Bussin' With The Boys - Derrick Henry

Episode Date: February 17, 2020

Bussin With The Boys - Episode #033 Derrick Henry Tractorcito is FINALLY on the bus! Titans star running back and Alabama legend, Derrick Henry, fresh off his NFL Rushing Title season, sits with The Boys to discuss the Titans' playoff run, his legendary on-field moments from 2019 (shouts out Earl Thomas, no free shouts), and his early days in the NFL. Derrick also takes time to answer all the questions that fans have been wondering about including how he feels about falling short of the Super Bowl, what he thinks of Marcus Mariota, would he rather play with Tom Brady or Ryan Tannehill, and where he wants to play ball in 2020. You pups begged for this one for a while! Enjoy! Want to be featured in an episode? Share your questions, feedback, and whatever else using #ForTheBoys / #DontGiva and TAG US @bussinwtb on all platforms. ----- SHOP: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boys FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB/ Website: https://www.bussinwtb.com LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_SpotifyFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We only did one. Okay, Derek did it too, so now it makes it cool. See what happens there? Let's fucking go! The Boys here, baby. Let's go. Look at a tiff in his cap.

God, Nike, everything on the boy, dear. Oh, yeah. Always Nike, huh? Always. God damn. Dude, you've been a hard,

guest the real end. Are we starting? Yeah, we're in. We're in this thing, dude. We roll. We just roll. You see that little trophy right there? Love it.

It's Sobrose, Nashville Spirit Award, 2019. Bus, when the boys won it. First year in the game. First year in the game, dude. First prestigious award. It's probably better than a lot of ones you got in the last couple weeks. I'm not even surprised that you guys got the award. I mean, why is that?

Because it was already written. I mean, whenever this bus was ripped up and made into this, and you guys started y'all's busting with the boys? What did you think when we got this bus? I knew what time it was. That's why I wanted to be on here. I knew what time it was. As soon as we started this, OTAs last year, he's like,

give me on that bus. Yeah, Taylor's always said that you've always wanted to get on it. I was like, we need to hold out because he's going to have a huge year. We need to get him on after the season. Low key, well, 2000. I was trying it on during the season, but we just didn't. No, I said I don't do pods during the season, baby. Taylor had to be careful.

Cut a lot of heat, dude. When you get to spend it for four games, and any of as many penalties as I did like three after that, not a lot you can do. I didn't even go outside. Then came back and ball. Yeah. I appreciate the boy.

I appreciate that. I can tell you what, you're only as good as you're running back and quarterback and you guys made me look good. You're the goat though. Run left. Don't talk like that because you know you're the goat. That's you.

Every single. That's you. Hey, you're the goat. I have the goat here. No, you're going to go. And the stud. Stunt. Yes, too.

Tell them where that comes from. I can't fully remember. I think, for me, when they had done, drafted. So when I had signed with the Titans, I was like, okay, it's a contract to where I potentially can compete for a job, yada, yada, yada. Once they drafted Roshan in the first round, I kind of knew, like you just said, I knew what time it was. Like the first round draft pick's

going to play. So when I was kind of, you know, doing the whole backup special teams role, having the most fun with it, I want to say you were facing some adversity in the year, in the beginning. Definitely. And me, and I just want to think like, we might have just been having a conversation. And I was like, oh, but you're a stud. And we just started calling each other stud. Do you remember? I thought that, I thought it was like during like practice or something and we were like, it was offense versus defense and I don't know. I smoked you and you said, you know, you're a stud?

Not really. I think we just like, you know, what you smoked? Derek. Well, I actually did one time you got my face. Like seven on seven. And you hit Derek? Yeah, and training. Oh, yeah.

But I wasn't talking about that. No, but we, I think we actually like, like, fed it up and you were like, stud. And I set it back to you. And since then, every time we've seen each other, we started. Yeah. Dude, how about that. Raiders game. Because you told him before we play, like a week before we play, we were on FaceTime,

and you're like, I can't wait to tackle Derek. Because as soon as I tackle him, I'm going to call him a stun. I don't think you tackle them once, though. I got, yeah, I did. You said it too. In the second half. Yeah, you did it in the second half. I was down there and I was wanting him to hear it so bad.

I just kept saying it over and over. I like, stunt. Stunt. You know, Derek, Derek is different on game days. How many judges did you leave with that game? Uh, I don't know. I think you had like, maybe eight to ten? Is that a lot?

NFL record? It might be. I don't know. I was fired up. I've told Taylor like I was, I was fired up at that moment.

I guess I know one jersey wasn't in the mix and that was Stutz. That was yours. I don't have a Derek Henry jersey. Bro,

we're gonna work something out. And there's some jerseys in there. Shout out to the boys. Love every single one of the jerseys. But yours can be in that mix. You know what I'm saying? Bro.

And we call each other Studs, but nothing was communicated about the jerseys though. But I didn't know that was going to happen. Who found this? is that? Wesley Woodyard. I was going to say Wesley Woodyard. He had that

exactly drawn up. First of it, look at long Jack Conklin's jersey. Zero swag. My God. I know that's embarrassing. Jack, he had to cut that thing up a little bit. Derek, I think there's probably three inches on Derek's jersey. As you roll that thing up to the belly button. So who controls the drip

the game day swag? The game day drip in your room. Is that I mean, there's no... With the sleeve and the... I mean, with look at Cochlin's jersey. It's like... Oh, he's talking about the... Those are the equipment guys.

You got to communicate. Because you got to go, you go to them and then you get your jersey cut before camp. No, I mean, I kind of thought like, hey, you guys would be like, hey, this is how we're going to look because every game when y'all come out,

y'all wait for each other, so I thought you had like an agreement on everything, like the jerseys, your swag. Dude, if you pull up a picture of all five of us, we all just way different. My cleats are different. My socks are the lowest. I have the shortest jersey by far.

I always wearing a, do while I'm worried about like, you know, their swag. Oh, this dude does. He's already got a vision for next year. Hey, I tell you what the boy. Hey, the boy look pretty solid though, huh this year? Definitely. The visor? I love the, yeah, the helmet change and the visor. I appreciate that move.

Talk about, talk about your swag next year. What are you going to come correct? Oh, dude, I'm getting a grill. I told you this, though. Ice tray? I'm not going to ice. I'm going to do that. What's that, like, the dirty yellow? It's like not like the bright yellow, but it looks like almost like a muddy yellow.

Like it's gold. Like a mustard yellow? mouthpiece? No, like whatever. I'm, I want a grill. Oh, you can wear a grill. I'm going to wear a grill.

