Bussin' With The Boys - Paris Johnson Explains What The Draft Process Has Been Like + Lists His Top 3 Teams He Wants To Play For

Episode Date: April 5, 2023

Recorded: March 29th 2023 | In our final interview from our trip to Ohio State, we sat down with first round draft prospect Paris Johnson Jr.. He gives the boys some insight on what his draft process/workouts have been like. He talks about why he didn't run the 40 at the combine and the amount of interviews he had to do while there. Then he gets into why he chose to come to Ohio State even though he was offered by other big time schools as well. His relationship with Coach Day is something he speaks very highly of and enjoys the time he had playing for him. Finally Paris lists the teams he would like to get drafted by, 2 of which are in the top 15. Paris has been a fan of the show and fits right in with the boys. Big hugs, tiny kisses. 0:00 Interview starts 2:00 Paris is a fan 3:02 top 3 places he would wanna play and not want to play 6:14 how the draft process has been 6:44 what was something he wanted to set the record straight on abt his scouting report 8:17 how many interviews did he have at the combine 15:49 why he didn’t run the 40 at the combine and would he have been the fastest 17:37 bench press 19:44 his mentors 20:44 why did he choose Ohio State 25:47 does he Paris talk shit 27:31 who was the hardest person to block 29:03 would you have rooted for Michigan 30:52 what flipped him to OSU 31:49 why he wear 77 35:38 Paris academically 39:10 Paris jerky 43:31 does the o line have any traditions ---- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS CHEVY - EVs for everyone, everywhereFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Absolute honor. Look at this unit. But you've got to look. For those of you who are watching on Frame, the camera does add 10 pounds, it's not going to matter for you. You look good. I saw you at the combine.

He's somebody who wanted to get off the bus with. Yeah. Get that smaller, that slender, lower body that says, I'm an athlete. But he's got the, he's got the upper body

that tells you listening to him. Hang on now. I was, because I was, I was gazing at him. I was kind of look at the, the specimen. Yeah,

I was kind of like, look at that wide back. Like, he's kind of, then you're right, he's got some smaller. You don't touch him like that. That makes it a little too weird.

However, hiding under them shorts is a thunderstorm. He does have the tear drops. Bro, quads. Like, I know you're just sitting here like... We're going to keep giving you flowers. Boy, he's built now. He's built like a Chevy.

And he moves. He does move. I saw, yeah, your video was going viral. I think it was last week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The hip movement is pretty incredible. Jump in the air. Did you see that?

No. You can run. You see that? You see that? You can see the air? You can see you guys know? He could run the middle of the field in Tampa, better than me. I was watching his hips. I'm like, oh, this boy can move. Yeah, I can absolutely move.

Welcome to the show. Happy to have you here, man. It's great to be here for real. For real? Yeah, no, seriously. I mean, I've been watching a show a lot, you know, so. Oh, you, tier two, tier three, tier one? Oh, he don't watch a show like that. No. He don't watch a show like that, yeah. So I watched the, um, the last one I watched was with you with, um, coach, um, Ziegler. Oh, yeah, the GM. He had the GM from the Raiders. He was I'm a high school counselor. Episode was crazy.

I was playing 2K and I was listening to it. I was the whole time. I was like, damn. Have you talked to the Raiders? I have. Yeah. He talked to everybody.

I mean, who has? Yeah, he's, he's him. He is coaches, or not coach Jake. I mean,

it's GM. Yeah. And you were just doing a workout with, with, are we allowed to say that? Are we, yeah, who you say that?

His agent's on the phone. This is a good. His agent's on the phone. Listen, he's a good time for us to get a work out of the team. We're not going to say who the team is, but we'll say the head coach. And he's an incredible guy. And so he was singing your praises a little bit with how you move and stuff like that

and where he could put you in all these different things. I'm not going to go into that because that was inside ball. Now that your agents on the phone, top three places you'd want to play. I think, I mean, well, for me personally, I feel like the first thing I look at is like taxes, the taxes. Yeah. So it's like state taxes. Oh, it's already heading.

So, I mean, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Nevada. I mean, if I was Titan, I felt that be cool, there's no state taxes there. Yeah. Warm from Cincinnati. So I feel for me the weather is important, too. Miami. Miami would be cool, but they only need a tackle. Yeah.

But, I mean, if they needed a tackle, you are available. Available. What about guard? Would you play guard? I would. I would. Yeah? Left or right, it doesn't matter.

It does. I think, especially in a guard world, you're at a three-point stance. Yeah. You can be either one. I saw you coming out of that three-point stance, too. You look solid. Appreciate it. You can move.

Appreciate it. So Tennessee is on the table for you. Yeah. Really, at the end of the day, you don't have a choice. You could say you hate all the 32 teams and one of them still going to pick you. Right, yeah. We didn't even allow them to say is three. Oh, yeah.

Well, I heard Tennessee. I would say, like, realistically, who, like, who needs a tackle. I would say Chicago. I would also say the Falcons being Atlanta, too. Yeah. Atlanta. Be huge. Chicago, Atlanta?

Yeah. Those would be the three right there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who's often? Who do we not want? Not one.

Yeah. Where do we not want to go? Buffalo. Don't need to tackle. It's New York. No, no, just personal preference. Personal preference. L.A.

Niners, man. 49ers. I'm thinking about the city tax for San Francisco, then estate tax, then how much it costs to live out there, you know. By the time it's all sudden, then you're paying to be on that.

the team. Yeah. You know what I mean? And they have the greatest left tackle in the history of you. And they already got it, you know, they already got that guy. Yeah. I mean, you know. Buffalo as well, freezing.

