August 13, 2019 • 10 mins
A podcast going under the helmet with your favorite Bucs players all season long. On this episode, Carmen Vitali talks with running back Peyton Barber about graduation, HGTV and which super hero he would want to be in the Marvel universe.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
What's up? Bucks fans? Welcome to another edition of the
Behind the Buccaneers podcast. I'm comment by Tally, your host
and staff writer for Buccaneers dot Com, and I'm taking
you under the helmet with some of your favorite players
all season long. Today, I'm sitting down at lunch with
running back Peyton Barber. Let's go on into the Bucks
(00:29):
dining hall at advent Health Training Center catch up with
the fourth year player. So, if you've been keeping up
with the team, it seems that Peyton is boys for
a breakout season this year under new head coach Bruce Arians.
You may know Arians and his offenses for the deep
ball and the shots he likes to take downfield, but
(00:52):
make no mistake, the run game is a big emphasis too,
and Peyton is currently listed as r V one. It's
a welcome challenge for the product of Auburn you Niversity
who was signed by the Buccaneers as an undrafted free
agent after his junior season in two thousand sixteen. Why
don't we start there. You came out of Auburn early,
and I know you know you see that list every
offseason that you know it's the underclassman that come out earlier.
(01:14):
They don't get drafted, Um, good, bad or otherwise. You know,
there's always judgments made on that. But what was it
for you that made you come out then and decided
that that's that was the right time? Oh what? There
was a a couple of things that were going on
at home. Um, but my mom wasn't in the steadiest
the households. She was all over the place pretty much
(01:36):
right now. Um. But you know, we were on a
conversation one night. She wasn't she wasn't nagging to me
or anything like that, but we were just talking my
life and the place that she was staying at. Um.
She was saying that just Asa told me so, yeah,
they had bit boats. Um, I'm getting bit by the
big stuff like that. And she's having to put on
(01:58):
like like boat like it looks great to go to sleep,
and it's like, you know, I'm in a nice, nice
dorm room, my quening size bed, come going bathroom. I'm
just just hearing that. I just I just want to
stand that. That was the final straw for me, and
I felt like I had feel I feel like I
had done enough to show, but I could at least
(02:21):
make a team to work my way up I mean,
nothing's really came easy to me, So it doesn't sound
like it sounds like it's kind of been and uphill.
But that perfords you some kind of motivation, and doesn't
it like, especially when you get to this level, to
the chip on your shoulder, everyone talks about that. Oh yeah,
I feel like I definitely a big chip on my shoulder. Um.
(02:41):
I felt like for me, since things haven't been easy,
it is easy. Um, So I know when I get
into a tough situation, I know at the end of
the day, I'm gonna be okay. It's I'm gonna keep
my faith and everything I'm gonna I'm gonna be able
to make it to work. It's probably why Peyton isn't
(03:02):
phazed when his new coaches have put the pressure on
him to perform. In fact, Peyton put a whole different
kind of pressure on himself this past offseason, the pressure
to graduate college. See, despite coming out of school early,
Peyton made a promise to finish his education, and he
delivered on it this past May, to the delight of
his coaches and his family. What was so important to
(03:22):
you about going back and getting your degree When I
was I was so close to finishing UM. When I left,
I had I want to say, I had like twenty
hours left. Yeah, and then to wh I I always
see myself at the same time, and I promised one
(03:44):
moment did I go back. Also at school, like much
of Peyton's life, hasn't been without its challenges. He was
diagnosed with a learning disability, not that he sees it
that way, but it's affected him all throughout his childhood
and it remains something that he manages to this day.
I know that you've been open about having, you know, dyslexia.
Did that kind of aid in wanting to you know,
(04:05):
finish out school the right way and like and make
sure that you know proved yourself you can do it too? Yeah,
A doubt um almost told from that come out of
high school that would have to go to JUKO. Um
that's with a two year school or or technical college
or however you want to say it. Yeah, um, because
I was in the special worth classes of some my
junior year UM high school. So UM. So it's like
(04:30):
I said, I feel like I always to myself and
I may have promised some my mom that I go back.
And Peyton's mom is also the reason for one of
his biggest interests off the field real estate. And now
I feel like you have all these off the field
kind of aspirations as well. Did you just buy a house?
So I just hear that right, and you have like
another you have real estate interests? Then where does that
(04:52):
come from? Oh, I'm always at a real estate interest. M.
