Alvin Kamara FULL EPISODE | EPISODE 27 | CLUB SHAY SHAY

hello i'm shannon sharp welcome to club. shay shea i am your host. also the proprietor of club shay shea. the guy that's stopping by for drinking. conversation today. is 2017 offensive rookie of the year. he's been a pro bowler every year he's. been in the nfl. that's four times he's a two-time. all-pro he's the first running back. to have 500 receiving yards 500 rushing. yards in each of his first four seasons. and he's the second player in nfl. history to score six touchdowns in the. game. alvin camaro.

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and i'm doing good man bless bless. let's we're going to talk about off the. field before we get on the field. now i read that you invested in uh. killer mike's he started something. called greenwood. can you explain to the people that's. listening what exactly is it. so what we're doing with greenwood is. it's a um. basically a platform for. banking um for minorities you know we're. targeting.

um african-american and latino. communities. like i said minorities um and just. giving them uh. access to banking you know. we close series a funding at 40 million. um and that's the largest in fintech. history so we're doing some good things. you know our. our community and i'm talking about the. black community we haven't had access to. quality loans and. and fair interest rates and you know. this bank was created. for black people by black people um we.

right now we got about. 500 000 people on the waiting list to to. open the cops with about a hundred days. away from launching. um we got some of the biggest banks. invested with. chase jp morgan um bank of america. and i mean it's all about you know just. leveling the playing field you know just. giving us an opportunity to be able to. have access and. to not only the the banking platform but. have access to the knowledge you know to. to give our community knowledge. to know what's going on and and know.

what's going on with our money honestly. um i think the best thing about atlanta. is that i can say. being from georgia lived in atlanta for. a quarter century is that. a lot of times the the power players and. the professional athletes they have no. problem collabing. and you know you see what killer mike. did and the black turnout for the voting. the vote uh get out to vote. and you see what they're doing in their. communities what made. why were you so interested how did you. meet up with killer mike and get. involved in this program.

man so i i got involved with it um. actually through ryan glover and. killer mike and all that they they all. partner together but um. obviously just want to do good in the. community and you know. being blessed and being able to have the. financial success that we have. i mean it's just a no-brainer to you. know. be able to educate and provide a. platform. to our community to help them be able to. uplift and. and elevate themselves and to be able to. have an opportunity to.

get to the level of success that we have. you know it's it's. tons of talented people in our community. that don't have access to the proper. loans you know. um i mean there's tons of people in our. in our. communities that don't have access to. the knowledge to um. bank properly and and really don't don't. know how the banking system works. i mean um i mean basically like. higher circulation of the dollar in the. black community. will elevate the black black lives so.

that's what we're trying to do. i mean um in our community a dollar. circulates. zero to one time and that's it's it's. sad. honestly um and a lot of that has to do. with the knowledge and a lot of. a lot of it has to do with the access. and the opportunity um. like i said with this platform it's. giving. our communities access and opportunity. and equal opportunity to be able to do. all those things. you mentioned that killer mike is a part. of this you said you got introduced to. this program by ryan glover also former. atlanta mayor.

and u.s ambassador andrew young uh andy. young civil rights icon there in atlanta. is also a part of this program. alvin do you feel a sense of. responsibility. because you're the one of one of the. ones that made it out and maybe help. some of the less fortunate that didn't. get that opportunity. or doesn't have the opportunity to say. go to a a traditional bank. and get the and get the means to maybe. start a business or maybe buy a home or. buy. a car do you feel somewhat of a. responsibility to give back.

yeah i definitely do i think i i think. it's important because. you know somebody somebody like the. younger generation that's coming up. under me and i'm young but. somebody looking at me like i'm a i'm a. leader and i'm a role model. um you know they can they can learn so. much. but it's all about you know how how i. presented and how. how i dish it out so you know something. like this. that actually has an impact on your life. i mean this is this is. your your financial security um.

the knowledge just to be able to know. what you're doing within. banking and you know i when i was. younger i didn't really have. a lot of access to a lot of this. knowledge it was given to me as i got. older. and i didn't have a bank account until i. was in high school i mean i mean until i. got to college you know my first. sophomore year in college that's when i. first really got a bank account. and you know getting to the league and. that's when i really got the knowledge. of. taxes and and loans and interest rates. and things like that so. this platform is to give to empower.

you know everyone not only just younger. people but everyone. and you know show them that it is. accessible. it is uh possible um to be able to. you know have access to these things man. this is important. you also have another endeavor you are. open to juice bar. and uh in new orleans why juice bar. and uh what type of jewel and what type. of uh atmosphere do you. do people party you know cuz you. remember at uh the daiquiri bars that i. know. they're like a hangout spot you know you.

just don't go get your drink and leave. you get your drink and stay and you you. know you shoot pool or you you hang out. with your friends you grab a bite to eat. so is it that type of uh uh uh juice bar. yeah no so it's cold pressed juice man. and i've been. passionate about juicing since i mean i. was in college you know it's it's your. health your health is your wealth. so you know once i got um so you're a. big user. yeah i actually am okay yeah so so once. i got the opportunity to. to to get into this man it was a. no-brainer my partner ash decree.

he um you know like i said presented. this this idea to me he already had it. going it already um. was kind of running and he was just like. man if you want to be involved. i'm giving you you know the green light. you know it's it it's. you can go as far as you want to go with. it or you know you can kind of just. you know come in and just watch and. learn and i'm like yo if i'm going to be. involved i'm going 100. so right now i'm the owner of. part of the brand so it's huge i mean.

and the atmosphere that that i want to. create in there is. you know the second atmosphere you were. talking about but. healthy i'm saying so you're a store. that i do i'm. looking from the ground up drew the fans. and. cut the concrete digging and digging in. the ground finding pipes like literally. like you know put my my sweat. and you know my time into it because you. know i'm passionate about whatever i'm. involved. in and if i'm not then i'm not doing it. so. go ahead son um i was gonna ask you what. what got you into juicing what what what.

um. and what made you start juicing you see. you you've built a big juicer. you started juicing in college which is. rare because normally guys you know you. go to the training table. you can eat as much as you want and. juicing obviously there was no juicing. when i was going on. orange juice apple juice but that was. out of a carton or a jug what made you. start to get into juicing man so i i. really just kind of did my own research. on it okay and i was just figuring out. like just new ways to. you know get an edge like just be more. healthy you know because i mean. it's easy to just eat whatever and drink.

whatever and right we young it's like. all right well i'll be good like. i'll still be able to i can stay up all. night and go to this 5 a.m workout and. get it in and. go to class and keep running like i'm. running on fumes but i'll be all right. but. i was like man i can't do that i got to. find a different route you know so. you know i kind of did some research i. was doing some research in my free time. and. you know juicing kept coming up juicing. like you know carrots. celery and cold press and all the. nutrients that come from it you know. that a couple of bottles of juices like.

