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- What's Pittsburgh like culturally?
Like cause it's one of those places that
if you're not from Pittsburgh
you don't know the culture,
what the scene is there.
And you're very entrenched in it.
What's Pittsburgh all about?
- It's just, when you in Pittsburgh
everybody say blue-collar.
You know, Pittsburgh's tough.
All that good stuff,
so you know Pittsburgh's home.
Everybody's asking me, why
am I back in Pittsburgh.
I said, that's where
I'm from, that's home.
They say, but you can go anywhere,
but like this is where it all started.
You know, I go to Pitt, and I go back home
cause that's made me
molded me who I am today.
You know, that's what
helped me keep grounded,
that's what helped me keep myself humble,
keep me working cause I
got good people around me
that's gonna push me, and
know my best interests
cause they been there since day one.
So I wanna be around
people that, you know,
that push me and get me to the point
and I'm not gonna stop
doing what what got me
to where I'm at now, so
I'm continue to do that
and be in a city where I
was born and raised at so.
- Is it a thin line, um,
because I live in my hometown
obviously Charlottes was a
little tougher than Pittsburgh,
you know, it's just more blue-collar,
it's more of a dangerous
place, but I'm good there.
You'd be good there,
- I'd be good there?
- If you wanna become CharlotteSquad.
Fly some doves or pidgeons or whatever
I need to do to let people
know that you're good.
Uh, but I mean Pittsburgh to me
you go back a lot, is there a thin line
between trusting people,
but also hanging around
where you're a big target,
ya know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- And how do you walk that line
going back to your hometown and whatnot?
- I got a small circle,
so I'm don't really
ya know, be around too many new people.
And the areas that I be
in, and the places I be at
ain't a place where, you know,
I'm not gonna be hanging in neighborhoods
I know I ain't supposed to be in anyway.
Even though people know I am an eight
but, ya don't ever know
what everybody's attention
is at, and what they thinking.
Some people might smile at your face,
and in the back of their head, they saying
I'ma get him someway
somehow, so I keep my way-
I keep myself away from all that, so
- [Chris] Everybody's got an angle
- You got 'em , (mumbles) you right
- [Chris] Especially now that you got paid
and that's the thing about
what I always tell people
is like what's different for us,
You know, our salary's online.
You can google what you made.
You can google what I made.
You know, people know, if we worked-
if we were bankers, or
we worked on Wall street
chances are, you know.
- That's the worst thing
cause somebody call you
like can I get some money?
You can't be like, I ain't got it.
(mumbles)
- Yeah exactly.
- You just, you just signed this though
- You gotta make up another bullshit
- I just can't do it right?
- What's your go to?
I don't want to spoil your go to-
- This is, I say , I
just invested some money
in some stuff and I can't
lend no money out right now
just threw a bunch of money
in this business. I can't do-
- So, when I hit you with a Ponzi scheme,
and I get the, and I get the
hey I just invested some
money those bullshit
(laughter)
- Nah, I said no-
- We gotta work, you need options
you can't just do the
same one over and over
you got to have like a chart.
If it's a high school
buddy, if it's a coach,
if it's an old teacher, like you-
- Like I don't mind helping somebody
if its somebody that, ya
know, that been there.
but you usually help somebody once
they gonna keep coming back, like ah
can you help me one more
time, and then one more time
there'll be one more time.
- Key is you just gotta help once
(laughter)
- So if I-
(laughter)
- Me too.
- Ya know the reason I brought you here
is I fell on some hard times,
and I noticed that your car
has a door that does this.
- I know you laugh, I know you laugh
- Okay, so you go to Pit,
and you're the ultimate hometown guy
and we've talked about Pittsburgh before,
um, ya know, you're the
youngest player, youngest person
to give a million dollars to Pittsburgh.
Um, your basically synonymous
with the university right now
and that's a, that's a university
that's has their national
championship kinda haeday,
they've had hall-of-famers
come outta there.
They've had, ya know, modern
era a lot of great players.
What does it mean to you, to
be kinda like the face of Pitt?
I mean.
- It's good, but I don't
do it for the attention
I just do it, ya know,
it was an opportunity
ya know, do somethin' for a
school that gave me a chance
when a lot of people didn't.
You know, so for me to help them
the upcoming football
players in the future,
ya know, that was a no-brainer,
and then on top of that
you wanna put my name
on a building.
Ya know, that's- that's a
legacy you leavin' behind
When it's all said and
done, I'll be dead and gone
one day, ya know, my
name will be on the front
of that buildin', so that's
the thing that's surreal to me.
Ya know, just for me
wantin' to help, ya know,
the future football players
and the kids, you know.
By doing that you leaving a legacy behind
that's gonna there forever.
- And what's in the building?
Everything?
- Yeah, just lot a lower
floor with a weight room,
locker rooms, training room,
you know its the Aaron Donald-
- [Chris] Sandwiches?
They got sandwiches?
- Nah, the lunch room's upstairs.
- [Chris] The lunch room's upstairs,
that's not covered in the
Aaron Donald umbrella?
- No, No, Na-uh, just the downstairs.
- Okay, uh, you know
I've said this before,
Pitt to me is a really,
again, blue-collar program, tough
They've has their years
where they ten-win type team
um, now I mean they're
in this transition sp-
you played for three head coached there,
uh, you like the coach there now,
uh, why is it that they
turn so many great pros out,
and I don't mean this as a slight,
but the program's just pretty good.
You know what I mean?
- I think it's just the
coaches that come to Pitt,
ya know, It's gonna be different coaches
but I feel like the coaches stay the same.
Ya know, it's just hard work and you-
they always got people in
there, and coaches in there
that's gonna push you,
and help you not to just
be a great football
player, but a great person
off the field too.
