December 7, 2021 • 22 mins
Former Pro Bowl RB Jamaal Charles is Catchin’ Fades with Aqib Talib this week. Aqib and Jamaal talk about some of the best RB’s in Texas history, playing with Vince Young, and the growth of the Chiefs under Andy Reid.
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We got on a full time pro Bowl or two
times All Pro one of my favorite running backs of
(01:29):
all time. Tomorrow, Charles's up, baby? What's up? Team Man
being on the show again. Oh yeah for shau. See,
last time we didn't really hit on We didn't really
hit on your stuff. We just kind of talked super Bowl,
you know what I'm saying. So you do not have
to get you back on, get you back on and
talk talk about two you feel me? Yeah, But so
let's start that freshman year though. Let's start with that
(01:49):
dope ass freshman you had. Man. You had thousand yards
thirteen touchdowns. Man, talk about that year. Man. Then y'all
knocked off the Goliaths, know what I'm saying, y'all knocked
off them boys from Cali and that uh and that
Rose Bowl Man. Talk about that season. Oh my freshman
year man the University of Texas. Man. Uh, I was
going in and really my thing was just I wanted
(02:11):
to go to the school that was gonna play me
right away, right. I didn't know I was gonna have
an opportunity to play because I had Ramon's Taylor and
seven young so several young went down and they didn't
know what type of type of talent I had. They
you know, they had a guy because the year before
they had Adrian Peterson come in and then and then
when I came in, they didn't know what to expect.
(02:31):
But when they saw me play, that was like, man,
this was really good. He's fat. Keep getting him the ball,
run h B Why. I just kept like every time
I go in the game, and said, Jake brun task
and I'm handing the ball. So after that I just
took over. And you know Seaver went down, injuries happened.
I just try to take over. Man. Then every time
I go in the game, I just try to make
(02:52):
a difference. Yell. Yeah. When when guys come in have
a have a freshman year like that, they showed like
I'm in a big twelve could play in this kind
of football that quick right, you started thinking like if
it was possible, you might have you might have went
to the league after being one and done, Like if
if we could do that like basketball, you think you
think the NFL should let guys do that be one
(03:13):
and done? Uh? I think certain people got that talent
where they can be one and done, you know, in
certainly not everybody had that potential. You know you can
you know when you see certain people that can have
that right, that one that one year effect, like oh
he's going to be good at the next level as well.
So I think UH in a period of time. Because
(03:35):
I said, real, real talk, it's hard to let somebody
to go from the league to UH to the league
from from from the NFL because you're planning against grown man,
right you definitely definitely are. You know these man is
hitting different hitting this a job. I'm saying, ain't there
(03:58):
no games being played? Injuries? Not the injuries? No more
injuries is way the Remember one time I got hit
in the NFL. I heard something between my my foot.
I'm like, what this is it? I ain't know what
it's different. I say, it would be hard to let
a guy from from college to go to the NFL
because it just I just think that it comes with
(04:22):
a lot of maturity too. Yeah, and yeah, you gotta
let your body, you gotta let your body really develop.
You gotta you gotta have that grown man body when
you're going to leave. But some guys those some guys
what I'm saying, they can do it. Some guys do it.
So I say the same thing, though many three years
might be kind of a lot, But I mean I
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think I think they should make it two years. They
should make it. You gotta be in college two years
and then that third year you could do something. Man,
talk about talk about talk about having events, Ben says
your QB. Man, how impact was he to that team?
Was the vibe like on up his man when y'all
when y'all had that thing rolling man having v y
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on the team. Man, it was like I was one
of the greatest player I ever played with, one of
the most uncomming on calm person. I played with no pressure.
He really didn't let no pressure get to him. And
we can be down twenty points. He's still joking around,
playing around like it wasn't right now, man, jumping around
like keep it. He the most google is player. He doesn't.
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He don't take no sense of wast and so serious
like you know certain people take we can lose. You
got one of the royal row players on the team. Man, mane,
I need to step it up and suck it up.
He was never that type of person. Man. He was
always coming around, put his finger in your ear and
like bro, no, like we got the latest drop. Uh.
He was so calmer is to deal with a natural
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beast man like he can throw the ball, run the ball,
like the way he can stretch the field with his legs. Um.
