London, Santana and Shawn look back at their biggest games against the Seattle Seahawks. Then, the crew previews this week’s Sunday Night matchup against Seattle. And, defensive end Jacob Martin joins the show to talk about his first season in Washington.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome back into the Players Club.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We are your host.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I'm Bloody Fletcher, joined by sant Tana Mouska eight to
the Now aka Kyle Boy Killer, and we got Ship
Springs aka sat Tana Shap. Tell people what they can
expect from today's episode.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Man. You know in his episode Man, we're gonna be
talking about the legend Art Monk talking about his retirement
of his jersey this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But that's gonna be big.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
And we're getting ready for Sunday Night football at Northwest
Stadium against my former team, the Seattle Seahawk.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And we have defensive end Jacob Martin joining the show later.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's time to get this show started now, fellas primetime
game Sunday Night Football at Northwest Stadium. It's going to
be a special day for a special legend, Art Monk,
one of the NFL's all time great, one of his
franchises all time great. He will have his number eighty
one retire forever, never to be worn again. Tinna, I'm
(01:04):
gonna start with you because Art played the same position
as you as you. What made aren't such a legendary player?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I think for one, just anytime you thought about the
team back in them days when they was winning Super
Bowls and being as dominant as some of the teams
that we see in today's game. He stood out. He
was the receiver. He was the guy. You know, this
league has to me have always been driven by receivers.
A ton of other guys too. But I'm just saying,
like you really want to you really want to be
(01:32):
technical or the personality and yeah, like they was called
the divas of the of the game, you know what
I mean. They was the guys that got a lot
of flak because of them. You know, I guess you
could say, I want to word this, you know I don't.
I don't have a good choice of words. They fussed
about the ball, you know what I mean, because I
was finna say something else. So when you have guys
(01:55):
that's that has that, I guess you can say that
label and then you talk about this and then you
see it because like think about it, What's what looks
better than you as a kid watching football, like a
guy getting the ball handed to him and running the ball,
or someone throwing the ball in the air and someone
coming down making a spectacle of catch. That's what I'm saying.
That's what gravitated me to the game watching guys go
(02:16):
up and make these unbelievable catches. And so when you
talk about a guy like Art Monk, you talk about this,
you know, the formerly Redskins team and those championships. He
was the guy that stood out on top of a
few other guys. But he was the one that didn't
say much but went out there and his play spoke for.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Consistency when you think about I think Tatanna's point, like
over the over the spander of years, including like all
the Super Bowls, consistency, and he was quiet about it.
And Art seemed to be the guy the yeah he
showed up on, He showed up on like he made
the great catches. And you know that one time they
had Ricky Irvings and Gary Clark and Gary Clark in
(03:00):
our group, but uh Art with Art. Every time I
think about Art and just watching him play against my
my dad and the Cowboys back in the day, it's
just like it wasn't It seemed like if there was
a moment to be had, he was there, whether it
was the first down, whether it's a testdown or something,
and he just did it so like just like so
professionally consistently.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
He catched the ball handed to the ref run off
side of the.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Field, and he's one of those guys you play art
and before you know it, he messed around, how about
eight catches about one hundred and three yards, and he
did it in.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
A way you just quiet, quiet, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And uh so, so that's what I think about art,
just professionalism, class act. I had a chance to meet
him and spend some time off the field with him.
You know, his wife Desi is great. He's a family man,
just a good dude. And youre telling us, yeah, man, babysit,
Yeah yeah, he's a babyshit, a little Shawane man. Him
and Dessie with babyshit, a little Shawnee. And you know,
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Art like a like a like a grandfather to him,
and they just it's just like a good dude, man, right,
you know, it's a good dude.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You know. So that's what I just think about.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Being a young kid back in Cleveland, I was a
huge Browns fan, so that was my team. But then
the Redskins would be on television a lot, and I
can remember John Madden and Pat Summer of calling a
lot of their games and I could just still hear
Pat Summer and Madden said, Art Monk, Yeah, John Riggins,
(04:34):
Dyl Green. I was talking about those guys. Yeah, and
just uh Art was just seemed like he was the
one always making plays in the passing game. Just just
iconic football player, icond of just the way he carried themselves.
I can remember I had an opportunity to do a
a commercial with him.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Uh we're reading.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
The Constitution and it was for the Super Bowl leading
up into the Super Bowl and that we had a
bunch of different guys reading the Constitution and Art and
I did it at the in front of the Lincoln Memorial, right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I was just like, man, this is cool.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, I'm doing this with our mom.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So just a special player, legendary for this franchise. We
all know what he meant to uh to this franchise.
Another thing that's gonna happen on Sunday night. We'll bring
it back to Super Bowl. Ara Jerseys Yeah, man, Yeah,
we gotta love that.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You got a level when you when you think about it,
wasn't too much. Man, It's like you got that pop
of that gold clean white. I love the clean white ones,
you know, and you know we wore white here, but
you know the burgen and the popular goal, and it
just it was just one of those things where it's
just wasn't too much, but it was just like, oh,
that's clean.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I'm hoping man, that them jerseys bring us a little
different kind of energy, Like, I mean, we need something, man.
I think when you look at what we've been going
through our team, we've been on teams that have these
little spans or these little I guess you can say
downward whatever you want to call it, our few games.
(06:09):
You need something just to kind of like infuse the
team a little differently.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I was thinking about that. I was like, we win
this game, does an ownership say, you know what, we're
gonna wear these again again Detroit? And I know the
league you're only supposed to wear them so much. Would
you just say forget it?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Just find us.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I don't think it's needed. I don't think it's needed
because I also feel that I but I like the
commander's uniforms. I think it fits the name. I think
it fits you know what I mean, for everything that
you want to think of commanders. You know, now, I
understand there's a lot of fans that wants to have
what we had in the past, and it's nowhere around it.
(06:48):
You got to go with what you have, and so
I'm okay with what they have. I just feel like,
though this is right here is a great change up
at at a perfect time of the year, especially with
Arna and aren't more think it's all worthy of the
calls and the game. But now we have to go
out there on Sunday night football and play well in them.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, yeah, them things gonna be clean.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I tell you that.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm jealous, man, I need to give me one of
them five nights. I didn't play in the Super Bowl area,
but the jerseys, what.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Fred said, his first year was the last year they
played in those those jerseys, So Fred got a chance
to play in that. I felt like our jerseys looked
at you know what, I'm trying to what what was
the difference. I think it was something on the chest.
