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Speaker 1 (00:07):
On this episode of the Players Club, we have the
one and only Super Bowl Champion, Brian Mitchell joining the show.
He will help us recap the Commander's amazing Hell Mary
victory over the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Plus we're talking about b Mets Super Bowl memories and
playing under the legendary head coach Joe Gibbs.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And we have a very special guest, All Pro Jeremy
Reeves aka All Pro Revo, helping us close out the show.
That's all coming up right here on the Players Club.
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of the Washington Commanders. Where our passion is your protection.
Welcome back to another edition of The Players Club. I'm
Lunda Fletcher. We got bluefoot Shot Springs.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
We got a.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Special guest, very filling in for sat Tyna Boss, Washington Legend,
Super Bowl champion, the NFL's second all time leader in
the total yards, second only to Jerry Rice, who many
considered to go. We got Brian Mitchell aka b Mitch.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
What appreciate this man to play more position than anybody.
I sway. I think I saw the missed out safety
one game.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Probably one game.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I wasn't starting, but UH had prevent when they put
me back just because they do the pooch funt. So
I was playing safety slash return. See I'm trying to
tell you to do it all. I'm in the position
by position I played in quarterback, running back, full back, receiving.
I have been at the back, back deep. I was
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a kick returner, part returner. I held on field goal.
I was the person to protect her. I covered kicks,
covered on kickoff that punk. Yeah yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You had to be h back to kind of a
slash h back.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, but like I remember, now, moved me to full back.
You know, it made me gain weight. They wanted me
to play full back four years ago. That was ninth
when he first got here in ninety four ninety five.
Once I rich, I get to full back, like now
we're gonna move you back. You playing fluctuating with the weight,
and I'm like, look, bro y'all put me somewhere. Let
me do this thing.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Did how did gain a weight to fetch you as
a as a kick return at all.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But the thing for me.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I was talking with Dan Riley and I said, how
big should I get? Yeah, he said, be big enough
to still run the speed you run. So I came
here my first year, I was like four four and
I was your first year coming out quarterback for four
years pounds quarterback, and I ended up playing as high
as two twenty one to twenty two. When I ran
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before I went to Philly. That was ten years later.
I clocked four four two.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I had twenty one. So then I try to get
people headaches.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's that young boss, you fast and smoop back even yeah,
man for sure, Hey that's that gumbo manut gumbo man.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That was that weightlifting show. I lived in the weight room.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
How many quarterbacks you have be messed?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Bro that what we gotta look that up.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Ripping rut led Humphreys, Rodney Pete, uh oh man, Donovan
mcnah that's in Philly, but heat shoot little gups for rot.
What's my man name you had? Brad Johnson, Trent Green?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, that's my guy, hate already, who lord Donovan?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
That just meen you played a long time aj Phelly
Koy Detmer Jesse Palmer. Yeah, man, I was a quarterback
in the game Man's college.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh so be man. You you played for this franchise
for a long time. Water super Bowl legend here. How
does it feel for you? You've been here through a
lot of the good times, a lot of the mad times,
especially over the last let's call it half a quarter century.
What's it feel like for you to be able to
witness this team this year? Well, you say quarter center
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made me feel old as hell.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
But anyway, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I'm not live to y'all.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Maddie was watching us on the show.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I told Jay, I said, bro, thank you and I
love you man, because you're making me pride for again
about this team. And I think guys like you all
you watch you. We've talked a lot, and the feeling
that you had at the point, like you get a
little like I like to brag. I like to talk
trans people. I didn't have the ability. Now you know you,
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I'm walking around this thing like hell, I'm doing something.
I ain't doing a damn thing right but talking about it.
But I feel real good, man, because I am very
I've always wanted to be able to be close to
the guys and say things to him and be supportive.
It wasn't allowed to be. So now that I'm around,
I'm watching this thing man, and that we we are
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with people.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Like Trust and Reeves and all those guys like that.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
You watch what they put into this thing, man, and
it makes you feel good because the dudes that deserve
it are starting to live it and get it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I've always said you went in DC.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's great you mentioned being pride forl and want to
be at a brag. I'll travel and I'm in the
airport a couple of times a week and a lot
of times I'm gonna have my Washington Commanders gear on
and I'm represented. It just it feels so different now.
But not only you want to talk to you want
to talk to me response. I can get good game,
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especially after the hell Mary oh Man, not so many people.
That's that's crazy. I was just about to ask, and
first of all, be much.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I've always respect to be mentioned because when he said
he can, he was one of the few guys that,
although he was on the radio, you should be Mitch out.
He'll put each aside. Man, be like, listen, man, have
some pride, work hard, and I don't I took it
as respect because I knew he cared, But I don't
know how everybody else felt it. But I always felt
like be Mitch was gonna shoot you straight right. So, man,
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you've been around a long time. Man, that's quite like
getting back to that play. Thinking about that play, is
that the craziest play you've ever seen in the history
of like since you've been doing it, I've.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Seen some stuff, but like, I think it was just
then they threw one and I'm just take this year.
I have never seen anything like that, you know, watching
the game, and I was a little upset when it
was getting close to the end and we got two seconds.
I'm like, man, this damn game right right, and in
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the middle of speaking and it goes off and it
comes in and.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I lost my mind.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Man, I was high fiving and could have broke down,
and it was I don't know what the dude name
on Channel seven, Abraham, I'm jumping up and down. I'm
on I'm on his shoulders, chest, bumper lady, everybody. And
then remote came through and I think I might have
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hugged everybody walked through that.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Damn didn't even care.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It just felt so good because it goes the other
way so much. Man, that felt like, okay, boom, we
are now on the other side of this thing. Yeah,
so y'all heard my radio call.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's crazy because prior to the ball being snapped sometimes
and I don't know, you guys probably feel like, man,
not not this particular game. We're just like I ain't
gonna have Before today, I felt like we had a chance,
like for real. I was like, man, I feel like
we still need one the times I'm like, just the moment,
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but it just felt like it was something special in
the air. So as the ball snapping, He's running around
for felt like forever seconds and then when he threw
it and it's in slow motion and I'm watching the ball,
I'm just like, man, this guy's got a chance. And
when the ball was tipped, I immediately saw Noah Brown
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with nobody around it.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I yelled.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He called it men just watching man. So when it happened,
it was surreal, But I was like, I've just felt
like it was going to happen for us.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I'm glad you brought that into the atmosphere because I
was a little worried man, and.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Because like I'm from a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
You know how many hell mirrors I threw in practice practicing.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
On that, Yeah, I threw at least thirty forty.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Not many succeeded none of them. You're supposed to be
able to get it done in practice. That is one
play that doesn't just happen.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You couldn't completely practice.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
No, I put the ball in, they wouldn't let it happen.
They're not just letting that because I was a talker,
so they were gonna ever talk. But the ultimate thing
is once it happened, you go through all these emotions
where you're like, oh man, we can We are no
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longer how it used to be. You know, you've been
in on teams when you have bad season where you
on the sideline, something goes wrong and you're like, oh
here we go, we go again.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I think at this point now you know, I've been
trying to be even kill man, I'm way over that
line now.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I see that happen, And for me it was crazy
because I'm just glad I was at home. That was
one of those reactions where somebody get you on tape,
your kids put you bad out there on TikTok man.
I'm on a.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Lot of stuff. JP got me, got you bad?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Who were you?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
You were?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You were?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So I was. I was at home watching it, and
I'm like, same would be missed. I was like, well,
the game a little the little for the quick eight
yard out, so we might have a chance at least
get into the end zone. But I felt like I
got a little bit of chance. But now it ain't
gonna work man. And when he caught it, and I
was thinking, I was going through my mind, like why
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aren't they pressing the receivers, you know, why aren't they
pressing the receivers. They gave up the eight yard out,
They probably shouldn't have did that. Surely they're gonna press
the receivers with somebody deep.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But he go talking to the crowd. That's a whole
the conversation.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I'm just like, they're messing up doing that, so that
really gives it more of a chance. And then when
Noah caught it, I was just like, man, I think
I was on the ground doing the worms. I was
doing everything I did move I think I think I
did the work man.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Money to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It took me five minutes to get up, but I
didn't work man. But it was one of those things
with that proud moment. It was like last time I
felt like you always had a chance to win. To
be honest, is when I played in New England.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Tom Yeah, Jayden.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
When I saw that, I was like that kid, Yeah
he got it. He gives you that feeling like we
have a chance to win.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You remember Jim when he was running around you know
what to do? That was you said, I cursed on
you mentioned something.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, so glue you mentioned, you mentioned Jayden. I don't
know if you guys probably notice it now, but I
don't know if you even paid attention to it as
it was happening. It was he's just back there running
around and he was.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
In the backyard.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, and I'm like, man, he gotta throw it. But
then when you watch him how calm and cool and
collected he was before he threw, like he took another
hits into stepped to it and it wasn't like a.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Just like like it like it was just that thing
was sixty five sixty eight yards in the air before
it touched in.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What was what was it? You talked to him, You
and Tyna and Brian Kobert talked to him after the
game on game day. What was it like talking to him?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You know what, when he got to us, you could
see he was excited, but he was calm right and
you know we we were giving him credit for the
player he ain't. No, man, this game was one by
all defense. You know, this kid even in that moment
he is saying no, no, no no, And you think
about it, if the defense don't hold him like they did,
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we don't have that opportunity at the end. I really believe,
man like.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That, that kid is just super super special.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
So I tip my hat to his mom and dad
because you don't come up like that without the people
that you're right directly with and feel and think that
way at all times for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, all right, b Mitch, we're gonna we're gonna flip
into a segment we call Dubs of the Week. So
for Dubs of the week is it can be a player, coach, position, crew, whatever,
whoever you think got the dub of the week. And
since you to get like a game ball you mean, yeah,
a game but they're not getting anything. We might have
to we might have to start having like a dub
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like the W, start giving out the W.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
That'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, Maddie, we need you and Kayla to get on
that the week, so we don't like you start little pigot.
Huh yeah, Patty, we're gonna get for something. Who you're
gonna start it off? Who gets a double the week
for you?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I'm gonna tell you a guy who really really impressed
me this week, And I'm telling you the dude played.
I talked a lot about him on the radio today,
Johnny Newton. Oh man, man, step up. That played where
he stopped the screen and then got the sack. Did
you see him get off the bone?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
He went from being in a four point stance to
pass the offensive line for the office even try to
jab him. And when Caleb gets the ball to go
to throwt he is in the air already. I'm like,
what the watch him?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I Am thinking that's Aaron Donald esque. Yes, then I'll.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Kept watching him in the play seven quarterback hits pres
and he was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Man, it was an absolute monster. You wouldn't have thought
this this guy off an injury. I mean like yes, yes,
I mean he was stepping in for ja Man. That
kid was special man, big body, and I.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Know anybody looking at the game or even looking at
us saying, oh, it gotta be Jane, gotta be knowing no, no, no, no, no,
no no. I am a guy who watched the trenches.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well not only that, dude, not that. If you really
look out how the game win and what the defense
did in thatter, yes it to pick. You could probably
pick a couple of guys off that defense and give
them dubs a week. But to your to your point,
he showed why many people had him as as the
number one rate the defensive line in tier defensive lineman
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coming out of this year's this year's draft.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Blue, who you got is the man. I don't think
we can we can really go without saying that. For me,
you have to be Noah because at the end of
the day, be missed that and practice it through or
thirty foury times another it happened like we practice it
and you've run down and the receivers got to I
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mean Jaalen Bottom time. But the receivers have to go
down and they all have to execute the getting position.
You gotta you gotta, you gotta respect erg for getting
a position to tip it. You gotta respect the guy
who goes Norah Brown who went in the back to
catch it, and everyone thinks that was just luck. No,
that was a well executed plan and I think everybody
did the job. And I've seen guys before when the
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ball is tipped, drop it the panic and he caught it,
turned round. Game was over man, and he had three
catches for seventy three yards. He had to drop early
in the game. But I mean, I think we talk
about it every week on the show, that their moments
that like give a guy confidence. And he's came in
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off for trade and I just think that he's the
guy that man like. I got to give him the
double the week. Man, I was big for me. He did.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
He did, Man, you could you can go Jaden. They
ain't had his first three under yard passion game. I
can go, I can go, I can go. Terry McCain, Yeah,
Terry ball Man. They had over one hundred and twenty five.
He had won twenty five receiving, had the big big
bomb early in the game. But I'm gonna have to
stick with the defense, and I'm gonna go with the
guy Bobby Wagner in. And the reason I'm gonna give
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Bobby the double of the week, my double the Week
is because of how he handled things from an operational standpoint,
and that ball game, the Bears were doing a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Of check with me.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Every play was a check with me, so to speak.
