This is the first episode of Riley & Constant hosted by Justin Riley and Marvin Constant. In their first episode they interview Alabama Football Legends Kevin Jackson, Fernando Bryant and Roman Harper.
Contributors
Justin Riley – @JustinRiley7
Marvin Constant – @Marvin_Constant
About the Guests
Kevin Jackson is a former American football safety. Jackson played college football at the University of Alabama for the 1995 and 1996 seasons. After the 1996 season, he was recognized as a unanimous All-American for his play as a member of the Crimson Tide.
Fernando Bryant is a former American football cornerback of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars 26th overall in the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Alabama. Bryant was also a member of the Detroit Lions, New England Patriots, and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Roman Harper is a former American football safety. He played college football at Alabama, and was drafted by the Saints in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. In 2009, Harper earned his first Pro Bowl invitation and helped lead the Saints to Super Bowl XLIV.
Transcript
Justin Riley
It’s Tuesday, September 8 2020. That means it’s time for the debut of the most anticipated show, the rally and constant show presented by the sports cast. If you haven’t yet, please subscribe on all your channels YouTube, Periscope, and iTunes. If you’re not tunes, leave us a rating and review. It’ll help us out tremendously. Also, visit us on the sports cast dotnet again the sports cast.net I’m your host Alabama grad over the hill powerlifter Justin Riley. Today’s episode is brought to you by physical and mental fitness at 40 plus by none other than Marvin constant. Hey, if you’re in that 40 year old plus rut, this Is the book for you just because you’re over the hill doesn’t matter doesn’t mean that fitness is over. So we definitely need to check that out. All right, with that being said he’s an Alabama legend all sec linebacker to Tom author. And when Ric Flair said to be the man, you got to beat the man. He is that man Marvin constant.
Marvin Constant
Hey, what’s going on? It’s a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you roll tide. Roll tide, brother.
Justin Riley
Hey, we’re finally here. Man, we’re finally at this show we’ve been talking about for weeks is happening.
Marvin Constant
It is happening. You know, it’s been a long time coming. You know, for for a lot of years. I always had a vision of bringing the show that brought, you know, Alabama players together because very rarely do you see them together discussing things. So, you know, I always had that vision that, you know, I want them all together in one place. So that, you know, we can just let it all out, you know,
Justin Riley
man, and we’re about to tell you why we got quite a collection of guys today, don’t we? If you’re a quarterback, man, you’re gonna be nervous. Maybe this show isn’t for you today. Marvin key introduce our guests.
Marvin Constant
Today, we have some phenomenal guests. You know, it’s the beginning of the season. And Alabama has always been known for its defense. You know, I was one of those defenders at one point. So you know, it’s only right that we start by examining the defensive side of the ball. So for that we brought in two of Alabama’s greatest defensive backs. One Fernando Bryan, first round draft pick up the Jacksonville Jaguars and all American Kevin
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Jackson.
Justin Riley
Welcome in guys.
Unknown Speaker
Hey, man, thank you for having me.
Unknown Speaker
Man, we’re we’re excited to have you guys
Justin Riley
so what Let’s get started. Uh, Fernando kikah. You know tell us like how you originally got in the football you know what helped you develop the love for the game and a little bit about your high school career before we jump into your time at Alabama.
Unknown Speaker
I’m actually I was fortunate my dad played in the NFL for eight years and his brother play for 11 years so I have a background in in football I was everybody in my family can’t play defensive back. My brother played defensive back at Tennessee. So I come from a defensive back family but overall, it was always Alabama with the browns, and when I was being recruited out of Tennessee,
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he was always talking about
Unknown Speaker
Alabama, douche bags, brought to the league or brought the college football To way all American in high school, everybody kind of wants me to play wide receiver and I always want to be a defensive back. That’s what I that’s what I specialize in. So Alabama was the only school that was that was really set on me being defensive back a lot of schools because of my speed. kind of wanted me to play wide receiver or scatback. I want to be a difference. So it was it was just made in heaven for me.
Marvin Constant
Now, Fernando out he talked about that speed. I was there to personally witness you run to back to back for 240 a four to seven and for tonight, I must say hands down one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen in my life.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, yeah, I mean, I was I was a guy, I was a I was a 10 one guy in the hundred I was. I was all those things but then like you say that I will say even I was impressed. You know, I mean, that was one of the things that I was I had I had a great career at Alabama and everything but everybody said, you know, when I ran that, those back to back for two, it kind of solidified that I was gonna be a first round draft pick and, and, and I was one of those fast guys where it was like, Okay, he’s he really that fast? And so put me on the clock.
Marvin Constant
Well, I gotta admit, though, it was cool. How after you ran for two hours you like ain’t doing no the drills I’m done. gotta see when I got the offer. So that was kind of cool. I’m like, wow, you can do it like that. Just drop the phone to say I’m out. Okay.
Unknown Speaker
It was that class, right? There was a good class of DBAs. You know, when I look back, and I say, the first rounders that went in that class. There was me there was there was mom McAllister. There was one film at antoaneta or so it was it was five DVDs. That went in the first round. It was a good class. You know, it was it was fun.
Marvin Constant
I mean, it was a solid class, but again as a freshman to watch you do that and walk off like I’m done. I was like, Okay. Okay, nobody.
Justin Riley
Speaking of your freshman year, man, you made a transition like, easy. I mean, you were ready. It’s like, you’re your veteran already. So how are you able to make that transition so smoothly? I came from
Unknown Speaker
a very good program at Riverdale, Riverdale, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. And I think my senior year we ended up I mean, we were undefeated, and we ended up 15 years old. Number six in the country. And you know we had and our scheme, Alabama brother, Bill, he allowed me to do what was what was good for me. Our secondary that my first video was unbelievable the shale, the other side of Kj and Sandra Samuels, and then there was me and it allowed me to do what I specialize in I was Amanda man cover corner. And brother Bill told me you know, he allowed me to feel my way around, you know, going to training camp and and get everything but the biggest thing, the transition for me was to be competitive out there every day, go out and compete and that’s the one thing I say that Alabama does, nobody else does. You know, everybody talks about know their program and everything. But Alabama was one of those schools your people kind of backed off everything Alabama was one of those dudes who still scrimmage and going to see because it’s about getting better. And that’s the one thing I took going into Alabama, you know, before it was before it was cool to graduate early and and get down to In the summertime, that’s what Alabama was already doing blues getting there early. So by the time I got there during the summer, and in 94 and 95 when I got there doing the summer, and I was already learning the program, when training camp came around, I was ready to compete. And you know, back then everybody wasn’t doing that.
Justin Riley
I feel like they were probably the most NFL ready school out there. I know got a crimson and white bias but to be honest with you that you know, you have bill Auburn preparing you and it’s just like the coaches Alabama, no matter what era it is, that they have each one of their players ready to take that next step that next level. And yeah, I agree with you, man. You’re more prepared than any other program. Again, this isn’t me just being the bias here. But speaking of your coaching staff, you know, of course you worked under Bill Oliver, but what was your relationship like with Gene Stallings? I like to hear from each of those four players, how they felt about him and what was like being coached by him.
