Speaker 1: Welcome back to the pod. We are presented by Windvett.
Speaker 1: Benny is a team sport but together at Windvett, Eric
Speaker 1: Gallen here down in Mobile, Alabama joined but Jets defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Jeff all Brick. How different is this senior Bold
Speaker 1: now in two thousand twenty two then maybe when you
Speaker 1: came out in two thousands. I would say, for one,
Speaker 1: the I don't want to see the caliber of players,
Speaker 1: because who knows when you assess the college player what
Speaker 1: he will become in the NFL. But definitely the the
Speaker 1: highest regarded guys, the guys that potentially could go in
Speaker 1: the first round, there's not as many of those guys
Speaker 1: for whatever the reason, you know, maybe that's agent influence
Speaker 1: or um, whatever the case may be. But a little
Speaker 1: bit less of the premier first round most hyped up
Speaker 1: prospects aren't necessarily here that Other than that, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's football, you know, And and I think it's in
Speaker 1: this whole build up to the draft, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: all these opportunities to assess these players. You know, we
Speaker 1: go to the combine, we see him run, we see
Speaker 1: him jump, arm lengths, the whole deal, you know, And
Speaker 1: then Obviously, the scouting department's got four years of of
Speaker 1: evaluating the character of the man and you know what
Speaker 1: they're all about. Um, but this is like a real
Speaker 1: opportunity for us to assess the football part, you know,
Speaker 1: and and run football drills, run uh for us, you know, defensively,
Speaker 1: run an NFL defense and um get our hands on them.
Speaker 1: So in my opinion, this is invaluable, especially for a
Speaker 1: team like like ours, that is that is you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say rebuilding, but we're definitely um in the
Speaker 1: starting point of building something special. What did it mean
Speaker 1: for you coming out of Hawaii when you got here
Speaker 1: in that week? And can you talk about the personnel
Speaker 1: that it was actually assembled here? Yeah, it was I
Speaker 1: want to say that, and I might be wrong, but
Speaker 1: it was like thirty of the thirty two first round
Speaker 1: picks the year that I came here played in this game.
Speaker 1: You know. Just my linebacker group alone was uh, Brian
Speaker 1: er Lacker and John Abraham and LaVar Arrington and the
Speaker 1: list goes on and on and the guys that participate
Speaker 1: in the game. But it was for a one year
Speaker 1: starter out of Hawaii that never thought that you know,
Speaker 1: obviously had the dream of NFL, but never thought that
Speaker 1: it would, you know, really materialize, you know. There was
Speaker 1: so much doubt, you know, and and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you're thrown into this, this group of players that
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a huge fan of football, you know,
Speaker 1: just like I played it. So I was a huge
Speaker 1: fan of a lot of these guys and and um,
Speaker 1: so it was really exciting. It was just you know,
Speaker 1: it was an amazing opportunity to see can I do
Speaker 1: this or not? You know, And and for myself it
Speaker 1: was without this game, I don't get drafted in the
Speaker 1: third round. I absolutely believe that. And I absolutely believe
Speaker 1: that's the truth. Gave me an opportunity to show him
Speaker 1: that I could play, and I could play with the
Speaker 1: top guys, John Abraham at two Great Jets, two Great Jets,
Speaker 1: four first round picks in two thousand, John Abraham and
Speaker 1: Sean Allis of course, ye, Pennington, Anthony Back that was
Speaker 1: I think Pennington was in the game as well, and
Speaker 1: Beck was in the game as well. There you go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was in the game. So when you look around
Speaker 1: at the guys today assembled here for the first time,
Speaker 1: what do you see in the rides? There's obviously like
Speaker 1: a high level of anxiousness and nervousness and um. And
Speaker 1: then you've got the other guys that some of it's
Speaker 1: real and authentic, the confidence in the swag, some of
Speaker 1: it is just posturing and trying to you know it.
Speaker 1: It's so different and and I don't want to like
Speaker 1: go off on a tangent here, but the but the
Speaker 1: agents have prepped these guys at such a high level
Speaker 1: nowadays too. The football stuff that's obvious, that's always been
Speaker 1: part of the preparation for Senior Bowl Draft, the whole process.
