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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, all right, all right, welcome to Bregnant Josh.
We are here in session two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Right now, my man, let's just get into Boise State.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Okay, the year you had as a team.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Take me through that roller coaster of emotions all leading
up to the collegeot ball playoff.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Absolutely, I mean, we always set a goal to ourselves.
We wanted to accomplish something that we've never done. If
we wanted to win a male championship back to back.
We wanted to make the college football Playoff. We went
again a number three seed, so we really set everything
that we wanted to set unless we just didn't win.
We didn't finish pretty well, but I mean, God has
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a plan for all, so of course, but we all
wanted to. We accomplished everything that we said that we're
gonna accomplish. Have a number three seed. It was a blessing.
Winning let's championship back to back.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I get it, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Playing in a playoff game and having that environment it was,
it was.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It was awesome. It was an awesome experience.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I gotta ask.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Being a fellow Mount west Man Pack twelve, Maan, I'm
sorry the Penn State.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Environment I've heard about it. How was it from a
player's perspective?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Electric? It was awesome.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We played so we played at the Fiesta. It was
like half and half about our fans. Bronco Nation came
and turned out, like I think. It was the loudest
seven the loudest noise I ever heard in the game.
After my sack, after I got my sack and I was.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Celebrating turn Oh it was. The juice was hot.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I have the video for it.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's it's it's insane, man, and you see everybody, this
is the loudest stadium that ever.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It was an awesome Like words, can I can put
words in the I can't. I can't put it into words.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You can't like the emotion.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Oh it was. It was an awesome It was an
awesome feel. This is why I play football, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So it's it's the most electric thing on planet Earth.
Like it's the closest thing to war.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We have abandoned brothers coming together and really at the
end of the day, it's saying, I man, let's go tell.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
To tell blow. That's all it is. Yep, dog fights,
dog fights. I love that. So your hometown is listed
in Egypt. Yep, tell me about your Egyptian roots.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Man, it's uh, it's it's in me. You know. It's
like I I moved to the States when.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So I was born here, left when I was six
h to Egypt, and then stayed.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Ten years in Egypt.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, So I learned the culture.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
My family is from Useu, mom and dad from Egypt.
Learn the culture, learn the toughness of how to be
an Egyptian.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Learn how to speak Arabic.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Learned about the Pharaohs, learn about the pyramids, learn.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
About all that.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I tell my bucket list to see the Pyramids. Man,
if you go, I have to, you have to go.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You have to call me, you have to. But it
was an.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Awesome experience just to be there and listen and learn
my roots.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And right the food fire oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Oh yeah, all right, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And then you come back to the States. At what
age did you get introduced and start playing football?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Sixteen sixteen when my brother came, Uh, he visited me
and he saw me and he was like, come.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Play football for me.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And at that time I didn't speak any English.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
To play any football, you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Didn't speak any English, you didn't play any football, and
he's like, moved to the United States and complay football.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yep, So did you move here? You moved to the
United States to play football in high school?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yep. Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And then that's Destiny, baby, I know, I know, he's
not God, He's not God has a plan, of course.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I mean, it's it's amazing what he's done in my life.
I'm so grateful for him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Wow, So end up in boys, But about you talked
about a coincidence though, Like Spencer Danielson played with my
brother at PacifiCan College. So I was getting recruited and
showing my brother like, but he stayed recruiting me, Like.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
He was like, wait, I know that guy, it's my boy.
You're talking about a small.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
World amount away from the Egypt to here. It's it's
just an amazing And then end up at Boise State.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's it's why was Boise State? You're deciding the choice.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I felt like this is the most place I'm gonna
have most the most development.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I felt that this is the most place that I
can co play right away and learn how to be
a man and just learn about life and learn about
God and I felt really connected because it's just a
small world for me to come all the way from
Egypt to play football, to not know any English, to
go to camps, to spend solanas and text me on
Twitter tell me like yeah, I love your film to
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show my brother and he was like, wait, I played
with that guy you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, I mean everything like that.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So I felt really connected to be here, and it
was the best decision I ever made.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'm I'm very happy for you.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Is there a player or a coach on your journey
that's helped you get to this point today.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Absolutely, Coach Mitch Osen. That's my high school coach. He's
he's the guy that's taught me how to be like
a man, how to be how to what's the values
of man? You know, what's the integrity of a man,
what's the respect of a man? And he taught me
everything about life with Spencer taught me everything also about life.
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My coach, Jabrill, my position coach, my brother. So I
had so many mentors on, so many people to look
up to that I'm forever grateful for.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You know, one of the keys to success is surrounding
yourself by a good group, people are gonna elevate you
forward rather than drag you down. Absolutely, how would you
define chasing greatness?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
You find chasing greatness?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
We asked the hard questions.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, absolutely, keep me at it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Sometimes you get discouraged, and sometimes a day can look
the same. You know what I'm saying, Some days are
the same days. But if you stay truly to who
you are and keep grinding it out and being the
best person you can be, and every day even if
you can only you can't give one hundred percent today,
but you can give fifty per you can't give sixty,
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you can't give seventy.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
And you give your best every single day and every
day every day you'll.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Keep coming and attacking it and asking questions and learning
and following God and following your journey.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'm trusting it to work out. Hey man, mat brother,
do you have the juice?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, absolutely, Please elaborate.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I have the juice.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Do you have the juice?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I do have the juice?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
In what way, shape and forms?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Line me up against somebody and you'll see raw.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
All right, I'm in in this process leading up to
the league. There's combine questions, there's pro day questions. GM's
are gonna ask you questions. Sometimes they're at a little cuckoo, right.
I have a gauntlet for you to go through to
prep you for this, because I'm a really good guy.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
If you have one lasagna and you've stack it on
top of another lasagna, you have one lasagnia.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Or two lasigners, okay, two designs.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's a hot take. What do you mean Lazangnias are layers?
How does that just become a higher layer?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's like lazagna. Okay, say it got kind on top
of another was on?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
A Lazanni is layers apostas.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, you just have one big Lazangian.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You have one big lasagnon.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, okay, but technically you added to lasagna. So it's
saying you feel like, okay, how many places of food
you have?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
There's two?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, you went, you went in the first round, got
one plate of food and you got a second and
you got the same amount of food.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
How many food do you have?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
How many places of food do you get?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Two?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So a GM would accept that answer.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know what I'm saying, second one, what's the biggest
animal you can take on in hand to hand combat?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
The biggest I feel like I can take out of kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Bro, That is the most used answer, right, everyone thinks
they could take on a kangaroo.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
What if they roundhouse you? You know how powerful kangaroos.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
But if if you think about it, if you like
run us as you can and you speir it head shoulder,
but you like layout and you spear it almost cup.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Blockheads exactly get it down choke hold and if you like,
go to a beeB on his you're probably gonna roll.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They're not alligators, Yeah they're not, but if they have
like small next they're kind of blunt.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, yeah, it might be hard to choke out. Yeah,
that the smallest comfort. I feel like a kangaroo could
for sure sneak out.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Of a choked Damn.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I don't know, but no hard questions, bro, Yeah I
think I can't take out k all.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Right, Okay, last one.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You're on the way to a game, you haven't had
pregame meal, yell, the bus breaks down, Your coach gives
you twenty dollars. It tells you to go into seven
eleven to get your pre game meal. What are you
getting for pre game meal for seven eleven?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That's a good question. Well what's the seven eleven half?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's your local seven eleven. I'll give you it's a
bois He's seven eleven boys seven.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, so I'm going too Jackson's.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Then gotta go seven eleven. Can't change the question, can't,
can't chase the question. I know they've got seven elevens
out there. Yeah, we actually don't, but they have them
in Egypt.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We have mobile No, but seven eleven.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I think I will get I'll give me a get.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Ride, will color her blue? Okay light blue? Of course?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well boo, and I'll get me an apple banana.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I don't give me this a sandwich?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, you're going standard.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, I'm basically I'm not gonna get like a beef
steak or tipped or any of that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Some guys have some crazy answers.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Man, what was the craziest answer?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We had skittles with like Bojangles and Red Bull.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I'm might a rain though.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Some crazy cats out there.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, nah, I can't those kittles before you get remember
mid game, let's get on.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, all right, well, a man, I wish you the
best and the rest of this journey.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Thanks for coming on bringing the Jewish.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
What's your Instagram I'm met one.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Make sure we collab tag you have the people follow you.
