Speaker 1: Really marveling at your workout after the bye week, deadlifting
Speaker 1: and doing box jobs.
Speaker 2: So, uh, j ques that he was impressed. Is that
Speaker 2: your normal routine?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my normal that day. So you know, I
Speaker 3: know a lot of people think I just sit here
Speaker 3: and just chill and drink gator Ada, But I actually
Speaker 3: try to use that day to get a little better.
Speaker 2: Be sure. And I was just asking Christian and uh,
Speaker 2: the confusion that he traded, uh brings defensively. I think
Speaker 2: three of the four sacks that they had on Sunday,
Speaker 2: the pass rusher went untouched. Is that a reflection of
Speaker 2: kind of that confusion that they can cause?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I mean some of those wasn't even confusion,
Speaker 3: it was just challenging the weakness of of the protection.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they they mix it up. They're not afraid
Speaker 3: to bring six and not afraid to bring seven. I
Speaker 3: think bringing five is a norm for them, you know,
Speaker 3: So that that's what keeps the confused. And they bring
Speaker 3: guys and they drop guys out. They'd drop a a
Speaker 3: s a big guy out, bring a small oh god,
Speaker 3: So you know, and that's just it's up to us
Speaker 3: not to play into their hands and not be behind
Speaker 3: the chains and getting the third and long a lot,
Speaker 3: you know less you're.
Speaker 2: Talking about how hard it is to kind of climb
Speaker 2: them mountain every year and keep getting to this point
Speaker 2: over and over again. How much urgency. I know you're
Speaker 2: always urgent, but how much urgency does it add to
Speaker 2: you know, after being there multiple times and coming up
Speaker 2: short to break through and get to that next moment.
Speaker 3: Honestly, man, if you if you're urgency in No. Level ten,
Speaker 3: if it wasn't No Level ten last year, if it
Speaker 3: wasn't No Level ten a year before, it's probably not
Speaker 3: gonna be on level ten this year. So I think
Speaker 3: there nobody needs any extra motivation. Were talking about Championship week,
Speaker 3: We talk about four teams out of thirty two being
Speaker 3: left to prove there the best. I don't think I
Speaker 3: think the urgency is a given, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And now it's just about going out there and taking
Speaker 3: advantage of the opportunity and trying to play mistake free football,
Speaker 3: because ultimately that's gonna be the difference. All these teams
Speaker 3: are good at this point. It's about who makes the
Speaker 3: less mistakes.
Speaker 2: Like that that urgency, he notices it showing up even
Speaker 2: in the offseason. I'm wondering how it's affected you in
Speaker 2: terms of, you know, when it's you want to do
Speaker 2: that little extra workout or whatever. And as a team,
Speaker 2: you see guys putting in more like, hey, we need
Speaker 2: to do everything we can because that client is so
Speaker 2: so different.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, so if you've been there,
Speaker 3: you know what it takes to get back there, right,
Speaker 3: So yeah, we've been there obviously last two years. So
Speaker 3: starting in OTAs you kind of know, and then you
Speaker 3: gotta you kind of gotta have control too, because you
Speaker 3: want to get it all back in one day, right,
Speaker 3: You want to you want to win a championship first
Speaker 3: day at OTA, So you know, you gotta have patients
Speaker 3: to understand this is a marathon, it's not a sprint,
Speaker 3: and you know you need a little luck. But for
Speaker 3: the most part, it's all about focus and being able
Speaker 3: to set a standard and being able to get to
Speaker 3: that standard every Sunday.
Speaker 2: Like when the opposing defense brings an extra rusher to
Speaker 2: try to stop your pass name.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, because that means that the more rushes you bring,
Speaker 3: the less you have in coverage. And I like our
Speaker 3: guys when they can get the ball in their hands
Speaker 3: with only one guy in their vicinity, or if they
Speaker 3: only got to beat one guy in a lot of
Speaker 3: open space. So you know, it's it's one of those
Speaker 3: things where you can live by you can die by it.
Speaker 3: For us, you know, it's a challenge and we welcome
Speaker 3: the challenges, and you know it's it's why you gotta
Speaker 3: be on it. It's why you can't play into their
Speaker 3: hands and get behind the chains, because they can make
Speaker 3: it like hard.
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna get Hutchinson, I would imagine in this
Speaker 2: game a lot, and that means you're probably gonna get
Speaker 2: Pascal and Kaminsky on your side.
Speaker 1: What do they look like on film?
Speaker 2: What do they what stands out about their game to you?
Speaker 3: About all of them are just Pascal and commencement. Oh, well,
Speaker 3: they're more so what we would call three four ends.
Speaker 3: So they they're more so interior guys, and they kick out,
Speaker 3: you know, depending on the formation of the defense. So
Speaker 3: seventy nine or ninety three eight they be playing playing
Speaker 3: and four I three tech majority of the game, and
Speaker 3: then some books that kick out the end. So they're
Speaker 3: just bigger. They're bigger guys. They can press the pocket.
Speaker 3: All of them play like their Harris on fire. Nobody
Speaker 3: takes a playoff. You know, they're a great compliment to
Speaker 3: ninety seven on the other side, because he often gets
Speaker 3: pressure and and kind of flushes the quarterback right to
Speaker 3: those guys that's compressing the pocket, so they have a
Speaker 3: good rush plan.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: You know, obviously Colton I'll probably see him too, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: But you know, anytime any plays ninety seven lines up,
Speaker 3: you got your work cutout for you. You know, he
Speaker 3: doesn't stop, so he's a great player. So you know,
Speaker 3: we definitely gotta be you gotta be locked in.