uh pounds of. protein and produce and things like this. i'm like man i can drink it instead of. eating it but still still eat. you know still eat right and then get. the juice is just a bonus. so you know that's i've always been into. it and i've kind of tried to stick to it. so. the juice bar was just a plus i'm like. now i've got i don't even gotta i don't. even gotta go pay for juice i got a. whole juice bar. yeah i like using also but the cleanup. is what i don't like. yeah i know that's why i got dudes to do. production for me.

so in the process of juicing do you. still eat meat or you you know are you. pescetarian oh you do you only eat like. fish seafood. do you eat red meat do you not eat pork. so what what did. what does the avon camaro diet consist. of. man so i haven't eaten pork since eighth. grade um. red meat i don't even eat a lot of i. actually went vegan. uh like a year and a half ago i went. vegan. and kind of played with the vegan and. plant-based like pescatarian lifestyle. just kind of.

going jumping back and forth in between. vegan and you know pescatarian and just. staying kind of plant-based and you know. i mean it makes a difference you know my. body is. like your body is your temple and then. especially you know shannon you play. um you got to take care of your body you. got to fuel it right you got to treat it. right. so you know i just made sure i was kind. of getting the right balance of. you know what i needed so you know when. i'm training i'm pretty much plant based. and keep everything clean uh pretty. vegan for for for the most part and i'll. switch it up every now and then.

and you know i'll have some fish or some. you know some seafood and things like. that. rarely eat meat um but you know i. wouldn't say i'm. super strict on it but i'm pretty i'm. pretty disciplined. yeah but um so but how did your body. feel because i remember aryan foster had. a great career. and then all of a sudden he switched up. and we went totally vegan. and he like crashed and burned he was. never the same player that he was. and so i'm wondering with the. physicality in which you play your. running back.

now if you're a kicker a punter yeah you. can do that maybe even a quarterback. but with the kind of pounding that you. take that you're touching the ball. 20 25 times a game how does that work. for you. taking that kind of pounding yeah i mean. i was vegan last year. okay i'll see this so i didn't i didn't. feel i felt great. uh as far as the load and everything i. felt good i was fine um. i don't think it really if you do it. right you know. i think the the. benefits outweigh like the risk of it.

you know a lot of people like you just. said with aryan a lot of. people talk about you know well if you. go vegan you know there's a lot of. downside to it you don't get the proper. but i think he went totally vegan alvin. i i think he just he cut meat out all. together. he was just eating plants and and you. know the seeds and things of that nature. i think you got to have some animal. protein now i'm not saying it needs to. be. a turkey or chicken or or from a cow or. a hog. but you need some protein you need. something solid if you're going to take. that kind of collision. on a weekly basis yeah so the first i.

think three or four games i was. completely vegan. uh-huh it was fine and then i kind of. you know just personally. not not like i didn't feel like oh i. need to eat some meat but i was like. i'll just mix in some fish here and. there and some. shrimp like seafood and just get some. just get some meat in just okay. and you know i'm still juicing and i had. my supplements on the side so. i felt good man and i'm you know i'm. back training i'm. going to stick to the script kind of. what i've been doing. what does the alvin camaro work out what. does that consist of so how do you break.

it up i mean i was a run in the morning. lift in the afternoon uh things of that. nature so how do you split your training. up. yeah so me shoot when i get back to. training i'm up at 4 30 in the morning. every day. so i'll run and lift in the morning okay. um. take a little break get back eat some. breakfast uh. by 8 o'clock about eight o'clock 8 30. i'm with my uh on my second session i'm. with um. my guys sharif all those videos that go. viral and me balancing.

and doing things like that yeah from 8. 39 o'clock to. probably about noon you know just. fine-tuning you know just. core stability um balance hand-eye. coordination just. you know tuning up all the little things. you know like that. you know a lot of people don't really. focus on that's what i'm that's what i'm. into so. you know that's kind of like my day i'm. i'm done by one o'clock 1 30 every day. and you know whatever else i got to do. take care of my body. whether it's treatments needles uh. massage anything i just kind of relax. and you know that's. every day for me well as i was.

transitioning away from football the. hyperbaric chamber. the high altitude training um the tent. that you know guys started buying those. machines. uh do you believe in those do you have. one of those how much time do you spend. it if you do have it. yeah i actually haven't really gotten. into the hyperbaric chamber thing. um but you know all the all the other. you know normatex and. and uh game readies uh i'm i'm real into. that i mean recovery you got to recover. once you break down you got to recover.

and right. and i tell this to people during the. season and like man how your body feels. i'm like man it feels. it feels good i haven't got it back to. it's a race to get to as close to 100. as you can every every every week you. know it's a long season. um and you know uh it's that sometimes. it's not about talent it's about who. who's more healthy right being available. and i'm like yo i'm telling you it's. about who's helping you. and guys a lot of my friends they like. they can't really conceptualize. and i'm like man i'm telling you this.

it's a grind so um you got to take care. of your body so. i've been looking into you okay. yeah they work trust me trust me. they work i i wish i would have had the. knowledge at the end of my career. i had at the beginning um to spend that. kind of time and understanding because. training wasn't. is so specialized now it wasn't like. that when i got started it started to. taper towards that. but how soon after the game is over do.

you start preparing your body. for the next week oh man it's. immediate like so i get done you know. depending on what time we get done i. might get some work after the game just. to get a. head start um right you know we off days. and tuesdays and mondays usually we're. off when we um. when we win so i got my my the guy that. comes in and does my bodywork he's there. he's there sunday monday. so if it's anything any attention that i. have anywhere on my body. so i might get i might hit him sunday.

night like hey let's get in here and you. know my my feet or. you know my hamstring was a little tight. from last game or less you know let's. get a good stretch in. a kind of like a flush and then monday. we'll hit it hard and you know. fine-tune some of the kinks that we need. to get right before we get back started. for the week. but i mean it's if you if you do it. right. i mean you you know you put yourself in. the best position to be. you know successful and be be active on. on sunday. are you a big cold cold bath cold tough. guy because after the game especially at. home. not so much on the road but we would do.

it some on the road. we would get as soon as the game was. over we go get into the cold tank. yeah i don't do it right after the game. i do i think i'm more. i'm more into that like during the week. and like especially in camp. right oh yeah yeah it's a month you know. you know you know it's tough. i'm really on it during the season i do. it like kind of you know as. as needed um after the games not so much. but. i mean it helps it works so you know i. do it. uh your love with nascar you you were.

able to sponsor you gotta uh. your emblem your logo from your um your. juice bar on a naps on the. nascar and infinity series where the. love of nascar and i tell people this. i'm from georgia you and i from we're. both from georgia you're from uh north. cross i'm from south georgia. but nascar used to be big it used to be. big. because you couldn't go to a a corner. store without. seeing a a toy a scale car or a bandana. or something nascar on it. yeah i mean so for me it kind of just.

started like during the quarantine with. this. with the pandemic going on and i've. always seen nascar you know you flip. through the channels and you might see a. race and you just like. cars going to circles i'm like all right. so you know i just get done working out. i'm sitting at the house i'm like let me. see what's up with this nascar like let. me just watch it and really try to. understand it. and i'm watching and i'm hearing. everything they're talking about and i'm. like yo there's more to it than just. driving around this trailer oh yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you got sonic. you got sponsors and technicians telling. you oh yeah oh absolutely.