Yes. Oh, man. Is that bad? You think that's kind of dangerous? Darren Bates doesn't even wear a real grill. He wears a mouthpiece grill. Oh, he's a mouthpiece grill. I think it's,

it looks like a grill. It's just a mouthpiece. You can't really tell it's not a grill. He's trying to put that metal piece. I've never, I've never worn a mouthpiece in the NFL. I stopped wearing a mouthpiece after my rookie year. Really? Yeah, I don't wear a mouthpiece because he can't talk.

I know, but what? do you wear a mouthpiece? What? What communicating do you? You don't wear the bottom ones? I don't, I don't wear a mouthpiece at all. Bo, how do you not wear a mouthpiece with, like, the hits you take? I don't know, I just, I used to wear my college in, like, in high school.

I don't know, I just... It feels way more comfortable. It's way more comfortable not wearing one now. And you can talk. I went, like, two games. I remember my rookie year because I was supposed to wear one. I went, like, two games without it, and I was like, I think I'm... I'm good on this.

I'm good on it, yeah. I don't want a mouthpiece. Dang, that's wild. Because I, like, watching, like, DeMarco, your rookie year, we're playing the bears and I seen him he went on a screen and he got tackled and his head like bounced off and he got up like it was no problem

he's, dude, running backs take some hits I've definitely had like a busted lip or two you know, without wearing one but it hasn't been like nothing crazy. What's a hit? It got crazy I definitely would consider wearing one but what hit have you had that you've always remembered. What hit that I had to always remember? It hasn't been nothing

too outrageous yet. Let me knock on wood guys. We don't want any hiccups here. No, we do not. No, we do not. Not quite yet. You know, I don't want to say I want it to come, but I mean, not quite yet. The thing that about you is, like, you're such a big dude that no one wants to hit you high, but you're elusive enough.

Like, when dudes go low on you, you never really, I've never seen someone try to stick you. But it's been times with, like, you know, when you have like a cutback and somebody's coming from, you know, the other side of the field that's trying to try to destroy you. I'm sure you know how. Those angles and how they try to come in. But it's been times of people then try to knock me, knock my head off. But, I mean, it hasn't been nothing like too crazy. But that's football.

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to get $10 off your first seat geek purchase. Now, back to this banger pod. When you get in the open field, I don't think you, like, and you have green grass, I don't think you have seen anybody because you're so fast it's never going to be like a problem.

You never think people are going to catch you. Have you ever been caught? I actually, uh, I hate talking about this. The Ravens game, man, Marcus Peters. He starts to get caught. I got so used to like breaking

and then scoring that I would slow down. Oh, the Ravens game. Yeah, the Ravens game. So now I got to finish the whole way. I slowed down. You slow down when you're out of the open? You slow down and I almost got caught. And the Ravens game, I finally slowed down.

I thought the mind was behind me. Usually when I break, I usually break. But I guess, no. You salty? Yeah, I am. Because I feel like. I don't even like seeing that highlight. Even though it was like a 62-yarder.

I hate the highlight. The thing about that run to? I would never, I would, that will live with me to the day I die. It was because. That highlight? I cannot stand. The thing about that play was it was third and one and we ran like an open side to the left run

but with a John Doe Smith cutting back and he was supposed to hit the D-end. Derek hits a hole so hard that he beats, he actually hits the D-N who was getting ready to hit John it. He didn't even see Derek. Perfect. This is what I wanted to ask about.

What do you think about watching that highlight with a freaking goat, Earl Thomas? Well, looking football, you know, there's going to be a lot of, a lot of talking I mean it's a big a big game those guys been playing very well

and um look at bates dude look at bates get hyped about it look at bakes over there and um we just got done playing the Patriots we had a pretty good game on the ground and um

you guys those guys pride of theirself on stopping the run so I could say that he was trying to get his guys going in himself so when I got to that point in the run he was approaching I'm like this is the moment where

he was selling the media You thought that moment too when you're running. Yeah. I was like, he's in. Yes, here it goes. This is the moment where, you know, it's me and him.

And then as it's happening, what are you thinking when you got it? I was so focused as just like, you know, just trying to throw him out of the club that I ran myself out of balance. Watch this. I'm trying to give him another shove

and I ran myself out of balance and then I try to stand him down afterwards. Yo, you stared the shit out of him. You stare through his soul, bro. The thing is, too, is. Hey, he's so hype right there. Look at him. Look at you, hey, and you don't really do anything like that during games.

Derek doesn't really talk. But he talked twice in this game. You did that, and then he said something to like. Look at him. But he's a future hall of favor. So I'm like, well, I mean, if I get opportunity to me, I got to bring it. You know, we all know who what type of player Earl Thomas is. Oh, legend.

Future Hallfamous. If this one-on-one, I got to bring my A game. He's a future Hall of Famer? I think so. I think he is. Yeah. This is a future hall of fame. Wow.

No question. Oh, look at the circle. The boy. The boy! The boy! Literally, me and Rogers blog. Did not matter at all there. It was a cut guy.

Here it is. Here it is. And what's crazy is he's doing exactly, exactly what we're all coach to do. Chop the stiff arm down. Look. And you just fucking couldn't. You guys made my job so easy. Bro.

No question. You guys made my job so easy. You break. There's nothing here. This is third and one. This is the play we were just talking about where Derek hates to see the highlights. Don't let it go all the way. Yeah, can we just turn this off, please.

And right is right about here we've got to slow down? Turn it all. I might be run sprints after this because of that. Dude, hey, turn that back on. Do not. Turn it off. See if there's a different angle, but don't let that one finish. Turn it off.

No, just hit play. Hit play. No. Why are you doing it to me, Will? Because I want to see exactly what you're slowing down. Why? Why are you doing this? Oh, damn.

Dude, why would he... I tell you what, you're a guest in the bus, and he's disrespecting you right now. Wow, dude. You know, I'm a big huge, Derek. Don't... Are you about to still for me right fucking now? I see you load up that on a little bit. Here's...

Pause it right here. All right here. Stars do not do that. So this play right here, that's my fault. Jono Smith is coming back to block 99. Derek is going to beat. When Derek sees a hole, Derek literally just hits it right away.

What was that? Houston game? It was like third and one and you were like, snap the fucking ball. Because you knew they were like, they were playing base defense. They weren't even like up in the lines at all. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So Derek sees this. And he literally, when you play it, not yet, he, this guy's even get ready to hit Johnny and not even see Derek and Derek is going to bounce off the two of them.

That's what makes the whole go. Because there's literally nothing here. The offense line. does nothing here. Play it. Let's see what the defense messed up. We're literally outmanned. Outmanned and outgunned.

Dear God. Look at this guy. Peters is tiny though, bro. He's going to be fast like that. First NFL touchdown pass. Yeah, that was dope. Boy, ran himself to Tim Tebow jump pass. If I didn't complete that pass,

you know how bad I would have felt. Dude, you would have. Look at the outside right here. Look at Marcus right there. Did Marcus say anything to you? Yes, he was like, bro. Look at Marcus waving. Waving.

