Speaker 1: What's Good Command is saying. This is Brian Coole Jun
Speaker 1: and this is the Next Man Up podcast. Our Next
Speaker 1: Man Up is no other than Duran Pain.
Speaker 2: We talk about family life. We talk about being from Birmingham, Alabama, getting.
Speaker 1: His high school jersey retired, and giving back to his community.
Speaker 1: All that and more starts right now. What's Good Command
Speaker 1: is family. I'm Brian Coop with Jr. And this is
Speaker 1: Next Man Up where we take a deeper look behind
Speaker 1: the helmet of your favorite Commanders players. And the Next
Speaker 1: Man Up is no other than all big man in
Speaker 1: the middle, Dan Pain. Duran appreciate you being here.
Speaker 2: With his brother, nice goody good Yes, sir man.
Speaker 1: So, like I said, we like to look more into
Speaker 1: the man. You know what I'm saying, Not so much
Speaker 1: exits and those talk where we'd like to just talk
Speaker 1: about what makes you who you are. So first things,
Speaker 1: First things first, Birmingham, Alabama. Talk about that and what
Speaker 1: that place means to you.
Speaker 3: Ah man, just I love that place. I go there
Speaker 3: doing the off season. I got a home there, my
Speaker 3: family's there. I feel like that's just the place that
Speaker 3: made me who I am today. It's a lot, there's
Speaker 3: a lot going on there. A lot of people are like,
Speaker 3: we got a lot of good football players, but people
Speaker 3: get in trouble and there's a lot of trouble to
Speaker 3: try to maneuver your way out of. But for the
Speaker 3: most part, it's a cool place to grow up. I
Speaker 3: appreciate it because I feel like it made me who
Speaker 3: I am today.
Speaker 2: And you talk about all.
Speaker 1: Those things that are going on out there, how did
Speaker 1: you stay focused and be able to make it to
Speaker 1: the level that you've made it to.
Speaker 3: I feel like I was just like a sports head,
Speaker 3: like I just want to go to football practice, baseball practice,
Speaker 3: track practice, Like I'm at practice every day, so I
Speaker 3: couldn't I couldn't focus on nothing else but being my
Speaker 3: best self and getting ready for whatever else I got
Speaker 3: to do to this day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you went to Shakes Valley High right now, they
Speaker 1: just retired your jersey, gave you the key to the city.
Speaker 1: What does it mean to get that type of love
Speaker 1: from your hometown.
Speaker 3: I just cool because I grew up there and like,
Speaker 3: I try to come back as much as I can
Speaker 3: and give back to the community and do things with
Speaker 3: like the kids and stuff. So I just appreciate it
Speaker 3: because I can tell that they appreciate me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and you definitely give back because you just
Speaker 1: did in like an elite offensive lineman defensive lineman type
Speaker 1: camp at your high school right now.
Speaker 3: We did this year, we did just like the kids.
Speaker 3: We were supposed to do a who lot of D
Speaker 3: line camp, but it didn't really play out like we
Speaker 3: wanted to, so we just did and your like kids
Speaker 3: camp football camp. Yeah, So why is that important? Why
Speaker 3: is it so important for you to give back to
Speaker 3: the youth from your community. I mean when I was
Speaker 3: growing up, I used to go to like little guys,
Speaker 3: like guys that was in the NFL, I.
Speaker 2: Used to go to their camp.
Speaker 3: So I know, I'm really in touch with a lot
Speaker 3: of the kids that grow up there. So I just
Speaker 3: get a chance to see them and see how they're
Speaker 3: progressing over the years and stuff. So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Then I got like all my little cousins they be
Speaker 3: coming out to the camp. Missle with them a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are those moments like, do they put perspective
Speaker 1: on you? Like when you see the key is when
Speaker 1: you're back with your family, when you're back where you
Speaker 1: came from, does that give you some type of perspective onto,
Speaker 1: like how you're dealing with now You're like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, six in the NFL, Like, does that give you
Speaker 2: a little perspective? Man?
Speaker 3: This is just crazy how fast it just goes. Like
Speaker 3: I feel like I was just a rookie not too
Speaker 3: long ago, and I'm an old head in the locker.