It was amazing that playing with a guy like Events
man because he had he opened up. He had so
much people looking at him when he had the ball,
so they took He took a lot of pressure on
me when I had the ball right right both ways.
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So I remember we played against y'all one time. I
don't know if you remember the man. He was just
so in control of the game and y'all torture like
seasty something. I don't know. I had that left side
under control like that, na no, but real I left
the game like man, he just was so in control
of the game. He only ran like five times, but
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he had like eight yards like he picked in twoes
when he wanted to run. He made great throws. Man.
I left that game with a lot more respect for
Events after after we played him, because we're going into
the game like b he can't he can't even throw
like that. He can't play him. I left the game like, hey,
v wy the truth man, he the truth y'all had
y'all had some dog gays running backs. Uh, come through
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Texas to man, so you know Sagre Benson, Uh uh
Dante for him and Earl Campbell, Ricky Williams yourself. Will
you rank yourself among all them cold As Texas running backs? Uh? Definitely,
I would play respect to the to the ledgends before me, Man,
I mean Earl and Uh and Rickman, It's hard to
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kind of judge us in the skills, boy, because my
skills and they skills said said be they was more
powerful back. You know, I was more elusive and quickness,
So I mean, uh and power ranking and you're running
people over I'm glass man like, nah, we're talk about
running ball over the over time about period, we're talking
about towing the row you talking about you say, Earl
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Ricky in front then so you third your third when
they come of the Texas running back. I feel like, Man,
I had to play with respect man. I'm I'm I'm
for it man. You know what I'm saying. I played
respect with Man said, I mean rick you know Earl
and said and said be Did you put yourself man?
(08:01):
I had to Yeah, I had to play honors to
the respect to my people in front of me that
paid back to me that I feel that. I feel
that all right, So then you go, uh third round
to the chiefs. I'm saying you had another legendary running
back in front of you, Larry Johnson. What you learned
from Larry when you first got to leave, How good
of a mentor he was for you? I mean Larry
(08:26):
was more like we're hanging with Larry's more like party man.
It was, you know what I'm saying. He was really
more hanging out club and going out like it wasn't
really like mentor me like underneeding Wings is more like,
hey man, let's go to the club. That's like I got.
I got a lot of vibe. Uh ll learning stuff
like that when I when I met Tomma Jones, you know,
(08:47):
I knew he was a legend, but I mean the
way he approached the game, take care of taking care
of his body. Uh, we just stayed long. I was
studying film, studying, uh, running through run tapes, running through
blitz tapes. And that's why I have started taking my
game to the next level. That's that's that's one hundred.
You know what I'm saying Now, I did. We did
used to go to Larry Johnson house and watched a film.
(09:08):
But I mean after the film, he used to go
to the club. Yeah. So Thomas Jones or Thomas Jones
was kind of that mentor who kind of he was
because all of us got a guy in the league
who kind of showed us the rope to kind of
shoulders like this ain't college no more. Thomas Jones with
that guy for you. Yeah, Tom Jones was definitely that
guy for me. Man. He brought me in his own house,
he took me place mate. Yeah, he was like a
(09:31):
big brother man. He basically pay Homas to me, wanted
me to be successful. And I saw that and I'm like,
dang man, he like, you know, I can be the
next man up taking his job. But this guy here
really playing respect for me, just just showing me the
ropes to how I supposed to be a jackal. That's
what's up. Because Ronde Barbour was my Thomas Jones. You
know what I'm saying. He snatched me under his wing,
(09:53):
showed me the ropes, made sure I did my rookie
due diligence and all that. Man. So so anytime somebody
asked me, I always say RANDI, uh so, when when
you think the game started to really when you start
to think, when you think the game started to slow
down for you? And you was like, man, I'm gonna
beat Jamaal Charles in this league because I mean, so
you had five thousand yards seasons in the row and
(10:14):
not too long after you got it, I think you
had a thousand in your second year. What I'm saying,
so we need to start to slow down for you.
It was after that second game when I got bitch,
you know what I'm saying, Like bench, we were putting
me in the audience that they put me in a box.
They put me in a box. Man. It was the
Raiders game, and I feel like I could have helped him.
