- Hey,
I was like the blessings of the Lord is here.
- I feel it in the atmosphere.
- Big Truss.
- Biggest. That's what I call the Big Truss
- It's levels, that's levels
you know what I'm saying.
- Hey hey Kush that's Mr. Levelz
Cam is Mr. Levelz.
- It's all about the Truss Levelz
and the legacy man,
keep the legacies going.
- Popping off the Big Truss Levelz, Season 2,
we need it gotta have it.
- I mean that's legendary stuff right there.
- My goal was always like how can I prolong my
prime, right so think about that for a second.
Your prime is when your athletic ability
and then your knowledge and wisdom
within the game is kinda at that same level,
so you're operating at this place where,
man not only do I know everything
that I need to be doing and everything around me
and this experience that I've gained from this game but
I also have the athletic ability to do it.
Last year I felt like that was the first time
in my career where I was limited at times.
It was based on some injuries and some other things,
where man I just couldn't do or make some of throws that
I was used to making right,
but still you gotta find a way to
get the job done, well just because I can't
make throw...make that throw,
make that throw I just have to think about it a
little differently, maybe it changes my progression
a little bit,
but I'm still gonna get the ball out with trust
and anticipation, I'm still gonna find completions,
still gonna get first downs, still gonna lead two-minute
drives, still gonna go win games.
- Was there ever a time where you're like
you had a touch down or a catch in general
you were like yeah, I'm like that?
- Oh yeah, it was Chief's game, Sean Smith ...
Chief's game, Sean Smith we was going at it the whole game
and then he pressed me on the slant
it's like mid-game,
field check to the ...
... to the little slant
to the little slant, I'm backside 1-on-1.
He pressed me, field check to it, I slide out,
boom and he fell, I'm like oh s***, they done
f***** up, they done f***** up
cause I ain't do it,
it was nothing the coach had called, nothing.
so he changed the the whole route, he was like, when we
run the slant like now, we want y'all to be as patient
as possible, you just work quarter back y'all wait.
I'm like d***, they let me really work
like Stevie Johnson, that's who I had been watching
so I'm like I'm gonna try this s***.
- Bills Stevie Johnson?
- Yes Stevie
- Bills Stevie Johnson, absolutely.
Get freaky, Stevie Johnson
- Oh my God Ryan Fitzpatrick just wait on me
Stevie Johnson, yes sir.
- Yeah I seen the little cowboy model situation
you did for Boot Barn, I'm just,
I'm just throw that plug out there boy I seen you in
the boots so...
- I'm a lone ranger, you know what I mean
aight look, let me tell you this man.
- Marlo versatile now
- Thank you, I was about to say that,
I go, we playing the Titans, I said "man finna go get
get some boots", I was trying to figure out who was gonna go
with me
- Wait, wait so you ain't already have 'em, you
was like, you like
- Oh, we got 'em fresh. Walked in the store,
walked in the store.
- Give me some calf leather, with some pike.
- I said who can help me? Who can help me
get some boots? Cause I don't know what I'm doing here.
- You don't know what Marlo wearing
on Sunday walking through, my dog got the polka dot
rain jacket on.
- That was a fit!
- Folks be trying to hate sometimes.
A wise man once told me this, "Whatever media coverage you get,
ain't nothing bad, ain't nothing bad"
- Aye, ain't no bad pub... - - Listen
ain't no bad pub unless it's bad pub,
you feel me? - No bad pub.
- And I've never hit a hole in one
- Never.
- I just wanna know like, have you?
- I have, yeah.
- Yeah, how many? That's the question?
- I made, I think like 23 or 24 something like that
- Oh my goodness.
- Oh my god.
- What age were you?
- Six
- Hold up, six?
- My first one.
- Six? Man, come on
- Six, I'm 31! I've never ... Okay.
- How far was the shot? Like ...
- It was 144 yards with a driver, it was the only
Par 3 green that I could reach. I always loved playing
that hole because I, couldn't get a birdie putt
realistically on the other hole and, my dad
and I went out and played, I think my mom was with us too
and I hit it and my dad says as soon as I hit it
and I was like, I was like "All right I think this one
might get there and it like bounced and like kinda rolled
around this bunker and went in, it was bizarre.
- So those of you who don't know we talking about
songs, cause my dog Marvin is a real vocalist
like we ain't just talking about like playful, like
karaoke, even though he do do that, but my dog really sing!
- Really, really, really
- My dog really auditioned for American Idol now.
- Aye, like stop playing, I be trying to tell folks, talking
about like Marv really can sing sing.
- Remember it was after I played the saints.
It's after I played both of y'all, you know what
I'm saying, so like, after our game they came
they like okay, it's your bye week,
you know we're in Nashville, so they hooked up with ESPN
and ESPN hit me up like, "Hey, we have an opportunity."
like, you know, "Would you wanna go on American Idol?"
and stuff like that and like, we just lost, we was fresh
off of a loss, like, you know...
- Yeah like man I ain't trying to hear none of that.
- I said "I ain't doing that s***", I said "No, no way."
