September 11, 2025 - Seattle Seahawks Fullback Brady Russell

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, all right, all right, welcome back to bringing
Juice still in Seattle. I got Brady Russell with me.
Appreciate you coming day after a game. Absolutely, we were
just mentioning how great you looked after a postgame press conference.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Kay love that the mustache was popping.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Dude, it looks good. Tell me the store behind the diesel.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Uh, rookie year.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
I just cut it in and Philly because everybody I
got the nickname. It started off Dallas god Her gave
me the nickname Bill because of Bill Russell, uh huh.
And then it just kept transforming. And then they found
out I'm a little Western, so wild Bill comes into
the mix. Okay, and then I think it was my
first punk cover. I went in for like make a
play and come off the field, there's blood running down

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my cheeks, and then it's kill Bill all things. But
I had the mustache cut in and it was a
big hit in the locker room.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I also know you're newly married. Yeah, congratulations. I do
my research. I do my research.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
You're professional here, we're professional here. Gradulations. What's your wife
think of the stash?

Speaker 4 (00:59):
I told her after last night's game. I was like,
I don't know if we can leave now, yes, why not?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I can't leave. I don't think she's a big fan.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I got a dirty I get a dirty flash when
I shave it.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
At Fresboe State, we would do bolstashes.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Full game stash, yeah, or a fall camp fall camp yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
And uh my wife hates it.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I told her for this game, I was like, I think,
you know, I think we go stash for Seattle, Like
it just feels right.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think my brother some juju. Maybe me having a
stash will affect his reps or something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
You know, Oh, he's got a good looking brother. We
should probably give him few mo Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, GM sees.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's like she was like, bring the juice, blue collar, no.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Body inspector FBI.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Like, yeah, so I didn't do the stash, but I
think I'm gonna you're inspiring me. And uh, Pat Hill's
a legendary coach at Fresno State.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
He's known for his Swu man choo.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
And they did like a statue retirement thing for him.
And at the time, I was doing like the radio show.
So for that game, I did a fat Fu manchew
and like I liked it.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I kind of think it looks good, it's sick.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Not everyone could do it.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
I know people think it's like a like no one
actually likes that. Like, I kind of like you.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Got to keep it clean, though, I feel like you
got to.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
You got to make sure you go fresh, shave to
to find it.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
When you got you got the blonde going too.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
That the blonde, I don't know if it's blonde or
red or something. Some people tell me it's red with age.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, with it'll get grave you're savay or something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's awesome. So you start off at Colorado originally it
was a walk on. I was also a walk on
before Scholari. Man, nice.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I think that walk on mentality is different. You either
have it or you don't.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
And I don't know about you, but like.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
When you first started getting to college as a walk on,
it obviously you wish you were on scholarship. But once
you're a walk on, you kind of have that chip,
that edge of like, hey man, I'm I shouldn't be
doing good like you?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
You know, Yeah, tell me your walk on mentality mindset,
the whole just chip you have from being a walk on.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, I think it's funny you say the like You're
never not a walk on after that. I always said that,
and it was almost every year they brought in a
transfer or something in spring would be starting over me
and then obviously by training camp it would flip back over.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
But yeah, that mentality, I think it just never left.
And it was it was cool. It was like a
hindsight thing, like I never understood why, Like God had
me go through the process of being a walk on
and I earned my way and all that kind of thing.
But then it prepared me so well for the undrafted world, right,
and like what to expect it, Like I'm never going
to be the guy that's given anything or like handed

