Jermaine Eluemunor on Maxx Crosby, DJ's Beard, Rumors, & Pumping Up the Giants' Offensive Line

all right let's do this thing uh about to kick off his eighth season in the NFL right tackle Germaine alumor his first season as a New York Giant Germaine are you some sort of sick pup that you said you're excited for training camp who's excited for training camp yeah I think um with me just going through what I've been through in my career and now finally having a coach in a GM that truly believe in you it makes you excited to want to play for them and want to just give everything you have for them you know you were drafted by the Ravens you played with the Patriots you weren't a full-time starter uh until Vegas where you thrived what happened when you were in Vegas that clicked um I think the biggest thing is having coach Karm you know I was with him in New England and we built that relationship up and getting him in Vegas and just having him truly believe in me and believe in the talent that I've been blessed with was huge for me and also confidence I've struggled with confidence throughout my career and even today you know being a player I am and the player I want to become I still struggle with that and it's a constant fight to tell myself that I am who I am I'm confident I can go into the game and do everything I need to do in order to help this team win and I mean you have I mean you have your old karms with you now what's that like it's dope you know you know we go back and forth all the time but that's just our relationship we expect the most out of each other and he has high standers for me I have highers for myself and him as a old line coach being able to see him develop and become the old line coach become where people truly believe in him people see him as one of the best all line coaches in the league and they listen to every single thing he has to say is really cool to see and me as a player to have a guy like that in my corner who I've been with knows me inside and out and is able to tell me the things I need to hear even though sometimes I don't want to hear them that means a lot what's something that he's told you that you didn't want to hear I mean you know as offensive lineman sometimes you call certain plays which you don't you know you don't really leaving or you know sometimes you don't really think they're going to work and him just telling me hey just relax and go out there and run the play and you know last year there a couple times where that was the case I don't think that'll be the case this year because I truly believe in what we got going here but you know sometimes oine coach just has to be the figure that he is and tell you lat just shut up and go play like just relax just forget about it just go out there and just do what you need to do because then they were going to do our job and we're going to win and I love that he came over with you from Vegas I love that you're sort of you're very embraced by fan base it doesn't happen all the time you know how did you how did you manage that I think just being myself i' I haven't changed a single bit since I've put this you know this blue shirt on and now I'm we representing this logo I haven't changed at all I've been the same guy I've been for the last eight plus years in the NFL um the last three years I was at A&M I haven't changed at all but I'm also really confident and I believe in myself and I believe in the talent God blessed me with and just my mindset and my determination and the things I was able to learn in Vegas from a guy like Max Crosby his work ethic the way he approached the game the way he carried himself as a pro and you know everything he put in towards the game that really affected me and really helped me become the guy I am today where I just want to go head first into everything and I don't care who's in front of me who I got to block I'm g go out there and do my job every single time yeah Max craby made you a better player it sounds like 100% yeah he's better he's so scary he is he's one of a kind he is one of a kind but I owe everything to that man just because getting to Vegas yeah I mean I I tell him that all the time too getting to Vegas the position I was in it was kind of for me it was this is really your lost opportunity to make something of yourself and make something of your career and because if you if you think about it before that I was in Jacksonville for a day literally I got cut from Miami who I was with for the off season so I get cut and then you know I have no idea where my career is going I have no idea what I'm doing I'm in a terrible place mindwise and mentally and then I get a call from Jacksonville they're like hey we don't know if you're gonna make a team but how about you just fly out here learn the offence in the day and then playing the third preseason game or fourth I think it was fourth back then and I was like you know I got to I I don't have a choice and so I went out there learned the offense in the day flew to Dallas the next day and then the day after that played against the Cowboys and then I got cut but I did enough for the Raiders to call me and say hey we're going to bring you in and put you on the 53 and see what happens and I knew that that truly was my last opportunity to make something in my career getting to be around Max just honestly I don't know where I'd be today if I wasn't around him just because like I said his work ethic and how his approach to the game is and his belief in himself and his confidence was it was contagious and that's how I approach skin now I don't you know I like I said he's one of a kind but that's why he face the franchise over there because he everything he does that you just want to do like you want to not only fall line but you wanna you want to follow him into war because he's going to go and give everything he has in that game and you know Max will tell you like last year he was beat up and he did not care at all he went into those games and the effort he gave is it was contagious like I'm saying I I want to be like I want to be like Max you know I want to be one the best of my position and I want to be that guy who people look at and be like every single play he's going to give everything he has it doesn't matter if he's hurt he's banged up they're down by 20 they're down by 30 he's goingon to go out there and go crazy every single play and you're gonna have to you're gonna have to take it from him in order to beat him and that's the type of guy I want to be uh you this is wild that you're saying I mean this is like the highest regard that you're holding him in and I've heard you comp Burns to him so what am I supposed to think about Burns if you feel this way about Max burn is a dog he is a dog you know me being who I am like I said I'm confident in myself I'm confident in my ability and coming here I wanted to help this team and be the guy I am and truly help this team win and burns is the same way but Burns Out There is a freaking animal like going against him every single day is fun I love going against him because you know I don't want to go against the guy that I'm going to beat every single time I