Saquon Barkley
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I firmly believe when you look at our team that we had last year, I think we're a top five team of all time of all time. That's that's big teams really stood no chance. You've seen that in the super bowl. Like, I mean the score finished what was 40 to 20 something, but in reality it was, it wasn't even, it wasn't even really a game.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
and I was a Derrick Rose fan but right now Pacers beating the Cavs in five I mean Tatum obviously it's not you're not excited about that but you didn't group growing up though did you nah I played in high school I used to watch basketball like Kobe and stuff like that like that era but Tatum like
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
you know the recipe though like that's like the cool thing you know what it takes now before like it was blind faith you were putting all the work and you were grind and everyone every team no matter if you have the first pick in the draft or you're the Super Bowl champs like everybody team when you start the next season the goal is to win a Super Bowl and if you don't have that mindset that you're fighting and you're competing to try to win Super Bowl then you're probably not gonna last long in the league but now it's not blind faith you're like okay like you know I know what it takes to get there
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Now it's like, it may look different. It may not be a 2000 yard season. It may be, you know, I might have to catch the ball more. I might have to do, there's so many, we're all gonna have different, our roles is gonna expand. You're gonna have to take more of a leadership role. You're gonna have to take more of a leadership role. I'm having to take more of a leadership role.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
But it's like, you know what it takes. And like, that's the beauty of it. It's like, all right, I did it. Now we gotta go do it again. And how do we do it again? And it's gonna look completely different. That's the fun thing about football, man.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
It's also the culture that we're building and that you guys built already before I got there. Well, even before me. Fletch, like all them, BG. You have no choice. Have no choice. You got to get in line, or if you fall out of place, you're going to be – you're going to be behind and it's going to be curtains for you. So it's a good way to put it. Yeah.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I mean, to be honest, like I always, You know, it's funny. I was in Vegas because the Super Bowl was in Vegas the year before. And when I was flying back, we were watching a game because I was a I was a Walter Payne Man of the Year nominee. And you're supposed to go to the game. But I never wanted to go to the game. until I was in the game myself.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
And my little brother and his best friend, Jaron, can tell you this. I'm not lying. I was like, I don't know how, but I'm going to be in that game next year. And it happened to be on the Super Bowl, and we happened to be on our birthday. That's crazy, bro.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I think the parade was the best part of it all.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
It was cold as shit.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
freezing I had like a moment where when I was with Avante and we were sitting on the stairs and like you looked out and you just saw like all the people that came to support and then you realize like it's not like just a team it takes it takes a city you know I mean it takes a whole city and like especially this city like how much they buy in they pour into any Philly team but especially the Philadelphia Eagles and like in that moment you're like
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
you get it again, you're like, wow, like, okay, I am a Super Bowl champ.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I was probably out a little too much. I had a little too much fun. I did go to Penn State back in my day, which is a party school. So I let my party boy side show a little bit. I was taking drinks from random people. It's all right. Yeah. But there's one clip, like there's a, they give me a Hennessy bottle. And I pulled a Hennessy bottle and you think I drink it. And I just run away.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I spit it all out. I was just like, nah, never. I cannot. I cannot.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I almost got fell on like twice. Bro, they jumped it one time. Like in the beginning on Broad Street, when I went over, like I like came over and take pictures and blah, blah, blah. Like they jumped it. At one point I was surrounded by like 40 kids. Was that after? you took our ball boy out? Was it Aiden?