State tax, New York. State tax, but you like live in Ohio pretty much. You know, I've been up to Buffalo. It looks like Cincinnati, but with snow everywhere. Yeah. So, you know, but you're paying to live in New York. Being a cat from Cincinnati, when you see them sign Orlando Brown, was there a piece of you that was like, damn.

I wasn't always the biggest. But Bengals fan growing up, so I've never really had a lot to root for when you were growing up until like the last four or five years. What's that? Not a whole lot to root for. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's one of those things like when you're a kid, you don't really come out saying you're a Bengals fan because then, you know, it's kind of, you know, kind of ashamed. You know what I mean? Because there wasn't a whole lot going on.

Not anymore. That's fair, but not anymore. But, you know what I mean? But it's changed. It's changed completely. But I think because that as a kid, I can't say as a kid, I watched the Bengals like I wanted to play for the Bengals. Like when I was a kid. I used to play on a little league team called Outlaws.

We wore the Silver and Black. As a kid, I'm like, I want to play for the Raiders. They were the Silver and Black. They were trying to dress like us. Yeah. It's naturally I don't play. You know, keep wearing the colors. Yeah.

I was say as a kid, I watched them more than I watched the Bengals. You're a Raiders fan growing up. A little bit. Yeah, yeah. The Raiders have the coolest uniforms in the NFL, and it's not even an argument. Yeah. By far.

How's the draft process been treating you? It's been cool. It's been cool. I mean, it's been long, but I can't say it's been tiring only because, like, I don't know, I feel like your whole life, this is what you want. And then I feel like you get here for three years and then you work. And it's like, yo, like, this is what I've been working for. It's cool to be able to have moments like this, but be able to talk to talk to head coaches

and be able to dab them up and be able to talk to tell them what I'm about, what type of stuff I want to do and how I can contribute. So, I mean, it's been awesome. What is, what's something that you feel like you were excited? to either whether it's address or hit head on that you know could be like on your scouting report that could be a blemish of you. I think being able to talk about, I think in the run game and the past game, I think the thing that I've been talking with a lot of teams about with something that I've been

trying to work on a lot this past off season. But going to the draft is my hand, my hand usage. Whether that's the timing, where that's the placement, I would say one thing I'm good at is being able to work the refit, but how, but, you know, the consistency of being able to have my hands in the right spot from the jump. I'm not having to be an athlete in a refit and fight and finish, but have it in there from the beginning.

I think being able to talk about that and being able to do that is going to be huge for me. Yeah. With the hand thing, we have a little inside ball real quick. When it comes to pass pro, punch earlier than you think you should. That's always going to help you on that. And then the run game, try to punch. like where your mouth is going to be. It's naturally going to go lower because you're not going to want to hit your fingers

and your face mask. You're going to be right in that perfect spot. Like little cues you can tell yourself in that. Just something you can take with you, do it if you want. But I heard the hand thing. I'm changing the pocket. I see you give him some games. Sometimes there's a little game out there.

And I feel like this is an opportunity for me to give it. The train station at the combine. Like preparing for that. Obviously, everyone sees you running around doing the drills. You didn't do the 40 at the combine. But going to those meetings and those interviews. How many of those official interviews did you have? I had 20.

Yeah. That's a lot. That's schedule. That is a lot to deal. Because you're not, you were a, you were a Richard junior, correct?

No. You're a senior? No, I'm a junior. You're a junior. So there was no, there was no senior bowl and nothing. Usually it's when a lot of guys get that out of the way.

Yeah. So when you're going to that process, how, what are we talking about, train station? Train station is, uh, at the combine,

there's, there's two separate, like, interview processes. There's like official interviews, which is like the team. And it's all used to be in like those conductor hotels. I don't know if it's the same anymore.

So now it's inside the stadium. So now it's in the suites. So you're running from suite to suite. Sometimes you have a guide. Sometimes you're on your own. So you're spraying down the hallway. Yeah. And they'd have this big room and you literally like checking like,

I was O-line 23. I would put my O-line 23 and I'd turn around. They'd be like a bunch of coaches waiting for me. Those are like informal interviews. And then there's official interviews where you would go to now the suites. But it used to be in these like this hotel that would have literally train trucks, train cars. And like you would go from one to the next, like meeting with official teams.

That's where like the GM would be the head coach you'd be. And you said you had 20 of those. Yeah. What, um, when you're working through that process, like, how much did you focus on how to answer questions and how to like explain like, like when you sit down with the coaches, they're going to ask you off the wall stuff and playbook stuff? Like how much did you study before that compared to getting ready for like,

the drills. Yeah, so I would say it was like honestly, I would say the time I spent trying to prepare for those interviews would be about the same that I spent on the field. So each day I call my GA, Mike Seleney, I called him. And each day I did the boardwork with him. We watched film every day. I got my answers on, okay, I did this wrong, but what's the reason? What would I've done better? this play had success, but let's talk about my second step here. How could this block have been different? I'm talking with, so each day I'm doing the boardwork of him on FaceTime. I'm holding my phone up in one hand, drawing plays the other hand,

trying to master our offense. I'm trying to master offense. I'm trying to learn to read the defense is at a different level than if I'm here every day, also taking classes, also in the wait room here, doing stuff. I had more time to be on face with him. And he's, you know, he's a GA here, so he still has classes. So, I mean, I'm thanking him every day because he took time of his day to help me out, which is huge. Yeah, that's awesome.

