WEBVTT - Josh Allen talks finding his Mamba Mentality, learning from the OGs, attending Cam’s Sack Summit 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.520 Here we are on off the Edge with me, your 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.960 host Cam Jordan, and I'm just overly blessed, overly happy 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.240 to be here in Las Vegas at the annual Sack Summit, 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:14.120 which has become a thing now you know me, Von Miller, 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:19.080 Max Crosby, first collaboration. We're gonna take off from here. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.840 But I'm sitting here with my guy, Josh Allen. When 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.800 I say paid is an understatement. We're not gonna put 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.080 numbers out there, but he just got paid this offseason. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.120 We are so excited for him to join the show. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.440 When I say pro bowler, we're talking about Josh Allen. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.000 When I say, you know a guy who had seventeen 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.159 and a half sacks this past season, a threshold that 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.400 is hard to get to. You know, there's been a 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:48.560 lot of seasons you can put together, have ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.760 Once you get beyond that fifteen, you get in a real, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.280 real rare air and you hit seventeen a half marks 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.600 and seventeen half sacks for the mark this is past season. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.960 I'm just gonna say congratulations on your congratulations on getting paid, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.640 Congratulations on everything you've done at this point, and I 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.880 know there's so much more, but I appreciate you tapping 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:07.280 in on the. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.039 Show Man to be here with your big bro. Yeah. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.800 Indeed, indeed you've been to Saxon before, right, I have 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.400 ten years ago, I'll say I was one of them years. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.280 I was like, all these all these sex I'm start 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:18.920 to blend together. I was like, you've definitely been here, 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.479 and was it three years ago? And now you're coming 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.880 back you know where where it's bigger and better than ever. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:27.480 What are you looking forward to? 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:33.760 Uh? Communication? Uh, blending with the guys, learning, growing and 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.240 also spreading my knowledge and wealth things that I you know, 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.280 learned throughout these years that I could pass on the 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.240 other guys, spreading wealth. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.319 Can I get a dollar wealth, the well wealth of 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:47.560 of knowledge? Got excited? 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.160 I can help you make some money, you know, Okay, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.080 no doubt, no doubt. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:56.320 Yeah, amazing. Uh speaking of you, you know, just the the 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.840 success that you've had, have you have? You had a 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.800 big spurs yet I know you got a fami. I 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.800 know you got kids beyond moms, and I know you 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:05.600 took care of the fam. I know you got a wife. 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.120 He probably got a nice purse out of it. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.760 What did you get you I got a new car. Oh, 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.280 we'll say double r Oh. I had to get it. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:18.400 Oh big big, big big dog. Okay, I'm saving that. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:19.600 What a driver? 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.760 Oh does it come with the driver? But does a 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.240 double art come with the driver? You gotta sell it separately. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.440 It's easy. You gotta get it separately. But it's easy 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.080 to get one, especially in jackson A lot of people. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:31.320 Yeah. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:36.760 Yeah, Jacksonville really small baby. Oh your boy. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:37.880 I'm not gonna lie to you. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:38.440 Uh. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.320 When I first got to Jacksonville, my my big homie 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.680 Tyson Lululu was drafted. Was that twenty ten first time 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.239 I ever got through Jacksonville, was like, there's nothing here. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.519 Nope, that's why it's easy to make people people connections. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.680 Fourteen years later, it actually looks like it's like a 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:56.520 solid city now. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.320 Yeah, it's growing. It's definitely grown. With the new stadium 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.560 being built to I think that's gonna bring a lot 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.600 more revenue, a lot more a lot more money in 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.680 the city. Uh, and then bringing the four seasons into 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.720 our owner bringing the four seasons in and y'all got 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.000 a four seasons in Jacksonville, were making one. Yeah, so 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.799 we're doing something. Man, and you know, hopefully that just 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:17.079 keeps growing and growing for us. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.200 Right right, You got my you got my former d 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.560 line coach Ryan Nilsen as your decordinator. Now you've had 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.080 you know, a little off season with them. How do 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.040 you like him so far? 