uh huh so i'm in miami i'm like let me. see if it's a right. like what what racetrack is here let me. see if it's a race and it just so. happened that there was a race. two days you know i was it was a. tuesday at homestead it was maybe a. tuesday i think it was a race on. thursday or something or so. it was a thursday and it was a race on. saturday so i hit up nascar i'm just. like let me see. i'm gonna see if i can get to the race. [Laughter]. let me go to the race so i go to the. race and after that i was hooked i'm. like yo this is serious like.

you know i got a chance to meet with. steve phelps who was the president. and you know i sat in the box and you. know talk to you know all the personnel. and. you know bubba obviously with everything. that he was going through i knew bubba. uh from tennessee when i was at. university of tennessee. and you know just kind of you know what. he was going through i definitely wanted. to go for that reason also. um and you know i just kind of got it. got my intro into it and it was. accelerated and you know i ain't looking. back since. are you surprised the thing that i tell. people that's never been to a nascar.

you don't realize how fast the cars are. going. and how close they actually are tv. doesn't do it justice. no tv don't do it justice justice at all. so that's why like. even now people should ask me like man. you really like going to the races i'm. like yo. if you want to go to a race i will take. you to a race with me just let me know. if you guys have a free time because. you like you said you really don't know. until you go. i'm like i went to i went to uh where'd. i go i went to bristol and i said i.

stood right on the on the wall right you. know what i'm saying right. right down on the trailer and the people. that breathe when they come. to feel that breeze when they come back. like how these dudes is really skilled. like. they got real talent man it's not just. driving around the track dude is really. like. really really specializing what they're. doing and it's i mean it's beauty in it. like. like any sport yeah but because they. the speed if the speed limit is 70 70 75.

you figure they're going double that and. they're like four inches apart. exactly. doing that exactly so i mean it's so. many components to the sport. and it's like man i don't know i. couldn't. at first i couldn't keep up it's slowing. down for me but it's still so much i'm. still learning. your season obviously it didn't go the. way you.

you would hope you got off to such a. great start you guys were playing well. what happened what happened in that. tampa game because up until then you. know drew got injured we're talking. about drew a little bit. but up until then you had guys that were. playing really well you got you know you. got tampa you had blown them out you had. beaten them both times. the second time you had dismant. completely taken them apart. and you get them back in your building. for the divisional round. what went wrong yeah i think. and you you know more than anyone and i.

think when one team is. more prepared than the other i mean it's. kind of like what can you do. um you know we came in we felt good uh. and you know everybody talks about you. know it's hard to be the team. it's it's already hard to beat the team. once it's hard to beat it it's hard to. beat the team twice it's almost. impossible to be the team three times. blah blah blah like. you know i don't think we're really. concerned with that it's just. man like i i really i couldn't even tell. you man we was we. we felt good and we thought we were. prepared and i just turned out that they.

were. more prepared than us and and i guess. they they had a better plan and. and i guess knew what they were knew. what they were doing in that in that. instance. you said better prepared um you guys i. mean sean payton is as good as it comes. to. and those offensively you guys you know. you you do what you do. you know you try to push the ball down. the field you get play action they try. to get you in space on those linebackers. what was so different because you know. obviously. and i've always felt this way alvin i've. always felt the team that lost.

has an advantage over the team that won. because their coaches can tell them. well see this is why we lost the game. but when you. win what do you correct we scored 38. we went up and down the field we blew. him out so what a what actually are we. correcting. and sometimes i think the winning team. you take that for granted. uh we're gonna show or we just got that. number and the uh. the team that lost like uh no you don't. we just make a correction here or there. and then you get that outcome.

yeah i mean it's true for one it was it. it wasn't a slouch that we lost to you. know those guys those guys over there. they didn't win exactly you know. especially i mean. bruce and tom and those guys i mean them. they they. definitely professionals in their own. right and they like you said when the. team loses. you go back in that room and you it's. dark and you figuring it out. like what what why did we lose and how. can we prevent losing again. and i think they they figured out what.

it was and kind of just. you know they just went all in bucks. defense. how good was the books defense the third. time around. as opposed to the first two times around. yeah. saying they was tired of getting their. ass wood. literally they were trying to get in. their ass but but they played like it. you know. they played like a defense that was like. hey we talked about this all week. and we talked about not letting it. happen it's not going to happen you know. respect to those dudes because i mean it. wasn't. it wasn't like they were sorry the first.

two times we played them we just had we. had that number. but i mean that third time around they. made sure they were like yo everything. that they were doing to us before is not. gonna happen again and they had a plan. and they executed it it was about. execution with them and they they. execute their plan to a team. you played your first four career your. first four years of your career you. played with arguably one of the greatest. quarterbacks of all time. uh drew brees uh we know what he meant. to that community. we know what he meant to the city the. city of new orleans and we know what he. meant to that organization.

how different is it going to be moving. forward. with possibly taysom hill or jameis. winston as your starting quarterback. i mean you just talked about all those. things i mean the community. the organization i mean what he did for. football period. um drew's like he's a guy he's. not a guy that you can replace if if it. makes sense i mean obviously you replace. him at the position but. drew is a the type of person where like. his presence is going to be. missed you know um it's already.

different and we we're not even in the. in the facility right now and i just. know that him not being there is going. to be. weird for all of us but you know i mean. drew left his mark i mean on all of us i. think he left his mark on me. maybe uh he landed a piece of himself to. me and. helped make me the player that i am. right now i mean he guided me through my. first four years of the league. and you know allowed me to be able to be. the player that i am and be expressive. and and you know be comfortable in. in every situation whether we're up down.

uh. to injured he helped me i'm like. anything. so um that's the guy that you can't. replace but. you know like you said jameis and jason. those two guys i mean. they've been they've gained some respect. in their own right. uh jamison led a tampa team when he was. uh. before he got to new orleans taysom has. been a. a a part of our offense for the past. four years and. you know when his number is called he. does what he's supposed to do so it's. just gonna be about it between those two. to see who's gonna.

take them when you watch. drew prepare first and last out. the meticulousness uh the the the fine. tuning of what he does. how did that help you in your game. man i from day one when i stepped into. the last game of the season this year. drew prepared. every single day like it was a game i. watched this man. come in i when i come in the building. he's in there watching film he didn't.

ate breakfast he didn't did everything. out. like i've never seen somebody be so. dedicated. and like sometimes i feel i think about. it i'm like damn. he more dedicated to me but then i'm. like damn you breathe. i'm like well if i'm going if i'm gonna. be if i'm gonna. contribute to a man that is so dedicated. and so fine-tuned and so. locked in then what am i gonna have what. am i gonna have to do like what. what how responsible how responsible am.

