Bussin' With The Boys - Spring Tour: OLB Garrett Nelson (Nebraska)

Episode Date: March 14, 2022

Recorded March 11, 2022: In our second interview of the Bussin' Spring Tour we have stud Nebraska OLB Garrett Nelson join the boys. Start pod (0:00) What it means to be a black shirt (8:30 - 18:50) Handling the adversity of last season (18:50 - 26:30) Getting recruits to Nebraska, NIL (27:00 - 43:14) Duke Cannon Question (31:45 - 43:14) ----- 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 ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Chevy: Chevy Silverado - The Strongest, Most Advanced Silverado Ever. Duke Cannon Supply Co.For more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, yeah, welcome to the Bustin Spring Football Tour. It's exciting. Hey, shut up. You're not better than us. You have to clap a little bit. I mean, we love that you're here, but at the same time, how amazing. Yeah, dude. How amazing that we've done this?

I'm Will Compton. This is my co-host, Taylor-Wan. We got Garrett Nelson on the, how do we say it, man, the indoor facility? Indoor facility, for sure. Hocking. Yeah, we're at the Hawks facility. Yeah, we got to talk about that too, because isn't your guys his biggest rival, the Iowa Hawkeyes? Yeah.

So why is it called the Hawks facility? You know, that's a great question. That's got the hard-hitting stuff we talk about here. That's on the spot there. Yeah, and you've got to feel bad since you're like a, you're a senior, right? I have no idea, to be honest with you. Really? Because of COVID.

Yeah. So you can have an extra year if you want. I think you have two. I think I have two. So how old are you right now? 22. We're going to slowball this for a second. Yeah.

So you're 22. what's usual would make you a senior But you have one year of eligibility You redshirted No You did not red shirt No With shoulders like that

Why would you red shirt And then you did COVID And what happened in COVID You only play like four or five games They're like hey you can come back Those eight games So those eight games Did count right

Yeah And they came back And that was that last season So yeah I think I was senior then So this is your last year Without COVID If COVID never happened

This would be your last year Yeah I'm glad we figured out Wow that was tough And it's worth two minutes In this thing And my head's already spinning Yeah

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Did you know that? It has the best bed in the planet. What else you need? Tell me more. What else do you need in there? So the tailgate drops down. with a key fob so you can do from inside the truck outside of the truck on your key foe.

To be fair, a lot of trucks do that don't usually do. They have a step down in the tailgate that allows you to reach farther into the bed. You can set it up. You can set up your tailgate like a desk. So if you need to do some work, your tailgate and you're doing some dogs, you're frying some dogs or burgers, you can use it for that. Tell them what else.

Oh, you serious? We just murdered it for Chevy right there. But anyway, this whole thing is brought to this point out. Yeah, hundreds of percentage. Hundreds of percent. But thanks for joining us, man. Are you stoked to be, to sort of be on Bustin with the boys? This is, yeah, no, this is kind of insane.

I, uh, last night. Oh, it's insane. This is insane. Dude, it's wild. Because I remember I was following you, and didn't know about Taylor at the time. It was falling you. And I remember you saying like, as we've gotten here.

Why? It's not your fault. Keep you over. Nebraska boy. Yeah, no question, no question. Come on. Uh, I was following you and you were kind of like kicking around the idea starting a podcast.

I remember seeing on Twitter, like, hey man you know I'm the you know boys I'm thinking about doing this or whatever I'm like yeah man that's pretty sick Taylor got introduced to the mix got a name got a bus and I remember you guys talking about like getting someplace to go and got a bus bought it you guys I was like what the fuck are they going to do now start the podcast up you guys had like barely any followers on your bus from the boys podcast naturally just started right and I was like man I wonder if this thing's gonna take off fast forward was it two years now we're going on the third year blown up blown up thanks I've been a day I've been a day one

I was going to say you're, he's a, this is a day one guy. It's a definition of a tier one OG. And, no, I was absolutely crazy. It's now being on the show from the start of when you guys actually bought the bus. This is kind of surreal. Last night, I'm not going to lie in my bed thinking about the conversation we're going to have. I was like, am I going to be funny? Fuck, no, probably not.

You guys are not going to lie. Trying to make terrible jokes, right? We talked about that before the podcast started about telling a terrible joke and how it's like, oh, my God. And you tell a bad joke in front of your boys. It's just like the worst feeling in the world. But even worse than that is when you meet somebody that you kind of look up to. And you're trying to make a good impression.

You try to lay down a nice little piece of heat. And that heat is just turns cold instantly. Phenomenal NFL players. Guys have been playing for a long time. Incredibly hard to do in the NFL in college. Amazing resumes that you guys have. I'm sitting here. Don't even know what fucking grade I'm in.

Hey, hey, hey. There was a hitter. Come on. He's like, fucking glad. I'm sweating. 12.30 rolls around. Like, fuck, I got to go to bad, dude. So you're nervous, like, all day.

Yeah, no, even worse, like, I was in the train table eating food. Softball player comes up. Hey, I heard you going on the bussman boys. Are you nervous? Oh, people like that around here know about busting like that. Oh, boy. Do you bustle player? Softball player.