They would they're trying to get in the perfect play
based on the defensive formation look that they got. Priest. Now,
there was times where they would come out of empty formation,
and so Bobby would check the defense because they had
an empty check. You know, we all have an empty check.
We gonna it might be a pressure, it might be
a coverage, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So you make that check.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Then they would go back to a motion and backfield
back and shift formations, motion up, back, back into the backfield.
He would make another get to get the defense back
set to a different play. And at home it's a
lot harder than to do that than it is on
the road because of the crowd noise and that crowd
that stadium was rocking on Sunday. So for him to
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operate the way in the matter that he operated just
being a middle linebacker and have done that and them
not having any mental busts or things like that, I
got to give Bobby my deb of the Week.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And I think Bobby and that defense man defense don
mentioned goes to the fans.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I like that from road trips to home games.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
They are taking their stadium back and they're taking over
everybody else's because when we were in Arizona, it was
a lot louder for Washington was with Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Wow, that game, no doubt was. That was a drive
in one of the greatest moments in Washington history.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Be mitched.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Since you're on, we're talking Washington super Bowls. All right,
this is drive Time presented by Eastern Automotive Group. Any
car anyway for everyone since nineteen eighty eight, you obviously
have experienced some Super Bowls here.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
A lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Talk to us about you know the super Bowls that
you experienced here. Well, I'll be honest with you, man,
Like I tell people, and this is no lie. Until about.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Ten years ago, I didn't know what happened in the
first five minutes of the game.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
What you know, so much stuff goes on. So we're
coming out to tourno and money. Coleman is like, you
know what, man, give it all today. Man, you can
live this the rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Life.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
And I have watched the Super Bowl on TV and
all the flashes just going off. When I walked onto
the walked out of the tunnel and looked up in
the flashes, I went into like a trans I didn't
know they had kicked off twice until I was watching
it because I had not I had never gone back
and watched.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It, and you were the return man.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
But they didn't kick it to me.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
They kicked it okay, and then they then the TV time.
I hadn't been in it yet, so they had there kick.
I didn't know that till like ten years ago when
I finally looked at the actual kickoff of the You
was not locked in.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I was. I was in a daze.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And then the whole.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Nothing but during the once the game started and I'm
watching jump Together's throw offensive lineman at Jim Kelly and
at one point he hit him and knocked him out,
knocked him like walk But I knew the.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Game was over for them. We we had that game
in hand.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
But just being there, man, if you ever watched the film,
you know they going to the quarterback. If you watch there,
you know who the m v P is, Mark Rippon. Yeah,
every time the camera touched him, I was right there.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I was talking with it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All the d.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Roof Bro listener, It's just that was that week in Minneapolis,
was Cole, if you go through the whole week. We
get there and my cousin was a Prince like looking
like he'll go around dressing as Prince and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
So he called.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
He called me, said say go to glam Slam. He said,
Prince gonna be expecting you. And I'm like, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I go to glam Slam and Brian Mitchell, Uh, Prince
wants you at the Witch. Come. I went to the
thing I want to with prints.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So I was like hanging out of Prince.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Listen, bro, that dude is Charlotte what they said. But
coolest hell, my cousin Rodney lived in Detroit. Rodney was
that dude that it was addressed, that would dressed up
like him. And Prince was taking on the road and
sometimes so when Prince was in his room fleet, Roddy
was sitting down waving and stuff. It was actually right.
They wouldn't Prince, wow, you know it's double. But I
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hung out with him, hung out in his club. Drinks
are on the house, and I remember the Detroit Pistons
being there for something. I guess they were playing against
Tim Bold and its way back and uh Mark Aguire
had on a hat like look at my old uncle man.
Just every time I went to the bar, Bark was
right there. But it was at the bar, that's how.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But it is.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I mean that game, it ended exactly how we had
planned it. We seventeen and two winning Super Bowl. And
still today people remember that real quick, that that ninety
one team.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I believe they only gave up what nine sacks the
entire season, which is ridiculous, that's including the playoffs. Was
that the greatest team in history?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I've heard a lot of people say it us day
to day said, but when you look at the team,
not just watching the history aime, because all three phases
were in the top three, top five in the league,
and not very often you have your offense, defense, and
your special team right the way. Everybody was there. Man,
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it was one of those things where I knew it.
That's when I realized that you don't have to look
the part. You got to beat the part because we
were seven and old like that, because you got us say,
depending on what our record is at the Bible, we're
gonna let you take that many days off. He didn't
give a seventh straight day.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He cut that thing up to.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Where you didn't have fun, nobody could go anywhere. Then
we were four more lose a game, win three more.
He treated the last game like a like a preseason game,
just to people out getting the playoffs, and we just
just roll graded people.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Man, that was that was a great one. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Coach. Man, what's his impact on your life?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
There? Man? Look more, it was more about off the
field than it was really on the field. You know,
one thing I love about him on the field. When
he told you something, you could believe it. You know,
he wasn't playing on bs with nobody, but the man
the way he can go into a locker room at
halftime and change a complete game plan. You know, I
think it said that that's a skill. This is the
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thing we'll be in practice. And he said run this play.
He said, no, let's run this. He said, they gonna
try and stop that by doing what they just did,
but then we're gonna run this. He had He practiced
counter We practiced the plays that we would change to.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Most people never did that. And then I got there
with Andy Reid and he ain't were very He was very.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Similar to coach Wow. And I told him, I said, dude,
I said, you mind me and Joe Gibbs. He said, man,
Troke Gills, great, you can't don't do that to me.
I say, I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true.
But they had this uncanny ability of hiring people, let
them do their jobs, and if they need to step
in and change something.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
What they came with was special.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Because the coach Gears man, I never heard him say
one curse word. I thought I was gonna get it
one time he went.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Gosh started yeah, smooty might smooth.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
If Dexabody didn't bring it out. If don't think anybody
that dude has some control. And I still I love
that man today, you know, just like I did the
first day I met him, broke because he told me
my first year, he said, you got your first year
to learn, then you got to compete.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You played. You played for three of the teams in
the NC East. Obviously played for US. You mentioned Philly.
You also played for the New York Giants.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
You couldn't. You couldn't put on that start. I wouldn't
gonna do that. I wanted to live here for the
rest of my life. I kind of knew, like I
feel it, you know, so I could have pushed it
only so far. If I went to the store, I
don't think I could be living here.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Let me let me ask you this. For years, everybody
say East, coach Buyers, NFC East is the best conference.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Why And back in that time, I'll tell you why
I was the best conference Because people argue, you know,
I'm just saying, you had four teams that were going
to run the ball down your throat and you had
to stop it. Yeah, and you knew for eight games
in the season you're battling, you're going We had the
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Cardinals and Pennsilic. But and then if you got all
the NFC East, you probably were going to the Super Bowl.
Look at that time in the eighties, eighties and nineties, my.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Dad was at the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I was won three of them. We went to Well,
they weren't coach three of the four Coach Gibbs the Giants.
It's like, if you got all the East, you gonna
win it because you were battle tested.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Blue you we both played in the NFC East, played
in the NFC for a long time, you got any
members about playing in New York. Man playing against the
Gods or the jest.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
For Giants for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Man, we played them the year and I loved playing
the Giants because that was one of the games where
Coach Gibbs hyped you up all week.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
They're gonna test your physicality.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It was like it wasn't hard to get up going
to New York. But the Giants was pretty good and
they had a pretty big team. And we always tell
the classic story about Smooth and said that everybody on
the Giants is huge. And the real Giants they got
laarn he got Laarron ran over them. But but but
the thing about the Giants, Man, that that was I remember, Man,
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and we were talking about earliers Man, when you play
them late in the year, we're looking at the charachs
like do we have to play in New York in
December or we playing him in September? Where we going?
Because that made how you played? And I remember one
time playing in New York and you know, after you're
playing in the league a few times, you go to
a different stadiums, You're like, I got it down playing
in Oakland on a little baseball field or whatever in Cleveland.
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You gotta play a little different, man. I wasn't ready
for them when they opened up. The time come through.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
When you when you that team is kicking the field goal,
then it comes out.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You don't see that on TV.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
But that's crazy, man. I got I got to two
giant memories. Yeah that I can think of, well more
than two. But my first interception in my career was
was in New York against the Giants, and it was
just Carry Collins quarterback. I was I was playing with
the Rams and we're playing We're playing cover cover six,
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so I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I'm the backside post linebacker and he's running.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
They running a deep over in immediate over. I should say,
Carry doesn't see me. I'm like, man, I know he
ain't about to this.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
He wanted it.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You know, he had that loan right your chest. I
know he ain't about to throw this, dude. I was like,
thank you for your first very first walk, first turn,
first thing. I'm thinking, catch this ball. Got it on
your knees Once I caught it, then I turned into
a running back. You know, but I'm gonna put some
moves out of you.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Hey, he got more interceptions and more yards and smooth.
So that that was my first.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Highlight against the uh New York Giants. My last memory,
my final game of my career was against the Giants,
and it rained the entire game.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'm talking, did you know it was your last game?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
At the time, I had already announced my retirement, So yeah,
I announced that the week before so I can get
you know, recognized ourfense in my final game here, Man,
it rained. Normally the rain gonna stop at some point time.
It was raining from the time like you had your
pre pre warm up.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
It was right that time all the way man, throughout
the game.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I'm like, you gotta be kidding.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It was a miserable season.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Experience. Man. I was just like, I can't believe this, man,
But it was those are my job memories.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I te't mind the mining kind of strange. I guess
I announce my retirement there too. I when I first
went there to play against the Giants. You hear by
Lawrence Hiler. Yeah, so he comes out the tunnel, you know,
right right, this is nineteen ninety and I'm just looking
at it, looking at do like I forgot who was
saying they saw Mike walk in Allan. I say something,
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Mike walking Michael Jordan. They had like an aura around.
I was looking at Lawrence Hill and say.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Wait, and here we go, they guys. We called the
speed right and I go to the edge of the line.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I got a block the linebacker coming over the head
and I cut him, and he said, who told you
to cut me? I'm like, what you mean? Who told
you to cut you? Now I'm trying to be a
little tough, right A ve told you to cut me
because they said you cut him one time? He gonna
slow down. He don't like to get nobody messed with
his leg, and his mind had told me to cut
and tell him that. I told him like I was
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saying golf of a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I told him.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
He said, I knew somebody, but he didn't kill me,
so I was happy as hell. I watched it, but
I watched that dude the whole game. That dude special.
And then my last game playing in the in the NFL,
I was with the Giants and I finished that game
at quarterback. Man, come on, man, every time I played quarterback,
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I just remember this guy told me I would never
play in the league.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I said, you are a Fool'm gonna play quarterback in
the league.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And my rookie year, I played quarterback in Philly again
with the I was with the team at the time,
and then my last game I played quarterback again. So
every time I see that dude, I always show him.
Let me middle fingers, let me ask you this. Did
you throw a pass that game? Actually I threw two passes.
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One hit the do hand when out. The other one,
I just threw it out of bounds. But I ran them.
They kept telling me, do the roll out, keep running.
Let's get this game up. We were playing against was Sewing,
were showing big, big tax detaching. Played with the Panthers.
Sean Gilbert, he was here there, Yeah, playing your Sean,
and they were like this, get this game over.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I was like cool. So your final game was in
New York against the.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
And I remember coming off the field and I got
in the turn on. My wife's like, how you feeling.
I say, I'm done. Just know it right there, because
like I was catching punts looking at the first guy
and thinking how I'm gonna make it miss when I
never thought about the first second guy, so I knew
I was doing it. And it was it was rather cold.
You're not coold to getting New York. Yeah, yeah, I
was saying, I'm done with this.
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right man, speaking of the Giants, it's time to set
the tone. We're gonna flip the script a little bit
and preview this game against the New York Giants. Giants,
they're coming in. It's it's home game for them, two
and six. With six and two, we know that doesn't
matter an opponent. What are we gonna have to do
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to get it on the road against the Giants.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
I think we got to run the football, and I
think when you look at them right now, they haven't
been very good against the run. They're good against yeah,
I think they have thirty five sacks leading the league
in fact right now, but they are not good at
run defense. And Tyler Beatis has been very good against
the Giants. And Dexter Lawrence, yeah, a mon, he's a monster,
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but bad Ass has been a monster against him. And
I think that that's the guy who I'm going to
be looking at the trying to set the tone in
the game. This office was line right now, are playing
top five officer.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Line here and one.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yeah, So if they can run the ball on them,
I think if you can run the ball on the Giants,
then now you allow Jaden and tear them to begin
to do the things they need to do.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
And so for us, man, I think we got to
go in there. And the secondary has been playing better.
