Talking NFC East + Preparing for the Tennessee Titans + DT Daron Payne | The Player’s Club

Fletcher, Moss and Springs talk NFC East. Then, the crew previews this Week 13 meeting with the Tennessee Titans. And, defensive tackle Daron Payne joins the show!

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
We got to look back though with the game against
the Dallas Cowboys and things didn't go exactly the way
we had at all on the three game losing streak. Tanna,
you were at the game. What was your biggest takeaway
from from that game against the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I think my biggest takeaway is just seeing a team
that what we've been talking about for the last few
weeks is the complimentary football part has kind of lost,
kind of kind of kind of being one of those
situations where we're not on the same schedule as each other,
like offensively, defensively.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Special team wise.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
That was one thing we had going for us in
that little run where we were sitting up there on
a high, at the highs of all highs, we felt
like none of our phases was letting each other down.
And I think now looking at what's been transparent we
got the week for the past three weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Is the defense steady, getting better, but they can't hold on.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I mean, you know, y'all, y'all know better than anybody man,
it's impossible to play as clean as they've been playing
for four quarters without the offense putting up points, generating
some kind of offense.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
So to me, that's what stands out more than anything.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Blue Blue, What stood out to you?

Speaker 6 (01:42):
Well for me, I mean I think people could accept
the Pittsburgh loss. Then coming back to Philly with a
short week, and I losen to too, you know, one
top AFC team, one top NFC each team, and then
we played Dallars and I think the expectation was like,
all right, let's let's get back on track with Dallas,
and it was a real opportunity. Obviously Dallas was down

(02:05):
Cooper rush start and quarterback. And then lose the game
in the fashion we lose the game was really disappointing
because our expectations was we can beat the Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
Right right, we should we should beat the Cowboys.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
So that's just but the point that stood out to me,
it just goes to show you and we say it
all the time.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Any given.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
Any given Sunday, teams come to play and anything can happen,
and you got to play the full sixty minutes. You know,
don't take for granted the execution of the you know,
every aspect of the game. To beat beat another pro team,
you got to execute all the way throughout.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
But I want to say this too, and I want
to ask you guys, how y'all look at it, because
when you saw what happened like later on in that
game and you saw the offense kind of did you
look at that as saying that why we didn't do
a little bit of that earlier? Or did you look
in and say, Okay, the defense is different. That just
might not be bringing as much. Yeah, ain't complicating things.
It's a little different. That's why the ball was able

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to be moved on the field, because even before Tear scored,
the Arthz touchdown to me stood out more than anything
because we was able to sustain a drive and see
an office that we hadn't seen.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
All Yeah, I'll say that, I'll say two things. I'll
say actually can say three things. I'll get into that
part of it. But what I saw the change in
the mindset in the beginning of the second half. There
was a greater emphasis on running the football when heavy personnel,
three tide ends, ran the ball extremely well, got a

(03:30):
little player, got some players in the past game out
of it too. But it was really at halftime they
went and said, hey, what we have been doing in
the first half has not been good enough. We haven't
been able to sustain drives. We've been to to behind
the change too often in the game. We've been in
too many second in law, too many third and seven pluses.

(03:51):
That's not the recipe for success against this defense that
we're going against. So once they changed that mindset in
that first half, go down, I mean second half, go
down to the field, get a touchdown. Second half I
mean later on that that drive you're talking about, the
Earth touchdown Dalla was played a little bit. Let's call
it keep things in front of them type of defense,

(04:13):
so you're able to move the ball. They go no huddle,
but they wasn't two minute. There was a there was
a greater tempo, they get into the end zone. I'll
say this though, I thought in the first half we
really cost ourselves by not taking advantage of the block
field goal position. We got three points out of that.

(04:34):
There was a fumble, great field goal field field position,
didn't get anything out of that. We had at a
block punt, didn't take full advantage of that. There was
four four opportunities in that game in the first half
were the score could been probably.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
Twenty to nothing.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yes, and for a team that's coming in there on
the five game Louis streak, their confidence is already shaken.
You get up twenty and nothing on them, seventeen nothing,
they gonna pack it there. But with a lot of
bad football teams around, eventually they were able to win
that ballgame.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Very good point.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, I would have loved to see maybe a little bit.
I would have loved to see us be able to
run the ball a lot better in the first half.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
I don't know how much to be Rob Entry.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
Yeah, I think that kind of when you see what
happened to be Robb, I imagine that played the factor
into I feel.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Like even when you saw b Rob still come back
in the game, and then they took him out, you know,
because of the interception part of it. They looked at it,
well like, man, you know what, you're gutting it out,
but we we can't afford being for scrimp. That was
to me the nailing the coffin on our run game
or the game plan we had necessarily playing for them,
because when I saw him leave, then I saw the offense.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Look, it wasn't looking quite like even when.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Rob being him uh you know, hobbled, he was getting that.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
You got that three four yard you.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Know, had a couple, had a couple of nights runs.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
But again when they went it to halftime and they
came back be Rob didn't take a snap in the
half inside half, right, they got the run game going, yeah,
tween thirteen nail, Hey, we got all three tight end,
we got one receiver in the game. We're running this
football and they were able to gash the Cowboys defense

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and eventually you saw the the great run by by
Jaden Daniels into the zone, got a devastating blocked by.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
I was like, okay, I said, I said, he hit
it with the Kendrick.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Lamar squabble up for sure, for sure, A man that's.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Saying for the Dallas Cowboys in the recap of that.
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Speaker 2 (08:39):
This section is called this or That.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
We just wrapped up some NFC Division games, so now
we're gonna talk about this or that NFC East Division. Okay,
what is your favorite team that you love playing against
in the NFC East?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Oh, I, this is off. I'm gonna say the Egles.
I hated the Giants, you know, obviously the Cowboys rivalry,
but I enjoyed playing against the Eagles, and in particular
I enjoyed playing against the Eagles in Philly because of
the hostility. The hostility. It was that gladiator type of

