WEBVTT - Nightcap Hour Part 2: Unc & Ocho are joined by Leonard Williams + Travis Hunter welcomes his first son 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.280 Sir, how you guys doing. Can y'all hear me? Yeah, 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.760 we can hear you just back, can you hear us? Yes, sir. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:06.440 I'm on my wife's computer, so I'm trying to figure 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:07.560 out how to change your name on it. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:13.159 Right now? What's up to tell you? Haley? Was that you? 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:13.840 Not Haley? 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:17.880 No? No, l W was good by? 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:19.880 I'm good. How you doing? 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:21.840 Man? Listen? Man, life is good man, one ft in 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:23.239 front of the other man. I got my head hash 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.400 so I can see where I'm going. But before we start, 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.240 before we get into football, I just want to know 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:28.320 that you got a nutritionist. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:32.960 Oh I don't have. I do have a nutritions on 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:33.440 the team that. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.720 Are using well, we're not using We're not using him 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:37.920 or her no more, we're not using Listen. I'm a 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.720 meal prep I'm the NFL Nutritions. I've been appointed by 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.440 the NFL for all the players you know, So I'm 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.199 gonna senior information and I'm gonna be your me. I'm 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.280 gonna meal prep you meals for the next seventeen weeks and. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:51.080 For the playoffs. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.800 And you my second client. So I got is you 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.600 and Kirby Joseph. And then I'm mo and twenty dollars 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.640 a week. Twenty dollars a week, that's all. That's all 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:05.000 I charge. I'll be making spared heat before every game. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.040 I'm about to tell all the rookies about that. 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:07.680 I appreciate that. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:08.280 I appreciate that. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:08.840 Thank you. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:10.399 Literally. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.840 Uh, you get traded, you go to Seattle, and it 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.559 seems like in Seattle you found a home. I mean, look, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:19.839 it's not that you didn't play, you didn't play bad, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.240 but it seems like you found a home in Seattle. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.039 Can you tell us what's the biggest difference between Seattle 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.160 and New York? And I'm not talking about geographically, but 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.520 I'm saying in the defenses, was it something the way 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.039 the coaches, the way you received the information. Was it 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.440 the way they gave the information? Is that the defensive 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.520 steam what was different about the defense? 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:40.400 Man? 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.680 Honestly, I agree with you. I feel like I found 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.440 a home out here in Seattle. I feel like there's 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.760 a combination of things that made it feel different. So 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.720 the fan base was one of the big differences, just 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.200 like the way they embrace me, the way they show 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.680 up on game day, the way they support our team 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.040 and stuff like that. And then also just in terms 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:02.080 of schematics and coaches is I feel like, you know, 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.800 having a d who came from the Cowboys and then 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.640 coach Mike McDonald, I feel like they just kind of 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.639 created a scheme where they allow me to like play 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.120 with freedom and they allow me to be like a 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:19.080 playmaker and use my athleticism, and uh, they they celebrate 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.680 me for you know, just being in the backfield and 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.160 and sometimes uh like if I'm if I see a 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.720 play outside of the scheme, they allow me to like 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.320 sometimes swim a block. Yeah, exactly, go make a play 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.000 where you know, a lot of times throughout my career, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.520 I feel like I've was almost too culchable at times 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.320 where you know, I was taken away from my playmaking 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.120 ability where I was like trying to play a block 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.160 the way the coaches wanted me to and stuff like that. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.560 So it's a combination of stuff. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.720 It's so funny you just said that. We just talked 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.480 to Kirby Joseph and the one thing I asked him, 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.880 obviously they have a new defensive coordinator, right, and I said, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.240 do you still have the freedom to have free will 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.679 outside the scheme that your coach has where they still 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.440 allow you to do that, and he said yes. And 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.560 the fact that you you started everything out about your 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.400 coaches allowing you to have the freedom to be able 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.120 to make plays based on your football knowledge and what 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.920 your I see instead of what it says on paper 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.760 is really really important, especially for players like yourself to 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.160 be able to reach the maximum potential out there on Sundays. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.720 And that's that's really dope. That's really really dope to hear. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.880 Yeah, I agree, I think it's important. I mean for me, 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.200 it just made me feel like it brought like the 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.560 excitement of football back for me a little bit too, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.320 which made me like, once I started having fun, y'all 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:39.760 played before, so you know how it is like when 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.120 you're out there having fun and you're able to play 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.400 free and you know, have free will and be celebrated 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.800 for it, it's like the best out. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.080 Of you comes out. And I feel like that's how 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.960 it is here. I ask you this. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.240 When you're at the Giants and then you get traded, 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.760 You're like, damn, anybody ever been traded from the Giants 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.160 to the Jams or Jazz to the Giants? I mean, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.040 because it is so different Jet fans. I mean, the 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.160 Jets fans and the Giants fan they're so different. The 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.160 city reacts so different than the each team. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:13.680 Yeah. 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:15.880 I mean, like you said, even though we played in 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.960 the same stadium, the fan base felt different, the culture 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.600 felt very different. The Jets were kind of further out 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.839 in Jersey. Yeah, I felt like we were like a 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.320 New Jersey team kind of. And then the Giants being 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:28.800 so close to the city made me feel like I 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:33.000 was the actual New York team. But it was very interesting. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.320 I mean, luckily I didn't have to move during that trade. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.599 I was still able to stay in. But it was 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.640 definitely weird when like that same week I got traded, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.640 I ended up playing in the stadium, and like, instead 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.400 of going into one parking lot, I went to a 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.640 different parking lot, and instead of walking down that hall 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.240 to go to one locker room, I just went to 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.240 a different locker room. So it was very strange. Just 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:55.760 h it was interesting. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.960 Yeah, how is the body holding up? Man? Going into camp? 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:03.960 I mean, actually camp now ending prepared your body holding up? 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.159 I mean amazing, honestly. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.599 I mean, uh, I have a coaching staff, our strength 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.680 staff here at Seattle as the same strength staff I 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:13.279 had at USC. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:14.719 UH dope. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.159 Yes, it's really cool. So they got to see me 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.800 develop as like you know, when I. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.760 Was a young player, so they know they know what 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:22.800 works for Linded with you. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.160 Yeah, exactly, and we all talk about how it looks 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.120 like I'm like and it feels like I'm in the best. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.800 Shape of my life. Honestly, that's dope. I mean that's 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:31.400 saying something. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.360 I mean for a guy your size to be able 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.000 to move and it be as agile because we saw 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.599 what did they say, You're you're the largest guy to 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.520 ever get what do you have a ninety yard return 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.960 returch averager? You're you're the heaviest guy in NFL history 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.240 to return an interception that far for a touchdown? 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.240 Correct, Yeah, that's correct, yes, sirs. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.440 So so how did that? So let me so take 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.960 us through that, take us through that play? What what? 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:54.400 What was? 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.480 What were you supposed were you supposed to dropping courage 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:58.520 or did you see something? 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.400 You see his eyes that just like, let I've been 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:01.000 to make this play. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.520 Yeah, that's one of Mike McDonald's genius players right there 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.240 actually where it was designed for the detackers to drop 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.720 out And I actually got to pick and practice earlier 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.560 in camp. So when that play was dialed up, like 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.839 every time it's dout up, I'm thinking, I'm a players 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.560 coming my way, and it just happened, like it happened 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.320 so fast, man, Like people were asking me like, oh, 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.120 like what were you thinking when it happened? And I 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.680 was telling everybody it felt like it was like an 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.960 outer body experience actually, like I felt like I was 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:31.480 almost watching myself from like an aerial view of the happening, 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:32.000 you know what I mean? 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.360 Because you snagged it. I mean, it wasn't like it 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.360 ain't like you didna bro you. I mean like you 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.239 played tight end at some point in time, you caught 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.600 the ball. You played on the other side of the ball. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.160 You had to that was. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:50.360 That means a lot I played. I played in the 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.240 high school, but it wasn't like much. It was like 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.160 just every once in a while. I went to a 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:56.800 big high school, so we didn't have to play both 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.560 sides that much. But I'm an athlete though. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.720 You know you are you from l A. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.080 Yeah, I was born in California, but I went to 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.280 high school and Daytona Beach, Florida, So I was kind 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.520 of back and forth from California Florida most of my upbringing. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:14.680 That's live. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.760 You got a different quarterback this year, Gino leaves, he 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.920 goes to goes to the Las Vegas Raiders income Sam Donald, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.840 who did an next excellent job last year. But you 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.920 you played with with Sam. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.560 And and and and and. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.440 And with the Jets, so you're very familiar with him. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.160 What did the expectation what you guys. You guys had 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.360 had a nice little end to the season last year. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.720 I mean, so, what what's the expectations this year for Seattle? 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.000 I mean, I think the expectation is, you know, as 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.440 a defense, we we want to be the best on 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.400 the on the field. We have high expectations for our 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.280 offense this year, but like we compete with each other 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.880 even within the defensive room. And sorry, the defensive line 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.080 wants to be the best group on the defense. The 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.800 DB's one of the best group on the defense and 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.640 so on. But I'm definitely excited about the way our 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.520 offense is looking right now. We've got a new coordinator 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.960 and we're running the ball great so far. It's only 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.960 been preseason, but it just it just looks like a 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.120 new team with the way we're running the ball. And 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:19.920 then like you said, I played with Sam Donald sorry 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.520 on the Jets, and then I also played with him 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.320 at USC for like one year. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.640 Damn, you can't get away from him. Huh. Yeah, I 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:32.400 know he keeps tuggling, but like seeing what he did 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:32.880 last year. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.040 I mean, you know, he even played against us really 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.800 well when we played them last year against the Vikings. Yeah, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.880 and just seeing the way he's matured, and you know, 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.800 he's bounced around, played on a few teams, played in 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.320 a few different systems, and I think he's finally found 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.520 his groove and matured into a good player most definitely. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.520 I mean, I'm excited for you guys too, especially from 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.320 an offensive perspective seeing what Sam Donald was able to 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.079 do in Minnesota last year, obviously with Justin Jefferson in 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.959 Addison hoguson. But then also now you got json, you 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.320 got Cooper Cup over there, Kenneth Walker obviously taking some 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.960 of the pressure off him from to be able to flourish. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.560 I think y'all gonna find y'all, y'all, y'all gonna be fine. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.679 So I'm excited for y'all. Who y'all got Week one? 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.000 We got the Niners. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.120 Oh yeah, y'all got divisional match divisional match week one. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.880 Baby, y'all, y'all got that. Y'all got that. Niners they hurt, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.880 they don't know who they're gonna throw the ball to. Yeah, y'all, good, 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:26.480 y'all got that. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.800 Yes, sir, let me ask you a question when you 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.040 when you when you, what's your mindset? What's your thought process? 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.520 Because you know you do you move up and down 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.120 the line because you know, oh the great like a 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.800 lot of the defensive players that you know, the Reggie Wife, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.679 the Bruce Smell, the Aaron Donalds, those guys that Johnny Randers, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.960 Warren sapp They moved up and down the line, and 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.439 they trying to turn the handle to the door and 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.480 see which one opens the quickets, which one opened the easiest. 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.920 And that's where I'm gonna stay. So I might be ay, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.079 I might have to be a line up in a seven, 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.520 I might have to line up in a five. I 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.679 might get a three. I might get hey, I might 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:01.240 get the nose whatever. I'm just trying to find the 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.920 weakest leak. Because that's how it was on the saying 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.280 Giety the old and in the week get taken advantage of. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:08.600 That's what I'm looking to do. 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.520 I mean, you said it perfectly. I mean I never 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.120 heard it described with the opening the door thing. That's 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:15.640 like I'm gonna have to take that back into the 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.680 D line room and read. But yeah, I mean I 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.600 think that's something that makes me a unique player. Since 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.040 coming out of college, I could play from the zero 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.280 all the way out to like six nine technique on 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.199 the edge, uh like, And it showed up last year. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.000 I was getting, you know, sacks at end. I was 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.960 getting sacks at three technique. I prefer three technique. Like 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.760 playing you had to play the under tackle hunt. 