Speaker 1: Back in the lab for another edition of the Official
Speaker 1: Jets Podcast. We've got a very special guest, Justice gal
Speaker 1: like head Strength and connectioning off the New York Jets.
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Speaker 1: looking for. All right, Justice, I feel like we can
Speaker 1: talk about a thousand things here, but for fans that
Speaker 1: don't know and a couple of sentences, it's gonna seem
Speaker 1: like a loaded question. But how would you describe your
Speaker 1: role and how it changes in season and off season
Speaker 1: for the team? Uh? Yeah, my role? Well, thanks first
Speaker 1: and foremost for having me on here. I appreciate it. Guys. Um,
Speaker 1: my role is always evolving. I guess there's always a
Speaker 1: lot of things to go into it. Obviously, you know strength, condition,
Speaker 1: so give it the player strong, trying to get him
Speaker 1: in shape. Um, you know those are the givings. But
Speaker 1: there's also the recovery methods. The nutrition is part of
Speaker 1: what our our staff does down there. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: pre and post game. There's a lot of also just
Speaker 1: you know, talking to the players, were around the players. UM,
Speaker 1: they come to us for different things. So you know,
Speaker 1: our job is very multiple. We have we have a
Speaker 1: lot of things that we cover. UM. Again, I always
Speaker 1: go back the strength and conditioning are the ones that
Speaker 1: you expect to happen. UM. But and and then you
Speaker 1: talk about you know, out of season, we obviously have
Speaker 1: um a lot more freedom because there's no game, so
Speaker 1: you know, when they're not playing a game, we can
Speaker 1: do a lot more. We can, um maybe push them
Speaker 1: a little bit more throughout the whole week, where when
Speaker 1: we get to end season, a lot of our pushing
Speaker 1: is gonna be done Monday through Wednesday and then kind
Speaker 1: of shut it down where the valve. So we know practice,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be tough um or a little
Speaker 1: bit more that day on a Wednesday or Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 1: However coach structures it. You know, we know we have
Speaker 1: to turn it down a little bit and really take
Speaker 1: care of the players and realize like it's time to
Speaker 1: play football. It's not about training, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: we have certain things that we have to do on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis to make sure these guys are prepared
Speaker 1: to play. Um, you know, there's always injuries in this game.
Speaker 1: That's part of this sport. So we have to work
Speaker 1: through that. Just because a guy, you know, maybe has
Speaker 1: a risk or a shoulder something going on, we have
Speaker 1: to find a way to help him get better. We
Speaker 1: can't just say, well, we're not gonna do the right
Speaker 1: arm because there's something wrong with that, because more than
Speaker 1: likely he's gonna play that week. Um. You know, in
Speaker 1: every situation is different. So even a guy that's out
Speaker 1: for a period of time in season, our job is
Speaker 1: to prep him and get him ready to go for Sunday.
Speaker 1: And we every week we assume that player is gonna
Speaker 1: play Sunday. You know, we don't control that part of it. So, um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different roles we take. It's always
Speaker 1: funny sometimes you know, we talk more about Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: a counseling thing where they can talk to us in
Speaker 1: between a set and you know we can you know,
Speaker 1: maybe help the feel better by the time they leave
Speaker 1: in a mental capacity that maybe they can't talk to
Speaker 1: other people about So that's part of our role. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, we love that part of it. How have
Speaker 1: you been able to stick here for through three coaching staffs?
Speaker 1: You came on board Rex Ryan, then you know there's
Speaker 1: an uncertainty. A new guy comes in as Todd Bulls
Speaker 1: now the Jets making other move this offseason, and Adam
Speaker 1: Gaze is the new leader of the Green and White.
Speaker 1: That says something about you that not only have you
Speaker 1: been the head strength and conditioning coach of the New
Speaker 1: York Jets, but you've done it for three different people.
Speaker 1: I'm very fortunate one and I don't know how that's happened,
Speaker 1: you know, UM, I'm very thankful for it. And I
Speaker 1: think part of it is working for good people. You know,
Speaker 1: all three of the coaches I've worked for, UM, the
Speaker 1: general managers i've worked for, have let me do my
Speaker 1: job and and you know, do what I needed to
Speaker 1: do to take care of the players. And I'm very
Speaker 1: appreciative to that and all the guys I've worked for. UM.
