This is your first year with the Jets, what has that experience been like so far, up until week 5?
It’s been good man we’re getting better. We are 2-2. We have a lot of upside, but a got a lot of work. A lot of little stuff, a lot of fundamental stuff but it’s been a fun place to play. Metlife is a great place to play; we’ve got great fans here.
The last two weeks, you guys have been getting killed in penalties. What are you guys doing in practice to fix that?
Ah man, when we get a penalty we do like ten pushups. So that’s just our little penalty routine.
Hopefully that will help us out in the future.
Geno has been having a couple of step forwards and a couple step backs through a couple of games, going through the rookie stride. What have you seen out of him and what do you expect out of him in the future?
Geno is going to be a good player, he just has to, and you know he is a rookie, so he has to, eventually take his lumps. He’s not going to just come into the league straight killing. There’s work to be done, and you have to learn how to adjust to the NFL game. He is going do that it’s just that he is a rookie. It takes time, there’s a lot on his plate right now, but that’s the NFL but he’ll get there.
What do you listen to in your headphones on game day? Any specific songs you listen to?
Yeah man, I listen to house. I listen to a lot of house music.
I saw that you DJ. What made you want to get into that?
Uhh, yeah when I was hurt—well I’ve always loved music—when I got hurt in 2004 and 2005, I
didn’t have much to do. My passion was music, so that’s all I did. It just grew on me, so here I am now. I’ve been DJing for nine years; I started off hip hop, transferred over to house like three years in.
I love it and after I‘m done playing I want to produce beats. That’s what I want to do after I’m done.
Do you have a stage name or do you just go by Kellen Winslow?
Nah K2, it will probably be K2 productions or something.
I heard you have a very interesting work out regiment that involves cycling? Can you explain a little about that?
Yeah, I got into cycling about five years ago. I don’t lift weights, I don’t need to lift weights, lifting weights does nothing for me. I have to be able to run and be fast, flexible.
Cycling really helps my legs out and conditioning, getting ready for the season. So, I’ve been doing it for about five years and love it.
I’ve seen that a lot of athletes do that now. I know Lebron James cycles to and from the stadium. I know Metlife is pretty hard to cycle to though.
Yeah, no, I’m sure he cycles and all that. I’m dead serious about it, I do it everyday. This isn’t just to the stadium and back. This is like real, because I have to, because of my knee and all that. So it’s like an hour a day, by myself. Even on my days off I have to cycle or else I don’t feel good.
You were virtually out of football all of last year. What is it like to finally be back on the field and playing?
Yeah, you know it sucked last year because it was out of my control. Seattle basically cut me over money and that’s what it was over. It was out of my control, I was out of the league all last year. I signed with the Patriots for like ten days and decided that it wasn’t the right place for me at the right time. So I walked away from the game and because of what Seattle did to me so late. They basically did me dirty. They didn’t give me a chance to get on another team
early enough. Basically it was hard for me, but I’m back now and I’m doing my thing. Always knew I would be.
Coming back from the injury, you had the problems to your knee. Everyone is getting on Robert Griffin’s case this year and holding him to the standard of Adrian Peterson’s return. How unfair is it to him for people to expect so much, after coming back from knee injuries?
My knee injury was a thousand times worse than theirs. Because I was in my motorcycle accident, I tore all the ligaments, I lost my femur, dislocated my knee cap then got a staph infections on top of that. I didn’t have just an ACL repaired. So mine is uh, I can’t even compare mine to theirs.
It is unfair, I guess, but that’s what the game is like. You either produce or you don’t. And if you don’t, they forget about you. That’s how the game is, so you have to go out and do your job no matter what, no matter who says what.
Back to the cycling thing, was that something you go into your own or was that a part of your rehab and you stuck with it?
Yeah, I just came up with it on my own. I was just watching cycling one day and it just made sense to me. I have this big time knee issue and I can’t run in the off season. So, I saw their legs, I saw the cyclist legs, and I was like damn, it just made sense, like it just dropped in my head. So, I bought a bike the next day. Since I can’t run in the offseason, that’s all I do. Like every single day, like five times a week and I’m still able to play because of that.
Switching over to college football, your Miami Hurricanes are climbing up the rankings. Are you still following them? What do you expect from them?
It’s hard for me; I don’t watch them too much. I don’t watch college football too much anymore. Whenever I get the chance to watch them, if they are on, I watch them. As long as they just listen to Andrew Swayze down there, you know everything will be fine. Andrew Swayze is the strength coach down there; he is why all the old guys come back. If they just listen to him, they will be just fine.
Just recently, Arian Foster came out and said that he took money at Tennessee and that he shouldn’t be ashamed of it. Do you think that athletes should be paid for what they do for their schools?
I think it would be irresponsible, there would have to be a certain amount. I think they should get something, more than what they do get, but not too much more, because it would change the whole game. And that wouldn’t be good for college.
Yeah and then it would become about stealing recruits.
Yeah it would be about money, and that’s not what college is about. I think I use to get like $750 when I was off campus a month and rent was like $500 something so, you know we struggled. They should get some more, if it was double; I think that would be fine. So you have some spending money, so you don’t have to look elsewhere—to boosters, to other stuff. If they doubled it I think that would help.
