Speaker 1: Welcome into a very special next man up Commander's family,
Speaker 1: because we've got a future Hall of Famer in the building.
Speaker 1: Decide to take his talents to the Burgundy and Cold
Speaker 1: currently leads the NFL in sacks for current players, The
Speaker 1: Big Dog Von Miller Welcome.
Speaker 2: Brother, I appreciation, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to have you.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: You just put pen to paper. How does it feel
Speaker 1: to be a Commander?
Speaker 2: It feels good. You know, I've been in the league.
Speaker 3: What's going on my fifteenth year, so you know a
Speaker 3: little bit about every team. This team is a really
Speaker 3: good team. Janey Daniels is a really good quarterback. Young quarterback,
Speaker 3: but he's really really good man. And I've been blessed
Speaker 3: to play with some good ones from Peyton Manning and
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford to Josh Allen. You know, you just can't
Speaker 3: leave those guys and go to anybody. So I think
Speaker 3: Jaden Daniels is going to be on the list with
Speaker 3: those same guys in the future.
Speaker 1: And we know a guy like Jaden Daniels would make
Speaker 1: anybody want to play here. Right But in year fifteen,
Speaker 1: when you've done it all, when you have that future
Speaker 1: Hall of fame career. What makes you say I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take my talents to Virginia, to the d m V
Speaker 1: and play for the Commanders.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, it all started with the potential
Speaker 3: of this team.
Speaker 2: You know, I had felt.
Speaker 3: Like I had known Dan Quinn for a long time
Speaker 3: and I had just met him, like, you know, a
Speaker 3: month and a half ago.
Speaker 2: But I had felt like I haven't known them.
Speaker 3: All the guys that have played for them, they rave
Speaker 3: about them, they love them. And when I was presenting
Speaker 3: with the opportunity to come here, I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't resist, man.
Speaker 3: And you know, this team has a lot of potential,
Speaker 3: and I just wanted to add to that.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to be a part of the culture.
Speaker 3: I'm a team guy, you know, I don't like to
Speaker 3: too my own horn, but when it comes to being
Speaker 3: one of the guys, like I'm I'm the.
Speaker 2: Best at it.
Speaker 3: I'm the best at blending in, I'm the best at
Speaker 3: getting the guys together, vibing with the guys, bringing the
Speaker 3: locker room together, like, I'm the best at that.
Speaker 2: It ain't nobody around the league that do that better
Speaker 2: than me.
Speaker 3: And you know, I've heard about this team and the
Speaker 3: type of culture they have, and I wanted to ask
Speaker 3: you that I.
Speaker 1: Love that confidence.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Even just saying that just now, it sounds I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm.
Speaker 2: Talking to Joe with Junior guy.
Speaker 1: Now, Joe June has only been the deeps of coordinator
Speaker 1: for one season, However, I think he's well known around
Speaker 1: this league. Man, how do you see yourself fitting in
Speaker 1: what's already working here in that Joe with Junior system.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm here to your sex.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm here to add to the past rush.
Speaker 3: I'm you know, and I'm here to do whatever it
Speaker 3: takes to win the game. You know, whatever it takes
Speaker 3: to win. You know, if that's uh blitzing him, that's
Speaker 3: playing and run, if that's sacking the quarterback, I'm here
Speaker 3: to do it. Been in the league fifteen years and
Speaker 3: it's nothing better than a locker room after a big win.
Speaker 3: And that's that's why I'm here. I'm here to you know,
Speaker 3: the vibe in the locker room and celebrating the locker
Speaker 3: room after big wins. You know, all wins are great,
Speaker 3: but the big ones, you know, the big ones in December,
Speaker 3: January and February, you know, That's why I'm.
Speaker 1: Here, and I heard you're going to be rocking the
Speaker 1: number of twenty four?
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 1: What goes into that? Because I think you would posted
Speaker 1: something showing Champ Bailey in that twenty four and ex
Speaker 1: Washington player, man, what made you decide to do twenty four?
Speaker 3: Fifty eight was gone, forty was gone, okay, all right,
Speaker 3: and then five five is obviously gone.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: But those are the only numbers that I've wore, you know,
Speaker 3: throughout my whole football career.
Speaker 2: I wore twenty for one time in college. One of my.
