October 28, 2022 • 15 mins
In this episode of the Packers POV podcast, cornerback Eric Stokes talks about the strong bond he shares with his mother, travel adventures with Green Bay Packers teammates and his passion for cooking.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, and welcome to Packers p o V, a podcast
that aims to shine a light on the human behind
the helmet. I'm your host, Taylor Rodgers, and we are
here inside historic lambeau Field. Our guest today earned first
team All SEC honors at the University of Georgia and
was selected by Green Bay in the first round of
the draft, making an immediate impact, leading the team in
(00:28):
passes defense as a rookie. I'm excited to welcome second
year cornerback Eric stokes Man. Thank you. It's great to
be here. Oh, it's so good to have you, man,
I've been really looking forward to this. Oh. Man, I'm
happy to be here and I can't wait to see
You've got a way around people. I don't know if
you know that, but it's a little bit of an
infectious energy. I've noticed just from the locker room, even
(00:50):
in the media auditorium, people just tend to smile listening
to you talk. Man, that's a great then I always
try to put a smile on somebody's face, like that's
something like just a little daily things. Well, just go
ahead and make somebody else day, Like whatever high are
they feeling, is just going ahead to boost it up
and just make sure like that they already know, especially
deal with you two are like use somebody that that
(01:10):
could come over there. You can get a little joke
and you can laugh, you can play around with and
all that stuff. But when they're going to football, you know,
somebody that's like serious and motivated and all this stuff
is still between like a little time my braids between
all this stuff, I'm gonna still throw in and a
couple of jokes to pretty much release the tension and
just get back and say, man, they just football, They're
just fun. You mentioned that even in your initial call
(01:33):
when you got drafted to Green Bay talking about the
two different people, and I think it's gonna be really
cool to learn a little bit more about that person
off the field because we know now what we're getting
on the field. Right top five in completion percentage as
a rookie. It's pretty impressive start for you. Man. He
you're like, especially last year just learning so much to
(01:55):
o g taking in all of his knowledge that he
was giving me, and then dealing with leaders that I
got h Kevin King last year, Jayre smash Savage is
taking any of the game that they were trying to
give me all this stuff and running with it. Especially
when Sewall came in, there was another big element to
where it just hit my growth. And as far as today,
(02:17):
I was so excited when this interview got scheduled for
ten thirty because that is something that's really important to you.
Can you explain a little bit about what ten means
to you? Man? Ten thirty is like it's just something
that reminds me of home to like any time I
think of that ten thirty, it just bring me back
to it, Like that's my happy place if anything is
(02:38):
going wrong, or like if I'm getting way too hot
and I know I need to calm back down. It's
just my little thing to where I just think of
ten thirty and I just pictured me on my grandma couch.
I got my dog running around, and I just got
my family around me, like my pretty much my inner
circle were all right there, just chilling doing whatever, talking
and watch the TV and just something just piece and quiet,
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just home. You mentioned your grandma and you just mentioned home,
two things that you were able to put together for
her in a really special way. Many. Yeah, Oh, that's
one of the biggest like goals of mine. My whole
pretty much since middle school. Was just to get my
grandma her own career, up, her own house and all
that stuff and get her out of the projects and
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being able to do that. Finally being able to do that,
it was just something to where it was worries that
I can't imagine, to where I can't even tell her that.
I was like, this is her house, Like I had
to pass it on to the to the person. So
I was really turned all I started and tell her
to tell her because I physically couldn't do it. Just
too many emotions going through you. Yeah, it was way
(03:39):
way too many emotions going through me. You've also talked
about yourself as a mama's boy. What's the story of
you and your mother? That helped describe that relationship easily
to where, Um, so I got two sisters, two brothers,
but I'm always around both of my sisters because they
(04:00):
are the ones that my mother pretty much had. So
my older sister, she's a year and a half older
than me and all that stuff, but she's basically like
a grandmother, like she's a grandmother child and all this stuff,
because she's closer to our grandmother than our mother. But me,
I'm way closer to our mother because me and my
mother we got the same as that birthday, so I
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was born on her birthday and all that stuff. So
Mars first is both of our birthdays, and then after
that it is even crazier to what, like I want
to say it to like four fifth grade, I used
to just later in the morning. She used to put
on my clothes every single day and all this stuff
and like pretty much anything and my mom like pretty
much tell me to do or anything that pretty much
(04:43):
I asked my mother, like we have dropped anything for
each other. So I'm a big, big time almost boy.