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
That was before. That was before. And I should have did that a little different. He a grown ass man.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Yeah, for me, personally as a player, I know if I don't want to do a tush push on a one-yard line, make sure I score. I think I got tackled at the one-yard line like 11 times this year. You already know what's coming. A couple more touchdowns. But the banning thing of it, I think it's kind of, I think it's soft to be honest. And like the teams that want to ban it. Cause everybody can do it.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Like, it's not like a play that like we only can do everybody can do trademark.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
And there's just, we happen to have one of the best and biggest old lines and Jalen hurts can squat 600 pounds. Like, That's not our fault. Josh Allen is super big. They're not as successful as it. Lamar Jackson is one of the best running quarterbacks of all time. They're not as successful as it. It's not something that everyone can't do. Them trying to eliminate it, I think that's kind of lame.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
What they're going to try to do is eliminate pushing in general. So you know how like. So you can't pull. You know how you can't pull the pile. Right. And you know how you can push a pile if it's not a, it's a lineman pushing a pile. So it's like, yeah, they're gonna try to eliminate that. That's the only way that they're gonna. Did they say that they were gonna do that? Yeah.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Cause they backed out. So they tried to ban it at first and a lot of teams wasn't getting along with like, uh, Oh, because anybody can push the pile.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
If I was running, you two were holding me up, and Lane came and pulled me.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
No, the Thunder's nice. I got a weird feeling right now. I think momentum. The Knicks have a weird momentum, and they're playing great, and Jalen Brunson's a dog.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
That's probably the other angle that they're going to do. There's no way. And if the teams that want to get rid of it, as a team that got to see us two or three times a year. So there's no coincidence.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
If it was a health issue thing, I would get it. So eliminate the quarterback sneak in general.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I'm saying they're not going to. It's just another way you can do the quarterback sneak. When did that start? When did it originate? When Nick got there? Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Even before you were here? I was here in 22. I mean, I've been playing the Eagles for a long time, and they've been doing it for a long time.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Let's hear your pitch on why the tush push shouldn't be banned. Sell me something. It's not going to be a sell. Everybody can do it. There's no health issue. And while we're talking about the tush push, let's make sure everybody's contract is guaranteed.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
that's big time wow that don't bother you guys like baseball players and basketball players like everything the contract is guaranteed and like man i never thought about that man you can talk about it but like for you guys like who are younger or especially you who's the youngest one of all of us like there got to be a point where like we play the hardest sport of all of them not saying like technical wise right physicality wise yeah and like there's no reason why like we put our bodies
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
But like the way they would draw the map, like it would be like, you know, our continents. And then like, there's a, we were talking about this earlier, a wall of like, I think it's like the Antarctic, it's like an ice wall. And then they believe like there's more continents.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
outside bro that's crazy so like if you like think about it it just blows my mind like have you ever seen king kong like versus godzilla yeah so like you go like in the inner oh like the inner yeah i sound this right now like you go like in the inner like the inner crust or whatever it's like another and there's like a whole nother outside so like if you go to like some of these walls so you've seen the wall before i never seen the wall bro what do you think bro what you're like how would i get that's what i'm trying to i'm trying to i'm just talking about like
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
You know, we all have those nights you can't sleep and you're on TikTok or IG Reels and, you know, you go do a... Somebody starts talking about it. Yeah. And then, like, you can't... Like, they don't allow you to go so far.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Just because I saw it on the Reels. Like, I can't just be like, you know, my source is TikTok. Like, that's not like a good source. Well, you just said it. It might be a decent source, though. Like, that's what I saw it on. And it's just like... I don't know. What trips me out, though, is... NASA originally started in the water. Yeah, I saw that. That's crazy. That's creepy.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
They really started like...
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
to explore the depth of the oceans and which we only know like what's the what's the number it's a small percentage that's why i don't mess with the ocean i don't miss ocean like even if i like say we're going on vacation and like you know everyone jumps off the yacht and like oh no no i'm in and out that moment now you get you get out away from shore i don't i ain't never been on a yacht so you have more experience than i do
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
You never been on a boat? You're a Super Bowl champion. You know, after this, you know, our OTAs, go take yourself on a weekend. Take your lady out there. And go jump off a boat? Go jump off a boat. Hold her hand, jump off a boat, and get the hell right off. I mean, I can swim. I can't swim, actually. I can swim. Everyone thinks they know how to swim until you're in the ocean.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Well, until you tread. It's just adrenaline. And then somebody hit your leg and you're like, oh, shit.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Another thing, this is my last thing. We got nine planets, right? But there's another planet. It's called Planet Nibiru. Ain't that a moon? Nah, bro. It's like a planet. Wait, it's in our solar system? That only rotates in our solar system at a certain time every so many thousand years.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
And then like, there's like a thing, like people like, they think like the Aniwakis on there and like, it's, I don't know, bro. Like what?
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Like Star Wars people? Gods. Oh. And they were here and they like help people. It's like Marvel? Nah, not like Marvel. Like Thanos? They like kind of created the human race. No way. Yeah. There is a planet that comes in every so often, right? It's not Pluto, is it? Nah, Pluto's a night planet, gang. No, it's not. Yes, it is. It's a night planet. But it used to be not like this.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Yeah, I mean, when we were kids, it was. Then when we were in high school, it wasn't.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Pluto's not the cold one. Pluto is the farthest away. But it's not the cold one. Which one is it? What's the one that's cold? Pluto. Let's name them.
