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Speaker 1: in the studio, joined by Jets inside linebacker C. J. Mosley.
Speaker 1: Great to see it. My city too. When the schedule
Speaker 1: came out very recently and he saw the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 1: the home opener, what do you think it was that
Speaker 1: side and feeling now I missed out on an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play in Baltimore. Uh so you guys open up
Speaker 1: Septemer eleven, you know, a home opener at home, so
Speaker 1: it's definitely gonna be an exciting game. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: you just incited more for an opportunity. Um. I mean
Speaker 1: it's been four maybe four or five years now since
Speaker 1: I played with Baltimore, so you know that hype is
Speaker 1: going to always be there. But when I step on
Speaker 1: that few at the end of the day, I'll be
Speaker 1: happy with a W. I don't care. You care how
Speaker 1: many talkers I have, don't care how many players I made.
Speaker 1: If you come out of the game with a W,
Speaker 1: that's all that matters. What do you think the environment
Speaker 1: is going to be like at MetLife Stadium for Week one?
Speaker 1: I know you've got a lot of work to go
Speaker 1: before then, but just after this offseason it was year
Speaker 1: one under Robert Solo. Last year, big additions, um both
Speaker 1: and free agency and the draft, and everybody's raving about
Speaker 1: the culture, what you guys are building. What do you
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be like to be there? Uh, everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna be on the edge of their seats from from
Speaker 1: start to finish. That's that's the mentality that's kind of
Speaker 1: been set this year, like you said, with the free
Speaker 1: agent signings, with with the people that we got in
Speaker 1: the draft, with the young guys, with the cultural change.
Speaker 1: Now every everybody's saying this is the year, y'all. Y'all
Speaker 1: know how that goes. But um, honestly, you know, just
Speaker 1: being just being here in the locker room, being around
Speaker 1: the guys this offseason, everybody really, you know, feels that
Speaker 1: that energy, really feels that, you know, this can be
Speaker 1: a special year. But we all know it's gonna take
Speaker 1: a lot of work, and like you said, this is
Speaker 1: just the beginning of what we're trying to accomplish. And
Speaker 1: if everybody, you know, stay of course, continue to do
Speaker 1: the right things on and off the field, believe in
Speaker 1: each other, and we can we can go as far
Speaker 1: as if we want to this year and and for
Speaker 1: more years to come. I charged up. Was met life
Speaker 1: your first game there as it was? It was, It
Speaker 1: wasn't one to forget. I'll tell you that. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun um. You know, you know, the
Speaker 1: crowd has always into it um. You know from the
Speaker 1: first from the first snap, you know, it was it
Speaker 1: was rocking man. And you don't have that momentum in
Speaker 1: your back. You love to have the crowd riding with
Speaker 1: you play in and play out. And you really just
Speaker 1: felt how offense defense teams just clicking, involving off each other.
Speaker 1: You know, defense get to stop the offense went out
Speaker 1: there and handled their business. Offense didn't get a get
Speaker 1: a touchdown. You know, special teams put put the defense
Speaker 1: in a good position. So it was just it was
Speaker 1: just a lot of complimentary football going on that game.
Speaker 1: And when you really can click like that and finish
Speaker 1: our games, that's that's when you really know you got something. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk much more than just the schedule, but
Speaker 1: what do you think when you saw the a f
Speaker 1: C North and four consecutive weeks to start the season, Well, Honestly,
Speaker 1: for me, it's it's like another season I'm used to
Speaker 1: you know, playing playing those well, those three opponents you know,
Speaker 1: year and year out. But it's gonna be a test.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a test. Earlier in the season. On
Speaker 1: the first four games of the season, a lot of
Speaker 1: mistakes can happen. You know, teams still figure out what
Speaker 1: they like the best, what personnel, what you know, what
Speaker 1: things that can happen. Um. So you know, for us,
Speaker 1: we just got to make sure we come we come
Speaker 1: out precise, We come out and do our best, chold
Speaker 1: not to play, try to play mistake free football, um,
Speaker 1: and try to be a team that can really know
Speaker 1: close our games and have the situations really well. Simularly
Speaker 1: playing against the guy like Lamar Jackson. And also with
Speaker 1: that being said, does it help you guys to face
Speaker 1: in an offense is so unique like that in week
Speaker 1: one because you do have the three or four months
Speaker 1: before knowing you're going against something. Yeah, It's it's not easy.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a unique player, one of a contop
Speaker 1: of player. You know, even when we used to go
Speaker 1: up against them at the Raven, it was hard to
Speaker 1: try to, you know, emulate what he does is it's
Speaker 1: hard to do. That's why he's one of the best
Speaker 1: quarterback in this league. But I sleep, you know, we
Speaker 1: it comes down look what I just said. You know,
Speaker 1: we have to once we get our game plan that week,
Speaker 1: do our best to execute that game plan. This is NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, he's an VP quarterback. We know what type
Speaker 1: of plays he can make with his with his feet down,
Speaker 1: with his arms. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know, we do our best to try to you know,
Speaker 1: shot Through was supposed to plays. Knowing that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be a heavy run team, try to stop the run
Speaker 1: and make them one dimensional, you know, and just get
Speaker 1: everybody to the ball once you get loose. You got
Speaker 1: a milestone coming up. I don't know when we're gonna
Speaker 1: air this podcast, but we're taping here in early June.
Speaker 1: You can be turning thirty. What do you feel about?
Speaker 1: That's like I got a mouthstone. Um, I'm blessed. I'm
Speaker 1: blessed and honor you still be be sitting here. Um,
Speaker 1: still have guys you know looking up to me. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know, for me to still be able to
Speaker 1: grow as a player and as a person. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I came into this year, um, not not satisfied, you know,
Speaker 1: but what I did personally obviously not satisfied with the
Speaker 1: season that we had, not satisfied with what our defense was.
