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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome back Sports Talk ninety nine and five Randy County
in the Threaded Faster studio. High School Media Day is
wrapping up day two in Mobile County. We've had some
of the top athletes in the country through over the
last two days, and that certainly includes the contingent from
Viger High School. Their quarterback is Sammy Done. He's in
the studio with me right now. Sammy, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Man? Doing good? How about you doing great?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Before we talk football, I gotta start elsewhere. What's your
great point average?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Three point nine? That's no good? Yeah, I know it.
Gotta get gotta get one more, gotta get one more?
What went wrong? I think I had a B one? Tom?
What was it in ap us history? O got me?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Got We're gonna be four point zho it got me?
That's impressive, man, sir, I'll just jogging around. That's impressive.
So therefore, after high school, what you're playing?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
My players to play collegiate collegiate ball.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I have a co options right now, still deciding which
one I want to really take. But the collegiate ball
after that, see where the cards play. I have some
desires to be in sports talk, just like you. Have
some desires to be a business owner, management, finance and
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Are What are some of your choices for college right now?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Verbally committed to Army right now, verbally committed Army. Been
talking to some other schools. North Alabama seems pretty interested,
getting in to talk to a Georgia State, Western Kentucky
at a lot of schools.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Coming in late in the fold.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I got hurt last year, sort of kind of threw
it off just a little bit, but I can see
it coming back now.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What about the possibility to go to Army. I was
talking earlier with the kicker from Mobile Christian who's committed
to Navy. Again, very very impressive. If you even get
that opportunity, what do you think about Just you know,
it's not exactly the same college experiences as anywhere else
you could go.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I understand that really what made me would deter me
to do it. The guy who actually recruited me offered
me it was just everything was so fast, everything was
so on time, and I noticed that with Army guys.
So as soon as he offered me, the ball got
rolling in. So he came down for a home visit,
ended up going up for an unofficial visit, like maybe
a week or two later. So I'm in New York
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maybe a week or two later, just visiting the campus.
I love the atmosphere, cool weather, cool place to just be.
So ultimately ended up making the decision.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
When you hear New York, you don't think of what
it looks like at Army, do you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh no, no, no, it's it's it's pretty far off, but
at the same time, it's still kind of close, so
you can still enjoy yourself. But I mean you're in
a part of New York that I mean only Army cadets,
all right, So.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, that beautiful country side, the river and all that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh yeah, that's the stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's just, uh, is really a great atmosphere. Do you
think that super super disciplined way of life? Does that?
Does that describe you?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, sir, I really do, because I think everything needs
to be timed out. I think managed your time. Management
is a big part of my life, just especially being
a quarterback, and discipline is just something that that's not
negotiable at the position. So I mean, that's exactly what
they stand for. So it was a pretty easy decision.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So descrubt me describe me you as a quarterback because
you're an athletic, But I don't know that I would
just call you a you know, athletic quarterback, right, I mean,
how would you?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So I've been playing the position for so long and
so with all that experience has helped me and I
really feel like I've been blessed with a great arm.
I was a pitcher, always was the star pitcher, ace pitcher,
uh to come in help save the games.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Uh. And then just the arm. The arm talent has
always been there for me.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And going into this year, I feel like, what's gonna
what's gonna make the biggest jump is my my alertness.
So really, uh, these pastical years, I know I can
throw the ball over the field, but I wanted to
be on time, on like prompt everything.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I want everything to come out smooth.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I want it to look natural, and so really just
that being my quarterback style, I feel like I'm ana,
i'm ana pick up pick a defensive part. I don't
want to just rely on my athleticism, so I want
everything to be seen natural.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
If he finished the game and you were had a
good game throwing the ball but had zero rushing yards
with it, that'd be good with you.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm completely fine. That's not my job is doing the game.
