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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Players Club. And have
Speaker 1: we got a show for you? Guess who died? We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that Marshall, A lot of more trade,
Speaker 1: who got the Doves of the week versus the New
Speaker 1: York Giants? Got to preview our upcoming game against the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Stealers. We got a special guest.
Speaker 2: Scary Terrys.
Speaker 1: Everyone is going, but first we got to talk about
Speaker 1: the Commander's big trade. Oh yes, Tadam, We're gonna let
Speaker 1: you start this thing off.
Speaker 3: Yes, so you know, I'm I'm happy to be talking
Speaker 3: about this dude, just knowing what he means to this
Speaker 3: guy to the left of me, you know.
Speaker 2: In the Ohio, get it.
Speaker 3: But in all seriousness, man like when you got've heard,
Speaker 3: you know, when it hit the wire that we was
Speaker 3: getting my sean, A lot of more.
Speaker 2: What was the first team came to mind? You know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start with you London.
Speaker 1: So I've Marshawn is from Cleveland. I'm from Cleveland. My
Speaker 1: one of my good friends actually was his high school
Speaker 1: principal with the Glenville High School. Ted Again Senior was
Speaker 1: his head coaching high school. We all know Ted Again Junior,
Speaker 1: the neighborhood that he grew up in. I mean, dog like,
Speaker 1: you gotta, you gotta, you gotta scrap, fight for everything.
Speaker 1: So I was thinking, like, man, we finally got us
Speaker 1: a lockdown corner guy that you can assign to whoever
Speaker 1: that team's number one corner is and say, hey, you
Speaker 1: got him, We're gonna worry about these other guys. So
Speaker 1: that was that was the first thing that came to mind. Man,
Speaker 1: we needed to we needed to add to the pieces
Speaker 1: to this team, and not just for the team's number
Speaker 1: one receiver that we go against, but looking forward, like
Speaker 1: they feel like we really can make a deep playoff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with this team that we have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one of the first things I wanted to
Speaker 3: ask because I just know, you know, from y'all guys
Speaker 3: respect of being a defensive guy, and then you know,
Speaker 3: coming over to you Sean being being a cornerback, what
Speaker 3: would be his impact?
Speaker 1: I mean, you up.
Speaker 3: You watch these guys for what up to what we
Speaker 3: played nine games this season so far, What is one
Speaker 3: thing knowing when we picked him up, what pact? What
Speaker 3: instant impact can he bring to this secondary and his defense.
Speaker 4: I think the instant impact is obviously you know, he
Speaker 4: gives you the ability to play one on one coverage,
Speaker 4: and he gives your ability for coach with to be
Speaker 4: able to play zone schemes as well. And he's physical
Speaker 4: at the at the point of attack. He has the
Speaker 4: ability to tackle. But I think what London said was
Speaker 4: really important. His attitude humol out of Cleveland, like when
Speaker 4: he said the dog like the kid is a dog.
Speaker 4: I'm excited he's a buck eye played corner they got.
Speaker 4: They had a great group of guys when he was there,
Speaker 4: from Gary on Conley and Eli Apple.
Speaker 5: And all those And he's a competitor man.
Speaker 4: So when you add him to the mix with the
Speaker 4: other players and his attitude, that dog ass attitude.
Speaker 5: When it comes into the mix, the level.
Speaker 1: Everybody comes out. Here's something else that I feel like
Speaker 1: he'll have the impact he'll have and we we we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about this because when you first think of
Speaker 1: and to the corner you think, okay, and to the
Speaker 1: cornerback position, you think coverage. Adding him to the team
Speaker 1: also will help the run defense. And here's why. When
Speaker 1: you look at the look at our game against the
Speaker 1: New York Giants, we showed a lot of Cover two
Speaker 1: to start to start the pre snap and played a
Speaker 1: lot of kind of quarters coverage or Cover six. And
Speaker 1: you know, but now you'll be able to play more
Speaker 1: pre snap single high safety and they may still show
Speaker 1: pre snap too hot, but you can maybe bring bring
Speaker 1: him down to the box because you can you feel
Speaker 1: comfortable playing more single high safeties, more man man, he adds,
Speaker 1: Now you can probably play pressure a little bit more,
Speaker 1: bring more five man pressure, bring more six man pressure,
Speaker 1: things like that, because you have a guy that at
Speaker 1: this to the additional additional additional cover got so not
Speaker 1: only helping you on the on the coverage standpoint aspect,
Speaker 1: he could help us the run run defense. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So New Orleans gets three third round, fourth round and
Speaker 3: the sixth round pick from US and we get him
Speaker 3: with a fifth round pick. Do you think that was
Speaker 3: some good I guess you can say capital we gave.
Speaker 5: From I think so when you consider, you know, one
Speaker 5: of those picks came.
Speaker 1: From the Dahaan Dotson trade.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we all were little kind of shocked
Speaker 4: at first when we heard about that.
Speaker 1: That wasn't we kept that pick.
Speaker 4: Well, we kept that picked, but so we so we
Speaker 4: didn't get anything from this sign that tribute. We got
Speaker 4: a third we got, so that's what I'm saying. So
Speaker 4: we got a third that you can add towards a
Speaker 4: lot of more.
Speaker 1: So the third that we got from Philly was Miami's
Speaker 1: third round draft, which is a high if you look
Speaker 1: at where miamis.
Speaker 2: We kept. We kept that pick from Gay from our
Speaker 2: a lot later.
Speaker 1: And we can to do that because we had an
Speaker 1: extraor to do this. We had an extra third and
Speaker 1: then that.
Speaker 2: Sixth round pick came from from us giving away.
Speaker 5: So I think it was an excellent move. And Lennon,
Speaker 5: you touched on it.
Speaker 4: When you make that decision to go after a lot
Speaker 4: of more, that's saying we know that we're gonna play
Speaker 4: some tough receivers Philly.
Speaker 1: We know that Detroit got some pretty good receivers.
Speaker 4: We know that Minnesota may have a Jefferson or somebod
Speaker 4: and we know that we might.
Speaker 5: Play Tampa again. We play we saw in week one.
Speaker 4: What happened there so we can and the potential in
Speaker 4: the playoffs, we're gonna see some dolls.
Speaker 1: Not even the playoffs we got we got Dallas.
Speaker 3: I look at it like this, just from a receiver standpoint.
Speaker 3: One of the things that's being clear to me is
Speaker 3: watching odd guys in the secondary, is that we're not.
Speaker 1: That far away, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like even even even Saint Juice has elevated his game
Speaker 3: this year, how physical he's been playing. So one of
Speaker 3: the things that you know, we talked so much right
Speaker 3: before these shows, and Smooth said something that I couldn't
Speaker 3: think about it enough when when I saw that trade happen,
Speaker 3: was like, Bro, we've been forcing guys to play out
Speaker 3: of position. Now you get a guy to say, okay,
Speaker 3: the one you the man, So here's here's their man.
Speaker 1: We lock him up.
Speaker 3: Now you get a Saint Juice and all those other
Speaker 3: guys to be able to fall back into you know,
Speaker 3: a favorable matchups where Saint Justus can get a number
Speaker 3: two and then now you can get Santa still to
Speaker 3: getting you know, going to the slide and play the
Speaker 3: nickel or vice versa.
Speaker 2: However you want to do it.
Speaker 3: But it also besides those guys getting into different you know,
Speaker 3: I guess one, two and three, you know, positions far
Speaker 3: as corners. Now Joe Witt gets a chance to say, Okay,
Speaker 3: now I can play the defense I want.
Speaker 2: Now I could put them.
Speaker 3: In these coverages and these schemes and these looks that
Speaker 3: I'm baiting you to do something that you want to do,
Speaker 3: because now I don't have to beast off trying to
Speaker 3: you know, I guess you can say protect anybody out.
Speaker 1: Here in the second Here's here's another element of that.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Saint Juws Sarah stick I had a lot
Speaker 1: of more. Yeah, Nono has been he's been playing great,
Speaker 1: he's been playing good. And it might be situations when
Speaker 1: you're playing three corners. You might say, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep ignogoy on Thenogay Benogaie on the field, and you
Speaker 1: gotta be sander still ignogny in Yeah, Marshall.
Speaker 4: We called it penny when we had the three corners
Speaker 4: on the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Or you may say we're gonna go dime, We're
Speaker 1: gonna have four corners on the on the field and
Speaker 1: we now I can have okay, y'all put tight end
Speaker 1: or we're talking about.
Speaker 4: That because that's eleven personnel. Because now you can be
Speaker 4: dime more nickel versus left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can be so so if they got three
Speaker 1: receivers on it, and it's an obvious true passing situation
Speaker 1: where it's not not like a third and three, third
Speaker 1: and two situations, but it was third seven, it's third
Speaker 1: and eight thirty ten. Instead of having a linebacker potentially
Speaker 1: and they had I know a lot of times they'll
Speaker 1: bring Percy Butler in, let's have him cover. Now you
Speaker 1: gotta you got four corners that you can have on
Speaker 1: the field, have that true corner, cover that tied end,
Speaker 1: and you just.
