WEBVTT - A Conversation with Morgan Moses About His Return to the Jets (5/28) 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.680 Welcome into the Official Jets podcast. Eric on here at 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.479 one Jets Drive, joined by Jet tackle Morgan Moses. Does 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.479 it feel like you never left? 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:14.000 Man? It feels like home, man. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.640 You know, obviously being around the guys, the energy, obviously 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.280 hearing everything about Aaron Rodgers, what he brings to the table. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:21.880 Just to be able to be around a guy that's 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.800 you know, been in so many meaningful games, so much 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.640 football and just see how he takes command of the offense. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.640 But just being around the guys, man, it's just, uh, 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:31.320 it's been fun. Man, I'm excited. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:32.360 So when you. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.879 Stepped out of here post twenty twenty one, did you 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:36.960 think you'd ever be back? 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.040 I look, man, it was it was crazy because like 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:41.879 you know, I never really wanted to leave because it 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.159 was I was I believed in the culture that was 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.360 being set here, you know, at coach Sala being a 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.199 great coach, Like he's one of those coaches that where 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:49.760 you just want to run through the wall for right, 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.080 and that family atmosphere that he brings, man, is hard 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.600 to find. So when you can get that in any organization, man, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.920 like eat football's easy, right, it just becomes the game 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.360 that you fell in love with when you were four 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.240 or five years old. You just come to work and 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:03.720 you put a helmet on and you enjoy the game 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.360 with your guys. So just being able to be back 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.360 in the fold and be here and knowing that I 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.800 have a mission that was not accomplished when I was 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.000 here in twenty twenty one, it set some standards for me. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.520 So I'm excited to be here and I'm excited to 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:18.880 just to give back. 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.920 But could you see something developing in twenty twenty one 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.000 because you guys took a couple of months. No way, 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:27.120 that was a tranere. 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.040 Hey look, i'm gonna tell you this, man, I'm gonna 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:30.480 tell you this. And then one thing about it, Like 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.800 we lost a lot of games in twenty twenty one. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.120 You know, everything was kind of new, you know, new quarterback, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.920 new system, you're kind of learning everything. But the energy, man, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.440 the energy that was put into the into everything we did, 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.000 you knew like all we had to do is flip 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.760 the roster a little bit, right, And then that following 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.320 year was like Sauce Gardener, Garrett willisend Jermaine Johnson in 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.200 the first round, and it's like three foundational first round picks, right, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:56.920 that you can move on for it. And then like, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.240 you know, I've always been a fan, so I've watched 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.960 a lot of football game and then you get the quarterback, right, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:03.960 you get Aaron Rodgers and you're like, look, this is 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.320 it and just to have you know, see after you 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.280 know what play for him go down is just like 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.800 a blow to the face. But it's exciting, man, seeing 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.880 him running around now healthy, you know, commanding the offense 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:17.680 and just bro just being able to watch him throw 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.440 the football. Man, it's like, dude, it is flawless. Man, 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.000 it's a work of art. But no, man, we're here now, man, 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:24.440 we're here. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.120 Well, speaking of culture, what were the past two years 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.520 like for you in Baltimore? Because talk about a winning culture. 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.919 Predominantly they're there at the end of the day in January, 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.480 you can pencil, you pen the Ravens in. They're gonna 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.080 be playing postseason football. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:41.520 One hundred percent. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.040 Man. And I think that's part of the growth process 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.400 that I went through, right, Like you know, everybody, you know, 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.600 you always say that God always has a plan, right, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.840 and so I think that plan was, like when I 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.120 left here in twenty twenty one, is I went to 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.360 Baltimore and I got to learn how a functional organization 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.799 really does, like what it takes to go out there 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.040 and compete at a a super Bowl level every day 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.480 in practice, the tension, the details being challenged against the 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:06.320 defense every day. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:06.600 Right. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.280 And now that I've been there for two years and 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.760 I got to see how that was done every day 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.720 on a high level through an organization that's been i 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.600 mean the playoffs for what the last twenty years. You know, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.640 I can bring more even more to the table because 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.520 I've been there. I've been there one game from the 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.120 super Bowl. I know what that tastes like. And obviously 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:26.920 not making it to the super Bowl, like you, you 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.480 become even hungrier, right, So being able to have that 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.959 that you know, face those those things, face that adversity, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.080 losing that game against Kansas City and still you know, 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.800 going into year eleven and still having that, you know 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.240 that that edge to go out there and do it, 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.720 do it some more to be able to bring that 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.000 foundation here. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:48.480 I'm looking forward to it. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.920 So what's the backstory with the torn pack in Week four? 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:52.400 And who knew about it? 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:54.160 Oh? 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.760 Man, you have to ask John Simpson about that. Man. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.640 But we're playing Cleveland and I'm just like I'm blocking 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.760 moles Garrett and I'm just like, yo, some the first thing, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.320 I was like, no, Lie, I was like, I'm having 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:04.960 a heart attack. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.240 Really, It's like it was like no, live, Like, bro, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.120 I'm having a heart attack. I can't breathe. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.920 And then I went back in halftime and they're like, yeah, bro, 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.480 I think you like strain your peck. So obviously I 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.080 didn't finish the game and I went and got an 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.719 MRI that next day and they're like, yo, you tore 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.560 sixty percent of your peck. And so I'm sitting there 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.680 like all right, and everybody's like, hey, man, just shut 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:26.080 it down. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:27.560 You know, you did what you were supposed to. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.680 And I'm like no, Like, look because I believed in 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.359 the work that we put in all training camp, right, Like, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.520 you go through training camp, which is like a war, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.000 right for guys, Like, and you're bleeding on the field, 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.720 your sweat, blood and tears with these guys and the 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.480 last thing you want to do is feel like you're 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.479 giving up on them. And I just told them, hey, look, 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.279 just give me some time. Man, give me some time. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.839 I'm gonna figure it out. And you know I missed 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.800 that one that first game that was like the first 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.400 game I missed in my career, which was like a 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.640 humbling experience because like I had to understand, like, hey, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.599 this is a marathon and not a race. And you know, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.200 I was able to power through it with you know, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.920 just great pt doing things on my own, knowing how 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.360 to you know, navigate, and you know, I was able 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.600 to finish the season with the torn peck man. So 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.760 it was hard, man, like trying to hide it, to 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.479 hide the strap, you know, wearing long T shirts in 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.640 the game and trying to tape it the same color, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.560 things like that, just so you know, all these great 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.000 defenders that you go against every Sunday wouldn't notice. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.040 But I was able to battle through it. Man. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.160 It made me a better person. It made me dig deep, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.360 and I you know, simply, man, I just didn't want 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.080 to give up with my guys. And that's always been 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.359 my my thing in the league is just like you know, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:30.919 give it you all until you can anymore. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.720 Can you speak to the pain though, I mean, you're 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.520 a tough guy. You said it felt initially like what 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.719 the hell's going on here? But you played the rest 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:41.719 of this season, dude. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.880 It was with the torn pack it was some days man. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.000 It was some days after games man, where like I 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.640 couldn't lift my arm and like, thank God, Like my 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.000 kids are like my children like they love me so much, man, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.640 They're like, Daddy, what you need, man, I'm like thank you. Like, 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.760 but it was days where like I couldn't you know, 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.960 I couldn't lift my arm. And be honest with you, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.320 I didn't miss any practice, is like, because like my 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.359 makeup is like I got to practice, Like I'm not 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.880 this guy that's like been blessed where I can just 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.280 go out there and not practice and just ball out. Like, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:10.960 so I was practicing going through it, man, and I 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.680 just think like over you know, over the time, man, 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.039 Like I think we got to like week thirteen and 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.440 I was already like back single arm bench in one 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.120 hundred and fifteen pounds on it, single arm. And so 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.680 like the work of just going through the PT like 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.839 staying up late night, having doctors come in into the 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.240 house work on me, physical therapy and things like that 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.520 really helped me push through. So it's it's it was 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:38.520 a journey, but you're come on, yeah, yeah, sing along 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:39.200 with a torn peck. 