July 25, 2025 • 14 mins
Indianapolis Colts safety Camryn Bynum joins the program to discuss his transition to Indianapolis, admits that he sees some similarities between Brian Flores defense in Minnesota to what Lou Anarumo is installing in Indianapolis, reveals what intrigued him about signing with the Colts, shares what the Philippines mean to him with that being his offseason home, and compares what he has seen from the two quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't buy them one of the big offseason acquisitions joining
us here at Grand Park in Westfield. So Cam, first off,
let's get right to this, and that is, you know,
you were one of the big off season acquisitions. I
just talked about it. Welcome to Indianapolis. Do you already
feel like you're a cult? It's only been a week.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Let's be yees I, right, yeah, OTA's made it feel
like I was a colt just getting here, being able
to meet the guys and be able to you know,
just be in the facility, being around other people and
just being able to meet the staff and just meeting
everybody made me feel at home because they welcomed me
with open arms. Nobody was you know, everybody was just
super welcoming and super cool about me being a new guy,
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to the point where I only felt like a new
guy for a couple of days. And once I started
to you know, familiarize myself, especially with the DBS, then
started to grow with the defense, and started to meet
some guys on the offense, then it feels like a
family at this point.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And you know, I'm curious of this.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I was just talking about this, this defense, and we
don't really know yet you guys obviously do we do
not yet know exactly how this defense is going to
look when you have a new coordinator. But theoretically, on paper,
it is a defense that is similar to what you
had under Flores in Minnesota and the fact of kind
of keeping people guessing right right and presenting different looks
than what you're actually executing. Yes, how much of that,
(01:11):
I guess, first off is from what you've seen so far,
how much of this feels like advantage for you because
it's similar to what you ran in Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I would just say before anything, right now, we're super
basic with everything, so we haven't even progressed into the
tricky stuff. You know, we're still disguising just natural instincts,
but we're still pretty vanilla.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's only day three of training camp.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But just talking to coach Lou and just getting to
know his mindset and getting to you know, just hear
him talk and watching film of the Bengals in the
past years, I see exactly why people would say it's similar,
and I feel like it's very similar, and I think
for me it's that's an advantage too, because just knowing
that you know the foundation that have from coach Flores
just being able to mix so many things up and
every single person having to know every single position on
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the field. I think we can implement that to just have,
you know, one of the smartest defenses in the league,
and when everybody gets to understand that, we can mix
this defense up. If everybody learns how to play each
spot on the defense, and that can that can be
a big plus because quarterbacks will never have a clue
who's where and why are they there?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And we're doing different things out of the same look.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So you're still working on long division, but you have
yet to get into algebra exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So yeah, we're still adding subtracting right now.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
When do you, guys or when would you anticipate that
that takes place. Maybe it's different from franchise to franchise,
so it's hard for you to know, but typically speaking,
you'd like to kind of have a real feel for
what you're going to be when.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, I'd probably say around two and a half weeks
of training camp. Once you get all the installs and
all the play calls are in, then you can start
throwing some more spice on each each play call. So
I think just going through it right now, we're you know,
still we're only on install three because it's our third day,
so we've put in a good amount of coverages. But
we know based off of OTA's we're introduced to a
(02:57):
lot of different things. So we haven't even touched a
red zone yet, we haven't even touched two minutes yet,
so different situations. Once we hammer all those in, then
we can add some more stuff on top of it.
So it's but once we have the foundation, everything else
is easy. So you can put something in an hour
before practice and we'd be able to run it. And
that's really just the type of guys that we have
on this team. It's a bunch of smart guys and
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a bunch of people that care and that have a
good understanding of football and good football like you, to
the point where once we have our foundation, like I said,
everything else we can add to it and it be effortless.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What intrigues you about Indianapolis about the Colts in general,
this franchise and this roster.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Just the history, I think, just going back just it
being the franchise that it is. Getting to hear about
the Ursa family and how big they were to the community.
