NY’s Breece Hall listed #2 in NFL RBs gives insight into the Jets 2024 goals & Aaron back| The Pivot

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the rookies got to get them hype ah Superstar what's up baby what's up man how you like it good good man you look great man man you look great man know the D was in town trying to get you to C D I know you game and stuff I definitely I know the OG what's up brother how you doing good always good to see you family you too how you body feeling man he it's there hey you working I get it I get it okay F we back in it now taking it back man I already know how you doing bro good how you feeling great good man playing ball you um you spend any time in Texas this offseason I was there a lot I was a lot good good to see you man how was your offseason man it's good it's been good man like y had a good time man good time trying to get after it sh back you too important for me over I was trying to get let me get qu and come over here where did you spend all season I I spent half of it in my Atlanta and half of it in Miami I live in Atlanta though but I the month of like June July at the end of be the one for you this [ __ ] big dog oh I know we saw it I'm playing next to him though got two yeah no we saw it last season start start coming we good man this excited hell yeah but all season a little bit quieter this time though good good man Focus everybody Focus everybody sometime you just want to play football man that's the main thing you come out you come out last hey how you feeling man a little more what's good body good oh yeah ready to roll oh yeah all right hey man so listen everybody I talked to walked in say 20 got to stay up right now they say 20 can be the difference New York Jets camp Aaron Rogers first play of Leons goes deep to Garett Wilson we not even here for those two we were here for Bree Hall had his pink shoes on listen what the EXA say is he's the next back at the Christian mcaffrey but can he be an offensive player of the year get inside work good good here we go we believe so he says he's a big play waiting to happen tap in and see what else he says pining it I here to witness it get my people feeling militant way I'm feeling get me up on the mission got me up know me I got the key on Vision I can trust trust Limitless TI to me pining it I here to witness it my people feeling militant way feeling get me up on the mission get me up knowing me I got the key only I can trust trust Limitless n it I here to witness it my people feeling up oh what happened my he Rich too he Rich too good what up boy how you doing family yeah oh we got two running backs on the other side yeah I like L up y ready they casually hire money I ain't lie y'all got I ain't G lie that that one two punch right there would be vicious we going to get him all the carries though I'm I'm good I want three hey shoot dvin went over there thinking he was going to get carries that's my dog that's my dog I lovein that's my dog I was hoping to see a little onew punch though yeah you know but [ __ ] it is what it is it was just more so like just situational stuff like the first I about think 3 four weeks me and him were we were actually starting to ascend and then I think game five or six like we had four or five of our starters get hurt in the same same game we had four lineman get hurt so it was kind of difficult for them to kind of you know know what they wanted to do with both of us after the season but uh he was a real good person bro he never complained in the facility like me and him always kept it Hunter with each other we were on the same like agreement as like Whoever has the hot hand going to be the one that is getting the rocker at at the time or whatever so he he a real good dude for sure well welcome to the show cuz you just started doing TV I love it yeah uh Bree Hall uh we appreciate you New York Jets running back Fred Taylor chanon Crowder I'm Ryan Clark welcome to the pivot a part of Fanatics and you know in mentioning your relationship with dvin Dalin is one of the best running backs of his era I think we all can agree with that uh you being a young player entering your second year off of an injury I think that was a big reason why they made that decision but I want to start before that uh you were drafted 36th overall only two people from where you're from have been drafted higher Barry Sanders cam wimbley uh but still to me as you know a multiple Big 12 Player of the Year you should have been drafted higher than that I think and you can see from especially the way you started your career before the injury and then after once you were ready to go we could see that sort of talent that equaled that production at Iowa State even in getting drafted and I know you feel good about it how difficult was it to sit through an entire round when you knew you were good enough to be drafted yeah it was it was still a blessing and everything but I was definitely frustrated um and just through the process know my agent Nicole Lynn you know I love her she's like my mom's sister best friend so she was very transparent with me and saying like if you don't go from 15 to 21 pretty much then we want you to go in the second round but me being naive I'm like there's not that many players better than me in this draft like you know after about pick 18 I started getting a little frustrated and everything and um I just remember having my family there the NFL I didn't go to the green room but I was at a resort um and everything in Vegas and my whole family was there a lot of friends from college and everything and I just remember you know after the last p I was just like this really just happened and just trying to hold back tears just anger and everything and Nicole pulled me in my room and she told me everything's going to be fine and um you know all the guys that I was try at the combine for the combine with like s Germaine uh you know Trayvon Walker just a lot of guys that went in the first round like they were all you know celebrating everything and I'm just in my room sad you know emotional just you know asking why me and I knew the next day you know I wasn't going to be around for too much longer but um you know it's sucked but I that was like my fuel just you know there there wasn't that many people better than me and I'm going to show everybody every week why were you always that cuz I even read about it where you was on JV and scoring like 10 touchdowns a game and [ __ ] they still ain't they still ain't put your ass on Varsity like that feeling brother always being I guess undervalued as I would say kind of what you and RC talking about like why why what's the explanation to that no my coach in high school was a little more strict he just he just didn't think I was ready yet um I was know easily just as talented if not more talented than a lot of guys on the team but uh just my maturity and my work ethic wasn't there like I could go out on the field every day and naturally be better than everybody but I wasn't showing up to weights and everything how I should have been so that's how he made me pay for it and that was like my my learning year cuz my and I'm kind of happy I didn't play varsity because we weren't that good that year and then once I got to playing varsity the next season we were really good going to State and everything and um that was def that made me really hungry that made me want to prove a lot of the guys that I grew up with and play little league with that was already playing varsity that no like I'm I'm still that dude for sure Brie I know Freddy T is about to go it may have helped the team that you rush for like two bands two years in a row to be better too like it it it ALS it helps when you have a future NFL running back playing in the back field too yeah so and it it it was a blessing because a lot of the guys that I um played my high school ball with I grew up with and played Little League with too so we were all just best friends throughout Middle School went to middle school with them and then playing in high school so it was just like you going out every day just having fun with your boys going back to where RC left off where you where you were drafted do you recall the backs that were taken ahead of