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I’ll tell you a story about co star co star once
Unknown Speaker
I came home I was the I was the number one from coming out of Tennessee. Everybody knows the Tennessee the Tennessee Alabama rivalry. More than just on the just on the gridiron is off the field. This recruitment is everything. So I took my trip to Alabama. The week before I took my trip to Tennessee I told I felt like I wanted to be a president and but not have respect for my high school coach who won the national championship at University of Tennessee. I said I was going to take my visit to Tennessee. I made them my last bit. So I got off the plane. I got off the plane. And when I walked into the hotel, they already had the paper written up. It was me and I’ve gotten a match on people’s who committed to Tennessee. They said I never do over commit to Tennessee. So, I left the University of Tennessee on my recruiting visit, drove to the University of Alabama knocked on Jean Stalin’s door two o’clock in the morning and shook his hand and said, I’m gonna be a crimson tide. So called Stalin’s was lying, and his deep voice at that particular point in time. And he was like,
Unknown Speaker
I see you’re serious. And
Unknown Speaker
it was the most hilarious thing because I was at that point time, Randy Ross was the recruiting coordinator. And as I’m driving in from Tennessee and everybody, I’m telling Randy, I’m coming here and I’m like, I don’t care what nobody says. You know, whatever. And coast styles is the most when you look at my time. But he was the closest thing that you can say to the tradition that Alabama the way Alabama is, remember Too bad Brian Kasabian is great. He’s won. He’s got everything. But when you think about the play, run the ball, play defense, everything like that kostopoulos just epitomize that and the man that he was all in autofill he respected him even more because you knew that he had your back, you know, just like wholesaling, but you knew that you knew that he was gonna go to the ends of the earth for you. And you couldn’t ask for anything.
Justin Riley
Man I, I hear the same thing from every one of the former players that he’s he’s coached man just seems to be the consensus man. And one thing that really stood out to me is just how much he cared for each individual player it it was more of like a father role rather than a coach at times. Is that something that you felt the
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I mean,
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those those conversations you would have with him
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when you on those occasions that you did mess up, he knew that there was gonna be consequences for you mess it up, but you knew that it was gonna be gone. I love you thought he would bring you in, he will tell you, okay, this is what’s gonna happen these are and these are your options.
Unknown Speaker
Ideally, you can do this you can do that, or you know,
Unknown Speaker
this is what it is. And so
Unknown Speaker
he was he was more of a father figure. So a lot of players that then then most people know because he did he wanted to know he, he wants to know about your family life. Your mom, your, your, your dad, your sister, your brother. He wants to know, know, make sure that she was his biggest things, was it you was going to graduate. You know when he when he went into that living room. I told your mom he’s gonna take care of you Innovation you graduated. That’s what you want to do. And I think back to some of the players I played with even years after, you know, their playing days are over with Alabama was one of those schools that always harped on them about graduate, you know, always john Demers man was great. I don’t know, man. I don’t know where he’s at. Now everything but I know he’s hired and everything but he was great about staying connected and making sure you you had the courses you need, making sure that you came back and did the stuff you need to do to get your get your default.
Marvin Constant
You make a lot of very, very valid points about that whole graduating thing, you know, and a lot of players you know, they actually, you know, take it upon themselves to hold each other accountable. So shout out to Joe Dixon. When I say jerell goes above and beyond who he’s talking to. Oh, smoke, he’s gonna talk to you make sure that Hey, man, you get that paper yet. That’s gonna be the first thing out of his mouth. Tea now I got a few of not he asked me Do you plan on stop getting papers on my I’m done.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, so I
Justin Riley
still stay on Gene Stallings, Kevin, you have a pretty interesting story when it came to your recruiting. And Jane Stalin’s you know, you suffered horrific injury in high school when you pretty much had opportunity to go anywhere. And then when the injury happened, everybody kind of backed off with one person and that was Gene Stallings. Would you mind telling us that story?
Unknown Speaker
Oh, yeah. So it was a great, um, my senior year in high school, I was playing against Tiger in the playoff game, like the second around on the playoff game. I got a tremendous knee injury. So I’m saying that I wouldn’t go and play it anymore. We had out of that game. We probably had 13 scout staff on each school, and I got hurt. I had 14 Different offers. Next week after I got hurt, I had 111 team that call and call KOAT dot Andrews up winning got an operation with Dr. Andrews arm, woke up that next morning and looked over to my left hand side It was cold Stalin sitting right there and he was saying, Hey man, he’s I don’t care if you play another down again, I want you to get to university Alabama and my mom said, You’re going there You’re not going anywhere else. And it was a great feeling just to have that person. You know, everybody Florida State, Notre Dame, Florida, Mississippi State, Ohio State, all those all those teams, I never heard anything from him. And the thing about him and he said we’ll send you to junior college for a year to get yourself together to see if we go you come back and play. I’ll run a 437 at that time in high school went to Got her set out, set up a semester went enrolled in Jones junior college and genuinely in December, and while January at the time, when we got back from spring training, I ran into the full three, nine. After that knee injury on the first team after that season, I was the first team all American Juco player, I was a freshman all American. I was, quote unquote, player, freshman, incoming Player of the Year and come to find out. Now he comes out of scouts again, and Oh, yeah. One of my coaches. My school I went to what the big Florida State School and they signed a lot of guys, orphans, Roy, Tim Johnson. They all went to Florida State and a bunch of guys went to Florida State before me. And he said, he said Kevin and Mick Andrews gonna come down and watch you come down and talk to you. I know you’re not. He’s not. He said, Oh, yes. He’s coming down. He’s going drive all the way down here and watch and talk to you want to talk to Jessica Koch. Let me ganju Drive five, five miles away in Tallahassee to talk to me because I’m not talking to him. He’s a why. As a coach, I got hurt. In December, I remember I got hurt in December in a champion playoff game. And this is my first time here from Florida State. I said, so don’t let him drive all the way down here to talk to me. And he drove down. And I guess they thought I was playing. I was over in your game room playing ping pong. And one of the coaches I mean, one of the coaches came over say, Man up. Coach dice won’t want to talk to you. Okay, so I ran over now, I was up coffee set up making it now. I ran out there went to the game room and play as I told you, I wasn’t coming over there. I don’t have anything to say to those guys. You know, they left me at a time when I will need it that I need to be done. And when God was there, that will go solid. And that’s where I’m going with Alabama. Talk about it. Nobody to come. You. If anybody called you and asked you about me just say he’s already committed, you want to go to Alabama. That’s it. And Costco, it was a great, it was a great thing. And my mom fell in love with him and told me, you need to go there.
