Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of The Players Club. Man, we
Speaker 1: got a full show for y'all fellas. Yeah, man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have our.
Speaker 2: Mid season review.
Speaker 1: Yes, we gotta preview the game against the Philadelphia Egles.
Speaker 1: Don't look at our memories against the Philadelphia Egles. We're
Speaker 1: gonna give out the doves of the first half of
Speaker 1: the season. And we got Bobby Wagner by what you
Speaker 1: call it, Bobby yellow jacket, Bobby yellow, Bobby yellow jacket,
Speaker 1: Bobby gold jacket, whatever, Wilfrid sne.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be on the show.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what we got for y'all on this
Speaker 1: next edition of The Players Club.
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Speaker 1: a little different. Normally have dubs the other week, but
Speaker 1: for this show, get my give my saying out. We're
Speaker 1: gonna give dubs of the of the season, the mid
Speaker 1: season so far after ten games, team is balling. What
Speaker 1: has been your impressions of this team so far, Like
Speaker 1: who would be who would you give your dubs of.
Speaker 2: The mid season? Two?
Speaker 4: Well, for me, y'all been teaching me all year. But
Speaker 4: that Frankie levou Man.
Speaker 2: You gotta CRUs.
Speaker 4: But Frankie levou Man and I seen him in training
Speaker 4: and he's one of those guys, like you said, he
Speaker 4: come out of the locker room. He's a dude and
Speaker 4: we knew that he could play linebacker. I had no
Speaker 4: idea learning if we talked about it each week.
Speaker 2: Man, did you see that pass rush move?
Speaker 4: Did you see his effort and and what he brings
Speaker 4: to the table along with Bobby and the rest of
Speaker 4: the defense. But I think he's that he's that dude
Speaker 4: on that defense. And I've been really impressed with with
Speaker 4: him and his performance weekend and week out and when
Speaker 4: he's when he's there, Frankie lavou for me, louvu for me.
Speaker 4: On the defense side of the ball, it's been great.
Speaker 4: Are we talking about offenses as well? Or we just
Speaker 4: think whatever, Yeah, he's my guy, and then on and
Speaker 4: then and then on on the offense side of the ball.
Speaker 4: Is we can talk about you know, Jade and I
Speaker 4: want to say that for Santana, but b Rob Man
Speaker 4: b Rob his and we had him on the on
Speaker 4: the show early year and he's talking about turning it
Speaker 4: up Week two Giants hunting thirty three yards. He's that
Speaker 4: hammer catching out the backfield, doing everything we've we've asked
Speaker 4: him do. Nicked up here and there, but for the
Speaker 4: most part, man, I've been so impressed with that kid,
Speaker 4: along with others, But for me, it was be robbing
Speaker 4: the way he's been doing, the way he's been running
Speaker 4: the ball behind that good offense line and everything setting
Speaker 4: up give making people put one on one coverage for
Speaker 4: the guy on the outside to eat.
Speaker 2: But he's he was an ex fractor for me.
Speaker 3: You know, I think.
Speaker 5: It'd be obvious if I came out with an offensive guy,
Speaker 5: or you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna let you guys have y'all way with.
Speaker 5: You because you know I bring it. When I bring it,
Speaker 5: I make you really think about it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make you put on your.
Speaker 5: Thinking happens again for this one, And I got to
Speaker 5: give credit. I'm going back to coaches, going back to coaches.
Speaker 5: You know, I like to I like to give coaches
Speaker 5: some praise. It's a guy who ain't give enough credit
Speaker 5: to man.
Speaker 3: I think that is a.
Speaker 5: And what he's doing that special teams man, I mean
Speaker 5: our special teams, you know, kickoff team, kickoff return team,
Speaker 5: or a kicker.
Speaker 3: The way he's been he's being on.
Speaker 5: I mean as a core, this group is ranked in
Speaker 5: the top three right now.
Speaker 3: You know, coming into the game a.
Speaker 5: Few weeks ago, you had Pittsburgh and US ranked in
Speaker 5: the top two. You know what I mean when it
Speaker 5: comes special teams wise, So I think is it don't
Speaker 5: get enough credit for what he's he's done up to
Speaker 5: this point in the season. And that's that's the way
Speaker 5: you win championships when you have offense, defense, and special
Speaker 5: teams play on the same acord.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna get my dub.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get my mid season dub or the season
Speaker 5: to Iszo Man. I think he's doing a tremendous job,
Speaker 5: you know, as a coach, as a special teams coach,
Speaker 5: and he got those guys flying. And I mean when
Speaker 5: you see the kickoff team, even though they had that
Speaker 5: little funky thing, they got to sit there and wait
Speaker 5: for the guy.
Speaker 2: To get the ball.
Speaker 3: When when that person get the ball and thank you.
Speaker 2: Them boys are.
Speaker 5: Smacking his They actually playing the way he played the game.
Speaker 3: So I love to see it.
Speaker 2: Man, I'll take the low hanging through since though we
Speaker 2: got we're gonna talk about this team and the.
Speaker 1: Jaydon Dallions, Man, Jay Dallions, it's you know, he's going
Speaker 1: to be really good, you know, one of the highest
Speaker 1: the trophy being drafted number two of all.
Speaker 2: For him to be playing at the level he's playing
Speaker 2: so quickly.
Speaker 4: That but that's how why we were how we know
Speaker 4: that because Bright Young won the highest you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying, I didn't think we didn't know
Speaker 1: he was Let me remind when I say we knew
Speaker 1: he was going to be good.
Speaker 2: Eventually, we knew he was gonna play. We thought we
Speaker 2: playing the high level. He's exceeded expectations.
Speaker 1: He's exceeded expectations, and it really is about the way
Speaker 1: he's going about it from day one, from the first
Speaker 1: time we interviewed it. Extremely impressed with him with the amility.
Speaker 1: We've all been around rookies who haven't accomplished, accomplished nearly
Speaker 1: as much as day that's accomplished, and they come in feeling.
Speaker 2: That title big headed. I think they know everything.
Speaker 1: This kid man, he just goes out, plays ball, lights
Speaker 1: defenses up, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's in the MVP conversation.
Speaker 1: I just Rookie the year, but the MVP conversation has
Speaker 1: his team where we're sitting right now, and I keep
Speaker 1: telling y'all, he's.
Speaker 2: Only going to get better. That's the schedule about it.
Speaker 3: Just to speaking to add a little bit, you talk
Speaker 3: about humility.
Speaker 5: The kid told us after the hell Mary, when we
Speaker 5: had them on Game Day Lives postgame show, he.
Speaker 3: Says, that's God. He's like, I got to be living right,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: And the reason why I wanted to say that because
Speaker 5: it's crazy you said humility. And the first thing I
Speaker 5: thought about I wear I got a tattoo when I
Speaker 5: was in high school.
Speaker 3: It's a Bible scripture.