You know, it's huge, you know. There anything you learned in the process about yourself that you didn't already know? Just being on the border hearing any feedback or anything else, whether it's strengths or whether it's weaknesses. I think, I feel like for me just noticing the patterns in my game and I would say things that I need to continue to work on is that like, but one thing for me that I'm going to work on and you could tell me if you ever experienced this is that, Sometimes when I get to my spot, I feel like I'm fast out of my stance. A lot of times I beat people to my spot. And then so you have a lot of time there.

And then by the time that they come to the juncture boys to make contact, sometimes when I make contact and I bring my right hand across, it opens up my left hip. So it creates a shorter edge. But, I mean, I use my athletics and to beat them around the pocket. But in the league, how many times his athletic has been going to be there for you? so I feel like I want to get rid of that, so I'm not having to rely on that.

You know what I mean? And I put myself in that situation because the defense law is not doing that, me with how I'm using my hands or the discipline of my outside hip, keep it close, so I can stay square for one more. I don't know. You know, if you had,

I was going to college for you or something you worked on with that. Yeah, punching across, like, I was very similar in the, I was very quick out of my stance. I was very big on cadence and getting out. Yeah. So a lot of times I would beat them to the junction point as well. for me it was how do I get to a point where I know I'm beating them to where because I would always cut the guy off in half like I would look at it and then I would cut off the inside half so I'd almost always focus on that armpit then what I would do is I'd try to punch the armpit and like the outside shoulder because if you miss and if you're punching early enough that's when you can use that hip to keep it open and go for me it was always the inside move because I knew no matter what I'm going to be able to run this guy around the edge that's not going to ever be a problem for me the issue was opening those hips

Now it's hard to get that hip, that right hip back turned around and wash them down deep enough. Because when you get at that point, you're hitting that four or five yards. Now you're in the quarterback's area. Right. If he makes an inside move. So as far as the hip goes, when you get to the juncture point, instead of thinking I've taken more kicks, think of I've just just patter my feet where I'm at. And I saw you doing a good job at that when you're doing your workout with the head coach, Arthur Smith,

not going to say the team. You would get out of your set. You would take two, three sets, and you would pat to your feet. Whenever I would beat somebody, I would do that same thing. I would try to pattern my feet as much as possible. That way, if they made a move, I wasn't stuck in the mud with one foot or the other. And then from there, it's just tuning up your punch. That's where that first thing I told you is punching early.

If you punch early, because you're a long dude, that gives you all that time to recover from whatever move they've made. There's different things you can do. You can flash, you can jump. But also knowing who you're playing as well. Are you playing a big burly dude? like you don't need to get out of your stance at all. You have the snap count, you have all this. You have the speed guys, I like to have a little space.

Like, let's take away their fastball and we'll move on from there. Like make them bull you type of thing. But that'll be it easy. If you go to a place like the Titans, Mike Sullivan, he was, I was with him my rookie year. And I had a whole bunch of little like quirks that I would do that I was not great at. He really worked that rust off of you. He'll do stuff with you in the beginning of practice after practice. And it's just incremental differences that he can help with.

but that is brother you're going to be you're going to be just fine your athletic ability alone like when I was looking when I came and did the combine with Joe and them and I'm looking at the players

I started watching film it seemed to me like I'm not I would not sit here and say you're the most complete offensive linemen in this draft because I think that guy from Northwestern he seems from a technical standpoint

a little farther along but I don't think that's necessarily a better thing for him I think his ceiling is a little bit is lower you have the potential with your athletic ability you could be that guy that's a perennial proble guy with you just the way your feet moving stuff

like that but you need a coach in there to develop you the right way right you know what I'm saying I think yeah you're gonna be you're gonna be all right I think another thing he has to you just sitting here with him and talk to him and just the engagement he seems very intentional with the way he thinks yeah you know what I mean like he's very you're aware you're conscious like even the tax thing is small but like you're just thinking of things already where you're you're like wise beyond your years what are you 21st you're 21st. Which is insane. Yeah.

I mean, that's insane. I think you have a really good head on your shoulders, so I think you have that going for you too. Appreciate it, man. Yeah. Intentional is the key. Yeah. Don't, don't you feel like,

to answer a question, his eyes get big. You just kind of feel like, okay, he's very serious about, it feels like everything. Especially if you watch our show, like we're a high-paced show. Yeah.

I think a lot of times if a guest does watch, they want to keep up with the high pace, but you take the time to kind of look away, gather your thoughts, and speak. And that's a good quality to have that. I definitely don't possess. Yeah. So that's awesome.

I'm saying, yeah, I'm literally just engaged in the conversation. Yeah, you don't. You're a piece of shit. Yeah. When at the Combine, the reason why, because you're an athletic dude, what was the reason why you didn't run the 40? Yeah, so for me, I feel like I kind of wanted to let my tape

just kind of do the talking for me because I feel like I won't. I mean, I did that be out of the drills. But at the same time, I feel like for me, I feel like people know the speed that I play. I feel like I've taped from when I'm at guard, when I'm at tackle, when I'm pulling, I'm in space. I'm on safeties and corners.

I haven't been beat by a safety corner. You know, I'm able to get to them in space. So I think just being able to show my speed at the second and third level, it's shown on film, I mean, the change of direction that I have.

So I felt like for me, I mean, I trained for it the whole time when I was down to Pensacola and it was one of those things where, you know, right before the combine, I was there like,

man, like, I was one of these drills. Because I feel like for O-line, it's really more of a, I mean, And I feel, it's the same for all positions in a way, but I think for O-line is like the drafts, and an O-line guy to do O-line functional movement

compared to, you know, shorts, touch-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-cone, touch-h-h-h-cone. You know what I mean? I'm doing all that. The quarterback messed up somehow. You know what I mean? If I'm really good at doing that all the time. Yeah.

