December 1, 2023 • 13 mins
In this episode of the Packers POV podcast, linebacker Preston Smith describes his relationship with one of the Kansas City Chiefs’ top players, details his passion for gaming and shares where his sense of humor comes from.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, and welcome to Packers POV, 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. Today's guest hails from Atlanta, Georgia. He
played college ball at Mississippi State, earning All SEC honors.
After being drafted thirty eighth overall in twenty fifteen, he
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went on to lead all NFL rookies in sacks. He
now has over sixty sacks to his name, leading the
team in that category last season. I'm pleased to welcome
Green Bay Packers linebacker Preston Smith. How's it going, Preston,
I'm doing great.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm good. Thanks. That's a lot of statistics you've already done.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, man, I'm just working hard to keep stack them up, man,
and try to, you know, put together a Hall of
Fame career.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, you've had a great work ethic coming up all
the way through university you did Mississippi State, and that
bio actually describes you was one of the most disruptive
and athletic defensive linemen in school history.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Really, Well, that's a great honor, that's a great honor
and half it's a lot of great guys that came
through there and a lot of the talent of the guys,
And somebody said that about me is a pretty great honor.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
One of the guys would be Chris Jones, All Pro
defensive tackle that was a teammate at Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
State, Right, yes, and yeah, me and Chris Jones are
like brothers. And I think one season, me and Chris
was tixting. I was kind of having like a rough
start to the season and he I think he started
off kind of rough too, and we were just talking about
like just keeping head up and it's just like just
keeping each other motivated. And then he went out there
and started bathering like week the week, the week, the week,
like so consistent, and that might have been on his
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all pro years or whatever. We had dope digit sacks
and he was just bothering. But we just you know,
stay in contact and just make sure, you know, we
always keep each other motivated like brothers, because I mean,
you know, going to college in Missippi State, we're not
just teammates with like a family, and we do a
lot of team bond and stuff. We did a lot
of well when I was there, and we did a
lot of stuff like hanging out outside of football. We
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hang out each other at the house and you know,
playing Madden or playing video games and just listening to
music and having other friends over, having little house parties
or whatever. And you know, we did a lot of
stuff together and just hung out, you know, cookouts, and
it just made us more like a family because you know,
when you're in school, you know, you get dropped off
and it's like and all you got is your teammates
and yourself. So all those guys will, you know, come
(02:25):
together and hang out with each other and have some
fun and we end up having those brother like relationships,
those long lasting relationships at every end.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's really special. And all these years later, even keeping
that up and speaking of family, you did an interview
for the Senior Ball right before you got drafted, and
we're asked how your daughter changed your life. You said,
it means I have to be a man and be
a father that I didn't have. I really want to
give her the world.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yes, So I mean that that statement was, you know,
pretty pretty great at a young age. I'm so cool
to hear something I said so long ago. But yeah,
like you know, my daughter, she made me grow up.
You know, sometimes when you're young, and sometimes situations like that,
having a kid young, make sure you have to grow
up because I had to be selfless instead of selfish,
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and I had to start thinking about her and not me,
and I had to live life for more than just myself.
And when I had my daughter, it was more so
I was like, you know, I want to provide a
life that I never had. You know, I was fortunate
with the life I had, and I was pretty blessed
to have my parents and my mom take care of
me and my dad you know, being around or whatever.
But you know, I was real fortunate to have a lifestyle,
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you know where I didn't have to suffer or I
wasn't you know, doing that bad, you know. And it
might have been some things we didn't have or things
we wanted, but you know, we didn't go without a
lot of things, you know. So I just wanted to
make sure that, like growing up, that motivated me to
you know, get my daughter lifestyle we didn't have, so
she would have to go through what we went through.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's really cool. And flash forward, you now have two daughters.
What are some of the life smacho things you do
as daddy.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
P My youngest daughter is one. She just started she
just started walking. Well, she's been walking for like a
few months. She just turned one last month. With her,
it's nothing really happening yet. But with my first daughter,
she had like a little kitchen shit and I would
have to eat the food she's cooking, the imaginary food
she cooking. And also I have to do like little
tea parties with her and things like that, because I
used to watch her the whole off season before she
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started school and she would want to do tea parties
and stuff like that. We'll go to the little indoor
trampoline parts and jump around. And when she's in daycare,
I'll tell she used to cry when I first dropped
her off. Every morning, she would cry and I have
to go like the practice. I had her through OTAs too,
so I had to take her and she'd be crying,
and I'll tell her, like, if you be a big
girl this week and you don't cry, then I'll take
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you to the candy store at the end of the
week and I'll let you get as much candy as
you want. I was incentivizing her days and it worked
out and we had some fun together. And then like
sometimes we went like blowing the dark putt putt, and
we'll go to like the jump house, and like I'll
be tired from working out, but I'd be jumping with her,
and you know, just something about kids don't get tired.