you oh no that was already W he was the first back in that draft so that's the [ __ ] I don't like right so NFL has this thing where they devalue the running back position so much so much and that that affects your draft position right and I believe that once they get you in there they try and then they turn around and try and take advantage they you know what I'm saying like here you go carry carry carry carry carry and then when it's time to pay you the conversation and all of that changes yeah why Iowa State do you think I I guess I want to ask you why do you think you fell to 36 um I kind of ask myself that question a lot cuz like if you look at my film and my stats of production and the big plays and like everything's there so that was my biggest thing I went killed the combine had one of the best combine performances ever from a running back and everything and like that and I thought after my combine performance I killed pro day and I was like all right cemented I'm going first round and I guess it just didn't happen I don't know but and I look at other guys and look at my stats compared to them in college and my combine and all the metrics and stuff like that and I'm like that don't doesn't make sense but it is what it is though do you think we're all SEC boys LSU Florida do you think the the outcome of the conversation changes if that were you did what you did versus SEC rosters uh nah not really cuz uh you look at like like my dog Bean like bejan big 12 and he did everything he did great great running back you know I look at him like me and him were competing with each other in college every year just who's going to be the best who's going to be the best and um he went first round he had everything I for me I think it's more so just I went to a smaller School nobody really knew who I was until everybody started kind of looking at okay running backs and towards the combine towards the draft and everything so kind of later but um you know you look at everything I did in college you know back to back Big 12 Player of the Year all americ all that type of stuff is like felt like everything was there just didn't happen that way you mentioned sauce earlier and Germaine Johnson you're actually a part of a historic class of draft picks especially the first four picks of a draft we're talking about saw gar Wilson Jermaine Johnson and yourself four people with Hall of Fame potential teams don't get that sort of opportunity to collect a group of talent like that how much do you guys Relish in the fact that y'all could be the class or the individuals that get the Jets back to Glory it's crazy cuz uh like I said misau and Germaine were at the same place uh for training for the combine and uh just us joking around we all were like super confident you know knew that we were really good and everything Germaine was the arguably the best DN SAU was the best corner I'm the best running back so I just remember uh seeing um Germaine uh s and Garett get drafted and then the next day my phone's ringing from a New Jersey area code and I'm like well then the next thing you know sauce facetimes me he just he answer the phone and he's just shaking his head he's like yeah it's go time and I was just like wow this is crazy but Garrett I've known Garrett since high school cuz we uh played on the same All-American team and so U me and him had we got really cool through that and then just us keeping tabs on each other through college and everything I remember him hitting me up a few times and you know so those two uh Garrett and then SAA from Detroit I was born in Detroit too so we kind of all had like a little you know connection for sure so does Garrett win the Rookie of the Year if Bree Hall doesn't get hurt do y'all ever have that conversation yeah we do uh we always joke around about it but uh I think I like to say I would have won it just cuz that's a competitor I am but uh I was happy he did if it wasn't going to be me I wanted it to be him and SAU so seeing them one it was definitely great but I just remember um you know when you have a season in injury and everything you get to you kind of go through that process of asking like why me you know why this happened to me and for me that was my first time ever getting hurt my whole life I never was in the training room like that or you know I had some dings and nicks but I never had nothing that held me out for months or anything like that so I just remember um we were playing Denver and I had just ran like a 60 70 yard touchdown and then we ran the same play the next drive and I remember I saw pator Tain breaking off a a block and I tried to slow down and it just fell on the ground and I was kind of like feeling my knee like okay what happened so I get up and I start walking back to the locker room they made me get on the um on the cart or whatever we go to x-ray nothing and then we get on the training table and they start doing this little thing with my with my knee and they're like yeah it doesn't feel like it's intact but I guess like my quads and stuff were so strong so I'm still jumping around like I'm like no I feel good I feel fine and then they're like we can't let you go back out there till you get the MRI tomorrow so um we win the game we're flying back and as we're flying back my knee starts to swell up a lot and that's when I knew I was like okay I definitely did something but I didn't still didn't think I tore my ACL and then I wake up at 5:30 in the morning go get my MRI and I found out and I just remember just crying like damn my my whole season's over with already and that's the first thing like not adversity but like as far as injuries that's the first thing I ever been through so I just didn't really know how to take it or anything and I'm on y Freddy you just asking I'm on y'all side bro I played too I had four ACL reconstruction 17 knee surgeries Michael fract I had it all yeah but that's why y'all to devalued yeah because y'all getting your ass bashed in every single play you go to cut back and the whe linebacker hit you in the you know what I'm saying like isn't that part of it is the Ops of a Garrett Wilson go out there and play around with a quarterback all game and y'all got 270lb linebacker trying to [ __ ] y'all up every single play yeah but it's also frustrating too because we touching the ball the third most other than the quarterback and the center and they're relying on us the most so especially especially for me I feel like I'm the best playmaker on the team other than Garrett you know me and Garrett go hand in hand for that and uh you know that's why I feel like my value is so high because I do it both ways I do it in the Run game and pass game so I feel like you know I look at myself as one of those guys like mcaffrey aan Le'Veon Bell those type of guys where my values up here and I feel like I can be one of those special special running backs for a team that could be a Difference Maker so I feel like I should be valued high do you think if you had a neck it' be easier [Laughter] hey what's that is a 57 Bo he going chit in the trout no traps all day he ain't going to never have no neck injury ever he is next level spine strong a't it goodness yeah it's just it's all the all the shrugs everything over the years that's all it is that's why those dudes be bouncing off you I want to go back you you mentioned the ACL and frustration um exactly how frustrating was it when your rookie year ended you don't have to been excited you're the starter um um and then that injury happens and then the process of rehab and going through and coming back like describe all of that for us so once I found out I got hurt it I it stuff didn't really start getting frustrating until I started doing my rehab so after I get surgery the next day I was walking and everything a little bit putting some putting some weight on it cuz I didn't have any miniscus or anything it was just straight ACL and then uh with me running and squatting and trying to cut and stuff again like it was just days I couldn't do it I was so sore I just didn't have the confidence to do it so it would be days where I would just have to step away from the trainers and everybody for 10 15 minutes and I would just be so frustrated and just go out