how
do you how you going say that now you
got people probably tweeting this man
like [ __ ] Blitz you dumb
ass he needs to BL seeing this I’m like
bro like what are you basing that off of
that you know he’s he has to come here
yeah and then dude drops which clearly
he’s not going to run to the middle of
the field mind you the Middle Field was
open so certainly he was doing the right
thing and now these people probably
[ __ ] on them you know they that
could have been a critical moment I
don’t remember the situation in the game
but you know imagine if that was like a
critical moment and ran that and he’s
out of there now this dude’s getting
buried on social media so we need some
Romo accountability basically I love
Romo I love you bro can’t wait to see
you in Taho at the I [ __ ] with Romo too
but there’s definitely some of that [ __ ]
out there that’s like them saying like
if I have like a you know they’d run a
Zone read and I’m supposed to tackle the
running back I’ve had it before they’re
like he’s losing [ __ ] contain he’s
losing contain I’m like we’re running a
[ __ ] game like y’all don’t know what
the [ __ ] you’re talking about but then
I’m like okay I need to take a step back
I’m getting too ha like these people
don’t know what the [ __ ] they’re talking
about but that shit’s real that shit’s
real I want to Pivot I want to put you
on the spot a little bit I know you oh I
haven’t been on the spot you’ve been on
the spot a little bit just a little bit
um took a light on you just a little bit
but um you obviously you carry yourself
me and you we get along because of our
confidence we know what we bring to the
table and we’re only getting better MH
there’s always two to three guys I know
personally that I’m like I got to be
extra on my [ __ ] because this dude for
some reason gives me a little bit of
issues who are those guys for you give
me three guys that in your whole career
that you’re like all right I got to be
extra on my [ __ ] cuz for some reason
they bring you know a little bit of you
know more issues to
me uh just over the course of my career
or active like players now career in
general
um that’s a good question
bro it’s a great question definitely I
hate answering this question not because
dudes not because I don’t want to it’s
just like you want to get the credit n
not even that I love showing love I love
showing love bro it’s up to us to like I
love giving like I was like one of the
first people to really celebrate Cal
Calvin Ridley the way that he was
supposed to and I’m like y’all better
start talking about this dude like I
feel like it’s our responsibility to
give people the juice because especially
when when certain people may not know
because that’s what we essentially are
what shaped the world to and how they
think about the stuff you got people on
TV but they don’t have the accurate
opinions field like us so I would say if
I had to pick
somebody three people yep I would
say back in in my early
days um Sher Richard Sherman okay that
was like like when I first my first game
in the league was against rich and I
went to Palo High and he went to
Stanford which is literally across the
street from each other they used to come
over they didn’t have turf so when it
would rain they would come and practice
on our field during lunch I would go
like sit in the stands and like
literally I wore a sleeve on my on my
left arm because he wore one sleeve like
a Kobe sleeve not the one that goes up
here like one the forearm like the
forearm joint and he he wore that over
there he started off playing receiver
and then went over there so I was like
the big fan of him so and then we go and
we clashing in the league so uh we had
some good battles early on um he
definitely got the best of me my my
rookie year he picked me off and then
said some disrespectful words in the in
the uh in the in the endzone at NFC
Championship game and I won’t forget
that and it fueled I end up coming back
and whooping his ass too later
so make sure you put that in there too
no but but I loved our battles man I got
a lot of respect for him as a player so
I’ll say rich is like the main name that
I think of back like when I when I think
of guys that that just a problem I say a
keep to Le was another one you’re
mentioning came in and you you notice
I’m I’m bringing up dudes that are a
little older now because it’s not as
much trouble these days bro like you
know what I mean like and I think about
it like true trouble like I may not have
a great game but it it’s certainly not
because I was manned up all game and it
was like you know what I mean we playing
the Patriots like these dudes are going
to have seven people watching me saw uh
what’s buddy uh when came and put his
through my chil Peppers yeah he came and
smack me like that so there’d be certain
times but I can’t really attribute it to
a guy just gave me issues you know what
I mean um why do they always try to act
like Pat Cain and you and why do they
they make more of it than what they
should and I’m not avoiding Pat it’s
just that we Pat’s Pat’s probably the
best corner in the league right now for
sure like I I I love his game um I got a
lot of respect for him as a player um I
was trying to go in chronological order
just to make sure it wasn’t no OG’s that
I was leaving behind but I’ll probably
say proba Pat again saying trouble is is
a tough word for me to use because I
wouldn’t necessarily say that but he did
you know we played each other week one