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feeling for me coming into the.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Team against the world.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, when you.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Come out of that tunnel, all their fans, how they
react spine, So coming out of there I just I
wanted to entertain them.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
So I'll say the Egles.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Mind by far as the Cowboys, it didn't really. It's
crazy because you know, as much as we got up
for this game, for the rivalry, for the city, you
know how they got up for throughout the week, seeing
the shirts in Dallas.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
All that type of stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
To me, I didn't stress that much playing against them,
not trying to throw, no shade, nothing like.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
It just wasn't one of those teams that I like.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Playing against the Cowboys that was more I was.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
I looked.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
I always look forward to them. You got to think
about it. Defensively, the Cowboy was they was mid for
a while.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
While we was playing.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
Yeah, that defense got better because he was going against
Newman a lot.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Terence don't getting He don't get enough credit.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
I'm not talking about him him personally defensively as a whole,
they was med terrece Newman. To me, I feel like
it was one of the better guys in our division
that you know at that position, that who don't get
enough credit.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
He made me work for every little you know, yard
that I ever got against him. But I always in it.
I ain't just see him ain't this man up against me?
The Giants brought a different kind of I.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Used to not play well against.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
We just gave the name the Giants slaid like three
weeks ago because I got.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Got a lot of I got a lot of touchdowns
against them. But collectively, like the games lost. Games had
bigger games against the Cowboys, bigger game against the Eagles
than I did the Giants. But I just say the Cowboys,
Cowboys and the games I look forward to playing about you.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I love going to New York.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
I did love going to New York because it's just
the lights. Something about one.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
It's just the lights.

Speaker 6 (10:59):
Man.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
You got to fix it.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
This big apple you show up. They're talking crazy.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
That Giant games always was dreary though it was it
was always overcast, especially.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
The sun never shine on that stadium.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
But we got we got them a couple of nighttimes,
so we had a couple of nighttime games. So yeah,
for me, it was a Giants man and playing that
all right, more hostile environment Giants or Philly phil Philip
feel easy Philly. I think that's Philly Philly. But it's
fun though.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
I mean, they're fans as much as there they you know,
M f and you and throwing stuff at you. Man,
it's still a fun crowd. On the Giants, they get
a little rude with theirs. Their their hostility is rude.
It's like it comes off to a point that like
you're like, bro, we're just playing a game, and it's
and like they're like, so, this is the thing about
the game that I hate.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Fans are gonna be fans. You know.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I was always told when I was young, and they
booing you, they're heckling.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
You, You a problem, your threat.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
So I embraced when I heard people booing and saying
my name and my number, Yeah, your mama or whatever,
you know what I mean. I go back to them
because I'm embracing in that you got to be a fan.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
You gotta like.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Somebody, and it's not me be passionate about. At the
same time, you're going out your way to save me.
So I know I'm a threat to you. Now flip
the script, you go to the Giants, the game over
with you walking.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
The fans still have that same energy. Went nna lose,
you know what I mean? So I always that whole
New Yorker It's something about it. I just felt like, man,
these people over here, they just ain't. Man, they having
some rough nights time.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
I just felt like, maybe it's just the way the
Giants stadium is built. It didn't it wasn't like yeah,
they wasn't on you just. I mean it's it's you know,
New York and you like, you know, the big app
on all that type of stuff. But in terms of hostility,
I just felt like the Eagles, you can feel their
fans a lot more actually driving into the game, driving

(12:55):
into the game, and also if you were down and
they were up big on your whatever our office was
out on the field, you just felt I felt like
it was a lot louder it was.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
It was you got.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
We just talked about it. We got the Cowboy Killer
or the Giant slab.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
For you Cowboy Killer all day. I mean it would,
it would. I were personally, I didn't get none of these.
I didn't make these nicknames. So I appreciate having good
games and both, you know, against both of these franchises,
I would say the Cowboy stuff was more consistent than
it was with me being a Giant Slayer.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
You know.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
The Giant Slayer was something that recently we discovered that
I had more more touchdowns against that particular team, the
Cowboy game.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
Man Bluefoot game, you that, Yeah, so you didn't you
didn't know.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
You didn't know.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
I didn't feel like you scored a lot of testdowns against.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
The games used to always be up and down. When
I played it might be like, bro, this is you
know what it is?

Speaker 2 (13:53):
It was.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
It wasn't consistent, you know what I mean. It was
like a game here.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Well, because game of the game you had on Monday Night. Yeah,
that's why, the Cowboy Killer.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
But not even that.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
So if you look at the Monday Night performance from
the span of two thousand and five to two thousand
and seven, like I had played them six times through
four to six, I had five hundred yard games out
of those six times, like, so that was more consistent.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Play the Giants.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
I can remember one game I had three touchdowns against
them as a jet in fast forward. I can't even
play them here twice a year I had my first year,
I had three touchdowns against them as a Redskin, But
then the other games was up and down. Then I
might pop in and have two touchdowns here, you know
what I mean. So it wasn't nothing consistent enough for
me to even remember that I was doing that, you know,

(14:43):
good against them, you know so I always always Cowboy
Killer and then the DMV loved the Cowboy Killer Boy London.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
You had big games in the NFC East.

Speaker 6 (14:53):
Yeah, the game for you is Monday night football or
thanks or Thanksgiving Day football against the against the NFC
East against the NFC East, because that's what that's what
we want to know for you.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Oh, it's something special about Monday night I only Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'm gonna say Thanksgiving. The reasoning man.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
Which one is it?

