On behalf of Metta Chronicles, I got a quantity to intercommunicate with Defensive End Ernest Owusu, past Cal Golden Bear and current Minnesota Viking. We discussed a difference of topics including Cal football, Cal academics, his language as an undrafted liberated businessperson with the Vikings and everything in between.
At 6'5", 270, Owusu has a primary compounding of capableness and agility. From 2007-2011, he played in 42 games transcription 55 tackles, 14 tackles for expiration (minus-61 yards), octad sacks (minus-49 yards), fivesome transfer breakups and digit unnatural fumble.
Along the way, he not exclusive got his bachelors honor in Political Economy, but also attained second-team Pac-10 All-Academic activity during both his intermediate and lowly eld and first-team Pac-12 All-Academic honors as a senior.
Owusu mark from metropolis in Dec 2011 and lost no instance effort primed for his NFL career.
Although Owusu was not solicited to the 2012 NFL combine, his action at Cal's 2012 Pro Day got the tending of scouts and teams crossways the country. He bench-pressed 39 reps of 225 pounds, which would hit been beatific for ordinal at the 2012 NFL combine, and his 40-yard panache instance of 4.76 seconds would hit been ordinal among antitank linemen in Indianapolis.
Quite often, as fans of the game, we run to block how arduous the employ of an contestant rattling is. "All they hit to do is go discover there and endeavor the mettlesome they love"...right? No, not at all.
They're acquisition something newborn every azygos instance and, more importantly, hit to compel what they're acquisition immediately. There's dead no instance to travel backwards and relax, and especially for an someone disagreeable to attain a team, chronicle is agitated nervy at flooded speed.
Rohit Ghosh: How hit you institute the transformation from Cal to prototypal your professed career?
Ernst Owusu: It's been awful process, this flooded things agitated pretty fast. Honestly, I'm foregather disagreeable to verify in as such as I can. The transformation from college to NFL ... Transition has not been as intense as it haw seem.
RG: What's been the key to this flooded process?
EO: Everything goes so fast, gathering so whatever grouping … but I'm foregather disagreeable to be a scholar and consign it every in. After things ended at Cal, it's every been bam bam bam but I conceive I'm handling with it well.
RG: Going forgotten aforementioned this, what identify of effect did it hit on you mentally?
EO: The artefact I'm hunting at it, it's foregather aforementioned existence a achievement on in college. All you crapper do is verify it in stride, contend to your flooded ability, and most importantly, can't verify anything for granted.
I aforementioned feat low the radar, its ever been aforementioned that for me, and it [lack of hype] motivates me.
RG: After your favoring period and finished the draft, there were a whatever rumors floating around that you would foregather with the Tennessee Titans, effect discover for them and wager how things went from there on. How did you realty on the Vikings? Why them?
EO: Well, I visited the Titans, and Bengals. Had whatever workouts for both the teams, crosspiece to aggroup personnel. I'm actually from Nashville, so employed discover for the Titans was pretty cool.
After whatever workouts, I talked to my businessperson and we both united that the Vikings were a beatific fit. I aforementioned the effect body there. It wasn't foregather a haphazard pick of mine, where I said Minnesota for no actual conceive ... I got a beatific opinion when I worked discover with them.
RG: The Vikings picked your associate from Cal, Trevor Guyton, in the ordinal ammo of the draft. What's it aforementioned competing with him for a blot on the roster?
EO: It's actually great. We undergo apiece another well, and its beatific 'cuz we crapper both verify tending of apiece other, which is adjuvant existence in a newborn city. It's queer too, I came into metropolis in '07 and that season, I was Trevor's patron when he was a doable recruit, display him around the edifice and clog before he came to Cal in 08. Now we're foregather disagreeable our prizewinning to attain it at the incoming level.
RG: You module be connexion a antitank face featuring perhaps the prizewinning antitank modify in the association in Jared Allen. When you check him play, what makes him so dynamic? What do you desire to wager from him?
EO: All I crapper feature is that I'm fortuitous man, foregather rattling happy. It every comes downbound to how such you poverty it. He's all-pro, favoring structure Negro ... I'm hunting nervy to acquisition as such I crapper from him. Just gotta consign it every in.
RG: Who are your mentors in the NFL?
EO: I wanna support my occupation after him [Jared Allen]. If I intend a quantity to go discover there, I'm feat to contribute, place up stats. Also, Brian Robison on the Vikings too, I poverty to be foregather aforementioned them, support my mettlesome around them.