Somebody has my jersey on over there, and that's the
first one. Hold on, shout out to the fans. I'm
a signing you stay here. I'm assign it for you
after this interview. That's super cool. Yeah, so like that,
just the fans. I haven't been I haven't played a
(03:54):
snap in a real game and as a cult, but
we have people walking around here with my jersey on,
so that that's big. So just being able to, you know,
understand the culture out here and seeing people, you know,
just how hard they ride for the Colts and that's
something I want to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And I heard the stadium is rocking too. How many
of these guys did you know?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I say three, maybe a little more just off the
top of my head. Schegu Daniel Scott, Daniel Jones from
last season with the Vikings. But I've known about a
lot of people and have met some other people too
in the past, but personally and only three people so far.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So you have seen Daniel Jones obviously both you know,
in scrimmage settings, you know, in video rooms whatever it
make right. What have you seen from Anthony Richardson that
is the same or different than what you have seen
from Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's hard to tell only day three, but one thing
I know, they're both really mobile quarterbacks, and that's one
thing that opens up an offense and that they're both
capable of. Obviously, we know both quarterbacks are capable of
being being a dual threat, and especially with ar I've
seen him going against the was last year watching him
on film. Obviously Joe Flacco started against us, but being
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able to watch the film and see what he was
capable of with his legs and his arm strength, and
saying with Daniel Jones being able to do the same
thing and me be able to go against him the
years he was in New York. He beat us in
a playoffs, So that's always a forever rivalry in my
mind because he knocked us out in twenty twenty two.
But just both quarterbacks are really capable of doing really
good things.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We'd colts camp here Grand Park in Westfield. Cam buying
them is the guest. Okay, Cam, Actually, you ever thought
about when you're playing careers over and let's say it's
fifteen years from now, right, we're gonna be here, but
are you gonna go into broadcasting?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Because you're kind of a natural on the microphone. Really, yeah,
that means a lot. I appreciate that. If I don't
want to be a guest star, I don't know if
I could do it every single day and talk. I'm
not a big I'm a talker. I'm a people person.
But I might burn out if I have to talk
on TV every single day.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Wait, so are you saying because I've got to talk
for three hours a day? Are you actually saying indirectly
that there is some challenge in like your job is challenging.
You're actually saying that my job has some challenge nor
your job is probably harder than mind. I like that
you have to.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Talk about what we're doing every day, even if it's
a boring day. You have to make stuff up to
make it sound interesting. If we came out here and
just didn't walk through, you'd have to somehow find a
way to make it sound good.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On the radio. Hundred years, my friend, that's a tough job.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, I'll tell you what's a tough job for you,
and that is playing in this heat and this humidity.
But you're used to it because you spend the off
seasons in the Philippines. It's a place in an area
of the world that's become special to you by spreading
the message of football also in that area. But take
me through just what the Philippines means for you and
maybe even what you can learn about yourself by being
(06:38):
on the other side of the world.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
From everything that previously was familiar. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think first and foremost the people and just the
culture out there of how loving and you know, it's
really a culture. The culture is deep as far as
like being a people person. Everybody's looking out for each
other out there. Your neighbors know each other, everybody's always
hanging out sides. It's kind of like how life used
to be, where everybody's you know, you're in a neighbor
but all the kids are playing outside still and people
(07:02):
are just there for each other. And I feel like
in America, I love it here just as much. But
for me, I feel like we've lost the community aspect
in certain ways, just because our lives are so fast,
which is a blessing because we have really good jobs
and everything, and everybody's so busy out here. But out there,
that's when I love to just sit back and relax.
And I have a busy, busy football season being around
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so many people I love to be in the Philippines
and have a humble living and being able to live
amongst people that maybe not have as much as me,
but are enjoying life even more and more grateful in
life to me. So I think that's really what I
learned the most of just being grateful and being just
so hard working. People out there are super hard working
to the point where they may not have much, but
they're never complaining. And that's something that changed me my
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first time traveling out there. I came back here and
I'm like, I can never complain about anything ever again.
And just being able to spread football out there, be
able to serve people in poverty, just doing all those
things makes me really help me never take the game
for granted. Because I'm out there, I'm doing a workout
on the side, and I invite people out and we
have one hundred people just to get a lift in
or just to get some field work in, just simply
(08:09):
because there's an NFL player out there. And so when
I come back here, I'm like, Okay, now I'm ready
to go play football ten times more because when I'm
in the Philippines, people are itching for an opportunity to
play they're renting fields at midnight to get some field time,
to be able to put some flag football games on.
