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All right, welcome to Bustin with the Boys.

We have an awesome guest.

James Winston, Florida State Seminole,

Buccaneer, New Orleans Saints, Cleveland Browns.

Bro, thank you for coming on the show.

You got massive fans all over the place with Bussing with the boys. Man, it's on the privilege to be here. I'm on these greatness, this greatness. Did you, when you're coming out of college and the whole crab like things happened, who's going to be first, you were Marcus, like, I feel like there was a dip in like, oh, this guy, like maybe people weren't appreciating your personality. You flip over, it's been 10 years now. You are like the media darling. I watch you at media days on Monday. The way you set up the joke for what's your favorite color to Chris Jones, the way, like you have the comedic timing, the, how authentic you are, like to will he was at barcel i we have never

actually met like faces maybe maybe one time like after a game yeah but hearing that like you're

the same guy like at any point throughout your career where you're like do i need to be a little

more like the model student these teams want me to be or did you never waver in who you were as a person

well when i first got the tempo i think, that was the compromise that I first made,

like, just trying to get out of the, get out of the media as public enemy number one.

Like, because I wanted people to really see who I truly was.

So I invested time in the community.

I invested a lot of time with my teammates.

And I always consider myself, like, a people pleaser. But that wasn't necessarily me at that time in Tampa because I was just like, man, I'm so, I'm so focused on me as the person. But when you're a good person, you don't have to try to be a good person. Yeah. And I put so much thought energy and so much time and effort to like, oh, man, I got to show these people that I'm not who they think I am. Right. But at the end of the day, it's not, actually it's not, you are not who you think you are, but what you think you are. So it's putting my energy toward like, man, my play toward like developing a family, spending more like in Tampa, that was my young

days, you know, so like I'm in a new city, you know, it's living young, wild and free.

But at the same time, I have a girlfriend that's living in Texas, you know, so I'm trying

to manage that relationship and also focus on my dream, focus on winning the Super Bowl,

focus on being the best quarterback and teammate I can possibly be, and focus on being the best man that I'm possibly going to be without the limitations and perception that others had of me at that time. When you are stripping those things off, like talk about what it was like for you becoming a professional. When you're around guys in the league that have been around a long time,

like yeah, I'm thinking of Tampa,

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