Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: I'm Bram Weinstein, voice of the Commanders here on a
Speaker 2: very special Legends event weekend as we're on the eve
Speaker 2: of retiring the number twenty eight the Great Hall of
Speaker 2: Famer Darryl Green. Throughout the evening, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: talking to a number of Washington legends and it's brought
Speaker 2: to you by Equa Trust. Here at the Great Ricky Sanders,
Speaker 2: I see you. Good to see you. You know, it's
Speaker 2: interesting I was watching Mayor Bowser's giving Darryl Green the
Speaker 2: Key to the City. Yeah, and I was thinking about
Speaker 2: you at the White House with Ronald Reagan looking for
Speaker 2: you and throw you a touchdown pan.
Speaker 3: That was one of the joys of my life man,
Speaker 3: to get a pass from the President. But I just
Speaker 3: want to congratulate Darryl Man. This guy is a first
Speaker 3: class person. I played against him in college. I went
Speaker 3: to Southwest Texas State. Daryl went to a and I
Speaker 3: and just asking him who broke down the sideline on
Speaker 3: him and he couldn't catch me.
Speaker 4: We had a good time, man, Darryl Man.
Speaker 5: I used to work out with him in Houston. We
Speaker 5: used to run the hill.
Speaker 3: We get out there on the track running and doing
Speaker 3: all that stuff, man, But the person, he's unbelievable, you know,
Speaker 3: to play twenty years. Loved his family, loved God most
Speaker 3: of all. And I remember going to his house doing
Speaker 3: Bible studies, like my man, we're talking about and.
Speaker 5: He straight up with you.
Speaker 3: You know, if he's a good friend, he's always gonna
Speaker 3: give you the best advice to keep you going through life.
Speaker 2: When you played against him in college, did you know
Speaker 2: he would be a special NFL player?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah. And he ran track, you know, and
Speaker 3: this guy could even so fast. I knew he had
Speaker 3: something special in him. But you know, it was a
Speaker 3: little division to school, you know, and and I was competitive,
Speaker 3: but they just couldn't take Texas State.
Speaker 2: It's so interesting how many of you guys from those
Speaker 2: small schools ended up playing here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: A lot of guys came from Texas from the those
Speaker 3: small schools. You guys schools in Texas right now they
Speaker 3: play in thirty thousands.
Speaker 4: You know, they got thirty thousand fans in the stadium.
Speaker 3: Is it like that when you played When I played
Speaker 3: at probably about ten thousand.
Speaker 4: It's big, yeah, I mean huge in Texas.
Speaker 2: So what do you make of what the team is
Speaker 2: doing right now, Like you have, you had no chance
Speaker 2: to watch them play here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I say, I live in Houston right now.
Speaker 3: Man, I don't get to see a lot of the
Speaker 3: Commanders games, but I get to see a lot of
Speaker 3: the Texans and the Cowboys. But when I watch them, man,
Speaker 3: I love that quarterback Man Daniels, He's he is a beast.
Speaker 3: You know, they got some good receivers. Defensively, if they
Speaker 3: can tighten it up a little bit, I think they're
Speaker 3: going to go into the playoffs and they can go.
Speaker 6: They're deep.
Speaker 4: I think they can do some good things.
Speaker 2: Ricky. Last thing, what did it mean for you to
Speaker 2: play for this organization?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: It's it was life changing man to win two Super
Speaker 3: Bowls here, uh be under one of the greatest coaches ever,
Speaker 3: Joe Gibbs. Jack Ken Cooks was a good owner and
Speaker 3: just then organization, you know, with these new owners, good people,
Speaker 3: and the fans here unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Die hard, die hard.
Speaker 3: Every time I come back in town, it's like I've
Speaker 3: never left. You know, I go out to eat, I
Speaker 3: don't have to pay for that, and they.
Speaker 2: Come, Yeah, you know, I'm gonna start hanging out with
Speaker 2: you Darling.
Speaker 4: But I love DC and I love this area and
Speaker 4: I love the team.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: Ricky was great. Thank you so much. Yes, sir Washington Legend,
Speaker 2: Mark Schlareth, Great to see you Mark.
Speaker 7: It's great to see you Brown. Always good to see you. Man.
Speaker 2: So this is a big weekend for Darryl Green. He
Speaker 2: played with Darryl Green. What can you tell us about
Speaker 2: playing with.
Speaker 5: Oh Man?
Speaker 8: Obviously, Darryl is an unbelievable human being. It's great a
Speaker 8: football player as you is and was better human being.
Speaker 8: And I know everybody says that, but Darryl and I
Speaker 8: have a great like. We have always had this great,
Speaker 8: very close connected friendship, and I think that's one of
Speaker 8: the cool things about our generation is oftentimes you are
Speaker 8: compartmentalized on a football team based on the positions you played,
Speaker 8: and there wasn't a lot of that with Washington the
Speaker 8: Redskins back then. We were not compartmentalized. We were all connected,
Speaker 8: and so I was very connected with Darryl.
Speaker 7: I was very connected with.
Speaker 8: Art Monk and with Charles Mann and Monte Coleman and
Speaker 8: of course all the guys that I played with on
Speaker 8: the Hogs. But my wife and Daryl's wife Jewele have
Speaker 8: been fast friends and we essentially, you know, helped raise
Speaker 8: the kids, and so we're a very connected family. And
Speaker 8: you know, to the point where their daughters used to
Speaker 8: come to our house in Colorado for Thanksgiving and leave
Speaker 8: the parents behind, so just before they had families. So
Speaker 8: just a very connected group. We've always been that way.
Speaker 8: And you know, I just I'll remember back to my
Speaker 8: rookie year where like Mini camp, we're running forties for
Speaker 8: Lord only knows what reason on Sunday, after three days
Speaker 8: of practice in a sheeting rainstorm, you know, where everybody's
Speaker 8: got wet, sloppy cleats.
