October 25, 2024 • 17 mins
The O-Zone Podcast is back, Senior Writer John Oehser gets Tank Bigsby to open up on a personal level. Tank discusses how his faith and family are the primary motivators of his daily life. Bigsby shares the feeling of being rewarded the 'Angry Bird' award from Good Morning Football. Lastly, Tank references some former running backs he has watched growing up, why he wears the number 4 and the relationship with Travis Etienne Jr.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome to this week's ozone podcast. I'm John
Oser and I'm excited to be joined today by Jaguars
running back Tank Bigsby. Tank, thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
How you doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
So first tell me about the team right now. You're
two and five, a couple of wins in the last
three games. I was with you in London, some camaraderie
built up. But what's the mindset going into this week?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You know, just.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Trying to be as consistent as the team we can
be as a team, and I bring you more and
more energy as a team, and just going out and
compete at a high level.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Your personal story, You've talked about it. I'm during training camp.
I've talked a little bit about it. Confidence level right now,
I guess with the way you're playing as high as
it's been since you've been in the league.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, you know, I feel like my confidence comes from
my faith, you know, just just preparation and preparing and
then getting understanding of the game. And I also hard
work during the off season, you know. You know last
year was it learning a season for me first year
in the lead, and uh, I just feel like this
league about opportunities and confidence come where you know you're
(01:13):
getting going. And once again I say, like you have
a lot of faith in hard work. You put those
two together, it's like your confidence go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And I don't want to skim over that because you're
all about confidence about a tough year. You're a young
guy and really went through a tough year in terms
of the noise in the system, all those things.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But how.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
How do you maintain that?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Meaning?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It would have been easy for you to get discouraged,
to get down. Uh maybe a couple of times last
year you did. But by the time you came back
this off season, I don't know, you seem different. You
seemed like I guess that truly was behind it. Yeah,
Am I reading that right? And then how do you
do that?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, at Arburne we had we been through a
lot of adversity, and uh, I feel like that school
got me ready for a lot of things. And Uh,
when I came to the league and had a little adversity, Uh,
I didn't let it change my character. I stayed who
I was and true to myself, you know, kept praying
and asking God to show me the way.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You know, Uh, don't flinch when you get your opportunities.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Just try to take full advantage when you go from
you know, carrying the ball for for a team consistently
consistently that you going to get couple.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Of ops here and there. Sure you know it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It it kind of play with you a little bit.
Then I learned about the NFL, what the NFL really was.
I was like, you know, this is what I gotta do.
This is how I gotta come and I just gotta
know my job and my role and when I get
a opportunity, and I gotta be ready. So whatever it
was this off season, you know, I told myself, whatever
the Jacks asked out of me, I have to do
it at my best ability cause I don't know when
the next time I get opportunity.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So uh, you.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Know, I have a testimony, but it's still it's a
story for another day. But it's a it's a it's
a blessing, you know, to be able to understand what
I went through last year and learned a lesson and
get where I'm at today.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And you said you sort of learned what the NFL's
are all about. And definitely talking to second year guys
over the years compared to rookies. That story is pretty common.
What did you learn about it, just in terms of
what it really took to make it that you didn't
realize me he came as a rookie. You know.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
In college you get so many opportunities and you get right, Yeah,
you get to the league and it's a business, you know. Uh,
I never forget last year, you know, I wasn't performing
well and uh they had bumped me down the third
and I was I let it sit I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I didn't let it sit well with me, and I
just it just did something to me. You know.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I didn't know when the next opportunity was coming, and uh,
it just it fired me up. And I was just
I still hold that fight to the day, you know,
And I just thank God for that put putting me
through that, you know, because at the end of the day,
I wouldn't be who I am as a man and
as a player, you know, if I didn't go through that.