I love that, dude. I love that. It's electric here. It's electric. No question about it. We were, well, I just want to go back on the Huskers thing. We're quick in how big of fans you guys are. Will took me to this absolutely dog shit place to eat breakfast, which we'll get into it a second.

But when we were leaving, we're sitting at the light, having a nice little giggle festival. And I've been on the absolute giggle train this entire day. And some girl, damn near T-bones us. And I was like, if I fall, where are you guys going to the stadium? And Will's like, if I follow you guys, will you take a picture with me? And she didn't. Will's like, yeah, no problem. Like the chick followed us, tailgated the whole entire way.

It was a terrible driver. Yeah. We get there. And she's literally shaking. And she's kind of looking at me. And I'm realizing, oh, she wants. me to take this photo. So I'm like, hey, do you want these issues?

Yes, please. So I get the photo of her and willing together, and then she takes a little quick selfie of the three of us and books. Made her day, though. She had a test in an hour. She was all time. I'm sure some, like, fans are just of football

and also just personally with you guys have said some insanely nice things of you guys like, hey man, my kids look up to you, role models, stuff like that. And like, that hits deep. You don't really realize what you're doing, especially with a podcast and football

and stuff like that, man. The thing too, like here, everyone seems so nice. even when I played here against Nebraska, got that ASPie. And as I was leaving, people were like, hey, great game. Like, go get him the rest of the way. We pull up to the gas station the way here, walk in.

Looked like a dad and son, right? It seemed like that. Possibly or friends. Yeah, or friends or more than friends. I don't know what they were. It's 2022 they do what they want, right? We don't judge it. We pull in.

They have a dog that's the size of his dog. No, no, no. We're talking massive. His dog on steroids, bro. And we're talking to him for a little bit. And as release. evening like we're in the car and like will's trying to tell me to where to go which ended being the biggest disappointment of the day before we got to know how not disappointed was

going to be the dude runs out and he goes hey are you Compton and it was like yeah I get my phone out just in time dude guy sits there with the most pride on his chest he's ever had he goes stand him over there only missed two games in the last 20 years said it to Will I love it just dropped fucking heat on Compton and Compton hits him with that that's awesome then Dude, he dropped the We got the tape for sure You should ask him how hard it worked Howard is walking with his nuts

that big dude No, I don't know right Save some for the rest of us That's insane It's the gas station where you drive in on Right there off of Cornhusker Road Cornhusker Lane

Yeah right when you get off the highway That's literally what it's called Grass Chicago It's right next to Old Chicago That gas station that sits right there It always has a scores of the Husker games Yeah

You walk in they just had this fat ass dog just sitting there He wasn't a fat-ass dog. He was... His name's Tank. He's a little hefty. He's a little dick, for sure. No, I mean...

He's the upper percentile of what dogs should be weighing. He's probably on a diet. He probably doesn't get a lot of exercise, though, you know. They're probably watching this right now somehow. They're probably illegally streaming this. Illegally streaming this. Yeah, exactly.

Damn white on that ass go find him. They're going to find this shit, dude. Let's dive into Garrett a little bit. I'm down. So a few years when he was talking about following the bus and everything else, I remember because you were, what, a freshman? When you earned your black shirt? Yeah.

he earns his black shirt because he was one of our first how do you earn a black shirt what is that we can ask I was going to just say I'll tell the story well I'm asking if he's been in the brats of three hours he's fucking hyped I'm excited let him be excited I want to learn certain things don't play this shit we always do downplay

you earn his black shirt and you're looking at me telling me I'm like well I need some context and where a black shirt is my ending of the question was going to be what's it like for you to earn a black shirt okay my question is how do you earn a black shirt how do you own a black shirt I fucking hate you

dude dude They're different questions You know It's two ways to go about it So I do Will's thing first So what it means to earn a black shirt No no no no no I insist Will

For the love guys Don't interrupt me Just don't interrupt me There's a game I won't talk the rest of this fucking thing dude You got hoops Oops he knows that He knows that

Don't even Don't even But you earn your black shirt And you're Because we have fun with it Because we're crying You're emotional earning the black shirt

Which we're going to get into But it was one of our first Matt Neely's meme videos because he painted a bustling with the boy's jersey on him when he's talking about what it meant to earn a black shirt, which I thought, obviously, was when I first knew who you were, figured out who you were. What did it mean to earn a black shirt? And also, before you get in and what it means, also explain how you get one. So how you get one is specifically on the field is how you play. I mean, talking to you guys, you already know how to play with the tenacity, the ferociousness that you do every single. snap, running the ball, every play, striking dudes. I mean, it's just a relentless all-out effort.

And when somebody looks at a player like that or a defense like that, and it's just constant juries around the ball, dudes playing with each other, having a blast shit like that. That's how you're in a black shirt. Every day, day in and day out. It's a daily rent thing. Cannot just one day show up and be like, I figured it out, I got it. You're going to get coached hard every day.