want to go against the guy who's going to make me work hard as hell like when I'm in my two-point and I know it's third and long on fourth down in practice I know I'm about to get his best rush so I really got to like tense up get in my T he's like he's over there like he's eyeing you up he's looking at the quarterback he's thinking he's just going to run right through you and you know that's been me and him go back and forth but there was a couple plays where he cooked me and that was good because like I said in practice is type like that's the place you want to work things you want to get be in practice so you know what you have to improve on so once you get to the game it doesn't happen again but Burns of the darkg and I think everyone will see that I don't think I have ever heard an offensive lineman love on guys like on on edge rushers like you do like you you are given all the love to Crosby you like Burns OC the whole Jersey thing like what is this I just me personally I just I love this game so much but I also love how certain people approach the game and how they really truly Chang the game and Max and burns are two of those people I think can truly change the game especially Max and like I said I love going against these guys like there may be certain tackles or certain guards certain centers where they don't love going against a certain person I love going against the best players possible it just that wakes me up in the morning and you know when I'm not going against the best player and it's a guy out there sheot you gota you got to perform the same way but going against those guys who have those names and who the NFL follows like crazy and they hyp up and you know they do the Instagram or Twitter posts about them pregame I love that so much like I want all the pressure all this SM I mean you played with Miles with miles in college didn't you yeah exactly so you know it started for me back in college where I was going get smes and then I get to the NFL I'm in Baltimore he's in Cleveland then just the way my career's gone I've always gone against an elite guy every single year multiple guys like the P series and with the Raiders I've gone against all the elite guys possible but I don't but I don't know I don't know that you know what you're saying because you're what you're doing rather to Giants fans right now because you're saying mil Max like uh burns like if you're people are probably going to run through a wall thinking now they have Burns and he'll do that I love him as a player I love that you respect his game and you're comping him to these greats that you've gotten better against it's awesome 100% I think I've gotten this is me personally this has been my best training C of my career it's really been the best offseason of my career like I said I feel like I had a fresh slate when I got here yeah and to have Dave to have Joe to have K to have all these people truly believe in me and to tell me that you know they need me to help this team win that's been the coolest experience ever but then it also brings added pressure because now you know you have to go out there and perform and people are truly going to watch you but I'm one of the most confident people you'll ever meet and that confidence will be showing on Sundays but burns like I said Burns Max miles they're great players even greater people and I've been lucky enough to play with all three of them it's so interesting what I really have learned over this offseason I went to I was at your training camp I went to 20 training camps when you sit with somebody like Tua and he finally got paid and it there's this thing of I belong I'm settled they believe in me now let's effing go and I think it's you know when you have these contract issues like what's going on with Jamar Chase or auk like it weighs on you it weighs on you like don't you want me don't you and I think that people maybe undervalue the S what a sense of belonging and feeling Chosen and feeling good can do to you as a player and you've been you've been all over the league but you also you played all over the line you were everywhere and then all of a sudden you get there you finally get to start you're solidified at right tackle why weren't we putting you at right tackle your whole career I think the thing with me is I wasn't ready for that responsibility and I wasn't ready to be that guy I had to really fight and Claw my way mentally and physically to the position I'm in right now and I'm still trying to call to the top I'm nowhere near where I want to be but I'm definitely on that track and every single day I got to remind my myself you're not where you want to be you want to be even higher than this you want to be at the highest of the highs and every single day you got to come to work and prove that and for me playing multiple positions helped me big time because like I said I didn't do enough to stay in the league over my first five years of my career the only thing that kept me in the league was the fact that I was able to play multiple positions and not a lot of guys can do that and I took part in that but that was really the only thing that kept me in the league not my work ethic not my confidence not my discipline not my determination the fact that I was able to play multiple positions and that got me to where I'm at now where I can truly play one position and truly make that position mine and elevate my game every single week you got that Brian Flores defense week one you got to protect your boy my boy the world internet things my boy um just I don't even want to talk about it I don't want to talk about it oh God I'm see that I know what you're talking about Germaine it's a girl can't win I can't I can't I'm trying to hype up your boy um how I mean Daniel's a great looking guy I mean shoot is he keeping that beard I've been telling to keep the beard like the beard your team beard 100% my beard is not as good as his beard his beard is plumptious let go with that how do you protect him how do you protect him this week go out there and do my job like and that's hard is said than done but this offensive line that I'm playing with I truly believe in every single guy out there at won the best off attack in the league John like he's a up and coming left guard but he's a baller Schmidt a secondy year guy but smart as hell GNA God thank off everything he gets GV he was my St Right Guard last year played next to him all year but he's one of the smartest guys I've ever played next to and he's a freaking dog and he's a baller and in me like like I said No One's Gonna Be more confident than me on Sunday and I I I know that everyone's be watching the offensive line I understand the F tier but this training camp has been huge for all of us and I believe in every single one of the guys that's going to step out there on Sunday against this defense and I'm really excited for it I believe in you go protect my boyfriend week one let's go J lumor hey everybody thank you so much for watching you can subscribe right here to get the latest from the show and check out more of the best clips from up and Adams or go watch a few segments from other shows on FanDuel