WEBVTT - Saints Break Losing Streak, Rizzi Restores Hope, and Fire Safety with Jake Ferguson 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:08.160 Here's Cam Jordan's here on my podcast, Off the Edge, 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.400 but yours truly as I got my Steve Jordan's six 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:16.079 time Pro Bowler jersey behind me, sitting next to my 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.120 Pro Bowl jersey from a couple years back on let's 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.280 call it the eighth Pro Bowl specifically. But I'm sitting 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.439 here and I'm just so blessed to be here because 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.280 we're finally back in the win column as Saints. It 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.760 feels good. A lot of things to talk about. There 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.680 was a head coach change, there was a d line 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:40.120 coach switch. Shup. You know, there's been a lot happening 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:41.479 in building, but we're not here to talk about in 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.280 building right now. Save that for the end because I 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.320 got a spell I need to put out there, you know, 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.800 a vibe, a feel of good energy and greatness to 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.960 continue after our win against Atlanta. But being on this pod, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:55.800 you know we're gonna bring in Jake Ferguson. As I 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.160 was talking about Pro Bowls with Steve Jordan, Cam Jordan here, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.760 Jake Ferguson made his first Pro Bowls year. We're going 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.480 to have him to come in and talk to about 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.960 the us A A since we just passed up on 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:17.640 Veterans Day, Jake Ferson here, I mean touching the pod. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.280 We only got him for a quick spell. I mean obviously, 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.240 with things transpiring the way they have this last week, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.120 let's just talk about it. On the open Dak officially 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:32.319 goes goes undergo season enduring surgery. How do you feel 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.120 about it? Have you talked into Dek? 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:34.600 Yeah? 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.480 Yeah, yeah, you know, seeing him every day, you know, 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:39.880 it's hard. That's the guy you go to war with 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.360 every single day. That's the guy you prepare weekend with 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.679 week out. You know how it is, and you know, 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:47.559 when one of those guys go down, it's never easy, 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.520 especially when it's season ending, and to have your leader, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.400 one of those guys who's up there like that giving 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.640 you messages every day, not being there. It hurts you, 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.080 you know, hurts not only you, hurts the team. And 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.200 I think in the NFL, you know, you talk about 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.360 qbs all the time, and you know, when your starter 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.320 goes down, it there might be a little hiccup here 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.560 and there, there might be some wrinkles that need to 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.919 be figured out a little bit better. And that's true, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.560 you know that that's just the way it is. But 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.440 all the faith in Cooper Rush tray to hold it down. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:18.960 But yeah, I mean, you know, just praying for Dak, 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.120 praying for his recovery, praying for his mental and just 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:23.200 quick road to recovery. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.080 Yeah, I mean Pro Bowl last year, you know with 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.360 Deck at Helm and now now you got Cooper Rush. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.800 I mean for those that don't know, tell me about 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.960 the disruption of the timing, like, do you do you 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.640 have to work do you have to rework on that 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:36.679 now with Cooper. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:38.919 A little bit? It's a little bit of timing. 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.239 Luckily I've had some time with Coop uh to be 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.359 able to work some of that. But yeah, if you 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.160 if you're not you know, if you're only working with 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.800 the one QB when you're with the ones versus the two's, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:49.720 you know, you start to work with some timing. There 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.200 might be some guys who might have a little bit 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.240 of a timing issue, but we try to set our 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.000 scheme up to where you know, we're pretty same on 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.919 the timing through and through whatever QB is in. And 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:02.800 you know, like I said, all the all the faith 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.680 a Coop. My first NFL touchdown was from Cooper Rush, 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:07.919 so I got all the faith in the guy. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:08.440 I love him. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.520 They got it, got it, you know, obviously a glaring 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.639 you know, since we don't have much time glaring. What 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.519 did you say glaring? Uh? The glaring issue that happened 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:23.320 this past weekend between uh CD and and Coop. Is 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.600 there a dome problem? Is it? Is it too bright 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.480 in the dome? Like, you know, as as the deepest man, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.680 I don't have to worry about Yeah, yeah, as as 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.359 a receiver maybe, Like is there a is there a 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.920 situation with the sunlight on and off the field? 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:40.960 Yeah? Uh, I mean the sun shines through the stadium. Yeah, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.040 the sun is there every day. I get both points 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.520 of views. I don't know. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:50.080 I mean there's a use, Yeah, you know, there's excuses. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.960 I don't know. Yeah, go, I caught the ball. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.520 If I would have caught that ball, ceed didn't have 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.720 to look at the sun and see I should. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:03.920 Right go go Politically Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Hey, bro, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.120 like this is your third year in the league. Is 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.720 what have you learned? How have you grown in the 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.080 last couple of seasons since he's entered the draft or 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.600 entered from University of Wisconsin twenty twenty two. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.200 Yeah, right, I think, Uh, you know, the league, everybody's 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.400 a dog, you know what I mean. I remember we 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.320 played my rookie year. We played the Titans and we're 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.480 going through scout and they had some some guys banged 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.360 up on the D line and they were like, yeah, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:29.960 this guy you're blocking, I don't know who he is. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.840 We've never heat dog and me the whole game just 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.760 threw me down. I was getting tossed and didn't make 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:36.919 a good block the whole game. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:38.880 I was like, I thought, y'all didn't know who this 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.080 guy was. And they're like, oh, well sorry, but. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.000 Yeah, I mean, it's it's everybody's a dog. It's a 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.719 doggy dog world. And you know it's it's the NFL. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.800 It's thirty two teams are the best dudes playing bond. 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.040 You really got to bring it every week. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.920 I love. I love with scouting departments, Like personnel come 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.880 up and be like, hey, this guy's a great out 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:00.800 with me. She's like fighting for a life every week. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.440 Or this guy is like, you know, a yellow dot, 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.920 which means he's just rotational, and those like and you 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.080 go play against and be like, yo, this is high caliber. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.440 I was like, there's there's starters that aren't playing as 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.240 well as he's he's playing right now. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.320 Yeah, that yellow dot just hit me in the square 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:23.039 in the face's. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.080 Uh appreciated, but like it's just it's crazy to think about. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.159 It's like, hell, every every Sunday they say eating and 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.400 give a Sunday because we're comprised of the best of 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.000 the best. You could be like, oh, he's not playing 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.680 well and any like I said, any sunday, anytime that 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.680 game starts, you that snapped to snap to whistle can 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.680 get creal hectic out there, like you know, certified dogs, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.839 but there's there's Doberman's or watt Wyler's that you don't 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.360 know about, just just out there roaming the gates bro 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.960 until they get their chance. But all right, so tell me, 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.479 tell me about you, what you're here for. You can 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.080 give me, give me, give me the spiel Man. 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:52.760 Yeah. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.960 So, UH today teamed up with us AA, the City 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.599 of Arlington, and the uh uh City of Arlington Fire 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.279 Department and came together today to you know, promote safe 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.440 cooking for Thanksgiving and you know, trying to prevent those 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.320 house fires and the uh the fires that. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.920 Come with cooking, you know. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.760 And yeah, so we raised awareness and then we had 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.719 this event huddle up for Home fire Prevention and Safety. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.039 We had this number come out. It was almost four 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.200 hundred percent increase in insurance claims of house fires over 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.600 Thanksgiving in one day, and so. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:30.320 It gets pretty crazy. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.799 I think it was something close to, you know, sixteen 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.279 hundred calls or claims came in on Thanksgiving, just on 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.520 fires and just came today. Demonstrated a safe way to 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.480 cook the turkey and then demonstrated an unsafe way to 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.680 cook the turkey. Fire went up, put it out with 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.800 some of the fire. Firefighters out here in Arlington, and 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.719 USA actually has a on their website USA dot com 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.240 slash fires uh tips and information to just you know, 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:02.040 help you get a go after cooking a better and 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:02.640 safe way. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.279 Mm hmmm yeah. Clearly clear that we're not going for 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.720 Mom's big turkey. It's a new age, new way, bro. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:12.120 We're deep frying turkeys because they taste better. I just 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.880 mean know, like, what can go wrong deep fried in turkey? 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:15.920 A lot? 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:23.120 Apparently apparently fires happened, So. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.080 I'm like, I'm like, who's cooking their turkey the right way? 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.200 At this point we're out there, they dropped the turkey 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:27.920 in and lit on fire. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:29.200 So I had to had to put it out with 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.240 a little fire extinguisher. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.240 Hmm. Okay, what's one important fire safety measure that we 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.240 can take to help? You know? Just remember while we're 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.640 cooking during the holiday season, right right right. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.760 I think one of one of the biggest ones is, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:46.640 you know, never leave what you're cooking unattended. Mmm, especially 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.080 when you're dropping dropping turkeys into a big thing of oil. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.080 Do not go away from that for a little bit. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.120 Keep your eyes on it. And I think even just 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:58.760 the traditional you know, stove in the oven, keep an 0:07:58.760 --> 0:07:59.120 eye on it. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:00.040 Man, you never. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.360 Out, you never know. Four kids running around my house, bro, 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.840 it gets a little hectic. I can I can see, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.600 I can see, I can see how you like. Hey, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.640 I'll be right back now. Don't don't leave. Take your time, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.800 take your time with your de fraud. All right, thanks 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.880 you going coming up? In fact, veterans, they just passed right, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.960 Salutes all the truth, appreciation, free surface. Thanksgiving coming up? 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.560 What are your top three Thanksgiving side dishes? 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:27.400 Stuffing? 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.520 Stuffing, uh, the little uh super tato cast roll with 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.760 the mini marshmallows on top, and then. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.920 Turkey. But it's gotta be juicy. It can't be dry turkey. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.480 Ain't nobody asks. Ain't nobody asks for dry turkey? You're stuffings? 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.920 Are you like one of those stofers stuffing guys? 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.800 Like mate, Fox, I hate So I got this thing 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.040 with celery. I don't like celery. It's the only thing 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.320 I don't eat. And then one time my grandma she's like, 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.040 I'm making homemade stuffing, put celery in there. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:03.080 Ruined it. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.560 First of all, is that a thing? I'm not a 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.880 stuffing guy. So it wasn't until I got to New 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.800 Orleans and like they make seafood stuffing out here, seafood 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.440 stuff bell peppers, crazy work. Then I was like, oh okay. 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:15.600 I was like I like this and they're like, no, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.319 that's stuff in there. So I've never been to stuff 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:19.440 with goin. First of all, what do you mean they 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.920 put celery in it? That's like putting raisins in the 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.480 potato salad. You don't do these type of things. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.079 She's yeah, she's always trying. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.640 She's mcguyver in the in the kitchen. She's always trying 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.760 new stuff. Okay, what was happening in that Thanksgiving? 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.719 What do you what are you judging the Thanksgiving on? 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.199 Like I judge everybody's Thanksgiving meal by their mac and cheese, 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:39.080 and then I'll go for there. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.520 Yeah, mac and cheese is big for me. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.480 I'm always just what kind of sides do you have? 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.400 And then the uh, the mass potatoes and gravy. How 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.680 do you what does the gravy look like? The gravy's running? 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.199 If it's thick, right, and I make a bowl out 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.240 of my mash potatoes and put the gravy in there. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.880 There's there's layers. It's layers to it. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.080 There's there's levels to everything. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.559 When you're when you're a certified big body, like, yes, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.559 when we really eat, there's layers to it. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.920 I'm not sure. I'm not sure if I'm giving you 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.360 you the certified big body bo. You know, when you 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:12.600 when you're under two seventy. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:17.240 When I was two seventy one time at Wisconsin, I 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:18.960 had the belly button ring in my jersey. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:24.760 Oh man, well that's that's crazy. That's crazy. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:25.000 All right. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.920 So the U were what seven games left? Eight games 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.280 left in the season. What do you guys have to do? 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.760 Uh to make this a successful situation? 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:33.400 Yeah? 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:37.960 Man, to me, it's all about execution. You know, there's 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.120 some good to pull out of there. There's obviously a 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.200 lot of bad, but there is some good. You know, 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.560 run game got a little bit better last game, but 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.520 we you know, turnovers killed us, and it just feels like, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.840 you know, we're shooting ourselves on the foot way more 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.800 often than not, and it almost feels like sometimes we're 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.240 not getting beat we're just beating ourselves. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.320 So we just got to execute our. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.840 Game plan, be really clean on our prep every single 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.880 day throughout the week, and you know, just coming to 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.160 the game with with supreme confidence that we're gonna just 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.080 completely play lights out on our game plan, be sound, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.360 and just execute everything at the highest tempo. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.599 Absolutely. This weekend is also battle Battle of Texas. You 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.920 got the Texas versus them boys. What's it going to 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:22.839 take for you guys to win? 