Yeah. But you have that athletic ability, and I saw the numbers. Like, the numbers weren't astounding by any means that the guys that did run the 40. Do you think you would have ran the fastest 40 there? I think I would have ran, The first or second in the 40

What was the fastest? Like a 4-9-8? I think the fastest one was from Blake Freeland. You know. I think he ran up for below 4-9. Yeah.

It was pretty impressive. It was cool. Yeah. 4-9 is very fast. But I saw a lot of those guys. A lot of dudes were 5-1. And then I was looking at you. I was like, man, this dude's about to run a 4-8-something.

He's got the build. He had the quads. Yeah. It was, did you bench? I bench 29. 29. They minus or plus you at all? Or minus you at all? No. No. Yeah. You kept it on there the whole time. I kept it on. I kept it. When I was doing it, I thought, I mean, when I was done, I got up, I was so mad. I was screaming. I was like, God. And I thought I was like 21 or something. Oh, man. Failed. Yeah. You thought it was 21, but I was a 21. I wasn't counting at all. I was just banging it out. Obviously, not. You missed eight reps in your head. I'm just banging it out. Yeah, I was just begging it out. And I got up, I'm mad at dinner, like, 29.

I immediately, I looked up at, I looked up, you know, and I was like, that's all got. Yeah. And training, I got, like, maybe the most, like, 27. And I told every coach that I'm getting 20, I'm getting 27 and 30. I said it the whole week. So when I'm in the night before, I'm like, yo, I have to get, I got to get at least 27. Yeah. I told every coach.

So I got 29. I called my strength coach. He's my first call. And then called my mom, and I thank God. I was like, awesome, so. Was that the thing you were most stressed out about at the combine? Um. Bench breasts.

I would love that. Uh, a little bit because- Rets on the bench. It was the most stressful thing, dude. Well, it is, but I feel like it's stressful because you just want to crush it, dude. You know what I mean? Like, more of the ego thought than actually this matters.

Like, you know, I would think like the interviews or probably the 40, something physically. The 40 to me was the most stressful thing. Yeah, like you're asking. I want to run the fastest time. Yeah. Yeah. That was... Did you run the fastest time?

Yes. You got the record, right? No, no, the record's like a 4, 6, 7. Yeah, it was on Tehran Armstead, isn't it? Yeah, but he was like, he ran it at 280 pounds. Oh, really? Yes. I was going to say he...

Massive blemish. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Still a stud, like, don't get me wrong. But even your boy Trent Williams, he ran like a 4-8-3 or something like that. Trent did? Yes. Gabagoo. But he is a monster, hey.

He is a monster, dude. Yeah, he's a freak. Yeah, he's a freak. One of the best to ever do it at that. outside of like being a physical specimen like let's talk mental side like who are some mentors that you lean on in your life or what are some things that you look to whether it's things that you listen to things that you read like what helps you develop kind of this yeah so i mean i would say like in my life in my circle i would say my mom is huge for me um she mean when i was a kid it was just

me and my mom my sister so i was safe for her i saw her she sacrificed a whole lot so for me i'm saw the toughness from the jump because me and my sister she played no games at all so certain things I feel like I come to her with a lot on the football side of things more like uh uh willie Anderson which you met him at the combine um I don't know if you guys have met before in the past but like um I talk what he's been training me since I was a sophomore in high school so with stuff like that I come to him with a lot of my my football stuff and stuff like that they help keep your head on straight Yeah. Because you are young, like 21, like,

more power to you getting in the league at 21. You're going to see a few contracts. Yeah, good for you. When you're looking at a place like Ohio State, was that growing up was like, I want to go to Ohio State no matter what? Or was there other schools that you're involved with? Yeah, so as a kid.

Yeah, so as a kid, yeah, I mean, yeah, so as a kid, so my mom, my dad, they both went to Miami, Ohio. So as a kid, the dream school was, play there. Miami of Ohio. Miami of Ohio. I was the dream school. That was a dream school.

They just played in the Arizona Bowl against, and the Barstall Arizona Bowl. The Red Hawks, the Red Hawks. Did they? Did they? The Red Hawks? Yeah, the Red Hawks. Ohio University, yeah.

Sorry. Yeah. I was Wyoming. I never said I was good at this. Yeah, so, yeah, so when I was a kid, I felt like for me, like, that was a dream, play where my dad was,

my cousin played there. He was the main where I received was, for Ben Robisberger. When he is in Miami, I've been running around here, so I was two years old. So I felt like it was only right that I could continue there. But my mom, she told me I couldn't even if I got the offer. I actually got an offer from Ohio State and a team up north before I got there. Took him a long time to come around.

You got to say the name. But my mom, my mom's side of the family. She's from Detroit. So for me, I grew up watching the Wolverines. I grew up watching Michigan State. So once she told me I couldn't play in a Mac. she, you know, I started to look at, you couldn't play in the Mac. Couldn't play in the Mac.

They weren't good enough. Yeah, that's what she told me. That's hilarious, bro. What a mom? You can't play in the Mac anymore. If you would have gone to Miami of Ohio. He'd still be probably. Yeah.

Oh, no question. I'm just saying, like, it'd have been, they'd have been like, thank you so much. Yeah. Whatever made you want to come here. They were named after him. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, it was cool.