And do you guys have joint parties store or how
do you celebrate that day? Now it's more so I
made sure it's all about her, but like before, it's
mostly about me and stuff. But like we used to
steal um go out of e and we'll celebrate together
and stuff, but mostly she'll try to make the day
(05:05):
about me. But like now, since things done a little
bit of change, now I'm making a day more about
her and less about me. That seems to be a
trend with you, just that selfless nature who is in
that inner circle with you and your mom and your Grandma.
You mentioned your sisters. Is there anyone you want to
make note of that's important to you from your time
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growing up in Covington, Georgia. Man, hands down my high
school coach, my high school wild receiver coach, he was
the wild receiver coach, and then he was my head
track coach. But hands down him to where Like if
it wasn't for him, I wouldn't even been at U
g A. I would have never had those scholarships, none
of old offers and all that stuff. So Stokes wouldn't
even be here if it wasn't for him to where
(05:48):
we was going to different counts, like my last senior
year we went to Old men As. We were in
North Carolina, we went in Alabama, Florida, we went to
U g A. We were just traveling around the South,
just going to different counts and give me more exposure,
more looks and all this stuff. And then even after that,
my g p A was no and um he paid
(06:08):
for the summer classes like he paid for like I
needed like two or three summer classes and I think
the fifteen hundred at the time. Of course, I'm in
high school, I have no money. I'm from the like
pretty much projects like we don't got that, Like that's
something that you just don't like, we just don't have.
But he paid for each class with hundred. He paid
for like all three classes and all this stuff to
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have my g p A to where I was eligible
to go to these schools like the U g A
all this stuff. So if it wasn't for him, hands down,
I wouldn't be here. And then especially like now to
where like pretty much out every game I call him,
like I'm sitting outside of the stadium and I'm on
the phone with him just talking, like outter every game
I talked to him and all this stuff because he's
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the one to where like hey, like if it wasn't
for you, like I wouldn't be here, so like in
the drop of the dime, anything that you need, I
got you and all that stuff. So especially he's in
my inner circle, and especially my Auntie. She's always the
one that motivate me. She got her own listening Stokes
Ain't no joke and all this stuff, and she really
want to make T shirts and all this stuff about
it all because that's me how slogan since high school,
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like Stokes Ain't no joke and all this stuff and
it's just something that she loved and I and I
absolutely love her. Looking back at your time and Athens
with family just down the road, what stands out is
that memory from your time there. Man. It's just man,
it's just so many memories to where you don't understand
how quickly the four years fly by, and you don't
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really understand that that's really the best time of your life.
Like now you got your own little freedom and all
the stuff you on your own, but you're doing it
with some of your other people who like, this is
that first time too, So this is everybody first time.
So you learn it together and y'all just build this
bun throughout all the ups and downs. It's just some
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of the best times of your life. I used to
look back on my Athens like, man, the four years
I give anything to give go and go back for
them four So let's fast forward to post Athens. You
get drafted and get a call on April nine that
you're coming to Green Bay. What has changed most about
your life since then? Man? The maturity man, growing up
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off the field to it like the stuff that since
me always been only like forty five minute from home.
I really technically didn't fully have to grow up. I
ain't have to go through anything. I could just need
to call my mother, call somebody to come hand on
some issues, like if anything go wrong in my car,
I just call my people be like, Yo, there's something
wrong with my car. Can y'all come up and see
what's wrong with it? Stuff? So I don't really have
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to focus on anything like grow up or anything. But
when I got here, it was some things to where
like now I'm thirteen, fourteen hours away from home, like hey,
like this ain't no hey, can y'all come help me
with this? And none of this though, So it was
a lot of stuff to where now going through mail,
I actually haven't go through mail and read through all
my mail and all that stuff to where I actually
got bills, I actually got a little stuff to do
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to it, like it's forced you to just grow up,
and then being in Green Bay, I just love it
to where since there's not much to do here, it
just forced you to actually look at yourself and you
just help you become a better person and better man,
and you just realize like, hey man, I just want
to grow and who is your closest buddy here? On
the team that you like to hang out with outside
this facility. Man, that's hard, but I would have to go.