So she'd be jumping for like two hours. And one
(05:03):
day I was jumping with her for like as long
as she wanted to jump. We was racing in there
and having fun, and my caw muscles start like the
next day, my cave muscles on fire. They're on fire.
And I was like, man, I gotta find a way
to not do that again. So I was trying to
get around more kids. So and then I in one
of the ausices ain't not buying a condo in Georgia,
So I was there with my family and like my
(05:25):
nephews and younger cousins. So she probably, you know, had
more people to play with, you know, so I ain't
have to jump in there all day with her, no more.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, And does she have some more buddies now? And
that's got to be pretty special for them coming over
to hang out with Preston Smith.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
She asked, when she's in George. She has her cousins,
like my nephew is eight, he's a year behind her,
and they're like siblings, so like she when she comes,
she they're like inseparable. They always want to be around
each other. They always ask and can I can I
spend the night over his house? Or can he stay
over here? Can this? And then I We just try
to coordinate it to where they're together and she's not
feeling bored in the house by herself, because one child
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is kind of hard to entertain nowadays, and they got
so many needs. Because well, she's my daughter's pretty chill,
and I'm thankful for being so chill, because she'd get
up and leave. We'd be watching the movie together and
she just get up and leave, just like I don't
wanna go to my roommate. Just chill, and I'd be like, Hey,
I really wanted to watch this movie with you. Sometimes
I think I'm more excited to see the movies than
she is, Like, you know, like I think I forgot
what move I took her to see. It might have
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been in canto. It was a pretty good movie. They
were singing and stuff like that, and I think it
was just a pretty good movie, and I don't think
she's really not engaged. And I was kind of offended
because it was a good movie to me, but you know,
I'm older, so I guess it wasn't a movie that
kept kids attention like that, so it was a pretty
good movie to me. But she ended up watching again
later though, like when it came out, and she liked
it good.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
My niece also really likes in Canto, so I haven't
seen the movie, but we did get her the book
that came with a microphone, so we've been hearing a
lot of the Encanto songs through her.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yes, you should watch it. It's a good movie. I mean,
you know, I think like because I grew up in
that face where cartoons were cool to watch, So it's
like now I love going to the movies and I
love watching Like if it's a remake of a cartoon
or something like that, I like to watch it just
to see, like how much better it evolved from the
time when I was a kid, because you know, everything
like it was two D. Now everything looks like it's
three D, almost like a real person in the cartoons.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Right, the technologies advanced quite a bit. Yeah, So from
movies to gaming, and you've got some experience more than most.
You're actually an owner of Hall of Fame Gaming.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, me and Deshaun Jackson, the coners right now of
Hall of Fame Gaming. And I just think it's a
great opportunity because the idea and the platforms we are
using to help people out, like signing content creators and
building an organization of content creators and people that can
you know, go to the top some of the best
in the business. I think it's a cool experience. And
also I feel like, you know, with the ideas we
(07:45):
have and the resource that we're trying to put together
to help just grow, is going to create a great
lifestyle change for a lot of.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
People switching gears of the packers. Who's the best gamer
on the team.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm not gonna lie to you. It's kind of hard
because it's a lot of gamers, you know, and just
a hand on which game. Also, like, I think it's
a lot of good dudes in Madden on the team.
I don't think it's double No, we don't yet have
the best player because all the so called best players
have been beaten by another player that said they was best.
And it's like pretty cool you know, to hear those
guys chat about that in the locker room. You know,
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you got some guys you know, like me and Darnelle
was on guys to play two K. You hear about
a lot of guys playing Madden, A few guys play
Call of Duty. Now I hear a lot of guys
playing Apex. I've never played Apex. So it's like you're
hearing a lot of guys playing a lot of different games,
and it's kind of hard to gauge who's the best
at what when you just hear a lot of guys
playing different games. But there's gonna be a lot of
ideas to come up this year that can help define
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who's the best in a certain area. I know one
year we did the Call of Duty tournament and I
think NVS win it. So I think this year we
have to establish who's the best Call of Duty player
on the team again. Then we have to establish who's
the best Madden player, the best two K player. I
think we on you know, we get that in the
works just to kind of do it. Maybe we can
live stream it too and see who's the best.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, you can bring your personality to it that way
for sure. You've also stated that you may be the
funniest guy in the locker room. Where do you think
that comes from?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
My family? I just think growing up, like I tell people,
they think I'm funny, they should hang around my family
because the great aunts and uncles, they would crack jokes
on us, the kids all the time. So if you
came in dressed funny, or came in with your hair
looking crazy or something they find they might find funny.
