It was almost 16 years ago that Brown was part of the iconic backfield that led Auburn to a record and the SEC championship in He was technically a fullback, though he was a tailback at heart and often in reality. He and fellow running back Cadillac Williams, along with quarterback Jason Campbell, were a load too heavy for college defenses. In the spring of , the Miami Dolphins made Brown the No. Williams went No. Brown went on to play 10 years in the NFL.
On Aug. Williams was inducted in Today, Brown is a certified financial advisor living in Atlanta with his wife, Taylor, his 4-year-old daughter, Reagan, and his 7-year-old son, Rhys. He met obstacles along the way, but overcame them all.
Brown had options after starring and baseball at Cartersville High School. He was considered by some scouts a better prospect in baseball prospect than football. Baseball had been his first love, but he saw football as his future. As signing day neared in , he had made up his mind to sign with Tennessee. Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville convinced him to take another look, and on signing day, Brown signed with Auburn.
Brown had been stronger and faster than most he encountered in high school. If we could win that game, that could begin the process of starting something good. We went in with the mentality of let's just start with this weekend and go up there and handle business. They did a really good job of running the ball in that offense. I didn't think about utilizing it the NFL. When Coach Lee came in and brought up the idea, I thought it was pretty cool. We just felt like this was the opportunity for it with getting Ricky Williams, myself, Patrick Cobbs, Lousaka Polite and Lex Hilliard on the field at the same time.
It was great of them to trust us to be able to do that on this level. We were sitting in a meeting when he introduced the formation and told us he's got this idea to get us all on the field at the same time and take some pressure off of being able to sit back and run the ball and let defenses stack the box.
I pretty much volunteered to play the quarterback role. Honestly, I had never played quarterback at any level besides Pop Warner where all I had to do was to get the snap and then just take off running with a speed sweep.
So to be able to do it playing quarterback in the NFL was something that I thought that was pretty cool. The offense did not work in practice that week. I think it was intentional because the coaches wanted to make sure that they put us in the toughest position possible to be able to run it in case we encountered anything from the defense. They were trying to come up with all the scenarios that we could see on Sunday. Our defense was really giving us a tough time because they felt like it was this little formation that wasn't going to work.
So when we encountered a certain look in the game and it was a different situation, we were ready no matter how they tried to defend it. On that Sunday in New England we came out with a traditional offense. When we switched to the Wildcat, my initial thought when we got in the huddle and the play was called was not to mess this up.
We were just trying to hold on to the visit, much less get him to sign. Williams was committed to Tennessee, but always kept Alabama and Auburn in his top three schools. Eddie is a great recruiter, good coach, and built a good relationship with him.
We flew up to where Carnell was at, and I took every coach. I think with all of the attention that we gave him and his Mom, that we earned that visit that weekend.
They all came, and, fortunately, he flipped and came to our place. On Feb. Brown was the No. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. From Miami to Philly……. Definition of jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Maybe he should have made a better decision with the ball.
Total posers. In order to outthink yourself, you first need to be able to think. Sorry Eagles fans but this is funny. I wish I would have seen this. Thanks Ronnie, your the best!!! Soooo Funny!! The Eagles always make me feel better about my team. There was thinking involved? Of course Brown should have just eaten the ball, but the issue goes way deeper than that. The mistake he made was thinking at all.
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