Speaker 1: And I still feel like I found ways to improve
Speaker 1: myself on what I can when I'm looking at each play, Um,
Speaker 1: how I can prove in this defense? You know what
Speaker 1: I can do to you know, help everybody getting better positions.
Speaker 1: And that's the unique thing about this game. You know,
Speaker 1: the older you get, you know, you think you think
Speaker 1: you know it all, you think you've seen it all,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's always something. This game is always
Speaker 1: always evolving. Um, It's like a game's chess. You know,
Speaker 1: you just gotta the offense is going to do something
Speaker 1: to make the defense have to make up a whole
Speaker 1: new game plan. So each year, Um that the NFL
Speaker 1: you know, goes on each year that that offense get better,
Speaker 1: players get better, you know, the defense has to find
Speaker 1: a way that you know, the counter of those count
Speaker 1: of those offenses and those offensive coaches. And I think
Speaker 1: starting last year already took a lot of pride and
Speaker 1: and really trying to you know, study study the offense
Speaker 1: compared to you know, what the offense coordinator does. So
Speaker 1: when I when I make a player, when we make
Speaker 1: a player, we make a stop. It's not like, no,
Speaker 1: we're not just stopping offense. No, we're stopping offense coordinator too.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's when you think about like that,
Speaker 1: it gets really fun. How much more advanced mentally are
Speaker 1: you know at this point pared to the guy who
Speaker 1: was drafted by the Ravens. That's um it's night and day. Honestly,
Speaker 1: um are a lot a lot of my um my
Speaker 1: techniques and you know, just just be able to feel,
Speaker 1: feel the ball and see things, but you know, just
Speaker 1: eliminate that that one step, those those two steps that
Speaker 1: back pedal when you take one one, one or two
Speaker 1: more hop that you need to that can put you
Speaker 1: on that break on that interception right there. Man. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing when you can when you really lock
Speaker 1: into like your job and what you have to do.
Speaker 1: And then obviously once you get a feel for the
Speaker 1: defense and you're like know what you're doing, you can
Speaker 1: start looking at you know, pre stout recognitions and looking
Speaker 1: at formation. Is there's just a lot of little things
Speaker 1: that you're gonna lock inside your your game that that
Speaker 1: can put you to that next level. What about instincts?
Speaker 1: So because the book I knew always coming out was
Speaker 1: you were instinctive. But with that being said, you're talking,
Speaker 1: you're talking about not taking a false step here or there.
Speaker 1: How much the instincts play a part in the game.
Speaker 1: I played a lot of part of the game. One.
Speaker 1: You know, you you're talking about, you know, players being
Speaker 1: coached and playing football. You don't wanna you don't want
Speaker 1: to get coached so much where you're not making football players.
Speaker 1: If you know, if you see a running back aligned wide,
Speaker 1: just because of the saying stay, you know inside, you
Speaker 1: know he's about to run out, you want to, you know,
Speaker 1: get a little outside and anticipate what's going on. So
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to studying and and just
Speaker 1: you know, kind of know what's going on, it's the
Speaker 1: anticipation part. You know, if you see something, you see it,
Speaker 1: maybe something you study, you know, maybe something that you
Speaker 1: saw a film from from the player that he might do.
Speaker 1: That's when your your study habits come into play. Like
Speaker 1: all right, extensively, I know it third down to two,
Speaker 1: it's running back might get out. But now that I
Speaker 1: see that he's a little bit cheated outside the tackle.
Speaker 1: Now I can really get out because I know what's coming.
Speaker 1: So just a little things like that can really, you know,
Speaker 1: put you put you on the next level. Was last
Speaker 1: year your best season in the NFL? You're a multi
Speaker 1: time pro bowler, You're a guy who people say throughout
Speaker 1: your career that he's one of the best inside back
Speaker 1: is in the game. With that being said, how do
Speaker 1: you rate last year in terms of individually? I know
Speaker 1: that you didn't have the team success you guys, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say it was my best year as far as
Speaker 1: status wise. Yeah, you know, I was making a bunch
Speaker 1: of tackles, but that can be good and bad. A
Speaker 1: lot of tackles that mean you might be on the
Speaker 1: field a lot, you know something else. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that're going with making a lot of tackles.
Speaker 1: So I don't really know rpe my seasons based on
Speaker 1: tackles I've I've made. Um. I really I really think
Speaker 1: far as last year is my best far as being
Speaker 1: mentally prepared each game, UM, knowing knowing what the offense
Speaker 1: is doing, knowing what to expect, all the certain formations, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, reading round formations, seeing routes, formations, just this
Speaker 1: little stuff like that. It sounds like a lot, but
Speaker 1: when you break it down like each day and you know,
Speaker 1: go about it won't play at the time. It really
Speaker 1: it really slowed the game down for it. So I
Speaker 1: think last year is probably my best like mentally locked in,
Speaker 1: I've been. But what's your next step? What's even another
Speaker 1: level that C. J. Mosley can go to at age thirty?