My job is doing the game. Of course I want
to play up to my standard. But every game is different,
so it is what it is. Some games you might
have to run, some games you might have to create
two run, or some games you got to stand in
the park and take hits, make the throws.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I rememinis about just right down the street from you,
guys at Sara Land. kJ Lacey just completed his great
career before going to Texas. He was one of those
guys where yeah, he's a good athlete, but that was.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That was like, that's not his whole game. Yeah, me
and kJ grew up together. Me and kJ were on
the same AAU basketball team growing up. I mean he
was actually a really good basketball player. But I saw
the jump with kJ two. Like I said, he had
a gift of an arm. But once he started seeing
the field better, once he started more experienced more starts
of games, then you can see, oh the ball's coming
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out quick. Oh he's doing this. He knows where he's
going with the ball before the balls even snapped. So
that's the part of playing quarterback.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Two.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The other thing is that you've got some of this
similar to him, is just that like I'm going to
be the guy in charge, Like I'm confident that we're
going to do the right thing with me in charge. Yeah,
I mean is that something you work on or is
that just like that's who you grew up to be.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Well, the work I put in puts me the confidence
of myself, and I just I show up.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I see the guys. Guys show up every day.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So a guy that works, the guy that's next to me,
that's working hard, that's already talented, but he's working hard,
and then on Fridays, you already know he's gonna play,
play up to his expectation. He has the same expectations
as I have, and that's that's excellence. And the team
goal is obviously a state championship, so everybody's trying to
work to get to that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I can trust in those guys.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Sammy Done is the quarterback of the Viger Wolves. A
very good year a year ago, Sammy. Bittersweet though, I mean,
because you had a good, good year going and then
got injured, and of course the team was was still
really good. But just to talk to you about your
emotions about last season, your junior year.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, it was. It was hard.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean just because of how I was playing. I
mean I was playing at a crazy clip, even for me,
even for my expectations, I was playing really well. I
feel like it came crashing down, but it didn't because
the team kept going. And I'm a part of the team,
so I can't let what happened to me, you know,
impact the team. So I'm cheering on the team. My
wire receiver to step and play quarterback. I'm obviously giving
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him tips. It still ended not how we won it.
I mean we still could have think we got it.
Could we still could have got the job done without me,
I feel like, just with the talent. But I mean
that's why we had this year. That's why you have
another chance at.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Whoop me through what happened when you were the play
that knocked you out for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So, actually, actually I still think it's my fault. So
the play clocks at two. We got the play in
kind of late centernel. The play clocks at too. It's
a big third down. We call it screenplay, and the
screenplay you gotta protect yourself as a quarterback. All the
D line they're coming at you. You see all of it,
and but I didn't. I didn't motion the guy. I
didn't want to delay a game, so I didn't motion
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one of my blockers. And then when it came through,
I got the ball off in time, because you know,
I'm protecting myself.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I got the ball off in I mean little after
I threw it. He pushed me.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I'm already backpedaling. So when I caught myself, I felt
all of it. It all happened in one motion, fell
on my wrist, and as right wrist it was my
throwing rist, was my left rist?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Probably miss the game?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Did you know right away?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Like did it?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Did it really hurt bad? Or was it? What was
the experience?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
My injury never hurt so crazy, It never hurt. It
hurt the night it happened. It hurt the night it happened.
Just not really just pain though, just like really nerves
and stuff because it dislocated. So but like when it
first happened, it wasn't no crack, I heard no click
or anything. It just happened so fast. It happened all
in one motion.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Isn't it crazy? Something like you get hit and it
like man, it hurts like crazy, but you're not injured.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You're not injured. Yeah, it's crazy. I thought.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I thought it was something like that. I went to
the sideline. People were telling me it was a sprain
till I actually tried to grab the football. Till I
tried to grab the football, and that was something I
never felt before. It wasn't a pain, but it wasn't
any strength. I had no strength in my hand, and
with no strength of the football, you can't do too much.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You're too young to remember. Coy played quarterback at Texas
against Alabama. I got the National Championship game and he
got hit by Marcell Darius and like he wasn't hurt.
He wasn't hurting at all, but couldn't lift his arm
up and had to be out of the game. In
the National Championship game, everyon's like, why would you go
back here? It's like, I go back in, I'd be
the worst player in the world. It just couldn't play.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Literally, Yeah, I really I felt that too, because even
my recovery process, I felt like there were times where
I was like, oh, I can go play, but it
wasn't what was best for me because it wasn't really
best for the team. I would go out there and
I'd be limited. I couldn't give everything that I know
I have, So I just ended up sitting it out
a little bit after the season. I mean, I'm one
hundred percent, so I can't wait for this season. It's
(08:41):
been a long time coming.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Did they put you in the cast?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
They put me in a soft cast, so, I mean
after like they really just had to dis like it
was dislocated, so they put it back in place, and
I was really fine. Just the healing process. So I
had a little soft cast maybe maybe maybe like a month,
and then after that it's just rehab, recovery and stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's why that Colt McCoy things so because it wasn't like,
hey he's not tough enough to play.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He can't.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
He physically can't play. You know, if the muscle won't
do it, the muscle won't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. You got to listen to
your body sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yep, that's definitely true. Sammy Done, quarterback of the Viger Wolves.