Speaker 1: But to your question, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: how I've been here, and uh, you know, across the
Speaker 1: league it's not common, UM, you know, and I always
Speaker 1: come back to I try to treat the players with respect,
Speaker 1: and I try to listen to what their concerns are
Speaker 1: and I and I'm a hundred percent loyal to the
Speaker 1: coaches and the players at all times. That's that's my job.
Speaker 1: And I try to be brutally honest, whether guys like
Speaker 1: it or not. And some of the feedback we get
Speaker 1: as a staff as guys like that. You know, we'll
Speaker 1: tell you if we think you need to do something.
Speaker 1: We're not just gonna say kind of going back to
Speaker 1: the you know, if a guy's heart, well, you gotta
Speaker 1: do this. Still, you can't just stop. It's not gonna work,
Speaker 1: you know. So we try to be brutally honest with
Speaker 1: the players, uh, and be a percent loyal to our
Speaker 1: coaches and our management. And you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: what's helped me and what put you down this track
Speaker 1: that you said however many years ago, this is something
Speaker 1: that I aspire to be. This is what I want
Speaker 1: to do, This is how I want to help players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of fell into it. Um. I was a
Speaker 1: football coach. Um until I got here. I coached football
Speaker 1: until I got to the New York Jets. I worked
Speaker 1: with the defensive line. At Lenova, I signaled the defensive
Speaker 1: calls on game day, and when I got to the
Speaker 1: Jets that I was an assistant in two thousand and twelve,
Speaker 1: and that was the first time I didn't actually coaching
Speaker 1: on field position. UM always been in the training since
Speaker 1: I was thirteen. Bigger, faster, stronger, and and going through
Speaker 1: programs in high school and then going into college. All
Speaker 1: my buddies UM are either football coaches or strength coaches
Speaker 1: from the Brockport Sunny Brockport where I went UM. All
Speaker 1: of us were all in the business and somehow a
Speaker 1: football UM. And then at Villanova there was an opportunity
Speaker 1: to getting shrank conditioning and I took it and I
Speaker 1: loved it. I just love working with the players a
Speaker 1: hundred all the time. UM. You know, we're in in
Speaker 1: coaching football. Sometimes there's a lot of film work and
Speaker 1: you're on the road recruiting and all that. I just
Speaker 1: like being in there and coaching guys, and that's something
Speaker 1: I've always loved. So it matched up well coaching people,
Speaker 1: teaching people, mentoring people, and then training. I love training.
Speaker 1: I love being in the weight with myself. It's it's
Speaker 1: an addictive thing to be in there. You know. Um
Speaker 1: my wife often tells me to take the day off
Speaker 1: or something like that, but you know, I just love
Speaker 1: being in there. So I think that's really what led
Speaker 1: me to it. And I think again, players feel that
Speaker 1: because we are we're always trying stuff, my staff, myself,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not the athlete my players are, but
Speaker 1: we try everything. We'll we'll go through the grind and
Speaker 1: do everything and then go, well, that didn't work or
Speaker 1: that worked really well for us, you know, so imagine
Speaker 1: what it's gonna do for you know, C. J. Moseley.
Speaker 1: If that worked for me, this is gonna be awesome
Speaker 1: for him. So we always try to find those things
Speaker 1: and and try to you know, implement stuff we do
Speaker 1: with the players. So I think that's, you know, basically
Speaker 1: what led me to this point. Justice. You played at
Speaker 1: Sunny Brockport. You wear a nose guards at two pounds
Speaker 1: you wait, two hundred pounds now, we'll get to that later.
Speaker 1: But you did not have a strength coach when you
Speaker 1: were playing College Baul, did you correct? Yeah, we didn't
Speaker 1: have anybody the entire time I was there. Um our
Speaker 1: head coach and our offensive line coach kind of ran
Speaker 1: the program that we trained in UM. And the interesting
Speaker 1: thing is we UM there was a group of us
Speaker 1: and we started to explore other opportunities and we started
Speaker 1: to look at different ways of training and training methods.
Speaker 1: UM A couple of guys, Nate Harvey that that works
Speaker 1: for elite fts as a he's a powerlifter. He was
Speaker 1: a strength coach for a long time. He he kind
Speaker 1: of started us on the conjugate method and west Side barbell.