there and just try to push through it that's that's when you get the best out of yourself is when you're sore you're hurting and you push through it just so you know that okay I'm still progressing and everything but I definitely had my days where I didn't want to be there didn't want to do it but luckily um I had some great trainers shout out to uh my main trainer that was with me Bobby daplin he did a really good job of just pushing me and being transparent with me and uh kind of knowing how to handle me how my emotions were cuz like I said it was my first injury and I didn't have a high pain tolerance and I was just like like what's going on why can't I do everything I used to and um even my first game I was still kind of nervous and everything luckily I ended up having a pretty good outing for my first one so that gave me a huge confidence booster after that after your first game which was that the game you had like 10 catches or something early right I can't remember no I had 10 I think I had 10 carries for like 120 10 carries so and was that the game afterwards you like uh some point you was like I was still that dude like I thought that I was still that dude yeah and it's kind of crazy cuz even like that game like I still wasn't 100% I just felt I felt good enough to play and I was like if I can play I'm going play forget it and then just throughout the season I just kept getting better and better even though it like I was still dealing with a lot of pain and waking up not really wanting to practice and stuff like that but just trying to fight through it just trying to get stronger every day and um you know after I just remember the first game after Aaron got heard I was like all right if I if we going to win it's going to be because our Playmakers me and Garrett we GNA have to help the team out a little more so um just taking that burden on myself and just trying to do everything for the team I could and mentioning Aaron you play the first year as as a rookie uh you get injured now that next off season you're rehabing and Aaron Rogers becomes your quarterback and it's this huge frenzy around the New York Jets It's Hard Knocks Me sh we were there yeah right we come to camp and you have all of those things and then you do have the let down the fourth play of the season now your future first ballot Hall of Fame quarterback goes down this off season has been a little different talk a little bit about the feel of the locker room headed into to your third year but the true first year of expecting to have Aaron Rogers as the quarterback yeah the whole locker room aspect is different um especially like even Aaron he did a great job of telling me like once I got back he was like bro like when you're out there there's a whole different whole different vibe from the team like um so I just feel like now and especially that Aeron back he was practicing and everything like you know everybody's just Uber confident you know we go out there there's not a play that we don't think is going to work and then we got a new and improved o line especially with some pieces we had um from last season we got Mike Williams we know we got Hassan reick like just adding those pieces you know we're our team's so confident right now we think we can do whatever we want I was going to say with playing with a guy like Aaron Rogers who just a monster we all played against him hey we got you by 20 years the man been playing for a while yeah RC played with Big Ben who's who's a Monster yeah Fred played with Joe namoth and um ya tling them boy see you ain't the only one that get it it's all good hey CH they trying to trade for Joe Montana so fre can play with it IM R work out off season but like to play and not even like I always say when you talk about somebody else you B about somebody else no but like you just said to be in the locker room and then now have a first battle of Hall of Fame like what does what does Aaron Rogers bring what was the thing that you saw immediately like okay this is what Hall of Fame looks like yeah just the uh when we're on the field just that sense of calm like we think everything's going to work we know that you know know he's going to see stuff and check us out of stuff that's going to put us in a position to be successful all the time so I say on the field is just that sense of calm and confidence and then off the field he's a real big about us you know having the Brotherhood and us being together so he always tries to you know include the team and doing stuff joking around um we threw some we threw a Halloween party last year that was super fun it was great gasby theme and he pulls up in the with a horse in The Chariot like trying to show off and everything so it's just the little stuff he does and how he uh how he just he can talk to anybody um he was my locker mate too me and him gain a really great uh friendship just from him telling me just from just really just having deep conversations and stuff like that especially with us being hurt and everything but yeah he's just he's just a great overall dude and y'all know he has his own opinions and social media is always on him and everything like that's what just hearing U the way he talks and why he is the way he is why he thinks the way he thinks it's he's just a super like unique human being who's been your biggest uh influence or Mentor since uh you started playing ball other than my high school coach Steve Martin he was the one that put in my head after my sophomore year he was like you know you can be the greatest thing to come out of wiah um after Barry Sanders and that really made me lock in when he told me that and I had my friends telling me I was going to the NFL I'm playing JV football like just cuz I was more talented more athletic faster than everybody and then uh probably my stepdad his name uh Jeff Smith he played at Nebraska um coached by Tom Osborne and uh played for the Chiefs and the bucks so just having you know mentors like that to you know always talk to me keep me on track and everything um um and I also just say just my friends just never let me get into anything get in any trouble um always making sure I was making it to practice making it to lifts if I didn't have a car I didn't have a ride and everything just uh God is going out of their way to show me love and that's why I feel like now like I try to include them in everything I do I want them coming to games I want them coming to my camps I want them you know being here when I work out and stuff like that cuz you know a lot of people help me get to where I'm at and I feel like you know not that I owe them anything but I feel like I want them to be included on this journey with me as will and along that journey to go from Iowa State to New York you know I mean from wit to iow state to New York like what was that adjustment like it was different um I said people from the Midwest are overly polite really nice um considerate and you get in New York you know you're driving and people are trying to force their way into your lane not letting you get over uh people will bump into you walking and they won't hold the door open for you just little stuff like that you notice that Midwest people you're like wild like people out there are really really nice um and then I say the food is a lot different it's a lot more in New York it's a lot more Italian food bagels and different stuff like that but um for us to be young and to have the draft class we did and us have the success that we've had as young players being in New York is perfect because of the market and then just them having everything from Fashion to the night life and just a little bit of everything Sports and everything it's it's like the perfect spot to be Bree along with all of those amazing things you mentioned uh there's the media of New York as well which is really tough and there's some crazy fans can you sort of take me through the airport situation and why Carl Banks a Giants Legend of all things had to step in between you and a FL a fan that's screaming slap me yeah so um it was after the Super Bowl you know everybody goes out there to do their marketing stuff and um enjoy their time out there before the game and after the game and everything and I remember coming