A lot of returning talent this year at Viger. Just
tell me about the expectation for the Wolves.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh, the expectations always to go fifteen to fifteen and
oh in the state championship game, we preached that, and
I feel like we have we've earned the right to
say that just by the work that we put in
all summer, really all summer, and our guys they put
in work extra. Our guys try to be great. We
got a lot of athletes coming out I have. I
feel like I have one of the best receiving chorus
like to come through, even I had one last year,
(09:40):
but this year, I mean, they're learning, they're learning more so,
they're understanding. And like he said earlier, my wide receiver
he played quarterback last year, so that quarterback, you're not
just responsible for yourself, responsible for everybody. So that puts
him at a way higher advantage when he just goes
back to wide receiver, so he understands field zones, all
types of stuff like that. So with smart receivers and
(10:01):
they're already athletic, I feel like our receiving core and
just the guys around us are really good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You know, you're not gonna play a defense better than
the one you see every.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Day, most definitely, most definitely, I mean, and we challenge
each other. We challenge each other, especially last year last
year was fun at practice. Last year was really fun
at practice. This year we're getting We're getting after it.
So we get the pads on Monday and we'll get
to see a lot more.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
What about your guy, Chicken gar the junior who's committed
Alabama already coming off the edge.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That can't I know, I know, you gotta run full
speed just get a chance to throw the ball, just
to get a chance to throw it. So I mean
he betters me, and I felt we better each other though,
because there's not a lot of quarterbacks. I feel like
that can't that that can see him and still see
down field. So he takes advantage of that. On Friday nights.
It's Friday nights. You have quarterbacks inexperience, maybe haven't played
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as much. He's teeing off on those guys. But at practice,
I'm gonna make it a little hard for him.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Man, if you get like an All American game, you're
not gonna face a guy better than him.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh I know, literally, I mean, because he works, He works,
He's a workerhol and.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You won't ever find a guy more humble than him. Though.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I mean he I mean, he shows up every day
just like any other kid. I mean, and he doesn't
have to do that. I mean, he's going to Bama
in a couple of years, so he doesn't have to
be like that. But that's one thing I really do
appreciate about him, And like I said, that's what makes
practice so fun.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I mean, we're both going at it.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I got to ask you one question. You're open with Blunt.
What about facing Blunt and being part of this rivalry?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, sir, So last year was a different feeling because
I literally never played Blunt before, I nearly played I
never played Blunt like with Viger Blunt and period. So
I mean it was different. So I was like, well,
this is a six A team and we're five a's,
so really it's a six A matchup. But this year
going into it, we know what kind of to expect,
but we know what we have, So we know what
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we the product that we need to put on the
field to win every week, and we know that we
have to play to our standard. Whatever team. It is
not just Blunt, but that game. Of course, it means
a lot more for the city, means a lot more
because it's our rivals. But once we go out there,
we know the standard we have to play.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I bet your mom there tell me your family connection.
You got somebody famous in your family that folks would know.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I wish, I wish. I mean I have.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I have a good support system though I have two teachers.
My parents are both teachers. My dad actually teaches at
the school. He teaches science at the school. My mom
she teaches at She teaches third grade science. So she's
always been around elementary kids. But I mean, sports wise,
they never really expected me to play football. They thought
I was gonna be this really smart doctor, which can
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still happen, still happen, but I mean they never expected
anything with football. So once I got on that, they
got they just jumped on board. They asked, no question,
jumped on board.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
That's really cool, man, really cool. Well, you're you're a
credit to them, man, Yes, credit to Vigra high, credit
to your family. And I hope you get to play
fifteen this year.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yes, sir, most death.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
There you go. Sam me done the quarterback of the
Viger Wolves, and he's working on that three point nine
great port average.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I gotta get it up.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You bring it up.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Save you appreciate you, man, Yes, appreciate.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
We'll be watching this year, including that opener's on a
Saturday night, full stadium, Sammy Done Google A County Media
Day's Day two. I'm Randy Kennedy in the thread at
Faster Studios on Sports Talk ninety nine five.