I think where it said Washington that it was it
was redskins back then or something like that. So something
of that nature. But at the same time, like I
(07:37):
said before, we water colors. So you know, at the
end of the day, I'm gonna white man.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
We got the opponent We're going against the Seattle Seahawks,
come on blue, you know all about them and her
you know, drafted.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
By them, looking like he got a little.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I got I got that, Carolina.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I see that's the old.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Fast staff. You obviously drafted by them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Then we had some some battles with the with the
seattles man.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Man talking about to talk about Washington or the Rams Washington. Okay,
just making sure because you whooped us a few times
when I was with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, y'all wasn't a better but.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You brought it up. Just making sure, you know, what's
some of our memories going against Seattle, just Seattle memories
in general.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, me personally, you know, the first year I came
to Washington after coming here Fridgency, we played in four
and we played we never played my first year, Santane's
first year, and I remember, you know, everybody said, well,
it's your former team, is it another game?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
That personal I wanted to whoop them back. And I
knew they had a good team too. They had seawn A. D. D.
Jack there, Jackson, Yl Jackson, Corn Robinson to mein lated,
I knew a lot of the players on the team
and that and I knew coach Holkan would have well prepared,
but I was I felt like if we got him
in Washington the reason and we whipped him with Greg
(09:13):
Williamson whooped him Washington, and we were the last. They
went on eleven game, win Street, and we ended up
playing them again.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
In the postseason.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Really, and that was the one team when I went
back and asked Matt and those guys, they said the
one team that they didn't want to face was us
because we got them pretty good. And then they went
on eleven game and we in Tanner can comment on them.
We jumped up on him. We would have been up
on them like seventeen nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
They came back. We were handling them. We felt good
that year, look at and we went to Seattle and
lost in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
But you know, that was one of the That was
my one memory too of just saying that was as
close as I felt this team, a team that I've
been on, could have been to that the NFC Championship game,
or maybe make it to the.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
The Super Bowl. Beat Carolina.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
We could have beat the guys next and and you know,
and probably saw herself in the dance man, but you know,
it's it's it's crazy how That's why I say that's
the one thing about our game. People failed to realize. Bro, Like,
you could be riding high and then something to shift.
Momentium shifts. Whether it's in a game or in a season,
the momentum shifts, and when it's on your side, know
(10:20):
how to ride. And that's what happened in that game.
I feel like the momentum shifts. And they was at
home and at twelve man came in effect and it
was it was like talking about hearing some hearing the
crowd that felt like they was in your ear, literally
on the field with you, Like I remember it being loud.
I remember Mark talking to me. I'm like, I don't
know nothing. I can't hear it. I'm just like I'm
(10:42):
waving them off, like don't come this way. I can't
hear you. But with all that being said, man like,
I've had a couple of moments with them, especially I
remember one that didn't pan out well twenty eleven. I
came off with my broken hand that year and that
was my first game back and it was in Seattle,
(11:03):
and I always talk about the hardest I've ever got
hit in the game was that day. Cam Chancellor man,
look here, And one of the things when you when
you got when you're a guy that have done a lot,
you don't mind giving people they flowers for what they've done.
You know what I'm saying. I cared less about what
I've done or didn't do in this league. But when
(11:24):
I got hit by that dude. But that was the
first time I could honestly say that if I was
anybody else, probably came out of that game because I
got hit and I literally heard a bell I heard,
like like I heard it in my ears of the game.
And the thing that made me not get out of
the game that me and Richard Sherman was already jawn
(11:47):
at each other. So when I got hit, Cam was like,
yeah he said something. I was like, do it again,
like you know what I mean, Like it was just
in me, like yeah, do it again. Like basically I'm
letting them know, like you really do nothing hurt you.
He hurt me. But I don't know if the turf
helped him what. But my head hit the back of
the turf, my head and my feet touched the ground
(12:07):
the same time I was going backwards. So you tell me,
tell me how that sounds, you know, so I got
up and I heard that bell. I heard that buzz
in my ear, and then I see Richard John. I
went right to they huddle. John at Richard and then
they're like trying to get in the huddle. Man, I'm like, no,
I'm out of it now. But I'm like, I'm in
the game, but out of it. But I played the
whole game. And I tell you one thing, man, I
look back at that anytime some might have asked me,
(12:30):
he tored my behind up, you.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, I remember, got a lot of good memories against
especially during the regular season. Yeah, you know, whether it
was Saint Louis, Buffalo even here when we played them
during the regular season, I always had I put in work.
I like going against West Coast offenses. So home room
was the West Coast offense. And Phil, yeah when I
(12:53):
went when we went there and Bufflo even during our
time here town.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I know you remember what's.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Going out to see beat him? H It was a
boy named Armstrong beat them on that that bomb lay
in the game.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You don't remember we're playing them. This U G B
was the defensive card. So it was all right, you
gotta love this look. So we're playing them, and defensively
we're not living up to our playing up to our
expectations or the level we had already set. And uh,
they're moving the ball against us. I don't know if
they were scoring, but they were moving the ball against us.
(13:28):
So g B get covered in to the locker room,
Greg Blosh, he got his. He used to have his
play sheet, defensive play calls around his neck the other thieves,
but his glasses all the readers. He like, I called
everything all this thing. I can't call nothing that he
basically did. He just challenges like U M F steve
(13:50):
to play a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Better and called the same play. But we played better,
a whole lot better, and we want him. Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So I picked the ball for the fort I forgot
all about we played them back to back years because
I I was just I was just recalling to myself, like, oh, man,
I remember, oh nine I scored when we had I
had played you don't have some.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But then then then the playoffs, Man lost to him
in the seven season, twelve lost to him.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
In twenty twelve.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We went up and was up on them again.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, fourteen leg and that was fourteen.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We was driving to score again. To be twenty one
or seventeen. I don't know if he was seventeen nothing
at the point and was driving again with fourteen fourteen
nothing and r G rolls out and it's crazy. I
was on the sideline. I had just took my breath,
you know, you know, I was coming in on third
downs at that time, and I'm honest, heat rolled right
ran right by me and I saw that leg go
I said, Lord.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
That season, I felt like because the time y'all have
played them in the in Seattle, we played them in
seven in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, y'all played them in uh four five?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Was this was the first time play I probably played
the Yes, oh y'all did played him home first. We'll
be talking about in the playoffs and the playoff played
in the Seattle Seattle Place went in twelve at home.
I'm like, man, we got a we got a real
good chance to beat this team, right ye?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
All right, fellers, it's time to dive into a Sunday
night football matchup with fast Lane. Yes, sir, fast Lane
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since nineteen eighty eight. All right, fellas a little bit
into this match up here. Man, we got Sam Donald yep,
playing Sam Donald, the guy who saw ghosts. How we
(15:34):
slow this guy down? Man, I think you know.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
The fact that we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
And I was telling London, I was just like before
the show, I was just like, Man, it's Sam Donald.
I mean, it's past ratings one hundred and thirty point
one and I mean I think he's second in the
league and pastor. I mean, and I'm looking at the games.
