1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: I'll never forget getting cut by the Rams, and like 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: the last two years, like the team moves, you know. 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: I can remember the last night at the Dome. It 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: was the weirdest thing in the world. You're like, I'm 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: getting cut in a couple of weeks. I've been here 6 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 1: eight years. We're never going to win, you know, I'm 7 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: gonna leave an embarrassment. I came in, you know, my 8 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: first year, I'm a bus My eighth year, I'm always hurt, 9 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: you know. And I thought my career was over at 10 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: that point too. And funny, I talk about the Pats 11 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: game and thinking I was done. But I owe a 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: lot to Bill, to Bill Belichick for giving me a 13 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: shot because I did not want to go play for 14 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: any old team in twenty sixteen. I wanted to win, 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: you know, like otherwise I wouldn't have kept playing and 16 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: a place to build good memories. Yeah, like, yeah, see 17 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: what that's like. Yeah, And so I'll never forget. We 18 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: just had our first one whaling and I'm in the hospital. 19 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm kind of feeling sorry for myself, even though the 20 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: babies here, I'm just still just dwelling on all this shit. 21 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: I go to Harris here to grab a six or whatever, 22 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: and my phone rings and I'm like, fuck, I better 23 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: pick it up, and I like go to the front 24 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: of the aisle where the service is decent, and it's 25 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 1: like gross Bill Belichick, you know, in his voice, and 26 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: I'm like whoa, whoa, And I'll just never forget, Like 27 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: just the call he took a guy who was like 28 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: really downtrod and probably ready to quit, and I was like, 29 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: I have no information on what it's going to be 30 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: up there, but I'm ready to go, you know. And 31 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: had he not called, and he said on the phone, 32 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: he was like, hey man, you're a hell of a player. 33 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what we're gonna do with you, Like 34 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: I don't know where you're gonna fit, but I'm gonna 35 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: find a fit. And that leap of faith on my 36 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,839 Speaker 1: end and the leap of faith on his end, which 37 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: he takes them all the time. This is been't a 38 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:46,960 Speaker 1: big deal for him, but it was the biggest deal 39 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: in the world for me. And if it weren't for that, 40 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: I probably would have broke. So some of it's me 41 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: pushing through. We had a picture in our d line room. 42 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: Mike Waffle was our d line coach. He was the 43 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: coach for the Giants, Old marine, fucking intense cat But 44 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: we had this great room, Aaron Donald, Me, Robert Quinn, 45 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: you know, like William Hayes, Nick Fairley, Kenna Lang for 46 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: like all first rounders, but we never had success as 47 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 1: a team. And we had this picture on the wall 48 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: and I think this is true in life and it's 49 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 1: true in football. There's this diagram of these two guys 50 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: with pickaxes and they're like diamond mining. I'm pretty sure 51 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: you've seen this. And one of the guys is walking 52 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: right to left, back towards the entrance to the cave 53 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: with his pickaxe over his shoulder and he's dejected, sweating. 54 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: On the other side of that wall to the right 55 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: where he's walking away from, there's a huge diamond, like 56 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: six inches through that wall, and there's another dude on 57 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: the bottom and he's just hammering away and it's just 58 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: it's a very simple thing, but so many people give 59 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: up before they get to realize what they've been working 60 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: for this whole time. And for me, that was a 61 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: very clean incident that illustrates just that is like I 62 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: was this close to saying, hey, fuck this, and who 63 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: knows what I'm doing right now, but my life is 64 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: a lot better for having just just wake up one 65 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: more day, you know, just just put your shoes on 66 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: one more day. Just keep fucking walking, dude. You know 67 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be a sprint, but just walk. 68 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: And if you keep walking, eventually you get a break. 69 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: And that was for me, Bill calling me in a haristeater. 70 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: I love that, dude. That is great.