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But you know what I'm saying when that the coaches
feel like I wasn't the player that they that I
was brought it in to be that player for the program,
for the organization, and they just put me in a box.
And I'm like, dang, man, and my heart would just hurt, man,
because it was just hurt because I wasn't on the
field plan with the people. I came in with him,
hurting him in the stands. I can't do nothing, and
(10:57):
I'm like, and this can be my last you know
what can be this? I love playing football and I
don't want to stop playing for this could be my
last chance even touching the field again. So the next
week I just came in, you know what, man, I
just went all went hard, man, I went they put
me on scout team. I'm I'm I'm just throwing the defense.
(11:17):
I'm I'm killing the defense on the scout team. You
want to bench me? You know that's my mind. So
I'm about to do I'm about everybody hot, So I'm
running everybody hot and like damn man, dang. So they're
seeing me like killing right now. And that's when it's
like the next week kind of LJ got in the trouble,
and that's when I'm like, you know what, I'm about
to take the game in the next level, man. And
(11:39):
that's when it really when the game was about to
be taken from me. That's why, that's when it really
was about that. That's when it really opened and sold
my eyes and it starts slowing down for me. Yeah, Yeah,
that's what up. Sometimes it take that, you know what
I'm saying, for the game almost be gone for them
to put you on the bench, or for people to
lose that trust. See what I'm saying that it breaks
some people ship that ship franks some people up. Man.
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in the league. You had a nice little league. Man
you played, You played for some some great coaches, herm Elwars,
Tod Haley, Andy reid Who's your favorite coach man? And
why you say that? I definitely will have to say
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coach Andy reid Man. He was just Uh Why I
say that? Because the way he approaches players and the
way he gives his his players the opportunity to make plays,
and the way he uh detail his playbook as well. Yeah,
I never had nobody detail they playbook like that. Callaed
Andy reid Man. He's a great person man. He used
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to come give me out the random back groom, a
J I got these offensive plays for you. We got
five plays, which one you like? Like my damn? He said,
I feel this is enough for you. You know what
I'm saying, Like I got out the most. This isn't that.
So he kind of like showed me you know what
I'm saying, Like he wanted to take my game in
the next level, and I was like, man, nobody really
(15:18):
ever another coach. Brother never saw that pretension I had
in me catching the ball out. I feel like that
that's what that's what's up? You called? You caught the
back end Andy Andy a little run and and and uh,
Casey what you come back going real quickly? You caught
the back end the Andy Reid run and Casey, So
you kind of caught the little transition. But when he
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came in and him being a person he was, did
you feel like he was gonna have to have a
run like he hadn't right now? Oh yeah, I feel
like you know what I'm saying. What all he needed
was some more pieces on our on our offense, our quarterback.
I knew when I knew Kesse was gonna be a dog.
I was there when uh Tyreek Tyreek was special kid too.
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I just feel like Coach Read just needed like a defense.
We really and they have that defense. We all had.
We had a good off we just never had that defense. World. Uh,
when we can stay continue consistent on defense, we can
win games with defense. But no defense giving up like
fifty fifty or forty thirty points a game. I'm like, man,
and we had to score a lot. It was hard
(16:22):
to compeat like that. Yeah, it's it's always gonna be
hard to compete like that. But Andy definitely got that
thing rolling rolling right now, man, go ahead, Because when
they got when they had got to uh, when they
changed defense the coordinator, that's when they started on success.
They started. They started, they started getting that ball and
(16:42):
turned over. Bro. They still give up, they still give
up yards and stuff, but they get out in that
red zone and they take the ball away. Man. That's why,
that's why the Chiefs to win games. If you get
my homes and extra possessions, he's gonna make you pay. Also,
was that was just the quarterback. You know, Alex was good.
He could not he did not have managed to manage game.
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But you know what I'm saying, he wasn't gonna take
a risk though like that. He was gonna check down
the ball or you know what I said, I run
that thing. It's gonna be more of a low scoring,
low scoring grind kind of game. Trust me, I know
all about it. We was Look that's what I was
going to get, said k c Big Alex Smith. It
was good though. Used to win games. Now I used
to win some games. Now Alex don't win some game
(17:25):
if it wasn't me breaking out long runs doing my thing,
we're gonna we're gonna do all right. If he gonna
drop that thing down to me trying to make a screenplay,
or he gonna drop it down, somebody else will get
another two yard. We used to. We used to make
them go up the field making chuck changes if it
wasn't a long run or a long past, because we
wasn't really throwing a ball that long, right right right,
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So let's get to nine days backs? Man? Who you like?