The defense has out been out standing, but the secondary
in particular, it's getting better each week. We got to
get after Daniel Jones. We gotta get after him, but
we got to turn the ball.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Don't allow him to turn the page.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Don't allow the exactly. Don't allow him to get any
type of momentum and turn the page. And we got
to say we're the ones that you know, sit your
season in real spot for what it is. You know,
you say this, and we say, hey, we got to
stop Daniel Jones. I agree, and run the ball.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
We ran for over two hundred yards against them the
first time we played them, two hundred and fifteen yards.
So stick to that script and jumps running them. But
they're gonna know we need we run the ball. You know,
everybody go try to run balls. And I'll say this.
You go back and you watch that game. Jaden is
so much better as a quarterback now than he was
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that was game two. He's you know, he got eight
games under his belt now, so much better quarterback. Our
offense is much better, our defense is much better. That
game we allowed Elie Neighbors to have a day. We're
there on the secondary. We got guys playing that secondary,
as you mentioned, playing a lot better. I will say this,
one area where we need to approve drastically in this
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game against the Giants is stopping a runt. They got
a rookie Tyrone Travis Tracy. He just ran for one
hundred and forty five yards he gets the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah,
only twenty carries. The Giants has some success running the
ball against us that that first game. We gotta be
better at stopping the run in order to make the
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Giants like one dimensional. We get out to the Daniel
Jones stop the run?
Speaker 2 (36:59):
How do you think? And the reason I said Daniel
Jones because we have a history or let him game,
but letting him have a game. We can't let him
have a game and.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Do what he's been doing.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
One thing a lot of people have not talked about,
and I think we should need to pay attention to
the last game. We weren't good in the red zone
the offense all. We cannot have pienaties in the red zone,
have mistakes in the red zone. And let's just think
about the game we just won. But the hell, Mary,
we didn't get touchdowns in the red zone, right, you know?
We at the five yard on four yard and all
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of a sudden we back at the fifteen exact, we
have to settle for a field goal. We have to
get touchdowns with them in the red zone.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
No, I agree, I agree, and I'm sure they're wildly
working overtime you might normally, and I don't know how
their practice structure is, but you guys can remember a
lot of times you would either have your red zone
day on a Friday, or some teams might even have
a Thursday Thursday. So it was surprised me if they're
doing red zone stuff on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Just
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to catch that right and realizing like we got to
get finished these drives off with touchdown.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, and the red zone is we got to be
able to run the ball in a redone because like
you said, it's no secret, and you got to get
them big bodies in there. I think that's where zach
Ertz and those guys can you know, start to show
show a little bit and you're right, man, we have
to figure out how to really score points there.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
You go, that's it, you know, so anybody. But it's
a strange thing. We are twenty fourth in red zone production.
It's still number three, but number three point that is
a good point. But when you get down there, you
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got to get seven. You gotta get seven. You gotta
get seven, I tell you. I mean you mentioned we
we touched on Dexter Lords just briefly that Giants defensive front.
You mentioned how they lead the league the league against sacks.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
He leaves the NFL a sex with none sacks as
a defensive tackle. Yes, that.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Is a problem.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
But he's a problem.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
But you look at the the success Beoni just had
against him and what he's done when when the bet
was the center it.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
At the same same.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
But but what I what I'm saying is yes, he
can play, but you got to offset the a little bit,
like make him have to worry about something else.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Right, if you just let him t off, you got
a problem with them.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Hey, you know you could tell seemed like that no
huddle got him a little wind to two of that
first game.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And you do that us, Oh yeah, do it? You know,
Cliff is the best at that man game planning and
and it's gonna be interesting now the second time around
the Clifton seeing their defensive coordinating, what they what they
do on defense, and how adjustments and what adjustments we make.
So I'm man, I'm just I'm just again, I'm just
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excited about just like when you have a quarterback like Jayden,
it always makes you feel like you have a chance.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
All right, you Mitch on game day line you got
a segment called b mitches Big Three, So why don't
you drop your your big three? Or who has to
have a game? New York?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Well, I think we mentioned all these people already.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
You know, I'm gonna start off with Tyler beat I
think he's going to have to be have a good
game to offset Dexter Lawrence, because I believe this. We
talk about skill positions all the time. Hell I played quarterback.
I did all the skill positions stuff, and I understand it.
But they started up. And if we can get Tyler
leading away with that officeer line the where they've been playing,
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you know, I think we have a great chance going
out there and beating them. And I think once you
have Tyler's set up, you know, let's trip it to
the other side. You talked about him earlier, Bobby Wagner.
Bobby Wagner is playing way younger than what he is, okay,
and you have a guy that understands what's going on.
When you can switch a defense, switch him back.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Do it where you don't have young guys worried about it.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
That means he's communicating properly.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
I want to see those two guys lead the way
and then Ultimately the next thing is for me is
going to be Terry McLaurin and Jane Dams. That connection
this a big This is a big time game, don't
I know The Giants is two and six, but this
is a big time game where that connection has to
work no matter what.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Okay you get in the game. Yeah, they know we're coming, but.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
You still come. You still make plays and they got
to stop it.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
And in a run scheme, is there when you have
a dominant force like a Dex launch, is there particular
running things inside out inside out? Is there things you
stay away or type of run schemes that you try
to use to kind of limit his production.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
If you run straight at him, you ask him, yeah,
to not do anything. Well, but like when I've noticed
bigger guys like him, I go all way back to
William Perry.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
But you got to get those guys moving and over.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Time he love mentioned that when he he was a
little winded when they were doing their face. If you
get him more moving a little side to side and
there's double teams, start working on it.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
You can wear them out. You know, he's not a machine.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
You know, you get style of everybody else, but you
can't allow him to just be able to stand somebody
up and.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Get rid of him.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
He played up Aaron Donald type numbers in the tea.
He's busting.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah, so's a There's a couple of different ways, as
be Mitch mentioned, getting running sideline the sideline, you know
those outside zone plays, the penning pool type place off
tackle type plays, but also gap schemes and power type
places where you double the team and him wearing on them,
getting movement that way and running those running it whether
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we're running our counters, are our counter counter trays on
some of those things. Even power plays where you doubling
him then getting up to the live backer. You don't
want to do a steady dosa just single blocking him,
even though, be honest, the duo scheme, getting du scheme
getting up on.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Him and having the running back kind of.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Pick you start one way, he's got to start playing
that that guy's double him and got cuts back. That's
a big space because you know, you know who else
expects him to play. Well, who's that his linebackers. Yeah,
if you don't eat up the blocks, then they gonna
get blocked. So they if he all of a sudden
is out of the picture. It's a big hole right there.
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And I don't know many people want to hear Brian
Robinson one on one all day. I don't know many
people want to do that.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I don't know what the weather's gonna be in New
York on Sunday. I haven't checked it yet. But if
it's a little chili up there, you definitely aint gonna
want to hit him that now.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
And then you talk about the connection with with Terry
and Jayden, this can be. I believe that Cliff has
just been amazing this year. Man like he who did
his play calling off balance and they keep people off balance. Now,
I believe the advantage is we get to see their
coordinator and but and Jayden's better. But to the flip side,
could be we've seen your scheme. We know you know
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you run past com flick that you try to put
our guys in what you look for like lending. Now
what from a defensive coordinator. You've seen Jayden he's getting better,
But I'm seeing him for the second time.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Now you're still you're seeing it from the second time,
so you it's still so much of a problem because
of all the different misdirection stuff you got linemen going
one way, running back going one way, and then you
got a quarterback pulling another way. As a linebacker, the
first time we played against Cam Newton, I don't know
many linebackers more instinctive than me and understand where the
ball is going. I was forced to hesitate for a
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second because you just don't know who has the football.
And that was without all that pulling pulling it all.
This is just off the regular zone read stuff. Man,
it doesn't matter. You're gonna have problems. And then you
you're having the RPOs where the past game and now
you're booting him out a little bit. And now you're
running different concepts, whether it's the layer triple three layer
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routes or deep overs, whether the case may be. And
you take a shots down the field off of play action,
and that's that what Terry catching that ball.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
It's like a punch.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
You have to understand too, man, Like in this whole
situation here, Cliff is not just running with Cliff always ran. Yeah,
FIfF got Brian on that staff too. He got Anthony
Lynn on that staff. Yeah, they have a lot of
different things. So and he he stated this at the
beginning of the year and I remember him saying. He's like,
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when I first got my challenge, my chance to be
the head coach, I just had my stuff from Texas
State wherever. They say, Now I got all these other
guys like a bounce stuff off of right. So and
you Anthony Lynn has been successful. Anthony got some stuff
for him. Man, he's a legend and run game.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
What he was doing over at San Diego was crazy
and what he's doing here is crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
So the running game, they got same side counters that
they got big backs off of tackle over where most
of the time you might go strong side runner. They're
coming back to the to the short side of the field.
They got toss players, they got sweeps, they got everything
faking the Jets sweep and shovel pass this man, but
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Jame's ability offsets a lot of stuff.
Speaker 8 (46:12):
They want to do.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
That last play last week they rushed fu. Yeah, and
they had a spy and nobody got close to it.
Like you said, yeah, we got close to it. That's crazy, bitch,
you're gonna like this man. We had to go back
into the.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Man. We had to go deep down in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
With the field, with the field and footage we got,
we got you be bitch. Manner retired for TV. Wayne
Severe as the coach of that team. Right there, he
had been talking track. Well, Wayne was talking to you
in the beginning of the game. I said, Wayne, if
I scored, I'm diving.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
It in zone.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Why are you looking back?
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Set?
Speaker 5 (47:04):
What was?
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Look? If I knew I was, I was.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
In there right before half time or but like I
played Wayne there and I said, I'm a return one on.
You said, I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Damn diving in here.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
I said, if I'm going, but dive, and I your
community for that day, we could do anything and be missed.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Learning had to dive like that when we play this stuff.
It was on my back, the hands on they still
teaching me.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
I left the little lodding, I catched the ball and
I got upfield. Yeah, oh no, I'm not on the
side side. I'm trying to get through the hole and go.
You be mentioned with all of the change rule changes,
and you know you are, you're looking back to make
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sure what I have to do. I set it down
right there. I set it down about I don't have.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
To keep running.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
You got you got all the rule changes and stuff.
How you know obviously your name along with Hester who
gave you a shout out in Tom Fame speech. The
game has changed, and the specially change game a little bit,
well a lot of bit. What has changed the motion.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Since they taking the physicality out of it. You know,
like you should know if I'm running downfield to go,
I'm running in somebody's return. Man, somebody's coming to hit me.
You're not running free on the football field without somebody
coming to get you. So if you're running down like this,
look at them and you get here, you spoke. Okay,
that's one of the game, you know, think about if
you're running the ball like crack back. Oh he cracked
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back on him. If you are chasing my running back
and you're coming on this angle and I hit you,
why is why should that be legal?
Speaker 2 (48:45):
You shouldn't know.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
You have been kicked out of every game being probably yeah,
but like they changed your where I'm back, like you know,
I'm about the fair catch. It's about to be on
the ten yard line and you come down there looking
in the sky at the ball.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
But I was hitting you.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
You you you were wanted like the running back type.
Bigger returners in the league were starting to see that
go back to the running back type on the kickoff
return now.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
And I think it because what the kickoff return now,
it looks more like an offensive defensive play where you
got the crowd and the running back gets through the whole.
The receivers in the defensive backs, they look at all
those people and they're like, I'm not running up in there.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
So they started tiptoe and kit Patty.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
You watch when when Eckler went for the hunter yorder,
he came, he kicked boom, he was gone.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
And I think that's what it's.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
Going to go down to those guys that understand run
schemes and how to just bust through the whole because
you have to break tackles.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Now, that's why when I saw it, people like, oh
I don't like it. I say, I would absolutely love it.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
You're sitting there with no momentum, and I'm coming through
this thing, fool speed brou.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
All Right, we got some more film.
Speaker 8 (49:55):
Man.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
We're gonna take a look at some plays by from
Jamie Reeves who don't be our special guest on the show.
Take a look at Revolt Man. This dude he can
cover some kicks. We know that he gets Cincinnati Bengals
Monday Night Football.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
That's the dude right there.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
What I like about Revot Man he tell us by
that in there, because when you'reless, when you're on the
special teams, and obviously we talked about the bigger body
running backs, you can't be you can't be afraid.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
Man. That was never see the thing about him he
makes that she takes the shot. Yeah, most guys who
would come down there and they're gonna try to just
like whatever.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
But he breaks the shot trying to break down. You
don't break down.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
You go full speed at him because like if I
was a returner and I'm running right here, I would
have not waited that long.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
I'm trying to get square that running back. They were
running the counter though, beat this was the counter. Watch
the WA's the Returnston got the lead blocker by the counter.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
But what I'm saying, what I'm saying, soon you gotta
be looking beyond and you see revot by himself. Man, Look,
it's a lot of room over there. He running fool speed.