Marvin Constant
Kim and I got a question for you real quick. Before I get into before I get into which one of y’all was busting coverages. You have Fernando, I know. Before I get to that, because you know, everybody thinks is a fast they can do stuff, but we don’t come back to that. Like people don’t understand what it takes mentally to overcome a knee injury. You know, I had one myself That was pretty bad. You know, people don’t understand that mental fog that comes with that because it came when you’re used to being on top of the world. And then all of a sudden blink of eye, you know, nobody’s talking to you two cameras on on the lights on own anymore because you’re hurt. You know, everybody thinks you can’t do what you used to do. So for you to be able to come back and play What did that take for you mentally to do that? And how did that affect you moving forward throughout your life? Because I know that mental development that you acquire doing after knee injury it’ll take you a long way if you survive it.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, man, you gotta have a mental mental strong background on that man. You gotta like you said when the cameras not looking when nobody’s not looking and everybody to count count you out. You got to down fight for one you got to fight for what you believe in and what you think you’re going to get to that next level. And what really got me is when I got hurt, that’s my senior high school. What really said to me was all my friends signing D one scholarship and set for me, and I’m like, man, and I got hurt. And man I rehab I cried every day. I’m not gonna sit in LA to cry every day rehab because the pain and the hurt and hard I was going with so emotional and it was hurt so bad. I won’t get back and show everybody that akj is back. He’s back he’s faster he’s stronger. And he got he got a crazy attitude Oh man, that’s what I got to man I got to a point that it didn’t matter where he was at I was gonna go full speed it didn’t matter if coach stole him said we were going shoulder pads are short, I’m hitting it didn’t matter what was going on because I felt like if I didn’t go full speed I would get hurt again. And that was my mindset. You always go full speed but like you said, Man, a knee injury will will will make you grow up real fast and make you humble yourself real fast and make you when you when you really get back to that next level make you really really appreciate life and football.
Marvin Constant
You know a lot of people don’t understand you know, cuz like when you when you save a lot of days of crime, then that done that Brother, you know, the loneliest feelings in the world because you feel like the only person that got you is you at that point. You know, it was a lot of dark days, man, people don’t understand, you know, everybody thinks that because you the big strong football player, he’s supposed to be the tough guy, don’t cry, go be tough. You know that stuff mentally affects you when you get hurt and you can’t do the thing that you love anymore. So I’m glad that you were able to move past that and, and get back to doing what you love at a high level man, that is a blessing.
Unknown Speaker
It is a blessing man. It was a rough, rough roll man. I can tell you the times that rehab man that I was at the hospital that some of the patients and some of the nurse people up in the physical therapies up that said y’all need to take him in the back, put him in the back room because he’s hollering and crying too loud. I mean, but I got I gotta say, Man, my throat my therapist, Marshall Smith, man, he pushed me to the limit and got me from like I said, in high school, the low four three guy and when I got to Alabama when I got the Jones, I was 185. I ran it for I ran for three, nine and a half. After that injury and it’s so much sacrifice and how much I work my butt off to try to get to that level.
Marvin Constant
Yeah, so it takes a lot of work to return so
Justin Riley
Well, Kevin, let’s talk about your true debut. You know, Stallings gave you your shot against Georgia now I can read an article that before the game. your teammate and current head coach at Tennessee Jeremy Pruitt said, you’re going to have two to three picks in that game and you just kind of shrugged it off. Lo and behold, man. Well, I’ll let you tell us what happened. I know what happened because I had forgot that game since I was a kid man. that’s a
Unknown Speaker
that’s a funny game. And people don’t know, too. When I got there, I started the first thing I started my first game was Vanderbilt game. Georgia wasn’t the first game I started. Vanderbilt was the first game I started. If you remember in 95, when the guy from Bentonville running back, Amanda Wang were hit to get He went 65 yards for a touchdown and damn cool job of blame that on me and I got I got benched that game address short came in got interception that game we played Arkansas hundred short guy didn’t play nine he got another interception. We played Southern Miss. I didn’t play in it on the show I got nothing and stuff so he got three interception now. And I’m just I’m just this guy just transfer from jr calm my shoe I’m just going to transfer this guy, three games. So I was at the Sigma new house, the southern men’s game out the southern men’s game mad upset. I told them I’m transferring I’m going I’m going here and going down. And I’m going to start looking for different schools. So we had it all week by week from for Georgia. So we go in Monday. Meeting whatever USM and when our meeting meet, and we go to our individual mean difference back mean, a coach, Coach, all of a sudden Kevin, we’re gonna start shooting guess the Georgia game. I’m like, What? This man has got three interceptions in three games. Y’all start me and I’m like, okay, so that we could practice man, I bust my butt. And I got in trouble a lot because like I said, when it was time I was in shorts, and we weren’t hitting out. We was going I was going full speed every single play. So I went to Georgia game got here was up and he was up in the locker room rack for the game. And and man Pruitt always talked about whatever goal, the game plan and stuff like that because it was really, it was a student of the game too. At that time. He helped me out a lot. And he’s Kevin, man, I got a good film about this game, as what you mean. I bet you don’t get to it too. Man, what up, man? It’s real man. He’s gonna be your breakout game. As a proven, man Hirshman has opened. Its man for real. He came to some of my fields. So I got, you know, my first time because it was like, I mess up. I mess up. So, the first game, I mean, the Georgia game, I messed up the first plate. And we got it. And so he pulled me over to the side I put on the microphone, what else he say. He’s saying now, that was the only thing I needed for him to trust me to get me to go out there again. And the next series, I got an exception, and I finished the game with like three interceptions, a touchdown and 14 times. And the craziest thing about it is the funny thing about him at practice. Practice goes Darwin knew my name. He always called me 787. Are you enough Don’t make plays on Saturday they sent me You always in on Tiger yet, as a coach got as a defense coordinator while he played. He said, Oh, man, I see every day making plays in practice. So he was calling me seven didn’t know my name. After the Georgia game timer hit zero he’s a Kj Camille. Hey, just want to call my name is Kami Kj and it was only ever since then, man, it was a great feeling. And I went to Germany. Like I said German was a great teacher and he helped me out a lot because me coming from college. I never played secondary always outside of Microsoft. I never had to make the checks and when I got there you guys Fernando should all those checks. Any guy move back move one check, second receiver move.
Unknown Speaker
Another check.
Unknown Speaker
The outside receiver moves another check so goes out real multiple, but he had different schemes on everything. And if you didn’t know that, you didn’t know that defense you wouldn’t like but a jury To help me out
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understanding understanding how to study what
Marvin Constant
you know Jamie is actually a great dude man you know I’ve always had nothing but great interactions with him and you make a very valid point you know when you have to make those checks nose audibles, you know me playing middle linebacker and as Johnson was always looking at me like hey man, you better do every set every person in your group and when they go in motion what plays come you got to tell everybody what to do. So you know having Jeremy there to help you with that, man that that was that was huge, because again, that stuff is happening when it’s happening in real time. It’s like, you don’t have time to think this is like
Unknown Speaker
oh yeah, man. Oh, if you didn’t know what you want go play man. And that’s that’s the thing about people saying that, man, I just got a lot of things going on a lot of books. A lot of cookies. Sometimes guys just take pickup right now you know it gonna take a while, you know, and it took me a while. You know? Got it, you know, started teaching other people but like you said, that thing happened so fast. You got to be on the move and you got to know you’re stuck. You can’t be guessing. Oh, a guy’s looking at you trying to see what
Marvin Constant
Yeah, so how many times you have to bail Fernando out when pill is prime for a pass
Unknown Speaker
just jokes is just jokes
Unknown Speaker
about that story though. It’s crazy because we up in Tennessee, we got a good game plan we had a good brightness. So we get we get to tell them see, and all of a sudden they say it’s a mandatory meeting, we got to meet gotta meet. So we go into this meeting. And we change from a four three to a three for that night.
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And
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so we change the defense.
