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Speaker 1: All right, I actually would like to start and go

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Speaker 1: back to your rookie training camp and just take me

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Speaker 1: through what it was like to maybe go through a

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Speaker 1: John Mitchell boot camp and just learning the ropes of

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Speaker 1: being an NFL player. Well, the John met your boot

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Speaker 1: camp wasn't easy, but you know that was a legendary coach,

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Speaker 1: so uh he told some legendary guys and he was

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Speaker 1: a super Bowl winner. He's been around a lot of

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Speaker 1: winning football teams, so everything he said was you know,

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Speaker 1: right on. I just had my eyes and my eyes

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Speaker 1: wide open, ears wide open, just kept my head down

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Speaker 1: and try to put my head in my playbook and

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Speaker 1: learn as much as it plays and trying to be

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Speaker 1: as much help as I can as a rookie. How

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Speaker 1: much have you grown since then as a player, I'll

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Speaker 1: probably say a lot. Um always been the youngest and

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Speaker 1: what I do, even though I've been the biggest. But

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Speaker 1: I definitely, you know, been drafted at twenty I was

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Speaker 1: drafted at twenty years old, and uh, you know I

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Speaker 1: kind of grew up in the NFL, so you know,

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Speaker 1: I gotta definitely got a chance to see a lot

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Speaker 1: of things in different prospectives. Now, Um, you can't say

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Speaker 1: a record, But what do you measure in terms of

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Speaker 1: a defense being successful? Well, winning the Super Bowl that's

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Speaker 1: definitely one of them, and being able to, you know,

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Speaker 1: after that, being able to look at the lines. But

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Speaker 1: I just think a dominant defensive performance, um um, just

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Speaker 1: being able to just control the whole offense offensively, when

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Speaker 1: they pass, when they run, anything they try to do

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Speaker 1: is just kind of shutting them down to a certain

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Speaker 1: extent that they feel like they can't do anything. And

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Speaker 1: literally getting off the field every third down for Russian

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Speaker 1: roll ship. You're tied for the team lead and sacks

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Speaker 1: and tackles for loss. What does that say about you

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Speaker 1: so far? Through five games. I'm kind of pissed at myself.

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Speaker 1: I left two out there, so we went the number

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Speaker 1: to be higher. You're not a chaste more the more

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Speaker 1: they tied up with me. But you know, I'm surrounded

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Speaker 1: by great football players. Um. Like I said, my whole life,

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Speaker 1: I've been kind of surrounded by great football player so

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Speaker 1: this is not new to me. But you know, T J.

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Speaker 1: Watt cam, Hey, we're but to create, you know, Javon

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Speaker 1: hard Pave and the lining up from ticing out on

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Speaker 1: the dam, those guys coming along to just as fine.

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Speaker 1: You know bush in the back. You know my my

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Speaker 1: role we're not going to a game is just to

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Speaker 1: create as much chaos and you know this disruption as possible.

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Speaker 1: And I've always been doing that since I've been here.

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Speaker 1: So UM, it's nice to get a middle acknowledgement from it,

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Speaker 1: but I really don't care. I don't want to get

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Speaker 1: some wins. I'm probably better. I know the past few

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Speaker 1: years getting to the quarterback wasn't a problem creating that

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Speaker 1: pressure in terms of sacks and whatnot. The interceptions though,

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Speaker 1: you guys are third in the entire league and interceptions

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Speaker 1: so far. Does that mean you guys are maybe taking

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Speaker 1: that next step of the splash plays and what you

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Speaker 1: have been working at. I remember saying that's I think

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Speaker 1: earlier this year in training camp, and that's basically what

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Speaker 1: we really needed to do to try to, you know,

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Speaker 1: take that next step that I know that we could

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Speaker 1: get to. And I think we've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys that's doing that. Um, you know, especially when I

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Speaker 1: found from guys to get me to do that, as

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Speaker 1: Gives had also been here that UM been on the

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Speaker 1: team have been an assistem for a lot, and I

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Speaker 1: think the pressure and its creating that. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: that time and between quarterback and receiver and the dvs

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Speaker 1: are in the right places at the right time, you know,

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Speaker 1: following them from what they coaches. I'll teaching them at

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Speaker 1: what their practice. You see it, you see it coming along.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Javon Hargrave. How underrated is he? Um? Super underrated?

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Speaker 1: You know that guy is very good and you got

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Speaker 1: built in leverage you could tell you know, you could

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Speaker 1: have vice helps and uh, you know, he just he's

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Speaker 1: everything you want from that you know, no stack of

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Speaker 1: one um one technique spot and he's doing a great

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Speaker 1: job and he's just strucking along. Give me just fine.

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Speaker 1: I know it was just last year you faced the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: not the outcome that you definitely wanted. But what has

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Speaker 1: changed about them or what has not changed in terms

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Speaker 1: of their offense? But Philip Rivers is still their quarterback,

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Speaker 1: so that didn't change. I think, Uh, you know, offensively,

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Speaker 1: these guys got big time play making ability. They got

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Speaker 1: a really good receiver, they got um, you know, two

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Speaker 1: good running backs. Um, you know, these guys got some

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Speaker 1: play makers when they started the ball that you got

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Speaker 1: to make sure we stopped. I think they also got

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Speaker 1: what brother to fullback, so it would be nice to

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Speaker 1: go against him and give him a couple of blows.

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Speaker 1: Did DJ tell you to say that? No, I think

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Speaker 1: we all just saying that you're saying in terms of

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, you mentioned the offense for the Chargers, Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: The other teams can't say, all right, Ben Roethlisberg and

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Speaker 1: this year three different quarterbacks. What does that do to

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Speaker 1: the defense in terms of maybe how you guys prepare

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Speaker 1: or does it not change how you prepare? Well, of

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Speaker 1: course that chang is how you prepare. You know, that

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Speaker 1: was a Hall of Fame quarterback we had, so you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got guys that's coming in stepping up who was

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Speaker 1: following the shadow at him? Um, you know, Mason is

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Speaker 1: doing a good job, you know, especially getting his feet wet,

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Speaker 1: getting thrown in the fire. I thought he was doing

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Speaker 1: a pretty good job. You know, you got that big

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Speaker 1: hit this past game. But I think he's going to

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Speaker 1: bounce back from that. I think, uh, Doug, I think

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Speaker 1: who came in after him did a great job, and

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Speaker 1: you know, just trying to get the ball out and

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Speaker 1: you know, taking those chances that we needed at the game.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very confident in the quarterbacks we have. I

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Speaker 1: think we've even got a form of restaurant draft pick

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Speaker 1: quarterback who I could have an opportunity to. It all

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Speaker 1: depends how they do it over there, how they handle it,

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Speaker 1: but I think uh and I think I offers a quartering.

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Speaker 1: They've got some um you know, he's a good coaching.

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Speaker 1: He gets those guys prepared. H