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reps or like you know, I gotta get drafted, and
it's like they get a million chances, but you have one,
and like you better take advantage of it.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, that's the truth, dude.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I I think we were just talking to John and
like I've under enough guys now to where it is
such a thing. And you know, coming from a receiver family,
if a guy gets drafted in the.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
First round and you guys go out.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
And catch ten passes and he drops two, they're gonna
go up something like hey, let's get let's get those.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know, it's all right, it's all right. Undrafted guy
drops too.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
He's out, he's.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Gone, he's gone. Right, But like your margin for air
just becomes so razor thin.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
But you look at what percent of the NFL is
undrafted guys, and it's quite a few. But going back
to college, you eventually worked your way up. You became
a captain.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Is that correct?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yep, dude, I mean I think from walk on, a captain, like,
that's that's peak college right there.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh yeah, how was it one and eleven football team?
But I was a captain.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I wouldn't won an eleven at one point two, So
I get that.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's tough, man. So let's talk one in eleven. I
didn't even have this on my big board. Our one
and eleven year. It was luckily I was a freshman
and we ended up like going ten and four, going
twelve and two.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
The next year we had some great turnaround.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
So I've seen the I've been on the losing his
team in football history at Fresco State and the winningest
team all in the same era. But one and eleven.
People don't realize how much it hurts your soul to
go one and eleven. Yeah, was your team close still
at least?

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like were you guys?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Were the boys still bopping and whatnot? Like you were
what was the one eleven season?

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Like, So I think that's what was kind of cool
about it is we were. So my first three years
were five and seven, five and seven, five and seven,
and like one year we started five and oh and
renumber eighteen in the country and finished five and seven.
So like, I mean, those are also pretty miserable, but
like you get to the point once you start losing
that it's not fun anymore and you're just miserable.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
You don't want to be there.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
But my last year, we h our interim coach stepped
in and brought this mentality like his whole everything he
preaches just joy. And his first game we end up
going to overtime against Cal and winning and crowdstorms of
field our one win. This was the first game, the
first game he stepped in, Okay, so we were zero

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and five. He steps in, we win our first game,
crowd storms of field, crowdstorms the field, which is against
and also we're making fun of us for it, And
I was like, that's actually probably the coolest thing ever.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, but he stepped.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
In and he was carrying that kind of as our mantra,
I guess if you will, and uh, like the team
embraced it so much. And I mean we had so
many freshmen starting, so many young guys. Like, while we
were terrible when we were getting smoked, like there was
a lot of good going on and we were really
close and everything was competitive and like that was probably
the closest knit team yeah, I had at Colorado, and

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I think of that coach had an opportunity to keep going,
that the good things would have happened culturewise for the program.
But obviously it's tough when you are one and eleven
to keep a job.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's hardy.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
We used to have I don't know if Colorado was
like this, but we hit a point and we had
everything like as the games continued to go on, the
pregame speeches get more and more emotional and it ain't simplified.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
It's like do your job, blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
And like we had one where we were like one
to eight at this point, coach was canned interim head coach,
and he's trying to get us fired up, and we
had the best week of practice we're playing air Force,
so triple.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Options that fun.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Be yup man not fun.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
And the message we didn't wear any logoed stuff. It
was like you need to earn like like a night
before the game type thing.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
He made these shirts that said just the just the
number six, seven, eight meant nothing to us and his
only like we canceled all the meetings. The message was
what if I told you if you had to walk
six hundred and seventy eight steps and you'd win this
football game, what would you do? And we were like,

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count every step, count every step. Go out there tomorrow,
count every step. And that was that was the meeting.
It was like a seven minute meeting and we had
to wear those shirts.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Lost. It did not work.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
And then as things developed it it just kept getting
worse and worse.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
But and honestly, be some kind of good ending there was.
It was it was depressing.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
And then and some of them like we had one
we were, you know, first and four on the goal line,
two minutes left, three timeouts, can't get it in, down
down four, can't get it in. It's just like, come on, man,
losing by one. But we had a rule where we