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I got to, I got to. I gotta go with
either sharm Gene Charles or Colin Hill. It's one of
them too to it like like if you see one
of us, you probably see the other one. Like, hey,
we are always there. We always sit by each other
team and we always buy each other. We always laughing,
were already joking around like we always played. Man, just
go over film watching film, or we're just chilling watching
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the game. I feel like we could probably have some
of the career watching the Monday night game. Like we
always just together, just hanging around to were like, hey man,
we're just being coming closer and closer, like even it's offseason.
We took a trip to Vegas, Me Sem, Colin m Are.
We just went out of Vegas together out of the
season and just chill vibeing. Yeah, so we love it.
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What was one of the highlights from that trip together,
We went a t V all riding through the desert.
That was lovely. Now I can't even count to where
you're going through hills you're going through saying you're going
open down all this stuff. Man, you just see a
view too. It's beautiful, especially when you're out there and
then you can still see the city of Vegas and
all this stuff. It was just amazing. That's really cool.
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So when you're in Green Bay, what do you like
to do to decompress leading up to the game. I
just really love just either if I'm not playing two
K right now, if I'm not like in my game
playing two K, I'm either just laying down in the
living room watching TV. So where I'm just chilling right now,
I'm watching Survival, the Little Game Show or whatever. I'm
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hooked on that. But outside of that, if I'm not
doing either one of those two them, I'm really trying
to learn how to cook. And it's just something that
Green bathum forced me to grow up and learn how
to cook, something that I been needing to know how
to do, but now living in Green Bay, just something
that's like, I bet that I got plenty enough time
to learn. What's the dish that you've put together? Last
week I made a bacon cheese burger amazing smack. The
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week before I did UM nachos absolutely smack. And then
the week before UM, I did a pasta. I did
a chicken pasta with some little rolls and all of
this stuff. And yeah, so I'm still you know, I'm
still learning a little bit. You know, I haven't dipped
into the bigger stuff yet. How are you learning these recipes?
I'm calling my grandma or my sister, so they basically
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walking me through it to where like hey, like this
is this and all this stuff like chicken posta is
something that I knew how to do, but I just
forgot some of the step So like I just like
so I used to. I was just on faytime. I
ssiosedly just making sure like he ain'ty this step nets
and all this stuff, just to make sure they're like, yeah, okay,
bet then now but I got you just a reinsurance
and everything else is just simple like the burgers or nachos,
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all this stuff, I ain't made no dish to it.
I really gotta die been to the recipe and all
this stuff yet. But I really want to learn how
to do some soul fool. I really want to do
some macaroni cheese, some corn corn bread, some fried chicken.
I really want to deep like some bait beans you
throw some bait beans in there with some ground bee man.
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She like, I really want a good soul food like
type of vibe. So there's could be something that I'm
definitely gonna work my way to that sounds delicious. I
get the sense that there's gonna be a lot more
mad and playing happening at your house, which might not
result in a win, but everyone's gonna enjoy what's coming
out of the kitchen there. Hands down to where like
because this will make even crazier to its sherman. She
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opened up my eyes last year about me learning how
to cook, because that's like, that's something that Sharon did.
I remember on Thanksgiving he came to my crib and
he cooked the pope before we went to I forgot
who house we went to, but Sharon came over and
he made a pot at my crib and all this
stuff and just something to it, just watching him and
how fun, like how much fun he was having my
own kitchen cooking. I was like, yeah, that's something that
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I want to. I want to have my own little fund.