Who you who? Your five backs? You like? Uh? In
the league? Right now? Hold on if you're saying that,
If you're saying them, hold on, hold on, start off
your froze again, like Darren Henry human all here you go,
let's go. I said, I like uh Africanmaron, Darren Henry,
(18:11):
uh cook um also like uh Swift from the Detroit
Um and also my filth back is uh. He had
to go with H. I don't know his name, but
he got a Baltimore Young Cat number twenty seven or
(18:36):
to seven. Uh damn. I just he just is only
NFL Network of the Day. What's it? What's his name?
J K Dobbins, JK dobb JK Dobbin. Do see that's
a different file. See usually you hear the big names.
I'm saying your file. You got Swift in there. I
liked Swift. I called it. I called it last game.
I've seen Swift in person. Hey, he got busy the game.
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I called to tell me he's gonna have a He
gonna have a nice year this year. They're gonna they
got a good ass ole line in Detroit. They're gonna
lean on Swift too, So he's gonna make a name
for himself this year. Jack different. Top five, it's different,
it's different. And then but it makes sense, though, you
got two young goons in there, and you're top five,
So you know what I'm saying. They might if people
(19:20):
might look at it like this, they might frow on
the point and out. But wait, after the season, they're
gonna be like, Okay, they're gonna see. You know, I
have to have Chub in mind, So I gotta put
Chub in my top five. And I got them two
young boys out. I added Chubb and McCaffrey and then
the other dress you feel. But I like cho Yeah,
(19:41):
I like Chub too. Yeah, Chubb a beast, but he's
going crazy Ub. I like Chub with uh. I like
Chubb and africaar and uh let me do that Derren
Henry and Swift and Swift I got get his name
that stuff and yeah, yeah, I like it. What I'm saying,
(20:02):
it makes sense. It may, it may, it makes sense.
It's hard. It's only five spots though. Yeah, it's hard
to squeeze on them backs in the fist, I'll be
trying to disrespect, no bats man, I don't know. Everybody
got a different, different, bring different, something different to the game.
But they know it's all up, man, They know it's
all love. Baby. We didn't already put our time in. Baby.
(20:22):
We could talk about it's hard. We didn't already put
our time and we can talk about it, man, they
know what time of it. But all right, so we
see you still be linking with them Texas guys, y'all
be on the two K and on the matting and
all that. Right, is it? Anybody is anybody you ain't?
You ain't playing yet on the game. Were you're trying
to look at. Uh you're talking about like you playing. Yeah,
(20:50):
we gotta got the bad lead. Y'all got a little
bit all the Texas guys. Yeah yeah, we got the
Texas guy. You got some lead guys. Man, anybody want
to get in you know what I'm saying. Just just
hit me up on five Star. So you're gonna go
pro on the E Sports next? I mean, if it's
(21:11):
it's a possibility. I'm not trying to go pro. I'm
trying to own me a team. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's that. See that's going pro. You're a professing sports owner. Now,
it was it was somebody on the it was somebody
on the Rams. Uh damn, I can't remember who it was.
But he already had a ProTeam. Yeah, yeah, all that
(21:33):
that's what's up. Yeah you got me hit you he
got uh fortnight. Oh you know, so you know what
I'm talking about. You're talking about No, you're talking about
it's alignment right now. No, I know you're talking about
alignment place for the round. I know you're talking about
(21:55):
he might be on the Titan. I can't remember who
it was. He got the college duty team or yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you gotta put me on that. Man. I need to
know more about that. Man. What I'm saying ye, Man, Yeah,
you would like it. Man, it's just more. It's just something,
just a chill man, really relaxed. Man. I used to
(22:16):
use free time. Yeah, and that's what suck. But I
ain't gonna hold you baby, Gonna finish that rehab. Man,
gonna do your thing. Man, I appreciate you. Stay up
on the podcast, man, get up. You already know. Appreciate it, brother,
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West Virginia. Catch your phase. I keep to leave here. Man.