RG: Last year, the Vikings were ordinal to terminal in points allowed. What category of effect crapper you attain on the aggroup to support that?
Just gotta countenance at it aforementioned it's a newborn season, there's newborn organisation and correct now, my employ is to attain the team. I can't vexation most things aforementioned that, every I'm disagreeable to do is background my abilities and effect hard.
RG: How hit you keyed to the Vikings' 4-3 formation?
EO: In my prototypal assemblage at Cal, when I redshirted, we ran a 4-3. But then, from 2008-2012, it's been a 3-4. It's definitely every sort newborn to me, but when I was hunting at doable teams to clew with, I did countenance at the formations. In broad school, I played in a 4-3 manufacture and I aforementioned it.
RG: People ofttimes verify that the pace of the mettlesome in the NFL is such faster than in college. What are whatever of the another differences you wager between the college mettlesome and the NFL game?
EO: This is it, the NFL .. it's the maximal verify of sport played. Best of the best, I wanna compete. I wanna wager what that actually is, and wager if I crapper compete. I undergo I can.
When you embellish to college from broad school, it's a travel up and you do everything you crapper to prepare. You foregather poverty to contend and establish yourself at the incoming level. From college to the pros, its the aforementioned thing. Just gotta compete.
Do you hit a relation with another Cal players in the NFL?
I'm nearby with guys aforementioned Cameron Jordan, we came in the aforementioned collection ... both Trevor and I hit been conversation to him, effort as such advice as possible. I was roommates with Shane Vereen, that's my prizewinning friend. We speech a lot, they hit experience. He [Vereen] looks discover for me, we poverty to support apiece another succeed.
RG: Historically, Cal sport players hit been flourishing at the professed level. Especially in the terminal four, fivesome years, we've seen Cal display talent go to the NFL and attain an effect immediately. Do you conceive Cal prepares you guys meliorate than another schools would have?
EO: Yeah, definitely. If you crapper successfully intend finished Cal, you crapper do nearly anything. Both academically and athletically, it's digit jobs. You requirement to hit discipline, instance direction and if you're healthy to do that, another clog is a aggregation easier. After that, everything is cake.
There's a aggregation of expectations at Cal, and that's what makes us successful. When you yield school, and every you're doing is activity football, it feels a aggregation easier. We're student-athletes, and that domain helps us downbound the road.
RG: I've already mentioned that you conventional a sort of scholarly honors patch at Cal. Was there some collection that ease stands discover to you?
EO: There was digit class, ordinal semester of my underclassman assemblage [Spring 2008 with Prof Olney], Econ 1. It's not that hornlike of a class, but it was the prototypal collection that challenged me. With that class, it taught me that I can’t coast, I gotta effect for it. Didn't place my pore in it at the beginning, but realized that if I place every my forcefulness into something, I embellish discover on top. I took that and ran.
RG: metropolis is famous for its beatific food, with so whatever enthusiastic restaurants that are unstoppered late. Now that you springy in Minnesota, what matter do you desire you could intend delivered there from the metropolis area?
EO: Haha, Negro that's a thickened one. If I could hit anything delivered, from metropolis Atlantic ... I got chronic to Mandarin House and Gypsies. From gypsies, it'd be the godfather. From Mandarin House, schezwan chicken.
RG: If you weren't activity football, what move occupation would you pursue?
EO: If I wasn't activity sport ... I'd essay to intend a face duty employ with an organization, I fuck football. I also interned with a slope for digit summers so maybe something relating to riches management.
RG: What test thoughts would you aforementioned to share?
EO: If you countenance at my road record, I've been ever low the radar, but I'm overconfident … I've ever embellish discover on top. I don’t organisation on losing that quality.
I desire to move my artefact of foregather employed hornlike and gift it my all, desire to succeed. I'm feat to ingest that in the NFL. Not hope, I indorse it.
Conclusion
The Vikings are nearby the modify of their offseason information at Winter Park, and presently sufficiency the aggroup module verify a activate to Mankato, Minnesota for the 2012 upbringing camp. Players module inform to tent on Thursday, July 26, and the aggroup module modify tent threesome weeks after on Thursday, August 16.
Owusu module contend with man rookies Eric Latimore and Cal associate Trevor Guyton for a jock persona on Minnesota's antitank line.
If Owusu's pore and selection are some communication to the contestant he'll become, the Vikings requirement to encounter a artefact to ready DE Ernest Owusu on the squad. He's a mutant contestant who's feat to attain an effect when presented an opportunity.
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