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That's close to the sun. No, it's four. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
How old are you? How old are you? Uranus is a cold one. Pluto's not the cold one.
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Pluto's the farthest away from the sun.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
No, I haven't spent anything. How does it feel? It feels amazing. Shout out to the Eagles organization, Howie. Shout out. I think it just sends a message to the guys on our team. You play well and you do things the right way. You're going to be taken care of. And that's not the NFL. You know, a lot of times GMs and organizations have leverage on you and, you know, they can do whatever they want.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
So real, really thankful for the Eagles organization and how we but it's cool to you know, help bring back the running back market. And we were just talking about earlier, you know, Derek Henry, you know, getting extension. It's big, man. Running backs are big. It's, it's a key part to, to teams depending on the team you have and your, your scheme.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
But I like, you know how they say running backs die. It was just a narrative that they was trying to create because they paid Todd Gurley. They put paid Zeke. I got drafted high and they paid Christian and we all had a time where we were all banged up and getting hurt. but you can do that for any position.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Like we pay these quarterbacks all these money and you know, Pat Mahomes will win a Super Bowl. Like he's only one outside of Jalen last year. So it's like wide receivers get hurt. So it's like any time, like, so say the next five wide receivers get paid high, if they get hurt, you're gonna just devalue the position. It doesn't just work like that. It's football.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
At the end of the day, you gotta play great defense and you have to be able to run the football and you need a great quarterback. If you don't have that majority of times or not, you're not gonna have a chance to win a Super Bowl.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I mean, it makes it a lot, a lot easier.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I'll tell you that. It makes it a lot easier. It's cool to like take away like how great they, they block on a football field, which they do a tremendous job. It's more of just like the brotherhood there. Like they actually generally care. I would say, you know,
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
and i'm biased and i would say they're probably the closest group on our team and i feel like you kind of have to be um and it shows like if you look at a run we had against the saints i broke a long run um they walked tyron they kind of brought zero and the way that jordan and landon and cam and it was staying in fred you know makai and lane were banged up that game
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
the way that they were able to pass that all off and just set up this scene for me like it just shows you that they're in sync and it starts with style obviously style's a great a great coach um but just the the brotherhood that those guys have um and the respect that they have for each other is the reason why we play at such a high level so since since signing it you haven't you haven't made any big purchases no
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
you going to I don't really need stuff like that that's not spending money on your golf game I'd spend probably too much money on golf that's good that's a money pit anyway yeah did you get new clubs yep two new clubs but I know some some people pretty well yeah that's I got a good shout out but I every time I go to a new golf course I go in there and I buy I have too many golf shirts and golf pants and belts they got swag dude I need to see I don't have any like golf pants
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
When did you start playing golf? I started playing when I tore my knee. I started taking serious two years ago. And I got a goal for myself to break 80. I've shot 80 at cricket. I missed an uphill putt left to right. Like a real 80? Yeah, to break it and to shoot 79. And I haven't came close then. The closest I came was like 82. I heard putting is the best part of your game.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Someone was telling me that. Really? Yeah. You know, I'll grip. We have a, do I claw? No. I tried that for like two weeks and I was like, what am I doing? But my short game is what saves me. We have a joke. You can't teach hands and you can't teach heart. And I got both. So my short game, my putting helped me out.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
but if they don't play well you yell at them you know they're in the backseat they play well they're in the trunk with a blanket on it you know and they go to bed really well but you ever like don't know maybe throw a club yes i broke a club before i kind of embarrassed dude no are you just golf is tough Really? What club was it? I threw a club not too long ago.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I threw a club like two days ago, I'm not gonna lie. What club did you break, though? I've broken my pitch before. And I threw my 3-wood. I played at Hidden Creek the other day, and I threw my 3-wood and almost got caught in a tree.
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Yeah.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I'm not, I'm very confused. Yeah. It's like, obviously there's so much more that goes on to it, but like in the simplest way, it's you go there, you walk the red carpet, blue carpet. It was this year. You take pictures, you go inside. It's a cocktail party. You wait for everyone to get in. You mingle, you have drinks. Then you go to the next event. You have dinner. The dinner was great.
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They had a chef. Um, it's really all about, you know, and they had a chef from the Bronx and the food was amazing. And then you mingle with there's brands. So some people go with like a fashion brand. Some people go with like a jewelry brand like Cartier. I think Joe went with Cartier. I went with Tom Brown and you have basically all the top celebrities in the world all in one spot.