Speaker 1: He introduced us to that and he now ironically works
Speaker 1: with a bunch of guys that training that facet. UM
Speaker 1: Edges Skulski who was with me up there as a
Speaker 1: strength coach at at sunny Brockport track coach. We all
Speaker 1: kind of got into this, UM, you know, finding ways
Speaker 1: to make ourselves better. You know, we were a Division
Speaker 1: three athletes UM that you know, really wanted to succeed
Speaker 1: and get as strong as we could and as big
Speaker 1: as Both of those guys powerlifted and and have huge
Speaker 1: numbers and powerlifting and and their own right. I just
Speaker 1: never got into powerlifting. I got into coaching right away
Speaker 1: and kind of you know, went more of the football route. UM.
Speaker 1: But that's really where you know, I think it all
Speaker 1: comes from we we kind of just started to explore
Speaker 1: things and it's really never left me of looking for
Speaker 1: better ways to improve all the time. One of your
Speaker 1: new bosses, Gum, Joe Douglass, was three fifteen pounds in
Speaker 1: eighth grade. He was a power So the first question is,
Speaker 1: is Joe down there a lot been banging the weights around?
Speaker 1: And how much do you guys talk shop because this
Speaker 1: is right up his alley. Yeah, he loves he loves
Speaker 1: the weight room and he appreciates what it can do
Speaker 1: for guys. Um, you know, and he he loves to
Speaker 1: get down there. He trains, he gets after it, and
Speaker 1: he still has it. He's still very strong. H. So
Speaker 1: he'll pick my brain, um, you know about what I
Speaker 1: think about certain things, and he he knows a lot.
Speaker 1: He knows a lot about what we do. He understands
Speaker 1: how to get stronger. UM. So you know that that
Speaker 1: helps me out that he that he appreciates the weight
Speaker 1: room and he has a love for it, I think
Speaker 1: as much as I do. UM. You know, obviously for him,
Speaker 1: you know, being a former offensive lineman. Offensive lineman love
Speaker 1: the weight room and then the powerlifting background, you know,
Speaker 1: all that kind of comes together, and that's that's a
Speaker 1: huge thing for me. Um, you know that that. I
Speaker 1: love that he knows what we're doing and he'll ask
Speaker 1: questions about how guys are doing in certain lifts and
Speaker 1: when I tell him, he he understands it, you know.
Speaker 1: And he understands, you know, if a certain guys doing
Speaker 1: a lot of weight or pound for pound, he understands
Speaker 1: what that means, you know, And I don't really have
Speaker 1: to explain it. He he gets it. You know. He
Speaker 1: told me if Philly had a lifting group, does he
Speaker 1: have a lifting group with the Jets and where I
Speaker 1: think he's still trying to grow it right now. He's
Speaker 1: looking for those guys, um, but I'm trying to help
Speaker 1: him in every way to create that group. So um,
Speaker 1: he definitely has a program that he uses that he follows,
Speaker 1: and um, you know he's looking for that group though,
Speaker 1: I think. So you know, you mentioned that Joe picked
Speaker 1: your braindon got me thinking, does he ever get annoying
Speaker 1: if you're at like a family event. I understand that, Well,
Speaker 1: you're in football, you work with the players, you're here
Speaker 1: a lot. But if you're at a family event, how
Speaker 1: many people come up to you whether it's around the
Speaker 1: time of the new year, and they're like, hey, like,
Speaker 1: what do you think about this? And does it ever
Speaker 1: get annoying or is it not annoying because as you
Speaker 1: like it so much, what are you putting me on
Speaker 1: blast a little bit? I mean, I don't think he
Speaker 1: gets annoying. Um, I liked I like talking about and
Speaker 1: I like to try to help people. So I think
Speaker 1: at the end of the day that this is this
Speaker 1: is just funny because my brother in law I coached.
Speaker 1: So I coached him at Villanova University and he's my
Speaker 1: brother in law. Now our wife's their sisters. So Steve
Speaker 1: Pim he's a he's a cop in Upper Dublin down
Speaker 1: in outside of Philadelphia. Um, he comes to me probably
Speaker 1: at least every other day with questions about training, and
Speaker 1: he is but I've coached. I coached him for four
Speaker 1: years of college and then we've you know, now we're family,
Speaker 1: which is funny. So I get questions NonStop at any
Speaker 1: family holiday thing. And then another guy who's like a
Speaker 1: brother to me, film a tous is uh the topic
Speaker 1: as donant Ohao State football. So he's in the he's
Speaker 1: in the business too. So if we're all together. It's
Speaker 1: it's NonStop training talk anyways, and then we all go
Speaker 1: work out together and um, so it's it's really uh,
Speaker 1: I don't mind it at all. I enjoy helping well.