Speaker 4: Have you have more flexible flexibilities to package that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll mix the match, they'll fear fine, who are
Speaker 1: the best guys for that game? And Joe Jr. Talks
Speaker 1: about that, it's like who who are the who are
Speaker 1: the guys that gives us the best chance to win
Speaker 1: this game?
Speaker 4: And the thing I like about this team because we
Speaker 4: had a situation in Washington where we bought the hall
Speaker 4: in Yeah, in a in a in a room full
Speaker 4: of personalities in first round picks.
Speaker 1: Now you not smooth smooth on the first round more smooth,
Speaker 1: but personality first. He was the first ride. But the
Speaker 1: question is, you know you bring in a guy like
Speaker 1: a lot of More.
Speaker 4: You said, you know he earned that respecting the league
Speaker 4: where he's been All Pro Pro bowler. So now, guys,
Speaker 4: when you bring in a guy like that who's proven
Speaker 4: it's by the work of the last seven eight years,
Speaker 4: seven years, you know.
Speaker 1: That the guy is gonna gonna respect that.
Speaker 4: And it shouldn't be because Lonnon is talking about four
Speaker 4: guys got to play, or four corners or three gotta play.
Speaker 4: Sometimes the ego can get in, but this team loves
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 1: But you know what Sean was, we had a package
Speaker 1: you mentioned, you mentioned a Penny package. Well, they're know
Speaker 1: in that Penny package we would have We'd tell you
Speaker 1: have four corners on the field, take one, take one
Speaker 1: of the safeties off Blue. Blue had the flexibility where he
Speaker 1: could play safety and he also can play in the box.
Speaker 1: Thinking of thinking about that when a lot of More
Speaker 1: reminds me a lot about a lot of you. You know,
Speaker 1: a bigger corner, he's not afraid to tackle. Can you
Speaker 1: know you could do a lot of things. He's gonna
Speaker 1: mix it up. You can assign him to the number
Speaker 1: one guy. And then also think about what we acquired
Speaker 1: d Hall. That was the middle of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they we picked him up in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: Similar Yeah, similar situations.
Speaker 3: Kind of mentioned it because I was going to get
Speaker 3: to that question of asking you who are a corner
Speaker 3: that y'all can identify that say a lot of more
Speaker 3: reminds you of this particular guy that you play with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Blue fun very very similar in the sense
Speaker 4: that he just versatility any physical He's a tough kid
Speaker 4: like and the thing about it too, like a lot
Speaker 4: of people don't know about it.
Speaker 1: He can run, man like he can. He can he
Speaker 1: can really run, and.
Speaker 4: We had Davis is a bigger guy, but his hips
Speaker 4: he smooth and transition. And I can't tell y'all enough
Speaker 4: about what a dog attitude means. If we talk about
Speaker 4: this all the time, like corners have to be able
Speaker 4: to say I'm okay being number one. You know, I'm
Speaker 4: okay this, I'm comfortable right, And that attitude and that
Speaker 4: confidence gives Joe with that confidence, give the secondary the confidence,
Speaker 4: the linebacker and d line the confidence.
Speaker 1: I just think about the battles him and might have
Speaker 1: had Yeah, those are some epic battles, and both of
Speaker 1: those guys, they would have their moments. Yeah, Mike, Mike
Speaker 1: would have his moments, and if Marshawn would have his moments,
Speaker 1: So you know those are those are the type of thing.
Speaker 1: And hey, you might have scored a touchdown against me,
Speaker 1: you might have called a big, big pass, but this
Speaker 1: next play, I'm stripping up against you. So I love
Speaker 1: that part of aspect about them. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it as a whole.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: I just think when you looking at what we're trying
Speaker 3: to create here, especially from the culture standpoint, and what
Speaker 3: you've seen already prematurely throughout this season, Like that's what
Speaker 3: you've seen, that's the play you've seen. And he's coming
Speaker 3: into a system basically that you know, I guess you
Speaker 3: can say designed for the type of player he is.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, you know, no hose bar means business, and he's
Speaker 3: gonna go out there and handle his business.
Speaker 1: So I'm all up for man. Can't wait to see
Speaker 1: him playing, all right.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: So, as we mentioned, we got to talk about this game,
Speaker 1: the game we just had to get to. New York
Speaker 1: Football swept the Giants first time of the long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first time of loone. We were able to sweep the Giants. Man.
Speaker 1: We love beat the g men. Fellas, we gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta have our dubs of the week.
Speaker 7: And we're gonna lock this duves of the week.
Speaker 1: We got the dubs of the week. Turn out, Hey,
Speaker 1: at some point, if anybody watching, y'all want to send
Speaker 1: us an I stout go to the week chain dub chain.
Speaker 1: We appreciate that. All right, Blue, I'm gonna start with you.
Speaker 1: Who gets your dub of the week from the game
Speaker 1: against the Giants.
Speaker 4: Man again, I'm gonna have to we normally we picked
Speaker 4: players and Santana will pick a coach. I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: up there and said to me, it's coach Quinn. Here's
Speaker 4: why the coaching staff. We had a big miracle and Maryland, Yeah,
Speaker 4: big momentum excitement.
Speaker 1: It's easily to.
Speaker 5: Lose sight of a team we were supposed to go
Speaker 5: up there and beat.
Speaker 1: How many times have we seen it in the league?
Speaker 4: Team goes on the road and they playing a conference game,
Speaker 4: and they go up there and they get beat. Johns
Speaker 4: were and six at home. Daniel Jones has a winning
Speaker 4: record against US. We know it when it can be
Speaker 4: an easy game. Lenny, you talk about Dexa, Lawrence b robbed,
Speaker 4: b robbed before the game, is injured.
Speaker 1: You know, he's surprise injury. Before the game, he was
Speaker 1: intering into the guy. Yeah, but I'm saying we didn't
Speaker 1: know if he was gonna play.
Speaker 2: He tested out, and he tests.
Speaker 1: Out and can play. You know what. That's that That
Speaker 1: was a big loss.
Speaker 4: So for me, it was the It was the coaching
Speaker 4: staff having these guys prepared and not let down after
Speaker 4: a big win, an emotional win, going up there and
Speaker 4: take care of business in New York.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: You know, normally I beat the one that picked a coach.
Speaker 3: So since you did that, beat Yeah, that's all good.
Speaker 3: It's all good. I'm gonnas gonna be better. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: tell you why my dub of the he goes to
Speaker 3: the offensive line come into the game. What we talked
Speaker 3: about these guys had you know, their g men D
Speaker 3: line had what thirty five sacks.
Speaker 1: One National Football League.
Speaker 3: You got Launch, you got Karri Kid, you got Burns,
Speaker 3: you got these guys had their way with guys.
Speaker 2: And we talked about BEYONDI.
Speaker 3: And how he performed the first time out against Lawrence,
Speaker 3: he was like, hey, that's one guy that has his number.
Speaker 3: You know, Beyondish played well against him every time he
Speaker 3: sees him. He held him for an oph. He didn't
Speaker 3: even have a player that can really identify with saying
Speaker 3: that's the Clibory player he was the first time out.
Speaker 3: And then you kind of come in and say, all right,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna show you could do that again. That's hard, bro.
Speaker 3: I mean, we played teams twice in a season, and
Speaker 3: it's never it never looks like the first game.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 3: They either get you or you get them. It's never
Speaker 3: the same way twice. And for us to go out
Speaker 3: there and dominant and be dominated up front as a
Speaker 3: whole man, that young kid called me man, we can't
Speaker 3: say enough about what he does and what he brings
Speaker 3: to the left tackle balls, you know, not not having Lucas,
Speaker 3: not having somebody who can come in and sub for him,
Speaker 3: he went out there and held his own. So I
Speaker 3: have to give my dub of the week to the
Speaker 3: offensive line.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: We've been praising these guys a lot this year, so
Speaker 3: I'm loving the way this thing is trending, because you know,
Speaker 3: without them, we can't be specially in the run game.
Speaker 3: We can't be specially in the past game. So they
Speaker 3: get a lot of credit.
Speaker 4: And I remember in camp, you're talking about that's what
Speaker 4: you were nervous about.
Speaker 1: You talked about the line. Yeah they played outstanding, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they played outstanding. All right. You know, I got to
Speaker 1: just my chain, manst my chain for the double week.
Speaker 1: It's this is tough for me because on the booth
Speaker 1: review that that I do with brawn, we give out
Speaker 1: I got a heavyweight Combatus Championship belt and this past
Speaker 1: weekend it was Jaden. Jaden was a defending champ from
Speaker 1: the game against the Bears, and uh that d'ante follow
Speaker 1: was the competition. Jaye end up retaining the belt. So
Speaker 1: obviously those two guys are in competition for my double
Speaker 1: the Week. But as I sit here today, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get a double the Week to Jeremy Chin. Jeremy Chen
Speaker 1: his best game, Yes he was. He was all over
Speaker 1: the field. I thought the way they utilized him in
Speaker 1: that game was was just Uh, it was terrific because
Speaker 1: they had him closer to the box. They blitzed him.
