WEBVTT - The Dave Pasch Podcast - D.J. Humphries 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:07.080 Everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave Pash Podcast. 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.120 I'm your host Arizona Cardinals, an ESPN play by play 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.200 announcer Dave Pash. Our guest this week is Cardinals left tackle, 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.600 three time captain and twenty twenty one Pro Bowl selection 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.640 d J Humphries. In fact, I'd love to call this 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:26.439 episode DJ unplucked, because Humphries goes off on everything over 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.040 the next thirty minutes. As you'll hear, DJ touches on 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.040 how he became one of the best left tackles in 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.680 the NFL after what looked like an ugly start to 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.839 his tenure as a pro football player following leaving Florida 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.440 a year early and becoming a first round draft pick. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.400 Humphries will also talk about the struggles at home the 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.919 last two years for the Arizona Cardinals. I don't know 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.720 what am I what do we do? What do you? 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.720 This is like, I don't know. It's hard. I couldn't 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.000 tell you. And that's I think that's the hardest part 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.160 about what's going on right now, is like not having 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.720 a true solution. Also, what it's like to play in Seattle, 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.600 the growth of Kyler Murray, the gifts that Humphries has 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.000 received from Murray and quarterbacks for the Cardinals over the years. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.960 We'll also talk about DJ's foundation that he's heavily involved 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.560 in and what some of his interests are away from football. 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.640 We are presented by bet mgm, the official sports betting 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.000 partner of the Arizona Cardinals, and by Hilo River Resorts 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.080 and Casinos. 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When I think 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.200 back to when you came into the NFL at your 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.799 age and leaving Florida early to where you are now 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.040 is one of the pillars of the team coming off 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:22.720 a Pro Bowl three time captain getting the contract. How much, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.680 and I know it's in the middle of a football season, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.480 but how much do you reflect on how far you've come? 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.320 I think I think mainly when I talked to young 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.639 players and young players come to me for like guidance 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.560 and asking me questions about things. Our three young age 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:43.200 rushers that we got, Liketta, Cam and my Ju We've 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.160 we've had a very interesting relation. We've we've developed an 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.280 interesting relationship between the three of us, between those three 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.840 guys in me over just these past five weeks and 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.919 just kind of you know, them kind of perceiving how 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.080 the NFL is going to be and trying to like 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.240 not step on toes and be careful with how they 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:01.880 rush and stuff like that. And I'm like, yo, bro, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:03.960 I need you rush, bro, because I got to be 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.160 ready for channeling this week I got frankly, you know, 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:07.360 I mean, like I need you to go and like 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.040 getting them to understand that and watching it kind of 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.440 bear fruit for them on the other side of it, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.560 and watching them, you know, progressively every week get closer 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.400 and closer to being legit players. And knowing all the 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.480 tunes that they got. I think that's like times like 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.560 that is when they really be like dang, like this 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.639 is cool, Like I couldn't have did that eight years ago. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.680 I didn't have anything for you eight years going now 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.000 to be able to to kind of shine the light 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.520 of some guys and help them do some things, and 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.320 it helped them continue to grow and develop. It's like, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.040 that's that's super dope. Sure, when did it click for you? 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.360 Do you remember a moment in time or an off 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.040 season where, for lack of a better term, the light 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.480 went on and you became the guy that you are 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.360 now or at least started down the road to becoming 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.600 the guy you are now. Yeah, I think that that 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.400 that first off season out of my rookie year. First 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.600 I have my son like in the beginning of that 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.000 off season, and that was like a that was like 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.680 a different wake up call for him. It was like 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.560 a not even so much football, that was just like 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.400 a life like I have to set an example, I 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.160 have to do things in a certain way, but I 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.440 think football it kind of I remember that first offseason 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:14.360 and coming here and like training and going upstairs and 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.039 asking good He's like yo, like like what can I like, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.000 we're gonta get some drills and like just do some stuff, 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.640 and like not understanding like you can't do things like 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.719 during the off season with coaches and like they can't 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.920 do drills and stuff like that, and like that when 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.599 I was like, Yo, I have to figure this out 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.279 on my own or I would be out of the league. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.200 And I think that was when it kind of clicked 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:33.680 for me. That was when I got got in touch 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.279 with the Charles and that was how mean on the Charles. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.960 Our relationships started from there, kind of like just trying 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.400 to take that ownership. It's like, Yo, this this league 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.240 is not gonna wait for me. Nobody's gonna help me 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.040 figure this out. I have to like go do it myself. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:45.800 And that offseason it's kind of what it happened. I 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.279 kind of been building those same routines I've been going, 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:49.720 been training there ever since, you know what I mean 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.480 that that same offseason mentally trying to get better every 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.239 year because of that from that off season. So Harold Goodwin, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.080 that's good. He who is now with Tampa and swear 0:04:58.200 --> 0:04:59.880 is more than a human being I met other than 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.440 t J. Car Listen. I don't know if you've ever 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:02.800 done to the presents of PJ. If you know who 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.040 PJA is a longtime NBA head coach, So I don't 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:06.520 know how he doesn't swear in the air because he 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.880 swears all the time. And then Charles Bentley, former NFL 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.479 offensive lineman's training guys. And this new contract that you did, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.839 you negotiated that yourself, right, how did that go? Like? 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.760 First of all, why did you do it yourself? And 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.760 then how did the process go? So? First, are you 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.640 available if I need you for my next contract with 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.760 ESPN or with the car So first of all, I 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.960 am available for all Asian inquiries. One percent one percent good. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.920 It depends on what we're negotiating. Well, Broadcast agents normally 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.440 take ten percent. So see, I'm not gonna I'm not 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:38.880 gonna be that guy to you, you know what I mean. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.839 I will never be that guy. But if we're negotiating 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.520 a hundred million a deal here, now, I won't need 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.000 a little you know, we may have to shave a 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:45.760 little bit more. I think I'm gonna get that. Then 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.400 a one or two percent, I'm going to shave a 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:48.880 little bit more off the top of you know, we're 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.240 going that fair, you get one hundred million dollars as 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.800 much as you want, you take eighty percent. But but uh, 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.000 my financial advisor, man by the name with Santana Johnson, 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.159 very unassuming man if you were to meet him in person, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.400 because he's just so laid back and calm. But we 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.920 developed a relationship over the last eight years and it's 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:09.800 I pretty much talked to him every day of my 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.679 life pretty much since I've signed with him. We developed 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.400 like a big brother relationship, and he's kind of just 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.440 kind of taught me so many things about business and 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.640 and the ways of life and how you handle things. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.480 And he basically he kind of started my will spinning 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.440 as becoming a businessman. You know, he got me and 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.160 my first business deals doing real estate, my first business 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.360 deals doing trucking. Like he's kind of aided me through 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.160 all of those things, and it just kind of it's 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.679 the only thing that's ever excited me aside from football, 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.440 is kind of taking control of of business and trying 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:47.400 to use what I've required over my last seven eight 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.880 years of football and watching it go in other places 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.680 and continue to produce fruit for me in that same way. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.920 It's something that's like it excites me watching it happen. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.880 It's something that's fun for me. So being able to 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.920 be able to do the same thing, basically do another deal, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.719 the biggest one that I could do in the moment, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.360 or you know what I mean, in this timeframe for myself, 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.080 and it kind of be an isolated environment, you know, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.880 I mean, not an environment that's the New York Stock Exchange, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.360 but I got worried about vulture, you know what I I mean. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.960 It's a it's an isolated environment in this building where 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.440 I know that I'm not gonna get taken advantage of. Granted, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:24.960 I know they're going to try to win, but I 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.120 know I'm not gonna get taken advantage of. So I 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.640 know that I can go into this fight and really 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.280 fight and learn and get some keys and get some 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.400 callous about myself and do things a certain way that 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.240 this is what I wanted to do. And it just 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.760 made so much sense for I mean, it was fun 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.440 the whole way. It was hard as hell, but it 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.600 was fun though it was the whole off season pretty 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:49.080 much literally the whole off season. Yeah, Like I had 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.240 an offer already, I think in OTAs Or I didn't 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:54.920 have an offer. That's what it was. I didn't have 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.800 an offering ot so like that whole through that whole time, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.000 that time frame, so all leading up until the day 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.520 my stomach started hurting the account. That's pretty much the hold. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.640 That was pretty much the timeline. Were you in significant pain? 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.960 I mean I was crushed. That's done. It was it 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:13.000 was Are you being serious? I am being serious? Man? 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.680 As wow, man, I don't know how I made it up. Okay, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:21.640 all right, Um, not everybody can be Larry Fitzgerald. Not 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.880 everybody can be Kobe Bryant and be a great player 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.200 for their team forever. You're trending that way of being 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.440 a cardinal. I know you're still in your twenties, but 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.640 signing a third contract, you're trending that way. And who 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.840 knows what's going to happen down the road. But is 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.840 that something you think about or have thought about being 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.440 in one place for an entire career? Yeah, that was 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.719 That's always been my goal ever in playing football. I 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.160 always wanted to go to a team and be a 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.839 main state to that team and retire from that place, 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.920 and you know, be able to live in the town 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.199 and go to the grocery store and get the glory love, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:56.800 like you know what I mean. That was always my dream, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.040 was being that guy that was the hometown guy, that 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.600 that that played in one team for a long time 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:03.959 and he stayed there and they look you know. I 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:05.640 mean that was always when I thought about That was 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.760 what football always was to me. That's what you do. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:09.800 You go somewhere. You'd be great there and they love 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.040 you there forever and you you live your life there. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.000 Maybe run for mayor or something like that when you 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.640 like sixty, you know, like that that was that was like, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.040 you know, that's it. I like that mayor d J. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:25.480 Humphreys man only fun things? Um? Was it always football 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.559 for you? What other sports did you play growing up? 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.480 And when did you like your recruiting process? Did you 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.400 get recruited by other schools for anything other than football? 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.280 I always wanted to be really good at basketball because 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.400 my dad was good at basketball. But I sucked, man, 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.760 I was so bad at basketball like it was. It 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.440 was it was. And when you say suck, look clarify, 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.679 like you you couldn't dribble or you didn't know what 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:50.800 to do when you got the ball on the post, 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.040 because I'm assuming you played on the low block. That 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.800 was literally the only thing I knew what to do. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.679 Anything passed a drop step and going straight up with it, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.280 or rebound, setting a good pick or a foule. I 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.480 was a fish out of water from anywhere from in 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.520 between those spaces, like anything else. You give me the 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.000 ball on the elbow, I don't want to. I don't 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.200 know what to do. I'm getting it out of my hands. Now. 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.240 Do you watch the NBA or college basketball? Not that much. 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.360 Only when my dad's around, so I can like act 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.760 like I'm cool manly man. But I'm a Netflix guy. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.760 You're at and I don't even watch football, But I 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.720 swear I watched so much film that, like when I 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.120 go home, it's like I watched Thursday night football because 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:25.960 that's when we do the online dinner. But I guess 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.800 I'm I'm gonna see it at some point. I'm watched 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.280 the film at some point, like I don't need to 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.600 watch what about college football? Ever? Watch college football? Do 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.760 you still keep in touch with people in Florida? There's 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.400 been like nine coaching changes. Yeah, left, I don't really 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.000 keep I don't really keep in touch with Florida. The 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.199 only time I watched the only time I really watched 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.560 the Gators. If it's I'm like, I got like a 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.640 friendly wager with somebody, like I'm like, you know, Tennessee 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.400 played and I had I had bet I was gonna 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.120 have to wear a T shirt. But luckily I got 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.720 out of that, you know, I didn't have to do it. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.160 But like the little stuff like that, that's the only 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.600 time I already ever watched. But it's it's I don't know, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.640 I don't know why. I just I rather just watch cool. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.199 I get it. I would much rather writse Ricky Morty 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.320 didn't watch. I haven't seen it. So oh you haven't 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.960 seen it? Now, Okay, what do you do at nighttime? 