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.440 I mean, so far, so good? You know for me, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.880 you know, he called the first time. The first thing 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.880 he talked about when I talked on the phone with 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.160 him was you going forward. That's all I need to hear. Now, 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.080 put the ball in my court. Let me beat me 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.440 and we can do that. And I think the conversations 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.120 that we had he kind of lets you, you know, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.720 take a chow because I think in his defense, you know, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.680 the ends need to be need to be elite, you know, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.320 needs to be those guys. And where I'm at and 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.360 where my trajectory is going in my career, I can 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.960 only see myself going up. So if you allow me 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.839 to go right, trust me that I'm gonna go. And 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.720 but now this year, man, I did that last year 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.520 by myself. Now it's trying to spread that well to 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.680 the others. You know. Uh, got Trey who's coming up. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.400 Got Eric that's new, and we got a lot of 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.760 younger guys that I can kind of like, let's let's 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.160 do this movie like this. You know, you got a 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.640 monster in the middle, and I'm already knowing. Man, I'm happy. 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.680 I'm happy kid in the store the show. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.000 Uh, I mean, you know, it seems like you guys 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.160 got a strong collective. You know, a couple of years 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.840 ago they paid the wide receiver Kirk. You know, they 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.720 they kept They're starting to keep their own you. You know, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.360 Trevor Lawrence, how does how does it make you feel 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.320 that organization, you know, wants to love the players, wants 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.760 to you know, pay their loyalty towards players like you 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:48.440 and Trevor. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.880 I mean, it means a lot. Uh. It means we're 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.880 going in the right direction. You know, things that haven't 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.960 been done in a very long time. You know. For 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.400 me to be the first you know, one hundred million 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.800 dollar player in organization, like in the whole organization, Uh, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.240 it's kind of crazy, but it's a it's a humble experience, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.479 and you know, I'm thankful for that. But we're in 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.200 the right directions. We're keeping our top players, our best players, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.760 and our core players as well, so we can continue 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.440 to keep building on that, keep bringing the younger guys up. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.400 That's why we put these guys in these roles to 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.920 I mean, you played for the Saints, you had none 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.560 but young guys and build them up and now you 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.720 see them go here, go there. But they helped that 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.240 organization build as well. That's all I want to do. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.719 Put my name on the map and never be forgotten 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.240 in Jacksonville history, right right, But I mean, just. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.120 Keep your core guys in there. Keeps your locker room 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.400 integrity good too, like the vibes, the ability for you know, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.279 in the season, you're going to have adversity, you're going 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.040 to have those wins by twenty points, some losses by 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.680 threes that hurt way more than a blowout loss. But 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.800 that core locker room keeps it going. Like, tell me 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.600 about that. Tell me about your locker room. How does 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.760 it feel? Because you know every locker room is different, 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:54.800 so I'm always intrigued to know, like what is your 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:59.000 locker room feel like? Is there is you know, I 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.160 don't see any dancing or or like you know, now, 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:01.640 we got. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.160 A cool locked room. We got a lot of young guys. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.600 This is one of two things that we I think 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.160 we need to implement this year moving forward to build 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.560 that team chemistry. I think right now, we too were 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.320 too blocked off, you know where we got one one 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.360 one group of like D line in one area, old 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.440 line another area. I think we need to mix that up. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.120 Uh and just just know you know your teammates and 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:25.760 I think that kind of bang. I think that would 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.040 bring a lot more chemistry with each other offense and defensively. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.280 But other than that, we got a young locker room. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:32.039 We'd like to have fun. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.119 Who gets control of the ox? 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.320 You know, I keep boom box, you know, so I 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.680 usually but I like the old schools and so if 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.680 I'm on it, you know, I'm usually playing cards with 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.799 the guys and I'm playing you know, my jams and stuff. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:47.640 It's old school for you, sir. 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:48.680 You were born in. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.159 The oh So I like you know, I like a 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.279 little Luther, you know, I like a little I like 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.039 a little music soul child. You know, I like the 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.799 viz bro. I like to keep it cause we all 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.119 we go out on the field. We listened in that rap. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.200 We go in the weight room, were listening in the rap. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.320 You know, all this stops rolling around kind of need 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.640 it in the locker room. Just keep a nice chill vibe. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.920 Everybody talking vibbing out. Like I said, we're playing cards. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.160 We got a basketball hoop. You know, we got a 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.440 nice little you know. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:19.960 Game room. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:24.400 Guys go chilling. We do jack. You mean, like like 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.360 I said, we got it's like a little lounge, a 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:32.680 little LOUNGEO. We got pers fours, golf simulator, pink pong table. Yeah, 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.200 come on, man, we're doing it. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:43.360 Man, Okay, I love it. I love it. I mean, uh, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.560 we know obviously you're you're you're a leader on the team. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.480 You lead by example. What's it like to have you know, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.119 Trevor Lawren's former number one overall pick from Clemson. Uh, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.640 what is he like as a quarterback? I mean when 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.680 I when I came to the league, I had Drew 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.080 Brees and like so the epitome of a leader. I 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.760 know exactly what that looked like. You know, for you 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.680 you come in and then you get you get Trevor Lawrence, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.320 and he clearly is a clear cut got to be 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.000 a leader. The way he plays, the way he you know, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.160 implements his style to the game. What is he like 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:13.760 as a leader. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.960 One thing that I can say about Trevor man is 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.920 the consistency that he has with the routine. You know, 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.720 I think the more older I get is you know, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:26.880 you have to have a routine, but you can't be 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.400 a robot to that routine. But you have to have 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.240 a routine. And I remember, you know, his second year 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.920 and he just wasn't playing as good every morning because 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.559 we're like early birds. So I come in there, he 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.800 right there. So it's like seeing that every single day 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.680 from now, from then to now, it's consistent. You know, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.360 He's always had the same demeanor of like, we gonna 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.640 get it. You know what I'm saying, We're gonna command this, 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.839 We're gonna take control, you know, but we just have 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.200 to keep seasoning the moments. And but so for me, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.360 just to see him stay disciplined, to see him stay 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.559 locked in Lilliam State, trusted in his craft, and for him, 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.840 you know, I like to see that. And uh, he's 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.800 been doing that ever since. And I know it's gonna 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.719 pay off. You know. I think he's gonna have a 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.240 you know, breakout year this year, and I think he's 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.120 gonna lead us the right way and lead us to 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:13.640 you know a lot of victories. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.640 Okay, Okay, I mean, yeah, that the AFCU out there 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:24.000 scrapping ya ya y'all y'a heavy sacks with backs, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.080 It's it's uh, it's the D line, you know how 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:27.200 I'll say the d lin Ley. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.760 You know, the Battle of Trench is really gonna play 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.640 a part. And I think I think the investments y'all 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.360 made the last time y'all had success into into the 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.120 playoffs was you know, back when it was Saxonville. Yes, sir, 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.360 So like what y'all what y'all creative? With the addition 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.559 of Eric Armstead, y'all have potential to get back get 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.920 back to it, you know. Like it's like I said 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.439 in the intro, you had seventeen seventeen and a half 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.640 sacks this past season. Uh, how do you talk this 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:52.920 last season in terms of production? 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.840 I think, you know, I think last year, man, last 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.600 year was a difficulty. It wasn't. It was difficult for me, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.599 you know because I feel like I couldn't rely on 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.920 anybody else mentally. So it's like two people, three people communication, 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.319 no communication. I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna meet the 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.240 band in front of me. I studied this dude since, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.640 uh since since July, since June. You know, I know 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.840 my matchup and I'm gonna work this dude in front 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.000 of me. And I think, you know, that gave me 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.960 a lot of success individually, but I think it kind 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.079 of I could where I could have spreaded that wealth 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.360 all over the line and build this person and build 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.360 that person up. I think it was just like I 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.920 did it by myself. Now let me see if I 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:37.360 can do this, but added add the value to everybody else, 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.599 you know, and bring them to my level. Don't I 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.160 won't go to nobody else's level. I don't want to 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.760 bring everybody up to my level. And obviously adding Eric, 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.200 a guy that's been played at the high level for 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.320 so long, played with guys that played at the high level, 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.720 play with Nick defensive play of the Year, so he 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.440 knows what that work ethic is and he knows what 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.920 that competitive is. So it's like, if I can bring 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.520 that to my other guys and take more control right 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.199 there the CEFI, we go as a whole D line now. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.960 And that's why I say, like AFC South young quarterbacks, 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:05.960 you know, we got guys really throwing that ball there, 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.480 and who's gonna win up front? And if you look 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.680 at every super Bowl. You know who who's taking over. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.360 You know the heats and you see which one's gonna win. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.120 And I told him, was that right? I want to 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:19.560 be the best one. We're gonna be the best D 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.920 line and we're gonna be the best D line. But 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.320 I want to be the best one. So you know 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.360 that's my that's my challenge for them, and you know 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.880 they accept. They know that. They know they accept that 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.440 for me, and I accept that for them as well. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.520 Like Trey, Me and Trey talk all the time. It's 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.360 like my little brother, and like he know and I 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.040 know he knows, I'm gonna be the top dog Tree. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.280 You gotta come give me well, he said, Josh, I'm 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.240 gonna be top doll. We're gonna work. You know what 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.680 I'm saying. It's that competitive edge man. We need to compete. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:47.480 You know. I want to be the best. You want 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.440 to be the best. We want to be the best together, 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.600 and we keep we got to keep proving it right. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.080 Everybody can do it one time, everybody, look do it 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:57.000 two times, three times. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.480 That's where I got to get to the world. The 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.080 world tries to crown people king over one year. If 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.520 you've been in this Lee long enough. I'm like, yeah, 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.440 but show me three four years. You can do it 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.680 three four years. I believe in the height. If you 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:11.400 do it for one year, anybody can catch a lick. Anybody, 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.880 anybody can roll the dice and be amazing off one roll. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.720 Show me if you can continue, you know, and then 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.320 you got to keep it like that that building like 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.240 and and the greatest thing about you just said is 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:21.920 you know, like i'ma be topped doll, but I want 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.400 you to come get me. It's like I used to 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.160 tell the d Lion. I'm telling d Lion all the time. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.320 I like, Yo, if y'all can shine as bright as 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.679 y'all can, Like if y'all bring in everything y'all do, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.800 y'all be amazing as you can think about how much 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.720 more amazing I'm gonna look too, Because like if you say, bro, 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.560 if you're if you're a sword and you're your sword 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.679 and your sword everybody is what is these gleaming swords 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.360 call me Excalibur, Like I'm gonna be like I'm a 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.280 king slayer, you know what I'm saying. Like, and you 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.520 have to have that mentality in this game. So when 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.559 you come to it, like I want to make Brian 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.720 Bezi the best he can be. I want to be uh, 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.000 I want to I want to make Carl Grant's and 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.560 the best that he can be because by doing that, 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.040 that base their play, which is gonna push myself to 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:03.000 work even harder. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:03.440 Sir. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.080 So, I mean, I just want to say, like, what 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.240 did you what did you do this differently? You know, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.640 for years previous to this break, this huge monster's here. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.480 You just had uh staying locked in. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:15.760 You know. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.160 I did a lot more reading this past year, my 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.280 audio books. Uh, lots more. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.640 Audio books, like books protecting. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.680 Football or just mental mental mindset brooks, you know, being 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.720 able to stay locked in, uh, being able to control, 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.760 you know, control what you could control. So for me 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.080 game days, man, I didn't listen to any music. You know. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.360 I was really big on, you know, if anything was 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.199 to happen, I didn't want music to be the reason 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.439 why I didn't perform, you know, or it didn't I 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.400 didn't play my song. I didn't do this, just like 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.520 little things. So it was really big on how mentally 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.880 can I be in the game, Like I'm mentally confident. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.440 I know. I studied this dude for so long. I 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.560 studied his offense. For so long there was no music. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.040 How did you keep your cane. 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.680 A lot there? I'm just breathing, watching the whole time. No, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.800 I get in a dark room. So my first thing, 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.400 my people find me a dark room. I get a 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.400 dark room. I go in there. I just chill out, 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.079 control my thoughts in the stadium, in the stadium, in 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:11.600 the locker room. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:13.800 Once you once you get to the stadium. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.960 I find you know, my people give me a dark room. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.400 I go in there, and you know, I take a 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.240 little nap. I read my book. First of all. I 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.880 read my book so I can like get off of football, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.080 get off of you know, any feeling that I'm about 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.480 to feel, and just have like a you know, I 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.600 got better off of reading, you know, and I'm reading 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.440 things that's that can apply to me in this game. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.760 So I'm reading these books. I'm taking naps. I listen 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.280 to a little jazz here. And I got that from Lebron. Uh, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.760 I got that from Brin. I definitely take that from Bro. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.680 And you stay on the first page I read, Okay, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:52.800 I read I've been reading this uh Relentlessness by Tim Grover, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.160 and you know he talks about three areas of people. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.880 You got a cooler, cleaner, you got a cool you 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:06.000 got a cleaner, and you got a closer. I'm a cleaner. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:07.120 You know, look. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.320 Cleaner, cleaner. What's the cleaner? 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.960 Guy that do it right? You know a guy that 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.920 do it right half the time, and you got to 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.600 cooler that guy that's just out there. You know, I 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.920 don't want to. You know they talking about clutch people. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.520 You know, clutch people come come in clutch moments. I 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.360 want't be a player that come in at all moments. 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.760 And so if I can continue to have that mindset, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.200 continue to challenge myself, continue to push myself in practice, 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.800 first one on the field, last one to leave. Really 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:42.000 doing things that's applying myself to get better during practice. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.200 You know, I do things pre practice to get better 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.120 during practice, and then I do the things that after 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.040 practice that I didn't do right in practice. So every 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.040 day I just feel like I'm getting better. You know, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.880 I'm eating right. You know, my family, My family is situated. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.000 I make sure that my wife is you know, stable 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:00.760 enough that if I'm not in a house we're covering 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.320 my body or sleeping in this hyperbarrick, that everything's okay 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.360 and make sure I spend time with my kids and 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.440 obviously tell them, let them know why I'm doing what 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.960 I'm doing. And also I take them with me sometimes, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.760 so you know, making sure everything in my life is 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.360 is what it's supposed to be so I can play. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.040 That's why kids like we had to chill out on 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:20.480 the kids. 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.960 You know, three three is a plenty. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:25.680 There is a lot. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.160 It gets to be a lot, especially in season. You know, wife, 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.960 you need a date night, we. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.720 Can do day night, Tuesday night. We day nights Tuesday, Tuesday, 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:35.480 today night. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:37.800 You guys do like a defensive line dinner defense. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.120 So again, so you know, un fortunate. We've been building 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.240 our house for three years and it just got finished 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.800 right before I signed my contract. You know, so prior 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.280 to that, I was like what, I don't know what 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.920 we're gonna do, you know, like we're gonna sell it, 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.840 We're gonna move here, we gotta do this. And then 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.080 we get our house done, and then a couple days 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.360 ago we signed our contract. So it's like this is 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.200 our future. We built it for our family and so like, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.760 and now we got built to where we can entertain, 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.080 like we have spaces for the kids. And then we 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:05.760 have people now we can have people over, So I 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.760 kind of want to That's where he said, take more 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.199 control and take more lead, come over. You know we 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.919 did dinners. Yeah, but I want to do more of 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.040 like a chill like come to the crib. Maybe we'll 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.119 watch the game, maybe watch some tape. You know, I 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.800 got a good setup to where I can entertain a 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.399 lot more people, and I want to take more control 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.800 in that. And you know, this is my team. They 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.359 pay me to be that guy. Yeah, you know, so 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:32.280 it's time to take over. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:37.800 Yeah, act accordingly. Look on our defense. We do defense 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.439 every defense, dinners every other Thursday, and like it just 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.080 goes from like the pecking order, ogill pay the you 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.640 know the so it's now it's me the oldest guy 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.160 in the room. Pay the next time that it just goes, 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.359 you know, from whoever on and then every other week 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.960 the d line will go eat you know. So then 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.600 so it's always just like camaraderie. It's always like trying 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.040