Speaker 1: All my cousins that are back up in Western New
Speaker 1: York where I'm from, they all, you know, text me
Speaker 1: about certain things or you know, supplements, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I love being able to help out everybody you know,
Speaker 1: and and uh give my advice. You know, the only
Speaker 1: person you know that doesn't really ask me a ton
Speaker 1: of my wife, you know, we don't talk a ton
Speaker 1: about training. But you know, other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: if it's my parents or anything like that, brother in
Speaker 1: law's it's my brother, any of those people. So, but
Speaker 1: how much information is free flowing because this is a
Speaker 1: small fraternity still in terms of strength and conditioning coaches
Speaker 1: in the National Football League and at colleges. And one
Speaker 1: of the things that's always struck me about you is
Speaker 1: that you go out and travel to other places and
Speaker 1: talk about, hey, what do you guys doing, And you
Speaker 1: also exchange information, of course what you're trying here. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of give and take, it seems like, yeah,
Speaker 1: depending on who you are some people, you know, believe,
Speaker 1: um they're reinventing the wheel and that they have all
Speaker 1: the answers. And that's fine, that's just not how I operate,
Speaker 1: operate in the the way that no matter what I do,
Speaker 1: and if I told you everything I do, you won't
Speaker 1: be able to duplicate what I do because it's me.
Speaker 1: It's coming from me in the way I sell it.
Speaker 1: So I can give you all the X and os.
Speaker 1: But until I until you see me, or until you
Speaker 1: can do exactly what I do, I'm not worried about you.
Speaker 1: Still in what I can do, I want to I
Speaker 1: want to maximize everything for our player, So if you
Speaker 1: have a better way to do it, well I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my information, so I know your
Speaker 1: information advice. You know. I want to collect as much
Speaker 1: data as I can, and sometimes that's trained it off.
Speaker 1: And you know, by no means do I believe that
Speaker 1: I have all the answers. But there's people out there
Speaker 1: that do have the answer to what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: So I always try to, you know, get out there
Speaker 1: and see what what information I can collect, you know,
Speaker 1: and there's different areas and different people in the country
Speaker 1: that I'll go pick their brain or call them and say, hey,
Speaker 1: what do you think about this? What what do you think?
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I don't think there's any problem
Speaker 1: with that. And I protect you know, the Jets logo
Speaker 1: and the Jets brand at all time. Is when I
Speaker 1: go out there, UM, I'm not giving away you know,
Speaker 1: any deep secrets of what you know. Um, Coach Gaze
Speaker 1: you know is doing e anything. But I'm gonna go,
Speaker 1: you know, share like this is how we do this exercise,
Speaker 1: and these are the sets we do, and this is
Speaker 1: how I talk to our players, um to get feedback
Speaker 1: from other other people. And if if you're not willing
Speaker 1: to share information, then I'm probably not gonna be out
Speaker 1: there talking to you either, you know. And I feel
Speaker 1: like we have to ask. This is gonna come up
Speaker 1: at some point. But in your time here, who's on
Speaker 1: the shortlist of biggest freaks in the weight room or
Speaker 1: people that just love to be there as much as you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean my staff number one, Maybe we're not freaks.
Speaker 1: But with you know, you know, you got Joe Jacobe, Uh,
Speaker 1: we're always finest New Jersey guy played at Rutgers, you
Speaker 1: know as a walk on or in a scholarship down there,
Speaker 1: Aaron mclauren. He has been with me for six years. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it was with the Vikings, he was at
Speaker 1: Michigan State coal Gate, he went to Hampton and then
Speaker 1: uh J. T. Hawhey who came to us this year.
Speaker 1: He's our intern down there from Ohio State. Um, he's
Speaker 1: from out near Cleveland and he did an internship at
Speaker 1: Ohio State with Phil who who I coached and is
Speaker 1: like a brother to me. So you know, he was
Speaker 1: a good recommendation. And then the guy that's bringing up
Speaker 1: the height on our staff is uh the Brickishaw Ferguson,
Speaker 1: who's our seasonal intern this year. Um. So you know
Speaker 1: with the tallest guy down there's Joe at about six foot.
