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Speaker 1: Great you spent I think, well, all of but one
Speaker 1: year of your NFL career here in Houston. What does
Speaker 1: it mean to you to get drafted by this franchise
Speaker 1: and be considered when they think of the short list
Speaker 1: of the greatest players to ever play in the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans uniform?
Speaker 2: Your name is the first name to get brought up. Man.
Speaker 4: I always tell a story about when I went to
Speaker 4: my first Pro Bowl, the guy. It was some guy
Speaker 4: he worked with the NFL and he was like, who
Speaker 4: the hell is here from the Houston Texans. And that's
Speaker 4: something that always stuck with me. And I put that
Speaker 4: chip on my shoulder and I was like, shit, I'm.
Speaker 2: Making people respect us, you know.
Speaker 4: And that was the way I played. That was just
Speaker 4: the way I carried myself. And you know, to I
Speaker 4: have this Hall of Fame thing happened. It wasn't just
Speaker 4: for me, man, it was about this whole city.
Speaker 1: So the actual first player for in the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: to go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Speaker 2: What did that?
Speaker 1: When you got the call and it says they knock
Speaker 1: on the door, Andre Johnson, Welcome to Football Heaven.
Speaker 2: You've been selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: I mean, Shannon, you you've had that knock, you know.
Speaker 4: So I don't think words can really describe it, if
Speaker 4: you like, I had to take a moment to literally
Speaker 4: go sit on my couch, you know, and I have
Speaker 4: my hands in my head and I just, you know,
Speaker 4: to be it's been over thirty thousand guys to play
Speaker 4: this game. It's only three hundred, and it's seventy eight
Speaker 4: people in the Hall of Fame. That's one that's not
Speaker 4: even one percent that's correct to be mentioned with that.
Speaker 2: Man. That's that's it's special. It's special.
Speaker 4: I ain't gonna lie, man, just having you here and
Speaker 4: enjoy this with you. Man, appreciate a lot of people,
Speaker 4: A lot of people really don't know.
Speaker 2: Man, how far we go back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, way way back, way back. By the fact.
Speaker 6: So the funny thing about it, for those of you
Speaker 6: that don't know, Dre and I used to train in
Speaker 6: off season. You know, during our day when we were
Speaker 6: playing me Tanne Man, uh Tonyo Brown, crazy ass? Who
Speaker 6: else we had that there, man, a lot of us,
Speaker 6: so you know we did.
Speaker 5: It was a certain connection that we all kept like
Speaker 5: we was family.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: Obviously we all played on different teams, but everybody from
Speaker 6: that area, we all we all got got back together
Speaker 6: and we always ship worked our ass off in all season. Man,
Speaker 6: and it's awesome.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: It's it's someone that has always looked up to you,
Speaker 6: even from Afar during the times we're also close.
Speaker 5: Man, I'm proud of you. I'm really proud of you.
Speaker 2: Drey.
Speaker 1: You had some unbelievable games in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: The first Houston take some player ever selected to the
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame. But I'm pretty sure they
Speaker 1: showed on your highlight clip that fight.
Speaker 2: I forgot that was coming.
Speaker 1: I had only met I had only met you once.
Speaker 1: I came here early in your career and uh way,
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, I think I think Cool
Speaker 1: Cool was the coach. He was the coach, and you
Speaker 1: were very quiet, and you're still quite quiet, and I
Speaker 1: remember that happening, and I'm like, what did this man say.
Speaker 2: To get him? He don't even talk, let alone fight?
Speaker 1: What what did he say to get you?
Speaker 2: Sold? Like you like ef it?
Speaker 1: I'm in Liberty City right now, I'm swinging ropa.
Speaker 2: It had been going on for about three years. Damn
Speaker 2: you let it build up that long. Yeah. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: had been going on for about three years.
Speaker 4: Man. I never shared this story, and nobody broke because
Speaker 4: we all night cap up and give it.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, now what I'm talking about?
Speaker 4: Let me go, So, Chad, you remember club play old Chrystal. Yeah, so, man,
Speaker 4: this is no lie. Like they're driving up to the club.
Speaker 4: It's my little brother and Rudy. My brother's sitting in
Speaker 4: the passing passenger seat. Rudy's in the back seat and
Speaker 4: Bro I'm pulling up in Valet and they jump out
Speaker 4: the car while the cars moving, and I'm like, what
Speaker 4: the hell y'all doing? They was like, there you go.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, what are y'all talking about? Is Courtland?
