WEBVTT - Josh Hines-Allen talks finding his Mamba Mentality, learning from the OGs, attending Cam’s Sack Summit (ENCORE) 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.200 Here we are on off the edge with me, your host, 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.480 Cam Jordan's and I'm just overly blessed, overly happy to 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:12.680 be here in Las Vegas at the annual Sack Summit, 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.600 which has become a thing now you know me, Von Miller, 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:21.479 Max Crosby, first collaboration. We're gonna take off from here. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:26.160 But I'm sitting here with my guy, Josh Allen. When 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:29.120 I say paid is an understatement. We're not gonna put 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.400 numbers out there, but he just got paid this offseason. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.440 We are so excited for him to join the show. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.760 When I say pro bowler, we talk about Josh Allen. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.320 When I say, you know a guy who had seventeen 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.600 half sacks this past season, a threshold that is hard 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:45.720 to get to. You know, there's been a lot of 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:50.560 seasons you can put together half ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.760 Once you get beyond that fifteen, you get in a real, 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.400 real rare air and you hit seventeen half marks and 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.600 seventeen half sacks for the mark this is past season. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.280 I'm just gonna say, congratulations on your success, Congratulations on 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.440 getting paid, Congratulations on everything you've done at this point. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.480 And I know there's so much more, but I appreciate 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.040 you tapping in on the show to be here with you, 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.479 big bro. Yeah, indeed, and you've been to Sax some before, right, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.440 I have eight years ago. I would say it was 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.640 one of them years. I was like all these all 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.240 these sex im start to blend together, like definitely been here. Yes, 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.520 I was it three years ago. And now you're coming 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.640 back you know where where it's bigger and better than ever. Uh, 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.000 sitting here at a hotel where we're about to get 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.880 active tomorrow, get some real work in. What are you 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.920 looking forward to? Uh? Communication? 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:41.039 Uh, blending with the guys, learning, growing, and also spreading 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.800 my knowledge and wealth things that I you know, learned 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.600 throughout these years that I could pass on to other guys. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.880 Spreading wealth. Can I get a dollar wealth the wealth 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.360 of knowledge? I can help some money, you know, Okay, 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.680 no doubt, no doubt speaking of you know, just the 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.440 the success that you had, have you have you had 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.400 a big splurg Yet I know you got a fami. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.320 I know you got kids beyond moms, and I know 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.000 you took care of the fam. I know you got 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:10.760 a wife. He probably got a nice purse out of it. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.959 What did you get you? I got a new car. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.400 Oh, we'll say double. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:17.960 R Oh I had to get it. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.360 Oh big, big, big dog. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:25.760 Okay, I'm saving that. What a driver? Oh does it 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.000 come with the driver? What does a double ar come 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.959 with the driver? You gotta sell you separately. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.280 It's easy. You gotta get it separately. It's easy to 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.160 get one, especially in jackson A lot of people. Yeah, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:41.400 Jacksonville really small. Oh you boy, I'm not gonna lie 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:41.600 to you. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.000 When I first got to Jacksonville, my my big homie 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:49.399 Tyson Lulu was drafted. Was that twenty ten, first time 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.959 I ever got through Jacksonville. I was like, there's nothing here. 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.000 Nope, that's why it's easy to make people. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:58.400 No people. I mean, fourteen years later, it actually looks 0:02:58.400 --> 0:02:59.960 like it's like a solid city. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.240 Yeah, it's growing. It's definitely grown. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.840 With the new stadium being built too, then that's gonna 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.280 bring a lot more revenue, a lot more more money 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:07.760 in the city. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:08.400 Uh. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.720 And then bringing the four seasons into our owner, bringing 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:12.880 the four seasons in and. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.400 You got a four season in Jacksonville, were making one. 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.280 Yeah, So we're doing something man, And you know, hopefully 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:20.120 that just keeps growing. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.919 And growing for us right right, You got my you 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.359 got my former d line coach Ryan Nilson as your decordinator. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.720 Now you've had you know a little off season with them. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:30.720 How do you like him so far? 