WEBVTT - A Night With Legends! Command Center Special | Washington Commanders | NFL 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:00.320 Hi. 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.320 I'm Bram Weinstein, voice of the Commanders here on a 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.200 very special Legends event weekend as we're on the eve 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.200 of retiring the number twenty eight the Great Hall of 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.680 Famer Darryl Green. Throughout the evening, I'm going to be 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.400 talking to a number of Washington legends and it's brought 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.720 to you by Equa Trust. Here at the Great Ricky Sanders, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.040 I see you. Good to see you. You know, it's 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.400 interesting I was watching Mayor Bowser's giving Darryl Green the 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.160 Key to the City. Yeah, and I was thinking about 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:31.760 you at the White House with Ronald Reagan looking for 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:33.880 you and throw you a touchdown pan. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.360 That was one of the joys of my life man, 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.919 to get a pass from the President. But I just 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.600 want to congratulate Darryl Man. This guy is a first 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.839 class person. I played against him in college. I went 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.760 to Southwest Texas State. Daryl went to a and I 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.280 and just asking him who broke down the sideline on 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:56.360 him and he couldn't catch me. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.040 We had a good time, man, Darryl Man. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.840 I used to work out with him in Houston. We 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:03.800 used to run the hill. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.520 We get out there on the track running and doing 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:12.920 all that stuff, man, But the person, he's unbelievable, you know, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.720 to play twenty years. Loved his family, loved God most 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.520 of all. And I remember going to his house doing 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:26.520 Bible studies, like my man, we're talking about and. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.399 He straight up with you. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.000 You know, if he's a good friend, he's always gonna 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.959 give you the best advice to keep you going through life. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.640 When you played against him in college, did you know 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.639 he would be a special NFL player? 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.760 Oh yeah, yeah. And he ran track, you know, and 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.240 this guy could even so fast. I knew he had 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.680 something special in him. But you know, it was a 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:58.040 little division to school, you know, and and I was competitive, 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.680 but they just couldn't take Texas State. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.600 It's so interesting how many of you guys from those 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.360 small schools ended up playing here. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:06.640 Yeah, that's true. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:06.960 You know. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.880 A lot of guys came from Texas from the those 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:16.079 small schools. You guys schools in Texas right now they 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.880 play in thirty thousands. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.600 You know, they got thirty thousand fans in the stadium. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.600 Is it like that when you played When I played 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.000 at probably about ten thousand. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.280 It's big, yeah, I mean huge in Texas. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.760 So what do you make of what the team is 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.200 doing right now, Like you have, you had no chance 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.160 to watch them play here. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.200 Yeah, I say, I live in Houston right now. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.560 Man, I don't get to see a lot of the 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.840 Commanders games, but I get to see a lot of 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:47.240 the Texans and the Cowboys. But when I watch them, man, 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:52.120 I love that quarterback Man Daniels, He's he is a beast. 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.680 You know, they got some good receivers. Defensively, if they 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.160 can tighten it up a little bit, I think they're 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.840 going to go into the playoffs and they can go. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:00.560 They're deep. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.080 I think they can do some good things. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.400 Ricky. Last thing, what did it mean for you to 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:06.640 play for this organization? 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:08.320 Man? 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:13.080 It's it was life changing man to win two Super 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.280 Bowls here, uh be under one of the greatest coaches ever, 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.760 Joe Gibbs. Jack Ken Cooks was a good owner and 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.000 just then organization, you know, with these new owners, good people, 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.920 and the fans here unbelievable. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.240 Die hard, die hard. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.440 Every time I come back in town, it's like I've 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.280 never left. You know, I go out to eat, I 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:38.520 don't have to pay for that, and they. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.000 Come, Yeah, you know, I'm gonna start hanging out with 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:41.880 you Darling. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.480 But I love DC and I love this area and 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:45.280 I love the team. 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:45.560 Man. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.680 Ricky was great. Thank you so much. Yes, sir Washington Legend, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.680 Mark Schlareth, Great to see you Mark. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.800 It's great to see you Brown. Always good to see you. Man. 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.480 So this is a big weekend for Darryl Green. He 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.200 played with Darryl Green. What can you tell us about 0:03:59.240 --> 0:03:59.800 playing with. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:03.440 Oh Man? 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.240 Obviously, Darryl is an unbelievable human being. It's great a 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.680 football player as you is and was better human being. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.520 And I know everybody says that, but Darryl and I 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.160 have a great like. We have always had this great, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.480 very close connected friendship, and I think that's one of 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:28.040 the cool things about our generation is oftentimes you are 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.440 compartmentalized on a football team based on the positions you played, 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.960 and there wasn't a lot of that with Washington the 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.800 Redskins back then. We were not compartmentalized. We were all connected, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.040 and so I was very connected with Darryl. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.279 I was very connected with. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.000 Art Monk and with Charles Mann and Monte Coleman and 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.200 of course all the guys that I played with on 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.919 the Hogs. But my wife and Daryl's wife Jewele have 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.799 been fast friends and we essentially, you know, helped raise 0:04:55.880 --> 0:05:00.440 the kids, and so we're a very connected family. And 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.640 you know, to the point where their daughters used to 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.360 come to our house in Colorado for Thanksgiving and leave 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.800 the parents behind, so just before they had families. So 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.279 just a very connected group. We've always been that way. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.800 And you know, I just I'll remember back to my 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:22.720 rookie year where like Mini camp, we're running forties for 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.480 Lord only knows what reason on Sunday, after three days 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.919 of practice in a sheeting rainstorm, you know, where everybody's 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.799 got wet, sloppy cleats. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.080 We just practiced, you know, won our first practice. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.480 And like the whole team would wind up. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.120 To watch Darryl Green run as forty and like I remember, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.080 like it was yesterday. We're all in this sheeting, just 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:49.520 just deluge and the turf is stopping witness wall, you 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.520 can see the water draining off of it. And Darryl 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.840 stands up in that rainstorm and runs like a four 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.760 to two flat, like it just ridiculous after three days 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.040 of practice and the whole nine yards and but just 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.400 an unbelievable man, always so committed to his family, always 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.200 so committed to the community, and you know where the 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.880 rest of us are packed in ice and doing a 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:14.200 you know, whatever it is that. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.479 We have to do to get ready to play next week. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:21.279 Daryl's downtown, you know, serving in DC and you know, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.360 doing the foundation and the learning centers and all those 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.680 things that we all try to help support him with. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.320 But his energy was he had this boundless amount of 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.480 energy for service and for the community. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.680 You know, It's funny, everyone famously knows what you went 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.240 through with all the surgeries to continue your playing career, 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.480 and you look at him and you go, you look, 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:42.880 take one look at him and go, that guy played 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.800 twenty years in the NFL. It's almost unbelievable that he 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.080 was able to do something like. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.240 That, really was. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.960 And I heard a statistic today that I'd never heard before, 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.839 and I'm like, that's one of the most amazing stats 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:57.440 I've ever heard. Nineteen straight years with an interception, Like 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.680 he played twenty years, nineteen straight playing cornerback in the 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.279 National Football League where he intercepted at least one pass. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.120 It's one of those records when you hear it, you're like, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.080 that can't be true. That will never be broken, you know, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.720 And so yeah, his ability to stay healthy, his ability, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.160 I mean nineteen twenty straight years without having a hamstring injury. Yeah, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.280 being the fastest man in the world and not having 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.280 a hamstring injury, Like, how does that even? 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.320 It doesn't even compute in today's NFL. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.600 It's so interesting, you know, there's so many injuries and 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.560 you just wonder, like what has changed and the way 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.560 we practiced And oftentimes I always say, man, we practice 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:41.000 to be football players, and in today's game, a lot 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.160 of the organization is trained to be track stars, and 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.480 it's just a it's a different way, you know, it's 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.520 a different game. And no question, he was such an 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:53.200 unbelievable tireless worker, like we said, not only in community, 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.120 but a tireless worker as far as taking care of 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.160 himself and always being in top shape and always being ready. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.440 So you're still deeply connected to the game, So you're 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.840 very in tune with what's going on here. What do 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.400 you see in Washington as they are rebuilding right now? 