 around the city or something, if we weren't doing that, we'd probably be at home. Jammin 2K. Basketball game. Basketball was out of light. Oh, there you go. That high school. Holy shit. Boom. Yeah, 42 inch vertical. That's right. All right, guys, how are we? Welcome back to another video. Today's video, we're focusing on Henry Rugs, the third, the Alabama wide receiver who was selected by the Raiders this year in the 12th pick of the 2020 NFL draft. Now, Henry Rugs is an athlete. He's an elite athlete, actually. His numbers are absolutely ridiculous. But one thing I didn't really get to see is, is, I guess any behind the scenes stuff. I didn't really hear him talk a whole lot. And that's something that's pretty important to me, you know? So this series actually looks like it's put together really well. It's on the Alabama Crimson Tide YouTube channel. And it seems to be obviously following Henry Rugs to the pros. I don't know if I've done that for Jerry Judy rode to the pros. No, they haven't. I've just done it with Henry Rugs. So with that being said, guys, sit back, relax, and let's get into it. See, that's the first time I've heard him speak, man. That's really interesting because I did make the call. I made the call in the last video when I saw his vertical and broad jump. I said, look, this guy needs to be, well, I didn't say he should be playing basketball, but I did say that he could definitely windmill dunk and he could definitely 360 dunk. And at the end of the day, well, to me, that's what matters. Got to be social and got to be active. Rob was the only person he was, like I said, my best friend, my other half. And he was one person that I told everything. I'm not really a I wasn't really a social person. I was bought it up and he was the only person that knew everything. You know, where sports begin to being something to them. Game day. Oh, how exciting would game day be? We weren't at Lehigh School shooting around. We're at Southeast Y. We weren't at Southeast Y. You know, find a hoop station somewhere around the city or something. If we weren't doing that, we're probably at home. Jammin 2K. Basketball game. Basketball was our life. Oh, there you go. That high school. Holy shit. Boom. Yeah, 42 inch vertical. That's right. Damn son. I'm an athlete already in eighth grade. So we saw him do that. Some of the things he was doing. So we're anticipating to have an opportunity to come over here and play football. Just give me two days a week. You go play you basketball. If you could just give me two days a week to just kind of learn some of the plays. Right. Kind of push them toward it. Get them telling them that you're going to be a fire star. You're going to be a fire star. And that's what he used to call them a fire star. He would just say, you can do it. Oh my God, bro. Without that coach to push him, this story may never have happened. You know, the football coaches, they kind of knew what kind of competitor I was. So they kind of tried to do this reverse psychology. They're like, oh, you can't do what you did. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Interesting. If you can't get him with kindness, you go for the reverse psychology angle. You tell him what he can't do and he's going to want to do it 10 times more. Especially for an incredible athlete who knows, he knows he can do it. It's just he needed someone to confirm it. This seven, eight, this six, eight football, you can't do all that. I'm like, you can't tell me, I don't care how small I am. What I know what I can do. Oh, hell yeah. It went out and started to have success. Now I'm like, okay, I got it down now. I'm confident in myself and I know I can go out and, you know, perform with the best of them and invest exactly what I did. Oh, mate. Love that. I think we saw that. Mississippi State and Kentucky. They just kind of kept coming, kept coming, kept coming. Boxes of offers. Boxes of himself. Wow. And everybody wanted them. The big school, you know, some small schools, but the ones that mattered were coming. Once I got offered from the University of Alabama, that kind of hit me. I was just like, I might be, I had a good football thing. That's the thing, man. You go to Alabama. If you're a starter at Alabama, it already gives you a 50% chance of fucking getting drafted, right? I mean, just through the fact that, you know, it's basically that saying, you know, a high tide raises all boats. Is that what it is? I don't want to quote that without actually knowing. There it is. A high tide raises. A rising tide lifts all boats. It's associated with the idea that an improved economy will benefit all participants, or in the world of American football, a great team will improve the draft stocks of all the individual players on that team. And it focused a little more. And, you know, I kind of started to do that. And even my basketball