Bijan Robinson shares what he’s IMPROVING ON with his Falcons teammates 🤝 | The Rich Eisen Show

Bijan Robinson shares what he’s IMPROVING ON with his Falcons teammates 🤝 | The Rich Eisen Show

uh Bejian Robinson from the Falcons courtesy of Colgate. We’ve been chopping it up with him on our TV only segment. Um so just help me out here man because when we first met you’re like call me Bjon and then during the spring I I’m I’m hearing through the grapevine it’s Bjon. He wants to be called Bjon. And then uh Tariq and Collinssworth on Sunday Night Football earlier this year and you’re back on Sunday Night Football this weekend. I mean Tariq never gets anything wrong and he starts calling you Bejian. I’m like, “What’s up with that?” And he then says, “You then greenlighted Bejon again. Can you help me with this?” Yeah. So, sir, in the summer, um, you know, the NFL, I was on the NFL network and they came to practice and they’re like, you know, how do you, so how do you pronounce your name so everybody can know? Um, and I just said like I pronounce it Bjon, but my mom, you know, her pronunciation for it is is Bjon. And I mean since that moment like yeah it’s it’s became like a really big deal everywhere. Um to the point where like I have just random people like they’ll they’ll call my name and then they’ll they’ll like correct it because they don’t know. So you know it’s it’s I always just say like it’s however you you want to say it. It’s however it sounds good to you. And you know if if if Bejon is is the way you want to go like that’s that’s how it’s been said for a long time in my life. So yeah, man. I mean, it’s I know I know it’s became a thing, but if however it sounds good to you, like I’m I’m all for it. Well, again, I just want to make you happy. You know what I mean? Like, you’re coming on this program. I don’t want to antagonize you. And again, you’re on Monday Night Football this weekend, and pardon me to my friends at Disney. Uh you’re taking on Buffalo at home and then you’re at San Francisco on Sunday night. Your next two games are on national television and your last game that you had before your buy was the first time ever in which you, Drake London, and Kyle Pittz scored a touchdown all in the same game. Are you aware of that, Bjan? I I w I wasn’t aware of that before that happened and then obviously like after that they told us and I was like, you know, let’s let’s try to make this a a continuing thing every, you know, one week at a time, man. cuz I feel like when we all start to become click and all start to do stuff like that, then you know, we just become super hard to stop. So, you know, it’s it’s definitely a cool accomplishment that it that it happened. Obviously, it happened in year three for me, but you know, it has happened at some point. Do you feel do you feel as if something clicked in potentially uh in week four with Michael Penn at quarterback and then the three of you guys uh at your positions? Yeah, I mean, we we just did all the little details, right? you know, it it wasn’t just us like with the O line that we have, you know, they’re they’re so explosive. Um, and not only that, they help all of us on the field, but you know, just helping Mike back there, you know, have have time to throw the football, you know, me, you know, finding holes, um, finding open open creases to run through, like those are the guys that set it set it all apart. Those are the guys that that make it all go. But when they’re when they’re going, then that’s when stuff like that can happen and that’s when we can all just get in the end zone and and help this offense become like the best the best that it can become. Has the game slowed down for you since you left the campus in Austin? Absolutely. Absolutely. How so? How so? I mean, from the running game to the passing game, like I always tell people, you know, the first year when I’m in college, you know, everything’s fast. Everything’s super fast. The play calls are fast. me trying to, you know, get my run reads. Like everything’s going going going. Then when that second year hits, you know, that’s when things start to slow down. That’s when things start to, you know, open up little little by little, you’re starting to get more comfortable. But then when that third year comes and everything, everything everything’s coming to you the right way. Everything slowed down. You know, it looks like you’re playing in college in high school when you’re in college. And then for me, like now that I’m in my third year here, um like the whole game slowed down. Now I can, you know, be comfortable in all my run reads and, you know, in the pass game, my route running, route technique. So obviously I have so much work to do still. Like I’m continuing to learn. I’m continuing to get better. I’ll continue to, you know, perfect my craft in all aspects of my game, but yeah, the game is the game slow down for like what? Damn. Now here’s another followup. Like what? Like what do you need do you feel like you need you can get better at than you already are right now? Yeah. I mean, you know, for me, like me playing