Listen: Avery Williamson (10/22)

but you don't have a popcorn maker. What's up with that? I mean, you're not a popcorn guy. I would have to do. I would have to move a shelf to when's the last time you went to a movie theater? I went to one when I was It was like my last weekend when I was in Birmingham. Oh so very recently, every said he wants to go to a movie today. So the only only why I can go is if just you knows the reclining chairs. Okay, yeah, so keep my feet elevated and no doubt. So what

did you see? What did I see? It was wasn't that long ago? Man? It was good boys? How was that it was funny. Really, it was hilarious. I was told that Good Boys is like super Bad, but just yeah, it's accurate. It's funny, Like I would go see it again. That's how funny it was. So you were laugh out loud and I was the only one in the theater because it was a Monday, Hold, like, the only person? Is that the first time for you? First time ever? How much the movie ticket in Alabama? Five dollars? You

do the many? I don't know how much it was. It's gonna be more than fun I was making a joke, but but wasn't like it. Did you do it a neon or something? Yeah? I mean it was like probably two o'clock. Okay, Yeah, And what movie you trying to see now? Uh, I don't know. I gotta look and see what else is out. Um, I don't know. I have been keeping up with with a lot of you know, going on. I need to check it out and see. So you got some time on your hands right now? Unfortunately, Um,

have you been catching up with any series at home? Yeah? I'm on Ballers started that, Uh Power, I've already been on this. I'm I got one more, one more episode to catch up. And not be called power. Yeah, okay, so ballers, how realistic is it? Because you're living the life man. You are an an NFL veteran. You've been in the league for a few years, so you can watch it from a different perspective here in greens and I work in the National Football League, but we are

not playing. Yeah, a lot a lot of is accurate, some of us kind of kind of like that one happens, like, yeah, some of it, some of it. A A lot of is accurate, though more so off the field though that on the field obviously, because you just said that you don't like the way the football looks because they don't have real athletes, so it just makes it look corny. But but yeah, like the off the field dramas like entourages and it's real. Oh yeah, you see a lot of that. That's not

the way you roll, though. You don't roll with a Yeah, yeah, I'm solo. Why don't you tell folks at home where they can follow you on the Instagram? Because follow me at a Williamson fifty four Instagram and Twitter? Yeah, because you have a nice new toy and that's the jeep. Yeah, I can't drive it right now. It's a shiny toy on the shelf. Yep, okay, yep. So I can't drive it just sitting there looking at it. So why do you decided to go with the jeep? And what kind

of bells and whistles I wanted? I wanted the vehicle that was gonna, you know, be good in all conditions. So, uh, that want something that was you know you could uh take the top off and everything. You get the jeep. So the bells and whistles, Um, got TVs in the bad got the system you gotta have, especially if the doors are are you are you're planning on making it like like where you can take the top off and basically there are no doors. So I got different doors.

I got a different set of doors where it's like, um, it's pretty much just like a couple of bars, oh I got yeah. Yeah, so it looks like an off road yeah. So, um, you have some nice tires on that one. That's some nice tires. No, that is that's not the smoothest. It's not. It's not because it's jacked up. So so you feel you feel everything? Okay, look, but but have you have you been a passenger in the car yet? I have. Yeah, so who's been hurt? Okay, So who have you allowed to drive? The g that

that personally Well, I'm just saying that. I can't say the person that was driving, but they did a good job. Were you nervous? I was, okay, because if I were in your shoes and I was a passenger in a new car of mine, I would have a very shortlist of people that would drive me around here. Yeah, people that I trust, one of them being my pops because he taught me how to drive. So I'm in a car typically like to drive. Yeah, I just don't feel comfortable,

like yeahs at home? Yeah, as a passenger. Oh yeah, I'm I'm I'm picky about that. You know, Green's grew up in the city. So this guy gets after you know those Manhattan drivers. Yeah, you would think you, You would think you. On the outside, it seems like, oh yeah, he's a nice guy's relatively laid back. Then he gets in a car. Oh yeah, he's all over the place. He was doing this in Indianapolis where he took over what what what car would happened? You talk about two