back from my flight I guess somehow they got my flight numbers or my frequent flyer numbers or something like that and so I walk out of my gate and walk through baggage uh walk in the baggage claim and a guy comes out two guys come out with a big cart and it's like pylons footballs mini helmets trading cards a whole bunch of stuff and the guy asked me if I could sign like a uh it was a row of like nine trading cards and I signed them real quick and I was like I'm not signing anything else just cuz I feel like in the airport like you kind of invaded my privacy like I don't really not trying to be trying to you know walk through there listen to my music chill out and um I had my hood and my hat on so he they I knew they were waiting on me they knew what flight I was coming off of and everything and um so as I'm walking to the baggage claim he kept bothering me and kept asking me I'm like I just signed nine nine cars for you bro like I'm not trying to sign anything else and just trying to just be polite and trying to deescalate the situation and so I text my marketing guy and he was cuz he was on the same flight as me he's like I'm going to be over there in a little bit so he walks over and they're like he's like no I'm brie is INS sign anything else and the guy's like I'm not talking to you I'm talking to him like stop talking to me like just being overly disrespectful to him and so we get to baggage claim and I'm waiting I'm not paying him any attention but he's literally like right here and I'm turning around he keeps talking to me and then Carl that's when he se he was on the same flight as us as well and he was waiting that baggage claim and he steps over I turn around I'm like bro you know they could like do something to you for this like this isn't this isn't right and he took that as like a threat like oh they can fight you or like I'm like okay whatever so he starts screaming and being overly obnoxious and so I turn around I laugh at him and I just turn back around waiting for my bags and then I turn around one more time and I just see like 40 people like sitting there like this I was like oh my go so I grabbed my bag and we got out of there real quick and then four hours later TMZ posted on the did you say you was going to slap him why was he screaming slap me cuz like the way I guess the way like I related was like he took it as like oh they're about to beat you up or something like that and um so he kept and I just turn around I'm laughing at them and everything and I'm like they I see everybody record and I'm just like this is crazy I never had anything happen to me like that I like this is crazy bro so then from then on after that like my agent they like every time I go to the airport they have somebody with me like where there security or like somebody from the marketing uh part side of it or anything cuz like that time it's like I was just like bro this is I didn't know what to do cuz bro literally sitting here ring my face and my marketing dude they trying to get him out of my face and everything and I was just sitting I just turned around I was acting like I'm trying to not like not hearing him and everything and he just this went on like this went on for like 10 minutes longer than what the video was though like he I'm waiting on my bag and he really like in my face yelling at me like are you going to sign this can you sign this like talking just being overly like obnoxious no like you're a good man boy I'm saying but bro that goty what is that change in you though cuz that goty to be annoying as hell like you just said it it upset me that now you can't walk through the airport go grab your bag and get in the damn Uber you got to have a dude escort you to the airport big as hell you you can head butt somebody to hell and they going to go to sleep like did did did was was that a was that a eye opening situation yeah cuz like I think if it was a little younger me like college and everything and we was like in Iowa or like outside the airport then it would I probably would have been a little more like got mad I probably would have done something to him but just me being in the airport and I had people like around me I was just like I ain't even it ain't even worth it but then I get all my friends joking like oh he was going to do something to you I'm like you know the boys like bro stop playing stop playing with me bro like so yeah I'm like y'all don't even understand like we even if we want to do something even if we could do something we really can't because we gonna get in trouble for it so I was like no you got it bro it's whatever you said something earlier you said talked about your value and Freddy T even mentioned the devaluing of the running back position it seems like CMC has cracked the code cuz he keep getting money above everybody else there was a Jeremy fer did this survey or poll of EX Ives in the offseason and they did the top 10 running backs at number one is Christian mcaffrey at number two is Bree Hall at three I think it's Nick chub and then it's saquan Barkley you're only in your third year your first year was cut short for the executives in the league to think that highly of you that says what they feel about the film they've seen you as Bree hul what makes you feel about yourself in a way that you belong amongst the names of Christian mcaffrey Nick chub saquin Barkley I just think it's like still my ceiling and my potential like for me it was different for me than other guys I feel like every time I touch the ball I'm just a big play waiting to happen like whether you throw me the ball you toss me the ball hand it off to me like I can take it to the crib whenever I want to I feel like that's that's What Separates Me from a lot of guys and I watch a lot of guys I watch bejon I watch chub I watch jir I watch mcaffrey like I watch everybody and like I like measuring myself up to those guys but I feel like if you look at my situation from the last two years and um you know like our rankings and everything just from that standpoint and what I've still been able to produce especially with Garrett as well um I feel like we should definitely have a little bit more respect in the league than what we do and luckily like it was a blessing that they did put me number two but I feel like I still got a lot to prove I haven't even had a thousand yard season yet so um it's just little stuff like that then I'm like okay once I do this and I could be subin to number one you mentioned some of those guys who Al with you though do you feel like and I'm not even going to do that to you I'm going take you out yeah right let's say Bree Hall isn't a part of the New York Jets or part of the league you're just a a fan of running backs who are some of those guys that you like hey man these are are the dudes and tell me a little bit about why they are healthy Nick chub cuz he if you see the way his legs is two of M one of his legs is two of mine like he you can't nobody no one person is tackling him and I saw that Firs hand my rookie year um we got one of the best defenses in the league and you see he running through armed tackles he's breaking CJ Mosley and Quincy Williams tackles and you see them big pullers running in front of him like nobody bringing him down by their so just seeing how he has a big playability and he has a big like way of just forcing Miss tackles and everything he he up there alone mcaffrey cuz he does everything right like if you watch his film from routes to his path on his outside Zone inside Zone like the little stuff like that for him that's what sets up his big runs because he's doing everything the right way he never takes a playoff he's great in the pass game great in the Run game he's good at pass Pro too healthy Jonathan Taylor you see he already like and people don't even people don't even think about him healthy Jonathan Taylor top five easily just cuz he he also does everything well big play waiting to happen 4-3 speed 61 2 230 like he look like this dude yeah exactly he plays like this dude plays exctly JT nice yeah healthy saquin one of none he does everything well super quick twitch Shifty fast long speed I feel like me and him are real similar we we're just a big play waiting to happen um and then I