WEBVTT - Press Pass: Brian Westbrook 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.080 So what's this mean to you? It's just something you've 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.040 ever thought about seeing some of your former teammates kind 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.800 of go away and Dark and stuff. Um, it's a 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.120 It means a lot to me. It means a lot 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:24.159 to my family as well. UM worked hard to be 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:25.840 honored like this, and I played with a lot of 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.320 guys that that got me to this place. I just 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.880 mentioned out there that you know, they said, how did 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:32.120 you get to the Hall of Fame? I was like, well, 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.720 I played with an awful lot of good players, and 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.800 they made my job a lot easier. And for me 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.320 to just go out there and make people missing, you know, 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.480 game yards, it was the easy work. But those guys 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.360 in front of me, of course, my offensive line and 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.400 those guys outside block and helps me a lot. Um. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.080 But this is a this is a great honor. I 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.640 never really thought about it. You know. I've seen guys 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.200 like Dark and Donovan, those guys who carried this team 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.840 for so long get inducted to the Hall of Fame, 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.760 and I believe you get there their number retired, Um, 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.240 you know, and of course I congratulate it and I 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.000 celebrate those guys because I know that they were great players. Um, 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.199 never really knew if I was going to get the opportunity, 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.520 but my day came, and it's a blessing. When you 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.520 played and we asked you about your numbers, you always 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.360 said that's something I'll think about when I can retire. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.200 Now that you've retired, to you look back at the 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.720 stats to catches, the yards. I think you're one of 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.440 only six players ever with thirty receiving touchdowns and thirty 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.240 rushing touchdowns. And what does all that stuff mean to you? 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.440 What it means a lot. You know, you put a 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.920 lot of hard work into just being able to play 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.360 and being able to be good at multiple things in 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.280 your NFL career as a player. But it just means 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.360 a lot, you know. And when when when I have 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.480 people come up to me now that are saying that 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.400 rattled off my stats and say I watch you when 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.400 I was young, things like that, it still amazes me 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.120 just a bit because you know, I don't look at 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.640 myself that way. I look at myself with just another 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.840 guy that that worked hard at his job and grind 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.520 it and good things happen when you work hard. And 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.400 I was fortunate run when you came out of Nova. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.480 I'm trying to get your mindset. Did you had ever 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.480 envisioned something like this happening. Did you have a certain 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.320 certain irrational arrogance that you were good enough even back 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.200 then or not. Well, I think when you go to 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.280 a smaller school, you never are quite sure and until 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.480 you get out there and do it. And you know, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.480 it was my end of my first year, I was like, Okay, 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.160 well I'm good enough, but I don't know if I'm 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.440 going to ever get the opportunity. Deuce was still here, 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.920 Buck was coming back from an injury, and so you 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.919 never are quite sure that you'll get the opportunity to 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.480 show what you can do. My second year, we split 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.000 time me bucking Duce a three Headed Monster, which was 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:37.960 a great experience for me because it allowed me to 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.720 get on field experience as well as played special teams 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.040 and things like that. And then my third year I 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.440 was able to get some starting experience and that was 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.080 when I was able to kind of take it to 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.160 the next level and kind of commend coach Reid for 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.040 bringing me along slowly. Even though you want to play 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.040 when you're younger, but he did a great job of 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.000 bringing me along slowly and allowing me to develop as 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:03.079 a player to stand out, you know, when you call 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.240 on the team accomplished, like well, I think making making 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:08.920 it to the super Bowl means a lot to me. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.359 Even though we didn't win. There's not a lot of 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:12.799 people that can say that they made it to the 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.520 super Bowl, you know. Um, so that that's a big accomplishment. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.399 I think personally, the pump return against the Giants means 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.600 a lot, you know, winning those playoff games, beat in Minnesota, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.160 beating Atlanta here to go to the NFC excuse me 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.560 to go to the super Bowl meant a lot to me. Um, 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.000 you know, I just you know, when when I think 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.320 about the memories of playing football here, you just think 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.240 more so about the time that you share with your teammates. Uh, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.080 those times in the locker room, was times on the 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.120 practice field where you're really just messing around, just guys 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.880 in the locker room, guys playing around, hanging out. Um, 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.240 those are the things that you think about. But you 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.400 also think about the games that you won. And we 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.280 won an awful lot of games while I was here, 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.080 And um, you know there's some guys like I talked 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.160 to Tekio Spikes all the time and he said that 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.960 he never made it to the playoffs, and for us 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.240 making it to the playoffs, that was that was that 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.760 was expected, that was something that we were supposed to do, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.200 and we were part of a winning tradition here in 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.040 Philadelphia and it feels good to be a part of 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.440 something like that. You always preached your level in the 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.640 playoffs and your playoffs numbers are really good. How much 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.080 pride you have in particular that you were able to 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.599 kind of shine in the biggest games, Well, yeah, I 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.440 think you know. It's been always my mindset that the 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.279 best players play play the best when they needed the most, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.839 and your team was never going to need you more 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.600 than in a scenario where if you lose, you go home. 