Giants Life: Jevón Holland’s Road to the Giants | New York Giants

Giants Life: Jevón Holland’s Road to the Giants | New York Giants

Which camera am I looking at? I just want to trust speed movie about my life. If I had the choice to to I’d probably set in like a like a coastal town. Not a bunch of people. Probably like you know 1 3 million people in this city. where you grew up. The movie of Oh, see, I’m like thinking like I’m thinking if it’s like a biopic about my life, I’m like paint it up. I’m like I’m trying to give you the city size. You know what I’m saying? Coastal city vibes. So, you want me to tell you about my life? Yeah. All right. Um, man. Yeah. Did you see it? Yeah, I got shot. I saw it. And what happened? So, I got the pick, right? I was running down the sideline and then it was like three gotcha. I trusted my speed and my athletic ability cut up the middle. You know, I was thinking about this because they keep asking me like what’s my why? Like why do I play? Cut back. Nobody’s on me. I play football because it’s the ultimate game of games. And I’ve crafted my whole life around this thing. You know what I mean? My entire life. I’m running down the sideline. Touchdown. Hey, you better get with the program. Get with the program. The same reason why I played at recess. I was going hard at lunchtime. He made the statement, you know, in the third grade and brought it to f fruition. I want to be a professional football player like my dad. Can’t have a bigger compliment. And of course, you know, family and whatnot. Make my dad proud and honor my family name. All of that stuff is that that’s all there. But down to the core of it, I play because I have fun. Jersey has been cool. Um, you know, initially it’s got when you first move into an area like uncomfortable just cuz like you know, you don’t have everything that you need. But uh what’s crazy is we had like a couch, we had a bed, but I wasn’t comfortable until we got a rug for the living room. That was like the main thing that made me like, ah, okay. Like I’m I’m chilling now. Um the weather’s cool. Like it kind of feels like I’m back at Oregon with the weather and stuff. But other than that, man, I you know, I feel good. You know, the team is team is cool as hell. Coaches are cool. Organization is cool. So, I’m I’m enjoying myself and I’m definitely feeling feeling like I’m catching my stride, right? You know, right nice and comfortable with this with the squad. This is Fort Lee. It’s nice little area. It’s a personal take, hike. I think what makes a neighborhood a neighborhood and like the community vibe are curbs. You’d be surprised how many times you go to a neighborhood and there are no curbs and you see just disarray and disorder in the neighborhood. Cuz when you have curbs, you have sidewalks. And then when you have sidewalks, you have PE areas where people can walk and enjoy themselves, right? Me personally, I’m a I’m a curbs type of guy. If I could, I would add curbs to my own in front of my own house back in Florida. Somebody might, you know, have some disagreements, but I’m just saying. Oh, my sister just signed to a professional basketball team. The Oakland Swiss. Okay. Oh, Swiss, not Swiss. Yeah, probably makes more sense that it’s Swish. All the same. Congrats. Thank my love. Shout out Jaden. This is actually crazy to be recording me eating a dog. But hold on. I got to send some I got to send some pictures to the homies. Every time we go get dogs, you know, we got to make sure we send each other’s pictures. I’m not going to lie. This one’s dressed on the right. It’s dressed nicely. This one’s missing some socks. I’m going to try I’m actually excited for the hot onion. I’ve never seen that before. So, I’m try that. So, I’m always I’ve always been like a mustard ketchup relish guy. It’s not bad. It’s pretty good flavor. Me personally, I like my hot dogs burnt, extra burnt. Like you got to like brush some of the truck. You know what I’m saying? That’s the best kind of dog. I grew up in Kquilum, BC. So it was my dad, my mom, and my brother Jir Rashad Holl, younger sister, Jada Jane Holl, and my dog Moose. When I was in Canada, like I just felt like a regular kid. Like you don’t really realize you’re in another country. You’re just like grown up, you know? When I moved to America, there were like subtle differences like those things that I didn’t have, you know, the national anthem, the pledge of allegiance, who George Washington was, like things like that that like kind of like, oh, oh, okay. Like what what that why is that important at all? You know what I mean? Like you don’t really understand when you move from one country to another. Like you you kind of like leave everybody that you know. So now I’m like in a place where I have no idea who anybody is. You know, part of me felt like I never really fit in. And like I was always like kind of on the outskirts, but I never felt like I was like, you know, like one of the one of the boys kind of thing uh at recess and stuff. Like they were telling me like, “No, you can’t play. Like you’re a tryhard.” And like kids started to make fun of me because I was like playing hard and like enjoying the sport. And that kind of like got to me. It like bothered me that like I was