Speaker 4: He's standing at the front door of the club. I
Speaker 4: didn't even see him. They wanted to get on him
Speaker 4: right then, and I'm like, nah, like, we're not doing that,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So that happened like a
Speaker 4: year prior. So I don't know, man, Like we was
Speaker 4: up twenty to nothing and I told but I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 4: I'm finna beat his ass. Normally, coach called plays for
Speaker 4: the player, the player called to play.
Speaker 1: Coach, I'm gonna beat his ass on one ready to break.
Speaker 4: So that was just that was just it, man Like,
Speaker 4: I just had enough of, you know, the stuff he
Speaker 4: was doing. So so it was mainly chief shots, not
Speaker 4: so much talking. It was the cheap thing talking. You
Speaker 4: could talk all day. I don't give it damn by talking,
Speaker 4: but it was the cheap things he would do after plays.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, y'all cool, Now, y'all cool, Now, y'all, I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 4: I ain't never seen I seen him one time since
Speaker 4: that whole situation, so I don't.
Speaker 2: But after that he a chief shot you no more. No,
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna do that.
Speaker 5: I don't coach.
Speaker 6: Obviously, you've been around the game of football for a
Speaker 6: very long time. For those that are on the outside
Speaker 6: looking in, I don't think they understand how special a
Speaker 6: season that was for you to have. Obviously you understand
Speaker 6: the difficulty when you draft the rookie quarterback and understanding
Speaker 6: you have a program that is trying to build itself
Speaker 6: back to winning consistently and to be able to have
Speaker 6: a successful season, obviously not winning a championship, but still
Speaker 6: having a successful season, knowing that you can build off
Speaker 6: of that. Do you understand how great your season was
Speaker 6: last year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I do understand it all. Like it all starts with
Speaker 8: the like you said, the rookie quarterback. Everybody now they
Speaker 8: expect rookies to come in and just ball out from
Speaker 8: the start. That doesn't happen, like especially at the quarterback position.
Speaker 8: You got to have a special, special person to do that.
Speaker 8: And you know, we were fortunate enough to get CJ
Speaker 8: at number two, and this kid is special.
Speaker 5: Yes, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 8: You know, he's fun to work with, but and he
Speaker 8: didn't start off that way like we didn't. We started
Speaker 8: off with a rough season, like we had to go
Speaker 8: through some growing pains, and he learned a lot, Our
Speaker 8: team learned a lot of how we had to play
Speaker 8: to win games, and that that growth process throughout the
Speaker 8: season that made it even more special to know we
Speaker 8: didn't just come out just beating people. And I told
Speaker 8: our guys too, you know, we talk about how special
Speaker 8: of a season it was.
Speaker 2: You look up.
Speaker 8: We had I think it was ten games that were
Speaker 8: in the last minute of the game, we were right
Speaker 8: in the game, and I think we won seven with
Speaker 8: those ten in the last minute of the game. So
Speaker 8: that just shows the margin for era in this league.
Speaker 8: It's still tight even though it's a great season. But man,
Speaker 8: I tell our guys, you gotta you have to work hard,
Speaker 8: you gotta grind those wins, and you gotta be smart
Speaker 8: in those situational moments to close games out.
Speaker 6: There was an issue obviously with Brian Brian Florey as
Speaker 6: in tour and the way he talked to him obviously.
Speaker 5: Rubb two the wrong way.
Speaker 6: And I just want to know how do you navigate
Speaker 6: being able to coach certain players certain ways?
Speaker 5: And how do you approach it?
Speaker 6: Because you can coach some players you can coach hard,
Speaker 6: you know you understand those of the build.
Speaker 5: Like that, you can coach them a little harder. Some
Speaker 5: of them you got to pat him on the back
Speaker 5: and guide them. How have you been able to do
Speaker 5: that with your which players?
Speaker 2: With it?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: It's a great question, right.
Speaker 8: I was just talking to one of my coaches about
Speaker 8: that earlier today. Man, you have to have a relationship
Speaker 8: with guys. Like, if you don't have a relationship with
Speaker 8: guys and you don't know how that guy's gonna respond. Right,
Speaker 8: some guys I could coach hard. Some guys I know, like, Man,
Speaker 8: I can't get it out of him, But I don't
Speaker 8: need to go as hard with him. I just got
Speaker 8: to tell him, Hey, man, you're doing a great job. Hey,
Speaker 8: keep it going, young fella. We're gonna get there. But
Speaker 8: if you don't establish that relationship outside of football, like
Speaker 8: you just got to sit down, You gotta eat with guys,
Speaker 8: You gotta meet with guys, just talk to them one
Speaker 8: on one, like what's going on outside of football, so
Speaker 8: you can really get to know that young man, and
Speaker 8: what's going on in is life like that's how you
Speaker 8: are able to relate to guys and coach like now,
Speaker 8: once you get that relationship, I can coach them up hard, right,
Speaker 8: But everybody you can't coach hard.