Good luck on this journey, good luck this week. Please
take a hat. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
All right, all right, all right back here on the radio.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Johnathan, let's just get right so you just catch you
in your Wisconsin Dave.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
What let you playing at Wisconsin?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
So I'm a Jersey boy right in Wisconsin. You talk
about a culture shock like I never was, Like I've
never had a white peer wow. At that time, you
know nothing against where I'm from. I'm from New Brunswick,
New Jersey. The demographic is now it's like ninety percent Hispanic,
but back then it was fifty to fifty Hispanic and black,
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and there was like no white people at I get
to Wisconsin and we would literally joke every single day like,
have you seen any black people today? That was the
running joke, and the answers would be, yeah, I saw
one by the Union South earlier. It was yeah, but
probably an athlete, some athletes somewhere right. But when I
took my visit, I was there in the winter time,
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in the cold. It was old, and it was the finals,
so it wasn't like popping, you know, at the night scene.
But it just felt like the right place to be.
I was like, I could I could do this, be
a guy.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
You could be here.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I could play against Old State and Michigan, you know
what I mean. Like it wasn't the biggest school. Maybe
was the biggest school at the time. I had other offers,
but I never felt the way I felt on any
of the visits. Besides, when I went to Wisconsin, I
felt like I need to be here.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I consider it a blue blood program man, that's culture.
And again I went playing at fresid C.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I'm from Fresnoe, so I grew up. I want that.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
That was that was my from place to play. Too.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Great place Rockett, Yes it does Rockett.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's easily best team on the West coast. Maybe Oregon,
maybe Washington win them good.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
But but the fans, though y'all fans are different.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
They're close to Raiders fans, the very close to there are.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
They are Raiders fans. They used to drive to Oakland.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
So let me tell you something about your stadium right
where the where the locker room was.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It's like a mile walk.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Broak that red walks and they're talking so much like
I've never been cursed out by grown men until that game.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
There's a gang in Fresnol called the Bulldog Gang, I bet,
and they they were there for sure that day the games.
And every year you don't drink a fall camp like
people come and talk to you. Every The sheriff would
come to us and the district attorney once every fall
camp and warn yea And they said, because you'd go
to the mall in our team issue. But they had
the same logo on for the gang. It's this they
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they just buy the college birks, bro.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
So you get a close.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Man, I was a white whiter here. All my boys
are all block.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You go to the mall and they say you got
to put your hands up like this to say.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I play ball. I'm not. Every five years they told
this speech, bro, every time.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
So that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
So yes, your experience there as it came to a
close going into the draft.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
From my understanding, you had an injury.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Yeah yeah, so you ended up.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
With the Saints. But going into that draft, with the injury.
What was the feelings, what was the vibes?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Did you feel like, you know, I don't want to
say you got cheated or or or or shorted, but
you did get shorted.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
A little bit. I did. I did.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
How was that process?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
It was? It was rough? It was it was really rough. Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
You know, going into the draft process, you know they
got the projections. I was a projected second to fourth
round pick.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
My first phone call during the draft was after the
fourth round and it was from New Orleans. And then
I got a call from Tampa and it was going
back and forth between the two and I went undrafted
and I was pissed. Yeah, I was pissed at New Orleans.
I was pissed a temple because they called.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
You could have taken you. They wanted you for right.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
So I was pissed after the draft, and for me,
I had to decide between the two. And that's the
only great thing about going undrafted when you're supposed to
get drafted, is you actually actually have a choice now.
So I weighed my choices. It was New Orleans and Tampa.
Tampa was giving me four x signing bonus, but it
wasn't for I didn't want to play in the league
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for thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Play in the league for at least three fifteen because
that was the league minimum I have to make the roster.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I wasn't trying to make thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Bro, We're trying to be active.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
So for me, the thought process was I looked at
the Saints roster. There was a lot more linebackers, a
lot more competition, but Jonathan Villma was there. He was
underneath the same agency as I was, and I already
spoke to him, and I felt like I could kind
of go to the little brother role underneath Vimba, which
it ended up working out. I'm little brother for Joona
Dean Villma for twenty years now and I got to
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talk to him all the time.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
But I made the choice, and it.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Was the right choice because I had an opportunity one
place and the other place, and I didn't choose the money.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
I chose the better opportunity in right thing.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
That's huge, and I asked that too.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I got a brother who's he's gonna be in this
year's draft class.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Okay, he's he's gonna make it.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
He's gonna make a.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Raw, raw white boy wide receiver.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Okay, but we're going through this process receiver. I love
I love it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So it got to the point though, where like I'm older, bro,
he's screenshot and agents reaching out and I'm kind of
going through this brotherly manager process, right So, and I'm
constantly interviewing league dudes. You know, I got still buddies
that I play with that are still in the league,
So I got that reference as well. So it's just
unique for me to ask that question on the daylight
today because.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Everyone's Journey's friend.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, certain agencies they want to promise you certain you're
gonna play in the Reces, You're gonna play in the
East West, You're gonna be a third round Like if
you run this forty yard dash, you're probably gonna be
successful there winning the grand scheming things.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Every ever, ever in their draft day does not go
how they think it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, ever, and it's the most stressed, just like, I mean,
the only dude, honestly, I interviewed Ryan Leaf yesterday and
he knew Peyton manning Wood he's gonna be one, and
he was gonna be too.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I'm sure you could say the same, like Kayleb Williams probably.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Knew he was gonna be right. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
And a Haystack.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You go to the Saints undrafted, pissed. Now you're on
the most Saints.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, and you want a Super bowls a rookie and
that was a big year for this city.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
That we're in.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Take me through that rookie season and then we'll dive
into the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I mean, the rookie season was incredible. Like, you know,
I don't know what's going on here, Like I just
showed up. I gotta go against Reggie.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Bush, that's good.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I gotta go against Drew Brees. I saw Coaston outside.