coach, they didn't write me off, but they were like, oh, you're a football player now. You got out from the number one school in the country and football, you're a football player. The plans were for the three of my boys to drive with Rod to the game. But Henry came down sick with the flu. My phone was just sitting by me. I feel the vibrate, you know, ignore the call. Feel the vibrate in the game, ignore the call. I'm asleep. I don't really want to talk. And I hated to be sick. So when I'm sick, I was just kind of shut in. And I look up and it's my cousin calling. My cousin that, you know, gave me rise to school. You know, I'm like, what's up with? Like, what's wrong with you? All right. She's like, what are you at? I'm like, I'm at home. Somebody said you got an accident. So now I'm, you know, kind of waking myself up. Like, like, who got an accident? What you doing? Rod, Rod was in the car. Rod, Rod, in the accident, they say you got threw out the car. And she was saying that he was getting airlifted to the hospital, you know, right by my house. So, you know, that was, that was all I needed to hear on the phone. I just caught out running. First thing I did, I just took off, ran to the hospital and ran out to the emergency room. I could barely talk. We just sat there and just waited and just waited and waited. You know, I went, we talked to this one. Throwing from the car. That just didn't get updates on everything. And it was just like, he's in ICU. Nice seat belt. By, we'll come back tomorrow. So I wake up early in the morning. I go back up there where the doctor came up and you could just look, you know, of course, you can just see it in their faces and probably the hour or so later, his mom came out and, you know, you could just tell him on her face and she was just like, just shaking her head and just, that's when it hit. And it was just like, that was, that was probably one of the most heartbreaking things of my life. Just, just knowing that, like I said, my other half. He knew that he had to do this for his friend. Is that what he's going to say? This guy's still only 21. That was four years ago. I wanted to give him that opportunity to do that. But in the end, it was Rod that eventually made him make that decision. It was, it was because of Rod. I knew that when I made my commitment video, it was going to be a tribute to him. This cap on Rod's grave, let him know that's where he was going, you know, Alabama. So for someone that, you know, to dedicate there, not just his, but basically his college career. He dedicated it to him. April 27th, 98 to March 4th, 2016. So he's 17. That means a lot. I mean, this is not even words can even express how much it meant to us. Yes, sir. I actually sound like he said this would happen. And I went to the graveyard later in the night. My kids do special things. All my grandkids do this. I'm a little teary person or so, you know, you know, I teared up. But when he put that hat on, I told him, man, he looked like he was made to go to Alabama, you know what I'm saying? So it was a good decision. I love the parent aspect, man. It gets me every time, every time the parents bro talking about how proud they are of their kid. Fuck, man. Well, this is pretty cool. How many episodes? Four. Four episodes. I don't know. I don't know what to do. I'm going to have to make that decision off camera. But Henry Ruggs thought he was going to be a basketballer was balling out at high school. Then his best friend told him, you're going to be a five star recruit in football. His best friend passed away at age 17 at the last year of high school. He tributed. Oh God. Yeah. That was back in 2017. I mean, he still had to ball out for Alabama. He got there with the that he was surrounded by the best wide receiver core in the nation. And he had to fight for his position and he did because he believed in himself. And his best friend certainly did too. And I do too. And he's going to the Raiders. And that's fucking exciting. But there is one thing and one thing only. Look, if we can, if we can finish this on a bit of a, a bit of a laugh, there is one thing and one thing only that I think of when I hear of any person going to the Raiders. And well, that is this. But more than anything, I want better execution. Are we clear on that? I want better fucking execution. And with that being said, I'll see you later, guys. Have a fantastic day. And well, I'm just going to hold, hold fire there. We're going to go to Henry Ruggs' teammate, Jerry Judy. He came in at number 15. He's going to the Denver Broncos. And I'm excited to see him play. We're probably going to do something as in-depth as what we've done with Henry Ruggs because these guys could be Pro Bowlers, you know, could be Hall of Famers. Who knows? It's all up to them now. And that's the exciting thing. So see you then, guys. Peace out and have a great day.