Speaker 1: He'll stay six too. But then then we got brick
Speaker 1: you know, and the Brickishaw is down there with us. Now, Um,
Speaker 1: you know when he's one of those guys to me,
Speaker 1: that was a freak as a player. Um, there's a
Speaker 1: reason he missed I think one play over the course
Speaker 1: of his career and made every practice. He won't ever
Speaker 1: say it, but I'll say it for him because he
Speaker 1: worked his butt off the entire time. He never missed
Speaker 1: a day in the weight room. He was there, you know,
Speaker 1: all the time, trying to better himself and you know,
Speaker 1: dedicated himself to his craft for ten years. Um, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's why when he, uh, you know, come to
Speaker 1: me with the I kind of it was kind of mutual.
Speaker 1: We kind of came to each other with the opportunity.
Speaker 1: I said, if you want to be an intern, you can't.
Speaker 1: He's like really, and he's like probably that night, I
Speaker 1: think he texted me back, Hey, I want to do it. Um.
Speaker 1: So he's interning for us for the whole year and
Speaker 1: it's a good way for him to kind of see
Speaker 1: the coaches side of what he did as a player,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think he'd be the first to
Speaker 1: tell you, like, it's it's different on our side and
Speaker 1: he's seeing things maybe a little bit different way. But
Speaker 1: the unique thing about him that I can't offer. I
Speaker 1: didn't play in the NFL for ten years at a
Speaker 1: high level, you know, at an elite level like he did.
Speaker 1: He can go to players and have a different conversation
Speaker 1: than me or my staff can. And that's why I
Speaker 1: love having him there. And he knows that, um, you know,
Speaker 1: he can go talking not just offensive lineman, but any
Speaker 1: guy that's kind of looking, uh for a little bit advice.
Speaker 1: And I and I'm telling you, and I introduced him
Speaker 1: multiple times, you know of who he is. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: some of these players don't know who he is. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't know, and they're gonna, you know, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna see, you know, highlights of him at at the
Speaker 1: stadium and they're gonna be like, oh, is that the
Speaker 1: guy in the weight room because you know, he's fifty
Speaker 1: pounds lighter, and you know, everybody thinks he looks different,
Speaker 1: but it's still brick um. But he's he's a huge
Speaker 1: addition into our staff. So you said you got great
Speaker 1: belief in the staff, believe you got the best staff
Speaker 1: in the country. But following up on what Green's asked you,
Speaker 1: and I interrupted because I wanted to make sure you've
Speaker 1: got those names in there, other players over the years
Speaker 1: that you've really enjoyed coaching up in the weight room. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of players that I've been
Speaker 1: fortunate to be around. Um, you know, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: looking just thinking off the top of my head. You
Speaker 1: got Nick Mangold, who was in there all the time.
Speaker 1: Dave Harris was a weight room warrior. You know, he
Speaker 1: he lived in there with us. Uh. Calvin Pace another guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he was back here for a training camp
Speaker 1: and he still he still looks like he could play. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Antonio Crimardi. Um, trying to think there's a
Speaker 1: there's just so many guys when I look back at
Speaker 1: my time here, you know that have got in there
Speaker 1: and they appreciated the weight room and they worked every day. Um.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about guys on the team now that
Speaker 1: you know you have to kick out of the weight
Speaker 1: room like a John Harrison, Calvin Beach Um. Um, people
Speaker 1: are gonna get mad if I don't say their name.
Speaker 1: But there's so I mean, Steve mcclennan, uh Tkowski, all
Speaker 1: these guys. You know, you gotta you gotta boot him
Speaker 1: on the way from Jamal Adams is at the door
Speaker 1: at you know, usually around five five thirty am, waiting
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, he's here. Uh. And
Speaker 1: he doesn't live around the corner either. I think he
Speaker 1: lives closer now. He lives closer now, but he you know,
Speaker 1: he's he is in there waiting for me to to
Speaker 1: take him through in the mornings. UM, But you've got
Speaker 1: so many, so many guys that on this team right
Speaker 1: now that are putting in the work. UM. You know
Speaker 1: that the players on this team are are dedicated workers
Speaker 1: in the weight room, practice, They're running everything we do.
Speaker 1: You know, so easy with this group, there's I'm not
Speaker 1: chasing anybody around. Maybe you know the way I had
Speaker 1: to um in different years. Every year is different, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, UM, but we have a lot of guys
Speaker 1: here that are just hungry. You know, how was the program?