I gotta go against Marcus Colston. You know, I'm young,
I don't know anything. No one expects anything from me
at all. And as the year goes on, we went
thirteen and oh to start the season. Team you got
the juice right, and I'm I'm undrafted. I wasn't supposed
to be in this position, but I'm I'm vying for
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a starting job at this point. I'm pushing the starters
because I'm active in the meeting rooms I'm playing good ball.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
I'm balling on special teams.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
And I'm they're trying to play me, right, And at
the end of the season, I ended up starting a
couple of games and playing very well. But like, you
never truly and I didn't. I didn't understand the like
how high we were as a team, like how historical
that run was. You don't know when you're in it now.
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You don't know that the Saints never going to get
back to the super Bowl. Well they haven't to this day, right,
You don't know that when you're living it, you know.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
But I did it twice.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
So the second time around, I try to do better, Yeah,
and have more memories, right, because the first pictures in
the first season was a blurb because it was so
much stuff happening and I was just trying to take everything.
I'm trying to be a pro while making a playoff run.
I'm trying to recoup that that draft loss. Yeah I
didn't get drafted.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
I'm trying to.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Recoup that playoffs, you know what I'm saying. But it
was it's a surreal feeling. It's a surreal feeling playing
in the super Bowl. That's one of my super Bowl
brothers right there. Brandon Bolden, my guy for the Patriots.
But like you know, when I see guys like that,
that's family because we will forever be linked because we
have a ring together. Of course is the Patriots super
Bowl forty nine, but my my, my brother's from the
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Saints will forever be linked. I saw Drew Brees a
couple of years ago at a golf ouder. He gave
me a big hug. I was like, who's this. I
ain't seen him. I was like, Drew, what's up?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Give me a big hug. Mind you, I'm undrafted. It
is Drew Brees. Me and Drew Brees are family forever forever,
and no one can take that from us.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Super Bowl, bro, you become linked with these guys in
history forever and no one can take it from us.
You get it. You you you played the game. I
get it, But but that part of it, you don't
understand it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Two years this, I was gonna say, like the super Bowl,
it's so unique to ask that question because we're here
this week.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
It's Radio Row, but.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
It's it's this is this isn't just a game, like
it took me this for last year on Radio Row. Yeah,
and again, my my whole family's played ball my entire life.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
This is not just stuff game, bro, This isn't av This.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Is probably the biggest sports event in the United States
of America every every year. Yeah, and it's not just
oh yeah, two o'clock on Sunday. I want to make
a Freedo boat crack A couple of the boys, fill
out some squares.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
And again I.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Got all my boys here who played football Freenside State.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I just plugged brought him this week, I said, where
your juice?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Merch?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Pat called for some dude. Let's get some guys.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You know, it's the gram count up and they're lovey.
And my thing is this, here's my thing. I tried
to tell him. I said, Bro, I know we're not
playing in it, but this week, if you just like football,
if you like competition like it feels, it feels like Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
It's different.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
So how you know your your journey continued? You bounced
to Tampa.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
He went to New England at one other Super Bowl.
How was that second Super Bowl different than the first?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Well, like I said, the first time around, I didn't
know anything. I don't have no pictures of me with
the trophy or anything that first bowl.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
So the second time around, right, the second time around.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
I gets a photoshot ai if you.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Rewatched that game, right and you see where they bring
out the trophy. Kurt Warner brought out the trophy. If
you watch it, exam, Yeah, it's for New England. If
you watch it, I'm the.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Right first right there.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
I made sure that I was the first one.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
So when he brought it out, no fingerprints on the trophy, no.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Kiss smarts on the big as that out of your
house right now, my lips.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I was the first one to touch it, the first
one to put my hands on it. And me and
that man right there and Luke Garrett Blunt and it
was somebody else too. We took the trophy after everybody
touched it and took it around the whole stadium on
the cart. You can look it up hopefully y'all put that.
Put that picture up.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
It's all of.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Us holding up the trophy taking around the stadium. I
even crashed NFL Network while Revers was doing an interview
and say, yeah, bro, we won a trophy. They was like,
what are you doing here? But for me, I did
it the first time. I felt like I didn't do
it right. Now I'm gonna do it right. You gonna
see me with that trophy dog And I got a
lot of pictures with that trophy.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Just like anything in sports. And I said this to dudees,
nobody could ever take away from that.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah, nobody could.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Take the fact you're a league play away from Nobody
ever take the fact that you're a Super Bowl champ
away from you. How else are you wear your rings?
Speaker 7 (21:32):
I don't have them on now, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I know right, we're gonna we're gonna wrap up, Jonathan.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Yeah, I want.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
To brush you though.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I want to You got a foundation, Yeah, give us
the elevator pitch on that.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Yeah. Well so it comes from the camp.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I've been doing the full Progress camp Jonathan Cy's four
Progress camp, and I'm taking this thought process. I went
to a camp fifteen years ago I saw, I said,
I want to do my own camp. But I want
to deliver a message. I want to inspire. I want
to provide hope for people that look like me. So
my camp is not a football camp. And I tell
the kids right away, I said, this is not a
football camp. But you see the kids like what I
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said this is a football camp. This is a leadership camp.
When you come into this camp right away, we got
a keynote speaker. They're dropping jewels and they're getting you
prepared to go to class to learn because we're trying
to We got life skills courses in the morning. So
we got eight life skills courses. We fly people from
all around the world, professionals, NFL players, coaches, doctor Jim Welter,
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the first female coach in the NFL, to speak to
our young ladies, like, we have people coming in, Johnathan
Vilma doing public speaking. John de Vilma's not talking football,
he's talking public speaking because he's on Fox. So for me,
I want to show these kids' motivation, hope, and through
the facility of football, provide a platform for them to
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have success. And I don't care about football. I care
about the kids. I care about what they do. My
claim to fame with my camp, I taught thirteen it's
how to catch in the last two years. Yeah, football players.
These are not football players we're talking about. These are girls.
These are special needs kids. These are self contained class kids.
And mine claiming fame for my camp. I taught thirteen
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kids how to catch the last two years. What's it
called the four Progress Camp and the four Progress Foundation
is when I'm spinning off of the camp and that's
my deal.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Go off the mic, drab a hat.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I know you gotta go to the next one.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
All right, all right, all right, welcome back to bring
the Juice.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm your host, Frank Dalaana. We got Nebraska's own dash hutmaker.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He does make huts and.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Tackles, yeah, in sacks. So we appreciate you coming on
bringing the juice.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Yeah, absolutely, help to have you here.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Let's just start off with My first pasotball game ever
was against Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Oh okay at Nebraska's and we stayed in.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Like forty five minutes away. There was a Cabella's next
to the parking lot.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah, so you guys are in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
It was the first time I ever seen in Cabella's
in real life, which was a big deal for me
because that was our magazine growing up.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I remember we.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Drove by the practice facility and I was like, well,
it's a cool stadium, and we drove past it and
then you walk in to the actual stadium, You're like,
hey man, this is some this is a big piece
of equipment, big building.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
The passion it takes to play at a place like Nebraska,
the atmosphere, the sellouts. How is what was the process
that made you say I'm gonna go be a corn Husk.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, so started getting recruited there my first offer, actually
in my first FBS offer, got recruited, went there. You know,
you go to a game day down there, it's freaking
it's crazy. It's a madhouse. Like it's selled out every week,
no matter who we're playing, no matter how we're doing. Like,
the fans are there, they're having a good time, they're tailgates,
(24:57):
they're just crazy. I mean, it's it's madness Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
My folks had a good time washing play.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Yeah, I can imagine. But yeah, you went there, loved
the staff, you know, love the people. I was gonna
be around a lot like home from small town South Dakota.
