Speaker 1: Cool. Let's do it. Man, Von Kidd Law got the kicks.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: All right, do you just consider yourself a defensive limit
Speaker 2: as a tackle where you want to Because.
Speaker 3: I'm a football, football player, football player that I can
Speaker 3: tell you why, Because I mean I'm all over the
Speaker 3: field for for if you really cut the tape on
Speaker 3: and watch, you know what I mean. I'm twenty yards
Speaker 3: down the field, you know, and most defensive tackles they're
Speaker 3: not trained to do that.
Speaker 1: You know. I like this, don't get us the heat
Speaker 1: before we start recording. I like that. We're gonna run
Speaker 1: that back. What's good.
Speaker 2: Come now, this family, and welcome into the next man up,
Speaker 2: a very special version of the next man because we
Speaker 2: have one of our biggest signs coming into von killing.
Speaker 2: My man got the jewels, my man got the shade.
Speaker 2: You know me, how are you feeling? You're looking like money?
Speaker 2: How are you feeling after signing for that much?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, man, I'm blessed and highly favored.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: It took a lot of it, took a lot of
Speaker 3: ups and downs to get here, but I'm here. Of course,
Speaker 3: I brought the whole fan with me. But I'm just
Speaker 3: I'm just so less to be here, bro, Like you
Speaker 3: could never imagine, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 3: ain't gonna really get into that stuff, but like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's no words for it, you know, like just growing up,
Speaker 3: just growing up in Northeast DC to start my football journey,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, going through the ups and
Speaker 3: the downs, the trials and the eras, trials and tribulations
Speaker 3: and the injuries and this that and the third people
Speaker 3: looking at you like you ain't gonna be nothing, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. To come in to this point
Speaker 3: where you could tell, you could feel if people really
Speaker 3: believe in you. It's just different.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: I give all the glory to God. You know, He's
Speaker 3: brought me this far and he gonna continue to prosper me.
Speaker 2: You know, hey man, he brought you this far and
Speaker 2: your support system did as well. Like you said, you
Speaker 2: brought the family with you. Now for y'all can't see
Speaker 2: he became like ten twelve deep. He has family here.
Speaker 2: But I told you before we started, I love seeing man,
Speaker 2: because that support system what's gonna get you through those
Speaker 2: hard times that you have mentioned, So being able to
Speaker 2: have your family pull up to this facility, a place
Speaker 2: that y'all probably you know you've thought about Washington for
Speaker 2: a long time because they're from here.
Speaker 1: How special was.
Speaker 2: It being able to share this moment with them, bring
Speaker 2: them into this building, and have them here when you
Speaker 2: sign that contract.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you because it's so crazy. So my
Speaker 3: rookie year, my teammates was Trent Williams and Jordan Reed.
Speaker 3: So I grew up watching them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And for to circle back to me being here now,
Speaker 3: it's like it couldn't have It's like.
Speaker 1: A movie, bro.
Speaker 3: And at the time I'm doing it while I've been
Speaker 3: playing some of my best football and I'm looking to
Speaker 3: get even better. It's like, it's just I don't have
Speaker 3: no words, bro, I don't have no words.
Speaker 1: Man, God's time sun exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: So let's let's talk about the decision to come here, right.
Speaker 2: You know you're from out here, you grew up out here.
Speaker 2: What makes you decide to say, you know what, I
Speaker 2: want to come back home and be here because I
Speaker 2: know that it wasn't always easy while you was here.
Speaker 1: I know you.
Speaker 2: I know you left for a very particular reason. So
Speaker 2: what gooeses that decision to say, you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: coming back.
Speaker 3: Well, first I'm out the way, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Being here is out the way from all that other
Speaker 3: crazy stuff. But Adam Petersbro He's always believed in me,
Speaker 3: you know, he's always believed in me. That energy he
Speaker 3: gives me, Like, that's what I want to work for,
Speaker 3: somebody that really believes in me. And Darryl tap you know,
Speaker 3: he was my assistant d line coach in San Francisco,
Speaker 3: so he knows me as well. They so they know
Speaker 3: what I put into the game. They know that I'm
Speaker 3: always striving to be the best version of myself every day,
Speaker 3: no matter what. And it's just great to be around
Speaker 3: people that believes in you, you know, it makes you
Speaker 3: work that much harder versus you in a place where
Speaker 3: you don't know if nobody really believe in you. It
Speaker 3: makes it easier and make it fun. And then I
Speaker 3: could tell I could just be myself here. Some places
Speaker 3: you go you can't really be yourself because they might
Speaker 3: look at you a little different. You know, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: could just be myself here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I came in with my shades on, like not for
Speaker 3: no particular reason, but that's just my thing.
Speaker 2: Like, so when you have those conversations with Adam Peters
Speaker 2: leading up to this, and even when you sign, what
Speaker 2: is his expectation for you?
Speaker 1: What is he saying, Yo, we need you to come
Speaker 1: in here and do this.
Speaker 2: Are you guys having those type of conversations.