So at the end of the day, I thank him
for all my trials and tribulations, everything I go through
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because it been me to a better character.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So I feel like, so you wouldn't be the player
you are right now if you hadn't gone through what
you went through.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I wouldn't say that. You know, I feel like I
always been capable of who I am. You know, I
know who I am.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I just feel like I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know
who the league.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I wouldn't know what the league is now, you know,
And by me saying like I wouldn't I know who
I am saying like basically like I know how the
league go.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
When you got to be performing, it's a performance lead.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And you know, at the end of the day, I knew,
you know, when it came down to it, when they
told me that, I knew what I.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Had to do then.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So at the end of the day, when you get
the opportunity, you got to take full advantage.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And I got you. I was talking to another subject,
talking to Christian Kirk yesterday and just about criticism and
things that you guys deal with, and he said, at
some point you have to shot off your phone. But
even when you're shof your phone, you hear it was
that a tricky thing to learn how to deal with
as a rookie, and I think on some level all
(04:59):
players are dealing with.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It right well, you know, I've been real disciplined with
social media. So it's probably different for me and Kurt.
Those guys, I don't know how they do, sure, but
criticism from the coaches and the team, and I feel
like I take it well, you know, because I feel.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Like I need.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You know, I need criticism, Bill, Bill, your characters show
who you are, and you take it and you learn
from it. But anything else, like people people say on
the social media and stuff like that, it don't matter
because they don't know what actually go on in this building.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You don't think, you don't think they know.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
They don't know. They just clueless.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Who did you lean on?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You know, I lean on for one, I lean on God,
my gam and.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
My mom, you know, very strong woman, and uh she
she told me a lot, you know, kept kept me going.
My coach, you know, coach Jamari, we talked and communit indicated.
So you know, talking to those two I've been talking
to my whole career, and you know, just they knew,
you know, they knew, and uh, they just they just
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kept me uplifted and I just kept praying.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Man, you I've been revealing your secret. But I saw
an angry run award by your locker, right, that's a
cool thing. How cool is that to be that? And
you consider yourself an angry runner?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Ah, you know, it's it's it's a blessing, man, honestly,
you know, just being able to get an opportunity to
do that.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know that week is behind us. Let's try to
do it again.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You put put out best for forward this week, you know,
and do it again, and then try to do it again,
and do it again, you know, get just keep going,
you know that's what That's how I look at it.
And but it's a blessing. It's it's a big blessing.
You know, a lot of guys you know, it's an accomplishment.
But at the end of the day, it's more out
there to go get and uh, I'm just you know,
(07:02):
excreamingly blost honestly.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Kind of a unique thing. There's angry run tank, but
there's also speed tank. I mean, and which do you
enjoy more? Is it better to fight your way into
the end zone or is it better to be turning
around and.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know the stiff arm.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Honestly, you know, I feel like me, me running running
the ball between the tackles, getting me going, and then
when I get in space, it kind of just that
would come with it.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Then I can turn the girl on this. It's just
a field thing, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But I enjoy, you know, running between the tackle, running
physical because I feel like they get the line going
and get the guys on the team going, and then
when I get an opportunity for that home run and
you just take full advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It was interesting. I remember talking to Travis, I think
in his second year when he was first starting to play,
and a couple of times he got run down in
situations where he didn't feel like he should have been
run down, and he was talking a little about how
when you come from college you still have to sort
of learn how to run in the NFL. It's a
different sort of speed. Did you go through any of
(08:10):
that with the run against Indy or against the Texans?
I guess we didn't quite make it, and then you
made it the next week. Yeah, so you learn a
little bit in those situations.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, it was a learning lesson, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I feel like the game of football all about angles
at the running back passion, and he had a good
angle on me. If I would have pushed vertical, then
got to get got back to the numbers. It probably
would have been a different thing. But it's about angles
to me, and I feel like I looked at that
film and I just ran at an angle and he
was coming like this the whole time, and I just say,
(08:44):
you know what, now straighten up a little bit, then
go there. So when I got to Indy, I had
straight up. Then I got to the numbers, and you
see when I got an end zone, I cut it
across all of it because it just now the defender
chasing you just like playing hide and go see I
got you know, then you turn right.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So it's yeah, I feel like it's about angles now.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Doug said you were turning around to make sure. Yeah,
taunting or was it a stiff arm or is.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It just wouldn't. I ain't no same person.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I gotta come up with a celebration though, you know, okay,
but I ain't no time person.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Now. It took it took Fred Taylor in the nineties
a long time to find his celebrations. You know, we
talked to him about that. There have been people who
have actually said you run fairly similar. Have you watched
Fred at all? Do you know much about him?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I watch Fred Fred? You know Fred do his thing
you know, he's a great run of physical, big running.