Welcome back Sports Talk ninety nine and five Randy County
in the Threaded Faster studio. High School Media Day is
wrapping up day two in Mobile County. We've had some
of the top athletes in the country through over the
last two days, and that certainly includes the contingent from
Viger High School. Their quarterback is Sammy Done. He's in
the studio with me right now. Sammy, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Man? Doing good? How about you doing great?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Before we talk football, I gotta start elsewhere. What's your
great point average?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Three point nine? That's no good? Yeah, I know it.
Gotta get gotta get one more, gotta get one more?
What went wrong? I think I had a B one? Tom?
What was it in ap us history? O got me?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Got We're gonna be four point zho it got me?
That's impressive, man, sir, I'll just jogging around. That's impressive.
So therefore, after high school, what you're playing?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
My players to play collegiate collegiate ball.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I have a co options right now, still deciding which
one I want to really take. But the collegiate ball
after that, see where the cards play. I have some
desires to be in sports talk, just like you. Have
some desires to be a business owner, management, finance and
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Are What are some of your choices for college right now?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Verbally committed to Army right now, verbally committed Army. Been
talking to some other schools. North Alabama seems pretty interested,
getting in to talk to a Georgia State, Western Kentucky
at a lot of schools.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Coming in late in the fold.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I got hurt last year, sort of kind of threw
it off just a little bit, but I can see
it coming back now.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What about the possibility to go to Army. I was
talking earlier with the kicker from Mobile Christian who's committed
to Navy. Again, very very impressive. If you even get
that opportunity, what do you think about Just you know,
it's not exactly the same college experiences as anywhere else
you could go.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I understand that really what made me would deter me
to do it. The guy who actually recruited me offered
me it was just everything was so fast, everything was
so on time, and I noticed that with Army guys.
So as soon as he offered me, the ball got
rolling in. So he came down for a home visit,
ended up going up for an unofficial visit, like maybe
a week or two later. So I'm in New York
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maybe a week or two later, just visiting the campus.
I love the atmosphere, cool weather, cool place to just be.
So ultimately ended up making the decision.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
When you hear New York, you don't think of what
it looks like at Army, do you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh no, no, no, it's it's it's pretty far off, but
at the same time, it's still kind of close, so
you can still enjoy yourself. But I mean you're in
a part of New York that I mean only Army cadets,
all right, So.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, that beautiful country side, the river and all that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh yeah, that's the stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's just, uh, is really a great atmosphere. Do you
think that super super disciplined way of life? Does that?
Does that describe you?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, sir, I really do, because I think everything needs
to be timed out. I think managed your time. Management
is a big part of my life, just especially being
a quarterback, and discipline is just something that that's not
negotiable at the position. So I mean, that's exactly what
they stand for. So it was a pretty easy decision.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So descrubt me describe me you as a quarterback because
you're an athletic, But I don't know that I would
just call you a you know, athletic quarterback, right, I mean,
how would you?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So I've been playing the position for so long and
so with all that experience has helped me and I
really feel like I've been blessed with a great arm.
I was a pitcher, always was the star pitcher, ace pitcher,
uh to come in help save the games.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Uh. And then just the arm. The arm talent has
always been there for me.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And going into this year, I feel like, what's gonna
what's gonna make the biggest jump is my my alertness.
So really, uh, these pastical years, I know I can
throw the ball over the field, but I wanted to
be on time, on like prompt everything.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I want everything to come out smooth.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I want it to look natural, and so really just
that being my quarterback style, I feel like I'm ana,
i'm ana pick up pick a defensive part. I don't
want to just rely on my athleticism, so I want
everything to be seen natural.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
If he finished the game and you were had a
good game throwing the ball but had zero rushing yards
with it, that'd be good with you.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm completely fine. That's not my job is doing the game.