juggle between like bejon and jir the young guys yeah yeah I really like them like I watch be I watch every play beon had in college like me and him were always contacting each other talking to each other we got the same agent like me and him are like this so we work out at the same we work out at Sports Academy out here just always challenging each other pushing each other watching him like he's similar to me in a way like I think he's a little shiftier than me but he's a big play waiting to happen you throw it to him he runs routes throw a bubble screen I'm going tell you what now that's a scary list I think what and to me though what beon was able to do especially early last year when they got him the ball yeah but jere's Ascension throughout the end of the season throughout the end of the season when they started to really put it in his hands like he added a different Dimension to that offense of speed that I think changed what they was doing I know you had some and BR I was going to say because the guys you bring up their volume guys yeah like you get the like CAC touch the ball you know he touching the ball we talk about all the time we talk about him like those guys touching the ball yeah are you that guy can you encourage your coaches to be like coach I need me 22 Yeah I pass run flip put under Center here wild cat [ __ ] like you know what I'm saying because those guys get the ball a lot and that's how you get 2000 yard d Henry's another one he's a different style of back to you he A pounder back exactly so and this that's why like he he's also a top running back as well but it's hard for me to like watch him cuz we so different like we don't we don't play the same we don't run the same like we don't like he's just he's a he he a alien I'm going just say that he does everything in a different way big old B exactly like he does everything in a different way and um like for me like if you watch like my volume in college I was getting 20 25 carries a game and um like last season it was like the first priority for every team is stop Bree I'm getting eight nine man boxes so throw it to Garrett like cuz I'm getting the ball got to make two people missing the hole and everything like that but um now that we added a few pieces to the team we add Mike Williams you press him just throw him the fade boom Gary you press him throw him the fade throw him a quick slant whatever he want to do and with Aaron like nobody's about to load the box so that's when I'm really like it's going to be one of those things like Christian mcaffry with Brock like and all the pieces they got like no you can't always load the Box on them so if you can't do it to me I feel like that's when I'm really gonna get off and do whatever I want the good thing about shu is you can catch it well too so it's a matter of the the play caller just simply getting the ball in your hand and allowing you to do your thing you mentioned Quincy and uh CJ you throw in quinnon you throw in sauce obviously you got the best defense in in the NFL practicing against those guys each and every day frustrating that's dope frustrating I I deciding to get to that point is there a defense considering you're practicing against your your defense every day is there a defense out there that I wouldn't say you fear but like when I play respect respect I love respect is there a defense out there that you respect or do you simply just respect them all no I definitely don't respect them all you that's the answer I want asking them team I mean because I Steelers obviously so I mean but yeah but I already I got them my rookie year so I ain't worried about them uh oh you you can't say that in here I don't know cuz he gets a little the Ste ain't the Steelers I ain't tripping uh really I think what's goingon to be my biggest test is week one we play San Francisco like yeah that's gonna be my biggest test is everybody going to Hype up me versus mcaffrey then Fred Warner they got all those guys on the other side of the ball mcaffrey versus CJ Quincy you know s versus Debo um ba like if he if he's still there uh I think that's be my biggest test um especially with like I said we got a new and improved team so um we got every piece that we need so I feel like you know now that we're we have every piece now everybody's going to get to see the full full version of me and because I cuz I got some help now but even before that like everybody knew I was a problem before just the situation we was in we dealt with a lot of injuries um playing with four or five different quarterbacks and everything it's just it's always hard to be successful that way so um I think that's going to be my biggest test but so far you know uh the team that the team that's had my number probably been New England New England's done a really good job yeah they've done always done a really good job versus me I that's probably the team I get frustrated going against the most but um I feel like me like I can get off every game I feel like every time I step out on the field like I I got that mentality Aaron got that mentality Garett got that mentality like I'm the best player like I can like I I'm a big player waiting to happen like nobody can you you get in front of me I'm taking me every time so that's just my confidence that's and it could be arrogance whatever the case may be but um I feel like with with the guys I got blocking for me right now like any team we go with go against I'm I'm taking me I mean you set it up perfectly for me you mentioned what CMC does with his quarterback you mention the fact that you play the San Francisco 49ers week one uh you were the two-time big 12 Player of the Year you had a quarterback that started a ton of games gets drafted at the last pick of the entire draft and becomes one of the best quarterbacks in the league and has already gone to a Super Bowl what was it you saw in Brock py that could have told you before everyone else knew that he had an opportunity to be a really good Pro quarterback for me it was just seeing how hard Brock worked in college like and Brock was my roommate for two two and a half years and everything so having like conversations with him like he always told me like he was never the most talented never the fastest never the biggest never had the strongest arm so he always had to work overly hard just to meet a bridge of being as as good as everybody else so seeing how hard he worked like it it would be workouts that we had that like the running backs and linebackers we fail stuff and Brock still going like just little stuff like that just seeing the little intangible stuff that he had to him um and then just seeing how much how good of a person he was Brock wasn't a partyer he wasn't going out like drinking doing none of that stuff he was always football football football which sometimes we try to like pull him out of that just like bro let's play the game or let's do something but just seeing how he's an All-American person his faith in God um he never he never does anybody wrong he always does the right things just seeing how good of a person how hard of a worker he was and uh he like in college he always had big play potential too there potential to do a lot of stuff we had some very big wins and everything and us being at a small school we didn't get the most talented people so we kind of had to do a little bit more with less which worked out in our favor sometimes where sometimes it didn't but I always knew he had it in him to you know be a be a great player but this what he doing now is like a complete surprise but um he always even told me he was like bro as long as I got the pieces around me like I can I'mma be successful so just hearing him say that and then now for him to have the pieces he needed he he's successful 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got to ask is is it is it a family name is it a mistake no uh I forgot the way my mom told me I think she had a a friend uh with Bri in her name like it was longer but she had it had Bree in her name and my mom just liked the sound Bree like she liked it was different so uh she named me Bree my sister's name is naria so we got real different names which is unique I like it like I don't want to be like nobody else anyway so