My favorite debt work is the h G two. What
do you watch that? Property brothers? Or um go to
decorate your house with like the chip and Joanna games
like like, oh yeah, I have a couple of their
(05:14):
like collictions. Um, you know she she's on the line
over at targets. When did that start? Uhs? Growing up,
I didn't have cables, so whenever I would go in
to my friend's house, Um, a lot of my friends
were well off when I was always the one where
I grew up homes. So whenever I will go to
(05:38):
my friends house, the TV would be on and they
don't want to watch cartoon and stuff like that. That
would be honest, It's like, and that would mean because
it wasn't maybe aspirational even then, because you didn't have
that stable house that you got to go back to. No.
I just thinking that that could really be. I've just
always had an interest in the house. Is Um. I
know when we were when I was younger, we're going
(06:01):
through a lot of tough times. Me and my mom
would uh happen on Sundays at the church. We were
just driving around and look at nice houses. Um, I'm
just just stream pretty much. Um. You know you would
always tell him you gonna be here on one day,
you know, so expected. So you know, I'm not quite
(06:21):
to where I can get the big big bog, but
I'm definitely well off and I'm definitely great before I'm
at You can kind of hear it in Peyton's voice
as he pauses to talk about is that bringing arriving
at a place where he now owns not only one,
but two homes is in no small feet. He has
a unique appreciation for his position, and he's being smart
about it while he's in it. Do you think that
(06:42):
real estate is something that you're gonna end up going
into a maybe after football And just like continuing this,
I'm trying to do it while I'm in football. That's
the That's what a lot of people get mixed stuff.
You want to start stuff now instead of later, start
stuff while you have the cash, not saying that I'm
spending my cast and stuff like that, but you want
(07:04):
to you know, you have a very steady income, that's
the best time. And then you have a got a
good name on your shoulder, hot names. Um, now's the
best time. It looks like my previous guest, outside linebacker
Carl and Massive, isn't the only one who has his
own financial philosophies and aspirations. It's pretty safe to say
real estate and maybe h G TV is Payton's number
(07:27):
one interest outside of football any other free time he has.
And Payton kind of does what a lot of us do.
What do you What do you do when you go
home to chill out? What do I do when I
got one to chill out? Pretty foreign personally, everybody says
that and like and then you talk to somebody more
and you find out that there. I mean, I literally
go home, I'm watching Netflix and I'll study and I'll
(07:48):
talk to my girlfriend. Um, when I get really bored,
I'll go and I'll go on drive. I'll go on
drives and I'll just look at really nice houses. You're like,
can go by the I'll go by like throw water,
drive down there those are saying those houses along the
beach there ame that. So when if you're going down
(08:09):
the beach path, you're not looking at the water, you're
looking at the house. A little bit of both, a
little bit of boat. What do you watch your Netflix
right now at the moment, I just started the Flash, Um,
but I've been watching uh, Queen of the South, me too,
I just started watching that. I just finished it, The
(08:29):
Queen of the South in the Flash you in the screen? Yeah,
like the Marvel movies. Okay, okay, like, did you see Endgame?
And you're like, okay, I got closer certainty of iron
Man died World Alert? Sorry, but I don't know if
(08:50):
I can put that in there, because I don't know
from past the spoiler the spoiler sold, I don't. I
don't know. I think I've seen iron Man. You just
told me, but I don't, like, I've never same. I
wouldn't even I really don't even have that. So it's
you're fine to me. I might be mad at you
later if I decided to get us and I already know.
I think I think you should. I think you Should's
(09:12):
your favorite favorite superhero? Yeah? Who is that? Like if
you were a superhero you. I don't know if I
want to be the whole cup I was superhero. Um,
I don't want to be big and green. But I mean,
(09:36):
well you only when he gets big a green means
maybe iron Man iron Man educate me. Is iron Man
kind of the same as Batman, where like he himself
isn't anything special, but it's like with the suit and everything,
he kind of like makes things happen. He's a regular
ordinary guy, right, Okay, there's a lot of money. That's Batman,
(09:57):
right like Batman. Yeah, Batman is just no ordery guy
that has a lot of money and has okay, so
ordinary person doing extraordinary things. I like that parallet. That's
a good parallel, a parallel for Peyton himself. So judging
from his story, there's nothing ordinary about him. Thanks for
(10:21):
joining me on this edition and behind the Buccaneers. You
can read the full transcript of Peyton and Eyed conversation
on buccaneers dot com. If you want to check out
these features or others I'm doing, make sure you're following
me on Twitter and Instagram at Carmi V. That's the
A R M I E V. And make sure you're
following the books on social too. At Buccaneers on Twitter
(10:43):
and Instagram. We'll talk to you next time.