Speaker 2: Room, or you're still a young man and you're still
Speaker 2: you're still improving.
Speaker 1: I mean last season arguably your best season, and you
Speaker 1: made it to the Pro Bowl. You set the career
Speaker 1: record for the franchise in sacks, I mean career highs
Speaker 1: across the board, a lot of accolades, and you also
Speaker 1: got Washington Player.
Speaker 2: Of the Year.
Speaker 1: What are those all those things mean to you being
Speaker 1: a veteran now that you're not a rookie no more. Man,
Speaker 1: you've grown now.
Speaker 3: I mean just she was seeing, like you said, Washington
Speaker 3: Player the Year, just seeing like the people that got
Speaker 3: that award before me, like RK. Trick Williams and a
Speaker 3: bunch of those guys, Like those guys you as dogs
Speaker 3: of the team. So just to see that people recognize
Speaker 3: me as a player like that just means the world
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: You're very humble man, because even during like you have
Speaker 1: time to do a speech during that Player of the
Speaker 1: Year award, and instead of like you know, talking about yourself,
Speaker 1: you shout out your moms, talked about your moms. You
Speaker 1: made sure she was up there with you. Why was
Speaker 1: it so important in that moment to give her love?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Really, that's easy for me, Like I don't like the spotlight,
Speaker 3: so for me, like, I know, she'd be ready to
Speaker 3: get out the house and do stuff, So for me
Speaker 3: to throw the spotlight on her, that was easy. Look
Speaker 3: at her.
Speaker 1: So talking about you in your mother's relationship a little bit,
Speaker 1: like you know, I know you guys are very very close.
Speaker 1: I know she means a lot to you. I know
Speaker 1: she's very inspirational to you. Just talk about you and
Speaker 1: your mother's relationship.
Speaker 3: No, man, She's just been there for me since the beginning,
Speaker 3: and she always had to deal with her health, but
Speaker 3: she always made sure that I was able to get
Speaker 3: back and forth door I needed to be and had
Speaker 3: all the things I need to do. So I just
Speaker 3: always try to repay her with the way did I
Speaker 3: like uphold myself and the way that I play on
Speaker 3: the field and all that little stuff.
Speaker 1: How did watch her go through her trials and tribulations
Speaker 1: affect you not only as a man, but as an athlete.
Speaker 3: I feel like he just taught me, like, man, you
Speaker 3: got to just keep pushing, like no matter what the
Speaker 3: circumstance is, you got to be able to just fight
Speaker 3: through whatever and just keep grinding no matter how hard
Speaker 3: to get.
Speaker 2: What are those conversations you guys have now?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, when you're a kid growing up,
Speaker 1: you know our parents are there to guide that some
Speaker 1: kind of keep us out of trouble and all that.
Speaker 2: But now you.
Speaker 1: Know essentially you've made it right. You have a long career,
Speaker 1: you've gotten the bag. You know you've made it. What
Speaker 1: are those conversations like now with your mother?
Speaker 3: I mean, my mom she cool. She pretty much just
Speaker 3: let me do whatever I wanted to do. She said
Speaker 3: I would do it anyway. But now it's cool, man.
Speaker 3: She just I know, she's pretty proud of me. She's
Speaker 3: always be seeing me being happy and just doing the things.
Speaker 1: I love you, and you definitely give back to your community,
Speaker 1: but you also make sure you take care of your mother.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty, you surprised that with a crib
Speaker 1: man a house, a beautiful house, said that man talk
Speaker 1: about that moment.
Speaker 2: Talk about seeing your mother overcome with emotion in that moment.
Speaker 2: That was easy.
Speaker 3: I have been wanted to do it for a minute,
Speaker 3: and I had finally just got the opportunity, found the
Speaker 3: little crib for and we was able to get a
Speaker 3: moved in. Well, I feel like you want a new
Speaker 3: house now. We probably about to get her something a
Speaker 3: little soon.
Speaker 2: We'll be three years about that time.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be tough for a little upgrade.