Speaker 5: And it's crazy because my one of my daughters just
Speaker 5: got baptized. And then my oldest daughter the other day
Speaker 5: just asked me like that, what are some of the
Speaker 5: things can I pray about?
Speaker 3: How you teach me how to pray?
Speaker 5: And for her to be twenty plus, so she's twenty
Speaker 5: actually and she wants to learn how to pray. And
Speaker 5: you know, I always bothered them about that because I
Speaker 5: told him, I've been praying since I was a little boy.
Speaker 5: Like we didn't grow up in the church, but I'm
Speaker 5: always praying. I'm praying when I get up, I'm praying
Speaker 5: at night. And I was happy to hear her say
Speaker 5: she want to learn, you know, and she wanted to
Speaker 5: get closer to God. And I send her a scripture,
Speaker 5: the scripture that I got tattooed on me, and it
Speaker 5: says it's James fourteen, and it said, humble yourself before
Speaker 5: the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Speaker 3: And I told her I walk with that, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 5: And everybody wanted the tan of why you're so soft
Speaker 5: sport while you so humble, while you take on That's
Speaker 5: been my life.
Speaker 3: I didn't try to be humble. It was born in me.
Speaker 3: It was instilling me.
Speaker 5: And as I was coming up to learn myself a
Speaker 5: little bit, I found the scripture that identify that, you know,
Speaker 5: identified with So listening to him say that about the
Speaker 5: Lord and about living right to watch him play, it's
Speaker 5: not a It's not a surprise to me why he's
Speaker 5: successful because he knows a higher power and he believes
Speaker 5: in and he's doing the right things to get itself
Speaker 5: prepared because you know, one of the things about opportunity
Speaker 5: is the preparation part of Like, if you're not gonna
Speaker 5: pare it for the opportunity, then.
Speaker 2: You're gonna fail, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So you can say everything he did up to this point,
Speaker 5: he prepared itself to have these moments, and that's why
Speaker 5: you know, you got to give it up to him.
Speaker 1: You also thinking about the another dub of the weak
Speaker 1: of who I give dub of the being seasoned?
Speaker 2: So I got to give it to.
Speaker 1: The ownership group, and the reason I give it to
Speaker 1: the ownership group. And you know, they've done a they've
Speaker 1: done a tremendous job and all the things they've added
Speaker 1: around not just here but also at the stadium and
Speaker 1: fan experience and trying to make things better. But I'll
Speaker 1: go back to the process they went through first and
Speaker 1: foremost and hiring Adam Peters. Yes, they had, they had,
Speaker 1: they had a plan, you know, Josh Harris leading that obviously,
Speaker 1: and him in the process that he went through, having
Speaker 1: bringing in Bob Myers and having Rix Bildman as guys
Speaker 1: who helped him through that process. And you know he
Speaker 1: allos other sports teams, and he knew he'd hired general
Speaker 1: managers and head coaches before and all that, but knowing that, hey,
Speaker 1: this is this is a different element. Football is different
Speaker 1: than basketball, or different than soccer, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: Let's bring in some other people to help me with
Speaker 1: this process and identifying Adam Peters and from there Adam
Speaker 1: Peters and ownership, hiring Dad Quinn and putting that together.
Speaker 1: And for this to come together so quickly, you have
Speaker 1: to it's ahead of schedule. There's no other their head schedule.
Speaker 1: And then what we are right now.
Speaker 4: And to that point, the trades, Yeah, the trades and
Speaker 4: some of the guys who bought and free agency. We
Speaker 4: talked about bringing Bobby early. Bobby was in that veteran leadership, uh,
Speaker 4: trading for trading for Marshaun, you know, before the deadline
Speaker 4: when we needed until we talked about what that meant
Speaker 4: for the organization and drafting j Those three, those three,
Speaker 4: those three moves along are life.
Speaker 2: The draft pick, not.
Speaker 5: Even talking about that trade, that trade with Johann Johnson.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, earlier in the season.
Speaker 5: I mean that right there was puzzling at first, but
Speaker 5: then when you look at the whole you know, picture
Speaker 5: of what they're looking for in the receiver and what
Speaker 5: they got for it was. It was basically helpful too,
Speaker 5: because you think about we.
Speaker 3: Lost the third, but that third. Having that third kind
Speaker 3: of gave us that third back.
Speaker 2: So, oh man, you're right, Cliff Kingsbury, this is all sirus. Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: You know, he was a head coach at Arizona a'm
Speaker 1: out of college with the air raid offense, and it was,
Speaker 1: you know, a different type of offense coming to the league.
Speaker 2: And Cliff, there was.
Speaker 1: A during the preseason we used to have him on
Speaker 1: like once a week we'd have the coaches. We had
Speaker 1: him on a conference call, and he talked about having
Speaker 1: these other coaches from these different backgrounds. Yep, having coach
Speaker 1: LeAnn having uh Brian Johnson, who was the offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: came from with the from Philly and kind of bring
Speaker 1: bringing that all together and creating the Washington Commander's offense
Speaker 1: and him just saying, hey, when I came to the league,
Speaker 1: all I had was my offense from Texas Tech, right,
Speaker 1: and now creating an NFL offense. Y'all surprised about how
Speaker 1: how this offense is operated and come together so quickly
Speaker 1: and being able to not just coming together but producing
Speaker 1: the way that they're.
Speaker 4: Well, you're absolutely right, because the air raid offense traditionally
Speaker 4: like doesn't have the feel of that. You know, you
Speaker 4: run a stretch play and stuff like that, but in
Speaker 4: the counters and you don't have the vertical passing the
Speaker 4: vertical passing game get the ball out. But it seems
Speaker 4: like there's a special combination of the run game pair
Speaker 4: with their past game mixing that we understand the talent
Speaker 4: that we've had in getting those guys. We got a Hammer,
Speaker 4: we got a third down back, we got Terry, we
Speaker 4: got Zach, the line, and then the run game complements
Speaker 4: the line and all whole, all whole, bringing Jayden along,
Speaker 4: and we've seen Jaden just continue to get better from
Speaker 4: each one each week. So I would say I'm surprised.
Speaker 4: But when you think about Brian, Coach Lynn and the staff,
Speaker 4: and it's the right combination because he was quarterback WI Springford, Philly,
Speaker 4: Brian was with Jalen, and Coach Lynn is a monster
Speaker 4: in the run game and Clifford is just a genius guy.
Speaker 4: So I just think it's like, like you said, dude,
Speaker 4: that's a it's a beautiful mix of personality.
Speaker 5: I won't say I'm surprised. I had no expectations. I
Speaker 5: really didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 3: I knew.