Speaker 1: But now I mean they're getting taught how to how
Speaker 1: to carry themselves, when they eat, when they um, you know,
Speaker 1: when they get their laundry to everything is being assessed
Speaker 1: and analyzed and and the agents have done a really
Speaker 1: good job of prepping these guys for everything, you know,
Speaker 1: So it's there. It's it's it's uh for us as
Speaker 1: a challenge, you know, because you're really trying to filter
Speaker 1: through what's real what's not real. Um. And for the
Speaker 1: teams that actually get an opportunity to coach it, I
Speaker 1: think it gives us a huge advantage because we get
Speaker 1: to absolutely like we get to uh get a relationship
Speaker 1: and develop you know, as much trust and and and
Speaker 1: regard that you can get within a week's time. But
Speaker 1: it gives us a little bit of a window into
Speaker 1: the world who they who they really are, not who
Speaker 1: they're being coached to be, you know, by an agent
Speaker 1: or by ever. So for us, it's it's huge when
Speaker 1: you heard, when you you heard you guys have been
Speaker 1: selected to coach down here. What's the initial reaction because
Speaker 1: you like to have a little bit a downtime. I
Speaker 1: know you love ball for sure, you got family, for sure,
Speaker 1: you want to get away from it. But your reaction
Speaker 1: because you said the Jets are building something special. You
Speaker 1: do have nine draft picks in the two thousand two draft,
Speaker 1: two in the top ten, a pair in rounds one,
Speaker 1: rounds two, rounds four, rounds five. Yeah, it's it's imperative
Speaker 1: that we we hit on all of them, you know,
Speaker 1: So every bit information that we can gather is huge.
Speaker 1: You come here and um. A lot of times it's
Speaker 1: people think it's just an opportunity to assess, and that's
Speaker 1: part of the process. But I think it's just as
Speaker 1: important to eliminate people. You know, maybe the personality, the
Speaker 1: character isn't quite right for us. The learning style doesn't
Speaker 1: meld with the way that we teach. Um, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. So you you find guys for sure,
Speaker 1: and you um and you really like you. You you
Speaker 1: find guys that you want to target and you want
Speaker 1: to you want to become part of the organization. But
Speaker 1: just as important as you eliminate certain people to This
Speaker 1: is fascinating this year because there are staff evaluations. You
Speaker 1: are the defensive coordinator, but you're not at the defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator this week? Who is the Jets defensive coordinator? Mike Grutenberg?
Speaker 1: And can you tell us about Rudy? Yeah, Rudy is
Speaker 1: excellent coach, excellent teacher. He coaches the linebackers for the Jets. Um,
Speaker 1: I got definitely qualified, has all the experience the knowledge
Speaker 1: to be a great defensive coordinator in this league. And
Speaker 1: his time will come for sure. So what a great
Speaker 1: opportunity to come out here and kind of have a
Speaker 1: dry run for him. You know, he just um, he
Speaker 1: just had his first unit meeting, did an excellent job.
Speaker 1: So take us behind closed doors. What can you tell
Speaker 1: us he didn't take well? He he put his own
Speaker 1: style style onto kind of what we talked about within
Speaker 1: our defensive unit meetings that i've you know before, but
Speaker 1: definitely put his own spin on in his own uh,
Speaker 1: you know, his own style which he has, and um,
Speaker 1: it was fun, it was It's it's just it's a
Speaker 1: great opportunity for these guys, like I know Rudy, some guys,
Speaker 1: you know, they they don't necessarily take it as seriously
Speaker 1: as as as others do. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: it really took a day off these last two weeks,
Speaker 1: Like he was really excited about this opportunity, taking very
Speaker 1: seriously and and put a lot of time in preparation
Speaker 1: into it. And um, these kids will will value from
Speaker 1: this for sure. What's it like playing for you? Because
Speaker 1: everybody talks about juice. Whenever you hear the name Brick,
Speaker 1: people say he brings the juice on the field in
Speaker 1: the classroom. You'd have to ask others, you know, like
Speaker 1: I do love this game. Um, it's absolutely you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's been a huge part of my life playing coaching.
