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Speaker 1: But you obviously have a ton of passion for the game, Like, so,

428
00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,920
Speaker 1: what what did you think when you saw that from Ray? Like,

429
00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:22,760
Speaker 1: did did any party be like, you know what, I'm

430
00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,440
Speaker 1: kind of the same way as Joe, Like I leave

431
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,280
Speaker 1: my example, you know, I mean, and in his situation

432
00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:32,160
Speaker 1: that I would say, you know you are you're at

433
00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,440
Speaker 1: that level where he was at that they kind of

434
00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:36,879
Speaker 1: put him on the spot and I don't know what

435
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,520
Speaker 1: they asked them before that. I think we're gonna talk

436
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,639
Speaker 1: about it, but you know, just being a Baltimore Raven,

437
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:44,520
Speaker 1: they were gonna they're gonna look at him saying that

438
00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,520
Speaker 1: a whole different way. That was some other Joe smoke

439
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,280
Speaker 1: there would have nobody else would have cared or whatever.

440
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:50,960
Speaker 1: He don't know what you're talking about, but you know,

441
00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,200
Speaker 1: just for the people of Baltimore here come from his mouth.

442
00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:56,800
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure a lot of people probably believe it.

443
00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,440
Speaker 1: But you know, him being on the team and that's

444
00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,240
Speaker 1: been around, we both know that, Like that's obviously not

445
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,560
Speaker 1: the case. So I mean, sometimes you make mistakes and

446
00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:06,640
Speaker 1: being a lot of TV definitely can't take it back.

447
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 1: So I mean, he apologized and at the end of

448
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,280
Speaker 1: the day, it's not. It's like it's like pretty much

449
00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:13,480
Speaker 1: somebody else saying saying something that we don't care about.

450
00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,480
Speaker 1: So it's a good thing you didn't say on Sports

451
00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:20,639
Speaker 1: Center now making mistakes like that, that's the NIXT saving

452
00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,600
Speaker 1: media training right there, all positive stuff. I remember when

453
00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 1: we had Siss on the podcast, right and we he's

454
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 1: a big Star Wars fan, that's I'm sure you know.

455
00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,600
Speaker 1: And so we had him like, say, all right, who

456
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,240
Speaker 1: is Yodo on the team? Who is Luke skyri great?

457
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 1: And he said you're Luke. You're Luke Skywalker to him

458
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,159
Speaker 1: on the Ravens. What does that mean to you? I

459
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:47,840
Speaker 1: love expecting that. Well, I guess I guess that kind

460
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,399
Speaker 1: of I can understand that a little bit. You know,

461
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:51,960
Speaker 1: he's a he's definitely the main person. He's a leader,

462
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 1: but you don't see him going out, no waving flags,

463
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,680
Speaker 1: getting that by the routed up. But when it's Tom,

464
00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:01,080
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't want to call. So I guess,

465
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 1: I guess in the sense that makes sense. But I

466
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 1: appreciate the shout out done trill you mantioned tro It's

467
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,480
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool because he's sort of the last

468
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 1: and he talked about he's sort of like the last

469
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,879
Speaker 1: remaining guy of those old school Ravens defense is how

470
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 1: have you seen him sort of trying to pass the

471
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 1: torch to a player like you? Uh well, the biggest

472
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,120
Speaker 1: thing that I guess helped him get through that over

473
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 1: that hump had been the last one, is he accepted it.

474
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 1: You know. Um well, last year he couldn't really couldn't

475
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 1: really do not because the entry. But you know, this

476
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,440
Speaker 1: year he pretty much told that the whole deferently, like

477
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 1: I'm the last one. That's like a y'all show now,

478
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 1: So I mean the first thing that comes with, you know,

479
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,360
Speaker 1: bat the leader, accepting, accepting that that new role, accepting

480
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,520
Speaker 1: who you are now. But he still make the seals

481
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,639
Speaker 1: of plays. He's still a great impact on defense as

482
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 1: you can see. But you know, he's definitely not the

483
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 1: play he was that long time ago or had that

484
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 1: same defense. It's a different different NFL, different mentality like

485
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 1: footing not for the most part, but you know, far

486
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 1: as the way we the way we came up stuff,

487
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,879
Speaker 1: the way we play our defense. It's not all about

488
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 1: being big and down here and smack and people, even

489
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,959
Speaker 1: though it's kind of still that's a lot more fin

490
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,399
Speaker 1: this now, you know, so he definitely adapted to that

491
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,120
Speaker 1: new game, and you know, he changes his body type

492
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 1: and he's definitely making play. So, um, that's that's a

493
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 1: party better leader to you know, accepting stepping that new

494
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 1: role and septing that you know that you want the

495
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,160
Speaker 1: last grace of the Baltimore Defense. But you you still

496
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 1: got the Yabos looking up to you to carry on

497
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 1: that torch. So you're sort of right in the middle.