Speaker 7: We just practiced, you know, won our first practice.
Speaker 5: And like the whole team would wind up.
Speaker 8: To watch Darryl Green run as forty and like I remember,
Speaker 8: like it was yesterday. We're all in this sheeting, just
Speaker 8: just deluge and the turf is stopping witness wall, you
Speaker 8: can see the water draining off of it. And Darryl
Speaker 8: stands up in that rainstorm and runs like a four
Speaker 8: to two flat, like it just ridiculous after three days
Speaker 8: of practice and the whole nine yards and but just
Speaker 8: an unbelievable man, always so committed to his family, always
Speaker 8: so committed to the community, and you know where the
Speaker 8: rest of us are packed in ice and doing a
Speaker 8: you know, whatever it is that.
Speaker 7: We have to do to get ready to play next week.
Speaker 8: Daryl's downtown, you know, serving in DC and you know,
Speaker 8: doing the foundation and the learning centers and all those
Speaker 8: things that we all try to help support him with.
Speaker 8: But his energy was he had this boundless amount of
Speaker 8: energy for service and for the community.
Speaker 2: You know, It's funny, everyone famously knows what you went
Speaker 2: through with all the surgeries to continue your playing career,
Speaker 2: and you look at him and you go, you look,
Speaker 2: take one look at him and go, that guy played
Speaker 2: twenty years in the NFL. It's almost unbelievable that he
Speaker 2: was able to do something like.
Speaker 7: That, really was.
Speaker 8: And I heard a statistic today that I'd never heard before,
Speaker 8: and I'm like, that's one of the most amazing stats
Speaker 8: I've ever heard. Nineteen straight years with an interception, Like
Speaker 8: he played twenty years, nineteen straight playing cornerback in the
Speaker 8: National Football League where he intercepted at least one pass.
Speaker 8: It's one of those records when you hear it, you're like,
Speaker 8: that can't be true. That will never be broken, you know,
Speaker 8: And so yeah, his ability to stay healthy, his ability,
Speaker 8: I mean nineteen twenty straight years without having a hamstring injury. Yeah,
Speaker 8: being the fastest man in the world and not having
Speaker 8: a hamstring injury, Like, how does that even?
Speaker 5: It doesn't even compute in today's NFL.
Speaker 8: It's so interesting, you know, there's so many injuries and
Speaker 8: you just wonder, like what has changed and the way
Speaker 8: we practiced And oftentimes I always say, man, we practice
Speaker 8: to be football players, and in today's game, a lot
Speaker 8: of the organization is trained to be track stars, and
Speaker 8: it's just a it's a different way, you know, it's
Speaker 8: a different game. And no question, he was such an
Speaker 8: unbelievable tireless worker, like we said, not only in community,
Speaker 8: but a tireless worker as far as taking care of
Speaker 8: himself and always being in top shape and always being ready.
Speaker 2: So you're still deeply connected to the game, So you're
Speaker 2: very in tune with what's going on here. What do
Speaker 2: you see in Washington as they are rebuilding right now?
Speaker 8: Well, first off, you know we always talk about culture,
Speaker 8: and culture is really that like that buzzword that everybody
Speaker 8: tries to put their finger on, but nobody.
Speaker 7: Can quite figure it out.
Speaker 8: And Dan Quinn and I have been friends for a
Speaker 8: long time, and to watch him operate is really cool.
Speaker 8: And to watch the connectivity that he has with his
Speaker 8: football team, from player to player, from coach to coach,
Speaker 8: from coach to player is really it's really fun to
Speaker 8: watch that because it brings me back and heartnins me
Speaker 8: back to kind of the nostalgic days when I played
Speaker 8: here and the kind of connection that we had as
Speaker 8: a football team. And it's happening to go usually fast, yes,
Speaker 8: but you talk to dan Quinn and it happened unusually fast,
Speaker 8: but there's an intentionality there. And that's the reason it
Speaker 8: happens so fast is there are non negotiables here. We
Speaker 8: are gonna play hard for one another, we are gonna
Speaker 8: sacrifice from one another. We are gonna, you know, we're
Speaker 8: gonna have this attention to detail. And if dan Quinn
Speaker 8: was here and you cut off the mics, he would
Speaker 8: tell you we're not as talented as we need to be,
Speaker 8: but we have those other things, those intangible aspects to
Speaker 8: a football team that make that football team great. And
Speaker 8: that's something we have here, and it's something that's non negotiable.
Speaker 8: And then you know, it's really cool for me to
Speaker 8: watch guys like Cliff Kingsbury who brought in this air
Speaker 8: raid system into the league in Arizona and you know,
Speaker 8: had some success early but it kind of fell apart.
Speaker 8: And to watch him get boot out of the league,
Speaker 8: which all of us get fired eventually, right, but to
Speaker 8: watch him embrace that, to take some time away from
Speaker 8: that and to say, what do I need to do
Speaker 8: to take what I know and what I can lean
Speaker 8: into and what I really like, what I really have
Speaker 8: been passionate about my whole career and add to it
Speaker 8: and create some something that's better, that's more adaptable to
Speaker 8: NFL style of football. And then to go out and
Speaker 8: find an Anthony Lynn and to revamp the you know,
Speaker 8: the run game coordinator, former head coach, former teammate of
Speaker 8: mine in Denver, and to connect with him to establish
Speaker 8: a running game and then you know, and then change
Speaker 8: personnel from offensive line to get tight ends. It can
Speaker 8: really block to condensed formations. To understand the value of
Speaker 8: being under center, even though I have a young quarterback
Speaker 8: where the whole college game is shotgun, and to understand that,
Speaker 8: hey man, shotgun has its place, it also has its limitations.