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.600 What you can't sleep? Do you? Just like, well, I'm 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.120 working a lot. I'm calling that's you know, That's why 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:16.400 I asked you about it. If you watch because I'm 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:21.800 doing like, for example, Wednesday, I'm doing preseason NBA for 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.600 ESPN Timberwolves, Lakers, and then I'll do a college game 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.600 on Saturday. They do the Cardinals on Sunday. So, like 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.000 you though, there's a lot of times, but the last 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.319 thing I want to do is watch a sporting event 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.400 exactly because it's working for you. It's work this is 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.880 your job, So I understand, but there's some people that 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.520 love it so much that that's all they want to do. Yeah, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.120 I love football, you know, it's crazy. I love football, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.880 but like I don't. I don't like it's a lot 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.720 of times in football, I don't know what's going on. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.320 I only watched the left tackle. Like if people ask 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.319 me something, like you can ask me something and be like, Yo, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.000 what's the situation here? What we I don't know about. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.679 Just I'm about to block the end. That's that's all 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.760 I know. Like, I don't namer myself with things in 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.360 my mind like safety rotations and what coverage they're running 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.280 and stuff like that. It doesn't matter. I'm gonna block 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.000 this dude right here. That's like the best pass rush. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:07.800 I'm gonna block this dude, So I don't even care 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.800 about what the safety is doing over there. So along 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.360 those lines, who were the toughest guys you've gone up 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.319 against this year? Of all times since you got in 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.640 the league, who were the toughest players you faced? Because 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.760 you're a lot of times on the island, you're going 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.400 up against a guy that's the best player on the 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.080 defensive line, and sometimes the best player on the defense. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.880 I don't want to get some dogs. I'm gonna tell 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.240 you somebody who's the first time I ever went to 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.320 a game and like I was just getting worked and 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:35.880 it was like I just didn't know what Like I 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.760 was just overwhelmed. I didn't know what to do. Was 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.880 nobody that could save me. But the first time I 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.080 played Cliff for April at right tackle at home and 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:44.760 he was rushing off the edge and I was playing 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.680 right tackle, that was my second year in the league. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.680 I think, oh my goodness, it was like a series 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.560 there where I didn't even touch him. He was just 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.120 running straight And I'll say, bro, I don't know what 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.160 you'll want me to do, but I'm trying so hard, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.280 like like it's not like I'm giving bad effort, but 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.520 like I'm trying my hardest and I just can't get there. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.800 And I think Cliff is one of the few people 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.480 that's like that. That game. I can remember that game 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.720 like snap for snap and that was like that was 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.480 six years ago. I think six seasons ago. He was 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.160 in Seattle or Detroit. He was in Seattle. This was 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.280 this was like his last season, that last year he 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.800 played the year before the year before the last year 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.120 he played because he got hurt that next year, the 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.760 year before the last year he played. Bro I was like, Yo, 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.079 this is nuts. Like I was like looking forward to 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.840 like next season, like this is gonna be my measuring 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.840 stick to tell me how like how better, how much 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.679 better I've got in the year and he got hurt 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.280 and so he got hurt. I didn't get a chance 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.960 to do it, but like that was the cliff. Um 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.599 I always Me and the Neil Hunter in Minnesota is 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.560 always a battle. I mean literally, since he's been an 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.439 lash has been a battle between me and him for 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.400 as long as we've been going against each other. Um 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.000 Burns and Charlotte is really good. He's gonna be like 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.280 he's good now, but he's he's got a lot of 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.320 upside and there that he's got to. That D line 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.840 we played this past weekend was a bunch of freaks 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.520 to is really good sign obviously. What about the Bosa 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:08.360 the Bosa brothers, Yeah, how did I did I even forget? Like, well, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.319 sometimes they're hurt, I mean, but they get hurt a lot. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.920 I've never played the other one. I've never played Joey. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.520 Joey and I think he missed the game. When the 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.000 Cardinals played and I was hurt at the child. I 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.680 was hurt. We went to We went to hurt. Corey 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.800 kind of played left town for me. But yeah, yeah, Nick, 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.640 like that's that's probably like the every year. I know, 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.960 those two games don't get real. So because obviously you 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.000 become an excellent left tackle and you said you're focused 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.720 on blocking this guy or if there's a game or whatever, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.520 you know what you're doing and who you're blocking. How 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.760 did you get so good? Meaning? Is it film study? 