Unknown Speaker
The defense that we think we doubted a little bit. We worked on it one night and then Full speed. You know, we’ve walked through it. We’ve gone through. And so we got a man. We don’t know. Tennessee made it look like we didn’t know that because they ran ragged around us but like I said, I think we just stuck with the same game plan. I think it would have been a better football game.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
Justin Riley
Both you guys can kind of talk about how y’all all came together as one I seen you, Kevin and Shay and you Fernando. Obviously anybody completed the path against y’all to be honest with you. But when did that unit become one and really start to take over?
Unknown Speaker
Man, summertime, man we harp on summertime and going into summertime, but we had everybody to stay up there. Or if anybody go home, we make them come back in two weeks to come up there and go, play, play play semi semi all day long and how the coaches up in the box open they often watch Unless we get at it man, it was like like Fernando said, Man, it was just something different about going to that school man and compete. And we competed every single summer. And if it ain’t just football we competed basketball we competed in track when we had run 100 we competed me the winning. All us competed to shake. Fernando we competed who’s gonna be first every time and man it was it was always competitive between us for what it was at Samuels and with lamb back yet raw state round was for four guy Dwayne was a four four guy and then you have some good middle linebacker was probably four eight guys and then those four back then debate about four four and four three guys. So man we and we put we test don’t receive us every single day and got those guys better and they got us better to it. Same time and then we had some good receivers at that time we had some fantasy Marcell Where’s Curtis Brown? Todrick Malone. You know, some guys right there was a really good receiver that that helped us out a lot. You know, you go against those guys every day to me, the guy’s got receivers like that on the team. But like I said, we competed and has had a great time competing. nelga never got mad at each other about competing with each other. We always was a team first. And we always did things that were right the right way. And like I said, we get together in the summertime and just go at it. And that made us better and it may
Unknown Speaker
be good in the secondary. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker
As far as Mr. casas not on my, in my
Unknown Speaker
in my career, I will say I’ve, I’ve I’ve been beaten before by my own iPhone. ran by twice in my entire career. No one was on what was read the most, and one was a joke. There’s only two times
Marvin Constant
now, I was just joking with you, but I could understand Randy more for any fancy that long strike. That’s that’s, that’s amazing.
Unknown Speaker
When you talk about the secondary, we always talk about the secondary and nobody knew that we were number one secondary in the country. There was nobody I mean, there we were the number one secondary in the country. And then we ran up against them Florida Gators in the SEC championship game. We had given those two touchdowns the entire season in the air the entire season. Man they scored five in the in the first half. Was that
Unknown Speaker
the autumn balls?
Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker
That’s the national championship. Like when I tell you we we had we had given up two touchdowns in entire season. In the second day, we will not it was it wasn’t even close who’s no one said, man. We got there
Unknown Speaker
all that term. Awesome.
Marvin Constant
Have y’all ever play at Florida field before you tell me the fighter? I never play down. Okay, so on Florida field, it’s literally just dirt almost spray painted green. You can tell they roll it in a compact management thing into a straight track. That’s what that’s what they do to accent that speed. So yeah, you put them on turf. Oh, you better buckle up because you know you’re going to be in for it all day.
Unknown Speaker
My freshman year, we couldn’t go to a ballgame. We found that we was upset we can go to a ballgame because of stuff that happened before us. We finished 10th we were like, I think we were attending to attend one. And we couldn’t go to a ballgame where we couldn’t do anything. And then so the next year we come out here. I mean, we chose not Somebody we we don’t and so we think in a playful message that we’re gonna win SEC championship. That’s a championship it was I think we were number three against number five or number five against number three whichever one it was. And man Florida was special that year so I me
Unknown Speaker
put it as a bad game
Marvin Constant
look I’m gonna tell y’all a quick funny story about playing Florida so when we played them influenced in 99 that’s when he had both hair and junk appeal and running back Yeah, remember both of them went to the Olympics in 2000 Olympic sprint so you know it is he wanted this man to man and maybe a little while back I had one on one coverage photo again, Tony Reza come over there talking to me about man Don’t worry about now. We got you. They get past it man. Ain’t no get past we don’t even worry about probably in the second quarter. We got the Blitz go. Oh, I hear is Tony back to Holland because I didn’t tap for oboe care and I’m Jay Leno. And I know at home what you got to run past me literally every time they came by I just happened. Like man cuz I was not going to get embarrassed on national TV trying to keep up with new tracks. Oh yeah.
Unknown Speaker
Man. I mean,
Unknown Speaker
I got like Fernando said it was special. They had a special team.
Unknown Speaker
And you had the other one. So they were lonely. They had a good time.
Marvin Constant
Was that our was the one named Aaron Kenny. Was that him? Oh, yeah.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, it was crazy. I mean it off physically. They were I mean, they were loaded.
Unknown Speaker
So loaded on
Unknown Speaker
defense.
Marvin Constant
You didn’t even hear about Jafar cursing Mike peeps. Yeah,
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No I never Marvin I never seen you know is really when you go into the championship game I got loans right window buckets I mean
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you know Chris cannon got in trouble I will drive and charge him and bought loans right in as ultimate and he wanted down top for that. Yeah yeah they did have a nice score they really did. They had a top 10 score score they was they was there.
Marvin Constant
Yeah, so so I got asked me what was the funniest thing that happened between y’all on the field in the game at Alabama. I can Cuz you know everybody knows some funny that happened between them and the guys they played with and most of the time nobody ever talks about outside of a crew go in
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Kj My mind was
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Fernando to I didn’t want Fernando on SEC championship game you know when I ran past him and score that touchdown against banana no goals and then just start going off on air
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I want to play man put me
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put me on massive banana was a man
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but man we are having those guys in that meeting man. It’s a whole lot of things I have more time having fun and after the game, and we all watch the film and everybody telling on air because you missed that play. Look at number seven. Look at number seven, wind it back and they get a phone and be funny how people just only get
Unknown Speaker
that day. Well, I will say this. Your dad will like you said you will. You will be out the app you went ahead after you had that game from Georgia. You know you really could do no wrong you really could do no wrong. So you will be out and you will be gone. Like you know, everybody knew I was gonna be a man to man, but I knew you came down in the box within four or five hours.
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You can say what you need to do what you want to
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backup because there is no sagging safety.
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I can’t get back.
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Once I come down, I can’t get back up.
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But when I got when I got
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what I got to Alabama you know I doing in college, you got breakfast lunch and dinner that’s it. That’s all you get you get no extra.
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So I got the bamboo and
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in the spring from January from January to the screen football kicked off our 185 and when spring ball kicked off our 213
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Okay, that’s why that’s the case.
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So as all that said and done I played 207
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so that’s the Kj
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Kj Hey
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Trinity College days, man
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Unless you have a snack at 1030 at night
Marvin Constant
Hey, listen, man, I just want to tell y’all some today. We got another guest about to join us. He just texted me. And he’s about to come on fellas. I think you’re gonna enjoy this fellas. Well, he’s a fellow dB.
Unknown Speaker
So let’s be Lego.
Justin Riley
No, no, I like them.
Marvin Constant
It ain’t like Justin has his own beat yet.
Justin Riley
Let me take a look here. Not quite yet. But this is the guy that made his name. No, not only in college, but in the pros as well. My fat. Like Fernando, he’s got a ring.