Speaker 5: One thing that that stood out to me is when
Speaker 5: I saw Cliff in his stint as a head coach,
Speaker 5: his running game always was second to none. You got
Speaker 5: to think about it. Connor was over there killing him
Speaker 5: was he was? And so with that in mind, the
Speaker 5: first thing came to mind. That's why I was barking
Speaker 5: up the you know, telling everybody the whole year, I
Speaker 5: can't wait to see be Robbs because knowing that everybody
Speaker 5: know what we're going to do offensively with the just
Speaker 5: the air raid attack and thinking that that's how it's
Speaker 5: going to be or how it's going to look, he's
Speaker 5: going to get to that run game. It allows him
Speaker 5: to show us week in and week out how special
Speaker 5: this offense could be. And I think he spent a
Speaker 5: lot of time with the guys that he brought around.
Speaker 3: You think about it. We brought the Johnson.
Speaker 5: Coach, we brought them from Philly, you brought in and
Speaker 5: you talked about Lynn. You know, all these coaches have
Speaker 5: been in good offenses and had their role in why
Speaker 5: that offense was special, and now you bring it to here.
Speaker 5: It's a copycat league. You know, we want a lot
Speaker 5: of game aims doing things that other teams did. So
Speaker 5: I think altogether, man, it's it's a unity of coaches that's.
Speaker 3: Putting their head together.
Speaker 5: And but Cliff getting a lot of credit for and
Speaker 5: he and they're doing a damn good job.
Speaker 1: Another coach has done our standing job bringing some guys together.
Speaker 3: Joe with Jr.
Speaker 1: Hissic coordinators love love, Joe has his press conferences.
Speaker 5: He he keeps Obama, Obama the football version.
Speaker 3: Let the man talk.
Speaker 2: I want to just let him go.
Speaker 1: For him to be at a You think about how
Speaker 1: the defense was first couple of weeks, how they started off,
Speaker 1: and then how he's been able to.
Speaker 2: Take this defense to another level.
Speaker 1: Get everything he's got out that pass rush. Those guys
Speaker 1: who are like, all right, we're gonna get the pass
Speaker 1: from your boy, Frankie Louvu obviously.
Speaker 2: Uh. You know, other guys have emerged. Newton emerged, Newton Fire,
Speaker 2: the Foller has emerged, Cleveland Fair or Armstrong. You know
Speaker 2: a bunch of guys.
Speaker 1: Bobby what he blessed his and then getting the guys
Speaker 1: on the back end the communicating play a lot better.
Speaker 5: You guys both play defense, and I'm gonna just tell
Speaker 5: you my perspective of watching defenses and playing against them,
Speaker 5: it's very seldom that you see a defense that shows
Speaker 5: you who they are.
Speaker 3: And got better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, shows you a completely new defense later in the season. Now,
Speaker 5: don't get me wrong, they might be a little fine
Speaker 5: tune on some of the things that they didn't do well,
Speaker 5: but you never see them just like, what the hell
Speaker 5: did that come from?
Speaker 3: Like you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: So to see these guys come out and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 5: damn what we thought we was weak at. So that's
Speaker 5: what I give a lot of credit to these guys
Speaker 5: for as a whole, because it seems to me that
Speaker 5: as much as we want to talk about these players
Speaker 5: and how well they're playing, it all stems from the coaching.
Speaker 3: It all stems from.
Speaker 5: What they building and how they created this thing, this
Speaker 5: bond of brothers and the culture that they're setting. I
Speaker 5: can just imagine I want to be a fly on
Speaker 5: the wall one day. I want to go in the
Speaker 5: room and I want to hear or see one of
Speaker 5: these coaches speaking to somebody who didn't show up in
Speaker 5: a run fit, or who didn't or who didn't go
Speaker 5: out and block a guy blocked the safety, you know
Speaker 5: as a receiver.
Speaker 3: I just want to see what he's saying to him.
Speaker 5: Because I can imagine it already that he let them
Speaker 5: know he can't win like that.
Speaker 3: You ain't being a dog right now.
Speaker 4: What I was impressed with when we and why I
Speaker 4: figured the defense would get better London.
Speaker 2: We saw in camp when we were working camp, they.
Speaker 4: Went the individual, then they went to two on two drill,
Speaker 4: you know, then seven on seven this situational you know team.
Speaker 4: But what was the first I think me and you
Speaker 4: both were impressed, Well, like man, they were really breaking
Speaker 4: the game down and teaching football, you know what I
Speaker 4: mean teaching And we was up there looking like man,
Speaker 4: look they're working on the in and out drill and
Speaker 4: man coverage. They're doing switch routes, or they're working on
Speaker 4: breaking on the heads and or they're doing this. So
Speaker 4: that was I knew at the defense with coach would
Speaker 4: eventually get get better. They would communicate more, Bobby and
Speaker 4: all the team will come together. That's freegingson do well
Speaker 4: what feelings you know.
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Speaker 5: we're gonna talk about some of our funnest memories man,
Speaker 5: going against those Eagles. Yeah, when you see a team
Speaker 5: twice a year, you have a lot of I just
Speaker 5: hate you have a lot of memories. And it's crazy, man,
Speaker 5: to be honest with you, as much as we talk
Speaker 5: about our division, to me, I hate the other two
Speaker 5: teams more than I hate the Eagles, and the Eagles
Speaker 5: fan base is just the worst of them all.
Speaker 3: But I found some kind of love for the h.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5: I don't hate them as much as I hate the
Speaker 5: Cowboys and the Giants.
Speaker 3: The Eagles I just like, Okay, they the Eagles I love.
Speaker 2: I love going to the Philly player because of their fans.
Speaker 2: Because I was about to go auhead and shut.
Speaker 5: Y'all up, I felt like a gladiated against I was
Speaker 5: gonna say, I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 3: When the fan and for you fans who don't know this, when.
Speaker 5: You're booing specifically at me, I understand I'm a threat.
Speaker 5: So when I hear eighty nine they called me out,
Speaker 5: your mama.
Speaker 3: Did guess what.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 5: I'm a threat to you. You you can't watch me.
Speaker 5: You spending that hard earned money on watching me today.
Speaker 5: So it gets me a little. I'm gonna get you
Speaker 5: what you're looking.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you how how bad the Eagles fans are.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: I loved it because I just like that type of batality.
Speaker 1: First time you played the Monday night football. This is
Speaker 1: old seven. I can't hear they throwing heads at our bus,
Speaker 1: these type of It was a couple of seasons. Fast
Speaker 1: forward a couple of years later and I knocked out
Speaker 1: two of the Eagles. I knocked out the runner back
Speaker 1: of that Brive Westbrook and the crazy thing. He hit
Speaker 1: his head on my knee and he had a concussion.
Speaker 2: He was out.
Speaker 1: Then I caught uh Sean Jackson on the dig lady
Speaker 1: by the middle field. He he had he didn't finish
Speaker 1: the game. This is all in one season. But I
Speaker 1: got death threats for the Eagles.