Speaker 1: How was your program changed over the years, Because I
Speaker 1: know you're adapting all the time and that's part of
Speaker 1: the industry. But maybe look back and say, well, this
Speaker 1: is where it was the first year here. And maybe
Speaker 1: it's just not to say how your program has changed,
Speaker 1: but maybe how the whole industry has changed is we've progressed.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think my bread and butter is always
Speaker 1: going to be what I believe in. You know, the
Speaker 1: heart and soul of what I believe in is UM.
Speaker 1: You know, staying balanced is an athlete. They have to
Speaker 1: be balanced. We we sometimes think so much about you know,
Speaker 1: even with kids, you think about all we gotta do
Speaker 1: positions specific and we can only do this one thing.
Speaker 1: He has to play baseball year round. And it's that's
Speaker 1: not how this works, you know, no one is. Our
Speaker 1: players aren't set up like that. Go back to the
Speaker 1: bricker Shaw. He was doing things in the offseason. No
Speaker 1: one was doing mixed martial arts, hockey, different things. He
Speaker 1: would swimming like and that guy played an elite level.
Speaker 1: So that's a prime example. Like you need to get
Speaker 1: out there. You need to have you know, total uh,
Speaker 1: you know, be aware of your athletic ability, learned to move,
Speaker 1: increase mobility, uh, basic things, UM No, I think is
Speaker 1: what really helps players. So you know, we we talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, evolving the program. It's small things. It's really
Speaker 1: small things that we feel. We feel like mobility, prehab,
Speaker 1: things that can help them stay healthy. Is what we
Speaker 1: really try to focus on on the change. Um. And
Speaker 1: it's always a battle because you're going to see something
Speaker 1: new every year, you know, um, no matter what, no
Speaker 1: matter what you do. All right. One of the most
Speaker 1: important questions in the weight room Greens is who's controlling
Speaker 1: the music and what are we listening to now? In
Speaker 1: two uh. The runners of the radio currently are Brian
Speaker 1: Winners below Powell are the two most veteran players on
Speaker 1: this team, so they longest tenure jets, so they're they're
Speaker 1: in full control. That's how that works. Yeah, so longest
Speaker 1: tenure jets who we give control to. And if they're
Speaker 1: not in there, if say they're in a different lifting group,
Speaker 1: then it goes to the next guy down the line.
Speaker 1: So I just have to do some math. Sometimes usually
Speaker 1: it's the oldest guy in the room though, no matter what,
Speaker 1: even if they've been here for a year, you know,
Speaker 1: they control it a lot of times. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I'll put something on until they complain, so
Speaker 1: I kind of know what they like to listen to.
Speaker 1: So I put on what I think they'll like, try
Speaker 1: to set the mood with it. Um, I'm pretty successful.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty successful. So again I will go back to
Speaker 1: the guy that gives me the most um feedback on
Speaker 1: the music is probably jamal time any skip songs, you'll
Speaker 1: tell me he likes it. Him and Marcus and the
Speaker 1: whole just the DBS in general, I guess. But uh,
Speaker 1: that's when I know if I'm doing a good job
Speaker 1: or not on the music. The DJ, so I run it.
Speaker 1: I run it most of the time. Jamal dance between
Speaker 1: sets sometimes sometimes, Um, it depends on where we're at,
Speaker 1: if it's uh if he really likes the song, or
Speaker 1: it depends on the exercise we're doing too. If we're
Speaker 1: doing like big squats and contrast exercises, we might get
Speaker 1: them dancing a little bit between but uh. Um. During
Speaker 1: training camp, there was some good moments with the defense,
Speaker 1: especially um when after a lift they would just kind
Speaker 1: of just have fun and dance and it's such a
Speaker 1: it's a fun group. Um. You know, the defense is
Speaker 1: definitely always a different animal. So um, yeah, it just
Speaker 1: depends on the day. Usually if they're dancing, I know,
Speaker 1: we got good energy and they you know, they're working hard,
Speaker 1: so I'll take it every day of the week. What
Speaker 1: about McClendon, who's like the philosopher on this team. He's
Speaker 1: seen a lot of football. Thirty three, you got him,
Speaker 1: You've helped him in terms of being in great shape.
Speaker 1: He doesn't play like a thirty three year old. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine he's got too many musical requests. No, he
Speaker 1: does well, Yeah he does sometimes Yeah, and he you know,
Speaker 1: and to Steve's credit, like he's he he always says
Speaker 1: you know, his big his big thing to say is
Speaker 1: the gym is always open. You know, So there you go.