i gonna have to be. right and you know that kind of like. mode in my mindset when i got to. from my rookie year to now it's like. okay well drew's ten steps ahead. i got to be 10 steps ahead and once i'm. 10 steps ahead drew is going to be. another 10 steps ahead of me but at. least i'll be out. shoot i'm trying to like walk in his. footsteps like a little kid. right just try to be on the same page as. him because. i know he's prepared for every situation. i know he's he's. he's played it over in his head he's. made a plan for. anything that that could possibly have.

like man i've seen this guy. draw stuff up in the dirt and and be. dead on and spot on and. you know it's like a testament to how he. prepares because. every day is like i'm playing in the. super bowl and i'm i'm. playing for my kids my family my city. like everything i've never seen somebody. so like. honed in and locked in i think that is. the blessing that you have especially. when you're dealing with a quarterback. your quarterback is great. he will pull or push you to greatness. because you see how he prepares. and you say well hold on if he's.

prepared like that. what's expected of me how can i give. less than him yeah. exactly and i think i think that. that helped a lot of guys on our team. that helped me tremendously i mean. obviously a lot of people see the. success i've had and they're like oh man. you've done this you've done that i'm. like man wait hold on. it's it's dudes over here that's really. like. you clapping for them like the sean. payton's in the drew breezes and you. know these. 10 games that you know that i play with.

the mark ingrams like. guys like that they're they're in that. category that you know are selfless and. prepare and do what they're supposed to. do obviously drew i think is up here and. i think all those guys would agree. that he's an anomaly like he he stands. alone in that category. well only one guy can start. either chase them or james um both of. these guys are coming back. uh obviously you can't say you got a. preference but. what does your gut tell you who do you. think's gonna win this job because sean. payton says the job is up for grabs.

i'm not i'm not anointing anyone we're. going to have a camp we're going to have. a competition. and the best man will win yeah uh my gut. doesn't tell me anything right now i. think. james would it be in his second year in. the program i think he's more. comfortable i mean anytime. it's your first year somewhere you know. you're trying to figure it out figure. out. personalities figure out playbook figure. out coaches um just you know find your. lane and carve out your lane. and one thing about james i think um. he's very comfortable with who he is. he knows who he is and he's very.

comfortable with his abilities he knows. what his. strengths and weaknesses are and i mean. like i said before once you. learn what you what you're supposed to. be doing why are you supposed to be. doing it. i think that allows everything else to. you know. add on to be in addition to your game so. james is. year two i think he'll be more. comfortable and he'll be able to you. know showcase exactly. you know what his what his body of work. is taste them. we've seen taste some um we've seen take. some play. we've had a taste of chase him um not.

only from the past. three years that he's been on our team. contributing but you know this year. actually. being the leader and being being the. starting quarterback you know um. and i think the same thing goes for. taser he knows what his strengths and. weaknesses are. um he's a competitor um i think he's a. leader also. so like exactly what sean said i think. is. the the statement that's true is really. up for grabs so. i think it's just to come down to who. who. really steps up and takes a a hold of.

the team. as a whole because like i said drew is a. void that. i don't think is is going to be it's not. easy to be filled i don't think it could. it nobody. there will never be another drew brees. okay but you know. whoever is the most comfortable and. being themselves and having it finding. their own way to. take hold of the team and embrace their. role as the new quarterback of the new. orleans states i think that's who's. going to win the quarterback. better talk to me you're standing on the. sideline. and it's division around the playoffs in.

tampa but it's just not tampa. it's tom brady yeah it's the aura of tom. brady. knowing that man i'm joking on losing. these spots right here. so going into the game what when you. you're watching you're standing on the. sideline and you're watching him do what. he does. what's going through your mind um it's. tom brady and he. he ready and he's not playing so we got. to bring our like our a game. we have to you know and i'm i'm sure. that's kind of what they were thinking. on the other sideline like all right. well.

you know drew can win he can he can do. what he got to do so we got to bring our. a game but you know tom. i mean i i watched time from when i. was growing up to being in the league my. rookie year i played against time. and watched him and was like oh my gosh. this dude like he can do whatever he. wants. do whatever they want with the ball but. um especially in that situation i mean. you end up you're in a divisible game. against. one of the arguably one of the best. quarterbacks in in. that have ever played the game and that.

has shown. year in the year out why he's he has. how many rings he has um you know so. it's just one of those things where you. you know what you're playing you know. what you're up against. so you know you know most any mistake. that's made. you you know it's going to be. detrimental to the the outcome that you. want. are you surprised that he's playing this. well. this long i mean it's about to be year. 20 what. 22 and harry is just coming off of super.

bowl seven super bowl win i mean. i mean you're like okay yeah i'm playing. can you imagine yourself. being as good as you are right now 17. years from now. man i don't know i got to talk i got to. talk to him i see. i've seen what drew did so i'm like okay. i got a good idea like i might got i. might got. 20 of me but i might have to talk the. time to get a secret too because. and that dude he he got it figured out. man he playing. i think i don't know alvin i think. running back they take too many hits.

they don't protect you like they protect. the quarterback i know i might have this. i might have. i might have to switch the slide or. something like right when my running. back meter run out i might have to be. like. i could play a little slot minimum i got. you. okay alvin you grew up you grew up in. like i said you grew up in. uh in the atlanta era of norcroft now i. ain't growing. from atlanta you also you i'm so okay. because that's how we do that's how we. do you know if anybody i'm from atlanta. you might be from us uh uh.

hospital he was born at an everything. i'm a grady baby all the way. hey you're a granny baby okay okay so. you really from the. you you repping the air hard mm-hmm. senior year. you do what you did you win the state. title. what is it the process okay you had. every college in the country. warning alvin kamara yeah how did you. decide that you were going to the. university of alabama. knowing that there are probably three. four or five other five star recruits.

that's going there to play your position. i was looking at that time i was looking. at i said man this is where the best. running backs go. in my and in that year 2013 i'm i'm just. talking about that's the history. of bama like from running back so i was. like that's where the best running back. would go. 2013 the best running backs in my class. are going there. i was like shoot i'm about to go and i'm. about to so well i'm the best running. back too but. at the time i'm i'm 17 years old i'm. like. i'm saying that me too my ball and i'm. like man i'm about to go and.

bust this open not thinking there's. seven of us in this room. it's one football and it's ten games. what are we gonna do you know so we get. there and it's me tyron jones. lt10 penny rest in peace to him that's. my brother alti tempinion. um and derek henry all in the same class. not to mention. tj yeldon kenyon drake johnson fowler. and d hart that's already there but we. get in the room we get to the first. running back being him. and coach burns burton burns i love him.

to death even though he was on my ass. every day at bama. we looking around and we look me like. man we stupid as hell what are we doing. what did we got ourselves into yeah i'm. like man what did we do. like we thought we thought it was cool. and now we're here we like we realize. i'm like okay one two three four. and uh nobody's a slouch in there. everybody everybody that was in that. room. had played in the nfl you know what i'm. saying like. so derek still derek baldwin right now.

can you still i mean like all of us had. real talent so. you know you didn't look at it you're. like okay yeah i'm coming off a state. championship. but so did he he he he yeah oh man i had. 2200 yards. yeah but he had 2500 he had four damage. you know what i'm saying but you know in. hindsight i was just like man i want to. be the best version of me so i'm going. to go where the best is. best is we know where the bests are. going but you know i'm.