Speaker 1: It's it's afforded me so many opportunities, not just financially,
Speaker 1: but um, it's exposed me to to people that I
Speaker 1: would have never known otherwise, you know, from every walk
Speaker 1: of life, from every part of the country, from every
Speaker 1: from every everything, you know, and it's just enriched my
Speaker 1: life at such a high level. And I have just
Speaker 1: such gratitude for the game that i'd to say that
Speaker 1: you feel that when I coach and teach and and
Speaker 1: try to motivate, and that you feel my authentic love
Speaker 1: and passion for this game and and a real genuine
Speaker 1: give back for me, you know, and give back for
Speaker 1: all that it's given me. What do guys have to
Speaker 1: do under you to be successful? What are things you're
Speaker 1: not going to tolerate for a player because you played yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to me, it's just emptying the tank every day, like
Speaker 1: the all gas, no break, which is Roberts you know
Speaker 1: slogan that this organization is absolutely embraced. Um, that's absolutely
Speaker 1: how I operate, you know. So, uh, whether it's meetings,
Speaker 1: whether it's walked through, whether it's night before prep, whether
Speaker 1: it's your film study, what what, whatever it is, just
Speaker 1: go for it at the highest level and turn every stone,
Speaker 1: empty your tank every single day and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: You're gonna be golden with me, you know. Like, to me,
Speaker 1: that's the process. As long as we're committed to the
Speaker 1: process and you are on turning every stone and you
Speaker 1: are emptying the tank and you do live by this
Speaker 1: mantra of all gas no break that I can absolutely
Speaker 1: live with whatever those results. So are you know, do
Speaker 1: you bring teach tape out of yourself? Absolutely? Not ever
Speaker 1: bring any clips out, No way, too embarrassing. Absolutely they
Speaker 1: and if they did, some of the guys, it's funny.
Speaker 1: Raheem Morris. When we were in Atlanta, he would do
Speaker 1: that every once in a while, and it was the
Speaker 1: guys would love it and they get a big laugh.
Speaker 1: The best part of it was when we remember we
Speaker 1: first got to Atlanta and I preached leverage and I
Speaker 1: and I brought out the shoot where we would shuffle
Speaker 1: under it for just days and hours and it was
Speaker 1: just endless and and and I just this mantra of
Speaker 1: stay low, play low, over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: And then he finds this clip of me standing straight
Speaker 1: up and just did I make that? I made the play,
Speaker 1: you know, But but he definitely got a laugh at it.
Speaker 1: But I was like, the honest truth is, and it's
Speaker 1: not me trying to be humble or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I was a very average player. You know, like my
Speaker 1: my tape, I could maybe show you what strain looked like,
Speaker 1: you know, but as far as um skill and technique,
Speaker 1: nobody was average. You played ten years in the National
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Speaker 1: one one seven yea. Can you talk about your career,
Speaker 1: your directory, how you came in as a starter and
Speaker 1: that at the end of your career you actually went
Speaker 1: into that inventorship role and became a reserve linebacker. It
Speaker 1: was it's the opposite of most. You know, most come
Speaker 1: in as a reserve and and you know, they earn
Speaker 1: their stripes on special teams and ultimately they became a starter.