You're going to play hard every day. You're going to do everything you possibly can 100% right with 100% effort. Right. That's how you get one. When I got one, obviously, like you said, I was emotional. It was hanging up in my locker. I'm a 19, 20-year-old freshman. You're a Nebraska kid.

Nebraska kid. I grew up watching you guys. We had dudes like you. Never even in my wildest dreams where I thought I would get one as a freshman because I was still trying to figure out what a fucking coverage drop was. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But, I mean, coaches decided on it, players decided on it,

was up hanging in my locker. came in, just started breaking down in tears, dude. I couldn't believe it. I was hugging the boys. Everybody was loving up on me. All the black shirts that were currently on the team are loving up on me. Texts to a picture with my mom. She called me after package.

She was crying. She was so happy for me, man. That's awesome. But yeah, it was an emotional day. And I've gotten one ever since then. And it's something that it's a lifestyle. You know about it. Every day, everything you do, starting a podcast,

going to practice, starting a family. doing homework, going to class, it's a lifestyle you do. You do everything in that legacy and that black shirt way. So when you earn the black shirt as a freshman, can the black shirt ever be taken away from you? Yes. Oh, it can. Yeah, that's why I say it's a daily rent thing.

God, that's a, yeah, but usually people say that and it never really happens. I've seen, I've seen college, in college, any school, they try to implement these types of things. And because the inconsistency I coach a lot of times, that will waver quite a bit. And so I didn't know, like at Nebraska's, how long, has the black shirt thing been a thing? That was...

Yeah, that was... When they would get practice jerseys, they had four teams going. They would get practice jersey to be red, white, green, and then black. And I can't remember. It was Coach Devaney. I think he was the one

that named the black shirts because the dudes that with the black practice jerseys were absolutely out of their mind. Big gangsters. Oh, my God. The animals, the junkyard dogs out there, dude? Those were the black shirts.

Fucking right. So that's when he got named. And that's what... That's, I believe, how that name got started on defense. When he was saying, asking if it can be taken away, like, how is it kind of pleased? Because I know it changes from coach to coach, like for us, we got him, and sometimes we wouldn't earn them until in the middle of the year. Obviously, traditionally, you would get them before the season started. I kind of forget how Mike Riley did it.

I know for us, we got him stripped. I forget when we got them stripped in the year and then we earned them back. After we played you guys, actually. We earned the back after we played. Be that ass. Michigan, but how is it? They did do that ass. Spanked.

How was it, like, how is it police? Like, how do you guys handle the whole black shirt tradition? Well, obviously, we have 90 different camera angles, watching film, watching practice. Guy gives up on a play, goes palms up, asking, you know, what the fuck, not running the ball. Can't go palms up. Cannot go palms up. That's a big, any culture. Especially with you guys, with your job, go palms up, you get cut next day.

I see you later. I don't think offensive line would really do the palms up? No. It's more of a defensive thing. Yeah. Like, what are we doing here? Off until I'm going to hit the clap. The clap is so fucking in the way.

Oh, God. Like, hey, what are you doing? Yeah, I feel like it could be on offense if, like, maybe the running back doesn't make the right cutter. Maybe, like, you didn't block exactly the right way, but you know the camera's on you, so you're like, oh, why did you go out there? Right, you try to pass off a twist and you're looking at your car. What are you fucking doing?

Yeah, I know defense. You do it to cover your ass for being like, oh, I'm not the one who busts his coverage. Yeah. TV cover brazen. On national TV. Yeah. Yeah. See the film?

You have to do that score on the ball. Well, it's definitely not his fault. Yeah. We know it's not his fault. But dudes like that, watch film, we see it in practice, coaches see it. I mean, that next day. I've seen, see him get stripped. Middle of practice.

No shit. Middle of practice. See him get stripped. So how many guys in the team have a black shirt right now? Usually starting 11. We started off with, I think, eight or nine. And we were waiting for those last two or three guys to get them. Got to be tough to be one of those last two or three guys sitting there.

Got to be tough, dude. What do you wear the white of the black? Huh? What do you wear the white of the, uh, just depends on the white or red? Right? Yeah. This depends on that week if defense is white,

wear your white jersey or whatever. Jay's got to handle. Shout, Jay. Shout Jay. Shout Jay. No free shouts. No free shouts, but Jay does fuck for real.

Yeah. Jay fucks. Don't, without saying names, what did that look like? Like, what's the example of somebody getting it stripped in the middle of practice? Like what happens?

Obviously, again, don't say names. But what does that situation look like? Is it, is it a player? And we're not going to get affected. I was going to say, I was going to say,

I swear to God, if I lose eligibility, because you're fucking dumb asses. It's going to this podcast. Dude. You're a real responsibility. It's crazy. And as you know,

we protect the boys anyway. If there's something, you know, hey, can we get that off there? We take it off. But give that example, like, is it a player thing that goes down? Is it a coach thing?