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.439 Yeah, I think their defense, you know their defenses, Uh, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.680 guys on there a bunch of stout jokers on that defense. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.840 Daniil Hunter, Dude, he tried to tried. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.680 To hurdle Sam Laporta on a cut block. I was 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.880 watching the tape and I go like, dude, just tried 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.880 to hurdle them. But yeah, they were playing like their 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.319 hair was on fire. Yes, I think we just got 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:53.560 to execute on offense, score a lot, score early, and 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.280 then off obviously on the defensive side, just you know, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.520 try to hold that QB and. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.120 Making make as at least place as possible. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.280 Man, last question I have for you, I feel like 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.080 when you have a Battle of Texas, like if you 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.439 have two teams in the same state, it should always 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.440 be at a neutral site. I know you guys, I 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.480 know it's at home, but I feel like, I just 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.360 feel like, you know, if if it's a Houston, Verus Dallas, 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.640 maybe you guys meet in like Arlington, I don't know, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.800 I don't know, just like meet me halfway Aington is 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.040 where the stateum is in this home anyways, meet me 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.280 and McKinney. I don't love. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.160 I could see that. I could see that, or even 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:31.240 like Austin. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.920 Yeah, we're on the same page. Meet me in Austin 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:36.800 for the Battle of Texas. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:37.240 I get. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.640 I could totally see that, especially because it's you know, 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:40.720 it's not a division game. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.920 Uh playing once? Playing one time? That would be cool 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.040 in Austin college atmosphere, college. 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.840 College atmosphere athlete. That could be a fun time. Anyways, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.079 appreciate you for tapping with off the edge of the podcast. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.960 I appreciate you, Jake, stay blessed, be healthy the rest 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:56.360 of the season. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:11.600 Bron being here, brother, Indeed, Hey, there we go. Hey, 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:12.640 you know we had it too. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.360 I don't know if y'all been around the potfole a 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.880 minute or a long time, but you know it's time 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.600 for the final push. Let's just get right into it. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.760 I'm thinking, let's talk about Atlanta. Hate. We We just 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.679 finished mission accomplished. Hate We felt good. I came in 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.280 rocking and hate ring I had, you know, I had 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:37.520 the yellow yellow presidential on me. I had the gold hate. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.600 It was from you know, many years back. I had 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:47.360 a bedside dye radio Rahim shirt, which you know, iconic. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:52.640 I had the love or hate, but the rings created 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.240 and they sort of just stays. I like to rock 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:56.719 the love. It's not you know a lot of things 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.160 in this world that I hate unless it's black and red, 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.080 dirty birds and so had. I had to push it 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.160 out there. You know, it's gonna be good vibes when 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.000 you hate the right team. That's why I don't understand 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.360 some conferences where like we hate everybody. No, I don't 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.079 hate everybody. I'm okay with with the other two teams 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.160 in my conference. They can do well great, I could 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.280 care less. I'm like, oh, we'll get them next time, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.680 but can't. Lanta ain't Lanta. The foul cants, the fail 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.720 cons a dirty dirty bird for them is a good 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.960 term dirty bird. Anywhere else you'd be like, oh, it's ugly, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.680 that's a dirty bird. I got respect for the players. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.720 I ain't I like the team at all, you know, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.200 I'm like, man, David A, You're not a dog. Why 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.240 you leave us? Why you trader? You know you said 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.680 there like kay Nell is dog. Why you leave us? 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.200 Why are you a trader? You traded for that? That's what 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:51.320 you left us for that. Anyways, like I said, you're 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.560 supposed to hate a team. Some people. You either hate 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.200 the Cowboys or you love them. Me on the team, 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.920 I'm trying to hate well by birthright Green Bay at 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.640 all as well as you know, being part of the 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.000 Saints for the last fourteen years New Orleans, and it's 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.960 okay to hate a team. There's nothing Atlanta's gonna do 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.640 for me to be like Man, I like those guys, 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.600 and as you know, maybe when I was growing up 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:19.920 Michael Vick, Algie Crumpler my guys, Warren Dunn, Mike for sure, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:25.480 by dude, them being attached to the falcons. Gross. Anyways, 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.000 that being said, that's how you know the victory was 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.280 that much sweeter coming against you know, back in the 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.400 win column, but against them, the fail cons. They came 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.240 to our dome. We locked the gates, We beat the 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.680 breaks off of them. They missed a couple of field goals, 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.400 a few win by a point or lose by a point, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.240 like that's what your spoils go to the victor bro 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:45.840 I get to say we beat the breaks off y'all. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.680 I know we won by three. I could care less. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.320 I know what they didn't do. They didn't win. So 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.120 it is what it is. I feel like, you know, 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.960 playing back a defensive end while playing in this game, 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.160 while getting another win, was good. It felt good be 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.880 back at the defensive end, not being rotated out every 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.840 other snap. You know, as a player, you have to 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.240 catch ebbs and flows in the game, but you have 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:09.920 to be you know, you're dealt with what you delt. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.080 You have to work with what you work with. I mean, 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.560 there's just gonna there's gonna be things that happened that 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.000 you can't control, whether that be coaches trying to move 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.200 towards younger players, whether that be a D line coach 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.880 who you know relies more on scheme than than players' abilities. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:26.960 It is what it is. You've got to Last week 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.120 we had a whole head coaching change, and you hate 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.440 to see, hate to see that we couldn't win with 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.920 Dennis Allen because Dennis how has been my guy for 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:39.920 many years. Great great guy, great DC, and we wanted 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.440 them to be a great coach, and I wish we 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.160 would have won more. It's like two years in a row, 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.680 you've got, you know, your starting quarterback who's been injured 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.920 for multiple weeks two times. That's tough to win with that. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.640 This year definitely hit by the the injury bug. I mean, 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.320 both of our starting receivers not here right now. You know, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.760 hopefully one back. We talk about, you know, office of 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.760 lineman being office of line being gutted early on this season, 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:11.600 dbs in and out linebackers. You know, you need a 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:15.520 guy like Pete Werner. The injuries, injuries take us toll, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.440 but you have to be able to find a way 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.320 to win, and when you don't, the message is lader clear. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.480 Jobs are not safe in the league. It's at the 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.480 end of the day, the NFL is a business. I 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.320 always try to get younger, cheaper, and try to win more. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.240 I don't know if that correlates, because you need good vets, 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.800 you need but players that you know can play, and 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.520 at the same time, you need that healthy list of 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:42.320 young and upcoming guys that you're nursery. You know, It's 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.960 just it's a part of the business. Darren Rizzy takes 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:50.160 over this past week and automatically he starts changing everything 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.040 from the locker configuration to how we sit in meetings, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.960 how shoot, how active we're in the meetings. We spend 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.720 more time going through walkthroughs than focusing on, you know, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.720 the length of film. My guy, Brian Young takes over 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.639 for the d D line was a D lineman in 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.080 the league. That's another thing, you know, when you have 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.800 a guy who's in a position, a position coach, and 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.400 he's younger, he's got vitality, he's got energy, he's played 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.520 that position, versus a guy who has coached a position 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.320 before or whatever else and has success but has never 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.040 truly played at a high level at that position. It's 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.679 just a different mindset, mentality, perception as well. As you know, 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.920 you you out of actually know like man, he said, 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.760 this is works and it's going to work because he 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.000 knows that feel. There's a different from you know, being 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:40.159 able to create assimilation versus living that simulated play. And 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.400 I think you know he's able to relate to defensive 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.960 line and he's always been a good coach. And now 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.000 you see him. You see brother b Why as a 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.040 d line calls a big big brother b why uh 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:52.880 to take over And I think you have to say 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.240 with that baritone, by the way, big brother b why 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.359 Brian Young as our defensive line coach has been a 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.160 great situation. Uh give me two claps of the woo 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.639 up in this thing? Who every flair hype just for 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:09.800 everything from practice to meetings to whatever. Rizzy came in 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.199 was like, look, whatever we thought was gonna work has 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.360 been working. We got to shake things up to see 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.400 if this is gonna be our way and came in 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.680 and nah, ain't no status quo. He came in was 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.600 like status on go uh And that's what you sort 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.280 of know from Rizzy. Rizzy has been a part of 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.359 our organization for like six years and especial teams coordinator. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.239 But I mean the last couple of years, people been 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.159 trying to poach Rizzy to be a head coach. He was, 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.280