Cam Taylor-Britt | Renee All Dey

You know, you don't. You don't have the long time, especially like here though, but you know, when I get the shower, when everybody's kind of leaving, okay, I'm like, yeah, I got my time to myself, take my time. But yeah, I do take long showers. Do you have like a skincare routine that you do? I need to try to You've got a great skin, you look great. We gotta continue it though I slack sometimes to reed, but other than that though, yeah, I kind of try to keep

everything together. Yeah, yeah, looking good. Okay. So as I was getting ready for this interview, I was I was on the plane and I was flipping through your Instagram and saw the video of when you get the call coming to the Bengals twenty two draft. Let me tell you, I got very misty eyed on the plane. I don't know if it was the altitude or what, but it got to me. What was that day like for you to get that call to know you did it? It was,

honestly everything that you dreamed of. It played out exactly that way, like a movie that I already seen in my head when I was little, kind of called everything out.

I didn't know the team, you know, of course, but you know, just having the opportunity to have your name called on you know, that stage now that I'm here, it was amazing, such like goose bump to just see that and like, you know, I want to get into like the journey of you getting there, but like just imagining what that road is like to get to that point to getting that phone call. I saw your mom had tweeted out too that it had been a long road for you to get here. What does that mean?

What was what made the road long? What was that like journey like for you? Injuries as in high school, you know, I really thought I was done was playing football at the time. You know, with two knee injuries. And I was sixteen, seventeen years old. I was like my uncles who were forty haven't had two knee surgeries, and you know, so I was just young. Uh really, like I said, I thought it was over. My mom was always there to tell me that nobody's gonna forget

about you. You need to keep going. Uh. You know, once I had by my side, that's my eight one day one. Yeah, I couldn't turn back a good move. Our mom love our moms. Okay, so you get the call you're coming to the Bengals. What was your first What kind of went through your head first when you realize that it was Cincinnati that you were going to

come to. Yes, I was happy. Yeah, on my top thirty visit, I had a great time here, just sitting down with coach Burt's you know, Coach Taylor and coach Lou had great conversations and I just it just felt like this was somewhere that I was supposed to be and that was actually the top team that my agent had on like the draft board. And you know, he did his thing. He was right, yeah, put up right. How was your relationship with coach Taylor changed from day

one to where you're at now. Honestly, it's been the same. You know, he has a switched up on me, you know, even though I'm ricky or anything. And I appreciate that the most. You know, I had my ups and downs most definitely just learning experience, but he's always been there to pick me up, you know, never down to me, you know, just pushing me forward. What was what was your role on the team when you were out you were sidelined with an injury earlier in the season. What

was your role on the team during that the hype man? Yeah, sure, everybody's energy was there, you know, you know, despise, you know, Joe throwing an interception. I'm running down to the offense and hey guys, we'll be okay, you know, go back out there and get it, you know, just running up down the sideline and make sure anybody needs anything. And I aint like a trainer at times, just grabbing things

for people. But you know, I just wanted to make sure that I was doing something for the team, you know, positive, to help them out. Was there something that you learned while sitting on the sideline and not being able to be active and just taking in that first year, for

the first couple of games. Rather oh yeah, I saw a lot, you know, especially from guys that were on the field and situations that they were in, what we got hit on, what we could have did differently, And that kind of helped me out, you know, when I first started playing. And even though it's even better, Yeah, yeah, Cam Juice, What is the origin story to this? I was searching high and low and I could not figure out exactly where this started. What is the story behind it?

Cam Newton, I played quarterback from eighth grade until senior year, and my name's Cam. He really started the Cam Juice thing, but he didn't take it anywhere, okay, And while he was at Arbor and I was like, man, I gotta do so with that, but I didn't. I didn't say anything. And then somebody said out the Blues, like Cam, you got the juice. I was like, you're right, You're right, and I kind of just went on with it. My name was a Cam anymore. It was juice to everybody,

and that's where it went. And I kind of just pushed it while I was in Nebraska. Towards the end, I want to do an NL deal and I kind of blew up from there. Amazing. It's a great nickname to have. Some of those nicknames they don't always land, but when you can like fully own it and that just kind of like becomes your name. Yeah, I like it. It's pretty good. Your relationship with the Boys and Girls Club,