He got to speed, he got the gear. I watched
Fred and fred a compas a lot of great things.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Do you did you have anybody I maybe asked just
a foreign for that, I apologize, But did you have
anybody that you pattern yourself after? Or is that even
possible when you're runner? Because it it's such instinct and
based on what you do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, you know at running back position, it is instant.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
But I always watched Tdd Gurley and I always watched
Iving Cook, you know those two guys. I watched Dving
Cook how lucive he is. And I always watched that
Todd Gurley, how tough he ran. And Uh, I tried
to put those two together. And you know, just seeing
Diving at f s U and Tied at Georgia, it
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was like lights out.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
So as me growing up, I was saying that, I
was like, I can beat this fast and I can
beat this strong. So I wanted to put those two
running backs together.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Better attribute for you speed or power?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
A lot of people may think it's power, but I
think I'm I think I haven't really showed my top speed,
you know, but I like I like to run physical though,
So it's it's really it's really just whatever it is
at the moment when I have to instant show my instincts.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Do you run out of bound? Did you challenge that
last year?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Oh? No, I ain't running out of manh.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Conceptually, I Doug talked about this week, so it was
on my mind about being in a rhythm in the
running game when you're back and like the other day
it seemed like you were in a rhythm and feeling it.
Is that a real thing where after four or five
carries you start feeling it, you start being in a groove.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, you remember earlier I was just telling you about.
You know, you go from running the ball a lot,
then you go to one too. You know, it's all
about getting that line going and getting in a rhythm,
you know, and uh, because one run you may miss,
and then you go to the sideline on the iPads
and then you get that another opportunity. It's the same
thing and now that's the home run, and uh that's
(11:49):
just what come on. Would have been a runner, you know,
a lot of runners not gonna hit the very first run, okay,
the very second one, but come fourth quarter you may
you may pop out of there and go for eighty
or you know, a long home run. So I feel that,
you know, stacking old runs on top of each other,
letting the backs get go and let the line build
of confidence as we're going and hint it and doing
(12:11):
what we're supposed to do. I feel like it do
build confidence as a team, and it be a confidence
as a runner in the line.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I know we're looking ahead, but best run you've had
so far? Or do you even think that way?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
No, I don't think like that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You know, I just honestly good or bad, like got
flush it. You know, like a lot of people ask me,
how did I not harp on last year?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Sure finished it?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You know, I flashed it. You flushed the good and bad.
You don't harp on it. Thank God for it, and
let's move on.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
What has Travis meant to you in terms of uh,
just last year he had been through something fairly similar
adversity early. What's that relationship?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, Travis, he's a great guy, great running back, cool
guy off the field. You know, he very small, he
so talented. But you just have him in the room,
you know it challenge each other. You know, let's let's
see who we can do this. Let's see who can
do this. We you know, we make challenges with each
other and at the end of the year, we got
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challenges that we made for each other. If you do this,
if I do that, you know. But it's it's all
about just the way we we click is more like, bro,
you do this, I got to do this, right, We
got to feed off like you know. It's it's more
like we're trying to become like the best duo in
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the league. And that's how he look at it. That's
how I look at it. We're trying to we're trying
to beat out everybody. You're trying to make this team win.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
There was a cool moment earlier, I forget which game
where he was caught on tape saying saying how proud
he was of you after a run. That's not all
the time, right, right, So that's pretty cool. What did
that mean to you?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I mean a lot, you know, just teammate sewing that
they proud, you know that they got that they care.
You know, a lot of guys show that they care.
You know, you don't have selfish guys on the team,
and you know when those guys do good I do
the same for those guys' you know, keep going. It's
not over. You know you got you got more in
the tank. You know, it don't stop now. So at
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the end of the day, we know when we do
something great, you know, we tell each other. I'm more
of the guy in the room where I tell him
like that wouldn't enough.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, it was good.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I think in my head I'd be like, man, that
was good, but I'd be like, I need more at you.