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Man?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Thanks Giving?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Thanksgiving? Say Monday night football. You obviously love the Monday
night football. But with Thanksgiving, you know you're going to
have a lot of like everybody family members around watching
those games, a lot of players sitting there, you know
they're watching watching games. Yeah, sitting up watching watching that game.
So I'm gonna say Thanksgiving Day that would be.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
For which one you should perform better? On the NFC East.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
I mean, I'm gonna shine we gone, I know, like
like we ra have to discover which one performed better.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
Probably Monday night football.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
You know just what they say, the stars shine at night.
But that's right, that's about Yeah, Funday night football.

Speaker 6 (16:02):
Tan of you, how about Thanksgiving the Monday night football.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
I would take Thanksgiving because normally we not playing at night,
playing probably in the midday or early games, so I
get a chance to get right right to I hated
the night games. I personally, I don't care. It was
Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night, anytime at night.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
I hated.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
But like I say, like he said, you know, when
you got to go out and do what you do,
you do what you do. But if you had to
ask me to pick, definitely be a Thanksgiving. And then
also you know, I'm a holiday guy, so to me, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
those are the holidays where you give them the most,
and so I had to give them. I had to
give them the business, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (16:38):
But for you, for me, it was Monday night because
one you know, your peers are watching and the stars
come out at night. I was a bright star or
the blue wreas, blue blue cirrus over here, you know.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
For me.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
But but with Thanksgiving games man, I always felt like
I couldn't get comfortable because you always have people in town.
But you have people in town, you have a lot
of people make you know, short weeks, so you know,
I like to I had a routine on a week
where I needed to get my routine down, my recovery

(17:14):
and everything else. You know, I ain't start practicing until Thursday,
so you know your.

Speaker 9 (17:18):
Body wasn't ready. He's gonna be honest, is this be
honest about it. I'm just I'm just getting into practice.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
This game too early.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
And also on this.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
NFC East gets what they call East Coast bys, right, obviously,
for years everybody said the NFC his favorite.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
It's not deserving talk to talk about that.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Bigger media markets first and foremost, Well.

Speaker 6 (17:57):
You got l A now on the West coast, much going.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
On out of LA, so many other things to do.
They're not ingrained fully know their football team. You got
the Lakers, you got you got the beaches, you got
the weather, you're outside of lot you got New York, Philly,
d C, and Dallas like Dallas dominates, like they're gonna
always be on big games.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
The NFC East teams are gonna be in.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
More prime time games, more we get just more coverage
and well, and then winning teams are now like Kansas
City and Baltimore. Obviously, Yeah, but but historically you gotta
think the Giants, the Giants, Cowboys and Washington. We're winning
a whole lot of Super Bowls in the eighties and rities.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
I'm talking about now, So there's the East Coast by
is that deserving them?

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Now?

Speaker 5 (18:50):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (18:50):
I mean it comes with it. It comes with the territory.
I think. I think, you know, London hitting on the head.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
I think the far as, the markets, especially hearing that
I mean here in DC. You know when I came
over from New York, I didn't know this market was
heavily you.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Know, football like this.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
But I also understand too when you have a team
that has the rich history that this Redskins organization had
back in the early late or mid eighties, early nineties,
it's only it's rightfully so you know what I mean,
for you to have the kind of coverage that you have.
So I was kind of like, you know, there was
a rute awakening for me to know that, or it's
just as big as it is over there in New York.

(19:28):
Well and this nation's capital and the capital Bingo. So
you know, well, you know what time of the.

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(19:58):
it's a Thanksgiving Day and this is probably gonna beiring
on Thanksgiving Day today, So happy Turkey Day for all
you guys to watch some of the game we're gon
we're gonna talk about some of those matchups against you know,
the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
You know, what do you remember the most about.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
That twenty twelve matchup against the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
On thanksgive That was that was my first and only
time that I ever played on Thanksgiving. So that's the first, yeah,
first and only one and only time that that I
played against Thanksgiving. I always wanted to play, so I
was excited about that game. I remember, you know, being
I forgot what our record was going to the game.
It was a huge game for us where we were

(20:40):
in our season. I was also dealing with an ankle
injury that I was having to get, you know, an
ejection to be able to play, So just worried about
are was I going to be fully able to ready
to play all that shirt, short week traveling and all
that type of stuff, and just I can't remember your
being at that stadium and the energy and the atmosphere.

(21:04):
It's just his different when you're playing Thanksgiving, playing a
game in Dallas on Thanksgiving and making plays at the
We come out with offense, y'all were rolling. RG three
had a hit man. He had a hell of a game.
We were rolling defensively. Uh d Hall had a pick.
I had a pick. We made make some adjustments at

(21:26):
halftime on the pick that I had.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
It was a coverage we had never played.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
We switched up my responsibility and d Hall's responsibility.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
And then when you mean was playing nickel, he was playing.
He was playing in the nickel and you and him
just like yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah normally yeah, just based on this coverage how we
were playing and he was playing a nickel. He they
were running like a little sucker where wouldn't come up.
He sitting down and they run that dig by the
number two behind him and we're playing kind of a
cover four. I was staying I would stay with winding
and then we leave the safety for the dig. This time, well,

(22:01):
he said with dow d Hall jumped that that covered
tooth like he jumped at that route.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Then I fell off.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
Underneath the bag. You do what you do with it?
I called it.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I probably got a.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
I could I couldn't.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
I couldn't wiggle like I know you crowdfar.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
But just just remember that, man, the heck of a game.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Remember your touchdown?

Speaker 10 (22:30):
You had?

Speaker 2 (22:30):
That? Just a great game? Great?

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Was that was my first time to Thanksgiving?

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Really?

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Yeah, I wasn't.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
I tell you only childhood memory, I mean only memories.
I have a plan on Thanksgiving was you know, back
when I was a kid. But you know we talked
about that in another episode. Just how special that was.
I kind of saw that whole touchdown situation. Now told
my told my ticket guy to put my family in
this section, and I was going to score a touchdown?

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Did all that?