Speaker 3: Just just the physicality, the violent play style that I
Speaker 3: have and the natural born leader that I am. That's
Speaker 3: that's kind of some of the things. But he also
Speaker 3: just wants me to keep transcending, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Transcendent descending one of the two shows, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. But he just wanted me to keep going
Speaker 3: up and up. You know, who knows, who knows what
Speaker 3: the type of player I really could be, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean? If I just keep getting better every day.
Speaker 3: So and again, like it's a no brainer when somebody
Speaker 3: believe in you like that, you know. I but I
Speaker 3: just bring a different type of demeanor to the game,
Speaker 3: you know, and that comes from the environments, some of
Speaker 3: the environments that I had to grow up in, you know.
Speaker 3: And I wear it on my sleeve and I'm proud
Speaker 3: of that, you know, because when I'm out down that field,
Speaker 3: it don't really matter, you know, I could just be
Speaker 3: whoever I want to be, and it shows.
Speaker 2: It's probably beneficial for somebody like you to be under
Speaker 2: a head coach like dan Quinn who has that defensive background,
Speaker 2: a defensive line background. When you have conversations with dan Quinn,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it hasn't been too many, but the conversations
Speaker 2: you have had with him, what stands out to you
Speaker 2: about out dan Quinn and getting to play for a
Speaker 2: guy like that.
Speaker 3: Well, you could tell he cares. Not not too many
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep it real, like, not too many people
Speaker 3: really care about you for real, but you could tell
Speaker 3: he cares, you know. And I'm big on that type
Speaker 3: of stuff because I care, you know, I want people
Speaker 3: to care like I care because I care a lot
Speaker 3: about my job and the way I'm seeing and you
Speaker 3: know that type of stuff. So that was a no brain.
Speaker 3: I probably talked to him probably fifteen minutes one phone call,
Speaker 3: and I just knew I wanted to play for him.
Speaker 3: You know, it was crazy. And everybody always say, oh
Speaker 3: dan Quinn, man, you would love to play for dan Quinn.
Speaker 3: Like I've heard nobody say nothing bad about dan Quinn.
Speaker 3: So man, I'm blessed that he chose me to be
Speaker 3: on this team.
Speaker 2: You know. So there's other free agents we've had sit
Speaker 2: here have said something kind of similar that the outlook
Speaker 2: on the outside is much different. The perception of how
Speaker 2: you guys look at the commanders of what's going on
Speaker 2: here has changed throughout the last years. Can you give
Speaker 2: a little glimpse on your perception of this building before
Speaker 2: you even came here and what this team was doing.
Speaker 3: I mean the skins, you know, you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm a real fan though, Like it was the skins
Speaker 3: and there'sn't a lot going on, but they changed the
Speaker 3: whole everything changed, and as soon as it changed, the
Speaker 3: improvement was drastic, you know what I mean. Like you
Speaker 3: could see it. You could see it just watching like
Speaker 3: even when I'm watching field like damn, Like you could
Speaker 3: tell everybody care about everybody, everybody want to play for
Speaker 3: each other. You look at like something like like the
Speaker 3: short down and distances, you know, the way that they
Speaker 3: want to you know what I mean, the way that
Speaker 3: they want to get that first down or stop that
Speaker 3: first down. That's what you want to look at, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, how they blocking on the field
Speaker 3: goal field goal and how they rushing on field goal block.
Speaker 3: Stuff like that, the stuff that not people paying attention to,
Speaker 3: but that I'm looking at because that's really going to
Speaker 3: tell what type of team you got. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. These boys get down over here, Bro, they
Speaker 3: get down.
Speaker 1: And that is by design. That is what Joe Junior
Speaker 1: wants from his team. He wants dogs like you get down.
Speaker 1: Ready to get down?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Joe Jr.
Speaker 2: Only Had his first year's defensive coordinator last year. This
Speaker 2: is his second year. How excited you.
Speaker 1: To play under a guy like that?
Speaker 2: Because even though this is only second as defense coordinator,
Speaker 2: he has such a storied history with success when it
Speaker 2: comes to defenses and secondaries. Now he's taken over this
Speaker 2: defense and done a great job. How excited you to
Speaker 2: play under him?
Speaker 3: I'm super excited.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 3: It just looks like to me, he turns to d
Speaker 3: lion loose all they do. That's what I like. Like,
Speaker 3: don't tell me too much. Just tell me to go
Speaker 3: straight and I'll make everything up on the back end.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. But that's what I like.
Speaker 3: That's the environment I like to be around. I know
Speaker 3: it's gonna be challenging. But that's gonna make a break
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Shit, Man, pressure make diamonds,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And I'm a dominant the
Speaker 3: rough man, real talk and javar Man. Yes, your story
Speaker 3: is so heavy. Man.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna get into that now because this is
Speaker 2: about a celebration. We'll talk about that because we got
Speaker 2: a lot of time to talk about that in the future. However,
Speaker 2: all the things you have been through, You've mentioned being cut,
Speaker 2: you mentioned all these different things.