It was cool. I mean, like, as a kid, like, what Ohio's They, since they're from there, for me, like, if we watched the game, it was to watch the other side, you know, so when I came, so I eventually came here kind of crazy because, like, as a kid, when I watched the game, I was watching Wolverines, you know? So now, you know, just being here, honestly came here because, you know, I came here for the family and the brotherhood and the guys that came before

showed the way, but really getting recruited from Coach Meyer and his philosophy and his history of just winning. And then with Coach Day and the family vibe he brought and the winning culture, I feel like he had. I feel like, you know, I feel like that's what ultimate it brought me here. Talk more about the family vibe that Coach Day brings. Yeah. I mean, I would say, like, he's a true player's coach.

I would say, you know, he's type of coach where when you come around, it's not like, you're like, you know, where you change up. Yeah. You know what I mean. So he comes in a room and, you're, you know, you're excited to see him come in a room. I would just say the. way the way he coaches and the way like he inspires and the way he's one he's one of his coach. I said there's two, there's a coach where you play, and you guys know, like, where you play

good for a coach who you might, you might fear, like you're not trying to get yelled at, trying to have to make a mistake. But you play at a different level when I think there's a coach where like you're trying to impress that coach. You're trying to, you know, you like love that coach in a way where like you play in a whole different way without any fear, without any worry about anything. You just want to win for him. You just want to win for him because you appreciate him that much versus, like,

I don't want him to say anything. So I'm just kind of like, if you understand, it's like, I hope, you know, I do the right thing. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Like Vrabel, yeah. With your process coming out as a junior, what do you say? I said, yeah, like Vrabble, yeah. Talking about the coach that you kind of, you're kind of like, I don't want to fuck up.

Oh, yeah, Vrabble put you on blast. Brable put you on blast. Yeah, Brayble put you on blast. Hey, we're paying you how much money? Paris. What is this? and it was for the whole entire team. One of the,

one of the... Someone drafted cat, like putting a spin move on you and you're just like, oh my God, I'm gonna get cut tomorrow. Did you get interviewed by Vrabble? I did.

How was the interview? It was cool. I mean, it was cool. I was trying to be boys ago. Did you get a big dog you? I mean, no, no, but I mean... Take your truth.

I mean, as soon as I came in, I came in, I had a whole bunch of stuff, man. I like two backpacks. I got the combine water bottle is huge. He asked me if I'm going camping. And I'm like, no,

I was like, No, no, no. Don't laugh that hard. You know, Brable's laugh. I know, but I'm more so laughing because you know Ray would say some shit like that. What are you? He'd say like this, like, what are you going camping?

Yeah, exactly. And then it was so funny. I mean, he said a couple of things that were so funny. And I would laugh and then like, I would laugh and the whole room of laugh. And I peek in a corner. He has the most serious face. He just said the funniest thing in the world.

But like, he has some most serious face. I thought I was a test. I'm laughing. And I'm like, and then I lock in too. He's locked and I'm locked in. Yeah. But dude, he sees. I mean, he was a cool guy.

He's a boy. I guess so his humor was, like, kind of a serious, serious kind of humor. He's in his asshole humor. It's funny. He's a big dog, it's an alpha humor. Yeah, yeah. But you don't seem like a chirpy guy, like a guy that's going to talk back or anything like that. Are you a chirpy guy?

You chirp? But when I'm on the field, a little bit, I mean, I would say, I mean, when I'm on the field, I kind of, I don't talk until we score. Because besides that, I'm getting the play call, and I'm trying to breathe. But you can talk to as much you want, I'm just said to look at you breathing. You know what I mean? And I'm like, that's such an old line response. I get the play card.

I talk to my guard. So, you know what I mean? Once we score, then on field goal, I'm talking crazy on field goal. I talk crazy on a field goal. So I'm talking crazy. You know, so I'm talking crazy. And then I'm usually when it comes back to bite me because I've done all that talking on touchdown.

Then they load up right on me. They don't even care about the kick. You know. Try to dummy you. Yeah, to get on that wing, dude. The wing's where you want to be on field goal. I was right in the middle, man. No, bro.

I was right in the middle. You know, they're right. You're going to put him like, you know. Yeah. The worst place to be is the tight end position on field goal. I heard that, but honestly seems easy. You're going against like a DB. You want us to cut that.

You definitely want us to cut that because they will put you at the time of position. Brother, you have one on the right, one the left, and one right in the face. That's where they try to come at you in the NFL. And the best is being the wing and you kind of just watch him get demolished. Then some little corners are going to be like, all right, that fucking sucks. I was in the, this is not about me. This show is not about me. But brother, I got demolished playing tied in my rookie year.

I hated it. Clay Matthews. That's all I'm going to say. A bit of a deal. You have anything else for the boy? I don't think so, man. This has been awesome. Yeah.

You seem like a very humble individual. Two things from JP. Did not allow a sack on 449 pass blocking snaps? Didn't allow a sack. Who was the hardest to block? I would say probably JT from here. from Ohio State. He was my roommate this past year.

Dude is a beast. He's a freak. He's like 6-5-270. He's versatile. Feed and power. Yeah. I would say with him, I would say he kind of prepared me a lot

this past season from all. He was the guy, I don't know if you saw the Penn State game. Ohio State Penn State game. He had like 56 touchdowns. He didn't. He was going stupid. He's a,

like, Polynesia or something like that? Yeah. Yeah, did he went off. He went off. Interception. You get a sack force football recovery. Two touchdowns. Went crazy.