So now I throwing a little tunes out, throwing a
little music in my kitchen and I'm over there just cooking,
having a great time. I'm seeing this transformation happening in
front of my eyes right now, and it seems like
you're moving on to Eric two point oh, what does
that man look like? Man, that's just something like I'm
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working on this whole like this whole season is becoming
a better man, me becoming a better person. To where
I'm mean with Dr Carl, I'm making sure my mental
is right. That's first and foremost to where if I'm
not good, anybody else is not good. To where like
that's something that Jott opened up my eyes the moment
that I got here, is making sure that your mentor
is right, because there's a lot of stuff that's going on,
Like hey, especially in this league once you get here,
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that's a lot going on day to day, week by
week and all and stuff. So as long as you're good,
I learned you up in good spears, everything that goes
could be good, like the air two point oh, just
being more happy, being more calm, being more peaceful, and
just growing as a man as a person. Being something
that I won't mind future kids, my legacy to live
on to it, like they know, like man Ari stoates,
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like I want to be bigger off the field than
on the field, Like I don't want you to remember
me all the stuff that I did on the field.
I want you to remember me. Like Man Stokes was
that guy, like somebody that you can always come talk to,
somebody that if you need anything from Stokes, if you
need him to beat there, if you need a video
from him, and all this stuff, like he was gonna
do it. He was gonna be there for you and
all this stuff. And speaking of that, I just don't forgot.
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I had to do a video for this little kid's birthday,
and right now I think I forgot to do it,
And now I'm gonna be so hurt because i think
his birthday passed, and now I'm gonna be so hurt
if he did. But I'm still in the video anyway.
But that's just something that totally just rain across my mind.
But just being a better person and just make a
smile on somebody's face, like day in the day out,
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even if you ain't feeling good, just go ahead to
make a smile on somebody else face and all the stuff.
Just boost somebody else and hopefully like they can do
the same for you when you're feeling down, when you're
feeling bad. That's a beautiful way to end it, and
there's nothing wrong with a belated birthday message. Thank you. Yeah,
I definitely got to get that video, and I want
to thank you for taking your time but also being
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your authentic self. You are being you and you're growing
in an incredible way. So thanks for sharing, thank you,
thank you for having me here, and thank you for
listening to Packers p o V. To learn more about
what Eric is doing off the field, visit his instagram
at j A M A N Triple E. Take care
and see you next time.
Hello, and welcome to Packers p o V, a podcast
that aims to shine a light on the human behind
the helmet. I'm your host, Taylor Rodgers, and we are
here inside historic lambeau Field. Our guest today earned first
team All SEC honors at the University of Georgia and
was selected by Green Bay in the first round of
the draft, making an immediate impact, leading the team in
(00:28):
passes defense as a rookie. I'm excited to welcome second
year cornerback Eric stokes Man. Thank you. It's great to
be here. Oh, it's so good to have you, man,
I've been really looking forward to this. Oh. Man, I'm
happy to be here and I can't wait to see
You've got a way around people. I don't know if
you know that, but it's a little bit of an
infectious energy. I've noticed just from the locker room, even
(00:50):
in the media auditorium, people just tend to smile listening
to you talk. Man, that's a great then I always
try to put a smile on somebody's face, like that's
something like just a little daily things. Well, just go
ahead and make somebody else day, Like whatever high are
they feeling, is just going ahead to boost it up
and just make sure like that they already know, especially
deal with you two are like use somebody that that
(01:10):
could come over there. You can get a little joke
and you can laugh, you can play around with and
all that stuff. But when they're going to football, you know,
somebody that's like serious and motivated and all this stuff
is still between like a little time my braids between
all this stuff, I'm gonna still throw in and a
couple of jokes to pretty much release the tension and
just get back and say, man, they just football, They're
just fun. You mentioned that even in your initial call
(01:33):
when you got drafted to Green Bay talking about the
two different people, and I think it's gonna be really
cool to learn a little bit more about that person
off the field because we know now what we're getting
on the field. Right top five in completion percentage as
a rookie. It's pretty impressive start for you. Man. He
you're like, especially last year just learning so much to
(01:55):
o g taking in all of his knowledge that he
was giving me, and then dealing with leaders that I
got h Kevin King last year, Jayre smash Savage is
taking any of the game that they were trying to
give me all this stuff and running with it. Especially
when Sewall came in, there was another big element to
where it just hit my growth. And as far as today,
(02:17):
I was so excited when this interview got scheduled for
ten thirty because that is something that's really important to you.