Speaker 1: Bring everybody with me? Now, that's what That's what it's
Speaker 1: been all about, you know, getting getting the right guys
Speaker 1: in the building, no in the locker room, outside the
Speaker 1: locker room, to really believe that we can do something
Speaker 1: special here. And I think that I'm really no, I
Speaker 1: don't think I know, and I believe that that has
Speaker 1: what that has what that we've been doing. And and
Speaker 1: the people that we brought in as far as the
Speaker 1: free agency, UM, the rookie class that it came in,
Speaker 1: they've been great, They've been working hard, UM. And I
Speaker 1: feel that if we know just stick to what we
Speaker 1: what we know, stick to the things that we've been taught,
Speaker 1: really believe in each other, really working and really trust
Speaker 1: that we can be special and there's no there's no
Speaker 1: doubt my mim that that's what we will be. We've
Speaker 1: talked about it before that there's no I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any greater UM award than your peers saying that
Speaker 1: you're the guy. Last year you were voted team m
Speaker 1: v P and you said that you wanted to take
Speaker 1: yourself to a different level in terms of leadership. What
Speaker 1: did you do last year? What do you want to
Speaker 1: do this year? Honestly, last year for me it was
Speaker 1: I woulda say more of a proven ground, but you know,
Speaker 1: I've been haven't played in two years, so I was
Speaker 1: I was really focused on, you know, me doing my job,
Speaker 1: me doing the right thing every day, you me coming
Speaker 1: to work and providing the guys with the right mentality,
Speaker 1: right attitude, you know, making have trying to have my
Speaker 1: best game speech for Sunday. Uh so um, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of means and as you can see,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I'm not a selfish player. I don't play
Speaker 1: that way. But it was a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: I was making sure that I was doing right. So
Speaker 1: now now that I know I'm good, it's now it's
Speaker 1: time when you when you when you talk to the
Speaker 1: d line. When you see something you're yell at out,
Speaker 1: so um, make it. Make a long story short. That's
Speaker 1: really been more vocal, even even though its vocals. I am.
Speaker 1: That's becoming more vocal, becoming more uncomfortable, becoming more comfortable
Speaker 1: being in the uncomfortable situations. Was in the in the
Speaker 1: team room, whether we're meeting, you know, whether be practicing
Speaker 1: and talking on the sidelogists, any just any little knowledge
Speaker 1: that that passed in my head, you know, me trying
Speaker 1: to share with somebody that's interesting me. He talked about
Speaker 1: communicating the guys before a game. What you were gonna say?
Speaker 1: What what goes into that? Is that like a Saturday
Speaker 1: night thing? Um, it's it's an all weak thing. It was.
Speaker 1: It was my first time, you know, really you know,
Speaker 1: getting the huddle in for every single game. You know,
Speaker 1: I took over the first game. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: you know I got the first one, and it just
Speaker 1: happened to be me every single week. So I have
Speaker 1: to make sure I have to make sure I have
Speaker 1: something good, you know, to keep the guys going. And
Speaker 1: you know, you you think it's easy, but you know
Speaker 1: when you're when that thing's not going well, when you're hurting,
Speaker 1: you're losing, you know, you're traveling. All these two different
Speaker 1: things play a part. And you know, and yourself and
Speaker 1: you know, try to keep yourself mentally focused. But it's
Speaker 1: not about you. You know, um as long as you
Speaker 1: I know that in the day, I'm doing my job,
Speaker 1: so I'm not I'm not ever like worried about you
Speaker 1: be having a bad game. So I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that I'm saying the right things my body, languages rights,
Speaker 1: for my teammates, and for my culture. So anything that
Speaker 1: I say is coming straight from the herd in front
Speaker 1: of mine. Like, uh, when we went to play, when
Speaker 1: we played the Bills in the last game, everybody knew
Speaker 1: it was gonna be freezing. So I started I started
Speaker 1: watching Gladiator because we have the night game. So I
Speaker 1: need something. I need something kind. I'm not about to
Speaker 1: wear any sleeves. It's gonna be cold. It's a last game.
Speaker 1: I need to get my mom right. So I'm watching Gladiator,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of here, a little close here and there,
Speaker 1: like okay that that sounds good at guysbody like that.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of glad Itator, do you like the way you
Speaker 1: guys went out last year in that game against the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills because that was a roster depleted you were,
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive side of the ball. You guys
Speaker 1: were dealing with like six seventh eighth receivers, that kind
Speaker 1: of thing, injuries across the board, and you gave yourself
Speaker 1: a chance to win defensibly. Yeah, honestly, I felt that
Speaker 1: was probably our best defensive game that we had as
Speaker 1: far as just guy has been on the same page,
Speaker 1: especially man Quincy. You know, he had his hands on
Speaker 1: I think to football. So we always joke about him
Speaker 1: when he dropped past out there like all you know
Speaker 1: what they looked like you dropped the dropping in practice
Speaker 1: dropping in the game. So but honestly, it kind of
Speaker 1: it kind of clicked at the last minute. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw the same stuff, but you know, some reason
Speaker 1: things just started to cliff and you started to get
Speaker 1: it at that process. But you know, we really felt comfortable.
Speaker 1: We felt inside ourselves, we felt comfortable with the game plan.
Speaker 1: So that's all. That's that's all. We've been trying to
Speaker 1: do this all these you know, really really honed in
Speaker 1: or what we want to what we want to be,
Speaker 1: how you want to look, and what kind of misset
Speaker 1: we want to bring to the table every day. Quincy
Speaker 1: said this year it's imperative for him not to just
Speaker 1: be looking for the big hit that he's got to
Speaker 1: start coming up with takeaways. Is that something that you
Speaker 1: guys talked about. Yeah, that's that's one thing that we
Speaker 1: that we talked about Lott in this offseason. Um, let's
Speaker 1: communicate more, talking more building our relationship obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: off one year is it can only go so far.
Speaker 1: So just been just be being in the system twice
Speaker 1: UM with him, Uh, we started to know each other tennessees.