So just all those things make me just so much
more grateful when I'm here. So being able to do
half in half just helps me to put everything in
(08:31):
the football season. Then when I'm in the off season,
be able to put everything into the people out there
in the Philippines.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Did it change a little bit your perspective or add
to the perspective of In order for that where we
need to get, you.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Got to have the basics.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You've got to have the camaraderie, and you've got to
have so in other words, in the Philippines, if it's
about family and it's about community, that then parlays hopefully
into the building a neighborhood building what exactly and what
you need to if you tried to spread that to
your new teammates here of look, we got to be
together first, right, then we'll see what happens when other
things come our way.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, I think just doing it by example.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I'm not here telling stories about the Philippines and say, guys, yeah, look,
when I was in the Philippines, I was doing this.
It's really just the mindset that I have when I'm
around the guys, trying to talk to people, get to
know them, especially with the young guys, asking about their story,
how they got here, what they think about the NFL
so far. So really just being able to talk to
people and get to actually know people, I think that's
the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And also just the enjoyment that we have when we're
on the field.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Like I mentioned, people out there are so grateful just
to be able to play flag football and just to learn.
So when we're out here in practice, I try and
make sure that I'm having fun no matter what if
it's a hard day, hot day like today, when you
know it's our third day of practice, so bodies may
be a little fatigue, if I'm still out there trying
to have fun, trying to spread good energy, to be
able to pick the mindset up and to pick the
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energy up on the whole team.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
As a safety, do you have to kind of be
the quarterback of the defense?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I know that linebacker always kind of gets that assignment,
But how important.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Is it for you to immediately is it?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Are you the most important one to recognize what you
think the offense is about to do?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I think I would say so because I'm the furthest
guy back, so I have to see the whole offensive formation.
So if I see something right or wrong, whatever I say,
everybody has to do. I know the linebacker has the
green dot, so he's getting a play cause. But as safeties,
we're in charge of making the checks and being able
to if there's a motion, I have to just off
of that. So everything that I'm seeing from back there
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being a safety, I have to echo it to the linebacker,
to the corners, and then the linebackers will get that
to the D line and everything can change. So I
think that's the most important thing being a safety, being
a good communicator.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Do you prefer when you are lined up in that
situation that everybody is lined up in terms of a
man coverage or would you rather it be that everybody
is in a zone coverage and you've got kind of
a wider array that people are having to cover.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I like the zone just because I think it's tougher
on quarterbacks. I think if we just line up in man,
it's telling the quarterback this is what we're in. You guys,
figure out a way to beat us, and that's simple.
There's a million man beaters in the world. But if
we can still play man out of his zone. Look,
we could still play zone out of his own look,
just being able to.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Mix things up.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
But I prefer us being able to look like we're,
you know, just chilling in his zone. And if we're
going aggressive, we're bringing some heat and going in the
man coverage.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We can drop into it late.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But in my opinion, I would never want to show
a quarterback what we're doing from the jump.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's the voice of Cam buying him.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
By the way, new member of the Indianapolis Colts four
year contract playing at the safety position. I did notice,
by the way, you went to a high school that's
produced like a thousand NFL players.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yes, sir, what wasn't Corona Centennia High School in Corona, California.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, Now you also went to high school with and
I don't know this, I could be totally off here.
The Pacers about five or six years ago had a
center they took out of UCLA E k.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It was his first day.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Everybody just called him e because he had a tricky
lame but he was here for two or three years.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think he was your graduating class. Yes, twenty sixteen.
We were in Spanish class again, were you guys close? Yeah,
we're really cool.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Did you talk to him once you came to Indianapolis
about his experience in India or have you not told me?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Because I completely forgot he played with the Pacers. Now that,
now that you're letting me know that, I can completely
forgot that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Whunfortunately, I think there are a lot of Pacer fans
got he played for the Pacers, right, But he was good.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
UCLA and then drafted here.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, that's that's why it feels like so long ago,
because I had to do five years in college. What
did he do one year? Yeah, one year and went pro.