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:43.400 Yeah, I like to like that shade. It's just less face, 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:44.360 less stuff to look at. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.880 Sometimes when I'm out there at the end, it's like 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.719 they will trying to put a receiver out there and 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:48.600 make him look like he's. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:50.480 Cracky. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.719 Yeah. Yeah, it's all that tricky stuff out there on 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.640 the edge. Sometimes when I'm on the three technique, I'm 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:55.960 just it's just monitoring. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.400 Go, it's go. I'm getting on my man right now 0:10:58.480 --> 0:10:59.600 as quick as possible. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.600 But in certain situations, like playing against the Niners, it's 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.640 a little less about finding the fish what we call it, 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.240 you know, like the oh hey, you gotta land him. Hey, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.480 we got a fish over there. Yeah, we got the fish. 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.240 But against playing like the Niners is set of finding 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:16.760 the fish. They actually like to line me up on 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.920 Trent because they say their offense is kind of ran 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.640 around him sometimes, so it's like their their run game 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.360 and a lot of stuff like that tends to run 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.920 towards Trent Williams, so they like to put me on 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.640 him to kind of like help shut down the run 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:30.120 a little bit. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.480 So it works hand in hand like that. What's it like? 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.960 Let me make what's it like to get traded mid season? 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.360 I mean, so they called you, So were you home 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:40.920 when you got the news that you were traded? 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.800 Were you home? Were you at practice? So? Where were 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.600 you when you got the news that you were going 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:46.200 to get traded? 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.920 I was in the building, it was Yeah, it was 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.720 on a Monday, So I came in just doing my 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.560 normal routine. I was definitely hearing like conversations about like 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.720 possible trade, you know, with my agent and just the 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.400 way the season was going for the Giants. You know, 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.400 we were we were losing, We were pretty much already 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.560 out of the playoffs. And then the GM like called 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.720 me into his office, so I kind of already expected 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.600 what was coming, and the way he presented it to 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.320 me was making it seem like I had like two 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.320 teams to choose from that were like both trying to 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.360 trade for me for around the same offer pretty much. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.600 And at the time, like the Seahawks were like number 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.160 one in the division. I knew a Pete Carroll a 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.800 little bit, and I just thought it was the best 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.400 fit for me. It was obviously a struggle, like coming 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.240 all the way to the West coast Pacific northwest in 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.040 the middle, Yeah, that's a long way. Yeah, it was 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.040 a long and then I'm living in a hotel for 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.840 like two weeks before I get situated in like a 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:43.920 house and stuff like that. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.000 So it's a lot. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:50.240 But you know, I even played good for those eight 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.600 weeks that I was here, And I remember, like my 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.120 wife and like coaching teammates even asking me, like, you know, 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.320 how were you able to play good even in the 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.400 middle of like moving and transitioning your life stuff at 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.640 that And for me, I told my wife and other 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.640 people that like there was so much going on like 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.480 out of my control that it made me like full 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.319 from what I could control exactly. I was fully dialting 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.880 on what I could control. So it's just like the 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.600 way I'll showed up for work every day, the way 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.160 I played and stuff like that just like went to 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:19.840 another level because I was like, oh, like I put 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.880 so much more emphasis and focus on like what I 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:22.520 could control. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:27.480 What are your goals this upcoming seven? From an individual standpoint, obviously, 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.120 you know team goals, you have those. Defensively you have 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.240 obviously you have team goals that you have as a unit. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.480 But from an individual standpoint, what do you hope to 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.560 accomplish this season outside of the main goal being Super Bowl? 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:43.880 I mean as an individual, I think I just want 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.200 to like build on the season I had last year. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.920 I felt like I was short of some accolades that 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.719 I that I worked for, and I feel like I 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.640 want to, you know, be first AP All Pro and 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.800 Pro Bowl this year, and you know, maybe like ten 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:07.040 plus sacks, like fifteen plus TfL just and I also 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.600 feed the rest of my guys. I feel like we 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.800 have a great D line right now, and I feel 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.600 like at least four of us can have eight plus 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:15.320 sacks this year. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:20.520 Like that, do you feel like the defensive tackles because 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.600 you guys don't get the high sack totals. Aaron Donald's 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.680 is a nominally a guy that played the three, they 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.400 can get twenty sacks. That's crazy, that's heard different. But 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.360 you guys don't get like the edges. You know, the 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.560 Miles Garrett and and the Michael Parsons and the TJ. 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.120 Watson's out there on edge and playing in space. They're 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.000 gonna have thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, twenty sacks. Do you 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.200 feel like you guys get the credit that you deserve. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.440 I think the standard for d tackle definitely has changed 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.520 in the last few years, and I think Aaron Donald 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.160 was a big part of that. Obviously, him getting ten 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.360 plus sacks every year and you know, one of these 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:04.440 sacks his defensive Player of the year, you know that 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.520 was that was different for a defensive tackle. I think 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.120 like if you were getting like six to eight sacks 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.520 as a defensive tackle normally, that's like a good season. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.320 That's a head of the season, that's a that's a 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.240 good season for a de tackle normally. And I think nowadays, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.200 you know, fans want to see ten plus sacks from 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.920 a defensive tackle for them to think that you had 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.640 a good season, and and Unfortunately, they see sacks as 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.640 like one of the main stats, and they don't see 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.840 like all the play and playout players that run the 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:36.400 tackle for losses, the holding up so the linebackers can 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:37.200 make the plays. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.240 I mean, I don't like to do all that either. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.680 I like, well, I know what you told me. You 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.480 have to play the under tackle. I already know you 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:46.440 ain't tried the two gaps. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.160 Yeah, I like you anything, but I want I want 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.480 to make the play for sure. I love my linebackers, 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.320 But like I said, we'd be competing in our room. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.640 So I'm hey, a first cup, first served, bro. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.160 I'm tried to get out. I got first track. I'm 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.440 close to it. But you I heard you in the magic. 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:03.240 Oh what do you know about that? 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:04.320 Nah? 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.600 I just I think you don't little research. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.800 So you Yeah, it's not like it's not like pulling 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.360 bunnies out of a hat, like not like that type 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.200 of magic, you know. I mean, it's it's a card game. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.080 It's kind of like similar to like Pokemon. Okay, you 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.400 collect cards and you can play. It's it's called like magic. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.600 The gathering from my wizards to gathering, yeah okay, yeah, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.320 and I Wizards of the Coast is the brand that 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.280 that makes them. And what's cool is they they're based 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:34.800 out here in Seattle. So they gave me like a 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.360 tour of their facility and stuff like that, and uh, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.440 you know, we've been in communication about it. So is 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.520 that what you do in your downtown? I mean, I 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.120 do a lot of things in my downtown. I feel 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.600 like I'm pretty different from most football players. I think 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.200 I started playing football later in life, Like I didn't 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.640 start playing football until I got to high school. And 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.400 I feel like because of that, I was able to 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.560 kind of figure myself out as like a person a 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.600 little bit. I mean I was young still obviously, but 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:01.960 I feel like I was able to like find other 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.960 interests in hobbies and stuff like that outside of football. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.199 So I like to go like spear fishing and like 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.520 boating and traveling and stuff like that. 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.199 That's what I was I was about to ask you, 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.720 being up there in Seattle, do you like them you 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.919 like to go fishing? Because you know, uh, what's the 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.679 market I would have there? Because you got to go 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.280 to the market you go to see you got to 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:21.040 go see him throw. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.479 The fish and do all have you? Have you caught him? 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:24.800 Have you been able to catch it. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.800 Yeah, of course I went up there, like a few 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.760 weeks after I got traded, when I finally got out 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.400 of the hotel, like me and my wife like, Okay, 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.400 now it's time to explore the city a little bit. 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.320 So we went to it and like they all recognized me, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.199 like right away, so they were like, big, can you 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.600