Speaker 8: From a you know, limiting maybe thirty forty percent of
Speaker 8: your run game and you don't have your back turn
Speaker 8: to the defense on play action, so you don't get
Speaker 8: the same reaction. And like to watch him amalgamate these
Speaker 8: two you know, kind of systems together and watch that
Speaker 8: stuff like really grow and then to watch a young
Speaker 8: quarterback just absolutely flourish in that. And I know people
Speaker 8: here in the DMV are so excited. They should be
Speaker 8: because he is that kid. I've gotten to sit down
Speaker 8: with him twice, man, and that is an awesome, awesome kid.
Speaker 2: He is wildly ahead of the curve.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: Last thing, what did it mean for you to live
Speaker 2: in this community and play for this organization?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 8: It was It was such a special time. And most
Speaker 8: of the time, like I cut my teeth in the NFL,
Speaker 8: is a you know, a tenth rounder out of the
Speaker 8: University of Idaho. Because these guys believed in me, and
Speaker 8: it didn't matter that I was small school and kind
Speaker 8: of you know, part of the pump, but small potatoes.
Speaker 8: They gave me an opportunity and then they embraced me.
Speaker 8: The players embraced me, and I was instantly welcomed in,
Speaker 8: but I was held accountable, and there was a standard
Speaker 8: here and a work ethic standard and a preparation standard
Speaker 8: that that was just the standard. And you know, it's
Speaker 8: funny as you travel around the league, there are a
Speaker 8: lot of teams that think they're working hard, they think
Speaker 8: they're playing hard, they think they're preparing the right way,
Speaker 8: they think they're you know, sold out for one another,
Speaker 8: and they think they're doing the things the right way,
Speaker 8: and they're not close.
Speaker 7: I walk around and watch practice.
Speaker 8: And like, this team's got no clue what it means
Speaker 8: to be connected, what it means to serve one another,
Speaker 8: what it means to play for one another, what it means.
Speaker 8: Like I took the things that I learned playing here
Speaker 8: and ultimately playing at the University of Idaho because we
Speaker 8: were that connected there as well, but playing here, and
Speaker 8: I brought them to Denver with me, and you know,
Speaker 8: and I sat down in front of our team and go, dude, dude,
Speaker 8: like this ain't good enough. Like like I came from
Speaker 8: a place that was a championship organization. I came to
Speaker 8: a place where I came from a place in Washington
Speaker 8: that when I played here, this franchise was a crown
Speaker 8: jewel and you know that those days left, and you
Speaker 8: can see it now. I think that's why there's so
Speaker 8: much excitement with the alumni here and so much excitement
Speaker 8: in the dm IS. You can see that with this organization,
Speaker 8: you can see those glimpses of the past, you can
Speaker 8: see the future on the horizon, and you can see
Speaker 8: this organization all of a sudden becoming a crown Joey
Speaker 8: like a I do a daily television show on FS
Speaker 8: one called breakfast Ball. And you know how the national
Speaker 8: television game works. You worked in it for a long time.
Speaker 8: There's a bunch of teams you don't talk about.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 8: There's there's six teams that move the needle, and and
Speaker 8: that's a public thing, man. That is like, hey, hey,
Speaker 8: the NFL's this public trust, and here are the six
Speaker 8: teams that move the needle ratings wise, and these are
Speaker 8: the six teams we're going to talk about. And it's
Speaker 8: fun for me to watch Washington like not beyond that radar,
Speaker 8: but all of a sudden to say, we don't talk
Speaker 8: about Washington, but we can talk about Jaden Daniels. And
Speaker 8: now all of a sudden, it's like, well, Jaden Daniels
Speaker 8: and Washington, Jaden Daniels and the commanders. Hey, dan Quinn
Speaker 8: and the command Like you can start seeing that thing
Speaker 8: start to tick up.
Speaker 7: And that's why the excitement here is so strong.
Speaker 8: It's so amazing, and it's cool to be a part
Speaker 8: of it on the national television see because I'm watching it.
Speaker 7: I'm watching them move, like we've got a board, Like.
Speaker 8: Hey, these teams you can talk about, right, I mean,
Speaker 8: you know how it plays.
Speaker 2: Houston did it a year ago, Washington's doing it now.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, and it's it's really really awesome to see it
Speaker 8: really is. And having been able to sit down with
Speaker 8: dan Quinn a couple of times and call two games,
Speaker 8: to sit down with Jayden Daniels, and call to and
Speaker 8: sit down with you know, Cliff Kingsbury and like I
Speaker 8: sat down in Arizona in the game I called in
Speaker 8: Arizona when Washington throttled the Cardinals and sat down at
Speaker 8: seven thirty in the morning with Cliff and you know,
Speaker 8: just shooting the breeze. He goes, oh, yeah, Jaden was
Speaker 8: knocking on my office door at five am this morning, like, hey,
Speaker 8: what are you doing, Like.
Speaker 7: Let's talk about football.
Speaker 8: Like there's there's that level of excitement, that level of preparation,
Speaker 8: that level of curiosity, right, and I want to know everything.
Speaker 8: I want to get better. I want to you know,
Speaker 8: I want to leave this team. It's just really cool
Speaker 8: to see Mark.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. My pleasure all right here with
Speaker 2: Clarence Vaughan played on Super Bowl. Team's got the rings
Speaker 2: to show for it two Super Bowl. Yeah, how often
Speaker 2: do you wear those.
Speaker 5: All the time? Yeah?
Speaker 10: If anybody ask anybody, I'll tell you I always kept
Speaker 10: the riding.
Speaker 2: So you crossed over with Darryl Green. Obviously what was
Speaker 2: he like as a teammate.