So it's it's super cool just the fact that he
was able to do that. But yeah, we're we're producing
basketball and football players. We've got Jared McCain, he just
got drafted from my high school him.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, a lot of people, A ton of guys, right,
A ton of guys. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Lastly, how much of the Spanish dreamer be honest?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
A good amount.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
When I'm listening to it, I probably can't speak it
much anymore, but I can understand when I'm listening.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Actually, was that was one of the weird subjects. I
was really good at. Now do you speak and pardon
my naivete here?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What is the native the guyloads in the Philippines the
guylok t a g a l og.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Are you fluent? No?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
But I'm about thirty forty percent there, so I can understand.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
So when you're over there, though, you're having to speak
it right? Or is the English I'm learning?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Everybody speaks English there, so it's annoying when I'm trying
to practice and I speak to somebody at the guylog,
they speak to me in English back, so I'm like,
you're not helping me here, But it's cool of being
able to learn. My wife she speaks three languages, two
Filipino languages and then obviously English, so she's helping me
a lot. But just being out there for sure, I'm
absorbing stuff and I haven't a cousin. My nephew, I'm
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trying to teach him English and he's teaching me, so
it's kind of like, as I'm teaching him English, he's
teaching me their language.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Here's my last thing. I have a weird thing, and
people listening to the show know this. I love mascots.
I like the outfits of mascots. I like the zaniness
of mascots. I like all of it. I went three
years in a row with Indy car We were out
there during the time that COL was playing games, and
I went to COL games and I met the Golden Bear.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
That's a terrible mascot. Yeah, he's kind of creepy. He's creepy,
He's very creepy.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It also looks like not like the Chucky Cheese that
got arrested yesterday in Florida, not that lettle pre that's
brutal right, like they couldn't wait, right, Yeah, like, let's
take the helmet off it. But the cal Golden Bear
guy that looks like they bought it at a garage sale
nineteen three eight, right.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, they went to traditional keeping it the same as
it was back then.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I think it's your responsibility.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Your responsibility now is the alum in the NFL is
to get a new Golden Bear outfit.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I got you because he does no cool thing like blue.
He has like a trademark the dance that he does.
Our mascot a cat is walks around with his hands
behind his back.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
He's like r exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That is scary, is the right way of saying it,
and a lot of offenses hopefully will find it scary
when they look to see what sort of a junk
that the Colts defense is throwing at them. Cam bind
them the new member that will be quarterbacking, if you will.
That is part of lou Anarumo's scheme.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Cam.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It is a pleasure to have you man. Welcome to Nina.
Thank you for having to have you back on the show.
I held the fan long enough. We'll let you go
sign your.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
John the first Coast jersey i've seen coach practice. Thank you,
Cam buying them here on Colts Practice.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It is a Friday Grand Park and Westfield where you'll
find a squaring company on the fan.
Can't buy them one of the big offseason acquisitions joining
us here at Grand Park in Westfield. So Cam, first off,
let's get right to this, and that is, you know,
you were one of the big off season acquisitions. I
just talked about it. Welcome to Indianapolis. Do you already
feel like you're a cult? It's only been a week.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Let's be yees I, right, yeah, OTA's made it feel
like I was a colt just getting here, being able
to meet the guys and be able to you know,
just be in the facility, being around other people and
just being able to meet the staff and just meeting
everybody made me feel at home because they welcomed me
with open arms. Nobody was you know, everybody was just
super welcoming and super cool about me being a new guy,
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to the point where I only felt like a new
guy for a couple of days. And once I started
to you know, familiarize myself, especially with the DBS, then
started to grow with the defense, and started to meet
some guys on the offense, then it feels like a
family at this point.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And you know, I'm curious of this.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I was just talking about this, this defense, and we
don't really know yet you guys obviously do we do
not yet know exactly how this defense is going to
look when you have a new coordinator. But theoretically, on paper,
it is a defense that is similar to what you
had under Flores in Minnesota and the fact of kind
of keeping people guessing right right and presenting different looks
than what you're actually executing. Yes, how much of that,
(01:11):
I guess, first off is from what you've seen so far,
how much of this feels like advantage for you because
it's similar to what you ran in Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I would just say before anything, right now, we're super
basic with everything, so we haven't even progressed into the
tricky stuff. You know, we're still disguising just natural instincts,
but we're still pretty vanilla.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's only day three of training camp.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But just talking to coach Lou and just getting to
know his mindset and getting to you know, just hear
him talk and watching film of the Bengals in the
past years, I see exactly why people would say it's similar,
and I feel like it's very similar, and I think
for me it's that's an advantage too, because just knowing
that you know the foundation that have from coach Flores
just being able to mix so many things up and
every single person having to know every single position on
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the field. I think we can implement that to just have,
you know, one of the smartest defenses in the league,
and when everybody gets to understand that, we can mix
this defense up. If everybody learns how to play each
spot on the defense, and that can that can be
a big plus because quarterbacks will never have a clue
who's where and why are they there?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And we're doing different things out of the same look.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So you're still working on long division, but you have
yet to get into algebra exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So yeah, we're still adding subtracting right now.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
When do you, guys or when would you anticipate that
that takes place. Maybe it's different from franchise to franchise,
so it's hard for you to know, but typically speaking,
you'd like to kind of have a real feel for
what you're going to be when.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, I'd probably say around two and a half weeks
of training camp. Once you get all the installs and
all the play calls are in, then you can start
throwing some more spice on each each play call. So
I think just going through it right now, we're you know,
still we're only on install three because it's our third day,
so we've put in a good amount of coverages. But
we know based off of OTA's we're introduced to a
(02:57):
lot of different things. So we haven't even touched a
red zone yet, we haven't even touched two minutes yet,
so different situations. Once we hammer all those in, then
we can add some more stuff on top of it.