like not allowed to play or like wasn’t being invited to play with these kids cuz like they were just like I was like being too good or I was like playing too hard. Man, he is honestly like my twin. I feel like not a lot of people know but we’re like 18 months apart exactly. So I feel like we kind of share a brain at times, share a lot of feelings. one of my biggest haters, but also one of my biggest cheerleaders for real. Like, he is the reason that I decided to go play again. Say he’s like one of my best friends. We probably argue the most out of all the siblings, but I feel like it’s cuz we’re so close. My earliest memory of my sister probably, so when we lived in Canada, we had twotory house. We had this like long hallway and this like blank wall. We had a blank wall and we never put anything on there. So in our upstairs living room, we would have like nothing. We move all the furniture. So we playing football and stuff up there. But Jada never like played, right? Her thing was she would start at the end of the hallway. Come on. And she would run full speed, jump into the wall, fall down, and start laughing. That was like that was like her comedy. And that that’s probably the earliest memory. You make me feel like a crazy. No, it was crazy. I mean, that was like the earliest time. That was the earliest time I realized I was like, “Yeah, nah, something’s something’s not right.” Where’d you guys get the competitive fire from? I want to say both of our parents. Well, dad for sure, but mom is also No, mom’s competitive. Mom’s really competitive as well. I mean, obviously my dad because he is my dad and is the reason that we are freak athletes, freak of nature, study the game for real. My mom is is really really competitive as well. Are you stitch braiding this? No, I don’t know how to stitch braid. Yeah, I don’t know. I’m just heavy-handed. Yeah, I can tell. Sorry. Third grade is the come to school with the report on what do you want to do with your life? He said, I want to be a professional football player like my dad. You know, can’t have a bigger a bigger compliment. and he’s just kind of never strayed from the path of wanting to be a football player. He played some other sports that were sort of secondary to it, but now I don’t want to do that. I want to practice. I want to work out. I want to play. This is I think this is so this gym is not the original gym. This is like my dad’s first official solo just him facility. He’s like a mad scientist. He’s got, you know, numbers and agility drills and you know what makes the training unique is the ability to feel like you you body awareness. That’s what he basically teaches. Cuz I retired in 2000. I was at a crossroads between uh coaching and training. Um so I chose the training side and to raise my children. And so one of the things I always say is how’s it working for you so far? It’s working for me so far. He would always compare himself to his brother. Mirror can do that, but I’m better. He was younger and we’d look at him and go, “Yeah, right.” And he would be out there skateboarding, rollerblading, it did not matter. My brother motivating me to like do stuff was like almost subconscious. Like I didn’t even realize that I was wanting to do everything that he was doing just because he thought it was cool. I thought it was cool. Like Jim wasn’t like pushing me like he he just did what he did and I was like chasing him. He went right, I went right. He went left and it didn’t work out. I went right. You know what I mean? So it was like I had a b like somebody who ran through it already for me and right in front of me. Yeah, that’s true. I was close enough to be able to see him do it but far enough to a way to be able to make my own decision based off of him. You know, training with my dad like was never it was I was never like forced to train. It was always like if you want to be here, you can be here. But if we going to be here, we’re going to work. Go. inside foot. Inside foot. Good. And at that point, I was already comfortable with the fact that like I got to push myself otherwise I’m not going to get to what I want to get to. And that was like before we had the gym. I was when we were like working out in the garage. I didn’t know it then, but it was like start of a really long journey. There. There. Extend through the bag. Finish. Finish. We need 10 yards. We need 10 yards. There’s 3 seconds left in the game. One. Get the weight across. Bring your team. Bring your team. And good. Awesome. Javon hits the corner. Gets outside by himself. The cut back. My My dipped on him. Fools. Dipped on him. I I have to counsel him. um not just because he’s my son, but I have to counsel him cuz he’s an elite athlete. There are a lot of kids who have athleticism, but that passion of that other thing, that intelligence, that that ability to go deeper and to to own it, that that’s what ends up making the the the difference, their own personal commitment level, and that’s how they end up in the league. I would say like when I really started training was when he told me like, I I can’t do it for you. So, at that point, it really felt like it was just all on me. Let’s get this work. Lean and drive. Nice. Everybody, everybody. Hey, lions don’t wait. We eat