My job is doing the game. Of course I want
to play up to my standard. But every game is different,
so it is what it is. Some games you might
have to run, some games you might have to create
two run, or some games you got to stand in
the park and take hits, make the throws.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I rememinis about just right down the street from you,
guys at Sara Land. kJ Lacey just completed his great
career before going to Texas. He was one of those
guys where yeah, he's a good athlete, but that was.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That was like, that's not his whole game. Yeah, me
and kJ grew up together. Me and kJ were on
the same AAU basketball team growing up. I mean he
was actually a really good basketball player. But I saw
the jump with kJ two. Like I said, he had
a gift of an arm. But once he started seeing
the field better, once he started more experienced more starts
of games, then you can see, oh the ball's coming
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out quick. Oh he's doing this. He knows where he's
going with the ball before the balls even snapped. So
that's the part of playing quarterback.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Two.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The other thing is that you've got some of this
similar to him, is just that like I'm going to
be the guy in charge, Like I'm confident that we're
going to do the right thing with me in charge. Yeah,
I mean is that something you work on or is
that just like that's who you grew up to be.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Well, the work I put in puts me the confidence
of myself, and I just I show up.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I see the guys. Guys show up every day.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So a guy that works, the guy that's next to me,
that's working hard, that's already talented, but he's working hard,
and then on Fridays, you already know he's gonna play,
play up to his expectation. He has the same expectations
as I have, and that's that's excellence. And the team
goal is obviously a state championship, so everybody's trying to
work to get to that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I can trust in those guys.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Sammy Done is the quarterback of the Viger Wolves. A
very good year a year ago, Sammy. Bittersweet though, I mean,
because you had a good, good year going and then
got injured, and of course the team was was still
really good. But just to talk to you about your
emotions about last season, your junior year.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, it was. It was hard.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean just because of how I was playing. I
mean I was playing at a crazy clip, even for me,
even for my expectations, I was playing really well. I
feel like it came crashing down, but it didn't because
the team kept going. And I'm a part of the team,
so I can't let what happened to me, you know,
impact the team. So I'm cheering on the team. My
wire receiver to step and play quarterback. I'm obviously giving
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him tips. It still ended not how we won it.
I mean we still could have think we got it.
Could we still could have got the job done without me,
I feel like, just with the talent. But I mean
that's why we had this year. That's why you have
another chance at.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Whoop me through what happened when you were the play
that knocked you out for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So, actually, actually I still think it's my fault. So
the play clocks at two. We got the play in
kind of late centernel. The play clocks at too. It's
a big third down. We call it screenplay, and the
screenplay you gotta protect yourself as a quarterback. All the
D line they're coming at you. You see all of it,
and but I didn't. I didn't motion the guy. I
didn't want to delay a game, so I didn't motion
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one of my blockers. And then when it came through,
I got the ball off in time, because you know,
I'm protecting myself.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I got the ball off in I mean little after
I threw it. He pushed me.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I'm already backpedaling. So when I caught myself, I felt
all of it. It all happened in one motion, fell
on my wrist, and as right wrist it was my
throwing rist, was my left rist?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Probably miss the game?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Did you know right away?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Like did it?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Did it really hurt bad? Or was it? What was
the experience?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
My injury never hurt so crazy, It never hurt. It
hurt the night it happened. It hurt the night it happened.
Just not really just pain though, just like really nerves
and stuff because it dislocated. So but like when it
first happened, it wasn't no crack, I heard no click
or anything. It just happened so fast. It happened all
in one motion.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Isn't it crazy? Something like you get hit and it
like man, it hurts like crazy, but you're not injured.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You're not injured. Yeah, it's crazy. I thought.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I thought it was something like that. I went to
the sideline. People were telling me it was a sprain
till I actually tried to grab the football. Till I
tried to grab the football, and that was something I
never felt before. It wasn't a pain, but it wasn't
any strength. I had no strength in my hand, and
with no strength of the football, you can't do too much.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You're too young to remember. Coy played quarterback at Texas
against Alabama. I got the National Championship game and he
got hit by Marcell Darius and like he wasn't hurt.
He wasn't hurting at all, but couldn't lift his arm
up and had to be out of the game. In
the National Championship game, everyon's like, why would you go
back here? It's like, I go back in, I'd be
the worst player in the world. It just couldn't play.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Literally, Yeah, I really I felt that too, because even
my recovery process, I felt like there were times where
I was like, oh, I can go play, but it
wasn't what was best for me because it wasn't really
best for the team. I would go out there and
I'd be limited. I couldn't give everything that I know
I have, So I just ended up sitting it out
a little bit after the season. I mean, I'm one
hundred percent, so I can't wait for this season. It's
(08:41):
been a long time coming.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Did they put you in the cast?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
They put me in a soft cast, so, I mean
after like they really just had to dis like it
was dislocated, so they put it back in place, and
I was really fine. Just the healing process. So I
had a little soft cast maybe maybe maybe like a month,
and then after that it's just rehab, recovery and stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's why that Colt McCoy things so because it wasn't like,
hey he's not tough enough to play.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He can't.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
He physically can't play. You know, if the muscle won't
do it, the muscle won't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. You got to listen to
your body sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yep, that's definitely true. Sammy Done, quarterback of the Viger Wolves.