Can you explain a little bit about what ten means
to you? Man? Ten thirty is like it's just something
that reminds me of home to like any time I
think of that ten thirty, it just bring me back
to it, Like that's my happy place if anything is
(02:38):
going wrong, or like if I'm getting way too hot
and I know I need to calm back down. It's
just my little thing to where I just think of
ten thirty and I just pictured me on my grandma couch.
I got my dog running around, and I just got
my family around me, like my pretty much my inner
circle were all right there, just chilling doing whatever, talking
and watch the TV and just something just piece and quiet,
(02:59):
just home. You mentioned your grandma and you just mentioned home,
two things that you were able to put together for
her in a really special way. Many. Yeah, Oh, that's
one of the biggest like goals of mine. My whole
pretty much since middle school. Was just to get my
grandma her own career, up, her own house and all
that stuff and get her out of the projects and
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being able to do that. Finally being able to do that,
it was just something to where it was worries that
I can't imagine, to where I can't even tell her that.
I was like, this is her house, Like I had
to pass it on to the to the person. So
I was really turned all I started and tell her
to tell her because I physically couldn't do it. Just
too many emotions going through you. Yeah, it was way
(03:39):
way too many emotions going through me. You've also talked
about yourself as a mama's boy. What's the story of
you and your mother? That helped describe that relationship easily
to where, Um, so I got two sisters, two brothers,
but I'm always around both of my sisters because they
(04:00):
are the ones that my mother pretty much had. So
my older sister, she's a year and a half older
than me and all that stuff, but she's basically like
a grandmother, like she's a grandmother child and all this stuff,
because she's closer to our grandmother than our mother. But me,
I'm way closer to our mother because me and my
mother we got the same as that birthday, so I
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was born on her birthday and all that stuff. So
Mars first is both of our birthdays, and then after
that it is even crazier to what, like I want
to say it to like four fifth grade, I used
to just later in the morning. She used to put
on my clothes every single day and all this stuff
and like pretty much anything and my mom like pretty
much tell me to do or anything that pretty much
(04:43):
I asked my mother, like we have dropped anything for
each other. So I'm a big, big time almost boy.
And do you guys have joint parties store or how
do you celebrate that day? Now it's more so I
made sure it's all about her, but like before, it's
mostly about me and stuff. But like we used to
steal um go out of e and we'll celebrate together
and stuff, but mostly she'll try to make the day
(05:05):
about me. But like now, since things done a little
bit of change, now I'm making a day more about
her and less about me. That seems to be a
trend with you, just that selfless nature who is in
that inner circle with you and your mom and your Grandma.
You mentioned your sisters. Is there anyone you want to
make note of that's important to you from your time
(05:27):
growing up in Covington, Georgia. Man, hands down my high
school coach, my high school wild receiver coach, he was
the wild receiver coach, and then he was my head
track coach. But hands down him to where Like if
it wasn't for him, I wouldn't even been at U
g A. I would have never had those scholarships, none
of old offers and all that stuff. So Stokes wouldn't
even be here if it wasn't for him to where
(05:48):
we was going to different counts, like my last senior
year we went to Old men As. We were in
North Carolina, we went in Alabama, Florida, we went to
U g A. We were just traveling around the South,
just going to different counts and give me more exposure,
more looks and all this stuff. And then even after that,
my g p A was no and um he paid
(06:08):
for the summer classes like he paid for like I
needed like two or three summer classes and I think
the fifteen hundred at the time. Of course, I'm in
high school, I have no money. I'm from the like
pretty much projects like we don't got that, Like that's
something that you just don't like, we just don't have.