Speaker 8: A lot.
Speaker 1: He was excellent in coverage. Man Man it was. He
Speaker 1: was all over the field. He had seven tackles in
Speaker 1: the first half, end up with twelve and in the game.
Speaker 1: But just you can feel, you felt his presence and
Speaker 1: his impact in that ball game. So you know the
Speaker 1: game where defensively, you know, several guys made plays, follow
Speaker 1: had the two sacks. You know, always good. Johnny Dudon
Speaker 1: has been turning it on. But Jeremy Chen stood out
Speaker 1: to me and I'm gonna have to give him my
Speaker 1: double the week man, He's gonna get my.
Speaker 2: Dis He let the team in tackles to be like
Speaker 2: eleven times talk.
Speaker 1: About the quarterback. Jaden had another outstanding game. Yes, persumptive
Speaker 1: leader in the clubhouse right now for Offensive Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year. What about m v P.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked that.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you had this for this this purpose only,
Speaker 3: and because I look at it like this, of course
Speaker 3: they're probably not going to want to give it to
Speaker 3: him because he's a rookie.
Speaker 1: Only happened one time, you can, but it was saying, well,
Speaker 1: the last offensive guy to do it was was Jim Brown.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Oh no, I think Jim Brown almost got it.
Speaker 1: I don't think he got it the NFL MVP. I
Speaker 1: remember it as.
Speaker 3: I remember Robert Stint as a rookie and how he
Speaker 3: was kind of bought a line up for it too,
Speaker 3: and they was like, well, you're gonna get the Rookie
Speaker 3: of the Year, so let's just let you get there
Speaker 3: as somebody else. Well, I look at this a lot
Speaker 3: different because not only is this guy showing you that
Speaker 3: I'm a developed passer more so than I am a runner,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like people want to identify
Speaker 3: you because of your skill sets as the next guy
Speaker 3: who did that. But this is not his game. You
Speaker 3: see what I'm saying. And I love that because we've
Speaker 3: been saying there for so long. Like, look, bro, I
Speaker 3: understand he's gifted when he leaves the pocket, but his
Speaker 3: gift is I can get out of danger when I
Speaker 3: need to. I'm not looking to do that with these legs.
Speaker 3: I'm going to pass the ball accordingly, and if it's
Speaker 3: not there, guess what, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: Very poison.
Speaker 3: So I look at it like this man, if he
Speaker 3: stays on this rate, which it seems to me this
Speaker 3: is this is him.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It's hard to say that, Oh, we've seen this side
Speaker 3: of him. We've seen that side of No, we've seen
Speaker 3: the same guy from week one to two. The only
Speaker 3: thing we saw different from week one now is that
Speaker 3: he's not second guess.
Speaker 2: Won he has.
Speaker 3: He was hesitant throwing because he was like, well, I
Speaker 3: want to make sure it's there because he used to
Speaker 3: the college, you know, and he realized real, real fast. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's a guy gonna be here.
Speaker 2: Let me just still do what I do.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, I'm an accurate passor so
Speaker 3: let me go ahead and do it, you know, show
Speaker 3: them that I'm how.
Speaker 2: Accurate I am.
Speaker 3: But I will say, if he stays on this path,
Speaker 3: it would be hard. It would be hard because we
Speaker 3: know the other guy who's down the street, cousins, Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: he's on that same he's in the race for having
Speaker 3: his third one. It's it would be hard to kind
Speaker 3: of not give him that nod. If we keep on
Speaker 3: the pace we are.
Speaker 4: Well, I think you can give it to a rookie
Speaker 4: and Lamar's plan and I think he would be.
Speaker 5: Nationally.
Speaker 4: I think we will considered, but we got to be
Speaker 4: respectful to Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pat Holmes, I'm just saying but.
Speaker 1: Defeated.
Speaker 4: But his team, he's doing what he needs to do
Speaker 4: when he needs to do it. So I would I
Speaker 4: would say the only reason why is maybe because somebody
Speaker 4: may see Lamar Jackson or Patrick Mahomes based.
Speaker 1: On or the guy in Detroit. I mean you got
Speaker 1: to oh yeah, I forgot quarter.
Speaker 8: He was.
Speaker 4: But man, but is he in the conversation the conversation man?
Speaker 4: And you know, we saw CJ last year London Stroud
Speaker 4: at Houston and we thought, like he came on to
Speaker 4: your point, Santana. This boy he's been he's been outstanding
Speaker 4: and doing something amazing every game. Even in the Tempa
Speaker 4: game he had almost one hundred yards Russian.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this kid is he could do it.
Speaker 3: And not only is he out there doing it, he
Speaker 3: has a purpose. It's not like he's here to say, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to go out here and dominate in
Speaker 3: these statistics. No, I'm trying to do enough for us
Speaker 3: to win. And on the side of us doing all that,
Speaker 3: I'm also having in mind what CJ did last year.
Speaker 1: Those guys are guys and he said he spoke it.
Speaker 3: He said, yeah, man, you know I'm gonna take that
Speaker 3: down this year and I was kind of throwing out her.
Speaker 3: I said, oh, he said that before the season even started.
Speaker 3: He was shooting for what Stroud died to know that
Speaker 3: he came into the season with that in mind. Man,
Speaker 3: that's amazing to me, because you know, sometimes you want
Speaker 3: to put so much on your plate, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean to me, that was kind of like you're
Speaker 3: adding a couple of most slices to that places only
Speaker 3: good enough for three of them. You're trying to put
Speaker 3: five on that player.
Speaker 1: Thing gonna fall over.
Speaker 3: But he understands, you know what I'm saying, playing his
Speaker 3: play can hold.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: He's definitely, he's definitely in the conversation. I think it's
Speaker 1: really you gotta you gotta have Lamar in there. Joe
Speaker 1: Burrows having a really good season, but you Jared Golf, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: Jared Patrick's gonna be in the conversation. They're undefeated, defeated.
Speaker 1: But Lamar, he's a He's a top five cadidate. He
Speaker 1: might even be top three. I think it's a lot
Speaker 1: of teams. I think it's top three. It's what your
Speaker 1: gears the man and I know you saw this young
Speaker 1: you uh, young dude. Still we call him young because
Speaker 1: we were a little bit older. Yeah, Jeff Reeves called
Speaker 1: a shout of us. I called us the o gz
Speaker 1: you be mentioned myself talked about how how happy is Uh.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, being able to tap it up
Speaker 1: and see see us after the gas man talk about
Speaker 1: how proud we are.
Speaker 5: Awesome, bro, those guys man now that we saw that.
Speaker 3: No, because you know what, and this is crazy that
Speaker 3: he said that. I didn't even know he said that,
Speaker 3: so I didn't. This is my first time seeing it.
Speaker 3: But I did a show with Donna and Tony. You
Speaker 3: remember Tony equit me guy here. Tony had his show.
Speaker 3: I think it's called The Siline Report or something like that.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: And Donna was like, yeah, ten hours behind you, and
Speaker 3: you know, the players didin't give.
Speaker 2: Me adapt, they gave you adapt.
Speaker 3: And I didn't know what she was trying to say,
Speaker 3: but I'm not sure if she was talking about that.
Speaker 3: But I told Donna, I said, Donn, I be honest
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 2: You know, they have to warm up to you.
Speaker 3: You know, they have to understand that you're there for them.
Speaker 3: And I say, you know, being on this side is
Speaker 3: hard because I remember me doing the same thing. If
Speaker 3: I saw a guy, whether he played or not, if
Speaker 3: he's reporting us, I want to make sure he's saying
Speaker 3: the right thing about us and he's not just here
Speaker 3: to like, you know, dog us or whatever. And now
Speaker 3: those guys are, you know, reaching out when we do
Speaker 3: in our hand But I'm I'm there for support.
Speaker 2: Brother. It's good or bad.
Speaker 3: Man, I've been in those shoes, so you know, I'm
Speaker 3: a guy that's mindful that sometimes they don't want that
Speaker 3: handshake if the game wasn't their way right, So I
Speaker 3: won't even bother them, but I still clap them on,
Speaker 3: let them know I'm here.
Speaker 2: Man, good job, you know next time. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: But it's that's it's love to know that your love
Speaker 3: is being felled.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's I saw it. I happen to see it.
Speaker 1: I was on my way to the airport when I
Speaker 1: saw it, and I might even been at the airport.
Speaker 1: I saw it, and you know I responded back to
Speaker 1: him because man, we are proud. It's it's it feels
Speaker 1: good if you warrant, if you were to Burguniar Gol,
Speaker 1: whether you play for the Commanders, the football team, the Redskins, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's hard to like, I played for three teams, but
Speaker 1: I bleed Burkeaney and go yeah. So for them to
Speaker 1: be experience and of having the type of season they're having.
Speaker 3: Let me say this too because it's I have to
Speaker 3: say it. You know, what's so crazy to have a
Speaker 3: you know, have a brother that actually played in the
Speaker 3: league as well, played for the New York Giants, won
Speaker 3: a Super Bowl, the New York Giants, a kid. You
Speaker 3: not all our friends and immediate family when we have
Speaker 3: to root for a team, everybody is on the chat
Speaker 3: talking about us, right, I never heard my dad Will
Speaker 3: called like looking good and he said, and I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there like, it's amazing to me that, like everybody once
Speaker 3: I got here, they felt just how I feel.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, this is my team.