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.839 Oh. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.880 As far as Baltimore's concerned. I talked to John Harball 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.560 about you. He loved you, Yeah, he said, in a 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.880 perfect world, he'd still be here, but obviously football is 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.160 a business. What did you learn most from him in 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:55.640 a couple of years you were there. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.159 Dude, I'm gonna tell you this, man, Like, and I 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.360 had no idea, like right when I left here that 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.039 Baltimore was going to be the landing spot, right. But 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.800 I remember him calling me and the first thing he 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.280 said was like, man, and he said something like isn't 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:08.960 God something? 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.920 And I was like, hold on, man. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:12.520 The first thing he said to me is he's talking 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.880 about God, right, And he remembered this, you know, like 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.640 his memory goes back. He's like, remember we worked we 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.480 worked you out in the drive pass us about three 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.040 or four times, and like we loved you. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:22.960 We just couldn't couldn't get you here. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.400 And now you know, nine years later down the road, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.720 we got you here. And so it was meant to be. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.760 But like just being able to go to an organization 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.280 that was that was so solid from head to toe. Man, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.240 how they treat everybody in that building. How it was 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.240 so much fun to come to work and and not 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.600 have to deal with everything outside, just come in and 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.160 just really, you know, play football, right, And that's the key, right, Like, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.400 when you have that opportunity where everything else is taken 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:48.920 care and you can walk into the building, you can 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.800 focus on football, like you become a better football player naturally. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.320 Because you can focus on those things. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.400 So the things that he's done over the course of 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.760 the years, man, he I mean the years he's been there, 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.720 I think it was like sixteen years or something like that. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.640 What he's the values, the foundations that he set for 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.520 that football team, it's been outstanding and you know, you 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.960 can see why they go out there and play play 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:10.920 like that every Sunday, you know, and it's been a 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.480 pleasure to be able to be a part of that. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:14.480 You know, we didn't win it all like we were 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.120 supposed to, like we thought we were gonna do, but 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.840 we did some great things about the season. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:18.760 You know, we got an. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.120 MVP quarterback and Lamar Jacks who was one of a 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.360 con We led the league in rushing, all those all 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.240 those things that you know, you set out in the 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.760 beginning of the season say hey, we want to be 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:28.560 this type of team. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:29.600 We became that. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.160 We just fell short at that time, but it was. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:33.520 It was a wonderful time being there. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:33.760 Man. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.559 For you personally, what did the win over Houston mean? 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.520 Because you now, as far as your career is concerned, 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.280 five playoff games, but that was the first one that 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.079 you were able to experience victory. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.640 Yeah, man, it was. It was exciting, man. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.720 And like, let me tell you something, like when you're 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.920 doing something like that and you get to. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.920 Enjoy it, like really enjoy it. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.360 Like it's fun going out there preparing for a play 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.400 playoff game knowing that like you have the opportun community 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.720 to dominate a team. It's it's it's it's unmatched feeling, right, 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.680 And that was my first time going to the playoffs, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.800 and and really like that was our I think that 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.960 was Baltimore's first home playoff game that they had won. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.400 And so like that was another mark that you know, 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.720 out of history in that organization that we had, we 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.800 had facing that we had you know, got off the board. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.600 But like just in the way we won that game, 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.400 Like I don't know if you remember if you watched it, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.880 Like we ran the ball like twenty times straight to 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.079 sell that game. And that's what like you want as 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.120 an offensive lineman, right, you want to say hey, man, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.160 when the game's on the line, it's clutch toime. We 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.120 want the ball in breist Hall's hands. We want the 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.920 ball and our running backs hand finishing moving forward. And 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.480 it was it was no unmatched feeling. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:43.640 Man. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.800 You can't you can't. You can't put it. You can't 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:46.520 put a number on that. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.520 All right, So what can you tell us about John 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.520 Simpson Because free agency starts here. Joe Douglas kind of 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.839 under the radar, he scoops up this guard from Baltimore. 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.199 I'll tell you this, John ke came from We had 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:02.360 got him like mid year. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:06.199 And Baltimore from the Raiders, and you know, ups and 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.040 downs as a player, and he'll he'll tell you this, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.160 like he was trying to figure it out whether you 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.160 had good coaching at the Raiders or not, whatever the 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.280 case is. John was this quiet guy, like like the 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.640 guy that you see now that walks around that can't 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:20.160 be quiet. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:21.320 That wasn't John. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.440 Like I tell everybody, like I don't even remember John 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.680 when he first got to Baltimore. Like I tell John 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.160 all the time, like you had dreads when you got 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.120 to Baltimore, Like he had these long dreadlocks, and like 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.320 just to see like a guy come in buy into 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.800 the culture first of all, right, which is hard to do, right, 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.120 to buy into a winning culture, to like forget everything 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.000 that you learned and like, hey, like I got to 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.079 relearn how to play football this way. And like when 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:45.760 we went into that, you know, last year, when we 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.280 went into the season, like the question was like, who's 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.800 gonna play left guard? Like there's nobody on the roster 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.800 that like they felt like was the comfortable like playing 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.400 left guard? And just to see him day one walking 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.080 there and just man that position and say, look, I'm 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.200 gonna be this guy, be this guy for a long time. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.680 And you know, thankfully that he got here, you know, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.160 because now it's like I got somebody that that I'm 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.880 comfortable with, like that I know he knows, but just 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.280 being able to see the makeup in the transition that 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.640 he made, you know, the strategy made throughout the year. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:17.559 Man, he's a special player. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.080 Man, how much noise is this happening inside the trunches? 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.640 Because you're such a good dude. You got a lot 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.480 of personality. But at the same time, man, you love 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.720 the hand in hand combat. And I'm talking about you 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.880 specifically in Simpson, because there are some NFL films clips 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.679 of Simpson saying, you know, getting after dudes, and I 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.440 know you gotta love that, dude. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.640 I'm telling you, it's like it's one game, no Lie, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.360 And I want to say it was Cleveland because I 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.040 was on the sideline. I think it was the Cleveland game. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.720 I got hurt and I see John run across the line. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.400 He's pulling and he smacks this d n no Lie, 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.280 And I look at Coach, I said, I said, Coach, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.800 I think John's dead. Like he smacks this guy. He 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:59.840 like folds on the ground like coach, like me and 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:01.120 some of the other guys are sitting on the side. 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.040 I'm like, you know, I think John Sole left his 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.640 body and he just pops up and like he gets 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.520 in the huddle and he's just ready to go. But 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.400 that's the type of guy he is, man Like, it's 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.560 a guy that's gonna run through a wall. And I 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.040 think there's no better place to be than here to 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.400 play for a coach like Coach Salah, where like you're 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.839 gonna run through a wall every day. And I think 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.320 when the biggest thing is like accepting that challenge, right, 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.880 accepting that, like, hey, I got to go against somebody 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.720 great every day in Quinn Williams a great defense, and 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.520 that's gonna challenge me every day to be the best 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.800 that I can. And when you have that going back 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.959 and forth on the offense and defensive line, this guy's 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:34.480 the limit, right because at the end of the day, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.480 no matter what skill positions you have throughout the league, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.079 the game is one up front. It's never changed. It's 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.960 been like that for one hundred years since football has 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.720 been you know, been here. Like it's one in the trenches. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.240 So when you have guys that are really really ready 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.360 to compete at that level and really leave it all 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.240 out there, you know, that's the difference. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.400 All right from a tackle perspective. What does Tyrone Smith 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:57.160 bring to the table? 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.360 What makes him different? Dude? 