years ago a rental? Okay, two years ago? You know what a Nissan Armada looks like it's a tank. It's like it's I'm trying to I'm trying to think what it would be equivalent to. It's basically like it's the biggest Nissan Stuv they have, and for whatever reason, we

had it. And we pull up to the hotel to drop our stuff, not the hotel, the convention center to drop our stuff off as they're yearly tripper annual trip to Indianapolis for the combox, and one of one of the producers is like, here, just just parked the car, so that I became the car guy and I got I got excited, you know, whatever I want, city on the nice people in Indianapolis, you know. But I did.

I did well. Someone would know someone's crossing the street and they weren't supposed to, so instead of stopping and letting the person cross, I humped to say listen, like we're in a tank, get out of the way. They flipped me off. Yeah it's different, different, Yeah, they flipped me off. And then I remember we were going to dinner and there's a spot and I'm like, no, no, we can fit in the spot. And he was like, you're not fitting in the damn spot. It was good.

It's a good time. It's different. It's different yet well, yeah, like when you're going to city, you drive, I used to. I drove like, no, I ain't droving thee I drove my my Camaro. Last time I drove was like in the summer. Yeah, what year is a Camaro? Okay, how many miles you got on? That's so now you kept it though, Yeah, so so you got the big Jeep and the sporty Camaro like it a jeep, bat On gas Man and Carol is not. I mean it's not.

It's actually pretty good though, I mean, okay, it's actually decent. But the Jeep probably what it's under twenty miles per gal probably gotta be right, I mean, it's it's bad. And are you an aggressive driver or you laid back? I'm pretty chill. I mean if I'm in the city you're driving in yeah, okay, yeah, see, thank you, thank you. Yeah.

You have to turn tempo, Yeah you have to. It's like you're driving and there are three thousand Greg Williams around you, okay, and that's a two by two radius, so you know, you gotta bring it up only two paces and you know, it's basically in the city either dead or you're moving. I got I got a question for you. It's unrelated to what we're talking about. But you're knowing you for like two years now, you're one

of the happiest excited. You know, you're always smiling. How was there a point where, you know, from the Atlanta game now where you're you were down? Yeah, see that the next day after it happened. I mean, I was pretty it was pretty tough, like and that week it was it was rough. Is it hard to try to psych yourself up to be positive? Yeah? Yeah, I really didn't. I wasn't in the mood to really see anybody, honestly,

just like I didn't want to come up here. I just wanted to like be home and they had to come. You no therapy and stuff was hurting, So I was like, just really didn't want to be around people. Yeah. What gets you going in terms of those therapy sessions to rehab when you know you got to be motivated, but at the same time, you're enduring the pain and you know the short term gain is not there right now,

It's gonna be down the road. Yeah. The biggest thing is just uh, motivation is just to get it better, just like so it won't hurt, like I can deal with it once it once it's not hurting I like right now, I just like pain all the time. So just that's my that's my biggest motivation right now, just to to get it to not hurt. So I know,

they got to keep on working with it. The more stuff I do that the better to feel the faster to feel better, so I mean, and then just to be able to get ready to run and do what I do, like I mean, it's I know, I know, I'm I'm not done playing football. So if you experienced a major injury, never never yeah yeah never. So so going back to days of pe weird and never yeah only only I missed the game. I missed the game my freshman year of high school because I broke my

thumb and I couldn't. My mom she was like, she's saying that I couldn't play, which I mean back then, Uh, I mean I could have played. It was like you could put a softcast on it, but she wouldn't. She's like, not, you ain't playing. I feel like that's understandable. Freshman, Yeah, high school, that's fine. One game but no, man, never never had a big injury. Yeah, yeah, so it's all new. You know what I realized just now it is so random.