Speaker 3: I mean I played with the Jets, my brother played
Speaker 3: for the Giants, and we don't see no other colors
Speaker 3: but here.
Speaker 2: So you know it's amazing you said that.
Speaker 3: How you know you play for three different teams and
Speaker 3: you you believe this color and these colors, And that's
Speaker 3: how I feel.
Speaker 2: My family feel the same way.
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna say, big fletch old g.
Speaker 1: You know you got a chance to talk with o Z.
Speaker 1: A lot of this, A lot of that is the kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a mad huge catch. Yeah think like forty
Speaker 1: yards stay that game, man, you and you and be missed.
Speaker 1: Got to talk to him at on the post game
Speaker 1: Live about this brotherhood.
Speaker 3: You know what, man, You know, We've had a lot
Speaker 3: of guys to come in here and sit down and
Speaker 3: be on the show with us, and no matter how
Speaker 3: we were, the question it always come out what they
Speaker 3: have here, what they're building here, what dan Quinn is
Speaker 3: trying to build here.
Speaker 5: And while everybody talks about why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every letter and that's how you know it's real.
Speaker 3: See what I'm saying, It's one thing is saying things.
Speaker 3: We can all say things that's cliche and you ain't
Speaker 3: seeing it. You like, well you just said it because
Speaker 3: that's just the right thing to say. But it's really
Speaker 3: a brotherhood. It's really one of the things that the
Speaker 3: kids talked about and spoke up about.
Speaker 2: He was like, we all have a hand in this.
Speaker 3: That's a brotherhood. That's the way you allow your brothers
Speaker 3: to eat. Like I'm my brother's keeper. So therefore if
Speaker 3: you know I'm you know, speak hypothetically. If London was
Speaker 3: a running back and he's running. I'm gonna receive out there.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go protect you. I'm going to block.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make sure that if I can get that
Speaker 3: last block for him to spring it, you know, spring along,
Speaker 3: win and get in the end zone. I'm gonna do
Speaker 3: that and vice versa. And that's what you see. You
Speaker 3: see these guys effort. You see the way when the
Speaker 3: ball does come to them, they understand that this is
Speaker 3: my chance to go out here and make an imprint.
Speaker 2: I'm doing my part.
Speaker 5: So we always say, how do I contribute it to
Speaker 5: my party? Because he's relying on me. That's my brother's lying.
Speaker 2: I don't want to let him down, don't want to
Speaker 2: let him dangle. And that's how that's how you know.
Speaker 3: I haven't won a championship in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: I didn't win want in college either. I was a
Speaker 3: team that got robbed from even going to the national championship.
Speaker 3: And the you know in college A one one in
Speaker 3: high school, this is what we had. A brotherhood was
Speaker 3: was we was for each other. We we did things
Speaker 3: with each other. I remember that year when we started
Speaker 3: going putting on Matt and it's crazy because people don't
Speaker 3: do this. But we was putting on orange sweatpants and
Speaker 3: wearing our school football shirts and getting in vans and
Speaker 3: going to the movies. And you look at it, like
Speaker 3: all these guys looking like dressing like each other. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that was a bond that was like us bonding together, saying, man,
Speaker 3: let's go do something outside of this this field. And
Speaker 3: before you know, we in the state championship game, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is how this is what we built. And so
Speaker 3: you see these guys doing it. Man, you can't take
Speaker 3: it lightly because you don't know how soon it would
Speaker 3: turn around.
Speaker 2: Right now, we've seen it before. Eyes it turned around
Speaker 2: pretty quick.
Speaker 1: I heard y'all had a pretty strong bond on that
Speaker 1: two thousand and five team we did. Yeah, y'all had
Speaker 1: a really really strong bond we did.
Speaker 4: And it was one of those those things where it
Speaker 4: was actually the four team started.
Speaker 1: Four because I was sign of one here.
Speaker 3: Oh fi okay, I know what he's saying, a lot
Speaker 3: of those guys come from so we all came from
Speaker 3: different locations and in free agency under coach Gibbs, and
Speaker 3: we loved each other.
Speaker 1: Man. It was hard.
Speaker 5: You know, you already know coach Gibbs did and changed.
Speaker 4: It was hard, but like you felt bad if you
Speaker 4: let down, and I carried on in London, you know,
Speaker 4: even when you were here and you came in. It
Speaker 4: felt like I don't want to let London down because
Speaker 4: I remember, like in the meeting, London, I tell you here,
Speaker 4: remember this, London ran the meetings on Fridays, right, we
Speaker 4: ran the film, and I remember if we didn't know
Speaker 4: it or like we didn't know, like hey, on third down,
Speaker 4: we're supposed to make this done, and we're gonna do this,
Speaker 4: and this is the call we're gonna make. And if
Speaker 4: somebody blew that call or blew that check. And we
Speaker 4: talked about it that brotherhood, you're like, Man, I don't
Speaker 4: want you to let down. But it also felt good
Speaker 4: when we did it together. We were able to execute.
Speaker 4: Terry talks about it and people talk about you know,
Speaker 4: we started the interview with Terry when he talking about
Speaker 4: the coaches trusted me and we executed and we blocked
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. And on the five team it
Speaker 4: was the same way and winning breads. Brother Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: and and that's what it's about, man, And you're absolutely
Speaker 4: right Tann to like man every single person came on
Speaker 4: so and.
Speaker 1: It feels goods. Robin, we're brotherhood. You mentioned Ry, We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to tell you joining us on the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got something special. Another segment for us, Hey man,
Speaker 1: this is my favorite segment.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you, guys man, give.
Speaker 3: Me some of your memories, your fondest memories since were
Speaker 3: playing Pittsburgh this week, what's something standing out? I'm gonna
Speaker 3: start with you, Blue Foot, what's something staying out about
Speaker 3: what you did against these old stealers.
Speaker 4: Well, one of my memories about the stealers is not
Speaker 4: necessarily what I did, because I remember one time I
Speaker 4: had a grand idea in my head that I was
Speaker 4: gonna run up and hit the droome back.
Speaker 1: You got something.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you said it was a grand idea.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're getting your head.
Speaker 4: I told my dad, I was build my reputation on
Speaker 4: your Rome bettist and here they were running the power
Speaker 4: boy ball and I said, you know what, he's not.
Speaker 5: Gonna see me. I'm gonna run up and hit him.
Speaker 4: And I ran in there with all my might and
Speaker 4: at the last minute he saw me. Oh man, that's
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: He stepped on my chest in my face and kept
Speaker 5: going and uh.
Speaker 1: So that was a far memory.
Speaker 4: But the other memory is there's no still a memory
Speaker 4: without bringing up stop. We were playing the game in
Speaker 4: O four man, and I remember I hit Willie Parker
Speaker 4: on the sideline. Willie Parker, uh was out for catching Shaun.
Speaker 4: This came off the sideline, just smacked him, flit him
Speaker 4: up under the bench.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: So remember you know, me getting ran over and start
Speaker 4: knocking out Willie Parker.
Speaker 1: My memory, so you think you played corner right, Yeah?
Speaker 1: You and they think let me get a set of
Speaker 1: get a memory against Hyge's World War. He was let me,
Speaker 1: let me, let me, let me tell.
Speaker 5: Because you can develop a reputation.
Speaker 4: You know, there's certain people you do something against your
Speaker 4: develop a reputation.
Speaker 2: That's when being you backfired.
Speaker 1: That's you know what I'm saying, making memory of knocking
Speaker 1: out Jerome back I hit Jerome Brettison, knock out Jerome badness.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have the reputation been a big I ain't.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna look at you the same because gonna be
Speaker 3: trying to find you for every time you was.
Speaker 1: On that Man's Hall of Fame highlight video.
Speaker 5: I might have made this high I might have made
Speaker 5: it highlight for sure.
Speaker 2: What about you, London.
Speaker 1: I just so I grew up with Cleveland, Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: fan and just always hated the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's just
Speaker 1: that was just a part of it, just remembering all
Speaker 1: those battles man Browns the Steelers, and they hey that
Speaker 1: I hated Jack Lambert. I love playing linebacker too. He'd
Speaker 1: be out there with all his teeth missing.
Speaker 5: And when the Jack Lambert football camp growing up.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't win. Even if I could have, I wouldn't win.
Speaker 1: I just didn't like the Stealers. But just those are
Speaker 1: my memories of the Pittsburgh those Browns uh Stealers matchups,
Speaker 1: and they used to be physical violent. Obviously played against
Speaker 1: Stealers a bunch of times. They were physical.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: I remember we played you you were twenty ten. We
Speaker 1: played them on Monday Night Football and I hit Roethlisberger,
Speaker 1: knocked him out of the game. He tried to quarterback
Speaker 1: steam right at the at the goal line, knocked him
Speaker 1: out the game. So they bringing Byron Leftwich.