So it's but once we have the foundation, everything else
is easy. So you can put something in an hour
before practice and we'd be able to run it. And
that's really just the type of guys that we have
on this team. It's a bunch of smart guys and
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a bunch of people that care and that have a
good understanding of football and good football like you, to
the point where once we have our foundation, like I said,
everything else we can add to it and it be effortless.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What intrigues you about Indianapolis about the Colts in general,
this franchise and this roster.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Just the history, I think, just going back just it
being the franchise that it is. Getting to hear about
the Ursa family and how big they were to the community.
Somebody has my jersey on over there, and that's the
first one. Hold on, shout out to the fans. I'm
a signing you stay here. I'm assign it for you
after this interview. That's super cool. Yeah, so like that,
just the fans. I haven't been I haven't played a
(03:54):
snap in a real game and as a cult, but
we have people walking around here with my jersey on,
so that that's big. So just being able to, you know,
understand the culture out here and seeing people, you know,
just how hard they ride for the Colts and that's
something I want to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And I heard the stadium is rocking too. How many
of these guys did you know?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I say three, maybe a little more just off the
top of my head. Schegu Daniel Scott, Daniel Jones from
last season with the Vikings. But I've known about a
lot of people and have met some other people too
in the past, but personally and only three people so far.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So you have seen Daniel Jones obviously both you know,
in scrimmage settings, you know, in video rooms whatever it
make right. What have you seen from Anthony Richardson that
is the same or different than what you have seen
from Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's hard to tell only day three, but one thing
I know, they're both really mobile quarterbacks, and that's one
thing that opens up an offense and that they're both
capable of. Obviously, we know both quarterbacks are capable of
being being a dual threat, and especially with ar I've
seen him going against the was last year watching him
on film. Obviously Joe Flacco started against us, but being
(05:04):
able to watch the film and see what he was
capable of with his legs and his arm strength, and
saying with Daniel Jones being able to do the same
thing and me be able to go against him the
years he was in New York. He beat us in
a playoffs, So that's always a forever rivalry in my
mind because he knocked us out in twenty twenty two.
But just both quarterbacks are really capable of doing really
good things.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We'd colts camp here Grand Park in Westfield. Cam buying
them is the guest. Okay, Cam, Actually, you ever thought
about when you're playing careers over and let's say it's
fifteen years from now, right, we're gonna be here, but
are you gonna go into broadcasting?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Because you're kind of a natural on the microphone. Really, yeah,
that means a lot. I appreciate that. If I don't
want to be a guest star, I don't know if
I could do it every single day and talk. I'm
not a big I'm a talker. I'm a people person.
But I might burn out if I have to talk
on TV every single day.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Wait, so are you saying because I've got to talk
for three hours a day? Are you actually saying indirectly
that there is some challenge in like your job is challenging.
You're actually saying that my job has some challenge nor
your job is probably harder than mind. I like that
you have to.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Talk about what we're doing every day, even if it's
a boring day. You have to make stuff up to
make it sound interesting. If we came out here and
just didn't walk through, you'd have to somehow find a
way to make it sound good.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On the radio. Hundred years, my friend, that's a tough job.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, I'll tell you what's a tough job for you,
and that is playing in this heat and this humidity.