Speaker 3: The Sodo alumni, he had got injured in practice and
Speaker 3: he was paralyzed from you know, neck down, and his
Speaker 3: number was twenty four and I wore for one game,
Speaker 3: you know, and support of him, Corey Burner.
Speaker 2: In college, it was my I want to say, it
Speaker 2: was my.
Speaker 3: Junior year. It was my junior year in college, and
Speaker 3: uh and I wore twenty four. And in the game
Speaker 3: versus Arkansas, it takes a stadium, and you know, it
Speaker 3: just spoke to me too. I'm a huge Kobe fan
Speaker 3: as well, and it just that number just spoke to me,
Speaker 3: you know, And they they told me about you know,
Speaker 3: fifty eight being gone, forty was gone, so twenty four
Speaker 3: was just it was just next, and it just kind
Speaker 3: of spoke to me. And you know, obviously I'm I
Speaker 3: played with Champ Bailey. He was fan of Champ Bailey,
Speaker 3: and you know when he was here, he was twenty
Speaker 3: four too, So you know, it was a lot of
Speaker 3: things that kind of just tapped me to that number.
Speaker 2: And you know that's the number, not more world when
Speaker 2: I get here.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a great decision. Sound like a lots tied
Speaker 1: into that decision. Now when we speak of decisions, right,
Speaker 1: and we look at what you've already done, we look
Speaker 1: at that resume of things you're ready to COMPLI you
Speaker 1: said going in a year fifteen. I've sat here, was
Speaker 1: zat Ertz. I've sat here with Bobby Wagner, two guys
Speaker 1: that have also done enough to be considered into that
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, to be sitting for that gold jacket.
Speaker 1: And I had to ask them the same thing, Why
Speaker 1: why keep going? What is von Miller's Why you've accomplished
Speaker 1: so much already?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What drives you now, man? Just the opportunity to you know,
Speaker 3: win another Super Bowl. You know, I wrote, remember your
Speaker 3: why on my mirror. I think it was.
Speaker 2: I think it was like February. It had to be.
Speaker 2: I think it had to be.
Speaker 3: Like February sixteen, twenty twenty five, at the beginning of
Speaker 3: this year, you know, just a little affirmation on my
Speaker 3: mirror so I could look at it every day. And
Speaker 3: you know why I do it, Man, I got too
Speaker 3: young boys. You know, my oldest he would be four
Speaker 3: next month, August sixteenth, and my youngest he'd be three
Speaker 3: February seven. And you know, when they I want them
Speaker 3: to be able to remember me. I want them to
Speaker 3: be able to see me play. And I don't want
Speaker 3: to just be on YouTube. If that's what it is.
Speaker 3: If that's what it is, if that's what I got
Speaker 3: to do, like hey, go to YouTube, what's daddy, then
Speaker 3: that's what I gotta do. But I want them to remember.
Speaker 3: I want them to remember me playing. I want them
Speaker 3: to remember me making great plays. I want them to
Speaker 3: remember the guys that you know, that I hung around
Speaker 3: and that I played with. And you know, dan Quinn
Speaker 3: has a really tight knit culture here with the family
Speaker 3: and having the kids and everybody here, and I wanted.
Speaker 2: To be a part of that.
Speaker 3: Son Otherwise obviously. You know I want to get I
Speaker 3: want to get as many sacks as possible, you know,
Speaker 3: try to break into that top ten. I got one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty nine and a half sacks. I think
Speaker 3: top ten will put me in if I can get.
Speaker 1: To you know how many more you need for top
Speaker 1: ten and get eight more, get you in that top ten.
Speaker 1: Three more will make you pass Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So a lot of greats, a lot of great right
Speaker 3: there in a list like Grace that I looked up to,
Speaker 3: and just to be able to, you know, past those guys.
Speaker 3: You know, you play long enough, you get enough sacks,
Speaker 3: you have an opportunity to do it. And I'm just
Speaker 3: taking advantage of my opportunity that was presented to me. Man,
Speaker 3: It's nice that I sat in my hotel room and pray,
Speaker 3: let me go out there and play well tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Let me go out there and win the game. Want
Speaker 2: to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Let me play well enough so I can get a
Speaker 3: college scholarship. You know, these are all prayers that I
Speaker 3: had when I was younger, going you know, through this
Speaker 3: process in my career, and I just don't want to
Speaker 3: just get out of way, you know, Obviously you don't
Speaker 3: want to get kicked out of the league, but you
Speaker 3: don't want to leave too early. And I still think
Speaker 3: I'm in a I still think I'm in a sweet
Speaker 3: spot and I can still play, and you know, it's
Speaker 3: a great opportunity to come play for a contender.