and I would say like I would say he won
that matchup because I didn’t play
anywhere you know you you get going to
as the as the year goes and that’s week
one so I wasn’t necessarily in my best
football shape at that point um and I I
didn’t convert on a couple balls that I
probably should have but um he’s a
really good player man I think he’s he’s
going to probably have the the league in
a headlock for the next however however
long I mean what was this year two or
three for him yeah yeah three I think
three yeah three he’s young it might
have been two bro I think his rookie
year was I don’t know maybe maybe maybe
it was maybe maybe this was three he’s
young though and there’s so much around
with them trading him and stuff which
blows my mind well they just got they
got all type of stuff going on over
there like I don’t know how secure that
that that building is as far as you know
Russ started balling out at the end of
the game at the end of the year too and
then they got rid of him so when you get
cut and and dealt around like I used to
think you were trash like if you got cut
or traded like that’s what that meant
like you were unwanted like there so
many reasons why you get cut and and all
these different things now and and so
many uncontrollables yeah business the
money part just the happiness like you
know the contract may not work like
salary cap wise so all of that stuff is
what it is but I probably I got him as
as the the number one right now though
and he’s probably he’s my favorite
matchup um in the league right now okay
that’s dope I like that that’s dope um
for you how have you seen the wide
receiver position change like throughout
your career so far being in the league
um just curious like cuz are guys more
NFL ready coming out now you think I
think so man especially at these these
big schools and I don’t I don’t even
know what to attribute it to cuz a lot
of them I thought it was like more Pro
style offenses but it’s so many
different styles yeah 707s yeah all of
that stuff these dudes are getting more
well I think that this is another thing
when I was in high school like training
was just working out and doing like like
the the summer stuff with the team like
and then going and like playing
essentially like you weren’t like really
getting out there with like professional
coaches that are sitting here putting
you through these like real like NFL
type drills and like getting your feet
right and you know obviously the the the
way that they’re throwing the ball in
college now is is different you know we
threw it a lot too but I necessarily
wasn’t as polished as what these dudes
are coming in now but I love it cuz when
I first got in the league and like right
before I got in the league I feel like
there was like two and three guys that
would just continuously dominate every
year it’s a new guy now whether it’s a
rookie or somebody that been in the
league for two three years come out of
the Woodworks you got a guy that maybe
been bouncing around on a couple
practice squads that’ll get some some
burn and he’ll go out there and go for
150 like that that stuff happens more
frequently now than it used to it’s
definitely more of a passing game but as
Max is is loving for sure but it’s uh
absolutely yeah it’s a game man these
these dudes are coming out it’s it’s
every every week you get a new dude and
I mean it used to be you studied Marvin
Harrison Santana Moss like Randy Moss
like well these my guys these guys
that’s those are the guys we were
watching when we were kids I mean I’m a
younger than you but Santan m is a
[ __ ] yeah you caught you caught the
tail in for sure I mean especially with
you being a football guy like I wasn’t
even as immersed in football as I was
until I got like I was I didn’t play
football till my junior year damn the
you had the hoop dream oh yeah that was
that everything I mean I had 10 offers
in in basketball I had I had Fresno
State and San Diego State in in football
so did you think you were about to do a
double I went to Fresno to play both
okay that’s why I went there to do both
and then um just the acclamation period
to school and then football and all that
stuff and not to bore you with this long
story but I didn’t take care of my
academics early in high school the way I
should have so I was playing catchup the
last two years like I was taking eight
classes my Junior and Senior year of of
uh of high school and then when I
graduated high school I had to take a
summer school course to still get into
Fresno State after I graduated so while
they were in training camp I was
literally in t-shirt and jeans on the
sideline waiting for my Clearing House
[ __ ] to go through so that’s why I end
up red shirting that year okay and then
I wasn’t even playing and it was a lot
with school and and all of that [ __ ] and
I want to make sure I didn’t make the
same mistake as I did in high school so
I was like you know what these dudes
already practicing together and hoop and
all that I’m missing that camaraderie
with those dudes you know what I’m going
to just stick to football like this is
what’s going to eventually do it for me
6’1 I’m not you know I grew 5 and a half
inches in eth grade so I thought I was
going to be 69 I’m likeit about have
another one and then I didn’t really
grow again until like my sophomore year
um or yeah that was that’s when it
stopped so I was like football is going
to be where it is so I might as well
just stop and focus on that but hoop is
where it was supposed to be for me