What's up? Bucks fans? Welcome to another edition of the
Behind the Buccaneers podcast. I'm comment by Tally, your host
and staff writer for Buccaneers dot Com, and I'm taking
you under the helmet with some of your favorite players
all season long. Today, I'm sitting down at lunch with
running back Peyton Barber. Let's go on into the Bucks
(00:29):
dining hall at advent Health Training Center catch up with
the fourth year player. So, if you've been keeping up
with the team, it seems that Peyton is boys for
a breakout season this year under new head coach Bruce Arians.
You may know Arians and his offenses for the deep
ball and the shots he likes to take downfield, but
(00:52):
make no mistake, the run game is a big emphasis too,
and Peyton is currently listed as r V one. It's
a welcome challenge for the product of Auburn you Niversity
who was signed by the Buccaneers as an undrafted free
agent after his junior season in two thousand sixteen. Why
don't we start there. You came out of Auburn early,
and I know you know you see that list every
offseason that you know it's the underclassman that come out earlier.
(01:14):
They don't get drafted, Um, good, bad or otherwise. You know,
there's always judgments made on that. But what was it
for you that made you come out then and decided
that that's that was the right time? Oh what? There
was a a couple of things that were going on
at home. Um, but my mom wasn't in the steadiest
the households. She was all over the place pretty much
(01:36):
right now. Um. But you know, we were on a
conversation one night. She wasn't she wasn't nagging to me
or anything like that, but we were just talking my
life and the place that she was staying at. Um.
She was saying that just Asa told me so, yeah,
they had bit boats. Um, I'm getting bit by the
big stuff like that. And she's having to put on
(01:58):
like like boat like it looks great to go to sleep,
and it's like, you know, I'm in a nice, nice
dorm room, my quening size bed, come going bathroom. I'm
just just hearing that. I just I just want to
stand that. That was the final straw for me, and
I felt like I had feel I feel like I
had done enough to show, but I could at least
(02:21):
make a team to work my way up I mean,
nothing's really came easy to me, So it doesn't sound
like it sounds like it's kind of been and uphill.
But that perfords you some kind of motivation, and doesn't
it like, especially when you get to this level, to
the chip on your shoulder, everyone talks about that. Oh yeah,
I feel like I definitely a big chip on my shoulder. Um.
(02:41):
I felt like for me, since things haven't been easy,
it is easy. Um, So I know when I get
into a tough situation, I know at the end of
the day, I'm gonna be okay. It's I'm gonna keep
my faith and everything I'm gonna I'm gonna be able
to make it to work. It's probably why Peyton isn't
(03:02):
phazed when his new coaches have put the pressure on
him to perform. In fact, Peyton put a whole different
kind of pressure on himself this past offseason, the pressure
to graduate college. See, despite coming out of school early,
Peyton made a promise to finish his education, and he
delivered on it this past May, to the delight of
his coaches and his family. What was so important to
(03:22):
you about going back and getting your degree When I
was I was so close to finishing UM. When I left,
I had I want to say, I had like twenty
hours left. Yeah, and then to wh I I always
see myself at the same time, and I promised one
(03:44):
moment did I go back. Also at school, like much
of Peyton's life, hasn't been without its challenges. He was
diagnosed with a learning disability, not that he sees it
that way, but it's affected him all throughout his childhood
and it remains something that he manages to this day.
I know that you've been open about having, you know, dyslexia.
Did that kind of aid in wanting to you know,
(04:05):
finish out school the right way and like and make
sure that you know proved yourself you can do it too? Yeah,
A doubt um almost told from that come out of
high school that would have to go to JUKO. Um
that's with a two year school or or technical college
or however you want to say it. Yeah, um, because
I was in the special worth classes of some my
junior year UM high school. So UM. So it's like
(04:30):
I said, I feel like I always to myself and
I may have promised some my mom that I go back.
And Peyton's mom is also the reason for one of
his biggest interests off the field real estate. And now
I feel like you have all these off the field
kind of aspirations as well. Did you just buy a house?
So I just hear that right, and you have like
another you have real estate interests? Then where does that
(04:52):
come from? Oh, I'm always at a real estate interest. M.