Speaker 1: There ain't nothing wrong with that, your mother. It's an
Speaker 1: inspiration to you now you're in this year. What inspires
Speaker 1: you right now? What else aspires you outside of your mother?
Speaker 1: What inspires dron Pain to keep going and being this
Speaker 1: monster that you are on that field?
Speaker 3: Man, I just love playing football, like I love just
Speaker 3: watching film. Like after the game, my girls, you get
Speaker 3: mad at me because I come home and I get
Speaker 3: straight back on my iPad and I'll be watching film.
Speaker 2: All night of the game.
Speaker 3: I just like seeing I don't know, I just like
Speaker 3: seeing that, I don't know, just watching everybody on the
Speaker 3: field watching me and just watching other players and stuff
Speaker 3: like I want to critique myself, critique people around me.
Speaker 3: And I just love football honestly.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because, like, you're so calm, it's so
Speaker 1: chill right now. As soon as you put that helmet on,
Speaker 1: mans soon as you go on that field, it's like
Speaker 1: a whole another person.
Speaker 2: What does that change? Like why do you have to
Speaker 2: get into that zone when you start playing?
Speaker 3: I made shoot, That's what I could be myself at,
Speaker 3: Like I could just go out there and just do
Speaker 3: whatever I want to do, honestly, But off the field,
Speaker 3: I'm really just chill honestly. I'll just be in the
Speaker 3: back vibe and cooland yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you have these moments where you get your mother crib,
Speaker 1: you go back to your high school, you do all
Speaker 1: these things. When did you feel like you accomplished everything
Speaker 1: you were trying to or do you still feel like
Speaker 1: you got more work to do?
Speaker 3: It's definitely more work to do. Like I know, last year,
Speaker 3: I was big on setting goals and just hitting those goals.
Speaker 3: So I pretty much hit almost all my goals last year.
Speaker 3: So I just was like, I'm gonna keep on doing
Speaker 3: the same thing and just make some new goals and
Speaker 3: try to just strive, strive and hit them in your chance.
Speaker 1: I get and I know your goal is to be
Speaker 1: the best. So I'm gonna ask you straight up. Are
Speaker 1: you and Jonathan Allen the best interior duo in the NFL?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: I think so if you look at actual plays and
Speaker 3: how we play and how we go about games, and
Speaker 3: actually turn on the film, you can see it.
Speaker 1: The last question for you man, had you miked up
Speaker 1: a few games ago and your boy too hell did
Speaker 1: a little celebration.
Speaker 2: You said, don't effort to that again. And why didn't
Speaker 2: you feel his dance? But did you give him some pointers?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: First he was it was like it took him a
Speaker 3: long time to do it. So I was like, you
Speaker 3: scared first off, and it just looked bad. So I
Speaker 3: was like, you gotta You think he can dance, but
Speaker 3: he really can't. Down He's always trying to dance when
Speaker 3: you may plays.
Speaker 2: So for those watching, what's the key to a good seller?
Speaker 2: Brad shit?
Speaker 3: I feel like, man, he should just stick to the gritty.
Speaker 3: You feel me like he's gritty is horrible, but that's
Speaker 3: what makes it good for him because it's so bad.
Speaker 3: We need to stick to that.
Speaker 2: I love the thounss man.
Speaker 1: Last question for you man, we got another NFC EA
Speaker 1: st opponent we're gonna be back at the crib playing
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia Eagles. That's your ICEO camera right there. Looking
Speaker 1: to that camera and tell the fans why they need
Speaker 1: to show up and show out for y'all this Sunday.
Speaker 3: Man, it's a big divisional game, is always big to
Speaker 3: win these and it's not even I mean it's a
Speaker 3: home game. So to be able to have y'all there
Speaker 3: fighting with us and being loud in the stadium, that
Speaker 3: really helps us out for sure.
Speaker 1: Man, we have no doubt the command this famous gonna
Speaker 1: pull up for you. We know you gonna show up
Speaker 1: and show out on Sunday like you always do. Drawing
Speaker 1: appreciate your time, man, ladies and gental. This is the
Speaker 1: next Man Up podcast. Brian Kobe here with our big
Speaker 1: many thanks, Commanders Fan. We love podcasts. We have a
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