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knew we were drinking after the game. It's either we're
happy drinking or sad drinking.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
We listen to the depressing country music.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
And it was but that team became so and luckily
it wasn't my last year, so we got to develop
like we're not gonna let that but begin, you know,
and it got to use that as as fuel to
the fire.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
But for those seniors, like.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
We did that every year too. We let it happen
every year.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Everyone's got a plan for the post.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I know, yeah, but it definitely teaches you something about
yourself being able to grind and it's not like you
could quit. Yeah right, we're all wired that way, Like
you have to find a way to win well.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
And then being one and eleven like we were. I
knew I wanted to try to make it to the
NFL and I thought I was capable, but like it's
tough when you're on a losing team, like, oh, for sure,
you we don't have an opportunity, Like we had five
different starting quarterbacks that year. Same, they're not getting me
the ball at a very efficient rate. H. I got

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a high ankle spring like week four, so then I'm battled,
like I didn't practice for six weeks, but I start
every Saturday, which is like hard with the like you
go out there and everything is just full speed around you,
like your bullets are flying Colorado.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
So you ended and you missed the prime era obviously,
What like being in Colorado alumn now and seeing the
culture shift, what's your perspective from like being outside the fishbowl?

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Kind of?

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, I mean I think it's really cool, like the
attention they brought to the program, sure, and the talent
they brought in.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I guess I'm just anxious to see what.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
They do with it and if they can sustain it,
truly turn it around and sustain it at right.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, I mean it's hard.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's hard, like I've I've for me, it's hard because like, Okay, Prime,
he he's coached his son at quarterback everywhere he's been
his entire coaching career. Right now, now he's gonna have a
team where he doesn't have sons on it. He's still
gonna put what he can into.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
It and whatnot. And like, you know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
About you, but when I left, they had a coaching change,
and it's just something about like outside noise coming in
that you're used to you know, the foundation of the
culture of the program, whether you're one and eleven, five
and seven or like Colorado had success.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, and he's bringing he's there.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
They're painting different sayings on the walls, like they're changing
the culture.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
And maybe that's what it's. It's it's warranted because you
just went one to eleven. Yeah, but I don't know.
I mean for me, like as an alum, when they changed.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Stuff up and our coach left, he retired, it's just
it's different. And I mean he did it at a
drastic scale. Like did you still have boys that went
through that transition with him?

Speaker 3 (11:28):
And like how.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Did they appreciate it? Like what was the actual inside
inside the locker room? You think vibes for the guys
who have seen the one and eleven and then the
new Prime.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Era, Yeah, I think it was. There's just there's some
stuff that happened to guys that it was an ideal,
Like there was good players on the team even though
they won and eleven, Like people might not understand that,
but like there's one you're good ye, yeah, you're gonna
have good players. So I felt bad for a lot
of guys that just weren't really getting outportunities and we're

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having people just shoved in front of them.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
But like, at the end of the day, that is
kind of.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
How the football world works, Like, yeah, everyone's always trying
to replace you. So it did weed out a lot
of guys that shouldn't have been there. But then there
was guys that was disappointing to see the lack of
opportunity that they had then had to go on somewhere else.
But a lot of them are making good names for
the mid other places, so that's been cool to see.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, and as you mentioned too, like being a walk
on and then leading against now your NFL journey, like
you became an undrafted guy, what was your mindset going into,
you know, the draft process, Like was there an ounce
of you that thought, hey, I might get picked up
late rounds? Did you have an opportunity quick out after
the draft or was it kind of like I got

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it waited out or how'd that go?

Speaker 4 (12:46):
And so this was probably the coolest thing ever I thought.
I kind of thought there's a chance I might go
to San fran late round, okay, and then they drafted
Braydon Willis instead of me in the seventh round and
they'd already drafted cam Lot too in the third rounds
is like, I'm probably not going there, but like there's
chance because we're two different players filling different roles. But
then didn't go there, and then I wasn't. Almost everybody