I've seen him a couple of times and I'm just like,
I'm trying to put my finger on it.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But I mean the.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Guy surgical and yeah, he got a bucket out there
that's killing.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And I think it really starts. Man.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
One thing about saying Donald is he will make a mistake.
I know, you gotta keep him in the pocket and
force him to actually take not not on a pre
snap read, but once you show him a different look,
I think he gets a little bit of happy feed
and they throw the ball around once that that that
that you know you get out of your first pregame snapping,
you actually going to your coverage. So for us, I think, man,
(16:25):
if we can just show show show a look and
then disguise it better, I think we can really get
to him because I'm not sold on the fact that
he's surgical or can come.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Out to say this.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I say this, this is a great offense for him.
A lot of play action passes, they don't actually throw
it a lot, they're like thirty if in passive tips.
But key to seattle their run game. Really, they're gonna
they're gonna have a high volume of rush attempts, slowing
the run game down. Yeah, forcing them to drop back
a little bit, drop back a little bit. But also
(17:00):
if we can get up on them, we get up
two scores. Maybe you get they get away from rushing
the football so much, and now you're asking him to
do a little bit more, throw them all around a
little bit more. And those are the opportunities and opportunities
where it's no longer drop play action, it's a drop
back game. Those are the opportunities and moments we can
maybe get some interceptions and turn over some sacks, things
(17:20):
like that. But I think sam Man I wasn't I
wasn't truly all the.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Way to sold on them.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
After the Minnesota especially the way he finished, I'm like, uh,
you know, but looked really good.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, last week so here researching. Yeah, and Daniel Jones,
I think.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
One of those things where people fail to realize, man
like being a football player, it's all about comfortability, you
know what I mean nothing, you know, they look at
they look at seasons. I've had seasons where they was
great here and I had seasons where they wasn't. And
the one thing I've always pointed out, I wasn't comfortable.
Whether it was the quarterback, whether it was the system,
whether what they was asking me to do, I wasn't comfortable.
(18:01):
So I should screw where you at now. I do
believe too. New York had a big you know, hand
in how you know, Sam kind of you know, ferried
out out there playing.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
But I just said market.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, as far as that market, that market is hard.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
So you're saying just playing in Seattle just may be
a better fit from a community.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
It's a lesson market.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
It's not enough. It's not a lot of noise coming
out of Seattle. You see what I'm saying. Like New York,
every you sneeze wrong, they're talking about you. You know
you you come out, you stumped your toe. Everybody know
you stumped your toe in New York and Seattle man,
you could go out there. Man, it's on the West.
As much as they've been playing well throughout these years,
you still don't hear no noise from Seattle. You know
what I mean. The most you hear about Seattle is
(18:40):
they twelve men, and it's crazy. It's a football team.
They market the twelve men in Seattle more than the
football team is marketed, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm not to your point, like the Legion boom.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
And yeah, Like it's you don't hear nothing about that
team out there unless they're having a good season. New York,
you cannot. You're going to get talked about whether it's
good or bad. And even if you're playing well, they
talk about your worse.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So it's to your point as far as Seattle, like
they're five and two, first in the NFC West, and
what you're to ask me, I would have say, oh,
San Francisco, Yeah they're leading the West, or the Rams
or yeah, in the first place in the NFC West.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You in Seattle hear more about everybody else but those guys.
So getting back to my point, I just feel like
he's comfortable now. You know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I saw that a year ago when he was in
I believe Minnesota, right, that was Minnesota. When he was
in Minnesota being the backup Minnesota, another market. It's quiet
out there, you know they you don't they talk about
Justin Jefferson and you know, you know the new draft
pick and the quarterback Whistbury coach. But that's about it,
you know what I mean. These guys been playing good
football for a long time. So I'm not surprised to
(19:47):
see Sam doing what he's doing because I saw that
in New York. I saw at times he made those
strokes at times, you know, they when they had good games.
You can kind of like give him the credit for
that because of his quarterback playing. Now, you just seeing
a guy is a great system. And you know how
I speak about that. Shanahan's what's the other coach named cub.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Gary Kubak qbac.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
There you go, the QBAC umbrother, Shanahan umbrother, all those
guys that come and put into that umbrother, that that
use that tree, that that that offense man. It seemed
like their quarterbacks as long as you can throw the ball,
you can go out there and and have these kinds
of seasons and and that's one of the things that's
standing out. But at the same time, I think too
(20:31):
some of the things that I've heard pretty sure that
you heard this. You know, if you don't give him
a clean shot at that person that he's trying to
throw the ball to, that's when you get a guy
that can hold onto the ball a little more than
maybe we can get out of them. So I'm hoping defensively, man,
we can disguise some things and get him the second
guess itself. You know, I mean get him because right
now he's playing phenomenal and with the confidence he coming
(20:52):
in with, we gotta do something Roight got, you know, Yeah,
slow him down, make him force and force him to
go to a cup for which I'm not saying that
that's that's a better you know, guy you want to
see going out there and and and and shredding us
to Tanis apart, because I feel like he's still capable
of being that possession guy. He's he's a guy that
moved the change. But I tip my head off to Sam.
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But like I said, man, this is this is a
game where you can be up one day and the
next day you can be We could be talking bad
about you. So you know, hopefully our defense can take
a little bit of what they took with them to
Kansas City and bring that into this game at home.
And I really want to see this guy six. Yeah, man,
you fly around like that for the entire game, with
the kind of tenacity they went after Kansas City with.
(21:35):
Because when I tell you, when I saw them getting
the line, the secondary in and out of the game,
when I saw the safety trading places like okay, they
brought they brought Revo out there for a player too.
He made a play, Come on, come out to the sideline.
I brought up savages in there. Now, you know when
I saw those guys get started. Yeah, you know, Tyler
Orange was out there when I saw those guys getting
the little breathers here and there. And it may because
(21:57):
of just what they was running, but it worked. It
was working in the first half. We just didn't sustain
it in the second half. And then we know, man,
when you're dealing with a guy like Mahomes man, it's
no telling what he's going to do, what gear he's
going to go into, you know, when when a team
need him the most. So I don't think Sam Donald
is you know, it's pat and I feel like at
the end of the day, we can get out of him,
(22:18):
we get after him, we can rattle what they're doing,
you know, offensively over there, all right, fellas up next
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Speaker 1 (23:17):
Welcome back into the Players Club. As promised, we got
a very special guest joining.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Us, Jacob Martin.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Appreciate Jacob, We appreciate you joining us man a season
in the league, but your first year in d C.