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:32.880 I mean, so far, so good, you know for me, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.320 you know, he called the first time. The first thing 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.680 he talked about when I talked on the phone was 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.640 he going forward. That's all I need to hear. Now, 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.520 put the ball in my court, let me be me 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:44.320 and we can do that. And I think it's the 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.560 conversations that we had. He kind of lets you, you know, 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.200 take a choke because I think in his defense, you know, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.720 the ends right, need to be need to be elite, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.760 you know, needs to be those guys. And where I'm at, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.800 where my trajectory is going in my career, I can 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.440 only see myself going up. So if you allow me 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.280 to go right, trust me, then I'm gonna go. And 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.200 but now this year, man, I did that last year 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.960 by myself. Now it's trying to spread that well to 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.120 the others. You know, Uh, got Trey who's coming up, 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.839 Got Eric that's new, and we got a lot of 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.200 younger guys that I can kind of like, let's let's 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:20.600 do this a big movie like this. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.360 You have the monster in the middle. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.720 Now I'm already No, man, I'm happy. I'm happy kid 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:27.400 in the candy stuff. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.680 Sure, it seems like you guys got a strong collective. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.440 You know, a couple of years ago they paid the 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.480 wide receiver Kirk. You know, they kept They're starting to 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:41.880 keep their own you. You know, Trevor Lawrence. How does 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.640 howes it make you feel? The organization, you know, wants 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.520 to love the players, wants to you know, pay their 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.800 loyalty towards players like you and Trevor. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.280 I mean it means a lot. Uh, it means we're 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.280 going in the right direction. You know, things that haven't 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.360 been done in a very long time. You know, for 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.800 me to be the first you know, one hundred million 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.359 dollar player and or like in the whole organization. Uh, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.640 it's kind of crazy, but it's a it's a humble experience, 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.080 and you know, I'm thankful for that. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.480 But it's we're in the right direction. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.840 We're keeping our top players, our best players, and our 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.719 core players as well, so we can continue to keep 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.000 building on that, keep bringing the younger guys up. That's 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.480 why we put these guys in these roles to I mean, 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.719 you play for the Saints, you had none but young 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.440 guys and build them up and now you see them 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.000 go here, go there. But they helped the organization build 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.520 as well. That's all I want to do. Put my 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.920 name on the map and never be forgotten in Jacksonville history, right. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.640 Right, But I mean, just keep your core guys in there. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.440 Keep your locker room integrity good too, like the vibes, 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.720 the ability for you know, in the season you want 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.039 to have adversity. You're going to have those wins by 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.640 twenty points. Some losses by threes that hurt way more 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.240 than a blowout loss. But that core locker room keeps 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.200 it going. Like, tell me about that, Tell me about 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.159 your locker room. How does it feel? Because you know, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.159 every locker room is different, so I'm always intrigued to know, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:56.919 like what is your locker room feel like? 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.560 Is there is you know, over you go, I don't 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.920 see any dancing or like, you know, now, we've got 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.440 a cool locked room. We got a lot of young guys. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.000 This is one or two things that we I think 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.599 we need to implement this year moving forward to build 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.039 that team chemistry. I think right now, we too were 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.719 too blocked off, you know where we got one one 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.520 one group of like D line in one area, right 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:20.560 old line in another area. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:21.840 I think we need to mix that up. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.520 Uh and just just know you know your teammates and 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.200 I think that kind of being I think that would 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.480 bring a lot more chemistry with each other offers and defensively. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.680 But other than that, we got a young locker room. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:33.520 We'd like to have fun. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:35.479 Who gets control of the ox? 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:37.360 You know, I keep boom box? 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.760 Okay, you know, so I usually but I like the 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.000 old schools and so if I'm on it, you know, 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.880 I'm usually playing cards with the guys and I'm playing 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.360 you know, my jams and stuff. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.159 What's old school for you, sir? You were born in 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.080 the late nineties. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.640 No old so I like, you know, I like like 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.960 a little Luther, you know, I like I like a 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.080 little like Big Luther music, soul child. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:06:58.880 You know. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:00.000 I like the vibe. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.839 Bro. I like to keep it because we all we 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.680 go out on the field, we listen in that rap. 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.760 We go in the weight room, were listening in the rap. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.880 You know, all this stops rolling around. Kind of need 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.200 it in the locker room. Just keep a nice chill vibe. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.480 Everybody talking vibbing out. Like I said, we're playing cards. 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.760 We got a basketball hoop. You know, we got a 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.760 nice little you know, game room. Guys go chilling. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:22.520 I got a game room. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.000 Yeah we do, like Jackson, what you mean like like 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.920 I said, we got it's like a little lounge, a 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:32.400 little lounge. We got piers fous golf simulator, ping pong table. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.400 Yeah, come on, man, we got simulator. We're doing it. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.040 Okay, Okay, I love it. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:42.680 I love it. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.360 I mean, uh, we know obviously you're you're you're a 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.120 leader on the team. You lead by example. What's it 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.840 like to have, you know, Trevor Lawrence, former number one 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.160 overall pick from Clemson? Uh? What is he like as 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.000 a quarterback? I mean when I when I came to 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.160 the league, I had Drew Brees and like so they 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.880 epitome of a leader. I know exactly what that looked like. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.400 You know, for you you come in and then you 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.760 get you get Trevor Lawrence, and he clearly is a 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.920 clear cut got to be a leader. The way he plays, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.840 the way he you know, implements his style to the game. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.280 What is he like as a leader? 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.520 One thing that I can say about Trevor Man is 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.520 the consistency that he has with the routine. You know, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.280 I think the more older I get is you know, 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.440 you have to have a routine, but you can't be 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.960 a robot to that routine. But you have to have 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.840 a routine. And I remember, you know, his second year 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.480 and he just wasn't playing as good every morning because 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.240 we're like early birds, so I come in there heat 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.400 right there. So it's like seeing that every single day 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.280 from now, from then to now, it's consistent. You know, 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.920 He's always had the same demeanor of like we're gonna 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.240 get it. You know what I'm saying, We're gonna command this, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.400 We're gonna take control, you know, but we just have 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.760 to keep seasoning the moments. And but so for me, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.960 just to see him stay disciplined, to see him stay 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.760 locked in Lilliam State, trusted in his after what works 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.840 for him, you know, I like to see that. And 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.120 he's been doing that ever since. And I know it's 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:06.760 gonna pay off. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:07.360 You know. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.640 I think he's gonna have to you know, breakout year 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.400 this year, and I think he's gonna lead us the 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.560 right away and lead us to you know a lot 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:14.200 of victories. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.160 Okay, okay, I mean yeah, that the AFC out there 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:23.480 scrapping y'all. Y'all, y'all heavy sets. Yeah we did. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.360 Yeah, it's uh, it's just the d line though, you 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.400 know how the dy you know, the Battle of Trench 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:30.520 is really gonna play a part. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.839 And I think the investments y'all made. The last time 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.880 y'all had success into into the playoffs was you know, 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.760 back when it was Saxonville. So like what y'all, what 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.120 y'all created with the addition of Eric Armstead, y'all have 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:42.720 potential get. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.440 Back, get back to it, you know. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.480 Like it's like I said in the intro, you had 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.240 seventeen seventeen and a half sax this past season. Uh, 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.440 how do you talk this last season in terms of production? 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.400 I think, you know, I think last year, man, last 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.200 year was a difficult. It wasn't It was difficult for me, 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.200 you know, because I feel like I couldn't rely on 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.480 anybody else mentally. So it's like two people, three people communication, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.920 no communication. I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna meet the 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.800 band in front of me. I studied the dude since 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.400 since since July, since June, you know, I know my 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.600 matchup and I'm gonna work this dude in front of me. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.840 And I think, you know, that gave me a lot 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.960 of success individually, but I think it kind of I 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.280 could where I could have spreaded that wealth all over 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.559 the line and build this person and build that person up. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.680 I think it was just like I did it by myself. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.600 Now let me see if I can do this, but 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.559 added add the value to everybody else, you know, and 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.640 bring them to my level. I don't won't go to 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.320 nobody else's level. I don't want to bring everybody up 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.320 to my level. And obviously adding Eric, a guy that's 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.480 been played at the high level for so long, played 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.200 with guys that played at the high level, play with 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.839 Nick defensive play of the Year, so he knows what 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.000 that work ethic is and he knows what that competitive is. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.280 So it's like, if I can bring that to my 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.280 other guys and take more control right there, this y'all 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:01.760 far we can go as a whole D line now. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.520 And that's why I say, like AFC South young quarterbacks, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.000 you know, we got guys really throwing that. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.480 Ball there, and who's gonna win up front? Right? 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.719 And if you look at every super Bowl. You know 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.439 who who's taking over. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.920 The line heat and you see which one's gonna win. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:18.800 And I told him that, right, I won't be the 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.600 best one. We're gonna be the best D line, and 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:22.960 we gonna be the best D line. That won't be 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.880 the best one. So you know that's my that's my 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.319 challenge for them, and you know they accept, They know that. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:29.720 They know. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.440 They accept that for me, and I accept that for 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.480 them as well. Like Trade, Me and Trey talk all 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.800 the time. That's like my little brother, and like he 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.800 know and I know he knows I'm gonna be the 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.040 top dog. Te you got to come give me well, 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:42.559 he said, Josh, I'm gonna be top doll. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.120 We're gonna work. You know what I'm saying. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.240 It's that competitive edge, man. We need to compete. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:46.880 You know. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.199 I want to be the best. You want to be 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:48.640 the best. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.600 We want to be the best together, and we keep 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.400 we got to keep proving it right. Everybody can do 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.080 it one time, everybody, Look you do it two times, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:57.600 three times. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.640 That's where I gotta get the word. The world tries 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.760 to to crown people king over one year. If you've 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.120 been in the Lee long enough, I'm like yeah, but 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.120 show me three four years. You can do it three 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.320 four years. I believe in the height. If you do 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.959 it for one year, anybody can catch a lick. Anybody, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.160 anybody can roll the dice and be amazing. Off one 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.040 roll show you can continue, you know, and you like 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.400 that building like and the greatest thing about you just 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.320 said is you know like i'ma topped up but I 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:23.880 want you to come get me. It's like I used 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.480 to tell the d Lion. I'm telling d Lion all 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.520 the time. I like, Yo, if y'all can shine as 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.760 bright as y'all can, Like if y'all bring in everything 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.040 y'all do, y'all be amazing as you can, think about 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.040 how much more amazing I'm gonna look too, because like 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.280 if you bro, if you're if you're a sword and 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.880 you're your sword and your sword everybody is what is 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.400 these gleaming swords call me excaliburate, like I'm gonna be 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.040 like I'm a king slayer. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.520 And you have to have that mentality in this game 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.400 so when you come to it, like I want to 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.760 make Brian Bezi the best he can be. I want 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.080 to be uh I want. I want to make car 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.480 grants and the best that he can be, because by 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.000 doing that that elevates their play, which is gonna push 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.240 myself to work even harder. Sir, what did you what 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.480 did you do this differently? You know from years previous 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.600 to this break, this huge monsters here, you just had 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.959 staying locked in. You know, I did a lot more 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.880 reading this past year by my audio books. Uh, audio 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.040 books like actually books protecting football or just like mental 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.960 mental mindset brooks, you know, being able to stay locked in, uh, 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.360 being able to control, you know, control what you could control. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.480 So for me game days, man, I didn't listen to 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:32.000 any music. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.240 You know, I was really big on you know, if 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.160 anything was to happen, I didn't want music to be 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.520 the reason why I didn't perform, you know, or it 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:40.760 didn't I didn't play my song. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.000 I didn't do this, just like little things. So it 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:43.840 was really big. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.080 On how mentally can I be in the game, Like 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.280 I'm mentally confident. I know, I studied this dude for 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.400 so long. I studied his offense for so long. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:53.480 So if there was no music, how did you keep 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.240 your cane? A lot there? 