though have you two hoop together yet me
and Max not other than me busting his
ass on the on the one in the the lock
room yeah I think I think he I think you
still owe me like don’t do that at the
new crib like a rack no we got at the
new CRI we got a no we definitely will
we got this mini hoop in the locker room
well you moved over by me now anyway so
yeah perfect perect yeah we had this
mini hoop in there and it just it just I
mean it gets real like one of those
little tiny backb yeah it’s like the
little mini hoop and I mean we we
[ __ ] get after it he gets mad so he
had to you know I bring my European he
does I bring you can break it down for
him if you want to but this is what I
compare it to my wife like I would um we
hop on WE hop on the box right and she
she can’t play Mad or nothing so we I
download Mortal Kombat okay just Buton
Jam Just spamming be just just sitting
there spin kicking the [ __ ]
me that’s him just hook shot after hook
shot all like big man like floaters and
stuff like that mind you I’m like I’m
like shimmy turn like Kobe I’m fading
I’m shooting real I’m really getting
real shots up I’m here I’m shooting he
like just doing a little floater after
floater same shot he does that in hor
and pig bro he’s going down floating and
being stupid I’m Different I bring my
Luca bag to the to the mini hop it [ __ ]
people up you have out the the European
action I wasn’t I wasn’t ready for that
when we first started and then I just
got to knock down a couple behind the
backs off the glass and yes he wants and
this is the craziest thing he wants to
talk about that [ __ ] his immediate go-to
when it’s a close [ __ ] game he for
some reason my shoulders don’t even
allow me to [ __ ] make this shot
because of surgeries and [ __ ] he does a
behind the back shot that banks in every
single time it’s like 90% rate of going
in and it’s literally impossible to make
I can’t even physically do it he gets to
the point where he start literally like
like like flinching at me when I’m doing
it to me off now cuz you already
know like my go and and you got to Fight
Fire with Fire you know L Stevenson B
yeah no legitimately I’ll [ __ ] twitch
right before he shoots or I just what’s
up and just [ __ ] say something in his
ear she like bro get the [ __ ] away from
me I mean if I got the year game he’s
got the behind the back we have to get
him over good competition though and get
a real game going yeah well we played we
shot we uh got to get some shots up I
think it was in uh oh yeah in uh where
was that Dallas pre was that preseason
or was that during the
season that was preseason I think it was
Dallas preseason when we had to work out
in a little public gym or whatever went
in there and then public gym and we had
like a half court that we were playing
was either that or La cuz we went to LA
we did it there that was Dallas it was
Dallas that was Dallas yeah that [ __ ]
was that [ __ ] was fun but yeah I feel
like okay I’ll put you on the spot on
this one um who’s your starting five
Raiders if you had to start a basketball
team with with our current team right
now current
roster um let me see let me see who well
already I know three of them right now
top of my head me you and Co are
instantly in there and I’m trying to
think of people that I don’t cuz I don’t
know I haven’t hooved with anybody so
I’m trying to think of who I know can
play
uh Nate can play Hobs Hobbs can play
Hobs can play he’s like a mini D way he
like a mini D way but like Energizer
Bunny like legitimately he’s not he’s
running the whole game 100 miles hour
all right I’m I don’t think he can
dribble though so I’m going put him at
uh I’m put him I’mma put him at the two
okay I’ll go I’ll go to the three let’s
put coob at the one you at the five and
you know just cuz you going to be the
the big guy and you play everywhere
bring his ass out to the three if you
need to yeah um and and then the four
small let me see somebody we don’t need
nobody else that can score I just need a
big body playing defense facilitat
General out there no we need Co CO’s a
point Co going to run point he got the
vision and and crazy athletic so I’m not
worried about him being able to get us
the ball yeah we need a we need like a
Draymond who Draymond we need like a at
the four you know what I mean like that
glue piece who’s going to hustle get on
the floor can jro play basketball or no
[ __ ] no shot [ __ ] no you guys should
have got tiller trust me J Rob’s got
this left handed know till is hell no he
might be worse than Jrock I don’t think
he physically can shoot for what he’s
big ass who Diablo I’ve never seen him
touch a basketball going be he going to
be smiling too much and [ __ ] out there
growling I need somebody for just going
to be yeah I need like a like a somebody
dirty like grimy in there I’m trying to
think yeah let me think of who you know
what you know who I think and I haven’t
seen him but I guarantee you he can play
basketball probably I’ll say top seven
smoothest people on our team and you
would never guess it we said we sit here
till midnight you wouldn’t guess what
I’m saying top seven smoothest he not
he’s he’s I don’t think he’s ever been
active um offense face
offense
um currently on the roster pass catcher
yes not a receiver K
dob KW might he might be able to but I
don’t know if he’ll play the four I was
going to say Cole fathering him 100%
Cole smooth bro there’s no Kel J that’s
exactly he’s just a less he’s not as not