Year you have to just real quickly come give me because.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
All the fact.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
Let's take it, look at it. Let's take a look
at him against the Carolina paths, man, I love everybody
coverage going to get him.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
It's right here.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
But you know what the thing about it, some guys just.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
Have that nat that when you see all times who
was blocking him, he got rid of those guys early.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
Think about it.
Speaker 4 (51:43):
He runs, He does everything full speed, where a lot
of these players they stop and you give a god
chance to walk.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Well, I think what happens to like a lot of
time on kickoff, you're so worried about the kickoff returner,
so you're kind of looking through the block and you don't.
He defeats the blocker early early, So he does a
great job defeating the block and with his speed, and
it's just pure toughness right there, because I can think of.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
What he does.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
He has a little way if you start doing this
and you watch somebody moving with you, they're blocking you.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yeah, and then he doesn't mind laying the lumber.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
I love that out of them dudes running out on
that kickoff coverage. I know, especially back in the day
when you had that full speech sprint, you worried about
getting crack, getting hit from the sideline, blind side of
this type of stuff. You know, Revot great great leadership. Yeah,
captain everything you want and a leader. And we got
him coming up next on the players man young Buck.
(52:39):
I called him young Bucks. I'm old as hell. You
get a guy like that on your football team and
who can do it all and leads the way for people.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
And that's on the coach and it's and it says
a lot about you when you are the special teams captain,
because it's one thing to be the offensive captain. Defensive
captain is usually pick guys like London because he's back or.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
The quarterback club. Why just couldn't be a leader, wasn't.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
But like the special teams guys, they got to know
so many fastest of the game, right, you know, pump, turn,
kick return, you know all these things man for and
they don't get all the glory, right the DB's linebackers,
quarterback receivers, we get all the glory. Man to have
that guy on your team and to have that guy
just like do the work that I wouldn't want to do,
(53:30):
because you know, I was gonna not avoid thebaccle go
make a hit like that.
Speaker 3 (53:34):
I wasn't going to do that. I was waiting for him.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
I was on a kickoff team. But I was a
safety guy and I was ready to come and get
the ball. I wasn't ready to throw my mind.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
You wasn't running than that fire.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
I want another.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
I don't want that file. Like I said, We got
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Speaker 3 (55:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
First of all, we gotta know what was your reaction
during that hell Mary play and then once it was
called same as yours?
Speaker 8 (55:45):
The same?
Speaker 5 (55:48):
I okay, I'm not I'm gonna be real transparent. I
was hot because I'm thinking, like maybe, like man, if
we lose this game like this, I'm.
Speaker 8 (55:54):
Gonna be pissed.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
Yeah, I'm pissed.
Speaker 5 (55:56):
So I'm sitting on the side and I'm looking at
the screen the screen and is lagging behind the actual play.
Speaker 8 (56:02):
So I just hear everybody screaming, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 5 (56:06):
I'm like, so I looked down at everybody running on
the field, and I just sit there for saying, I'm like, dude.
Speaker 8 (56:10):
We just won this game.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
So you didn't.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
You didn't you looked at the screen.
Speaker 1 (56:14):
You couldn't tell jangle.
Speaker 8 (56:16):
I was pissed.
Speaker 2 (56:17):
I was pissed.
Speaker 5 (56:18):
We didn't play really well on specials and so I
was pissed about that. And then there was things like
defensively that we could have played better. Yeah, it hasn't
even been in that situation, right. I was just pissed
about that.
Speaker 4 (56:29):
And then.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
But once you found out it was caught.
Speaker 5 (56:34):
Look, man, at one point, I don't even remember exactly
what I did at one point though.
Speaker 8 (56:37):
I just remember being in like section one ten.
Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yeah, but it's that.
Speaker 3 (56:44):
Type of game, man, that gets you exciting. I know,
I was.
Speaker 4 (56:49):
Apologized because I thought I broke his head high five
so hard and.
Speaker 1 (56:53):
The booth almost knocked him out of the wind out
of the booth.
Speaker 2 (56:55):
I saw that. I saw the twitter, I saw it.
Speaker 1 (56:58):
I was I know it was that was for me
and probably for you and you as well. You played
in Super Bowl, I played in two, and that's icond
of games and we'll never forget. But as far as
they singularly play, yeah, that's one of the.
Speaker 4 (57:15):
Most iconic players. It goes down the history of you
look at this football team. You know, you had Daryl
Green run now, Tony dor set John Riggins with his
right you know at the end of that game with Miami,
didn't that play right there?
Speaker 3 (57:27):
You know, and they seem to be going up and up. Yeah,
because you get to that point.
Speaker 4 (57:32):
Was it two three seconds on the clock one play,
it's sixty five yards?
Speaker 3 (57:38):
Yeah, and young buck let that they fly.
Speaker 4 (57:42):
It was just high enough to where when Noah slipped off,
I see him slipping, but I'm like, they'renna knock it down,
and when it goes in. I had to apologize to
my mom and dad a guy. Everybody says, Lady, I
don't know, It's just it's such excitement for you. How
(58:06):
much fun is it right now?
Speaker 2 (58:07):
Man?
Speaker 8 (58:07):
Listen?
Speaker 5 (58:08):
I was saying, like after that play, man, it took
me like thirty minutes after the game to like just
take everything off. Like I was just sitting there like
just like because that's one of those plays where like
that transcends, Like that's a transcending moment, right, not for
a team, just for the organization in general.
Speaker 8 (58:26):
We've y'all been here a long time. We've been here
a long time.
Speaker 5 (58:29):
That play has never gone our way for a very
long time, and for something like that to go our way,
it's like things are different now, Like that was the
moment where, like you you look back, I'll look back
five years from now and be.
Speaker 8 (58:41):
Like that was one of those plays that just changed everything.
So like it was a dope moment.
Speaker 1 (58:45):
So you mentioned you've been here for a long time,
be played here a long time. I play here a
long time. What's it like planned for Dan Quinn for DQ?
Speaker 8 (58:55):
Man, it's fun.
Speaker 5 (58:56):
Man, I'll say, like I got when I was going
through the free agency process and everything, Like I was
very unsure. I was coming off a cl too, so
I didn't know what was gonna happen, honestly, And I
got to get on the phone with him in AP
and man, we just talked ball and like I could
tell the first difference I could tell with him was
like how genuine he was and wanting things to be better, right,
(59:20):
he asked me that, and as a guy, who's I mean,
I slowly find myself that year, that twenty two year, right,
but like I had never in my life before I
had that kind of recognition from a head coach and
the staff around it. So like that, automatically I was like, Okay, yeah,
this dude real deal. And then I had to ask
guys that had played in Dallas for him, and even
I had like some older heads JD that was here
(59:42):
played in.
Speaker 8 (59:43):
Atlanta with him, and they're like, yeah, no, y'all gonna
love him.
Speaker 4 (59:46):
Bro.
Speaker 8 (59:46):
He's real deal, man. He's a he's.
Speaker 5 (59:48):
A players guy, and he's all about winning, you know,
and that's at the end of the day, that's what we're.
Speaker 8 (59:52):
Here to do.
Speaker 3 (59:52):
Well, coming even closer, I played against him, but I believe.
Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
One day but we got like but you could tell
he played with intensity. How much fun is it playing
for there?
Speaker 5 (01:00:09):
It's fun, man, because he lets his dudes be dudes.
I remember when I signed, when I got here. Today
I got here, he said, listen, I don't want to
change anything about your game.
Speaker 8 (01:00:16):
I just want you to do what you do. Just
go play ball.
Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
And that was it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
That was all.
Speaker 8 (01:00:21):
He's asked to me, just hey, go.
Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Make the plays man that you've been doing that you
put on tape, And I said, and like me, him
and Beloord and a lot of these guys that are veteran,
like we just piggyback off each other. We brainstorm like, hey, look,
this week we should do this, or this week we
should do that, and like it puts us in a
position to be successful, not as just the individuals, but
as a group too.
Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
You know, I heard that from even Dan's talks about
that where they take input from players, right. You know
that's why I love Andy Reid so much, right, Andy,
even Gibbs, they would take input from the players and install.
It made me feel like I was a part of something, right,
And by them doing that, does that do the same Yeah?
Speaker 8 (01:00:56):
Absolutely, Yeah, you feel included into it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:00:58):
It's almost like it's not like you're just getting told
what to do, but like you have some input in
saying like okay, like I think this works best for
us as a group, right, and then like for them
to receive that feedback and then be like okay, yeah,
they look at it, we see it everything the same way, right,
And that's big when you talk about team and brotherhood,
Like everybody got to see it the same way, right,
and the fact that we do we can do that
(01:01:18):
is part of the reason why we're having a success.
Speaker 8 (01:01:20):
We're having them.
Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
You mentioned the ACL injury, and I felt like every
Washington fan felt for you, especially coming off that All
Pro year that you had in twenty twenty two. I
don't know if you've had any type of injury like
that its significant prior to that. What was it like
for you having to overcome that, the rehab, the off season,
(01:01:43):
all that, just being able to get yourself back to
playing at all pro level.
Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Ah, Man, it was tough, I will say, Like, you know,
the biggest thing I said was like I had for
so long in my career, I had gotten used to
having the claw to get to the top of the mountain, right,
and then once you finally hit that pinnacle of like
where you've always wanted to be, you fall right back
down again. So it was just like, as crazy as
it's going to sound like, I'm glad it happened, like
(01:02:08):
and everything happens for a reason. Obviously I wish it
wasn't that significant, but like I'm thankful for the path
God took me down right, because I had to call
back again, and it was some tough days, and it
was uncomfortable days, and like it was hard watching the
season go the way it did last year and feeling
so helpless at home with your leg popped up.
Speaker 8 (01:02:25):
But it made me who I am and brought me
to who I am today.
Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
And I took something from that that, like I applied
to my every day man, just being grateful for being
out here right, taking every day as a blessing because
it is, it's not guaranteed.
Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
It's that testimony, like once you go through it, you
can help somebody else out You know many of guys
that I played with that would tell me stuff about
what happened with them. And then also you find your
stuff in the middle of that, right, that makes.
Speaker 5 (01:02:49):
It easy for the next person exactly right at the
end of the day, like you just my whole goal
is I want to leave something better than I found
it here you go. So if I can help with
one of these young guys or any of these guys,
ave guy who may have the same kind of issues
or journey, not even the injury, just the practice squad
journey of all that I talked these guys about it
all the time. Under guys right, like I can go
to sleep at night that means I did my job right,
(01:03:11):
And like I'm okay with that. If I could never
get another accolade again and I help somebody else, I'm
cool with that.
Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Y'all keep playing, Like y'all playing, you gonna get some
more ale. Speaking of playing or not playing, I should
say trustway, your boy trust has been on the fielding
a text you're gonna play. What's it like being able
(01:03:40):
to have an offense like that to where, man, you
just don't have to cover as many punts and trash
your boy he's sometimes he might not punt the whole game.
I will say, there's two sides of this.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
There's the selfish.
Speaker 8 (01:03:54):
Side, like dag, I'm trying to go eat right.
Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
But then there's the team side where it's like, Yo,
this is dope, Like this is dope, and it's really
dope just to see the young boy. Man, it's hard
to see rookies go out there and go spending like that,
and the fact that he's so composed and a lot
of these moments is really really dope to see.
Speaker 8 (01:04:10):
It's cool to see.
Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
It's like you're playing on a real team now, right,
Like this is complimentary football at his final and dude
is going out there and playing lifestyle man, and I
have to hop on the.
Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Bike sometimes I'm like, man, I haven't been doing nothing
for me. I got warm up again.
Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
But you know what else is dope? Dope? Man, having
you joined us on the show, Man, we could chop
it up with you all the time. We might We're
might have to have him.
Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Back again, y'all all the time.
Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
Many.
Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
Yeah, you know what we do.
Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
You've been on the show before. We have all our
guests sign this football for us. Man, We're going to
ask you the blessings with your autograph.
Speaker 8 (01:04:45):
Man, I need to be asking for y'all autographs.
Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
We can make that happen. Yeah, Man, Look I'm.
Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
Trying to put that in the cave.
Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Back at home, telling you that I know b I started.
I made the NFL much like you undrafted. Our journey
was a special teams guy like I had to make
the team as a special teams guy.
Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
Be you told me the only way youre gonna make
the team is being a special all.
Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Time as a special teacher. We have a great offenity
and appreciation for special teamers and what you do, and man,
we can't wait to see you continue to go out
there bust heads and lead this lead their special teams.
Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
Man, I appreciate that. Man, y'all the standard man. So look,
I'm just trying to pick off you. Guys lifted off
that man, So I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
All right, appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
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On this episode of the Players Club, we have the
one and only Super Bowl Champion, Brian Mitchell joining the show.
