Detroit Commercial

So yall knew i was gonna talk about this...if you saw the superbowl yesterday and were watching the commercials, you saw the Detroit commercial that Chrysler did featuring Eminem. (if not, you can watch it herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKL254Y_jtc ) Here are 2 comments that were left under the video that i definitely agree with:

• People constantly underestimate Detroit. I probably wouldn't realize the amount of hatred towards Detroit if I didn't go to a out-of-state school. This Chrysler commercial gave Detroiters a sense of pride and much deserved acknowledgment. I commend Eminem for representing his city and Chrysler for promoting Detroit.
  
  
• All you haters drive through Detroit its one of the most beautiful cities...

  Corporate and Union greed, ignorant and arrogant folks killed it, but guess what its still there.

  Detroit is what made America great, the golden age...

  Detroit will be back

  
  

  
  

  
  

  And please believe Detroit will be back one day. But i do agree with the commercial as far as the fact that a lot of people are constantly dissing my city and have never even been there. I mean whats all that about? I dont talk bad about places ive never been to...but regardless i will always love Detroit. I remember when i was a little kid i used to always tell my parents that i was gonna get as far away from Detroit as possible, but now that im gone, i get back as often as possible...home is where the heart is lol and i guess once again im eating my words because now i love the city. I guess it took me to got o other places across the country to realize that theres no place like home. I guess we can put this down as a random thought lol...until next time...Peace

Orlando

So i have taken a brief hiatus form the internet (i.e. twitter and facebook) in order to concentrate on training for the NFL combine. Things are going well. Im training with Tom Shaw in Orlando Florida (www.coachtomshaw.com) and am getting better everyday. I have selected an Agent. His name is Sunny Shah and his company is 320 sports. He has had a top 15 tackle in the last 2 drafts and i hope to continue that tradition this year. Ive been here training for the past couple of weeks, i had to miss one week to go to the East West shrine game which i feel that i did great at. But besides that ive pretty much been training and  getting ready for the combine. So this is sort of the blog to just catch you up on everything thats goin on in my life....ill post some other stuff soon about how things are goin and what ive been up to in my spare time and of course the random thought or two that pops up in my head from time to time lol. Ill holla soon...peace

The New Beginning

So its over, my college career as a football player for the Louisiana State Fighting Tigers is over...and its hard to put into words how I feel right now. I mean, it seems like just yesterday I was in highschool planning on going to LSU and proving everyone wrong, because there were so many people that said that I would never play here. And I've done just that because I've been starting here for 3years. I would be lying if I told you that im not gonna miss it. From hanging with my frat brothers, to almost being late to class, to listening to kid cudi with the rest of the o line, to just hangin out with my friends in my spare time...im gonna miss it all. As this chapter of my life ends I can honestly say that id do it all again because all of the people I've met and the places I've been are what made me the man that i so proudly am. One of my close friends told me that im gonna miss it, and he is right because it just ended yesterday and im already feeling nestalgic. I still remember the tears in my mother's eyes when I told her that I decided to come to LSU. I remember being a scared little kid that graduated early to get a head start on my college career. I remember the dissapointment of having to start all over as a freshman again when I got to college and fighting my way into the 2 deep. I remember the challenge of switching from deffensive tackle to offensive tackle. I remember the challange of switching from right tackle to left tackle. I remember switching from the quiet guy to the vocal team captian. I guess you could say I've gone through my fare share of change...but it has all been leading up to this...

Im currently at the airport waiting to board the plane that's gonna open the next chapter that starts today, and that next chapter is my professional career. Im on my way to a training facility to begin training for the East vs. West shrine game and then the combine, and then my pro day. So im gonna be pretty busy for a while lol but it'll all be worth it to hear my name called on draft day...but that's a long way away from today and im gonna do all that I can to get better as I wait for those days to come...

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Gameday

So its my last game as an LSU tiger and while I am unable to describe the feeling I will say that im gonna miss it here. It was truely the best of times as well as the worst of times. But honestly I feel like that sums up most college experiences, I mean everybody has their highs and their lows that shape them into the man/woman that they are today. And sure playing football in college will alter my experience from the average student's somewhat but that doesn't mean that they are completely different experiences. Moving on, like I said before, it is indeed gameday and my teamates and I plan on doing everything they can to run onto that feild and win. What's already understood doesn't need to be explained...Peace

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Real People

So im still at this luncheon and still thinking about random things and the thought of real people popped up in my head. With today's world of gangsta rap bein popular and more and more people goin to jail, killin eachother, gettin arrested, etc. A lot of people are talkin about how "real" they are but I feel like we've lost/forgotten the real meaning of what it means to be a "real person". Being real isn't gang affiliated, its about being a genuine person. Real people don't kill and steal they help and are there for support. Being real isn't supposed to be affiliated with danger and death....its just about not being fake.

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Walk Ons

So this random thought popped up in my head as i was sittin here at the Cotton Bowl Luncheon. There are only 85 scholarship players on the team, but we are about 130 players deep, and that is because the players that are here and not a part of that 85 man roster are walk ons, which means that they aren't on scholarship. But just because they're not on scholarship doesn't mean that they're not a part of the team. A lot of people feel a lot of different ways about walk ons. Some people treat them like they're less than human just because they're not on scholarship. Some people treat them like regular people. And some people are just indifferent. Persoanlly I feel like they're on of the most important parts of the team. They help us get better everyday, fill in when people are hurt, boost the team's overall GPA (more than you know lol), and just do so much in general for the program. Some of my best friends are walk ons because they are the most down to earth people on the team. They like to hang out, relax, and have a good time instead of talk aabout how great they are/were in highschool and I appreciate that because im the same way. Not every team treats their walk ons the same but they should all treat them with respect and no different than they do the scholarship players because the team needs them just as much as they need their scholarship atheletes. So that's just my random 2 minutes.

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The Bomb Squad

MSo im sittin here at my birthday dinner with my fellow o lineman and some other teamates and we were talkin about playin offensive line and how thankless of a job it is. As you guys know, we caught a lot of heat as a unit last year. People were always talking about how bad we were at run and pass blocking and how we were just bad as a line in general. We had a good summer and worked really hard in the off season and im so happy and proud of the guys as a unit. These guys have worked really hard and improved so much and they get no credit for it at all. So I just wanna take this moment to shout out the LSU bomb squad on all of the improvement as well as congratukate them on taking a running back from 5th string to all SEC, and that's a true story the chart was charles, keiland, murphy, holliday, and then ridley. So I just wanna hout out the guys and let em know that somebody notices what they've done. Thanks guys

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