Is it a coach telling you, hey, Gary, like, get that, you know, step up right here, be vocal. And then you do it. Like, what does that look like? Yeah. So usually, you know, if a guy's been struggling, not he has it, you know,

and he's just kind of been lacking on a couple more, like couple of practices, a day, a practice or two. and the guy's just something like completely turned a leaf like what the fuck is this guy doing he's not up to our standard anymore you know he's not he's not being with one of the boys that have the sure he's not running the ball with us he's going palms up he's cut some dudes out it just completely looks different take that shit off man coaches say it too take that shit off man so players are please it yeah yeah coaches players everybody knows we know that standard we watch it every day on film

we want i mean we talk about it all the time with chins all the boys we know we know we know what it looks like we know what it is soon as soon as soon as that as soon as that standard's not set is not doing anymore get that shit off man really yeah so when you go through a difficult season like you did last year going three and nine yeah and you're losing those games by less than a touchdown in every single game best three and win team of all time of all time without a doubt without a question about it but when you're not putting those getting those in the win column as a black shirt what like how does that affect that part of the game for you guys when you you guys you want to practice like yeah are you guys at a point where like hey we can't wear black shirts

till we win or it's kind of like we got to keep the standard as wearing a black shirt we have to make sure that everybody's standard stays a certain way yeah are you are you a Michigan boy you grow up in Michigan or no I grew up in Arizona being from Nebraska and then earning that black shirt I know

and the dudes with me know that standard like you said with that difficult season we it was more of keeping that standard like you said for everybody you know as soon as your leaders or your coaches start freaking out you know losing their minds then as a player your response is like oh fuck you know what's going you know what's going on

what's going on whatever you're doing wrong you know what I'm saying and then never you know defensively wise we never got to that point like you know fuck what are we doing wrong if we you know we always looking for improvement but it wasn't even like a freak out like fuck do we need to take these off like we're not upholding what will said like you know you guys are kind of balling too yeah I mean, you guys were playing well. Yeah. It's most teams. Yeah.

It was supposed to be. I'm just saying as a dude. I do. I do. As a dude that's currently in college and knowing the legacy that like dudes like Will, Levanti David and Adomkin Su, you know, Wishroom, Peter, guys like that had that standard and won those games like you guys did. And I know we're short dicking and coming up and we can't fucking win games.

Like, you know, as a player, do you look at yourself and say that you need to take those black shirts off? I mean, we talked about it. We're like, fuck, dude. We're playing well, but we're not winning games. Like, what can we do? Should we take it off, get more of a chip on our shoulder? See if we can make more plays.

You see what we can help their offense in any way when these games. You look at yourself, you're like, man, you know, it's tough. But it's one of those things that, like I say, it kind of goes back to those, that relentless effort. If you're doing it in practice, doing in games, running to the ball, making plays, having fun being one of the boys, relentless. I mean, it's hard to take it off because you're doing the right things to keep it. You know, you know, so. The progress you made like this year as a defense compared to the years past of you being on the team. Like, what was the vibe that was different this year?

Because, yeah, you know, we went three and nine. But the defense is playing well. Like, the defense is playing well. So, like, as a defensive player, you're in those meeting rooms. And you're probably on the sideline figuring out, hey, we have to win this game. Yeah, 100%. Fuck everything else. We have to win this game.

We have to figure out how to win. Yes. But how do you feel like that standard and expectation has changed? from years past because you guys have played much better now as a defense versus the mindset when you were younger as like a freshman or sophomore yeah when I was younger obviously like you said you were there too you're just trying to figure it out you know I'm saying first college team second college team really don't know and especially the situation that Nebraska was in not really figuring out how to win still don't know how to do it you know what do we change what do we do and being a freshman not in a leadership role you're just trying to figure it out but the The overall vibe from difference from when I was a freshman or sophomore to where I am now is just there's no

a lot of dudes were in it for themselves in the sense of what can I get out of it instead of asking what can I do. You know what I'm saying? Those first two years like I'm going to make these plays for myself because I want to go in NFL like fuck the rest of you guys. Like I'm not going to do what Chins tells me to do

or the call tells me to do like I'm going to go make this play and most of the time they missed it. They didn't run to the ball because fuck that shit. That's somebody else's job. to do that, you know what I'm saying? Just a lot of selfish play on defense. Undisciplined, being out of gaps, like I said, just for purposes, because fuck that. I did my job that other guys can figure it out type of thing.

Completely changed when, I think it was last year, Joe Joe's last year when we started playing some really elite level, really good defense. The standard got set that, like I said, the guidelines got set. clear we understood them they understood everybody understood them started playing unselfishly we loved being around each other love playing defense for each other and we knew every game you know there's going to be a turnover you know the waves of the game going to be a turnover we're going to lose morale something's going to happen

we always looked at each other as a defense and said we got to go win this fucking game somebody's got let's go make a play let's go get this ball out you know Nelly go get a sack Joe Joe get a go get a pit you know hyping each other up love being on the field turn it over let's fucking go boys let's run out there go to work again shit like that really amped up love being on that defense and that's I think that was kind of the shift

as soon as we shifted that mentality and practice in a game knowing that it's on fucking us that defense let's go win this fucking game yeah something a young Will Compton he juices me up yeah legit kind of gets me fired up for a reason I'm seeing Will's eyes yeah yeah

he's getting more and more excited now starts opening a little bit wider getting more and more excited yeah but that was we said that a lot let's go win this fucking game exactly what you guys are talking When you're talking about how we knew as a defense, there's going to be a turnover,

there's going to be ebbs and flows in a game. Like, what was the morale like with the boys, not just in the defense's side of the ball, but with the offense, with the special teams, which Will is alluded to a couple times. I love it.