So just five hour, quick, five hour drive down to
Lincoln just kind of kind of fell in love with
it felt like home, and uh yeah, I love playing there.
Would have rather been nowhere else than Nebraska for the
last five years.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Just sick culture.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, what about one thing I was always impressed by
was your spring game still sells out.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Yeah, like there's you know, it's like it's it gets unbelievable,
Like you watch other spring games on TV. They paying
the crowd, there's like it's two thousand people. Yeah, like
it's empty. And then you know they put tickets out
to put tickets on sale for our spring game and
it's like, damn near sold out after like the next day,
like everyone everyone just say, I mean, we don't have
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the we don't have the pro team in Nebraska. There's
no proteins around, you know, Chiefs are the closest one.
So Nebraska football is what Husker fans just have, like
they love it. They show up every single week, every
all the time. Like our fans are insane when it
comes to just showing up to everything they sell. At
the volleyball they just broke the attendance record for wrestling
here last week or the week before, Like it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Who's okay, this is a good question.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Would you rather have played college football this last season
like this era or ten years ago?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Uh, ten years ago? Probably?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Why?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I just feel like, you know the type of player
I am, gritty in the trenches, just taking things on.
I think that fit me better. But obviously I love
playing football. Any chance I get to play football, it
doesn't matter. I'm going to play this game as long
as I can. So it obviously changes every year, different things,
different wolves, whatever it is. But I just I just
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love playing football.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I like football, guys. You like football guys. That's why
we're getting along so well. I feel like, yeah, is
there a player or a coat on your journey at
Nebraska that really elevated you.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
To that next level? Yeah, I would say, uh, coach
Ta Knight, Terrence knighton pot roast. You know, the guy
played in the league forever, one of the when he
was playing, he was the best or one of the best,
if not the best knows in the league. He was
last two seasons, he was my position coach. And I
mean that guy, that guy made me such a better player.
(27:24):
From teaching me the mindset, teaching me how he played,
what helped him, you know, all those things. That guy
definitely made me a lot better football player. Just elevated
my game to a whole new level.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Nosh, do you have the juice?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Yeah, I would say so. I mean, I'm I'm not
the kind of guy that's gonna sit here and I'm
not Like when we're at doing whatever, I'm not I'm
not bringing the juice. But when I'm out on that field,
like the switch flips right. Like you get out there
and then you just you, you wouldn't even you wouldn't
recognize me when me and our other d tackle Tyrob
(28:00):
t Rob, when we got rolling like we were just
we were playing with our heads on fire out there, man,
We're just flying around. Just yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
How would you define chasing greatness?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I think it's just I think it becomes almost a
way of life. You know, how you look at things,
how you approach everything in your life, whether it's football practice,
whether it's schoolwork, whether it's waking up in the morning,
Like everything you do, you're doing it for that purpose.
Just become better and better and keep elevating yourself as
a player, but elevating yourself as a person as well,
because every every I think everything ties together.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
The combine, pro day, the draft process, you're gonna get
asked some cuckoo questions different people.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
They're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Finding angles on you.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You've got a gauntlet of questions to help prep you
for that.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
All right, Okay, all right here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Let's start with the lasagna one. I have one lasagna.
I put another lazagnia on top of it. How many
lasagnia is this?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
There?
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Now a bigger lasagna?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Okay, what is the biggest animal you can take on
in hand to hand combat?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Mountain lion?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Whoa?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Why? I just I mean, you know, that's just what's
your strategy there? I don't know. I think did you
just dig yourself? No? I think the strategy is is
I mean, those things are they're fast, Yeah, but no,
I think I could get it done. You know, I'm
(29:36):
not gonna be able to just run out the thing.
It's way faster than I am. You're gonna play defense, Yeah,
you're gonna have to play defense. You're gonna make the
first move you're gonna take. You're gonna have to catch him.
He's gonna he's gonna go for it. He's gonna miss
You got it that first initial Yeah. No, you're gonna
have to take some shots on this one. No, exactly. No,
(29:57):
it's we're both gonna be in rough shape afterwards.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I respect that answer. All right.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Last one, you're on your way to the game. You
have not had pregame meal. Yet your coach gives you
twenty dollars and says, go get your pregame meal from
seven to eleven.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Where are you buying from seven eleven pre game meal?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Probably? I mean probably just something. I'm probably going like
a I might just get a couple of roller dogs,
like straight up roller.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Just glizzies, just glizzies.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Let me walk into the d be like, how many
glizzies can I get for twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Well, I'm gonna get something to drink. Probably get it
like get do get you know, get something to watch
it all down.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But I forgot one thing. I just I remember this.
Now you have a wrestling background.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I do.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're dual sport?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, for last year.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
I was.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
One of my best friends at Fresdo State. His name
is Josh Hokey.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
He was dual sport at Freslo State. He played full
back for US and wrestling heavyweights. I think he made
it to SEMIS in the national tournament.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
He lost to one of the Penn State guys.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Imagine that. Yeah, they're pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Just the mindset of having to flip the switch as
a two scored athlete at that level, how challenging.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, No, it's super challenging. You gotta you know, it's
wake up in the morning, go to football lifts. I
was going to football lifts at going in there at
six you see, like six six thirty. After football list,
I'm heading straight over to wrestling practice.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
To go to wrestling practice at like eight thirty nine o'clock,
go in there, get rewarmed up and just you know,
roll around the room for I don't know, depending on
the day, but long time, what seemed like a very
long time. Get done with that, Go go back to
the football facility doing my recovery tubs all that, and
then go back in the afternoon. You know, I had
(31:58):
to cut a lot of weight for that obviously. Yeah,
from three thirty to two eighty five, wow, to get
down at so I'd go back in the afternoon, hit
a bike work out for hour or so, burn a
bunch of calories there. Then the nutrition side of things,
you had to really lock in on that, watching what
I'm eating, when I'm eating that, doing all that. So
it was it was definitely a challenge at first, but
(32:19):
once I got into my routine and just started rolling,
you know, went in wrestled, qualified for the national tournament,
hadn't wrestled for three years, just decided to give it
a shot and went out, got six that Big ten
tournament and qualified for nationals. So yeah, it was It
was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Is it harder when you're playing both to cut that
weight or to put it back on anything?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Cutting the weight for sure for me. You know, I've
always been able to put weight on, but cutting the
weight was definitely a bigger challenge for me.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Nash, I appreciate your time. Brother. We'll make sure to
play what's your Instagram? We're gonna do a click plug.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
The Polar Bear six oh five.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Where did the polar Bear come about?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Just a nickname I got kind of started in high school,
something like the wrestling parents just called me in. Then
when Husker fans heard about it, you can imagine they
just ran just ran, Yeah, I mean yeah exactly, So
I just they were running with it, so I just
ran with it too.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Nash. Appreciate you. We'll be sure to plug you.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Best of luck and blessings and safety on this journey
and good luck to speak.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Yeah, thank you for Christma
All right, all right, all right, welcome to Bregnant Josh.