He will help us recap the Commander's amazing Hell Mary
victory over the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Plus we're talking about b Mets Super Bowl memories and
playing under the legendary head coach Joe Gibbs.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And we have a very special guest, All Pro Jeremy
Reeves aka All Pro Revo, helping us close out the show.
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
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Speaker 1 (01:01):
Special guest, very filling in for sat Tyna Boss, Washington Legend,
Super Bowl champion, the NFL's second all time leader in
the total yards, second only to Jerry Rice, who many
considered to go. We got Brian Mitchell aka b Mitch.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
What appreciate this man to play more position than anybody.
I sway. I think I saw the missed out safety
one game.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Probably one game.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I wasn't starting, but UH had prevent when they put
me back just because they do the pooch funt. So
I was playing safety slash return. See I'm trying to
tell you to do it all. I'm in the position
by position I played in quarterback, running back, full back, receiving.
I have been at the back, back deep. I was
(01:54):
a kick returner, part returner. I held on field goal.
I was the person to protect her. I covered kicks,
covered on kickoff that punk. Yeah yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You had to be h back to kind of a
slash h back.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, but like I remember, now, moved me to full back.
You know, it made me gain weight. They wanted me
to play full back four years ago. That was ninth
when he first got here in ninety four ninety five.
Once I rich, I get to full back, like now
we're gonna move you back. You playing fluctuating with the weight,
and I'm like, look, bro y'all put me somewhere. Let
me do this thing.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Did how did gain a weight to fetch you as
a as a kick return at all.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But the thing for me.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I was talking with Dan Riley and I said, how
big should I get? Yeah, he said, be big enough
to still run the speed you run. So I came
here my first year, I was like four four and
I was your first year coming out quarterback for four
years pounds quarterback, and I ended up playing as high
as two twenty one to twenty two. When I ran
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before I went to Philly. That was ten years later.
I clocked four four two.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I had twenty one. So then I try to get
people headaches.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's that young boss, you fast and smoop back even yeah,
man for sure, Hey that's that gumbo manut gumbo man.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That was that weightlifting show. I lived in the weight room.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
How many quarterbacks you have be messed?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Bro that what we gotta look that up.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Ripping rut led Humphreys, Rodney Pete, uh oh man, Donovan
mcnah that's in Philly, but heat shoot little gups for rot.
What's my man name you had? Brad Johnson, Trent Green?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, that's my guy, hate already, who lord Donovan?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
That just meen you played a long time aj Phelly
Koy Detmer Jesse Palmer. Yeah, man, I was a quarterback
in the game Man's college.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh so be man. You you played for this franchise
for a long time. Water super Bowl legend here. How
does it feel for you? You've been here through a
lot of the good times, a lot of the mad times,
especially over the last let's call it half a quarter century.
What's it feel like for you to be able to
witness this team this year? Well, you say quarter center
(04:20):
made me feel old as hell.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
But anyway, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I'm not live to y'all.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Maddie was watching us on the show.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I told Jay, I said, bro, thank you and I
love you man, because you're making me pride for again
about this team. And I think guys like you all
you watch you. We've talked a lot, and the feeling
that you had at the point, like you get a
little like I like to brag. I like to talk
trans people. I didn't have the ability. Now you know you,
(04:49):
I'm walking around this thing like hell, I'm doing something.
I ain't doing a damn thing right but talking about it.
But I feel real good, man, because I am very
I've always wanted to be able to be close to
the guys and say things to him and be supportive.
It wasn't allowed to be. So now that I'm around,
I'm watching this thing man, and that we we are
(05:11):
with people.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Like Trust and Reeves and all those guys like that.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
You watch what they put into this thing, man, and
it makes you feel good because the dudes that deserve
it are starting to live it and get it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I've always said you went in DC.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's great you mentioned being pride forl and want to
be at a brag. I'll travel and I'm in the
airport a couple of times a week and a lot
of times I'm gonna have my Washington Commanders gear on
and I'm represented. It just it feels so different now.
But not only you want to talk to you want
to talk to me response. I can get good game,
(05:47):
especially after the hell Mary oh Man, not so many people.
That's that's crazy. I was just about to ask, and
first of all, be much.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I've always respect to be mentioned because when he said
he can, he was one of the few guys that,
although he was on the radio, you should be Mitch out.
He'll put each aside. Man, be like, listen, man, have
some pride, work hard, and I don't I took it
as respect because I knew he cared, But I don't
know how everybody else felt it. But I always felt
like be Mitch was gonna shoot you straight right. So, man,
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you've been around a long time. Man, that's quite like
getting back to that play. Thinking about that play, is
that the craziest play you've ever seen in the history
of like since you've been doing it, I've.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Seen some stuff, but like, I think it was just
then they threw one and I'm just take this year.
I have never seen anything like that, you know, watching
the game, and I was a little upset when it
was getting close to the end and we got two seconds.
I'm like, man, this damn game right right, and in
(06:51):
the middle of speaking and it goes off and it
comes in and.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I lost my mind.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Man, I was high fiving and could have broke down,
and it was I don't know what the dude name
on Channel seven, Abraham, I'm jumping up and down. I'm
on I'm on his shoulders, chest, bumper lady, everybody. And
then remote came through and I think I might have
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hugged everybody walked through that.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Damn didn't even care.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It just felt so good because it goes the other
way so much. Man, that felt like, okay, boom, we
are now on the other side of this thing. Yeah,
so y'all heard my radio call.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's crazy because prior to the ball being snapped sometimes
and I don't know, you guys probably feel like, man,
not not this particular game. We're just like I ain't
gonna have Before today, I felt like we had a chance,
like for real. I was like, man, I feel like
we still need one the times I'm like, just the moment,
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but it just felt like it was something special in
the air. So as the ball snapping, He's running around
for felt like forever seconds and then when he threw
it and it's in slow motion and I'm watching the ball,
I'm just like, man, this guy's got a chance. And
when the ball was tipped, I immediately saw Noah Brown
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with nobody around it.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I yelled.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He called it men just watching man. So when it happened,
it was surreal, But I was like, I've just felt
like it was going to happen for us.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I'm glad you brought that into the atmosphere because I
was a little worried man, and.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Because like I'm from a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
You know how many hell mirrors I threw in practice practicing.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
On that, Yeah, I threw at least thirty forty.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Not many succeeded none of them. You're supposed to be
able to get it done in practice. That is one
play that doesn't just happen.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You couldn't completely practice.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
No, I put the ball in, they wouldn't let it happen.
They're not just letting that because I was a talker,
so they were gonna ever talk. But the ultimate thing
is once it happened, you go through all these emotions
where you're like, oh man, we can We are no
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longer how it used to be. You know, you've been
in on teams when you have bad season where you
on the sideline, something goes wrong and you're like, oh
here we go, we go again.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I think at this point now you know, I've been
trying to be even kill man, I'm way over that
line now.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I see that happen, And for me it was crazy
because I'm just glad I was at home. That was
one of those reactions where somebody get you on tape,
your kids put you bad out there on TikTok man.
I'm on a.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Lot of stuff. JP got me, got you bad?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Who were you?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
You were?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You were?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So I was. I was at home watching it, and
I'm like, same would be missed. I was like, well,
the game a little the little for the quick eight
yard out, so we might have a chance at least
get into the end zone. But I felt like I
got a little bit of chance. But now it ain't
gonna work man. And when he caught it, and I
was thinking, I was going through my mind, like why
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aren't they pressing the receivers, you know, why aren't they
pressing the receivers. They gave up the eight yard out,
They probably shouldn't have did that. Surely they're gonna press
the receivers with somebody deep.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But he go talking to the crowd. That's a whole
the conversation.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I'm just like, they're messing up doing that, so that
really gives it more of a chance. And then when
Noah caught it, I was just like, man, I think
I was on the ground doing the worms. I was
doing everything I did move I think I think I
did the work man.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Money to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It took me five minutes to get up, but I
didn't work man. But it was one of those things
with that proud moment. It was like last time I
felt like you always had a chance to win. To
be honest, is when I played in New England.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Tom Yeah, Jayden.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
When I saw that, I was like that kid, Yeah
he got it. He gives you that feeling like we
have a chance to win.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You remember Jim when he was running around you know
what to do? That was you said, I cursed on
you mentioned something.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, so glue you mentioned, you mentioned Jayden. I don't
know if you guys probably notice it now, but I
don't know if you even paid attention to it as
it was happening. It was he's just back there running
around and he was.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
In the backyard.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, and I'm like, man, he gotta throw it. But
then when you watch him how calm and cool and
collected he was before he threw, like he took another
hits into stepped to it and it wasn't like a.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Just like like it like it was just that thing
was sixty five sixty eight yards in the air before
it touched in.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What was what was it? You talked to him, You
and Tyna and Brian Kobert talked to him after the
game on game day. What was it like talking to him?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You know what, when he got to us, you could
see he was excited, but he was calm right and
you know we we were giving him credit for the
player he ain't. No, man, this game was one by
all defense. You know, this kid even in that moment
he is saying no, no, no no, And you think
about it, if the defense don't hold him like they did,
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we don't have that opportunity at the end. I really believe,
man like.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That, that kid is just super super special.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
So I tip my hat to his mom and dad
because you don't come up like that without the people
that you're right directly with and feel and think that
way at all times for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, all right, b Mitch, we're gonna we're gonna flip
into a segment we call Dubs of the Week. So
for Dubs of the week is it can be a player, coach, position, crew, whatever,
whoever you think got the dub of the week. And
since you to get like a game ball you mean, yeah,
a game but they're not getting anything. We might have
to we might have to start having like a dub
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like the W, start giving out the W.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
That'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, Maddie, we need you and Kayla to get on
that the week, so we don't like you start little pigot.
Huh yeah, Patty, we're gonna get for something. Who you're
gonna start it off? Who gets a double the week
for you?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I'm gonna tell you a guy who really really impressed
me this week, And I'm telling you the dude played.
I talked a lot about him on the radio today,
Johnny Newton. Oh man, man, step up. That played where
he stopped the screen and then got the sack. Did
you see him get off the bone?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
He went from being in a four point stance to
pass the offensive line for the office even try to
jab him. And when Caleb gets the ball to go
to throwt he is in the air already. I'm like,
what the watch him?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I Am thinking that's Aaron Donald esque. Yes, then I'll.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Kept watching him in the play seven quarterback hits pres
and he was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Man, it was an absolute monster. You wouldn't have thought
this this guy off an injury. I mean like yes, yes,
I mean he was stepping in for ja Man. That
kid was special man, big body, and I.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Know anybody looking at the game or even looking at
us saying, oh, it gotta be Jane, gotta be knowing no, no, no, no, no,
no no. I am a guy who watched the trenches.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well not only that, dude, not that. If you really
look out how the game win and what the defense
did in thatter, yes it to pick. You could probably
pick a couple of guys off that defense and give
them dubs a week. But to your to your point,
he showed why many people had him as as the
number one rate the defensive line in tier defensive lineman
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coming out of this year's this year's draft.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Blue, who you got is the man. I don't think
we can we can really go without saying that. For me,
you have to be Noah because at the end of
the day, be missed that and practice it through or
thirty foury times another it happened like we practice it
and you've run down and the receivers got to I
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mean Jaalen Bottom time. But the receivers have to go
down and they all have to execute the getting position.
You gotta you gotta, you gotta respect erg for getting
a position to tip it. You gotta respect the guy
who goes Norah Brown who went in the back to
catch it, and everyone thinks that was just luck. No,
that was a well executed plan and I think everybody
did the job. And I've seen guys before when the
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ball is tipped, drop it the panic and he caught it,
turned round. Game was over man, and he had three
catches for seventy three yards. He had to drop early
in the game. But I mean, I think we talk
about it every week on the show, that their moments
that like give a guy confidence. And he's came in
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off for trade and I just think that he's the
guy that man like. I got to give him the
double the week. Man, I was big for me. He did.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
He did, Man, you could you can go Jaden. They
ain't had his first three under yard passion game. I
can go, I can go, I can go. Terry McCain, Yeah,
Terry ball Man. They had over one hundred and twenty five.
He had won twenty five receiving, had the big big
bomb early in the game. But I'm gonna have to
stick with the defense, and I'm gonna go with the
guy Bobby Wagner in. And the reason I'm gonna give
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Bobby the double of the week, my double the Week
is because of how he handled things from an operational standpoint,
and that ball game, the Bears were doing a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Of check with me.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Every play was a check with me, so to speak.
They would they're trying to get in the perfect play
based on the defensive formation look that they got. Priest. Now,
there was times where they would come out of empty formation,
and so Bobby would check the defense because they had
an empty check. You know, we all have an empty check.