Can you wear over the ear headphones? Because I'm looking at you right now wearing I I just I just do the earbuds. Yeah, okay, yeah, that's right. I was just thinking about it, was like, I don't don't think you can wear over there unless you're pin the pin the hair down, like training camp. How often do you get the hair done? Last time I saw you, man, it's August or July and you were actually getting your hair done that day and you were driving into the

city for it. I was, yeah, it's been a while, man, I've been in how long a you're gonna let it go? You think? I don't know. I just I don't play on cutting it, that's fair. How fast does it grow? I don't know. I mean how often you get a haircut? Never? Well, I mean I haven't gotten it trimmed, Okay, I just yeah, all right, you didn't have to reveal who was driving the jeep, But who are the dudes on the team. Maybe that you hang out like maybe a little bit

off the field, um more than others. I mean, you're a friendly guy like Frankie Luvu yeah, c J, c J. Um. I'm trying to think who else we'll shoot? What's Loup? I was? Louve was cool. Man, he's a funny dude. He's a funny dude. Uh he uh he's not he's quiet, but he he's low key funny. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So to go off of what he said, which guys that you hang out with would you allow to drive the Geep?

And which guys would you not allow to drive the g I would definitely let I'm gonna answer the question first I left Mosley. You're here in my cars because I know I'm a good hands. Yeah, man, you wreck at you buy? Uh? I feel like I feel like I mean, I don't know, I feel like both of them, the solid drivers. Who who wait? C J and Frankie? Yeah? Yeah, okay. Is there anyone on the team you would not let drive your car? Uh? Trying thing? What about the mall?

I was thinking that I don't. I don't really know how how he drives. I don't Okay, but well what about Jenkins? Yeah? I wrote him another day. It's not good. No, you're not good driving. You keep you d pretty good. But I mean, he just I don't know. You're something about it. Okay, you're keeping Jordan's spirits up because he's got the more short term yeah, and the injuries. Right now, he's pretty good, um, because he gets you both probably get stir crazy. You want to punch each other. But no,

he's cool. He he um play his video games. Oh yeah, well he can at least in Jordan's saying, he can be in his room all day play video games. You're not, like, you're not a video gamer like that, right, So I get bored and movies get boring. You watch them all the time. You gott I'm telling you gotta find something. I don't know what. Well. Yeah, the problem is you're an outdoorsman too. Yeah. There's not a lot of things you can do outdoors, right yeah. Yeah, you're a big fisherman, aren't. Yeah.

I can't do I can't do nothing. Yeah, I can't fly. You gotta sit in the house. Yeah you can't. And to your point, it's not like you can drive somewhere warmer, whatever the case. Maybe, but it's I mean, it's part of it, you know, um, because the most comfortable place is at home. When I'm yeah, So, I mean it's it's just a part of it. So how's you gotta deal with it? You're gonna have people over man to bring the people to you. I guess it's kind of hard. Many like a lot of people so far like in

this in the city. Well what come over? So how did you watch the first three games? Where were you? First? Um? First two? I went to a UM. I went to this it's like a restaurant slash bar um. It was down in Birmingham, So I went to uh when went there and they had a bunch of it's kind of like a version a Boffal, a whild Wing and something like yeah, but less people. But it was cool. I went there. I had my leg propped up and just

watching watching the games. And then the second one, I mean the third one, I was I was in the hotel. Yeah photos, yeah, yeah, that was cool creative. So let me ask you this, when you're watching the game in Birmingham and you're at the restaurant, what's your energy level like for good or bad play? Like are you are you cheering on? Are you just quiet because you're in

public and you're I wasn't loud. I was just like what I was watching my parents, So I was like, it's kind of like yeah, okay, yeah, eiment, yeah you know, but um yeah I was looking like it's like a fan just watching. Um, that must be weird. It was weird. Yeah, you're gonna be back though. How differently does it feel that you were at college? Graduate? Now? No different? Different? Different at wrong? No difference. Did they send it a diploma yet? I supposed to send it to the to

my parents. So you're gonna frame that yeah at third place? Okay? Cool? Yeah, I don't know. I don't feel different. I'm glad. I'm glad you brought up the diploma because we talked about it for a minute. But how weird is it too to go back to campus after playing a couple of years in the league and just going about your day like you're taking normal classes at seniors and juniors take Yeah, I mean it's it was weird being around like young kids.