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.359 And so that's the playoffs, and your mentality has to 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.720 take it to a different level. There's a there's a 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.320 level of training camp and many camps things like that, 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.240 and then when you go up to the next level 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.960 to regular season games, there's a little bit higher level 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.800 than the playoffs. Is an ultimate high and you got 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.400 to take your game to the next level. And that's 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.919 what coach Reid priest to us. But that's what we 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.359 also priesch to each other, and we were able to 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:58.800 go to the next level and win a lot of 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.120 a lot of playoff games. It looks like they're going 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.599 to have a three headed monster here again. Can you 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.839 talk about the challenges Metslinkers. I remember you sometimes, you know, 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.279 everybody wants to football when you're a running back, and 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.680 how do you deal with that. Well, it's tough, and 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.640 especially with these guys. Ryan Matthews, he was a starter 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.680 out there in San Diego, DeMarco was starting, so they're 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.400 used to being on the field most of the game 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:22.920 and it's gonna be a little tough because when you're 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:24.560 you know, for me, it was different because I was 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.719 coming from not playing very much to playing a little bit, 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.880 which felt pretty good, and you weren't as hungry to 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:32.560 play as much because you were kind of working in 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.240 the system. But these guys have been playing seventy five 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.280 eighty percent of the time, so it's a little bit 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.719 different if they get that knocked down to fifty and 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.520 fifty percent of the time. So it's going to be 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.520 a learning process for them, but they will stay fresh. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.280 It's just it's hard to stay involved in the game 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.200 when you're in the sideline. Some of the plays where 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.320 you think you should be out there, so it becomes 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.960 frustrating just a bit. But I think over time they'll 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.000 figure it out and they'll run enough plays here to 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.000 make sure everybody gets their opportunity. They could have chosen 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.279 any game to bring this and have this chose the Giants. Yeah, 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.719 you find that to be ironic obviously. Yeah, when mister 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.800 Laurie called me, he said, you know, we couldn't have 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.159 chosen a better game to kind of induct you to 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.640 the Hall of Fame than uh, when you play against 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.040 the Giants, and you know, he just mentioned you took 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.320 so much pride in h playing well against those guys. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.560 It was it was you know, for me, it was 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.559 this great matchup. It was a great opportunity to show 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.200 people close to what we can really do here and 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.839 what I could do as a player. Um, but yeah, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.360 it's kind of fitting that I'll go into the Hall 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.440 of Fame against the Giants. When you guys introduced out there, 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.840 I don't know if you noticed, but the volume level 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.320 for you know, Correl and you and even a j 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.480 when you retired, did you did you have a sense 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.800 of the legacy that you guys loved here or does 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.400 that kind of give to take a little time away 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.400 before you realize where you did it permanent later, I 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.440 think you have a good idea of what you've done. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.560 But I also think that as time continues, you get 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.600 a better sense of how special winning all those games 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.840 that we've won. You know, even before I got here, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.160 a couple of years before, the span between two thousand 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.480 and two thousand and eight or nine two ten, we 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.560 were able to win an awful lot of games. And 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.200 so when when your team doesn't do as well, they 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.400 haven't made it to the playoffs and won games like that, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.440 it makes it, you know, what you did in the 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.000 pass a little bit more special. Um, it's a hard feat. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.760 You know. We had a really good football team, and 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.760 we had guys around me that that were great. But 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.680 at the same time it's hard to do. We did, um, 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.480 and I think for us in the city, we kind 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.440 of take it for granted just a bit, and we 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.880 didn't realize how how important and how easy I mean 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.520 not not easy, how hard it is to get to 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.720 that point. And now I think because of the winning, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.400 we haven't won as many playoff games, of course as 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.960 we are expected to. Um. You know it now you 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.320 can see a little bit better. How special that team 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:58.280 was away that you guys weren't able to win the 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.360 big one. It's time trying to heal that or you 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.960 still kind of have that burn. I don't think time. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.680 Time never heals it. It just doesn't. Because you watch 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.960 the NFL network and they showed a game and they 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.120 showed up the playoff at the Super Bowl, and that's 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.800 a game that you should have won. I mean, that's 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.120 the game that we had in our hands. A few 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.600 a few too many turnovers hurt us, but you know 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.720 that that losing it never goes away. It never stops 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.080 eating at you. Because when you say you're a Super 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.560 Bowl champion, that's something that no one can never take 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.600 away from you. Now, of course, playing in the game 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.079 is special, but winning it, that's the estimate goal, the 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.000 estimate prize, and unfortunately we weren't able to do it 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.200 against the Giants and what it meant for your legacy 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.760 and I would kind of jump started. You're kind of 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.600 persona as someone who performing the clutch, so well, yeah, 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.360 I think I think about it all the time. Um, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.120 I kind of labeled that game in my mind the 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:52.960 game that it was kind of my breaking out game, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.240 my coming out game where where people they kind of 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.120 knew where I was. But because not until you make 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.880 big plays like that consistently that people can you know, 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.760 know that the teams can depend on you, but also 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.319 know that you had that capability as a player. And 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.600 it really wasn't until that point that people actually saw 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.600 the talent that I was able to have and as 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.000 a player that that boost is your confidence. That takes 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.600 your confidence to a whole nother level and allows you 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.559 to kind of play a little bit more freely and 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.520 allowed me to open up my game just a bit 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.000 as well. Style personality. What do you think of about 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:30.040 you resonating Well, I think you know, just like Rocky, 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.480 they love the underdog. They love a guy coming from 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.520 a small school that's willing to work his butt off 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.319 to dedicate himself to the game. But also um that 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.640 can relate to the public. You know, the people understands 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.160 that's me, That's who I am. You know, I see 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.600 how they love Brian Dawkins, and I know why because 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.360 he put his heart and soul on the field and 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.240 he left it on the field and he was able 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.640 to get everybody insided. And I'm not a raw rod 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.200 guy like dark was on the field, but you know, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.200 I left everything I had on the field and everything. Um, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.040 it wasn't just because of the team. It wasn't just 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.360 because we wanted to win, but it partly partly had 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.600 to do with the fans as well. They inspired us 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.760 to win. And when you walk out into the stadium 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.280 and invent my rookie year and you hear the fans 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.839 screaming and yelling, there's two degrees outside, and whether it's 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.040 ninety nine degrees outside, they're still giving the harder money 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.400 and they're out there acting crazy, and that tocites you, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.240 and that makes you want to do the things that 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:22.760 we were able to do and make me want to 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.160 work a little bit harder, especially during the week, to 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.880 get to the point where you can play well out 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.680 there on Sundays. And so, you know, it's just meaningful. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.160 You think about those odds lazy in your career, like 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.680 throwing your touchdowns lazy. You never probably things you need 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.480 to do like Miami when you got a chance to 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.040 do that, like ter come up with those when I'm 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.240 talking to my boys and they talking trash and my 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.719 friends they don't really have any mercy on me at all, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.120 And so you can't do this and you can't do that, 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.760 and those are the times that I have to remind them. Now, 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.920 I threw a touchdown pass, and I was able to 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.960 play against some of the best players and have good 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.680 games against them, and so those are the times I 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.719 think about that the most. And you know, my my girlfriend, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.920 she's not she she's Panamani, so she wasn't into football 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.680 like that, and so she doesn't quite understand with throwing 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.000 and catching the house special it is sometime for running 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.959 back to be able to throw a touchdown and how 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.920 rare it is, and um, you know, she still doesn't 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.040 believe it. So I have to actually show her to 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:25.280 take to make her understand it. Well, I think, um, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.920 you know, the talent's there, the talents there, and then 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.360 you know, in the NFL you can have an awful 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.800 lot of talent that doesn't necessarily translate to wins. Um, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.280 this team has to go out and proof her. So 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.720 just like every other team, I think it's a lot 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.680 easier when you had like a team like we had 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.640 back in the day, where you you knew Donovan was 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.440 gonna be there, you knew Doc was gonna be there, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.120 you knew I was gonna be there in Trey and running. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.560 We're gonna be there. And you kind of understood what 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.880 this team was going to be all about. I think 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.520 this year, uh, you just don't know quite yet. Yeah, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.480 you want to see exactly what this team is going 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:58.959 to be all about. I think that's why all the 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.839 fans are here today. They want to see what the 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.320 Marco Murray is gonna look like in the Eagles uniform 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.760 and how he's going to perform. Same thing with Bradford, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.640 the same thing with Maxville. They want to see how 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.679 well these guys can play. And I know that they 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.320 were good on the other teams, but we also have 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.720 seen guys that have you know, free agents that haven't 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.959 played as well in the new team. So it's a big, 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.120 big question mark. But if you're talking about talent, this 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.000 is one of the most talented teams in the league, 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.599 and unfortunately for talent potential, sometime it goes to the 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.960 other way. So, uh, you know, players play, and if 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.880 you get better on that football field you win games, 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.559 then people here in the Philly area, people around and 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.960 league will respect you a little bit more. What does 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.440 it like means is when you're watching an Eagles game, right, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.040 do you feel yourself being like a fan? I do, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.840 you know, because I work with comcasting, do the pre 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.719 and post game, you know, you have to be a 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.160 little bit objective. But yeah, I want the Eagles to 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.880 win every single game, you know, because they're my team. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:54.600 This is this is where I grew up at, this 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.839 is where I learned how to be a professional, and 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.920 so I want them to win and I want them 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:00.720 to do well. So when I see to Marca Murray 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.880 out there, I want him to have two thousand yards rushing, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.720 the same thing with Bradford, I want him to have 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.560 three thousand and four thousand yards passing um. And that's 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.200 what I wish for this football team. But it's always 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.800 exciting to h to be around it, and I'm excited 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:19.000 to be here. There's been a lot of talking culture 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.840 locker room and stuff. Can you get care of what 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.480 it was like in your locker rooms? You know where 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.880 it made me like? Now it different? You know, I 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.679 really I can't speak to what it's like now in 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.080 the locker I just don't know. I'm just not around 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.520 enough to know what's going on in the locker room. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.480 I kind of read the papers and watch the TV, 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.959 just like everyone else. But I know what it was 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.360 like in our locker room, and I know that Andy 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.600 Reid preached respect. I knew that he expected the veterans 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.760 to lead, lead the younger guys in that. Um, you 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.320 had to respect everybody and if you stepped out the line. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.520 Brian Dawkins didn't have a problem putting you aside. Troy 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.200 Vincent didn't have a problem putting you aside. Running didn't 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.080 have a problem and so and as I got older, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:02.800 I didn't have a problem me. They're pulling those younger 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.160 guys inside and saying, listen, that's not how we do 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.400 things here. And UM, I think as time goes on, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.120 this team will be able to do that as well. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.720 It's just no one exactly what Chip wants and allowing 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.840 that to transfer in the locker room as well as 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.560 on the field. Right, Jimmy Rolms back in town to 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.760 like Dodgers you guys, You guys that seven kind of 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.800 both a year, you guys, a big year. Did you 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.680 guys know each other at all? And tell me a 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.240 little bit? Yeah, we hung out a little bit a 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.960 couple of times here and there. What's it like? Kind 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.360 of at the end of your career. I mean he's 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.520 kind of gone out with a different team. Yeah, it 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.760 was difficult. Um, it was difficult for me in San 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.600 Francisco because no one's gonna love you like the team 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.680 that drafted you, especially if you play well there, no 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.320 one's gonna love you that way. And so you go 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.680 to a different team that people treat you a little 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.320 bit different. I'm not sure how the Dodgers are as 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.760 far as they're fan base, but San Francisco's fan base 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.120 was nothing, nothing like Philadelphia. I mean, yeah, could walk 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:03.880 around the grocery store downtown San Francisco and nobody would care. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.480 I can have a San Francisco I gotta have my 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.600 jersey on literally and nobody would care. Um, But you 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.400 go to the grocery store, you go to seven eleven, 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.600 the Wahwa here, everybody wants to know Hasma nab doing, 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.480 what's what's the game plan for this weekend. It's a 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.480 different love for the game here in Philadelphia, and I'm 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.000 sure Jimmy's probably feeling it. Um, it's just different. It's different. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.280 The fans here they love the sport, and um, you 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:30.960 feel that love, and I think that's something that you 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.520 try to translate from a player's perspective onto the field, 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.120 just to show the fans of respect that they deserved. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.640 It take you time to learn that that their passion 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.000 went both ways. That sometimes would be annoying as hell 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.320 and other times it was great. But if all just 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.000 exuded from their passion for the game. I went to 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.000 school of Villa Nova, so I saw it firsthand. I 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.040 saw it on Sundays when I watched the Eagles games. Um, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.520 but you know, I also felt it as the pressure 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.000 as a player, the pressure is to win is great. Um, 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.920 this is a what have you done for me lately? League? 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.920 And the fans kind of feel that way too. You 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.720 did good last week, but what are you going to 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.440 do this week? You had to testdown last week? How 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.360 many testdowns can you score this week? And the expectations there, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.760 But that also is the same thing that pushes you 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.520 to be a better player, and that that that passion, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.480 those expectations pushed me to be the best player I 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:22.800 could be.