David Njoku Interview goes off the rails early

all right we are here with Cleveland Browns tight end David njoku David this is the first time I think I've ever interviewed you and you're wearing a shirt know why today I've been getting a lot of crazy DMS lately so I wanted to just kind of uh keep it a bit censored today yeah the DMS um can be really aggressive uh I deal with them as well most people want to talk about my feet though so I'm sure that's not what they want to talk about with you usually it's they want to hang out no why is it your feet uh I don't know there so there's a really big foot demographic out there that I've learned about over the last few years where there are just there's a world of people captained by Rex Ryan perhaps um who just enjoy feet uh now here's the thing you're not just any regular football player not just any regular human being back in Nigeria you're actually is it technically royalty how would you describe what you are what is your true title uh my title is is Chief so I mean yes I guess you can say so it's more so just you know a bigger responsibility of making sure my my people back there are are doing okay you know and um that that responsibility I kind of placed on myself and before even becoming a chief just because I wanted to give back to my people give them fresh water uh food you know resources so yeah I just just happened to work out what a amazing title to have and a responsibility that that comes with that when you have been around the people what are how do they behave around you is it is is there a way they have to show respect to the chief you know during my chiefy um all the females would bow and initially it was kind of hard to like uh seriously like you know pay back respect you know cuz you see like people bowing as kind of like a like a not normal gesture especially here in America you know so it took took me some time to really allow myself to really like you know um just uh reciprocate the the respect in on a serious manner yeah and this is all because of your family and and who they are back in Nigeria you're one of nine um do you stay in touch with every single sibling of yours I try to but it's a lot you know and then I have cousins I have uncles aunts it's grandmas you know what I mean so it's it's not easy to keep in touch with everybody do you feel like you could rattle off all your siblings names in 10 seconds yeah go innocent Chelsea Lisa Faith gladus happiness David evidence Charles and you're the seventh correct I'm the seventh what do you think the advantage of being seventh in such a long line of siblings lucky number seven initially uh but I don't see it it really as as an advantage you know I'm I'm here to do whatever I can to help my family and vice versa so it's not really a competition in that aspect more so just on like a a complete a competing you know uh platform like you know say like playing a sport together or whatever yeah so as as if you needed any more things to make you different right because you certainly stand out on this team not only just by your sheer presence and your ability but you already you you also went went through a really strange peculiar accident uh before that game against the Seahawks last year most people know the story now that you were hanging out around a bonfire um pick it up from there what what then happened that you dealt with Burns yeah um so normally I do like a little you know meditation routine by a bonfire in my backyard long story short ran out of my normal lighter fluid used a different one and it blew up in my face now mind you my eyes were wide open when the whole thing happened so I should be blind right now but luckily God is great um it was kind of um not exhilarating but it was a rush you know uh that that fight ORF flight moment came up uh and yeah and you wound up playing you you you powered through and you obviously came back in the season and and you showed up with a mask and you you leaned into the situation deciding to wear that mask did you come up with that yeah everyone thought I i' I personally got it made you know from a different country or whatever but I just thrw that from Party City you were just ready for Halloween yeah I mean but with that being said every time I took the mask off parts of my skin on my face would come off with it so very limited times that I could put on and take it off yeah uh we just ripped through like a million different story lines about who you are but I I I need to talk to you just about this Cleveland Browns team right now on offense just the type of offense this team is trying to get to what what are the Cleveland Browns going to look like especially with Kevin stefansky having you know full control over what's going on yeah I mean honestly speaking we just to work hard every day to really uh I identify ourselves you know what I'm saying come up with our true identity you know we have a bunch of talents that we can do when it comes to running the ball throwing the ball running you know routes you everyone has their own talent and then we collectively have a great talent but we just we're we're still figuring out our identity as a whole where do you think dwn fits in terms of his professional career right now where is he at are have you seen any difference him good bad have you seen change in Deshawn this season I mean you know honestly I think I see Deshawn as a very elite quarterback you feel me I feel like people don't uh know just how good he is until we show exactly how good he is and he's he will do just that and I can't wait for that to happen because a lot of people are overlooking him and I I see him every day working hard and I see the uh elate status that he can be and it's just very exciting yeah uh former Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Rael has been working with you one-on-one you know what is what is Mike like I think people have their thought of what he's like but now that you've gotten to know him a little bit what's something about him that maybe we'd be surprised to learn about Mike brael man that's my guy man he's a real character and people say I'm a character too so our characters kind of you know blend together and it creates a monster you know it's crazy but uh he's a a very very dope guy very down to earth man um and yeah I I just love working with him every day I know you're learning football details from him and learning how to get better at the position from through his perspective from a defensive player even though he did play the position in New England um in terms of what you're learning from him outside of football is there anything because I know he's a really really good trash talker I think I'm a pretty good Trasher myself you keep up with him I mean we go back and forth so if he doesn't stop yeah he doesn't stop he does not stop unless you hit him you know below the belt otherwise he doesn't stop what would be an example of a below the belt thing that you could say U me personally I can neither confirm nor deny that I do that it's just more so if you do do that then things get a bit more physical than uh verbal all right tight end position in general um people have asked you this before about what makes a great tight end do you think you have all the traits of a great tight end is there something that you wish you just had a little bit more of I don't really rank myself you know as whatever I let the people do that you know what I mean the people the fans I I let them rate whoever they want to rate and I just focus on what I got to do just to be better every day so um there were some reports out there that Amari Cooper perhaps was part of a trade package if the Cleveland Browns were going to go uh get Randon iuk from the San Francisco 49ers it doesn't appear that that's going to happen by any chance you as a player when you hear about that do you feel the need to talk to your your friend your teammate about when their name is possibly involved in a trade how how do you handle that personally I actually didn't even hear about that so this is the first time I'm hearing scoop City yeah that's the podcasting you got the Jews um no but if I were to hear about it I'm I would definitely reach out to him just see where his heads at I'm sure that you know I mean this is a business but end of the day we build these relationships you know there these are our brothers and I'm sure I'm Brothers to them as well so um just being there for whoever needs needs that needs that person to be there for them during those moments all right well I mentioned this is called scoop City can you give me any scoop right now on the Cleveland Browns it could be gigantic that I'm going to go tweet it right now or it could be something small that maybe we don't know that we want to know about the Cleveland Browns a scoop I'd say one of the Scoops is I hate cottage cheese so do I it hate it why do people like it so much I don't know tastes bad they eat it for breakfast they put fruit on it they put eggs on it have you own I don't get it that's good Scoop thanks so much for joining the show um one more thing before I let you go what's the scoop on your car what do you drive I have a a few which one wow yeah real what's your favorite one I'd say probably my apocalypse right now I just got it it's a it's a 6x6 like a fully souped up Jeep bulletproof pretty cool what color lime green lime green why' you pick lime green I mean uh it kind of represents Nigeria for me so so thought it was cool brighter than ever just like you my friend just much for joining the show thanks for tuning in to scoop City if you want to hear more make sure you like And subscribe we drop our new episodes every Tuesday and Friday [Music]