Speaker 1: Did it put a chip on your shoulder?
Speaker 3: I mean, Bro, I came into it with a chip.
Speaker 3: I came into it with a chip. I came into
Speaker 3: this game with not too many people being like me,
Speaker 3: and it's hard to fit in when you stick out
Speaker 3: like a sore thumb. So everything, it could be the
Speaker 3: littlest thing, I take it personal. You know, that's just me, Bro,
Speaker 3: That's the environment I grew up in. I grew up
Speaker 3: in the house raised by two women, but like six boys,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So everything is, everything is competitive,
Speaker 3: everything is you don't never want to lose. So I
Speaker 3: take everything personal. And I've always had a chip on
Speaker 3: my shoulder my whole life. So this football, this thing
Speaker 3: called football and the grand scheme of things, it's really
Speaker 3: nothing to me, you know what I mean. I love
Speaker 3: this game though, but there's really nothing compared to some
Speaker 3: of the things that I went through.
Speaker 1: You know why.
Speaker 3: That's why in the long run, I'm gonna get them all.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get them all in the long run. And
Speaker 3: I'm standing on that.
Speaker 2: And everything you've been through has led you to this
Speaker 2: point where you come in here and sign and.
Speaker 1: You said it.
Speaker 2: You talk about that chip, you talk about those motivation
Speaker 2: of being overlooked and being through all the things you
Speaker 2: have been through. Well, now you have a team that
Speaker 2: says we're not overlooking you exactly. We're gonna give you
Speaker 2: the bag. We're gonna give you three years of that bag.
Speaker 1: We believe in you.
Speaker 2: So now that you're in cause this is this is
Speaker 2: rare territory for you. You're not used to being in
Speaker 2: a position like this. When you think about that, where
Speaker 2: when you draw motivation from now knowing that you have
Speaker 2: this team that supports you, that wants you here.
Speaker 3: All them people that's out there, bro, my family, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. I like for them to be
Speaker 3: able to see it disclosed. They're gonna be able to
Speaker 3: see it on a day to day basis. That's gonna
Speaker 3: drive me. That's gonna drive me even more, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean? They only they only really see me
Speaker 3: on TV. They don't really know. They know that I
Speaker 3: go hard, but they don't know what I put into
Speaker 3: the game. They don't ski it. But they gonna see.
Speaker 3: And that's gonna drive me every day. Like I got
Speaker 3: to show them how to work. I got to show
Speaker 3: them how to show up every day because I've already
Speaker 3: showed them. No matter what they say about you, it
Speaker 3: don't matter. Just keep just keep moving forward. And I
Speaker 3: can't wait to show them that, you know what I
Speaker 3: mean in real life. I can't wait for them to
Speaker 3: see that. So I'm telling you, I can't wait. Bro,
Speaker 3: give me goosebumps. And it's not just your family.
Speaker 2: It seems like you can't wait to show this fan
Speaker 2: base who you are, to show the NFL who you are.
Speaker 2: I seem like you're posted a story somebody dam it
Speaker 2: was someone along the lines.
Speaker 1: Is just wait till you see it. Y'all don't know
Speaker 1: what y'all got to y'all see it, right?
Speaker 2: How important is it for you to make a name
Speaker 2: for yourself out here and show the world why you
Speaker 2: deserve this back, why you deserve this trust that this
Speaker 2: organization gave.
Speaker 3: You because I'm that guy for her, for her about
Speaker 3: I'm that guy. It ain't too many cats like me,
Speaker 3: and I could say that confidently. I just know that
Speaker 3: in my soul, most of these dudes ain't been through
Speaker 3: what I've been through.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 3: It ain't even about proving nothing to nobody but my
Speaker 3: family and myself. The fans they gonna, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, they gonna get to see it too. But
Speaker 3: I just I don't really care about that though. I
Speaker 3: really care about my family, and that's it. Like, I
Speaker 3: don't know what else to say, Like, I just I
Speaker 3: just want them to know, like I'm here and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do what I gotta do so they can see
Speaker 3: it firsthand. But the fans, man, I'm just I'm pumped
Speaker 3: about the fans too, because I know hopefully they're gonna
Speaker 3: love me being here. They gonna let me so that too,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: That's as good of a mic drop as any right there. Man,
Speaker 2: I think that's a great space to stop. You gotta
Speaker 2: go celebrate. You got the family here, man to celebrate
Speaker 2: all the hard work you put in.
Speaker 1: Man, made it to this moment, man, and you've earned this. Brother.
Speaker 2: Congratulations Yvon, thanks for killing what this man and honestly, Rap,
Speaker 2: I feel like the Commanders fans will be real excited
Speaker 2: to see what you do on that field. Commanded fanis
Speaker 2: this is his next man up with our new guy
Speaker 2: Heimothy Java kid Law. Brother, thank you for your time
Speaker 2: man gngratulations, appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Bro's definitely