I could have did like this. I could have tossed him the ball. What did, what did Tannahill say to you after that? What did Tannahill say? Yeah. I finally did it because you think about it. When we played the Jaguars and I had the, it was like a fake toss, Pasadjano and I forced to pass interference.

And then last year we played Redskins. I threw it to Luke and that was, do you remember that? We paid the Redskins. I threw it to a. Stalker. Stalker. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It gave it another opportunity to do it. I got to throw it to, I got to complete this pass. I threw the core on his birthday.

It was his birthday, huh? Perfect. How many yards you get in this game? Like I had, uh, who what? It was like 184 or something like that. 1. 195. 195?

1.95, dude. Where's that 5? Were you nervous as shit when you're about to fill that? I look at Taylor. There is. I know. Dude. It's such an attention.

Yo, I'm such an attention. If there's a touchdown, first down, or anything, I'm like, you think Taylor runs the ball. Hey, I get fired up for the boys, bro. Hey, Lamar's a stunt, and he looks defeated right there. Perfect play call. Perfect play call. Shout out Arthur Smith. Shout out, no free shout out, but shout out to Arthur Smith, dude.

Shout out of Arthur Smith. That was awesome. He's an OG of the pod, too. He really is. He was on the podcast. Yeah. That was so rad. That whole run was so sick.

Shout out CD. C shout out. Shout out the old line. Dude, hey. Boy, Roger. No free shout-outs. For those of you who do not know, Corey Davis had a turf toe in early in the year.

I mean, he's not the hero we deserve, but he's the hero we got working through that turf toe. Hero we need. Nice little run too there. What was the one that Earl started talking shit after? You're like, Earl, man, I got like 200 on y'all. I did not know they caught that. What happened?

Hey, what happened? Hey, that's a little block here for the boys right here. That's a block. Look at a home. Blossing game, I see you, bro. Yeah, Blossie game put his little face in there. Made my job. Yeah, what was the little chair?

He was in the ground and Earl Thomas was like, yeah, man, and soon as I said to his ass, man. That somebody sent him to me on Twitter. I'm like, oh, my God. How did you, were you miced up that game? I was, I think somebody else was miced up that was around. Like, I think one of the Bravings player was miced up. And they caught me saying, I'm like, oh, man.

My God. Hey, but it is what it is. You're in the game. It's football. Hey, this man, this man in the huddle does not talk and gets so mad at me in the huddle. He gets mad at you? He gets. What do you mean?

I get some. You get mad like if I'm like, because if we have, there's a couple of plays where, there's a couple of places where, yeah, I have to, you know, tip your outside. You're like, Derek, you got me outside? Because it's the, it's, it's, that's your job on the play. I feel like, what are you thinking in your mind? But look, look, it's not coming from a bad place. I'd be thinking you'd be telling me that, so I don't know.

I'm like, Taylor. No. I got you. I'm telling, I'm telling you. I got to. Because I'm going to be short to help Roger out on the specific play we're talking about. On that play, I'm like, I got to go slow so there's not a huge gap for Roger. And so I'm like,

I'm really trusting you. Hang on, hang on, let him, let him talk about. And what I'm telling you is when you're for the boys, you have to trust someone who's for the boys.

You don't, I have your back, bro. When you're Titans, when you're Titans. Tightens, tighten up. They tighten up. They fucking tighten up, dude. You miss you.

Bro, most inspirational teammate we've ever had. You missed it. What happened? Dude. What I miss? Like every Thursday. Every Thursday. Derek would come in and say,

like, after our walk through, our pre-walk through before the warm up, before the walk-through. Most legendary speeches you will ever hear. It's self-proclaim, bro. Yes. Every Thursday.

I mean, guys were just like, guys would, they would clear everything on their schedule just to get ready for that speech. Defense of players would come out just to hear it. Really? It was insane. Oh,

I would have been a hell of a hype, man. And tell me about what was the speech? I can't. I can't. To me, I felt like I changed lives when I did it every Thursday. Can I tell you something? My life changed.

My life changed for the better. Can we have a sentence that I missed that I can get a, I'll say you, I'll take you sentence. And what do Titans do? Tighten up. They tighten up. That's the ending. It's always, that's always the ending.

Huh? Can you say what the speech was? Nope. It's legendary, bro. You can't. It's an in the moment. Why are you going to fit you? It's in the moment, bro.

It's in the moment, bro. It was for that time and that time being. When another time comes up, maybe we'll record one similar to you, buddy. Next time, next Thursday, the first week one Thursday, I'll have my phone on me. And I'll record it and I'll send it to you. We'll record it. I don't even know if I can. That's for Titans.

only. That's, all right. Dude, all right. So maybe one of the best years of running backs ever had this year. It was a, it was a good one, but, you know. Who do you think about when he said something like that? Still left a sour taste. Yeah, no question.

Just because you lost the FC championship? Said again? Just because you lost the FC championship? Yeah, man. It's just like, ugh. Just left a sour tasting amount. It's just like, but you gotta be,

you gotta be hype about the performance you had this year. I know it's always about team. But when you're laying in bed after you have a hell of a year, you got to feel good about what you've overcame in your own journey

and shit like that to be like, yo, I'm fucking, I'm feeling good about where I'm at. Honestly, I think about how my teammates feel as far as me as a teammate in how I play. I get more, I get more, I guess.

Out of your teammate. I get a more great feeling out of that rather than me, you know, boosting myself up, hyping myself about what I did. I like looking at them and seeing their reactions or, you know, listening to them talk about the season or talk about me as a teammate. That's the feed. That's what I like. I paid off that.

I'll tell you what, one of the best teams ever had. One of my favorite teammates I've ever had, the boy. because he runs hard as fuck. So, okay, let's hit it back real quick. So the boy goes Alabama. Roll time. Kills it. Go for Shet.

Wins the Heisman. Second round pick? Second round pick. Second round pick. Which, in all in all, as far as contracts go, you would rather be an early second round pick than a first round pick. Because you have that fifth year option? You have to deal with a fifth year option.

The only thing you really have to deal is a franchise or franchise tag or transition tag. I tell you what the way to go is undrafted, boys. Three year. I guess so. except for the, you know, $3 million that Derek got. But yeah, that's solid, too. I mean, I'm sure a signing bonus of...