Speaker 10: As a teammate, he was awesome, good example. I could
Speaker 10: tell you some stories about Darryl when I really got
Speaker 10: to know who he really was. We used to work
Speaker 10: out because they brought the rookies in doing the April
Speaker 10: June when when we got drafted. So he brought us
Speaker 10: standing to work out for the summer. So we're working out.
Speaker 10: We're doing a hill, we over Jeorsh Mason. We're doing
Speaker 10: track work, four hundreds, eight hundreds. We started at nine o'clock.
Speaker 10: Now it's about ten o'clock, eleven o'clock. We go back
Speaker 10: to the hills again. We run back in and we
Speaker 10: go on the field do some leg word drills. All right,
Speaker 10: now it's about you know, twelve o'clock. He's a right,
Speaker 10: this will get some of the and come on back.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what.
Speaker 10: I'm going home? Man, You go see that's why you're
Speaker 10: not gonna play ten twenty. Y'll like, dude, I don't
Speaker 10: want to play that long. I want to get six
Speaker 10: years in ten years and get out. But watching his
Speaker 10: work ethic him all right month, those kind of guys
Speaker 10: that walk the Paygton's if you if you look at
Speaker 10: those guys work ethic, it's just it's it's unbelievable. It's
Speaker 10: unbelievable how they pushed themselves. And one of the good
Speaker 10: things about Darryl I thought he was like he was blessed,
Speaker 10: you know. I think the God of Hand was on
Speaker 10: him because I've never seen anybody run a forty yard dash.
Speaker 10: He ran at four one nine munch cause I saw
Speaker 10: him doing four two and for me, I ran a
Speaker 10: four four four. For for for me to get a
Speaker 10: four to four, I got to get a good start.
Speaker 10: I got to get out of the black blocks. That first
Speaker 10: ten yards I could have got out. He ran the
Speaker 10: first ten yards like slipped in the next thirty and
Speaker 10: he hit the clock.
Speaker 5: They go, oh, oh, what do you run?
Speaker 10: Uh, don't worry about just kickuse you supposed run two.
Speaker 5: He ended the cub scalio. All, don't ry about. You're good.
Speaker 5: Yeah good. He ran it for one night.
Speaker 10: But going to battle with Darrel, you know, he he
Speaker 10: he knows how to keep you level, you know, without
Speaker 10: you know, panicking, getting into just getting to.
Speaker 5: The game, you know. And the stuff he does.
Speaker 10: Don't believe while I was there when he ran that
Speaker 10: ball back against the Bears, hurt his ribs and he
Speaker 10: ran that back and stuff, and but he's always been
Speaker 10: there as a big brother, confident and things like that.
Speaker 10: And if you see a guy like that, that's small
Speaker 10: to me. He was small because I was a strong
Speaker 10: safety linebacker. And so I'm saying, if he's going at
Speaker 10: it hard, I'm gonna go at it heart.
Speaker 5: So it's nothing I can do too. So he learned
Speaker 5: a lot. He's a good, good family man too. It's
Speaker 5: a good friend. Went to the church together.
Speaker 10: He always will challenge you, make you challenge yourself, you know,
Speaker 10: to doing the right thing and all those things in it.
Speaker 2: As you think back to that time, the glory era
Speaker 2: of the team. How do you think about it now
Speaker 2: and and what made you so successful at the time.
Speaker 10: Wow, I'll say it's I watched these guys now. We
Speaker 10: were so prepared. We had Richie Pettibone as a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 10: I don't think Joe could have done it without I
Speaker 10: know he couldn't have done it without him, because on
Speaker 10: both sides of the ball and special teams, we were
Speaker 10: well prepared. We worked hard, we pushed each other. We
Speaker 10: won most of our games in practice. You know, I
Speaker 10: can't tell people. I tell people this there. You're not
Speaker 10: gonna turn it on on game day. If you're not
Speaker 10: doing it in practice, you're not making the players. You
Speaker 10: not have guys coming at you hard. I'm talking the
Speaker 10: scout team. You We would challenge each other in practice.
Speaker 10: Who was challenging us so hard? Certain teams we played
Speaker 10: they were intimidated by us. I'll tell you example. We
Speaker 10: had a guy named Rob Johnson who played for the Rams.
Speaker 5: We really ran the track.
Speaker 10: Guy Dar'll end up running them down, but I know
Speaker 10: he used to catch the ball. I was gonna kick
Speaker 10: off cover. So Wayne Severe as the coach, he goes.
Speaker 6: This guy he'll come out of here two yards and
Speaker 6: he'll run the ball out.
Speaker 5: He'll run out of the zos.
Speaker 10: So you gotta get down there, guys on their veil,
Speaker 10: I say, what okay, So we're all all pissing us off.
Speaker 10: So we go to l we running down there. It's
Speaker 10: someone gun catch the ball in two yards and endzo.
Speaker 10: I'm running down the railroad tracks to hash. He takes
Speaker 10: a knee. I'm like you, that just ran all the
Speaker 10: way down here, he goes.
Speaker 11: I watched the film. I saw the film. I said, okay,
Speaker 11: I just started laughing, he said. He said, it's a
Speaker 11: business decision. I'm not coming out of here. I'm not
Speaker 11: running out of the enzone. I saw you guys, how
Speaker 11: you hit it anyway. So you can see teams, and
Speaker 11: you can see the physicality that we had in our
Speaker 11: practice and in the game and stuff like that. So
Speaker 11: what really helped us, Like I said, we challenge each other.
Speaker 11: And I think these kids right now are on the
Speaker 11: same path.
Speaker 10: They just stay focused on what they gotta do and
Speaker 10: execute their plays. And the coaches put these guys in
Speaker 10: the right position where they can play, where they can
Speaker 10: make a play. That's all you can ask you can
Speaker 10: only do your job in your position at that time. Man,
Speaker 10: everybody has to be successful on every give and play.