A lot of returning talent this year at Viger. Just
tell me about the expectation for the Wolves.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh, the expectations always to go fifteen to fifteen and
oh in the state championship game, we preached that, and
I feel like we have we've earned the right to
say that just by the work that we put in
all summer, really all summer, and our guys they put
in work extra. Our guys try to be great. We
got a lot of athletes coming out I have. I
feel like I have one of the best receiving chorus
like to come through, even I had one last year,
(09:40):
but this year, I mean, they're learning, they're learning more so,
they're understanding. And like he said earlier, my wide receiver
he played quarterback last year, so that quarterback, you're not
just responsible for yourself, responsible for everybody. So that puts
him at a way higher advantage when he just goes
back to wide receiver, so he understands field zones, all
types of stuff like that. So with smart receivers and
(10:01):
they're already athletic, I feel like our receiving core and
just the guys around us are really good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You know, you're not gonna play a defense better than
the one you see every.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Day, most definitely, most definitely, I mean, and we challenge
each other. We challenge each other, especially last year last
year was fun at practice. Last year was really fun
at practice. This year we're getting We're getting after it.
So we get the pads on Monday and we'll get
to see a lot more.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
What about your guy, Chicken gar the junior who's committed
Alabama already coming off the edge.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That can't I know, I know, you gotta run full
speed just get a chance to throw the ball, just
to get a chance to throw it. So I mean
he betters me, and I felt we better each other though,
because there's not a lot of quarterbacks. I feel like
that can't that that can see him and still see
down field. So he takes advantage of that. On Friday nights.
It's Friday nights. You have quarterbacks inexperience, maybe haven't played
(10:48):
as much. He's teeing off on those guys. But at practice,
I'm gonna make it a little hard for him.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Man, if you get like an All American game, you're
not gonna face a guy better than him.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh I know, literally, I mean, because he works, He works,
He's a workerhol and.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You won't ever find a guy more humble than him. Though.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I mean he I mean, he shows up every day
just like any other kid. I mean, and he doesn't
have to do that. I mean, he's going to Bama
in a couple of years, so he doesn't have to
be like that. But that's one thing I really do
appreciate about him, And like I said, that's what makes
practice so fun.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I mean, we're both going at it.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I got to ask you one question. You're open with Blunt.
What about facing Blunt and being part of this rivalry?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, sir, So last year was a different feeling because
I literally never played Blunt before, I nearly played I
never played Blunt like with Viger Blunt and period. So
I mean it was different. So I was like, well,
this is a six A team and we're five a's,
so really it's a six A matchup. But this year
going into it, we know what kind of to expect,
but we know what we have, So we know what
(11:44):
we the product that we need to put on the
field to win every week, and we know that we
have to play to our standard. Whatever team. It is
not just Blunt, but that game. Of course, it means
a lot more for the city, means a lot more
because it's our rivals. But once we go out there,
we know the standard we have to play.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I bet your mom there tell me your family connection.
You got somebody famous in your family that folks would know.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I wish, I wish. I mean I have.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I have a good support system though I have two teachers.
My parents are both teachers. My dad actually teaches at
the school. He teaches science at the school. My mom
she teaches at She teaches third grade science. So she's
always been around elementary kids. But I mean, sports wise,
they never really expected me to play football. They thought
I was gonna be this really smart doctor, which can
(12:27):
still happen, still happen, but I mean they never expected
anything with football. So once I got on that, they
got they just jumped on board. They asked, no question,
jumped on board.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
That's really cool, man, really cool. Well, you're you're a
credit to them, man, Yes, credit to Vigra high, credit
to your family. And I hope you get to play
fifteen this year.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yes, sir, most death.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
There you go. Sam me done the quarterback of the
Viger Wolves, and he's working on that three point nine
great port average.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I gotta get it up.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You bring it up.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Save you appreciate you, man, Yes, appreciate.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
We'll be watching this year, including that opener's on a
Saturday night, full stadium, Sammy Done Google A County Media
Day's Day two. I'm Randy Kennedy in the thread at
Faster Studios on Sports Talk ninety nine five.
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