Speaker 2: Everybody don't need.
Speaker 8: Hard coach it. But as a coach, it's our job, right.
Speaker 8: And that's one I learned about coaching. I thought, man,
Speaker 8: when I finished playing, I thought I was gonna hop
Speaker 8: in like, hey, Kyle, I can come coaching linebackers right now.
Speaker 8: But that's what I learned when I was in San France.
Speaker 8: I truly learned, like, man, you got every guy is different.
Speaker 2: How do you teach every guy? Right?
Speaker 8: Every guy learns different, every guy you gotta explain things
Speaker 8: differently and they pick it up different. So for me,
Speaker 8: that's where I learned, like, man, you have to be
Speaker 8: adaptable as a coach, right, but you gotta know these
Speaker 8: guys outside of football, you.
Speaker 2: Know, go ahead give it up to.
Speaker 1: A lot of times, sometimes coaches try to hide hard
Speaker 1: coaching behind disrespect. It's like, if I'm working for you,
Speaker 1: I want you to coach mehall and I want you
Speaker 1: to say what.
Speaker 2: I'm doing wrong.
Speaker 1: But there's a very very fine line between hard coaching
Speaker 1: and disrespect. Now, you guys have to understand, that's a
Speaker 1: grown man. You're talking to this in college. He's not
Speaker 1: trying to get to the NFL. He's already here. He's
Speaker 1: not in high school trying to get the knowledge. So
Speaker 1: those guys you can coach, you can coach. I mean,
Speaker 1: when we grew up, coaches custas.
Speaker 5: Out all kind of that.
Speaker 1: You do that, now you're going to turn to got
Speaker 1: off for the guy might want to fight you.
Speaker 2: He might want to fight you, or he might just leave.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: It's just it's a different, different era. And I never
Speaker 8: like try to cross the lines of cursing guys out.
Speaker 8: I feel like if I have to curse you out,
Speaker 8: like I got the wrong guy correct first off, right,
Speaker 8: I don't. We don't have time for that. Like we're men,
Speaker 8: we're working together, and I tell our guys my first
Speaker 8: meeting is like, this is what you can expect from
Speaker 8: our coaches.
Speaker 2: Our coach is going to be respectful.
Speaker 8: They're going to tell you the truth, and they're going
Speaker 8: to coach everybody in his room, right because they care
Speaker 8: your success is their success. So we have to find
Speaker 8: that common ground to work together for us all to
Speaker 8: be successful.
Speaker 1: Party a calf of your ass coach, Brian, if you
Speaker 1: were to head, if you could, if you could choose
Speaker 1: as a head coach, would you be the head coach
Speaker 1: or the general manager of the charge.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do pros. I love college. I
Speaker 2: will never do pros.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: I don't believe that that's the line.
Speaker 5: I don't believe that. Prime.
Speaker 6: You you're a very Listen to me, stay with me, baby.
Speaker 6: You are the very person who had a song called
Speaker 6: must be the Money.
Speaker 2: And I'm straight and I'm straight.
Speaker 6: And if they show you, if they show you that
Speaker 6: money over there in l A, guess where we're gonna
Speaker 6: be at.
Speaker 7: Notice, I said, we guess where we're gonna be at.
Speaker 9: I'm so glad you said that. So let me address
Speaker 9: this one thing at a time. Must be the money
Speaker 9: was a testimony. I wasn't bragging about the money. I
Speaker 9: was saying, must be the money that's turning y'all on.
Speaker 9: I said, diamond Rolex gators on my feet. I got
Speaker 9: a pair every day of the week. My han's done
Speaker 9: my finger. There's two six bundions down.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 9: I was saying, y'all changed, right, right, you must be
Speaker 9: the money now.
Speaker 7: Secondly, I'm straight, come on about it.
Speaker 2: Everything I need.
Speaker 9: Man, I'm having the time of my life Colorado. I
Speaker 9: love the kids that I get, the coach, I love
Speaker 9: the recruiting process.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 9: And I like the purity of the young men, you know.
