1-on-1 with Brian Robinson Jr. | Episode 47

like for you, it was very emotional. I just didn't want to find myself crying about it at the time. You know, I'm just I'm a tough guy, man, you know, and I just try to show people how tough I am all the time. You know, Sometimes you can, I know, I can let up off of it and just ease up.

But it's been a long six weeks, man. I don't think it's really hard to kind of talk about sometimes because like like ever since just the videos and stuff been dropped, like dropped since yesterday, you know, social media's just kind of been going crazy about it. Then you know, just see it over and over again, and it's just you just see how much love and respect, you know, people got for me out here and you know, people

that feel the situation that I've been through. Man, you know, just for it to be me, just like God, this couldn't like, this couldn't happened to anybody. And it's like, man, if anybody the worst person it's possibly could have happened to, it could have been me, like just because of just everything I've been through in my life to get here, And like I didn't really want to get into depth, like in detail about just like how my life was

growing up. But you know, just stand away from gun violas and stuff like that that goes on very often at home. Back at home, man, you know, what happened to me just so random, you know. So to be able to recover from what I recover from and be able to come back and play NFL football game, I never heard nobody in the world ever did nothing like that before. So just from recovering from what I went through,

just made history, you know. So I imagine you probably asked yourself the question like why me just listening to you right there? Um and the different emotions that do come with that. How have you processed m going through all those emotions and answering why me? And being, as you say, mentally tough. I know, there have to be moments that you're probably just not and you have to acknowledge and recognize that in order to be mentally tough. Um,

how have you gone about processing that? I just had to accept it, you know, I had to accept what happened, you know, even though I didn't want to. I didn't want to accept the fact that, you know, I was physically harmed by some strangers. But it's the fact that you know I could, I could make the strongest recovery ever and one of the biggest comebacks in sports history possibly, and you know, just another obstacle for me, you know,

in my life. Man, I just like I told you, I've been faced with so much in my life, and every time I'll just had my back against the wall, I'll just fought my way up out of it. And like I said, like just a by far the worst worst situation I've ever been in, but another opportunity to kind of proved to myself. You know, you know how

strong I am, you know, mentally and physically. So the biggest thing, you know, just as far as processing right now, I was just accepting the fact that, you know, you know, I was physically harmed by strangers. You know that I still I still haven't identified yet, and the fact that I got to just live with that the rest of

my life. You know, we saw your mom at the game and the way that just like the teammates greeted you on the field, understanding the journey that you've had to kind of get back here and to get into the game. How important has that support been because nobody gets through anything or any challenges alone in life, and

the support meant everything, you know. You know, as soon as I started to feel the love and from from everybody, I started to you know, believe that you know, I would be okay, you know, because at the time, you just like, you know, you mentally just everywhere you don't really know where to be mentally, but like, you know, support the support from the people that you know you care about the most and that you don't care about you the most, and you know it kind of make

you feel like, you know, you're good, You're gonna be all right, you know, just kind of keep you grounded and you know, keep you mentally in the places that you need to be to take the next steps in that that helped me you know just kind of already you know, have a plan on how I wanted to recover from that and what I needed to do to come back, and just constantly like you know, keeping that energy, like bringing that that good positive energy that I needed consistently,

like you know, day in the day out. You know those days where you know, I was coming out to the facility for you know, probably an hour or two hours out of the day, I would go home and I would have to like stay in the same place on the couch for like the rest of the day

because I couldn't move. So you know, having my mom, my family back at home, you know, uh support me and you know take care of me for that time, and uh, they don't realize how much I appreciate that, because you know that's what that was the helping hand that I needed to you know, just want to push

myself forward. Like and I'm a very independent person, so I like to do everything for myself, so you know, happening having a helping hand, it was like it was new kind of new to me, you know, having somebody to like have to really take care of me, like every single day, like for the whole day. Just my mom was taking me again like I was four or five years old, So you know, I mean that meant everything to me. Like that's all I really needed was

some support, you know. You know, I had an ambition to fight back from it, you know, but the love support just kind of kept me motivated. How's the body feel now now that you've gone through that first game, You've taken some hits and everybody's closely watching how you walk, how you run, how's it feeling? Well? I feel like I just played a football game, you know. So you know, I took a few hits, but I walked away from

a fine. I'm okay. I actually got hit right in the spot of you know, one of my injuries, but it didn't it didn't bother me too bad. You know. I shook it off. And does that become a mental thing as well when you get hit there. It was positive for me because I got hit there so hard that like that was the test that I need. I was like, okay, I'm glad that's over. Hopefully it don't happen again like so soon. But that was just the

test I needed. When I got hit it and I got up and I felt that I was like, you know, it stung a little bit, but I'll be all right. You know. So the fact that I know, walk off the field healthy and you know, come back, return here and get ready to do it all over again healthy. Do you see the game any differently now I can say, I mean, just just my presence out there, like you know, I almost lost that opportunity, so you know, everything is just like light like bright light up in my eyes now,

you know. No, I've been playing the game for so long. I've been playing for like almost eighteen years, like in my life, so it's just always been football to me. But now it's just like it's really my life. And I realized how much that I put into this gaming, into like bonding through this game, and it's just meant so much to me. You know, just be back out there. So it's next for you? What's next? Um? I just want to you know, keep you know, making progress, making

stribs in the right direction. Uh, coming here every day, finding new ways to get better, get my body feeling better, um, get more involved into the game plan weekend, week out, and you know, you know, just should help my team win. Real great to have you back, and of the teammates love having you back. We're expecting some great things now that you're out there. So great glad to have you here with us. Thank you, thank you for all your

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