Amon-Ra St. Brown on being the NFL's top paid receiver, how the Lions are coming for the NFC throne
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On the latest Off the Edge with Cam Jordan podcast, Lions All-Pro receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown joins Cam hours after agreeing to a 4-year, $120 million contract extension with the Detroit Lions. He shares with Cam why becoming the NFL's highest paid receiver is an "honor," but also how it's winning not money that still motivates him. He also talks about why he feels the Lions are setup for sustained success under head coach Dan Campbell and general manager Brad Holmes. And, Amon-Ra shares his journey of growing up in Germany has shaped the person he's become, and how his family prepared him to handle the big stage.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.3 | Welcome on in. |
| 0:10.4 | I appreciate y'all tuning in to Off the Edge with Cam Jordan. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm super excited to sit here with a pro bowler with a man who's made a name for himself, |
| 0:17.4 | who already has a phenomenal name. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Amara, St. Brown. Yes, sir. Appreciate you. Yeah, man, from a fourth round pick to big payday today. It's all last because there ain't no more funny money. That fourth round is a he-he. That big bag just came through because we're not going to drop the numbers because we all seen it. But I love it for well first all congratulations thank you on all your success thank you know you you first got |
| 0:40.5 | dropped to Detroit when Detroit was struggling and now y'all just hit a whole NFC |
| 0:44.8 | championship game yeah I need to know what that what that new money feel like you |
| 0:49.6 | didn't even hit the count yet so you ain't felt it yet I I haven't felt nothing yet. It's just still in the air. |
| 0:55.7 | I mean, I don't have nothing. But now I'm super thankful. I'm grateful for everyone, you know, |
| 1:00.9 | the whole Lions organization, Sheila Ford, I mean, Brad Holmes, Mike Dissner, |
| 1:07.6 | Sossner, everyone involved, my agent, my family, my coaches, my teammates coaches my teammates everyone i wouldn't you know i |
| 1:13.4 | wouldn't be here without them today um so i'm just super thankful you know this time three years ago |
| 1:19.9 | i got drafted around this you know around this time um and to be here now drafted in detroit |
| 1:24.9 | kind of like a full-circle moment for me. |
| 1:27.5 | Absolutely. You had some dogs, you know what I'm saying? At the time, Dahliday was going crazy. Right. Marv Jones, before he returned, was going crazy. And you came in a young buck and, you know, my boy, I'm great friends with my guy, Marv Jones. Yeah, he's a good dude. You know, went to my college. |
| 1:45.6 | We've known him since he was a jitterbug. |
| 1:48.0 | Yeah. boy, I'm great friends with my guy, Marv Jones. Yeah, he's a good dude. You know, he went to my college. |
| 1:45.5 | We've known him since he was a jitterbug. Yeah. And so he was like, bro, he's really gonna be the next one to see you blossom, bro. It's been amazing. Thank you. You talk about just, you know, being to a pro bowlers together, had a chance. I told you earlier had a chance to sit down with your pops. |
| 2:01.4 | And he was telling me how you lived in, you used to go off and live in Germany. Does that feel like you knowing that the world is so broad, does that help you really hone in? Like, you can travel whenever, but does it help you hone in on football or did that get you away from football? What does traveling abroad do for you? You know, I was kind of, that's something that I was used to growing up, like a lot of kids, I feel like growing up, they did vacations, but they would go to like Colorado. They'd go to Lake, I've never been there in my life. Go to like these lakes, whatever. Me and my family, they would go, we're going out, we're going out the country. We would take cruises all the time, like almost every year. Go to Germany, go to Europe. My mom's from Germany, so we'd be there every summer as kids. So for me, for our family in Leverkusen next to Cologne, for our our family like traveling was getting out the country far away |
| 2:52.6 | um for a lot of kids that i grew up with it was just like they're going like i said to the lakes |
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