Like, wifey calls me, agent calls me, "Hey Marv it'll be
a good opportunity." Nah, not doing it.
- The worst thing to ask somebody is to do something after
one of them L's going into a bye week, I ain't trying to talk
to nobody like...
- Straight up, so, like, so that happened and then like,
when I'm on the, plane home and stuff like that,
and I'm thinking, I'm like "D***, I'm like I might as well,
you know what I'm saying, I remember American Idol
first came out in the early 2000's. I was like, "Yeah."
I said, "I think I should do it." You know cause it was always
on a bucket list of mine when I was younger so,
they flew me and Jazzy to Nashville,
flew us to Nashville, and prepped us and did
all that stuff, and they were like, "Okay, we're not gonna
tell the judges until like after and stuff." So I did my,
I didn't wait you know I had the express line
you know me and Ryan Secrest, he came
and grabbed me, and we put a little show.
- Special guest appearance. - Aye I'll say. What song
did you sing, I mean I remember, I just remember there was
Lionel Richie out there, I was like, "That boy is singing
for the Lionel!"
- Yeah I sang, "I can't make you love me." So yeah
I sang that and like...
- Give us a bar from that thang man, how you popped it
off on American Idol man, how you popped it off man.
♪ I can't make you love me if you don't. ♪
♪ You can't let your heart feel, ♪
♪ something it won't. ♪
I came in like that.
- Marvin!
- Tell 'em about that Chamley-Watson,
stop playing, he got his own move bro.
- The man has his own move bro?
- Yeah, so, fencing as we know it right, it's
very traditional, like kinda plain and I was like "No,
I'm way more offensive, I'm way more aggressive, and I was
like I wanna have some fun, I wanna play more. So I was at
the world championships in Turkey and a lot of fencing
is like in-fighting, like I'm close to you and if I
touch you, the referee has to say "hault," which means stop.
If I hit you too hard, we get a yellow card, and I'm
like, "Man... man up, we're sword fighting here.
What's a little chest bump?" And I wrap my arm around my head and
I hit him, like the foil went around my head and hit him
right in his chest, and the referee was like "hold on,"
I'll never forget this. The referee stopped the match.
Me and the guy that I beat, we watched it on the video replay
together and I was like, "Wow." and he was like, "All right,
this is the Chamley-Watson move."
- Now I wanna talk about Michigan State like, so
you came over to my house, you recruited me, you tell me
that you used to have to run my dad down and get to class,
he was calling my mom, like, I still don't remember
the exact story, I need you to like share with the people
like this story.
- Mark's dad, and Andre Rison were both from Flint.
- Flintstones!
- And they were running buddies,
in those days, you know back, this was is in the early 80's.
You could take as many credits of summer school
to get eligible as you know, you didn't have this had to
take 18 in the regular year and only could take 6 of
summer school to get eligible. So these guys would end up
needing you know, 12, 15 credits of summer school to get
eligible, and I was in charge of making sure that they
went to class, and did what they were supposed to do.
I could never find Mark, I could never find Andre,
cause they were always together running around, so the
only way that I could find them was I knew Mark, big Mark's
girlfriend, and I would call her and say, "Hey, where's
Mark?" And she would tell me and I'd go run him down get
him to go to class, get him to do what he wanted to do.
But the problem was, when I went in Mark's house,
to recruit him, I didn't know if Mark's mom, was the same lady
that I used to call every single day to find him.
I was kinda sitting there on pins and needles like …
- Like, "Are you my ace or you somebody new?"
- Nah, then my mom was like, "That was me, you used to
call me."
- They like "ah, I've been knowing you. Family!"
- "Family, give me a hug, thank you."
- So, that was the story, but it was, I was a little nervous
about that, I didn't know how to, sort of navigate that and she,
Mark's mom finally just kinda broke out laughing, and said,
"That was me."
- You was 285 in college?
- Bro, I left high school 275, I put on all of
12 pounds since me being 17.
- That's wild, so when I got to college I was 225, at 6'8,
225, 227 my first day in college.
- You was a toothpick. - What edge was you … Calais.
What edge was you setting at 225?
- What aye, hold on, I was strong, I know I was skinny but
I was strong, aye. I had heart, that's for sure, I had heart.
My very first day going to meet up with the
D-line, all the vets and stuff they looking at me like,
"Bro you play D-end?" They thought I was a receiver, they was
laughing at me cause I was so skinny bro.
- No doubt!
- I was on the field trying not to cry I was in there sad as can be,
like hold on man. Veins coming out my neck bro.
The whole first year in the weight room I'm just sitting there
and I was with the receivers I ain't gonna lie, I was
lifting with the receivers.
- I'm interested in Hawaii though man, like,
what's the culture like out there, man? The food? Like,
what that be on?
- Let me just tell you this, during college I
learned my ways, cause like in the league it hasn't
happened to me, cause I learned. I went back, right before
our bowl game, all right? We had like 10 days, you know,
at home, before we had to go back to report for our bowl
game, it was like the Alamo ball, 10 days at home,
I gained 10 pounds. I played in the bowl game at 310,
and I felt all 310.
