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Speaker 1: Thanks Jay, what's happening? Hey? Doing good? How you guys going? Dude?
Speaker 1: I asked Sheldon richardson this after the game? What happened
Speaker 1: at halftime? You guys were a different team after intermission. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Toll talked to us a little bit. We
Speaker 1: knew we weren't paying up to our standards. We used
Speaker 1: to turning the ball over and not turning the ball over,
Speaker 1: and that's something we didn't do in the first half,
Speaker 1: and you know, guys were disappointed. Uh, you left the
Speaker 1: game in the veteran's hands. Where a veterans head, he said,
Speaker 1: team and guys who started decided to go out there
Speaker 1: and make plays. Man that's all it all came down to.
Speaker 1: You know. It's interesting. Tom Bowls has been talking about
Speaker 1: you all season and he's been talking about how you've
Speaker 1: been playing on both sides of the line. You've been
Speaker 1: playing different positions, and I know you love doing that
Speaker 1: because it shows off your versatility. But as you as
Speaker 1: you found out that your role was going to change
Speaker 1: a little bit, how exciting was that? What was the
Speaker 1: challenge and learning the different roles in different schemes that
Speaker 1: you have with top Bowls now, I mean it was
Speaker 1: really exciting. I probably myself on being a versatile defferensive lineman,
Speaker 1: being able to play alongside the whole line. And uh,
Speaker 1: he pulled me in his office before camp and told
Speaker 1: me that they're gonna move me around a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I was excited. Man. That's that's why I love
Speaker 1: to do. I like to be in multiple positions. I
Speaker 1: think the unique thing about our defense is that we
Speaker 1: have so many versus tile. I let it guys that
Speaker 1: you can were interchangeable and so it's hard to tell
Speaker 1: where somebody's gonna line up at any different given time.
Speaker 1: I think you might have surprised the Redskins there early
Speaker 1: on in the game with how many of four men
Speaker 1: of affronts you guys employed? Uh, how excited do you
Speaker 1: get during the week to see the game plans that
Speaker 1: these guys are coming up with. And um, speaking of
Speaker 1: of both Todd Bowls and Casey Rodgers, Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: never the same. I think a lot of people were
Speaker 1: saying after the coach game they were so surprised that
Speaker 1: we were lining up in four three a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: last week we did a little bit more three four,
Speaker 1: and then this week more again of the four three.
Speaker 1: The thing is, it's just fun with his defense. You
Speaker 1: never know what the defensive scheme is gonna be the
Speaker 1: weekend and week out, And I think that's a great
Speaker 1: thing for us because it's hard for officer teams. The
Speaker 1: key on us is what's also has gotta be fun
Speaker 1: is that your ability to rush the passer with your
Speaker 1: other guys along that line. Mohammad Wilkerson, they got shown
Speaker 1: richardson back. Uh, you know those guys and you getting
Speaker 1: a chance to rush the quarterback, which is what defensive
Speaker 1: lineman just love to do. Pressure on that. Just your
Speaker 1: thoughts about the different angles in the different schemes that
Speaker 1: you can do that with. Yeah. The thing is we
Speaker 1: have so many different guys I can play, um one time,
Speaker 1: it could be me Leo Moor shouting out there. It
Speaker 1: could be me snacks Sheldon or bowling out there. I
Speaker 1: mean the thing is, like I said, we're so versatile
Speaker 1: that it's a great thing for Our defensive line is
Speaker 1: the deepest defensive line I've been on, and we enjoy
Speaker 1: getting after the quarterback. I think it's a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know if we challenge each other more than
Speaker 1: probably offensive lines or other teams challenge does. Um. We're
Speaker 1: always at each other's neck, like I ain't heard your
Speaker 1: name and I know while you're gonna make a play today,
Speaker 1: like what you're doing. So that's a great thing about
Speaker 1: our defensive line. We're very competitive. How emotional was that
Speaker 1: do you think for Sheldon getting back there with you
Speaker 1: guys on the field. Oh, that's great. Anytime he's out
Speaker 1: on the field, you just feel the energy. The guy
Speaker 1: plays with a high motor. He has a lot of energy.