Speaker 2: How do you enjoy the moments, the small moments like
Speaker 2: walking out of the tunnel with Deepo, the music blauring
Speaker 2: before a big game like you're gonna have on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I enjoy all of it. Man, At this point
Speaker 3: in my career, you know, I just I don't take
Speaker 3: it for granted. Any chance I can go out there
Speaker 3: and play you know, any any any game with this team.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm grateful for thank God all the time,
Speaker 3: just for this opportunity in itself. So yeah, I'm it's
Speaker 3: It's the best feeling in the world, man, coming out
Speaker 3: to this, to this stadium, see a Red fans just
Speaker 3: going crazy. You know, It's It's one of those things
Speaker 3: when you lay down at night. It's kind of thing
Speaker 3: you kind of go through your head when you're thinking about,
Speaker 3: you know, all the things that just happened.
Speaker 1: You're twenty ten, you're dropped. You have a young offensive cardin.
Speaker 1: What's your first like, what's your earliest memory of him
Speaker 1: or you know, meeting him and what can you say
Speaker 1: about the relationship.
Speaker 3: You've had for decades though, you know it's crazy. The
Speaker 3: thing that stands out to me was it was it swag.
Speaker 3: Obviously at twenty ten, you ain't meet too many thirty
Speaker 3: year old coordinators, so him walking in with Jordan Shorts
Speaker 3: and Jordan's on it was a shock to me. So
Speaker 3: that stood out to me, and I've always thought about
Speaker 3: it over the years, but you know, just seeing he
Speaker 3: always was a brilliant mind. Anytime he spoke football, anybody
Speaker 3: would listen. Everybody listen. You know, he knew what he
Speaker 3: was talking about. But just seeing him mature and seeing
Speaker 3: him add different fastest, fastest to the offense and kind
Speaker 3: of take his dad's offense. That was world renowned and
Speaker 3: kind of make it his own and and you know,
Speaker 3: just seeing how he coaches the team, how he leads,
Speaker 3: and how he prepares his team week in and week out.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean we're super close. But I couldn't
Speaker 3: be any more proud of him. I couldn't. You asked
Speaker 3: me fourteen years ago, I probably would have never seen
Speaker 3: this coming. But you know, I just think it's so
Speaker 3: it's so dope that he's one of the best coaches
Speaker 3: in the league and he literally, you know, hand picked
Speaker 3: me in twenty ten. And you know we've been Obviously
Speaker 3: I didn't played for him every year, but every year
Speaker 3: I've been in the league, I've been in touch with him,
Speaker 3: and we've always kept in touch, always kept a great relationship.
Speaker 2: Game and just a success.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's one of my favorite, one of my favorite
Speaker 3: guys to watch. You know, he reminds me a lot
Speaker 3: of myself. He emulates a lot of things that I do,
Speaker 3: which is impresses me because you know, we never even
Speaker 3: really work together personally. So you know, that means he
Speaker 3: watches film, it means he's intelligent, he knows when to
Speaker 3: bring certain things out. So you know, he's always been
Speaker 3: one of my favorites ever since he was in Oregon.
Speaker 3: Then seeing his maturation from year one to year two
Speaker 3: and to now, you know, I just think he's taking
Speaker 3: giant leaps and I think he's you know, he's one
Speaker 3: of the better right tackles. You're fine, not just in
Speaker 3: the league today, but you know in recent memory. Honestly,
Speaker 3: how is do you goo today?
Speaker 1: A practice?
Speaker 2: And then how does him being on the field with Christian?
Speaker 2: Can you feel how it affects the defense when you're
Speaker 2: out there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can, just for the simple fact when you
Speaker 3: see them guys get the ball and you see what
Speaker 3: they do with it. But you know, I don't know
Speaker 3: how the defense approaches any different. You know, I'm in
Speaker 3: a box and looking at the d n or de
Speaker 3: tacle twenty four to seven. So you know, but having
Speaker 3: d bow having I mean like saying, you want one
Speaker 3: play makers of two play makers, and you know it's
Speaker 3: anytime you got two out there, you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 3: reap the benefits of having two, and you know, have three.
Speaker 3: Luckily for us we got three or four so we
Speaker 3: can keep them, keep them fresh. But you know, those
Speaker 3: guys are create They just presents such challenges for the defense.
Speaker 3: Because you gotta know where everybody's at. You know, normally
Speaker 3: you gotta know one guy at maybe two. You know,
Speaker 3: on this offense, you gotta know where three or four
Speaker 3: guys are at it at all times. And it's hard.
Speaker 2: And just talk about how enjoyable is to run behind you.
Speaker 2: How enjoyable is it for you to block for him?
Speaker 3: Oh man, it's voga for the best running back in
Speaker 3: the league. I mean, it's it makes our job so
Speaker 3: much easier. You know, like even the game winning touchdown,
Speaker 3: that guy is unblocked in the hole and you know,
Speaker 3: obviously that could have been the first down. He would
Speaker 3: have still been cheering. But you know, for him to
Speaker 3: make that guy miss and we say that's yours, we
Speaker 3: might can't block all eleven. You gotta leave one. And
Speaker 3: we tell the running back all the time that's you know,
Speaker 3: you gotta take care of one, and nine percent of
Speaker 3: the time he's gonna take care of his. So you know,
Speaker 3: if you can hold on to your guy for that
Speaker 3: split second, let him get through the line, he's gonna
Speaker 3: carry happy. ALRIGHTY appreciate you all.