WEBVTT - Listen: Justus Galac (10/2) 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:04.800 Back in the lab for another edition of the Official 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.000 Jets Podcast. We've got a very special guest, Justice gal 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.200 like head Strength and connectioning off the New York Jets. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.000 You can find us on New York Jets dot com, YouTube, 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:17.079 Apple Podcast, Leave a review, SoundCloud, google Play. I think 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.439 that's it. Yeah, definitely leave a review though, Yeah, no, 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:22.320 please leave a review. But we'd like to know how 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.720 we're doing. And I think we're also based on stars 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.760 to our progress reports, so well, yeah, let's leave us 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.720 a review. Rate us. Thank you that that's what I'm 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.479 looking for. All right, Justice, I feel like we can 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.040 talk about a thousand things here, but for fans that 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.000 don't know and a couple of sentences, it's gonna seem 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.000 like a loaded question. But how would you describe your 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.800 role and how it changes in season and off season 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:49.360 for the team? Uh? Yeah, my role? Well, thanks first 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.720 and foremost for having me on here. I appreciate it. Guys. Um, 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.560 my role is always evolving. I guess there's always a 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.960 lot of things to go into it. Obviously, you know strength, condition, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.639 so give it the player strong, trying to get him 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.360 in shape. Um, you know those are the givings. But 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.120 there's also the recovery methods. The nutrition is part of 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.760 what our our staff does down there. Um, you know, 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.560 pre and post game. There's a lot of also just 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:19.080 you know, talking to the players, were around the players. UM, 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.160 they come to us for different things. So you know, 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.000 our job is very multiple. We have we have a 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.959 lot of things that we cover. UM. Again, I always 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.120 go back the strength and conditioning are the ones that 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.600 you expect to happen. UM. But and and then you 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.560 talk about you know, out of season, we obviously have 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.200 um a lot more freedom because there's no game, so 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.160 you know, when they're not playing a game, we can 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.400 do a lot more. We can, um maybe push them 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.360 a little bit more throughout the whole week, where when 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.640 we get to end season, a lot of our pushing 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.560 is gonna be done Monday through Wednesday and then kind 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.000 of shut it down where the valve. So we know practice, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.400 you know it's gonna be tough um or a little 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.919 bit more that day on a Wednesday or Thursday, Friday. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.280 However coach structures it. You know, we know we have 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:04.840 to turn it down a little bit and really take 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.360 care of the players and realize like it's time to 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.200 play football. It's not about training, but at the same time, 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:11.960 we have certain things that we have to do on 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.160 a weekly basis to make sure these guys are prepared 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.040 to play. Um, you know, there's always injuries in this game. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:19.920 That's part of this sport. So we have to work 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.600 through that. Just because a guy, you know, maybe has 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.640 a risk or a shoulder something going on, we have 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.760 to find a way to help him get better. We 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.520 can't just say, well, we're not gonna do the right 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.040 arm because there's something wrong with that, because more than 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.600 likely he's gonna play that week. Um. You know, in 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.160 every situation is different. So even a guy that's out 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.640 for a period of time in season, our job is 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.959 to prep him and get him ready to go for Sunday. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.040 And we every week we assume that player is gonna 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.680 play Sunday. You know, we don't control that part of it. So, um, 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.680 there's a lot of different roles we take. It's always 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.880 funny sometimes you know, we talk more about Sometimes it's 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.960 a counseling thing where they can talk to us in 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.400 between a set and you know we can you know, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.359 maybe help the feel better by the time they leave 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.680 in a mental capacity that maybe they can't talk to 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.119 other people about So that's part of our role. UM. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.240 You know, we love that part of it. How have 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:14.119 you been able to stick here for through three coaching staffs? 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:19.119 You came on board Rex Ryan, then you know there's 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.840 an uncertainty. A new guy comes in as Todd Bulls 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.320 now the Jets making other move this offseason, and Adam 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.440 Gaze is the new leader of the Green and White. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.440 That says something about you that not only have you 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.800 been the head strength and conditioning coach of the New 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.560 York Jets, but you've done it for three different people. 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.200 I'm very fortunate one and I don't know how that's happened, 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.560 you know, UM, I'm very thankful for it. And I 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.800 think part of it is working for good people. You know, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.520 all three of the coaches I've worked for, UM, the 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.800 general managers i've worked for, have let me do my 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.000 job and and you know, do what I needed to 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.720 do to take care of the players. And I'm very 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.560 appreciative to that and all the guys I've worked for. UM. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.520 But to your question, I don't know. I don't know 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.720 how I've been here, and uh, you know, across the 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:08.280 league it's not common, UM, you know, and I always 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.480 come back to I try to treat the players with respect, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.800 and I try to listen to what their concerns are 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.880 and I and I'm a hundred percent loyal to the 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.600 coaches and the players at all times. That's that's my job. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.120 And I try to be brutally honest, whether guys like 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.720 it or not. And some of the feedback we get 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.240 as a staff as guys like that. You know, we'll 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:27.920 tell you if we think you need to do something. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.599 We're not just gonna say kind of going back to 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.880 the you know, if a guy's heart, well, you gotta 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.880 do this. Still, you can't just stop. It's not gonna work, 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.760 you know. So we try to be brutally honest with 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.760 the players, uh, and be a percent loyal to our 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.080 coaches and our management. And you know, I think that's 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.760 what's helped me and what put you down this track 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.320 that you said however many years ago, this is something 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.000 that I aspire to be. This is what I want 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.159 to do, This is how I want to help players. Yeah, 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.359 I kind of fell into it. Um. I was a 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.120 football coach. Um until I got here. I coached football 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:58.960 until I got to the New York Jets. I worked 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.440 with the defensive line. At Lenova, I signaled the defensive 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.479 calls on game day, and when I got to the 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.200 Jets that I was an assistant in two thousand and twelve, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.080 and that was the first time I didn't actually coaching 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.920 on field position. UM always been in the training since 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.800 I was thirteen. Bigger, faster, stronger, and and going through 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.400 programs in high school and then going into college. All 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.640 my buddies UM are either football coaches or strength coaches 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.400 from the Brockport Sunny Brockport where I went UM. All 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.400 of us were all in the business and somehow a 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.480 football UM. And then at Villanova there was an opportunity 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.640 to getting shrank conditioning and I took it and I 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.279 loved it. I just love working with the players a 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.800 hundred all the time. UM. You know, we're in in 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.840 coaching football. Sometimes there's a lot of film work and 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.920 you're on the road recruiting and all that. I just 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.760 like being in there and coaching guys, and that's something 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.760 I've always loved. So it matched up well coaching people, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.320 teaching people, mentoring people, and then training. I love training. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.480 I love being in the weight with myself. It's it's 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.400 an addictive thing to be in there. You know. Um 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.400 my wife often tells me to take the day off 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.880 or something like that, but you know, I just love 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.560 being in there. So I think that's really what led 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.240 me to it. And I think again, players feel that 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.159 because we are we're always trying stuff, my staff, myself, 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.080 you know, I'm not the athlete my players are, but 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.320 we try everything. We'll we'll go through the grind and 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.640 do everything and then go, well, that didn't work or 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.360 that worked really well for us, you know, so imagine 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.880 what it's gonna do for you know, C. J. Moseley. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.680 If that worked for me, this is gonna be awesome 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.560 for him. So we always try to find those things 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.120 and and try to you know, implement stuff we do 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.839 with the players. So I think that's, you know, basically 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.600 what led me to this point. Justice. You played at 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.279 Sunny Brockport. You wear a nose guards at two pounds 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.640 you wait, two hundred pounds now, we'll get to that later. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.200 But you did not have a strength coach when you 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.599 were playing College Baul, did you correct? Yeah, we didn't 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.000 have anybody the entire time I was there. Um our 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.920 head coach and our offensive line coach kind of ran 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.640 the program that we trained in UM. And the interesting 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.840 thing is we UM there was a group of us 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.680 and we started to explore other opportunities and we started 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.320 to look at different ways of training and training methods. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.960 UM A couple of guys, Nate Harvey that that works 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.880 for elite fts as a he's a powerlifter. He was 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.200 a strength coach for a long time. He he kind 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.560 of started us on the conjugate method and west Side barbell. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.360 He introduced us to that and he now ironically works 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.320 with a bunch of guys that training that facet. UM 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.360 Edges Skulski who was with me up there as a 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.960 strength coach at at sunny Brockport track coach. We all 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:29.160 kind of got into this, UM, you know, finding ways 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.239 to make ourselves better. You know, we were a Division 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.160 three athletes UM that you know, really wanted to succeed 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:36.720 and get as strong as we could and as big 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.360 as Both of those guys powerlifted and and have huge 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.280 numbers and powerlifting and and their own right. I just 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.840 never got into powerlifting. I got into coaching right away 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.680 and kind of you know, went more of the football route. UM. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.720 But that's really where you know, I think it all 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.480 comes from we we kind of just started to explore 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.760 things and it's really never left me of looking for 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.960 better ways to improve all the time. One of your 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.400 new bosses, Gum, Joe Douglass, was three fifteen pounds in 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:08.040 eighth grade. He was a power So the first question is, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.240 is Joe down there a lot been banging the weights around? 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.880 And how much do you guys talk shop because this 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.000 is right up his alley. Yeah, he loves he loves 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.320 the weight room and he appreciates what it can do 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.000 for guys. Um, you know, and he he loves to 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.000 get down there. He trains, he gets after it, and 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.840 he still has it. He's still very strong. H. So 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.880 he'll pick my brain, um, you know about what I 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.640 think about certain things, and he he knows a lot. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.439 He knows a lot about what we do. He understands 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.440 how to get stronger. UM. So you know that that 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.360 helps me out that he that he appreciates the weight 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:44.920 room and he has a love for it, I think 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.880 as much as I do. UM. You know, obviously for him, 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.040 you know, being a former offensive lineman. Offensive lineman love 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.320 the weight room and then the powerlifting background, you know, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.679 all that kind of comes together, and that's that's a 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.720 huge thing for me. Um, you know that that. I 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.160 love that he knows what we're doing and he'll ask 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.560 questions about how guys are doing in certain lifts and 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.840 when I tell him, he he understands it, you know. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.920 And he understands, you know, if a certain guys doing 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.880 a lot of weight or pound for pound, he understands 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:13.920 what that means, you know, And I don't really have 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.160 to explain it. He he gets it. You know. He 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.199 told me if Philly had a lifting group, does he 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.760 have a lifting group with the Jets and where I 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.680 think he's still trying to grow it right now. He's 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.480 looking for those guys, um, but I'm trying to help 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.319 him in every way to create that group. So um, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:34.080 he definitely has a program that he uses that he follows, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.760 and um, you know he's looking for that group though, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.240 I think. So you know, you mentioned that Joe picked 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.840 your braindon got me thinking, does he ever get annoying 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.719 if you're at like a family event. I understand that, Well, 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.560 you're in football, you work with the players, you're here 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.200 a lot. But if you're at a family event, how 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.720 many people come up to you whether it's around the 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.480 time of the new year, and they're like, hey, like, 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.240 what do you think about this? And does it ever 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.240 get annoying or is it not annoying because as you 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:01.959 like it so much, what are you putting me on 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:06.079 blast a little bit? I mean, I don't think he 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.560 gets annoying. Um, I liked I like talking about and 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:10.959 I like to try to help people. So I think 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.360 at the end of the day that this is this 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.400 is just funny because my brother in law I coached. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.520 So I coached him at Villanova University and he's my 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.480 brother in law. Now our wife's their sisters. So Steve 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.520 Pim he's a he's a cop in Upper Dublin down 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.960 in outside of Philadelphia. Um, he comes to me probably 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.160 at least every other day with questions about training, and 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.280 he is but I've coached. I coached him for four 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.880 years of college and then we've you know, now we're family, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.680 which is funny. So I get questions NonStop at any 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.760 family holiday thing. And then another guy who's like a 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.800 brother to me, film a tous is uh the topic 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.400 as donant Ohao State football. So he's in the he's 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.320 in the business too. So if we're all together. It's 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.120 it's NonStop training talk anyways, and then we all go 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.559 work out together and um, so it's it's really uh, 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.280 I don't mind it at all. I enjoy helping well. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.400 All my cousins that are back up in Western New 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.240 York where I'm from, they all, you know, text me 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.880 about certain things or you know, supplements, stuff like that. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.840 So I love being able to help out everybody you know, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.679 and and uh give my advice. You know, the only 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.040 person you know that doesn't really ask me a ton 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.960 of my wife, you know, we don't talk a ton 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.360 about training. But you know, other than that, you know, 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.280 if it's my parents or anything like that, brother in 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.600 law's it's my brother, any of those people. So, but 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.800 how much information is free flowing because this is a 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.880 small fraternity still in terms of strength and conditioning coaches 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.240 in the National Football League and at colleges. And one 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.320 of the things that's always struck me about you is 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:42.439 that you go out and travel to other places and 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.560 talk about, hey, what do you guys doing, And you 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:50.640 also exchange information, of course what you're trying here. There's 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.040 a lot of give and take, it seems like, yeah, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.679 depending on who you are some people, you know, believe, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.040 um they're reinventing the wheel and that they have all 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.640 the answers. And that's fine, that's just not how I operate, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.920 operate in the the way that no matter what I do, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.920 and if I told you everything I do, you won't 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.080 be able to duplicate what I do because it's me. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:12.840 It's coming from me in the way I sell it. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.600 So I can give you all the X and os. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.000 But until I until you see me, or until you 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.920 can do exactly what I do, I'm not worried about you. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.240 Still in what I can do, I want to I 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.560 want to maximize everything for our player, So if you 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.360 have a better way to do it, well I'm gonna. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.200 I'm gonna give you my information, so I know your 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.839 information advice. You know. I want to collect as much 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.440 data as I can, and sometimes that's trained it off. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.240 And you know, by no means do I believe that 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.840 I have all the answers. But there's people out there 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.679 that do have the answer to what I'm looking for. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.440 So I always try to, you know, get out there 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.560 and see what what information I can collect, you know, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.800 and there's different areas and different people in the country 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.160 that I'll go pick their brain or call them and say, hey, 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.960 what do you think about this? What what do you think? 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.400 And uh, you know, I don't think there's any problem 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.800 with that. And I protect you know, the Jets logo 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.360 and the Jets brand at all time. Is when I 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.080 go out there, UM, I'm not giving away you know, 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.800 any deep secrets of what you know. Um, Coach Gaze 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.760 you know is doing e anything. But I'm gonna go, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.840 you know, share like this is how we do this exercise, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.560 and these are the sets we do, and this is 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.080 how I talk to our players, um to get feedback 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.199 from other other people. And if if you're not willing 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.640 to share information, then I'm probably not gonna be out 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.680 there talking to you either, you know. And I feel 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.160 like we have to ask. This is gonna come up 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.040 at some point. But in your time here, who's on 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.640 the shortlist of biggest freaks in the weight room or 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.600 people that just love to be there as much as you? Yeah, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.920 I mean my staff number one, Maybe we're not freaks. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:44.480 But with you know, you know, you got Joe Jacobe, Uh, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.720 we're always finest New Jersey guy played at Rutgers, you 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.600 know as a walk on or in a scholarship down there, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.600 Aaron mclauren. He has been with me for six years. Um, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.360 you know, it was with the Vikings, he was at 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.000 Michigan State coal Gate, he went to Hampton and then 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.319 uh J. T. Hawhey who came to us this year. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.840 He's our intern down there from Ohio State. Um, he's 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.800 from out near Cleveland and he did an internship at 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.120 Ohio State with Phil who who I coached and is 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.000 like a brother to me. So you know, he was 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.720 a good recommendation. And then the guy that's bringing up 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.600 the height on our staff is uh the Brickishaw Ferguson, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.720 who's our seasonal intern this year. Um. So you know 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.240 with the tallest guy down there's Joe at about six foot. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.440 He'll stay six too. But then then we got brick 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.640 you know, and the Brickishaw is down there with us. Now, Um, 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.000 you know when he's one of those guys to me, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.440 that was a freak as a player. Um, there's a 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.280 reason he missed I think one play over the course 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.720 of his career and made every practice. He won't ever 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.160 say it, but I'll say it for him because he 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.240 worked his butt off the entire time. He never missed 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.680 a day in the weight room. He was there, you know, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.160 all the time, trying to better himself and you know, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:51.040 dedicated himself to his craft for ten years. Um, you know. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.760 And that's why when he, uh, you know, come to 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.000 me with the I kind of it was kind of mutual. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.520 We kind of came to each other with the opportunity. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:58.880 I said, if you want to be an intern, you can't. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.800 He's like really, and he's like probably that night, I 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.760 think he texted me back, Hey, I want to do it. Um. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.040 So he's interning for us for the whole year and 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.720 it's a good way for him to kind of see 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.760 the coaches side of what he did as a player, 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.880 you know. And I think he'd be the first to 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.760 tell you, like, it's it's different on our side and 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.440 he's seeing things maybe a little bit different way. But 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.240 the unique thing about him that I can't offer. I 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:21.840 didn't play in the NFL for ten years at a 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.640 high level, you know, at an elite level like he did. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.360 He can go to players and have a different conversation 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.800 than me or my staff can. And that's why I 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.320 love having him there. And he knows that, um, you know, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.600 he can go talking not just offensive lineman, but any 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.600 guy that's kind of looking, uh for a little bit advice. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.920 And I and I'm telling you, and I introduced him 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.120 multiple times, you know of who he is. I'm telling you, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:44.880 some of these players don't know who he is. You know, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.160 they don't know, and they're gonna, you know, and they're 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.320 gonna see, you know, highlights of him at at the 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.560 stadium and they're gonna be like, oh, is that the 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.640 guy in the weight room because you know, he's fifty 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.360 pounds lighter, and you know, everybody thinks he looks different, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.680 but it's still brick um. But he's he's a huge 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.480 addition into our staff. So you said you got great 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.120 belief in the staff, believe you got the best staff 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.920 in the country. But following up on what Green's asked you, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.640 and I interrupted because I wanted to make sure you've 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.960 got those names in there, other players over the years 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.120 that you've really enjoyed coaching up in the weight room. Yeah. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.120 I mean there's a lot of players that I've been 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.800 fortunate to be around. Um, you know, I'm just I'm 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.480 looking just thinking off the top of my head. You 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.240 got Nick Mangold, who was in there all the time. 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.400 Dave Harris was a weight room warrior. You know, he 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:35.080 he lived in there with us. Uh. Calvin Pace another guy. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.400 You know, he was back here for a training camp 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.160 and he still he still looks like he could play. Um. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.320 You know, Antonio Crimardi. Um, trying to think there's a 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.560 there's just so many guys when I look back at 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.720 my time here, you know that have got in there 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.560 and they appreciated the weight room and they worked every day. Um. 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.480 And you're talking about guys on the team now that 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.080 you know you have to kick out of the weight 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:01.400 room like a John Harrison, Calvin Beach Um. Um, people 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.000 are gonna get mad if I don't say their name. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:08.600 But there's so I mean, Steve mcclennan, uh Tkowski, all 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.560 these guys. You know, you gotta you gotta boot him 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.560 on the way from Jamal Adams is at the door 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.680 at you know, usually around five five thirty am, waiting 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.600 for me. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, he's here. Uh. And 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.199 he doesn't live around the corner either. I think he 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.959 lives closer now. He lives closer now, but he you know, 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.560 he's he is in there waiting for me to to 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.640 take him through in the mornings. UM, But you've got 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.640 so many, so many guys that on this team right 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:36.159 now that are putting in the work. UM. You know 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.000 that the players on this team are are dedicated workers 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.560 in the weight room, practice, They're running everything we do. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.800 You know, so easy with this group, there's I'm not 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.359 chasing anybody around. Maybe you know the way I had 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.480 to um in different years. Every year is different, obviously, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.080 you know, UM, but we have a lot of guys 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.760 here that are just hungry. You know, how was the program? 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.040 How was your program changed over the years, Because I 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.639 know you're adapting all the time and that's part of 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.520 the industry. But maybe look back and say, well, this 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.639 is where it was the first year here. And maybe 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.920 it's just not to say how your program has changed, 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:17.760 but maybe how the whole industry has changed is we've progressed. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.480 I mean, I think my bread and butter is always 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.280 going to be what I believe in. You know, the 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.360 heart and soul of what I believe in is UM. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.439