Speaker 1: He's always smiling and having a good time. So it
Speaker 1: was great to have him back in the fold and
Speaker 1: to get out there and get that continuity back with him,
Speaker 1: you know, It was just as Eric and I was
Speaker 1: talking about. It was just such a difference in that
Speaker 1: second half. But I want to go back to the
Speaker 1: first half and just how you guys were able to
Speaker 1: minimize the damage even though you had to turnovers except
Speaker 1: for one opportunity you kept watching the audiend Jones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we pride ourselves on being able to stop them wherever
Speaker 1: they get the ball, and that's something we emphasized all
Speaker 1: week go on. No matter where they office gets the ball,
Speaker 1: our jobbers to protect that goal line and hold them
Speaker 1: to you know, field goal to temps if offense does
Speaker 1: happen to turn the ball over. You know, we actually
Speaker 1: gave up one touchdown earlier. We were mad about that,
Speaker 1: and we're actually able to hold them to you know,
Speaker 1: to field goal to Temps. I mean the guy I
Speaker 1: think made with a fifty four yard field go So,
Speaker 1: I mean we did a good job there, but we
Speaker 1: would like to get that that one drive back if
Speaker 1: we could, and not give up seven and hold them
Speaker 1: the three. When you guys are on then and you're
Speaker 1: preparing uh for your next series out there, are you
Speaker 1: able to enjoy what's happening offensively right now with Chris
Speaker 1: Ivory and Brandon Marshall taking over games. Well, not right away,
Speaker 1: because of course, when you come out the field, you
Speaker 1: gotta do adjustments and see what you know the offense
Speaker 1: was giving you and what looks we had. That way
Speaker 1: we can moving forward, you know, make adjustments on the run.
Speaker 1: You know, after a while the offense is driving for
Speaker 1: a little bit. Then we get to actually sit back,
Speaker 1: relaxing and actually look at the jumbo trying to see
Speaker 1: Chris Ivory running guys over, Brandon making spectacular catches. But
Speaker 1: right when we come up the field, we don't we
Speaker 1: don't get to really get to watch the offense. This
Speaker 1: locker room seems special. This locker room, the guys, they
Speaker 1: just seemed to like each other. They seem to get
Speaker 1: along and listen, that's not easy with the big locker
Speaker 1: room where guys you don't get on each other's nerves
Speaker 1: and stuff like that during the season. Is that what
Speaker 1: makes it that way? Why is it just like such
Speaker 1: a good camaraderie in that. I just think it's a
Speaker 1: mutual respect that the guys have for each other in
Speaker 1: the locker room. Another thing is, in the past we've
Speaker 1: had younger teams. This team is really veteran heavy set.
Speaker 1: I think I have a lot to do with it.
Speaker 1: You know, Todd already said he was gonna give the
Speaker 1: veterans the locker room, and I think everybody is taking
Speaker 1: his cue from that and everybody. You know, if everybody
Speaker 1: doesn't like each other, we all respect each other and
Speaker 1: we love playing with each other. So I think you
Speaker 1: can see that on the field when we go out
Speaker 1: there on Sundays. You know the guys that you're living right,
Speaker 1: he has your back no matter what. I know you
Speaker 1: have a lot of leaders in that locker room, and
Speaker 1: I'm around there every day. Who do you point to
Speaker 1: and say, hey, those guys are kinda the people we
Speaker 1: look up to around here to set the tone. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean there's so many. There's so many veterans. I
Speaker 1: would say vas Brandon Marshall, fits Crow, I tried to
Speaker 1: be a guy myself, Um, David Harris, definitely, Calvin Pace
Speaker 1: and so many veteran guys, Willie Cologne, um, the britishall Mango.
Speaker 1: So many guys that you can feed off, Guys that
Speaker 1: you can look up to when you if you're a
Speaker 1: younger guy to follow around in the locker room. Communication
Speaker 1: is always something you guys talk about week after week
Speaker 1: after week after week. How is that communication? How much
Speaker 1: better hasn't gotten and what's the challenge to keep it
Speaker 1: at that level? Yeah? I think we've taken numerous steps
Speaker 1: since the beginning of O t a s and training camp.