Hey, I'm telling you, boy, that pieceball money is nice. $5,000. No shit. $3,600 after taxes. Oh, my God. Look at it. I have more respect to people who get undrafted that stick with it, that stay in it. I mean, a lot of people hear about all these undrafted stories,

but they don't know exactly what undrafted players have to go through. No doubt. You know, so I got a lot of respect for undrafted players, you know. Obviously, I never had to go through. through it but just watching them and keep persevering no matter what having the move getting cut not knowing you know what's going to happen each and every day but just keep grinding you know that's just that's another motivation for me as well you know because even though you feel like you have it all it can be gone just like that that's good perspective Jesus Christ I know dude that kind of

fired me up shout out the undrafted cats no free shoutouts Jesus out to them drafted players man y'all keep grinding so you go to Alabama Heisman trophy winner second the second round pick your first year, you're splitting time with DeMarco. Your second year, you get the not, no. No. Second year, you're also spending time. Come on, bro. Talk about your first couple years. It's been a long six years.

Talk about your first couple years in the NFL. Talk about your rookie year and then I don't even know what happened after on your second year. So talk to us about it. Yeah, my first year, it was different. Like Taylor just said, I was coming off national championship, went into Heisman, playing every snap. Cloud 9. To be going to the Titans in the second round,

you know, appreciate and drafting me and giving me opportunity to pursue my dreams and, you know, live my dream as well. And then I get in and, you know, I'm a backup. So it was a little bit of an adjustment, you know, as far as, you know, me playing. And, you know, what my outlook was of me playing, You know, it was just like, you know, growing pains.

Everybody has them. Right, because you want the ball. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's, I mean, I'm my position. You want the ball to make plays, help your team. Yeah. Do all those good things as a running back. And everybody has a running back wants to come in and hit on high cylinders and, you know, do this and do that.

But that wasn't my, that wasn't my, that wasn't me. I mean, me coming in the league, that wasn't how my career started off. So, you know, those first two years, it was definitely a growing experience. It was an adjustment, but, you know, I feel like it made it, it made me into who I am today. You know what I'm saying? So I definitely appreciate those years at the time. The Taylor always said, you didn't talk. Nobody, you didn't say anything.

Nobody knew who you were. No, I didn't say that. I said you never talked. Like, I would go up to you. I would try to get to introduce myself and you just stare at me. And then eventually you became boys. Yeah, but I mean, it was, I mean, it definitely was a growing experience. Like, I mean, everything happened for a reason.

So, I mean, though, I feel like that has to be. helped me grow into the person I am today and as a player. So, I mean, and I mean, how everything played out. Was your, that's how I was supposed to happen. Was your one and two kind of the same for you? Or did you get more of a load of the second year? Each year, I got, I got more playing time. More responsibility?

I got a little bit more playing time than I was than the years before. So then my first year, I had like 110 carries, second year, like 176, third year, two 10 fourth year it was your third year was was last year right when i was on you just finished your brother okay all right all right yeah the the first two years i mean and also like getting it's a good thing in the beginning to not necessarily be the feature back all the way for the sole reason of you have net you have more carries yeah basically a blessing in the skies yeah it really at the time you're going through it like when i first i got drafted first round pick and i was a backup my first six games.

I wouldn't have played if Michael Ruse didn't get hurt. And so at the time I'm like my ego hurt, obviously, I'm thinking, man, am I already a bust? But it's not really like, it's not, I wouldn't say it's really, I mean, I guess you could say it's ego, but it's the competitive nature. Yeah, no question.

That you're the best at what you do. And, you know, you feel like your talents can, you know, help your team by you being out there and, you know, doing whatever you can to, you know, help the team win games. So, I mean, I guess it's an ego thing as well, but you know this sport is so competitive that you know you just you just want to be out there and you feel like when you feel like you're not out there just like dang yeah and there's

nothing wrong with ego you got to have something yeah exactly and if you get drafted high i i would assume that you feel like you have you you're ready to prove yourself right you're ready to prove what people say you get you know you do all the the draft day stuff and things like that and then your own self you're ready to like prove everything correct because it's like this whole life this is it i'm ready to go in there and fucking bang and put on and show everybody that I am what the Titans drafted me as. Exactly. There's definitely a form of being like, I have to prove that it was, I was a good pick.

Like the Titans made the right decision. Right. When you do it. And you don't want to let yourself down. You don't let your family down. You don't let the team down. Yeah. Those types of things.

So, I mean, it's a tough, it's a tough pill to swallow at first. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. Do you feel, do you feel some of that when you signed the biggest deal last year when you're the highest paid lineman? when I when I sign that deal I don't know like because I thought

I thought my biggest thing in my head was like just be consistent if you can be a pro bowl guy every single year and be that be a guy that when they look at a game plan they look at defenses and go well we don't have to worry about Taylor because my thing isn't I don't get carries I don't get catches

I don't throw the ball like I'm literally like I'm a player that when you look at me it's like do we have to worry about this guy no then we're good you know what I'm saying that And that was my thing is like just be as reliable as I possibly can. And but I mean, Derek knows I'm as competitive as it comes. And my stats to me are like wins Derek get to run left.

I'm on Arthur all time. Hey, run the ball left. You know, I joke with Derek all the time. Like run left and Jack and Nate did an amazing job this year. I never take away from that. But like we have that competitive like we want the yards on our side. Right, right, right. And I think that was kind of drove this offense line a little bit as having that competitive like, you know, we don't get stats.

So let's try to find a way. where we can make the competitive. Yeah. And just like with me, like when I got drafted, you know, and, you know, being a backup, you know, every year I always, like, evaluate, you know, how I play far as me, you know,

as a player. And I always knew at some point, you know, the table's a turn where, you know, I have that time, I have that moment where, you know, I'm playing. They're not going to be able to keep you in the cage. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

So eventually, I knew what happened. And just, you just got to stay patient. Like, I mean, I don't mean, to get to, you know, well. I always talk to God each year. I mean, I tell them what I want and tell them I go, I'm going, what if I pray for, I'm going to work for. So, you know, each and every day, I do that.

Each and every year, I did that. And that's what I continue to do. I mean, each and every year, I always want to be better. So if it's $1,500 this year, I want to go above that. So that's just how I am. I want to be better each and every year. I can be. When do you feel that that started to turn for you,

when you started to get that opportunity and like that whole, all right, this is the moment. this is my chance that I'm not going to look back on. Yeah, I think whenever my third year, when you were there, you know, when I actually got my opportunity, I felt like I was just trying to like, like I had to make some splatch each and every play, rather than just, you know, relaxing, letting the game come to me, you know, and just go out there and play free, you know,

because eventually, you know, it'll pop open. And I think at the beginning of the year of my third year, I was just trying to like do too much and it started affecting me how I played and you know and everything like that. So whenever after they made the change, you know, with Dion and things like that, it gave me a chance to evaluate myself, you know, approach adversity in a way not as, oh man, now I'm just going to throw in the towel and be like a tank and not, you know, I want to do nothing about it. I just, you know, took it like a man and, you know, took it under the chin. you know, kept working, and eventually, you know, everything popped. You know, when I got my opportunity again, I think the Jaguars on Thursday night. And it went on from there.