in in reality it's like it's only so. many it's only so much. that can be done within that framework. you know everybody can't touch the ball. and you know i mean ultimately i ended. up transferring and going to junior. college. it was partly some of that partly. immaturity on my end. right because you know i'm 17 years old. fresh out of high school. i got to camp i graduated and got to. campus two days later. and i was i was in it i'm in college i'm. you know never been hurt before in high. school. always been you know the top dog and now.

i'm like it's it's. it's not a i was a pit bull around uh so. while i was in high school now it's. all people's and some of the people's is. bigger than bigger than people. you know things are like i'm still. barking but i'm like okay i gotta bark a. little bit louder all right. i gotta do a little bit more and then. you know ended up getting injured. during camp and kind of didn't really. know how to deal with that i'm just like. my mind my mind was immature and you. know i did a lot of immature things and. me and coach saban are close to this day. you know maybe not as close.

when i was there because of you know. what how i dealt with things and. coaching. coach burns and and coach smart you know. those are my three main guys. and you know we talk we laugh and joke. about it today but back then it was like. i was i just kind of went into like a. forget everybody mode and and you know. just it was just immaturity. had you stayed at alabama do you believe. your career would have turned out like. it. like it did like it has i don't think so. because i learned. a lot from leaving alabama you know i'm.

not even talking about football wise. okay just talking about like i learned. myself i learned a lot about myself and. i learned a lot about. how to interact with other people and i. learned a lot about how to deal with. certain situations i just learned a lot. about life like. you know i went i when i left alabama i. went home i mean nobody really know. i was i was about to be done with. football i was like i'm about to go back. home and just. do whatever like i'ma just kick it you. know and i did that for i left it in. january. january 3rd i left alabama january 3rd.

like february i went a month i had that. pilgrim i made sure i got that pilgrim. [Music]. february i'm like okay i'm making a. little some shake but. i'm like oh we can't i gotta figure. something out. i get a i get it i take it like an. official visit to clemson i'm like i'm. kind of just slow playing everything i'm. like man i'm good i'm not. just going off what i just dealt with.

like just mentally it was a lot it was. texting and you know i'm thinking about. like man how could i dealt with it. better but. still at that point i'm like man. whatever whatever. i get arrested in february like february. 16. 15 and i'm sitting in the back of the. cop car and the cop like you ain't no. damn role model you ain't nothing. and i'm like that's that like moment of. realization and you like. what am i doing oh so the cop knew who. you were.

yeah yeah yeah i know who i was. [Music]. ain't nobody looking up to you you ain't. man nobody even know if you still play. football. blah blah blah so i'm just back there. listening and i'm like damn. but it's like 11 o'clock at night i get. to the deal. i didn't get processed to like i didn't. get. processed and booked everything to like. 4 a.m and that same crop stood in there. and was. pointing at the point every time they. wouldn't even they was just moving me. from cell to cell it wasn't even. processing me.

he's just pointing like yeah there go. that boy album like he ain't [ __ ] that. daddy died so i'm just sitting there. like whoa whoa what up brother i'm. already at my lowest you already got me. behind the bar you ain't got to keep on. doing this. yeah you know so i'm just like at that. point. then i'm like really i just went i went. straight atlanta i'm like man i got the. money in my pocket to bail out there. y'all got me man. i'm just but then i had to sit back and. be like yo what what what is that. where is that gonna get me it's not. giving me nowhere i can't right. situation. i called my mom mom's wasn't mad she was.

just like what you gonna do like you. know. she come and bail me out and we took. that ride home and she like. i'm not mad at you like what you but you. know you gotta figure something out. next day i call i called um i called. clemson i'm like all right cool i'm. about to just. let me get out of here i got to go i. just got to get back on track. they like ah nah you know i didn't got. arrested yes news. nah we're not gonna take you you know. you can go to juco and you know. we might take you after you leave juco.

so i feel some type of way i'm like man. i'm like man okay so hunches of. community college have been calling me. this whole time from when i leave bama. to. when i'm when i'm when i'm at home like. to this up to this point and i'm like. i'm not going to know juco like i can't. what i'm going to go to this is a long. way from home because that's what i'm. saying that's kansas right. man i'm not going to especially not. kansas i say i'm from atlanta like what. i'm gonna do in kansas. snowing so i gotta i gotta humble myself. at this point.

i'm like i called i called daddy is. brown he was a coach at. hutz while i was there i called him. i said hey coach y'all still uh y'all. take me he said come on he said when can. you get here it's the 15th now. now it's the 16th he like the 18th i'm. on a plane to kansas. that thursday and then the rest is. history. never look back never look back okay you. spent you spent one year at hutch.

yeah so what made you decide to go to. tennessee. so i think for me except going to. tennessee i just. it was it was more of a i didn't want to. go to uga. i kind of i didn't want to be at home. right. with me i was like all right um i'm. gonna take i'm gonna take this time. i'm gonna kind of look around and see. what i want to do i want to go back to. the sec for me personally because i was. like. you know people like well he couldn't. handle the sec he couldn't do this he.

could. so it was like for me i was like let me. wait my offices where these. which is one of these sec schools i'm. gonna go to and just make it happen. and you know i had a couple friends at. tennessee um. at the time so i was like you know what. i'm about to go to tennessee. and that was it and plus tennessee will. get a chance to play alabama. oh yeah yeah we definitely got a chance. to play alabama. we did that so so you you uh go to. tennessee. things work out well for you you go to.

the combine you do what you do. the same call what's going through your. mind. man i'm like. this is a perfect situation i'm like. this is perfect i got sean payton like. i'm thinking i'm thinking back i'm like. all right dance froze. reggie bush like i got drew brees you. know. this is like ideal for me because of the. style. that i see myself playing in like right. it fits that mode.

so you know obviously too i get to new. orleans and. shawn's vision for what my vision was. was. was in line times a million so i'm right. now i got to learn all this. the rest is history man like you know. that goes back to talking about. drew and and you know just being in in. the position now i was in. the world that i've been able to be in. new orleans and just blessed to. you know have the impact that i've had i. mean it's. it's amazing let's go back to college.

for a second. you mentioned you had an injury if you. didn't have that injury. and was forced to red shirt do you think. things would have turned out differently. because maybe you just had too much time. with your hand i did i did register i i. got the injury in camp. so i had a lot of time to think about. everything i was like man i'm like oh my. gosh. did you think did you think you did you. think you were good enough. to play or were you upset dirty. yeah i think i was definitely good. enough to to play in and.

and you know now now that i'm looking. back older. i definitely had had the ability to play. um. but just immaturely the way i dealt and. handled that situation it completely cut. me out of. being able to oh so that's what it was. so you was upset that they reshirted you. that started you on the road to. immaturity. yeah it was kind of yeah it was that it. was like it was you know okay you're. injured rehab and come back and you know. try to try to get back and we'll get you. back in the rotation and you know how.

