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Speaker 1: Welcome to Pittsburgh, and just take me through the process

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Speaker 1: of how you now became a stealer?

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Speaker 2: Was able to you know, hit your agency have the opportunity,

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Speaker 2: and you know what better organization to be a part

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Speaker 2: of than to put that still on you your chest,

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Speaker 2: so you know it w it was kind of a

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Speaker 2: no braining if presented the opportunity. I always wanted to

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Speaker 2: be a stealer. I to be honest, It's it's just

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Speaker 2: a it's just a pleasus to guard cause he put

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Speaker 2: me here at the right time. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm ecstatic about it, uh me and my family and

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Speaker 2: I'm just ready to get to work.

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Speaker 1: Why did you say you always wanted to be a stealer?

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Speaker 2: Just because the foundation that's being laid way before me,

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Speaker 2: Uh like all the uh still a long. I just

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Speaker 2: knew what the pillars of being a stealer was all about,

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Speaker 2: you know, and uh, you know the city of Pittsburgh already,

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Speaker 2: UH always heard like how blue collar was, and that's

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Speaker 2: that's how I always, you know, was raised and uh

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Speaker 2: just hard working. And it was just like man like

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Speaker 2: got the opportunity, it was like a dream come true.

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Speaker 2: So I was ready to just come and be a

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Speaker 2: part of the family.

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Speaker 1: What do you know specifically about this defense that they

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Speaker 1: currently have.

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Speaker 2: Obviously they got a lot of new you know stuff

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Speaker 2: with their defense, but at the same time, just they

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Speaker 2: out there enjoying playing football, you know, they all playing

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Speaker 2: with each other, enjoying doing what they doing. They led, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to come here. First, get my teammates trust,

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Speaker 2: get my coaches trust, do whatever I need to do

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Speaker 2: to get their trust, and then from that standpoint, you know,

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Speaker 2: just earn the right to you know, be a stealer.

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Speaker 1: Take me through what type of linebacker you are that

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Speaker 1: Steelers fans can expect to see.

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Speaker 2: I think they're they can expect the type of linebacker

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Speaker 2: that's gonna do his job. Do it well, do what

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Speaker 2: my coaches aks me to do, through what my team

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Speaker 2: expect me to do. I'm very aggressive. I love to hit,

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Speaker 2: I love to run, I love to cover. I just

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Speaker 2: love to play football. That's what being a Stiller is

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Speaker 2: all about. You got guys out there that love playing

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Speaker 2: for each other, love playing for the city of Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 2: you know. So it's just like it's no better feelings.

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Speaker 2: So what you're getting out of me it's a guy

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Speaker 2: that's ready to adapt to the foundation that was already laid.

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Speaker 1: In terms of when you were in New England. I

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Speaker 1: had read that Dante high Tower used to call you

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Speaker 1: guys the Boogeyman. What did it take to be in

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Speaker 1: that group?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So when the Boogeyman came about, it's just you know,

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Speaker 2: every year, you know, something is different about your defense,

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Speaker 2: something is different about the people that's on it, and

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Speaker 2: sometimes the scheme is different. So for that particular year,

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Speaker 2: like we was able to end the OTAs and training camp,

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Speaker 2: we just start calling each other the Boogieyman, you know,

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Speaker 2: because you never knew what you was gonna get out

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Speaker 2: of who because we had so many different nuances of

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Speaker 2: that defense back then. So you know, we just created that,

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Speaker 2: uh identity like you never know who's gonna sack you,

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Speaker 2: You never know who's gonna run stuff, you never know

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Speaker 2: who's gonna catch interception, and so for quarterbacks and running

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Speaker 2: backs and even Olana like, yeah, you don't know who coming,

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Speaker 2: so we just popping up on you like the Boogeyman,

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Speaker 2: you know, And that's how it kind of came about.

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Speaker 1: I like that last for you, you have caught a

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Speaker 1: touchdown pass from Tom Brady. Explain your stint on offense

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Speaker 1: and is that something that you want to continue well

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Speaker 1: with that.

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Speaker 2: I just think it was just being a good teammate.

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Speaker 2: You know, we had I was a captain at that time.

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Speaker 2: We had a lot of guys go down from a

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Speaker 2: fullback standpoint, so it was kind of like, hey, you know,

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Speaker 2: I was just trying to help out and I had

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Speaker 2: a certain play that I went out for a route

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Speaker 2: and it was just so happy that we came back

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Speaker 2: to Toime was like, hey, he was wide open, So

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna call the player again in the second half.

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Speaker 2: If you open, I'm throwing you the ball.

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Speaker 1: I don't Does it make you nervous?

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Speaker 2: Nah, not really, you're excited. I kind of was like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I he gonna throw the ball, you know, but I

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Speaker 2: was like, okay, like and he threw it cause I

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Speaker 2: even it's funny cause I joked through it him about it.

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Speaker 2: I was like, you threw it, i'm'a sco and he

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Speaker 2: was like alright and kind of laughed. He said alright,

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Speaker 2: and I I was actually joking and he threw it.

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Speaker 2: I turned, I said, oh, yeah, I'm gonna scow like

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Speaker 2: I I didn't care who was around. I was going score,

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Speaker 2: so nah, it w It was funny. But that was

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Speaker 2: just me just being a great teammate and at that time,

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Speaker 2: that's what the team needed and stuff like that. So

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Speaker 2: you know, I was like, you know, I still had

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Speaker 2: my defensive role and I was able to help my

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Speaker 2: team and be on the offensive side.

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Speaker 1: That's very cool. Thank you very much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Oh most definitely