Speaker 10: Eleven guys have to be successful. If one or two
Speaker 10: guys drop off, you know it's not good, and then
Speaker 10: we don't beat them up, but they know that's unacceptable.
Speaker 10: You don't have to have the coach tell you that
Speaker 10: I know and stuff like that. I hate it Monday's game.
Speaker 10: It wasn't the coach.
Speaker 5: The players and did the coaches, So it's terrible. So
Speaker 5: you don't want to have that.
Speaker 2: Claires, is a pleasure meeting you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: A lot all right here with David Wyndham. We can't
Speaker 2: have a Darryl Green chronology without recognizing what we're calling
Speaker 2: the replacement team now? Is that the proper terminology for
Speaker 2: the replacement team?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 2: Nice to have you here, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: What do you remember about that about that time?
Speaker 6: Well, like everybody's been saying, he was above the above,
Speaker 6: he was one of the great from day one when
Speaker 6: he got here. But I saw him as a teenager
Speaker 6: in Houston, Texas because he used to work for my uncle.
Speaker 6: I'll come from Mobile, Alabama, and I see this little
Speaker 6: skinny kid to me, he's gonna make it to the
Speaker 6: league and he's super fast and all this. I'm like, whatever,
Speaker 6: I'm a stud of an athlete. That's when you're younger
Speaker 6: than him.
Speaker 5: But he was. He was.
Speaker 6: He was back in when we was like thirteen fourteen
Speaker 6: years old, so I go that far back with him.
Speaker 2: He worked for your uncle.
Speaker 6: He used to work for my uncle, Joe James. What
Speaker 6: did he do It was a fish market, So my
Speaker 6: uncle Joe had several different businesses. He hired the kids
Speaker 6: in the neighborhood to do different odd jobs the corner store,
Speaker 6: the fish market, cutting grass and stuff like that. But
Speaker 6: Darren was always around my uncle Joe, and he was like,
Speaker 6: here's what pro athletes were like, talking about me and
Speaker 6: my brother not knowing that, you know, years later I
Speaker 6: was see Darrel in nineteen eighty seven with the Redskins.
Speaker 2: Did he find out whatever Daryl did he could do quickly?
Speaker 2: Probably yes.
Speaker 6: But Darrel's like, say, his belief was even back then
Speaker 6: when he said he found God when he got to
Speaker 6: the college. But he was always he had this or
Speaker 6: about it that you knew he was a godly man.
Speaker 6: He didn't run around talking about it, and it was there.
Speaker 5: It was always there.
Speaker 2: Tell me about those that time. Is the replacement team
Speaker 2: just for a moment because you were coached by Joe Gibbs. Yes,
Speaker 2: the team was winning. You guys won famously in Dallas.
Speaker 2: There was an amazing moment back in the nineteen eighties
Speaker 2: where you guys won. When you think about that now,
Speaker 2: like what comes to mind for.
Speaker 6: You, Well, the fact that the team opened their arms
Speaker 6: and love us as regular Redskins and we're no longer scaped,
Speaker 6: we're replacement players. But all of the original Redskins they
Speaker 6: look at us when we come to the reunion the
Speaker 6: alumni game. They don't look at us like we we sidelins.
Speaker 6: They look at us at professional form of professional athletes.
Speaker 6: And it's a great feeling. This is like my six
Speaker 6: or seventh one coming back to It's.
Speaker 2: Great, David, it's pleasure. Media, Thank you too much.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 12: All.
Speaker 2: Johnny, I'm told that you're faster than Darryl Greed, you'd
Speaker 2: be the only person in the room that is.
Speaker 13: Well, you know what, I came in in eighty seven,
Speaker 13: and when I came in, I got drafted this and
Speaker 13: when I came in, but then two three months I
Speaker 13: was living at the old house, driving his car, and
Speaker 13: we just and he really adopted me. He's four years
Speaker 13: older than me, adopted me. And we trained together, you know,
Speaker 13: every day, did the hill.
Speaker 5: Work and stuff.
Speaker 13: So you know, people say I was I was the
Speaker 13: second fastest ever at the Redskins. I tell darr I said, well,
Speaker 13: you felt my power and I felt yours.
Speaker 5: So we were gonna leave it at that.
Speaker 2: You know, did you ever find out? Did you ever
Speaker 2: settle it?
Speaker 13: We never sell it. We always trained together. And uh,
Speaker 13: our training was really intense because he liked to win.
Speaker 13: I like to win too, so so it got to
Speaker 13: a point where we was killing each other on the
Speaker 13: track and and so as he was as me being
Speaker 13: a younger one, I started letting him win.
Speaker 5: So but yeah, he was, I mean he was fast.
Speaker 5: I know he was fast.
Speaker 13: And and in in a corner in the closet he'll
Speaker 13: secretly say, oh, yeah, uh he was fast.
Speaker 2: Suit. So you know, it's interesting, like every person sits
Speaker 2: down to talk about him. We know all the amazing
Speaker 2: things that he did on the field, but it sounds
Speaker 2: like it was so much more. Really.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, uh uh I called down my best friend. Uh,
Speaker 13: I live in Houston, Texas. He finally bought a home
Speaker 13: in Houston, Texas, and and I keep it up. So
Speaker 13: every time we come to Houston, you know, we sit
Speaker 13: around in the garage and stuff. I mean, last time
Speaker 13: we sat around the groag for a couple hours, talked
Speaker 13: about a whole lot of stuff, cried and everything, and uh,
Speaker 13: it's it's such a it's it's such a a great
Speaker 13: you know, feeling to have a friend like you know,
Speaker 13: like like him. We go way back. I mean, it's like,
Speaker 13: uh the way you know, the Green family you know,
Speaker 13: adopted me when I came in and I had I've
Speaker 13: had a chance to see all the kids grow up,
Speaker 13: you know, and uh, you know, Jared is my godson,
Speaker 13: Darrell is my baby, you know, and.