We are here in session two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Right now, my man, let's just get into Boise State.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Okay, the year you had as a team.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Take me through that roller coaster of emotions all leading
up to the collegeot ball playoff.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Absolutely, I mean, we always set a goal to ourselves.
We wanted to accomplish something that we've never done. If
we wanted to win a male championship back to back.
We wanted to make the college football Playoff. We went
again a number three seed, so we really set everything
that we wanted to set unless we just didn't win.
We didn't finish pretty well, but I mean, God has
(00:42):
a plan for all, so of course, but we all
wanted to. We accomplished everything that we said that we're
gonna accomplish. Have a number three seed. It was a blessing.
Winning let's championship back to back.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I get it, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Playing in a playoff game and having that environment it was,
it was.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It was awesome. It was an awesome experience.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I gotta ask.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Being a fellow Mount west Man Pack twelve, Maan, I'm
sorry the Penn State.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Environment I've heard about it. How was it from a
player's perspective?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Electric? It was awesome.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We played so we played at the Fiesta. It was
like half and half about our fans. Bronco Nation came
and turned out, like I think. It was the loudest
seven the loudest noise I ever heard in the game.
After my sack, after I got my sack and I was.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Celebrating turn Oh it was. The juice was hot.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I have the video for it.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's it's it's insane, man, and you see everybody, this
is the loudest stadium that ever.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It was an awesome Like words, can I can put
words in the I can't. I can't put it into words.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You can't like the emotion.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Oh it was. It was an awesome It was an
awesome feel. This is why I play football, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So it's it's the most electric thing on planet Earth.
Like it's the closest thing to war.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We have abandoned brothers coming together and really at the
end of the day, it's saying, I man, let's go tell.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
To tell blow. That's all it is. Yep, dog fights,
dog fights. I love that. So your hometown is listed
in Egypt. Yep, tell me about your Egyptian roots.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Man, it's uh, it's it's in me. You know. It's
like I I moved to the States when.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So I was born here, left when I was six
h to Egypt, and then stayed.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Ten years in Egypt.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, So I learned the culture.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
My family is from Useu, mom and dad from Egypt.
Learn the culture, learn the toughness of how to be
an Egyptian.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Learn how to speak Arabic.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Learned about the Pharaohs, learn about the pyramids, learn.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
About all that.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I tell my bucket list to see the Pyramids. Man,
if you go, I have to, you have to go.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You have to call me, you have to. But it
was an.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Awesome experience just to be there and listen and learn
my roots.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And right the food fire oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Oh yeah, all right, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And then you come back to the States. At what
age did you get introduced and start playing football?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Sixteen sixteen when my brother came, Uh, he visited me
and he saw me and he was like, come.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Play football for me.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And at that time I didn't speak any English.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
To play any football, you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Didn't speak any English, you didn't play any football, and
he's like, moved to the United States and complay football.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yep, So did you move here? You moved to the
United States to play football in high school?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yep. Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And then that's Destiny, baby, I know, I know, he's
not God, He's not God has a plan, of course.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I mean, it's it's amazing what he's done in my life.
I'm so grateful for him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Wow, So end up in boys, But about you talked
about a coincidence though, Like Spencer Danielson played with my
brother at PacifiCan College. So I was getting recruited and
showing my brother like, but he stayed recruiting me, Like.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
He was like, wait, I know that guy, it's my boy.
You're talking about a small.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
World amount away from the Egypt to here. It's it's
just an amazing And then end up at Boise State.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's it's why was Boise State? You're deciding the choice.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I felt like this is the most place I'm gonna
have most the most development.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I felt that this is the most place that I
can co play right away and learn how to be
a man and just learn about life and learn about
God and I felt really connected because it's just a
small world for me to come all the way from
Egypt to play football, to not know any English, to
go to camps, to spend solanas and text me on
Twitter tell me like yeah, I love your film to
(04:34):
show my brother and he was like, wait, I played
with that guy you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, I mean everything like that.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So I felt really connected to be here, and it
was the best decision I ever made.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'm I'm very happy for you.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Is there a player or a coach on your journey
that's helped you get to this point today.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Absolutely, Coach Mitch Osen. That's my high school coach. He's
he's the guy that's taught me how to be like
a man, how to be how to what's the values
of man? You know, what's the integrity of a man,
what's the respect of a man? And he taught me
everything about life with Spencer taught me everything also about life.
(05:17):
My coach, Jabrill, my position coach, my brother. So I
had so many mentors on, so many people to look
up to that I'm forever grateful for.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You know, one of the keys to success is surrounding
yourself by a good group, people are gonna elevate you
forward rather than drag you down. Absolutely, how would you
define chasing greatness?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
You find chasing greatness?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
We asked the hard questions.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, absolutely, keep me at it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Sometimes you get discouraged, and sometimes a day can look
the same. You know what I'm saying, Some days are
the same days. But if you stay truly to who
you are and keep grinding it out and being the
best person you can be, and every day even if
you can only you can't give one hundred percent today,
but you can give fifty per you can't give sixty,
(06:04):
you can't give seventy.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
And you give your best every single day and every
day every day you'll.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Keep coming and attacking it and asking questions and learning
and following God and following your journey.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'm trusting it to work out. Hey man, mat brother,
do you have the juice?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, absolutely, Please elaborate.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I have the juice.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Do you have the juice?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I do have the juice?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
In what way, shape and forms?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Line me up against somebody and you'll see raw.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
All right, I'm in in this process leading up to
the league. There's combine questions, there's pro day questions. GM's
are gonna ask you questions. Sometimes they're at a little cuckoo, right.
I have a gauntlet for you to go through to
prep you for this, because I'm a really good guy.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
If you have one lasagna and you've stack it on
top of another lasagna, you have one lasagnia.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Or two lasigners, okay, two designs.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's a hot take. What do you mean Lazangnias are layers?
How does that just become a higher layer?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's like lazagna. Okay, say it got kind on top
of another was on?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
A Lazanni is layers apostas.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, you just have one big Lazangian.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You have one big lasagnon.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, okay, but technically you added to lasagna. So it's
saying you feel like, okay, how many places of food
you have?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
There's two?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, you went, you went in the first round, got
one plate of food and you got a second and
you got the same amount of food.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
How many food do you have?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
How many places of food do you get?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Two?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So a GM would accept that answer.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know what I'm saying, second one, what's the biggest
animal you can take on in hand to hand combat?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
The biggest I feel like I can take out of kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Bro, That is the most used answer, right, everyone thinks
they could take on a kangaroo.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
What if they roundhouse you? You know how powerful kangaroos.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
But if if you think about it, if you like
run us as you can and you speir it head shoulder,
but you like layout and you spear it almost cup.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Blockheads exactly get it down choke hold and if you like,
go to a beeB on his you're probably gonna roll.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They're not alligators, Yeah they're not, but if they have
like small next they're kind of blunt.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, yeah, it might be hard to choke out. Yeah,
that the smallest comfort. I feel like a kangaroo could
for sure sneak out.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Of a choked Damn.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I don't know, but no hard questions, bro, Yeah I
think I can't take out k all.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Right, Okay, last one.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You're on the way to a game, you haven't had
pregame meal, yell, the bus breaks down, Your coach gives
you twenty dollars. It tells you to go into seven
eleven to get your pre game meal. What are you
getting for pre game meal for seven eleven?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That's a good question. Well what's the seven eleven half?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's your local seven eleven. I'll give you it's a
bois He's seven eleven boys seven.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, so I'm going too Jackson's.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Then gotta go seven eleven. Can't change the question, can't,
can't chase the question. I know they've got seven elevens
out there. Yeah, we actually don't, but they have them
in Egypt.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We have mobile No, but seven eleven.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I think I will get I'll give me a get.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Ride, will color her blue? Okay light blue? Of course?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well boo, and I'll get me an apple banana.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I don't give me this a sandwich?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, you're going standard.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, I'm basically I'm not gonna get like a beef
steak or tipped or any of that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Some guys have some crazy answers.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Man, what was the craziest answer?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We had skittles with like Bojangles and Red Bull.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I'm might a rain though.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Some crazy cats out there.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, nah, I can't those kittles before you get remember
mid game, let's get on.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, all right, well, a man, I wish you the
best and the rest of this journey.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Thanks for coming on bringing the Jewish.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
What's your Instagram I'm met one.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Make sure we collab tag you have the people follow you.