But you're used to it because you spend the off
seasons in the Philippines. It's a place in an area
of the world that's become special to you by spreading
the message of football also in that area. But take
me through just what the Philippines means for you and
maybe even what you can learn about yourself by being
(06:38):
on the other side of the world.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
From everything that previously was familiar. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think first and foremost the people and just the
culture out there of how loving and you know, it's
really a culture. The culture is deep as far as
like being a people person. Everybody's looking out for each
other out there. Your neighbors know each other, everybody's always
hanging out sides. It's kind of like how life used
to be, where everybody's you know, you're in a neighbor
but all the kids are playing outside still and people
(07:02):
are just there for each other. And I feel like
in America, I love it here just as much. But
for me, I feel like we've lost the community aspect
in certain ways, just because our lives are so fast,
which is a blessing because we have really good jobs
and everything, and everybody's so busy out here. But out there,
that's when I love to just sit back and relax.
And I have a busy, busy football season being around
(07:25):
so many people I love to be in the Philippines
and have a humble living and being able to live
amongst people that maybe not have as much as me,
but are enjoying life even more and more grateful in
life to me. So I think that's really what I
learned the most of just being grateful and being just
so hard working. People out there are super hard working
to the point where they may not have much, but
they're never complaining. And that's something that changed me my
(07:48):
first time traveling out there. I came back here and
I'm like, I can never complain about anything ever again.
And just being able to spread football out there, be
able to serve people in poverty, just doing all those
things makes me really help me never take the game
for granted. Because I'm out there, I'm doing a workout
on the side, and I invite people out and we
have one hundred people just to get a lift in
or just to get some field work in, just simply
(08:09):
because there's an NFL player out there. And so when
I come back here, I'm like, Okay, now I'm ready
to go play football ten times more because when I'm
in the Philippines, people are itching for an opportunity to
play they're renting fields at midnight to get some field time,
to be able to put some flag football games on.
So just all those things make me just so much
more grateful when I'm here. So being able to do
half in half just helps me to put everything in
(08:31):
the football season. Then when I'm in the off season,
be able to put everything into the people out there
in the Philippines.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Did it change a little bit your perspective or add
to the perspective of In order for that where we
need to get, you.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Got to have the basics.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You've got to have the camaraderie, and you've got to
have so in other words, in the Philippines, if it's
about family and it's about community, that then parlays hopefully
into the building a neighborhood building what exactly and what
you need to if you tried to spread that to
your new teammates here of look, we got to be
together first, right, then we'll see what happens when other
things come our way.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, I think just doing it by example.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I'm not here telling stories about the Philippines and say, guys, yeah, look,
when I was in the Philippines, I was doing this.
It's really just the mindset that I have when I'm
around the guys, trying to talk to people, get to
know them, especially with the young guys, asking about their story,
how they got here, what they think about the NFL
so far. So really just being able to talk to
people and get to actually know people, I think that's
the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And also just the enjoyment that we have when we're
on the field.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Like I mentioned, people out there are so grateful just
to be able to play flag football and just to learn.
So when we're out here in practice, I try and
make sure that I'm having fun no matter what if
it's a hard day, hot day like today, when you
know it's our third day of practice, so bodies may
be a little fatigue, if I'm still out there trying
to have fun, trying to spread good energy, to be
able to pick the mindset up and to pick the
(09:48):
energy up on the whole team.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
As a safety, do you have to kind of be
the quarterback of the defense?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I know that linebacker always kind of gets that assignment,
But how important.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Is it for you to immediately is it?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Are you the most important one to recognize what you
think the offense is about to do?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I think I would say so because I'm the furthest
guy back, so I have to see the whole offensive formation.
So if I see something right or wrong, whatever I say,
everybody has to do. I know the linebacker has the
green dot, so he's getting a play cause. But as safeties,
we're in charge of making the checks and being able
to if there's a motion, I have to just off
of that. So everything that I'm seeing from back there
(10:23):
being a safety, I have to echo it to the linebacker,
to the corners, and then the linebackers will get that
to the D line and everything can change. So I
think that's the most important thing being a safety, being
a good communicator.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Do you prefer when you are lined up in that
situation that everybody is lined up in terms of a
man coverage or would you rather it be that everybody
is in a zone coverage and you've got kind of
a wider array that people are having to cover.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I like the zone just because I think it's tougher
on quarterbacks. I think if we just line up in man,
it's telling the quarterback this is what we're in. You guys,
figure out a way to beat us, and that's simple.