I'm cool with bro you the first Bree y'all know any other Brees I do not it's Unique yeah I love it it's very unique and bro when you say stuff even about yourself and about um pery I go to church I try to do good by people I'm not winning no Super Bowls I didn't win no Super Bowls I didn't go to no Pro bowls for you to translate watch watch pery and it's you a you you and himself for you to be a top three back and for him to be what he's doing right now there has to be something that you can see that translates now you being in league and being at a lower tier I'm not bad mouth on Iowa State whatever but at lower tier college and seeing Oh the we both had these that now is translating over because yeah working hard there's a lot of dudes that run hard and do 10 more H hundreds and everybody else that a going make it the leag right uh like I said we had to do more with less that's that's really what it was like I just remember in high school at all like when we were at the All-American Game and guys like gar and everybody asking me where I'm going I say Iowa State dudes is laughing at me and everything and I'm a higher I'm a fourar recruit like I'm a higher recruit and dudes is like why you going to Iowa State and then fast forward you know three years later then you know I'm doing everything I'm doing and uh with Brock I just remember Brock having a big freshman year and then he went through his ups and downs in college but seeing and him still remain the same person be the same guy every day um I knew he that's how I knew he was different cuz a lot of guys that went through what he went through in college would have transferred folded would have wanted to do something else but seeing him stay the same guy and keep his faith and everything like some he got he got a different juice in him I don't know what it is but I've always I have a thought maybe the coaches knew they didn't have to uh uh uh depend on Brock because they had a Bree you know but a moment ago you said you guys got all the pieces in place to go and be successful that's what you told us yeah but you've also told the media that one added piece could be Devonte Adams yeah how huge would that be if that possibility would come to fruition uh it would be it would be it would be hectic for sure um especially with the receivers managing how who going to touch the ball cuz I know I'm getting my touches but I don't know they they going to have to figure that out between them three uh but yeah I feel like if we got him it'll be another case to pick your poison who you want to beat you you want me to beat you you want them three out there to beat you with Tyler Conlin and Jeremy rord like that's every that's all we need right there so um I feel like if we did add him they would probably they would say it was a cheat code basically we were talking about the devaluing of the position he say he's gonna get his carries most time when you talk contracts they base the the the meat of the contracts are based on the first three years right sometimes you get like especially for rookies you kind of get that year to fill things out not every rookie makes a splash yeah I believe they also give you sort of a injury year or a down year but that third year really determines you know the decisions that are going to be made in the front office whether they're going to consider you uh like they call me and they they consider me injury prone at one point point but I still put up numbers um they say they'll question your production uh but ultimately a decision has to be made at that particular Point coming into this season do you have any pressures or do you feel any pressures entering this season also too I think it because I want you to answer this question and also we should remind the viewers and the listeners part of going 36 is you get to get money quicker yeah right right so that's another part of why this year is very important correct yeah um I wouldn't say I have any added pressure it just I've uh expect I've always had the highest expectations on myself like coming in as a rookie I wanted to rush for a, yards make a pro bowl do everything and like it was trending that way I just got hurt then last year um we dealt with a lot of injuries a lot of different quarterback play and different stuff like that but if you look at my production like from the situation we're in it's way better than what it should have been so you know mcaffry the only person I think almost League that had more allpurpose yards than me total yards than me so like that speaks for itself in a way but for me um my whole life my coaches have always preached to me to do the little things right your natural Talent will take over so this offseason just locking in like I have a had an offseason to get better and not just get back to playing football so that's going to take care of itself and then for me it's like like this your third year you don't got no excuses to go out there and be the best or don't that's that's all it is you know I got all the potential to I got got the team around me to do it so it like like now it's no excuses you might it's like you might as well type of thing and bro man you a good looking dude we talk he talked about like transition from wi you talk which I don't know what the [ __ ] yall doing with you do to Iowa State and now to New York you talked about people bumping into you but you got people got to shoot at you now what's the you got old lady you kept one from back in the day no I don't got no girl or nothing it's it was a lot yeah once I got to the NFL it's a lot different than college cuz in Iowa It Ain't Nothing But like Farm like it's it's just a whole different different Dynamics so you get to New York and you get a little bit of everything but um you know luckily I got a strict mom so she ain't really going for none of that she said I can't date till I'm 30 so you said what now you can't tell turn now you ain't going to date till you 30 yeah no I'm chill I'm so you backed up hey no wonder why he be getting out of do he's angry crazy n [ __ ] [Laughter] in in that when you look up the story of your record setting touchdown streak in college the picture is you hugging your mom you mentioned your stepfather I also think are you related to Roger Craig in some way Roger Craig is your cousin so you've had some of these people sew into your career but man you know how moms is they sew into your life yeah how vital has that relationship been for your development of who Bree Hall the person is yeah it's been it's been the biggest thing just seeing um my mom she you know went through the whole single mother thing for a while um seeing her just she never said no was always able to find a way to do anything for me and my sister whether it was paying for cleats um showing up to practice his games um going out of her way just to just to be places um like I almost get emotional talking about it cuz we we went through a lot when I was growing up so uh just seeing like her go through everything and all the stuff she was willing to you know put aside for me and my sister um it's it means a lot to me for sure so I feel like I always got to repay her and show her the most love and just make her proud of me just just cuz cuz how much work she put in for us and then my older sister she's two and a half almost three years older than me so I call her she's like my sister mom like she was waking me up for school taking me to school picking me up making me food and everything so those two um like without them I probably wouldn't I wouldn't be doing nothing they they made me who I am for sure what's the goal for mom cuz you about to hit him in the head you about to hit somebody in the head uh she I mean she don't really care as long she she the type as long as I'm straight she's straight and I'm the type as long as that her and my sister good and I'm good so she whatever I get her like it's going to be nice so she be content like but I I always make sure I do it big for my mom and my sister for sure um and then my stepfather um just I got a different type of respect for him just as a man for him to you know come into a single woman's life with two kids and step up and be a father figure for us um I almost get emotional talking