Unknown Speaker
Yes, Superbowl champion.
Justin Riley
And it’s been hard keeping this secret for what? Two weeks now?
Marvin Constant
I don’t tell anybody gay. Yeah, so he should be zooming hidden as zoom in second. So he just texted me So, so he’s ready.
Justin Riley
So before he gets on Ken egpu Tell me like what was the best game that y’all played Alabama? What was your key moment?
Unknown Speaker
My key moment like you said it was the Georgia game.
Unknown Speaker
It was my I think coming out game and a lot of people don’t know that year I was a all sec all American guy. But I didn’t play in four games and I played sec in interceptions and with seven. But I didn’t play and I didn’t start I started the first series and the Vanderbilt game and then play no more until the Georgia game and we play Georgia fourth game of the season. And you know, just to have three interceptions a touchdown and and 14 tackles. That was a that was a big key for not just my just for my team, but it was a big key for me too. And my name Ben Goodwin off with the defense And knowing what to do, I was in the right place at the right time being confident, more confident. And just my teammates have my back and that was one of the primary games and that that I remember that sticks out to everybody when I when I might have said something to me It always be the Georgia game or something like that. I did get somebody to ask me about the Georgia game with Quincy Jackson.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, I think for me, it was probably
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LSU when we came back, I think Sean
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Sean returned the kick or whatever, but I think it was LSU for me, I think it was when they had the booty boys and and so I was I was one of my better games and it was a night game and it was, it was a it was one of those transitional games for me. Most people like I was a kid returner and so I have I have some good some good to kick returns to get those kind of back and feel position give a short field and we were down at halftime it looked like you know Death Valley at night that I’m sure there’s crazy so when I look back over my career I just that game and how crazy it was that one and the Auburn game when we came back and we won. I think my
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my sophomore my junior year
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and I was going up against Bailey and we I think we ended up winning by a couple points or whatever. And I had a interception on Damien credit to kind of set everything up nicely. Okay, yes. Nancy’s had an interception on Damien created it kind of set everything up and kind of set everything back in motion. Then his role in a getting a little flair fast on the win the game at the end. And so that was probably
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Two of my best games there.
Marvin Constant
Man. Justin, I think is that time to visit that time? Yeah,
Justin Riley
man is definitely that time. You know, I can’t go two more minutes, let alone two more weeks without announcing. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker
Well, let’s do it the
Marvin Constant
gym without further ado the third member to this party former Super Bowl champion. Roman Hall the man himself,
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man man.
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Hey Roman either.
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Yeah man. Can you guys hear me?
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Yeah, we hate you man. You all
Marvin Constant
with Fernando Brian and Kevin Jackson and Justin brother.
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Hey, oh man, Kevin Jackson. The story is Fernando Brian aka to 500 Yes
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sir.
Unknown Speaker
You heard about to five but when you got on campus, this this LED In this, this this, this nuance this, this just aura of this person. So it’s great to be on with you guys. Thank you so much for having a man. Thank you.
Marvin Constant
Yeah, so I got a couple questions for you first and foremost, how’s the new gig treat me?
Unknown Speaker
Well you know what man moving out for like I’m a freshman or rookie all over again, man every day is something that I can improve on. I’m just trying to continue to learn all these sec players, the coaches, the nuances of college football all over again, because I’ve been trained by the NFL for so long and now trying to jump back into SEC is fun because I love the SEC but at the same time, I don’t know a lot and especially about being on TV had to have great quick hitters. Being able to talk eloquently and be able to describe certain things and even like the mundane things or the stuff that I think is boring. Being able to dress that up and then some of the football stuff that maybe I love to talk about that the average fan would not I’d even understand being able to kind of dumb that down and don’t really go into detail about that.
Justin Riley
Man, I remember you when you were at Alabama, I was there about the same time you were and it was during a transition phase. Did that we call it that’s
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the transition.
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Thought as far as coaches go, I mean,
Justin Riley
like four coaches in five years, I mean, you know, DuBose and then we got frangioni, who left in the middle of the night, 20 minutes of Mike price. And then coach Shula. So yeah, it was kind of interesting. So, but I remember your class when y’all came in, man. No, but was really Griffin before. Y’all had an undeniable hunger and drive like, y’all were going to be that squad. It turned everything around. Can you kind of talk about that and that mentality you guys had?
Unknown Speaker
Well, it was funny. So you know, DuBose never coached me but he was that that’s that did offer me a scholarship and then they got fired by randomly But it was I think the funniest part was how we all came in. And we were one of the lowest rated classes that Alabama had had in a long time. You know, Marvin constant that all those couple classes before us were really, really highly rated. And they had a whole bunch of parade all American guys, you look at my class, I think we have anybody besides Brody Crowe, he was the only one that a lot of people kind of knew of, and everybody else was much, much, much less talked about, and things like that. So by the time we were able to kind of to get on the field, we played a lot of us early, they tried to redshirt as many as they could, because we understood that we were going to be on probation, because it would pass things people have done. We’re not even going to go into that, nor do we have to talk about it. But we all know about it. That’s MOOCs right now. So to be able to see all this in like have to go through that to have the older guys really treat us like dirt. It really humbled us all but it made us all come together as one class that we had to lean on each other all the time. And and then went on Those guys left. And it was just us playing all the time, it was the same thing that we had to really lean on each other. And eventually, we started winning ball games. And we found so many ways to lose the game. Our first couple years out there playing, but by our senior year, we started to really figure it out, like what works for us and it really turned out to be one of the better defenses that that that came through Alabama.
Justin Riley
Yes, who really, I guess stood out to you the most as far as a leader on a team or was all just a collective unit. As far as returning that defense back to glory? because y’all did do that, man, we were ranked number one in the nation on almost every category. And 2005
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, it’s it’s amazing to see how we played um, you know, for me, the leaders on that defense would easily be somebody like the Mikko Ryan, we always had somebody up front Rudy Griffin is a guy who didn’t put up great numbers but was a steady, a steady player up front for us that did a lot of talking, always producing you know exactly where they were going to be at And then the back half I guess you could point to me but I really wasn’t that type of guy. I was too. I’m kind of a selfish guy. So you don’t want selfish has been your leaders. So I was more with me got the time and I really, it was just all about me and I wanted to do whatever I wanted to do so, but leadership was it had definitely had to be the Mikko Ryan’s
Marvin Constant
sound like he was playing with Kenny Smith. That’s what he wanted to do. Like we would have Blitz Kyle kinescope hit the a gap Kenny is all the way out here on the tight end, dude. I’m like Kenny, you left me expose man, I got hit by God and attacking because you don’t want to do what you’re supposed to do. Again.