Speaker 3 (22:55):
What I want to ask you is, you know, being
that your dad was a cowboy, you know, do you
remember any games of you watching or going to watch
your dad?

Speaker 6 (23:03):
Man, it seemed like every year they played on Thanksgiving,
because I remember like they played I think it was
the Rams one year. Then they played like the Detroit Lions.
So for me, it was just like I thought, it
was like normal. I didn't even realize, you know that
the Cowboys was really proud to day the Thanksgiving game tradition.

(23:27):
So for me it was just like I remember my
dad would be gone the night before, but I just remember, like,
you know, us getting ready to go to the game.
That was like the highlight of my life. Like, oh, man,
got my little Cowboys shirt on. You know, you know
when I was get pictures that looked like buck Wheat, Man,
my head was.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
Big, little gun holst.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
You know I got that picture somewhere your mom.

Speaker 6 (23:53):
Ye, I don't know if you got any pictures of
me like that old blue foot like that looking like
buck Whek. But yeah, but it was special, man, because
you know, when you're a kid, is about the family.
And I was happy to see all the family in town.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
So that was good.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
When I was a player, I was just like, man,
I can't wait to get to the hotel because I
need to be locked in.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
So last year was our first year calling the game
or covering the game in Dallas on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
You know, how was that for you?

Speaker 10 (24:19):
Man?

Speaker 4 (24:20):
How specially was that?

Speaker 5 (24:22):
Shoot?

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Man, I would have rather been playing check a little
bit different now, you know what it was?

Speaker 1 (24:28):
It was special even I tell people for a former player,
obviously you know we love to be playing. Next best
thing is coaching, and that I think the third best
thing would be calling the game, but not just calling
the game, calling the game for a team, your team
that you ask your team here for, you know, are
passionate about winning. So I mean, I love my job.

(24:50):
I assume you feel the same way about it because
you know, we're emotional.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
With these games.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
We feel it.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
We were part of it, man, the emotions of a win,
a law and all that type of stuff. So uh,
you know, I I loved, you know, being in that environment.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, it was a big time for me too. I
think it was crazy because b C. We talked so
much about how me and his me and him and
b Mitch we do the pre and post game show
and then after that we kind of go off into
either the press box or find someone there that has
a suite and were going you know, you know, you know,
watch the game with them. But that particular day, we

(25:25):
was everywhere for some of our reason, and we started
off downstairs in that little bar area that y'all we
was kicking it, man. But it was just a good
experience because not only that we was down there and
join ourselves during you know, the game itself.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
B C was so amused with the.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Fans that recognized myself that was cowboy fans and then
what they had to say, and it was just one
of those things. And then you know they always talk
about be missed being you know, especially as he is,
you know, why he's not in the Hall of Fame
and stuff like that. But we later went up upstairs
and got a piece of that spread that they had
that put the diceing on the cake right there. I mean,

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it was trust me, man, it was one of those games,
but it didn't turned out the way we wanted to.
That year was one of those kind of years. But
it was just the experience as a whole.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
You know, you just.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Spoke on it and I get access all the time
the folks. Folks still want me to coach, and I'm like,
from my time is everything you know. And don't get
me wrong, I love the game, so I would love
to be around it at a bigger capacity. But if
I had to choose one right now, I love what
I'm doing because not only am I because I went
to school as an education you know, that's what I

(26:35):
got my first degree under I actually you know, went
to school to be a secondary.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
School teacher, and.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Man, can you teach? Smooth boy?

Speaker 5 (26:50):
What subject?

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Where you going to teach?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
History? History? But it was like between history or language arts?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (26:57):
I which your glass song be able, profess man. Probably
some students are gonna be talking about that.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
So look at this small shoes got always always.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
I did all that for college, but I knew I
won't go never teach. I did it saying that maybe
one day I'll coach, you know what I'm saying. So
getting back to what I was saying, you know the
point I'm trying to make like I see myself coaching,
But I enjoyed the time so to me talking and
being able.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
To share this insight.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
You might coach high school all day. College man, go
down to Miami and coach.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
You still got it?

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Well, Florida, they don't pay high school coaches enough. That's
the baby.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Go to Texas and get past.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
You know, I'm not giving that kind of free time,
you know what I mean, Like my time is money.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
No, but I'm just saying I'm being real. I feel
like the seat that we're in now. Yeah, we in
some capacity were coaching. We're coaching the audience. We're coaching
the fans, were coaching the listeners, the viewers. So I
enjoy this part of it because it's just like, you know,
you're telling somebody to go running a route, or did
this person to fill that gap? I'm getting to tell

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a fan who don't know what they're talking about half
the time, who's you know, he's a couch coach, what's
really going on?

Speaker 4 (28:12):
My perspective informing.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Them, giving him a perspective. I like his perspective. Man,
it's good man.

Speaker 6 (28:19):
I ain't know you talked this much. I was just
him all small. I was a teammate for five years.
He ain't say three words to me, and I checked
him every day, like.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
I'm wanting that. You wanted that group of people that
I like.

Speaker 9 (28:33):
I was.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
On your mind.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I always talked about the energy guys, erthy guy, like
your energy.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
I got something.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
That's That's how I feel I'm coming to me. Came
like y'all Miami, you might have held must meet y'all
in that championship, all.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Right, fellas, so what I didn't know which one of
y'all played against the Tennessee or the New York.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah, I did.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Played You didn't play against that's your old self.