What's it been like playing in d C and also
playing with that D line group you.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Got, Man, it's been It's been truly amazing experience, you know,
to join a historic franchise, you know, really the best
I can do, you know what I mean? You know,
and those guys up front, Man, it makes it a
lot easier to do my job.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Man.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
You got JK and and ps inside, you got Eddie,
you got all those dudes. They're bawling, man, makes it
makes it real easy to do their job.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Man. What's it like playing for a coach like Dan Quinn? Man?
I hear so much about him. I watched him from
a far over in Dallas. I watched him when he
was in Atlanta. Also played against some probably a couple
of years when he was in Seattle. How has it
been for you being a part of his team?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I think it's been a really you know, truthfully transformative,
you know, for myself. You know, he's a big D
line guy, you know what I mean. And he's been around,
you know, countless of talents in terms of D line
played throughout his career, you know what I mean. And
the things that he's been able to tell me or
tweaking my game, you know, has has allowed me to
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perform at such a high level.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
That's what's up.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I mean your head coach is a D line guy
you gotta love to actually, you know he knows what
he's talking about. And Ryan Carrigan also one of the
coaches over there. Ryan is you know, staple part of
this organization. Man, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
He was on Red Bull coffee. Would you do before the.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
City game?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
We were like one A right boy, you came out
and set the tone. Second player the game sack like
that speed power me in London? Was we all watch
your highlights? We was comment on your technique? Man, I mean,
Kansas City, what what's going on?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Man?
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Man, anytime you have opportunity to to put Patrick Mahomes down.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Like it was like you sound like you that that
was personally Yeah, Man.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
To me, I take everything personal, man, like I take that.
I take any quarterback trying to throw the ball personal.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
I think that's that's where my mind is. You know
when I play, when I play football, where there's Monday night,
Thursday night in the parking lot at practice as.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Personal, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Like I nothing nothing for me in my career has
ever been given to me, you know what I mean?
And that's something that I've prided myself on, you know,
six round draft back. I went to Temple University. Man,
you know what I'm saying. So like for us dogs say,
ain't another day is getting out of the mud?
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Man? Like just that's how that's how I get down man.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
So uh, I'm having the opportunities to go out there
and lead those guys and and UH speak was how
I speak to myself going into games, you know, be
able to share that with the t I think.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
That how has it been with that opportunity you speak
on talking about things a person knowing nothing was given?
You know, we've had a lot of injuries on this
this early part of our season, and especially at your
position on the D line. Now it seems like that
door was open for you to go out there and
show the world, you know what you can be. How
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has the opportunity been?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Man, it's been. It's been awesome.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Obviously it's unfortunate to see our guys go down. Man.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
You know, but one thing that I that I uh
love about this D line, dog, it was it was
built well you know, whether whether it was me or
d A or JB or Dietrich, you know, Vonn whoever's
out there on the edge. You know, even with press,
you know whoever's out there on the edge.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Man. You know, the goal in this league is no
drop off. Man.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
You know, if you're going to rotate waves of d linemen,
you want it to be consistently guys doing the things
they need to do every play.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I think they've done a good job with that for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
So just looking at your kind of your bio, your
history up in Colorado, then you end up going all
the way to the East coast to Temple University, whiles
around in the league, and then it seems like you
been making making players here. How what how first of all,
how did you end up all the way?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
From Colorado?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Man, So so I'm from Houston originally I grew up
in Colorado and then Temple.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Man, Uh, kind of crazy story.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
So my brother was playing at the time, he was
playing for the Chiefs at the time.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Eight years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
We're gonna talk about it in the league.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Man, My brother was in Kansas City, and then I
had I was getting a lot of interest from you know,
teams on the West Coast and stuff like that. But
I was kind of you know, I'm I'm big on experience,
life experience, you know what I mean. And uh, every
time I would go visit my brother he was in.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
College, he went to Columbia, New York. Man.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
We'd never been anywhere near New York, you know, my
family at least, so we got the chance to go
out there and check that out. I thought the vibe
was dope. And then I was between C s U
and CEU. Coming down to it, I knew I didn't
want to stay in Colorado. Man, So he passed my
tape along to one of his assistant coaches up there
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in Kansas City. Shout out to Mark da Leone. He
ended up passing my film along to the schools in
the conference.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You know.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Temple called back, I think Yukon and maybe U c
F called back as well. Unfortunately, only had one visit left,
you know, out of the five, so I picked Temple,
you know, and fell in level Philly.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Man. Yeah, talked about your brother, man.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Obviously he's a big factor in your life, helping you
with school so or or.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Just in your life.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
And he played in the league as well, so talked
to about that relationship.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Man, being the youngest boy, I got two older brothers,
you know, being the youngest boy, you have a great
example of things what to.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Do and what not to do, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
And my brother Josh worked extremely hard everything he did,
you know, he most definitely set the foundation of the
expectation of work that that that's required to be successful
in any industry, you know, whether it be football, whether
it be school, whether it be you know anything, whatever
you whatever you're doing, and has allowed me to model
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my approach to the game like that, you know, and.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Whether it be recovery.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
He recovers hard, you know, he plays halrready, trains hard,
you know, everything he does super intentful man, and I
think he's done an amazing job so.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Far as I look at you and some of your
off the field stuff that you've done this past week.
You hosted tails and tailgates with the Humane Rescue Alliance
this past week, And first of all, how'd you start
working with that organization and what does it mean to
you to be able to do do that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Type of work.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Well, I got linked up with I tend to work
with shelters or the zoo wherever.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Whatever team I'm with, whoever does the.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
A great job, you know in terms of getting animals
in and out of the shelter, you know, and using
people like me, you know, to bring that message to
the shelter and things like that.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
But it's something I' passionate about.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Men.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
I've beenassionate about animals my whole life. I've you know,
raised all different kinds of animals throughout my lifetime. I
have three dogs now, three dogs and a snake.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I got Golden retriever, he's my oldest.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Name is Bubba. I got a black lab piple mixed.
His name is Beans. And Bernie's mountain dog her name
is Mabel. And I got like a two and a
half foot long corn snake.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
His name is Maurice.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You actually named your snake Maurice. What's your feeding?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Like?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Rats and stuff? Rats of animals?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
No, no, man, I grew up you know.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
My mom was a science teacher. Enjoyed of my life,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
So she's you know, scorpions, sick and cockerroaches, all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Going back to like playing here in Washington or theme
for you talk about that room my brotherhood, man, and
you see it on both sides of the ball, and
we got these injuries and stuff going on. How does
you know the team rally like you know, next man
up mentality in their brotherhood?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Because it seems like you guys have came out on
defense on fire and just the passion is still there
in a lockdown.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I think knowing that guys prepare they how how guys
prepare here? You know it's super intentful.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Man.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
You know you're not going to see that everywhere where.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
You know, you got the backup safety preparing as if
he's getting ready to start, make the start that night,
or you know, a special teams ace, you know who's
who's his main role of special teams, but he's gonna
you know, take the time to learn the defensive.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Checks and and and things like that for that week. Man.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
So really just guys owning their roles, but then the
plus owning the rules. Plus they understand, okay, this is
this is a violent game.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Guys may go down. So let me.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
They may not have had you know, a rep in
that defensive team period that week, you know, or that
Thursday practice, but they're watching the film and taking the
notes intently as if they're they're going to make that start,
which I think is dope.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
This has been great. It was great man, So Jacob.