Speaker 1: And I was kind of the opposite came in and
Speaker 1: I was when I came in, the forty niners were
Speaker 1: in the transition of of moving on from those those
Speaker 1: like the greats, you know, like I the one year
Speaker 1: with Steve Young, and one year with Jerry Rice, And
Speaker 1: one year with Ken Norton Jr. And one year with
Speaker 1: a lot of these tall more than one year with heal.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of the great players that
Speaker 1: were a part of those those great Super Bowl wins
Speaker 1: and those World championships, and and then my second year,
Speaker 1: um they really started over for all intensive purposes, and
Speaker 1: um so I had a great opportunity to start early
Speaker 1: and off in my career and and uh actually didn't
Speaker 1: really get involved with special teams until my eighth year,
Speaker 1: my eighth, my ninth, and my tenth, which is it's
Speaker 1: kind of you know, it's some dudes wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: It's backwards. Yeah. I was fortunately had enough self awareness
Speaker 1: that when you when you draft a guy like Patrick Willis,
Speaker 1: you know, that he's better than you, you know. And
Speaker 1: I knew that that the writing was on the wall,
Speaker 1: and it was either I really embrace a special team
Speaker 1: role and and embrace anyway I can help this team,
Speaker 1: or I would get cut. And that you know, that
Speaker 1: was self awareness, but it's also the honest truth. And
Speaker 1: and uh, and it let me get three more years
Speaker 1: in the NFL, which had I not like, probably wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1: What made Will so unique? What didn't make him? The
Speaker 1: guy was explosive, He was fast, he was violent, and
Speaker 1: he was instinctive. Um, he had a thirst and hunger
Speaker 1: to learn the game at the highest level. Two, which
Speaker 1: is and that's where you came in, right, Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I'd like, I'd like to say that that that we
Speaker 1: built a good relationship from that standpoint, and um, whatever
Speaker 1: I had, I gave him, you know. And and uh,
Speaker 1: although like i'd like, you know, the truth is he
Speaker 1: probably didn't need need much, you know, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we definitely built a relationship that way, and and it
Speaker 1: it gave me my first kind of itch to to
Speaker 1: do the coaching thing, you know, and and see it
Speaker 1: kind of materialized. So mobile Alabama played a huge role
Speaker 1: in your playing career a huge role in your coaching career.
Speaker 1: So take me through down here when you have a
Speaker 1: conversation with Pete Carroll and John Snow what happened and
Speaker 1: and how did that change the course of Jeff all
Speaker 1: Brick's career. We uh, you know, you play, And um,
Speaker 1: I'd like to say that as I played, I was
Speaker 1: a student at the game, so I would get those
Speaker 1: comments as coaches do and say, man, you make a
Speaker 1: great coach or you know, when when you decide to coach,
Speaker 1: give me a call. And and what I found was
Speaker 1: and this is no, this is not saying anything about anybody,
Speaker 1: but like made those calls and and what I found
Speaker 1: out right away was in coaching, if there's not a position,
Speaker 1: there's not a position, you know. Like I wanted to
Speaker 1: be a linebacker coach. Initially that was the dream. And
Speaker 1: there's thirty two of them in the world, you know,
Speaker 1: and and they're hard to come by, you know. So
Speaker 1: you know, for whatever the reason, when I retired, there
Speaker 1: wasn't something open from that standpoint. So, um, like I
Speaker 1: gave a lot of coaches calls and I got the
Speaker 1: same advice from a lot of different coaches said they
Speaker 1: just go down with the Senior Bowl and kind of
Speaker 1: put a face to a name. You know, I was
Speaker 1: fresh from from playing and and um, I gotta send
Speaker 1: my unique last name, so you know, i'd like to
Speaker 1: say people kind of remember me a little bit, you know.
