Charleston Rambo WR XFL Orlando Guardians Discusses Game 4 vs Roughnecks "Wants the Ball More"!!!

So hey, thanks for joining this afternoon. I want to before I get going, like I know your first name is Charleston, but do you prefer to be called by Charleston or like how do you want people to refer to you, bud? Yeah, you know, Charleston's my name. It don't matter. Charleston, Rambo, ball out Charlie, Big Rambo. Anytime, you know, Rambezo. It's there. I'm a polite guy. So I'll take anything. Fair enough. With that in mind, like Andy, anyway, we'll make sure I ask because we can all have a learning experience. It's like where did the name Charleston come from? I mean, I asked my mom that so nothing new unique, but my dad name is Charles. So she added on Charleston. I think somebody she know or heard where their middle name was Charleston or something. She liked it. So she named me that and I gave me a unique middle name as well. So yeah. Fair enough. So we got the introductories out the way. I mean good to see you on the call that you're one of the few players. I got to meet in person before a call. So there you go. But with all that in mind Charleston, it's it's appropriate. You're named after a dance this past week. You have the longest catch in franchise history. That's a little bit of dancing there. I know you would have preferred to have it in a wind but kind of tell me what you saw in that play and what it feels like to have that. Hey right now. I have the longest play in franchise history at the moment. Yeah, I mean, you know, it feels great getting the hands on finally, you know, my first and many but just on that play, you know, I had we had a post call and you know, obviously the defense won't be on in coverage of either cover one or cover four and I know Cody had his route to grab the safety side, you know, other than that and you just use my speed run a great route against the one-on-one DB and you know, from there, you know, great ball from six and appreciate him throwing it out there for me and you know, it is great play call, you know, so we executed great. Yeah, that was that was a great play. Congratulations on that Charleston always a pleasure. And one of the things that really impressed me besides that big play was the fact that you bounce back mentally from the miscue and came back and played really really strong. Maybe you can tell people what do you do mentally to help out the team? Oh, you lost me. I used to go into anything off you like that, but you know, just leaving in the past and he's going right to next play and it's big in the moment, you know, you can't fix the past but you always fix it present, you know, so I mean going up keep my head up. You know, I've had guys, you know, you good around, you know, so I mean, you know, it's a ball play, you know, everybody not perfect but you know at the same time we try to be close to the perfect as possible. So I mean just keeping your head up and just knowing you can do much more than what it does. Yeah, and I think this team has a lot more positive energy and spirit to level and I believe that it's still not over. Can you talk about what this team needs to do at this point to go ahead and right the ship and make it to that playoffs? I mean, you know, it's a lot we can say we can be done. You know, we are on board. So obviously we've been at practicing just going about things of, you know, what we've done in the past we need to change and we need to do better and what we put on tape or what we've done to even put us in that predicament being on board, but you know as offensive guy, you know, you know what I'm gonna say. I need the ball, you know, obviously touch on it more give the offense more than what we've been doing contribute more and you know, obviously get to ripping out these defensive guys, whatever they got going. So I mean, all I can say is we need to execute on this off of the side and just be us because we had a guys we got the Intel, you know, so you go out there on Saturday Sunday when we do play and just keep going, you know, so I mean nothing else but execute our plays and just keep going. Charleston talk a little bit about the XFL opportunity and what it's meant to you. I mean, it means a lot, you know, I thank God for this. I love football, you know, it's a great opportunity for everybody that's on the same field as me and you know, I'm just blessed to be here. I appreciate everybody that brought me here. You know, it's just a lot I can say but you know, I thank God for all that has been done and you know this opportunity I would not have passed up anything, you know, so I love football, you know, I'm here for I'm here for it. So I mean, you know, you got me here. So let's ball out at Charleston. Jeff Barnes team of BS media. This was your breakout week this season four weeks. We've had four different receivers have a kind of breakout week. What are you going to do to continue this momentum that you have going for you right now? I mean, all I can say is I'm going to try to touch the end zone every chance I get so, you know, every game trying to touch the end zone. Hey Charleston. We lost the audio there for a second. I don't know. You can you can you try talking again? It looks like you're locked up. Yeah, I didn't know if he was waiting for a question or free froze. No, I think he froze. See if we can get him to try to maybe sign back in. Fair enough. Yeah. There we go. It was connected to my air pod. My bad. All good. Let's let's you want to revisit that question because we didn't get much of the answer. Okay. Do you need to repeat the question? You can. All right. Basically just saying so far every week has been a different receiver that's come up production. You've had the big production this week. How do you plan on continuing that production going forward? Getting open for my quarterback, you know, give him a greater look to, you know, passing lane and get the ball to me and just make plays for this team, you know, not much to be said, but make plays and obviously I need all I need all the plays I can get and deep balls. I'm waiting for him. You know, I'm here for my quarterback short balls as well, but you know, I run by anybody on defense. So, I mean, that would be a plus for our team and I mean, just give me more involved as well and just all of us execute