that goes it's like you injured you got. to get back in. oh yeah the game don't stop hurt and. they ain't paying you. they give you that love once you injured. it's like that [ __ ] you know they don't. give you that love when you're injured. because you can't. you know so i'm i'm coming from high. school i'm mad i ain't never got hurt. nothing so now i'm hurt. i'm expecting like okay well they gonna. work with me i'm gonna i'm gonna rehab. and i'm gonna be right back in it. nah it's it's it's up and going now. i the i got healthy like maybe the.

right before the first first game or. second game so you know it's it's. it's in stone at that point yeah. so so what what was coach saban like. uh i talked to devonte devonte smith. last week what's coach saban like. man coach saber he he's. he's in he's an intense dude but. a lot of people i think get uh coach. saban. that they misinterpret coach saban i. tell people this every time i say. coach saban is worried about one thing.

and that's winning and that's why he. wins. if it doesn't have anything to do with. women he's not concerned with it. and that's not that's not a pr that's. not personal it's nothing personal and i. had to realize that. when i was with from being there then. leaving and growing up and like. he wasn't it wasn't nothing against me. that he had. it was i was happy you can't help me win. right now you can't you can't help me. win. you're not trying to help yourself help. me win right so that.

you can't help me win right now is about. availability being injured so you know. you rehab you come back. you you get you get you work yourself. into rotation you do what you do and. you know but doing the wrong thing is. not going to help me win and it's. actually it's actually annoying me. right what i'm saying so i was doing a. lot of things that. coach saban i think he was ready he was. he was like. man i'm on the verge of getting rid of. this dude you know. and um so is that is that so you you. buttoning heads with coach saber saban.

he suspended you and sent you home for. the bowl game right yeah i got. cause i put a head with coach burns the. running back coach at the time too so. putting his butt in here so they. suspended me. and that was i mean it was just like i. said and i take full responsibility it. was immaturity it wasn't nothing about. coach saban not liking me because burns. not like. it was completely my fault like i was. doing stuff that was like. so what is it are you tennessee or you. because it seemed like you talked more. about bama than you do to the cia.

so what's going on that's where the. journey begun like you know i said. that's where the journey began. but um i'm both you know i'm i'm both i. think but i i you know i. i ended up at ut so i got to go ut but. you know whenever. you know savannah dudes be like oh yeah. you win the damn easter we know you. started at family's roadside i'll give. them a little roadside and keep. moving so do you do do you ever go do. you ever go back to bama. uh not real no i don't really go back to. tuscaloosa but you know i'm still close. with all. everybody all them dudes and everybody. that i that i that. kind of came before me a little bit in.

that area and that reigns when i was. visiting and then the dudes obviously. that i played with. juco what's it like going to juco i mean. i mean i played with a lot of guys that. went to juco some went to hutchinson. a lot of them went to the uh the schools. in mississippi itawamba heinz. you know all those who you you know what. i'm talking about you know i'll. you know they have hours worth out in. iowa you know taft out here in. california so. so i'm familiar so they say it's bad. they say it's pretty bad.

yeah it's bad. it's exactly like everybody seen last. chance you and they're like man it's so. real like that's a man this. tv show i said nah that's really what it. like it's really what it is and i'm. coming from there. i'm coming from like the top juice i'm. coming from the top i'm not just coming. from. d1 i'm coming from bb1 school right. there like. shoot somebody might tie your shoe if. you if if if you come on loose. right i'll get the kansas saying you i'm.

like. fighting for scraps i'm like yo what is. going on here like. it's not nothing for you nothing is. given to you at all you got to work for. every single thing and i think that. experience was like. so humbling and like it was humbling and. it was. at the same time it was like man why me. but then at the same time it was. gratifying because. i was able to like endure and overcome. everything that happened to me there. and you know come out the other side. even better than i came in. is did anybody any of your teammates say.

man. man what the hell you doing here how the. hell you leave alabama to come here. yeah yeah all of them they was like man. what are you doing are you stupid. i'm like a lot of stuff happening. immature i was hurt i was like man i. would have just stayed i don't care i. would have just. rehabbed it i was just i'm like nah it. was like you know it's a lot of for the. juke thing for me was like a personal. journey it was like okay i need to go do. this and. and grow up a little bit that 20. that 2017 draft leonard fournette's in.

that draft christian mccaffrey's in that. draft dalvin cook's in that draft. joe mixon is in that draft and you're. like okay. you signed these guys up now hold on me. and chris mccaffrey david cook we know. we all. you know we all joe mix and we're about. the same size linda fernett. a little taller a little heavier but hey. i hold my own i'm i'm doing this in the. sec. so what what's up third i mean. fournette off the board first and then. uh uh uh cmac. i played with his dad then dalvin joe.

mix was like hold on whoa. whoa y'all just gonna overlook your boy. yeah man so a lot of people ask me about. that and i was like. you can ask like anybody around me. that's close to me i was never really. worried about. my position my draft you know the stock. of it you know i wasn't worried about. like oh he's projected to go. because i was projecting to go first. round right. after my combine i i killed the guy it. was like. oh man he's helped himself he you know. he might go first round he might go.

second round he might go. i was like man i'm not into predicting. nothing though i'm like yo. i had my mom my brother and like two a. couple my friends my sister was. just watching day one go by not off. they're like man it's okay man they. should have dragged. you i'm like man where are we going. y'all want to go out. i'm still celebrating because i'm like. man i didn't work so hard to get to this. point i'm like celebrating everything. that's. like happened to me from family to hutch. to. and just to be able to be in that. position of being on the tv like yeah.

this kid he could be. he could he could go any day from one to. any round from one to two to three like. i'm just blessed to be in the. conversation i'm cool okay. so a lot of dude a lot of dudes like. like you mentioned the dalvas and the. christians and the leonards. they put in a lot more work than me as. far as their college careers went they. had a full body of work. and it was a consistent body of work me. i had to you know i kind of had to. do a little hokey pokey and turn around. and do what i had to do but. you know nonetheless still blessed so. you know. they too round two goes and you know it.

was some rumblings like. i might get drafted in the second round. i might don't happen i'm like man i'm. good like you know people checking on. you you know how that go people checking. out. like yeah man you better than that it's. like. okay it's not about that it just you. know it is what it is it got to fall out. it got to happen how it got to heaven. you know so then the third round comes. and you know i'm looking at it and. five or four number calls and i'm like. hello like hey alvin. it's sean payton i'm like oh yeah okay.

we gone we off the board. we're the third with the 67 pick in the. 2017 nfl draft the new orleans saints. lake alvin kamara running back tennessee. i'm like. finally i'm not even i'm cool like i'm i. was content i was fine. i'm like finally everybody can stop. talking about. you should have been this ground in that. round like all right i was the third. round. third pick it's done now it's time to. get to work. i what i tell young guys is not how high. you go. it's where you go you could have went.