Speaker 1: And I played quite a while, so just you know,
Speaker 1: shot myself around and got to know as many people
Speaker 1: as I could, coaches, personnel, guys, executives, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And and uh happened to be in the like I
Speaker 1: hate to say this because I know we have a
Speaker 1: contract with dv Sport. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: ned S for exos, but whatever, it was, Like they
Speaker 1: have their little expo set up and a lot of
Speaker 1: the coaches that weren't coaching the game, we're down there
Speaker 1: and they're watching practice, and um, I happened to be
Speaker 1: at the same spot. And all of a sudden, Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll and John Schneider are next to me, and I
Speaker 1: have no connection to them prior to this, and uh,
Speaker 1: and we get into a little bit of a convertation
Speaker 1: get to know them. UM. Spent some time with them,
Speaker 1: which led to them getting my contact number and um,
Speaker 1: and then I come home from from O Bill and
Speaker 1: and um, not quite certain. I had met Raheamorris, that
Speaker 1: was my first time with him, and and had met
Speaker 1: uh Rich Pisaccia, who was a special team coordinator at
Speaker 1: the time, and I felt like that was going to
Speaker 1: be an opportunity. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll calls me. And I'm at dinner with my family,
Speaker 1: my young family at the time. My uh, my kids
Speaker 1: are not young anymore. But the we, uh, we get
Speaker 1: to talking and before I know, it's like an hour
Speaker 1: and a half to our conversation, like you know that
Speaker 1: they're done with dinner, like looking at me, like come on, dad,
Speaker 1: and uh. We get off the phone and and I
Speaker 1: don't know what to make of the conversation, like it
Speaker 1: was just we're just kind of, you know, we're just
Speaker 1: kind of talking. You know, We're talking about football, philosophy,
Speaker 1: family life, a little bit of everything, you know, as
Speaker 1: people that know Pete know that that he is that way,
Speaker 1: you know, and and uh and he's like, yeah, just
Speaker 1: look out for an email I'll get I'll send you
Speaker 1: an email from mc parole the next couple of day,
Speaker 1: who's like our scar you know, are the guy who
Speaker 1: runs our building and Michael, Okay. Then I get the
Speaker 1: email a couple of days later, so I'm thinking maybe
Speaker 1: it's a follow up interview. It's something. And I look
Speaker 1: at it and I see a flight and I'm like, cool,
Speaker 1: all right, And then I see, uh, a rental car.
Speaker 1: I'm cool. And then I look at the hotel and
Speaker 1: I'm like and then I look below it and it's
Speaker 1: like ninety days stay. So I'm like, it's right there
Speaker 1: a job offer. Yeah, I guess I got the job,
Speaker 1: you know. You know, So that was it from Afar.
Speaker 1: It seems like you and Pete would be long lost brothers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you have that connectivity in terms of you love teaching,
Speaker 1: you all energy all the time, both of you guys,
Speaker 1: the passion for the game. Um, it seems like that
Speaker 1: was a natural fit. Yeah. He uh. I was just
Speaker 1: from the outside looking and I was so intrigued by
Speaker 1: his approach and the way he did things and and
Speaker 1: just had such admiration for it. And obviously it had
Speaker 1: had tremendous success at USC and this was um he
Speaker 1: was just transitioning, so this would this would have been
Speaker 1: his first year in Seattle, so um I joined him
Speaker 1: for the first year that he was there and uh,
Speaker 1: everything I thought he was and more like, um, it
Speaker 1: wasn't just random juice and energy and passionate. It was
Speaker 1: such focused energy, focused passion. It was so calculated in
Speaker 1: the best of ways and so deliberate and all that
Speaker 1: he did and um really helped me. And just like
Speaker 1: here's this guy that he has no connection to prior
Speaker 1: to us meeting, and all of a sudden he would
Speaker 1: give me opportunities to speak to the team and and uh,
Speaker 1: night before games, speak to the team, all all sorts
Speaker 1: of just really cool opts. And it would be like
Speaker 1: you'd follow me up afterwards and and give me feedback
Speaker 1: that was good, Maybe work on this. And it was
Speaker 1: just for a young coach, it was just the perfect situation.
Speaker 1: You know. One of the most interesting things I think
Speaker 1: about your background. It's not only excelled at football. You're
Speaker 1: a wrestler. What wait one es was my my senior
Speaker 1: year weight But I didn't make it very often, you know,
Speaker 1: I was. I probably lived at about two oh five.