Speaker 2: So here I am Vaughn.
Speaker 1: I don't think nobody kicking you out of anywhere, man,
Speaker 1: But it's crazy to hear somebody that has a Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: like I said, has those accolades, and you talk about
Speaker 1: you still needed to write an affirmation for yourself. You
Speaker 1: still need to remind yourself about your greatness. There's a
Speaker 1: humbleness in that. What do you get from those moments
Speaker 1: where you take a step back and say, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna write these things down because there's still goes to accomplish.
Speaker 1: There's still ways I need to be locked in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's power and just writing
Speaker 3: it out it's power and saying negative stuff too. I
Speaker 3: always try to stay away from all of that. I'm
Speaker 3: super sensitive to that, and I think that's why my
Speaker 3: teammates that I played with they respect me for that.
Speaker 3: I'm super sensitive to that. I feel that, but also
Speaker 3: I'm trying to be the most optimistic person that I
Speaker 3: possibly can be. And obviously just because you optimistic don't
Speaker 3: mean you know positive stuff is gonna happen. But if
Speaker 3: you're a negative, negative stuff is gonna happen one hundred
Speaker 3: percent of the time. So for me, I just try
Speaker 3: to stay present, try to control what I control, and
Speaker 3: just try to stay positive and just take it one
Speaker 3: day at a time.
Speaker 2: And you know, here we are.
Speaker 1: Man, that awareness of your mentality and your emotions is
Speaker 1: so valuable. Man. And then you enter a linebacker room
Speaker 1: with another future Hall of Famer in Bobby Wagner and
Speaker 1: a god really trying to get it right now in
Speaker 1: Frankie Louvu. Man, how excited are you to be able
Speaker 1: to play along? So I got that? And what do
Speaker 1: you think you bring to add to what's already working there?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: I'm I'm like I said, I'm a team guy, man,
Speaker 3: And and I know ball, uh no ball, You know,
Speaker 3: every team has different terminology and different language of course
Speaker 3: that you got to learn. But when it comes to
Speaker 3: to ball, I got a pH d in it. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter it's offense, defense, special teams, you know, I
Speaker 3: just knowing we got some great guys here, we got
Speaker 3: some real dogs here, those two guys, it was a
Speaker 3: huge part of the reason why I decided to come here,
Speaker 3: along with Jaden Daniels and you know, Dran Payne and
Speaker 3: you know all of these guys.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: So you play long enough in the football league, in
Speaker 3: the National Football League, you know a little bit about
Speaker 3: every team, and there's a lot to be known about
Speaker 3: this team.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: They're they're right there on the edge. Got a lot
Speaker 3: of talent, and I just want to, you know, supplement that.
Speaker 3: I just want to you know, add to that, you know,
Speaker 3: have opportunity to be the first player to win three
Speaker 3: Super Bowls or three different teams. That's that's enough to
Speaker 3: get you motivated as well. And then selfishly, you know,
Speaker 3: I just want to see if if I'm if I'm
Speaker 3: the magic that did it, you know, if I'm the
Speaker 3: magic that that can that can make it happen.
Speaker 2: You know, if do I have the stuff to.
Speaker 3: Improve the team? Am I really the team got it?
Speaker 3: I think I am. These are all challenges that you
Speaker 3: know that I faced every single day that I'm excited
Speaker 3: to face. And yeah, I'm excited to get in here
Speaker 3: with these guys, and you know, help with the mentality,
Speaker 3: help with the.
Speaker 2: Mindset, help with the culture.
Speaker 3: Obviously, get sacks on the football field, and just and
Speaker 3: just supplement to already is what it is to supplement
Speaker 3: to a great team that's that's already being built.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned those accolades that list being in that
Speaker 1: top ten and what that would mean for you as
Speaker 1: far as sacks go. Can you put that into words?
Speaker 2: What do it mean?