Speaker 2: I mean, we can laugh about it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm still here, so they didn't, you know, yeah, carry
Speaker 1: it out, but it's just like, damn, because I a doctor.
Speaker 1: A couple of y'all players out there, Man, I wanted
Speaker 1: to I'm trying to.
Speaker 5: It shows you how much how much these games mean
Speaker 5: to some of these fans. Speaking of meaningful games, Man, London,
Speaker 5: you was, I believe you was calling this game in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one when we went up there today.
Speaker 2: Night football game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was twenty twenty two, twenty one.
Speaker 5: It was a little recap, man, about the feeling what
Speaker 5: you saw that that night. I mean, you had you
Speaker 5: had an Eagles team that was riding high. They hadn't
Speaker 5: all the game. They were defeated, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: They hadn't lost the game.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: We went out there with the mentality that we see
Speaker 5: from our team now, you know what I mean. These
Speaker 5: guys better than Beauty and nobody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just remembering that game, I think they were eleven
Speaker 1: and if memory sarves me correctly, I don't know what
Speaker 1: our record was, but it was the mindset of the
Speaker 1: game plan we went into that game, and if we
Speaker 1: didn't run it forty times, we ran it.
Speaker 2: Close to forty times. And I can remember all there.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a thing of beauty because
Speaker 1: we had been up until that point throwing the football alive,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get the passing game going. But
Speaker 1: in that game, I was like, man, this looked like
Speaker 1: the Redskins.
Speaker 2: Right, this looked like the Hogs.
Speaker 1: I mean they just poled b Roberts running that ball
Speaker 1: all over them.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Its just it was just a physical mindset, the physicality
Speaker 1: of that ball game. It was you talk about the thing.
Speaker 1: It was a thing of beauty.
Speaker 2: Watch we had. I think we had four turnovers in
Speaker 2: that game.
Speaker 3: I remember foot and they caught it.
Speaker 1: Was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was a bunch of takeaways, man, it was a
Speaker 1: bunch of It was a bunch of takeaways in that
Speaker 1: ball You.
Speaker 4: Just remember those games like, yeah, oh yeah, we went
Speaker 4: in there, A force made a.
Speaker 1: Tremendous like almost like a Willie Mays type intercept. I
Speaker 1: think it was the Willy Mays interception or somebody else,
Speaker 1: Saint Juice I think knocked the ball out that Ford's recovered.
Speaker 1: It was just, man, it was a place being matter
Speaker 1: that game.
Speaker 3: Some of your favorite Eagles matchups, Man, oh.
Speaker 4: Man, I tell you my favorite Eagle match out we
Speaker 4: had here. We played them on a Sunday night. I
Speaker 4: think I'm you know, we're talking about that later. But
Speaker 4: t O and I was matched up on t O
Speaker 4: and we were getting after him, and I remember him running.
Speaker 2: Old run about.
Speaker 3: Five played the month Sunday Night football.
Speaker 4: I hit him, popped the ball up, and then Sean
Speaker 4: hit somebody else.
Speaker 5: Knowing that we are facing these guys at their home
Speaker 5: on Thursday night.
Speaker 3: What's like playing there?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 3: I mean I remember the old what.
Speaker 5: It was called the bet Yeah, yeah, that was not
Speaker 5: like the other.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? But does this new stadium
Speaker 3: have that same kind of shot?
Speaker 2: Sean? You you had to play.
Speaker 1: In the vet when they had the little you was you?
Speaker 1: Was you by the time you got leave.
Speaker 3: When the filter.
Speaker 2: Was like this, I thought you, I thought you.
Speaker 3: I know, you know all. But guess what to we played?
Speaker 5: We played against the Owls Temple.
Speaker 1: You know that that turf was terrible, terrible, terrible I've had.
Speaker 1: I think I may have played the Eagles more than
Speaker 1: any teams teame of my career because when I was
Speaker 1: the same Lewis, we played them, played me in the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game, played them a couple of times during
Speaker 1: the regular season.
Speaker 2: You against Andy Reid, huh yeah, Andy Reid, big flet
Speaker 2: that's mind for a big fletch.
Speaker 1: I used to get after the Eagles many I wasn't
Speaker 1: the fair favorite of probably the Eagles players and coaches
Speaker 1: because I don't believe in making friends on the on
Speaker 1: the field. I talk, I talk all the time about
Speaker 1: there was no peace treaty. I don't before a game.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking to you. I don't care if me
Speaker 1: and you grew up together from from little league when
Speaker 1: we stepped between these white no, not even we ain't
Speaker 1: even got to between the white lines.
Speaker 2: Soon you come out of tunnel, as soon as I
Speaker 2: know we're playing that week. Soon A man, we ain't.
Speaker 2: I'm not your friends. There is no communications.
Speaker 1: I don't want a small I don't want a small
Speaker 1: talk with you before the game. I don't want to
Speaker 1: exchange jersey with you after the game. You're still the enemy.
Speaker 1: Ain't no chumming it up matter I want. I'm here
Speaker 1: for blood.
Speaker 2: Tonights gonna be some blood. It's gonna be some blood.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be some I'm actually looking forward to more
Speaker 5: so now just knowing, because you know, I was skeptical
Speaker 5: about just where we was at corner wise, and I'm
Speaker 5: not saying that our corners haven't been playing good or
Speaker 5: playing up to, you know, the level that they're supposed to.
Speaker 3: But I know when you have a guy like a J.
Speaker 5: Brown and DeVonta Smith, you you need more than just one.
Speaker 4: So we got obviously Brian who was quarterback culture after
Speaker 4: Eagles and he's in stall some stuff, but he also
Speaker 4: knows that does that give an advantaged way with one
Speaker 4: way or the other.
Speaker 3: Brought up, brought that up, I forget all about that.
Speaker 5: I just mentioned him, and I forgot that having him
Speaker 5: here will give us a little keys on what they
Speaker 5: do offense the receivers. That's definitely gonna be a big help.
Speaker 5: And now that you say that, along with who we
Speaker 5: just brought in, I'm looking forward to that matchup for
Speaker 5: the measure for that standpoint only, but I just I
Speaker 5: feel like this is one of those matchups man, where
Speaker 5: even though I've heard a lot of people signing with,
Speaker 5: you know, with the Eagles, I feel like I'm happy
Speaker 5: to be on that spot. I'm happy to be in
Speaker 5: that space because I understand what we're doing here. You
Speaker 5: know what we're what we're creating here, and I think
Speaker 5: this team is gonna be more than ready man to
Speaker 5: go out there, man, and go out there.
Speaker 3: And really and have a nice showcase of some good
Speaker 3: divisional football.
Speaker 2: This is a great segue and to set the talk.
Speaker 2: Great great segue to set the talk, because we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna we're gonna actually talk about the Eagles is even
Speaker 1: more detailed.
Speaker 2: So it's time to set the tone.