Speaker 2: He comes, smooth talking.
Speaker 1: They got left with you in the game.
Speaker 2: We were about to pick him off boy.
Speaker 1: Byron left which came out there with that a long
Speaker 1: delivery like he was color from Ashburg. With that delivery
Speaker 1: he out that lighting up up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember, I remember that game.
Speaker 1: I went on that team.
Speaker 2: That was that was that was That was two thousand and.
Speaker 3: It was eight actually because it was it was a year.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we started six and two, started six and two.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. I went out and it was.
Speaker 4: That Mike Wallace had receiver like oh yeah, but smooth
Speaker 4: West talking the whole time and didn't come out.
Speaker 2: They got left with you about the pick the.
Speaker 7: Ball boy left WI left which work right at hill.
Speaker 7: But you got some good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know.
Speaker 2: It's funny, man, because we were sitting here chopping up
Speaker 2: before we.
Speaker 3: Got on the show. And I think one of my
Speaker 3: most fondest memories. Now I have some touchdowns against them
Speaker 3: in both places. Uh, in New York and here I'm
Speaker 3: gonna speak about the New York when first, because I
Speaker 3: was a pupp didn't know nothing about what I was
Speaker 3: doing out there.
Speaker 2: My last year is a Jet.
Speaker 3: I remember it was like it was yesterday because it
Speaker 3: was four. I'm not sure a lot of people remember.
Speaker 3: But the Jets picked me mainly to be a punt returner.
Speaker 3: I mean they wanted, they wanted both assets that I
Speaker 3: brought to the table, but punk returning was number one
Speaker 3: for them over being over being a receiver.
Speaker 1: But my receiver me knowing me, I was here the
Speaker 1: first round every time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike Westof made them move up, so you know,
Speaker 3: you know, the whole star I was supposed to come here,
Speaker 3: I got They got you boy, Rod Gardener instead of
Speaker 3: me because they want taller guy here. So Mike Westoff
Speaker 3: saw them, saw the saw the Redskins not take me.
Speaker 3: He told her and Els move up and get him.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be my pupp returner. He's gonna be a
Speaker 3: pump returner and a key asset to the offense as
Speaker 3: a receiver. So mainly when I got there, man, it
Speaker 3: was like pump return or nothing, you know, and you know,
Speaker 3: you know, being me, I ended up becoming a nice
Speaker 3: receiver for them. So four had a hamstring the whole season, lingering,
Speaker 3: I told him, taking myself off a pup return.
Speaker 1: I could run routes.
Speaker 2: Three quarter speed, get open, catch the ball, get down.
Speaker 3: So I got healthier lady in the season, and we
Speaker 3: went We made a playoff push, and I bought out
Speaker 3: at receiving the playoffs. The week won against uh San Diego,
Speaker 3: I had a hundred some yards touchdown, and I remember
Speaker 3: coming home and I'm just feeling good about myself. I'm
Speaker 3: a little I'm over comfortable right now. So I told her,
Speaker 3: I say, hey, hear put me back at pump returns.
Speaker 3: We're gonna running it back. I never called my shot.
Speaker 3: I'm not that ain't me. That ain't my moo. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna call my shot. So we get the We
Speaker 3: get the Pittsburgh at pis Bird second part return. I
Speaker 3: took it up to the House of eighty and didn't
Speaker 3: know then, but I know now that that was the
Speaker 3: first punt return in Jets history in the playoffs. Really yeah,
Speaker 3: So that's my That's that's one that's staying out the most.
Speaker 3: I think the second memory I have of Pittsburgh, I
Speaker 3: got to talk about the.
Speaker 2: Good and the bad Man.
Speaker 3: We went to them in twenty twelve and it rained
Speaker 3: like a slushy rain. I scored that game, but I
Speaker 3: feel like we dropped balls that we will normally drop.
Speaker 3: We won't normally drop. I mean, the ball was off
Speaker 3: of us all type of ways. I remember looking at
Speaker 3: RG at one point like, bro, don't even throw it
Speaker 3: over here.
Speaker 2: It's no way to catch it. You know what I'm
Speaker 2: saying for.
Speaker 1: Speaker to get hit. You remember they we try to
Speaker 1: half back a quarterback past a fleet flicker of a
Speaker 1: pass to RG three pass, yeah, double pass?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Who threw that? But Ron Clark? I remember that,
Speaker 2: trying to take his head off. Listen, try to take
Speaker 2: it r one his head.
Speaker 1: This plass was so telegraphed like it had no Whoever
Speaker 1: threw this football had no business throwing it.
Speaker 2: Pierre It might have been Pierre.
Speaker 1: I don't know who it was, or was it Banks.
Speaker 1: Whoever it was might have been.
Speaker 4: Based on whatever it is, it was a bad idea.
Speaker 1: He hit. He hit r G three the same way
Speaker 1: Sean Sean Taylor hit. Was it Willie Parker or whoever
Speaker 1: Parker the coach was? Nobody was food. This thing was
Speaker 1: so telegraphed. Hey man, you need to tuck this thing
Speaker 1: or you need to throw it out of bos fifteen yards. No,
Speaker 1: he's still through this day.
Speaker 3: So speaking of speaking of bad ideas and and and
Speaker 3: that particular play alone, what do you guys think about
Speaker 3: just the run that you know Tomlin has had since
Speaker 3: he's been a man.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's something that they don't enough. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's the only thing you can knock him on. He
Speaker 1: hasn't won more Super Bowls based on how the record
Speaker 1: they've had, and sometimes they've been a number one seed,
Speaker 1: but a lot of times you're going against the goat man.
Speaker 1: You're going against Tom Brady, Mike. Tomlins has never had
Speaker 1: a losing seasons. He's sixteen, seventeen years. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: hell of a football coach. Phenomenal coach. He knows how
Speaker 1: to challenge his dudes, get him to get him to play.
Speaker 5: Lead their men for sure. You know, I respect him.
Speaker 1: I don't know him personally, but just competing against him,
Speaker 1: Like he'll say something to you on the sideline during
Speaker 1: the game. You might make a tack on the sideline.
Speaker 1: He'd be like, I remember one time playing to be
Speaker 1: like man, find out you out there hunt man? Like
Speaker 1: was he like he appreciated me the way I was
Speaker 1: playing again. You know what.
Speaker 4: And it's funny that you said that, because I had
Speaker 4: a chance to spend time with him at the league meetings,
Speaker 4: and I've never had a chance to spend time with
Speaker 4: him before. I knew about him because he's from Virginia,
Speaker 4: and you know, and he got knew my dye and stuff.
Speaker 4: The guy knows like he's a historian of football. He
Speaker 4: loves football. Hit when you said that reminded me. He
Speaker 4: appreciative of a good play or you're a good football player.
Speaker 1: And I think he respects football.
Speaker 4: So when you talk about this tenure man, you're talking
Speaker 4: about a guy who the standard is the standard that
Speaker 4: he is. He's got to be considered one of the
Speaker 4: greatest coaches ever coaches game and deserves a lot of respect.
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Speaker 1: both of us first in our division. I can't wait
Speaker 1: for this one. Man, Oh man, I can't wait for
Speaker 1: this man. Think about this. Both teams made trays at
Speaker 1: the deadline. We acquired Marsham the Stealers. They not only
Speaker 1: acquire a defensive player, they acquired Presco Smith. Who that
Speaker 1: was acquired sneaky. I didn't even know that. If you
Speaker 1: think about Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is saying they did. They did
Speaker 1: what we did. But from a mindset of all right,
Speaker 1: we got two pass rushers already ready, they got t
Speaker 1: J Y, they got Hot Smill. Right, who are we
Speaker 1: gonna potentially play in the playoffs, Jackson Ravens. Obviously Kansas
Speaker 1: City City Chiefs, maybe the Buffalo Bills. You're gonna definitely
Speaker 1: need pass rushers going against the Kansas City Chiefs, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna get one against the Buffalo Bills. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna add to that, but we also need a little
Speaker 1: bit more firepower on offense. So they add to that
Speaker 1: they trade for Mike Williams in the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: What do y'all think about them doing those moves and
Speaker 1: will they have what kype of impact will they have
Speaker 1: in this game?
Speaker 4: Press Smith's one was quiet, but it was sneaky because
Speaker 4: pression is a great run stopper, but more so if
Speaker 4: you already got two pass rushers, having three, that means
Speaker 4: there's always somebody who rotate.
Speaker 1: Rotation adding to that rotation.
Speaker 4: Is and then learning to your point what you're saying
Speaker 4: is we may play Buffalo or Kansas City in the
Speaker 4: playoffs and the teams that were planning in East or whoever,
Speaker 4: we gotta have the ability to get to the quarterback.
Speaker 4: And impression is good against the run. So I think
Speaker 4: that was that was a great move for that for
Speaker 4: that organization in the front.
Speaker 1: As I was thinking about it as you was talking,
Speaker 1: and made me also think you got a guy like
Speaker 1: TJ Wide who plays so many snaps, how it allows
Speaker 1: you to take so many snaps off of him on
Speaker 1: the first and second down keep him fresher, especially an
Speaker 1: obvious past situation or fourth quarter games where you need
Speaker 1: to close. Y'all. Y'all think this is the best defense?
