Special-Teams utility man and cornerback Sam Franklin Jr. joins J.J. Jansen on this episode of Cart Talk. The pair talk about nicknames, special-teams meetings, and the two take a blast to the past and talk about their lives in 2011.
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Now my wife is a Avid Library knower Really when you get your books are you Getting do you get your books off of Um like you get them in the library Kindle audiobook when you read you're Just talking before we started here I got them on my phones for me I like Download them on my phone you read them On the phone yeah what's the fastest You've ever read a book Oh probably like the 48 Laws of Power I Believe that one pretty fast I probably Heard them like 48 48 lots of Power are you are you Controlling me right now Without with the laws of power no I'm Not no I've read that book too I just Want to make sure you're not using them On me no no no I try not to use them on People I try to use them for my personal Life do you okay so you're playing Gunner do you use those 48 laws for sure Against the vice players again sure for Sure for sure I manipulate their minds The whole time though the whole entire Time and I'm not going to tell you guys How to do it because it's going to be a Long season and I don't need anybody Looking at this and understanding how I'm gonna play with them it's probably True the other teams are probably Scouting cart talk to figure out to get An edge so we don't want to give any of That away come on now I do want to know
Like so I played special teams my entire Life but obviously I've never been Invited out to be a gunner I don't know If that shocks you or not but I've I've Not I've not gotten the invite you are Out there all by yourself maybe you have Two friends on you maybe you have one They're not robbers that's right what Are the conversations like out there Like are you guys talking on on the Field because sometimes we'll get into Games or six seven reps you can build up A little uh little energy what's that Like out there um it's most me telling Them Um a lot of stuff that they don't want To hear um I'll be asking them why they Coach doing this thing that's the first Thing I asked like why is your coach Doing this to him and I don't say Nothing like what you mean trying to get In their head yeah and what you mean are You a trash talker like like are you Calling them names and I'm not calling Them names no I'm just saying the things That their coach is doing to them I Wouldn't do to my my friends Sacrificing lamb out here like that's Right you know you're in like the Chopping block right are you are you Ever doing like Wikipedia I'm gonna get some personal information And just use it put in my back pocket in Case is that part of your Wednesday prep
For a gunner um I'm not doing anything Personal but if you got like a funny Name or something I'm calling you by Your funny name like if you have like a Like a LeRoy or something like that I'd Be like oh you got an old name like you Really supposed to be born in the 80s Like I'll be doing stuff like that you Know I was born in mayonnaise right Next topic All right Did you ever get like a bad nickname or A silly nickname growing up oh my gosh So the nickname that I got growing up Was chunky donkey Duda chunky who gave You that name my all my aunts they like Oh my aunts to start naming me different Stuff so it was like start off with Chunky donkey do not I was born two feet And nine and nine pounds So that's why they call me chunky donkey Doodah and then they just changed it to Dunk and like ever since I just been Called they've been calling me drunk so Like if you see my IGS don't underscore 4X I didn't know that I just I had no Idea yeah that's why I got the dunk Chain people be like why is your name Doug I'm like nah Your calculator if if if I called you Dunk on the field would you respond to That like yeah would that trigger yes so Like even like we was out here with the Fans the other day
Um I'm over here chilling and I'm like I Was walking with my girl and I heard Somebody say don't and I just look like It yo where's my where's my mom at so if I yell at you on the field you think Your mom's on the field with you yeah so I'm gonna think like one of my family Members is closed because nobody calls Me that at all like only they call me That so people call me dunk I'm just Like who how you know me To be like one of those where's Waldo's Moments you gotta try to find them so We've been at training camp now we're Getting actually kind of close to the End here we got the Jets coming in next Week what has been uh the one thing Maybe you've kind of turned to At training camp to kind of get you Through some of the dog days of Camp Anything fun or interesting to just kind Of Gets You Through Um partner interesting oh yeah so we um You know upstairs in the little Lounge Room you know we sit around and we um we We sometimes we just sit up there and Talk like everybody be coming back from Getting food I go up there like Sometimes earlier I'd be like one guy Sitting there and then like we normally Collected like a little group of like Offensive defensive players and it just Takes you like away from camp for like a Little bit you know we out there talking
