Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: You know, for the football championship, that should always do
Speaker 2: the expectations.
Speaker 3: All ain't man? Actually go ahead? Well, welcome back to
Speaker 3: the Richard Sherman Podcast.
Speaker 4: We got an incredible guest here are Darius Washington of
Speaker 4: the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: You having a You're having a heck of a season
Speaker 4: since you've been inserted into the starting lineup. You play
Speaker 4: so fast, you're so aggressive. You got a great story.
Speaker 4: How you feeling, brother, man? I feel good?
Speaker 2: Man, ready to get this week Rowling, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean for their practice and everything like that big
Speaker 2: game coming up, But I definitely feel good.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: I know your story and I know you know about
Speaker 4: you went undrafted, You went to a dark place. It's
Speaker 4: a very frustrating part, but you finally got your opportunity
Speaker 4: and every single one of your teammates speaks so highly
Speaker 4: of you. They said you had the best training camp
Speaker 4: every single year. You know, you've been banged up with injuries,
Speaker 4: and every time your numbers called, you've shown up in
Speaker 4: a big way. Tell me what's like, what's going through
Speaker 4: your mind throughout this process?
Speaker 2: Through all this process, man, just going out there and
Speaker 2: get to win, you know, what I mean, I haven't
Speaker 2: really thought about everything that happened beforehand, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I guess I reflect a little bit after
Speaker 2: the season and everything like that, but I ain't really
Speaker 2: thought about it right now. Man, just going out there
Speaker 2: and you know, shutting down the offense, Josh Allen and
Speaker 2: all those guys, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of my thought version right now.
Speaker 3: Bro, since week eleven. Obviously everybody's talked about that.
Speaker 4: Y'all been one, but you have been and I watched
Speaker 4: the tape and Bro, I tell you, and I hate
Speaker 4: to say this because I know players don't love to
Speaker 4: be compared to other players. Everybody's unique. You are Darius
Speaker 4: Washington and nobody else, but you look like Earl v
Speaker 4: Thomas the Third.
Speaker 3: And come on, man, I don't know if it's yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, nah, that's good.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, like, like you said, your own
Speaker 2: player like that, and then they want to be something.
Speaker 2: I mean at the end of the day, like you know,
Speaker 2: they're gonna say you play like somebody. You know, I
Speaker 2: actually did look up the Earl, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: When I was growing I think, like what a twenty
Speaker 2: fourteen around that time. I think I probably in high
Speaker 2: school or something, twenty thirteen and all that. You know,
Speaker 2: y'all was great legend do and everything like that. Come on, man,
Speaker 2: I was in high school. But definitely that's one of
Speaker 2: the players I definitely admired growing up, for sure.
Speaker 4: You know so definitely the way you you fly around,
Speaker 4: the angles you take, the way you're throwing your body
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 3: You know, you're not how much you we aint right now?
Speaker 1: Man, I'm probably like one eighty one right now, two
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 4: We was at the game last week against Pittsburgh. They
Speaker 4: tied end, caught it in the flat. Boy, you shot
Speaker 4: your gun, triggered quick. It was like thirty two thirty three.
Speaker 4: It ended up being fourth and one. They gotta punk
Speaker 4: the ball, and I'm sitting there like, like y'all not
Speaker 4: understanding how fast and aggressive this man is playing like this.
Speaker 4: That was an incredible one on one one play. Bro.
Speaker 2: Definite, I gotta bring it, man, you know, like you
Speaker 2: said one eighty you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 2: gotta bring everyone ad me. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: to stop those guys, those six six sixty five six
Speaker 2: four guys. You know what I mean, so I gotta
Speaker 2: bring it for sure. So every time I'm out there,
Speaker 2: that's what I'm thinking about. You know, like I ain't
Speaker 2: the fast, I ain't the biggest guy anything like that,
Speaker 2: but you know, the game gonna speak for itself definitely.
Speaker 1: Man, that's kind of how I like to play.
Speaker 3: It is shown, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's crazy because just you and Kyle Hamilton, it's just
Speaker 4: such a different But then in the defense, y'all both
Speaker 4: asked to do that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they put you in the box. Sometimes they got
Speaker 4: your cover and receivers. Sometimes they got your covering tight ends.
Speaker 4: It's never like Zach or stinking like man, I got
Speaker 4: to ohe it's a tight end.
Speaker 3: I need.
Speaker 4: I need Kyle Hamilton to play. He's like, hey, whichever
Speaker 4: one you y'all drop down, whichever one is gonna get
Speaker 4: the job done. Tell me about him and the trust
Speaker 4: and belief that he's shown to you.