You know what I'm going to say it and know, I'm going to note the special teams, but I'm going to, I'm going to know what the deal is. But don't just say, you know how Will would say, you know, you know, you're going to throw it out there. You know what I'm saying?

Special teams. So like the Michigan game, for instance, like a couple turnovers. over a couple of things that didn't go your way on the offensive side of the ball. Like when you're in a position where your defense is playing at the level where you guys be playing in legit bowl games, like legit bowl games, not your slappy, you know, Buffalo Wildlings, but like a real mustard ballad. Just a shot at Buffalo Wallet.

Hey, that was the last bowl game I played in. Some tasty wings. There's delicious, dude. Shout out Buffalo Lawwings, dude. So I'm sorry for the double-wine. That was not tied to me. Come on. Yes.

Yeah, that's crazy. That's such a college comment, too. It is. Legitian called you're like Tuesday night. Yeah. Dude night, right? The 19 wings and Applebee's? Oh, yeah. 100%.

But when you get, when you get, yeah. Hey, half ass. JP knows about that. He's got that deal of the week, yeah. He's got that fucking deal in the week.

But when you get into those situation, like what is morale like? Are you guys getting on them? Like, hey, you got to pick your shit up? Or is it kind of like, hey, we just got to keep doing what we're doing. And then hopefully the boys figure it out on their end as well. There's levels to it.

Personally, definitely broke down a couple of times. Yeah, it happens. Being a Nebraska boy. Love it. know, caring as much as I think I do as I do. And, I mean, you guys know how it is. You give you everything in football. You know, broke down a couple of times.

I had to call some people, called my parents, you know, called some previous coaches, high school coaches, like, you know, hey man, what the fuck's going on? Like, how do I deal with this? And one story that got told me was coached Austin, very personal story. So I'll probably keep it to myself. but the basis of it was you got to play the next play.

You got to do it. You got to get out of bed no matter what happened yesterday. Got to get out of bed. The sun comes up. You got to put the foot in front of the other one. You got to play the next play. As a defense, like you're saying, playing really well, playing your balls to the wall,

getting these sacks, making picks, playing really good. And then at the end of the day, he looked up at the scoreboard and he lost. By single digit. Yeah. Crazy. How to Morla. every week.

It's like going to a bar talking up a chick all night. Boyfriend comes over Oh hey honey you're ready It does a punch in the nuts

still. You know like you're talking experience like Igies Yeah buddy

Yeah So obviously demoralizing Broke down mentally a couple times

But being a developmental leader Being one of the guys That dudes look up to Being one of

the dudes That plays a lot I will Never let my boy See me cannot let my boy see me down because as soon as I get down they get down you know yeah and it comes it comes to a point where like I said you got to put that foot in front of another one you got to learn lessons like you say every week you said the same thing I'll learn lessons from that game we're going to

improve as much as we can what do we what did we miss as a defense on the field that could have won that game look at that how do we improve it let's fix it that week that's what we're going to focus on knowing you've lost so much senior leadership from this past class how do you feel you're developing and trying to take that next step going into whether it's junior, senior year, we haven't figured it out yet. But how do you, like, again, senior leadership's gone, right? You know how much it means to you as a Nebraska guy

as somebody who's played a lot of snaps. Like, what are things you're looking at to develop like in your toolbox as a leader? I get, dudes identify me pretty early on just being the person I am, Jojo, DeCap, Deonté, dudes on the D-line, steely, guys like that.

They identified me pretty early who wanted to, to be a guy that wants to be a leader and obviously cares a lot. They, they have taught me so many lessons of how to lead, you know, the proper way to lead, how to push dudes, different dudes buttons to get them fired up, clear line of communication with everybody. Just a ton of small lessons about leadership. I didn't know in high school, you know, as a young kid.

They developed me into a, I think, a pretty good leader now, you know, helping my boys out with communication between coaches, lessons on the, on the, field. Just stuff like that, that those, the dudes before me that we lost through graduations, this NFL stuff that they have taught me how to be a leader, what to do when it's your time. And another good thing that they told me is like, you'll never think you're ready. You just got to, you just have to take it.

And that, even right now, I'm a perfectionist. I want to think that I want to be a perfect leader. I want to do everything right. But they said that's never going to happen. You're going to make mistakes. You know, yell at somebody that shouldn't have been yelled at that because he might have not been the wrong, but you would have thought so. And then going up, apologize and talking to the guy, just different ways of the communication and leading, like, how much I care is something huge that they taught me.