that Travis is a burner but he’s a
little slower than him but plays exactly
like yes he looks like him he do he
literally is Travis Kelce hidden yeah
just with minus the drip but yeah minus
the drip he is a lot more Lumberjack the
way he moved I feel like he could play
basketball he would have a hook shot in
his yeah Arsenal for sure yeah him the
tight ends are usually they can play
like Jesper like jper is a freak athlete
low he he can hoop he can hoop he
probably can hoop yeah he can hoop yeah
so we’ll interchange we’ll have we’ll
have Jesper or uh or Cole in there and
I’ll say Cole right at the top of my
head cuz I know Cole like he’s so sneaky
like athletic that I think he’d be a
good basketball player yeah I like that
that’s a good lineup yeah I like that
lineup for sure yeah I’ll take that
lineup against anybody with just me and
and Co balone and Nate on defense Nate
is going to be out there Pat Bev
yeah apparently on offense so I need
that he’s downhill yeah he’s downhill
yeah he I see him having three offensive
fouls oh for sure for sure and and at
least I mean I don’t know how many fouls
we given but at probably three on
defense as well but he going to be a
critical player for us 100% how many
times is this [ __ ] goofball fouling
you how many times F I don’t know how
many times he going to foul how many
teex okay how many yeah there we go
Draymond he wanted that Draymond you the
tech the tech is going to come off of a
foul it’s going to be his third he’ll
have three he’ll have three in the game
if real game he’ll have three fouls the
third is he won’t agree with because
it’s going to come right after the
second yes and they GNA say and they
going to say
98 like do something like that what they
do this
yeah Fu right yeah or you going to bang
on somebody and do something just h on
the r just never let go spit at somebody
on the ground Sean kmes out there and
then it’s create some issues and then
I’m going have to have another court
case to deal with be out there fighting
somebody so yeah 100% what uh what are
you looking forward to the most for this
new season um and what direction do you
feel like as a team being both the
leaders here that the the step that the
team needs to take in like that
direction what do you think it is and
just like your
expectations well I don’t have any
expectations but I I do have a standard
that we got to live up to regardless and
we set that so you know we control that
with whoever comes to this building all
the people that are there I mean one
thing I’ll say about the Raiders man is
that even like the moment I stepped
through this building it was way more
competitive than we were in Green Bay
like in Green Bay it was we we were we
were great we had great teams and we
found a way to win but when you talk
about the competitive nature like
there’s a lot more guys that kind of had
the same mentality as uh as Jer had like
when I beat Jer I don’t know if you
heard that story I beat him his first uh
rep at in in in Camp so I missed like
had a hamstring or something and I came
in like day three and we did our first
one1 and I killed them and then you know
this is another rep and we got like
[ __ ] Green Bay we had like 300 fans
watching practice so he didn’t like that
and then when I get into the locker room
I’m usually like one of the like in the
middle pack or something like that he
rushed back to the locker room soon as I
go I’m walking in with my helmet in my
hand I see him like already looking at
the film on his iPad and it was [ __ ]
with him like he’s like could not
believe it so I’m kind of checking him
I’m like what the [ __ ] like is he
watching practice already and then you
know cuz I’m not tripping off that right
away I’m going to go watch it right
before we’re watching it like in there
like in my seat like for the meeting I
got to do all my [ __ ] get my body right
so he watching and he walk over he’s
like hey bro I don’t want to bother you
but like what did you see here what made
you make like attack my inside leg like
that I was like bro you’re like 20 years
old what are you talking about you like
why are you most people just oh the tape
beat me like it is what it is like
that’s what happens this [ __ ]
was thrown off by it like you could tell
he’s not used to that and was not okay
with it and we have a lot of guys in on
this team and even guys like aiek like
when I came in I like that [ __ ]
is going compete and I’m I’m I’m I’m
going get the best of him you know but
he’s going to compete and he showed me
that right away I mean he’ll be this
close like just barely miss the ball
catching and back in end zone game of
inches and he’ll be beating on the
ground he get up and you can just see
that fire not like embarrassed like he’s
almost like f I’m supposed to be stop
him you so when we got guys like that it
makes the conforming to the way that the
top guys do it makes all of that that
much easier it’s not even a lot of
policing you got to do I don’t got to go
yelling at dudes and practice and stuff
like that like like so it makes it easy
it really just comes down to us coming
out starting hot we got a a really good
system on offense now and it’s something
that I’m I’ve very familiar with what I
basically I mean it’s literally the same
verbiage everything it’s the same
Playbook because you know getsy was my
receiver coach and then he he took what
we did in Green Bay over to the Bears
and they didn’t have the best you know
cast to make him look good with that but