I got you, you know, just so we won't get
that complacent spirit. You know, I don't want nobody to
be feeling like getting complacent. Let's go, let's finish, Let's
get it's more out there.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Find out think we do. We call the ozone five.
It's five quick questions, Tank Bigsby. What was your last binge?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Watch? My last binge watch?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
The last show you watched on last been?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Uh power power? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Good?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Great?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay? The last song you.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Heard in the way in uh last time I listened
to gospel? Okay, it was he would work. Yeah, he
would work.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I think that's the one. I don't know that was
something he's no, it's he's working, he's working.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I got you and I maybe that's this, but yoah,
why number four?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Uh? You know in life, you know, everybody get three chances,
and uh, I'm that type of person where that fourth chance,
you know, you may not get it. The first one
you may not get it, the second one, you may
not get the third, but you that fourth chance in life,
you may get it, and let's go. And I just
that's how I live in my life. You know, I
don't give up on people. I don't give up on
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people that sure that mess up. I just I give
him another opportunity. And I always been like that. And
you know it's not good to give up on people.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And you know, got you. That's how I look at it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Very cool. Do you remember your first touchdown ever?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, I was seventh, ran backwards and then I ran
for like seventy yards untouched. Like well, at first I
ran backwards, and I guess you at the backwards yards
witness it was like ninety.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
So why were you backwards?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I mean, I ain't know. That's the only reason I remember.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I just like I got to run away from direction.
That's fantastic. The person or people most responsible for you
being in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know God, my mom, you know my coach, and
you know just just my family. You know, the way
what we've been through. A lot of people would make
it where I'm at with my family and what we've
been through. So you take a lot of discipline and patience,
and I feel like everything I've been through short it
(16:52):
showed that I have a lot of patience.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Uh, A lot of people would have been quit, you know,
but at the end of the day, it's a lot
more out there. So let's it go.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Tank. This was fantastic. I appreciate you doing this. I
know it's a busy time of year to do it.
I know the fans will enjoy getting to know you
a little bit. Thank you for joining the ozone podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
All right, really, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Appreciate it.
All right, welcome to this week's ozone podcast. I'm John
Oser and I'm excited to be joined today by Jaguars
running back Tank Bigsby. Tank, thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
How you doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
So first tell me about the team right now. You're
two and five, a couple of wins in the last
three games. I was with you in London, some camaraderie
built up. But what's the mindset going into this week?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You know, just.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Trying to be as consistent as the team we can
be as a team, and I bring you more and
more energy as a team, and just going out and
compete at a high level.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Your personal story, You've talked about it. I'm during training camp.
I've talked a little bit about it. Confidence level right now,
I guess with the way you're playing as high as
it's been since you've been in the league.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, you know, I feel like my confidence comes from
my faith, you know, just just preparation and preparing and
then getting understanding of the game. And I also hard
work during the off season, you know. You know last
year was it learning a season for me first year
in the lead, and uh, I just feel like this
league about opportunities and confidence come where you know you're
(01:13):
getting going. And once again I say, like you have
a lot of faith in hard work. You put those
two together, it's like your confidence go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And I don't want to skim over that because you're
all about confidence about a tough year. You're a young
guy and really went through a tough year in terms
of the noise in the system, all those things.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But how.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
How do you maintain that?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Meaning?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It would have been easy for you to get discouraged,
to get down. Uh maybe a couple of times last
year you did. But by the time you came back
this off season, I don't know, you seem different. You
seemed like I guess that truly was behind it. Yeah,
Am I reading that right? And then how do you
do that?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, at Arburne we had we been through a
lot of adversity, and uh, I feel like that school
got me ready for a lot of things. And Uh,
when I came to the league and had a little adversity, Uh,
I didn't let it change my character. I stayed who
I was and true to myself, you know, kept praying
and asking God to show me the way.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You know, Uh, don't flinch when you get your opportunities.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Just try to take full advantage when you go from
you know, carrying the ball for for a team consistently
consistently that you going to get couple.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Of ops here and there. Sure you know it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It it kind of play with you a little bit.