all our plays and come to it, you know, so I mean nothing else, but you know, put it all online and get these W's. Charleston, you're a guy that's been there on the roster basically for at least all the games and further beyond. I'm sure, but there's some other guys too that have come in lately, you know, the Jalen Smiths and now Quentin Flowers, another element to kind of two questions, a two-parter with this one. First of all, like Jalen Smith as an example, somebody who came in new, immediately making an impact, got a touchdown in his first home game, second game playing when he wasn't on the roster in a week and a half. What is it about this team? And certainly you'd be a part of that as a guy who's been there, you know, for the entirety of the season. What's kind of there in the environment, if you will, that kind of helps guys come in and pick up and get up to speed immediately? Yeah, like I said, you know, we got ballplayers on this team. So, I mean, you coming in here, you seeing guys on next to you, you know, okay, they just ready to make a play. So, I mean, I'm sure you fit right in, make a play right as well. So, you know, when opportunity come, execute, you know, you can stand out. But for sure, that's a plus having Jalen in and all the other tight ends as well. So, yeah, I would just say, just being prepared, you know, our meetings that we go through and just having guys, older guys on our team. I'm not sure how old Jalen is, but having older guys talking through different concepts, you know, you'll learn quick. And with that in mind, you know, coach has said to us and he's probably said the same thing to you guys that he's not shy about making changes, moving things around. From your perspective as a receiver, what kind of challenges that providing for you in practice or how have you kind of adjusted to having a lot of movement around there, especially at the quarterback position? Yeah, you've got a new guy that might be coming in this week, right? Yeah, I mean, you know, even in college, you know, I was at Oklahoma. So I'm used to having a new quarterback almost every year, if not every week. So, I mean, any guy that can throw the ball to, you know, just get it out there to let our receivers make plays. I'm the same guy every down. So I'm going to give whoever at quarterback a great look, you know, so I'm not out here just doing it for fun either. So, I mean, we can get action going, but I'm glad with whoever that quarterback throwing the ball. So far, you guys, you know, it's 0-4. You've shown signs of improvement, but it just hasn't seemed to be enough to get that first W. How are you guys rallying around each other? Because coaches only can push you guys so much. It's got to still come from the locker room itself. How are you guys rallying around each other to try and make sure that next game, when if things don't go well early, that you don't fall into that, oh, it's all happening to us again. Yeah, just just having in our mind that we're not going to do that, you know, having in our mind that we don't go out here and make our play, you know, having in our mind that we won't be on the bus side, on this flight side. So, I mean, you know, we're not even thinking about losing, you know, so I mean, we still going up regardless and just focus on the little things and to better ourselves from our previous weeks, you know, just be overcome everything, you know, we've done. So, I mean, we just got to show it. So, I mean, not too much to be said, but that. Yeah, that's that's really remarkable that you can adjust on a fly to different quarterbacks because even Jerry Rice said when he went from Joe Montana to Steve Young, it was kind of difficult for him. But yourself, how does that make that transition easier for you, for you to go to different looks of quarterbacks? I mean, you know, just being the same guy, you know, running out the ball the same speed, you know, not running any lazy routes, you know, just give my QB the perfect look to throw the ball that way. So, I mean, just having in your mind, that's the first thing, then going out there to do it. So, yeah, that's about it. Couple more if you got them guys. Do you want them to go deep to you more often in this, you know, this next game or for the rest of the season? I mean, I really don't care who touched the ball. I'm me in the mix going deep is a plus. Obviously, I can't be stopped, not just talking either. I can't be guarded, but I mean, going deep is one of my positives. I can say. Also, I run routes, so I run the whole route tree. So either way, I just like the ball being thrown in the air. So, I mean, if the running back is running deep down the field, I love it. I say that by my God, every time they run routes, I'm on the field just, you know, we all just all come together, you know, so I mean, it's going to show on tape. We're going to show it on Saturday. You know, Charleston, you say a lot of the stuff I expect receivers to say the city, you know, so that's definitely that's definitely something refreshing to hear some swag from a receiver. But is do what is it about this week against Vegas that makes you feel like, hey, this is the week we get the dub, you know, we just we tired of stuff, you know on for mean obviously a lot of guys haven't been this is on a record like this ever on a team. I'm sure you know, but it's professional. So, you know, things are different and you know, we didn't take it day by day to get to that day. But you know this week is just different because we both two teams that we both looking for a W. It's hard hard to get W. I can say it's easy, but you know, everybody out there going there for this, but somebody got to win, you know, that's going to be us, but we just got to go out there and do it, you know, but we definitely are treating as we did from all the other weeks. So I mean, yeah. So we saw Houston throw out the double pass last week, Charleston. How's the throwing arm? What's a potentially might dot and toss one for a touchdown this week. Oh, yeah, you know, it's there. I mean, I got that arm. I felt the ball, you know, obviously, I thought kids would throw it back or something. But I mean, I played quarterback when I was younger. I ain't tripping on throwing it. So yeah, I'm good at doing this. I mean my OC they all know. So I mean it's whatever.