But he paid for each class with hundred. He paid
for like all three classes and all this stuff to
(06:30):
have my g p A to where I was eligible
to go to these schools like the U g A
all this stuff. So if it wasn't for him, hands down,
I wouldn't be here. And then especially like now to
where like pretty much out every game I call him,
like I'm sitting outside of the stadium and I'm on
the phone with him just talking, like outter every game
I talked to him and all this stuff because he's
(06:51):
the one to where like hey, like if it wasn't
for you, like I wouldn't be here, so like in
the drop of the dime, anything that you need, I
got you and all that stuff. So especially he's in
my inner circle, and especially my Auntie. She's always the
one that motivate me. She got her own listening Stokes
Ain't no joke and all this stuff, and she really
want to make T shirts and all this stuff about
it all because that's me how slogan since high school,
(07:14):
like Stokes Ain't no joke and all this stuff and
it's just something that she loved and I and I
absolutely love her. Looking back at your time and Athens
with family just down the road, what stands out is
that memory from your time there. Man. It's just man,
it's just so many memories to where you don't understand
how quickly the four years fly by, and you don't
(07:35):
really understand that that's really the best time of your life.
Like now you got your own little freedom and all
the stuff you on your own, but you're doing it
with some of your other people who like, this is
that first time too, So this is everybody first time.
So you learn it together and y'all just build this
bun throughout all the ups and downs. It's just some
(07:56):
of the best times of your life. I used to
look back on my Athens like, man, the four years
I give anything to give go and go back for
them four So let's fast forward to post Athens. You
get drafted and get a call on April nine that
you're coming to Green Bay. What has changed most about
your life since then? Man? The maturity man, growing up
(08:18):
off the field to it like the stuff that since
me always been only like forty five minute from home.
I really technically didn't fully have to grow up. I
ain't have to go through anything. I could just need
to call my mother, call somebody to come hand on
some issues, like if anything go wrong in my car,
I just call my people be like, Yo, there's something
wrong with my car. Can y'all come up and see
what's wrong with it? Stuff? So I don't really have
(08:40):
to focus on anything like grow up or anything. But
when I got here, it was some things to where
like now I'm thirteen, fourteen hours away from home, like hey,
like this ain't no hey, can y'all come help me
with this? And none of this though, So it was
a lot of stuff to where now going through mail,
I actually haven't go through mail and read through all
my mail and all that stuff to where I actually
got bills, I actually got a little stuff to do
(09:02):
to it, like it's forced you to just grow up,
and then being in Green Bay, I just love it
to where since there's not much to do here, it
just forced you to actually look at yourself and you
just help you become a better person and better man,
and you just realize like, hey man, I just want
to grow and who is your closest buddy here? On
the team that you like to hang out with outside
this facility. Man, that's hard, but I would have to go.
(09:26):
I got to, I got to. I gotta go with
either sharm Gene Charles or Colin Hill. It's one of
them too to it like like if you see one
of us, you probably see the other one. Like, hey,
we are always there. We always sit by each other
team and we always buy each other. We always laughing,
were already joking around like we always played. Man, just
go over film watching film, or we're just chilling watching
(09:47):
the game. I feel like we could probably have some
of the career watching the Monday night game. Like we
always just together, just hanging around to were like, hey man,
we're just being coming closer and closer, like even it's offseason.
We took a trip to Vegas, Me Sem, Colin m Are.
We just went out of Vegas together out of the
season and just chill vibeing. Yeah, so we love it.
(10:07):
What was one of the highlights from that trip together,
We went a t V all riding through the desert.
That was lovely. Now I can't even count to where
you're going through hills you're going through saying you're going
open down all this stuff. Man, you just see a
view too. It's beautiful, especially when you're out there and
then you can still see the city of Vegas and
all this stuff. It was just amazing. That's really cool.
(10:28):
So when you're in Green Bay, what do you like
to do to decompress leading up to the game. I
just really love just either if I'm not playing two
K right now, if I'm not like in my game
playing two K, I'm either just laying down in the
living room watching TV. So where I'm just chilling right now,
I'm watching Survival, the Little Game Show or whatever. I'm
(10:50):
hooked on that. But outside of that, if I'm not
doing either one of those two them, I'm really trying
to learn how to cook. And it's just something that
Green bathum forced me to grow up and learn how
to cook, something that I been needing to know how
to do, but now living in Green Bay, just something
that's like, I bet that I got plenty enough time
to learn. What's the dish that you've put together? Last
week I made a bacon cheese burger amazing smack. The
(11:12):
week before I did UM nachos absolutely smack. And then
the week before UM, I did a pasta. I did
a chicken pasta with some little rolls and all of
this stuff. And yeah, so I'm still you know, I'm
still learning a little bit. You know, I haven't dipped
into the bigger stuff yet. How are you learning these recipes?