My favorite debt work is the h G two. What
do you watch that? Property brothers? Or um go to
decorate your house with like the chip and Joanna games
like like, oh yeah, I have a couple of their
(05:14):
like collictions. Um, you know she she's on the line
over at targets. When did that start? Uhs? Growing up,
I didn't have cables, so whenever I would go in
to my friend's house, Um, a lot of my friends
were well off when I was always the one where
I grew up homes. So whenever I will go to
(05:38):
my friends house, the TV would be on and they
don't want to watch cartoon and stuff like that. That
would be honest, It's like, and that would mean because
it wasn't maybe aspirational even then, because you didn't have
that stable house that you got to go back to. No.
I just thinking that that could really be. I've just
always had an interest in the house. Is Um. I
know when we were when I was younger, we're going
(06:01):
through a lot of tough times. Me and my mom
would uh happen on Sundays at the church. We were
just driving around and look at nice houses. Um, I'm
just just stream pretty much. Um. You know you would
always tell him you gonna be here on one day,
you know, so expected. So you know, I'm not quite
(06:21):
to where I can get the big big bog, but
I'm definitely well off and I'm definitely great before I'm
at You can kind of hear it in Peyton's voice
as he pauses to talk about is that bringing arriving
at a place where he now owns not only one,
but two homes is in no small feet. He has
a unique appreciation for his position, and he's being smart
about it while he's in it. Do you think that
(06:42):
real estate is something that you're gonna end up going
into a maybe after football And just like continuing this,
I'm trying to do it while I'm in football. That's
the That's what a lot of people get mixed stuff.
You want to start stuff now instead of later, start
stuff while you have the cash, not saying that I'm
spending my cast and stuff like that, but you want
(07:04):
to you know, you have a very steady income, that's
the best time. And then you have a got a
good name on your shoulder, hot names. Um, now's the
best time. It looks like my previous guest, outside linebacker
Carl and Massive, isn't the only one who has his
own financial philosophies and aspirations. It's pretty safe to say
real estate and maybe h G TV is Payton's number
(07:27):
one interest outside of football any other free time he has.
And Payton kind of does what a lot of us do.
What do you What do you do when you go
home to chill out? What do I do when I
got one to chill out? Pretty foreign personally, everybody says
that and like and then you talk to somebody more
and you find out that there. I mean, I literally
go home, I'm watching Netflix and I'll study and I'll
(07:48):
talk to my girlfriend. Um, when I get really bored,
I'll go and I'll go on drive. I'll go on
drives and I'll just look at really nice houses. You're like,
can go by the I'll go by like throw water,
drive down there those are saying those houses along the
beach there ame that. So when if you're going down
(08:09):
the beach path, you're not looking at the water, you're
looking at the house. A little bit of both, a
little bit of boat. What do you watch your Netflix
right now at the moment, I just started the Flash, Um,
but I've been watching uh, Queen of the South, me too,
I just started watching that. I just finished it, The
(08:29):
Queen of the South in the Flash you in the screen? Yeah,
like the Marvel movies. Okay, okay, like, did you see Endgame?
And you're like, okay, I got closer certainty of iron
Man died World Alert? Sorry, but I don't know if
(08:50):
I can put that in there, because I don't know
from past the spoiler the spoiler sold, I don't. I
don't know. I think I've seen iron Man. You just
told me, but I don't, like, I've never same. I
wouldn't even I really don't even have that. So it's
you're fine to me. I might be mad at you
later if I decided to get us and I already know.
I think I think you should. I think you Should's
(09:12):
your favorite favorite superhero? Yeah? Who is that? Like if
you were a superhero you. I don't know if I
want to be the whole cup I was superhero. Um,
I don't want to be big and green. But I mean,
(09:36):
well you only when he gets big a green means
maybe iron Man iron Man educate me. Is iron Man
kind of the same as Batman, where like he himself
isn't anything special, but it's like with the suit and everything,
he kind of like makes things happen. He's a regular
ordinary guy, right, Okay, there's a lot of money. That's Batman,
(09:57):
right like Batman. Yeah, Batman is just no ordery guy
that has a lot of money and has okay, so
ordinary person doing extraordinary things. I like that parallet. That's
a good parallel, a parallel for Peyton himself. So judging
from his story, there's nothing ordinary about him. Thanks for
(10:21):
joining me on this edition and behind the Buccaneers. You
can read the full transcript of Peyton and Eyed conversation
on buccaneers dot com. If you want to check out
these features or others I'm doing, make sure you're following
me on Twitter and Instagram at Carmi V. That's the
A R M I E V. And make sure you're
following the books on social too. At Buccaneers on Twitter
(10:43):
and Instagram. We'll talk to you next time.
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