We got on a full time pro Bowl or two
times All Pro one of my favorite running backs of
(01:29):
all time. Tomorrow, Charles's up, baby? What's up? Team Man
being on the show again. Oh yeah for shau. See,
last time we didn't really hit on We didn't really
hit on your stuff. We just kind of talked super Bowl,
you know what I'm saying. So you do not have
to get you back on, get you back on and
talk talk about two you feel me? Yeah, But so
let's start that freshman year though. Let's start with that
(01:49):
dope ass freshman you had. Man. You had thousand yards
thirteen touchdowns. Man, talk about that year. Man. Then y'all
knocked off the Goliaths, know what I'm saying, y'all knocked
off them boys from Cali and that uh and that
Rose Bowl Man. Talk about that season. Oh my freshman
year man the University of Texas. Man. Uh, I was
going in and really my thing was just I wanted
(02:11):
to go to the school that was gonna play me
right away, right. I didn't know I was gonna have
an opportunity to play because I had Ramon's Taylor and
seven young so several young went down and they didn't
know what type of type of talent I had. They
you know, they had a guy because the year before
they had Adrian Peterson come in and then and then
when I came in, they didn't know what to expect.
(02:31):
But when they saw me play, that was like, man,
this was really good. He's fat. Keep getting him the ball,
run h B Why. I just kept like every time
I go in the game, and said, Jake brun task
and I'm handing the ball. So after that I just
took over. And you know Seaver went down, injuries happened.
I just try to take over. Man. Then every time
I go in the game, I just try to make
(02:52):
a difference. Yell. Yeah. When when guys come in have
a have a freshman year like that, they showed like
I'm in a big twelve could play in this kind
of football that quick right, you started thinking like if
it was possible, you might have you might have went
to the league after being one and done, Like if
if we could do that like basketball, you think you
think the NFL should let guys do that be one
(03:13):
and done? Uh? I think certain people got that talent
where they can be one and done, you know, in
certainly not everybody had that potential. You know you can
you know when you see certain people that can have
that right, that one that one year effect, like oh
he's going to be good at the next level as well.
So I think UH in a period of time. Because
(03:35):
I said, real, real talk, it's hard to let somebody
to go from the league to UH to the league
from from from the NFL because you're planning against grown man,
right you definitely definitely are. You know these man is
hitting different hitting this a job. I'm saying, ain't there
(03:58):
no games being played? Injuries? Not the injuries? No more
injuries is way the Remember one time I got hit
in the NFL. I heard something between my my foot.
I'm like, what this is it? I ain't know what
it's different. I say, it would be hard to let
a guy from from college to go to the NFL
because it just I just think that it comes with
(04:22):
a lot of maturity too. Yeah, and yeah, you gotta
let your body, you gotta let your body really develop.
You gotta you gotta have that grown man body when
you're going to leave. But some guys those some guys
what I'm saying, they can do it. Some guys do it.
So I say the same thing, though many three years
might be kind of a lot, But I mean I
(04:43):
think I think they should make it two years. They
should make it. You gotta be in college two years
and then that third year you could do something. Man,
talk about talk about talk about having events, Ben says
your QB. Man, how impact was he to that team?
Was the vibe like on up his man when y'all
when y'all had that thing rolling man having v y
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on the team. Man, it was like I was one
of the greatest player I ever played with, one of
the most uncomming on calm person. I played with no pressure.
He really didn't let no pressure get to him. And
we can be down twenty points. He's still joking around,
playing around like it wasn't right now, man, jumping around
like keep it. He the most google is player. He doesn't.
(05:27):
He don't take no sense of wast and so serious
like you know certain people take we can lose. You
got one of the royal row players on the team. Man, mane,
I need to step it up and suck it up.
He was never that type of person. Man. He was
always coming around, put his finger in your ear and
like bro, no, like we got the latest drop. Uh.
He was so calmer is to deal with a natural
(05:49):
beast man like he can throw the ball, run the ball,
like the way he can stretch the field with his legs. Um.
It was amazing that playing with a guy like Events
man because he had he opened up. He had so
much people looking at him when he had the ball,
so they took He took a lot of pressure on
me when I had the ball right right both ways.