Speaker 1: So you were in the sweatsuit on the bike. Goodness,
Speaker 1: I was. You know, you're eighteen years old, Like you
Speaker 1: have no body fat, you know, you have nothing to
Speaker 1: know was probably two or five pounds with nobody fat
Speaker 1: so to get to one eighty nine, which ultimately became
Speaker 1: one ninety one at the end of the year. But
Speaker 1: it was hard for me, so I would wrestle heavyweight
Speaker 1: every time I didn't make it. How much did that
Speaker 1: help you? Playing ball? It helped, you know, Like the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is the mental strength that it builds. You know,
Speaker 1: there's the mental strength obviously from the training, which is
Speaker 1: excruciating and it's one of the hardest things that I
Speaker 1: had ever done, you know, the running and the and
Speaker 1: the sparring and all that you do to prepare to
Speaker 1: so it's just it's brutal. It's it's it's harder m
Speaker 1: from a conditioning standpoint than anything I've ever done in football.
Speaker 1: So from that standpoint, built great metal strength. But it's
Speaker 1: also the the emotional strength of stepping out there and
Speaker 1: there's no one to rely on. It's just you and
Speaker 1: you and uh and excelling in those moments when it's
Speaker 1: just you and you, which is you know, it's imperative
Speaker 1: in this in this game, you know, for because there's
Speaker 1: there's so many moments where, yeah, it's a team game,
Speaker 1: and you absolutely have to rely on your teammates and
Speaker 1: you gotta be a great team at from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of stuff that you have to
Speaker 1: do in individually to be successful. You're such a team
Speaker 1: oriented guy. How much did you enjoy last year calm plays?
Speaker 1: Not your first time calling plays in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: We know your experienced in Atlanta taken over interim DC duties,
Speaker 1: but last year was the first time wire to wire, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was awesome. You know, um
Speaker 1: where the results awesome not always obviously, UM, but I
Speaker 1: felt like, uh I grew. I felt like our defense grew.
Speaker 1: I I was really proud, especially absorbing some of the
Speaker 1: injuries that we had. I was really proud of that
Speaker 1: last four game stretch where I felt like you started
Speaker 1: to see the fellows start to turn the corner from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of really learning this system and learning all
Speaker 1: the little, the finer details that really make the difference
Speaker 1: between it working and not working. Um. Like I've said
Speaker 1: many times before, like we're not the we're not the
Speaker 1: type of defense. And this is not me saying our
Speaker 1: defense is better than anyone else is, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of ways to do this thing, and there's every
Speaker 1: there's a lot different ways that have been successful. But
Speaker 1: what we believe in is that it's not the player
Speaker 1: the play call. It's not me, it's the players, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's being great at your fundamentals and the principles
Speaker 1: and and being a really technique based defense as opposed
Speaker 1: to a lot of trickery and deception and like we're
Speaker 1: not about that, you know. And and um, the great
Speaker 1: thing is when you get it, you become really hard
Speaker 1: to deal with because they have no answer because they're
Speaker 1: not going to deceive you either, you know. And our
Speaker 1: predictability makes offenses predictable as well, because we get attacked
Speaker 1: the same way from week to week, you know. So
Speaker 1: from from that standpoint, um, it's really good. But it's
Speaker 1: also hard because it takes time. Like I could, honestly
Speaker 1: I could. I could have drawn up four or five
Speaker 1: defensive band aids in the back half of the season,
Speaker 1: and we probably would have been ranked overall, um, rather
Speaker 1: than thirty one or saying whatever. And that's absolutely right,
Speaker 1: because I would have I would have deluded the teaching
Speaker 1: of the front, I would have deluded our coverage stuff.