receiver now, like my route details, you know, I’m trying to learn as much as I can from like Drake, Mooney, um, Kyle, you know, Ray Ray, like all these guys, like I’m I’m continue to learn from them. And, you know, they’re they’re teaching me on the fly, like, you know, how to how to run a couple route, how to run the routes that they run. And then obviously in the run game, like always trying to perfect my eyes, you know, yet like God’s given me a gift to do this, but like always trying to perfect my run reads and, you know, trying to manipulate linebackers in practice so I can do it in the game and set up blocks for my my O line for the tight ends. Um, and then, you know, just always just in path detection, like making sure that I’m striking first and, you know, making sure that I’m I’m just knowing where where the protection’s coming from, where the signals are coming from, and me just knowing everything um before the play even starts in all aspects of my game. Like, that’s what I’m trying to continue to perfect. So, those are those are the things that I’m trying to be be great at, and I got to continue to do it one week at a Well, I mean, your next two games, um, your counterparts on the other sidelines are named James Cook and Christian McCaffrey. Does that something that factors into your thinking that uh the other the other team has that guy, I need to be the guy for me? Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, my my respect to both of those guys is tremendous. Um, it’s huge. Like, I I watch their game and I watch them week to week and, you know, they’re always super impressive every time they step on the field. But for me, like, you know, it’s it’s a competition. So, it’s it’s who executes the right way. It’s it’s who executes at at a higher level that game. And, you know, obviously, we’re we’re in practice, you know, trying to perfect everything that we can to be at our best for the Monday night game and for the Sunday night game coming right after that. But, you know, I’m I’m excited to play against those guys and I’m excited to to get to share the field with them. Um, and just to play at a really high level on on on these next couple games coming up. And I know my time is limited with you as you’re going on a tour for Colgate here. Um, what advice do you have for Arch Manning, sir, right now? Yeah, I would say just continue to stay stay consistent, you know, stay consistent as much as possible. You know, don’t listen to the media because the media can either steer you in the right direction or it’ll tarnish you um for for your career. So for him, like always know that everybody has his back in in in that building and coach Sar continues to have his back. Everybody everybody around him has his back. But you know, I think it’s a it’s a it’s not just him. It’s the whole team. Like the whole offense has to come together. Uh especially this week playing against Oklahoma. Like this is going to be a really big game for for not just Texas as a program, but those individual players like the these are really big games for them. So they got to, you know, hone in and and become playerled and become, you know, who they want to become this week. So, you know, my advice to them is just, you know, put their head down, you know, stay stay out of the outside noise and just go go on that field on Saturday and and show everybody what they can do. Yeah, I asked that question of Tim Tibo a couple weeks ago and he said his advice for Arch and this is before obviously what happened against Florida. Um, saying just go back to the time where you all you cared about was in the backyard loving football. That’s what he said. You know, that’s it. Like, don’t don’t don’t think about what you can be, who you can be. Like, think about who you are now. Um, and then everything else will take care of itself because you’re the one on that field and you’ve been blessed to be on that field. So, you know, everybody needs to play that way so they can, you know, maximize their efforts to to get the wins. Bean, thank you so much. Uh, I prefer Bejian if that’s okay. Yeah. Um, you know, and and Colgate is pronounced just Colgate, right? Like that’s just straight up. Correct. We got that. I I would hope so. Okay. Very good. Uh and I appreciate those at Colgate making you available. I I I’ll take you even when you’re not uh on a tour or anything like that. You know, you’re one of my favorites and I appreciate you joining here and I look forward to seeing your commercial for Colgate on Thursday Night Football and then seeing you doing your thing with your oral hygiene all handled uh on Monday night against the Bills. Yes, sir. Rich, I appreciate you grabbing me as always. You got it. Good talking to you, man. You got it. That’s Bejian Robinson, one of the best in the business for the Atlanta Falcons. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Atlanta Falcons RB Bijan Robinson joins The Rich Eisen Show to talk all things NFL ahead of the Falcons’ Monday Night Football matchup vs. the Buffalo Bills.

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