You just know, when you walk in the house, everybody
might crack a joke on you before you even step
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all the way in the house. It taught us to
not be so sensitive at a young age. Also, it
taught us to defend yourself verbally, you know, because people
gonna talk trash to you. So it's like, y'all be
able to defend yourself. And then like so when we
started getting older, we'll crack jokes back on them, talk
about their clothes or whatever, and talk about their hair,
and then they just you know, eventually they say, Okay,
you growing up. You can defend yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So you learn it. Yeah, speaking of getting older, you're
now called the og in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Who said that. I believe you did okay, all right,
you just listening. But yeah, somebody called me og the
other day and I say, hey, man, chill up. I'm
not that old, but I guess I am because I
remember looking back on the time when I was a
rookie and it was guys on like a year eight
and nine. I'm like, danmgnyear old. And then it's like
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now I'm like, damn, I'm old because it's me. Now
I'm that older guy that now guys like what you're
you on? I'm like, you're nine and they're like, man,
it's crazy. And then I was just talking to somebody.
I was talking to Keisha, and I was like, I said,
what was you at when I got drafted? I said
I was twenty fifteen. He's like, I just graduated high school.
I said, he see. And it's like now, like if
I tell some of these guys, oh, yeah, I got
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draft two thou fifteen, they like, or if you asked them, like,
what was you at nine years ago? Some of you
guys like eleven years old, you know, thirteen years old
or whatever, like they're just getting they were just hitting
puty and now is me here?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Now? Has your leadership changed over that span?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I just got a lot of a lot more knowledge.
I feel like I've been the same person since I
walked in. You know, it just gets better each year.
Like that's that's what I aim to do, is to
be a better leader each year, Like to find ways
to be a better leader, because you still learn as
you go, and you never the lessons never start raining in.
And it just seems like the more I keep going
and the more seasons I keep playing, the more I
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learn about players, the more I learn about communication with people,
and the more I learned about you know, how to
get to players and to make sure that I help
them be the best they can be, you know, without
stepping on these toes, because that's the that's the main
goal when you when you're learning how to be a
leader or you're a leader, is that you have to
know how to get across to all audiences because everybody
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don't take the message the same way, and you know,
everybody doesn't learn the same way either, So you got
to find a way to be able to help people
and figure out their learning style and to be able
to help them understand what you're trying to get them
to do and well understand how where you're trying to
get them to go because you know, if I'm leading
you somewhere, I at least want you to know like
where we're trying, where I'm trying to get you to go,
and then how to do that. But I also want
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you to understand why. You know, why we're doing this,
Like it's not gonna be like, hey, we're going to
start running to the ball, and you know, you like
while we run to the ball, like you know many reasons.
It helps with great conditioning. You know, it works your
pursuit angles just in case the play is away, and
it also helps with you know, if you run into
the ball and the ball pops out, you can be
the guy that scoops the ball up and make a
big play for the team. So it's you know, you
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gotta be able to tell because most people my ask
are like why, and you got to be able to
explain that. And that's what comes with being a leader, a.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Great leader transparency.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It sounds like, yes, you gotta be transparent. You gotta
be able to to help them understand what you're what
you're trying to say.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You're in year nine, when this season is all said
and done, what do you want to be able to
look back and say.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Ye're now is my best season. That's why I want
to look back and say, you're now is my best season.
I want to feel like I'm entering my prime. I
want to feel like I'm getting better each and every year,
like from here on, I like, as long as I'm playing,
I just want to feel like I'm getting better, like
I'm not taking steps back, like I'm in supreme shape.
I want to make sure that when it's Seaton said
and done, I can say I entrough the tank for
the season, You're not an m through the tank and
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I'm refueled the tank and get ready for you know,
your team.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Good luck, Preston, and thank you so much for taking
the time.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Thank you, I appreciate you for having me.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And thank you for listening to Packer's p o V.
To learn more about what Preston is doing off the field,
visit his instagram Preston Smith, and follow his gaming up
dates on x at h o F Underscore Gaming. Take
care and see you next time.