And hopefully, you know, I'm projecting to the boys on the team this year. Communication seems like a thing that you're pretty decent at. Like, looking at you and how much you care and putting myself on your shoes when I was at Michigan, like, I had the same amount of care, the same amount of fire. But I didn't have the way to process it the way it seems like you're being able to process. which is pretty unbelievable. It's a good deal. Do you ever wish that, like, being from Nebraska, obviously you're a lot more invested

from some of these other guys from, like, California or Texas or other places that didn't grow up being a huge Nebraska fan? Like, how do you get those guys to buy in the way you have? And then for other recruits coming in, like, what's your pitch to them saying, hey, you guys want to come here and crush it? Like, we need to get Nebraska back to 97 teams. What's your selling point to them?

2012 teams, too. 2012. 2nd12. Shout to shout out. Just try to shout out the boys from the 12. Yeah, from the generation. Stats out there. Yeah.

Especially now in the world that we live in, I don't want to be fake. I want to be as real and authentic as possible. And with that, you have to say, you know, obviously we're not as beautiful as a California. That's a given. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? There's a couple things you got here. You know, that's what I'm saying.

You got to be honest. This is what we have. We have absolutely outstanding fans that it's a double-edged sword that they can be insanely hard on you and you get on Twitter you want to cry a little, a couple of times. No question about that, dude. Just to put in that real quickly, that's everywhere. Like Michigan's the same way. USC's going to be the same way.

Texas is going to be the same way. Like, if you're worried about passionate fans, yeah. Like, everybody's got passionate fans that are going to, like, soil you. 100%. Because they can do it better sometimes. 100%. You know, that guy at the gas station, he probably, he's probably tweeted at you a couple times.

They get your piece of shit or something. Yeah. There ain't nobody can't. You probably missed a USC game. That's true. I probably was bad putting you. I do see what you mean, though. It is true.

It's everywhere you go. It doesn't matter if you're in college or the pros. Like, you type that name and you're going to see shit you don't like. You already know that. And it's harder as a young kid. You don't know. Yeah, you don't get it as a young kid. No, no.

But like I said, we have great fans. We have a great facility. You have great coaches that are going to care about you, not just as a development as a player, but also as a person. They want chins especially. He wants to become a man before you become a great football player first. Because you become a man, the rest will take care of itself. Like you said, outstanding fans.

We have a great facility, great stadium. People show up every weekend. They're going to coach you hard. You're going to get to the next level if you want to get to the next level. You can develop you as a man as a person. And you have so many connections here. And I am just with football, but academics as well. We have so many dudes that are Nebraska alum that are doing great things

that you can get connection with because you went to this university. The global network and the network we have as a university is, I don't even fully grasp how much we have. Like you said, the history of the Blue Bloods of football, Michigan, Texas, Nebraska, guys like that. People who want to. Yeah, that was nice. That was good. Put that in the old back pocket.

Blue bloods at college. College of my own. College is like that that have that history of dudes going in the next level, being absolute ballers here. If you want to come be a baller, you want to come be a man, you want to grow up and be real, not a fake tough dude or fake this, or I got to tell people I play football. People already know.

Nobody's going to fight you in practice because they already know if I fight this guy, he's going to fucking kill me. You don't have to tell people. When people come here and you play here, and like I said, hopefully do well, like we're planning to do, you don't need to tell anybody, and that's when Nebraska gives you because he's like, that dude's from Nebraska.

He plays for Nebraska. Yeah, damn. They don't need to. Yeah, I know, right? You don't need Nobody You're not a You don't need to tell people

That you're the toughest Motherfucker in the room Because they already know Yeah, I love that Should we set up the Duke Cannon? He embodies it He embodies the Duke, dude They honor hard work

With his intent as he is He's a lot of this on two, three times a day That dry ice piece The most masculine Men's hygiene in the game They're all about the athletes The tradesmen The military of the world

This dude obviously I'm a great reader too, so I'm going to read a couple of these things. I love that. Because I'll pick it up. I'll pick up the products. Random question. Did you guys do reading like comprehension tests like when you're in grade school? Yeah, I did. I was very, very below par. Like the speed reading and comprehension as shit.

Yeah, no, I did terrible. I really don't know how to read legit until I was like eight. Really? Like, wasn't even doing well. I turned that. I turned that. I turned that. I turned that shit into a competition. Me and there's this chick named Nikalin. She was like, I got 250. words a minute. How many you get going there? Ball out on a page. Get like

270 or something like that. I was reading like a book a day. Dude, I was like ripping words. Come to find out when I was like seven or eight. What's crazy? I believe this crazy motherfucker. Yeah, comes to find out. Seven or eight. Shit doesn't matter. You wasted all your time, Garrett. Congratulations. Go ahead. Do the ad read. Oh my God.

Tell my God. Reading. You heard it at first. Reading doesn't matter, folks. So when I read this, fuck it, dude. All right. Duke Canon products. Smell amazing. We have unique, masculine sense unlike anyone. Damn, here we go. In our category, smells like Buffalo, Trace Bourbon, Bush beer,

naval diplomacy, and Bay Rum. Duke Cannon supports veterans because every damn day we do have the receipts to prove it. Wait, because causes Duke Cannon supports veterans. This is normal. Everybody stick with this. This is normal.