Speaker 1: Will we played all season long? Will it be the best?
Speaker 3: It's a toss up to me because I'm man like
Speaker 3: I say, Man, I still watched that first couple of
Speaker 3: series from that Ravens game.
Speaker 2: Man, I was like, Man, yeah, I think I think.
Speaker 4: I think I think Baltimore, I think the Cleveland defense was.
Speaker 4: I think the Cleveland defense really good with Miles Garrett
Speaker 4: and himself and Danzel Ward those guys.
Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, I feel like we faced a
Speaker 3: few of them that has kind of that Surprisingly I'm
Speaker 3: not saying this because I didn't believe, but surprisingly like
Speaker 3: we were.
Speaker 2: We were so good.
Speaker 3: Against them it almost made me like, well, damn, Like
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I thought they supposed to be better than that. They weren't.
Speaker 1: They weren't you talking about Baltimore right right? Baltimore was.
Speaker 1: They weren't very good against the past.
Speaker 3: But at the same time too, if you remember a
Speaker 3: couple of times they thought they put some packages out
Speaker 3: there where we had to we got to rebut we got.
Speaker 2: To go and do something again about this because.
Speaker 4: I would say probably other than Tampa, they probably would
Speaker 4: be the best coach defense.
Speaker 1: Face. I think it's the Cleveland defense though, because Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Cleveland defense last year, dan Zel doesn't get hurt
Speaker 1: that name that last year Cleveland had a number one
Speaker 1: defense of the league. Yeah, they had a lot more
Speaker 1: better balanced balance. U Joe Flacco played for them, so offensively,
Speaker 1: they weren't defensively what happened to take his man snaps,
Speaker 1: But that Cleveland defense, they were stout against the run.
Speaker 1: You know, they got after you in the past, and
Speaker 1: it took us a while to kind of figure figure
Speaker 1: those guys out. You know, if you if you think
Speaker 1: about the offense, it took them a quarter quarter and
Speaker 1: a half to really get going offensively. When you look
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh their top five Russian defense, I don't know
Speaker 1: where they're at past defense. But you got you got
Speaker 1: guys who succept you have to, but you.
Speaker 4: Got to you gotta go.
Speaker 1: You got account for Meka, but you gotta account for
Speaker 1: t J. Wattfor you gotta have a play agh deal
Speaker 1: with that dude right there.
Speaker 3: My thing too is something that has been that's that
Speaker 3: showed up, as you know, they they're top you know,
Speaker 3: they're actually four and stopping to run, you know, defensively, yeah,
Speaker 3: but their weak spot is stopping to run against a
Speaker 3: running quarterback, a guy.
Speaker 2: Who can, who can, who can do what he doing.
Speaker 3: Like if you watch that game when they played the Giants,
Speaker 3: we know what Daniel Jones does to us, but they
Speaker 3: gave him a lot of love, Like, you know what,
Speaker 3: let us be mindful. He can break, and he can,
Speaker 3: he can get, he can he can get outside this defense.
Speaker 3: So I was watching that game, coach, because I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: So they were showing Daniel love that that much. You know,
Speaker 3: he was giving him that much love, Dank Jones. So
Speaker 3: just imagine what they're going to do knowing that our
Speaker 3: guy is capable of doing it. But like I said before,
Speaker 3: I think now the league understands Jayden a little more
Speaker 3: when it comes to his running.
Speaker 2: Ability, Like and they like that twice Jayden exactly.
Speaker 3: Jayden has the ability to make something when he needs to,
Speaker 3: you know, even if it's not designed.
Speaker 1: He beat you with it.
Speaker 2: But he's throwing that ball half of the time.
Speaker 3: So I think they're gonna respect him just knowing that, hey,
Speaker 3: he might get outside so we're gonna have a guy
Speaker 3: to probably at least one guy probably spine them, but
Speaker 3: we can't.
Speaker 1: The Baltimore I was looking at the way those ends
Speaker 1: t J Watt and Ice Smail let's call them edge rushers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how they crashed out a line of scrimmage that they chased.
Speaker 3: T J.
Speaker 1: He was chased. I can't remember who the game was against.
Speaker 1: It was against the Indianapolis coach because the coach had
Speaker 1: a nice They ran the ball pretty good against the
Speaker 1: coach was the team that beat him? Right, coach beat
Speaker 1: and I saw t J. And this is against they
Speaker 1: had Richardson who was a running quarterback.
Speaker 4: But but I don't know if Richardson finished that game
Speaker 4: with getting hurt.
Speaker 1: But he was even when he was still the game,
Speaker 1: he was looking at John Reid and damn TJ. Is
Speaker 1: he is crashing down at it hard.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna look at it like there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some opportunities far as our quarterback, though, Man, can
Speaker 1: we keep Jay then continue to play the way he's
Speaker 1: been playing in the passing games.
Speaker 4: It's still I think when you have the r p
Speaker 4: O run pass options scheme for the scheme that cliff
Speaker 4: Is put in for him. What I like about it
Speaker 4: is they do a job of attacking your weakness each week.
Speaker 4: We came into the game against you know, Cincinnati, saying, hey,
Speaker 4: you know they do some exotic pressures and coverage, but
Speaker 4: if we catch them in zero coverage, when we catch
Speaker 4: them into all our blitch because we know they're gonna be.
Speaker 1: Risky, we're gonna take our shot.
Speaker 4: When you look at the Giants and you say, hey,
Speaker 4: we're gonna get on the edge, you talk about, hey,
Speaker 4: don't run straight at decks launch, but get on the edge.
Speaker 1: We two b rob had one hundred and thirty three.
Speaker 4: So it seems like they have they figured it out
Speaker 4: to attack East defense and defensive scheme. But you know
Speaker 4: the brothers at the defensive ends of brothers up at
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh's little different. Thomas gonna have a scheme. Obviously they
Speaker 4: see Lamar twice or they're gonna be familiar with.
Speaker 1: Time you you as a as a receiver, you've talked
Speaker 1: to You've had a chance to kind of look at
Speaker 1: them in the past. The past defense Hock and Terry
Speaker 1: had success against against them. That's that's that's what I
Speaker 1: want to talk about.
Speaker 3: I think, man, like the it's open, you know, It's like,
Speaker 3: that's one of the things that I saw if I
Speaker 3: saw anything in his defense, when I saw Darius Slayton
Speaker 3: get deep on them and I saw Daniel Jones play
Speaker 3: play tricks of that safety, I say, you can't show
Speaker 3: that to us, because it's not only that we have
Speaker 3: one like you say, we talked about that. You know
Speaker 3: that core of wide house that's getting the job done.
Speaker 3: And don't forget about zach Ertz man, like, we have
Speaker 3: enough weapons in the passing game to really hurt you.
Speaker 3: And one of the play stood out the most of
Speaker 3: me last week was third and nine and to watch
Speaker 3: that kid go through his progression first read, second read,
Speaker 3: Oh guess what I got my dump off? Guy here
Speaker 3: and Eckler come across the middle of field and shall across.
Speaker 3: We pick up the first down, like if you bringing them.
Speaker 3: That's why I say you had to give a lot
Speaker 3: of credit to officer lines how good they've been in
Speaker 3: protection and stuff like that. But I love us in
Speaker 3: our passing game because I feel like Cliff Keeensbury has
Speaker 3: been putting him in situations where you know what, Bro,
Speaker 3: You're gonna have a lot of options, and if nobody
Speaker 3: is open, you're either gonna take off and take what
Speaker 3: you can get or give it to somebody that's you know,
Speaker 3: I guess you're you're dump off guy that he can
Speaker 3: go out there and get them yarded.
Speaker 2: So I think we got a lot of room to.
Speaker 3: Really, you know, get at them in the passing game.
Speaker 3: But it's all gonna be basically predicated on how good
Speaker 3: we protect them up front.
Speaker 1: From flipping flipping the other side of the ball. Our
Speaker 1: defense against Pittsburgh's offense. Now with with Russell Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: at the quarterback, they've been averaging over four hundred yards
Speaker 1: total total of offense. The passing game has come alive
Speaker 1: really with him at the pushing it, yeah, pushing it
Speaker 1: down the field. George Pickens, how we gonna deal with
Speaker 1: Russell and the receivers are still.
Speaker 4: Animal and he's animal. I think we got this reason,
Speaker 4: we got a lot of more. Let's let's talk about it.
Speaker 4: Because people question the decision whether Russell would be the receiver,
Speaker 4: I mean the quarterback for right, but since she's been
Speaker 4: in the bench, he's been playing his rejected the balls,
Speaker 4: his decision, making his confidence back shoulder his confidence. Russell
Speaker 4: has been cooking and he's been hot, and uh, and
Speaker 4: they can and but Pickens is the X factor because
Speaker 4: that's one of the few guys in the league, and
Speaker 4: it's probably about three or four guys in the league.