I'm calling my grandma or my sister, so they basically
(11:35):
walking me through it to where like hey, like this
is this and all this stuff like chicken posta is
something that I knew how to do, but I just
forgot some of the step So like I just like
so I used to. I was just on faytime. I
ssiosedly just making sure like he ain'ty this step nets
and all this stuff, just to make sure they're like, yeah, okay,
bet then now but I got you just a reinsurance
and everything else is just simple like the burgers or nachos,
(11:57):
all this stuff, I ain't made no dish to it.
I really gotta die been to the recipe and all
this stuff yet. But I really want to learn how
to do some soul fool. I really want to do
some macaroni cheese, some corn corn bread, some fried chicken.
I really want to deep like some bait beans you
throw some bait beans in there with some ground bee man.
(12:17):
She like, I really want a good soul food like
type of vibe. So there's could be something that I'm
definitely gonna work my way to that sounds delicious. I
get the sense that there's gonna be a lot more
mad and playing happening at your house, which might not
result in a win, but everyone's gonna enjoy what's coming
out of the kitchen there. Hands down to where like
because this will make even crazier to its sherman. She
(12:40):
opened up my eyes last year about me learning how
to cook, because that's like, that's something that Sharon did.
I remember on Thanksgiving he came to my crib and
he cooked the pope before we went to I forgot
who house we went to, but Sharon came over and
he made a pot at my crib and all this
stuff and just something to it, just watching him and
how fun, like how much fun he was having my
own kitchen cooking. I was like, yeah, that's something that
(13:03):
I want to. I want to have my own little fund.
So now I throwing a little tunes out, throwing a
little music in my kitchen and I'm over there just cooking,
having a great time. I'm seeing this transformation happening in
front of my eyes right now, and it seems like
you're moving on to Eric two point oh, what does
that man look like? Man, that's just something like I'm
(13:24):
working on this whole like this whole season is becoming
a better man, me becoming a better person. To where
I'm mean with Dr Carl, I'm making sure my mental
is right. That's first and foremost to where if I'm
not good, anybody else is not good. To where like
that's something that Jott opened up my eyes the moment
that I got here, is making sure that your mentor
is right, because there's a lot of stuff that's going on,
Like hey, especially in this league once you get here,
(13:46):
that's a lot going on day to day, week by
week and all and stuff. So as long as you're good,
I learned you up in good spears, everything that goes
could be good, like the air two point oh, just
being more happy, being more calm, being more peaceful, and
just growing as a man as a person. Being something
that I won't mind future kids, my legacy to live
on to it, like they know, like man Ari stoates,
(14:08):
like I want to be bigger off the field than
on the field, Like I don't want you to remember
me all the stuff that I did on the field.
I want you to remember me. Like Man Stokes was
that guy, like somebody that you can always come talk to,
somebody that if you need anything from Stokes, if you
need him to beat there, if you need a video
from him, and all this stuff, like he was gonna
do it. He was gonna be there for you and
all this stuff. And speaking of that, I just don't forgot.
(14:28):
I had to do a video for this little kid's birthday,
and right now I think I forgot to do it,
And now I'm gonna be so hurt because i think
his birthday passed, and now I'm gonna be so hurt
if he did. But I'm still in the video anyway.
But that's just something that totally just rain across my mind.
But just being a better person and just make a
smile on somebody's face, like day in the day out,
(14:48):
even if you ain't feeling good, just go ahead to
make a smile on somebody else face and all the stuff.
Just boost somebody else and hopefully like they can do
the same for you when you're feeling down, when you're
feeling bad. That's a beautiful way to end it, and
there's nothing wrong with a belated birthday message. Thank you. Yeah,
I definitely got to get that video, and I want
to thank you for taking your time but also being
(15:10):
your authentic self. You are being you and you're growing
in an incredible way. So thanks for sharing, thank you,
thank you for having me here, and thank you for
listening to Packers p o V. To learn more about
what Eric is doing off the field, visit his instagram
at j A M A N Triple E. Take care
and see you next time.
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