Speaker 6 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, that's showing my age a little bit.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
I did play against some of your memories.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
Well, the thing I remember most they came to the
ear run you come on, I ain't got They had
Eddie George, who was my college teammate, was to tell
back and Steve mcnare. Eddie was in his like second year,
Steve McGear it might have been in his third year.
And the thing I remember was just, first of all,
that Steve was like running back. He was like it

(29:37):
was like a beach frying to tack and he could
thrown them out.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
You see.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
Hi, the pregame throwing it, you know, seventy yards like
it was nothing. And I remember because it was in
the Kingdome. That was my very first interception my rookie year.
Steve mc rest in peace to the great man.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Let Steve.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
He was one of those dudes. So what about you know,
going against the Titans.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Man win in the Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, they say remember the Tits. I
remember the Titans. One of the days I'm gonna bring
my blink.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
I don't, man, you know when you did it.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
We don't want that.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
What we don't want to hear this is Commanders a players.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Around here because I wanted with a different team. I can't,
you know, just going against Stephen there, Eddie George, they
were they were there, just a tough, physical football team,
gritty game.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
I knew they were gonna try to run a thirty times.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
I looked at it, thirty opportunities to make a tackle
because you know, it was just just that type of game.
But coming down to the one yard line one of
that game against the against the Tights, but just always
they were always just a tough, physical football team. I'm
glad we're playing them in our place as opposed to
in Tennessee. I always felt like Tennessee was a tough
player player.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
Can I go back to that though, because I always
wanted because you see it on ESPN, that's one of
the greatest games.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
What was that drop like?

Speaker 4 (30:59):
Like?

Speaker 5 (31:00):
Like, what was like this Walkers?

Speaker 6 (31:01):
Because I ain't never.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Experienced not so a graze?

Speaker 5 (31:03):
What was that drive like?

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Because we had been through the test, we had already
been you know, preparing for those type of moments, So
we weren't.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
I never at no point that we felt.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Like they were going to score and beat us in
that game.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's crazy because in the stands as fans, you know,
they were like anxious, But when you're on the field
as a player and y'all, I'm sure y'all experiences as
well because you were so prepared for the moments, you
never felt like.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
But they were getting in the red zone.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
It but every.

Speaker 6 (31:31):
You never feel moment because we.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Have prepared so much. We prepared for that moment two
years prior or the year prior. Like so we've gone
through the adversity, gone through moments when we lost games,
going through what we've won games, and we've we've trained
for that that situation so many times. The call that
we had the defensive call was one of our base

(31:58):
primary defensive calls that we played, you know, a couple
of hundred times that season. So it was all right,
we understand this rotis formation, this this moment.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
We and that's why how we were able to execute
out the pressure.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
Yeah, and you were six inches from losing the Super Bowl,
but we.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Really yeah I did.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
If you took my heart heart rate is like like
we sitting on this couch, right.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
I don't have too many fun memories of Tennessee. I
think I remember one time playing in Nashville. I thought
it was that was probably the only time I ever
played in Nashville. And I believe mcnow it was the
quarterback I had to touch down that particular game.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
But it was a different vibe.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I'm like, that was here. I was gone by. There
was a game in Baltimore, So what you now?

Speaker 4 (32:56):
It was like, now that was quarter back, that was
my quarterback.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Came in twenty ten y You had me thinking like,
well what am I talking about?

Speaker 4 (33:04):
McNabb came over with mac chenahan number and we.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Played them boys up there in Nashville, and that was
my first time. And I remember just the vibe of
the stadium. It seemed like I was at a country concert.
Like everybody had cowboy hat on, had boots had we
had the women walking around in their jeans, you had,
you had the music, country music playing in the stadium.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
It was a great atmosphere. Though.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
The sun was piping on the field and I was
sitting there like man, and you was playing. You played
that game, and I was just really like sitting myself like, man,
what is it? What is it about this stadium that
this vibe is?

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Like?

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Man, they where they were at the Heyday?

Speaker 5 (33:38):
Yeah, like in ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
So we played them at the super Bowl after the
night down season two thousand of super Bowl. We played
them in the regular season into the see To give
you an example, what the Apple atmosphere was like. Our
right tackle I think had six false starts.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Wow, that's that's how loud loud and yeah, yeah I
was so yeah my memories man, And speaking of.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
The Tights, man, it's time to set the toe. It's
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Let's get it to this preview against the current Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Sure, start with their offense.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Man Will Levis is their starting quarterback, second season with
the team. You know he's had not having a great
season so far. Mason Rudolph is also you know, started
some games for them at the quarterback position. When you
think about this, tys man, how can how can we
take advantage of them?

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah? From a Dent standpoint.

Speaker 6 (34:46):
And also we got to think about Tony Pollard obviously,
because there's a connection with Dallas and coach Quinn and
the staff understanding with Tony Pollack Will Levitch. When you
think about the Titans, it's not really much say yeah,
because their their organization that's in the serious transition, trying
to figure it out, just traded away Hopkins and you know,

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it's just it's just a tough, tough place right now.
But with that being said, there's still a protein yeah, yeah,
and they're gonna play hard and we're gonna have to
show up and we gotta beat them when we should
do what we need to do. But they ain't gonna
lay down. And I think it starts really with getting
at the Will Levens. Yeah, on the offense side of
the ball, and then we'll talk about the defense, but
the office side of the ball.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
I think we gotta get out the Will eleven.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
One of the things I like.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
When you're playing against certain teams like the Titans, you know,
and those teams that you're faced throughout the season that
have their season isn't going the way yours is going. Yeah,
you want to play them at home at your house
because now you you don't have to worry about you
going into their home when they're gonna play with a
different kind of you know what I.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Mean, and energy, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
And and so it'd be good that we got them
where we want them at, you know, in our backyard
to really wherever they got going on, whatever got planned.
As soon as we punch them in them out that
first time, then they'll realize they got to scrap that.
They gotta you know, put that to bed, because we
ain't gonna come out here and lay down for them.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Yeah, but they want those teams.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Any any given Sunday, you can be beat by a
team like this, And that's why you you don't take
them for granted. You're going there, you got to make
sure whatever they're doing bad, whatever they're showing on film,
you make sure that.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
You offensive side Bingo.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
You make sure you.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Show them that this is you, this is true whatever
you showed us, and this is We're gonna make sure y'all,
y'all stay true to that. So yeah, excuse me, I'm
just looking for our guys to go out there and
fly around.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yea, fly around, get after, get after the levis that
they brought Calvalrey over there. He's he's he's making plays
for them as a receiver, but the inconsistency of the
offense and the quarterback play obviously has impact to him
and his snobbers. To show you how crazy and then
consistent this office has been. The Titans defensively, they got

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a number two ranked defense in total yards game. However,
the twenty six points, a lot, a lot of turnovers,
special teams a lot of it, maybe interceptions for touchdowns. Like,
they're not giving up a bunch of yards, but they're
giving up points because of the inefficiencies of their special

(37:17):
teams jers or the offensive unit.