- What y'all eating though? You said you gained 10 lbs
like, what's the traditional food?
- My ideal breakfast for real? This is the breakfast I would
cook on my birthday. My wife will only let me cook it on my
birthday, cause it will stink up the house. Spam, rice,
some scrambled eggs, you remember Vienna sausage?
- Yeah. - Vienna sausage
- Yeah
- Watchmen like if you haven't watched
the TV show, you like you seen the movie, like my brother
used to read, like whatever it was on, books, comic books,
whatever it was. So he put me on the Watchmen. So I saw the
movie, and then they made the TV show, and what's funny to
me is because, it gave some events on where you were at,
started off with Black Wall Street and all the events that
went on there. It's funny to me like, how many white people
didn't know about Black Wall Street, and I'm like, "Bro,
this is one of the biggest stains in the country like,
nobody be talking about."
- Shoot a lot of black people didn't know about it!
- That's what I was about to say, a lot of black people
didn't know about it too. You know, I think it was just
recently, it was the 100 year anniversary.
- Yeah, on memorial day, aye, - Anniversary
- You know, as much as I do with the troops,
the USO tours, all that stuff, I wake up, I'm like "d***,
today is the 100 year?" And I'm retweeting it, some folks,
they was like, "What is that?" like, "That didn't really
happen." How do you ... like how do you deny or how do you
even like wake up in the morning and be like no, like
that's not how you should feel about something, like bro
how you gonna tell me, like how to honor the troops
or whatever but, go ahead and skip this day.
- That just tells you so much about like,
- Where we're at in this country
- About how much power
someone has to have, to be able to erase
a history like that, you know what I'm saying.
to just completely, you know to do something...
- Not put it in the curriculum, not put it in
history books, I didn't learn about it in school,
you know what I mean?
- Exactly, that's not where we learned about it, you know
what I'm saying? I learned about it, you know, from a
conversation, you know, Black Wall Street, then you gotta
go and you know, look it up or find it in a book or online
and things like that, but, definitely not in curriculum,
that was like, that's a, that's a evil, evil, violent, act
on Americans, by Americans, on American soil and it's so,
it was so easily um, just erased, you know, erased from
history, so I was real proud of the show, for
bringing that back, you know to the forefront of the
conversation and making that a part of the current history.
- Coming in, shoot, I got the chance to learn from like a lot
of greats, which I think was awesome for my career.
- You had Big Ziggy?
- Big Ziggy, Brett Keisel, Aaron Smith, Casey Hampton,
Troy Polamalu, um...
- You had the chance to learn from some legends
like, those Steelers teams bro like, you guys had legends.
- Also, aye, aye you can't forget, big James Harrison.
- You know, learning from them was awesome, you know, then
getting to play with them, shoot, even my rookie year, like,
everybody got hurt by the playoff game, in the Denver game,
so like, we finished the game with 3 defensive lineman, so
like, we just rotating and just trying to stay in the
sub-package cause, you need somebody to sub in, but
later on, just tried to use what they gave me and
make a career for myself.
- You gonna be lifer? They gonna lifetime you or what man?
- Aye man that's the goal, I wanna stay a Steeler.
- Let's talk about, you know before, you know what I'm
saying, true freshmen, walk off touchdown, national
championship, bling, big ring. That's a way to cap off a
freshmen campaign, like, "Man I want more playing time."
- We need this story though Cam, we need this story
- Yo, give me that national championship, action
- It come down to that last series, it was like
my series to be in, so it was just like, its crunch time,
like you been here, you been doing this, we get there, they
call a play, and the only thing in my mind was like,
anytime it's a go ball I'm just like throw it up, I'm gonna go
get it, so it was just like, I'm looking at Tua like,
look, give me a chance. And then I looked back, the ball's
in the air.
- So, I'm thinking in my mind, like okay it's cover two,
safety probably running full speed over here, they just like,
you gonna have to take the lick. So, I look up, I look
down, I'm like okay safety ain't nowhere to be found, so
I look back up, I was like, don't f*** it up,
don't drop the ball.
- And then it just happened, and then like my skull was just
like everything went blank, like it was just crazy.
- For me too dog, I went blank too.
- I jumped off the couch said,
"Let's go!"
- I was there witnessed it in Jacksonville.
- Aye, I might've lost a little bit of money
in 2015 but you know, aye, I made up for it so much, in fact
it was really my fault, like I wasn't aware and then I
became aware.
- Yeah, yeah, we gotta split that, we gotta split that
- He did that to 50 thousand, I don't know
how many was in Jacksonville, he did that to 20 thousand
people in Jacksonville, everybody in there hatin. I'm in
there like, "Y'all got me messed up! We really out here like that!"
- How was it? How was it? When the shot landed?
How was it?
- Bro, bro, you could hear a rat p*** on cotton
it was so fire. Except for me,
"I told y'all! Y'all got it messed up, y'all got the game twisted,
that's the champ man, that's the champ right there!"
- Yeah, one of my best moments and I worked hard for
that one, and when it happened it was like wow, surreal,
because they was hatin'.
- They was hatin'. big time!
- Miami boys so they was hatin'.