So, ya know, there's
guys that's gonna follow
that trend and a bunch that's not.
Ya know, the bunch that's
following that league
and then doin' everything
they supposed to do,
and then going to the high level.
That's the guys you gonna see
at the next level having success.
- Lot of respect for Pitt
football, rich history,
great players in the Pros right now,
including Fitzgerald,
Donald, uh, Shady McCoy
a whole bunch of them, and
won their half of the ACC
last year which is really good,
but it's a formality kinda
go and get your ass kicked
by Clemson at this point,
at this juncture in the ACC
so uh, 2014 I was not thinking
about Aaron Donald draft
night, and I don't think
a lot of GMs weren't either.
He fell to thirteen, but
if you didn't get him
in the first twelve picks,
you probably kept your job.
One of the best first
rounds, if not the best
this century.
Star-studded fifteen, ya know,
first fifteen to twenty picks.
Guys like Clowney, Macks, Shazier, Donald,
Kyle Fuller on defense.
Then offensively you had
guys like OBJ, Mike Evans,
Taylor Lewan, Zach Martin,
I'm probably missing a few,
but lot of studs.
The one thing this draft
class didn't really have was
quarterbacks, uh, there's
probably two guys who
you can consider franchise
quarterbacks right now,
and Derek Carr, and Jimmy G.
Jimmy G's got the best
record on any of them,
but I think most people are
accepting that Derek Carr
is the best quarterback out of the group.
There were guys like Manziel
who are out of the league,
There's guys like Teddy
Bridgewater who have become
spot starters in situations
like New Orleans right now,
who's doing a great job.
And then there's guys like Blake Bortles
who had his moments in Jacksonville,
and is now kind of a back up in LA.
Draft night I wasn't
thinking about Aaron Donald,
I was thinking about Jadeveon Clowney.
Rams picked two, uh, I know they liked him
and he's an alien.
I'm a mere mortal, he
would have taken my job.
I would have sat on the
bench, so I was really happy
that Texans came to their senses
and picked Jadeveon Clowney
uh, second pick Greg
Robinson who feel to us,
became a good buddy of
mine, and I took a lot
of his money playing pool so
it all worked out for your boy.
No harm no foul.
- Has LA been a culture shock?
- Um, no, it was.
Let's see, now I'm used
to LA now, ya know?
This is my second home,
so I'm comfortable there.
I'm lovin' it
- Well cause you grew up Pittsburgh,
and then you spend two years
living in prolly Saint Charles
Where's you'd live in -
- Saint Charles?
- Lived in Saint chug, over
the bridge in St. Louis
which by the way, I love St. Louis,
and they never get enough love
I mean so shout out to St. Louis
even for guys that they see prospering now
It's hard not to, like
you or like Tod, you know
I know it was tough to lose the team,
but when you come to LA, um
what's the hardest thing about the move?
I am personally there's obviously issues
but as a team, I mean you guys,
the facilities a challenge
in the first place.
- It was.
It was just a lot, ya know, a lot going on
a big city, so much, so much, ya know
being pulled here, being pulled there,
so from being in like you
said Pittsburgh and St. Louis
and Pittsburgh that's similar,
and then now LA.
This is, this is where
it all is at, ya know?
This is a big market, a big audience,
you get a lot of opportunities
and things like that.
A lotta crazy going on so, ya know.
- But you guys, you
guys work out of like a,
you guys got like some tents and stuff,
like your weight room's in a- is it?
- No.
(both speakers speaking over each other)
- When you first got here there was a -
- They got us a temporary
spot, it's actually nice,
now they got it set up.
its not our main spot, but it's nice,
its in thousand oaks.
- [Chris] Yeah.
- It's a nice set up, we got, ya know,
two big fields out there and all that,
but ya know, it a good set up man.
Everything's smooth
now, ya know, we got the
stadium about to be done in 2020.
- You drive by that stadium
and kinda day dream?
- I just , I just, um, went
there and checked it out
what, I wanna say last month.
- What's it looking like?
- Ridiculous
- [Chris] Yeah?
- Like when I say (mumbles)
you really gotta see it,
like that's not even done
it's just, it's gonna be
something special, man.
It's gonna be crazy,
- Speaking of special, uh,
the next ten years for LA
is huge, I mean with all the-
now you've got LeBron, you got Kawhi,
you've got the rams playing
in the Superbowl last year
I think you got the Olympics
coming up, um, new stadium.
It's kinda the place to be right now,
I mean it was the place to be before
but I guess the biggest question is
Are you a clippers or a Lakers fan now?
And I don't wanna hear
any switchin' next year
when the Clips are fifteen
games ahead of the Lakers
I don't wanna hear any bullshit,
that your a Clippers fan
So, lets put it on record.
- See I'm a Lebron fan.
So, I gotta say I'm a Lakers guy.
- [Chris] Okay
- So, I'm a Lakers guy.
- See I feel like the
Clippers that , that mentality
that they have really fits you to like
I mean everybody plays defense.
Pat Beverly's hardcore.
Kawai, he doesn't say shit.
He's a lot like you people,
tryin' to figure him out
they don't know what he's thinking.
Uh, I just would of pegged
you as a Clippers guy.
- I really don't, honestly,
I don't watch basketball,
I watch the playoffs, that's about it.
Like I said, I'm just a Lebron guy.
- You met him?
- Yeah, I met him.
- [Chris] Pretty cool?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] You guys, you
got him in the phone book,
- Nah, ain't got him on the phone book.
- That's, That a tough one
cause like you meet somebody
like LeBron, and you're
like yeah, yeah, we're cool
but you don't want to be that guy like
let's exchange info.
Ya know what I mean?
- (mumbles)
- You know everybody you meet,
you aint gonna get their number.
- [Chris] Yeah, yeah.
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