(06:12):
So I remember we played against y'all one time. I
don't know if you remember the man. He was just
so in control of the game and y'all torture like
seasty something. I don't know. I had that left side
under control like that, na no, but real I left
the game like man, he just was so in control
of the game. He only ran like five times, but
(06:32):
he had like eight yards like he picked in twoes
when he wanted to run. He made great throws. Man.
I left that game with a lot more respect for
Events after after we played him, because we're going into
the game like b he can't he can't even throw
like that. He can't play him. I left the game like, hey,
v wy the truth man, he the truth y'all had
y'all had some dog gays running backs. Uh, come through
(06:55):
Texas to man, so you know Sagre Benson, Uh uh
Dante for him and Earl Campbell, Ricky Williams yourself. Will
you rank yourself among all them cold As Texas running backs? Uh? Definitely,
I would play respect to the to the ledgends before me, Man,
I mean Earl and Uh and Rickman, It's hard to
(07:18):
kind of judge us in the skills, boy, because my
skills and they skills said said be they was more
powerful back. You know, I was more elusive and quickness,
So I mean, uh and power ranking and you're running
people over I'm glass man like, nah, we're talk about
running ball over the over time about period, we're talking
about towing the row you talking about you say, Earl
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Ricky in front then so you third your third when
they come of the Texas running back. I feel like, Man,
I had to play with respect man. I'm I'm I'm
for it man. You know what I'm saying. I played
respect with Man said, I mean rick you know Earl
and said and said be Did you put yourself man?
(08:01):
I had to Yeah, I had to play honors to
the respect to my people in front of me that
paid back to me that I feel that. I feel
that all right, So then you go, uh third round
to the chiefs. I'm saying you had another legendary running
back in front of you, Larry Johnson. What you learned
from Larry when you first got to leave, How good
of a mentor he was for you? I mean Larry
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was more like we're hanging with Larry's more like party man.
It was, you know what I'm saying. He was really
more hanging out club and going out like it wasn't
really like mentor me like underneeding Wings is more like,
hey man, let's go to the club. That's like I got.
I got a lot of vibe. Uh ll learning stuff
like that when I when I met Tomma Jones, you know,
(08:47):
I knew he was a legend, but I mean the
way he approached the game, take care of taking care
of his body. Uh, we just stayed long. I was
studying film, studying, uh, running through run tapes, running through
blitz tapes. And that's why I have started taking my
game to the next level. That's that's that's one hundred.
You know what I'm saying Now, I did. We did
used to go to Larry Johnson house and watched a film.
(09:08):
But I mean after the film, he used to go
to the club. Yeah. So Thomas Jones or Thomas Jones
was kind of that mentor who kind of he was
because all of us got a guy in the league
who kind of showed us the rope to kind of
shoulders like this ain't college no more. Thomas Jones with
that guy for you. Yeah, Tom Jones was definitely that
guy for me. Man. He brought me in his own house,
he took me place mate. Yeah, he was like a
(09:31):
big brother man. He basically pay Homas to me, wanted
me to be successful. And I saw that and I'm like,
dang man, he like, you know, I can be the
next man up taking his job. But this guy here
really playing respect for me, just just showing me the
ropes to how I supposed to be a jackal. That's
what's up. Because Ronde Barbour was my Thomas Jones. You
know what I'm saying. He snatched me under his wing,
(09:53):
showed me the ropes, made sure I did my rookie
due diligence and all that. Man. So so anytime somebody
asked me, I always say RANDI, uh so, when when
you think the game started to really when you start
to think, when you think the game started to slow
down for you? And you was like, man, I'm gonna
beat Jamaal Charles in this league because I mean, so
you had five thousand yards seasons in the row and
(10:14):
not too long after you got it, I think you
had a thousand in your second year. What I'm saying,
so we need to start to slow down for you.
It was after that second game when I got bitch,
you know what I'm saying, Like bench, we were putting
me in the audience that they put me in a box.
They put me in a box. Man. It was the
Raiders game, and I feel like I could have helped him.
(10:36):
But you know what I'm saying when that the coaches
feel like I wasn't the player that they that I
was brought it in to be that player for the program,
for the organization, and they just put me in a box.