Then I learned about the NFL, what the NFL really was.
I was like, you know, this is what I gotta do.
This is how I gotta come and I just gotta
know my job and my role and when I get
a opportunity, and I gotta be ready. So whatever it
was this off season, you know, I told myself, whatever
the Jacks asked out of me, I have to do
it at my best ability cause I don't know when
the next time I get opportunity.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So uh, you.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Know, I have a testimony, but it's still it's a
story for another day. But it's a it's a it's
a blessing, you know, to be able to understand what
I went through last year and learned a lesson and
get where I'm at today.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And you said you sort of learned what the NFL's
are all about. And definitely talking to second year guys
over the years compared to rookies. That story is pretty common.
What did you learn about it, just in terms of
what it really took to make it that you didn't
realize me he came as a rookie. You know.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
In college you get so many opportunities and you get right, Yeah,
you get to the league and it's a business, you know. Uh,
I never forget last year, you know, I wasn't performing
well and uh they had bumped me down the third
and I was I let it sit I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I didn't let it sit well with me, and I
just it just did something to me. You know.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I didn't know when the next opportunity was coming, and uh,
it just it fired me up. And I was just
I still hold that fight to the day, you know,
And I just thank God for that put putting me
through that, you know, because at the end of the day,
I wouldn't be who I am as a man and
as a player, you know, if I didn't go through that.
So at the end of the day, I thank him
for all my trials and tribulations, everything I go through
(03:59):
because it been me to a better character.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So I feel like, so you wouldn't be the player
you are right now if you hadn't gone through what
you went through.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I wouldn't say that. You know, I feel like I
always been capable of who I am. You know, I
know who I am.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I just feel like I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know
who the league.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I wouldn't know what the league is now, you know,
And by me saying like I wouldn't I know who
I am saying like basically like I know how the
league go.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
When you got to be performing, it's a performance lead.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And you know, at the end of the day, I knew,
you know, when it came down to it, when they
told me that, I knew what I.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Had to do then.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So at the end of the day, when you get
the opportunity, you got to take full advantage.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And I got you. I was talking to another subject,
talking to Christian Kirk yesterday and just about criticism and
things that you guys deal with, and he said, at
some point you have to shot off your phone. But
even when you're shof your phone, you hear it was
that a tricky thing to learn how to deal with
as a rookie, and I think on some level all
(04:59):
players are dealing with.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It right well, you know, I've been real disciplined with
social media. So it's probably different for me and Kurt.
Those guys, I don't know how they do, sure, but
criticism from the coaches and the team, and I feel
like I take it well, you know, because I feel.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Like I need.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You know, I need criticism, Bill, Bill, your characters show
who you are, and you take it and you learn
from it. But anything else, like people people say on
the social media and stuff like that, it don't matter
because they don't know what actually go on in this building.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You don't think, you don't think they know.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
They don't know. They just clueless.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Who did you lean on?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You know, I lean on for one, I lean on God,
my gam and.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
My mom, you know, very strong woman, and uh she
she told me a lot, you know, kept kept me going.
My coach, you know, coach Jamari, we talked and communit indicated.
So you know, talking to those two I've been talking
to my whole career, and you know, just they knew,
you know, they knew, and uh, they just they just
(06:11):
kept me uplifted and I just kept praying.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Man, you I've been revealing your secret. But I saw
an angry run award by your locker, right, that's a
cool thing. How cool is that to be that? And
you consider yourself an angry runner?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Ah, you know, it's it's it's a blessing, man, honestly,
you know, just being able to get an opportunity to
do that.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know that week is behind us. Let's try to
do it again.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You put put out best for forward this week, you know,
and do it again, and then try to do it again,
and do it again, you know, get just keep going,
you know that's what That's how I look at it.
And but it's a blessing. It's it's a big blessing.
You know, a lot of guys you know, it's an accomplishment.