Speaker 9: I like the the sensitivities, and I like all of
Speaker 9: and the amateurism of it, even though it's turning to
Speaker 9: pros because everybody want a bag now. But I would
Speaker 9: have a hard time in the locker room with a
Speaker 9: guy that's making a multitude of millions and he don't
Speaker 9: want to play. I don't want to give this all.
Speaker 9: I will have a problem with that. Chad a real
Speaker 9: problem with that. And you know we had teachers like.
Speaker 5: I didn't do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I've been trying to tell he ain't ever
Speaker 1: played with nobody.
Speaker 2: He just didn't want to see it.
Speaker 7: Wait, they just played for the money, played for the money,
Speaker 7: just didn't want to play it.
Speaker 9: I really want to give it. They all just want
Speaker 9: to want to play. They had a lot of talent
Speaker 9: and they didn't. They just messing around.
Speaker 7: Well, I will mess it around by doing things off
Speaker 7: the field on the just don't want to do right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, see, I ain't paying attention like that, Honestly, I
Speaker 6: ain't gonna lie, ain't gonna lie to you.
Speaker 5: I ain't gonna lie to you.
Speaker 2: And I don't want you in l A. You can't
Speaker 2: be in l A.
Speaker 9: First of all l A and l A first of all,
Speaker 9: l A too expensive for me.
Speaker 2: You know how she am.
Speaker 9: I'm not getting the house.
Speaker 2: I don't like you. I don't like.
Speaker 6: I want I'm trying to get closer to Shannon so
Speaker 6: he could take you. I want to see, don't.
Speaker 2: Want closer to him. You haven't got that hit.
Speaker 9: I don't if he ever invited you anywhere California, text message.
Speaker 2: Thank you, I meet you somewhere.
Speaker 9: If you get there, then he's gonna be basically from
Speaker 9: getting there east.
Speaker 5: In there right right right.
Speaker 2: That's who he is. You ain't know who he is.
Speaker 2: He don't want us death.
Speaker 7: First of all, he needed to get his back in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: That's what you need to do. Oh yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: want I don't.
Speaker 7: You said you were taking me to the to the
Speaker 7: place with the booty.
Speaker 9: Juice magic going there first ball. Second all you still
Speaker 9: got it. You still got your house there. Yeah, you
Speaker 9: got a house that you don't invite nobody and they
Speaker 9: don't let nobody use it.
Speaker 2: That's selfish. That's why I called him selfish.
Speaker 7: All that he's selfish. Hey can I can I use
Speaker 7: it for an airb I talk.
Speaker 1: I taught the match IgE. They come on the magic.
Speaker 1: First of all, Magic is a hero, a national treasure.
Speaker 1: Let's get there, right magic, Magic can't one of the
Speaker 1: games still looking good?
Speaker 2: Still fly? Magic? You still match? You talking about it?
Speaker 9: Somebody that should have a movie, a documentary done?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Magic, change that bad life. It just
Speaker 2: talk game.
Speaker 7: I mean magic, this this, this taught your game and
Speaker 7: all that.
Speaker 2: Man, I love Madge.
Speaker 6: You know when you when you talk about quarterbacks, we
Speaker 6: understand how important that position is obviously in order to
Speaker 6: sustain a consistent success for any team. If you look
Speaker 6: at the top teams in the NFL, it always come
Speaker 6: down to the quarterback position. Is there is there a
Speaker 6: disconnect in any way with the quarterbacks competing with each
Speaker 6: other on a standing, The pressures that are on Kirk
Speaker 6: Cousins if he doesn't play well that in jobs in jeopardy.
Speaker 10: I think I think the message was clear coming in.
Speaker 10: It was open, It was honest, it was clear. Kurtas started,
Speaker 10: Kurt's gonna take us to places that we want to
Speaker 10: go to, and Michael's going to come in and he's
Speaker 10: going to watch what it looks like, what it feels like.
Speaker 10: He want to see what it looked like when you
Speaker 10: had your quarterbacks and your day with John Lway.
Speaker 2: You want to see what it looked like.
Speaker 10: You ain't having no quarterbacks, but it would looked like
Speaker 10: to go out there.
Speaker 1: You won super Bowls at two different stops. You've been
Speaker 1: an assistant on a lot of different head coaches. What
Speaker 1: is the common nominator between winning and losing?
Speaker 2: The people?
Speaker 10: It's the people first business and everything we do. When
Speaker 10: you were a Raven, I watched it live in hand.