Went crazy in that game. Outside of your own teammates. Outside of your own teammates, I would say Carter from Georgia. He was a beast? I would say, yeah, it was good. It was good. I was like, who first played a game, it wasn't a first play. I think it was a third play of the game.

It was a TE. And I, I bim the DN inside and the Carter comes around. I don't really like to do a little hunt move. So I slammed down on him. He took his inside. hand and hit nothing but chin strap. I was like, yo, SEC is different. We can't, we got to cut that part.

Yeah, yeah. Big Ten, Big Ten is, Big Ten is football, brother. Right. We are a Big Ten. We are a pro-Beg10. He said, man, SEC is different. Like, no, no, this is what we got to be. I was like, yeah, different.

We've asked this question to your head coach and your O.C. Yeah. If you guys didn't make the college football playoff, would you guys have been rooting for Michigan to win that? No, no. What do you mean? No, no, no. Let's not be selfish now.

Because you have to think about it. Let me just put this in your head for a second because I already had to do this two times. I'll do it one more time and that's all I'm going to do it. The Big Ten is the second best conference in college football right now because the National Championship Trophy just lives in the SEC. Right, resides in the SEC. We need to band together as a conference and root for whoever's in the college world playoffs.

Yeah. You obviously watch Game of Thrones. I watched it. So what did Game of Thrones do? The Seven Kingdoms, when they're all battling, they put down the rival. because they had to defeat the White Walkers first. So they kind of made peace for a minute. But hey, once the White Walkers are done, we're all back in.

We're all back on our shit. The White Walker right now is the SEC. Once we defeat the SEC and bring that trophy back to the Big Ten, then we can get back to hating each other. Would that not make sense in a situation like this? Yeah, but you remember, but what's the like one lady? The lady who all her daughters died. No, all our kids died.

Remember what I'm talking about? Oh, um, uh... What's her name? Yeah, seriously. Remember, she wasn't going for that. She wasn't trying to back down. She took her so long, though. You know what I mean?

She really wasn't trying to get on board. We're not going to talk about what happened to her necessarily. We're not going to talk. But at the same time, though, like, that's kind of like us with. Not the ones who put the short down. Really? Yeah. But here's the thing, if Nebraska is in the playoffs, man, let's go.

Do your thing. But we can't do it with the Wolverines, though. You know what I mean? Like, like, you can't. Like, you can't. Like, it's just, you can't. I knew how fucked it this motherfucker, did. They did.

You didn't go to Michigan? No, I mean, I, I love Coach Hard. It was cool. I was kind of my school. Yeah, what flipped you to Ohio State if you grew up kind of watching the Wolverines? Yeah. I think just, I'm of Coach Meyer. I mean, I just, I mean.

Mom? Was it the denim? I mean, no, my mom, she loves Coach Hardball. I mean, she talks a long time. I mean, he was cool. I mean, he had him. I know. But, I mean, I don't know.

No. Nebraska have a shot? Nebraska, no. You refer them now, though. I would if they went to the playoffs over, if they over Wolverines. They gave you a fight of your life. They're also afraid to say Michigan. The game was crazy. That game was crazy.

Well, yeah, we won with all the field goals. Yeah. That game, they're the best a three and nine team to ever exist that year. Without a, like that, that's like a thing because they lost by like a combined, like, they lost by like maybe an average of like three, three, four points every year. Every game. Every game. Four points away from being in the playoffs.

He watches enough. He says that the best three in our team. What, every exist? What number do you want to wear in the NFL? 77. Let's go. Just ask questions we...

The reason why we're at number 77. So, originally, so, like, as soon as I got the high school and I switched to tackle, my head coach at the time, he just gave it to me. He was like the last guy to where was a dog, so I'm going to give it to you.

At the time, I was only, special team. So I was like, I was a field goal specialist. So I called myself. I went out there when he scored. So I was a field goal specialist.

The boy tried on the field. Here we go, boys. My time to shine. So that's what I did as a sophomore until eventually somebody got hurt. And then that's when I just took over from there and ended the season.

But that's kind of why I wear it. But now, like, some of those things, like when I came to Ohio State, like I talked to Coach Day. And I'm like, yo, like, I talked to, because in the end, it came down here at LSU.

And I was like, Coach Day, I talked. Because someone coach Miles said when I come here, I want to have that number because somebody already had it. And I was like, I want to have that number. And he was like, we'll get it done. And I talked to, and then when he left, Coach Day came, I was like, you know, don't worry about the number is just a number. You'll come here. And I'm like, I talked to Coach O, LSU.

He said he was going to, the dude is going to leave. So I'm going to get the number. I was like, I need 77 to come to Ohio State. Then they moved. People started changing numbers and I came out. Like, for me, it was that important. I just looks clean, man. It just looks clean, you know?

But I was talking about it. Like, you know, if I don't get it in NFL, like, what would I do? I mean, I mean, I still ball out. I mean, I wouldn't know what number. Like, like, 73. You pay another player. If a guy who's wearing 70-70, say, hey, what's going to cost to get that number off? What's it like a realistic price, though?

$10,000. $10,000. Okay, because I was talking on my teammate. But they'll make him pay the number, $77,000. It could be 77,000 But I know guys getting numbers for like 10,000, 15,000 Me? True.

I would pay my whole entire salary to be number 77. I'm not ever going to wear a different number one. 51 is a left tackle. One is not it. One is a left tackle. Straight bull rush is straight. 71. Built for that bull rush, though.

Come on now. 71, 77. Those are really the only two numbers, I think, that are sweet. I think 71 goes hard. That's a cool number, but it's not 77. Bro, got to respect the sevens. I talked my teammate there with the Raiders. And I'm like, if I go to Raiders, I was like, you know, he's my cousin too.

