Officer Brandon Tatum on The Oakland Raiders Passing on Him | The Deal w/ Nissim Black

[Music] okay so so my next question is so you're you're playing football in in arizona uh with the hopes to be drafted right you finish over there arizona you're ready to go to the nfl and things don't work out so you join the police force in tucson you know if i'm wrong at any point stop me and you went after that to go work at liftable media and since then you've had many wonderful things happen in your career that you've actually accomplished yourself right there was no system you went out there made a name for yourself but the question is because i played ball also too and i always had always had my you know my football dreams i had my music dreams my everything the question is after not going to the nfl did you feel like a failure and if yes or no how did you overcome well yeah right away i felt like a failure i was mad at god it was it was a terrible situation for me and it was a terrible situation for six years before that because when i came out of high school i was an all-american football player i was a top player in in the nation i ran a 4-3 and a 40. i had a 44-inch vertical lead i mean when i was a freshman in college my first year before i ever touched the football field i mean i've been bench pressed 18 times i squatted 500 some pounds i was an incredible incredible athlete and this is all verifiable you can do people can look it up um they wrote an article about me but i was an incredible athlete so you got to think being the man in high school having scholarships to almost every university in the country and then going to college in my career dying that's what that's what that's how i found god because my freshman sophomore year man i was on the bench dude and it was it was horrible it was it was a nightmare man i mean i could i could spend an hour talking about how horrible it was like being humble to sit on a bench while everybody's playing and you know you wanted the best players on the team but because of my attitude and some and some things that i didn't get along with the coaches i was in that position so but at the end of my career five years of me sitting through it i mean just sucking it up man not playing still working hard every day never taking a day off and for me to be in the nfl draft with no film because i was such an incredible athlete that i i was going to be in a draft my agent said the oakland raiders were going to draft me they told my agent they were going to draft me in the 6th or 7th round as the only safety in the draft draft day come it was on my birthday and my whole family was there and they passed on me it was it was not only embarrassing in front of my family but dude it was a hit to the gut because i just knew god was going to rescue me from all of that pain and all the things that i had prayed about and he didn't and i was mad i mean i remember ripping my shirt open and being like you know what god you you you let me down you know but then i came to my senses like we all do you know like hey just take a step back you know god is sovereign over everything and creating the heavens and the earth how dare you worry about football and so i the way i overcame it just continued my faith and said you know what god is going to take care of me god has sent some people in my life to mentor me at this time which was incredible a guy who was a multi-millionaire who gave me great perspective on football pretty much saying that like dude don't don't that's not the end-all be-all this is a sport they don't make that much money compared um it's only the big dudes that make money like that so if you think in the money money money he was like look i'm a ceo of this major corporation and i make more than the nfl players do for the rest of my life so and 80 of them go bankrupt so he kind of put it in perspective and i said you know what i still need to continue at the time i had my my fiance was pregnant with my son which i don't recommend any young man do you get married first but anyway you know and then i said i got to get a job and that's what led me to the police department right [Music]