And I'm like, dang, man, and my heart would just hurt, man,
because it was just hurt because I wasn't on the
field plan with the people. I came in with him,
hurting him in the stands. I can't do nothing, and
(10:57):
I'm like, and this can be my last you know
what can be this? I love playing football and I
don't want to stop playing for this could be my
last chance even touching the field again. So the next
week I just came in, you know what, man, I
just went all went hard, man, I went they put
me on scout team. I'm I'm I'm just throwing the defense.
(11:17):
I'm I'm killing the defense on the scout team. You
want to bench me? You know that's my mind. So
I'm about to do I'm about everybody hot, So I'm
running everybody hot and like damn man, dang. So they're
seeing me like killing right now. And that's when it's
like the next week kind of LJ got in the trouble,
and that's when I'm like, you know what, I'm about
to take the game in the next level, man. And
(11:39):
that's when it really when the game was about to
be taken from me. That's why, that's when it really
was about that. That's when it really opened and sold
my eyes and it starts slowing down for me. Yeah, Yeah,
that's what up. Sometimes it take that, you know what
I'm saying, for the game almost be gone for them
to put you on the bench, or for people to
lose that trust. See what I'm saying that it breaks
some people ship that ship franks some people up. Man.
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in the league. You had a nice little league. Man
you played, You played for some some great coaches, herm Elwars,
Tod Haley, Andy reid Who's your favorite coach man? And
why you say that? I definitely will have to say
(14:37):
coach Andy reid Man. He was just Uh Why I
say that? Because the way he approaches players and the
way he gives his his players the opportunity to make plays,
and the way he uh detail his playbook as well. Yeah,
I never had nobody detail they playbook like that. Callaed
Andy reid Man. He's a great person man. He used
(14:58):
to come give me out the random back groom, a
J I got these offensive plays for you. We got
five plays, which one you like? Like my damn? He said,
I feel this is enough for you. You know what
I'm saying, Like I got out the most. This isn't that.
So he kind of like showed me you know what
I'm saying, Like he wanted to take my game in
the next level, and I was like, man, nobody really
(15:18):
ever another coach. Brother never saw that pretension I had
in me catching the ball out. I feel like that
that's what that's what's up? You called? You caught the
back end Andy Andy a little run and and and uh,
Casey what you come back going real quickly? You caught
the back end the Andy Reid run and Casey, So
you kind of caught the little transition. But when he
(15:39):
came in and him being a person he was, did
you feel like he was gonna have to have a
run like he hadn't right now? Oh yeah, I feel
like you know what I'm saying. What all he needed
was some more pieces on our on our offense, our quarterback.
I knew when I knew Kesse was gonna be a dog.
I was there when uh Tyreek Tyreek was special kid too.
(16:01):
I just feel like Coach Read just needed like a defense.
We really and they have that defense. We all had.
We had a good off we just never had that defense. World. Uh,
when we can stay continue consistent on defense, we can
win games with defense. But no defense giving up like
fifty fifty or forty thirty points a game. I'm like, man,
and we had to score a lot. It was hard
(16:22):
to compeat like that. Yeah, it's it's always gonna be
hard to compete like that. But Andy definitely got that
thing rolling rolling right now, man, go ahead, Because when
they got when they had got to uh, when they
changed defense the coordinator, that's when they started on success.
They started. They started, they started getting that ball and
(16:42):
turned over. Bro. They still give up, they still give
up yards and stuff, but they get out in that
red zone and they take the ball away. Man. That's why,
that's why the Chiefs to win games. If you get
my homes and extra possessions, he's gonna make you pay. Also,
was that was just the quarterback. You know, Alex was good.
He could not he did not have managed to manage game.
(17:04):
But you know what I'm saying, he wasn't gonna take
a risk though like that. He was gonna check down
the ball or you know what I said, I run
that thing. It's gonna be more of a low scoring,
low scoring grind kind of game. Trust me, I know
all about it. We was Look that's what I was
going to get, said k c Big Alex Smith. It
was good though. Used to win games. Now I used
to win some games. Now Alex don't win some game
(17:25):
if it wasn't me breaking out long runs doing my thing,
we're gonna we're gonna do all right. If he gonna
drop that thing down to me trying to make a screenplay,
or he gonna drop it down, somebody else will get
another two yard. We used to. We used to make
them go up the field making chuck changes if it
wasn't a long run or a long past, because we
wasn't really throwing a ball that long, right right right,
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So let's get to nine days backs? Man? Who you like?