Good luck on this journey, good luck this week. Please
take a hat. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
All right, all right, all right back here on the radio.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Johnathan, let's just get right so you just catch you
in your Wisconsin Dave.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
What let you playing at Wisconsin?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
So I'm a Jersey boy right in Wisconsin. You talk
about a culture shock like I never was, Like I've
never had a white peer wow. At that time, you
know nothing against where I'm from. I'm from New Brunswick,
New Jersey. The demographic is now it's like ninety percent Hispanic,
but back then it was fifty to fifty Hispanic and black,
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and there was like no white people at I get
to Wisconsin and we would literally joke every single day like,
have you seen any black people today? That was the
running joke, and the answers would be, yeah, I saw
one by the Union South earlier. It was yeah, but
probably an athlete, some athletes somewhere right. But when I
took my visit, I was there in the winter time,
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in the cold. It was old, and it was the finals,
so it wasn't like popping, you know, at the night scene.
But it just felt like the right place to be.
I was like, I could I could do this, be
a guy.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
You could be here.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I could play against Old State and Michigan, you know
what I mean. Like it wasn't the biggest school. Maybe
was the biggest school at the time. I had other offers,
but I never felt the way I felt on any
of the visits. Besides, when I went to Wisconsin, I
felt like I need to be here.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I consider it a blue blood program man, that's culture.
And again I went playing at fresid C.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I'm from Fresnoe, so I grew up. I want that.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
That was that was my from place to play. Too.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Great place Rockett, Yes it does Rockett.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's easily best team on the West coast. Maybe Oregon,
maybe Washington win them good.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
But but the fans, though y'all fans are different.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
They're close to Raiders fans, the very close to there are.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
They are Raiders fans. They used to drive to Oakland.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
So let me tell you something about your stadium right
where the where the locker room was.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It's like a mile walk.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Broak that red walks and they're talking so much like
I've never been cursed out by grown men until that game.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
There's a gang in Fresnol called the Bulldog Gang, I bet,
and they they were there for sure that day the games.
And every year you don't drink a fall camp like
people come and talk to you. Every The sheriff would
come to us and the district attorney once every fall
camp and warn yea And they said, because you'd go
to the mall in our team issue. But they had
the same logo on for the gang. It's this they
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they just buy the college birks, bro.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
So you get a close.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Man, I was a white whiter here. All my boys
are all block.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You go to the mall and they say you got
to put your hands up like this to say.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I play ball. I'm not. Every five years they told
this speech, bro, every time.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
So that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
So yes, your experience there as it came to a
close going into the draft.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
From my understanding, you had an injury.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Yeah yeah, so you ended up.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
With the Saints. But going into that draft, with the injury.
What was the feelings, what was the vibes?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Did you feel like, you know, I don't want to
say you got cheated or or or or shorted, but
you did get shorted.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
A little bit. I did. I did.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
How was that process?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
It was? It was rough? It was it was really rough. Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
You know, going into the draft process, you know they
got the projections. I was a projected second to fourth
round pick.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
My first phone call during the draft was after the
fourth round and it was from New Orleans. And then
I got a call from Tampa and it was going
back and forth between the two and I went undrafted
and I was pissed. Yeah, I was pissed at New Orleans.
I was pissed a temple because they called.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
You could have taken you. They wanted you for right.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
So I was pissed after the draft, and for me,
I had to decide between the two. And that's the
only great thing about going undrafted when you're supposed to
get drafted, is you actually actually have a choice now.
So I weighed my choices. It was New Orleans and Tampa.
Tampa was giving me four x signing bonus, but it
wasn't for I didn't want to play in the league
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for thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Play in the league for at least three fifteen because
that was the league minimum I have to make the roster.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I wasn't trying to make thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Bro, We're trying to be active.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
So for me, the thought process was I looked at
the Saints roster. There was a lot more linebackers, a
lot more competition, but Jonathan Villma was there. He was
underneath the same agency as I was, and I already
spoke to him, and I felt like I could kind
of go to the little brother role underneath Vimba, which
it ended up working out. I'm little brother for Joona
Dean Villma for twenty years now and I got to
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talk to him all the time.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
But I made the choice, and it.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Was the right choice because I had an opportunity one
place and the other place, and I didn't choose the money.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
I chose the better opportunity in right thing.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
That's huge, and I asked that too.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I got a brother who's he's gonna be in this
year's draft class.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Okay, he's he's gonna make it.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
He's gonna make a.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Raw, raw white boy wide receiver.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Okay, but we're going through this process receiver. I love
I love it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So it got to the point though, where like I'm older, bro,
he's screenshot and agents reaching out and I'm kind of
going through this brotherly manager process, right So, and I'm
constantly interviewing league dudes. You know, I got still buddies
that I play with that are still in the league,
So I got that reference as well. So it's just
unique for me to ask that question on the daylight
today because.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Everyone's Journey's friend.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, certain agencies they want to promise you certain you're
gonna play in the Reces, You're gonna play in the
East West, You're gonna be a third round Like if
you run this forty yard dash, you're probably gonna be
successful there winning the grand scheming things.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Every ever, ever in their draft day does not go
how they think it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, ever, and it's the most stressed, just like, I mean,
the only dude, honestly, I interviewed Ryan Leaf yesterday and
he knew Peyton manning Wood he's gonna be one, and
he was gonna be too.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I'm sure you could say the same, like Kayleb Williams probably.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Knew he was gonna be right. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
And a Haystack.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You go to the Saints undrafted, pissed. Now you're on
the most Saints.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, and you want a Super bowls a rookie and
that was a big year for this city.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
That we're in.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Take me through that rookie season and then we'll dive
into the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I mean, the rookie season was incredible. Like, you know,
I don't know what's going on here, Like I just
showed up. I gotta go against Reggie.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Bush, that's good.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I gotta go against Drew Brees. I saw Coaston outside.