I can't imagine going and doing homework. Oh yeah, it was. It was. That was rough. That was rough. I hated it. What was your major again? Communications? Yeah? Yeah, it was, it was. It was terrible. I don't people some some people like, oh, when you're gonna get your masters, I'm like, no, I don't need it. I need it for unless I need it, Like when I'm like forty five fifty, you don't do something else? I don't know. So what do you want to do in communication sans? I mean I

might want to do some TV stuff? Who knows? That's something to practice during your time off? Would you ever act? You know? Speaking to Jamal uh last year, I remember him saying he did some drama classes growing up. Yeah. Yeah, so it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Jamal think it was some acting down the line, Would you ever act? I mean? Who knows? Never say never? Yeah? Uh. The Kentucky bit never known as a football school, you guys turned the corner a little bit in recent years.

Did you used to go to the basketball games though? Because it's a religion down I went to some I didn't go. I ain't go to a lot. Yeah, I ain't go to a lot. I don't know why I didn't. I just never went. Really. I would only go when they would have like recruits in town. We to be part of that. Yeah, taking the games and you still watch all Do you watch all the games now? About BASKETBA of football, yeah for the most part, and basketball basketball. If it's like a big game, then you pop. Um,

yeah I watched. I watched the basketball yere like it was a big game. Yeah, I watch it right like last year when I don't remember how I I was there, like two games when I was in Kentucky. Oh when you were down there? Okay, yeah, I went to I went to the UT game play. UT went to two games. Oh yeah, they took care of you, t Biger than that one. I remember watching that. Yeah. Um, but I funny experience. Yeah, I'm sure it's wild down arena. Man,

all right, I got I got one for you. This is I'm you jogged my mind with the Kentucky thing. This is so random. But last year, for those who don't know, Avery was on inside the jets with you and for you asked something about some random question and Avery's looking at the screen in front of you like this. Yeah, yeah, you remember that, every looking at the screen in front of you like here goes. Sorry, you have to repeat what you just said. J Lo was on this car.

So when j Loo got married this year, were you upset? I have a chance, but I might go see that movie just because just because she and like I might go see it hustlers. Yeah, I heard that had positive reviews. Maybe that will be your movie. Listen, man, you gotta give her a lot of credit. Now, believe I hope I look good when I'm fifty, to look to be the equivalent of j Lo as a guy at Come on now, alright, yeah, come on now. Well, I just

hope by age. Well, I didn't even realize she got married, and she was married prior to this, but a Rod, Yeah, hey Rod, Okay, did you hear about that the ESPN crew got robbed at the point. Yeah, they took some of their stuff when Yeah, the Sunday Night crew because they rotch part of the Sunday Yeah. No, I didn't hear about that. Happened one of those cities. Yeah, I thought it figured that you would have heard about that. Yeah, so I'm fortunate. Stop thinking out of the whole time. Yeah,

I'm jumped into transition. We're talking j Low. So I went to a rock. What you file baseball at all? Not much you get out of the Yankees. I went to game. Okay, I have missing Yankees game yet. All right, Yeah, I probably won't make it there either what can you do physically right now? I'm not asking you for your rehab regimen, but in terms of everything, obviously we're talking to dealing with the knee injury. Can you do anything upper body yet? Yeah? They said I can start working out,

so I might. I might start doing some stuff next week, kind of going there, get a little pump because I am I am done anything? Yeah I don't. Yeah, I was like fourteen pounds damn. And then yeah, I assume you have to maintain a pretty strict diet in this time or not really I was. I wasn't really eating much because I just didn't have appetite. Yeah, so now I'm I'm getting better, I'm eating more, but I'm just kinda trying to get back on my um, healthy healthy ways.