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was trying to sign me as a fullback, and I
just thought I was more than that. Like I was like,
I'll play fullback for you, but I also can play
tight end. But anyways, i'd like signed with Sam Fran
Like I came out and like I'd talked to their
I don't know front office or whoever it was, and
came out and was like, hey, go Niners.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Told my family everybody's leaving.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
There's probably like forty people there that were all hanging
out just to see what happened.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Kind of everybody's leaving.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
And so my uncle works in the front office in
Philly and he generally he's more dealing with the high
end picks, like the first round or second rounder type stuff.
But he had told me, he's like we already kind
of got our guy, Like this would be a bad
situation for you don't come here, But then they're a
free agent that they had signed.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
He fell through.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
I don't know if he went somewhere else or what
happened with that same kind of deal, though, went somewhere
else and my uncle calls and he's like, buddy, we
got so and so fell out, like we need a
undrafted guy now, uh, and we'll pay you better than
the Niners.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
And it was like it's my uncle and better money.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Yeah. I was like, this is the coolest, Like you're
the fact that you're calling me.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Right now to tell me that.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
So yeah, business.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Then I tell everybody I come back out like, hey,
I'm going to the Eagle Yeah. Yeah, fly Eagles Fly.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
It was funny, but that was super dope experience, like
getting Yeah, like I go there for a rookie Minnie camp.
My uncle picked me up and drove me around town
and showed me all this stuff. So it was really
fun being there with him.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
And I love the room.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
There, uh, the tight end him. So there was a
little bit of sadness when I left, But.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, that was your first experience, uh understand like the
business side of the NFL then.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
How did that go?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Uh? It was good.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Think the you don't realize just how like I mean,
I was about ninety of ninety on the roster right,
so I was getting I think the most plays I
ever got in practice was four, and usually I got
I'll get to and it'd be like backside inside zone
and maybe a pass pro or we're double teaming with
the wing tight ends on a defensive end. Like you're
doing anything hardly in practice, trying to take all the

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special teams roach you can and force yourself in there
and like give good looks so that they see you
popping on tape. But like nobody knew I could do anything.
They just kind of though they thought I wasn't good.
They told me when I got cut that I probably
they didn't know if I'd make it to the first
preseason game type deal. And then the first preseason game happened,

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and I'm like, I think it's into the it's either
into the third quarter, beginning of the fourth. We're playing
the Ravens. I'm like begging the special teams coach. I'm
just in his ear because I know I'm not getting
in a tight end. I'm in the special teams coaches
a year like hey, let me cover, let me cover
kick every single special er of them, Like let me
can I come in and kind of go in. I'm
probably pissing him off, and finally it's like, all right,

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you're in it right guard, next punt good and I
get in there a short set. I just fly down
the field. It's me and the PP next to each other,
just sprinting way ahead of everybody. The returner sort of
makes the PP miss, but the PP gets his hand
out strips the ball, and there's like, right when I
got there too. So then I smoked the returner and

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we get the ball againside.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
The ten fired and.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
I'd come off the field. Yeah, that's everybody's like kill Bill.
That's when that came to life. And then especially like
everybody after that game was like, we didn't know you
could run, And I'm like, whoa, hey, i'n't giving me
a chance to run, Like I'd all do anything you
ask of me. So then after that happens, all of
a sudden, you're getting reps and people are kind of
appreciating what you're doing more right, and you could just

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I mean, you felt the business set, but I still
knew like everybody's goal is undrafted. Guys that makes the team,
but sometimes that's not really an option without injury. Yeah,
and they had their three guys, so like, there wasn't
really space for me to.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Make the team.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
And I knew that, which is fine, but I was
trying to make practice squad and do my thing or
play so well that someone else picked me up, right,
And then that's exactly what happened. I got a call
from Pete on a Tuesday night. He's like, hey, can
you play Sunday? Sure, it's playing the next morning out here.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
It's cool.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
So you go from probably gonna not gonna make Philly
so that you're you're in Seattle.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
There was a week three, so I was on peace
squad for two weeks in Philly and then they activated you.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yep. Wow, that was a crazy experience. It's cool.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
How many days were you in Seattle before you dressed
up dressed out as a Seahawk.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
I mean I got here on a Wednesday morning. They
drove me to the get a physical U dub and
then drove me to the facilities and I literally just
walked in, put on pads and went out and they're like, hey,
your left guard on punt. I'm just starting on a
punt team, starting on at all four special teams. And
then I don't know if because they had three tight
ends already here, three really good ones. Will dis league

