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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I'm great. How about yourself? Solid? Good day three,

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Speaker 1: Glad to be back out here. Uh starting social media

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Speaker 1: there like how you Uh? I mean it's frustrating, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, uh, I'm gonna give it to my agent.

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Speaker 1: I'm gona let Drew handle it. He's been doing it

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Speaker 1: for a long time. He's got my best interest. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna roll with it. I'm just gonna control

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Speaker 1: what I can control. You know, frustrating playing on you know,

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Speaker 1: uh out here with no guaranteed money, But I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: put it in Drew hands. You know, he gonna he

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Speaker 1: gonna do his best for me? Is that what it's about? Good?

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Speaker 1: The guarantees? I mean it is, but uh, I mean

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Speaker 1: I consider myself one of the dominant run pleasant the league. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know it's a it's a passing league. A lot

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Speaker 1: of guys get paid the big money when they you know,

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Speaker 1: pass rush what you know, with I respect, but at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be able to stop the run to get

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Speaker 1: to the pass rush. And I think that's what a

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Speaker 1: lot of people overlook. You know, Uh, I've been consistent

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Speaker 1: playing to run throughout my eight years in the lead,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like I'm still in my prime, so

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Speaker 1: I feel like I want to be rewarded like that also,

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Speaker 1: so uh you know, yeah, it's frustrated, but uh, like

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Speaker 1: I say, I'm gonna Letdrew handle it. I think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna have my best interest and uh yeah, any other No,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited at those I'm excited at all those guys. I'm

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Speaker 1: not jealous none of those guys. Of course, you want

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Speaker 1: to get paid too, but I'm excited that those guys

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Speaker 1: deserve it. Uh, you know, never gonna You're never never

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Speaker 1: gonna be jealous of my team makes my brothers who

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Speaker 1: I go to Walwood each and every day on the

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Speaker 1: field and off the field. So you know, I'm excited

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Speaker 1: for those guys. But you know, at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, you know I'm playing on you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: no guarantees, you know. Uh, so I want some you know,

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Speaker 1: some stability, you know, just like asking you to go

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Speaker 1: out there and do something, you know, and you're not

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Speaker 1: guaranteed you're gonna get paid, you know. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I know I'm made the roster. I've never heard about that.

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Speaker 1: But uh, at the end of the day, I just

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Speaker 1: I just wanna I just want to feel some love.

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Speaker 1: To put an optimistic guy. Yeah, I love playing everything

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Speaker 1: optimistic that you're gonna get a deal done here. I

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Speaker 1: be a patriot. I think Joe I would love to

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Speaker 1: retire here. I got I got a lot more years

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Speaker 1: of me. I'm twenty nine. In this system, I feel

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Speaker 1: like I can play a long time. You know, obviously

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Speaker 1: Ben's played a long time. I feel like I can

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Speaker 1: play just as long as him, even longer. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm healthy. I've been available every game my

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Speaker 1: last three years here. Uh you know, with my position

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Speaker 1: that I played, Nocacer don't get a lot of recognition

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Speaker 1: to take up all the blocks and everybody else get

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Speaker 1: the glorify, everybody else get the stats. But the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, it starts at It starts at a foundation.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like in this defense is three four defense,

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Speaker 1: it starts with the nocacle. Especially when you talk about

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Speaker 1: run game, it starts with the nocacle. I mean guys

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Speaker 1: like Bevins can, guys like Bens can elaborate off that.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I just I just want some respect. But

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Speaker 1: like I said, I trust Gee Rosenhaus he's gonna do

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Speaker 1: what's best for me, and uh, hopefully we get to

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Speaker 1: do it done so we can get going. Also true,

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Speaker 1: I mean, hey, this is a business man. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, they can say they

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Speaker 1: want us, but then of the day, it's a business.

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Speaker 1: You know. I just saw a lot of teams where

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Speaker 1: they said, yeah, he's our guy, but the next day

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Speaker 1: he's traded, you know. So it's a business. You know,

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Speaker 1: whatever best for me. You know, if I would love

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Speaker 1: to be here, I would love to retire here. Uh.

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Speaker 1: My family loves to hear so I mean, we'll see

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Speaker 1: it's football heaven here, you know. Uh, the greatest all

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Speaker 1: time play here. So I would love to be here.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's a business.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we can get some done so I can say

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Speaker 1: here conversation, it's been a lot of negotiation. It's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of you know, back and forth. But you

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Speaker 1: know we're not you know, just not even ground right now.

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Speaker 1: You know, hopefully we can get some you know, some done. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but it's been definitely negotiations has been definitely a lot

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Speaker 1: of black and back and forth. Definitely hasn't been a

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Speaker 1: stand still process. Uh, but you know, we just you know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we can get some desk. You know, meet both

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Speaker 1: our criteria, and you know we both we both are happy.

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Speaker 1: Last one, guys, what is some of that criteria specifically?

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Speaker 1: I mean, basically, I look at a guy like Grover Stewart,

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Speaker 1: I look at a guy like Davin Thompson, I look

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Speaker 1: at a guy like All those guys are run players.

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Speaker 1: The run market has went up to uh, not just

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Speaker 1: the past rush market. Grover still don't play third down,

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Speaker 1: he come out, the forest boocaneer in there, Darlin Thompson

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Speaker 1: don't play third down, he come out. And all those

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Speaker 1: guys are you know, those guys are paid, you know,

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Speaker 1: paid the price range. So I'm not gonna call out

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Speaker 1: a number, you know, but those guys are paying the

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Speaker 1: price run. I just I just really want some respect, uh.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I have no doubt that uh that

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Speaker 1: the Patriots that Drew will get a deal done. I

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Speaker 1: have no doubt in it. And I'm not you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a business. It's you know, I'm not gonna be sad.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be angry. It's business. I still love them,

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Speaker 1: you know, but and you just gotta do his best

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Speaker 1: with me, appreciated. Thank you guys,