1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,880 Speaker 1: And now we walk come in one of the newest giants, 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: Safety or Darius Washington or Darius Welcome a board, man, 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: I wear. 4 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 2: You man, I'm good, bro, blessed to be here, all right? 5 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: So why'd you choose the Giants? Why'd you think this 6 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: was a good fit for you? 7 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 2: I mean, kind of familiar with all the guys that 8 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: was here, like on the coach of stuff and everything 9 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 2: like that, you know, and if it's my game, you 10 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 2: know what I mean, so like them coming here, and 11 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 2: that played a big role in a couple other guys 12 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: signing here too, you know, so it wouldn't be unfamiliar 13 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 2: facing everything like that. And honestly, I've never been to 14 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 2: New York, you know what I mean, So I definitely 15 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 2: want to see what the city's like. So that's definitely 16 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: one of the reasons. 17 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: So what is it about John Harbaugh and Dinard Wilson 18 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 1: and the rest of the staff that really didn't make 19 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: it appealing? What is it about them that you think 20 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: is a good fit for you? 21 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 2: I mean they understand, like, you know, where I come from, 22 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, the hard work that I 23 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 2: put in to be here, and everything in the great 24 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 2: and the determination, you know what I'm saying, that they bring. 25 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,599 Speaker 2: You know, I feel like I fit that well with them, 26 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So they want someone that's 27 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 2: gonna come in and working hard and by any means 28 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 2: like get us to win. So that's what it was. 29 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: For the fans that don't know your story. You were 30 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent. I by the way, I thought 31 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: you should have got picked that your eye. I was 32 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: shocked when you went undrafted. Through all seven rounds, you 33 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: fought your way onto the fifty two minut roster. You 34 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: go through two very serious injuries your first two years, 35 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: You fight back, go to the practice squad, come back. 36 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: Then in twenty twenty four, you're in the I think 37 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: started eleven games that year I remember, right, and you'd 38 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: played a big role in the postseason, and then you'd 39 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: injury last year. So how were you able to kind 40 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: of keep your mental right and despite all the ups 41 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: and downs and twisting turns and injuries, fight through it 42 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: and get to where you were in twenty four where 43 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: you're one of the biggest contributors on defense. 44 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, there's a lot of prayer in that, 45 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,839 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Keeping God like, keeping people 46 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 2: that's around you that care about you, and that's going 47 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 2: love on you, you know what I'm saying. So like 48 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: that's part of like keeping my mental straight. That's what 49 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: helped me get to where the point I am now, 50 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, the people that's around me, 51 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 2: and honestly, just my determination and love for football. You know, 52 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 2: I love playing the game of football, So no matter 53 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 2: what it is or when I'm out there, I'm gonna 54 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 2: be out there and give them them by all. So like, honestly, 55 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: just that really what it was. You know what I'm saying, 56 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 2: Like I want to hang up on my turns when 57 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 2: I want to be done. You know what I'm saying. 58 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna let it. Injury or anything like that 59 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: stopped me. And then I always had that chip on 60 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: my shoulder to come out there and show guys like Okay, 61 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 2: yeah on five eight one eighty, Yeah, that don't mean anything. 62 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you how play though. 63 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: So is that attitude how you came back so quickly 64 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: from the Achilles last year. 65 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 2: Hundre percent. You know, everyone's doubting it. Everyone's like, oh, 66 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 2: you're gonna come back from it. You're not gonna come 67 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: back from it. And even when I was talking to 68 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 2: my trainers, they was like, you know, it's nine months 69 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 2: recovery this and that, and I was like, Wes the quickies, 70 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: I can come back. And then when I found out 71 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 2: that other players did it, like Sis and everything like that, 72 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 2: they was like, came back pretty early. I was like, 73 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 2: you know what, I think I can be able to 74 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 2: come back in seven months. Those guys were a lot 75 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 2: bigger than me, way more and everything like that, so 76 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 2: they probably got way more stress on their body. So 77 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I definitely probably can come back 78 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 2: in seven months, you know what I'm saying. So the 79 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 2: end of December was my goal, and well it was 80 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 2: the December and so I was like that was my 81 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: goal and they was like, you can do it. So 82 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 2: once I go on training every day, I was like, 83 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. 