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Kobe Parkinson a fan. Yeah, great room. And in the
like process, when I'd done interviews and stuff, Seattle had
told me that, god, we don't really have the room
for another tight end this year. So uh, they were
just planning on those three and then Will got hurt
for a week, so that's why they claimed me.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
They were waiting for an opportunity to bring me over.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
So I show up and I don't know if they're
planning on, Like, you have to be minimum of three
games active when someone blames you, So I'm like, we'll
see what happens after this three weeks. But my first game,
I like, my first punt cover I made a tackle,
second kickoff cover, I made a tackle, and like two
special teams tackles in the game is kind of a game. Yeah,

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you're having a date. So I think that kind of
is what kept me around. After that, It's like, Okay,
he can play.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
The importance of special teams.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Guys don't like unless you know, you unless you don't know,
you don't know, and if you know, you know, Like
that's the secret sauce of making a roster that's a
secret sauce in college.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
And making the bus as a freshman walk on or
something like that.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Right, yeap, when did you learn like, Okay, I need
to be good on special teams.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
This is my way I'm going to make my money.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, there's a coach or.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Somebody kind of get in your ear about it or
a vet.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
It was preached a lot in college. Yeah, and then
once I got to the NFL, Like, I'm sure every
I mean everybody literally everybody says that, yeah, but I
just don't think everybody truly believes it, because the thing
I've noticed is almost everybody just cares about being serviceable
on special teams, like good enough that they can put
you in, but there's almost nobody that's really trying to

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excel at it. And like I don't. I don't really
think of anything special. I'm not like faster than everybody
and stronger than everybody. There's no reason why I should
be really good at special teams except for that I
just care more than other people. So I think that's
still a big facet is like almost every rookie is
probably just trying to be like they want to excel
at their position on offense and defense, and then they

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just want to do well enough on special teams that
they can stick around.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
But if you're the the best on special teams, then
it's gonna find a spot.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
Like there, I essentially got an extra roster spot made
for me last year just to play special teams that
hardly played offense.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, so it's definitely a secret sauce.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
It's it's secret.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
It's really not that.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's it's pretty.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
It's pretty hot at all.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, you eventually did like get labeled as a fullback, right,
What was that conversation? Like you mentioned how you didn't
want to do that originally because you thought, well, you
were more than that. Was there a conversation had where
you're like, hey, Brady, like we want you to be
a fullback.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Who had that conversation? How'd that go?

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (20:58):
No, it was more like it was just kind of
told to me. It wasn't in a bad light though,
Like it was like, you're gonna be doing both. You're
gonna write like that's the beauty of you is that
you can do both and that you aren't limited to
just full back, but like we want you to play
full back because this offense use a fullback a lot
more when Clint first got here, So it wasn't much

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of a conversation anywhere like you have to do this,
but it was just like okay, or I need you
at full back.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I was like, let's do it. Yeah yeah, yeah, brother, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
I love anyway I can form a new role, Like
I mean, I said that earlier about fullback, I guess.
But the thing about fullback in this offense is not
so limited to you're lining up an I formation and
you're running IO against the back or every single.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Player right like we're doing.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
You go off tackle and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
It seems like, have you considered embracing the fullback swag
with like cowboy callar or something like that at any point?