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You eat dinner. And they have a show. The show this year. I've been before, but the show this year was cool. It was Usher and Stevie Wonder. Oh, wow. Yeah. And fun fact, Stevie Wonder's only like 74 years old. What? I thought he was like 85 in his 90s. Um, and he's, he sings amazing. So it's a concert or what?
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They had guys go up there, talk, and they basically explain like what the whole theme of the night was and how they were celebrating black excellence. Um, and then Usher came out, performed, Stevie came out and Usher kind of finished it up. Who was the coolest person you met at the Met? I want to say, I didn't mean him at the Met. The coolest person I just met the other day was at F1.
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I've been a big fan of him for a long time, but Jamie Foxx was probably one of the most genuine people people I've ever met in my life. When you have conversation with Jamie, like when you forget, you think about him in acting, he started off as comedian. So you forget how funny he is, but like, he's just, he's just so authentic and he shoots it straight. And like, he's just like, he's a guy.
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Like you just have, you have fun with him, have great conversations with him. So it was like, that was cool.
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He loves a cigar. I would say 10, I think, him and his wife match up.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I forgot what brand he went with, but I think. Yeah. And I think he had like a cane too. Did he? Yeah.
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That's like, I believe the whole scheme was like Danianism or something like that.
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like i i give it a 10 out of 10 10. j jettas what was so that fits the theme a little bit more okay um i don't think he did too much uh i think it fit him pretty well r-dub russell wilson russell wilson it's classic yeah that is pretty king that's uh sierra yeah sierra you know her songs oh yeah come on okay um i think I think Russ did a great job too.
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So you're just going to give everybody a 10 here? I like the classic look though.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
Yeah. And I think Russ, he did. I love the classic look for sure. I guess we give everybody 10.
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Joe Burr. Joe Burr. I've been messing with the double breasted suit, but I was with him the whole night and like his swagger. Yeah. It takes him so much.
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I was born in the Bronx. I moved when I was probably around five, six years old. And then I moved to Lehigh Valley. I lived in Bethlehem for one year, Allentown for one year. And then I grew up basically in Copley or Whitehall. So what do you call home? I call home Pennsylvania for sure.
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But when I moved out of New York, I kind of kept going back and forth until I kind of started playing high school football. So I would spend my summers out there. So how long did you live in New York, though? I lived there until I was five, five, six years old. My mom and dad felt like it would just be... a better lifestyle change for my family and for my siblings.
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And I think it's a great move for my family. Went to high school at Whitehall, Pennsylvania. Whitehall High School. Yeah, Whitehall High School. I'm an hour and 55 minutes away from my high school and where my mom lives.
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Yeah, so for me, it was tough because I had a lot of touches and a lot of yards, which is a good thing. But you got to, like, train yourself in the mind to allow your body to recover. So I probably did, no. the bare minimum to be completely honest coming into, uh, OTAs. I didn't run until I got to OTAs.
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Are they nice in Iowa? Yeah. Cause I realized like, cause I've been in the Northeast my whole life. Like when I travel or say if I would train in, you know, in the South, like super nice. Like you'll, you'll hold the door for somebody.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I'm saying like, I've like, anytime I went in Florida or I haven't really been like, I guess the South, what you guys would consider the South, like Bama. Florida South. Yeah.
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But like, I don't think, yeah, I know what you're saying. Like in Iowa, Iowa's what, mid-
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in the NFL right now no that's played in the NFL yeah so my jersey got retired a year or two ago um and we have Dan Copen and Matt Millen Dan Copen I think is the only center to snap for Tom Brady and Peyton Manning Super Bowl winner so he's a one of Super Bowl and Matt Millen won like I think like four I think he won some as a player and I think as a GM he came close or something like that four Super Bowls yeah
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So we have, in my town, in my school, we have three Super Bowl winners. Wow. Yeah. That's insane. How many you guys got?
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We definitely had more, I believe, that probably made it. But only three that come to mind is the three Super Bowl winners. That's crazy, man. So all the jerseys that retired at my high school are all Super Bowl winners. That's sick.