I gotta go against Marcus Colston. You know, I'm young,
I don't know anything. No one expects anything from me
at all. And as the year goes on, we went
thirteen and oh to start the season. Team you got
the juice right, and I'm I'm undrafted. I wasn't supposed
to be in this position, but I'm I'm vying for
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a starting job at this point. I'm pushing the starters
because I'm active in the meeting rooms I'm playing good ball.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
I'm balling on special teams.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
And I'm they're trying to play me, right, And at
the end of the season, I ended up starting a
couple of games and playing very well. But like, you
never truly and I didn't. I didn't understand the like
how high we were as a team, like how historical
that run was. You don't know when you're in it now.
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You don't know that the Saints never going to get
back to the super Bowl. Well they haven't to this day, right,
You don't know that when you're living it, you know.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
But I did it twice.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
So the second time around, I try to do better, Yeah,
and have more memories, right, because the first pictures in
the first season was a blurb because it was so
much stuff happening and I was just trying to take everything.
I'm trying to be a pro while making a playoff run.
I'm trying to recoup that that draft loss. Yeah I
didn't get drafted.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
I'm trying to.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Recoup that playoffs, you know what I'm saying. But it
was it's a surreal feeling. It's a surreal feeling playing
in the super Bowl. That's one of my super Bowl
brothers right there. Brandon Bolden, my guy for the Patriots.
But like you know, when I see guys like that,
that's family because we will forever be linked because we
have a ring together. Of course is the Patriots super
Bowl forty nine, but my my, my brother's from the
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Saints will forever be linked. I saw Drew Brees a
couple of years ago at a golf ouder. He gave
me a big hug. I was like, who's this. I
ain't seen him. I was like, Drew, what's up?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Give me a big hug. Mind you, I'm undrafted. It
is Drew Brees. Me and Drew Brees are family forever forever,
and no one can take that from us.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Super Bowl, bro, you become linked with these guys in
history forever and no one can take it from us.
You get it. You you you played the game. I
get it, But but that part of it, you don't
understand it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Two years this, I was gonna say, like the super Bowl,
it's so unique to ask that question because we're here
this week.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
It's Radio Row, but.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
It's it's this is this isn't just a game, like
it took me this for last year on Radio Row. Yeah,
and again, my my whole family's played ball my entire life.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
This is not just stuff game, bro, This isn't av This.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Is probably the biggest sports event in the United States
of America every every year. Yeah, and it's not just
oh yeah, two o'clock on Sunday. I want to make
a Freedo boat crack A couple of the boys, fill
out some squares.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
And again I.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Got all my boys here who played football Freenside State.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I just plugged brought him this week, I said, where
your juice?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Merch?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Pat called for some dude. Let's get some guys.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You know, it's the gram count up and they're lovey.
And my thing is this, here's my thing. I tried
to tell him. I said, Bro, I know we're not
playing in it, but this week, if you just like football,
if you like competition like it feels, it feels like Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
It's different.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
So how you know your your journey continued? You bounced
to Tampa.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
He went to New England at one other Super Bowl.
How was that second Super Bowl different than the first?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Well, like I said, the first time around, I didn't
know anything. I don't have no pictures of me with
the trophy or anything that first bowl.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
So the second time around, right, the second time around.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
I gets a photoshot ai if you.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Rewatched that game, right and you see where they bring
out the trophy. Kurt Warner brought out the trophy. If
you watch it, exam, Yeah, it's for New England. If
you watch it, I'm the.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Right first right there.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
I made sure that I was the first one.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
So when he brought it out, no fingerprints on the trophy, no.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Kiss smarts on the big as that out of your
house right now, my lips.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I was the first one to touch it, the first
one to put my hands on it. And me and
that man right there and Luke Garrett Blunt and it
was somebody else too. We took the trophy after everybody
touched it and took it around the whole stadium on
the cart. You can look it up hopefully y'all put that.
Put that picture up.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
It's all of.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Us holding up the trophy taking around the stadium. I
even crashed NFL Network while Revers was doing an interview
and say, yeah, bro, we won a trophy. They was like,
what are you doing here? But for me, I did
it the first time. I felt like I didn't do
it right. Now I'm gonna do it right. You gonna
see me with that trophy dog And I got a
lot of pictures with that trophy.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Just like anything in sports. And I said this to dudees,
nobody could ever take away from that.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah, nobody could.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Take the fact you're a league play away from Nobody
ever take the fact that you're a Super Bowl champ
away from you. How else are you wear your rings?
Speaker 7 (21:32):
I don't have them on now, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I know right, we're gonna we're gonna wrap up, Jonathan.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Yeah, I want.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
To brush you though.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I want to You got a foundation, Yeah, give us
the elevator pitch on that.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Yeah. Well so it comes from the camp.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I've been doing the full Progress camp Jonathan Cy's four
Progress camp, and I'm taking this thought process. I went
to a camp fifteen years ago I saw, I said,
I want to do my own camp. But I want
to deliver a message. I want to inspire. I want
to provide hope for people that look like me. So
my camp is not a football camp. And I tell
the kids right away, I said, this is not a
football camp. But you see the kids like what I
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said this is a football camp. This is a leadership camp.
When you come into this camp right away, we got
a keynote speaker. They're dropping jewels and they're getting you
prepared to go to class to learn because we're trying
to We got life skills courses in the morning. So
we got eight life skills courses. We fly people from
all around the world, professionals, NFL players, coaches, doctor Jim Welter,
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the first female coach in the NFL, to speak to
our young ladies, like, we have people coming in, Johnathan
Vilma doing public speaking. John de Vilma's not talking football,
he's talking public speaking because he's on Fox. So for me,
I want to show these kids' motivation, hope, and through
the facility of football, provide a platform for them to
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have success. And I don't care about football. I care
about the kids. I care about what they do. My
claim to fame with my camp, I taught thirteen it's
how to catch in the last two years. Yeah, football players.
These are not football players we're talking about. These are girls.
These are special needs kids. These are self contained class kids.
And mine claiming fame for my camp. I taught thirteen
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kids how to catch the last two years. What's it
called the four Progress Camp and the four Progress Foundation
is when I'm spinning off of the camp and that's
my deal.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Go off the mic, drab a hat.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I know you gotta go to the next one.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
All right, all right, all right, welcome back to bring
the Juice.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm your host, Frank Dalaana. We got Nebraska's own dash hutmaker.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He does make huts and.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Tackles, yeah, in sacks. So we appreciate you coming on
bringing the juice.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Yeah, absolutely, help to have you here.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Let's just start off with My first pasotball game ever
was against Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Oh okay at Nebraska's and we stayed in.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Like forty five minutes away. There was a Cabella's next
to the parking lot.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah, so you guys are in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
It was the first time I ever seen in Cabella's
in real life, which was a big deal for me
because that was our magazine growing up.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I remember we.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Drove by the practice facility and I was like, well,
it's a cool stadium, and we drove past it and
then you walk in to the actual stadium, You're like,
hey man, this is some this is a big piece
of equipment, big building.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
The passion it takes to play at a place like Nebraska,
the atmosphere, the sellouts. How is what was the process
that made you say I'm gonna go be a corn Husk.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, so started getting recruited there my first offer, actually
in my first FBS offer, got recruited, went there. You know,
you go to a game day down there, it's freaking
it's crazy. It's a madhouse. Like it's selled out every week,
no matter who we're playing, no matter how we're doing. Like,
the fans are there, they're having a good time, they're tailgates,
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they're just crazy. I mean, it's it's madness Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
My folks had a good time washing play.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Yeah, I can imagine. But yeah, you went there, loved
the staff, you know, love the people. I was gonna
be around a lot like home from small town South Dakota.