sheep. The one thing about Javon is he understands if it makes sense, then it makes sense. When I got to middle school, my brother was in high school. He was a freshman on varsity. That was my mindset like I need to be a freshman on varsity. That’s when I was like, “Okay, like if I want to get to where I’m getting, checking off all the boxes that my brother and my dad had done. If I could do that, then I know I can get to the next level. My high school was great and I loved, you know, being able to go go to school in Oakland. Not necessarily growing up in Oakland. um growing up like outside in Pleasanton, which is like a predominantly white area, not having peers that had the same ideologies. I only had like two or three close homies that were black, but like we related so well because you know they look like me, talk like me, have the same type of history. So when I went to Odow and it was like legit black kids like all the time, like it’s important to have that type of like connection. I felt like I just flourished in that environment around people that could understand where I’m where I came from, the experiences that I have. And I think that was like super important for me in my development into a young adult. So I give a lot of a lot of praise to Odow for me who I am today and how it, you know, created this persona in myself and also taught me like, you know, be true to myself. Like I don’t have to be anybody different just because, you know, I grew up some I grew up in the suburbs kind of thing. You know what I mean? All right, bring it up. Bring it up. Bring it up. All right, let’s break it down. Who wants to break it down? All right, bring it down. Hard work. Hard work on me. Hard work on three. 1 2 3. Nice work. He’s working. Look at that. I like it. What’s your name? Jeff. All right, let’s do it. Say, great job. Turn around. Good work. So, today we had our third annual Bayers Finest Camp hosted here uh at Bishop High School. It was all about just, you know, giving the kids a chance to have something to do some some fun on the weekend. What up? What up? What up? What up? What up? What up? What up? What up? What up? Back pedal and then break towards me. Break towards me. Just like that. Boom. Perfect. Great job. Nice. Woo. That little dude right there. You get his name. Get his name. How old are you? That is very good. Josiah, I’m coming out to your game this year. Shifty, athletic, smooth. He going to be a problem. It’s a joy to see them to see the kids be able to touch and feel a dream. It is the epitome of who we are. So to see that he feels the same way about giving back to the community, it’s just it’s a joy. It really is. It’s our ministry. That is what it is. It’s our ministry. It’s cool to be able to come back to Odow and, you know, continue to have this sense of community and it was overall a great day. I’m always filled with joy after after doing stuff like this, seeing the kids, you know, just be happy and giving them a space to run around. Great job, guys. Great job. High fives all around. High fives all around. Beras finest on three. 1 2 3. All right. What’s good, Joe? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. What’s good everybody with you, bro? I’m excited, bro. I’m excited, too, bro. Yes, sir. I’ve been I’ve been watching you since coming in. I just wanted to like get comfortable, you know? I wanted to find that rhythm with the team. Uh get to know the guys. like wanted to be a part of the group. It’s been a pleasant surprise, man. Like we have I’ve been a part of like some really close locker rooms. This is the most homeboy, my dog, like dapping each other up, playing pool, laughing from top to bottom. That is a recipe for success. I think you have to, you know, trust the indivi individual next to you in order to be successful. Good to be here, man. Heck of a player. Glad it all worked out, man. Yeah, man. Yeah, I’m excited, man. How you doing? And you’re Canadian, too, huh? I am. Yeah. Then come to west side. Yeah, west side. I was born on the east side and then moved to Buffalo at a young age and got bring it. Absolutely. Tackle, play the deep power field. Be a good communicator. I can do that. Got me. I got you. You everything. I got you. Be you. Got that. Yeah. High five, buddy. Oh, you have two gloves on. That’s funky. I don’t feel the need to be like the vet. I feel more the need to be myself. I’m seeing in live action that me just being myself is positively affecting the group. And that’s all I can ask for. Cuz they keep asking me like what’s my why? Like why do I play? I play football because it’s the ultimate game of games. It’s chess. It’s checkers. It’s solitary. Like, it’s puzzles. And I enjoy being better at the puzzle. And I’ve crafted my whole life around this thing. You know what I mean? My entire life. Same reason why I played at recess. I was going hard at lunchtime. And of course, you know, family, whatnot, make my dad proud and honor my family name. All of that stuff is that’s all there. But down to the core of it, I play because I have fun.

Travel to California with safety Jevón Holland to see the place that helped shape him and bring him to the Giants. Presented by Cadillac.

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