One of the things we do with all the guests
to come on our shirt man. We asked you to
autograph our football man, and I appreciate you, appreciate you
joining us on the Players Club.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Thank you for your time. Man.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
All right for this edition another Players Club. We'll see
you next week.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
Man. You know in his episode Man, we're gonna be
talking about the legend Art Monk talking about his retirement
of his jersey this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But that's gonna be big.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
And we're getting ready for Sunday Night football at Northwest
Stadium against my former team, the Seattle Seahawk.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And we have defensive end Jacob Martin joining the show later.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's time to get this show started now, fellas primetime
game Sunday Night Football at Northwest Stadium. It's going to
be a special day for a special legend, Art Monk,
one of the NFL's all time great, one of his
franchises all time great. He will have his number eighty
one retire forever, never to be worn again. Tinna, I'm
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gonna start with you because Art played the same position
as you as you. What made aren't such a legendary player?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I think for one, just anytime you thought about the
team back in them days when they was winning Super
Bowls and being as dominant as some of the teams
that we see in today's game. He stood out. He
was the receiver. He was the guy. You know, this
league has to me have always been driven by receivers.
A ton of other guys too. But I'm just saying,
like you really want to you really want to be
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technical or the personality and yeah, like they was called
the divas of the of the game, you know what
I mean. They was the guys that got a lot
of flak because of them. You know, I guess you
could say, I want to word this, you know I don't.
I don't have a good choice of words. They fussed
about the ball, you know what I mean, because I
was finna say something else. So when you have guys
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that's that has that, I guess you can say that
label and then you talk about this and then you
see it because like think about it, What's what looks
better than you as a kid watching football, like a
guy getting the ball handed to him and running the ball,
or someone throwing the ball in the air and someone
coming down making a spectacle of catch. That's what I'm saying.
That's what gravitated me to the game watching guys go
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up and make these unbelievable catches. And so when you
talk about a guy like Art Monk, you talk about this,
you know, the formerly Redskins team and those championships. He
was the guy that stood out on top of a
few other guys. But he was the one that didn't
say much but went out there and his play spoke for.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Consistency when you think about I think Tatanna's point, like
over the over the spander of years, including like all
the Super Bowls, consistency, and he was quiet about it.
And Art seemed to be the guy the yeah he
showed up on, He showed up on like he made
the great catches. And you know that one time they
had Ricky Irvings and Gary Clark and Gary Clark in
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our group, but uh Art with Art. Every time I
think about Art and just watching him play against my
my dad and the Cowboys back in the day, it's
just like it wasn't It seemed like if there was
a moment to be had, he was there, whether it
was the first down, whether it's a testdown or something,
and he just did it so like just like so
professionally consistently.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
He catched the ball handed to the ref run off
side of the.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Field, and he's one of those guys you play art
and before you know it, he messed around, how about
eight catches about one hundred and three yards, and he
did it in.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
A way you just quiet, quiet, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And uh so, so that's what I think about art,
just professionalism, class act. I had a chance to meet
him and spend some time off the field with him.
You know, his wife Desi is great. He's a family man,
just a good dude. And youre telling us, yeah, man, babysit,
Yeah yeah, he's a babyshit, a little Shawane man. Him
and Dessie with babyshit, a little Shawnee. And you know,
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Art like a like a like a grandfather to him,
and they just it's just like a good dude, man, right,
you know, it's a good dude.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You know. So that's what I just think about.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Being a young kid back in Cleveland, I was a
huge Browns fan, so that was my team. But then
the Redskins would be on television a lot, and I
can remember John Madden and Pat Summer of calling a
lot of their games and I could just still hear
Pat Summer and Madden said, Art Monk, Yeah, John Riggins,
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Dyl Green. I was talking about those guys. Yeah, and
just uh Art was just seemed like he was the
one always making plays in the passing game. Just just
iconic football player, icond of just the way he carried themselves.
I can remember I had an opportunity to do a
a commercial with him.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Uh we're reading.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
The Constitution and it was for the Super Bowl leading
up into the Super Bowl and that we had a
bunch of different guys reading the Constitution and Art and
I did it at the in front of the Lincoln Memorial, right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I was just like, man, this is cool.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, I'm doing this with our mom.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So just a special player, legendary for this franchise. We
all know what he meant to uh to this franchise.
Another thing that's gonna happen on Sunday night. We'll bring
it back to Super Bowl. Ara Jerseys Yeah, man, Yeah,
we gotta love that.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You got a level when you when you think about it,
wasn't too much. Man, It's like you got that pop
of that gold clean white. I love the clean white ones,
you know, and you know we wore white here, but
you know the burgen and the popular goal, and it
just it was just one of those things where it's
just wasn't too much, but it was just like, oh,
that's clean.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I'm hoping man, that them jerseys bring us a little
different kind of energy, Like, I mean, we need something, man.
I think when you look at what we've been going
through our team, we've been on teams that have these
little spans or these little I guess you can say
downward whatever you want to call it, our few games.
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You need something just to kind of like infuse the
team a little differently.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I was thinking about that. I was like, we win
this game, does an ownership say, you know what, we're
gonna wear these again again Detroit? And I know the
league you're only supposed to wear them so much. Would
you just say forget it?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Just find us.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I don't think it's needed. I don't think it's needed
because I also feel that I but I like the
commander's uniforms. I think it fits the name. I think
it fits you know what I mean, for everything that
you want to think of commanders. You know, now, I
understand there's a lot of fans that wants to have
what we had in the past, and it's nowhere around it.
(06:48):
You got to go with what you have, and so
I'm okay with what they have. I just feel like,
though this is right here is a great change up
at at a perfect time of the year, especially with
Arna and aren't more think it's all worthy of the
calls and the game. But now we have to go
out there on Sunday night football and play well in them.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, yeah, them things gonna be clean.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I tell you that.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm jealous, man, I need to give me one of
them five nights. I didn't play in the Super Bowl area,
but the jerseys, what.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Fred said, his first year was the last year they
played in those those jerseys, So Fred got a chance
to play in that. I felt like our jerseys looked
at you know what, I'm trying to what what was
the difference. I think it was something on the chest.