We gonna it might be a pressure, it might be
a coverage, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So you make that check.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Then they would go back to a motion and backfield
back and shift formations, motion up, back, back into the backfield.
He would make another get to get the defense back
set to a different play. And at home it's a
lot harder than to do that than it is on
the road because of the crowd noise and that crowd
that stadium was rocking on Sunday. So for him to
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operate the way in the matter that he operated just
being a middle linebacker and have done that and them
not having any mental busts or things like that, I
got to give Bobby my deb of the Week.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And I think Bobby and that defense man defense don
mentioned goes to the fans.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I like that from road trips to home games.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
They are taking their stadium back and they're taking over
everybody else's because when we were in Arizona, it was
a lot louder for Washington was with Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Wow, that game, no doubt was. That was a drive
in one of the greatest moments in Washington history.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Be mitched.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Since you're on, we're talking Washington super Bowls. All right,
this is drive Time presented by Eastern Automotive Group. Any
car anyway for everyone since nineteen eighty eight, you obviously
have experienced some Super Bowls here.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
A lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Talk to us about you know the super Bowls that
you experienced here. Well, I'll be honest with you, man,
Like I tell people, and this is no lie. Until about.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Ten years ago, I didn't know what happened in the
first five minutes of the game.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
What you know, so much stuff goes on. So we're
coming out to tourno and money. Coleman is like, you
know what, man, give it all today. Man, you can
live this the rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Life.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
And I have watched the Super Bowl on TV and
all the flashes just going off. When I walked onto
the walked out of the tunnel and looked up in
the flashes, I went into like a trans I didn't
know they had kicked off twice until I was watching
it because I had not I had never gone back
and watched.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It, and you were the return man.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
But they didn't kick it to me.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
They kicked it okay, and then they then the TV time.
I hadn't been in it yet, so they had there kick.
I didn't know that till like ten years ago when
I finally looked at the actual kickoff of the You
was not locked in.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I was. I was in a daze.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And then the whole.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Nothing but during the once the game started and I'm
watching jump Together's throw offensive lineman at Jim Kelly and
at one point he hit him and knocked him out,
knocked him like walk But I knew the.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Game was over for them. We we had that game
in hand.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
But just being there, man, if you ever watched the film,
you know they going to the quarterback. If you watch there,
you know who the m v P is, Mark Rippon. Yeah,
every time the camera touched him, I was right there.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I was talking with it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All the d.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Roof Bro listener, It's just that was that week in Minneapolis,
was Cole, if you go through the whole week. We
get there and my cousin was a Prince like looking
like he'll go around dressing as Prince and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
So he called.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
He called me, said say go to glam Slam. He said,
Prince gonna be expecting you. And I'm like, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I go to glam Slam and Brian Mitchell, Uh, Prince
wants you at the Witch. Come. I went to the
thing I want to with prints.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So I was like hanging out of Prince.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Listen, bro, that dude is Charlotte what they said. But
coolest hell, my cousin Rodney lived in Detroit. Rodney was
that dude that it was addressed, that would dressed up
like him. And Prince was taking on the road and
sometimes so when Prince was in his room fleet, Roddy
was sitting down waving and stuff. It was actually right.
They wouldn't Prince, wow, you know it's double. But I
(21:24):
hung out with him, hung out in his club. Drinks
are on the house, and I remember the Detroit Pistons
being there for something. I guess they were playing against
Tim Bold and its way back and uh Mark Aguire
had on a hat like look at my old uncle man.
Just every time I went to the bar, Bark was
right there. But it was at the bar, that's how.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But it is.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I mean that game, it ended exactly how we had
planned it. We seventeen and two winning Super Bowl. And
still today people remember that real quick, that that ninety
one team.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I believe they only gave up what nine sacks the
entire season, which is ridiculous, that's including the playoffs. Was
that the greatest team in history?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I've heard a lot of people say it us day
to day said, but when you look at the team,
not just watching the history aime, because all three phases
were in the top three, top five in the league,
and not very often you have your offense, defense, and
your special team right the way. Everybody was there. Man,
(22:35):
it was one of those things where I knew it.
That's when I realized that you don't have to look
the part. You got to beat the part because we
were seven and old like that, because you got us say,
depending on what our record is at the Bible, we're
gonna let you take that many days off. He didn't
give a seventh straight day.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He cut that thing up to.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Where you didn't have fun, nobody could go anywhere. Then
we were four more lose a game, win three more.
He treated the last game like a like a preseason game,
just to people out getting the playoffs, and we just
just roll graded people.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Man, that was that was a great one. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Coach. Man, what's his impact on your life?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
There? Man? Look more, it was more about off the
field than it was really on the field. You know,
one thing I love about him on the field. When
he told you something, you could believe it. You know,
he wasn't playing on bs with nobody, but the man
the way he can go into a locker room at
halftime and change a complete game plan. You know, I
think it said that that's a skill. This is the
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thing we'll be in practice. And he said run this play.
He said, no, let's run this. He said, they gonna
try and stop that by doing what they just did,
but then we're gonna run this. He had He practiced
counter We practiced the plays that we would change to.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Most people never did that. And then I got there
with Andy Reid and he ain't were very He was very.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Similar to coach Wow. And I told him, I said, dude,
I said, you mind me and Joe Gibbs. He said, man,
Troke Gills, great, you can't don't do that to me.
I say, I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true.
But they had this uncanny ability of hiring people, let
them do their jobs, and if they need to step
in and change something.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
What they came with was special.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Because the coach Gears man, I never heard him say
one curse word. I thought I was gonna get it
one time he went.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Gosh started yeah, smooty might smooth.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
If Dexabody didn't bring it out. If don't think anybody
that dude has some control. And I still I love
that man today, you know, just like I did the
first day I met him, broke because he told me
my first year, he said, you got your first year
to learn, then you got to compete.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You played. You played for three of the teams in
the NC East. Obviously played for US. You mentioned Philly.
You also played for the New York Giants.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
You couldn't. You couldn't put on that start. I wouldn't
gonna do that. I wanted to live here for the
rest of my life. I kind of knew, like I
feel it, you know, so I could have pushed it
only so far. If I went to the store, I
don't think I could be living here.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Let me let me ask you this. For years, everybody
say East, coach Buyers, NFC East is the best conference.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Why And back in that time, I'll tell you why
I was the best conference Because people argue, you know,
I'm just saying, you had four teams that were going
to run the ball down your throat and you had
to stop it. Yeah, and you knew for eight games
in the season you're battling, you're going We had the
(25:39):
Cardinals and Pennsilic. But and then if you got all
the NFC East, you probably were going to the Super Bowl.
Look at that time in the eighties, eighties and nineties, my.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Dad was at the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I was won three of them. We went to Well,
they weren't coach three of the four Coach Gibbs the Giants.
It's like, if you got all the East, you gonna
win it because you were battle tested.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Blue you we both played in the NFC East, played
in the NFC for a long time, you got any
members about playing in New York. Man playing against the
Gods or the jest.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
For Giants for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Man, we played them the year and I loved playing
the Giants because that was one of the games where
Coach Gibbs hyped you up all week.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
They're gonna test your physicality.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It was like it wasn't hard to get up going
to New York. But the Giants was pretty good and
they had a pretty big team. And we always tell
the classic story about Smooth and said that everybody on
the Giants is huge. And the real Giants they got
laarn he got Laarron ran over them. But but but
the thing about the Giants, Man, that that was I remember, Man,
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and we were talking about earliers Man, when you play
them late in the year, we're looking at the charachs
like do we have to play in New York in
December or we playing him in September? Where we going?
Because that made how you played? And I remember one
time playing in New York and you know, after you're
playing in the league a few times, you go to
a different stadiums, You're like, I got it down playing
in Oakland on a little baseball field or whatever in Cleveland.
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You gotta play a little different, man. I wasn't ready
for them when they opened up. The time come through.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
When you when you that team is kicking the field goal,
then it comes out.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You don't see that on TV.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
But that's crazy, man. I got I got to two
giant memories. Yeah that I can think of, well more
than two. But my first interception in my career was
was in New York against the Giants, and it was
just Carry Collins quarterback. I was I was playing with
the Rams and we're playing We're playing cover cover six,
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so I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I'm the backside post linebacker and he's running.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
They running a deep over in immediate over. I should say,
Carry doesn't see me. I'm like, man, I know he
ain't about to this.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
He wanted it.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You know, he had that loan right your chest. I
know he ain't about to throw this, dude. I was like,
thank you for your first very first walk, first turn,
first thing. I'm thinking, catch this ball. Got it on
your knees Once I caught it, then I turned into
a running back. You know, but I'm gonna put some
moves out of you.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Hey, he got more interceptions and more yards and smooth.
So that that was my first.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Highlight against the uh New York Giants. My last memory,
my final game of my career was against the Giants,
and it rained the entire game.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'm talking, did you know it was your last game?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
At the time, I had already announced my retirement, So yeah,
I announced that the week before so I can get
you know, recognized ourfense in my final game here, Man,
it rained. Normally the rain gonna stop at some point time.
It was raining from the time like you had your
pre pre warm up.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
It was right that time all the way man, throughout
the game.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I'm like, you gotta be kidding.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It was a miserable season.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Experience. Man. I was just like, I can't believe this, man,
But it was those are my job memories.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I te't mind the mining kind of strange. I guess
I announce my retirement there too. I when I first
went there to play against the Giants. You hear by
Lawrence Hiler. Yeah, so he comes out the tunnel, you know,
right right, this is nineteen ninety and I'm just looking
at it, looking at do like I forgot who was
saying they saw Mike walk in Allan. I say something,
(29:47):
Mike walking Michael Jordan. They had like an aura around.
I was looking at Lawrence Hill and say.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Wait, and here we go, they guys. We called the
speed right and I go to the edge of the line.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I got a block the linebacker coming over the head
and I cut him, and he said, who told you
to cut me? I'm like, what you mean? Who told
you to cut you? Now I'm trying to be a
little tough, right A ve told you to cut me
because they said you cut him one time? He gonna
slow down. He don't like to get nobody messed with
his leg, and his mind had told me to cut
and tell him that. I told him like I was
(30:21):
saying golf of a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I told him.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
He said, I knew somebody, but he didn't kill me,
so I was happy as hell. I watched it, but
I watched that dude the whole game. That dude special.
And then my last game playing in the in the NFL,
I was with the Giants and I finished that game
at quarterback. Man, come on, man, every time I played quarterback,
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I just remember this guy told me I would never
play in the league.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I said, you are a Fool'm gonna play quarterback in
the league.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And my rookie year, I played quarterback in Philly again
with the I was with the team at the time,
and then my last game I played quarterback again. So
every time I see that dude, I always show him.
Let me middle fingers, let me ask you this. Did
you throw a pass that game? Actually I threw two passes.
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One hit the do hand when out. The other one,
I just threw it out of bounds. But I ran them.
They kept telling me, do the roll out, keep running.
Let's get this game up. We were playing against was Sewing,
were showing big, big tax detaching. Played with the Panthers.
Sean Gilbert, he was here there, Yeah, playing your Sean,
and they were like this, get this game over.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I was like cool. So your final game was in
New York against the.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
And I remember coming off the field and I got
in the turn on. My wife's like, how you feeling.
I say, I'm done. Just know it right there, because
like I was catching punts looking at the first guy
and thinking how I'm gonna make it miss when I
never thought about the first second guy, so I knew
I was doing it. And it was it was rather cold.
You're not coold to getting New York. Yeah, yeah, I
was saying, I'm done with this.
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right man, speaking of the Giants, it's time to set
the tone. We're gonna flip the script a little bit
and preview this game against the New York Giants. Giants,
they're coming in. It's it's home game for them, two
and six. With six and two, we know that doesn't
matter an opponent. What are we gonna have to do
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to get it on the road against the Giants.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
I think we got to run the football, and I
think when you look at them right now, they haven't
been very good against the run. They're good against yeah,
I think they have thirty five sacks leading the league
in fact right now, but they are not good at
run defense. And Tyler Beatis has been very good against
the Giants. And Dexter Lawrence, yeah, a mon, he's a monster,
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but bad Ass has been a monster against him. And
I think that that's the guy who I'm going to
be looking at the trying to set the tone in
the game. This office was line right now, are playing
top five officer.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Line here and one.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yeah, So if they can run the ball on them,
I think if you can run the ball on the Giants,
then now you allow Jaden and tear them to begin
to do the things they need to do.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
And so for us, man, I think we got to
go in there. And the secondary has been playing better.