Speaker 2: I mean, just like like you said, like you know,
Speaker 2: ever since I stepped into that role, he's not like, well,
Speaker 2: AD can't do this or AD can't do that, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So I need Kyle to do
Speaker 2: this or Kyle to do that, you know, it's kind
Speaker 2: of just interchangeable, you know what I mean. So like
Speaker 2: kind of just like goes into like being head of
Speaker 2: the play you know what I mean. So like that's
Speaker 2: why I learned from Kyle, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So like him, every time I'm out there with him,
Speaker 2: he's calling out to play or anything like that. So
Speaker 2: like me ment to that role being alongside of him.
Speaker 2: That's why I try to incorporate my game, call them
Speaker 2: out to play, or like well if they do this,
Speaker 2: do that, I'm gonna do this or you're going to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: So like that's kind of how Kyle helped me.
Speaker 2: And you know what I'm saying, Zach, having that trust
Speaker 2: in us, like we're going to get a job done.
Speaker 4: What goes into your your mentality in these playoffs? You know,
Speaker 4: this is your first playoff run, but is this your
Speaker 4: first playoff run? This is your first meaningful start to.
Speaker 1: Mean start definitely doing playoffs. Yeah, yeah, it's hurt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So like did you feel like the speed was
Speaker 4: different or did you change something or you just said, hey,
Speaker 4: come on now, treat the same, the game the same,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna go out there and just play play
Speaker 4: like I always do.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and so that was like for me, that's what
Speaker 2: my mentality like every game, like, don't make it bigger
Speaker 2: than what it is, you know what i mean. Say
Speaker 2: at end of the day, you know what I'm saying, Honey, yards,
Speaker 2: you gotta go out there and play football. Of course
Speaker 2: it means more now, but you don't add that pressure
Speaker 2: on them. That's for everybody else to add, you know
Speaker 2: what i mean. So like for me, just going out there,
Speaker 2: play my same game, you know what I'm saying, Communicate
Speaker 2: with the guys, and everything goes gonna take care of itself.
Speaker 3: No question, no question, y'all. Y'all have been balling, bro
Speaker 3: y'all been one of the best defenses in football.
Speaker 4: Talk about Hump because Humph playing the nickel spot that
Speaker 4: you were playing, and you know how hard it is
Speaker 4: to play in that space. He's been I mean, obviously
Speaker 4: had an All Pro season, but man, I didn't know
Speaker 4: he had it in it.
Speaker 2: Man, just show his versatility, you mean, like man Hunt,
Speaker 2: he bring the energy every time he's out there.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, He's gonna He's an ultimate competitor,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So you can put Hump anywhere you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: He want to play, he want to learn it, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So I definitely knew he had
Speaker 2: him and him like he had their physicality in him
Speaker 2: be in the box and everything like that.
Speaker 1: Up Like I said, he want to make plays, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So him being at that Niggas spoke, he could always
Speaker 2: be around the ball and everything like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hump the dude for sure.
Speaker 4: So you coming from Louisiana, Shreetport, and I think they
Speaker 4: they they went on and highlighted all these receivers that
Speaker 4: came from this one small area of Louisiana, and you
Speaker 4: grew up in that. You grew up definit these dudes
Speaker 4: you grew up playing. Do you think that has helped
Speaker 4: prepare you for this moment?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Absolutely, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like you know those guys, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Like he grew up playing against him in high school
Speaker 2: and everything, seven or seven, you know, playing them the
Speaker 2: same teams with them, you know what I mean. Just
Speaker 2: like the match up with the Meek and j Jackson,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like they grew up playing
Speaker 2: against each other. So like if me ain't not that scared,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like you know this guy,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So definitely definitely uh leans
Speaker 2: to our advantage, you know what I mean, Like we
Speaker 2: want to we dreaming things like this, Like we were
Speaker 2: playing jamorrow, you know what I'm saying. We talked in
Speaker 2: the off season. You know the matchup we've been waiting.
Speaker 2: We played them in a playoff game, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. So you know, just things like that, definitely
Speaker 2: prepare us.
Speaker 3: That's that's crazy, man. I don't think I mean outside
Speaker 3: the d Jack.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's any receiver that I played when
Speaker 4: I was growing up that I that I played in
Speaker 4: the league. And y'all boys in Louisiana, it seemed like
Speaker 4: every guys.
Speaker 2: Everybody from the boot for real, real. But Na's definitely
Speaker 2: a blessing, you know what I mean. Playing against those
Speaker 2: guys for sure, going out there having fun and competing.
Speaker 2: Then you know, talk about it outterwards, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, see those guys in the off season also.