it’s a hell of a system so I’m really
comfortable with it so now it’s just
going to come out and and starting fast
man like we won that first game last
year but just establishing who we are in
that first quarter of the year and
obviously starts with a whole lot of
other work before that in you know OTAs
and through our training camp but just
coming in and and competing man
everybody just taking it upon themselves
and and saying that this [ __ ] means the
world to me like cuz that’s that’s why
you see the results you do from us on
the on the field out there is cu it
means that [ __ ] much to us like and
that’s really what it comes down to
you’re going to get better and you’ll be
the player that you want to be um you
know realistically want to be not
everybody’s going to be all pro but but
you’ll be the player you want to be if
you put enough into it and and do the
right thing enough and um I think that’s
where we headed hell yeah 100% 100% all
right we’re going to hit you with the
our new segment we call this the mount
Rush obviously we’re on the rush podcast
um we’re going to ask you who’s your
Mount Rushmore of uh wide receivers all
time and Mount Rushmore is four right
you got four yeah four yeah
four four do you love doing this
how many times you get ass this a lot
all right no I’ll do it I’ll do it I got
greatest catch ever top four greatest
catches you I’ll do both I’ll do
both you talking that you’ve seen okay
um and you can be in there yeah uh have
to
be I would say which one you want to do
first the catches or the or the or the
rush let’s do catches catches in no
order you got to put odells in there one
one one that really slipped between the
cracks man that kind of pissed me off
was uh George Pickins one-hander oh my
God not that I mean people talked about
it but it didn’t do what Odell’s did
like you know what I mean it didn’t do
numbers like that
like that [ __ ]
was bro so I say with the Shon yeah I
would say O’s I would say George’s I’mma
squeeze mine in from the from the ners
game oh my God my first year here that
was the craziest catch I’m saying bro I
was running down when STM threw me that
gold ball it wasn’t as memorable and it
wasn’t I don’t even know if it was uh
prime time but it’s definitely one of my
better ones cuz it was just the epitome
of just falling in love with the
football that’s like my my my um Mentor
receiver coach and everything from
Fresno State that’s one thing he taught
me just fall in love with the football
you see it so you don’t ever see me
really pushing guys and like like I
don’t really get a lot of OPI I think I
got like three in my career because when
that ball’s in the air that’s all that
matters and if I’m running to get the
ball and I’m pushing you and doing all
that [ __ ] imagine if I said you had to
juggle while you trying to catch the
ball like why the [ __ ] would you want to
do anything else you want to go just get
the football right so in my mind when
the ball’s in the air I’m just falling
in love with that and getting to it
regardless and I got this guy there and
he was in a bad position I I kind of
went a little too wide stood him through
it on the inside I swam him and went
back inside and then caught it Niner
fans was pissed saying the ball hit the
ground but I’m not the ref I just make I
just made
catch that [ __ ] was silly bro they
didn’t like it that [ __ ] was silly but
yeah I’ll put that one in there and then
and if there was one
more um you know what I’mma put I’m
I’mma keep it with some with the with
the young P I’m going to go back to
Justin Jefferson’s catch against the
bills bills he went up one hand I think
it was fourth and 18 that [ __ ] was crazy
they heed it to the [ __ ] Moon threw
that [ __ ] he ran like a like a some sort
of like Corner route or something and
threw it up and it was in between like
two three people that’s one that’s
another thing about Justin that people
don’t talk about enough is his ability
to catch the ball it’s not always
one-handed like that it don’t always
look PL Odell catch radius and the
amount of balls that he’s dropped I
would love to see a stat of that because
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one with my
own eyes yeah like d catches the ball
great so I’ll probably put those for as
the as the top catches and then top four
receivers we got Randy is the the
greatest oh uh you got Jerry Rice
yeah this R is real those two
are yes nobody you can’t say anything
about those um you guys I hope you say
somebody but just keep going with your
we’ll talk about that later
um if I’m only doing four man I got to
say Calvin yes just and I gotta
say I’m g go to to cold he slept on I’m
going go to to to had some drops and
character issues that people try to like
put and act like you know but when you
talk about I mean played a long time and
he was dominating for so [ __ ] long
you look at his numbers he’s like top
three in every [ __ ] category nobody
talk like they talk about Randy every
single time nobody even brings up T I’m
like his numbers are un you got to talk
about did Super Bowl bro broken anle
broken leg talk about what he did in
Cincinnati bro he was still Bing he was
like 30 something and out there cooking
bro that [ __ ] crazy to me pretty sure he
can still run like a decent he just race
Tyreek like a year ago or yes in his 40s
I’m not racing Tyreek bro like no he he
thought he should race Tyreek crazy I’m
not I don’t think I should race tyreq oh
hell no that’s a different level of