Speaker 1: Um we saw the I would say, react, react better
Speaker 1: off each other without without um extra movement. One thing
Speaker 1: I talked to him about was, you know, his his
Speaker 1: film study. You know, just being a young a younger linebacker,
Speaker 1: young player, it's not that you don't want to watch film.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't know what to look for, so that
Speaker 1: might you know, that might discourage you. So I told him, like,
Speaker 1: if there anything that you want to want to look
Speaker 1: at together, watch you with you know. Obviously we we
Speaker 1: got it. But you know, honestly, I I've seen him
Speaker 1: be a lot more vocan he was last year. And
Speaker 1: like I said, that's comfortable with him being in the
Speaker 1: system of year. So he's a little more comfortable, UM
Speaker 1: talking to talking to the rooks, taking them on his wing,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, being out you know, going to
Speaker 1: eat with the young guys or being in the practice field,
Speaker 1: like coaching them up and and telling them what to do.
Speaker 1: So just saying saying that part of his game is
Speaker 1: is a positive because that's all that's gonna do is
Speaker 1: relate to when we get on the field, when we
Speaker 1: get into action. You know, he's going to be more vocal.
Speaker 1: He won't be uncomfortable talking a situation because when it
Speaker 1: when it gets long, ten eleven, twelve drives and I
Speaker 1: still got to make the call and be a little tired.
Speaker 1: So that's why I need my partner in crime, you know,
Speaker 1: help help signal the call or or give a call
Speaker 1: a couple of the players. So it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great and fun year for him, your partner crime.
Speaker 1: Are you surprised that a guy like Quincy Williams is
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire or that's just life in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Sometimes it just doesn't work somewhere else
Speaker 1: and you find a place where you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of count That's just life in NFL.
Speaker 1: That's that's how things work. One thing that you that
Speaker 1: you can't control is the car that you've been dealt
Speaker 1: once you get once you get into this league. But
Speaker 1: you can't control you know, your work ethic. Um, how
Speaker 1: you how you approach your your day every day, how
Speaker 1: you attack the day. Your mam said, your attitude now
Speaker 1: all that plays a part now no matter what of
Speaker 1: you are, because at the end of the day, if
Speaker 1: you are work in the next man, if you're doing
Speaker 1: things the right way, you know you're gonna find yourself.
Speaker 1: Like they said dressing on Sunday. Michael Carter was in
Speaker 1: this very studio a couple of weeks ago, and he
Speaker 1: said that I watched c. J. Mosley everything he does,
Speaker 1: any matches, George Fan as well, and then uh Tevin
Speaker 1: Coleman as far as that running backs group. But what
Speaker 1: does that mean to you that Carter is a running back?
Speaker 1: He says that he looks up to Mosley, he calls
Speaker 1: you know, g and says, this is the way you're
Speaker 1: supposed to approach the game. Um, well, that's that's one
Speaker 1: thing about the milestone about turning thirty. You you see
Speaker 1: the cycle of life change in front of you. Oyes
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You know, even another another side story,
Speaker 1: Um wild wild goose is is. Um It's Doomerville. Doomerville's nephew.
Speaker 1: I think, nephew, uncle, nephew. I think. So I played
Speaker 1: with his uncle, and yeah, I play. I played with
Speaker 1: him at Baltimore fourteen fourteen fifteen, and now I'm playing
Speaker 1: with his nephews. So you're saying like, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: used to watch you when he was at Alabama. I
Speaker 1: was in middle school. I was like middle school. What
Speaker 1: so that that really every time I hear something like that,
Speaker 1: that put it, put put some perspective, like you know this,
Speaker 1: this is pretty cool. Like a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of players, no bust their bus and give it the
Speaker 1: all for you know, for a few years. You know,
Speaker 1: unfortunately they get cut short of injuries or something happens.
Speaker 1: And a lot of guys don't see see that all
Speaker 1: the all the time that they spent being a young
Speaker 1: guys and the vets and the old heads and the
Speaker 1: you know, the older coaches that looked out for them,
Speaker 1: that helped them out, that try to do the right
Speaker 1: things for them, um and kind of how that molded
Speaker 1: them into the player that they are now. And you
Speaker 1: know vice verse of me and now I get the
Speaker 1: you know, just you know, sprinkle all that right, back
Speaker 1: out the same lessons that I was taught, the same
Speaker 1: things that I used to hear, the same quotes that
Speaker 1: I used to hear. Now I still find myself quoting
Speaker 1: Terrell Slugs. Yeah. So um, it's it's pretty amazing, honestly,
Speaker 1: And like I said, and it's a blessing that I
Speaker 1: can I can still be here and provide that insight,
Speaker 1: provide you know, that mindset, um, the win mentality, or
Speaker 1: you know, whatever whatever word you want to think of. Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like I can be that person um mentally
Speaker 1: and obviously if it's go on the field, that can
Speaker 1: help bring bring players and team closer because I've I've
Speaker 1: been in a lot of situations. I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of football, and I've been honored to be around a
Speaker 1: lot of smart coaches and systems. You gotta endure a
Speaker 1: lot physically to play linebacker in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: And we come back to your age and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's thirty years old, but is age changing across the
Speaker 1: board professional sports? Meaning you look at a guy like
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. I remember coming out of the draft and
Speaker 1: I still think of him as a young guy. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be thirty four years old. You look at Lebron James,
Speaker 1: he's pushing forty. You're talking about Tom Brady throw A
Speaker 1: plays totally different position than you. But guys playing at forty.
Speaker 1: Does that speak to how well conditioned guys are now?