Speaker 6 (37:19):
And that's that's a backbreaker. That's de moralizing, you know
when the offense you know, and and and switching over
to the defense side of the ball. There's some connection
here to not Walker the coordinator, Steve Jackson give a
shout out.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
I'm not surprised that.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
I'm not surprised that jack I'm not surprised that secondary
players good. I'm not surprised that thenar who's a Greg
Williams guy. I'm not surprised they're solid on defense. Quarters
team probably play a little bit of combo. They might look,
let's show you some different looks.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
But had you speak, you speaking see Jackson a longtime coach, coach,
coach here in Washington.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
Safety's coach.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
They got a safety there, Amani hook Yes, Amai Hooker
three interceptions already good.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
Good young football player. Man, physical at the point of attack.
He's great around the ball. They got some guys that
aren't household names, but they got some.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Players that you know are pretty good.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah, it's probably it's probably tough being a defensive gown
and they side of the ball, just knowing that, probably
don't get enough rest on the sideline with that, with
the offense being sporadic as it is. But one of
the things we do well here is worried about us.
So I'm looking forward to a well coach you know,
uh team. You know by guys knowing that, hey man,
this is what we got at State, regardless of who

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they is, what they got going on, that's going handle
our business.

Speaker 7 (38:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
One of the things defensively talking about the yard one thing. Defensively,
they're pretty good on the secondary wise, but they struggle
stopping the run, right.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
I stopping the run?

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Well, we are at our best we run football thirty
five plus jobs more even thirty or more, right, thirty thirty.
You got to get more. We have to get to that.
We have to get to that, uh, that type of balance.
We can't be twenty twenty five pass attempts in thirty

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five twenty five rushing attempts at thirty.

Speaker 5 (39:22):
Five past tempts.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
We can't have that.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
We got to be heavy pass, play action pass. Now
you loosen up, you get opportunities to get y'all one
on one shots. Let's take advantage of Terian Yah I
mean and No Brown being able to you know, make
ways downand field.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
But it's going to start with being able to run
the football. Yeah, that's how you that's how you win.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Yeah, and this time of year, that's what you want
to do anyway. Yeah, you're getting into the late parts
of the season in November December. You know, whatever travels.
We always hear that you guys are defensive guys. You know,
when you run the football, that travels, you know, that
takes you a long way. So that's what I'm looking
forward to seeing these guys doing, especially come off the
week we just had.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Hey, yeah we got a bye week.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
Much needed bye week?

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Have you what's the latest bye week? Last year this
time talked about us as we players.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
We did.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
We had a bye weekly really late.

Speaker 6 (40:19):
I think it four one of the years man, when
I was here, when we had one late we had
won late, like real late, like almost.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Like week thirteen.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Really you was here, Yeah, your first year.

Speaker 11 (40:31):
I think we were like so the year that Cadom
got here twelve, we had late bye It wasn't like
week fourteen, but it was like week we had six
games like week ten ten.

Speaker 5 (40:42):
Them about to say bad because my old body I
was thirty twenty ten.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Oh yeah, I was remember typically because I went to
the Bahamas that year, and I remember we came.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
Back to Bahamas on him bye week.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Yeah, okay, yeah, it's made out of right. I wasn't.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
So look, I'm saying I used to stay here and
do nothing, and when I got later in my years,
I'm like thinking about I had three years left on
that deal.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
So I'm like start thinking I need to start living
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Let me take my kids on a little vacation, get
away from the cold. That's how I know he was here,
because he was all up here in d C. And
there was cold run that time, and I remember getting
there their passports and they had on big old coats.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
We was trying to get them up out of there.
But yeah, I had to I had to reset. It
was it was a great reset.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Because twenty twelve we was on the terra and now
I believe when we came off that buy, we went
we started winning those games because we had a couple
of game schedule. Two we went on the buy right
after we played Carolina. We lost to Carolina before the
buy and came came came off the buy, beat Philly
and then be some other teams like right off that buy, so.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
And we need to buy it this time because I
when you when you think about it from the first
half of the season, you'd be like, I can't wait
to get to buy. Came because we needed we need
to buy. You know, we lost. We had that stretch
where you know, we injured against Pittsburgh and Philly for sure,
where we felt like we needed to buy it and
that short window of games. But now I'm excited because

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this late in the season, you get that break and
now there's that little push towards the end. I mean,
I mean it was painful trying to get there, but
it's gonna be extremely beneficial coming off that buy.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
My thing is why when the NFL start having them
this lady, Yeah, I don't remember teams having.

Speaker 5 (42:32):
Them week thirteen.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yeah, you know, we're fourteen of a season.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
That's just crazy.