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Speaker 1: this Eagles defense man top five and total yards top ten,
Speaker 1: and passing yards top five, rush top five and rush
Speaker 1: yards allowed, tear the total points per game. They playing
Speaker 1: some defensive Remember they got a new defensive coordinator, Vic Fangio,
Speaker 1: and he's been an architect of some great defenses.
Speaker 3: He don't play.
Speaker 1: How we're gonna be able to move the ball, score, points,
Speaker 1: rush against these Eagles, we just can't.
Speaker 2: We can't brush over that.
Speaker 4: For the folks out there about Fangio, Fangio is is
Speaker 4: somebody that's a nightmare that you need to prepare for.
Speaker 1: So just to give him a little bit of background,
Speaker 1: Vic Fangil was the defensive coordinator for the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers when they went to what for NFC Championship Championship State.
Speaker 2: I mean he's he's his other other defenses as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's like the father of one of the one of
Speaker 2: the old GI's, one of the ol g's.
Speaker 4: And this is this to me, will probably be the
Speaker 4: best defense we faced. Yeah, from a scheme wise and
Speaker 4: just talent wise, so, but not a defense that we
Speaker 4: can't we can't do some things to but it's gonna
Speaker 4: be one of those like, hey, for the first time
Speaker 4: we might have a defense, try to dictate some things
Speaker 4: to us. And I think all the first half of
Speaker 4: the year and the whole most of the year we've
Speaker 4: been out there is trying to say, all right, we're
Speaker 4: gonna read off of this, we're gonna run past option
Speaker 4: off this, and we're gonna go we're gonna attack you here.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: We gotta be a little bit of like like how
Speaker 4: we're gonna scheme them up a little bit.
Speaker 2: We scheme them all up.
Speaker 1: But do we have to again, I don't believe in
Speaker 1: peace treaties, man, we gotta we still got to going there.
Speaker 5: Like I hear him, talking, but no, no, no, no, when
Speaker 5: when when?
Speaker 4: When I say that, meaning like there's some defenses that
Speaker 4: do what they do and then there's fangio you don't
Speaker 4: always know what they do. That's what I mean by
Speaker 4: I said it's like first time, like everybody has been
Speaker 4: a page, Like he gonna throw some looks at you.
Speaker 2: You ain't. You definitely definitely make your heart old Jayden
Speaker 2: from a cover standpoint cover.
Speaker 5: Standpoint, And then you've got to just also compare what
Speaker 5: you've seen are already on film. I mean, they've been
Speaker 5: susceptible in all those areas where they're tough at People
Speaker 5: have scored on them, people have ran the ball on
Speaker 5: them basketball. So it's like any other defense, you just
Speaker 5: got to go out there. You haven't saw us yet,
Speaker 5: We haven't seen you yet. We watch each other on film,
Speaker 5: that's all we see. That's all we know until we
Speaker 5: get out there on the field together. Then we really know.
Speaker 5: You know what can be done and what can't be
Speaker 5: done against them. And that's what I think is gonna
Speaker 5: ball down to.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's the physicality, the physical physicality of this
Speaker 1: ball game, both sides of the ball, the two trenches,
Speaker 1: they got they got an excellent offensive line.
Speaker 2: You know, they got an excellent defense.
Speaker 1: But just looking at our our defense against their offense,
Speaker 1: having the stop of Saku Bark, I don't know how.
Speaker 2: To giants let him go to the division that is
Speaker 2: like I want to do jumping backwards on the brow
Speaker 2: you're gonna jumping.
Speaker 5: I was trying to explain it and the best way
Speaker 5: I can as a ball carrier, because I've been in
Speaker 5: a situation where you and that you and your bag
Speaker 5: so much with your moves to where the next move
Speaker 5: you didn't even expect to do it, but.
Speaker 3: It just came, and I'm like, that's incredible to have.
Speaker 5: It's almost like he wanted to spin and saw buddy,
Speaker 5: and it's like, let me jump and split. It was
Speaker 5: just man, bro, It's almost like he praised this thing
Speaker 5: that was like some matrix.
Speaker 3: Like he paused in the air.
Speaker 2: Here's the crazy thing. He had just hit somebody with.
Speaker 1: Spin gave y'all, y'all see the Nike. Uh they put
Speaker 1: the witness backwards. You ain't see the Nike. He would Yeah,
Speaker 1: I already made it a marketing there. Yeah, so they
Speaker 1: got they got him jumping backwards, and you know how
Speaker 1: I said Witness, how they used to do with the
Speaker 1: UH with the Nike logo with Lebron so they got
Speaker 1: the Witness spelled backwards like logo backwards.
Speaker 2: That's when you coach. That's when you when you but
Speaker 2: to your point where they when you see a kid
Speaker 2: can do something like that. You're talking about being in
Speaker 2: your bag and movies like that.
Speaker 4: Everybody to the ball, and we're gonna have to be
Speaker 4: relentless and our purshoot to the ball, and we're gonna
Speaker 4: have to get after that.
Speaker 5: And you gotta think just what he did for the
Speaker 5: Giants last year when the Giants was crap, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, Like he was the reason in both
Speaker 5: of those games where we lost.
Speaker 1: The game, you know what I mean at it from
Speaker 1: the standpoint, that's why you go out. You give Marshawn Latamo,
Speaker 1: you get you get corners that can Hey, I can
Speaker 1: put more resources to stop to the sae Quon Barkley.
Speaker 1: That's why I mentioned Hey, yeah, the past defense. He
Speaker 1: brings a great element to the past defense. But also
Speaker 1: he should improve our run defense because now I can
Speaker 1: I can leave my corners out there a little bit
Speaker 1: more on the high land because I need. I need
Speaker 1: an eighth man in that box. I the safety. I
Speaker 1: need they run some RPOs. I need somebody ready to
Speaker 1: tackle Jalen Hurst if he decides to keep that ball.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a great great chess matchup out
Speaker 1: of a chill man, I missed them LC's battles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is one where you you know, when you
Speaker 4: you know, sometimes you get the feeling when you're going
Speaker 4: to the game. You get it before the stadium something.
Speaker 4: You're starting to get it, like you get it on Monday.
Speaker 4: You get that feeling like okay, you can just feel
Speaker 4: it in at practice, like there's some energy, and it
Speaker 4: is some energy this week for this game.
Speaker 5: I think n f C alone, I mean, just start
Speaker 5: division alone. And this is it goes for any division
Speaker 5: you ever played in. When you're playing against a team
Speaker 5: that you that you know well and they know you
Speaker 5: will it's almost like getting ready for that relative that
Speaker 5: come over on special holidays that you can't stand.
Speaker 3: Like you know how.
Speaker 5: We all did, and so it's just like damn, I
Speaker 5: gotta deal with this, you know again, and so like
Speaker 5: you you're going you're gonna have your best jokes ready
Speaker 5: for him.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have your best whatever.