I think where it said Washington that it was it
was redskins back then or something like that. So something
of that nature. But at the same time, like I
(07:37):
said before, we water colors. So you know, at the
end of the day, I'm gonna white man.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
We got the opponent We're going against the Seattle Seahawks,
come on blue, you know all about them and her
you know, drafted.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
By them, looking like he got a little.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I got I got that, Carolina.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I see that's the old.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Fast staff. You obviously drafted by them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Then we had some some battles with the with the
seattles man.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Man talking about to talk about Washington or the Rams Washington. Okay,
just making sure because you whooped us a few times
when I was with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, y'all wasn't a better but.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You brought it up. Just making sure, you know, what's
some of our memories going against Seattle, just Seattle memories
in general.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, me personally, you know, the first year I came
to Washington after coming here Fridgency, we played in four
and we played we never played my first year, Santane's
first year, and I remember, you know, everybody said, well,
it's your former team, is it another game?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
That personal I wanted to whoop them back. And I
knew they had a good team too. They had seawn A. D. D.
Jack there, Jackson, Yl Jackson, Corn Robinson to mein lated,
I knew a lot of the players on the team
and that and I knew coach Holkan would have well prepared,
but I was I felt like if we got him
in Washington the reason and we whipped him with Greg
(09:13):
Williamson whooped him Washington, and we were the last. They
went on eleven game, win Street, and we ended up
playing them again.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
In the postseason.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Really, and that was the one team when I went
back and asked Matt and those guys, they said the
one team that they didn't want to face was us
because we got them pretty good. And then they went
on eleven game and we in Tanner can comment on them.
We jumped up on him. We would have been up
on them like seventeen nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
They came back. We were handling them. We felt good
that year, look at and we went to Seattle and
lost in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
But you know, that was one of the That was
my one memory too of just saying that was as
close as I felt this team, a team that I've
been on, could have been to that the NFC Championship game,
or maybe make it to the.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
The Super Bowl. Beat Carolina.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
We could have beat the guys next and and you know,
and probably saw herself in the dance man, but you know,
it's it's it's crazy how That's why I say that's
the one thing about our game. People failed to realize. Bro, Like,
you could be riding high and then something to shift.
Momentium shifts. Whether it's in a game or in a season,
the momentum shifts, and when it's on your side, know
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how to ride. And that's what happened in that game.
I feel like the momentum shifts. And they was at
home and at twelve man came in effect and it
was it was like talking about hearing some hearing the
crowd that felt like they was in your ear, literally
on the field with you, Like I remember it being loud.
I remember Mark talking to me. I'm like, I don't
know nothing. I can't hear it. I'm just like I'm
(10:42):
waving them off, like don't come this way. I can't
hear you. But with all that being said, man like,
I've had a couple of moments with them, especially I
remember one that didn't pan out well twenty eleven. I
came off with my broken hand that year and that
was my first game back and it was in Seattle,
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and I always talk about the hardest I've ever got
hit in the game was that day. Cam Chancellor man,
look here, And one of the things when you when
you got when you're a guy that have done a lot,
you don't mind giving people they flowers for what they've done.
You know what I'm saying. I cared less about what
I've done or didn't do in this league. But when
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I got hit by that dude. But that was the
first time I could honestly say that if I was
anybody else, probably came out of that game because I
got hit and I literally heard a bell I heard,
like like I heard it in my ears of the game.
And the thing that made me not get out of
the game that me and Richard Sherman was already jawn
(11:47):
at each other. So when I got hit, Cam was like,
yeah he said something. I was like, do it again,
like you know what I mean, Like it was just
in me, like yeah, do it again. Like basically I'm
letting them know, like you really do nothing hurt you.
He hurt me. But I don't know if the turf
helped him what. But my head hit the back of
the turf, my head and my feet touched the ground
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the same time I was going backwards. So you tell me,
tell me how that sounds, you know, so I got
up and I heard that bell. I heard that buzz
in my ear, and then I see Richard John. I
went right to they huddle. John at Richard and then
they're like trying to get in the huddle. Man, I'm like, no,
I'm out of it now. But I'm like, I'm in
the game, but out of it. But I played the
whole game. And I tell you one thing, man, I
look back at that anytime some might have asked me,
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he tored my behind up, you.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, I remember, got a lot of good memories against
especially during the regular season. Yeah, you know, whether it
was Saint Louis, Buffalo even here when we played them
during the regular season, I always had I put in work.
I like going against West Coast offenses. So home room
was the West Coast offense. And Phil, yeah when I
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went when we went there and Bufflo even during our
time here town.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I know you remember what's.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Going out to see beat him? H It was a
boy named Armstrong beat them on that that bomb lay
in the game.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You don't remember we're playing them. This U G B
was the defensive card. So it was all right, you
gotta love this look. So we're playing them, and defensively
we're not living up to our playing up to our
expectations or the level we had already set. And uh,
they're moving the ball against us. I don't know if
they were scoring, but they were moving the ball against us.
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So g B get covered in to the locker room,
Greg Blosh, he got his. He used to have his
play sheet, defensive play calls around his neck the other thieves,
but his glasses all the readers. He like, I called
everything all this thing. I can't call nothing that he
basically did. He just challenges like U M F steve
(13:50):
to play a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Better and called the same play. But we played better,
a whole lot better, and we want him. Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So I picked the ball for the fort I forgot
all about we played them back to back years because
I I was just I was just recalling to myself, like, oh, man,
I remember, oh nine I scored when we had I
had played you don't have some.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But then then then the playoffs, Man lost to him
in the seven season, twelve lost to him.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
In twenty twelve.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We went up and was up on them again.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, fourteen leg and that was fourteen.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We was driving to score again. To be twenty one
or seventeen. I don't know if he was seventeen nothing
at the point and was driving again with fourteen fourteen
nothing and r G rolls out and it's crazy. I
was on the sideline. I had just took my breath,
you know, you know, I was coming in on third
downs at that time, and I'm honest, heat rolled right
ran right by me and I saw that leg go
I said, Lord.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
That season, I felt like because the time y'all have
played them in the in Seattle, we played them in
seven in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, y'all played them in uh four five?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Was this was the first time play I probably played
the Yes, oh y'all did played him home first. We'll
be talking about in the playoffs and the playoff played
in the Seattle Seattle Place went in twelve at home.
I'm like, man, we got a we got a real
good chance to beat this team, right ye?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
All right, fellers, it's time to dive into a Sunday
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since nineteen eighty eight. All right, fellas a little bit
into this match up here. Man, we got Sam Donald yep,
playing Sam Donald, the guy who saw ghosts. How we
(15:34):
slow this guy down? Man, I think you know.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
The fact that we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
And I was telling London, I was just like before
the show, I was just like, Man, it's Sam Donald.
I mean, it's past ratings one hundred and thirty point
one and I mean I think he's second in the
league and pastor. I mean, and I'm looking at the games.