Joking around And then like yesterday we went out I Made shacking a couple of offense Alignment defensive lineman when I um to Eat and it was just like a fun time we Would joke around And if you ever seen like Fast and the Furious 2 we're like so if you do a jack Go see though what about your legs Did they go with you that's what we said What do you guys think about that inject Those Cheeto you think your leg's gonna Come out you gotta see fashion and Furious though for me too That's right the series has moved along From the second episode yeah You guys I noticed you guys didn't Invite any special teams guys are you Are you are you are a special Representative like you have been Hanging out with the Specialists a lot We try to say we have four Specialists We do any job they don't invite me to no Meetings it's crazy do you want to be Invited to meetings I would like to Sometimes you're the first you're the First football player in history that Wants to get invited to meetings usually It's like coach can I get out of Meetings you want into the meeting y'all Don't even meet for a long well yeah What do you think what do you think we Do in our meetings that you want to come From oh my gosh I think y'all look at
The snap comment sure Um how long the ball is y'all look out How much Eddie turns his foot Um That that is a tremendous Insight we Literally spend we literally spend time Looking at the foot placement of the Ball as his toe down is this toe up you Foreign I don't even know how they're making These just debates We can't we can't tell anything we're Just guessing did it go in yeah this Foot's in a great position then I go in I'm too happy well probably the snap or The hold Eddie Eddie makes him when We're all good yeah all right so you so You'd want to come hang out with us I'm Telling you we do not want to come hang Out with you guys you guys look Exhausted after the train Cat Practice I Know y'all be coming to check on this so Um how's practice and that'd be like What we haven't sweat all day and you Guys are all dead I think baseball field Is kind of crazy over there this is Softball field here softball it's it's a Shorter fence first of all you obviously Know I know the difference between Baseball and softball we have shorter Fences right we have their batting cages Over here though 375. these are the These are the bigger because you can Crush one over there absolutely hey if
Y'all do not know JJ is like one of the Best Duels for athletes ever they know I Talk about it on cart talk probably Every episode I can't it's Don't cut that out leave it in cut it Out leave it in because obviously people Want to know the people don't anymore Yeah what year was year four for you What what like what year well actually 2011. It was my fourth year in the NFL oh my God 2011 was the fourth year what were You doing in 2011 It was like an eighth grade were you Playing football yet yeah that's how They're playing football at eight you Know we can't get nowhere we're gonna Get thrilled we're gonna get through Damn grass is pretty expensive but we're Gonna get through we're gonna get to see You so we won off road Were you playing any other sports yeah I Played baseball that was my first sport I ever played you play baseball yeah What position I play Outfield Third Base Um yeah freaking why haven't we used you On a fake punt throw I don't know if we Want like Jet Sweep Sam Franklin throws It back to Johnny to Johnny oh my gosh So if you guys are out there watching Saints Falcons just don't even worry About it we'll probably add that in okay And you won't and they won't know Because they were watching card talk
Yeah Man all right I'm saying I think we can Get through here and then and then we'll We'll wrap up all right it says no golf Carts Foreign You've been you've been kind of like the Police today You've been very like my friends are Going to see this don't say I'm the Police I'm just saying you've been like The police I'm already I'm already the police right Now I'm Be careful what you say okay for what You say You don't want to get you don't want to Get God you don't want to get booked I know that's how we started right nope All right we'll go down here we'll go Around all right last couple of Questions for you buddy this summer What'd you do for what would you do for Fun Um this summer for fun I was really with My little brother a lot okay I'm in Florida we went um I went and worked out With him he just he's just turned 13 Actually okay so like on the third so we Went out Um on the boat like two times took them Out in the water You are you like a fisherman are you Yeah I like the fish but we didn't fix
Um we just went out on the ocean and Half one on the boat joking around with Each other you were a life Challenger Right you know I am my life is secure Already Yeah but we still want you to stay safe No no we were kids wear a life jacket Yes don't listen to Sam no I do not Listen to him listen to Sam so you go You just find that relaxing yeah being On the warrior um That's a relaxing thing do you ever do Like deep sea fishing yeah um I have it But I want to I think next time that's Where I'm gonna take him to do one of my Friends he goes fishing all the time no More like the um before OTAs I always go Fishing okay um Mexico because that's why I live at so It's pretty nice you know what's the Biggest thing you've ever caught Um Hobby like a red and probably like I Want to say like I had to put it back Though like 30 something 30 pounds Yeah Do you eat it did you cook it up and eat It no you threw it back okay go away Johnny Johnny watch your turn you were Here last week Johnny Hecker editor all right so uh Sam That was good we did a really good job We did 15 minutes just like I told you We would you were excellent as expected
Anything else you want to say before we Sign off Um this is another cart talk I mean with Sam Franklin and my host guest JJ Jensen
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