Speaker 2: You know, I got a cousin. I can't stay at
Speaker 2: this joker. You took me that time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, I'm telling you to.
Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, I need the therapy. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: sit on the conc my cousin.
Speaker 1: This is because of that. We grew up down there
Speaker 1: in the same house. So I see you more than
Speaker 1: just on the every holiday. That's something every oh man,
Speaker 1: this dude gets some damn nerds. But anyway, let's digress.
Speaker 1: Looking at this game, how would you Blue, how would
Speaker 1: you defere Deavonte Smith to day J.
Speaker 2: Brown by going out and there what we did?
Speaker 4: When when you drafter, uh, Mike Sinstril, you have Forbes,
Speaker 4: you have Saint Juice, you have a lot of more.
Speaker 4: It's one, it's just sheer talent. And two, the pre
Speaker 4: and POSTNP reads for a quarterback when they have explosive players,
Speaker 4: it's critical. I don't think people understand how much that
Speaker 4: helps guys in the back end and shore a shirtain.
Speaker 2: Look, we talk about it all the time, so elaborate
Speaker 2: on pre snap.
Speaker 4: So the pre snap look is what the quarterback sees
Speaker 4: before the ball is snap. So seeing too high safeties,
Speaker 4: he now thinks could we could be in zone, but
Speaker 4: for some for some reason, he's probably gonna see it's
Speaker 4: two half of the two guys on half of the field.
Speaker 4: Right now, we know on post snap that can go
Speaker 4: down to a single one of the safeties can cover
Speaker 4: the tight end or whatever, and we can go man.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't automatically means that we're gonna be a
Speaker 4: man and they can just line up and say I'm
Speaker 4: go right here to the backside. So I think the
Speaker 4: pre and post snap unity and how they move together
Speaker 4: and how they play, it's gonna be critical, and it's
Speaker 4: gonna be we gotta get pressure on We don't have
Speaker 4: to get pressure on you. We can cover them, but
Speaker 4: we ain't gonna cover them all day. They're gonna make
Speaker 4: some place. And but the confidence that we bring with
Speaker 4: the secondary and the guys that we got in the secondary,
Speaker 4: that's why you go. That's why we get first round corners,
Speaker 4: That's why we get guys that that is just confident
Speaker 4: playing in the slot.
Speaker 2: And that's why we wanted we didn't free.
Speaker 1: Agency anybody kind of You can think about this this matchup,
Speaker 1: who you think gotta shot in this game? Who's gonna
Speaker 1: shine it of the ball. It doesn't offensive defensively well shine.
Speaker 3: Well, you know the thing that I love what I've
Speaker 3: been seeing.
Speaker 5: When you have a quarterback like what we have, you
Speaker 5: got a receiver that's very confident, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 5: receiver that did it with twelve other guys at that
Speaker 5: same position where it wasn't coming to him. Now he
Speaker 5: has a guy that he's building a whole chemistry with
Speaker 5: and he they understand each other, the team allowing him
Speaker 5: to be vocal enough to go out there. One of
Speaker 5: the things that I knew from watching Terry go up
Speaker 5: against the Eagles, the Eagles got a pretty nice, pretty
Speaker 5: piece of talent out there at Conaback. That's what he
Speaker 5: never played well against Terry. Terry always have his numbers.
Speaker 5: So just knowing what Terry had done with other guys
Speaker 5: like Heineke and you know, Alex and all those guys
Speaker 5: for him to go out there and be productive. And
Speaker 5: I can't say it's Alex name out dare As like
Speaker 5: he's a slouch either either one of those guys wasn't
Speaker 5: that you know Alex though he wasn't himself, but he's
Speaker 5: still he was shot when he played you know that
Speaker 5: one year when he came back, but I will say
Speaker 5: what he's done so far this year, man, I'm really
Speaker 5: looking forward to seeing Terry finish this season now, just
Speaker 5: knowing that what he's built, he's only gonna get.
Speaker 3: Better with it, you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is this is like scratching the surface
Speaker 5: right now, what him and Jayden Dames has built. And
Speaker 5: I know he's gonna be chopping at the bitch knowing
Speaker 5: that that boil cross the crossed away from him.
Speaker 3: I had nightmare es up. But I think he's gonna
Speaker 3: be the guy.
Speaker 5: I think offensively, he's gonna be a guy like I say,
Speaker 5: we can always say five because five is the guy, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean, But he's the guy for all us.
Speaker 6: And then.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting too. Man.
Speaker 5: I think I offer is the line again. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna mention them because they keep rising. You know,
Speaker 5: every time we get somebody in front of them that's
Speaker 5: supposed to be world beaters, they find a way to
Speaker 5: contest you together, form that vote, run and be hard
Speaker 5: to stop. And that's what we've been seeing for some
Speaker 5: of these games.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 5: The only way we are productive offensively, the way we
Speaker 5: are is because of those guys up front.
Speaker 3: So you know, I'm looking for them to be stars
Speaker 3: that night Blue.
Speaker 2: Who are you thinking?
Speaker 4: Who you think they shining prime time? Man, It's gonna
Speaker 4: have to be the front getting after that Jaalen. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because as much as we talk about our guy Jalen Had,
Speaker 4: I mean he's since he's been in the league, and
Speaker 4: they had a tough stretch last year, but before I
Speaker 4: think he went on like a twelve or thirteen game
Speaker 4: win Street. So I think it's gonna have to be
Speaker 4: the guys up front. But Newton has been coming on
Speaker 4: the replacement with ja I mean, the guy's Fouler and Cleveland,
Speaker 4: all these guys gonna have.
Speaker 2: To get after him because he's the mobile quarterback.
Speaker 4: So we're almost playing a mirror image of kind of
Speaker 4: what they and and and and they're tough guys who
Speaker 4: can run and throw.
Speaker 2: Are a tough challenge for the D line, But for me, it's.
Speaker 3: The D line.
Speaker 1: I'll say the I'm gonna include the linebackers and I'm
Speaker 1: say the front seven because I think you gotta I'm
Speaker 1: taking away first and foremost, I'm taking away him, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna force Jalen.
Speaker 2: Hurst to beat me. Now, he may be able to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: But given picking my poison, so to speak, one dimensional,
Speaker 1: I'm making one dimension because one thing about Jalen he
Speaker 1: will give you opportunities. Yes, make interceptions on the ball
Speaker 1: and throw it up. I want to allow myself to
Speaker 1: put get pressure on the quarterback making make mistakes throwing
Speaker 1: the football. But I gotta start with stopping stopping sakuon Barkley.
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Speaker 1: You spent the majority of your career, with all of
Speaker 1: your career out on the West Coast, played for the
Speaker 1: Seahawks for a long period of time one year in LA.
Speaker 2: Came all the way across the country to the East coast.
Speaker 2: How has it been for you?