I've seen him a couple of times and I'm just like,
I'm trying to put my finger on it.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But I mean the.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Guy surgical and yeah, he got a bucket out there
that's killing.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And I think it really starts. Man.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
One thing about saying Donald is he will make a mistake.
I know, you gotta keep him in the pocket and
force him to actually take not not on a pre
snap read, but once you show him a different look,
I think he gets a little bit of happy feed
and they throw the ball around once that that that
that you know you get out of your first pregame snapping,
you actually going to your coverage. So for us, I think, man,
(16:25):
if we can just show show show a look and
then disguise it better, I think we can really get
to him because I'm not sold on the fact that
he's surgical or can come.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Out to say this.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I say this, this is a great offense for him.
A lot of play action passes, they don't actually throw
it a lot, they're like thirty if in passive tips.
But key to seattle their run game. Really, they're gonna
they're gonna have a high volume of rush attempts, slowing
the run game down. Yeah, forcing them to drop back
a little bit, drop back a little bit. But also
(17:00):
if we can get up on them, we get up
two scores. Maybe you get they get away from rushing
the football so much, and now you're asking him to
do a little bit more, throw them all around a
little bit more. And those are the opportunities and opportunities
where it's no longer drop play action, it's a drop
back game. Those are the opportunities and moments we can
maybe get some interceptions and turn over some sacks, things
(17:20):
like that. But I think sam Man I wasn't I
wasn't truly all the.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Way to sold on them.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
After the Minnesota especially the way he finished, I'm like, uh,
you know, but looked really good.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, last week so here researching. Yeah, and Daniel Jones,
I think.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
One of those things where people fail to realize, man
like being a football player, it's all about comfortability, you
know what I mean nothing, you know, they look at
they look at seasons. I've had seasons where they was
great here and I had seasons where they wasn't. And
the one thing I've always pointed out, I wasn't comfortable.
Whether it was the quarterback, whether it was the system,
whether what they was asking me to do, I wasn't comfortable.
(18:01):
So I should screw where you at now. I do
believe too. New York had a big you know, hand
in how you know, Sam kind of you know, ferried
out out there playing.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
But I just said market.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, as far as that market, that market is hard.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
So you're saying just playing in Seattle just may be
a better fit from a community.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
It's a lesson market.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
It's not enough. It's not a lot of noise coming
out of Seattle. You see what I'm saying. Like New York,
every you sneeze wrong, they're talking about you. You know
you you come out, you stumped your toe. Everybody know
you stumped your toe in New York and Seattle man,
you could go out there. Man, it's on the West.
As much as they've been playing well throughout these years,
you still don't hear no noise from Seattle. You know
what I mean. The most you hear about Seattle is
(18:40):
they twelve men, and it's crazy. It's a football team.
They market the twelve men in Seattle more than the
football team is marketed, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm not to your point, like the Legion boom.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
And yeah, Like it's you don't hear nothing about that
team out there unless they're having a good season. New York,
you cannot. You're going to get talked about whether it's
good or bad. And even if you're playing well, they
talk about your worse.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So it's to your point as far as Seattle, like
they're five and two, first in the NFC West, and
what you're to ask me, I would have say, oh,
San Francisco, Yeah they're leading the West, or the Rams
or yeah, in the first place in the NFC West.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You in Seattle hear more about everybody else but those guys.
So getting back to my point, I just feel like
he's comfortable now. You know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I saw that a year ago when he was in
I believe Minnesota, right, that was Minnesota. When he was
in Minnesota being the backup Minnesota, another market. It's quiet
out there, you know they you don't they talk about
Justin Jefferson and you know, you know the new draft
pick and the quarterback Whistbury coach. But that's about it,
you know what I mean. These guys been playing good
football for a long time. So I'm not surprised to
(19:47):
see Sam doing what he's doing because I saw that
in New York. I saw at times he made those
strokes at times, you know, they when they had good games.
You can kind of like give him the credit for
that because of his quarterback playing. Now, you just seeing
a guy is a great system. And you know how
I speak about that. Shanahan's what's the other coach named cub.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Gary Kubak qbac.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
There you go, the QBAC umbrother, Shanahan umbrother, all those
guys that come and put into that umbrother, that that
use that tree, that that that offense man. It seemed
like their quarterbacks as long as you can throw the ball,
you can go out there and and have these kinds
of seasons and and that's one of the things that's
standing out. But at the same time, I think too
(20:31):
some of the things that I've heard pretty sure that
you heard this. You know, if you don't give him
a clean shot at that person that he's trying to
throw the ball to, that's when you get a guy
that can hold onto the ball a little more than
maybe we can get out of them. So I'm hoping defensively, man,
we can disguise some things and get him the second
guess itself. You know, I mean get him because right
now he's playing phenomenal and with the confidence he coming
(20:52):
in with, we gotta do something Roight got, you know, Yeah,
slow him down, make him force and force him to
go to a cup for which I'm not saying that
that's that's a better you know, guy you want to
see going out there and and and and shredding us
to Tanis apart, because I feel like he's still capable
of being that possession guy. He's he's a guy that
moved the change. But I tip my head off to Sam.
(21:14):
But like I said, man, this is this is a
game where you can be up one day and the
next day you can be We could be talking bad
about you. So you know, hopefully our defense can take
a little bit of what they took with them to
Kansas City and bring that into this game at home.
And I really want to see this guy six. Yeah, man,
you fly around like that for the entire game, with
the kind of tenacity they went after Kansas City with.
(21:35):
Because when I tell you, when I saw them getting
the line, the secondary in and out of the game,
when I saw the safety trading places like okay, they
brought they brought Revo out there for a player too.
He made a play, Come on, come out to the sideline.
I brought up savages in there. Now, you know when
I saw those guys get started. Yeah, you know, Tyler
Orange was out there when I saw those guys getting
the little breathers here and there. And it may because
(21:57):
of just what they was running, but it worked. It
was working in the first half. We just didn't sustain
it in the second half. And then we know, man,
when you're dealing with a guy like Mahomes man, it's
no telling what he's going to do, what gear he's
going to go into, you know, when when a team
need him the most. So I don't think Sam Donald
is you know, it's pat and I feel like at
the end of the day, we can get out of him,
(22:18):
we get after him, we can rattle what they're doing,
you know, offensively over there, all right, fellas up next
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Speaker 1 (23:17):
Welcome back into the Players Club. As promised, we got
a very special guest joining.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Us, Jacob Martin.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Appreciate Jacob, We appreciate you joining us man a season
in the league, but your first year in d C.