Speaker 1: I mean, so you know, for me, like that guy
Speaker 1: is a work you know, he's a workaholic. He he's
Speaker 1: opening a gym back home. He's building this gym and uh,
Speaker 1: he loves what we do. He'll be a strength coach
Speaker 1: when he's done. Our personal trend. He's into this um.
Speaker 1: But as far as music, he likes some you know,
Speaker 1: some Southern throwbacks, some Little John some he said, with
Speaker 1: some stuff like you know from the mid two thousands.
Speaker 1: Some you know, some crunk music. That's what he gets into.
Speaker 1: He'll get into that, you know, but he likes it all.
Speaker 1: He'll ask for that every now and then. Because Steve's probably, um,
Speaker 1: the strongest guy on her team. Uh squat bench pull up,
Speaker 1: you know he damn it. Yeah, uh, you know he's
Speaker 1: The way he does is incredible. But he uh, he
Speaker 1: gets what. He gets what he wants when he's ready
Speaker 1: for it. You know, he doesn't ask for it often,
Speaker 1: but he when he does, he gets it. I feel
Speaker 1: like winners controlling the ax cord. He he I know
Speaker 1: he's a big country guy, but does he bump country
Speaker 1: while lifting. Only if it's like me and him every
Speaker 1: once in a while, I mean he's he likes little Wayne,
Speaker 1: he likes he likes a little bit everything. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he'll ask for for some rock every now and then. Um,
Speaker 1: we've we been on a big kick in the weight
Speaker 1: room of like rap rock from the mid two thousands,
Speaker 1: which is you know, that's that's my age right there,
Speaker 1: like the lip Biscuit and corn and Roach Disturbed some
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Some of those the old lineman will
Speaker 1: get it. They'll get it that going when we go
Speaker 1: in there. So you know, I appreciate the guys that
Speaker 1: like all the music because you know, um, it makes
Speaker 1: it fun and we could change it up. We have
Speaker 1: on Friday's, uh, we have gap band Fridays, so which
Speaker 1: is like kind of like motown type music. That's Calvin
Speaker 1: Beacham Day. So that stays on all day, that music
Speaker 1: doesn't that's our Armed Farm day. So everybody that comes
Speaker 1: in we listen to the gap band station. You might
Speaker 1: get some Michael Jackson and stuff like that on them
Speaker 1: Armed Farm well, that's where we're growing arms. You know,
Speaker 1: that's our TV day. We gotta make their arms look good.
Speaker 1: So that's not a mandatory day. That's definitely. Uh, the
Speaker 1: defensive line, our linebackers, offensive line, they get in there
Speaker 1: and do it so. Um. You know it's mostly arms
Speaker 1: some course's arm farm throughout the National Football League on Fridays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say so in the programs that are doing
Speaker 1: it right. Yeah, definitely are definitely doing that well. Play
Speaker 1: you know. You know who I remember back in the
Speaker 1: day with Thomas Jones always rocking and rolling there on Friday,
Speaker 1: and he had quite possibly the biggest arms. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: never I never coached him, but I saw him on
Speaker 1: TV and that Yeah, he did it right. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he did, but he did it right. They
Speaker 1: they were going, you know, but you know, you get
Speaker 1: some of those guys like John Harrison and uh Bronson KFUSI.
Speaker 1: Those guys get in there and get it going. You know,
Speaker 1: they get it going. And beach Him's in there. Beach
Speaker 1: Ums usually the first guy on Friday's used around six
Speaker 1: six fifteen and they're kicking off arm farm. Um. Leonard Williams.
Speaker 1: You know, some of those guys getting in there, so
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a good group coming in there.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest misconception of dudes at home. We're like,
Speaker 1: I took the words right out of my mind thirty five,
Speaker 1: forty years old, and I just wanted to get back
Speaker 1: into shape and get in the weight room. What's the
Speaker 1: biggest misconception out there that you can out train a
Speaker 1: bad diet. So, no matter what you're doing in the
Speaker 1: weight room, if you're if you're eating poorly and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, doing the wrong things, you're not, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen, you know, Like that's the first step, you know,
Speaker 1: even if it's you know, we talked about it with
Speaker 1: our players, if it's you don't have to be right
Speaker 1: all the time. You don't have to like get crazy,
Speaker 1: but you know, clean it up, you know, do do
Speaker 1: some things right that will take care of it because
Speaker 1: you don't have to do as much. You don't have to.