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.920 I'm just breathing watching a film a long time. You know, 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.160 I get in the dark room. So my first thing, 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.040 my people find me a dark room. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.440 I get a dark room. I go in there. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.800 I just chill out, control my thoughts, like in the stadium, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.000 in the stadium, in the locker room. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.160 And so once you once you get to the stadium. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:13.840 I find me. You know, my people give me a 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.520 dark room. I go in there, and you know, I 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.560 take a little nap. I read my book. First of all. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.760 I read my book so I can like get off 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.080 of football, get off of you know, any feeling that 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.560 I'm about to feel and just have like a you know, 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.720 I got better off of reading, you know, and I'm 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.840 reading things that's that can apply to me in this game. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.160 So I'm reading these books. I'm taking naps. I listen 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.280 to a little jazz here. And I got that from Lebron. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.760 Uh I got that from Brin. I definitely take that 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:42.120 from Bro. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.280 And you stay on the first page, like no, I read, Okay, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:46.840 I read. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:53.080 I'd be reading this uh Relentlessness by Tim Grover, and 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.640 you know he talks about three years of people you 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.280 got a cooler, cleaner, and you got a cooler, you 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.480 got a cleaner, and you got a closer. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:04.920 I'm a cleaner, you. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.640 Know, cleaner, cleaner. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.840 What's the cleaner the. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:11.720 Guy that do it right? 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.000 You know, a guy that do it right half the time. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.760 And you got the cooler, that guy that's just out there. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.480 You know, I don't want to you know they talking 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.840 about clutch people. You know, clutch people come come in 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.080 clutch moments. I wouldn't be a player that come in 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.600 at all moments. And so if I can continue to 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.240 have that mindset, continue to challenge myself, continue to push 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.160 myself in practice, first one on the field, last one 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.320 to leave. Really doing things that's applying myself to get 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:42.080 better during practice. You know, I do things pre practice 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.400 to get better during practice, and then I do the 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.720 things that after practice that I didn't do right in practice. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.000 So every day I just feel like I'm getting better. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.000 You know, I'm eating right. You know, my family, my 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:57.000 family is situated. I make sure my wife is you know, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.720 stable enough that if I'm not in the house with 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.360 covering my body, are sleeping in the type of barrick 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.720 that everything's okay. And make sure I spend time with 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.360 my kids and obviously tell them, let them know why 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.600 I'm doing what I'm doing. And also I take them 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.520 with me sometimes, so you know, making sure everything in 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.200 my life is is what it's supposed to be so 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:17.920 I can play. That's why kids like we had to 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:18.880 chill out on the kids. 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.640 You know, three three three is a plenty at it 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:26.200 gets to be a lot, especially in season. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.600 You know, wife, you need a date night, we do it. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:30.600 They night, Tuesday night. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.840 We date nights tuesday'day night. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.200 You guys do like a defensive line dinner defense. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.520 So again, so you know, un fortunately, we've been building 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.640 our house for three years and it just got finished 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.440 right before I signed my contract. And so prior to that, 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.240 I was like I don't know what we're gonna do. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:47.200 You know. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.040 I was like, we're gonna sell it, We're gonna move here. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:49.640 We gotta do this. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.040 And then we get our house done, and then a 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.120 couple days ago we signed our contract. So it's like, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.720 this is our future. We built it for our family 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.080 and so like, and now we got it built to 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.800 where we can entertain, We have spaces for the kids, 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:03.920 and then we have people. Now we can have people over, 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.640 So I kind of want to That's why he said 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.680 take more control and take more lead, come over. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:09.440 You know what I'm saying. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.480 I got a full chef now that can that can 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.960 help cater out not only myself but for everybody else 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:18.040 as well. And so you know we did differs. Yeah, 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.600 but I want to do more of like a chill 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.000 like come to the crib. Maybe we will watch the game, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.920