Speaker 5: Joy is my joy, you know.
Speaker 13: So all the grandkids is my my you know, my
Speaker 13: my grandkids too. So it's such a it's it's such
Speaker 13: a great to be a part of the family and
Speaker 13: you know, and how they accepted me and loved me
Speaker 13: and Stuffer and you know, to play with Darryl, to
Speaker 13: play with him, to be a friend to him, to
Speaker 13: to just admire what everything he's done and what's going on,
Speaker 13: you know, he was earlier today.
Speaker 5: He was crying.
Speaker 13: I said, Dawn stopped crying, and then I went up
Speaker 13: to him and say, hey, man, you deserve everything you're getting,
Speaker 13: you know, I said, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 13: It's from the first day that I met you to
Speaker 13: now I can be more proud, you know.
Speaker 5: So it's great for him.
Speaker 2: Johnny, thank you so much. It's pleasure media here, thank
Speaker 2: you all right here with the great Vernon Dean. You
Speaker 2: were a roommate of Daryl Breed, a young Darryl green right.
Speaker 2: Absolutely tell me about that experience with him.
Speaker 1: So it's really like for us, it's normal. You go
Speaker 1: to camp, you get a room, mane. But I knew
Speaker 1: Darryl was special. And if Virgil's c coming here and
Speaker 1: he talked to you, he'll tell you why. We all
Speaker 1: knew very Daryl was special. The first player one on ones,
Speaker 1: Daryl fell down on his face and got up forty
Speaker 1: oars down the field, broke to pass up. First day
Speaker 1: ever going against the veterans, ever in minicamp rookie year. Ever,
Speaker 1: that was my first time seeing him do anything. Ever,
Speaker 1: so we all all knew he was special at that time.
Speaker 1: But going forward, when we were roommates, it was you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, were just ballers, man, and we're trying to
Speaker 1: trying to compass the same goal.
Speaker 2: When you see him do that in practice, does everyone
Speaker 2: kind of stop and go. That's not supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: There's always a wild factor and you say, that's why
Speaker 1: we're here. Yeah, but some other some some other people
Speaker 1: have more wild factors than others. And I and I
Speaker 1: can say Daryl had more wild factors than a lot
Speaker 1: of us, because honestly, I had no idea what he
Speaker 1: did on Monday night his rookie year. He was gonna
Speaker 1: do it none And he said this all the time.
Speaker 1: Had I gotten out the way, he might have called
Speaker 1: twenty quicker because I was on the field. The guy
Speaker 1: that he ran past, the last to catch him.
Speaker 2: That was me.
Speaker 5: So there are those wild factors. He just had more
Speaker 5: wild factors than anybody.
Speaker 2: Else heard it. What did it mean to you to
Speaker 2: play for this organization? They drafted me.
Speaker 1: I was a first pick in nineteen eighty two. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: Bobby Bethter saw something in me that at the time
Speaker 1: twenty seven other teams didn't see, and he chose me
Speaker 1: to come in this organization and when I got here,
Speaker 1: I knew it was a great organization from top to
Speaker 1: bottom because I just.
Speaker 2: Saw the commitment from the head coach.
Speaker 1: Not only him, but the ownership management general manager Bobby Betha.
Speaker 1: By the way, he was outstanding general management. I mean
Speaker 1: because he found he found gyms under a carpet on
Speaker 1: the stones. That's how you found Daryl Green and so
Speaker 1: so you know, I was blessed and fortunate to have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to come and play for this organization burning It.
Speaker 2: Was a pleasure. Thank you so much, man, appreciding Man,
Speaker 2: it's a former safety of the Washington franchise Ken Coffee,
Speaker 2: played in the nineteen eighties and with Darryl Green. That's it, right,
Speaker 2: And the first time you got together with Daryl or
Speaker 2: knew of Daryl, was actually way before you played together
Speaker 2: in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, We competed against each other in college and Darryl
Speaker 10: ruined our perfect season, our national championship season. What I
Speaker 10: didn't share with you is we were undefeated last regular
Speaker 10: season game of the season, and our district had our
Speaker 10: Comforence had Alvin Garrett who played at Angelo State. They
Speaker 10: had won the national championship, they had Abalaine Christian Wilbert
Speaker 10: Montgomery had won the championship the year before. Texas A
Speaker 10: and I had won the national championship numerous years. We
Speaker 10: were that kind of team and we felt that good
Speaker 10: about it. And Darryl and Texas A and I rolled
Speaker 10: in and they ruined our perfect season for us. We
Speaker 10: still won the national championship, but they ruined the perfect season.
Speaker 10: And what I didn't share with you is the very
Speaker 10: last play of the game was a flea flicker where
Speaker 10: we tossed the ball to Ricky Sanders.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 10: Daryl was on the other side, And to this day,
Speaker 10: I maintained that Ricky would have outrun Darryl if they
Speaker 10: wouldn't have whistled the ball dead.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen Darryl run. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if you're right about that.
Speaker 5: From this is my story, I'm sticking with it.
Speaker 2: You know now it makes me believe that the secret
Speaker 2: of the teams in the eighties and nineties was it
Speaker 2: Bobby Bethardo, Joe Gibbs. It was somewhere in Texas under
Speaker 2: the radar football players.
Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting you say that.
Speaker 10: Every time I see Mark Moseley, I hug him and
Speaker 10: tell him you're the only MVP of the league's been
Speaker 10: a kicker. Like I just love neat things like that,
Speaker 10: and I love the environment that Joe and Bobby created
Speaker 10: that would allow Daryl will tell his own story. But
Speaker 10: I just get amazed that the number of people who
Speaker 10: passed him off is too small or not experienced enough.