498
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: You know, you're not a young guy in the says that.

499
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 1: You know, you're in your third year. Now, you're you're

500
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: the center of that. You view yourself as the next

501
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 1: great face of the Ravens defense, even though you are

502
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 1: kind of already are in that position right now. Oh yeah,

503
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 1: I guess you can say that because you know, like

504
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,080
Speaker 1: I said, my rookie year, it was still still a

505
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: lot of those players still on defense. Um so, um,

506
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,640
Speaker 1: I guess you gotta keep it going once once he leaves,

507
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 1: I guess I'd be one of the oldest players on

508
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 1: the defense now. Besides, you know, beside some of the events,

509
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 1: I know and I love back a room, besides Albert

510
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 1: um me and Zach, we're the oldest ones. And we've

511
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,200
Speaker 1: been at three years. So yeah, I mean, we just

512
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,400
Speaker 1: gotta we know, we know, and whoever comes to bought

513
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 1: someone knows the history of the defense. So um, it's

514
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 1: our job to make sure we're making on and keeping on,

515
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 1: and it's everybody else job to you know, put in

516
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: the work to make sure we that this defense stays

517
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,399
Speaker 1: stays away. It's been over the past decade. Do you

518
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: think this is going to be the place where like

519
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 1: a sizzle, you know that you stay for ten plus years.

520
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't plan on going anywhere else to

521
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: hear that, So yeah, I mean you always want to

522
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: like with me, I'm not. I haven't been that. I

523
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: haven't been in any kind of situation where it's been

524
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: a bunch of movement, a bunch of changes. So I

525
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 1: just feel like now I was here, I'm here for

526
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: a reason. I went to Alabama for a reason, you know,

527
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: I know, switching schools and all this other stuff. So

528
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't plan on going anywhere else, and

529
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: I want to be a part of a great defense.

530
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: And how like that legacy where I stayed in one

531
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:51,199
Speaker 1: place and I just made my home earlier this year,

532
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson, head coach of the Browns. You said that

533
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 1: you might be one of the best players in the league.

534
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 1: You know, that's high praise coming from an opposing coach

535
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 1: when you hear that. What does that mean to you?

536
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: What it means a lot, especially coming from a head

537
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 1: coach that seeing a lot of players come and go

538
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: and coach a lot of great players. Um, you know

539
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: he's trying to recruiture the Browns first. Yeah, you gotta

540
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: see through it. But you know, go ahead to answer question. Yeah,

541
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, great coach. All we respected, especially playing against

542
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: some in Cincinnati. Know, he had the office rolling and

543
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: and good things. You know, he always saw we always

544
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: matched up agains him every year or twice a year,

545
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: so you kind of saw like what we what we

546
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: did and how we plays. I mean just you know,

547
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 1: just mean a lot when you hear a head coach,

548
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: especially one of your folks, to give you that kind

549
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: of compliment. All right, So we've given you all the

550
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: compliments and all this stuff. So but we got to

551
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: ask you the question here. We're we're hard nos journalists

552
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 1: around here, so we got to ask a tough questions.

553
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes Reds kids play the fumble, the pick, the nice pick,

554
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: he's pick and then the fumble right, and not only

555
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: everybody knows obviously that's brutal, you also got your hamstring

556
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: on the same thing that ain't play. How brutal was

557
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: that mentally to get over for you? Well, honestly, I

558
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 1: knew I messed up, so I let the ball go

559
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: because that came over there helped me up. And it

560
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,360
Speaker 1: was like like he thought I was no. He saw

561
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: always hurt like man, okay, I just looked out like man,

562
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: I think I let the ball go like I like,

563
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: actually a thought I caught it and stiffed on the receiver.