Justin Riley
It’s funny Roman, you said that leadership wasn’t your thing. But in your NFL scouting report, that was one of the top things mentioned about you
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know, you can pull him twice, you know, I mean, the clocks right you know, twice a day no matter what. So it’s is really funny because I never I didn’t look at it and like not do my assignment, it was more that I just didn’t care about trying to make sure everybody else was like rah rah system, but I’m not that type of guy. I’m more on the letter level of, I’m gonna play hard. So if you can’t play hard and go off for me and my vibe, then I don’t really want you out there. So if you can’t get down like I’m going to get down, whether I’m just now coming in or maybe I stayed out too late the night before. None of that matters because once I crossed the white these white lines, I’m going to play a certain way with a certain type of attitude. If you can’t get with me then I don’t really want you out there. So I’m going to play so hard that it’s going to make you uncomfortable unless you raise your raise your game up to my Yeah, pounders
Marvin Constant
did mess up a lot of practices $2 Tuesday’s but we’ll get into that. But But you know, speaking of leadership, I would love to get all three of y’all take on Alabama’s performance last year. Because again, I don’t feel like we played up to the Alabama standard last year. I feel like it was a lot of guys who Playing the ball, and they weren’t into the whole team concept. So, you know, I would love to get your thoughts on that and the current secondary moving forward. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker
Um, let me see, I think, you know, from the outside looking at it from you look at from the outside looking at you look at what alabama football has been two different decades and everything and the one thing that’s always been consistent, even though you know, I mean with this age when we scored a lot of points and did a lot of things like that offensive, we had a lot of superstar individuals with running backs and wide receivers. Defensively, there was a certain kind of steadiness about alabama football, and you kind of saw that wane a little bit last year. You don’t know if that was because of injuries because of the people that you as you thought was going to be there. But the one thing Alabama always was able to do, and which I think will help one more This year is because a lot of the young players that they, they had, were able to come in and play and contribute. And some of those young players didn’t play like the five star players that they came in as one thing Alabama’s always been able to do is get five star players to play like five star players, but not only five star players, they got a three star who’s gonna play like you’re gonna play like a four star or five star. You didn’t see that last year. And at some point it used to be Alabama could wield their way to get to that point, and we always last year so I was waiting on someone to leave them defensively. We were waiting on somebody to step up and say, Okay, this is Alabama. This is the way we do it. And it didn’t seem like that happen. Um, so that was a discipline thing for me, you know? And it seems like he knows a little turmoil with the coaching staff. You No, I don’t know I wasn’t there. This is just from outside looking in perspective, but I’m the turtle. I thought finally caught up with Alabama. I thought the turnover with the continuity between trust between player and coach wasn’t necessarily there or it didn’t look like there’s like nobody was really sure about who was supposed to be doing this. And when it did screw up, how do we fix it? So that was my take on.
Unknown Speaker
Jackson, my take over about the same as Fernando, it was a lot of miscommunication and not enough talking out there. The defense wasn’t up to par and like the offense. I think it was a lot of young guys that was thrown in a situation that they wouldn’t use to. And a lot of older guys when stepping up and teaching young guys how to be a how to be a player and How to do how to do do it the right way. I saw a lot of a lot of uncertainness a lot of missed tackles a lot of guys not hustling to the ball just one of those guys when you first come in when when a when a whole coaching staff first come in and get a team that’s what it looked like last year like a lot of guys from the coaching staff to the to the players that a lot of trust one there a lot of people that didn’t know what they was doing and you know like you said he had a lot a lot of hurt a lot of hurt guys that was couldn’t contribute last year and that hurts there’s a program too but at the same time you know we supposed to have these five star guys and I just didn’t think that they prepared yourself well enough to be able to play like they supposed to play last year. I know when you score for some points on over you supposed to win that game no matter what. What kind of circumstance that is. is like a trike me between both teams. Then I never seen Alabama defense played like, play like that before. Just let people run up and down the field on your neck that pisses me off. Because, you know, I’m a defensive minded guy. And I like, I like head hunting, I like trying to stop guys playing offense guys, but at the same time, but when you see that, you know, you know, some may write with the program and some need to be fixed. And I think Nick, Nick on fix that this year, and like Fernando said to a lot of people in and out, you know, I think we need to keep some of those coaches and I know everybody wants to be a head coach nearby want to go do their own thing and, and that’s understandable. And but at the same time, we got to be able to keep those guys there for a couple of couple of years and make sure we can win more championships and making sure that everybody’s doing what their job is and making sure they’re doing what they’re supposed to do on defense right now. offense is the prime example. Whenever you have whenever you went to a Alabama game in the last 30 years looking for offense. Yeah. Because it always been run, run past RUN RUN pad. And you you got the defense you always read about the defense, you know, we had all our guys making plays on defense. So that’s what I think that we need to get that mojo back and need to get that feeling back and get that defensive minded back and go on to playing like Alabama used to play.
Marvin Constant
There has been a lot of coaching turn over the past few years. And when you look at the amount of points given up by the Alabama this past season, I don’t think we’ve given up that many points in the last 10 years total. So Ron, what’s your take on that?
Unknown Speaker
No, I think these guys hit it right on the head. I would really just try and piggyback and kind of dive in a little bit more and that is I’m not only did a lot of young guys get forced to play early, but when they were they didn’t make the plays that we assumed for them to make the team. The defense lacked physicality. Not one At one point time, did you ever look at a defense last year and say, Man, that is a scary defense or any individual say, that is a scary dude that we have to prepare for. For one individual that never happened. And I think that is what they have to get back to. I also would love to see Alabama kind of diversifying their scheme a little bit where they’re not always playing just they’re doing a lot of combo coverage. Every time the quarterback dropped back, he knew his matchup that he wanted to go. And if you’re not confusing the quarterback by pass or coverage by rusher coverage, then you’re always gonna not be successful, I think to be better up front and getting the passer. I think Jim hate coming back from injury. But overall they have to play more physical. They have to be they have to be able to hit people in strike. And the people defensively and they did not do that last year. Another thing that I thought they missed was like we got messed up somebody need to go sit down on a bitch and change your attitude and play hard. That was one thing Kevin Jackson talked about was that guy’s not playing all the time. And it stood out to me, when all of a sudden now you see somebody have a change of speed, when or when they when somebody misses a tackle, what do you do when you heal that? or solve that problem, I’ll just go over there, you sit down and wait until you think about it, get somebody else in there. Because of the injuries because of some of these other things we talked about. We did not see extended amounts of people in the rotation play last year. And I think that the lack of effort
Marvin Constant
on the football field, simply picking up a lot of your audio was too bright. So, you know, looking at looking at the team as a whole, you know, as we, you know, start to prepare for this upcoming season, even with the COVID You know, there’s gonna be a lot of challenges that you know, people just don’t expect. So who’s that one guy that you are looking forward to see how he’s going to impact Alabama as they move into the season because you know, Most people saying certeyn It’s time for him to step up and be that guy. So who’s that guy for you are
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baseless to me.
Unknown Speaker
Marvin, I really don’t have no guy.
Unknown Speaker
That whole defense got to show me Yeah, no, they’re all different guys show me and show me so I could pick a guy right now I don’t think it is a guy on that team right now this shoot that could just say I could just pick you know from you know we all you could say Petrus or Tang, but it’s like I’m much canacona Do you know what I mean? But uh what what what about those guys in the middle what can those guys I have no idea what those guys could do in the middle you know so when when that when those when those games come and when I see them first two games then I might say okay, I got a guy now but right now I can’t pick that one guy back steps that that I could look at and look on that roster that said this guy gonna be obese. Yeah, everybody look good on paper. Five stars, whatever, we have five stars last year, but they didn’t show up. But like I said, you gotta pick, I’m picking my guy at the second game of the year or the third game of the year, but right now, I don’t have a guy.