So I was like, hey, like, if I gave you $10,000 for it, maybe $20,000 for it. If I came, like, did you give it to me? It's like, I'll sell it to you for $45,000. You got to give him that money. I was like, you're wilding. 45,000. I think Tom Brady paid like 30. Yeah, but I got to pay.

What are you going? Tom Brady was like, hey, I want your number. I'd be like, hey, I'll be like, hey, I'll be like, will you sign a jersey for me? I'd be like, yes. And I'd be like, you can have my number and my cleats. Yeah. Like it's Tom Brady. Yeah.

You know? You have my number, you know, whatever you want, brother. But like, yeah, listen, don't think of it like this. They don't think of it as, hey, this is $45,000. Think of it was like, this is the legacy you want to have with that number. And now it's an infinite amount. Or if you're going to pay money for a number, then maybe let's not talk about state taxes. You're paying for one or the other.

You know what I'm saying? It's a write off. Charitable contribution. Right off. Right. Man. Right. What was it?

Capstone? Hey, three years journalism? Yeah. I was scared to ask if I thought it was going to be like general studies, like him. Talk to us about your education. Yeah, repeat. Hold on. I got this in three years.

So, really. We got our guy, and he's just raving about Paris just being a stud in the classroom. Three-year graduate journalism school. What did he say about the cap thing? He did a capstone report that he did during season that they couldn't believe that he did. So two questions. How was like, how hard was it to get your degree in those three years?

Then who did that project for you during the season? So, um, so, so one, I would say, um, that's part of the reason why I left high school. I mean, I switched high schools. I went for private to public, my senior year, so I could early enroll because I wanted to get in three years. I haven't seen anybody in Ohio State go in the first round. get their degree in three years, one or the other. I was like, I had to challenge myself.

I'm like, why not do both? My mom, her background is education. So, like, she worked at Miami, Ohio. She was like the, she was like the, what's it called? You don't know her name with Dina, but she was like the academic advisor. Oh, so she definitely didn't play. She didn't play at all. Oh, yeah.

Shout out your mom, man. Yeah, that's awesome. She was on it. So she was there for Ben Rolfesburg and for Sean. I'm McVeigh, making sure he went to class. So it was my turn. She was on me. So the first day, so the first day, before I campus when I was doing classes,

I'm like on two, I'm like, I'm playing video games on 2K. He's okay, you should help me sign up for these classes. I'm like, no, you got it. That's your background. You got it. You pick. I'll go. I'm signing for 18 credit hours at the gate.

I'm taking classes with juniors, seniors. You know, I'm walking up to the teacher to ask questions. I didn't know. To use the bathroom, I didn't know any back. You know what I mean? So she set me up for a hard semester. But in a way, it kind of helped me out. I took all the hard classes at the gate to where the rest got easy.

And with the Capstone Project, it's only like one paper for the whole semester, but that's your whole grade. And it's me. And so it was me and a classmate, and he's a cool guy. And he's a volleyball team. So we worked on it together. But obviously in season, I had different responsibilities that he, didn't. It's also, it's because, honestly, he was a good partner, who, you know, I mean,

because, you know, he was out of season. I'm in season. So there's certain things, I would take care of all the work with that class Monday, Tuesday. I, I would take as much on, well, from Sunday to Monday, Tuesday, a little bit of Wednesday, because on Thursday and on, probably it can exist for me. You know what I mean? So I tried to take care of as much as I can, and he helped be their own draft. Awesome. I mean, no. He said, no.

But that's my guy, though. Yeah, that's my guy. He's got some, uh, Quentin Nelson vibes to him. Yeah, he does. He kind of does, huh? Calm, but confident. Yeah. And kind of a sweet, hard voice.

Not in a bad way. No, it's not a negative at all. Clint Nelson, you know, Quentin. He's a dude, yeah. He's called, Superguard. Yeah. I think he's just called Superguard General. I think that's his just, he's a dude.

Yeah. He's a dude. There's no question about it. Brother, did we have anything else? I was going to say, Are you going to the draft? I am. Yeah.

Yeah, I am. That's in Kansas City this year, right? Kansas City. That's going to be awesome. It's a barbecue. And, uh, Oklahoma Joe's,

Oklahoma Joe's. Yeah, I got the, oh, yeah, you got a, you got a little beef jerky out. What we got here? Yeah.

You're looking the boys up? Yeah. Paris cut. I got some Paris cuts. Hey, pretty good. I'm not going to ride. A,

what's the company here? Charcoo. You charkey. Charquee. Yep. Charchy jerky. Charquy, jerky, company. Taylor, you know what we have to do.

Is that rate it? 14 grand. What's the review? Live review. Extremely tender. You're a little nervous right now? I'm not nervous, man. How did you? Now, did you? No.

Paris? Paris is cut. He's an awes in it right now, man. What do you think? Love the smell coming out of the gate. Wheaton Smokey, you can smell that. I love the moisture in a jerky because you can go to the gas station. and you find dry jerky like that.

It is hard to find good jerky. It's hard. Right when I touch, I had to kind of lick my fingertips just because it's got that moisture on there, which is a good thing. It's a little juicy. Sweet and smoky, I think the sweetness could come out a little bit more, but the smokiness is there.

Now, I taste that paprika. It's got a little garlic flavor as well. It kind of brings it out. A good chew, I would like a little bit more, a little bit more chewiness to it. However, I think the ratio of the combination of it complements each other very well. Overall, I think I see myself 4.5.

