WEBVTT - A Conversation with Jets Left Tackle Tyron Smith About Being in New York & Playing Next to Aaron Rodgers (6/11) 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:04.960 Tron. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.479 How does it feel to be starting a new chapter 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:09.440 in your career? 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.040 I feel it's great. Honestly, it feels great. I feel 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.279 like it's at the This timing is actually great, you know, 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.640 moving on to something new. And ever since I got here, 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.960 everybody's been welcoming and you know, get me up the 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.160 speed higher. Thing it's done here and it's been great 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:26.640 so far. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.640 What goes into the process of moving finding a new 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.519 team and then also you got a family. We're just 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.239 talking about it off the air before we started the 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.839 pod that those people are going to have to experience 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:41.960 a lot of changes as well. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:46.159 Yeah, you know with the whole process and everything. You know, 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.360 I'll leave that to my agent as far as you 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.640 know where I should go, since you know more about 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.160 that than I do. And you know, for the it sucks. Suck. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.640 The part that do suck about it is, you know, 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:01.480 me coming here. It's hard on the kids. And that's 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.440 that's why. That's the thing that's that's breaking my heart 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.600 because it's less time with the kids. But as we 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:08.720 all know, this business is a lot of sacrifice in 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.440 order to get what we need to get to, and 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.760 so they understood my kids understand, and I understand that 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:14.280 has to work. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.720 So thirteen years in Dallas. You know, you guys played 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.880 the Jets early last season. If I would have told 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.640 you maybe after that game, amen, you can be lining 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.880 up in green and white next year, what would your thought. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.600 At the time. I probably would have never belaved it. Yeah, 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.039 I thought at the moment that I would have finished 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.760 my career in Dallas. But we all know how this 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.080 game goes. It's just you know, you never know what 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.720 could happen, and it's a business, and so you know, 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.440 you get the opportunity to go somewhere else and then 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.399 you know, try to get the ring somewhere else. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.360 So you're thirty three, you're gonna be thirty four in December, 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.640 But do you feel like a rookie again in some respects? 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.160 No? No, no, And wake up every morning and still 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.480 those years remind you that you know, you you know 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.320 year four routine now, But it's just the energy waking 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.400 up is excitement and coming to work and you know, 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.720 being around the guys and you want to learn something 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.600 new that I haven't learned before, And so. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.200 How much do you enjoy this aspect of it? 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.080 Like you didn't have to be out here in voluntary workouts, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:19.799 so that's not part of the CBA, but you were 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.480 out here all the time, and now the off season 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.280 is wrapping up with mandatory medi camp. 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.320 Yeah, I think I was playing it earlier. Somebody that 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.799 you know in Dallas. We you know, we kind of 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.360 started a little bit early as far as like captain 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.560 workouts and Captain's running the workouts like around March, and 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.120 you know, we continue on for off season program. OTA's 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.560 a mini camp, and you know, majority of the guys 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.080 is always there. And that's how we was always kind 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.480 of brought up being in Dallas is you know, just 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:49.880 be there for the you know, being there for the 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.400 off season kind of you want to be there with 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.680 the guys. They make it. They make it walking like 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:55.960 you want to be there working with you guys and 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:56.799 learn something new. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.720 And so do you live in the gym? 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.520 I mean, Sala was saying the other day we're talking 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.680 about it, that he was looking at you in the 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.000 weight room, Robert Salas walking by and there's Tyron on 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.480 the bunch. She's just wrapping up four hundred plus like 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.600 it's nothing like he does one hundred and thirty five. Now, 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.440 Salo is kind of downplaying himself a little bit because 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.480 he's a strong guy himself. But do you live in 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.080 the weight room. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.680 I enjoy getting stronger. I love the aspect that like, 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.960 the more you working the wait in the weight room, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.840 the stronger you'll get. And I love that aspect you 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.600 see the you see the results after working hard in 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.920 the weight room, that you feel stronger. And for me, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.680 I just don't want to lose. I don't ever lose that. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.720 I always want to feel like I'm pushing heavy weight. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.800 So has it always come easy to you? 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.400 Don't take that the wrong way, because that's not to 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:51.960 say you're not putting in the work. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.840 No, as far as your strength. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.360 Is concerned, No, for me, you know, growing up, I 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.280 can never really put it on weight, so that the 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.800 lean on strength. So even in high school, I was 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.400 a skinny guy, so I don't thing I could lean 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:04.800 on it was my strength. So I just built up 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.480 much muscle as I possibly could. And in my head, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:09.880 I always try to tell myself I want to be 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.200 the strongest guy out there on the field. And so 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:13.960 I knew I couldn't gain weight, so I might as 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.640 well try to gain muscle. And so for me, over 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.359 the years. I was just trying not to lose that 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:19.200 aspect of it. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.320 So how lean were you in high school before you 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.520 actually took off went to USC from eight to time, 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.919 it's like two fifty really, and you couldn't put on weight. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.280 Put him weight what they went to USC put on 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.680 like twenty pounds playing there, but it was still just 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.000 straight just muscle. Yeah, I didn't, but also in college 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.200 didn't have the funds to get eat like how I should, right, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.960 And so I'm sitting there eating McDonald's and taco Bell 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.440 and Dell Talk and everything, just trying to and that 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:47.560 is still don't even put it on weight. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.839 So body fat wise, can I ask you, like what 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:51.760 your percentage is? 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:53.680 Because you're walking. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.800 Around the hallway here you look like a receiver who 0:04:55.960 --> 0:05:01.440 just was just you know, sick five you know three? 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:06.159 What three? And you look like you're about five percent. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.120 I don't know now it's actually been a wall since 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.120 I checked it, but I want to say probably the 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.440 last sign was probably around fifteen or sixteen percent. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.720 How has your workout regiment changed in terms of when 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.840 you broke into the league compared to what you're doing now. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:23.400 Let's see when I got in the league, it was 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.520 kind of just you know, we had a guy in 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.760 Dallas and Mike Woysik. He kind of trained me and 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.600 like kind of just he's there by my side every 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:35.800 steparate way, and he kind of he's always just challenged me, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.440 you know, like when I go to the weight room, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.279 it's like a challenge, Yeah, and he's always just you know, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.320 like little fake bets like here and there, I bet 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.080 you one hundred thousand you can't get this weight up 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:47.719 right now. And so it's like I was like, are 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.359 you challenging me? And so that kind of just stuck 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.119 with me. And so even when I get to come here, 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.760 I still came to keep that saying aspect of like 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:58.760 you know, he's in the back of my head, I 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.720 need to like lift more, right, be stronger, and like 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.200 I need to try to get this extra rep in 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:03.919 to feel that little strain. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.839 Yeah, what exercises do you like doing the most? 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.280 I like like a little bit of everything. Honestly, I'm 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.360 always interested in trying to find something new that could 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:13.520 help out or anything like that. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.280 So what music you listen to in there when you're 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:17.120 claying around the ways. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.960 So I know the younger guys got there. You know, 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.120 they're kind of newer music they listen to now, But 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.640 for me, I have no problem listening to like old 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.000 school R and B. Yeah, and just kicking back and 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.719 like just getting my work in. Yeah. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.560 Okay, So I wanted to ask you going back and 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.039 we talked about USC a little bit and coming out 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.400 your number nine overall selection by the Cowboys in twenty eleven. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:44.599 But let's go way back. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.440 Where do you get your work ethic from? Because you 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.960 started out as a kid long hours, right. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.080 Yeah, So when I was younger, ever since I was 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.800 like five or six years old, we had a family 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:04.160 janitorial business, and you know, we took pride in our 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.640 you know what we did because you know, the better 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.840 we did our job, the more work we'll get. And 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:15.040 so you know, pay wasn't great. You know, we fairly 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:20.040 struggle growing growing up. But you know, for me, I 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:21.960 knew that, you know, we do a job, well, we'd 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.679 get another job that you know, I'm cleaning windows outside 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.800 of a building. I didn't make sure I'm the best 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.240 window cleaner out there that you've ever seen. And I 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:30.960 took pride in to night if it was any little streak, 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.720 everything like that, I'm just like, wait, hold on, this 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.760 ain't done yet. You gotta look at different angles and 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.440 things like that, or clean or carpet clean or anything 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.560 like that. You have to make sure it's done right. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.960 And so for me, it was, you know, high school, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.560 we were i'll play I'll play a game on Friday night. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.440 Next day Saturday morning, we're driving to a long destination 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.600 for work somewhere. It could be like go to Sacramento 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:59.320 or Arizona for for a job and not really any 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.640 kind of restaurants like that. And so it's kind of 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.440 taught you that mindset of you know, nobody really cares 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.240 how tired you are because you still got to do 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:07.600 the work. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.520 You carry that mindset on the field. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:10.800 Yeah, because nobody's feeling sorry for you. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.040 And when you're talking about your family as far as 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:20.080 the business is concerned, how many of you were going. 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.120 From place to place as far as traveled. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.080 So it was you know, me, my mom and my 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.880 step my mom's excised my stepdad at the time, and 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.600 then I had my stepbrother, stepsister, and then my little sister. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.640 She didn't work. She kind of just stayed out of 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.600 the way. And then it just us grinding away yeah, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.440 and then we might have a couple of other family 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.120 members coming in to kind of help out here and there, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.160 but other than that, it was just us. And so 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.720 we'll go like say, we will drive to Arizona, you know, 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.360 four hour drive, go clean the building, and then get 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.640 right back in the road, come back home. And so 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.600 like plans to do things over the weekends or hang 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:03.199 out with friends, that work came first and so and 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.160 hanging out with France came last. And so we got 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.160 back in time from after work and the next day, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.080 then you can go hang out with your friends. But 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.560 at that point, you just you're done. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.439 What would your friends said? What ever, your buddy said. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.520 We're having like a little good together at the house, 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.120 or you want to come over to play video games? 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.719 I'm sorry, I gotta hit the road this weekend, and 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.199 I like growing up, all my friends kind of understood. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:29.480 And then but that's just how things were. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:35.680 Where did your craftsmanship come along as far as the 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.720 way you approached the game out there on the field, 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.760 because the first word that comes to my mind when 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:46.280 watching you is you and you're an effortless mover and 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.720 then also master technician. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.160 Yeah, you know, I got to give a lot of 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:58.679 respect to Bill Callahan. He early in my career, he 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.960 he just gave me that mindset, like how to approach 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.840 the game and like how to study the game and 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.680 how to read things while I'm on the field, and 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.319 like just technique wise, he harked on a lot of technique. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.600 And Bill Callahan was here. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.120 Yeah, so legendary offensive line coach, one of the best stuff, 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:15.640 no doubt. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:20.040 And so you know, he instilled in me that like 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.840 everything was just second second memory or you know memory 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.560 and musclemory on me. And you know, even when we 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.160 were retired after practice, we got to continue working on 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.280 something after practice, right, And it's you know, he stilled 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.079 to you. He instilled in your mind that it's always 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.080 something else. It's always something to work on. Even the 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.599 worst thing is you say your head that you got it, 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.160 because you're never going to just have it, and it's 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.600 always something new you could learn, because as this game goes, 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.720 it always switches up different rushers and things like that, 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.120 different people to go against. So you got to have 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.920 something that you could have to battle against that and 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.040 so and then I got lucky enough to have another 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.080 you know guru last year with the Salaria and so, 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.240 and you know, he was so you know about helping 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.560 his guys and making sure that the technique was right 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.920 and everybody else on the same page. But he wanted 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.280 to make sure everybody was going to be great, and 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.480 he wasn't going to and he wasn't gonna feel like 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.360 he did his job and everybody wasn't great. So he 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.600 he did everything his power to, you know, to help 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:25.360 everybody out. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:32.160 We talked about your strength. You're striking. I think you're 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:37.240 one of the best strikers that we've ever seen. Tell 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.640 me some stories about your hands and then the way 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.040 you've used them over the years. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.040 Honestly, you know, I kind of go back to Bill, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.880 you know, he just taught us. You know, this is 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.440 all confidence because everybody could have a strike, but it's 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.320 all the technique of the strike and having your feet 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.560 playing it in the ground and but still able to 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:03.400 move while punching, and placement of the hands and things 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.320 like that, and so honestly, the more of the thing 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.920 is like whether like placement in the hands or strike 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.600 or anything like that, you just gotta have confidence because everybody, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.880 no matter who you are, how strong you are, you 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.840 play long and have you confidence in your hands, you 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.320 can have that strike, but just got to have confidences different. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.800 It's just, honestly, is probably just experience over the years. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:28.640 Just know how to handle certain things. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.800 When you get your hands on somebody. What's going on 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.760 in your mind when you when you have that initial shot, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.560 Can you have your hands on somebody? 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.240 Uh shoot block them forever because you never know alone 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:44.200 the quarterback's gonna hold the ball. And and we had 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.240 the same you know last year, you know, on your one, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.600 one out of eleven, and that kind of that that 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.680 just that same kind of you know, stuck with me 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.720 that like you know, once you have your guy, your 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.600 guy blocked up, that like right, let them go. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.440 you don't know what's going on behind you, and you 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.160 know what's going on down the field. You're focused on 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:04.880 is to handle that guy right there in front of you. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.280 Do you hear a whistle when you're out there? 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.800 Sometimes? Other than sometimes I don't, And I just keep 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:17.360 going until like all right, chill, chill, chill. And it's 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.160 kind of you gotta have that mindset to kind of play, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:20.920 not play at the whistle, but played through the whistle. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.360 How much pride you take in the fact that, hey, 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.440 I got the quarterback's blind side Hi Dack last year, 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.120 the last few years in Dallas. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.439 Now I got Aaron behind me. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:38.360 I just know that, like the like the team, the quarterback, 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.719 and you know, everybody's depending on the old line in 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.559 d line to set the tone of the game. And 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.840 for us as an old line, whoever's back there, they 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.040 need to know that we have their back no matter what, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:51.959 and we're gonna give everything it takes up up front. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.120 So as far as being in there in the trunch, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.200 just take me inside. Are you a guy who is 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.400 going to tell some buddy you're in for a long 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.560 day vocally or you're just I don't talk, you don't 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:05.720 say any say anything. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.920 I'm not one of those big right rack guys and 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.520 like talking and everything like that. I like staying neutral 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.880 and just focused on the job I need to get done. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.080 Because if I'm up here, then I'm always be all 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.960 out of whack, right, And the best thing is to 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.440 always try to stay neutral as possible, And because you 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.280 never know what happened in the game. And I had 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:26.960 that mindset. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.880 Do you think even if you didn't play football, that. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.920 You were gonna be successful no matter what you did, 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.240 because that mindset coming back from being part of that 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.160 janitorial business way back when with your family, whatever profession 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.800 you chose, Tyrone Smith was going to excel at it. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:49.000 Yeah. Uh, my fiance kind of gives me a hard time. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.200 She was like, you just love working, don't you. I say, yeah, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.080 I said, I feel I feel a little uncomfortable with 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:55.640 I'm just sitting around not doing anything. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.680 You anxious a little bit. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:58.880 I just feel like I need to be I need 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.520 to be doing something, that said, just sitting around. I 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.960 need to accomplish something at least a couple of things throughout 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.800 the day, Like I feel like I did something and yeah, 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.960 if I was doing something else, I'll yeah, I'll be 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.840 the best best at that job by you know, more 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.560 more than anybody. And so yeah, it's just for me. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.120 It's got a lot of pride more than anything, no 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:21.080 doubt about that. 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.760 The striking, the playing through the whistle, but also the feat. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:30.800 How important are the feat for any offensive lineman? And 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.240 with you watching you out there on the practice field 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.920 throughout OTAs here at the start of mandatory mini camp, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.600 there is no wasted movement. 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.000 It looks like a teach tape. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.200 Well you know, as you get older, you you can't 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:52.600 waste a movement at all. And and for me, and 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.760 like I'm so I'm like detailed as far as like 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.960 I'm looking at film, you know why was I Why 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:59.880 was I a tic late on this? Or why was 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.480 any good position for this part? And then I started 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.080 looking at this start from the ground up, start looking 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.920 at the feet, like I had a waste moving in 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:08.640 my feet. I kind of rocked a little bit and like, 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.080 gotta take that out, even it's like less than a second. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.160 You gotta get everything that every vantage you can. And 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.840 so you know with the feet and everything like that, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:21.240 and far as like pass pro your feet can't stop. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.560 And especially with these type of rushers nowadays, you know 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.800 there's a lot of fast, you know, speed rushers and 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.280 things like that. Guys like to move around jump around nowadays, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.760 and your feet can't stop because they're waiting on it, 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.600 right and they're trying to set up a move for 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.160 you so you can stop your feet so they could 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.240 work and move off of it. That's a d Lineman 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.360 wants you to stop your feet because they have because 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:41.240 they have a free go. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:47.480 But how have you avoided penalties? Because when I say that, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:54.160 I mean it complementary because your grip is legendary and 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:55.680 you never let the guy go. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:56.600 You know what I'm saying. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:02.920 Well, there's certain like things like yeah, you of course 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.560 you have your hands outside it's holding, but but it's 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.640 different when you got a guy kind of vised up 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.280 on the inside and kind of just it's I don't know, 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.119 is this more of you got to have good, good strength, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.160 but like gotta have your hands in the right place 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:19.679 and be smart about it and stay in front of 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.240 your guy. And the guy's kind of like I've happened 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:23.760 to me a couple of times that like kind of 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.480 guy kind of gets away from I'm still hooked onto 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.119 him and then like get a holding call. But like 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.639 when you gripped up and when he gripped into those paths, 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.040 you got to stay in front of them and they 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.639 keep your feet moving and do your do something you 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.119 know in your tool belt to kind of take his 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.159 power out. And but it's just you know, got to 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:42.679 go to the whole like long thing hot to like 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.440 do this technique. But like, yeah, I just got to 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:47.280 have your feet settled. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.119 But the grip strength, where does that come from? Your 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.560 naturally gifted, you're living in the weight room. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.120 But also does that go back to childhood as well, 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:55.560 to grow. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.919 Maybe a bit? Yeah, so grown. So growing up we 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.560 of course we worked a lot, but also like we 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.560 did a lot of yard work. And so for me 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.359 as a kid, even then, I looked at everything as 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.400 a challenge, like, yeah, we're like doing our own work 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.520 in the backyard, building something in the backyard, and got 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.199 to carry dirt back and forth to the front in 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.240 the back and I'm like, you know, lo, this willbarrow 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:20.520 as much as you can. I'm like, I don't see 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.639 how much I could carry. And you know that just 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.480 for me, that was just me just being weird, because 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.359 I always feel like I love to feel like I'm strong, 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.440 and I guess I guess a little bit a part 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.879 of that comes from that. And for me, it's just 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.520 you know, after a while, like you gotta do everything 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.520 he takes to make sure that guy doesn't get to 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.639 the QB. And no matter if your fingers get messed up, 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.680 like minds are a little bit already, just a little 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.520 small sacrifice to make sure you get to win. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:56.160 Eight time Pro Bowler, five time All Pro, twenty ten 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:02.840 NFL All decade team. What keeps you going at this 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.000 level at this point of your career, because a lot 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.560 of guys, frankly would say, hey, man. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:08.480 I've had a hell of a career. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.120 I've had maybe a Hall of Fame career right now. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.240 If I put a period at the end of the sentence, 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.720 Tyrone Smith, you can make the argument, this guy's a 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:17.320