higher and not going to someone that's. that their offensive mind is like sean. payton you could have gone somewhere. that they don't have a drew breeze and. so now alvin kamara goes somewhere. and they don't use him like the saints. use him. to showcase all of his ability not only. his rushing ability but. also his receiving ability out of the. backfield we'll line him up in the slot. we'll put him out wide. we'll oh y'all put a safety on him we're. throwing the ball y'all put a line back. on him we damn sure gonna throw him the. ball. so it wasn't how high you went it was.

where you went. that ultimately gave you an opportunity. to show what you could really do. exactly and that's what that was the. most important thing for me like like we. talked about earlier it's like. once i know i'm with sean payton drew. brees and i'm like oh yeah it's the. perfect situation i can't beat it. right now it's up to me to take. advantage. what was the first thing you purchased. what was your first big purchase. i still only had the first big purchases. really you you ain't bought nothing you. ain't bought no range you ain't brought.

no g. wagon you ain't bout no ferrari i ain't. spending all their football money i. ain't touching none of it. oh what that what you riding about. oh yeah i mean so i think the most money. i spent was probably building that juice. board. okay and that wasn't really nothing i. was like. 50 something but you know you got to buy. mom some mom didn't want anything. mom got it mom's got a crib but i didn't. she's still i'm. render crib my mom's so indecisive she's.

like i want to buy a house i want to. i want to live in canada i want to live. here i'm like mom where do you want to. live so she's. still all over the place so i'm like. okay i'm saving a couple dollars right. there. but now i have that man i don't i live. simple dog i just you know. take care of what i got to take care of. and you know uh. well okay there you ate liverpool you. got a grill you got several grills. to go when that was 300 from uh jj's. jewelry down at uh. uh underground mall and atlanta i know.

about another. and i got it and i got the diamond one. yeah yeah i got the diamond one but i. ain't have to do enough i have to do too. much for that. so you ain't gonna get no pink diamond. like oozy burp you ain't gonna put one. in front of your head. i don't know about that one shout out. there i guess you know that's. eric to each his own you know you guys. you might have a little bit too much. money you could take a diamond and stick. it on your forehead. yeah yeah he said he was paying for that. for a couple years i don't know. so moving forward how do do you want to.

run carry the ball more because right. now you you know. they throw it to you they but would you. like to say you know what. let me get 250 carries let me see how. many yards i could actually get. i don't care about all that man i'm. about i think the touches count more. like you know if i if i get if we if we. talking about. x running back getting 20 carries and. having 150 yards. and a touchdown and we're talking about. me having 10 carries and then. 10 catches and i'm having 200 all. purpose and three touchdowns. i mean right i'll rather i'll rather the.

10 catches in. the 10 carries all day than the 20 than. the 20 carries. let's talk about that six touch that six. touchdown game because i was upset. because you right there you right there. at five. and i really thought you should have had. seven because they let i think taste. them. ran one in i was like man this is a. [ __ ] man y'all know that man got. five touchdowns to get sick. and then when they let him get and they. let you get six i was kicked off. because you should have had the record.

you should have got seven yeah i said i. should have had it you know you uh. i'm gonna let you send a a a letter to. sean and talk to him. i came up and emmanuel sanders is like. man. he's talking to sean on the sideline. he's like man that's messed up so are. you messed up he like what. he's like man he can't need one more. he's like what. he's like oh i didn't know and then. chase who came to me he was like dude. i'm sorry. sorry you knew it you should have just. turned around now we gonna hand this. ball off to alvin.

did you did you know did you know going. into that game because sometimes you. know you have a big game. you could feel like man okay this is. gonna be my day i'm gonna have a i'm. gonna have a good game today. was there anything different about that. game i just felt good i felt good at the. beginning of the game and you know i. usually turn like. i'll say something to draw or i'll say. something like latavius and you know. anybody like mike or. mario like i feel good like it's time. like you know whatever they say back i'm. like man i feel good i'm gonna go crazy. so i get on we get in the game i get one.

i'm like. oh yeah like i feel real i feel too good. i'll go to the sideline i tell someone i. said i feel too good i said give me the. ball he said all right. all right i'm gonna keep giving it to. you i get a second touchdown. i'm like okay hold on i feel real like i. feel real good i go to my rv. coach i go to go joel thomas i'm like jt. what's the record for touchdowns and. he's like hold on let me figure out. so we go back out for another drive i. scored another challenge down i come. back and he's like the record. the record six so i'm like bro i might.

have to it's not even halftime yet and i. got three. i said i might break the record so he. like let's go so i'm talking to sean i'm. like hey don't get scared. i was like you you always talking about. giving somebody the ball give me the. ball he like. he said i'll bring you till you're tired. he said you're gonna tap out he said. just tap out i'm like i ain't gonna. check out so he's like all right i'm. gonna give you the ball. so four five and he gonna do that. and put taser man take my six when i'm. like all right. i'm on the sideline i'm like man it's. christmas but you all swole too. so i because i know you like so close. i'm having one of these games i haven't.

told my rb coach. but before the half oh i'm gonna get. that record yeah yeah i said yeah i told. him i'm like i'm gonna get it he likes. come on let's do it. something like that so we're running. about running the ball get the sixth one. take some get the six one so i'm at five. i'm like man whatever man we bless. christmas we whipping we killing them on. tv or whatever it's cool. so then i guess they something i forgot. what happened. i think we got a turnover yeah we got a. turnover then. ball to adam troutman and he's running.

down the sideline running that sideline. like 40. i'm heavy i love trout but he get. tackled on the one-yard line. i love him i love trump. oh yeah let's get it i said i'm about to. get the sixth one so i get in there and. get the sixth one and that's. you know that's a snowflakes and that's. when i tie the record but i'm like damn. i could have had i could have had. i could have had seven oh you had seven. all day but you know what. but just your luck you got that six and. trout would have ran into the end zone. he wouldn't have stopped.

it for you to get the title record and. not break it everything always turned. out how i was supposed to that's all i. like man i can't even complain. what inspired you to get the nose ring i. don't know. you know what and i've had it since like. 2014. 2013 2014. i just one day i was just. like man oh i'm just about to do it. because i had to. you know the one right you had yeah i. had the one nostril and i just like. everybody around me started getting it. and i'm like what the hell i was like. hey i'll come up with something like do.

something like come up with something. i know something they're not gonna do so. me and my boy we go to the we go to the. piercer shop and i go in there. and the lady's like yeah what do you. want pierce i'm like i want to accept. them and she's she started laughing at. me. and i was like no i'm dead they're. serious like i'm gonna set up and she's. like yeah whatever so i'm like all right. come on so she starts. like all right i'll just go through it i. know you're not gonna go through with it. oh here's my nose she's like wow are you. serious i'm like yeah i was like man. there's something new like i gotta come. up with something new. did it hurt hell yeah.

you cried dude you cried you cried a. little bit i i wasn't actively crying it. was passive. it was passive tears yeah you you might. have been passing tears in the shot but. you boo-hooed in the car. i'm telling you it hurt but i don't know. was just something different like i was. like man. like it was me it wasn't like forced it. was still because like that's kind of i. do stuff like that but right. that was like the most i was like yeah. this is kind of. this extreme man so what so you don't.