Speaker 4: So I love that man. And so talk to me
Speaker 4: about your family, you know what I mean. Are they
Speaker 4: coming to games? Are they getting to see you play live?
Speaker 3: Or you know, what I mean.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yes, sir. So some games they're
Speaker 1: able to come up to, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But like like the Texas game and when we played
Speaker 2: in Dallas and everything, probably had about thirty people at
Speaker 2: the game, you know what I mean. Family, friends, cousins
Speaker 2: and mom, dad, you know, well my dad passed Bud,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So, but they all came up to the game for sure.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3: I love that. Man. It's great to see you, Sean. Man.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of respect for your game, and
Speaker 3: I loved watching you.
Speaker 4: Man. I love I love watching you now because you
Speaker 4: play so fast, you play so smart. It's clear that
Speaker 4: you're watching tape. It's clear that you understanding the concepts.
Speaker 4: It's clear that you died in it seemed like you
Speaker 4: and Kyle Hamilton's chemistry and y'all understanding of one another.
Speaker 4: It's fantastic. Walk me through that because he did a
Speaker 4: little interview just talking about you and your relationship and
Speaker 4: how how cool y'all are and how y'all play off
Speaker 4: each other and that on that field. Because when the
Speaker 4: bullets is flying, people don't know it. Get crazy, man,
Speaker 4: it's the time, man, man.
Speaker 2: K were talking about everything, bro, Like everything we see
Speaker 2: every time we come to the sideline. We're talking about
Speaker 2: you know, what you're getting on this side of what
Speaker 2: you're getting right here, or how you would have played
Speaker 2: this or how you feel about that. So even though
Speaker 2: like we're in the locker room, bro, like we're just
Speaker 2: talking about communicating, especially about ball, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Outside of that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: We talk about whatever, you know what I mean, But
Speaker 2: just getting to know each other more and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: especially filling into that role and everything, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, So like having a relationship with him and
Speaker 2: everything like that, like we kind of we understand we
Speaker 2: co signed them and everything like that.
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Speaker 4: So y'all play. Y'all play Buffalo earlier in the season,
Speaker 4: but you didn't play in that game. Exactly what are
Speaker 4: you seeing from them now? That's different from the team
Speaker 4: that y'all played earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: Physicality, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So they running guys off the ball, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, They pushing the powers and doing things like that.
Speaker 2: But you can definitely tell they're a completely different team
Speaker 2: from when we played them week four and today is now,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. They bringing it, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. They seem like they after got a
Speaker 2: point to prove. But so do we, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. So, like you know, we know it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a different game with a different team also, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. But definitely from that it's physicality
Speaker 2: and with those guys're gonna have to stick to your rules,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: What I mean.
Speaker 2: They got guys going all over the places, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, So we definitely have to stick to
Speaker 2: our rules when playing against them.
Speaker 4: Now, how is the board from street Port, Louisiana gonna
Speaker 4: get ready for this eight degree weather? I mean, I
Speaker 4: know you've been in Baltimore long enough, but eight degrees.
Speaker 4: It's eight degrees.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get ready for it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get ready for I'm gonna be out there
Speaker 2: were playing football, you know what I mean. So when
Speaker 2: I'm between those I ain't thinking about how cold it is.
Speaker 2: When I get to sideline, I'm like, okay, maybe a
Speaker 2: little cold out here. But when I'm out there on
Speaker 2: that field, I ain't thinking about no weather man. I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about making this play right now.
Speaker 4: When when we played, we played the coldest game I
Speaker 4: ever been in. I think it's like fourth cold, it's
Speaker 4: all time. We was playing Minnesota before they stadium got built,
Speaker 4: and it was negative six. And when I tell you, look,
Speaker 4: I ain't never really cared about the cold. Now, once
Speaker 4: you put on the plass, once you start playing, it's cool.
Speaker 4: But when I tell you I got out there and
Speaker 4: took a deep breath and it felt like my lungs
Speaker 4: was freezing, it's different. I tell you what I look like.
Speaker 4: I look like a total little little you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, Sissy. When I'm running to the sideline between
Speaker 4: every plate, getting on that heater, me a little bit.
Speaker 3: I can't. I'm trying.
Speaker 4: Boy, Hey, you got any questions for me? I know
Speaker 4: you ain't got a lot of time, so I don't
Speaker 4: want to hold you too long. You know, I'm blessed
Speaker 4: that you you even got on the pile with me.
Speaker 4: I know it's a busy time and crazy time for you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you for having me. Man, definitely a blessed
Speaker 2: like a guy like yourself, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And I do actually have a question so for you,
Speaker 2: just one question.
Speaker 1: You know what made y'all guy so great? You know
Speaker 1: what I mean?