There's a million man beaters in the world. But if
we can still play man out of his zone. Look,
we could still play zone out of his own look,
just being able to.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Mix things up.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
But I prefer us being able to look like we're,
you know, just chilling in his zone. And if we're
going aggressive, we're bringing some heat and going in the
man coverage.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We can drop into it late.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But in my opinion, I would never want to show
a quarterback what we're doing from the jump.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's the voice of Cam buying him.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
By the way, new member of the Indianapolis Colts four
year contract playing at the safety position. I did notice,
by the way, you went to a high school that's
produced like a thousand NFL players.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yes, sir, what wasn't Corona Centennia High School in Corona, California.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, Now you also went to high school with and
I don't know this, I could be totally off here.
The Pacers about five or six years ago had a
center they took out of UCLA E k.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It was his first day.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Everybody just called him e because he had a tricky
lame but he was here for two or three years.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think he was your graduating class. Yes, twenty sixteen.
We were in Spanish class again, were you guys close? Yeah,
we're really cool.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Did you talk to him once you came to Indianapolis
about his experience in India or have you not told me?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Because I completely forgot he played with the Pacers. Now that,
now that you're letting me know that, I can completely
forgot that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Whunfortunately, I think there are a lot of Pacer fans
got he played for the Pacers, right, But he was good.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
UCLA and then drafted here.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, that's that's why it feels like so long ago,
because I had to do five years in college. What
did he do one year? Yeah, one year and went pro.
So it's it's super cool just the fact that he
was able to do that. But yeah, we're we're producing
basketball and football players. We've got Jared McCain, he just
got drafted from my high school him.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, a lot of people, A ton of guys, right,
A ton of guys. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Lastly, how much of the Spanish dreamer be honest?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
A good amount.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
When I'm listening to it, I probably can't speak it
much anymore, but I can understand when I'm listening.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Actually, was that was one of the weird subjects. I
was really good at. Now do you speak and pardon
my naivete here?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What is the native the guyloads in the Philippines the
guylok t a g a l og.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Are you fluent? No?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
But I'm about thirty forty percent there, so I can understand.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
So when you're over there, though, you're having to speak
it right? Or is the English I'm learning?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Everybody speaks English there, so it's annoying when I'm trying
to practice and I speak to somebody at the guylog,
they speak to me in English back, so I'm like,
you're not helping me here, But it's cool of being
able to learn. My wife she speaks three languages, two
Filipino languages and then obviously English, so she's helping me
a lot. But just being out there for sure, I'm
absorbing stuff and I haven't a cousin. My nephew, I'm
(13:18):
trying to teach him English and he's teaching me, so
it's kind of like, as I'm teaching him English, he's
teaching me their language.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Here's my last thing. I have a weird thing, and
people listening to the show know this. I love mascots.
I like the outfits of mascots. I like the zaniness
of mascots. I like all of it. I went three
years in a row with Indy car We were out
there during the time that COL was playing games, and
I went to COL games and I met the Golden Bear.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
That's a terrible mascot. Yeah, he's kind of creepy. He's creepy,
He's very creepy.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It also looks like not like the Chucky Cheese that
got arrested yesterday in Florida, not that lettle pre that's
brutal right, like they couldn't wait, right, Yeah, like, let's
take the helmet off it. But the cal Golden Bear
guy that looks like they bought it at a garage sale
nineteen three eight, right.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, they went to traditional keeping it the same as
it was back then.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I think it's your responsibility.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Your responsibility now is the alum in the NFL is
to get a new Golden Bear outfit.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I got you because he does no cool thing like blue.
He has like a trademark the dance that he does.
Our mascot a cat is walks around with his hands
behind his back.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
He's like r exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That is scary, is the right way of saying it,
and a lot of offenses hopefully will find it scary
when they look to see what sort of a junk
that the Colts defense is throwing at them. Cam bind
them the new member that will be quarterbacking, if you will.
That is part of lou Anarumo's scheme.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Cam.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It is a pleasure to have you man. Welcome to Nina.
Thank you for having to have you back on the show.
I held the fan long enough. We'll let you go
sign your.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
John the first Coast jersey i've seen coach practice. Thank you,
Cam buying them here on Colts Practice.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It is a Friday Grand Park and Westfield where you'll
find a squaring company on the fan.
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