Speaker 10: I mean, the hometown university that was in his neighborhood
Speaker 10: by passed him twice. Make sure you have him tell
Speaker 10: you that story. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: you can look at it and it just becomes an
Speaker 10: inspiration to us. So if we keep trying, if we
Speaker 10: keep plugging, we can do some great things in life.
Speaker 2: Did you know when you played against him in college
Speaker 2: that he could be what he ended up being in
Speaker 2: the NFL.
Speaker 10: No, no, no, And that's not any disrespect to him.
Speaker 10: I knew he was extremely talented, but we're talking about
Speaker 10: twenty years and we're talking about his ability. I saw
Speaker 10: Harold Carma Carmichael a couple of months ago, and occasionally,
Speaker 10: you know, five foot nine Darryl would cover six six
Speaker 10: Harrold Carmichael. And if that isn't a Mutton Jeff mismatch
Speaker 10: I don't know what it is, and yet Darrel was
Speaker 10: able to hold his own. So I just think what
Speaker 10: people didn't see about Darryl, about Vernon, about a lot
Speaker 10: of us, it's just how hard he worked, how he
Speaker 10: continues to work.
Speaker 5: He's in fantastic shape. But there's.
Speaker 10: If you understand his discipline with his diet and the
Speaker 10: fact that he goes out and runs like he's thirty
Speaker 10: years old and he's trying to make his last season.
Speaker 5: It's not a surprise.
Speaker 2: No, you played in the Glory era. What do you
Speaker 2: think of what you see right now with the Commanders?
Speaker 10: You know, I am so happy for coach Quinn and
Speaker 10: the team. It's it's easy, you know, to point to
Speaker 10: number five and say, you know, it's on your back
Speaker 10: and not taking anything away from him. But what what
Speaker 10: the organization has to do is create an environment where
Speaker 10: players can be the best that they can possibly be.
Speaker 5: And that just doesn't happen with one person.
Speaker 10: It is literally one of my enduring images is seeing
Speaker 10: Rick Walker and Monty Coleman in camp going ahead to head.
Speaker 5: And it was like this, this was my first training
Speaker 5: camp and.
Speaker 10: I'm telling you Brown that was like raging bulls and
Speaker 10: Yellowstone or something like that.
Speaker 2: It was just I knew I had to step up
Speaker 2: my game and or I mean, the story of those
Speaker 2: teams really are the team, the players where they came from.
Speaker 2: You had good quarterbacks, you had good coaching, you had stars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it was the team.
Speaker 5: Oh it was. It was absolutely the team.
Speaker 10: And you know, my greatest joy about all this is is,
Speaker 10: unfortunately for the individuals, we actually ended up cutting you know,
Speaker 10: second and third round players the first season because they.
Speaker 5: Weren't as good.
Speaker 10: And that went directly to the bottom line of you know,
Speaker 10: paying a signing bonus in some cases of you know,
Speaker 10: a couple hundred thousand dollars or whatever. But you know,
Speaker 10: Joe gibbstood on the fact that they weren't the best
Speaker 10: forty five at the time on the team, and that's
Speaker 10: what we were going to go to battle with every week, weekend,
Speaker 10: and week out. That's what we were going to battle with.
Speaker 10: I remember one year we went to Green Bay. It
Speaker 10: was freezing. It was the coldest game that I've ever
Speaker 10: played in my life. And we had two guys who got.
Speaker 5: Signed in the middle of the year.
Speaker 10: They were from the South and they just didn't understand
Speaker 10: how cold they could get in Green Bay. Bottom line
Speaker 10: is they really didn't lead the heaters on the sideline,
Speaker 10: and the next day they were cut. And Joe's point was, Hey,
Speaker 10: if I can't count on you to show up in
Speaker 10: a regular season when it's tough, what makes what makes
Speaker 10: me think that you're gonna be tough in Chicago, in Dallas,
Speaker 10: in New York when we need you?
Speaker 9: And so.
Speaker 10: Maybe Darwinian, but I love the fact that I was
Speaker 10: there because I was the best at my position and
Speaker 10: the guy to my right was the best, and the
Speaker 10: left was my best and I knew it.
Speaker 5: I knew it in my heart, just like they knew it.
Speaker 2: Last thing. What did playing for this organization and being
Speaker 2: in this community mean to you?
Speaker 5: Everything?
Speaker 10: My bride and I came here as a young couple.
Speaker 10: We we had our children here, We had our lifelong relationships,
Speaker 10: whether I'm talking about the Monks, the Coleman's, the Walkers,
Speaker 10: the Greens, the Deans like these are lifetime relationships that
Speaker 10: once again the environment allowed us to do that. On
Speaker 10: a professional basis, I knew the value of hard work.
Speaker 10: I don't believe I've ever been outworked professionally. I've been fired,
Speaker 10: I knew that, you know, the sun would rise tomorrow
Speaker 10: and I would be in a position to do something
Speaker 10: great again. That that's what this game gives you if
Speaker 10: you allow it to.
Speaker 5: And it's never about.
Speaker 10: The person who replaces you, Like like, I'm excited for
Speaker 10: those guys after I get over it emotionally because I
Speaker 10: know I replace someone, you know, and that's the same
Speaker 10: thing that happens in life every day in some form
Speaker 10: or fashion. It's what did I take from it? How
Speaker 10: can I help me on the next part of the journey?
Speaker 2: Ken? It was a pleasure. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you all.
Speaker 2: Right here with Cidney Johnson you played with there. What
Speaker 2: was the.