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.079 Dude, I've been blessed man like because, like I had 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.160 Trent Williams for five six years in Washington and I 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.520 got to see Tyron on the other side playing against 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.760 Dallas a lot of my career for seven years and 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.760 just to see like the makeup. And we can relate 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.880 a lot, right because we both had the same offensive 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.360 line coach and Bill Collahan, so we can we can 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.520 relate a lot into like the world exactly and you 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.160 see why, like like why a guy like Tyran is 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:26.959 just like I. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.040 Mean, his his his pastes are flawless. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.880 Like I wish I could just bottle him up, put 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.880 him in a refrigerator and like you know, and just 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.560 like hey, like this is what a past that looks like. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.520 And just the consistency he plays with every every day 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.880 and in every game. And for me, I was excited 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.080 when we signed him, right because I mean, I know, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.800 I'm a eleven year vet, but like at the end 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.040 of the day, like I'm always trying to learn, I'm like, 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.840 when we signed I'm like, great, I got a guy 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.959 that's like technically sound in every in everything you want 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.240 him to do, run block and past blocking, you know, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.920 he does it such at a high level. So for me, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:04.760 it's like, man, how many I can pick his brain 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:05.960 to make myself better? 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:06.240 Right? 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.080 And just to be around him, Man, he's such a 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.960 he's such a wonderful, wonderful person. Man, And he's gonna 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.560 raise the bar for a lot of us. Man, just 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.440 what he's done in his fourteen year career so far. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.400 You know, you want to say he's a walking Hall 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.240 of Famer for sure right, So so. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.920 Yeah, to your point, definitely two all fans tackles that 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.480 you've played with, Yeah, one hundred with Trent, Yeah, and Tyron. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:35.440 Everything Tyron does when you watch him, seems like you're 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.640 thinking to yourself, master technician, Like there's nothing clumsy by it. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.240 There's no wasted move there's no wasted movement, like it's 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.840 like watching it, like especially like his like when he's 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.920 punching in past protection, like his hand placement is so 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.320 solid and on point, like his pinpoint it's like throwing 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.720 it's like throwing a dagger into the wall. Like you know, 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.920 he's hitting the bulls eye twenty twenty out of twenty 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.520 one times. And the efficiency of how he plays the game, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.240 And it's no wonder why he's been in Dallas for 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.440 so long, right, because it's hard to replace a tackle 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.120 like that. So for him to be able to be 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.080 here with us, it's a blessing man. So you know, 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.280 you got him, you got John, two guys that have 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.680 that that's proven themselves throughout the league, and obviously he's 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.320 willing to do anything to keep on winning. So to 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:26.920 be able to have them, it's a great addition to 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:27.920 the office line all. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.720 Right, I think you were a third round pick out 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.720 of Virginia. What's your reaction there after signing with the 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.840 Jets and Tyring coming on board as well, and the 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:41.760 Jets in the first round get olu fashion And how 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.000 do you as a veteran and established guys played more 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.640 than a decade in this game, Morian. Not a lot 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.360 of dudes can say that. Not a lot of just 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.400 can say that, say, you know what, this is a 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.920 good situation for him. I'm gonna help this. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.720 Dude, I think right like, I think the number one 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.840 thing is right like, and I learned this from tent 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.640 It's like when you got an opportunity to play with 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.960 a great TAPO for so long, right, all they ask 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.360 for you to do is pass it down right, pass 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.120 the torch now. And I think when you're able to like, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.040 I never want to be that guy that's like, I'm 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.400 not gonna help nobody like, right, because at the end 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:16.920 of the day, we all sit at the table together 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.320 and we all got to eat, right. So whether I 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.720 help O Lou, whether I help Tiring Hi, I'll help 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.920 Carter Warren, whatever the case is, They're gonna push me 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.720 to another level because I see them getting better, right, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.400 And that's the beauty of this right, Like it's iron 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.800 sharp and iron like offensive line and offensive line is 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.920 the one position where like everything we do is on 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.440 a shoe string, right, Like you want that shoe, that 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.480 shoe string to go through the sneakers flawless and it's 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.560 smooth as possible. So it doesn't matter. Like in the trenches, 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.480 you're gonna have guys that are gonna get hurt. You're 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.800