But at the end of the day, it's more out
there to go get and uh, I'm just you know,
(07:02):
excreamingly blost honestly.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Kind of a unique thing. There's angry run tank, but
there's also speed tank. I mean, and which do you
enjoy more? Is it better to fight your way into
the end zone or is it better to be turning
around and.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know the stiff arm.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Honestly, you know, I feel like me, me running running
the ball between the tackles, getting me going, and then
when I get in space, it kind of just that
would come with it.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Then I can turn the girl on this. It's just
a field thing, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But I enjoy, you know, running between the tackle, running
physical because I feel like they get the line going
and get the guys on the team going, and then
when I get an opportunity for that home run and
you just take full advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It was interesting. I remember talking to Travis, I think
in his second year when he was first starting to play,
and a couple of times he got run down in
situations where he didn't feel like he should have been
run down, and he was talking a little about how
when you come from college you still have to sort
of learn how to run in the NFL. It's a
different sort of speed. Did you go through any of
(08:10):
that with the run against Indy or against the Texans?
I guess we didn't quite make it, and then you
made it the next week. Yeah, so you learn a
little bit in those situations.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, it was a learning lesson, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I feel like the game of football all about angles
at the running back passion, and he had a good
angle on me. If I would have pushed vertical, then
got to get got back to the numbers. It probably
would have been a different thing. But it's about angles
to me, and I feel like I looked at that
film and I just ran at an angle and he
was coming like this the whole time, and I just say,
(08:44):
you know what, now straighten up a little bit, then
go there. So when I got to Indy, I had
straight up. Then I got to the numbers, and you
see when I got an end zone, I cut it
across all of it because it just now the defender
chasing you just like playing hide and go see I
got you know, then you turn right.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So it's yeah, I feel like it's about angles now.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Doug said you were turning around to make sure. Yeah,
taunting or was it a stiff arm or is.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It just wouldn't. I ain't no same person.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I gotta come up with a celebration though, you know, okay,
but I ain't no time person.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Now. It took it took Fred Taylor in the nineties
a long time to find his celebrations. You know, we
talked to him about that. There have been people who
have actually said you run fairly similar. Have you watched
Fred at all? Do you know much about him?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I watch Fred Fred? You know Fred do his thing
you know, he's a great run of physical, big running.
He got to speed, he got the gear. I watched
Fred and fred a compas a lot of great things.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Do you did you have anybody I maybe asked just
a foreign for that, I apologize, But did you have
anybody that you pattern yourself after? Or is that even
possible when you're runner? Because it it's such instinct and
based on what you do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, you know at running back position, it is instant.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
But I always watched Tdd Gurley and I always watched
Iving Cook, you know those two guys. I watched Dving
Cook how lucive he is. And I always watched that
Todd Gurley, how tough he ran. And Uh, I tried
to put those two together. And you know, just seeing
Diving at f s U and Tied at Georgia, it
(10:27):
was like lights out.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
So as me growing up, I was saying that, I
was like, I can beat this fast and I can
beat this strong. So I wanted to put those two
running backs together.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Better attribute for you speed or power?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
A lot of people may think it's power, but I
think I'm I think I haven't really showed my top speed,
you know, but I like I like to run physical though,
So it's it's really it's really just whatever it is
at the moment when I have to instant show my instincts.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Do you run out of bound? Did you challenge that
last year?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Oh? No, I ain't running out of manh.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Conceptually, I Doug talked about this week, so it was
on my mind about being in a rhythm in the
running game when you're back and like the other day
it seemed like you were in a rhythm and feeling it.
Is that a real thing where after four or five
carries you start feeling it, you start being in a groove.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, you remember earlier I was just telling you about.
You know, you go from running the ball a lot,
then you go to one too. You know, it's all
about getting that line going and getting in a rhythm,
you know, and uh, because one run you may miss,
and then you go to the sideline on the iPads
and then you get that another opportunity. It's the same
thing and now that's the home run, and uh that's
(11:49):
just what come on. Would have been a runner, you know,
a lot of runners not gonna hit the very first run, okay,
the very second one, but come fourth quarter you may
you may pop out of there and go for eighty
or you know, a long home run. So I feel that,
you know, stacking old runs on top of each other,
letting the backs get go and let the line build
of confidence as we're going and hint it and doing
(12:11):
what we're supposed to do. I feel like it do
build confidence as a team, and it be a confidence
as a runner in the line.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I know we're looking ahead, but best run you've had
so far? Or do you even think that way?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
No, I don't think like that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You know, I just honestly good or bad, like got
flush it. You know, like a lot of people ask me,
how did I not harp on last year?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Sure finished it?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You know, I flashed it. You flushed the good and bad.