Speaker 2: Y'all in that back end, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: it was like I guess they was like three things
Speaker 2: that made y'all guys great, and that secondary.
Speaker 4: I guess, it's a lot of it's it's a bunch
Speaker 4: of guys with a lot of love and respect for
Speaker 4: one another. Obviously, it's us spending time off the field
Speaker 4: and getting to know each other, getting to know each
Speaker 4: other's families, and that just connects you in a different way.
Speaker 4: But then it's it's on the field just caring about
Speaker 4: one another, you know what I mean. It's studying together,
Speaker 4: it's having a standard for the room, you know, what
Speaker 4: I mean. I'm sure y'all got a standard in y'all room.
Speaker 4: It looks like it. You know, y'all play up to it,
Speaker 4: and you got a standard of play that everybody holds
Speaker 4: each other too, not just not just the starters. So
Speaker 4: it's not just cam Earle, myself, Brandon Browner, Byron Maxwell,
Speaker 4: it's the practice squad guy, same standard. So and then
Speaker 4: it's a different level of accountability because it's not like
Speaker 4: it's not like a hierarchy. It's not like, hey man,
Speaker 4: this practice squad guy can't say nothing to me because
Speaker 4: I'm a three time All pro. If he got something
Speaker 4: to teach me, if he got something to tell me
Speaker 4: and say, hey, hey bro, I think you could do
Speaker 4: this a little better, kind of you kind of was this.
Speaker 4: I think if you changed your footwork like that, then
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take it in and I'm gonna absorb it
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna try to make myself better. And I
Speaker 4: think that helped us get better and helped us improve
Speaker 4: because everybody mattered. Everybody was important. Everybody felt like, hey man,
Speaker 4: these dudes respect me, and we did like if some
Speaker 4: dude said, hey, can you help me after practice, and
Speaker 4: he might he might have just got picked up yesterday
Speaker 4: and about to get cut tomorrow. Then I'm gonna stay
Speaker 4: out there for two hours and help him with his tech,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. And I think on top
Speaker 4: of that, we practiced our We practiced harder shit like
Speaker 4: we practiced harder shit. Everybody got to touch the ball.
Speaker 4: The effort is there. We full speed, don't matter if
Speaker 4: it's walk through. We practice walkthroughs like full speed. So
Speaker 4: he wouldn't let the ones go with the ones no
Speaker 4: more because we ain't let y'all catch the ball. I
Speaker 4: don't give damn if y'all won the one offense. If
Speaker 4: y don't want to catch the ball, take us off
Speaker 4: the field right like, we're not playing none of that shit.
Speaker 4: And I think we kept the standard the standard at
Speaker 4: all times, so it didn't matter walk through practice, preseason game,
Speaker 4: pro bowl game, like, we play it hard and we're
Speaker 4: hitting shit. So if you if you don't want that,
Speaker 4: they put us on the sideline coach, because that's what
Speaker 4: you're gonna get from us. And I think when you
Speaker 4: have all those things, when you get in the crazy
Speaker 4: moments and adversity hits and and shit ain't going your
Speaker 4: right way, and it's the playoff game. You never look
Speaker 4: at each other and you're like, it's like, man, it's
Speaker 4: your fucking fault us Like, oh man, it's on you,
Speaker 4: like you ain't doing your job.
Speaker 3: It's always love.
Speaker 4: I might as well be out there with my brother
Speaker 4: and be like, hey, I know, hey, we in this together.
Speaker 4: We know we could get this done. And you know
Speaker 4: I'm doing my fucking best and I know you're doing
Speaker 4: your best.
Speaker 1: Gotcha. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Definitely appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all love, brother.
Speaker 4: Hey, good luck this weekend, Keep balling out, keep doing
Speaker 4: your thing.
Speaker 3: I hope everything goes your way.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to see your player performance because your
Speaker 4: player performance moment.
Speaker 2: Hey, I try to think about yeah, yeah, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So we got a mission with already now,
Speaker 2: and that's.
Speaker 1: What we're trying to get to. But I was thinking
Speaker 1: about it later.
Speaker 4: But y yeah, it's gonna be. Everything's gonna work out
Speaker 4: like it's supposed to. Definitely, definitely all love, brother, You
Speaker 4: have a beautiful day. If you got anything else for me,
Speaker 4: I'm happy to go. If you got a little bit
Speaker 4: more time, I'm happy to keep going, but they told
Speaker 4: me you have fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: I gotta get rid of Ford's twelve thirty.
Speaker 4: You know we yeah, say yeah, it's sir, yes, sir
Speaker 4: all love brother, good luck this week.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. It' here the volume