The defense has out been out standing, but the secondary
in particular, it's getting better each week. We got to
get after Daniel Jones. We gotta get after him, but
we got to turn the ball.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Don't allow him to turn the page.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Don't allow the exactly. Don't allow him to get any
type of momentum and turn the page. And we got
to say we're the ones that you know, sit your
season in real spot for what it is. You know,
you say this, and we say, hey, we got to
stop Daniel Jones. I agree, and run the ball.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
We ran for over two hundred yards against them the
first time we played them, two hundred and fifteen yards.
So stick to that script and jumps running them. But
they're gonna know we need we run the ball. You know,
everybody go try to run balls. And I'll say this.
You go back and you watch that game. Jaden is
so much better as a quarterback now than he was
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that was game two. He's you know, he got eight
games under his belt now, so much better quarterback. Our
offense is much better, our defense is much better. That
game we allowed Elie Neighbors to have a day. We're
there on the secondary. We got guys playing that secondary,
as you mentioned, playing a lot better. I will say this,
one area where we need to approve drastically in this
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game against the Giants is stopping a runt. They got
a rookie Tyrone Travis Tracy. He just ran for one
hundred and forty five yards he gets the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah,
only twenty carries. The Giants has some success running the
ball against us that that first game. We gotta be
better at stopping the run in order to make the
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Giants like one dimensional. We get out to the Daniel
Jones stop the run?
Speaker 2 (36:59):
How do you think? And the reason I said Daniel
Jones because we have a history or let him game,
but letting him have a game. We can't let him
have a game and.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Do what he's been doing.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
One thing a lot of people have not talked about,
and I think we should need to pay attention to
the last game. We weren't good in the red zone
the offense all. We cannot have pienaties in the red zone,
have mistakes in the red zone. And let's just think
about the game we just won. But the hell, Mary,
we didn't get touchdowns in the red zone, right, you know?
We at the five yard on four yard and all
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of a sudden we back at the fifteen exact, we
have to settle for a field goal. We have to
get touchdowns with them in the red zone.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
No, I agree, I agree, and I'm sure they're wildly
working overtime you might normally, and I don't know how
their practice structure is, but you guys can remember a
lot of times you would either have your red zone
day on a Friday, or some teams might even have
a Thursday Thursday. So it was surprised me if they're
doing red zone stuff on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Just
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to catch that right and realizing like we got to
get finished these drives off with touchdown.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, and the red zone is we got to be
able to run the ball in a redone because like
you said, it's no secret, and you got to get
them big bodies in there. I think that's where zach
Ertz and those guys can you know, start to show
show a little bit and you're right, man, we have
to figure out how to really score points there.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
You go, that's it, you know, so anybody. But it's
a strange thing. We are twenty fourth in red zone production.
It's still number three, but number three point that is
a good point. But when you get down there, you
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got to get seven. You gotta get seven. You gotta
get seven, I tell you. I mean you mentioned we
we touched on Dexter Lords just briefly that Giants defensive front.
You mentioned how they lead the league the league against sacks.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
He leaves the NFL a sex with none sacks as
a defensive tackle. Yes, that.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Is a problem.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
But he's a problem.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
But you look at the the success Beoni just had
against him and what he's done when when the bet
was the center it.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
At the same same.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
But but what I what I'm saying is yes, he
can play, but you got to offset the a little bit,
like make him have to worry about something else.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Right, if you just let him t off, you got
a problem with them.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Hey, you know you could tell seemed like that no
huddle got him a little wind to two of that
first game.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And you do that us, Oh yeah, do it? You know,
Cliff is the best at that man game planning and
and it's gonna be interesting now the second time around
the Clifton seeing their defensive coordinating, what they what they
do on defense, and how adjustments and what adjustments we make.
So I'm man, I'm just I'm just again, I'm just
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excited about just like when you have a quarterback like Jayden,
it always makes you feel like you have a chance.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
All right, you Mitch on game day line you got
a segment called b mitches Big Three, So why don't
you drop your your big three? Or who has to
have a game? New York?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Well, I think we mentioned all these people already.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
You know, I'm gonna start off with Tyler beat I
think he's going to have to be have a good
game to offset Dexter Lawrence, because I believe this. We
talk about skill positions all the time. Hell I played quarterback.
I did all the skill positions stuff, and I understand it.
But they started up. And if we can get Tyler
leading away with that officeer line the where they've been playing,
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you know, I think we have a great chance going
out there and beating them. And I think once you
have Tyler's set up, you know, let's trip it to
the other side. You talked about him earlier, Bobby Wagner.
Bobby Wagner is playing way younger than what he is, okay,
and you have a guy that understands what's going on.
When you can switch a defense, switch him back.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Do it where you don't have young guys worried about it.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
That means he's communicating properly.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
I want to see those two guys lead the way
and then Ultimately the next thing is for me is
going to be Terry McLaurin and Jane Dams. That connection
this a big This is a big time game, don't
I know The Giants is two and six, but this
is a big time game where that connection has to
work no matter what.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Okay you get in the game. Yeah, they know we're coming, but.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
You still come. You still make plays and they got
to stop it.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
And in a run scheme, is there when you have
a dominant force like a Dex launch, is there particular
running things inside out inside out? Is there things you
stay away or type of run schemes that you try
to use to kind of limit his production.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
If you run straight at him, you ask him, yeah,
to not do anything. Well, but like when I've noticed
bigger guys like him, I go all way back to
William Perry.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
But you got to get those guys moving and over.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Time he love mentioned that when he he was a
little winded when they were doing their face. If you
get him more moving a little side to side and
there's double teams, start working on it.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
You can wear them out. You know, he's not a machine.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
You know, you get style of everybody else, but you
can't allow him to just be able to stand somebody
up and.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Get rid of him.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
He played up Aaron Donald type numbers in the tea.
He's busting.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah, so's a There's a couple of different ways, as
be Mitch mentioned, getting running sideline the sideline, you know
those outside zone plays, the penning pool type place off
tackle type plays, but also gap schemes and power type
places where you double the team and him wearing on them,
getting movement that way and running those running it whether
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we're running our counters, are our counter counter trays on
some of those things. Even power plays where you doubling
him then getting up to the live backer. You don't
want to do a steady dosa just single blocking him,
even though, be honest, the duo scheme, getting du scheme
getting up on.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Him and having the running back kind of.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Pick you start one way, he's got to start playing
that that guy's double him and got cuts back. That's
a big space because you know, you know who else
expects him to play. Well, who's that his linebackers. Yeah,
if you don't eat up the blocks, then they gonna
get blocked. So they if he all of a sudden
is out of the picture. It's a big hole right there.
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And I don't know many people want to hear Brian
Robinson one on one all day. I don't know many
people want to do that.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I don't know what the weather's gonna be in New
York on Sunday. I haven't checked it yet. But if
it's a little chili up there, you definitely aint gonna
want to hit him that now.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
And then you talk about the connection with with Terry
and Jayden, this can be. I believe that Cliff has
just been amazing this year. Man like he who did
his play calling off balance and they keep people off balance. Now,
I believe the advantage is we get to see their
coordinator and but and Jayden's better. But to the flip side,
could be we've seen your scheme. We know you know
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you run past com flick that you try to put
our guys in what you look for like lending. Now
what from a defensive coordinator. You've seen Jayden he's getting better,
But I'm seeing him for the second time.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Now you're still you're seeing it from the second time,
so you it's still so much of a problem because
of all the different misdirection stuff you got linemen going
one way, running back going one way, and then you
got a quarterback pulling another way. As a linebacker, the
first time we played against Cam Newton, I don't know
many linebackers more instinctive than me and understand where the
ball is going. I was forced to hesitate for a
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second because you just don't know who has the football.
And that was without all that pulling pulling it all.
This is just off the regular zone read stuff. Man,
it doesn't matter. You're gonna have problems. And then you
you're having the RPOs where the past game and now
you're booting him out a little bit. And now you're
running different concepts, whether it's the layer triple three layer
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routes or deep overs, whether the case may be. And
you take a shots down the field off of play action,
and that's that what Terry catching that ball.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
It's like a punch.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
You have to understand too, man, Like in this whole
situation here, Cliff is not just running with Cliff always ran. Yeah,
FIfF got Brian on that staff too. He got Anthony
Lynn on that staff. Yeah, they have a lot of
different things. So and he he stated this at the
beginning of the year and I remember him saying. He's like,
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when I first got my challenge, my chance to be
the head coach, I just had my stuff from Texas
State wherever. They say, Now I got all these other
guys like a bounce stuff off of right. So and
you Anthony Lynn has been successful. Anthony got some stuff
for him. Man, he's a legend and run game.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
What he was doing over at San Diego was crazy
and what he's doing here is crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
So the running game, they got same side counters that
they got big backs off of tackle over where most
of the time you might go strong side runner. They're
coming back to the to the short side of the field.
They got toss players, they got sweeps, they got everything
faking the Jets sweep and shovel pass this man, but
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Jame's ability offsets a lot of stuff.
Speaker 8 (46:12):
They want to do.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
That last play last week they rushed fu. Yeah, and
they had a spy and nobody got close to it.
Like you said, yeah, we got close to it. That's crazy, bitch,
you're gonna like this man. We had to go back
into the.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Man. We had to go deep down in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
With the field, with the field and footage we got,
we got you be bitch. Manner retired for TV. Wayne
Severe as the coach of that team. Right there, he
had been talking track. Well, Wayne was talking to you
in the beginning of the game. I said, Wayne, if
I scored, I'm diving.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
It in zone.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Why are you looking back?
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Set?
Speaker 5 (47:04):
What was?
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Look? If I knew I was, I was.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
In there right before half time or but like I
played Wayne there and I said, I'm a return one on.
You said, I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Damn diving in here.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
I said, if I'm going, but dive, and I your
community for that day, we could do anything and be missed.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Learning had to dive like that when we play this stuff.
It was on my back, the hands on they still
teaching me.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
I left the little lodding, I catched the ball and
I got upfield. Yeah, oh no, I'm not on the
side side. I'm trying to get through the hole and go.
You be mentioned with all of the change rule changes,
and you know you are, you're looking back to make
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sure what I have to do. I set it down
right there. I set it down about I don't have.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
To keep running.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
You got you got all the rule changes and stuff.
How you know obviously your name along with Hester who
gave you a shout out in Tom Fame speech. The
game has changed, and the specially change game a little bit,
well a lot of bit. What has changed the motion.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Since they taking the physicality out of it. You know,
like you should know if I'm running downfield to go,
I'm running in somebody's return. Man, somebody's coming to hit me.
You're not running free on the football field without somebody
coming to get you. So if you're running down like this,
look at them and you get here, you spoke. Okay,
that's one of the game, you know, think about if
you're running the ball like crack back. Oh he cracked
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back on him. If you are chasing my running back
and you're coming on this angle and I hit you,
why is why should that be legal?
Speaker 2 (48:45):
You shouldn't know.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
You have been kicked out of every game being probably yeah,
but like they changed your where I'm back, like you know,
I'm about the fair catch. It's about to be on
the ten yard line and you come down there looking
in the sky at the ball.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
But I was hitting you.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
You you you were wanted like the running back type.
Bigger returners in the league were starting to see that
go back to the running back type on the kickoff
return now.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
And I think it because what the kickoff return now,
it looks more like an offensive defensive play where you
got the crowd and the running back gets through the whole.
The receivers in the defensive backs, they look at all
those people and they're like, I'm not running up in there.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
So they started tiptoe and kit Patty.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
You watch when when Eckler went for the hunter yorder,
he came, he kicked boom, he was gone.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
And I think that's what it's.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
Going to go down to those guys that understand run
schemes and how to just bust through the whole because
you have to break tackles.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Now, that's why when I saw it, people like, oh
I don't like it. I say, I would absolutely love it.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
You're sitting there with no momentum, and I'm coming through
this thing, fool speed brou.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
All Right, we got some more film.
Speaker 8 (49:55):
Man.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
We're gonna take a look at some plays by from
Jamie Reeves who don't be our special guest on the show.
Take a look at Revolt Man. This dude he can
cover some kicks. We know that he gets Cincinnati Bengals
Monday Night Football.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
That's the dude right there.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
What I like about Revot Man he tell us by
that in there, because when you'reless, when you're on the
special teams, and obviously we talked about the bigger body
running backs, you can't be you can't be afraid.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
Man. That was never see the thing about him he
makes that she takes the shot. Yeah, most guys who
would come down there and they're gonna try to just
like whatever.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
But he breaks the shot trying to break down. You
don't break down.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
You go full speed at him because like if I
was a returner and I'm running right here, I would
have not waited that long.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
I'm trying to get square that running back. They were
running the counter though, beat this was the counter. Watch
the WA's the Returnston got the lead blocker by the counter.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
But what I'm saying, what I'm saying, soon you gotta
be looking beyond and you see revot by himself. Man, Look,
it's a lot of room over there. He running fool speed.