Hello, and welcome to Packers POV, 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. Today's guest hails from Atlanta, Georgia. He
played college ball at Mississippi State, earning All SEC honors.
After being drafted thirty eighth overall in twenty fifteen, he
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went on to lead all NFL rookies in sacks. He
now has over sixty sacks to his name, leading the
team in that category last season. I'm pleased to welcome
Green Bay Packers linebacker Preston Smith. How's it going, Preston,
I'm doing great.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm good. Thanks. That's a lot of statistics you've already done.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, man, I'm just working hard to keep stack them up, man,
and try to, you know, put together a Hall of
Fame career.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, you've had a great work ethic coming up all
the way through university you did Mississippi State, and that
bio actually describes you was one of the most disruptive
and athletic defensive linemen in school history.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Really, Well, that's a great honor, that's a great honor
and half it's a lot of great guys that came
through there and a lot of the talent of the guys,
And somebody said that about me is a pretty great honor.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
One of the guys would be Chris Jones, All Pro
defensive tackle that was a teammate at Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
State, Right, yes, and yeah, me and Chris Jones are
like brothers. And I think one season, me and Chris
was tixting. I was kind of having like a rough
start to the season and he I think he started
off kind of rough too, and we were just talking about
like just keeping head up and it's just like just
keeping each other motivated. And then he went out there
and started bathering like week the week, the week, the week,
like so consistent, and that might have been on his
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all pro years or whatever. We had dope digit sacks
and he was just bothering. But we just you know,
stay in contact and just make sure, you know, we
always keep each other motivated like brothers, because I mean,
you know, going to college in Missippi State, we're not
just teammates with like a family, and we do a
lot of team bond and stuff. We did a lot
of well when I was there, and we did a
lot of stuff like hanging out outside of football. We
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hang out each other at the house and you know,
playing Madden or playing video games and just listening to
music and having other friends over, having little house parties
or whatever. And you know, we did a lot of
stuff together and just hung out, you know, cookouts, and
it just made us more like a family because you know,
when you're in school, you know, you get dropped off
and it's like and all you got is your teammates
and yourself. So all those guys will, you know, come
(02:25):
together and hang out with each other and have some
fun and we end up having those brother like relationships,
those long lasting relationships at every end.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's really special. And all these years later, even keeping
that up and speaking of family, you did an interview
for the Senior Ball right before you got drafted, and
we're asked how your daughter changed your life. You said,
it means I have to be a man and be
a father that I didn't have. I really want to
give her the world.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yes, So I mean that that statement was, you know,
pretty pretty great at a young age. I'm so cool
to hear something I said so long ago. But yeah,
like you know, my daughter, she made me grow up.
You know, sometimes when you're young, and sometimes situations like that,
having a kid young, make sure you have to grow
up because I had to be selfless instead of selfish,
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and I had to start thinking about her and not me,
and I had to live life for more than just myself.
And when I had my daughter, it was more so
I was like, you know, I want to provide a
life that I never had. You know, I was fortunate
with the life I had, and I was pretty blessed
to have my parents and my mom take care of
me and my dad you know, being around or whatever.
But you know, I was real fortunate to have a lifestyle,
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you know where I didn't have to suffer or I
wasn't you know, doing that bad, you know. And it
might have been some things we didn't have or things
we wanted, but you know, we didn't go without a
lot of things, you know. So I just wanted to
make sure that, like growing up, that motivated me to
you know, get my daughter lifestyle we didn't have, so
she would have to go through what we went through.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's really cool. And flash forward, you now have two daughters.
What are some of the life smacho things you do
as daddy.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
P My youngest daughter is one. She just started she
just started walking. Well, she's been walking for like a
few months. She just turned one last month. With her,
it's nothing really happening yet. But with my first daughter,
she had like a little kitchen shit and I would
have to eat the food she's cooking, the imaginary food
she cooking. And also I have to do like little
tea parties with her and things like that, because I
used to watch her the whole off season before she
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started school and she would want to do tea parties
and stuff like that. We'll go to the little indoor
trampoline parts and jump around. And when she's in daycare,
I'll tell she used to cry when I first dropped
her off. Every morning, she would cry and I have
to go like the practice. I had her through OTAs too,
so I had to take her and she'd be crying,
and I'll tell her, like, if you be a big
girl this week and you don't cry, then I'll take
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you to the candy store at the end of the
week and I'll let you get as much candy as
you want. I was incentivizing her days and it worked
out and we had some fun together. And then like
sometimes we went like blowing the dark putt putt, and
we'll go to like the jump house, and like I'll
be tired from working out, but I'd be jumping with her,
and you know, just something about kids don't get tired.
