RB Cam Skattebo on his relationship with Jaxson Dart

Running back Cam Skattebo speaks to the media Thursday from the Quest Diagnostics Training Center.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did you know anything about him? Has no idea, you know.
I went home, Yeah, I went home, looked him up,
you know, saw saw him do a couple of backflips
after his suchdounds and stuff, and I was like, all right,
this guy's being serious. You know, sometimes you don't believe him,
but I did believe him that time when when he
was playing for Tom Kaughlin. Tom Coughlin hated it. I
hated it. He was gonna get hurt. Yeah, I love
to touch it. I mean, athletes are athletes. I mean

(00:21):
if you get hurt doing a backflip, and you know,
I've been doing my whole life and I'm knock on wood,
never been hurt doing it, So I mean I try
to keep it as safe as possible, try not to
do too many turns and flips. So me too, How
much dude shape you as a player and as a person,
And in what ways? It taught me the good from
bad and the bad from good, you know, and it

(00:43):
kept me Your mom, rais a great kid. She's the
reason I'm where i'm at. You know, She's been the
one that you know, taught me my manners, taught me
how to be and taught me the yeses in the nose.
She she did a great job with that. But just
learning from other people's lives on you know, what to
take take in and what not to take in. You know,
I grew up around a lot of a lot of
different cultures and different atmospheres, and you know, those those

(01:05):
people taught me a lot of what not to do
and what to do. So just being who I am
today is you know, I've I've soaked in some stuff
and then you know, kind of kind of let some
stuff go. Do you think the blue work, I think
that defines that time is part of the way you
play like I think that's just from loving the game.
I mean, I simply love the game and I'm I'm

(01:28):
a big, strong guy, so why not be physical doing it?
I mean, you don't expect a guy like me to
go run past somebody at you know, twenty miles an
hours is not Why would I try to play like
that if that's not me? You know, it's got a
couple of games ago with the Barry and Davis, he
credited you, and he praised the way you play the game.
Come up from a veteran like that, guy's probably going
to the Hall of fame make you feel. Yeah, I

(01:50):
mean it's awesome, you know. You, Like I said, I
didn't really watch football growing up. But knowing he's been
in the league for fourteen years, right, I mean that
that's amazing that someone that I don't want to call
them old, but that that been in the game for
this long, you know, veteran been in the game for
this long, is able to credit me. I mean that's
just another shows me another way how much I love
the game and how much I put on the field

(02:11):
to you know, try to win the game. How long
do you think it's going to be before opponents start
looking at you differently because now you put a lot
on tape, they see what you can do. Yeah, I
think it's gonna start. Yeah, I mean it. You can
plan it, you can plan for it. There's other people
on the team, you know. I mean, you can run

(02:32):
the ball, you can pass the ball. Other teams can
do it too, you know. And if people want to
bring nine in the box, then someone's got to step up.
That's that's really about it. So I mean they game plan,
just like we game plan. So people start game planning
for me, then there's gonna be other other ways to
get the ball to other people. It's been awesome, you know,

(02:55):
and like my team has been a great job behind
me that has kind of kept everything under control and
making sure that doesn't get to me before them, and
you know, really taking in consideration that, you know, I'm
still a football player and I still need to worry
about football. And they bring up the stuff that you know,
they think I might like or think I want, you know,
I think I might want. But they do a great job,
you know, payning some stuff out and you know, bringing

(03:17):
me other things. Darts, kind of helmet modern celebration. Yeah,
I mean, just craziness, just me and him being crazy,
you know, being friends. And it's just something like, you
know something he has to throw the ball at his
right hand and I have a little like sometimes from
stiff arm, and my right hand will bother me or
be bruised up. So I'm like we just start headbutting,

(03:39):
like it's it's just something that you naturally do when
you have a helmet on. A backflip with you. No,
it was a fake backflip. That was the talk was
about not doing the backflip and doing something else.