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that class yeah dogs we got josh allen mvp myself officer player and rookie of the year lamar jackson two-time mvp quentin nelson all pro derwin all pro dallas goddard's a super champion in that class south dakota state right south dakota state jackrabbits jordan mulata's in that class
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Um, but it kind of aligned with what coach was saying, what my trainers were saying, cuz I gotta let myself let my body recover. So I'm not, you know, that's how you let the wear and tear wear and tear just pound on top of each other. So it was just really just chilling and just happy to be back in the routine and getting the flow of things.
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is he really yeah joomalada got drafted and never played his highlights are crazy though his rugby highlights yeah and now he's one of the best tackles in the nfl yeah um i mean and then you got you got three mvps you got three mvps an offensive player a year in the office of rookie year baker brought cleveland to the playoffs for the first time in a long time yeah it was fun it was fun me and baker actually had like a
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a bet we're pretty good boys who's gonna win Austin rookie year and we had to make a chain made for each other you still got it yeah I got it just like what's what's on the chain say quads bust down quads and like when I was a kid like I like because when I first came into the league like everyone was like oh say quads It really happened.
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Like I had skinny jeans on and this is like when skinny jeans was in and the, the jeans were probably a little too tight. And Odell being Odell made a joke and kind of called me say quads and tweeted it. And then everyone started calling me like, it's like, it was weird. Like in Penn state, no one talked about how big my legs were.
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And then I got to the NFL and I got to New York and Odell tweeted quads one time and then everyone's been obsessed about my quads.
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And now we got you. And A.J. Dillon, yeah.
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has bigger quads than me, though. Oh, my God. We did, like, a measurement contest. What? Someone in New York, I forgot what reporter, but they were doing, we were playing Green Bay that week, and they were doing just a report on legs. And, like, the biggest legs, I think, were, like, Earl Campbell.
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and like they had to they like we all we had to like wrap our measure tape measure and oh my gosh uh AJ has bigger quads than me but I didn't know he's like 250. like I'm only 230. no he's he's he got 25 on me good Lord yeah that's some some hard nose downhill running for our offense you know what I'm saying and that's a wrap
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I feel like a little bit, which I used to do different though, which it's crazy. Like, and every time anybody asks me about you, I say like, it's the unique thing about you is like, you have like a crazy routine and a different like perspective on it already. Like when I was a rookie, like I was on go mode, like I was on go, go, go, go.
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So it was like playing in New York, you know, we didn't have too many successful seasons. So it was like, all right, like how can I get better? What can I do? And I'm in a weight room, I'm doing it. I never let my body, get time to heal and recover. And for you to say that at 22 years old is, is pretty good.
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You got to figure it out pretty fast.
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I think the biggest thing about that, though, which is cool, is it can tell you which hamstring is stronger than the other. Yeah. Do you have, like, a stronger hamstring? Yeah. So my left side is stronger than my right side. My left side is weaker. Yeah. So I got 700 today on my left side, and I got, like, 600 on my right side. Oh, my God.
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That's not even. I've got better on that, to be honest. What's your highest, then? I've gotten eights. Eight on both of them? Oh, my gosh.
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Wait, you got eight on both, so they were, like, perfectly even? Well, like, I've been in the league a little longer than you guys.
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We've been doing this test for a long time. So you know how to work it a little bit?
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No. yeah we did it okay well I was like imagine like I was wondering what it is like and because when we go there we play there which is actually one of my favorite stadiums to ever play yeah we're going to like a pink locker room the stadium is beautiful I love like the little thing when we wait tradition I love that phenomenal but I always wonder was like what the hell goes on in Iowa
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It's cool. Anytime you could just chill with your teammates. I feel like this helps us in the future when we're grinding in camp or in those big games. But it's an honor, man. I'm happy that you guys are doing this. You guys... are inspiring a lot of people, especially kids. So I'm happy to be on here with my guys and talking ball.
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How do you recruit someone to Iowa, like on an official visit? Cause it's hard. Like even Penn state, like Penn state's in the middle of nowhere. And like usually recruiting recruits come up, it's snowing. The weather's awful.
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Is there like a lot of Florida guys?
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and you what was your record against him he went crazy i got paid because i'm gonna lie my my really my two games against iowa after college though yeah like it helped me it helped my like my if you go watch my film against iowa uh it's probably a breaking tackle is that the reason why i got drafted high yeah jumping over dudes seriously yeah I almost lost that game, though.
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Yeah. I mean, he's a young one. Yeah. So, what's the most you've ever squatted? The most I've ever squatted, I think, was, like, six. Six something. Six something? Yeah. How old were you? Probably not that long. 22, 23 years old. What's on the bar right here?