Speaker 1: Because I know a god like LT, somebody you looked
Speaker 1: up to, somebody that you dreamed of being able to be, Well,
Speaker 1: you have a good chance of surpassing that. Just three
Speaker 1: sacks away, six sacks last year. We got to imagine
Speaker 1: we're gonna see a lot of sacks this year. Man,
Speaker 1: What is that going to mean to you? To be
Speaker 1: able to pass those guys that were your idols and
Speaker 1: now we're your pis.
Speaker 2: Man. I just get goosebumps thinking about it, like you know,
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 3: Kid thinking about playing football as a little kid and
Speaker 3: having a dream of playing in the National Football League
Speaker 3: And here we are going to year fifteen. I just
Speaker 3: need three sacks to you know, pass LT and a
Speaker 3: SAX to be in the top team, like it's a
Speaker 3: it's a blessing man, and I'm I'm humbled by it.
Speaker 3: And at the same time, I just want to take
Speaker 3: advantage of my opportunity. I want to be present and
Speaker 3: just really control everything that I control and see how
Speaker 3: far I can really push and see how far I
Speaker 3: can really take it.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't like to be an autopilot.
Speaker 3: I like to come to work with a purpose and
Speaker 3: the intention, you know, each and every day that I
Speaker 3: come here, and you know, I got a great opportunity
Speaker 3: to really add to all of that stuff, and I
Speaker 3: just want to be present and take advantage of everything
Speaker 3: that I possibly can to get as much as I
Speaker 3: possibly can, but not to be greedy or anything like that,
Speaker 3: but just to take advantage of this opportunity that God
Speaker 3: has blessed me with.
Speaker 2: Hey man, that God is good any yes, sir, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: all the time. He is good.
Speaker 1: And Vaughan, we talk about this manifesting, you know, writing
Speaker 1: things down, putting positivity in the atmosphere. I'm one of
Speaker 1: those guys too. What's the expectation for von Miller going
Speaker 1: into year fifteen. Yes, you had six sacs last year,
Speaker 1: but I know for somebody like you that might not
Speaker 1: be enough. What is the expectation going into this year?
Speaker 3: You know, it's uh, you know, expectation is crazy because
Speaker 3: you know, we all have great expectations. We all we
Speaker 3: all want like you know, we all want to be
Speaker 3: like the best, and we all want to you know,
Speaker 3: be billionaires, and we all want you know, you know,
Speaker 3: it's just that's how the human heart is and the
Speaker 3: human mind is. I just want to take advantage of
Speaker 3: my opportunity. You know, we have a unique opportunity in
Speaker 3: tim me especially. You know, I'm thirty six, I'll be
Speaker 3: thirty seven in March. I can still play. I guess,
Speaker 3: a unique opportunity and the timing is right, and I
Speaker 3: just want to take advantage of that. That's that's all
Speaker 3: it really is for me. I want to take advantage
Speaker 3: of everything that's presented with me. Nothing in life happens
Speaker 3: by coincidence. You know, I'm here by I'm here for
Speaker 3: a reason.
Speaker 2: I'm here.
Speaker 3: It's a purpose and intention behind it, and I just
Speaker 3: want to take advantage of that, whatever that may be.
Speaker 2: You know, we're still trying to figure it out. You know.
Speaker 3: If that's going out there and getting twenty sacks, cool,
Speaker 3: I take it. You know, if it's another six sacks,
Speaker 3: I take it.
Speaker 2: You know. Whatever God presents to me, you know, I
Speaker 2: take it.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, I'm gonna control everything that
Speaker 3: I possibly can controla I'm gonna go out there and
Speaker 3: practice and play and work to you know, be.
Speaker 2: Up there with the top guys.
Speaker 3: Whatever is presented to me, though, I take it, and
Speaker 3: I'm humbled by that, and I'm appreciative and grateful.
Speaker 2: For whatever it is, I'll be able to receive.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard the saying, but one thing,
Speaker 1: dan Quinn loves dog gas competitors and vol Let me
Speaker 1: tell you. Sitting here for just these few minutes, man,
Speaker 1: I could tell you a dog gas competitor, and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what you do. Congratulations on all
Speaker 1: the success so far. Congratulations on the new contract, a
Speaker 1: new bag.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: And welcome to the DNV, my brother.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you. I'm excited to be here. Let's go
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's go get a commanders family. Our next
Speaker 1: man up, future Hall of Famer, gonna bring some sacks
Speaker 1: to the Burgundy and Gold, my guy von Meller