confidence that’s it’s almost concerning
that’s crazy yeah that’s what you’re
saying that’s that’s I mean that’s an
elite Mount Rushmore though yeah Calvin
like I just W I want to he the one that
I wish I would have saw play for 15 just
so I can see what the numbers would have
been cuz Jerry played until he was
[ __ ] 42 bro like that his numbers
would never get touched like it’s
impossible
unless like literally they just start
bringing in all white corners or
something for
real it’s real I’m playing
I’m that is a thing though I don’t know
if yall heard have you heard of the milk
check that’s a that’s a real thing you
get out there yeah you got you got one
on you scream that to the quarterback
you let him know how many times have you
done
it that’s like an old school thing but
yeah I didn’t it’s like playing a hoops
and you got the white kid that’s
guarding you and he’s like oh clear them
out CLE out clear them out might run in
some trouble with that though I used to
be the guy they would say that to and
I’m like [ __ ] you let’s go let’s go
especially if you see a white dude on an
all black team like that’s the your
antenna should be going up there for a
reason this is this is not a uh it’s not
a normal situation I should not be
sleeping here no not that white people
can’t play football or basketball like
they for I mean I just there’s not very
many at corner at least that not going
to hurt my feelings it’s okay there’s no
white
what do you mean there a lot of good
white corns there literally you can’t
even count them on one hand there’s none
there’s not one I was coming got to do
come out the first round apparently is a
white DB white no he’s a white Corner
white corner there’s white safeties
that’s a whole different thing but there
is not one starting white corner and now
there’s the Iowa kid but he’s a freak
though I looked up like his basketball
highlights and [ __ ] in high school he
was like an allamerican in high school
both Sports freakish and he’s a punt
returner kick returner like yeah yeah
he’s like that but we’ll see well I
haven’t played against once so I hope I
see him next year he got a milk check
send his ass over to uh the Chargers
yeah facts send them over there Broncos
Chargers and us whes can swing the clubs
you know fairly decent so you know
whenever you’re bored you need another
player out there let us know over there
at Summit see that is that is that now
you making more sense that makes sense
that’s why I’m here table tennis I got
you trying to get him to pick it up he
needs start se he like he just becomes
too obsessed with okay that’s his thing
that’s the thing like if I think if he
really started golfing bro it’s so
frustrating he’s so well yeah but he’s
the type of dude that’s determined
enough like he’s the one that it will
pull in and it’ll be over and he’ll be
like we going to be mid season next year
he going to be like bro I’m done playing
football yeah I’m going be like bro you
you can’t do that be like bro I’m in
love with golf I can’t I can’t it’s the
most huming I only know one way to
attack playing a sport or everything
that we know that works like power
explosiv does not it works against you
it works completely against you bro and
it took me until really like I got to
Vegas to understand that like I didn’t
even understand the the science of a
golf golf club as far as like having
your hands in front like shling and all
this stuff you probably even never heard
those terms before he just heard the
word shaft that’s all he he yeah we know
we talking about different shaft this
this one is a KBS tour it’s
not I tell him but he he wants to wait
till he’s done playing I’m like just get
a little lessons I’ll give you a free
tutorial right now but go out there
learn a little bit so then when you get
to that point bro I trust me I send you
the videos I got a lot of work to do but
I went on the course and I actually
learned how to hit the ball and I was
like Smack That D I’m starting to become
addicted I was supposed to shoot a
commercial and this guy’s like hey I got
some experience I’m going help you out
like make you look great on the thing
yeah I end up being there like two more
hours than I was supposed to cuz I was
on the [ __ ] the hitting range I
started hitting I’m like bro I’ve never
been able to hit a golf ball I’ll go to
Top Golf and embarrass myself it’s like
just keep your head straight down relax
your shoulders don’t bend your front
knee in blah blah blah I [ __ ] hit
this ball and it went to the moon first
time and I’m like that’s all you need
and you’re and now I’m chasing him but I
know when I’m done like towards the end
like understand this I’m going to get
into it bro that feeling you have of
being frustrated and not being able to
get the ball in the air and all that
[ __ ] that doesn’t go away that [ __ ] just
I’m working with with but Butch Harmon
over at you know tiger Old Coach I’m
working with them over at Butch Harman
School golf with his guy John right now
and he said this [ __ ] to me the other
day he was like cuz I’m like bro I need
you I finally came to you to get real
lessons like I you know I shot 78 at
Shadow and then I went the next day shot
87 there and I was just like I’m tired
of these inconsistencies of sing like
that driver was not in play like almost
all day I’m like [ __ ] hitting it off
the hill so I’m like I need you to give
me a swing that I can just depend on
forever he said that will never happen
he’s like you you never own a golf swing