So just five hour, quick, five hour drive down to
Lincoln just kind of kind of fell in love with
it felt like home, and uh yeah, I love playing there.
Would have rather been nowhere else than Nebraska for the
last five years.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Just sick culture.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, what about one thing I was always impressed by
was your spring game still sells out.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Yeah, like there's you know, it's like it's it gets unbelievable,
Like you watch other spring games on TV. They paying
the crowd, there's like it's two thousand people. Yeah, like
it's empty. And then you know they put tickets out
to put tickets on sale for our spring game and
it's like, damn near sold out after like the next day,
like everyone everyone just say, I mean, we don't have
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the we don't have the pro team in Nebraska. There's
no proteins around, you know, Chiefs are the closest one.
So Nebraska football is what Husker fans just have, like
they love it. They show up every single week, every
all the time. Like our fans are insane when it
comes to just showing up to everything they sell. At
the volleyball they just broke the attendance record for wrestling
here last week or the week before, Like it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Who's okay, this is a good question.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Would you rather have played college football this last season
like this era or ten years ago?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Uh, ten years ago? Probably?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Why?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I just feel like, you know the type of player
I am, gritty in the trenches, just taking things on.
I think that fit me better. But obviously I love
playing football. Any chance I get to play football, it
doesn't matter. I'm going to play this game as long
as I can. So it obviously changes every year, different things,
different wolves, whatever it is. But I just I just
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love playing football.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I like football, guys. You like football guys. That's why
we're getting along so well. I feel like, yeah, is
there a player or a coat on your journey at
Nebraska that really elevated you.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
To that next level? Yeah, I would say, uh, coach
Ta Knight, Terrence knighton pot roast. You know, the guy
played in the league forever, one of the when he
was playing, he was the best or one of the best,
if not the best knows in the league. He was
last two seasons, he was my position coach. And I
mean that guy, that guy made me such a better player.
(27:24):
From teaching me the mindset, teaching me how he played,
what helped him, you know, all those things. That guy
definitely made me a lot better football player. Just elevated
my game to a whole new level.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Nosh, do you have the juice?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Yeah, I would say so. I mean, I'm I'm not
the kind of guy that's gonna sit here and I'm
not Like when we're at doing whatever, I'm not I'm
not bringing the juice. But when I'm out on that field,
like the switch flips right. Like you get out there
and then you just you, you wouldn't even you wouldn't
recognize me when me and our other d tackle Tyrob
(28:00):
t Rob, when we got rolling like we were just
we were playing with our heads on fire out there, man,
We're just flying around. Just yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
How would you define chasing greatness?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I think it's just I think it becomes almost a
way of life. You know, how you look at things,
how you approach everything in your life, whether it's football practice,
whether it's schoolwork, whether it's waking up in the morning,
Like everything you do, you're doing it for that purpose.
Just become better and better and keep elevating yourself as
a player, but elevating yourself as a person as well,
because every every I think everything ties together.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
The combine, pro day, the draft process, you're gonna get
asked some cuckoo questions different people.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
They're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Finding angles on you.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You've got a gauntlet of questions to help prep you
for that.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
All right, Okay, all right here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Let's start with the lasagna one. I have one lasagna.
I put another lazagnia on top of it. How many
lasagnia is this?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
There?
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Now a bigger lasagna?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Okay, what is the biggest animal you can take on
in hand to hand combat?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Mountain lion?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Whoa?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Why? I just I mean, you know, that's just what's
your strategy there? I don't know. I think did you
just dig yourself? No? I think the strategy is is
I mean, those things are they're fast, Yeah, but no,
I think I could get it done. You know, I'm
(29:36):
not gonna be able to just run out the thing.
It's way faster than I am. You're gonna play defense, Yeah,
you're gonna have to play defense. You're gonna make the
first move you're gonna take. You're gonna have to catch him.
He's gonna he's gonna go for it. He's gonna miss
You got it that first initial Yeah. No, you're gonna
have to take some shots on this one. No, exactly. No,
(29:57):
it's we're both gonna be in rough shape afterwards.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I respect that answer. All right.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Last one, you're on your way to the game. You
have not had pregame meal. Yet your coach gives you
twenty dollars and says, go get your pregame meal from
seven to eleven.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Where are you buying from seven eleven pre game meal?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Probably? I mean probably just something. I'm probably going like
a I might just get a couple of roller dogs,
like straight up roller.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Just glizzies, just glizzies.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Let me walk into the d be like, how many
glizzies can I get for twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Well, I'm gonna get something to drink. Probably get it
like get do get you know, get something to watch
it all down.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But I forgot one thing. I just I remember this.
Now you have a wrestling background.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I do.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're dual sport?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, for last year.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
I was.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
One of my best friends at Fresdo State. His name
is Josh Hokey.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
He was dual sport at Freslo State. He played full
back for US and wrestling heavyweights. I think he made
it to SEMIS in the national tournament.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
He lost to one of the Penn State guys.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Imagine that. Yeah, they're pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Just the mindset of having to flip the switch as
a two scored athlete at that level, how challenging.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, No, it's super challenging. You gotta you know, it's
wake up in the morning, go to football lifts. I
was going to football lifts at going in there at
six you see, like six six thirty. After football list,
I'm heading straight over to wrestling practice.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
To go to wrestling practice at like eight thirty nine o'clock,
go in there, get rewarmed up and just you know,
roll around the room for I don't know, depending on
the day, but long time, what seemed like a very
long time. Get done with that, Go go back to
the football facility doing my recovery tubs all that, and
then go back in the afternoon. You know, I had
(31:58):
to cut a lot of weight for that obviously. Yeah,
from three thirty to two eighty five, wow, to get
down at so I'd go back in the afternoon, hit
a bike work out for hour or so, burn a
bunch of calories there. Then the nutrition side of things,
you had to really lock in on that, watching what
I'm eating, when I'm eating that, doing all that. So
it was it was definitely a challenge at first, but
(32:19):
once I got into my routine and just started rolling,
you know, went in wrestled, qualified for the national tournament,
hadn't wrestled for three years, just decided to give it
a shot and went out, got six that Big ten
tournament and qualified for nationals. So yeah, it was It
was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Is it harder when you're playing both to cut that
weight or to put it back on anything?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Cutting the weight for sure for me. You know, I've
always been able to put weight on, but cutting the
weight was definitely a bigger challenge for me.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Nash, I appreciate your time. Brother. We'll make sure to
play what's your Instagram? We're gonna do a click plug.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
The Polar Bear six oh five.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Where did the polar Bear come about?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Just a nickname I got kind of started in high school,
something like the wrestling parents just called me in. Then
when Husker fans heard about it, you can imagine they
just ran just ran, Yeah, I mean yeah exactly, So
I just they were running with it, so I just
ran with it too.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Nash. Appreciate you. We'll be sure to plug you.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Best of luck and blessings and safety on this journey
and good luck to speak.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Yeah, thank you for Christma
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