Speaker 6 (42:37):
What I think is maybe a change when they had seventeen.
I still the ten games. Man, It's easy. I call
it easy to be easy to be tough for somebody
else's body, right, right, question. Yeah, I was thinking back
when you were telling us that twenty ten we had
twenty twelve. You said twenty ten, we had that late
by week. I was like, man, me and my family,
them kids weren't going nowhere in school.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
I think we went to uh staycationer down to the
four seasons now left the.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
Kids at alliot.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
I just I couldn't turn it off like that, like
I could not when I've been a season.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
I just couldn't.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
I've done that for years, Go somewhere, go vacation.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
I had kind of caught onto that late in my
career because so many years when you just kind of
sticking to the you know, the same rigorous kind of routine.
I was just like bro I need to do something different,
Like this is what I normally do, and normally what
I would want to do is go to Miami. But
when your kids is in school, you're like, well, you
know I'm gonna leave.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
I might leave.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
I just left, flew in the Miami and flew to
the Bahamas. And it was quick. Man, it was a quick,
quick turn around.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
But they enjoyed it. It was rare for me. Yeah,
talking about happy. More than happy.

Speaker 6 (43:49):
They shout out to tell the Atlantis and Bahamas.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Man, how do where you're going to geinst to tell?
Like the Titans, how do you keep from overlooking them?

Speaker 2 (44:02):
And I think I don't think.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Dad Quinn is going to allow that, but you know,
just how do you how do you keep from doing that?

Speaker 6 (44:08):
Well, I think where we are in the season, and
we understand that every game is coming down towards your record,
and you know, at the end of the season, we
only have so much time that you At this point,
we are who we are, we know what we do well.
We got to continue to improve and we can't. So
I don't know, like you said, DQ is not gonna

(44:30):
let the.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Team overlook it.

Speaker 6 (44:31):
I think the team just got to know, like now
it's November December. It's just you know, it's time to like,
at this point, we gotta do it. We can't be
messing around. Were in our routine. We gotta get it done.
We gotta we got to keep that momentum. And I
can tell you, Lonnon, you know just from playing with you,
like we late in the season. It's easy for guys

(44:53):
because they dealing with injury and stuff like this. But
I remember our fridays didn't get shorter. You was on
the game plan and we had seen the team. We
played the Giants one time a week or two earlier, right,
and you were like, nah, man, even though we saw
and we felt like we were on it, let's let's
get deeper into it. So that type of leadership like

(45:15):
Bobby and other guys held the hell that's to be
like now we got to stand there to uphold.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
So that's what I think.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
I think one of the things and I'm not saying
that I know Dan what would be saying this, but
if I had to imagine some of the things that
he's seeing in those meeting rooms behind those closed doors,
is just keep your foot on the gas.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
You know what I mean? When you get caught.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
You know what, they tell you the easiest way to
get hurt on the field.

Speaker 6 (45:40):
When you ease up and ease up when you percent.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
So when you just when you just lad in the season,
ain't no reason to start pumping your brakes.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Now, you know, we got to keep going.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
And these are the games what you want to really
start stacking, you know what I mean as far as
to get yourself you know, in great position. I mean
especially your division in which we have a lot of
those left, but you want to stack those other games
as well. So when it comes down to getting yourself
in contingents of being whatever you know slot you're going
to be in, you want to be able to have,

(46:12):
you know, a good record behind you. And I think Date,
like I said before, he's not probably going in there
with that mindset of thinking about no record. It's just
about another team that we have to take it and
execute bingo and do our part.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
You mentioned execution. It's one thing to win, but how
do you look at those wins? Do you want to
be playing your best football at this time of the year,
Like are we sharp? Are we you know, doing the
doing the executing the game, the detail we executed attention
to detail. Are we greatt situational football? Are we you know,

(46:49):
protecting the football not turn it over? Are we afficient
in the reds on? Are we fishing in you know
thirdy criticals of got to have him moments care? Are
we able to to do and play our best football
at this time of the year? Are individually are you
getting better? And as a team are you getting better?
Because the teams that really make a run in the playoffs,

(47:09):
they're like this at this time year, they're they're not here.
You know, you have some teams that kind of limp
into the playoffs, but you want to be going hold
that upward trajectory.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
Yeah, And a lot of times it's just maybe this
time of the year, it's not necessarily the starters, but
it's those guys, the supporting cast that come in that
start to shine a little bit. With rookie that's getting
better right now, he becomes not just on the team,
but he you know that, We see it with Mike Sinistro,

(47:39):
like he's now he's emerging as a you know, like
a leader, right you know, you know you start to
see that, you see the supporting cast is getting better
and better.

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Speaker 1 (49:20):
Welcome back to the Players Club. As promised, we got
the Rob Paige jordan Us.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
Rob.

Speaker 5 (49:25):
We appreciate your show.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
All right, You've been on the show a couple of times,
but this is the first time we've had an opportunity
have you back since she became a dad? Yeah, what
what does that feel like? How has life changed for you?

Speaker 7 (49:39):
Man?

Speaker 12 (49:39):
It's cool, man, just seeing seeing my little girls, like
from a like a newborn baby to now she's six
months Like she's getting a little personality and we'll be
doing like the little swim classes and stuff like that.
It's just cool watching that grow up. She loved Missus
Rachel and all all this stuff.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
She love that TV so for to give a little
I Pad letter.

Speaker 7 (50:02):
She's funny, bro, It's fun though.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
She she she got you wrapped around her figures for sure.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Man.

Speaker 7 (50:08):
She gets what she wants. She wants here, big dude.

Speaker 6 (50:12):
I wouldn't want to be the dude show up, take
her to play, like stand in shape for the daughters.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Man, Like, tell me, how has that changed you, like
far as as a player?

Speaker 4 (50:21):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (50:22):
I know I had my son going into my senior
year in college, and I remember how focused I got
and buckled down a little bit more. You already a pro,
you already got paid. But I know it's still other
goals you want. Has that changed you being a father now?

Speaker 12 (50:37):
I feel like it's just changed my routine up a
little bit. Like I had to be able to, like
you say, fit in all my like when we leave practice.
I got to get my recovery stuff in, I got
to get my film study in. And I still want
to be up for my baby girl and take up plasure.
So it's just you just got to chop that time
up and figure out how you want to do it.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
I remember hold On, I tell him.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
I remember being coming leaving school or leaving work and saying, damn,
I want to hear him get home before he go
to sleep. Did you kind of be looking at your
clock saying I want to.