Cause that's got to be a typo. And you know what? It's not your fault, Duke Cannon, because your products are amazing just because you're not great at spelling. Let's see what else is here. They got the dry ice antiperspirant. Hold that up. Yeah, they got that. This thing right here, I gave a little whiff right before we started.

She nice? Oh, no. She nice? My lifeline. Yeah, she's very nice. We got you. Menthol. Yeah.

Yeah. We got you. The camera crushes as well. We got you a little packet. The chemical effect in your lungs the entire time. Bloody knuckles, hand balm. Yeah, that's a handball? Yeah.

Thick, high, viscosity. How many Cs? Body wash? Bodywatch? How many C's on that thick? Oh, there's only one. Big. How many times are they?

They don't go double C? They got a big ass brick of soap. Yeah. Which a lot of times you're going to put this stuff on your body. You're going to go with those big competitors, the ones you're going to get for the cheap prices at Target. And you're going to put it on your body.

Guess what? That's the C word all over your body. You're not going to want that. The thing that Dukes gives to you is that beautiful, amazing scent, that clean tone and that smooth skin, that man vibe. Without all those altercations you're going to have going to down the line when you turn 50, 60 years old,

you're like, oh, I got lift nodes in my armpits, and I've been using deodorant with ironing and all this bullshit. Dukes doesn't do that for you, homie. And that is what Dukes is all about. Last question of the day. I think I have one. Oh, you got one? Unless you want to take it. Well, hopefully Dukes allows us to do a couple,

because I would love to hear your question. Do you want to go first and I'll go second? Sure. This question being brought to you by Dukes. Dukes, we have this great, this thing comes in like a military box, and this is yours. And matter of fact,

this is our official first like NIL kind of deal where we're passing off to the boys that you're Take a picture, take a picture Yeah, can we get a picture? Don't have to like Let me hold for it. Come on, Jack, Jack.

Thanks guys. Yes. Thanks, Duke's Cannon. Shout out Dukes. But with that. You're gonna smell so good. You have the rail tonight. Some gross and be like, what that? You've been in the rail?

God. You ever been to the rail? No, but Will's fired up three times. You close that shit down and you'll have the time of your life. Doubt it. Doubt it. I've been to, I've closed a couple of places. places down, I had a good time.

So you're telling me I'm going to be in Nebraska. I'm going to go to the rail. Because when I said, hey, give me the pitch that are going to bring guys here. If that's really what you meant, you were the first thing you would have let off with was come to the rail. And then you'll find out everything you need to know. I'm just saying, if you lead off with a bar to like project or like, hey, man, why should I come here?

You've been to the rail, bro? Like, what the, the rail's a great time? No, it is a great time. But if you're leaning off with a football pitch to go to the rail. also a great time. Why don't you ask the question? One of the questions brought to us by Duke with the NIL stuff, do you dabble in the NIL game? I do. Tell us more

about that. Like, how does that look for you? It's been unreal, like you said, being in college and being broke, you know, or just getting that check and just paying your rent and gas, and then you got like 30 bucks for Chinese or something like that. Completely change the game with NIL stuff. And out of deals,

I've done stuff for banks, commercials, things like that. I've made appearances player profiles on different websites. things like that. It's completely changed the game. Played profiles, like, we talking like, only fans? Yeah, I made a webpage. Like, hey, this dude sponsored our website.

Only fans. Only fans are in a hell. That's hot. Dude. Imagine a calendar. Imagine a football calendar, like, just with a football. I would cry this shit out of that. Like you're just doing feet photos all the time

in different locations. Your only fans are. I'm pulling a jacuum man with a basketball. On the best. No question. Would you selfie pics be honest? I would, dude, I put, I put, I put, I put, I put, I put, I put it, I put it, I put some, put some dukes next to it. Yeah.

Put some dupers into it, dude, I'll do whatever you want. Would you pain him? I have you smell. Dude, I'll do whatever you want. You say, were you going to say, have you smell them? Yeah, you have you smell my toes? And you go, damn. Like you smell it, huh?

Mm. Damn. But it's your feet? that's it then that's it I would sell that for sure I'd let these jerk off to that whenever they wanted like that's what has to happen you can't be women enjoying it

it's like I'll let dudes jerk off to that anytime they want to spend a disco no I envision men being into my feet don't know why don't know why we'll dive into that wait we'll unpack that's something you got to unpack on your own time to be honest what is we you know I won't ask

numbers or nothing but what is your favorite NIL deal that you're involved with Two questions. It's a two-part. Probably the First National Bank right now. They did player profile on me on their website and they also did a commercial

of how I grew up with agribusiness, agriculture, corn, cows, stuff like that. So in Nebraska. You got to respect it. You got to respect the shit out of that. Dude, have to. If you don't, if you don't, then what are you... Don't fucking come here.

You know what I'm saying? If you don't respect that, don't come to Nebraska. You know another cool thing is like you said those dudes from Cali and Oregon and wherever else they come here and culture me because I don't know what the fuck's going on. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, I came from a place more cows than people. Right. Well, Nebraska was like the last place that gets the information.