Speaker 1: You know, when you learn a new defenses, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some wrinkles that guys aren't used to and communication
Speaker 1: is key and that's something we've talked about. Like I said,
Speaker 1: since O t A's offseason workouts camp and our communication,
Speaker 1: I feel it's gotten better and better as the week
Speaker 1: gone on. We still haven't. I don't think we've gotten
Speaker 1: to the peak where we need to be, but it's
Speaker 1: it's night and day from when we first started learning
Speaker 1: a new defense. What are you most proud of? Your
Speaker 1: number one in red zone defense, number two and takeaways
Speaker 1: with number one in overall defense, number one in points allowed,
Speaker 1: what are you most proud of? Uh, that's a hard
Speaker 1: one to us. We've really emphasized takeaway, So it would
Speaker 1: have to be a top between takeaway and points allowed,
Speaker 1: because if you hold an opponents a low points then
Speaker 1: you're gonna most likely win the game. But if you're
Speaker 1: you know, plus three in the takeaway category, you have
Speaker 1: chance to win the game. So I think those two
Speaker 1: would be at the top of my list. Do you
Speaker 1: think it was gonna all come together so quickly? Because
Speaker 1: there were a number of pieces added here this offseason,
Speaker 1: whether they're veterans or not. As Antonio Camardi sends us
Speaker 1: some messages out there, I'm not really surprised the veterans
Speaker 1: that we got brought in. There were guys that are smart,
Speaker 1: they can think, guys that have been on winning teams.
Speaker 1: You know, we brought crow back, Rivers back, Brandon Marshalls
Speaker 1: played at the top of this league. The one of
Speaker 1: the top receivers for the longest fits is a guy
Speaker 1: that's played a lot of years in this league. So
Speaker 1: I'm not really too surprised that the communication factor came
Speaker 1: in as quickly as it did, just because of the
Speaker 1: pieces that we brought in. Eric mentioned Christopher christ Ivery earlier.
Speaker 1: You go against this offensive line every day. What's the
Speaker 1: difference in this line this year from previous years? They
Speaker 1: just seem to be more physical more what's the difference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's just the scheme that we put in
Speaker 1: this year, and I think it's suited better for Chris
Speaker 1: Ivory as far as downhill counters powers. It's a more
Speaker 1: physical brand of football, and guys like Willie Colonne are
Speaker 1: built for that. Um, guys like Brno Jacomini built for
Speaker 1: stuff like that. You know, we got winners that's been playing.
Speaker 1: He's built for something like that, a physical run game,
Speaker 1: not so much far, not so much zone schemes and
Speaker 1: and everything like that. It's it's we're we're right here,
Speaker 1: we're lining up, we're gonna run power stop us. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get four yards four yards, and we're gonna pop
Speaker 1: one for twenty something yards. And I think those guys, uh,
Speaker 1: they love that. I mean on run days, those guys
Speaker 1: are juice up man that they love to get after it.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's just I'm I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: everybody is getting to see Chris Ivory nationwide. The guys,
Speaker 1: to me has been one of the best running backs
Speaker 1: in the league. He's quiet guys with a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know about him. But it's it's just good
Speaker 1: that he's finally getting a little bit recognition because he
Speaker 1: deserves it. U leg you know what this week is
Speaker 1: gonna be like obviously a New York team, the Jets
Speaker 1: going to play the Patriots, agreeing to white four and
Speaker 1: one so far this season of the funding Super Bowl
Speaker 1: champions five and old. But I love the approach your
Speaker 1: head coach is taken and you guys have followed suit.
Speaker 1: What do you think about what Todd said today? Winning
Speaker 1: isn't going to make us, Losing isn't going to break
Speaker 1: us exactly. I mean I would say in past that
Speaker 1: we've got wrapped up into this game. Everybody knows the
Speaker 1: why people we have with those guys. Um that dislike
Speaker 1: we might have for those guys, but Todds had it best.
Speaker 1: It's it's the next game. This is round six for us.
Speaker 1: We're just trying to stack wins right now. That's where
Speaker 1: it comes down to. Um, it'll be great, you know,
Speaker 1: to get this division win, But like you said, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna ruin our season. It's not gonna make our season.
Speaker 1: We win this, We're not like, oh we're going to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. We lose this, We're not gonna drop
Speaker 1: our heads and be like we're not going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So I think it's just the next game. And you know,
Speaker 1: they're a good team. We're a good team and it
Speaker 1: should be fly on Sunday. They're not going to show
Speaker 1: you anything you haven't seen, right, You've seen You've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of them over the years. Is there a
Speaker 1: danger of trying to outthink them in the sense of, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what they normally do, so if they do this,
Speaker 1: we know we should do something like that because it's
Speaker 1: such a on the point that you see so often.
Speaker 1: I think that's what a lot of people do when
Speaker 1: they play them too. They tend to overthink it. I mean,
Speaker 1: we know that Gronk is gonna get his plays. You
Speaker 1: know they have a good running back in Lewis. This
Speaker 1: year he was playing outstanding Um al Mondola, Amadola and
Speaker 1: Aldam and a Growth both great receivers. Um, you just
Speaker 1: can't overthink it. Usually I go out there and play football.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been playing this game your whole life.
