WEBVTT - The Vikings Audible: Eric Kendricks & Jordan Hicks On Developing Instincts, Playing Against Hostility | 2022 - Week 2 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.560 Inside the TCO Studios for another edition of The Audible 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.799 presented by three M, the official science partner of the 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.360 Minnesota Vikings. My name is Gabe Henderson. I'm along so 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.040 I take him Everett, and it is week number two, 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.000 episode number two. We got two of our favorite Vikings 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.360 players joining the show, mister Eric Hendricks and mister Jordan 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.919 Hicks Fellas. Thank you for joining first and foremost. Secondly, Eric, 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:39.440 you've been a part of the show I think three 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.840 or four times last year, first time with a guest. 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.200 So you know august thing I was. I was telling 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.480 the backstage he'd better not mess it up. So we've 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.440 already had our conversation. We're good to go. He's prepped, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.400 We're ready, all right, whoa like like? We all know 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.360 we start this thing off of trivia, but today we 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.880 want to do it a little bit different. We want 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.600 to do two truths and a lie. So Eric, we're 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.400 gonna start with you. We got a cute card in 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.160 front of both of you. Guys. There are three sentences 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.400 on that card. Jordan, it is up to you to 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.600 figure out which two sentences are true and which one 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.840 is a lie. All right, let's greeted out. What are 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.679 the two truths in one lie about Ali and I's 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.840 wedding This summer, we gave our guests the option to 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.759 where pajamas at our On our wedding day, I crowd 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.480 surfed and spilled juice on my tuxedo during the reception. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.119 We hired on site tattooed artists for the reception. Uh, 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.840 the lie is the on site tattoo. Did you do that? 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.040 We did that? You did? That is the lie that 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:46.160 Ali crowd surfd. She did crowd I didn't crowdsurfed. I 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.160 missed it, but I saw the pictures in the video. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.279 She might be a little easier to lift up. Yeah, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.520 I guess she was just feeling it and crowdsurfed in 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.600 her address where people getting tatoos at your wedding, people 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.680 were getting tattoos. Parents were getting tattoos. M it's the 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.680 one on your hand right when, right here on my finger, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.600 And then I got another one right here, number two? 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.560 Second sibling? Nice? What was the best tattoo? The best tattoo? 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.359 You know? Any tattoo stories? There are some good ones. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.600 I don't even know. Like some people just left with tattoos. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.880 It's like I'm hoping these people were sober when they 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:23.320 got these tattoos, right, I mean exactly what. Honestly, you 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.120 know people will always remember our wading because they have 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.320 a tat exactly. Wow. I have a lot to think 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:34.400 about with my upcoming one man, I got yeah, Dan, 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.440 two truth and a lie about my playing days. Number one, 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.480 I got locked inside US Bank Stadium with your brother 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.680 Mike after winning the Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.120 Number two, I won the second ever Dick buckis my 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.239 senior year of high school UM. And number three, I 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.480 started my master's degree in advertisement while in college. I 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.280 believe you're getting locks in the US Bank because I 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.960 feel like it could be easily confused. I guess how 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.640 to get out of the stadium, and that's the lot. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.480 But we feel like I've never gotten out of the 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:12.560 stadium by myself. It's always been I've always been yeah right, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.280 So I don't know how I would get out of 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.480 the stadium, but anyway, I would think the buckas thing 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.840 is a long buckus is the truth? You won the 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.480 second bookas in high school. Yes, won the second buckats 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.160 in high school. The lie is the first one with 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.280 your brother you really yeah, we we we did not 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.799 get locked in. We had a big time celebration, a 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.959 lot of champagne, a lot of cigars. But uh, in 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.480 our stadium, in your stadium, in the in the locker 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.200 room as well, in the same locker room, home locker room. Uh. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.360 But yeah, we were escorted it out with everybody. Good 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.440 memories from there, Huh. Yeah, it's a good time. It's 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.120 pretty cool. That's this past game is the first time 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.160 I was back playing a game in that locker room. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:51.600 Was it did come funning back to you at all? Yeah, 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.760 I mean it's it's kind of been like a process 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.240 of of like when I signed here and then you know, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.080 we had a practice in the stadium and that was 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.400 like the actual first time I've been back and then 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.480 playing on the field, it was kind of Yeah, coming 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.640 out that same tunnel, it was. It was interesting. Yeah, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.880 it was very interesting. It was fun. Were you at 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.040 that Super Bowl game? Since it was I didn't Okay, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.320 I didn't go to the Super Bowl. I didn't really 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:19.039 want to be there with the like we had just lost. Yeah, 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.560 I wanted to watch my brother, but I didn't want 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.520 to be there around anybody else. I wanted to watch 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.920 it on TV. I want to rewind it and be 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.000 able to watch every like, Oh, let me see this 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.000 play again, let me see it again, let me see 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.240 the fourth time. And I just sat there by myself, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.520 and I enjoyed watching it by myself. One of the 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.120 only super Bowls I've ever watched through and through, through 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.760 and through. Amazing your family connection. You're not watching the 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.800 Super Bowls. I don't know. It's been some good ones, 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:55.160 not even for the commercials. Sometimes I don't know everybody good. Well, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.040 you guys are from the same draft class, yeah, and 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.839 Eric Hendricks, Eric, you were thirty five picks or thirty 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.240 nine picks before Jordan. Yeah, but obviously being the same position. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.760 Did you guys know of each other or anything about 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:15.120 each other interact with each other before this? Yeah? I 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.360 know for sure. I knew about him obviously because I 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.960 played with his brother yea, and we came out the 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.040 same year, so it was, you know, you always kind 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.160 of keep up with your draft class, especially your position. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.080 And uh, he's always been, you know, somebody that I've 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.800 always watched and really respected, and um, you know, it's 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.160 been been dope being able to be here and you know, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:35.560 get to know him and get to play with him, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:40.720 So thanks bro absolutely. I'll also you know, um, I 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.560 remember Jordan. Obviously we UCLA. We beat Texas that year, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:46.560 we went to the Combine and I remember us to 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.960 just chatting at the combine, us like inside backers and 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.520 stuff like that. Um, we got drafted. You know, I've 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.160 always watched him on film. He's the guy gets to 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.760 the ball. Um has always had an ability to like 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.320 get to the rock and make plays. Um. And yeah, 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.920 now we got to play together. So it's pretty dope, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.760 all right, Jordan. What what similarities do Eric and his 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.880 brother Michael have on and off the field? Okay, yeah, 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:11.160 curse the foremost. They have a ton of energy, and 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.720 it's it's part of like we've got the same man mannerisms, 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.480 they talk the same, but their energy level is like 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.760 through the roof and they are. It's it's funny because 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.839 you when I first got here, it was like they're 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.440 they're very different in their own ways and their own respects, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.200 but they're also very similar. So when I got here, 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.840 it was like I see Mike in you, but you 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.240 guys are really different. But yeah, their energy levels through 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:42.640 the through the roof they have. There are several scouting 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.760 reports that said, Jordan played similarly to your brother when 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.160 you guys were going through the draft process. How do 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.400 you see that reflected in how Jordan plays? Yeah, I 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.120 feel like we all just kind of like, Um, you know, 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.160 I think we're all traditional linebackers are kind of like 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.560 two sixty two fifty, So you know, we're all kind 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.800 of like unders side compared to the norm. I guess 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.160 you could say more backers are not like that nowadays 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:08.520 than not. But uh, um just are are are running 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.520 to the ball and are not giving ourselves up in 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.640 plays that we don't have to really give our give 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:14.920 up on. Um. I think that's what we kind of all, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.600 um relate relate to Jordans. I know I'm getting a 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.240 little off script here. I know you know a lot 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.240 of fans know of Eric being here for so long, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.080 but the for fans who don't know who you are 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.480 as the person, like, how would you describe yourself and 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.480 like your story? I know what you're from, Colorado, moved 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.080 to Indiana. You've moved a lot of different places before football. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.800 This football thing worked out for you. Yeah, Um, A 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.840 lot of my story revolves around moving as a young kid. Um, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:47.080 basketball was my first love. Um, really didn't take football 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.040 serious until junior year of high school and when I 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.480 really realized I would had a future in it, went 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:58.720 to the University of Texas and uh, at seventeen, went 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.239 you know, my of miles across the country. Left Ohio 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.880 and dealt with some injuries there, got drafted third round, 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.160 had a good senior year, got drafted third round, had 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.000 some injuries early in my career in Philly, and uh, 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.160 you know, obviously we came here when the Super Bowl 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.120 went to Arizona and now I'm here, So in a nutshell, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.600 has changed your pace helped you get to this point 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.880 in your career? I mean, I mean from different states, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.400 to different universities to life, Like, yeah, how has that 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.560 shaped who you are today? Yeah? You got to learn 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.280 to adapt, right. I feel like I've got a fairly 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.800 good ability to adapt and to blend in and jail 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.280 with my circumstances and make the most of it. And 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.520 a lot of that comes from moving meeting new people. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.920 Football wise, I was I've been in a lot of 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.800 different schemes through college. I had four different defensive coordinators 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.199 and then got to the league and have I think 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.040 I've had three or four in the League. So I've 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.640 seen a lot of different football, had to learn a 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.520 lot of different things. So you know, ultimately you come 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.880 in and now you learn differently. You learn in concepts, right, 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.079 rather than oh, this is my job, this is you know. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.680 I think that's what makes great players. That learning process 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.640 was something that Eric you had to kind of not 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.240 re learn, but but it is something new for you 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.679 this year. And obviously having Jordan in a three or 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.000 four earlier in Philly before and you now maneuvering into that. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.360 I guess the La territory. I guess you could say, 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.679 how has it been being able to have him to 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.160 as a sounding board within your room? No, I think 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.080 you nailed it. I think that you know, um, Jordan's 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:33.800 been through a lot of defenses, like he's just explained, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.880 and he has the ability to adapt and kind of 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.760 take what he knows from this team and apply it 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:40.480 to us right now. Whereas when you know, the new 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.800 different defense got introduced to me. You know, I've been 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:44.439 playing in the system for eight years. You know, I've 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.839 been kind of had drilled into this one system and 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.000 things weren't clicking as easy for me. But he can 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.160 kind of understand where I was at because he had 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.400 played in a similar defense in that in that regard, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.040 and then he was able to you know, mess the 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.360 two and we were able to communicate on those kind 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.520 of terms because he sees things very similar to how 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.240 I see things, and it's been real, real smooth. I 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.240 would say, don't don't let him short change it though. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.199 He is one of the smartest backers I've been around, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.679 So his instincts and ability to pick it up is 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.400 like top not top notch. Is what we're going to 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.760 end segment one on because segment two I want to 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.160 get into the nitty gritty of who you guys are 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.360 and why you guys are here, So stay tuned. We'll 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.319 be right back. More on the audible presented by three 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.960 M from the Field to the roof and everywhere in between. 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.679 Three M, the official science partner of the Minnesota Vikings, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:35.079 is here. Visit Vikings dot com slash Skulls Science to 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:42.360 learn more. We are back. This is the audible presented 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.240 by three M, the official science partner of the Minnesota Vikings. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.720 Gabe Henderson here along so I Tatum every from Vikings 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.760 dot Com. We got Eric Hendricks, Jordan Hicks, our two 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.240 guests on the show and I Tatum brought up a 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.599 good point earlier. You guys are both drafted in the 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.480 same draft in twenty and fifteen, and I was doing 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.320 some resource until that, and I was like, all right, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.000 let's see how how the numbers stack up against all 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.240 the other linebackers selected in the draft. Oh, we got 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.960 we got people. Yeah, you guys both lead your draft 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:18.520 class in tackles, in sacks and interceptions. Nice. Nice in 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.920 our whole draft class. Well, I think so you're number 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.040 one in sacks. Yeah, you're number three, Eric, but everything. Oh, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.760 you guys are one in two. What do your credit 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.520 what do you credit that success too? That's far in 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:36.880 your career health, right, yeah, that's that's obviously number one. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:38.880 I think you can't you can't make plays if you're 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:43.079 not on the field, right, instincts, instincts. I think it's 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:53.760 for sure. You you too, you yea? Yeah, yeah. I 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.000 feel the love between you two, which is really great 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:57.360 because I think at the end of the day, when 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.640 you think about joining two p full, I mean, you 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.120 work together, you have to communicate, you have to be 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.880 in this together, and knowing each other in your history 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.480 and coming into this has to help but what have 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.480 you learned about each other maybe in the short time 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.760 you have that you didn't know before. And I'll start 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.840 with you Jordan, it could be even something personal. Yeah, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.080 I mean we've had the opportunity to hang out off 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.240 the field as well. Um, so I've I've you know, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.840 my wife, I've got a family, my wife and three kids. UM, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.000 me and my wife. We all go to dinner with 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.040 