564
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: That's when I pulled it. So like I was running,

565
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: I was like trying to run the fast as I

566
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: could and get to the end zone. So I thought

567
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: I dove and you know all this other stuff that

568
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: I saw to replay and thought it might have got

569
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:40,479
Speaker 1: a foot out. But yeah, so that you were injured

570
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: on that run, I was thinking at the very end

571
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: when you had when you try to reach the davy,

572
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: everything just popped. So yeah, as I was running, it

573
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: pulled as I was running, So I was just and

574
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: I was just trying to get there. So what's the

575
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: emotion that play? Because It's like you catch it and

576
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: it's a defensive player. You see green, and you see

577
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: an end zone and you're like, all right, here we go. Baby.

578
00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: You think about that dance. I just knew I was there.

579
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,120
Speaker 1: I just for the potline. I just let it go home. Yeah,

580
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: I don't know why may if I had on my

581
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 1: left hand since I'm left handed, you're left handed, didn't know.

582
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 1: That's another wrinkle to the story. So going up to

583
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: New England to play this week, uh tied for the

584
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 1: best record in the ANFC. Obviously, this is your second

585
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: trip to Fox Broke Right. What are your thoughts about

586
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: going up there from Mont football? It's very exciting, big stage.

587
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 1: A lot of players make their names on on a

588
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: game like this, in a situation like this, and you know,

589
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: everybody obviously know the robbery between those two teams. So

590
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: you know, whether we were to lose depending on how

591
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: we you know, hell arrested. These last four games. We

592
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: can probably see them again in the playoffs. So you know,

593
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 1: we got we got one job. You're not gonna make

594
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: this game bigger than what it is, especially at a

595
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: defense standpoint. We gotta do what we've been doing all years.

596
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: Stop the run and defend the past and costs turnovers,

597
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: and we know what, Tom Brady, he's gonna he's gonna

598
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,239
Speaker 1: make his checks. He's gonna, you know, do all these

599
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 1: things to get his guy's a right position. At the

600
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: end of the day, we get pressure on over. You know,

601
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna going to just be another quarterback for us,

602
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 1: because you you can't really be a great quarterback if

603
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: you off the pocket on your back. Right. You talked

604
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: earlier about loving to go on the road and play

605
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: in those atmospheres. I feel like that's some mentality that

606
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: this entire defense has, you know, Sizzle certainly somebody that

607
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: embraces that. I feel like there's a lot of guys

608
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: on the scene that they do. How do you avoid

609
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: going and playing something somewhere in a tough environment like

610
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 1: this and being afraid Because there's a lot of teams

611
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: that go into Foxboro and they look like they melt

612
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: under those lights, and and this Ravens team never has. Yeah,

613
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: I don't maybe they're not as ready as they should be.

614
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: Made is how doubt that? I really don't know. We

615
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: don't even we don't even think like that going there,

616
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: going anywhere. So that's a tough question with me. That

617
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: an answer you guys, you guys watching the Bag of Tricks.

618
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: We all know the divisional game and watch the film.

619
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: We saw it. We fegged my side similar player. I

620
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: was like, well, I remember that play. It was a

621
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: little set up, a little different, but it was a

622
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: little no, a little a little talks. They threw the

623
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: little double pass. So I mean we can we can

624
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: sit and talk about reminisce about that game, about what

625
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: should have happened rather not. All the way we can

626
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 1: fix that is about going down there and winning Monday. Yeah,

627
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: all right, My last question for you before we let

628
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: you go here, c J. Okay, you can do one

629
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: of these things on Monday football this Monday. Okay. One

630
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:20,239
Speaker 1: sack Tom Brady to intercept Tom Brady. Three huge hit

631
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: forces a fumball on the garret. Point four, meet tom

632
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: Brady's supermodel wife Justell Bunching pre game. Which one are

633
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: you doing? Well? It should have four won't even be

634
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: option that should be down there. One or two? I like,

635
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: actually both a sack in session that that'd be real

636
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: nice sack pick So you hit them, ball pops up

637
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: and you catch it. Well, I don't think that'd be

638
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: would be interception interception. Yeah, there I sat, I sat

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Speaker 1: I like it. Great answer. Well, c J, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. Man. I appreciate that. Man. Thank you. Well,

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Speaker 1: there goes c J. Mosley. Good interview, fun interview. You

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Speaker 1: like Timmy Journe again, who's got that big belly laugh.

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Speaker 1: sympathy laugh some time a time, CJ. C J stares

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