Speaker 9: It's been good man. I think the fans have been great.
Speaker 9: There's been a lot of love. I said, I think
Speaker 9: the hardest part is like trying to watch a basketball
Speaker 9: game or trying to watch any sports at night because
Speaker 9: everything comes on at like ten thirty or midnight. So
Speaker 9: that's been the biggest judgment. Outside of that, it's been
Speaker 9: loved like DQ's made it real cool for.
Speaker 1: You've mentioned your off camera you said you're a Lakers
Speaker 1: fans fan. So you got a chance the other night
Speaker 1: to go to the game with Jade and bark Eye,
Speaker 1: one of the owners, and also Jade's mom.
Speaker 6: What was it like being was that your first that
Speaker 6: my first Worchards game?
Speaker 3: What was that?
Speaker 2: What was that experience like?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 2: It was cool.
Speaker 9: It was cool seeing everybody out there. I didn't realize
Speaker 9: how tall everybody was, you know, like everybody like seven
Speaker 9: foot like I thought. I thought Steph was like my
Speaker 9: highest sixty four. Yeah, he looked small standing next to
Speaker 9: everybody else, but uh now it was cool watching those
Speaker 9: young guys play, and they kept up with him for
Speaker 9: a little bit.
Speaker 6: But you know, Golden State showed their maturity.
Speaker 5: Speaking of you know, you just spoke about Dan a
Speaker 5: minute ago, seeing how he made everything easy. What was
Speaker 5: it like knowing that she was going to be a
Speaker 5: part of a team that structured by Dan Quinn?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 5: I remember, you know, last year seeing you in Seattle,
Speaker 5: seemed like you went back home and you was happy
Speaker 5: and comfortable.
Speaker 3: But a year later you back with a guy who
Speaker 3: meant a lot to your career.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you know, there's a lot of similarities
Speaker 9: between how Pete kind of run it and how DQ
Speaker 9: run it. But DQ, I definitely feel over Thomas has
Speaker 9: found his voice, found how he wanted to do things,
Speaker 9: and between him and coach Norton, like they've they've made
Speaker 9: this transition smooth just because we've been around each other
Speaker 9: for a long time. I think North coach me at
Speaker 9: least I think nine out of my thirteen years, and
Speaker 9: so I've been around him for a while and DQ
Speaker 9: we've always been in touch, So it's kind of like
Speaker 9: you know, in a way coming back home with family.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I've been around it for a minute, So they know
Speaker 2: what to expect from you.
Speaker 6: They know what to expect. I know what's expect from them.
Speaker 9: The communication is fluid, like we know how to talk
Speaker 9: to one another, we know how to get each other going.
Speaker 6: So it's cool.
Speaker 4: So one of the things that when I first I
Speaker 4: first seen you in Seattle when I went back, and
Speaker 4: one of the first things, even as a rookie, the
Speaker 4: first thing everybody in the organizations talk about, like this
Speaker 4: dude gets he's a professional.
Speaker 2: Like how does that happen where you're rook in the league.
Speaker 4: What was the mentality like coming into the league that
Speaker 4: this guy's prepares, he's a professional, he studies, he does everything.
Speaker 6: Man, I just been you know, I watched the game.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 9: So when I when I first got it here as
Speaker 9: a rookie, I knew what it meant to be a rookie.
Speaker 9: Like I knew I had to like pay my dues.
Speaker 9: I knew I had to, you know, do all the
Speaker 9: running around for the vest, but also like learn from them.
Speaker 9: Like a lot of times I feel like sometimes people
Speaker 9: come in and they think they know everything right, and
Speaker 9: it's like this is a new experience. Like when I
Speaker 9: came in, I kind of considered myself like a freshman
Speaker 9: type of jail, and I had a bunch of seniors
Speaker 9: that was trying to teach me the way, and the
Speaker 9: people that grew the fastest was the ones that be
Speaker 9: quiet and learned.
Speaker 6: So I just try to do that.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought up, you know, being a student
Speaker 2: of the game.
Speaker 1: And I've shared this story a couple of times about
Speaker 1: how you reached out to me on social media back
Speaker 1: when I think it was about two twenty fourteen, I
Speaker 1: was retired. You reached out to me, didn't We hadn't
Speaker 1: talked to each other prior to that, didn't know each other.
Speaker 2: You reach out to me just like, hey man, love
Speaker 2: that love it? You know, pick your brain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know about the middle lineback position. I also
Speaker 1: know other people in the business world. They've told me
Speaker 1: you've contacted them like cold calls. You also contact the
Speaker 1: other former NFL linebackers.
Speaker 2: What did that?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 2: Self? Where with self? Where does this come from? And
Speaker 2: be like, man, you know what, let me tap into
Speaker 2: these people who are doing things that I want to do.
Speaker 2: And do it at a higher level.
Speaker 9: H Honestly, I don't know. I think maybe I got
Speaker 9: it from like Kobe or something. I think I heard
Speaker 9: read a story where Kobe would like co call people yeah,
Speaker 9: and you know, my mind said is like the worst
Speaker 9: thing you do is say no, Like, you know, if
Speaker 9: I reach out and you know, you want to show love,
Speaker 9: then I get information. If I don't, then I don't.
Speaker 9: But like you'll never know unless you ask. And so
Speaker 9: I think that's kind of where that came. I know
Speaker 9: for sure the business side came from, like stuff that
Speaker 9: I've heard Kobe do. But you know, football wise, is
Speaker 9: just like I've been a fan of the game and
Speaker 9: I know who who is great, and I know the
Speaker 9: people that played this game at a high level for
Speaker 9: a long time, and like why not try to, you know,
Speaker 9: reach out there, reach out and learn again. Like I said,
Speaker 9: the worst case is going to be like either don't
Speaker 9: respond or be like I ain't got the time. But
Speaker 9: at least at least they know I'm out there. So
Speaker 9: that's that's kind of where that came from. Just wanting
Speaker 9: to continue, you know, being a student of the game.
Speaker 5: Speaking of being a student of the game, I'm not
Speaker 5: sure if I heard right, but I think someone mentioned
Speaker 5: that you're back in school too.
Speaker 2: While you're down here.
Speaker 6: Think about that. Yeah, you and Howard, I mean, Howard, how.
Speaker 5: How was that juggling school and playing, you know, this
Speaker 5: first season here in d c Uh.
Speaker 9: It's funny because I always used to complain about having
Speaker 9: the you know, it was in college, like having the
Speaker 9: balance you know, uh, school work in football, and then
Speaker 9: I'm in the league and I volunteer to.
Speaker 6: Go you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: But it's cool. I mean, you know, a lot of
Speaker 9: it is just reading the numbers. I do that all
Speaker 9: the time. You know, it's more of a structured version
Speaker 9: of it. So that's kind how I look at it.