you lease your golf swing for the rest
of your life and you’ll be able to tweak
it like it won’t be it won’t go back to
like how you were you know when you
first started but like as you get better
that’s the [ __ ] up part about golf
your expectations you can’t control it
you just you [ __ ] go shoot 78 and
then 87 I should be happy with that the
next day after you do that like the more
success you have in golf the more you
[ __ ] yourself seriously because now you
start comparing it to that and that’s
why it’s the greatest game cuz you can
just sit there and Chase it forever like
you know and it’s football is the
greatest team sport but individual sport
it’s not even close you play to you I
mean I just saw a Tik Tok as dude my
wife sent me Tik toks I don’t be on Tik
Tok I’m the same way I don’t I don’t
have one
but on the Tik Tok dancing that’ll be
[ __ ] sick this dude just [ __ ] he
just played his last round of golf he
like is in the hospital now he’s 98 damn
I’m like BR can play golf until I’m 90
bro play Forever crazy you could
literally play forever right I I can
barely play till I’m 28 in football and
before they say you
trash and this [ __ ] playing for
another 70 years bro all right he’s
pushing a 100 he’s out there swinging
that [ __ ] thing swinging his Club 20
yards but straight straight straight as
hell straight line hey we’re going to
come out with the camera we’re going to
ride around get a little 2v2 well
somebody will I’ll take M figure let me
get my [ __ ] right and we’ll make that
give give him two two two a hole Yeah
100% no doubt that’s what that’s what
handicaps give him that it that that is
the craziest thing how like spot-on
handicaps are like if you actually track
it and everything you could I could play
with you I could play with you and you
if we’re all on on top of a handicap
it’ll be a close
exactly best like I play the dopest part
about living in Vegas obviously the is
the weather the lot of [ __ ] to do but
it’s the the people that I’ve been able
to meet out here K more cow lives like
four houses down so we [ __ ] play this
[ __ ] hit a hole in one with me
like you really get to see like how good
these dudes are bro it’s so and it’s so
much different like my good day my good
shots like we’ve all hit shots really
close by the pin but watching them Ho by
hole do that [ __ ] bro it’s like a whole
different thing
prac right way I I’ll get there like I
I’ll get somewhere not around that but
I’ll get somewhere in a place where I’ll
be happy with my game was his emotion
like what you expected was he geeked
about it or is it like another great
[ __ ] another great question man
because going into it so I asked this
dude we get on four we at Shadow creep I
get on four and I was like bro I ordered
myself a nice cocktail like 10:00 a.m.
but why I’m on vacation it’s offseason
so I got a I got a little I got a little
uh KAS Amigos Reposado of course in
lemonade so I’m sitting there and I’m
like I’m shaking I’m like do do golfers
like Pro Golf do you ever drink like on
the course like just for fun he was like
not really like sometime if I go to like
Mexico we’ll go out there we’ll like get
really hammered and golf or like
whatever you know like a completely fun
round or like you know somebody hits a
hole in one or some [ __ ] this
[ __ ] a hole in one on the T box
at the next shot hits it and then I was
I was wondering my mind like how’s he
going to react so soon as it go first of
all he addresses the ball at the t- boox
he has two clubs up there he’s getting
ready to hit the ball throws the club
back down he’s like I’m going fade it
I’m like you change clubs because you’re
going to fade it versus draw the shot
okay so he hits a fade up there it hits
right over the top of the green and just
tracks like a putt and goes in the hole
like not like and go in like nice like
he putted like a like a 8ot putt and
then literally as soon as he hit it he
just goes looked at me like that and we
just ran at each other and did like a
football and I was and I told him we was
going to the green I was like bro I’m so
happy you responded like that and he was
he had hit one like I guess like a month
or two before that on 17 before so he he
was juice and I’ve seen dudes on tour
knock one in and there life
yeah yeah just I’m like bro if you don’t
want run down there
whate I do it for you when he went and
like chest bumped me I was like okay
this that makes me like him more yeah
he’s lit he’s human I love it Daren you
want to hit him all right yeah we got uh
we got Rush mail so we have the Condor
cartel they’ll submit some uh questions
for our guests so we got probably like 5
six for you okay
um ier aosta says best AP memory that
you
have um well I mean that that one is
really easy for me
um I would have to say it was during our
Kumbaya man we we got up there and and
you know I think it started with Josh
Jacobs went first then I think Max
hopped up there second then I think
jacobe went there I went after jacobe I
had to had to and then um another story
yeah next next
episode details all time but um but yeah
AP was probably like six or seven a lot
of people went up there so it started
getting a little bit you know monotonous
cuz dudes were just like kind of saying
the same thing a little bit after time I
think after I win it kind of was like
that was like the big like Peak
emotional part of it um because all the
trade [ __ ] but then AP got up there and
I had really heard him like talk like