Speaker 1: I would have all these principles and fundamentals and techniques
Speaker 1: that we're trying to master. All would have been deluded
Speaker 1: with all these prophet calls. Um at the end of
Speaker 1: the day are going to help us, you know. So
Speaker 1: I really felt that that last four games stretch, just
Speaker 1: the level of confidence, the turns, the time on task
Speaker 1: that we've had, you started to feel it a little bit,
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Speaker 1: you speak to that last game in Buffalo, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: closed the regular season, and and obviously again the results,
Speaker 1: the final results not there in terms of winning, but
Speaker 1: I believe there's a stretch there. Seven out of eight possessions,
Speaker 1: force and punts and keeping your team in a one
Speaker 1: possession game against one of the league teams and the
Speaker 1: NFL one of the most explosive offenses. What did it
Speaker 1: say about your group? Yeah, that that they they're starting
Speaker 1: to get it. You know, they're starting to learn it, um,
Speaker 1: starting to apply it. And and what's really cool is
Speaker 1: they started to, like with them starting to understand at
Speaker 1: a higher level, obviously, they started to have a little
Speaker 1: bit more success and you started to finally feel the
Speaker 1: confidence in what we were doing, you know, and how
Speaker 1: we're doing it. So um, it was just a glimpse
Speaker 1: of just a glimmer of of what we can become
Speaker 1: when we get better at this. And we had a
Speaker 1: few pieces obviously through the free agency, in the draft,
Speaker 1: and and uh, just stack another year of doing what
Speaker 1: we do and we'll add little caveats and some wrinkles
Speaker 1: and some some nuances here and there, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we're gonna do what we do.
Speaker 1: You gotta go to the team met here in a minute.
Speaker 1: But let's go rapid fire on a couple of things.
Speaker 1: How good of a player can Carl Aweson be in
Speaker 1: this defense? Because we were out there in the spring
Speaker 1: and the summer and I was telling people this guy
Speaker 1: was by far and away the best player in the
Speaker 1: football field. Yeah, I agree he. Uh, most fronts in
Speaker 1: the NFL are read are They react to the blocking schemes,
Speaker 1: They react to the man in front of them. So
Speaker 1: there's a level of hesitation no matter how you know
Speaker 1: the defense and how many reps and time and tests
Speaker 1: that you had. Um, this front is not built in
Speaker 1: that way. This front is based on everything is on
Speaker 1: our terms, and we are going forward and we are attacking.
Speaker 1: And I think it is absolutely Taylor made for call
Speaker 1: also because he is. That's how he's built. That's what
Speaker 1: his DNA is all about anyway. So, Um, for a
Speaker 1: guy to not have to read, not have to sit
Speaker 1: in a frog stance and and catch and step laterally
Speaker 1: and and react to the man in front of him,
Speaker 1: he's putting things on his terms. And when things are
Speaker 1: in his terms. I thought this offseason, like you had said,
Speaker 1: for the guys that were out there and saw it
Speaker 1: and felt it like like I don't want to throw
Speaker 1: so much smoke at him, but it's like he looked
Speaker 1: unblockable at times. Mosley any surprised at all. You're a
Speaker 1: guy who played the game at the highest level and
Speaker 1: you've coached up a lot of very good players. But
Speaker 1: there are a lot of questions I think externally after Hey,
Speaker 1: he basically hasn't played in two years. Um. He he
Speaker 1: is one of the most special football players I've ever
Speaker 1: been around. He is. His level of anticipation and his
Speaker 1: instinct is just it's just so unique. Like he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys that is consistently inching two plays before
Speaker 1: the ball snapped, like he just has inherent sense of
Speaker 1: where it's going. Um. And it's one of those things
Speaker 1: that's absolutely earned. It's not like he just hoacaxed focused
Speaker 1: and he's just gonna got a feeling like he's put
Speaker 1: the time on the films, the He's just a relentless
Speaker 1: worker in that way. So from that standpoint, amazing. Um.
Speaker 1: The level of toughness, like say what you want. Guys
Speaker 1: that really get paid in this league, and he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys that really got paid and well deserved
Speaker 1: every penny that he makes, they don't throw it around
Speaker 1: the same typically, you know, like they gained a higher
Speaker 1: level of consciousness for their their health, um which every
Speaker 1: human being can understand. He is not that Like this
Speaker 1: guy throws around his body like like he's a fifteen
Speaker 1: year old play in high school football, like and he's
Speaker 1: he's trying to earn a scholarship. Like he is so hungry,
Speaker 1: so tough. That's the way you played though. Uh he
Speaker 1: he is ten times better than the player I ever was.