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.560 Well, first off, you know we always talk about culture, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.720 and culture is really that like that buzzword that everybody 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.760 tries to put their finger on, but nobody. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:16.640 Can quite figure it out. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.000 And Dan Quinn and I have been friends for a 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.200 long time, and to watch him operate is really cool. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.480 And to watch the connectivity that he has with his 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.040 football team, from player to player, from coach to coach, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:34.440 from coach to player is really it's really fun to 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.600 watch that because it brings me back and heartnins me 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.760 back to kind of the nostalgic days when I played 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.080 here and the kind of connection that we had as 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.520 a football team. And it's happening to go usually fast, yes, 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.920 but you talk to dan Quinn and it happened unusually fast, 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.560 but there's an intentionality there. And that's the reason it 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.240 happens so fast is there are non negotiables here. We 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.520 are gonna play hard for one another, we are gonna 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.240 sacrifice from one another. We are gonna, you know, we're 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.160 gonna have this attention to detail. And if dan Quinn 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.600 was here and you cut off the mics, he would 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.480 tell you we're not as talented as we need to be, 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.560 but we have those other things, those intangible aspects to 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.400 a football team that make that football team great. And 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.880 that's something we have here, and it's something that's non negotiable. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.000 And then you know, it's really cool for me to 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:28.719 watch guys like Cliff Kingsbury who brought in this air 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:34.040 raid system into the league in Arizona and you know, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.439 had some success early but it kind of fell apart. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.400 And to watch him get boot out of the league, 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.520 which all of us get fired eventually, right, but to 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.320 watch him embrace that, to take some time away from 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.080 that and to say, what do I need to do 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.400 to take what I know and what I can lean 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.079 into and what I really like, what I really have 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.480 been passionate about my whole career and add to it 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.800 and create some something that's better, that's more adaptable to 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.440 NFL style of football. And then to go out and 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.040 find an Anthony Lynn and to revamp the you know, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.520 the run game coordinator, former head coach, former teammate of 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.280 mine in Denver, and to connect with him to establish 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.440 a running game and then you know, and then change 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.040 personnel from offensive line to get tight ends. It can 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.160 really block to condensed formations. To understand the value of 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.600 being under center, even though I have a young quarterback 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.280 where the whole college game is shotgun, and to understand that, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.719 hey man, shotgun has its place, it also has its limitations. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.080 From a you know, limiting maybe thirty forty percent of 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.640 your run game and you don't have your back turn 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.959 to the defense on play action, so you don't get 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.720 the same reaction. And like to watch him amalgamate these 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.480 two you know, kind of systems together and watch that 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.640 stuff like really grow and then to watch a young 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.240 quarterback just absolutely flourish in that. And I know people 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.360 here in the DMV are so excited. They should be 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.720 because he is that kid. I've gotten to sit down 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.800 with him twice, man, and that is an awesome, awesome kid. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:10.559 He is wildly ahead of the curve. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:11.160 All right. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.559 Last thing, what did it mean for you to live 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.640 in this community and play for this organization? 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:18.480 You know? 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.480 It was It was such a special time. And most 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.480 of the time, like I cut my teeth in the NFL, 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.360 is a you know, a tenth rounder out of the 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.720 University of Idaho. Because these guys believed in me, and 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.480 it didn't matter that I was small school and kind 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.319 of you know, part of the pump, but small potatoes. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.040 They gave me an opportunity and then they embraced me. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:44.960 The players embraced me, and I was instantly welcomed in, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.119 but I was held accountable, and there was a standard 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.920 here and a work ethic standard and a preparation standard 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.079 that that was just the standard. And you know, it's 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.480 funny as you travel around the league, there are a 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.319 lot of teams that think they're working hard, they think 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.600 they're playing hard, they think they're preparing the right way, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.520 they think they're you know, sold out for one another, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.520 and they think they're doing the things the right way, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:13.679 and they're not close. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.280 I walk around and watch practice. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.600 And like, this team's got no clue what it means 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.840 to be connected, what it means to serve one another, 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.000 what it means to play for one another, what it means. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.000 Like I took the things that I learned playing here 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.920 and ultimately playing at the University of Idaho because we 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.400 were that connected there as well, but playing here, and 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.400 I brought them to Denver with me, and you know, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.120 and I sat down in front of our team and go, dude, dude, 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.120 like this ain't good enough. Like like I came from 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.320 a place that was a championship organization. I came to 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.800 a place where I came from a place in Washington 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.840 that when I played here, this franchise was a crown 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:55.080 jewel and you know that those days left, and you 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:56.719 can see it now. I think that's why there's so 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.560 much excitement with the alumni here and so much excitement 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.520 in the dm IS. You can see that with this organization, 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.360 you can see those glimpses of the past, you can 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.600 see the future on the horizon, and you can see 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.720 this organization all of a sudden becoming a crown Joey 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.600 like a I do a daily television show on FS 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.680 one called breakfast Ball. And you know how the national 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.920 television game works. You worked in it for a long time. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.080 There's a bunch of teams you don't talk about. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:22.600 That's right. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.440 There's there's six teams that move the needle, and and 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.160 that's a public thing, man. That is like, hey, hey, 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.600 the NFL's this public trust, and here are the six 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.560 teams that move the needle ratings wise, and these are 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.800 the six teams we're going to talk about. And it's 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:42.360 fun for me to watch Washington like not beyond that radar, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.440 but all of a sudden to say, we don't talk 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.679 about Washington, but we can talk about Jaden Daniels. And 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.000 now all of a sudden, it's like, well, Jaden Daniels 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.120 and Washington, Jaden Daniels and the commanders. Hey, dan Quinn 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.840 and the command Like you can start seeing that thing 0:13:58.960 --> 0:13:59.880 start to tick up. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.400 And that's why the excitement here is so strong. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.920 It's so amazing, and it's cool to be a part 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.480 of it on the national television see because I'm watching it. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.400 I'm watching them move, like we've got a board, Like. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.520 Hey, these teams you can talk about, right, I mean, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.000 you know how it plays. 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.520 Houston did it a year ago, Washington's doing it now. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.280 Absolutely, and it's it's really really awesome to see it 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.320 really is. And having been able to sit down with 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.800 dan Quinn a couple of times and call two games, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.760 to sit down with Jayden Daniels, and call to and 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.840 sit down with you know, Cliff Kingsbury and like I 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.240 sat down in Arizona in the game I called in 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:39.640 Arizona when Washington throttled the Cardinals and sat down at 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.120 seven thirty in the morning with Cliff and you know, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.920 just shooting the breeze. He goes, oh, yeah, Jaden was 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.200 knocking on my office door at five am this morning, like, hey, 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:49.520 what are you doing, Like. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:50.760 Let's talk about football. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.360 Like there's there's that level of excitement, that level of preparation, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.880 that level of curiosity, right, and I want to know everything. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.480 I want to get better. I want to you know, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.240 I want to leave this team. It's just really cool 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:02.360 to see Mark. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.880 Thank you so much. My pleasure all right here with 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.800 Clarence Vaughan played on Super Bowl. Team's got the rings 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.520 to show for it two Super Bowl. Yeah, how often 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:11.400 do you wear those. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.280 All the time? Yeah? 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.400 If anybody ask anybody, I'll tell you I always kept 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:17.760 the riding. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.720 So you crossed over with Darryl Green. Obviously what was 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:22.760 he like as a teammate. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.920 As a teammate, he was awesome, good example. I could 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.680 tell you some stories about Darryl when I really got 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.200 to know who he really was. We used to work 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.480 out because they brought the rookies in doing the April 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.000 June when when we got drafted. So he brought us 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.440 standing to work out for the summer. So we're working out. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.680 We're doing a hill, we over Jeorsh Mason. We're doing 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.680 track work, four hundreds, eight hundreds. We started at nine o'clock. 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.960 Now it's about ten o'clock, eleven o'clock. We go back 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.240 to the hills again. We run back in and we 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.880 go on the field do some leg word drills. All right, 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.200 now it's about you know, twelve o'clock. He's a right, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.520 this will get some of the and come on back. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:05.200 I'm like, what. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.200 I'm going home? Man, You go see that's why you're 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.120 not gonna play ten twenty. Y'll like, dude, I don't 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.160 want to play that long. I want to get six 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.640 years in ten years and get out. But watching his 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.880 work ethic him all right month, those kind of guys 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.480 that walk the Paygton's if you if you look at 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.880 those guys work ethic, it's just it's it's unbelievable. It's 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:31.000 unbelievable how they pushed themselves. And one of the good 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.160 things about Darryl I thought he was like he was blessed, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.360 you know. I think the God of Hand was on 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.240 him because I've never seen anybody run a forty yard dash. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.120 He ran at four one nine munch cause I saw 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.200 him doing four two and for me, I ran a 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.000 four four four. For for for me to get a 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.400 four to four, I got to get a good start. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.440 I got to get out of the black blocks. That first 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.400 ten yards I could have got out. He ran the 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.640 first ten yards like slipped in the next thirty and 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:56.400 he hit the clock. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.600 They go, oh, oh, what do you run? 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.200 Uh, don't worry about just kickuse you supposed run two. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.040 He ended the cub scalio. All, don't ry about. You're good. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.000 Yeah good. He ran it for one night. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.320 But going to battle with Darrel, you know, he he 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:13.600 he knows how to keep you level, you know, without 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.720 you know, panicking, getting into just getting to. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.840 The game, you know. And the stuff he does. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.480 Don't believe while I was there when he ran that 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.240 ball back against the Bears, hurt his ribs and he 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.199 ran that back and stuff, and but he's always been 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.159 there as a big brother, confident and things like that. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.000 And if you see a guy like that, that's small 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:32.920 to me. He was small because I was a strong 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.960 safety linebacker. And so I'm saying, if he's going at 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:37.120 it hard, I'm gonna go at it heart. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.880 So it's nothing I can do too. So he learned 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:41.520 a lot. He's a good, good family man too. It's 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.600 a good friend. Went to the church together. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.639 He always will challenge you, make you challenge yourself, you know, 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.520 to doing the right thing and all those things in it. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.280 As you think back to that time, the glory era 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.040 of the team. How do you think about it now 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.880 and and what made you so successful at the time. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.840 Wow, I'll say it's I watched these guys now. We 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.280 were so prepared. We had Richie Pettibone as a defensive coordinator. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.119 I don't think Joe could have done it without I 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.000 know he couldn't have done it without him, because on 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.600 both sides of the ball and special teams, we were 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.159 well prepared. We worked hard, we pushed each other. We 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.960 won most of our games in practice. You know, I 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.639 can't tell people. I tell people this there. You're not 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.520 gonna turn it on on game day. If you're not 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.359 doing it in practice, you're not making the players. You 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.879 not have guys coming at you hard. I'm talking the 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.320 scout team. You We would challenge each other in practice. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.320 Who was challenging us so hard? Certain teams we played 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.960 they were intimidated by us. I'll tell you example. We 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.000 had a guy named Rob Johnson who played for the Rams. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:39.880 We really ran the track. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.080 Guy Dar'll end up running them down, but I know 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:44.600 he used to catch the ball. I was gonna kick 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.840 off cover. So Wayne Severe as the coach, he goes. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.240 This guy he'll come out of here two yards and 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:51.240 he'll run the ball out. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:52.439 He'll run out of the zos. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.240 So you gotta get down there, guys on their veil, 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:58.520 I say, what okay, So we're all all pissing us off. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.880 So we go to l we running down there. It's 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.560 someone gun catch the ball in two yards and endzo. 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.760 I'm running down the railroad tracks to hash. He takes 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.600 a knee. I'm like you, that just ran all the 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:11.840 way down here, he goes. 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.439 I watched the film. I saw the film. I said, okay, 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:18.720 I just started laughing, he said. He said, it's a 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.879 business decision. I'm not coming out of here. I'm not 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:22.760 running out of the enzone. I saw you guys, how 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.520 you hit it anyway. So you can see teams, and 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.160