about that too bro it's and I didn't I didn't realize until I got to you know later in high school and college just seeing the shoes he had to feel um he he never said no he was always there never heard him complain got us whatever we needed um picked us up and took us wherever we needed just just always being there and then for him to be another influence for me as far as playing sports and everything and just for him just to see how humble he is that rubbed off on me as well just to you know not got to flex or not got to always be on social media post and talking about it and just seeing how much respect he has around uh everywhere we go back home and everything it it means a lot but them they put so much work into me and made it to the point to where it was like I it got to the point where I knew I was Destin to make it just because you know I had so many people in my corner and like I said just me they always me just do the natural do the little stuff right my natural Talent will take over and that carried on from high school to college to now so I can't thank them enough man you talk about getting emotional with those things the one thing I listened to you say was the fact that your sister had to do a lot whether it was pick you up or drop you off or cook uh that feels like it was saying your mom was out grinding trying to what does seeing your mother work so hard seeing her sacrifice and put things aside how did that affect your work ethic how did seeing that whether it was an inspiration to make sure one day she didn't have to do it or it was to be able to see that and say nah like sometimes we got to put our feet to the Grind to provide for who we love yeah just uh so my mom she's a flight attendant she's been doing it for north of 30 years and you know she she would be have to be gone for sometimes days at a time um so then it was just me and my sister Thug and when we were younger we probably go stay the night at my Aunt my aunt's house and chill out with them and stuff but uh just my sister being not that much older than me and taking on that burden of you know cooking cleaning picking me up taking me to school taking me to practice picking me up from practice along with my stepdad once he came into the picture and everything it was just for my sister you know me and her we went from not being that close and then once I got a little older me and her now she's we're like this like I said she's my like my sister mom so um just for her to be there for me and um she's an inspiration for me just to seeing how hard she works and how she doesn't rely on me for anything she's so independent that she likes doing her own thing and um and L happily my mom taught her that that she doesn't need to rely on anybody she can make her make her own way do what she needs to do herself and everything so is that is the the cuz this is this is like the most interesting part of the whole conversation to me is is that the the way your life was right and the way your mom work and your sister you mentioned earlier that you depended on your friends a lot too and it's why you want your home boys at camps and you want your home booys at games and and those different things it's almost like you had a village yeah you know when you think about the closeness you have to to those guys and what they were able to to do for you how much or how influential were those sacrifices from them or were those efforts from them into getting you here uh when we was younger it didn't it didn't even feel like it was like a sacrifice it was just like you just you know when you homies you don't count favors you know so um just us just always doing stuff for each other so my it's like my right-and man my best friend Roy like he would come pick me up for practice or um we take me out to lunch uh at school just all my friends that I've had the same friend group since fifth sixth grade so I'm just com coming up with them and seeing how we're all maturing and um everybody's doing their own thing and they like I said they don't need me for anything they was we was in high school I was playing summer basketball always playing football I'm broke they having jobs and everything and they having money so they're going out their way to do stuff for me having me taking me bringing bringing me around their family taking me to have fun and stuff like that and um now it's like you know I want them to be a part of this journey because you know they already been a part of it this long it's like y'all might as well just keep coming you know so um just to have them be a part of this it's been a blessing for sure and bro we I don't think we ever had the stepfather conversation on this show and I just thought about it when you said it man like when did it hit you because we actually just talked about it recently where I didn't talk to my dad my real dad like my biological father for like four five years and then we had to rekindle our relationship later in life as a grown man but then to have a man that you know is not your biological father that steps up that steps up and like you said to get emotion that cared about you that much and I know it's people that I'm sure people that watch the show that our stepfathers just knowing that there's a process to that of that child to now look at you with such respect but you have to gain that I guess when how long did that take I remember uh cuz we moved from Detroit to Omaha that's where all my mom side of the family was and I remember her telling me come after school when they telling me we was moving to Witchita I wasn't I was like no I'm not I'm not I'm not wasn't happy with that cuz all my family was in Omaha so uh it took a while but as I got older and stuff and just seeing how he would go out of his way to make my mom happy and how he would go out of his way to do stuff for us that he didn't need to like that's when I started to gain the probably once I was like 18 19 that's when I gain that greater respect for him cuz I'm like like he been around for a longest and he ain't never ask me for nothing he he don't never want for nothing like he just like to see us happy he like to see my mom happy and he the same as me as long as my mom and my sister happy he's straight so like that's why I feel like for him it's like I'm him I almost owe him the world as well cuz it's like damn like you ain't have to do none of this bro he done bought me football CLE basketball shoes took me on road trips driven me to visits like spent countless hours with me talking about football like it's it's been a lot of stuff so for him to be in my life and be willing to you know give the way he's given to us it taught me that like you know I'm not too good to do anything for anybody you know so like just seeing the man that he is and that ried off on me a lot it's growing up Bree you uh you wore 28 at Iowa State another famous uh uh Iowa State player uh uh Troy Davis my guy monster monster yeah and I'm pretty sure the only reason you might not be wearing it in the NFL right now is because of Curtis the Hall of f of Curtis Martin what are what what have conversations been like with Curtis have have he helped you in any sort of way I haven't talked to him not yet yet uhuh we got to arrange Troy Davis situation actually is kind of funny cuz uh when I was coming out of high school I wanted number one I went number one out of high school so a senior got it and I remember being on the phone with my coach and he was like you want to wear 28 I didn't know who tro Davis was at that point so when our official roster numbers came out and Troy Davis saw that the last person the world was his brother and when he saw that I had it was kind of like not him bashing me but he was like like why are y'all just giving my number to some freshman you know and um like he's obviously in the history books at Iowa State but I feel like I I left a greater impact than he did because like I didn't I I didn't get in no trouble like I I always get back to the community and everything so like when people talk about who were 28 iate they say Bree Hall they don't say Troy Davis no more you know so I don't look at it as he wor as my number I see two I see two dogs yeah is what I see but my last question uh we always ask it of