I talked to, I had called Eddie. I think we played the Cowboys, and then after that, we had to play Patriots. And I called Eddie, I think, that night. And, you know, he talked to me. He was like, man, you're running soft. You got to play better. You got to do, you got to use your size of the church to your advantage and let the game coming to you, be patient.

You know, you ain't always got to make a big play, a big splash play. It's going to happen, you know. And, you know, just keep grinding. And that's what I did. And ever since then, everything, you know, start happening. Yeah, I mean, going through adversity is kind of one of the more important things of NFL or anything in life. Because if you're up, if you're winning all the time, it's almost a bad thing. Because to be motivated constantly is you have to lose a little bit or have negative things happen as well.

like it's funny how similar our our situations are like you had to deal with the adversity of Dion coming in taking a lot of the carries and then you having to work through that and talking to Eddie like when I came back from my suspension I thought to myself like you gotta do you gotta do so much of this offense changes like I tried to do way too much when I first came back as opposed to just just go back to being a left tackle like just go back to doing your job and taking care of where you can

control and then Eddie George said some stuff on I don't remember what radio show it was, no shoutouts. But I remember texting you. And I was like, what's Eddie's number? Because I want to talk to him. You handled that really good, too. Well, he said, he's like the, he doesn't think the team views me as a leader. He doesn't feel the NFL views me a leader, like that kind of stuff.

And, you know, that stuff hurt to hear. But at the same time, like, there's got to be some sort of relevance in that if it's a guy outside the locker room noticing something. So I called, I called, I called, I called, I called, I called, I called, I called, I called, I called him. and I didn't know how the conversation was going to go. He was going on a flight and he was awesome. He was like, you need to, he's like, you have the ability to be a leader. You just got to do it in the way that you know how to do it. Like be yourself.

Just be yourself and stuff like that. And that's where, you know, starting a competition with Jack and pushing, like, who's going to get the most yards this game and being more positive in the room and just focusing on my job, what I can control and the people around me, Roger, or if it's tied in next to me, those are the things that helped me become a better leader. So in a lot of ways, I guess Eddie really helped his team. I guess he did. A couple of Eddie stories right there.

Honestly, though, I, that's why I think the whole little inside joke stud thing came about. Because I remember the times when you were bad on that adversity and you weren't throwing to the tail. You were taking, as you were saying, taking stuff like a man and things like that. Like you were being a true pro about everything. Like it's hard to kind of fall or being a backup roller, a role position and kind of take that stuff to the chin and still come to work every day and find like the silver lining and everything. And when you did go off in the Jacksonville game,

I remember being so hype about it because I had seen, you know, the things that I guess you were going through that year leading up to a point like that. Yeah, man. You know, really how I approach everything, I just try to, you know, look at it as like a, you know, a kid that's looking up to me. And, you know, just try to, you know, be a great example

on how to handle situations like that. Because you look at it like, you know, people think we play in the NFL, everything is just all living goal, money, music video life. You know, it's also real life too. And, you know, adversity comes in all different shapes and forms. And, you know, I've had it all throughout my career. And, you know, when I had it that year, you know, I just approached it the same.

Overcome it, you know, be a man about it, you know, on it to what's been going on. and then change it. And that's how I approached it, man. And, you know, I definitely want to be inspiration to young athletes and young kids, you know, to be in, you know, a hard situation. You're back against the wall.

You know, you don't let it break you. You know, you just persevere and to keep pushing. One thing, if any kids do watch this and they want to be the next Derek Henry, from an outsider's perspective looking in and being around you so much, if you want to be like you, one thing I notice about you is you're your own biggest critic.

Like when we sit next to each other on the plane and away games, and I'll be watching the film, and I'll have a play if you busts in 50 yards, and you'll skip past that. But then we'll go to one where you get two or three, and you'll be mad about, oh, I should have done this or I should have done that. Like, you're constantly looking for an opportunity to get better,

and it's the game ended three hours ago. You know what I'm saying? You're on the plane on the way home. And I think that's, be proud of yourself for the things that you achieve. That's what everyone should do. You should be proud of that. But, like, know that there's always, an opportunity to get better and there's a like you know there's no perfect game that's the

best part about football is you're never going to have a perfect game doesn't matter what position you play yeah yeah that type of stuff but you you go back in i mean you had the season you did fedex ground player the year congratulations yeah they had the opportunity to say it to your face come on clap boys shout to the boys the boys we're making that possible so you get that that's unbelievable and you're going you went to the first pro bowl what was that like second team all pro. Snubbed. What do you do?

What was a proble like? Explain that. Pro Bowl was fun, man. You know, um, fourth year, finally got my first one. Got to spend a lot of time with,

you know, different guys, you know, we play against. It's very laid back. You know, your family comes there. Everybody's family's there.

You get to hang out. You know, everybody, you get to go to Universal. They went out the whole thing for free. You get the ride, rides, especially to spend the time with your family, have a good time, you know, with everybody, with all the players, and getting to know each other a little more. I definitely enjoyed it. You know, grateful that I got opportunity to, you know, make it finally. Shout out to my teammates.

Never can forget those guys. But, you know, it was an experience that I've been waiting on and, you know, definitely grateful for. That's a super cool experience. And boy is yoked. Yeah, the boy stacked up. And that's January body. I know. Like, you know, he had been eating the best. But he's stacked up. Yeah. Tell how many times you, three?

Three. Three. I went to one. Which it was four. Wish it was four. The, uh, the next year, we're not going to be in it, but we'll make it. See, I, yeah, exactly. You're right.

Mm-hmm. You're right. I'm thinking, what, all right. So you go, you go to the Pro Bowl. You go to Miami right after that. Mine rather that. So we were chasing him down. We've been trying to lock him in for a pod.

For a while. A lot of people want the boy. Hey, the boys are busy. My boys riding high. We're trying to like, hey, don't forget about the little people in here in the bus. But yeah. This is as much as you all been chasing, I've been trying to get on. That is true.

It's giving and take. No, no question. No question. You've definitely been trying to do that. So you go to Miami, you're doing all these. So when you won the Heisman, did you get more hype for the Heisman or if you got more hype from this past season? Oh, like people like media, all that stuff. Because it's in a contract year, too.

So it's kind of crazy. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You're more hype after your senior year or after this contract year. Junior year. Yeah, he left. He left. Yeah, I'm sorry about the boy.

I had five. I just, you know, it went, no. But, um, I don't really like, I don't really like to, you know, compare. Well, you got to. I mean, I can't, I can't, I can't really compare because it's like, you got to, you know, it's, it's a different, it's a different playing field. And, you know, they both. were a lot of fun and

obviously winning a husband requires a lot of media a ton of media around the whole you know the whole New York and you know obviously after this year going to a Super Bowl not playing the Super Bowl still mad about that but you know

you got to do a lot of media going on to radio role so I think it's just like I mean I don't know whenever I look at both of those seasons I just look at the year that I have with my teammates I don't really look at what I did individually.