Speaker 1: But also the mental preparation and just people know what
Speaker 1: to put in their bodies and they also know how
Speaker 1: to study a lot better than maybe that we saw
Speaker 1: on past generations. Yeah, it's it's a collection of all
Speaker 1: of that. And I'll also add that, you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's a lot to do with you know, how
Speaker 1: the game has changed, it evolved as far as you know,
Speaker 1: the way players are being practiced, and you know how
Speaker 1: much time it's been on the field, what we're doing
Speaker 1: with our bodies. Um, it's a lot more, a lot
Speaker 1: more physical, even when I was a rookie, you know,
Speaker 1: especially before I was in the league. Farther they that's
Speaker 1: going on off season programs and all that. So just
Speaker 1: the rule change and just how things have changed and
Speaker 1: evolved in the league and around all sports. Um, it's more,
Speaker 1: it's more player friendly, and it's and it gives player
Speaker 1: a longer time to play the league, give that player
Speaker 1: that longevity. So UM, I will definitely agree that it's collected.
Speaker 1: It's a collection of all those things. Who are guys,
Speaker 1: do you like watching just far as in general or yeah,
Speaker 1: as far as for as the NFL, maybe you appreciate
Speaker 1: the linebacker position or you mentioned Suckers before he was
Speaker 1: a former teammate, and maybe the funder who is retired now.
Speaker 1: I like watching Edwards for for the Bills, um who
Speaker 1: else it's another linebacker Davis with the Buccaneers. I try
Speaker 1: to also try to watch linebackers that are kind of
Speaker 1: in our system because then I can talk they're playing
Speaker 1: somebody that that we're playing. I can kind of see
Speaker 1: what what they what they're seeing or seeing what kind
Speaker 1: of move with techniques that they're they're doing to try
Speaker 1: to put me in the better position. So that's another
Speaker 1: thing that you know that I that I started last year.
Speaker 1: I never really watched film on other linebacker as far
Speaker 1: as to study like what are they saying? What are
Speaker 1: they doing? If I was seeing them, it was just
Speaker 1: because I was watching film on the offense. But um,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's always it's always one little thing
Speaker 1: where you can find to try to get better. So
Speaker 1: but but yeah, that's that was That was actually really
Speaker 1: cool because I definitely stole some tackles awesome other linebacker's reads.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but that was pretty awesome. Okay, so you
Speaker 1: mentioned it before you talked about Hey, I know everybody's
Speaker 1: saying we got improved talent, but I know we actually
Speaker 1: have to go out there and make it happen. Is
Speaker 1: that something that you have to tell the guys in
Speaker 1: the locker room. I don't think there's people are going
Speaker 1: around the facility celebrating him right now, but with that
Speaker 1: being said, they are hearing that you guys have found
Speaker 1: a good off season. I don't think so. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we do a good job of, you know,
Speaker 1: not real list to the outside noise because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we haven't won anything, we haven't
Speaker 1: done anything. Um, we definitely gotten better on paper, but
Speaker 1: that's not gonna be anything until we know put our
Speaker 1: paths on and really get to work and see what
Speaker 1: we can do when when the when a lot of
Speaker 1: bullets get flying. So, um, you know you hear the
Speaker 1: you hear a good draft every year you're here, and
Speaker 1: it's our season every year no matter where you are.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to win. We want to win. They want
Speaker 1: to win. We all want to win. But you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna come down to those key moments this season
Speaker 1: and we never know. We're not gonna know when that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, but we but we have to be ready
Speaker 1: for it. And that's you know, that's why we practice
Speaker 1: that while we're prepared for for situations so we can
Speaker 1: be ready for it. What puts you over the top
Speaker 1: in key moments? What separates the teams that are gonna
Speaker 1: win double digit games from the teams that are struggling
Speaker 1: to get there? Ye, well, one is is a turnover Martin.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing you always here. You know who
Speaker 1: could win a turnover bottom battle? And I think to
Speaker 1: for for us as a team, it's just being the
Speaker 1: best is we can be that situational football, whether it's
Speaker 1: two minute, four minute um, you know, starting drive, backed up,
Speaker 1: you know all the little things that plays the part
Speaker 1: and you know, successfully winning the game. And I think
Speaker 1: if we can know we're gonna win most of our
Speaker 1: games is when when we know play a great situation
Speaker 1: football and control to turnover margin. What do you like
Speaker 1: most in terms of what you're seeing out here on
Speaker 1: the practice field, we're in voluntary activities right now. This
Speaker 1: is phase three, but you're ending the off season by
Speaker 1: all accounts, I mean, for all purposes next week with
Speaker 1: the veteran minicamp. UM. The thing I like the most
Speaker 1: that I've that I've been saying is be a little
Speaker 1: biased just just our defense. You know, the speed that
Speaker 1: we have. Obviously we're young, but our secondary is is
Speaker 1: just it's really just just flying to the ball. UM.
Speaker 1: Seeing a lot of turnoff, a lot of interceptions UM.
Speaker 1: In these ot A practices, Like I said, it's most
Speaker 1: have been like seven on seven. So there's only so
Speaker 1: much that we can do. But but we haven't seen
Speaker 1: that a lot. Know, you can see those playmakers and
Speaker 1: you can't you can't tell a playmaker what to do.
Speaker 1: They're gonna find a way to find the ball. And
Speaker 1: that's that's all you need, is that one chance. UM.
Speaker 1: So we can get a lot more interception, a lot
Speaker 1: more FuMB recovers on defense, you know, puts back in
Speaker 1: the offense in great position to score. Then we can
Speaker 1: know we're really gonna have a chance to do some
Speaker 1: great things. So but that's that's one of the one
Speaker 1: of the main things that you can definitely notice if
Speaker 1: you go out there that that secondary is really flying around,
Speaker 1: and um, a mod, a mod is doing really good.
Speaker 1: You're smiling, you're saying the mod is doing really good.
Speaker 1: So break it down for us. Why are you so encouraged?