our guests the biggest pivot what's been your big biggest pivot in life that's that one moment that one uh the most impactful moment in your life that um or is the reason for you being who you are today it was in high school when my coach told me like he I tell you my my coach my friends told me I could go to the NFL I was a sophomore High School I haven't played the varsity game yet like that made me really like lock in and like I said my friends the good job holding me accountable making me show up to lifts and stuff every day and not skip nothing so that that's what really helped me separate myself but when my coach sat me down and he was like if you want to do this like we can really do this like that that changed my whole mentality of like okay like I I'm I know I'm more talented than everybody but if I work this much harder it's going to create that separation this much more to where you know I'm going be able to do whatever I want so IID say that was one and then in college my freshman year I had graduated high school early so I was 17 when I got to campus and I was getting in a lot of trouble like not doing anything bad I just like wasn't going to tutor in some days wasn't going to class some days and um Coach Campbell he didn't I should have started my freshman year but he didn't he sat me the first five games yeah so he yeah so that was like I would get in a play or two here but I wasn't playing like I how I should have and so um he uh pulled me into his office before game six I think and he was like this going to be the game that we decide to rest shirt you this going to be the game that you get in and go off we was playing West Virginia that week he gave the senior backs the older backs he gave them two series he put me in that game I had 185 three touchdowns ain't going nowhere hist from there that'll do it I um you know to to finish this off because this is training camp show the Jets have had a really good defense uh Super Bowl caliber defense yeah in my opinion you go out you get Aaron Rogers in the off season he gets injured in the first game Bree Hall is coming off of and ACL it's time now who will the 2024 Jets be and why will they be that I just think we're going to be exciting like if you look at our offensive side you got me Garrett Mike and a all big Playmakers Splash plays we do it big and then if you look at the defensive side it's just so much Swagger you got sauce you got Quinn and Quincy CJ like it's just so much Swagger on the defensive side of the ball Hassan like just so much confidence so I just think the whole our team is if you describe is going to be exciting like there it's going to be nothing but big plays happening um I think it's going to be Smashmouth football from the defensive side and from the offensive side is like I said he going to be pick your poison so we just going to be an excited team am I stupid to think that the New York Jets can win AFC East no not at all we we got all the potential to do it can't wait to see it yes sir you going to whoop my dolphins hey that was awesome man appreciate you bro that was awesome apprciate they play all three of our teams this year we they got the Jag Steelers and uh I a't seen the Jags I got to see Steelers I ain't worried about the Steelers longs long oh yeah we played up there two years we played up there two years I think the last two years I believe Jacksonville no we didn't play all last season play last year it was the year before before yeah I was hurt though I was already hurt and Miami I had that number my rookie year last year they got me but I Ain worried about it yeah that's the game know it goes we was late we was late cuz he made the LIF L it was his fault all right rud man we've been seeing you everywhere we understand Fanatics Fest is going to be just a one-of-a-kind experience but you know what it really is bro everybody wants to get to a Michael ruin party this is like a Michael rubben party for the fans we're going to make it a Michael ruin party we are I I feel that responsibility we're going to make it incredible the thing is with this though I don't know how no one ever did like a sports festival in any real way like we have it like I went to Coachella this year I've been to South by Southwest been to Comic Con like so many other Industries have great Sports festivals nothing like this in sport so it's kind of like we have to do this okay so August 16th to the 18th in the jobet center fans are going to have an opportunity to experience something for the first time of its kind what will Michael Ruben be looking most forward to presenting to the world well I think the first thing I want to do is do something that's never been done before and have it be good for everybody around me so sometimes you can do something that's never been done but it's unnatural and so you're like well that was too hard or was it worth doing I want to do something where people come through and the 100,000 fans that come through this like man I had the time in my life this was incredible I'm going to be there from before it opens every day till after closes all three days I will not leave that place I want to be there to just get input from fans what do you like the most what do you like the least what should we change about it for the future and from an athlete perspective we have a big announcement coming um not ready to do it yet today but we have 200 athletes that are coming through and generally when an athlete comes to any type of show they want to figure out how do they get in do what they need to do and get out we're going to make some people want to come and hang and stay because you know um we might even create like a little type of white party within this is the map here it's pretty cool shows you what's going to happen here so you got um you know bunch of athletes with the photo Zone here you got the autograph Zone over here UFC NBA I love the way that everything is spread out too and where it shows you WWE's here the MLB the UFC just looking at the many different names of the sports leagues that's already crazy in itself but to have collect their zones and collect their sponsors how did y'all figure out okay how we're going to separate these things but what made you think these are the place and these are the entities we need inside this building well we went to all of our big Sports properties that we work with and said hey we're going to launch this incredible sports festival and we need you to be part of it and like come bring the best of your sports property in the Fanatics Fest and that's why I have the NFL the NBA UFC MLB WWE NHL MLS Etc but then we said well what else would people want trading cards is really important but we didn't want this to be the show we want this to be a key aspect of it so here you see the collectors sponsors The Collector Zone here and so you see this is probably maybe 25% of the shows about Collectibles and trading cards of memorabilia versus the entire show with a lot of other people but then you've got lots of other brands here as well so you've got the fanatic sports book you've got the giant super Story You've Got tops um you've got new area you've got Mitchell Nest you've got Lids um but then you've got art here so we really want to bring so many different things together August 16th through 18th Fanatics FanFest New York City because you already heard the man is going to London we're going to go to La this will be bigger than just one event but August 16th through the 18th at the javet center in New York can't wait to see you all there and this is our first time never done it before but you know you got to dream big and if you if you don't dream big and will to existence it doesn't happen so we start javitz August 16th 18th but then we say okay how do we make it better where's next that's what we're going to do and so it's going tell you this you sold yourself short though you said it's the first time you've ever did it this is the first time anybody that's that's fair that's fair well FX Fest NYC I can't wait man it I here to witness it my people feeling militant when I'm feeling get me up on the mission get me up knowing me I got the key only Vision I can trust trust Limitless n it I here to witness it my people feel