Speaker 14: Experience like, I mean, it was a total experience for me,
Speaker 14: Like I said day one, you know, just maybe feel
Speaker 14: welcome here, put all my my my my fears to rest,
Speaker 14: you know, showed me what it was like to be
Speaker 14: a true professional, not only from just showing up every
Speaker 14: day and every week to work, but also off season programs,
Speaker 14: you know, the dreaded Hills. You know, anybody that's ever
Speaker 14: worked with him over a period of time, they can
Speaker 14: thank him for their longevity in the league just based
Speaker 14: on his his work ethic and the kinds of things
Speaker 14: he was able to show you.
Speaker 2: Could you tell us a little bit about that, like
Speaker 2: what what did he do?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 14: I mean, you know, just come in to follow him
Speaker 14: and see what he did to get itself ready for
Speaker 14: the season. You know, you know we always went deep
Speaker 14: into the playoffs, so you know, you know after that,
Speaker 14: your body needs to rest.
Speaker 2: The first thing we do.
Speaker 14: Take ninety days off and reign sleep or or hell
Speaker 14: we were back out there in ninety days at George
Speaker 14: Mason working on our speed, working on our conditioning, getting
Speaker 14: ready for the season. Uh, you know, as early as March,
Speaker 14: so you know, get all the injuries healed and get
Speaker 14: back to it. And that's what he showed.
Speaker 5: Not me, not just me, but a.
Speaker 14: Whole a whole cadre of of of of defensive backs
Speaker 14: and wide receivers would come and follow him out there.
Speaker 2: You were part of a Glory era team here. But
Speaker 2: what did it mean for you to play for this organization?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 14: You know, come in coming into the organization. Uh you
Speaker 14: see him on TV as a California kid, you know
Speaker 14: on the East coast. Uh you get to see uh,
Speaker 14: you know, the Washington Redskins at the time being a
Speaker 14: California it meant everything because I get to see, you know,
Speaker 14: you know, an organization that had a lot of tradition,
Speaker 14: great coaches, great players, but everybody was a family, you know,
Speaker 14: on and off the field. So uh, that's what separated
Speaker 14: this organization from all the other organizations out there.
Speaker 2: Sidney, his pleasure, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: With Linda Treill, you're one of the people who've walked
Speaker 2: through here and didn't play with Darryl Green. So when
Speaker 2: you think about Darryl Green, what comes to mind for you?
Speaker 12: So when I think about Darryl Green, the first thing
Speaker 12: that comes to mind is meant to me at least
Speaker 12: it's someone that's a follower of Christ's number one. I
Speaker 12: think that's important because I'm also a follower of Christ,
Speaker 12: my Lord and Savior of Jesus Christ. Number two. He
Speaker 12: came from a small school, so that's something I can
Speaker 12: resonate with. Coming from Norfolk State, there's always going to
Speaker 12: be a knock on a smaller school, telling people telling
Speaker 12: you that you didn't play against the best competition. But
Speaker 12: just looking at the Daryl Green's highlights over the years
Speaker 12: and understanding that adversity.
Speaker 9: He've overcame in order to be to where he is today.
Speaker 12: Such a blessing man, and that's something that's very admirable
Speaker 12: and something that I looked up to as a former Redskin.
Speaker 2: I mean, comes, small school, small guy. Twenty years it's
Speaker 2: really amazing. I mean it's almost mind boggling when you
Speaker 2: say it out loud.
Speaker 9: Yeah, twenty years of anything is as nuts man.
Speaker 12: He's definitely somebody that trained and worked on and off
Speaker 12: the field just as hard as the next person, and
Speaker 12: really took care of his body. The man's about sixty
Speaker 12: six right now. I'm constantly writing them on Instagram. And
Speaker 12: for him to be so humble to take a youngin
Speaker 12: like myself and write me back and just give me
Speaker 12: words of wisdom, that's a blessing. But if you ever
Speaker 12: see the videos that he's posting at about sixty six,
Speaker 12: this man is still as fast as he probably want
Speaker 12: us twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: That's embarrassing actually for all of us. Yes, what do
Speaker 2: you make of what the commanders are doing if you
Speaker 2: watched them at all this year?
Speaker 12: Yes, so I've been in several games. I've kind of
Speaker 12: made it my point to come back this year under
Speaker 12: the new ownership, as you can see, the atmosphere feels amazing.
Speaker 12: The city's on fire. We're loving what we're seeing. I
Speaker 12: love the fact that Dan Quinn, who used to be
Speaker 12: my defensive coordinator at the University of Florida.
Speaker 9: Has brought home ties back here.
Speaker 12: There's a young cat by the name of Bobby Price
Speaker 12: right now that also went to North State and dawned
Speaker 12: at number seven, just like I did, who signed with
Speaker 12: us not too long ago. So I'm excited to be
Speaker 12: back in the city. You can feel the love, and
Speaker 12: I love where this organization is headed. The ownership has
Speaker 12: set it themselves. They want all of the alumni back,
Speaker 12: and we definitely feel the love for real.
Speaker 2: Quick. What was your experience like playing for Dan Quinn?
Speaker 12: Oh, my god, dan Quinn is somebody that in which
Speaker 12: I told today I had to walk through.
Speaker 5: I told him.
Speaker 12: You know, when I initially met you, I hated you
Speaker 12: because for a young brother that's coming from a city
Speaker 12: like Miami, no one really held me accountable. I was
Speaker 12: a five star guy coming out of high school and
Speaker 12: I kind of, you know.
Speaker 9: Big man on campus.
Speaker 12: But Dan was the first person that told me that
Speaker 12: hey understand something any and everything that you do. I'm
Speaker 12: gonna hold you accountable for it. And he also taught
Speaker 12: me that if a coach stops coaching you, that's when
Speaker 12: you should be worried. But when he's really on you,
Speaker 12: he wants to see the best out of you, and
Speaker 12: he wants to see the best potential that you have.
Speaker 2: Linda, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you