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.080 Is it anticipating based on a previous move that a 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.400 guy has made what he might be doing on this 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.760 next play, or is it just you're constantly worried about 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.880 your technique as opposed to what this guy might do 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.520 in front of you. I think that's what I had 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.200 to become because it kind of made me soft in 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.560 my approach. My thought process was soft. I was worried 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.120 about things. I'm worried that he's gonna do this, or 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.720 he's gonna instead of making my mind up, like yo, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.600 it's third down, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna get 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.520 to spof and throw my hands and I'm like, you know, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:16.640 what I mean, Like I had to I had to 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.240 put myself, make myself be that person who I thought 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.080 I was in my mind. I had to just pull 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:23.880 it out every play and put it on film. And 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.280 if you do it one time, now you know that 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:26.440 you can do it like you have to do it. 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:28.120 This is the standard. You gotta just do it every 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.440 time you're tired. Who cares? Like this is how you 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.040 have to do it? And I think that's just kind 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.520 of like how I condition myself to think like it 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.160 doesn't matter. It's like, you gotta go right now. Your 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.440 foot hurt everything, and I cares. You gotta take this 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:40.760 set right now. You know what you gotta do. You 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:41.960 know exactly how you gotta do what you have to 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.040 do it. Let's go on one hood that, you know 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.280 what I mean. I think that's just that focus on me. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.440 It's really when I started making a turn, because it's 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:51.640 I'm thinking about what these guys gonna do. I'm gonna 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.320 be a mixer forever because it's endless, you know what 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.240 I mean. So I think that was the that was 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.800 the turn for sure. It's just me making it about 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.120 myself being so honing in on my technique. Honing in 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.320 on my process, honing in on everything that I need 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.200 to do to be prepared to be able to go 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:07.680 out there to play at the level of player that 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.560 I want to play it, and it's and it's continuous, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.280 it's every year is something that I can get better. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.440 And just having that mindset of searching for it. I'm 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.840 never feeling like, oh, yeah, I'm good, like I like 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:20.440 who I just signed another deal, Like I'm good like 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.920 I'm forever searching for it, Like I got something to 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.480 fix from this last week. I've been playing really good 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.080 ball this season, but I still got something to fix 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.960 from last week that I fixed from the week before that. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.040 I think something from the week before this week, you 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.320 know what I mean. And just having that continuous Yeah, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:35.720 that was a great game, but I messed up on 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.200 these three things. I got to make sure that's what 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:38.640 I'm focusing on. I got to continue to focus on 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.200 the stuff that I was thinking about, and I got 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.240 to add those three to the back because it's everything's 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.040 got to be. I gotta chase perfection, you know what 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.080 I mean, whatever we fall it in between, as long 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.240 as I'm chasing perfection, I like where it's gonna la me. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.000 I love what you're saying. I want to get more 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.640 into that and what's going on with the team. Let's 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.760 start with talking about this week going to Seattle. As 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:01.680 I mentioned to you, doing college football, I've done games Florida, LSU, Alabama, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.320 Penn State, Ohio State where the crowd is phenomenal and 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.800 one hundred thousand people. I have never been in a 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:13.280 louder outdoor stadium than Seattle. Whatever it's called these days, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.040 it changes often. I think it's is it looming field? 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.560 But anyway, what's it like as a player? Because I'm 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.520 there is a broadcaster and it's really a loud for me. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.080 But what's it like when you're on the middle of 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.919 the field in that and you guys have had a 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.159 lot of success despite that noise in Seattle. You know, 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.199 it's interesting. The middle of the field is like the 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.520 best place to be. It's not as loud in the 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.120 middle of the field when you get close to those 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:38.960 opposite twenties. Though, oh man, you started speaking signing inguage. 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.000 It's a lot of this right here, A lot, Yeah, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.280 it's but it's it's I think from playing in Florida 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.560 and just playing in the SEC, like I get a rush, 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.040 like like I feel like I thrive and played better 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.320 like two minute situations, those situas like when it's just 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.520