Speaker 4: No matter how well you cover him, they still can
Speaker 4: catch the ball. I say, Jefferson, this one. You know,
Speaker 4: Pickens is another maybe let's say Mike Williams or somebody
Speaker 4: else where. The big bodies and they catch rated. This
Speaker 4: is crazy. So we have to know that. And and
Speaker 4: I think we just got to be smart, man. We
Speaker 4: got to pick and choose on what we showed him
Speaker 4: because Russell was a veteran man and everybody he playing
Speaker 4: with a little chip on the shoulder.
Speaker 3: Again, right, we're not even that, just just happy he
Speaker 3: played happy being happy.
Speaker 1: Here's here's when I when I think about quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: I think about a quarterback like Russ. We played him
Speaker 1: last year when he was with Denver. Right, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: doing some good things. However, he's also not that far
Speaker 1: removed from being released by deva trade released. So it
Speaker 1: takes one game to make him go back exactly. Can't
Speaker 1: we get him to doubt himself? Can we get him
Speaker 1: all of a sudden to not have confidence to hold
Speaker 1: on to the ball.
Speaker 4: That means you're gonna make him a one dimensional stopped
Speaker 4: that you're gonna have to stop that run.
Speaker 1: But also once we stop that run, getting pressure on him,
Speaker 1: he's not that he's not as athletic as he used
Speaker 1: to be. That's a run as well. And he'll fumble
Speaker 1: the football team will he fumbled against us against when
Speaker 1: he was with Diver was costly costly. Can we get
Speaker 1: him to doubt himself to hold on to the ball too,
Speaker 1: And that's that started.
Speaker 4: That still was starting with winning first down, getting him
Speaker 4: in positions where they got the third lungs where you
Speaker 4: see where Russell does a good job on tape. It's
Speaker 4: just thirty three, third and two. He's get the ball
Speaker 4: out of his hands pretty quick, right, So we got
Speaker 4: to put him in a position where can't What can
Speaker 4: we do about that run game to make him one
Speaker 4: dimension him because they do got a big back back then,
Speaker 4: the Alabama Black as well.
Speaker 3: And I think that's one of the things to man,
Speaker 3: that y'all spoken about earlier, is just now having the
Speaker 3: ability to have another corner that you can say, man,
Speaker 3: guess what I'm gonna solidify you as this your side,
Speaker 3: so handle that so we can brain this guy down
Speaker 3: here and maybe now force them out of what they
Speaker 3: want to do. You know, you know how, you know
Speaker 3: what it's like to be a dictator, like let me
Speaker 3: dictate what y'all do, and now y'all dictate what y'all
Speaker 3: want us to be in and you know, far as
Speaker 3: in coverage. And that's what I'm hoping to see. I'm hoping,
Speaker 3: regardless of it's this week or not, I'm hoping that
Speaker 3: this ladder More pickup is going to allow a Joe
Speaker 3: Wick Jr. To really go out there and play the
Speaker 3: kind of football.
Speaker 1: You want to play.
Speaker 3: Because, don't get me wrong, regardless of what we've been
Speaker 3: giving up run wise, we're so opportunistic defensively that we
Speaker 3: make plays right when you want to be sexy and pretty.
Speaker 3: That's when we go and go out there and get ridly,
Speaker 3: you know, cause a fumble or get a sack. So
Speaker 3: we in those situations defensively all the time that allow
Speaker 3: us to say, even though we gave you a lot,
Speaker 3: we're gonna come take that back.
Speaker 4: They like us say, don't turn the ball over us
Speaker 4: a lot. So we gotta be we it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a good game of like trying to get them in
Speaker 4: positions what you're saying to turn the ball over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because us wouldn't be careful with.
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Speaker 1: All right, Mas seven to two, got ass you've been here?
Speaker 1: This is season. How fun has this season been.
Speaker 2: I'm having a lot of fun.
Speaker 6: It's probably been collectively my most joyful season. Just from
Speaker 6: the start wing DQ and everybody got here. Just the
Speaker 6: standard they put in place, and you know the first
Speaker 6: day that he said this is gonna be the place
Speaker 6: for you if you if you're a doll competitor.
Speaker 1: I kind of sat up in my seaton, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So since that moment, just the way he's helped us
Speaker 6: build this team, the camaraderie that we have in the
Speaker 6: locker room, you know, the work ethic that we put
Speaker 6: in each and every day, and I think that's what
Speaker 6: we hang our hats on at this point of the season.
Speaker 6: The work that we're putting in during the week, you know,
Speaker 6: I mean, executing the situations. We've had multiple situations come
Speaker 6: up over the past few weeks that have determined scores,
Speaker 6: hell Mary determined the game. And so just the emphasis
Speaker 6: on the details has been there since he got here.
Speaker 6: And I think the competitiveness between offensive defense, we've been
Speaker 6: going at it, going at it against one another, but
Speaker 6: then on Sundays, it's just what we do, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. Like, I think that's one of my
Speaker 6: favorite messages. He says, you know, you don't got to
Speaker 6: get up for the you don't have to get up
Speaker 6: for big games, and this.
Speaker 1: Is what you do.
Speaker 6: If this is how you prepare each and every week,
Speaker 6: there's no raw rod speeches, is how we get down.
Speaker 6: So I'm all on board with that and it's been
Speaker 6: really fun just to see so many guys have a
Speaker 6: hand in our success this year.
Speaker 3: With all that being said, just that statement alone, you know,
Speaker 3: will royce anybody out, bro, especially if you're a dog,
Speaker 3: especially if you're a guy that's been getting out of
Speaker 3: the mud from day one like yourself.
Speaker 2: But did you notice an.
Speaker 3: Instant change like far as just how things have been
Speaker 3: going for you previous years to just that as soon
Speaker 3: as he got in the door, did you see things.
Speaker 1: Just just like you know what this have a different feel?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think just a competitive standpoint. Each and every day
Speaker 6: we have a competitive period.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: I mean our mantra of the team is really a
Speaker 6: ball is life. So every day we're defense is talking
Speaker 6: about how they could get the ball back into the
Speaker 6: offense hands create turnovers, and offense is how we break
Speaker 6: tackles and how we protect the football. Again, I think
Speaker 6: those are the things that are showing up. So I
Speaker 6: think right away, you know a lot of coaches can
Speaker 6: have like coach speed, you know what I mean, just
Speaker 6: stuff that sounds good. But everything that DQ says is
Speaker 6: a purpose and there's a reasoning behind it. And so
Speaker 6: you got a group of guys, good group of veteran
Speaker 6: leaders and a great young group that we drafted in here.
Speaker 6: Buy into that message, you start to see you start
Speaker 6: to reap the benefits of it. So I think for myself,
Speaker 6: it's just coming in and off the off season that
Speaker 6: I had, just putting a lot of work in try
Speaker 6: to be the best version of myself. For Jaden, the
Speaker 6: rest of the quarterbacks, obviously playing with Cliff, He's going
Speaker 6: to put you in a situation to be successful. And
Speaker 6: you know, I'm having a lot of fun because you know,
Speaker 6: my opinion is also value when they ask me, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, and they trust what I'm seeing
Speaker 6: out there. If I feel like a certain leverage or
Speaker 6: a certain coverage is beneficial to what we can exploit,
Speaker 6: then they're all ears about that and and we go
Speaker 6: out there and execute it.
Speaker 2: So that's just fun.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: As players, we all know like when the coaches is
Speaker 6: listening to you and thenplement you know, some of the
Speaker 6: ideas that you have just as even more buying to
Speaker 6: you as a player and as a team.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what we're seeing on all three phases.
Speaker 4: Man, we always talk about this organization and guys professional.
Speaker 4: When we think about professionals, your name comes up all
Speaker 4: the time that, and and we were wondering, like, man,
Speaker 4: we saw all our emotion then you talk about listening
Speaker 4: to you all that emotions in Cincinnati. Yeah, big catches.
Speaker 4: You didn't complain. We talked about it on the show
Speaker 4: like man, Terry was professional. We saw it pent up.
Speaker 5: Man, Yeah, tell me just walk us through that again,
Speaker 5: because came in.
Speaker 4: Was like, man, just came on. But Bro, you could
Speaker 4: have complained, but you was like, yeah, then just it
Speaker 4: was pent up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not for sure.
Speaker 6: I think it's definitely been a journey and everything hasn't
Speaker 6: necessarily go as you would imagine. But I've always tried
Speaker 6: to be true to myself and and stay within my character.
Speaker 2: But also I've learned over the course of my years.
Speaker 6: To advocate for myself as well, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: be a little bit more servative when those things are necessary.
Speaker 6: But it's easy when you got coaches who are asking
Speaker 6: for your opinion, who trust you in those situations, are
Speaker 6: going to continue to put you in a situation to
Speaker 6: be successful. But for myself, I just always I've learned,
Speaker 6: you know, through my faith in Jesus Christ, just what
Speaker 6: patience and endurance uh is and experiencing that and being
Speaker 6: present in the moment, and that was something I felt
Speaker 6: like that was very necessary for my journey, just to
Speaker 6: because I could sometimes be like not a control freak,
Speaker 6: but when things are kind of out of your control,
Speaker 6: you don't know how to react, especially receiver, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean.