Year you have to just real quickly come give me because.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
All the fact.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
Let's take it, look at it. Let's take a look
at him against the Carolina paths, man, I love everybody
coverage going to get him.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
It's right here.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
But you know what the thing about it, some guys just.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
Have that nat that when you see all times who
was blocking him, he got rid of those guys early.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
Think about it.
Speaker 4 (51:43):
He runs, He does everything full speed, where a lot
of these players they stop and you give a god
chance to walk.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Well, I think what happens to like a lot of
time on kickoff, you're so worried about the kickoff returner,
so you're kind of looking through the block and you don't.
He defeats the blocker early early, So he does a
great job defeating the block and with his speed, and
it's just pure toughness right there, because I can think of.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
What he does.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
He has a little way if you start doing this
and you watch somebody moving with you, they're blocking you.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yeah, and then he doesn't mind laying the lumber.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
I love that out of them dudes running out on
that kickoff coverage. I know, especially back in the day
when you had that full speech sprint, you worried about
getting crack, getting hit from the sideline, blind side of
this type of stuff. You know, Revot great great leadership. Yeah,
captain everything you want and a leader. And we got
him coming up next on the players man young Buck.
(52:39):
I called him young Bucks. I'm old as hell. You
get a guy like that on your football team and
who can do it all and leads the way for people.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
And that's on the coach and it's and it says
a lot about you when you are the special teams captain,
because it's one thing to be the offensive captain. Defensive
captain is usually pick guys like London because he's back or.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
The quarterback club. Why just couldn't be a leader, wasn't.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
But like the special teams guys, they got to know
so many fastest of the game, right, you know, pump, turn,
kick return, you know all these things man for and
they don't get all the glory, right the DB's linebackers,
quarterback receivers, we get all the glory. Man to have
that guy on your team and to have that guy
just like do the work that I wouldn't want to do,
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because you know, I was gonna not avoid thebaccle go
make a hit like that.
Speaker 3 (53:34):
I wasn't going to do that. I was waiting for him.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
I was on a kickoff team. But I was a
safety guy and I was ready to come and get
the ball. I wasn't ready to throw my mind.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
You wasn't running than that fire.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
I want another.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
I don't want that file. Like I said, We got
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Speaker 5 (55:28):
Man, Man, I appreciate you'all having me always. Man, It's
a blessing to get told to you.
Speaker 1 (55:31):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
This is your ice Cold Player, brought to you by Pepsi,
the official soft drink of the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
First of all, we gotta know what was your reaction
during that hell Mary play and then once it was
called same as yours?
Speaker 8 (55:45):
The same?
Speaker 5 (55:48):
I okay, I'm not I'm gonna be real transparent. I
was hot because I'm thinking, like maybe, like man, if
we lose this game like this, I'm.
Speaker 8 (55:54):
Gonna be pissed.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
Yeah, I'm pissed.
Speaker 5 (55:56):
So I'm sitting on the side and I'm looking at
the screen the screen and is lagging behind the actual play.
Speaker 8 (56:02):
So I just hear everybody screaming, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 5 (56:06):
I'm like, so I looked down at everybody running on
the field, and I just sit there for saying, I'm like, dude.
Speaker 8 (56:10):
We just won this game.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
So you didn't.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
You didn't you looked at the screen.
Speaker 1 (56:14):
You couldn't tell jangle.
Speaker 8 (56:16):
I was pissed.
Speaker 2 (56:17):
I was pissed.
Speaker 5 (56:18):
We didn't play really well on specials and so I
was pissed about that. And then there was things like
defensively that we could have played better. Yeah, it hasn't
even been in that situation, right. I was just pissed
about that.
Speaker 4 (56:29):
And then.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
But once you found out it was caught.
Speaker 5 (56:34):
Look, man, at one point, I don't even remember exactly
what I did at one point though.
Speaker 8 (56:37):
I just remember being in like section one ten.
Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yeah, but it's that.
Speaker 3 (56:44):
Type of game, man, that gets you exciting. I know,
I was.
Speaker 4 (56:49):
Apologized because I thought I broke his head high five
so hard and.
Speaker 1 (56:53):
The booth almost knocked him out of the wind out
of the booth.
Speaker 2 (56:55):
I saw that. I saw the twitter, I saw it.
Speaker 1 (56:58):
I was I know it was that was for me
and probably for you and you as well. You played
in Super Bowl, I played in two, and that's icond
of games and we'll never forget. But as far as
they singularly play, yeah, that's one of the.
Speaker 4 (57:15):
Most iconic players. It goes down the history of you
look at this football team. You know, you had Daryl
Green run now, Tony dor set John Riggins with his
right you know at the end of that game with Miami,
didn't that play right there?
Speaker 3 (57:27):
You know, and they seem to be going up and up. Yeah,
because you get to that point.
Speaker 4 (57:32):
Was it two three seconds on the clock one play,
it's sixty five yards?
Speaker 3 (57:38):
Yeah, and young buck let that they fly.
Speaker 4 (57:42):
It was just high enough to where when Noah slipped off,
I see him slipping, but I'm like, they'renna knock it down,
and when it goes in. I had to apologize to
my mom and dad a guy. Everybody says, Lady, I
don't know, It's just it's such excitement for you. How
(58:06):
much fun is it right now?
Speaker 2 (58:07):
Man?
Speaker 8 (58:07):
Listen?
Speaker 5 (58:08):
I was saying, like after that play, man, it took
me like thirty minutes after the game to like just
take everything off. Like I was just sitting there like
just like because that's one of those plays where like
that transcends, Like that's a transcending moment, right, not for
a team, just for the organization in general.
Speaker 8 (58:26):
We've y'all been here a long time. We've been here
a long time.
Speaker 5 (58:29):
That play has never gone our way for a very
long time, and for something like that to go our way,
it's like things are different now, Like that was the
moment where, like you you look back, I'll look back
five years from now and be.
Speaker 8 (58:41):
Like that was one of those plays that just changed everything.
So like it was a dope moment.
Speaker 1 (58:45):
So you mentioned you've been here for a long time,
be played here a long time. I play here a
long time. What's it like planned for Dan Quinn for DQ?
Speaker 8 (58:55):
Man, it's fun.
Speaker 5 (58:56):
Man, I'll say, like I got when I was going
through the free agency process and everything, Like I was
very unsure. I was coming off a cl too, so
I didn't know what was gonna happen, honestly, And I
got to get on the phone with him in AP
and man, we just talked ball and like I could
tell the first difference I could tell with him was
like how genuine he was and wanting things to be better, right,
(59:20):
he asked me that, and as a guy, who's I mean,
I slowly find myself that year, that twenty two year, right,
but like I had never in my life before I
had that kind of recognition from a head coach and
the staff around it. So like that, automatically I was like, Okay, yeah,
this dude real deal. And then I had to ask
guys that had played in Dallas for him, and even
I had like some older heads JD that was here
(59:42):
played in.
Speaker 8 (59:43):
Atlanta with him, and they're like, yeah, no, y'all gonna
love him.
Speaker 4 (59:46):
Bro.
Speaker 8 (59:46):
He's real deal, man. He's a he's.
Speaker 5 (59:48):
A players guy, and he's all about winning, you know,
and that's at the end of the day, that's what we're.
Speaker 8 (59:52):
Here to do.
Speaker 3 (59:52):
Well, coming even closer, I played against him, but I believe.
Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
One day but we got like but you could tell
he played with intensity. How much fun is it playing
for there?
Speaker 5 (01:00:09):
It's fun, man, because he lets his dudes be dudes.
I remember when I signed, when I got here. Today
I got here, he said, listen, I don't want to
change anything about your game.
Speaker 8 (01:00:16):
I just want you to do what you do. Just
go play ball.
Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
And that was it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
That was all.
Speaker 8 (01:00:21):
He's asked to me, just hey, go.
Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Make the plays man that you've been doing that you
put on tape, And I said, and like me, him
and Beloord and a lot of these guys that are veteran,
like we just piggyback off each other. We brainstorm like, hey, look,
this week we should do this, or this week we
should do that, and like it puts us in a
position to be successful, not as just the individuals, but
as a group too.
Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
You know, I heard that from even Dan's talks about
that where they take input from players, right. You know
that's why I love Andy Reid so much, right, Andy,
even Gibbs, they would take input from the players and install.
It made me feel like I was a part of something, right,
And by them doing that, does that do the same Yeah?
Speaker 8 (01:00:56):
Absolutely, Yeah, you feel included into it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:00:58):
It's almost like it's not like you're just getting told
what to do, but like you have some input in
saying like okay, like I think this works best for
us as a group, right, and then like for them
to receive that feedback and then be like okay, yeah,
they look at it, we see it everything the same way, right,
And that's big when you talk about team and brotherhood,
Like everybody got to see it the same way, right,
and the fact that we do we can do that
(01:01:18):
is part of the reason why we're having a success.
Speaker 8 (01:01:20):
We're having them.
Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
You mentioned the ACL injury, and I felt like every
Washington fan felt for you, especially coming off that All
Pro year that you had in twenty twenty two. I
don't know if you've had any type of injury like
that its significant prior to that. What was it like
for you having to overcome that, the rehab, the off season,
(01:01:43):
all that, just being able to get yourself back to
playing at all pro level.
Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Ah, Man, it was tough, I will say, Like, you know,
the biggest thing I said was like I had for
so long in my career, I had gotten used to
having the claw to get to the top of the mountain, right,
and then once you finally hit that pinnacle of like
where you've always wanted to be, you fall right back
down again. So it was just like, as crazy as
it's going to sound like, I'm glad it happened, like
(01:02:08):
and everything happens for a reason. Obviously I wish it
wasn't that significant, but like I'm thankful for the path
God took me down right, because I had to call
back again, and it was some tough days, and it
was uncomfortable days, and like it was hard watching the
season go the way it did last year and feeling
so helpless at home with your leg popped up.
Speaker 8 (01:02:25):
But it made me who I am and brought me
to who I am today.
Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
And I took something from that that, like I applied
to my every day man, just being grateful for being
out here right, taking every day as a blessing because
it is, it's not guaranteed.
Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
It's that testimony, like once you go through it, you
can help somebody else out You know many of guys
that I played with that would tell me stuff about
what happened with them. And then also you find your
stuff in the middle of that, right, that makes.
Speaker 5 (01:02:49):
It easy for the next person exactly right at the
end of the day, like you just my whole goal
is I want to leave something better than I found
it here you go. So if I can help with
one of these young guys or any of these guys,
ave guy who may have the same kind of issues
or journey, not even the injury, just the practice squad
journey of all that I talked these guys about it
all the time. Under guys right, like I can go
to sleep at night that means I did my job right,
(01:03:11):
And like I'm okay with that. If I could never
get another accolade again and I help somebody else, I'm
cool with that.
Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Y'all keep playing, Like y'all playing, you gonna get some
more ale. Speaking of playing or not playing, I should
say trustway, your boy trust has been on the fielding
a text you're gonna play. What's it like being able
(01:03:40):
to have an offense like that to where, man, you
just don't have to cover as many punts and trash
your boy he's sometimes he might not punt the whole game.
I will say, there's two sides of this.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
There's the selfish.
Speaker 8 (01:03:54):
Side, like dag, I'm trying to go eat right.
Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
But then there's the team side where it's like, Yo,
this is dope, Like this is dope, and it's really
dope just to see the young boy. Man, it's hard
to see rookies go out there and go spending like that,
and the fact that he's so composed and a lot
of these moments is really really dope to see.
Speaker 8 (01:04:10):
It's cool to see.
Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
It's like you're playing on a real team now, right,
Like this is complimentary football at his final and dude
is going out there and playing lifestyle man, and I
have to hop on the.
Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Bike sometimes I'm like, man, I haven't been doing nothing
for me. I got warm up again.
Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
But you know what else is dope? Dope? Man, having
you joined us on the show, Man, we could chop
it up with you all the time. We might We're
might have to have him.
Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Back again, y'all all the time.
Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
Many.
Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
Yeah, you know what we do.
Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
You've been on the show before. We have all our
guests sign this football for us. Man, We're going to
ask you the blessings with your autograph.
Speaker 8 (01:04:45):
Man, I need to be asking for y'all autographs.
Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
We can make that happen. Yeah, Man, Look I'm.
Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
Trying to put that in the cave.
Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Back at home, telling you that I know b I started.
I made the NFL much like you undrafted. Our journey
was a special teams guy like I had to make
the team as a special teams guy.
Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
Be you told me the only way youre gonna make
the team is being a special all.
Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Time as a special teacher. We have a great offenity
and appreciation for special teamers and what you do, and man,
we can't wait to see you continue to go out
there bust heads and lead this lead their special teams.
Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
Man, I appreciate that. Man, y'all the standard man. So look,
I'm just trying to pick off you. Guys lifted off
that man, So I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
All right, appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
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