Speaker 1: You don't have to crush yourself in the gym, you know,
Speaker 1: to get a result, just start eating better. You'll lose weight, right.
Speaker 1: We know that if you eat less calories, you'll lose weight.
Speaker 1: If I eat more calories, I'll gain weight, you know,
Speaker 1: So if you're eating less calories and you're working out,
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy. How militant Are you in terms of
Speaker 1: not only physical regiment because we've covered that, but your diet?
Speaker 1: Please look at you man. People. Uh, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they've fouled your evolution, the gallic evolution. Probably not.
Speaker 1: You are laying in mean two wander pounder. You look
Speaker 1: like you are ready to take care of some business
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah? Yeah, I mean I think and again
Speaker 1: it goes back to the training. If I um to
Speaker 1: answer your question, I'm I'm pretty militant on eating. Again.
Speaker 1: My wife is the one that tells me to to
Speaker 1: just relax, But um, I try to be Milton. I
Speaker 1: try to be very restricted and regimented one right. I
Speaker 1: show the picture when I was a nose tackle like,
Speaker 1: I look completely different, you know. Um my daughter is
Speaker 1: the only one that recognizes me and my parents. That's
Speaker 1: about it. My wife, doesn't you know? I look completely different? Um?
Speaker 1: And I say, as you know, as I get older,
Speaker 1: I gotta be smarter with certain things. But I try
Speaker 1: to be very diligent when I do something, and when
Speaker 1: I commit to something, I'm pretty good about sticking to it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, wholeheartedly, whether it's right or wrong. Um. You
Speaker 1: know I've tried everything, paleo, keto, carb cycling, um, the
Speaker 1: Dolce diet. Anything I I do, I get hard onto it,
Speaker 1: you know, I get hard into what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do and and stick it out. And my players, I think,
Speaker 1: appreciate ate that, you know, especially the guys that are
Speaker 1: into it and they're trying to find ways and that way.
Speaker 1: If a guy brings up something, you know, it's always
Speaker 1: the you know, well, uh, you know I only do
Speaker 1: Olympic lifting or only do power lifting. Well, that that
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. I can't say that unless I've tried,
Speaker 1: you know, it wholeheartedly and put my time into it.
Speaker 1: Or I don't eat carbohydrates, or I only eat carba,
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm vegan or I'm you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, you want to be vegetarian. I have
Speaker 1: to experience those things in order to really comment on them.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite cheap meal aside from him stealing all
Speaker 1: my good questions? Maybe maybe aside from having a beverage, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's always a good one. But but I
Speaker 1: mean pizza. I'm a big pizza guy. Um, so you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a pizza connoisseur. I like to believe. So we'd
Speaker 1: like to try all different pizza, and being here in Jersey,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good pizza that we will try out.
Speaker 1: You know, Pizza Friday is a big thing in my household,
Speaker 1: and uh so that's usually a cheap day. Usually make
Speaker 1: sure I train real hard on uh on my Friday,
Speaker 1: and then uh, you know, be good on the weekend
Speaker 1: for Saturdays and game days. Same crusts are thick crust
Speaker 1: you know. Um, I'm a in between guy. I'm like
Speaker 1: that in between um e aken, you know knows the
Speaker 1: pizza that that we grew up on. I'm still a
Speaker 1: fan of that. I don't say that where it's from,
Speaker 1: but it's, uh, you know, I'm still a fan of that.
Speaker 1: I like Detroit style pizza. If you ever had that,
Speaker 1: that's very good. It's very good. It's it's uh. People
Speaker 1: don't know about it, and I didn't until like probably
Speaker 1: last year we went up there and I tried it.
Speaker 1: But uh, I like that medium, you know, like good
Speaker 1: pepperoni and oh yeah, you gotta get you gotta get
Speaker 1: all that, you know. Yeah, and you're a hockey fan too,
Speaker 1: I'm a hockey fan. Yeah, I do enjoy hockey. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, born and raised around it, so um you know,
Speaker 1: I know you are too. Yeah. Well, our roots go
Speaker 1: back to the pills. Everybody Buffalo sabers. So if you
Speaker 1: used to see me in Justice wearing a buffalo h hat,
Speaker 1: you gotta say, right, yeah, yeah, all right. Well that's
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