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a number four overall pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. So I was laughing because his name is
Speaker 1: the mob. Were not call them solves once you make
Speaker 1: a play. Maybe in the preseason we might, we might
Speaker 1: get them sauce back sauce sauces for the fans. But
Speaker 1: what do you like about him on the Breaka field
Speaker 1: right now? Just so just pure raw talent um. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously he's getting this coaching down and he learned the techniques,
Speaker 1: but you can it's sometimes when you see it, you
Speaker 1: see it. And and today was one of other days.
Speaker 1: It was like, all right, we we're good. We're in
Speaker 1: good hands. So he was he was making plays. They
Speaker 1: was throwing the ball to him, but he was. He
Speaker 1: was making plays what you're supposed to do. But but
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Speaker 1: Like I said, when you when you get in a
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Speaker 1: same height as Um as a mode the way doing
Speaker 1: the way he played, in the way he presses. But um,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that doesn't finish until the whistle was blown.
Speaker 1: And he's a technician U and you love to see that.
Speaker 1: You know what, no matter what time it is, that
Speaker 1: the day he's either working on some moves, get some treatment, um,
Speaker 1: doing a little extra work. He's doing something on the side,
Speaker 1: and you know that's one of the thing that that
Speaker 1: encouraged you to try to get back. All right, if
Speaker 1: he can do something on the off day or the
Speaker 1: time where we got a little off time, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I can do something too. So that's no just
Speaker 1: if you've been a leader, or you know you consider
Speaker 1: a leader, it's not always about what you say. It's
Speaker 1: not all it's always about um. You know, the things
Speaker 1: that that you're trying to do. But sometimes it's what
Speaker 1: you do not behind closed doors, but you know, you
Speaker 1: can be in the building and you know, people not
Speaker 1: know that you're still working and they come across that
Speaker 1: and see that when they're about here they leave out
Speaker 1: the Building's like, you know what I mean, I think
Speaker 1: I should do a little bit worth too, or that
Speaker 1: make a player want to come to you and ask like, hey,
Speaker 1: when you're doing this, what do you see here? Or
Speaker 1: when you're working on this, you know, while you're working
Speaker 1: on the here, So you know, just little things like
Speaker 1: that that are key that get guys in the right position,
Speaker 1: right mindset and connected. What was free and seek cool
Speaker 1: for you from the perspective is you've been in the
Speaker 1: National Football League for a number of years, You've played
Speaker 1: in three postseason games, and then you see Joe Douglas
Speaker 1: go to work. He gets a guy like Jordan's Whitehead
Speaker 1: who has the championship ring. He's used to playing in
Speaker 1: big games with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You mentioned DJ
Speaker 1: Reid before, He's got some playoff experience on the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball. You can talk about c J's
Speaker 1: just played in the Super Bowl. Lincoln Thomlinson, who was
Speaker 1: part of the build himself in San Francisco. So these
Speaker 1: guys young veterans, but also guys have won before, right
Speaker 1: the key things that they've won before, so they've seen
Speaker 1: it done right. They have been in the system that've
Speaker 1: done the right, and they've been around players that have
Speaker 1: done the right. So if they don't see things being
Speaker 1: done right, it's more easy if for doing to point
Speaker 1: it out compared to you know, players that have that
Speaker 1: have you know, come from organizations where things have been
Speaker 1: a little more lenient or some things haven't been or
Speaker 1: things have been ran up tight um, you know, depending
Speaker 1: on coaches, things like that. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you know, it's when you've been around winning,
Speaker 1: you know how to win, your coach to win, and
Speaker 1: you do the right things to win. When you see
Speaker 1: things that to make you lose, it's easier to find
Speaker 1: point out. So I think that was a great thing
Speaker 1: that we did with the free agent that we sawn
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that that came here to win.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the most important. They came here to win,
Speaker 1: and they want to win, and they want to win here,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's all you can ask for
Speaker 1: when you when you see it with your What do
Speaker 1: you think about the numbers up front in front of you? Uh,
Speaker 1: if Carl Lawson is back, we're anticipating him to make
Speaker 1: his appearance back on the field. Here at the start
Speaker 1: of training camp. You know he's busting his butt to
Speaker 1: get back. Uh. He was so dynamic during training camp
Speaker 1: last year. You obviously add Jermaine Johnson trade up in
Speaker 1: the first round to get him. Get a guy like
Speaker 1: Michael Clemens. Solomon Thomas is a former UH first round pick,
Speaker 1: a top five pick who's familiar with the system. I
Speaker 1: know he brings that reteran presence as well. Jacob Martin
Speaker 1: bringing some speed and explosion off the edge. Well, what
Speaker 1: do you think about what's going to be in front
Speaker 1: of you in two thousand twenty two. Well, our defense,
Speaker 1: a line is all about attack. So if nothing else,
Speaker 1: they're gonna attack the line of scrammers. So I never
Speaker 1: have to worry about that part. Um one thing I've
Speaker 1: I've focused on another part of you know, making my
Speaker 1: game better and getting better in his defense, if Ben
Speaker 1: is looking at how you know the guys in front
Speaker 1: of me get off the line of scrimmage on type
Speaker 1: on different to run the play actual passes, because we're
Speaker 1: gonna be in situation as a linebacker where you know,
Speaker 1: because our offense our first first to get downhill, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be in positions where we can get caught by
Speaker 1: offensive line. So just knowing that is step one to
Speaker 1: put yourself in a better position as a linebacker. So
Speaker 1: for me, Um, it's me eliminating key reads. When I
Speaker 1: know I have a pass run conflict. If I know
Speaker 1: I'm not getting a certain paths, so I know I'm
Speaker 1: not getting a certain look, I can be a little
Speaker 1: more fast in my gap or slowing my gap depending
Speaker 1: on the call. So I think, you know, that's just
Speaker 1: gonna be like those next steps and evolving in his
Speaker 1: defense and being able to playoff playoff our teammates. But um,
Speaker 1: when it comes to you know the defensive line and
Speaker 1: you know our passed rushers off the edge, and you
Speaker 1: know our big guys up the middle that can still
Speaker 1: you know, we can still pressure the quarterback. Um, it's
Speaker 1: really just gonna be about you know, letting them playing
Speaker 1: and getting the third down, and yeah, on paper is
Speaker 1: gonna be really hard and in third down situations to
Speaker 1: get in the third down third along getting in those
Speaker 1: situations where we can really let let them go and
Speaker 1: you have great coverage in the back end because obviously
Speaker 1: you know we're great coverage comes more sacks. So you know,
Speaker 1: we cover the guys in the back end, cover the
Speaker 1: Enemedia routs, and you know, let the guys that we
Speaker 1: that we paid to get sex get sex. What's Robert
Speaker 1: Salo like with you specifically, because not only was the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator before, it's like coach, it's a long time
Speaker 1: linebackers coach. We have we have a really good relationship. No,
Speaker 1: we I guess. I guess I do things good enough
Speaker 1: where he don't. He's not coaching me as much. But
Speaker 1: if you know, if you see something, if you see
Speaker 1: a certain drop of a certain mechanic that I can
Speaker 1: do a little better now, he'll come to me and
Speaker 1: tell me. But honestly, besides that, it's it's pretty, it's pretty.