his wife, him and his wife, and you know we've 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:32.920 been able to connect off the field and get to 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:37.480 know each other in that direction. Um and really, you 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.440 know that builds even more connection on the field, right, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.679 That type of stuff off the field builds connection on 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.480 the field. So, uh, that's been dope. Yeah, I would 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:47.959 say this. I was gonna say the same thing. You know, 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.880 he's got his super dad, you know, he has kiddos 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.000 at home. But also he's been a husband. He's been 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.080 a husband longer than I have, you know, so definitely, 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.520 you know, talk about the good, the ups and downs, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.760 and it's great drama. Sometimes. Yeah, it feel like it's 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.520 like a whole venting session. It's like you got you 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.480 gotta quick vent all of it. You need those people 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.719 in your life got to it and It's been what 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.000 six months, right, I think when this show airs, it'll 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.400 be six months since you signed this all season for 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.280 being a Minnesota Viking. And during that short span, like 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.640 Tatum just said, you guys have built that bond. But 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.040 one thing that I know, I believe it was you, Jordan. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.840 You said this all season is like you guys, non 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.880 verbal communication. It's next level. So like for fans who 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.760 don't know what non verbal communication is for a linebacker, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.520 what does that look like? It looks like we both 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.439 know something at the same time. You got it, We're 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.480 good and it just happens. I mean, we've we had 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.440 to play a practice. We're a man. Usually a man 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.520 you don't work together, and it just so happened that 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.040 you take my guy, take your guy, and it just 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.920 worked out. It's like there's times when you got you 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.520 got you playing with people that don't see it that 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.719 way at all. When you know, you know, when you know, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.120 you know, you know, you know, you gotta a big 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.920 picture always you know. It's a it's a feel thing 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.280 for sure, but then it's sometimes it's like a panic 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.640 situation where you're lined up and you're like and you 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.360 just make that look and then you know, you know, 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.840 he's panicking just like and then it's like, okay, cool, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.320 like we're both panicking. We might be able to figure 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.400 this out. Yeah, so there's a sense of calm in 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.720 the panic. Okay, you always got to stay calm, right, Okay, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:30.320 it's never really panic. It's just a lot of that 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.680 nonverbal communication comes in those moments though, you know what 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.360 I mean, In the two minute, in the fast pace 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.640 and the it's like you just gotta react and we 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.440 work off each other. How much have you talked to 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.920 Eric about this Monday night football game and return to 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.560 Philly someplace that obviously it's pretty special to you, Jordan, Uh, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.840 we've talked, We've talked about it. Yeah, obviously, Um, he's 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.520 been on this side of it, you know, obviously more 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.160 than I have, so he honestly knows knows more about it, uh, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.360 and what to expect. This will be my first time 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.360 back playing there, um since I've left. So yeah, it's 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.560 gonna be a dope experience for me. Yeah, you think 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.600 it'll be like, you know, I don't know, I'm I'm 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.840 it'll be It'll be a definitely a weird feeling being 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.760 back in the city. The city is the city is 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.040 one of a kind, um, and when you've been a 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.200 part of it, it's you kind of have some type 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.160 of pool towards you understand. You feel like you understand 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.600 it because it's one of a kind. Um. But yeah, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.880 in terms of being there in the stadium, I really 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.280 I'm not sure. It's probably I know what it's gonna be. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.920 It's gonna be angry, Yeah, hostile, it's gonna be, um, 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.400 blue collar, it's gonna be. I think it's it's it's 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.960 I love playing there. It's great. Like obviously, um, it's 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.120 not a home game by any means. I love playing 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.840 at home. But there's something about football when you're on 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.760 the road. You know, you're in a hostile environment. You know, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.000 chips are stacked against you, and you get to go 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.560 with your go out there with your brothers who've been 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.240 you know, training with, working hard with and you guys 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.880 get a real opportunity to prove yourself. Like it. It's 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.800 beyond like you know, football, it's beyond like making plays, 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.120 getting first down touchdowns. It's like, you know, it's fan 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.240 base versus fan base. It's you know, it's monoi mono. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.880 It's pretty dope. Is there a sense of like, what 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.960 is the I guess that I want to I don't 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.160 want to say feeling, but what is that that thing 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.760 right that when you go back home to either your 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.200 hometown or your former team, that it kind of gets 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:25.920 you up a little bit. I remember last year we 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.840 played the Chargers and you were like, we had you 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.320 on the audible. You just had this this energy about you. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:31.880 You can I can never play bad in California. I 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.720 just refuse to pay. It's like I have to bring it, 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.680 you know. So it's like that's just how I feel, 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.120 you know, It's just what I just any type of 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.320 motivation I can get to get into go into the game, 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:42.960 and any type of chip I can have on my 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.040 shoulder or like you know, I was I think like 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.880 the last game, I drove my grandpa's viper to the game, 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.800 and I really used that, Like I really was thinking about, man, 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.840 this is my grandpa's viper, Like I get to be 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.480 able to drive this to the to the game. It 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.280 was my dream to go to you know, play football, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.920 and you know, own this car. Now I'm like I'm 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.120 doing it like bringing my family to the game a 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:02.520 little bit, you know what I mean? It's like any 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.359 type of like motivation you can you can bring. I 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:08.480 feel like do it. You've been playing now for a while, Jordan, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.680 is there something similar that do you have done to 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.080 help that motivation? Something that because you mean when you 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.720 start to play for I'm sure you gotta start creative. Yeah. No, 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.200 you You're always find trying to find that the way 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.560 to create that chip. Um, I mean, this is gonna 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.320 be I won't have to really do much for this game. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.960 This is gonna be pretty. And it was actually that 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.280 way when I was in Philly, always playing in Dallas, right, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.479 it was always that same way. Um, I always had 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.600 my best games against Dallas. But just because I knew, 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.560 you know, coming from Ut, everybody's watching. Everybody is is 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.399 Texas fans. So um yeah, I mean I don't know. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.639 I try to honestly try to block out quite a 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.080 bit of that and just clear my mind, um as 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.120 much as I can, because you know, I've I give 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.040 I get up. It doesn't matter how long I play. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.720 I get up for these games. And sometimes I just 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.600 gotta tell myself to just take a breath, chill out, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.359 let's go go, go do your job. Because I know 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.720 both of you guys love football, but Jordan, like, you're 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.679 so even killed. Yeah, that like my thing. When when 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.119 I was going to the Green Bay Packers name, I 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:15.840 was like, man, like, Jordan's so even killed, Like he 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.480 hasn't said anything, hasn't done anything. And then when you 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.040 sacked there and Rodgers, you like gave this spiss pump 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.359 and I was like, Oh, let's dude, it's into it. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.280 So like, how would you describe your love for the 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.800 game of football? Yeah, I mean football is Football has 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.679 been my life, you know what I mean. I mean, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.320 for since I always ask people, actually this is a question. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.159 I asked people, how long you've been playing football? Right, 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.479 Because when you get to this point in the NFL, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.360 usually most guys have at least been playing for ten 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.200 plus years, right, And the thing, you've been playing this 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.239 game for a decade. For me, it's been twenty years. Right. 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.480 I've been playing football in my life for over twenty 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.080 years now. And it's like I haven't done anything for 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.480 twenty years, right, And this is it. And so football 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.120 has been my life. And you know, I a lot 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.240 to the game, a lot to my coaches and my teammates, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.159 and I love this game. I like I said, I 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.560 get I get nervous. I get those butterflies before every 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.720 single every single game. And as long as I've got that, 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.920 I know there's there's that energy, there's that passion, you 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.520 know that that you can feed off of. I agree 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.560 right there, you still get nervous, Eric, Yep, absolutely, it's 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.040 good though. Yeah, it makes you feel alive, you know. 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.560 That's what like anytime, anytime where I'm really out there 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.040 and I'm like, you know, things maybe hard things, and 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.280 you know, it's like nothing will replace that feeling when 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.280 you're on the field for me at least, you know, 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.359 and it's it's pretty special for sure. All Right, Well, 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.359 let's leave the fans with a quick Philadelphia Eagles preview, right, Um, 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.520 Jalen Hurts is the guy over there that everybody talks about. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.240 Um for a defense or linebackers, where you're scheming Jalen Hurts, 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.560 do you scheme him the way you scheme Lamar or 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.160 is it more like a Toa or a Calu Murray? 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:58.480 And why I would? I would say because because he 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.800 is such a threat with his his legs, and the 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.400 scheme is built for him to be able to pull 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.840