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595.
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like we were just jumping high we had remember if you remember we had team meeting like in 10 minutes so i was jumping weights like so i went 315 405 495 585 i didn't allow myself but i mean still like did were you hurting after that no i wasn't hurting after that because you done because you do three uh yeah how many reps you think you could do with that on a good week i can do a lot more i mean this is the same week i was in
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F1 on the weekend.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
It was a busy week for me. But I like that this is here, but I kind of got away from this training and like I do it here and there just to touch it. Like you can compete in the weight room, but like only lifts that go viral is, you know, lifts like that.
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But in reality, I've been focusing more on like mobility stuff and just, you know, preparing my body for the grind and the wear and tear of a season, especially with the mindset that we have of playing 20 to 21 games.
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Yeah, I mean, coming into the season, I knew I was able to have a special year. That's a big reason why I made the decision to sign to Philly. I had obviously other teams, but me and my family, my friends felt like coming to Philly will give us the best chance to win. I felt like my legacy and the type of player that I wanted to be can continue to happen if I came here.
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And the O-line, tight ends, the coaching, so much goes into rushing for 2,000 yards. It's not an accident why there's only been nine players that ever do it. You know, it gets, you know, it can't be great without the greatness of others. We don't need to beat that in our head. And I truly believe in that.
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I'm getting to see, like, a different side of you guys. Once we start, whatever, our personalities start showing a little bit, you know? I see you. So it's crazy though. Cause like I see your personality more like this guy, like when he first came, he was quiet, quiet as hell. So like to see him doing this and like, you gotta get him out of my shell.
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So it was like coming here and I knew that AJ Brown, Devontae Smith, Jalen Hurts, Dallas Goddard, that whole line, it would just only help me. So I wasn't, I didn't come in with the mindset of like, oh, I'm gonna rush for 2000 or I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do that. I came in just with a clean slate and just focusing on buying in, submitting myself to whatever coach asked me to do.
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And all that just came out to be a hell of a year.
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I firmly believe when you look at our team that we had last year and I know we're not looking too far into the past, but our team last year, I think we're a top five team of all time. And I tell my boys this all the time. Like we started off two and two and we lost to Washington. Jalen got hurt that game. But if you really look at the season outside of the first four games, it was built to ask.
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It was dominant. And from how dominant you guys were on defense and how dominant you were on offense and special team, people don't realize how great of a team that actually was. We were working together.
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I think we just all bought in. We just bought in. I think we all just bought in and like you hear like the outside noise and expectation. Like we didn't care how it looked. Only thing we cared about was winning football games. And when you have the talent and the skill that we have in our team mixed with the coaches, we all play together like how we played. like teams really stood no chance.
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And then you seen that in the playoffs and you seen that in the super bowl. Like, I mean the score finished what was 40 to 20 something, but in reality it was, it wasn't even, it wasn't even really a game.
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Listen, I really think when we look back on it 10 to 15 years and we're all old and we're reflecting on our glory days,
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Maybe you got to put one of the Patriots in there. Yeah. You got to put, if you're going to do it, you got to put one of the Chiefs. And then where it would be like, I think Patriot and the Chiefs, we could switch. You got the Bears. The Bears had a year when they went 15 and one. So those three teams for sure.
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And then one of the Chiefs within their dynasty and one of the Patriots within their dynasty in a year that we had, it's interchangeable in my opinion. So five or six, I'll say that. Yeah. Yeah, put y'all through a little history lesson.
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You got the NBA playoffs.
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I think for me, like the birthday, like it don't matter if it was on your birthday or not. It made it better. Like afterwards.
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Um, no, not really. I never, even like once Kobe left the league, I never had a team. I was a Colby and the Lakers fan.
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Like, but if you like just winning the super bowl is insane. Like it's, has it like hit you or is it just like, but I'm not gonna lie. It's like, it sucks. It's just, it's something that you dream about as a kid and you practice that moment in your head so many times, you live that moment in your head so many times. And when it happens, it's amazing feeling. You're like, I reached my verse.
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Saquon Barkley on Tush Push Ban, SaQUAD Nickname, & Playing For The Eagles | Exciting Mics Ep 2
I reached the top. And then like two days after I couldn't sleep. Cause now you're just like, how do I do it again? You gotta do it again.
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That's the same way I was.