So she'd be jumping for like two hours. And one
(05:03):
day I was jumping with her for like as long
as she wanted to jump. We was racing in there
and having fun, and my caw muscles start like the
next day, my cave muscles on fire. They're on fire.
And I was like, man, I gotta find a way
to not do that again. So I was trying to
get around more kids. So and then I in one
of the ausices ain't not buying a condo in Georgia,
So I was there with my family and like my
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nephews and younger cousins. So she probably, you know, had
more people to play with, you know, so I ain't
have to jump in there all day with her, no more.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, And does she have some more buddies now? And
that's got to be pretty special for them coming over
to hang out with Preston Smith.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
She asked, when she's in George. She has her cousins,
like my nephew is eight, he's a year behind her,
and they're like siblings, so like she when she comes,
she they're like inseparable. They always want to be around
each other. They always ask and can I can I
spend the night over his house? Or can he stay
over here? Can this? And then I We just try
to coordinate it to where they're together and she's not
feeling bored in the house by herself, because one child
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is kind of hard to entertain nowadays, and they got
so many needs. Because well, she's my daughter's pretty chill,
and I'm thankful for being so chill, because she'd get
up and leave. We'd be watching the movie together and
she just get up and leave, just like I don't
wanna go to my roommate. Just chill, and I'd be like, Hey,
I really wanted to watch this movie with you. Sometimes
I think I'm more excited to see the movies than
she is, Like, you know, like I think I forgot
what move I took her to see. It might have
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been in canto. It was a pretty good movie. They
were singing and stuff like that, and I think it
was just a pretty good movie, and I don't think
she's really not engaged. And I was kind of offended
because it was a good movie to me, but you know,
I'm older, so I guess it wasn't a movie that
kept kids attention like that, so it was a pretty
good movie to me. But she ended up watching again
later though, like when it came out, and she liked
it good.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
My niece also really likes in Canto, so I haven't
seen the movie, but we did get her the book
that came with a microphone, so we've been hearing a
lot of the Encanto songs through her.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yes, you should watch it. It's a good movie. I mean,
you know, I think like because I grew up in
that face where cartoons were cool to watch, So it's
like now I love going to the movies and I
love watching Like if it's a remake of a cartoon
or something like that, I like to watch it just
to see, like how much better it evolved from the
time when I was a kid, because you know, everything
like it was two D. Now everything looks like it's
three D, almost like a real person in the cartoons.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Right, the technologies advanced quite a bit. Yeah, So from
movies to gaming, and you've got some experience more than most.
You're actually an owner of Hall of Fame Gaming.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, me and Deshaun Jackson, the coners right now of
Hall of Fame Gaming. And I just think it's a
great opportunity because the idea and the platforms we are
using to help people out, like signing content creators and
building an organization of content creators and people that can
you know, go to the top some of the best
in the business. I think it's a cool experience. And
also I feel like, you know, with the ideas we
(07:45):
have and the resource that we're trying to put together
to help just grow, is going to create a great
lifestyle change for a lot of.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
People switching gears of the packers. Who's the best gamer
on the team.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm not gonna lie to you. It's kind of hard
because it's a lot of gamers, you know, and just
a hand on which game. Also, like, I think it's
a lot of good dudes in Madden on the team.
I don't think it's double No, we don't yet have
the best player because all the so called best players
have been beaten by another player that said they was best.
And it's like pretty cool you know, to hear those
guys chat about that in the locker room. You know,
(08:16):
you got some guys you know, like me and Darnelle
was on guys to play two K. You hear about
a lot of guys playing Madden, A few guys play
Call of Duty. Now I hear a lot of guys
playing Apex. I've never played Apex. So it's like you're
hearing a lot of guys playing a lot of different games,
and it's kind of hard to gauge who's the best
at what when you just hear a lot of guys
playing different games. But there's gonna be a lot of
ideas to come up this year that can help define
(08:38):
who's the best in a certain area. I know one
year we did the Call of Duty tournament and I
think NVS win it. So I think this year we
have to establish who's the best Call of Duty player
on the team again. Then we have to establish who's
the best Madden player, the best two K player. I
think we on you know, we get that in the
works just to kind of do it. Maybe we can
live stream it too and see who's the best.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, you can bring your personality to it that way
for sure. You've also stated that you may be the
funniest guy in the locker room. Where do you think
that comes from?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
My family? I just think growing up, like I tell people,
they think I'm funny, they should hang around my family
because the great aunts and uncles, they would crack jokes
on us, the kids all the time. So if you
came in dressed funny, or came in with your hair
looking crazy or something they find they might find funny.