You don't harp on it. Thank God for it, and
let's move on.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
What has Travis meant to you in terms of uh,
just last year he had been through something fairly similar
adversity early. What's that relationship?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, Travis, he's a great guy, great running back, cool
guy off the field. You know, he very small, he
so talented. But you just have him in the room,
you know it challenge each other. You know, let's let's
see who we can do this. Let's see who can
do this. We you know, we make challenges with each
other and at the end of the year, we got
(13:13):
challenges that we made for each other. If you do this,
if I do that, you know. But it's it's all
about just the way we we click is more like, bro,
you do this, I got to do this, right, We
got to feed off like you know. It's it's more
like we're trying to become like the best duo in
(13:33):
the league. And that's how he look at it. That's
how I look at it. We're trying to we're trying
to beat out everybody. You're trying to make this team win.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
There was a cool moment earlier, I forget which game
where he was caught on tape saying saying how proud
he was of you after a run. That's not all
the time, right, right, So that's pretty cool. What did
that mean to you?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I mean a lot, you know, just teammate sewing that
they proud, you know that they got that they care.
You know, a lot of guys show that they care.
You know, you don't have selfish guys on the team,
and you know when those guys do good I do
the same for those guys' you know, keep going. It's
not over. You know you got you got more in
the tank. You know, it don't stop now. So at
(14:17):
the end of the day, we know when we do
something great, you know, we tell each other. I'm more
of the guy in the room where I tell him
like that wouldn't enough.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, it was good.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I think in my head I'd be like, man, that
was good, but I'd be like, I need more at you.
I got you, you know, just so we won't get
that complacent spirit. You know, I don't want nobody to
be feeling like getting complacent. Let's go, let's finish, Let's
get it's more out there.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Find out think we do. We call the ozone five.
It's five quick questions, Tank Bigsby. What was your last binge?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Watch? My last binge watch?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
The last show you watched on last been?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Uh power power? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Good?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Great?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay? The last song you.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Heard in the way in uh last time I listened
to gospel? Okay, it was he would work. Yeah, he
would work.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I think that's the one. I don't know that was
something he's no, it's he's working, he's working.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I got you and I maybe that's this, but yoah,
why number four?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Uh? You know in life, you know, everybody get three chances,
and uh, I'm that type of person where that fourth chance,
you know, you may not get it. The first one
you may not get it, the second one, you may
not get the third, but you that fourth chance in life,
you may get it, and let's go. And I just
that's how I live in my life. You know, I
don't give up on people. I don't give up on
(15:37):
people that sure that mess up. I just I give
him another opportunity. And I always been like that. And
you know it's not good to give up on people.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And you know, got you. That's how I look at it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Very cool. Do you remember your first touchdown ever?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, I was seventh, ran backwards and then I ran
for like seventy yards untouched. Like well, at first I
ran backwards, and I guess you at the backwards yards
witness it was like ninety.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
So why were you backwards?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I mean, I ain't know. That's the only reason I remember.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I just like I got to run away from direction.
That's fantastic. The person or people most responsible for you
being in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know God, my mom, you know my coach, and
you know just just my family. You know, the way
what we've been through. A lot of people would make
it where I'm at with my family and what we've
been through. So you take a lot of discipline and patience,
and I feel like everything I've been through short it
(16:52):
showed that I have a lot of patience.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Uh, A lot of people would have been quit, you know,
but at the end of the day, it's a lot
more out there. So let's it go.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Tank. This was fantastic. I appreciate you doing this. I
know it's a busy time of year to do it.
I know the fans will enjoy getting to know you
a little bit. Thank you for joining the ozone podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
All right, really, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Appreciate it.
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