Speaker 4 (21:57):
And I wish I could, but I want to be
live in receiving games still. I don't know if I
could turn my head.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
I feel like the fullback culture is so badass.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
I mean, we we've interviewed the reds O'Neil. He's a
good buddy of a Fresil State guy and uh, you
know low he's like just spooling knowledge of the mindset
of blocking for like LT for so many years, right
and It's really awesome to hear him talk about his

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mindset of like, Okay, I need to I want to
go this linebacker up, I want to go do this
and that, Like.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
I'm either the hammer or the nail on each playing.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
He's like, yeah, no, you got to come downhill, baby?

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Who is like your model fullback that you try to be?

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, when I was talking so much with Sam Fran
and the interview process and stuff, that was well, there's
kind of a lot of things that pointed.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Me to Sam Fran.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
Twenty twenty season, the COVID year, my coach had been
like the tight end assistant and there's some kind of
analyst for Sam Fran. So like all of our teach
tape is George and Juice. And then my comparison when
I was coming was like you could be kind of

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a used check type guy, right, so like it's pretty
much always been used check watch him.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
I mean he's been eight Pro Bowls now, Like, I
not a bad guy to model your game.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
He's a big ring juice guy too. We like, yeah,
like juice a lot. Tell me about duck hunting. Yeah, okay,
I noticed on your page gravitated towards me when did
you get into duck hunting grown up on it?

Speaker 4 (23:38):
No, I didn't grow up on it, but I always
wanted to hunt, like all my childhood. I think eighth grade,
my dad got me on a prong horn hunt, so
I shot at antelope. That was first time hunting. And
then freshman year of going into freshman year of high school,
I've been begging my parents for years to let me
get a dog, and I wanted a German short haired

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point So freshman summer, get the dog. And like my
whole summer is just mowing lawns and playing with my
dog right and training her. Uh So I fell in
love with the process I loved. I just got a
duck dog, a little Chesapeake Bear retriever, but fell in
love first to pheasant hunting and then turned once I

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was sixteen and old enough to drive. Me and one
of my buddies are just like we had to try
duck hunting, Like why wouldn't we? And I mean I
wish someone could you could see our setup our first time,
Like we're in this public place or a river and
grounds covered in snow, and we literally like we didn't
even sit near the river. We went over on like
this bank in a hill and were like, maybe they'll

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come land in this field over.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
No idea what we're.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Doing, no no clue at all.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
And it was I think it was under ten degrees, yeah,
cold cold. We didn't have waiters. No, we have literally
nothing that you need for duck hunting. We just showed
up and we're hoping to shoot some other s guy.
And so then after that we were like, when we
see some other guys there shoot shoot birds and whatnot,
so we're like, we should get into that, we should

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try and figure this out.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
So we're watching YouTube videos.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
And second trip kind of we're figuring it out a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Stoodn't anything.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
And then our third trip, like right at shooting light,
we're sitting there and there's a group of four and
you hear the wings whistling over your head.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
There's dogs, it's a rush.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
This is creet. We got this adrenaline pumping.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
My buddy starts blowing on his call and stuff, and
like we'd never duck on it, so you don't know
how to call shots or anything. And they loop probably
four times, and then they weren't set into the decoys.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Or anything yet.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
But I'm like, they might not come back again, so
I just stand up the bang bang got a double
on my first first time shooting, and uh just like
fell in love with it after that, and there's non
stop just trying.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
To get better, trying to get better.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Well, people don't realize.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
And I'm like my family, we're mainly bird hunters, like doves.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
September one, we smoke doves every year, have to. We
used to shoot.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Pheasants, not as much anymore, but Ducks is big and
like central California, Ducks is pretty big and.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Same. And I don't think.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
People realize, like when it's four in the morning, you're up,
it's gonna be cold.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well, the worst they are, the better.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
The hunting is exactly nobody else is out there, and
you know you're walking out, you got your little all,
You're you're carrying like one hundred pounds worth of crap
most times, like.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah, and if you're walking through water, whatever it might be.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
I always remember thinking, like it's dark, I'm in the
middle of a.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Hole trying to kill birds like this.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
This is like man at this point, But when you
start hearing those birds flying by your head and.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's not quite shoot time yet, drew adrenaline is.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, and then you get one, come in something cup
in wait wait wait, come back around, come back around.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Smoke one. It is freaking lights out the most.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh, it's cool.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
What's the what's your what's your best best duck you
killed so far? You got any bands? Uh?