Speaker 7 (51:09):
Get up all night. I I wish he would go
to sleep.

Speaker 6 (51:18):
You up the ice and while you're up there ice
in the stretching trying to get his live and feed
her at the same time.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
That's what's up Man.

Speaker 5 (51:24):
Seven years bro.

Speaker 6 (51:26):
Time flies and you one of the guys. Obviously you
got the big contract with a big contract after your
performance change. Coach Quinn has come in, Man, and you
were here through some regime and stuff like this.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
What's been different? Man?

Speaker 12 (51:40):
I feel like Coach Quinn when he came in, it's
just he's just he was all about brotherhood and just
like camaraderie and getting to know each other. Like I
remember when we first got into ot as, like they
were just doing whatever we're doing quiz and pop quiz
on each other, like what.

Speaker 7 (51:57):
School you went to, what high school you went to?

Speaker 12 (51:58):
It like getting getting to know each other, And like
that's been way different from what I to.

Speaker 7 (52:04):
We need to do stuff like that in college.

Speaker 12 (52:07):
But I feel like we just it was just a
big emphasis of getting to know everybody quickly because we
ain't had that much time, and just getting on the
same page with everybody.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
You mentioned, you know, being being around new new coach
for you, Man, seventh year in the league, you're like
a vet of that d live room at the defensive
tackle position, not that you know j A is you
know jer Yea looking at that now?

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Do you like?

Speaker 8 (52:35):
Man?

Speaker 4 (52:35):
Dang?

Speaker 2 (52:35):
I can't out man, I believe how fast when.

Speaker 12 (52:38):
I first got When I first got into the league,
I feel like I was like the only young guy,
and well it was me and Ja, but we had
like a fairly young room, and I was we got
a bunch of old guys. Now like ty Georans, our
only puppet is Johnny Johnny Newton.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Uh yeah, job back.

Speaker 12 (52:58):
It's just crazy though, just being able to like like
put yourself in new roles. I know, when I first
got in the league, I used to always just watch
guys like Arcade, Pressing Smith and all them boys and
just see their routine and like just try to ask
the them what I could do to get to where
I wanted to go. But now it's like not like

(53:20):
gods like Johnny and Baptists and all them boys.

Speaker 7 (53:23):
They come to me actually for information. It's a tables turning.

Speaker 6 (53:27):
To your leader now so that you feel like responsibility
of leadership and stuff.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
You're off season, we know you love to fish also
into cars. You had an opportunity to sit down with
to show off your new Roys Royce with to Brian
Cooper Junior home the front seat. They checked that out
on YouTube channel. What was it like, man showing him
your car? It is that's your favorite car?

Speaker 12 (53:50):
Man I got? I probably got like eight of nine cars.
It's it's always been like a thing of mine. Like
my I was growing up. He was always into cars
and he had so many cars, and he had he
had to go down the road for a little bit,
but he ended up gifted me his cars, and I
just was taking care of him and then the love

(54:13):
just came for them. But I was just going to
car shows, trying to do whatever I can to get
my cars looking at the way I want them.

Speaker 7 (54:21):
And then I got a little money. It was just over.
I wanted what's your baby?

Speaker 5 (54:26):
Though? You get like, let him say, what's your favorite?

Speaker 6 (54:28):
Man?

Speaker 5 (54:28):
You gotta have?

Speaker 12 (54:30):
I got ninety sixth father. I've been working on him
since to middle school. Finally got it. Who I wanted.
I just got a Grand National nineteen eighty seven Grand National.
Uh and shoot right now, I like my mayback truck,
give me a driver and I just.

Speaker 5 (54:51):
Got to drive up.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Oh yeah, we.

Speaker 4 (54:54):
All had that experience. I remember at one point I
had ten.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
I woke up out of that fall, I had teen boy.
I got up and start giving cars away.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
Like, hey man, y'all can just take these things.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
I had too many.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
I was like collect cars, coctids, the payments.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
You were we were collecting kids.

Speaker 6 (55:19):
Man, couldn't ford them call this?

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Uh this weekend is my cause? My cliche game. What
what organization are.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
You going to? Did you choose to represent?

Speaker 12 (55:28):
I'm doing Alabama Kinney Foundation. Okay, I did them a
couple of years back, but I just found them through
or through the team. But it's just something that means
a lot to me because my mama, she suffers from
kidney figure.

Speaker 7 (55:42):
I just try to help.

Speaker 12 (55:44):
Them boys out and just bring awayness to the calls.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (55:48):
Yeah, we didn't never get a chance to.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
I would think I probably my last year they started
doing that, that was like twenty thirteen fourteen, So I
never got a chance to experience that. So it's always
great seeing you got with your cleats and knowing that
the league get behind that, and you guys go out
there and put on a great call.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
The equipment manager to ask you what you want to.

Speaker 7 (56:07):
Do or did somebody from the team.

Speaker 12 (56:09):
You know, Okay, they gonna find somebody that.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
You're seeing what on Friday maybe or okay, you gotta.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
Break them things. Superstitious. Man, I wanted my same cleats.
I ain't going to be on mine. I want the
black ugly. I'm a spat mind. So you know these
guys now, man, they got the pretty.

Speaker 5 (56:28):
Swag as you guys.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
I ain't had no swag.

Speaker 4 (56:30):
He was just work work.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
You know, we don't want to man, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
Understand, man, we appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Jordan's all the Players Club again. We have all our guests.
You've been on here before. You know, we'd like to
have y'all sign this football man. But if you want
my your boy Jonathan, he took up all the space.
Initially he thought it was just gonna be his miss football.
But man, that's a that is do it for the
Players Club. We'll see y'all next week's same time. Satana,

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