God, people talk about that. Pull up his Instagram, because I'm going to say you have more fun this year because the boy finally has a nice little check to dress himself up and shit like this. Talking about, I talk about my team. If you want to, if it was all that, you'd be wearing Titans issued gear.

And my man is out there stunting. Got an Alabama jacket on. Yeah. You know, I look at my teammate. Look at it. I text him, I was like, hey, can you wear that on the bus? I want him to wear the white suit on the bus. I said this out.

That's this drip, man. That's me on the daily. Like, you feel me? But you weren't like that at Bama? What? All right. How'd you afford that then in Bama? That's been me, you know.

Hey, how did you afford that at Bama? How did you afford that at Bama? I might not have, I might not have the money to afford, you know, what I have right now. But what I could afford, I made the best out of it, you know. I felt like I was the best dress. Go back to the last picture. I wore in college. So, I mean, I just always, how I always been.

You ask anybody. But you don't feel you enjoy, you've enjoyed one year a little more than the other. You feel like they're both the same. Here's, okay, real quick. First off, two iced out watches on both wrist. Oh, shit. And Derek hooked the boys up with Rollies. Rollies.

For the rushing title. Rollies for the whole game. No free shout-outs. Yeah. Okay, so real quick. No free shout-out. He's got the DH on his shoes too. You see it, the subtle edge on there?

Oh, I didn't even see that. Big drip. Oh, damn. So, Derek. wins the Heisman. Here's what I'm thinking. If I'm Derek, you win the highsman, you're like, man, I'm about to go to the NFL.

No question about it. That's got to be the most cool, the coolest experience ever. That's the experience I've experienced of being like, man, I'm going to live out a childhood dream of finally going to the NFL, which is unbelievable. Now, on the other hand, you win the rushing title, FedEx ground player of the year, are you to be the best back in now, which has been a childhood dream in the NFL?

In the NFL, not NCAA. NFL. So y'all, so y'all. So y'all asking me, which season? the playoff run you had too. Which, you said, ask me which season was better? Which year would you prefer as an individual person, like personally?

Just personally. Don't fucking talk about the team stuff. I want to hear something about Derek Henry. That's, it's hard. Selfishly. Just Derek Henry's fucking life answer the question. That is hard. Hey, if I go to my teammate like that,

I'm fucking, sorry, sorry. He's firing me up. I literally can't. I mean, I literally don't have no answer for you. So the boy goes to meet your real. Hey, Will. Sorry, guys. Don't come out of my boy like that now.

That's my teammate. I'm sorry. Hey, I understand. Somebody wants to try to get the, trying to bring the savage up. But I just, that savage. I'm trying to bring that picture out,

that little crouch down, like, yeah, I'm trying to bring out that double rolling on the spot, dude. So you're in a media row. Do a bunch of interviews on the, so you're pretty open about like,

I want to go back to the Titans. Very open about it, yeah. So from, from a person that's gone through contract negotiations, usually they tell you, hey, don't say that kind of stuff.

But you're, you're like, well, listen, that's what I'd like to be. But at the end of the day, it's a business, so you're willing to go somewhere else, but you want to be for the Titans. I want to stay in Tennessee. I want to stay in two-tone blue. There you go.

I saw somebody asking you, well, what about the dolphins? And you're like, well, that's not blue. That's teal. That's teal tone blue, man. That two-tone blue. I said, I kept saying two-tone blue as much as I could when I tried to bring somebody else, yeah. I did see that.

Portnoy said that he thinks he hates our uniforms. He thinks our uniforms are... He said they look like an ex-f, NFL uniform. I argued that all navies were, the all navies were dope. But I can see his point on some of the others, some of the other, um, what's your favorite combo? Yeah. What's your favorite combo?

That's hard. I like the all white. All white. All white. All blue is my favorite. All white. Dark blue or the ice blue. Oh, all navy. I like the all dark blue. All navy. I don't know. I don't know how to feel like that. You know, my, you know, my midsection gets a little. The issue with the light blue is it's not that intimidating. Right.

especially with the Navy helmet. I like the all light blue. You like that? You know what kind of crept up with me this year? Your skin tone looks nice. Oh, whoopsies. I honestly, like all of it. I mean, did it again.

Any combination is good. Dude, I like that. All white, though. The white and the blue pants. I like that. We wrote those the whole playoffs. Yeah. I like those.

Those grew on me quite a bit. So you go to Radio O. You're talking to people. And one thing that came up is you talked to my boy, Rich. There we go. Talk to Richie. Rich Eisen. Shout out to Rich Eisen.

No free shoutouts. But honestly, he's a Michigan man. So free shout out. Free shoutouts. No free shoutouts. And he's talking to you. And he uses this weirdly worded question about like the floor is Zeke or something on the lines.

And you say, yeah, yeah, that's the floor. And then people are, people are like pissed about it. Context. Zeke's contract is the floor of what Derek is going to. It's got, that's the minimum he will accept in his negotiations. And here's the deal, people. If you are in, I think the. the Tennyson, the Tennessee wrote an article about it or something like that.

If you are for Derek and your four people who have worked hard in the NFL, you want them to get every single dollar they can possibly get. No question. And there's people saying, well, you know, if he thinks he's worth this, I will be the first one to say, Derek is worth every single dollar he gets. No question about it. He makes my job a hell of a lot easier. He makes a Titans job a hell of a lot easier. The guy's a complete stunt. And I hope he's on the Titans next year.

Right there. Derek Henry qual, Derek Henry clarifies, Zique number is. the floor. Yeah, so basically I misunderstood what, what, what,

what, what, what, what, Zika is the floor as far as I was under, to my understanding that Zika is the floor

him being the highest paid. Yeah. He, he's a peak of our running backs, you know, want to be at as far as, like,

getting paid. So that was my understanding of him saying, like Zika is the floor. So I basically was agreeing to to what Richard was saying, Like Zeeke has the floor. Like he's got the dance.

So Zicke is a floor. I was saying, I was saying like, yeah, Zika is a floor. Like he got it. Like that's, yeah. That's where that's where each. Like Zika's an example. Yeah, yeah. That's where a runnerback's trying to get to, you know, where he's at.

Like I said in every other interview is I'll get my agent. He will handle all the contract negotiations. That's his job. He's been doing it for a long time. And we'll see where it goes as far as the Titans and trying to get this thing figured out. I'll tell you what, and you're a CA too, so you get the best agents around. CA. CAA crushes it, dude.