that and he got up like fear free saying
like everything and I and unfortunately
I can’t you know know disclose exactly
what he was saying but just gave us the
realest version of him and you know
spoke directly and vividly to Josh and
respectfully of course but just gave us
a lot of like restored some confidence
in ourselves and something to do moving
forward you know we getting ready to go
into another game so we needed that and
then just kind of let us know what he
was all about man and and that gave me a
certain like I can get behind this dude
and I wasn’t in my mind thinking he’s
going to be in the interim you know when
it would go pause but I I can uh I can I
can definitely uh I can definitely [ __ ]
with ap because he’s the type of dude
he’s a standup dude not afraid to say
you know tell it like it is and and
he’ll he’ll get up there and and
empowering his players too that’s the
biggest part that I that I love man
anytime you can get up there and not be
afraid to say Tay I need you today let’s
go I need I want to see [ __ ] our
superheroes Max Tay put your [ __ ]
cape on like he’ll say some [ __ ] like
that and to the right guys man that [ __ ]
get you going bro like that’s all you
need yeah like like you sometimes you
sit there and just generalize and and
and not be specific about what you need
and who you need you we don’t need that
in order to get going but you [ __ ]
tell the team and put that type of
pressure on me like that’s what I that’s
what I want moving forward and and I
need that I think that that that helps
you know great players you know tap into
something even more great so having just
just some of those words and and kind of
learning him a little bit better that
day at a Kumbaya that’s where I would
I’ll say that that’s that was my
favorite memory of him uh Russell banson
his [ __ ] names they take me for a
trip uh outside of football who your
hero and
why my hero
mhm
um I don’t know if I’ve ever crowned
anybody my hero but I would say I I have
some very influential people you know
obviously my pops my I told you a little
bit about my receiver coach from Fresno
State he’s had a lot to do I mean
probably like at least half to do with
what’s happened with me shaping my
mental um you know the the ins and outs
he had he believed in me and gave me the
scholarship you know when I had a 1.9 C
GPA and and gave me that saying like you
know if it does if we don’t if you don’t
get this we lose this SC but I believe
in you so that kind of gave me that was
kind of like the empowerment thing like
gave me a little bit more juice to dig
deeper and then have a a 3 3.2 3.3 GPA
those those last years and clearly it
wasn’t about me not being smart enough
it was just about the you know the
application and that was 2.3 need that
big time 2.3 here
too down Bing on the I mean but but you
you was on the field I was about to not
be on on the field messing around with
what I was doing so on the court at that
point so yeah cool uh last one uh hunch
ofm uh what’s your most memorable moment
of your career [ __ ] far I don’t know
all right that sound like some
gang Chicago on phon yeah uh my my most
memorable moment yeah what’s your most
memorable moment in your
career uh
uh I would
say unfortunately my most memorable
moment is probably my rookie year when
we were up double digit uh points going
I think it was 11 or 11 or 15 it was one
of those going into last five minutes of
the game NFC Championship game thinking
I’m about to play in my first Super Bowl
of my first year and I’m like damn this
is easy [ __ ] so we just about to go to
the bowl like like out the G and then
just having a rug just pull from
underneath us at the last minute with a
few unfortunate things couple
self-inflicted as a team um wounds there
but that that one took the air out of me
and then you know I haven’t I’ve been to
four NFC championship games and and
haven’t gotten there so it’s right now
it’s like a mythical thing to me right
now Super Bowl so um hopefully that that
can change in the near future but that
game thinking that I was set up I mean
we were on the sideline like basically
standing up on the bench like telling
them go home and [ __ ] like that not me
personally but that was the the team you
know so we were like it’s over like
shoulder orer shoulder straps unhooked
and [ __ ] ready to go I’m I’m we out of
here like we we about to go to the boow
like I’m thinking like you know what
what should I get these cleats made me I
got to look fresh for the day and then
they just came and snatched it from us
so that’s probably the most memorable
thing I think about cuz until I win a
Super Bowl that one is kind of just
sitting on the front of my mind and it’s
it’s kind of feeding a little bit for me
too you know it giv me a little bit more
hunger to to want to get one so it’s
it’s bad and good I guess I feel that oh
yeah cool that’s all we got for The Rush
M hell yeah fans we appreciate you keep
sending the questions in obviously um
Devonte you’re my brother we appreciate
you coming on bro uh we definitely
probably going to do it again at some
point but uh it’s family bro we
appreciate you you’re only inspiring
more and more people every day bro you
inspired me second you got into the
locker room you’re going to keep doing
the chain you know exchange every
Christmas year family is family so uh we
appreciate you brother absolutely we’ll
have you on soon yes sir thank you
brother hell
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