Who you who? Your five backs? You like? Uh? In
the league? Right now? Hold on if you're saying that,
If you're saying them, hold on, hold on, start off
your froze again, like Darren Henry human all here you go,
let's go. I said, I like uh Africanmaron, Darren Henry,
(18:11):
uh cook um also like uh Swift from the Detroit
Um and also my filth back is uh. He had
to go with H. I don't know his name, but
he got a Baltimore Young Cat number twenty seven or
(18:36):
to seven. Uh damn. I just he just is only
NFL Network of the Day. What's it? What's his name?
J K Dobbins, JK dobb JK Dobbin. Do see that's
a different file. See usually you hear the big names.
I'm saying your file. You got Swift in there. I
liked Swift. I called it. I called it last game.
I've seen Swift in person. Hey, he got busy the game.
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I called to tell me he's gonna have a He
gonna have a nice year this year. They're gonna they
got a good ass ole line in Detroit. They're gonna
lean on Swift too, So he's gonna make a name
for himself this year. Jack different. Top five, it's different,
it's different. And then but it makes sense, though, you
got two young goons in there, and you're top five,
So you know what I'm saying. They might if people
(19:20):
might look at it like this, they might frow on
the point and out. But wait, after the season, they're
gonna be like, Okay, they're gonna see. You know, I
have to have Chub in mind, So I gotta put
Chub in my top five. And I got them two
young boys out. I added Chubb and McCaffrey and then
the other dress you feel. But I like cho Yeah,
(19:41):
I like Chub too. Yeah, Chubb a beast, but he's
going crazy Ub. I like Chub with uh. I like
Chubb and africaar and uh let me do that Derren
Henry and Swift and Swift I got get his name
that stuff and yeah, yeah, I like it. What I'm saying,
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it makes sense. It may, it may, it makes sense.
It's hard. It's only five spots though. Yeah, it's hard
to squeeze on them backs in the fist, I'll be
trying to disrespect, no bats man, I don't know. Everybody
got a different, different, bring different, something different to the game.
But they know it's all up, man, They know it's
all love. Baby. We didn't already put our time in. Baby.
(20:22):
We could talk about it's hard. We didn't already put
our time and we can talk about it, man, they
know what time of it. But all right, so we
see you still be linking with them Texas guys, y'all
be on the two K and on the matting and
all that. Right, is it? Anybody is anybody you ain't?
You ain't playing yet on the game. Were you're trying
to look at. Uh you're talking about like you playing. Yeah,
(20:50):
we gotta got the bad lead. Y'all got a little
bit all the Texas guys. Yeah yeah, we got the
Texas guy. You got some lead guys. Man, anybody want
to get in you know what I'm saying. Just just
hit me up on five Star. So you're gonna go
pro on the E Sports next? I mean, if it's
(21:11):
it's a possibility. I'm not trying to go pro. I'm
trying to own me a team. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's that. See that's going pro. You're a professing sports owner. Now,
it was it was somebody on the it was somebody
on the Rams. Uh damn, I can't remember who it was.
But he already had a ProTeam. Yeah, yeah, all that
(21:33):
that's what's up. Yeah you got me hit you he
got uh fortnight. Oh you know, so you know what
I'm talking about. You're talking about No, you're talking about
it's alignment right now. No, I know you're talking about
alignment place for the round. I know you're talking about
(21:55):
he might be on the Titan. I can't remember who
it was. He got the college duty team or yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you gotta put me on that. Man. I need to
know more about that. Man. What I'm saying ye, Man, Yeah,
you would like it. Man, it's just more. It's just something,
just a chill man, really relaxed. Man. I used to
(22:16):
use free time. Yeah, and that's what suck. But I
ain't gonna hold you baby, Gonna finish that rehab. Man,
gonna do your thing. Man, I appreciate you. Stay up
on the podcast, man, get up. You already know. Appreciate it, brother,
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