Best in the business. You got Jimmy Sexton? Jimmy Sexton. I got Tom Condom. Shout out to the, shout out to the CIA. No free shoutouts. No, but that wasn't free. They're getting us money.

They sponsored the pot? No, they don't sponsor the pot. No free shoutouts for CA. Yeah, I mean, if you're in any position, when somebody gets a new floor, you're psyched about it because they're just raising the bar for the next guy. For the next guy's in that position. That's what you want as a player. You know what I mean?

want to keep like when taylor sets the record it's like every old lineman now's like yes yeah finally somebody who accepts more gets more uh front whatever all that shit that happens you want guys to get more guaranteed more upfront money a higher ceiling all that stuff you root for that shit right and then lane johnson's now the highest paid office lineman league he's in 18 and half or 18 yeah that i mean players want to see players do well players want to see players that play well also do well amen you know what i'm saying and good fucking dudes too i would i i mean it's it's the easiest argument in the world to say that you're the best back in the league right now at this point do you know what i'm saying like as a running back carrying the football you made the

first guy miss always you hit holes hard and you stiff arm the shit out of people so it's kind of easy to say yeah this guy this guy deserves every single dollar yeah and i might get in trouble the rable when we go back to o t's just for saying all this stuff but the thing about it is it's like I mean, you're rooting for your boy. As a player, that's the fun of the game to even be considered in that conversation. Right. Amazing. That's amazing.

That's fun. I mean, that's football. That's just football talk. I remember when I was a kid arguing with my friends, oh, Adrian Peterson is the best runnerback in the league. No, Marshawn Lynch. Right. Or going to Eddie George, no, no Fred Taylor, no Ricky Williams, no, Sean Alexander, no Larry Johnson. I mean, that's what you dream of as a kid is to be in those.

being those conversations. So, you know, shout out to all the RBs. You know, they try to devalue us. Yeah, now you're in that combo. Just keep pushing,

keep running, keep grinding. And we're on our way, baby. I'll tell you what, running backs have had a little bit of the short leash, though.

Because the life expectancy of a running back isn't that long. And it was Todd Gurley who really set it up, right? Because it went from like, you guys were making like 12, 13 a year,

and I taught it at the 14 and a half. Yeah. Because we're running backs going down for a second in contracts? They were, which is weird because the money was

going up. Yeah. Okay. Because, I mean, everybody, there's a point where everybody plays their last snap. That's just how it is. But running backs, man, you guys take a lot of hits. I've heard rumors.

You and your prime, you got, I mean, I don't, the way you don't get tired. It's actually pretty crazy. Hey, like this dude drinks water before games. That's it. And we started doing IVs, though. Got the boys hooked up. Yeah. Water, IVs and bananas.

Bananas. Bananas. That's the secret. That makes you not cramp. Yeah, I just, if it's been working, I stick with it. Yeah, you got that. I don't really try to eat too much. I just eat bananas and drink water.

Before games. Before games. That's Pop Warner, dude. Unless you're a deal about, hey, that's banana. Don't catch that crampy. Yeah, exactly. Unless it's like a late game, you can't go all day without eating. So I try to eat something, but not nothing too, not nothing too heavy, too crazy.

Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I've heard a rumor before that running backs have thought about their own union. Really? Yeah. From one of my boys, I think it was Amir. It was a mirror. Shout out of mirror.

No free shoutouts. But I want to say there has been talks before about a, running back union since they have like a different style yeah you know what I mean do you know anything about that I have not heard anything about it damn man they got you in the conversation no I was not in the conversation that's crazy have you seen this stuff about Tom Brady looking at schools in Tennessee oh yeah yeah I think I seen something on Twitter about it what um what would you think if if Tom Brady came to the Titans I would think why isn't Ryan Tannenhill good enough Oh, it's a good argument.

So you're saying, well, 10-Hill is, what, 31 years old? Yeah, I think 10-Hill's 31, yeah. And Braves would be 41? I mean, he still can play. I mean, like, no question. He's a player. Age doesn't matter for, you know, him. He's still playing at a high level, so, I mean, but my question would be why Ryan good enough, you know?

Yeah. What do you think about Ryan's that with the year he had? He had a nice, I like to call like a middle finger year. In a good year, he gets traded, he gets doubted. He comes in, turns it around for Tennessee, and has the year like he does. Yeah, no, I think it's self-explanatory as far as, you know, what he did as a player and what type of player he is because when he took over, we're two and four.

And you look what we ended up at in the S.C. championship. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, I mean, the proof is right there. And speaking for everybody, you know, on the offense, I can say we kind of like, you know, kind of fed off of him by. by the way he was playing. And you can see that chemistry

starting to, you know, starting to build. You can see we were starting to, you know, we did get everything going. And it was just like, it was just funn to be a part of. Yeah. Because it was like, you know,

we went from not scoring points to, you know, scoring here and there to like, hey, like each and every drive, we just, you know, getting it done. And we even said to ourselves,

like, hey, we, we, this is this is legit. Like we got something. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, half's off to Ryan, you know. At the end of the day,

it's hard to win in the NFL for him to come in, basically with his back against the wall, coming in, taking over 2 and 14 and did the things that he did, you know, got a lot of respect for that guy as far as him as a player. And, you know,

him getting traded for Miami coming over and having to adjust to a new locker room. and just coming and bawling out no matter what. No matter what, nobody said, no matter what, nobody wrote, him being himself, you know, just believing in himself and his teammates and, you know, us just sticking together as brothers and going out there and getting the job done. The one thing I loved about Ryan was when he came in the huddle

before every series, he had rattled off the keys of the game for us. And he'd be like, make sure you guys do this, make sure you guys do that. And he'd be like in it. Timeouts, he'd be like, hey, wait, wait, look for this, do that. and it was it it would he he he does a really good job his leadership he's he does a really good job he he i mean i was really impressed by ryan because i don't really know ryan at all me either same thing with me i don't really get to like get to know him because it was like i was gone for the first four games but even in camp it's like you know you don't really think about that kind

of stuff he's like he's he's there john said it he's there to be the backup quarterback i will say the way marcus handled everything i'm i'm impressed as hell of marcus yeah and speak on that too because you know if when people listen to this the people in Nashville are going to be like okay they're saying all this stuff about Ryan that must been that must meant Marcus was the opposite no not at all not at all not not not at all you know not not at all not not at all you know Marcus is that's my brother I mean I came in the Marcus just starting quarterback you know welcome me in open arms no Marcus just a great person a great teammate you can go on and on about Marcus and how he is as a human being I mean it's he just a great dude

And I think the way he handled that situation kind of clarified that. Dude, it was insane from afar too. People were speaking about how he's a great person. And, you know, a lot of people wouldn't have in the situation very well. But Marcus, you know, he welcomed it with open arms when he didn't have to. He helped Tannen Hill when he needed help. He accepted the role, you know, he was being a great teammate about the whole situation. and, you know, that's my brother, man.

