WEBVTT - First Team All-Pro Vikings LB Eric Kendricks Joins The Lights Out Podcast To Discuss His Expanded Role On The Vikings Defense. 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.320 Are you ready for this? Sean Merriman A one of 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.520 hand effect. Boom boom boom, out go the light. This 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:14.560 is Lights Out with Sean Merriman. What's up, guys. We're 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.239 back again with another Lights Out podcast and meet Sean 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.800 Merriman and we're going with the LBS to day the linebackers. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.840 To me, it's I know, everybody talked about the most 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.160 important position on the fields quarterback. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.280 get I get that part, um, but it's it's something 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.080 about a linebacker, especially a linebacker that UH is all 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.640 over the field and sets the tone, um, the energy, 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.160 the anchor of the defense. And we got that today 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.519 with Eric kendricks Man. He's UM just a hell of 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.559 a linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings. And you know, I 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.400 would ask him about a bunch of things because they 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.520 got some new faces in the locker room, obviously Patrick 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.080 Peterson and UM, you know a bunch of new faces 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.680 in the locker room. But for him, you know, he's 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.040 a guy that's a vet and he's known UM and 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.680 he's been the leader and the anchor for that defense 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.400 for some time. So how do you split time with 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.440 the guy like Patrick Peterson who was walking into the 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.720 locker room with the name and the reputation, and um, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.280 let's find out if he's to go to night and 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.840 let's find out what he thinks Patrick Peterson. And this 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.399 upcoming season, I'm probably getting to some NASCAR too, because 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.760 I've seen him at the Fontana races uh this past season. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:25.000 So uh, Eric kendricks Man, let's get into it. Yo. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.400 When would you would you get back for the k 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.920 you just got back? I got back Friday. What would 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.800 you go again? I went to UH, I went to 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.679 South of France, and then I went to Barcelona. If 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.920 anybody asked me, what was my favorite place to go 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.800 to the country in the in the world, South of France, 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.440 you went to like it went like Monico Santrone. Oh. Man. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.760 So the first time I went out there, I went 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.920 to UH. It was a Grand Prix, right, they had 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.120 the Grand Prix out there, and then they had at 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.480 the end of the week they had the World Music Awards. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.520 So I don't know, I don't think they still I 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:00.880 don't I don't know if they're still doing that, and 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.040 not especially because of COVID. But man, when I tell 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.320 you that, I was like at some of these parties 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.840 they had the Jimmy's the Club. Jimmy's out there, they 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.760 had um the billion the Billionaire Club. And so I'm 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.480 out there and I looked at my left and it's 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.200 like Tom Cruise. I looked at my right and I'm 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.359 like for real, and I'm you know, I'm coming from 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.440 I'm need from East coach Man, Like, I'm not. I'm 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.000 not using this type of ship, you know, I'm not. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.000 You know, I mean like Brad Pitt's over in the 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.760 corner when Angela and Joe Lee Paris is DJ, I say, 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.080 what what then? Is what's going on in my life? Yeah? 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.320 Like how how am I in this? In this in 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.200 this space right now? But but but you know, it's crazy, man, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.120 Like they all of them, they knew who I was. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.040 It's the weirdest and I just was coming off the 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:45.880 rookie the year and all the other stuff too. But 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.480 they were all like, you know, football fans. Yeah, I 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:51.520 find that, you know a lot of a lot of 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.000 people you know watch football. For us, it's just kind 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.400 of like, you know, we feel like we're kind of 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.880 small fish sometimes. But the random, most random people you 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.640 know are fans. So when we were at the NASCAR track, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:05.120 which with that what Fontana? Yeah, I got my NASCAR 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.919 my Jeff Gordon all right now see that that's why 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.440 I'm gonna ask you about that. So it's when we're 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.239 talking about other sports or fans who ever know who 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.200 you know, know, football players, did you was you tripping out? 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.919 How many NASCAR fans and people knew who you were? 