Saints Rookie Payton Turner on Draft Night Insanity And His Big Plans In The NFL | The Lefkoe Show
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🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Whether you're a Saints fan or not, you're going to be a fan of this young gentleman by the end of this episode. Payton Turner (@pt_turner98) chats with Lefkoe (@adamlefkoe) about everything from his rather unique Draft Night experience to wanting to sack his now divisional rival Tom Brady to the heartwarming, awesome thing he did with his NFL signing bonus. Plus, stick around for the end when he speaks directly from the heart and tells Saints fans exactly what kind of player they can expect him to be.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up? What is good? How you living? How you feeling? How you doing? It is the L.E.F.K.O.E. |
| 0:05.0 | Man, I have somebody joining me today |
| 0:08.0 | That went in the first round of the NFL draft from Houston, Texas from West Side High School |
| 0:15.0 | Came out of nowhere, punched in the face and said, what the fuck I am here? |
| 0:20.0 | Peyton Turner in the building, Mr. Turner, how you living? |
| 0:24.0 | You're serving a little well, man, a little well. Been awesome. |
| 0:28.0 | 28th pick, New Orleans Saints are on the clock. Where are you watching the draft? Where are you taking it all in? |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, so I'm over here in West Houston. I was inside, but not even my parents, but my family were just talking so much |
| 0:42.0 | Couldn't hear anything there was saying and some of the boys I was working out with were getting drafts. I was like, man, I'm going to go outside, grab a plate and go outside |
| 0:49.0 | I went outside, Turner TV or Tony TV on in the backyard just chilling, watching and listening to the draft |
| 0:54.0 | And yeah, I'm just sitting there in the chair and you know, I look down on my phones or anything so |
| 0:59.0 | Did you recognize the area code right away? |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, it's in 504. So I was like, that's New Orleans and I looked up and I saw there on the clock or I think it was Washington just turned in their pick |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, I looked up and it said the next pick was New Orleans Saints. I was like, uh-oh, here we go. So I answered the phone |
| 1:17.0 | And was it was it Mickey? Was it Sean Peyton? Who was it? |
| 1:20.0 | It was Jeff Arland and then I talked and I talked to Mickey and I talked to coach Peyton. So it's pretty cool, man. |
| 1:27.0 | And so I love the draft calls where they're like, hey man, you want to be a saint? And I'm always waiting for one guy to be like, nah, good. |
| 1:35.0 | Nah, dude, I'm good. |
| 1:36.0 | Did they ask you a question? Like what did what did Jeff say to you? |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, they said they said they were like, there was Peyton. I was like, yeah, this Peyton. |
| 1:43.0 | They're like, they're like, hey, I just letting you know, we're gonna use this pick. We're gonna put you in and put your name and they're like, uh, you want to be a saint? |
| 1:50.0 | I was like, yeah, I'm ready to be a saint, man. |
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