And, you know, me and Marcus, we'll be brothers, we'll be friends, we'll be friends forever. Yeah. Marcus is all time, dude. He got to have the best parents of all time, the way he grew up. Like, the kind of person he is? It's real, too. He's got to have the best parents all time. He was Mike, or it might have been Tannenhill at that game.

And he hugged him. He said, he's like, he did a great job. Like, you got this team going to the right direction. I don't think nobody can say one thing about Mark's. No. I agree. You can say bad. Not at all. About Marcus, man.

Marcus will come out and be the DD and when we go out to the bars of the boys. He'll come out, he'll drive you home. I've asked Marcus after the game, like later on that day, I was like, man, you sure you don't want to stay? I mean, that's the type of person, type of player, you know. He is, man. You just, that's somebody, you always, you always went around because you know, you know, he's a good dude. He's for the boys. He's for the boys.

He's for the boys. He'll go to bat, you know, for you. And, you know, just great player, man. Yeah. I know he'll find somewhere that. He fits in and do a great job and, you know, I wish him all the best. I think he's going to kill it. He's going to go somewhere and he's going to kill it.

It's just like I think it's something so underrated about being good teammate, like sticking up for your teammates, being there for the dudes. Yeah. During games after games, like, you'd be a good teammate. It's solid. Like after the Kansas City game, we got back and we like, we all went to losers. There was like 15, 20 of us went to losers and hung out and Marcus did not want to go. And I was like, Marcus, you're coming.

like you were going with and you know what even though he didn't want to he still came because he's a boy a boy absolute stud dude you know how to be for the boys that's how you be for the boys that's how you do it absolute stud what else we got I think that

we didn't we do questions for Derek right I think that's all we got him did you even post that he was on I yeah I told him that because they're all going to be the fucking same where's he going where's he going is he the time I didn't

sign him and then again about Tom Brady thing Tom Brady is the goat that is no question He's the best fellow player of all time. The best of all time. But then at the same time, I mean, Ryan Tannenhill is our quarterback, went to the Airs the championship. Why will we not know on Ryan back?

But this one to clear that up, Tom Brady is the goat. He said, I know I said, why not Ryan? But let me clear this up for people take it out of context. Ryan, I mean, Tom Brady is the goat. But, you know, a boy Ryan, that's my boy, man. No question. That chemistry we had as offense. A lot of fun.

Dude, it went from the lowest of lowest to the highest of highs. After that Denver game, everyone's mad at the offense. Because we didn't score one point. And then it just took off after that. We played the Chargers after. Played the Chargers, yeah. Yeah, and you guys, we talked about it already too, but that play on the goal line because they were about to score.

And somebody, I think it was West, I think knocked the ball out on the goal line. You guys ended up winning. That was wild, man. that was so cool Chargers Tampa won that one Panthers lost

that was actually a horrible game we didn't run the we ran the ball like three times we get the Panthers in the first half got away from the run and then the second half what happened

first drive turned it on they ran the ball like almost a whole drive how tired seven times you ran it every single time oh that's right

that's right we can't uh so being a running back and he was talking about you never get tired what are things that you started to incorporate off the field

to help with your durability and that, you know, running and not getting tired. Like what are some things you've done off the field? That's genetics, dude. I came to this point here. Like, you can do all the training, all the running in the world.

You are still going to get tired. So to me, it's just a mindset. If you tell yourself you're not tired, you're not going to think you're tired. You're not going to think about being fatigued. You're not going to think about, oh man I need to come out. So that's how I just approach it.

I just keep your mind, you ain't tired, let's go. Let's finish. We got to finish. So I think really being tired or, you know, being gas, it's really just a mindset. Yeah. Because mine's a powerful thing.

Right. Being a pro, have you adopted anything, like taking and putting in your toolbox as you've grown as a player? Like off-season, the end-season, anything? Really, I think just talking to guys who play the game at a high level, talk to guys who keep their body in good conditions during the season, who are in top shape, you know, coming in from the off-season, they're seeing what they do, how they take care of their body,

different ways they approach, you know, the game far as like keeping their body in shape, keeping themselves healthy, just like getting tips and things like that from them, finding a team that I can work with, so I can keep my body, keep my body in shape, keep my body. That's the word I'm looking for. Tuned up. Keep my body tuned up just so my body can withstand the whole season and stay healthy and lean to the playoffs.

So I think it's a big thing, like talking to Taylor, talking to some of the other vets, talking to other guys, you know, seeing what if you helped him with? I think the only thing I helped you with was I got you on Bobo. Oh, Bobo's a stunt. Because IVs is the safest way. But not really like, like, not really like this like helping with something. It's like, hey, what do you do to this and that?

Oh, I do cupping or I do needling, this and that. I do this every other day. Or I do this twice a week. Yeah, I mean, that's important. Like any guys who might be listening to this stuff, like, that shit's important. Like picking the brains of those guys who are, who've adopted things that they feel like help them. Bobo, I feel like is it's been a game changer. Well, the good thing about IV is it's the only, that's the only thing regulated that you can take supplement.

Why is that like if it's on the bottle, it's in the bottle. Like it's regulated by the FDA. So if you take it, you're not going to fail unless you take something that wouldn't make you fail, obviously. Yeah. As opposed to supplements. Like if you take a pill or a powder, none of that stuff is regulated. So having Bobo to do that, Bobo Ayrtay Nashville, he's done an amazing job for us. The entire Titans team, I know he helps us other guys in the NFL, but he does an awesome job of getting all of us going and recover.

Because that fluid, just fluid in general, it helps you recover. Because if you're dehydrated, you're more prone to those, you know, muscle tears. pulling hamstrings, those types of things. So I think there's something to that NAD stuff too that I just started with them. Yeah. Oh, dude, it's an absolute, I'm doing the treatment tonight. Yeah. I think that'll be something that's big, I know we're getting off topic.

I think that would be something that kind of blows up to in the feature a little bit. Yeah, we always got off topic. But yeah, I think NAD in the next 10 years, people are going to be like, this is it. This is the thing. And then there will be something that's even better than NID. It's always what's new, what's next. But yeah, NADs, it makes you feel terrible. Yeah.

Oh, my God. dude at the i don't know if i've explained it on the pod but it's like somebody's choking your your your heart dude you feel like you're just slowly dying but it's worth it because you feel so good after i'm flying tomorrow like when i flew to miami bobo was down there and i made him give me an iv right away dude i feel like that one to hurt the most because after flights you have all that inflammation yeah hell yeah yeah we hit it right off we got off the plane oh it was fucking he was brutal made the rest the day way better though yeah the bar still boys were in there shooting it like filming and stuff like that. We made,

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