Speaker 1: Could you know, you know, check on the family acts.
Speaker 1: He was good. Everybody good. There has a little football
Speaker 1: talk in there. He might crack a joke, but you know,
Speaker 1: he usually you know, he's a head coach now, so
Speaker 1: he has to talk to everybody a little bit more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, talks to everybody. Do you like being in
Speaker 1: his meeting room? Everybody talks about his presence that you
Speaker 1: could feel him, Yeah, especially when he's talking. Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he's one of those guys like when you
Speaker 1: talk to you listen, so um, you know player, coach, um, great,
Speaker 1: he respectful, respects you, respect your time. But you know
Speaker 1: he only asks a few things. You know, all guys,
Speaker 1: no break. And it's it's that simple. And if you
Speaker 1: you know, if you believe in him, you know he'll
Speaker 1: believe in you. You protect the team, you know he'll
Speaker 1: protect you. You know, if you do the right thing,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna do the right thing about you.
Speaker 1: And that's that's really all you can ask. How much
Speaker 1: you appreciate your defensive coording. And jeff Aul Breck he's
Speaker 1: a guy who played that seasons in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: He lives by that model to all guests. No break.
Speaker 1: He's out there all over play. Yeah. I remember actually
Speaker 1: watching him when I was when I was a little younger,
Speaker 1: so I definitely remember his name, the mohawk. I think
Speaker 1: he had a nick pad back in the day. But
Speaker 1: you know, he's just one of those that's just the
Speaker 1: style of the NFL. It was back then, you know,
Speaker 1: the big the big burly guys just getting downhill, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to knock each other faces off. But you see
Speaker 1: how you know, the game has evolved, and you really
Speaker 1: see his passion for the game when he's coaching, when
Speaker 1: he is, you know, trying to put us in the
Speaker 1: right position. And um, he's he's been in the situation
Speaker 1: to you know, to win, to win the Super Bowl. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know some people might forget about that. So that's
Speaker 1: that's exciting for me because I know the system works.
Speaker 1: You know, if you if you do the right things,
Speaker 1: if you if you make the right play. So you know,
Speaker 1: just we you know with Brick, with coach Sala, with
Speaker 1: coach Rudy, Linebacker coach, you know, just just it's it's
Speaker 1: a whole family. Um um recommended during like all the guys,
Speaker 1: they all connected. That's and that's one thing that that
Speaker 1: a lot of players, and I would to say fans
Speaker 1: that they don't really know because you're not in the building.
Speaker 1: But a lot of players take that for granted. Um
Speaker 1: is the coaches, the coaches and you know their connection.
Speaker 1: You know how much time they spent together and other
Speaker 1: players that they've been So it's a lot of history
Speaker 1: with you know, a lot of our coaches that other places,
Speaker 1: you know, in the past ten years. What I mean,
Speaker 1: even our team chapel Um coached against. He was coaching
Speaker 1: against coach Rudy's team in high school. Like I found
Speaker 1: that out last week. So I mean, just you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy, like what sports can do. You know,
Speaker 1: far ast connection and you know who it brings you
Speaker 1: to and who he brings it back around too. So
Speaker 1: I think just um, it's a special thing that you
Speaker 1: know that obviously that we're evolving as a team, but
Speaker 1: our coaches are evolving as well. Yeah, Rudenberg and Aaron
Speaker 1: Whitecott in the defensive line coach, we're together at New
Speaker 1: Mexico State long before they started the round careers. I
Speaker 1: want to get final thoughts here on your second year
Speaker 1: quarterback Zach Wilson. Everybody's talked about him coming to camp
Speaker 1: a little bit more muscle, lie, he's about two hundred
Speaker 1: one pounds, things like that. What's his next step? Uh,
Speaker 1: I would say, especially for quarterbacks is always that that
Speaker 1: year one of year to jump with uh, you know,
Speaker 1: with the recognition, um, you know, what what is he
Speaker 1: reading was he looking at? I mean, I was. I
Speaker 1: can't tell you because I'm not in the room, but
Speaker 1: I think that would be the next step for him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's gonna take care of his body. You know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna he got the people in the
Speaker 1: right people in this corner that's gonna tell him do
Speaker 1: the right things. And he's gonna do the right things.