All Right, So movies and then maybe TV shows. Maybe you'll explore the city once you can walk around, drive around a little bit, and definitely alright, what's up on? Like a southern guy living up here for a couple of years now, it's been cool, man, I've gotten used to it. Um, it's definitely it fits me, like, yeah, it's cool coming from the outdoorsmen down south. It's cool. Man, because it's good. I can be in Jersey and kind of chill. You'd be away from Yeah, yeah, I hit

the city, how your fun and leave? You have a favorite area of the city yet, and I really just back Times Square? Yeah, I mean it's I need to start exploring some new stuff Brooklyn. Yeah, I don't know. You gotta ask people just for well, but you go for the for the like when you go in the city, are you doing something for food? Are you doing something to hang out? It doesn't matters. Yeah, yeah, I'll put

a list together. You're open minded. And my thing too is I remember we talked about it here a couple of months ago. You had never been in the Seattle before, but then you wanted out there in the off season, spent some time out there. I really enjoyed that. It was a good time. Yeah, it was a good time. I didn't really know what to expect, but it was. It was cool. I enjoyed. It's real chill. Um. There's a lot of tech tech people out there. Oh yeah, that's not that's not my field, man, A lot of

tech people. Yeah. I can barely operate my phone. I gotta I gotta ask you about I would be remiss if I didn't ask you about some of these young pups who are getting reps at the position right now. Um how valuable is that for a guy like Blay Cashman, the fifth first pick that he has come in and he got thrown in the fire? Nevil Hewitt, you know you thought that he was going to take over your position. Then you need to shift over and be the mic for a couple of games because c J was out.

Now I'll probably shift back to the will. But just in terms of the inside and what you've seen from those guys, and yeah, I mean it's huge. I mean because you never know who you might need, you know, during a um A season, you know, so it's it's good for guys to get playing time, experience it because you never know when you're gonna get thrown in. And uh man, she was just like me. I got my Rooki year. I got thrown in when um I started lineback and when we went down, so I had to

get in. And so for you too, it was through injury. Yeah, so um I had to had to get in and end up starting week four, I'm starting and ever since then. How how difficult is it? Let's say, for someone like Neville just for fans that don't know to go from back up and then a couple of weeks later here in the mic, so like, how how much is he ingesting that he's not used to and then lining up there as the starting MIC lineback. It's tough. You got to set up a whole defense. I mean, it's I mean,

it's a lot, a lot going on. So especially when you go from not having to really do that to having to do it, you know, I mean they had to do in the same game, so that that's tough when you know you're not you're not planning on playing the mic, So I mean it's tough. Man. So, um, I feel like he you know, he's doing better once he's you know, settling down. I mean, not gonna be perfect, but but um, you know, it's it's a big transition. I really like what this group as the potential to be.

You're gonna be back in but I mean at the beginning of next season, but Cashman coming on, Nevil playing well, c J lights out this debut with the Green of White, I mean long term here on the inside, I love the position, what it's starting to uh look like and what it it has the potential to be. Yeah, I mean we got the talent. I mean, shoot, I feel like we were that's also excited about this year man too to be at the me and c J be in the middle. Um. But I mean that's why I'm

getting healthy now. So next year, I feel like, man, we can really like do some damage. Like I'm super excited. So, I mean it's just potential. They're just gotta just gotta make it happen. Well, stay positive, bro, I know a lot of people are rooting for you. Yeah. Oh yeah, I am man. That's the thing. Just it's it's like just trying to stay as positive as possible and and uh just block out the negative. Just stay focused. You got anything else a man? All right, Well that's all

we have here in the play MGM Studios. I'm going to take that jeep out first spending. Well, we have to see if every likes you're driving. Yeah, we got tested testing driving skills out. All right. That was the official Jets podcast. Thank you Avery very much again. You can check us out New York Jets dot com, YouTube, Apple podcasts, SoundCloud, and Google play basically wherever you can find podcasts. Radas not Stitcher. Thank you Rados the US, and we'll see you next week.