Charles Tillman shares origin of the 'Peanut Punch'

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00:00So, so did you have to like, you know, measure the value of trying to get that done and please

00:05your coach and also make sure you wrap somebody up and tackle them so they don't get by you?

00:09Like that's a tricky balance sometimes. It is. The one thing I used to do in college is I would,

00:16I would purposely take bad angles in college and man, I wish I could talk to some of my old

00:22teammates. I think Ricky Cali was one of them. He was a linebacker and he would, you know,

00:26he missed a tackle and he's like, I don't worry, peanut going to get them. And they would,

00:29they would see me purposely take bad angles so I could sneak up behind the guy to kill him,

00:36tackle and I'd punch it out. Clearly you can't do that in the NFL because everybody's fast.

00:42So I just figured out, well, I can't curse. Well, I'm going to curse. I just kind of, I did not,

00:50I was going to say the SH word, but I just kind of assisted was like, well, damn,

00:54I can say damn, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. I just said, well, damn, I got to figure out a way

01:00to punch it out and make the tag at the same time. So my first game we played San Francisco

01:07old candlestick and it was a special teams play. I was a gunner. I was a dope gunner too.

01:13So running down the field and I don't know who the return man was, but yeah, I just punched it

01:21out. First one, you know, he had that thing like a, like a loaf of bread and I just punched it out

01:27and I was just like, Oh yeah, I could do this in this league. And I just start, I start punching.