Speaker 1: But you know, like I said, when when we get
Speaker 1: on the field, it's all it gonna always going to
Speaker 1: be about, you know, his his recognition and you know,
Speaker 1: being able to control the football and you know, if
Speaker 1: you can if you can do that, and like I said,
Speaker 1: we can show the turnover margin, you know we're gonna
Speaker 1: be in nine out of ten games. He's always been
Speaker 1: a confident guy. But did see something different than the
Speaker 1: kid who come here, came here last spring after being
Speaker 1: drafted with so much on the shoulders. Yeah, when you're
Speaker 1: when you're a rookie and obviously you know the number
Speaker 1: one guy, the quarterback, you know this, that and the other,
Speaker 1: it's it's pressure all the time. And on top of that,
Speaker 1: you learn a new system and the new league with
Speaker 1: new players and all these other things. So just some
Speaker 1: year one of year two, just that he's gonna be
Speaker 1: less jittery about you know, the playbook part, like he
Speaker 1: knows the playbook, he knows his players, like he knows
Speaker 1: the system. So that part, I feel like he can
Speaker 1: I want to say, relaxed, but it can be more confident.
Speaker 1: And and it's not like he's just I gotta learn
Speaker 1: this new play today. I got learned this new play tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We gotta a new thing coming in next week. Like
Speaker 1: he's seen he's seen some of these things already. He's
Speaker 1: seen these formations. You know. You know what we're doing
Speaker 1: on defense is we're not taking it easy on We're
Speaker 1: really trying to make him make the right reads, you know,
Speaker 1: put put hands in his face, all type of things,
Speaker 1: you know, like we say, try to make him uncomfortable
Speaker 1: being comfortable. So um, I think you know you're two around.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see, you know, Zach Wilson dumber two making
Speaker 1: a lot of players on his feet, being in the pocket,
Speaker 1: making plays, um and taking care of the football. Let's
Speaker 1: end here, let's go to Alabama. How much would uh
Speaker 1: C J. Mosley coming out of high school have made
Speaker 1: if and I ol, what's going back then like it
Speaker 1: is now? Well, I'm still I still have a defensive player,
Speaker 1: so it would have been nice, but it would have
Speaker 1: been no quarterback. Hey, j and Um and Graham Mcar
Speaker 1: would have took all that. So we had some some
Speaker 1: all stars on offense. You gotta think about Julio, you
Speaker 1: gotta think about Ingraham Trent. Uh, I can, I can,
Speaker 1: I can keep going and you got the Mari. Yeah
Speaker 1: we have crumps. Compared to those, you still would have
Speaker 1: made a pretty penny. And then uh a more serious note,
Speaker 1: can you talk about giving back how much the community
Speaker 1: means to you, because you're gonna go back here after
Speaker 1: veter Mini Camp concludes to do your annual camp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, been been in athletics most of my life,
Speaker 1: always been been honored to be a part of the community,
Speaker 1: always giving back in and even with my family, you know,
Speaker 1: we always you know, find ourselves giving back or being
Speaker 1: in the community. So you know, for me, it's always
Speaker 1: it's always good to get back, not just know for
Speaker 1: myself and for the exposure, but you just never know
Speaker 1: what you know that that person or that kid or
Speaker 1: that family might be going through that day, or what
Speaker 1: they've been going through and just you know, just you've
Speaker 1: been there can give them no signs of hope or
Speaker 1: you know whatever that you're hosting that can you know,
Speaker 1: put them in a in a better position than what
Speaker 1: they were when they first got there. Um. So that's
Speaker 1: that's really my reason for you know, giving back or
Speaker 1: being in community or participating in any kind of charity
Speaker 1: events that I do. And as far as so as
Speaker 1: far as my camp, m that's I haven't actually been
Speaker 1: two years now because of covid um, so it was
Speaker 1: going on for three years. So I think this would
Speaker 1: be the fourth the fourth or fifth year now. But
Speaker 1: it's my my annual you know skill for football camp
Speaker 1: that I do back in my high school in theater
Speaker 1: or Alabama be hosting to the June twenty three is
Speaker 1: one day we have we have to to practices and
Speaker 1: a little seven or seven because that's like the new
Speaker 1: thing now everybody everybody loves seven or seven. So that's
Speaker 1: definitely get get get the kids going. And and what
Speaker 1: we do is Saturday, we always have a we call
Speaker 1: it all white party, and so it started off you know,
Speaker 1: just everybody that you know participated in help. You know,
Speaker 1: we just celebrate each other. It's just like a almost
Speaker 1: like a family of union because it's a bunch of
Speaker 1: friends and family, you know, coaches, um, the teachers that
Speaker 1: help from the high school, um, all that type of things.
Speaker 1: But over the years, we know, we started, you know,
Speaker 1: we started doing grand charging at the door, but all
Speaker 1: the money and all the proceeds went to a family
Speaker 1: and need whether you know something the hospital paying for
Speaker 1: a bill, um, you know, disability anything like that. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, like what what we have for this
Speaker 1: year because I you know, my parents and my mom,
Speaker 1: dad and me, we all figure out like who's gonna
Speaker 1: who's gonna choose for this? But that's usually how I go.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's pretty cool, and it just really
Speaker 1: turning into something like right in front of our eyes.
Speaker 1: Flow key. Yeah. Well, hey, listen, as you approach a birthday, thirty,
Speaker 1: happy birthday. You got a lot to celebrate, enjoy your summer.
Speaker 1: We'll be seeing your bank here soon, so you real
Speaker 1: soon appreciate it.