4.5? Yeah. 4.5. I like that answer. Yeah. I think it's strong. Okay. My turn? I felt good giving that. Yeah, that was good. Paris cut.

I agree with William when it comes to the sweet and smoky. I think the smoky, you get that aroma right off the top. As soon as you open up the bag, you know, hey, I'm in for a little bit of a smoky experience here. Yes. You reach your hand on down in there and you can feel the texture. You can feel the moisture in the bag, which a lot of people like that real chewy, tough jerky. Me personally, I'm not. sensitive teeth. I like to make sure that I get some chew in there.

I liked the smoky part or would like to have a little more sweet, not because I enjoy sweet jerky, but because if it says it on the bag, I'm expecting a little more sweetness. I did enjoy the subtle hints of heat that came through as I chewed more into the jerky. And I did like a garl, I'm a baked garlic guy. I enjoyed that a lot. I also noticed that you're partnered with a second and seven, which is part of a Mike Raples Foundation. I don't know if you know that. Yeah. So great foundation. obviously going to a good cause, a phenomenal picture of you right here.

You look sharp in that outstanding. I guess if I had to give it a rating. You got to put a number on it. Yeah, I know. And it's tough because it's good jerky. And I was pleasantly surprised by the heat I got towards the middle of that bite. I'm going to give it a,

I'm going to give it a 4.5. Yeah, solid. We'll take it. What did you think of that whole description? I mean, I thought that was, deep. I mean, I thought that was pretty deep. I thought the way you analyze the sweet and the smokiness and even touch and the chewiness, I thought. Did you almost retaste it? Yeah, I could almost. I was starting to think about like the little heat and a little garlic. I'm like, I didn't,

I didn't even really even sense the now. You say I can taste the garlic a little bit now in my mind. Yeah. Almost. You know what I mean? You're going to taste all of that. The cerebellum back there, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Coming back to me. Are you, uh, oh, go ahead. Are you coming to the show tonight? Yeah. Yeah. Are you really? Yeah. I mean, I don't know what time it is, but I heard about it. And, I mean, I don't want to come, though.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'd be awesome. You have me. I'd come. I'd be cool. You got somebody in also early. It was sold out. So we'll get on stage with this if you want.

You and too. Yeah. That'd be cool. Mitch, he's a massive Ohio State fan, bigger than his head. Do you have any questions? Yo, it's been catching hands. You can use my mic. No, I'm not going to.

I'm not going to do that. I guess do like the players have any like cool like traditions that they do that like they're not asking for like an initiation type process that you guys do but like cool uh whether it's like you guys go out and do something together like if there any cool like traditions that the players have themselves really maybe just the o lineman or just the offense yeah so um i would say when i got here i would say it was kind of a the first thing is that when you get invited to the group chat with the o line thing it was kind of a big thing was kind of a big thing because the first one was with like the guys from like years past like there's a bunch

of guys from the past like even like the first one I got invited to even like the Dwayne Haskins when he was he was in it or was other guys like they've been in the league for a couple years like the mega chat and there's only at the 20 so like as soon as you got the invite like you didn't want to tell any other guys in class because either they're in there or they're not you know you don't want to disappoint them but like once you got it you're like dang like I'm part of the boys for real. And then that was like the alum chat, even though to be a young guy. It was kind of cool. And then besides that, we had a thing with the beef house. So a lot of guys got to go. Yeah. So the beef house. Yeah, the beef house is guys like Josh Myers's house. Those him, Max Ray.

You're going to a dude's house for the beef house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's all the, it's the meat house, dude. Yeah, so the Bevan house So it was all the older offensive linemen And our full backs And our tight ends all stayed there And it was a small little house off campus I want to say a small house

But it was a little house off campus And so they had They had all the cookouts and stuff like that And again to get the invite Like you know Huge So you throwing a little fit Well not a little fit

But you put a little something on Put a little something on Yeah You know to the meat house dude you got to have put a little something on and look good. Yeah, you know what I mean. We left alone in the meat house. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, so it was cool. So I would say like honest, we did stuff like that as an O-line, be able to do that. And then as soon as those guys left now, what we do like me or Luke my center, we had a thing with roosters. So to take all the guys that O-line. So it was like all 22 of us at the time to all go out to get some food as many wings we want and just taking it. Stuff like that. So something we did this past year.

Love that. Beefy. Jerky. The line's all about the beef, dude. Side note, while I was eating your jerky, too, if my teeth came out. Pretty true. Yeah, it's out of 4.5 now. We can wrap this up, man.

But hey, this was awesome. We appreciate you coming on. I know you're busy. World wins are going on with the draft and all that. You taking the time out of today doing this is awesome. Thank you guys, for real, man. This is huge to be on here. For real, it's huge.

I mean, I've been watching. I know you caught me lacking with the tier one tier. You know what's crazy? I thought I saw that thumbnail thing And I was like, nah, I'm going to click on a one with the Nelson on there. I'm going to watch him. Yeah. I've watched like five.

I've watched like five episodes. But, um, because my roommate, you know, he watches you guys. Like when I was a freshman sophomore. I saw, I walked in his room. He just, like, splayed out in his bed. Hell yeah, dude. Oh, that's how I got put on to the show my freshman sophomore year. But, I mean, it's an honor to be on here.

I'm a, as soon as this up, I'm going to watch this. Like, dang, like, crazy. Like, you know, I used to watch him watch. Yeah, it's dropping the group. We're dropping the group. Yeah. Have the chatty. Hey, there's a lot, man.

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