Why is that something that's so important to you? I grew up there, basically you can say that's another home for me. They've been there from the start, Like I said, after school programs, you know, summer camps, doing everything that was the fun that I had during that time, and just being around those kids. You know, you build some great relationships with a lot of people and you still have the relationship till this day, just because you were

at the Boys and Girls Club. So what I want to do for those kids is beyond anything else, you know, I just want to show them that they can be something that I did. Go to the Boys and Girls Club. This is not a somewhere to be embarrassed or anything. You know, everybody has their own route, you know, you

just take your way. Yeah, no, absolutely, those kids must get like so when you're able to go around and kind of like show them you've been there and the you know, the role that you're able to play for those kids. Um, you go in there, you get to like talk to them a bunch, and like it's really spend that time. I'll try to do everything I can. I'm really one having fun. If you ask me why I'm in attendance there. How has your life changed in the last year. Yeah, I don't know, it's changed a lot,

a lot. Man. Just I see my family a lot, you know, and in Nebraska, I didn't see them a lot, but they've made their way to every possible game, and even while I was not playing, and I think that's helped me a lot. The speed of the game. You know, I knew it was going to be a lot faster, but you know, as time going by, you know, it slowed down for me. Most definitely just been with a group of guys like this. Yeah, I've never been with

a group of men that are so connected. That seems to be like the big thing from these interviews I've been doing throughout the season, that just seems to be like the same constant note. It's like how specialist locker room is to bond amongst you guys, Like it just seems like such a special time to be a part of this team. Do you really feel that? What like, what is that energy? Like? Obviously you feel that we can all feel that, but what like what is that like?

I think you can just kind of sit on the field as everybody is clicking. You see you know, the offense going, you see the defense going, even special team is going, and you know that just we just feed off each other. You know. You have the stand in Morrigans, you know, one of my former teammates, but he brings the energy each and every day, you know what they expect out of him. Yeah, and you have other guys who just always up and jump in and you just

it feeds on to everybody. And you know when you have that uh and you're soaking, it's close knit. You know that you can't be stopped, you know, and that's our being away man totally. Um, what's on your bucket list? To continue to be myself and play confident because it's about it, you know, off the field to do list? I need to go to vacation. Where would you vacation? I'm gonna take my family probably to Santorini. Oh yeah, you're gonna go to Greece. Yeah, my mom always going

to go there and I didn't even know that. I just looked it up online one day and I was like, that's pretty that's what we need to go. Yeah, amazing, can't wait. Gosh we had a long season though, so we'll get there. Yeah. Yeah, you'll get there. You'll get there, and you'll enjoy it when you get there for sure. Um, what was your best moment for twenty twenty two the year? Honestly, Uh, just playing football your whole life and you know you

picked that sport. You know a lot of kids play a lot of sports growing up, but eventually they're going to pick that one sport and stick to that. That's what I kind of did at an early age and I didn't turn back. So just having an opportunity, like I said, to have your name called it the NFL Draft, that is Surrea. How old were you when you knew football was the sport for you? I was like six

years old. I told my mom at six, like six years old, I'm going to buy you a house and just have the opportunity to do that that maybe it honestly just been able to give back to her, move her out of Montgommery and you know, to another place in a big house. I was like, yeah, I gotta do that, and I did it. Yeah, you know, So

that that was probably the biggest thing for me. I was like your first memory at six years old of like being like understanding and loving football, and like the NFL was there like a player that you loved or a team that you loved. The Saints where was my favorite team? Because I played for the Montgommery Saints, and that's how I kind of went. I was like, Oh, that's the team. I'm more, Yeah, that's that's me right there. But I think it was just the physical aspect of

the game, uh kind of. They used to call me be Smoke growing up because I used to shit tears and I play. I played running back, so anytime I would get like you would hit me hard or something, I was just and I mean in the backfield as soon as they say go anybody see my way just no, I can have a fifty yard touchdown, but I see the safety coming, I'm gonna run him over then go score. That's how bad it was. So I just love the physical part of it and how just between the lines

it's a legal fight, man. Yeah, and you can't you can't do anything about it. That's what I love about it. Physicality. Yeah, okay, New Year's resolutions, what do you got? Are you a resolution guy? Really? Not really, I wouldn't say so for the sake of the interview. Can you be one? Yeah? When you think about I mean, gosh, look at what twenty twenty two brought for you. Yeah, like it's God's gotta be hard to talk. But now you're here, you're in it, it's happening, you're living it. How can you

possibly make twenty twenty three better? Changed by eating happens? I'm saying that. Okay, I'm a snacker, most definitely. My metabolism is very high. I gotta eat the right way and because I just eat. Most definitely, I've been win the same weight maybe like maybe ten pounds, were like two or five. I was one nine five all through college two or five. I've never gained or lost that weight. So yeah, I love it. I love it. Yes, I'm

going to hold on to that right now. What is the snack that you're like, I can't like be contained around it? Really? Pop tart guy, It's a good carp though. You know I do love pop tarts. I love life Saver gummies. Okay, I do, yes, I do, okay, But I also love my teeth. So that's why I really need to change it up, because I don't want no cavities. No, no, no, We've got the good long showers we got to get. The teeth are right, they're good. Let's just keep that.

You're right awesome. Well, listen, I know you've got another interview to get too. I will not keep you from that. Really lovely to meet you. Congratulations and all of your success, and I continue to crush it. Thank you so much, out right