Exactly. Like I just got colored TV a couple months ago. Like the shit's wild. Oh, a couple months ago. Yeah. This is crazy. I feel like recruiting numbers are going through the roof after this one. No.

It's going through the fucking roof for these boys. I just got a color TV. No, you got to come and, like he said, you got to culture him. You got to teach him. They coach me every day, man, just like I do with them. You know what I'm saying? The guys from Compton and Florida, they teach me, they teach for things every day, man. And I teach them to that.

You know what I love about college football, man. We come boys for that way. I would say, like, Nebraska is one of the bigger melting pots in the country because here in Nebraska, I mean, obviously you came from here. But recruiting-wise, you have to hit all the – you have to hit both coasts. You have to hit the south. You have to hit everywhere because, I mean, you, you have to hit.

you're obviously one of the exceptions, but they're not all growing in your backyard, like they are in Florida, in Texas, and California. Problem, I wouldn't even growing. Nobody recruited where I was from. I had to, like, go to camps. Really? No, I was the first, I think I was the first scholarship player since Frossi Anderson, which was like 60 or something years.

Not half the state. Fuck, man. Yeah. So I had to, like, I had to, like, go. I had to be there instead of, like, just playing football. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? All right, my dude's question.

It's probably better. Dukes, put it on your feet. So obviously you guys had Martinez, Martinez is your quarterback last year? First off, don't know why Nebraska always has Martinez's, but you guys had a Martinez when I was at Michigan, he transfers. You have a new quarterback come in. What are the differences between those two guys that you see from a leadership standpoint, a play standpoint, just going through spring ball?

From Martinez 1 to 2? Yeah. I never knew the first Martinez. No, I was talking about the new Casey. Casey in the back Who we're about to tag team after we get done I don't know if you got enough Duke's palm for that dude No we got plenty of dudes

We got a whole bus full in the back there K Y Dukes Just leadership from his standpoint Obviously I've never seen him play Besides At Texas and just watch a film on him But this fall obviously some some questions will be answered and I'm sure it will be happy to answer those with the performance that you will have.

But just from leadership aspect and personal aspect, he, Casey seems to be a lot more involved immediately with offense, but not just everybody, but offensive dudes, defensive dudes, special teams. He wants everybody to be, like I said, we have that defensive standard, that blackshirt standard. He's setting the standard right away day one of we're not going to take any more shit. We're not offense line. I'm running down hills. They're covering.

If running back's going to run hard, I'm going to be in the film room every day. I'm going to be giving my awe, you know, when he's practicing on the practice field. Having that standard, that guy being your leader and also your hardest worker, that's when teams start becoming great. And getting over that hump instead of being three and nine, you know, we double-digit one team. That's the most immediate impact that I've seen from Casey and it's worked spectacularly six practices in. And he continues lead. he continues to have that fire. He wants the ball.

He wants to go score and give, you know, throw passes up to his boys to go, you know, get a 6-yard bomb and do the gritty or something, you know? Do the gritty, man. That's the default. There's always a new one. There's always a new one. I think he's in the last two years of the gritty's been kind of run strong.

Yeah, it's been. What was the one before that that, uh, J.J. Y hit in the end zone. He was still at the Texans. You remember that? Oh, I don't. I don't like to watch anything J.J. Watt does. at all. It's kind of shitty talking to the offense of lineman

because I'm the dude that rushes them all the time. So there's like that hate, that stent. Like, I've got to go patchwork against this dude right now. Seems like he wants to patch rush. Yeah, you can get hands. I'll go get some quotes on. We can find that. Get some work.

No, but. Looking at you, power rush guy. Maybe. Pure speed. You lie. You lie. Does he speed? Speed or power guy?

He's a, mix, baby. It's called a hybrid. It's a different breed of white athlete nowadays. Aidan Hutchinson of Nebraska. He works harder. We'll get the pass rush. Dude.

Yeah, that's the way you get paid. Of course. Who cares about playing the run? Right, right. Guess on that play action pass, dude. Try to get that sack. That's the worst player to play against. Yeah.

It's the worst, you know, it's tough when you have them on defense. Dude, when you guys, the play action pass sets for you guys, suck. Huh? Worst, hardest block for you guys. Oh, dude, don't get me started. It's the worst. I'd rather go. one-on-one pass pro all day

then have to like play action block it's miserable you yeah that's funny that was a huge ops for the boys on the edge gotta get those gotta miss those bunnies cannot miss those bunnies yeah but uh thanks for coming on man dude it's been a blast no it's been on can't wait to interview uh Casey and then

you got scotty frost and and chins coming on which I'm sure chins will have phenomenal yeah I hope I've been entertaining enough you know the highlight say you post on Twitter I hope that just a lot of boys having a good time laughing that's what I'm envisioning right now speaking in existence. It's a shitty episode.

Sorry, boys. Dude, you did great. We just fucked it up for everybody else. We're never doing the spring tour ever again. No, no, no, no, no. You did really good, bro. You did it outstanding. Thanks a lot.

Chevy, thanks you. Dukes, thanks to you. Will and Taylor. Will and Taylor. Thanks to you guys, honestly, for considering. This has been sick, man. Considering you?

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