Speaker 9: I feel like I'm I'm good with balancing my time
Speaker 9: and and this is just like continue my learning.
Speaker 6: That's all it is. I don't think it, you know,
Speaker 6: I had.
Speaker 9: The only thing I had to get used to is
Speaker 9: like testing, you know what I mean, Like they just
Speaker 9: try to trick you know, never straightforward, you know.
Speaker 6: So outside of that has been Little.
Speaker 2: Legion and Boom.
Speaker 4: Obviously, you played on one of the greatest defenses with
Speaker 4: some status, right, so we get a lot of more
Speaker 4: and adding to defense that's getting better. Yeah, you know
Speaker 4: that was a great defense that you played on. What
Speaker 4: do you what are some of the similarities that you
Speaker 4: see with this Washington team?
Speaker 2: How we get there?
Speaker 4: How could we be like a dominant defense like Legion Boom,
Speaker 4: Because remember, y'all all were young when y'all first started.
Speaker 9: I think I think the thing that made us so
Speaker 9: special was that we were young, and so when we
Speaker 9: came into when we came into the league, like it
Speaker 9: was almost like college again.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: It was when we got done playing, done practicing, we
Speaker 9: just stayed at the stay at the facility, or we
Speaker 9: was like, hey let's go get some food or let's
Speaker 9: play the game or something. We just spent so much
Speaker 9: time together that were just connected and that connection got
Speaker 9: brought on the field. So you know, yes, brother, you
Speaker 9: know what I mean. So it's like, you know, you
Speaker 9: in Cover three and maybe you should have this and
Speaker 9: certainly like, hey go take a chance on that. Like
Speaker 9: I got your back and you're like, all right, you
Speaker 9: do that enough time to where like you ain't gotta
Speaker 9: say I just look at you. And so for me,
Speaker 9: I would say the comparison is that the connection. I
Speaker 9: think a lot of the guys here we're really connected
Speaker 9: like off the field, and I think that's what, you know,
Speaker 9: makes us believe that we can get there if we
Speaker 9: just keep going at it because we have the connection
Speaker 9: that you would need to be a good defense and
Speaker 9: so it's just really just growing on that.
Speaker 1: I had an opportunity in my career. I played with
Speaker 1: some excellent linebackers. My favorite teammate, best other linebacker I
Speaker 1: played with was to kill spikes. We're both from Buffalo together,
Speaker 1: and it would be times before the ball was snapped.
Speaker 1: Yeah we know, like this high is drawn up, but
Speaker 1: key do this. I got you, I got you back whatever.
Speaker 1: You and Frankie, y'all both came in here together this year.
Speaker 1: Y'all been out there ball and that job if you
Speaker 1: and have been able to have that build that type
Speaker 1: of chemistry where y'all y'all playing off each other. And
Speaker 1: what is it like playing playing with a guy like frank.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's exactly like that.
Speaker 9: I think one we knew each other because he used
Speaker 9: to work out in Seattle at the same spot we
Speaker 9: worked out, so we knew of each other. But then
Speaker 9: he started playing on the East Coast, so I didn't
Speaker 9: we see him as much, but then when we came here,
Speaker 9: it was just like dang, like we've always wanted to
Speaker 9: do this, Now we get to do it. And it
Speaker 9: was just again just like the open communication off the field.
Speaker 9: We'd be out there and it's like, hey, what you think.
Speaker 9: I think we can make a play.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: And it's the trust, Like you, we trust one another
Speaker 9: and we believe and we put in the work. You know,
Speaker 9: we study the film. It's not like we're just guessing,
Speaker 9: like we know what's coming. And so it's been great
Speaker 9: playing with him.
Speaker 5: One of the you know, you know one of the
Speaker 5: things I saw, you know, saw from day one. I
Speaker 5: was just going through your little bio and I was like, man,
Speaker 5: you was on that twenty twelve team that played us
Speaker 5: in the playoffs that we lost RG three.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, bring up old Yeah he's still talking about.
Speaker 5: It, but I remember you was a vocal like you
Speaker 5: was a guy that we checked on, be mindful where
Speaker 5: he at, you know what I mean. So just to
Speaker 5: know that you were young and now this is what
Speaker 5: you're thirteen You say thirteen, you're thirteen I got to
Speaker 5: play fourteen thirteen thirteen, so just to see where we
Speaker 5: was at. And I remember how I felt, I'm watching you.
Speaker 5: You don't look no different from the guys saw twenty twelve.
Speaker 3: What was that and what is that process like for you?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: How are you able to maintain you know? I guess
Speaker 5: you know your do ability to be able to go
Speaker 5: out there and.
Speaker 3: Bang what you do?
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 9: I think as you get older, you just know that
Speaker 9: like when you were younger, you might could take some
Speaker 9: breaks and you be fine. You get older, like whenever
Speaker 9: the season ends, I don't stop, I go to something else,
Speaker 9: I start working out again. Because the moment the longer
Speaker 9: you stop working out, the harder it is to get
Speaker 9: back in shape. So I just figure it's a lifestyle.
Speaker 9: I'm not getting out of shape. And between like my eating,
Speaker 9: I do a lot of yoga. I just take the
Speaker 9: time to try to take care of my body. I
Speaker 9: think that's the biggest thing is is especially now as
Speaker 9: a season gets into the holidays where you got his
Speaker 9: givings and the families.
Speaker 6: And the Christmases.
Speaker 9: A lot of times guys be like, all right, well
Speaker 9: I'm gonna spend time with my family, and they stopped
Speaker 9: doing and some of the things that they was doing.
Speaker 9: So I just be trying to be consistent, and I
Speaker 9: feel like that's that's what's helped me. I do the
Speaker 9: same things, I eat the same things all.
Speaker 4: The time, many playing at a very high level and
Speaker 4: nothing changed.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's gonna be it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I was watching so obviously I call the game.
Speaker 1: Santas Tanner does the pre and post game, and I'll
Speaker 1: go back and I might watch rewatch the game two
Speaker 1: or three times, and I'm looking at you and I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: you make some plays like how the hell did he
Speaker 1: slip that lineman and make this tackle?
Speaker 2: Like I'm look, you look like you out a position,
Speaker 2: like you're not gonna be able to do it. I'm
Speaker 2: marvel at you, man, And I know I know you
Speaker 2: you dipping at my butt on some of my records,
Speaker 2: Like I'm trying you know when. I like that because
Speaker 2: that'll keep me relevant.
Speaker 6: Come on, man, and I make sure I do my part. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I appreciate it that.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you coming on and joining us. We have
Speaker 1: all our guests signing this football fors man. If you
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind doing that, man, we can't wait to see
Speaker 1: you can see what the rest of the season brings
Speaker 1: for not just you, but this team as a whole.
Speaker 1: We got him walking many all right, So.
Speaker 2: That'll do it. Another dish at the Players Club. See
Speaker 2: you next week, same time.
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