Speaker 4 (27:17):
No, I haven't shot anything banded. I think the one
I'm probably most proud of is I got a little
duck hunting lease out here with one of my buddies
that actually living in is on his farm right now
because my house like fell apart last week. Oh wow,
So me and my wife are in his camper on
his property, which is pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
But anyway, i'd got.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
For Christmas last year, I got my girlfriend at the time,
I guess, uh camo so she could come duck hunt
with me, and she'd never hunted in her life and
take her out and I think it was her first, No,
maybe it was her second hunt. She shot this nice
like mountable pin toe like six inch sprig. It was beautiful,

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nice but we both did that day, so it was
pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's awesome. It's it's uh hunting with your ladies. It's fun,
but sometimes you're carrying twice as much crap and yeah,
come on now, no I have.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I had a good time, though I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
I was always kind of like, I kind of hope
I don't meet someone that hunts so that it's kind
of my thing I can go do with my buddies.
But I actually loved hunting with her. It was fun
because my buddy brought his wife is me and yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Do you have a dream hunt?

Speaker 2 (28:28):
No.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
He always says something about going to Argentina to shoot ducks,
but I don't know what's in Argentina.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
I've heard, I don't heard. I've heard of the duck one,
but I heard the Argentina dove hunt. It's like.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
It's like guys, they just hand you, they shoot, and
you shoot like six thousand.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
In a day.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah yea.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
And for me, I think that'd be fun. I think
I get tired eventually, Oh yeah, for sure. And I
think about a frenzy, like ducks are flying, the birds
are just flying.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Some days bang like you could burn an hour real quick.
And it's like and I didn't always hunt with a dog,
so sometimes you're your own dog, or you bring we
bring like my little brother cousin or something like that,
like go smoke that smoke that pubb real quick and uh,
I don't know. I mean, that's definitely on my list too.

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I'm not much of a big game guy. I do
think I want to take down a bear one day,
though I did do that. You smoked a bear, Grizzly.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
No, it was just a black bear last fall on
Friday before we played in Miami.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
You smoked a bear on a Friday, then played a
football game the next Sunday.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Have you duck hunted the morning before a game yet? No?
You probably couldn't. You couldn't.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Yeah, yeah, so usually it's Tuesdays, it's our day off,
and I didn't get out there.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Well, John's talking about playing baseball game, then go and
play in a football game, and I'm just like that'd
be a cool two sport act.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
They smoked some ducks and then go, yeah, do so
we have. I think we're gonna make some bring the
Juice duck club hats this year.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
I'm with it.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
We're big on murder.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah so yeah, but hey, Brady, I appreciate your time, man.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
It has been good. Best of luck this year.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
You golf, Uh not really well?

Speaker 4 (30:11):
So I golfed once this year with my uncle in law,
if you will, and my two brother in laws and
I started out. I think the first five holes, I
was like four over and that's really good. It's really good,
super pumped. And I haven't golfed in forever, and I
was pretty good as a kid. But I hit sixth
grade when I was mowing lawns. Had to pay for

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it myself. I was like, I don't want to do
this anymore, so I had to start paying for it.
So I quit then. But after those five holes, dude,
it was like I couldn't even get the ball off
the ground.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
That's just terrible. And it's like, this is why I stopped.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
We'll go duck hut.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah, yeah, I'll go sit in the boat or sitting
in the blind or something.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
We'll get ready. Best luck this year, man, appreciate your
Time'll bring the juice. It's all I got for you.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Mane yeah, man, there's a pleasure.