Speaker 1: But I'm not talking about athletically. I'm just saying, is
Speaker 1: that you that I tried to and and the best
Speaker 1: part about him is his level other than the playing
Speaker 1: that's obvious, but the level of humility and the teammate
Speaker 1: that he is is something that unless you're really around him,
Speaker 1: you can't appreciate because everybody's heard about it. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the fans have heard about it. Me as a fan
Speaker 1: of him, I had heard about it when he was
Speaker 1: in Buffalo or when he was in Baltimore, and um,
Speaker 1: I was where it was at. But the the man
Speaker 1: is what you gained the strongest appreciation for when you're
Speaker 1: around him, because he's just he's so humble. He's such
Speaker 1: a great teammate, is such a good human being. You know,
Speaker 1: he's just he said, one of his proudest moments was
Speaker 1: changing the play. I've never been around something like that.
Speaker 1: Like I've seen guys you build in audibles within the
Speaker 1: game plan and empty checks and information checks and we
Speaker 1: all have done that. Everyone's done that, and we do that.
Speaker 1: But he went completely off script, like it was not
Speaker 1: in the game plan, It wasn't even discussed on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Changed it, it worked, it was, it was. But you're
Speaker 1: such a competitor. Was there every moment where like what
Speaker 1: the hell are you doing? Hell no, Like I got
Speaker 1: He's one of those he's that he's earn that right.
Speaker 1: He's one of those few guys that like, um, if
Speaker 1: you saw it, you felt it, like I'm right with you,
Speaker 1: and we believe in it a great like one of
Speaker 1: the billions of stories people have probably heard about him.
Speaker 1: But um, my wife she broke her ankle last offseason,
Speaker 1: like right before summer break, and she had to get
Speaker 1: a whole surgery on her plates. The whole thing was
Speaker 1: it was and I'm I'm we're out. We're walking out
Speaker 1: the practice one day and I just told him, yeah,
Speaker 1: that she she broke her ankle, she's gonna be um,
Speaker 1: you know, she's gonna be off her feet for five
Speaker 1: or six weeks or whatever, like unsolicited, without saying anything.
Speaker 1: The next day, I walked into my office. There's a
Speaker 1: wheelchair sitting there, and he had brought her a wheelchair
Speaker 1: from home. I never heard that story before. It's just
Speaker 1: a small, little like window into his world and just
Speaker 1: the man that he is. How about the young corners.
Speaker 1: Everybody said, you guys were crazy, but you go out
Speaker 1: there and play with them, and Bryce Hall really developed.
Speaker 1: In year two, Brandon Nuckles comes up with two interceptions,
Speaker 1: including a pick six. The number of past defenses you got,
Speaker 1: Michael Carter the second steps into one of the most
Speaker 1: difficult positions all football. What can you say about that group? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really proud of the ways the guys progressed
Speaker 1: and what they had they had become at the end
Speaker 1: of that season. I mean it, it is the maybe
Speaker 1: the hardest position in football to play as a young player,
Speaker 1: you know, without the without the reps, without the time
Speaker 1: on task, without the experience like which none of them had,
Speaker 1: you know, and um, and they ended up becoming NFL
Speaker 1: corners by the end of the season, which was really
Speaker 1: cool to see, especially for three guys that UM built
Speaker 1: in the same way that that that CJ is in
Speaker 1: that way just so humble, come to work every day,
Speaker 1: work their butt off, UM and doing it without a
Speaker 1: real model of They really didn't have a vet in
Speaker 1: front of them to kind of show them the way,
Speaker 1: because they're kind of paving their own way as they went,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be a little bit more challenging at times. UM,
Speaker 1: But I really felt like like by the end of
Speaker 1: the season, I'm like, we can we can play with
Speaker 1: about anybody out there right now with this, with this group,
Speaker 1: you know, so it's exciting to see. I think, you
Speaker 1: gotta get out of here, but I really enjoyed this.
Speaker 1: We gotta catch up again because I want to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more about the Atlantic connection and Michael
Speaker 1: Fleur and you met the Scars before. Uh what a
Speaker 1: close group, and you guys carrying this on here with
Speaker 1: the Jets. But I really enjoyed Yeah, me too, enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Thanks