Unknown Speaker
For me, I guess I would say mouse man, you know, I will say that I’m coming back. If he’s going to be that dominant force that he was, you know, I mean, what we expected last year, you know, the stabilizing force of our defense to where I was just says, I wasn’t calling I will say, of course, you can do quite a bit. But what I will say is this, if you can have a dominant force in the mill, outside, you, you can do a lot of things a mom rolling a heart. That’s the one thing I did like about what you said. They have to diversify. The one thing I used to say, I hate it when I watched alabama football is I knew on third and short or on the goal line. a roadblock was always Want to beat them? Because they were gonna play that combo coverage and they wasn’t getting out of it. Now the one thing you love about Alabama is that their consistency on what they do when they believe in what they do, but sometimes you do have to try to switch up some things to make an offense Think about it, because they can put you and they know what they can put you in offensively to get the look they want. That’s what they’re going to do. So when Hawk said that that’s the one thing that came to mind for me I was like man down there on the goal line and on 13 shorts, everybody everybody knows if you have one mouse you can get Alabama in a predicament that that nine times out of 10
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Unless Unless Alabama guys
Marvin Constant
are just better than your guys, you know? So I thought we would have a bet I thought we would have abandoned that plan. clemson with deshaun Watson Wow. Do you plan man to man switch off or plays out
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beat up by
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Alabama just want to say, Man, you know the one thing I say, Man now, hey, they believe what they do, and they stick with it. But I would like to see a little switch up from that standpoint. But if those two players though, defensively and Molson Sartain played up to what they can, they have opportunity to be scared, because in the secondary, what, what Nick does kind of like the Patriots and everything like that, if you can lock that one guy up, you can do a lot of things in the secondary, you know, meant to help the other side so they come along and everything. If you have that dumb that guy in the middle, are, your outside rushes can do a lot of things that can they can wreak havoc on our office. So have those two players right there. Come in and play up to their standards. They have opportunity to be special.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, I agree with you guys. I think Dylan Moses in the middle has to be that guy defensively, but I’m gonna go a completely different lane. I’m gonna go to my guy who’s really going to impact the season. It’s got to be Steve Sarkeesian calling the plays off
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nozze and nadji here’s Canarsie, Harris, do what
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Derek Camry did, can he actually carry and Bama total load and carry them to a championship game? Because we need it. We’re used to having just this average quarterback at Alabama. We’ve never had to talk about that the first time. So I don’t want us to have a thing. All of a sudden things like oh, this is what we got to have. This is what we want all the time. We need to let that girlfriend go. Just understand. Now I need to come back to reality, which gets back to run the ball being physical with the dominant offensive line you look at every book, Tennessee, Alabama has the best offensive line in the country. Consistently from side to side, left to right. It’s a complete, complete, dominant offensive line. Use the big boy run the ball, man Don’t be an art, delicate decision to the football. Use it in the basement, while Jalen Watteau all these other people around and let this boy nazy hairs top this rock and take this to the promised land. If we do that that can give yourself enough chances to now deep into the All you need is one or two turnovers and then that the game slows down offensively enough to where now it puts pressure on the opposing team to try and play catch up. So I think you have to play more complementing football, we need to do Brunner better offensively by calling a better game, which is really running the ball more and that takes the pressure off Matt Jones, and then defensively, you know, haven’t done most
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or be great, but he
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right to action. I need him to amaze me all word all everything. The last all word player that we had at the top of college recruiting and all that other stuff that came in Alabama that was Landon Collins and he made a big impact when he was there. Patty certeyn I think he’s been good But he needs to be great.
Marvin Constant
Right? And you know, it’s funny that you talk about nausea and running the part that’s gonna be important this season because you look at it playing 10 sec games this year. That’s not normal. That’s a lot of abuse. That’s a lot of wear and tear. It’s going to be who who can who can hold up survival of the fittest. So you know, you’re gonna have to be rolling the ball, because you don’t want to be able to track me every week because your team is gonna be shot at the end of the season. Yes, it is.
Justin Riley
One person, I’ve got my own. It’s not that it’s a coach. It’s not a player. And harp when I asked this, I want your answer first, because you actually play with him. And he was very physical in college, and I believe he cares that though his coaching style is very demanding. He’s very passionate, and he’s very he has a fire inside him. And that’s Freddie Roach. He’s now one of the defensive coaches. How does add him to that staff? immediately change everything?
Unknown Speaker
Well, please upgrade. Freddie did not play D line. He was terrible on Get off. But he was great. He was physical. He played hard. He played fast. And now I like him to coach the line because now coaching D line is not that hard. Alright? The closer you get to the ball, the dumber you can be, the further away from the ball you aren’t the smarter you got to be. That’s why all these DVDs are so smart. Ask these guys. All right, we’re so smart. So all you have to do, coach, Coach hands, all right, the physicality getting off the ball not staying blocked, and you recruit the best of the best. So it’s not like you’re not working with talent here. You’re not playing with some goods you got stirred all over the place. before having DJ Dale back, these guys should come out and start to wreck shop up front. Now all of a sudden now we look up and we didn’t even know we had such a dominant force up front. That is the growth and improvement that we’re talking about that we need from Alabama’s defense here if they have goals and aspirations to beat somebody that to be Clemson or to be able to beat Georgia. To be able to beat Texas a&m is gonna be a really tough game that week too. So I’m really looking forward to all these matchups and who’s gonna really show up. And we’ll know a lot by week two or three, if this Alabama team is for real, and all these other teams in sec, who’s for real and who’s pretenders.
Justin Riley
To Kevin, what do you think about having free roadshow? coming to that coaching staff what he brings to the table? Do you feel like that he brings the fires the missing
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one when you’re when you’re the guy that’s
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played their
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heart is there
Unknown Speaker
and, and come back to the university albums. Coach, there is something about that coach that gives those guys because he’s been there. He’s been through that he’s been through that era. He’s been through that team. He’s he knows what the ins and outs on the football field is he know he’s been to that Coaching staff and Oh, he’s, he’s on that team before. So he brings a lot to those guys. And those guys really look probably look up to him more than they looked up to the rest of the coaches because of what he has done and what he has been through. And what what team he goes Oh, so I feel like Fred is a great company. A good and addition to that coaching staff because of his work ethic and he do a great job. I watched him a couple of times in practice. When I watched him back in the day that he do a really good job on technique and hand placement like Roman said, and he do a great job of getting into those guys and make those guys play.
Unknown Speaker
Kevin, man, keep it real. Talk to the players about Tutwiler. He can talk
Unknown Speaker
I mean, let’s keep it real here.
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Ready. That’s why he can find
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Romans. That’s why they’ll play.