You just know, when you walk in the house, everybody
might crack a joke on you before you even step
(09:27):
all the way in the house. It taught us to
not be so sensitive at a young age. Also, it
taught us to defend yourself verbally, you know, because people
gonna talk trash to you. So it's like, y'all be
able to defend yourself. And then like so when we
started getting older, we'll crack jokes back on them, talk
about their clothes or whatever, and talk about their hair,
and then they just you know, eventually they say, Okay,
you growing up. You can defend yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So you learn it. Yeah, speaking of getting older, you're
now called the og in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Who said that. I believe you did okay, all right,
you just listening. But yeah, somebody called me og the
other day and I say, hey, man, chill up. I'm
not that old, but I guess I am because I
remember looking back on the time when I was a
rookie and it was guys on like a year eight
and nine. I'm like, danmgnyear old. And then it's like
(10:12):
now I'm like, damn, I'm old because it's me. Now
I'm that older guy that now guys like what you're
you on? I'm like, you're nine and they're like, man,
it's crazy. And then I was just talking to somebody.
I was talking to Keisha, and I was like, I said,
what was you at when I got drafted? I said
I was twenty fifteen. He's like, I just graduated high school.
I said, he see. And it's like now, like if
I tell some of these guys, oh, yeah, I got
(10:33):
draft two thou fifteen, they like, or if you asked them, like,
what was you at nine years ago? Some of you
guys like eleven years old, you know, thirteen years old
or whatever, like they're just getting they were just hitting
puty and now is me here?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Now? Has your leadership changed over that span?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I just got a lot of a lot more knowledge.
I feel like I've been the same person since I
walked in. You know, it just gets better each year.
Like that's that's what I aim to do, is to
be a better leader each year, Like to find ways
to be a better leader, because you still learn as
you go, and you never the lessons never start raining in.
And it just seems like the more I keep going
and the more seasons I keep playing, the more I
(11:07):
learn about players, the more I learn about communication with people,
and the more I learned about you know, how to
get to players and to make sure that I help
them be the best they can be, you know, without
stepping on these toes, because that's the that's the main
goal when you when you're learning how to be a
leader or you're a leader, is that you have to
know how to get across to all audiences because everybody
(11:28):
don't take the message the same way, and you know,
everybody doesn't learn the same way either, So you got
to find a way to be able to help people
and figure out their learning style and to be able
to help them understand what you're trying to get them
to do and well understand how where you're trying to
get them to go because you know, if I'm leading
you somewhere, I at least want you to know like
where we're trying, where I'm trying to get you to go,
and then how to do that. But I also want
(11:49):
you to understand why. You know, why we're doing this,
Like it's not gonna be like, hey, we're going to
start running to the ball, and you know, you like
while we run to the ball, like you know many reasons.
It helps with great conditioning. You know, it works your
pursuit angles just in case the play is away, and
it also helps with you know, if you run into
the ball and the ball pops out, you can be
the guy that scoops the ball up and make a
big play for the team. So it's you know, you
(12:09):
gotta be able to tell because most people my ask
are like why, and you got to be able to
explain that. And that's what comes with being a leader, a.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Great leader transparency.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It sounds like, yes, you gotta be transparent. You gotta
be able to to help them understand what you're what
you're trying to say.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You're in year nine, when this season is all said
and done, what do you want to be able to
look back and say.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Ye're now is my best season. That's why I want
to look back and say, you're now is my best season.
I want to feel like I'm entering my prime. I
want to feel like I'm getting better each and every year,
like from here on, I like, as long as I'm playing,
I just want to feel like I'm getting better, like
I'm not taking steps back, like I'm in supreme shape.
I want to make sure that when it's Seaton said
and done, I can say I entrough the tank for
the season, You're not an m through the tank and
(12:52):
I'm refueled the tank and get ready for you know,
your team.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Good luck, Preston, and thank you so much for taking
the time.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Thank you, I appreciate you for having me.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And thank you for listening to Packer's p o V.
To learn more about what Preston is doing off the field,
visit his instagram Preston Smith, and follow his gaming up
dates on x at h o F Underscore Gaming. Take
care and see you next time.
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