84 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,119 Speaker 1: You feeling good now? By blah? 85 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, A hundred percent ready to roll. Man. I missed 86 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 2: a lot of football last year, so I'm ready to 87 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 2: play a lot this year. 88 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: You mentioned you're five eight pet eighty, but if you 89 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: would have known from watching you on tape, you put 90 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: yourself into pulling guards. You know, tight ends whatever. When 91 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: you're playing in the slot, you also play deep, you 92 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: fly around, you hit guys, What is it about being 93 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: a smaller player and how what your mentality is that 94 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: you don't play like you're. 95 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: A smaller play I mean that SHI have always been 96 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 2: on my shoulder, you know what I mean, Like I 97 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 2: ain't just become five eight, you know what I mean. 98 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 2: I kind of being small my whole life, you know 99 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 2: what I mean. So it's just like I don't think 100 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:28,679 Speaker 2: about it, you know what I mean, Like everybody big 101 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,839 Speaker 2: to me, you know what I mean. So every time 102 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 2: I go out there, I just try to add it 103 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 2: top on my shoulder. Like we can go out there 104 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 2: and play ball just as much as anybody else. To 105 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 2: eat six foot run and fourth for it don't really matter, 106 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 2: you know, we get know between those white lines. You 107 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 2: don't have to show me that. So that's kind of 108 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: my mentality. 109 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: You play over the place where do you like to play? 110 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: Do you like to be like in the mix in 111 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: the slot where you're supporting us to run you're a 112 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: good blitzer out of the slot too, or do you 113 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: like having your eyes on the quarterback play in that 114 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: middle of the field, or deep safety where you can 115 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: kind of make plays on the ball a little bit more. 116 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 2: For me, I just kind of want to be where 117 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 2: the ball is, you know what I mean. So if 118 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: it's third and short of you know, potentially run down, 119 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: I want to be in the box, you know what 120 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: I mean. If he's potentially passed, but past, I want 121 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 2: to be in the bag. You know, I was on 122 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: the quarterback, you know, playing coverage or something like that. 123 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: So it's just all depends, Like it really doesn't matter 124 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 2: to me, you know what I mean. I kind of 125 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 2: just want to be whatever healthy defense and the skime, 126 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So I can play nigga 127 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 2: lits man whatever, you know what I'm saying, play safety 128 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 2: or in the box. You know, I kind of just 129 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 2: want to be where the ball is, And so I'll 130 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 2: definitely say safety. I'll probably say safety probably be more 131 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 2: so where I would want to be at because you 132 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 2: kind of can do all that you can bless as 133 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 2: the safety. You can be in the bars, you can 134 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: play over the top and everything like that, so you 135 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 2: can really help other guys out to and communicate. So 136 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 2: I definitely probably say safety is what I definitely want 137 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 2: to do. 138 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: So Giant fans don't have much of a feel for 139 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: what Donard Wilson's defenses look like here, right, You probably do, 140 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: haven't been with them in Baltimore. So give Giant fans 141 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: a feel of a how you think he's gonna use 142 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: you and the rest of the safeties. He's used three 143 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 1: safeties before, right, and just overall what the feel of 144 00:04:58,600 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: this defense is going to be. 145 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a three safety pretty 146 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: safety three safety day and definitely aggressive defense, you know 147 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 2: what I mean. So we're gonna bring it. You know 148 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 2: what I mean. We're gonna be aggressive and come out 149 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: to guys, you know what I'm saying, flying around to 150 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 2: the ball. That's kind of who he is and what 151 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: he brings to the table. For sure. 152 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: You're a big special teams guy too. Of course, special 153 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: team you play all the spots. Where is it you 154 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: think your most effective and what are the spots on 155 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: special teams you think you can impact the game the most. 156 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 2: Definitely kick off, I definitely say like kickoff, and definitely 157 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 2: uh pum retern you know what I'm saying, per return 158 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 2: locking down someone's best gunner, So I definitely say like 159 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: perm return and definitely kick off for sure. 160 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: You mentioned you want to be in New York, big city. 161 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: What for first free day in New York? You got 162 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 1: nothing to do? You want to go hang out, go 163 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: to the city. What's on your kind of bucket list 164 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: for New York? 165 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 2: The bucket list? I mean like now, as in today 166 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 2: or just whenever. Honestly, I want to catch one of 167 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 2: those players. Never been to one of those Broadway players 168 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 2: or anything like that, and it's different, you know what 169 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 2: I mean. So I've never done it, and that's just 170 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: something I want to do. So I definitely say catch 171 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 2: one of those plays for sure. 172 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: That's awesome. Or there is welcome a board. Do you 173 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: have a message for Giant fans. We'll go right in 174 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: to the camera that you want to tell me about 175 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: yourself and your game. 176 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 2: Ah, Man, y'all wn get a hardworking player. Y'all can 177 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: get a player that knows how to win. Man, We're 178 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 2: gonna go out win and do the best that we can. 179 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 2: Let's go big Blue, Let's do it. 180 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: Welcome Ward, I appreciate it.