Speaker 10: I came into that stadium and I watched the confidence
Speaker 10: and the people. I watched Ray Lewis talk smack. I
Speaker 10: watched you talk smack, and we went in there like man,
Speaker 10: we about to beat him. And then y'all let us
Speaker 10: know after the game that y'all wasn't It was the
Speaker 10: people that was involved with the organizations. It was all
Speaker 10: about that, and here we're building a people first business.
Speaker 10: And we're doing it with us, We're doing our people
Speaker 10: with our fans, and like, I just think that's just
Speaker 10: the messaging. Like you got to have that type of mentality.
Speaker 10: It's got to be a people first mentality. It has
Speaker 10: to be at all times in everything we do. We're
Speaker 10: talking about with the fans, we're talking about with our community,
Speaker 10: we're talking about in the building, we're talking about with
Speaker 10: myself and Terry Finn on our relationship Art the blank
Speaker 10: and how he communicates with everybody, how we go about
Speaker 10: our whole process.
Speaker 2: It's it's the people. It's simple. Obviously, you had other opportunities.
Speaker 1: How do you convince coaches that look like you that
Speaker 1: don't feel like that opportunity is ever gonna come Because
Speaker 1: you had to think about it. There are a fifteen
Speaker 1: year gap between the time that you were a head
Speaker 1: coach into it that you got it again and you
Speaker 1: had interviews and did you ever think, like, man, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm will ever get another chance to
Speaker 1: be a head coach again. Say you're ready to say this,
Speaker 1: It's real simple for me, right, I was a thirty
Speaker 1: two year old.
Speaker 2: Head coach.
Speaker 10: And I did it again, and people were telling me
Speaker 10: you should have had it a long time ago. I
Speaker 10: don't give a damn what you people were saying. I'm
Speaker 10: gonna work for it. I'm gonna go get it, and
Speaker 10: when it happens, I'm gonna be ready. So I'm gonna
Speaker 10: I'm gonna keep developing my skill set that when it
Speaker 10: happens again, there's gonna be no denying on what you
Speaker 10: can and how you're gonna be able to do it
Speaker 10: and go about your business. And I don't give it
Speaker 10: damn what color I am?
Speaker 2: Yeah, results don't know color like it? Like it.
Speaker 1: You look at what you've done. You got Grady Jarrett,
Speaker 1: you bring him back. You signed Justin Simmons, you signed
Speaker 1: Matthew Judon, You just gave AJ Terrell boatload of money
Speaker 1: you secure lock him up. I drafted him too, don't
Speaker 1: forget you did. You did draft him. So what is
Speaker 1: the expectations of this defense? Considering you've got guys that
Speaker 1: have been Pro Bowls, that have been to the All Pro.
Speaker 1: AJ Terrell is one of the better young corners in
Speaker 1: the league, and we know Geredy Jared is one of
Speaker 1: the outstanding the defensive lineman in the league.
Speaker 2: What is the expectation that's your area of experts piece.
Speaker 10: As you know, as you know, it's really simple, right,
Speaker 10: stats are for losers, Yes, their expectations that go out
Speaker 10: there and beat dogs. Right, we gotta find ways to
Speaker 10: affect the quarterback and make them just feel uncomfortable at
Speaker 10: all times. And once you find a way to make
Speaker 10: them uncomfortable and you dominate rundowns and you get the
Speaker 10: ball back, then just.
Speaker 2: Go watch your offense shine. Right.
Speaker 10: That's what winning teams do. That's how you form your identity.
Speaker 10: That's how you make things move. That's how the needle moves.
Speaker 10: And the next thing you talking about it on.
Speaker 7: Your shows about the stats.
Speaker 10: We don't care about none of that. We care about
Speaker 10: the dog mentality is going to take to get there.
Speaker 10: That's what our that's what our goal is. That's what
Speaker 10: that's that's what the expectations are.
Speaker 5: If I'm gunn to be what's up?
Speaker 7: What's up?
Speaker 2: Trying to get comfortable or you're good? I'm good? All right?
Speaker 2: Tell us about the transition to becoming a cowboy crazy.
Speaker 2: What's it been like? It's different? You know, football is
Speaker 2: crazy out here.
Speaker 11: You know, I hear about Texas football and kept California, right,
Speaker 11: there's good football out there, but you know, footballs is
Speaker 11: different in Texas for sure, a little bit, a little
Speaker 11: bit more you know, a little bit more pressure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Play for the Vikings Seahawks. If I'm not mistaken, I
Speaker 1: played for the Chargers. You're reunited with Zim, right, So
Speaker 1: what so how have been reunited with a former coach?