Unknown Speaker
And I think that’s the point, though, I think, and more so from a player standpoint. What we talked about is trust. You know, I think for a long time now that Nick has had a lot of people that he’s helped, and he hadn’t gotten back the same type of loyalty, that he’s displayed to some of the coaches that he’s brought. And I think that higher right there is going to do a lot in the build as far as trust and when a coaching staff has a trust. That’s what you need. And the players will see that though, the players will see his energy and what he brings to the field is the fact that it’s more than just a coaching job. To him, you know, I mean, he was at another sec school. Yes, that’s fine. He was already making the money. He’s already done. Okay. But this is more than a coaching job to him. You know, this is home. You know, like I said, mumbles calm. You know, it was time to get back to what Alabama does and I think him being there helps that. You know, you said the thing about Steve’s okay. That’s the same thing by shark if you don’t call it the game. We don’t have problems offensively. If he doesn’t understand what alabama football is, you know, there’s a reason why he left and went to the Falcons. And we got him back now. You know, don’t get me wrong when I tell you when when I say the whole thing about trust. When Alabama got shot, did nobody want to touch it. Nobody want to touch about that USC thing. Now let’s just be real. They got him back to where he where he should be. And then he love and what’s up the Falcons or whatever, you know, I mean, so now, I think he’s back in that whole thing about trust and loyalty, you know, it means something in Alabama, it has for a while. And I think we kind of got away from that.
Unknown Speaker
Well, yeah, no, you go ahead.
Unknown Speaker
No, I’m just saying. So I think that, um, you know, like I say, everybody wants to be a head coach, and everybody wants to do this. Everybody wants to do that. But one thing I heard Nick say is this. I don’t care what you leave in your head coach, but don’t take, don’t take my other coaches away from me. Then I’m building my program where after I’ve gotten you here and giving you the opportunities that you have. So that was one of the things I think is going to help though I think that those two people being back and then in the system, and actually understanding what alabama football is, you know, I mean, like and when you say what if sharp goes that they have a very good opportunity to be good because this is not this season’s gonna be new for everybody with everything that’s going on with COVID and everything. How You don’t have to manage everything if you can make it through those first four or five games and not completely be beat up in and broke down and everything you’re going to have a shot to be special just because you know the way it’s set up this year you know i mean it’s a it’s three conferences really and you can call it what you want to I we get we get another championship this year. I’m not gonna put an asterisk by it because
Marvin Constant
what gentlemen we you know, we’re almost out of time and it’s too bad because I was gonna get Fernando to tell us a story about a time DuBose sent them back in air currently, and increase he barricaded the doors and one of the players go practice but that’s a story for another day.
Unknown Speaker
I can’t wait to hear that. Fernando.
Unknown Speaker
Coach white told me a little bit about that.
Justin Riley
Alright guys so you know I could definitely talk about this stuff all night but before we close out can each of y’all give us you know some closing words and then also if you’re on social media can you give us a way to contact you
Unknown Speaker
get up out of here first man but I’m just closing words man it was great great to be on the show model you know how I feel about you man you’re trying to get to know everybody everybody go get everybody get
Unknown Speaker
you looking
Unknown Speaker
good
Unknown Speaker
I’m trying to make sure I can get back in shape and everything like that but man the show I wish all the best I know everything is going to be great man. If you ever need anything you don’t have to get in contact with me. I love to come all all the other guys man it’s always like Marvin said beginning of the show is great. You know I mean for Bama guys to get together everybody know a day is unbelievable. Everything that’s the one thing that makes Alabama special. It doesn’t matter what decade of generation you came in once you play for that, Alabama once you that side of life and I love y’all look forward to seeing what y’all doing y’all and your futures and good luck with everything.
Justin Riley
Before you go real quick, Fernando, I got to tell you awesome you and Kevin something actually my very first Alabama game I ever went to. And it’s hard to be an Alabama fan growing up Mississippi, you don’t get a lot of opportunities to go Alabama games because they don’t quite understand football over here. But my very first Alabama game, I actually got my Bay first two autographs were from you. And Kevin. So that was a big deal to me and I still have this to this day. So I thought was a pretty big deal. So just want to let you guys
Unknown Speaker
appreciate that.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, yeah, man, I really do.
Unknown Speaker
All right, well Guess it’s my turn. All right.
Unknown Speaker
Well, look, man, I’m always honored because I grew up in Alabama. I grew up hearing about Kevin Jackson, Fernando Brian. I saw Marvin constants when he was at Central Tuscaloosa when he came to practice. So I am extremely enjoyed hearing you guys talk ball. I could do this all night. I love football. And Fernando right man is be Sapphire and I can’t wait to another a day comes. We’ll be able to after this COVID thing everybody’s been able to get back together. Marvin, you do a great job of bringing all the guys back and making sure you keep the connection into man and making sure that we all get back together and do some things outside of just a day. Otherwise, just a little lie. Keep that up, man. I appreciate it. Thanks, guys for reaching out to me. You can hire me hard 41 on Instagram, a heart underscore 41 on Instagram hard 41 on Twitter, Twitter, so check me out man. Hopefully I can get better on this TV thing, man. I’m gonna get there
Marvin Constant
we go. We definitely looking forward to the Yes guys to barbecue. Hopefully we’ll be back on what a few other events is upcoming. Hopefully COVID will cooperate so we can get our events off this year. You know, we’ll see.
Justin Riley
I can’t that leaves you
Unknown Speaker
see, man, I just I’m honored to thank you guys for even inviting me on this show widow with two great, great, great, great legends of university alabama football players, Roman and Fernando those guys was unbelievable and a great post guy Marvin, he was unbelievable watching him when I was when I was coming back some and just man just honored to be here with you guys and man, y’all doing some great things and keep it up man and keep getting guys together. And like you said, whatever you need for me, man. You got you guys got my number more. You got my number. Just holler at me. I’ll be there. You need it. Thing man, I need to get that book to whatever send me where I need to send my money cuz I need to get revved up like to
Unknown Speaker
look real good
Unknown Speaker
when I seen that bug, and I seen that cover I’m like
Unknown Speaker
hey, man, I’m just trying to live good him afford it.
Unknown Speaker
That’s all. Yeah, you’re doing a damn good job. I can tell you that bro. Keep it up, man and thanks. Thanks, man. And God bless each and every one of you guys.
Unknown Speaker
Again,
Marvin Constant
I just want to thank you all man. And while I’m thinking about it, next week’s show next Tuesday, we gonna talk more about Dylan Moses, but we’re gonna do it with jurrell Harris and Courtney Yeah, we’re gonna we’re gonna bring the love back Assad would be a lot more involved next.
Justin Riley
I’ll just be there introducing the show. Just Let’s go guys. If you want to order marvins book, you can actually go on our website. We have a link to order that so go ahead. Get it packaged and sent to you the amazing book so I gotta get a hold of myself. But as far as next week very excited and guys I’m definitely glad to have y’all on. Y’all definitely meant a lot to me watching y’all. When I was growing up and Roman when I was there with you a tremendous character, guys, that’s one thing that I love about both y’all is errors. This one thing that can definitely be said across the board, your work ethic, your tenacity and how y’all words leaders, even though harp You said you weren’t a leader. But I mean it’s just amazing. The heart you all had and carried over and each stage your lives and is what alabama football is all about. So I was really excited when when Marvin told me you guys would be on so thank you all for coming. Really excited about it and can’t wait to actually hear the replay. And you can hear the replay tomorrow on the sports cast dotnet right after you order marvins book
Marvin Constant
a guy’s made Have a good night and thank you again.
Unknown Speaker
All right fellas, Roll Tide roll.
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