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.600 Because I've seen people coming up to you left and 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.040 right when we were there. Yeah, definitely, Um, I think that, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.440 you know, especially especially in l A. You know, obviously 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.600 Minnesota is different. I feel like I'm in Minnesota like 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.560 fans approached me often, but when I'm in l A. Uh, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:34.200 it's not really that way. You know. I can kind 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:35.880 of go about my business, to kind of go go 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.080 into the radar and do my thing. But at sporting events, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.440 you know, I definitely noticed that, you know, fans would 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.040 you know, whether I didn't think it was gonna happen 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.480 at the NASCAR event, but it wasn't like that. You know, 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.360 if I'm at a basketball game, you know, maybe you 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.800 know some people will will know, or hockey game, you know, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.760 but NASCAR, I didn't really expect that that. That's what 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:55.760 to That's what got me into the sports. The two 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.360 thousand and eight they had been to come out to 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.040 be the Grand Marshal at the racing Fontana up and 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:02.880 I went up there and I was about to wave 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.200 the flag and they announced my name on the on 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.680 the endcom and the in the place when it's forty 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.960 thifty thousand people out there, place went crazy. I was shocked. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.080 I was like, I went in the shop, bro I 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.039 almost dropped the Dann flag when I was when I 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.120 almost dropped the Dann flag. And so I didn't know 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.159 that NASCAR like the like the correlation between the two fans, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.960 with football fans and NASCAR, it was kind of crazy. No, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.039 it's cool, Man's it's it's sports in general. You know, 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.880 it brings people together. What got you into it? Man? 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.039 Because I knew we talked about you. You know, obviously 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:35.839 you had the love of cars and all that, But 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:40.400 what what got you into like NASCAR and watching that? Honestly, 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.080 Like I used to watch the growing up. My buddy Joey, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.120 he was a big Bobby LOBARTI fan. You know, Tony Stewart, um, 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.160 you know those guys. Uh, But I was always a 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.039 Jeff Gordon fan, you know, growing up, had all the 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.400 had all the little cars and stuff. Um, but you 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.520 know I had hot wheels. I had the hot wheel tracks. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.159 I had r C cars. I would go out on 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.839 the weekends and and build and race our C cars 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:01.359 and break them in and build them again with my 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.560 older brother Chad. So um. You know, ever since a kid, 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.800 I've always wanted a lot of cars. I've always been 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.680 into cars. Um. This past offseason, i started, you know, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.920 working on cars myself. So it's it's always been I've 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.039 always had a love for cars, no doubt. So have 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.200 you have you got into any of the nascars yet, 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.160 like physically got into them yet? No, I haven't. The 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.919 closest I've been to the NASCAR was at that event 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.600 and we were in the garages and stuff like that. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.719 That was like right before lockdown. Um, but uh yeah, 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.680 that was the closest I've been to like getting in one. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.760 It's they're huge NASCAR fans in Minnesota though, like like Mai, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.160 no doubt there's the Minnesota fan base, but just there's 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.200 a loyal there's a loyal fan base. They know they 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.880 know about every type of score, every every every team 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.000 type thing. That's dude, That's why I wanted to ask 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.200 you about that because, don't get me wrong, like when 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.080 I played for the Charges, we had great fans, but 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.440 mostly because we were winning. Were whipping everybody ass, right, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.760 So when it's not hard to come to the game. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.880 We got Ladany and Tom was in the Philip Rivers 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:03.160 and Tonio Gates and you're looking around it's Lorenzo O'Neill. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.200 You know, we got eleven Pro bowlers on the team, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:07.640 so obviously a lot of people will come to the 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.520 come to the game. When I got to Buffalo, I said, okay, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.520 we were like oh and six, oh and seven when 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.200 I got there. When they when I got released and 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.760 waved and I went to Buffalo and the fans were 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.880 like it was thirteen degrees outside and there were no 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.480 shirts going crazy. Yeah, I've never I've never liked until 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.800 this past year when we had COVID. I've never liked 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.279 played in the Minnesota game where it wasn't like sold out, 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.360 was it. It wasn't rowdy like the fan base there 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.960 is crazy and and and uh, you know, like you said, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:37.760 you know we've had some up and down years for sure, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.480 but the fans have always said, you know, you had 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.080 your fair with the fans who kind of go you 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.120 know who, you know, hate on you one time and 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.280 love you the next. But for the most part, it's 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.239 loyal it's loyalty and when you see him in public, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.720 it's all it's all love and and it's it's been 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.040 it's been solid. Man. It's a great fan base. That 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:54.560 that's so when I when I used to walk in 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.120 the streets in Buffalo, it was different when I played 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.800 for the Charges. People would you know in San Diego, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:01.240 when I come up to l A, they will try 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.440 to get pictures and sneaking. I might be at at 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.320 lunch or some with on a day and maybe I 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.080 might be in the corner with the camera trying to 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.160 take pictures. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.960 lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.360 Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:22.679 Radio app search f s R to listen live in Buffalo, Pepe. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.880 They were tapping me up. They just love It's just 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.440 it's just some people will really be like, hey, Kendricks, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.880 I love you, man, Keep doing your thing. You know 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.440 we're behind you. Take care. I don't want to like 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.040 they don't want nothing from me. It's just it's just 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.440 they want to just show me that love, and I 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.800 love that the most interaction that's end up well, that's 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.960 why I end up resigning the Buffalo to be honest, man, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.880 because that that fan base was something that I never 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.000 really got a chance to experience. Like that's a whole 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.200 different type of love out there that that they have, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.480 and you it makes you kind of a way. You 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.559 start to feel. I mean, obviously, you know the sport, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.440 we're all getting paid and stuff like that, but it's 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.840 start to make you feel conducted for them because they 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.360 they're really like rooting for you because they when they 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.000 were born, they put on a Minnesota Vikings beanie and 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.040 you know, like they grew up that's what that's what 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.840 they were doing. No, Yeah, it runs deep and it 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.880 goes for like all the sports teams to not just 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.520 like it doesn't stop in Minnesota, like you know, they 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.320 they're loyal to the city. So so how how was that, man? 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.840 Because you talked about y'all having you know, the up 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.840 and down years, and obviously y'all had like some few 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.800 heartbreaks and stuff like that happened, and then too obviously 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.839 when when my boys step on my turp out there, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:37.480 Stefon Digs was there? Um, how was that? Man? Like? Who? 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.679 Because you guys got some vets out there, right and 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.679 obviously you're you're one of them. Who's the who's the 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.000 vocal guy for you guys? Man Like when everything was 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.320 kind of hitting a fan and wasn't going right, who 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.680 was the who's the vocal guy? At least on the defense? Anyway? Um, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.760 you know, we've I've been around so many guys who 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.800 were just leaders, not just natural leaders. You know. I 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.800 feel like, um, they do a good job of bringing 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.800 those kind of guys in, you know, ever since Griffin, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.640 you know, Lin Vau, Joseph Harrison Smith. Um, I remember 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.440 Terence Newman. You know when I got the first got 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:06.959 to the league. He was one of my locker mats, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.839 like two lockers over. And the knowledge that he shared 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.680 with me, just as far as like watching film and 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.840 just like how he carried himself was huge. You know. Um, 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.000 just being around guys like that, Um, it's it's just 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:19.959 you could you can learn so much from him. But 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.000 also you know, you gotta you gotta start you know, 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.600 as I'm I'm at my seventh year now this, you know, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.640 you gotta start fighting your own way as well. You know, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.160 you gotta you know, different things make you tick than 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.640 than you know the next player. So you gotta start 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.880 knowing your own role within within the things and and 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.720 and doing what you know that you do. Well. You 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.480 know it's crazy, but that you mentioned Newman because well, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.600 how many how many years you played with fifteen sixteen 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:46.360 something like something crazy, thirty thirty four, I don't know. Hey, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.920 let me let me tell you a story about Newman. Okay, 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.160 it was I think it was my second year in 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.640 the league, and we were we were there for offseason 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.840 workouts and everyone we were in the basketball gym. It 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:57.480 was like after the workout, we were all went to 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.240 the gym where we were just playing against each other 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.400 and everyone starts dunking, like everyone starts, you know, one 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.640 person dunce and that's what okay, Now we're like having 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:09.040 a dunk contest. This man, Terence Newman, I don't even 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.440 know how, Like he's older than everybody. Obviously, this man 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.160 was either doing like a three sixty windmill or something crazy, 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.920 and he missed it the first time. But everybody was 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.840 just like whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, like like like calm down, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.280 like we get it, we get it. You got it, 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.000 like you got it, bro, like yo. But see but 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.000 see that's the thing though, Like that's so I always 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.280 trying to figure out like those guys that stay in 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.760 the league that long, like the Charles Woodson's of the world, 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.120 Like like these dudes who stay around thirteen, fourteen, fifteen 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.160 plus years. Right, And you say your lacker was next 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.200 to him. Do you remember like any conversation that you had, 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.520 because I remember talking to Donnielle was you know, Donnielle 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.400 was playing like sixteen seventeen years and I'm like, you know, 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.480 how how do you at this position? Especially? I mean, 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.720 you can do it that while I received you cornerback 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.280 or something like that, but to be playing that long 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.720 as a linebacker, the physicality at all position is different. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.280 Did you get a chance to talk to um, talk 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:03.880 to Newman about any of the stuff and how he 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.240 was able to stay in the league that long? Oh, definitely, Um. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.800 I would say that he was just so smart as 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.200 corner you know, UM, any any position where you have, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.600 you know, you use your intellect more, you know, especially 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.200 you start transitioning into your knowledge of the game. You know, 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.760 your film study that the things you've seen and then 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.200 applying those to the actual games. And just like, let's 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.040 say he gets beat on the route, but he knows 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.320 where that receiver is gonna go, and just having just 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.079 the balls to like undercut it and just meet him 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.240 at the at the at the apex of the route 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.760 like most people would just start start taking the receiver. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.319 And but he was just like, manu it, I know 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.319 exactly where he's going. I'm just gonna meet him there. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.600 And just to see that on film was was just 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.560 mind blowing. But he trusted himself, he trusted his ability, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.360 and you know he did it at a high lovel 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.880 for so many years. Who who who y'all got? Everybody 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.280 got clicks right on the defense like sometimes linebackers go 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.400 hang with the linebackers or you know, dbs gonna hang 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.800 with the dbs. Who Who's like if you had to 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.840 have made three or four guy you around on that 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.360 on that defense most of the time. Man, Because we 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.040 we met meet Sean Phillips and Stephen Cooper were like 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.040 the three students. We always were together. You are you 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.120 around bar like that? Like Anthony, Yeah, I'm around a 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.839 B for sure. You know we went we bet to 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.440 go back from college, and probably Harrison Smith, you know 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.480 for sure. Um, you know I have other buddies you 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.000 know who aren't on the squad right now, that we 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.280 were all kind of close, but I would say those 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.400 three the most for sure. Y'all. Are y'all constantly competing 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.480 because that was those my boys. I love the death. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.880 But we were constantly, man just competing, like all the time. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.679 We if I remember one time I went in and 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.280 Sean Phillips had a sack. The guy was going down, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.160 the quarterbacks going the guy who were playing the quarterbacks 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.560 going down. I got my hand in there, right, and 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.880 so they didn't give me my half a sack. And 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.280 so the next day, like on Monday, I'm calling the league. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:49.800 I had my agent to call the league office, and 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.439 I was pushing for the half of sack and I 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.360 and they gave it to me. I'm talking about sp 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.600 was so sick and he was so piste off. Did 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.640 we split that sack? That was I think I was 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.719 three yea, my third year and I had twelve and 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.400 a half sacks. I got that half of sack because 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.640 I put it in. Do y'all ever have that kind 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.040 of competition going on? Because I always find that most 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.199 most teams, most teams that have that kind of competition 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.000 where you're always trying to compete against each other, ends 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.840 up being the best teams on and off the field. Now, 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.040 you know, I want to say, you know, we all 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.880 kind of play different positions. I don't really rush the 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.120 pastor like that. So like you know, as far as 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.640 getting sacks and arguing and things like that, but as 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.520 far as the standard that we we hold it to 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.840 each other to on the field, like there's been times 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.240 where it gets heated, you know what I mean, it 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.719 gets you know, we we demand a lot of each 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.920 other and and when something's not going right or when 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.520 something's not being communicated or something like that, like we'll 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.520 let each other know right there on the field. And 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.760 no matter how it's communicated, you know, it's not it's 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.160 not really like it's not suercoded in a sense, you 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.280 know what I mean. It's just like this is what's happening, 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.640 Like pick your ship up, like let's go. You know, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.200 maybe you're dinged up and come on, we need you 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.360 like a like suck it up, come on, like that happen. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.199 It happens a lot, and uh, it's it's good being 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.840 around a bunch of guys who are so competitive and 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.800 and have such a high standard because it only elevates 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.880 things like you you know, if I'm like, let's say, 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.840 i'm i'm I'm I'm playing the game and I'm doing 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.720 my assignment. But you know, Anthony or Harry, you know 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.360 they're playing next level. You know they're they're they're they're 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.560 they're killing stuff that you know, they're they're they're they're balling. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.960 It makes me, you know, Okay, you know, I'm not 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.080 doing anything crazy, and I'm not stop trying to do 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.480 anything like I'm not trying to do anything extra, but 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.960 at the same time, like I need a step, I 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.600 need to I need to elevate to where they're at. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.360 So it's it's it's definitely infectious. I would say that's 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.880 a good word. Infectious, No, for sure. And and it shows, man, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.840 because oh you know what they always noticed with you. 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.040 To me, I think you the best cover linebacker. And 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.080 I mean in the in the league, man, I mean, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.040 I think you can run with anybody down the scene backfield. Man. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.200 Every time you look up and if the ball bounce 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.120 up you there, you always round the ball and to 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.680 me that that just shows, you know, and I don't 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.000 know how vocal you are with the guys obviously, you know, 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.840 like I got got got a lot of guys watching. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.120 But for me, that just shows what kind of defense 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.600 y'all have, man, and y'all got a lot of changes 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.960 this year coming up to right. Definitely defense out of 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.120 the ball. Have you have you got a chance to 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.400 to meet everybody or because when they walk in the 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.000 locker room, they already know what you've done, they know 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.080 your body of work. But have you got a chance 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.920 to meet all all the new faces and people to 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.840 come on? Yeah, definitely. You know we were there for 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.960 a few weeks in the spring, but you know, like 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.400 you said, we have a lot of new faces. And 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.120 I was just talking to Digs about this the other 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.040 day and we're working we're working out. You know, it's 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.640 kind of you know, you get you get familiar with 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.360 a lot of people around you in the locker room, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.400 and you know, people know what you're capable of and 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.760 they know what you do. But one thing that I'm 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.520 I'm excited about this year is you know, I'm with 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.320 the I'm with a bunch of new faces who haven't 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.640 really seen how I operate. They haven't really seen me 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.800 in game and game mode, and they haven't really you know, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.800 they don't really know, you know, I got that killing me, 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.160 you know. So it's like I'm anxious to show them 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.480 what I got in me, like improve it on the 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.800 day to day. And UM, I think that's exciting, you know. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.360 I think it's exciting that I get to go out 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.040 and I got to show Patrick Peter said, what kind 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.000 of player I am? You know what I mean? Um, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.240 I think it's exciting, you know that I get this 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.520 opportunity yet again, have you have you got to um 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.000 chance to talk to Patrick yet? Yeah? You know, we 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:07.680 chopped it up in the locker room. He's you know, 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.800 he's go yeah, No, but I know gotistone. I know 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.880 Gotist thrown around like very lightly nowadays. No, man, But 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.000 you're right, though, You're right because you know so many 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.160 people on the goat everybody. But he he is, he 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.240 is that, you know, he's one of the guys may 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:21.960 have been around and been doing it for a long 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.760 period of time. Has he um, because I know sometimes 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.040 where you've already made a name for yourself on another team. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.200 And he walked in the locker room man and kind 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.800 of you know, share some light with with with with 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.120 the younger cast. Is in there or is he you know, 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.120 kind of just meeting everybody and nobody. You guys haven't 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.800 had a crazy team, uh settings just yet. Yeah, I 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.480 think he's taking more of a humble approach. But you 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.000 can tell about his work, I think, you know, and 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.320 what he's kind of done, um thus far. You know 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.800 that he you know what he's kind of about. So 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:51.920 you know, I'm like I said, I'm excited to see 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.240 you know, It's it's different on on Sunday night. It's 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.360 always different. It's always different when the lights come on. Uh. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:58.960 You know, you could you can have all the preseason 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.120 games in the world. You know, you can do this 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.320 and that, and you can have all these great practice reps, 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.760 but you know, it only counts when it's live bullets. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.320 So you know, I'm excited. That's dold Man. And so 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.199 so what else? What else you got going anything coming up? 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.320 Charity events, you know, any businesses you've got coming up? 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.800 And you've been kind of putting your time into, um, yeah, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.400 a little bit, a little bit here and there. I'm 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.920 I'm I'm my business. I've been starting my own business. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.560