Speaker 4: That's a good point because this guy right here, we
Speaker 4: used to tell We used to tell him all the time,
Speaker 4: Tanner say something right, But Tannem was the guy was like, nah, man,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna do my job, and we be like,
Speaker 4: Tanner say something so, and then I would say Tanner.
Speaker 4: When we later in the years as we develop a relationship,
Speaker 4: people say, man, I didn't want to be that guy
Speaker 4: boing attention. He was always talking about balancing. It sounds
Speaker 4: like that's the same things balance.
Speaker 2: It's the one hundred percent of balance.
Speaker 6: And especially coming in like we got a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 6: you know, the last thing I felt like he needed
Speaker 6: was for me, being the leader in our on our team,
Speaker 6: to be chirping in on his back, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean. He's just trying to get acclimated and do
Speaker 6: the best he can to run our offense. So I
Speaker 6: had honestly faith in him from the jump just to
Speaker 6: see how he was progressing through the off season, how
Speaker 6: he was getting better each and every practice. And so
Speaker 6: I knew after the first few games of the season
Speaker 6: like it's still it's early, it's early days, and so
Speaker 6: I didn't I didn't hang my head, and I just
Speaker 6: continue to put in the work. And I just feel
Speaker 6: like that Cincinnati game was big for us offensively in
Speaker 6: our team. I feel like that's been the turning point.
Speaker 6: But you know, it kind of got the lit off
Speaker 6: the rim. I mean, a few deep shots, zero coverage
Speaker 6: game on the line, quarterback receiver make a play on
Speaker 6: top of j Max picking up the blitz and it
Speaker 6: was a high level, high level execution on that play.
Speaker 6: And since then, it seems like we've just been, you know,
Speaker 6: off to the races and being able to counter off
Speaker 6: of some of the looks that we've given to keep
Speaker 6: teams on their toes.
Speaker 3: You know, I wanted to come in on that when
Speaker 3: you said staying true to yourself. People don't know how
Speaker 3: important that is. And trust me, because I'm we was
Speaker 3: talking about, hey, man, shouldn't Terry beginning, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: but why force it? Everybody knows that Terry should be
Speaker 3: getting involved, but you don't want to force it. And
Speaker 3: as a receiver, you don't want to be that guy
Speaker 3: that's not your game. If me talking to the coaches
Speaker 3: and talking to the quarterbacks not my game, I don't
Speaker 3: want to get out of character. What I want to
Speaker 3: ask you, though, is, because I've been in them shoes,
Speaker 3: how hard was it blocking everybody all the noise out?
Speaker 3: Because as players, we see the TV, we see this,
Speaker 3: you know, now we have social media terry need to
Speaker 3: be dealing this to Did you block it out? Because
Speaker 3: I would just tell folks man on turning that stuff
Speaker 3: on on me and I didn't read anything.
Speaker 2: So what was your process of saying.
Speaker 3: Look, I got to stay in to what I do
Speaker 3: and how I do it, but I also got to,
Speaker 3: you know, state in my whole bubble and not be
Speaker 3: distracted by all these other folks trying to advocate for
Speaker 3: me to get more, you know, more attempts.
Speaker 2: That's a great question.
Speaker 6: I think, first and foremost, I have a great support
Speaker 6: system around me, not only in the building, but in
Speaker 6: my personal life with my fiance and my agent, my parents,
Speaker 6: my friends, and so for me, it was just continue
Speaker 6: to put the work in and trusting that the work's
Speaker 6: going to show. I mean, ever since I've started this
Speaker 6: journey football, like the cream's going to rise to the top.
Speaker 6: Was done in the dark, comes to light, You reap
Speaker 6: what you so all those things I believe in, I
Speaker 6: continue to speak those over my life, especially when it's hard.
Speaker 6: It's easy when things are going your way, but when
Speaker 6: it's hard, as when you see the true character of
Speaker 6: a person. And again, I just wanted to be true
Speaker 6: to that, and you know, on the other side of
Speaker 6: that now it's just nothing more sweeter knowing that I
Speaker 6: didn't have to, you know, tweet, nothing force it go
Speaker 6: out of my character to get my blessings and to
Speaker 6: continue to grow as a player. But I just think
Speaker 6: I tried to keep my confidence high, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean, trying to stay true to myself and knowing
Speaker 6: that I feel like I'm one of the best receivers
Speaker 6: in this league and just needing the opportunity to show that.
Speaker 6: I've feel like this year with the group that we
Speaker 6: have and the coaches, they've allowed me to show that.
Speaker 6: And you know, it's something that I've always known that's there,
Speaker 6: but just being able to show it is another thing.
Speaker 6: And now with social media and everything and all the
Speaker 6: comment commentators and things like that. Obviously you hear that,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, But again, they don't know
Speaker 6: what's going on in between these four walls. And I
Speaker 6: think something that I had to tell myself earlier at
Speaker 6: Ohio State too, because the base could get loud, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, the people who are speaking on
Speaker 6: you or speaking on the search situations that are going on.
Speaker 6: Like I got to a point where I was like, Okay,
Speaker 6: they don't determine if I play, how much I play,
Speaker 6: if I get the ball in the NFL, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like these people on the outside, they're doing their job,
Speaker 6: but they don't determine anything. If you let those things
Speaker 6: start to seep in and you start gravitating to those things,
Speaker 6: that's on you. Honestly, I feel like it takes your
Speaker 6: your your attention away from the task at hand, and
Speaker 6: you lose focused.
Speaker 1: I feel like the only.
Speaker 6: Way that sometimes I'm not successful if I'm getting in
Speaker 6: my own hand I'm worried.
Speaker 2: About like, dang, he touched the ball. I mean, human,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, he touched the ball.
Speaker 6: Oh well, this, that and the third and then that
Speaker 6: your opportunity come in, it slip through your fingers and
Speaker 6: then that's a that's a whole other issue. So uh,
Speaker 6: just I'm at my best when I'm focused, having fun,
Speaker 6: you know, being the energetic guy that I am trying
Speaker 6: to help help our team win, and being a dog
Speaker 6: on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So, speaking of Ohio State, you got one of your
Speaker 1: former Ohio State teams traded. That smile says it all.
Speaker 1: You play with Marshaan at at Ohio State. He's from Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I've known about him a long time. I know what
Speaker 1: part of Cleveland's from You talk about dog ass competitive,
Speaker 1: that's what they had to do it in high school.
Speaker 1: For the fans, what is he bringing to this table
Speaker 1: to the team, And did they talk to you about
Speaker 1: and asked you about Marshan before they made the trade
Speaker 1: and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there was a few conversations here and there, but
Speaker 6: ultimately a P and d Q. You know, we're going
Speaker 6: to do what's best for the for the team. But
Speaker 6: you know, I got questions of obviously about Marshawn and
Speaker 6: you know, I have a lot of affinity from him
Speaker 6: because we came into the same Dravet or same recruiting
Speaker 6: class at Ohio State. So we're going to against each
Speaker 6: other since a long time. And one thing I say
Speaker 6: about him is like he's a dog, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean. I know that's like thrown around a lot,
Speaker 6: but a true sense of the word is a dog.
Speaker 6: Like he's a competitor. He may not say a whole lot,
Speaker 6: but it's player gonna do all the talking. And I
Speaker 6: feel like he can match up with any receiver in
Speaker 6: this league. He's extremely fluid at the line, he has
Speaker 6: long arms, he's great in his transition, he makes plays
Speaker 6: on the ball, really good ball skills. And again, I
Speaker 6: think he's a guy who can help elevate our defense,
Speaker 6: especially the kind of scheme that we want to run
Speaker 6: and be able to, you know.
Speaker 1: Single up some players.
Speaker 6: So I think he has those capabilities to help our
Speaker 6: defense take it to the next level. And you know,
Speaker 6: I think the best the best way to see the
Speaker 6: kind of player is to seeing how he's going against
Speaker 6: another alpha like Mike Evans. You know what I mean,
Speaker 6: if you just go watch that film, Like he ain't
Speaker 6: backing down from nobody, he ain't ducking it, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean, I'm so happy.
Speaker 2: I mean, nothing about he a dog, and I'm excited
Speaker 2: to to go against him. He's gonna make me better
Speaker 2: and practice. He's going to elevate our room receivers.
Speaker 6: You're gonna elevate the dbs and uh, like I said,
Speaker 6: when you when you add those kind of guys into
Speaker 6: your locker room onto your team, those are the like
Speaker 6: those are the dog competitors that d Q was talking
Speaker 6: about bringing a lot of guys like that in and
Speaker 6: then it's just infectious, you know what I mean. You
Speaker 6: see those kind of competitors, how they how they prepare,
Speaker 6: how they practice, how they play, and you know they
Speaker 6: affect the wind loss column. So I'm excited to help
Speaker 6: him get acclimated here, help him anyway I can. But
Speaker 6: you know, I know he's ready to buy in and
Speaker 6: help us get to where we.
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