get anything else. okay the saints win the super bowl you. getting attached to a super bowl tattoo. you getting something pierced what what. what what you gonna do to mark that. occasion saints win the super bowl. man people think i'm wild now. man y'all seen j.r smith on that float. it's going to be better soon send me a. couple miles of hennessy.

you're also you big into fashion yeah. what what led how did how did you what. led you to do that. my sister was in the in the fashion when. i was younger like i'm talking about.

talking about piles of magazines like. fashion magazines like. just everything you know i'm saying so. she kind of got me into it. and you know as i got older i was just. more and more like. i kind of was able to you know create my. own style and. right i was in tune with it so i just. kept it going and now it's just you know. it's just. it's like you're a sneaker head too yeah. i wouldn't call myself a sneaker here. but i do i do. indulge in sneakers you know so what. what. what's your favorite sneaker my favorite.

sneaker. yeah i think for my foot like the most. comfortable. shoe that i throw on like and i'm like i. can wear them every day. just a jordan three any any any any any. variation of it. anything yeah by the way yeah it's hard. to be it's hard to beat the three. um i like the three i like the 11 i like. the fives. i like the fours i like the ones. the one that's that's the one so you. you're a mid so. you you really a mid guy because of.

three i get three years i mean the three. it's hard to beat the three yeah it's. hard to beat it you can't it's like. it's the perfect it's versatile you can. do what you got to do with it. yeah you can wear it with a suit you. wear with jeans. yeah yeah it's it's hard to mess up the. three that's what they don't know you. know. so your fashion your sense. the piercing give me a comparison. somebody in the nba that. that that style and reminds you of alvin.

i don't know i don't really watch. basketball so yeah i ain't really. [Music]. i don't know i mean you right with that. j.r smith but uh. uh i'ma have to get back to you on that. one i'ma have to think of that one. uh who hit you the hardest because.

everybody wants to know. that's what i get man who hit you the. hardest in your career. who hit me the hardest i think. both of them were cheap hits though so i. don't even other than that. oh you're trying to do you talk to jayla. smith on thursday night. yeah that one and the and the uh and. debo. the r zones my rookie year in atlanta. both. both of them i got concussed i'm like. man. and then and then jalen he really just. went all out with it like he just. crushed me i'm like yo you hell it was.

hell with the helmet. you know right they was running that. like he posted pictures of. people sent it to me i'm like oh he. can't touch me other than that. when you hear people say the running. back position they devalue the running. back. you can just get anybody and just plug. him in and they can do this they can do. that. how does that make you feel i don't feel. that type of way i think i just. i don't really talk too much i just show. it so and i'm happy that there's some. other. news in the league from dalvin's and.

christians and. and aaron jones and derrick's that are. kind of like showing it too. it's like it's funny it's like the. timing of it that. you know these guys like christian got. his check. i got to check derek is getting his. money like we showing that you know. okay you can you can throw anybody at. any position don't mean they're going to. do it good. you know do it to like an elite level if. you're talking about if we're talking. about. good great elite and like superstars you. know what i'm saying like. you got it's a certain level it's pay. grades to this there's levels there's.

levels today there's levels to it so. you know i mean you go the pay got a. match so right. if if another dude can do it do it let. them do it. obviously that's not the world that's. not realistic that's not the world we're. living i got a job to do but it's like. [ __ ]. show me finally i'm looking at your. numbers. and if you were to do this you'd be only. the fourth guy roger craig did it. thousand rush start the receiver. marcia faulk did it thousand rush. thousand receiver christian mccaffrey. you come close a couple of times you've. had you had 728 rush yards this year.

8 26 receiving you had 9 32 your rookie. uh. you had 9 32 last year 756 and your. rookie you at 728-826. yeah what would that mean. to get a thousand thousand to join that. elite company yeah it'd be dope you know. what i'm saying like. i and i it's so crazy because i never. look at i've never really looked during. the season i don't really be looking at. numbers i'm just like man let's go i'm. trying to. turn up as much as i can get as many. touches as i can get as many touchdowns. as i can. whatever that looks like so um i mean it.

will definitely. it would definitely i'll be in good. company obviously it's all and then it's. like. only when you say anytime you say only. these people did it. it's not a lot of people you know right. it's dope to just be. in that category of like one of the only. that did something. well i know some of you know about you. if you're from the age you graded baby. so you know about something about the uh. the rap community. yeah a little bit okay i want you to. give me your my rush more rappers. atlanta rappers my rushmore yeah that's.

what i'm talking about now. since you don't watch basketball you. know something about the rap scene in. the eighth. yeah okay. if we just we talking about like you. said mount rushmore we talking about. pioneer. music the music scene in atlanta. i'll i'll go outcast. nah daddy you gotta take one of them why. can't. i ain't no group okay i'll take big boy.

andre i i like i like andre i like andre. but i'm just talking about like this. we talking about steel like that fit the. mode of atlanta i love. i love andre okay okay okay so i say. outcast i ain't want to pick one damn. i know that's why i let you do that. cause i wanted to beat what. uh-huh go ahead i got. so i'm just gonna say okay i'm gonna let. you do me like that outcast. i got gucci okay.

yeah i got tia okay. who you got you looking at it like you. got some rendering i got that. i just died he just looking up and i had. to put it i had to put it i had to put a. space in there so then i'm gonna put. jeezy on there up there too. so you got big boy i got okay. okay okay you got it okay. you got gucci you got t.i and who you. got.

james easy yeah i mean they had a bag. they had a bad group. i mean i can't leave luda off i got to. keep losing i got to break luda. you can't have a rat without looter okay. well if i if if i can't have outcasts. alone i mean if i can't have outcasts as. a group then i'll just put ludo. um there'll be i mean you left. two chains got left off your home. your home one of your home all your. homeboys off yeah. let them all out cause i was just that's.

why i started off and i said who. pioneered the rap game in atlanta. a little baby yeah yeah but i'm talking. about that. i don't know who came before him now we. can say we could. rushmore is not about there are a lot of. president. that came before abraham lincoln yeah. they were privileged. became woodrow yeah no no no no no no no. no no no no no no no no no no no no no. no no no no no no no no no no no no no. no no no no no no no no no no no that's. how we do this. president before all together everything. comes. i got baby i got pooch.

man that's tough dawg that's hard. that's hard because that's what we got. all that we got all the flavor we got. all the music. well for me i'm going three stacks i'm. going t.i. yeah i'm going luda and i'm going jeezy. and i'm done with it. okay see we right in line. alvin i really appreciate it appreciate. what you're doing for the community. appreciate your career much success. continued and thanks for dropping by.

today. no doubt i'll just say appreciate it all. my life. been grinding all my life sacrifice. hustle pay the price. wanna slice got to roll the dice that's. why all my life. i've been grinding all my life look all. my life been running all my life. sacrifice plus will pay the price wanna. slice got to roll it dice that's why. all my life i've been grinding all my. life. [Music]. you know what to do hit the subscribe.

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