Speaker 1: You know what to do once you get on that field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's such a healthy respect there. Uh. But I really
Speaker 1: liked Larry what I heard out of these guys in
Speaker 1: the locker room today and what leg is telling us
Speaker 1: right now, and Antonio Cormari is gonna follow up with it.
Speaker 1: In a few moments. As the general feeling is from
Speaker 1: Eric Decker said today, we haven't played a complete game yet,
Speaker 1: and we have a lot of corrections to make. Offensively.
Speaker 1: You can point to the turnover special teams wise unfortunately,
Speaker 1: uh give up a touchdown late on the block punt.
Speaker 1: There are areas where this team can say, hey, we
Speaker 1: can improve. Exactly what Decker said, we haven't played a
Speaker 1: complete game yet, so it's scary to think that would. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're not having playing a complete game yet. We're four
Speaker 1: and one still, you know, so like the sky's a
Speaker 1: limit for this team. We still got a long way
Speaker 1: to go. We're just, like I said, we're just trying
Speaker 1: to stack wins right now. And that's what's the most
Speaker 1: important thing. Now that you were at the NFL boot
Speaker 1: camp broadcasting, does that change how you see the media
Speaker 1: since you're kind of going to be on the other
Speaker 1: side of it, How does that change? Do you appreciate
Speaker 1: more of what the media does and and and have
Speaker 1: got the better understanding of it? Definitely have more of
Speaker 1: appreciation of what you guys do day in and day out.
Speaker 1: I mean we went me and Crow actually went to
Speaker 1: the broadcast boot camp together and literally man fifteen hour
Speaker 1: days just research, research, research, research, research, research, and remembering
Speaker 1: statistics and and knowing what your next bullet point is
Speaker 1: gonna be is. It was an amazing experience. I think
Speaker 1: anybody trying to get into broadcasting, journalism or anything should
Speaker 1: definitely do it. Are the former players out there that
Speaker 1: you watch broadcasting right now and say, hey, they're doing
Speaker 1: a really good job. And even if they didn't play
Speaker 1: there at the Pinnacle, they're very good in this profession. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's actually a couple of guys I try to watch. Um,
Speaker 1: I think my guy that I that I try to
Speaker 1: watch this. You know, Chris Carter has done it pretty
Speaker 1: on a high level for the last couple of years. Um,
Speaker 1: a guy that didn't play football. It was a great
Speaker 1: rest in peace. Stewart Scott was a guy he used
Speaker 1: to watch day in and day out. The guy was
Speaker 1: amazing at what he did. And uh, you know, James
Speaker 1: Brown is a host, but he's also another guy while
Speaker 1: he's an amazing guy. Yes, Stuart Scott, god rust the
Speaker 1: Soul was a guy who was able to combine the
Speaker 1: information with entertainment exactly so you weren't bored by sitting
Speaker 1: that throwing numbers at you because he presented the numbers
Speaker 1: in such a way that it was like wow, really exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he made it fun for everybody to watch, you know,
Speaker 1: just highlights. You know, some people, you know, get bored
Speaker 1: after watching the same thing over and over game, but
Speaker 1: he made it so fun and exciting. It was like
Speaker 1: watching a drama TV show. So so yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: rest in pieces stories guy, but he was. He was
Speaker 1: one of the best that ever did it. Um On
Speaker 1: the bye week you got a chance to go home
Speaker 1: to Florida. You had your number retired at your high school.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us about that experience. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a great experience. I was able to go home last
Speaker 1: weekend for the weekend before to get my high school
Speaker 1: jersey retired. Actually happened to be our high school's homecoming
Speaker 1: that week too, so it was a really big event.
Speaker 1: And it was a blessing just to have all my friends,
Speaker 1: old friends from from college and high school come down
Speaker 1: and some of my family members came in town, and
Speaker 1: it was just a blessing. Man up a little bit
Speaker 1: Alonzo High School in Tampa, Florida. Alonzo High School down
Speaker 1: in Tampa, Florida and Uh, that was young school when
Speaker 1: you started the right Definitely my sophomore year and two
Speaker 1: thousand and one was the first year of school is
Speaker 1: ever opened, So I'm officially the first one to have
Speaker 1: my number retired. There says it's a blessing. That's great. Well,
Speaker 1: congratulations on that continued success during the regular season. That's
Speaker 1: what stopping by joining. Thanks for having me again, all right.