Speaker 1: Because obviously you know this defense, and so you've been
Speaker 1: able to partake some of the wisdom, the keys and
Speaker 1: where guys need to be, what Zim is looking for
Speaker 1: in a particular defense. So tell us about somewhat being
Speaker 1: a coach on the field. Yeah, you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like at first, you know, we're all trying to learn.
Speaker 2: The basics, you know.
Speaker 11: I mean, obviously I have a little bit of a
Speaker 11: head start, but everybody's learning the basics. You know, we're
Speaker 11: trying to get the concepts down. They kind of carry
Speaker 11: over the different coverages. You know, we can run split
Speaker 11: coverages things like that. But you know, I feel like
Speaker 11: with Zim's defense is always about, like, you know, the
Speaker 11: players taking a little bit of ownership too, you know
Speaker 11: what I mean, we have to be at we're the
Speaker 11: ones that are quarterbacking and out there. So you know,
Speaker 11: at some point, you know, we got to be the
Speaker 11: one making the calls and checks and be confident in
Speaker 11: when we're doing so. And I feel like, now that's
Speaker 11: you know, we obviously we're in camp for a month
Speaker 11: and stuff like that, but now we're transitioning. We're about
Speaker 11: to play this first game, and I feel like now
Speaker 11: we're starting to transition into having that confidence where everybody's
Speaker 11: kind of like, Okay, we're running this now, let's run
Speaker 11: this now, you know. So it's been a lot of fun,
Speaker 11: and you know, obviously we have a different pieces than
Speaker 11: I had in Minnesota, but you know, the heart of
Speaker 11: the the heart of the the scheme is the same.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: Listen, Zim was the defensive coordinator of Cincinnati when I
Speaker 6: was there, So Zim is really cool.
Speaker 5: He cursed the goddamn lot. You curse a lot.
Speaker 6: But what is your expectations, your personal goals for you
Speaker 6: throughout this season or this upcoming season? Your own personal goals.
Speaker 11: My personal goals is to be, you know, the just
Speaker 11: the voice that everyone can count on, you know, the
Speaker 11: just the you know, the constant communicator, you know, be
Speaker 11: overdoing my communication to the fact that we're all on
Speaker 11: the same page.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 11: I want to definitely be the anchor, right, but shoot,
Speaker 11: you know, I just want to just keep stacking these years.
Speaker 11: I feel like, you know, one hundred plus, you know,
Speaker 11: three in something. You know, I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 11: get too specific. I write him down and everything like that.
Speaker 11: But you know, I want to win a Super Bowl, man.
Speaker 11: You know, that's why you play. You know, it's it's cliche,
Speaker 11: but you know my brother won one. I got kind
Speaker 11: of close, but you know, not really, you know, so
Speaker 11: I want to I want to get it. I want
Speaker 11: to get it going.
Speaker 1: Right obviously, Like you played this game a long time,
Speaker 1: and they're always surprises that when you come in there's
Speaker 1: a rookie that comes in that stands out.
Speaker 2: You're like, okay, be at offense or defense.
Speaker 1: You like, he can play, and he's gonna play well,
Speaker 1: he's gonna make plays for us, and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: big for us. Who surprised you in this rookie class
Speaker 1: that you're like, okay, be at offense or defense that
Speaker 1: he can play.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: One of my linebackers, Noil Marris, you know's a kid
Speaker 11: from Hawaii.
Speaker 2: You know what's notre dame.
Speaker 11: I think I don't know which ROWND he got drafted,
Speaker 11: you know, I don't kind of disconnect myself from that.
Speaker 2: But he came in.
Speaker 11: You know, he's obviously learning. He's very humble, kid, quiet,
Speaker 11: but he knows his role, you know what I mean.
Speaker 11: He's been getting more and more, more and more burn.
Speaker 11: You know, we had a couple of guys go down
Speaker 11: to camp and he had to step up and rolls
Speaker 11: where he you know, he had to be more of
Speaker 11: a communicator, you know, more of a guy who was
Speaker 11: out there and he's he's done. He's done a great job.
Speaker 11: You know, I just it gives me a little It
Speaker 11: gives me passion, you know, going into my tenth season,
Speaker 11: you know, seeing a guy in his first year and
Speaker 11: how he's trying to get it, and it just makes me,
Speaker 11: you know, it makes me get that hunger still alive,
Speaker 11: you know.
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