What's it been like playing in d C and also
playing with that D line group you.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Got, Man, it's been It's been truly amazing experience, you know,
to join a historic franchise, you know, really the best
I can do, you know what I mean? You know,
and those guys up front, Man, it makes it a
lot easier to do my job.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Man.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
You got JK and and ps inside, you got Eddie,
you got all those dudes. They're bawling, man, makes it
makes it real easy to do their job.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Man. What's it like playing for a coach like Dan Quinn? Man?
I hear so much about him. I watched him from
a far over in Dallas. I watched him when he
was in Atlanta. Also played against some probably a couple
of years when he was in Seattle. How has it
been for you being a part of his team?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I think it's been a really you know, truthfully transformative,
you know, for myself. You know, he's a big D
line guy, you know what I mean. And he's been around,
you know, countless of talents in terms of D line
played throughout his career, you know what I mean. And
the things that he's been able to tell me or
tweaking my game, you know, has has allowed me to
(24:36):
perform at such a high level.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
That's what's up.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I mean your head coach is a D line guy
you gotta love to actually, you know he knows what
he's talking about. And Ryan Carrigan also one of the
coaches over there. Ryan is you know, staple part of
this organization. Man, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
He was on Red Bull coffee. Would you do before the.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
City game?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
We were like one A right boy, you came out
and set the tone. Second player the game sack like
that speed power me in London? Was we all watch
your highlights? We was comment on your technique? Man, I mean,
Kansas City, what what's going on?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Man?
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Man, anytime you have opportunity to to put Patrick Mahomes down.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Like it was like you sound like you that that
was personally Yeah, Man.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
To me, I take everything personal, man, like I take that.
I take any quarterback trying to throw the ball personal.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
I think that's that's where my mind is. You know
when I play, when I play football, where there's Monday night,
Thursday night in the parking lot at practice as.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Personal, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Like I nothing nothing for me in my career has
ever been given to me, you know what I mean?
And that's something that I've prided myself on, you know,
six round draft back. I went to Temple University. Man,
you know what I'm saying. So like for us dogs say,
ain't another day is getting out of the mud?
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Man? Like just that's how that's how I get down man.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
So uh, I'm having the opportunities to go out there
and lead those guys and and UH speak was how
I speak to myself going into games, you know, be
able to share that with the t I think.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
That how has it been with that opportunity you speak
on talking about things a person knowing nothing was given?
You know, we've had a lot of injuries on this
this early part of our season, and especially at your
position on the D line. Now it seems like that
door was open for you to go out there and
show the world, you know what you can be. How
(26:20):
has the opportunity been?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Man, it's been. It's been awesome.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Obviously it's unfortunate to see our guys go down. Man.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
You know, but one thing that I that I uh
love about this D line, dog, it was it was
built well you know, whether whether it was me or
d A or JB or Dietrich, you know, Vonn whoever's
out there on the edge. You know, even with press,
you know whoever's out there on the edge.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Man. You know, the goal in this league is no
drop off. Man.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
You know, if you're going to rotate waves of d linemen,
you want it to be consistently guys doing the things
they need to do every play.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I think they've done a good job with that for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
So just looking at your kind of your bio, your
history up in Colorado, then you end up going all
the way to the East coast to Temple University, whiles
around in the league, and then it seems like you
been making making players here. How what how first of all,
how did you end up all the way?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
From Colorado?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Man, So so I'm from Houston originally I grew up
in Colorado and then Temple.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Man, Uh, kind of crazy story.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
So my brother was playing at the time, he was
playing for the Chiefs at the time.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Eight years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
We're gonna talk about it in the league.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Man, My brother was in Kansas City, and then I
had I was getting a lot of interest from you know,
teams on the West Coast and stuff like that. But
I was kind of you know, I'm I'm big on experience,
life experience, you know what I mean. And uh, every
time I would go visit my brother he was in.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
College, he went to Columbia, New York. Man.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
We'd never been anywhere near New York, you know, my
family at least, so we got the chance to go
out there and check that out. I thought the vibe
was dope. And then I was between C s U
and CEU. Coming down to it, I knew I didn't
want to stay in Colorado. Man, So he passed my
tape along to one of his assistant coaches up there
(28:15):
in Kansas City. Shout out to Mark da Leone. He
ended up passing my film along to the schools in
the conference.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You know.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Temple called back, I think Yukon and maybe U c
F called back as well. Unfortunately, only had one visit left,
you know, out of the five, so I picked Temple,
you know, and fell in level Philly.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Man. Yeah, talked about your brother, man.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Obviously he's a big factor in your life, helping you
with school so or or.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Just in your life.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
And he played in the league as well, so talked
to about that relationship.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Man, being the youngest boy, I got two older brothers,
you know, being the youngest boy, you have a great
example of things what to.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Do and what not to do, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
And my brother Josh worked extremely hard everything he did,
you know, he most definitely set the foundation of the
expectation of work that that that's required to be successful
in any industry, you know, whether it be football, whether
it be school, whether it be you know anything, whatever
you whatever you're doing, and has allowed me to model
(29:19):
my approach to the game like that, you know, and.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Whether it be recovery.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
He recovers hard, you know, he plays halrready, trains hard,
you know, everything he does super intentful man, and I
think he's done an amazing job so.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Far as I look at you and some of your
off the field stuff that you've done this past week.
You hosted tails and tailgates with the Humane Rescue Alliance
this past week, And first of all, how'd you start
working with that organization and what does it mean to
you to be able to do do that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Type of work.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Well, I got linked up with I tend to work
with shelters or the zoo wherever.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Whatever team I'm with, whoever does the.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
A great job, you know in terms of getting animals
in and out of the shelter, you know, and using
people like me, you know, to bring that message to
the shelter and things like that.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
But it's something I' passionate about.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Men.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
I've beenassionate about animals my whole life. I've you know,
raised all different kinds of animals throughout my lifetime. I
have three dogs now, three dogs and a snake.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I got Golden retriever, he's my oldest.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Name is Bubba. I got a black lab piple mixed.
His name is Beans. And Bernie's mountain dog her name
is Mabel. And I got like a two and a
half foot long corn snake.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
His name is Maurice.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You actually named your snake Maurice. What's your feeding?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Like?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Rats and stuff? Rats of animals?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
No, no, man, I grew up you know.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
My mom was a science teacher. Enjoyed of my life,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
So she's you know, scorpions, sick and cockerroaches, all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Going back to like playing here in Washington or theme
for you talk about that room my brotherhood, man, and
you see it on both sides of the ball, and
we got these injuries and stuff going on. How does
you know the team rally like you know, next man
up mentality in their brotherhood?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Because it seems like you guys have came out on
defense on fire and just the passion is still there
in a lockdown.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I think knowing that guys prepare they how how guys
prepare here? You know it's super intentful.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Man.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
You know you're not going to see that everywhere where.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
You know, you got the backup safety preparing as if
he's getting ready to start, make the start that night,
or you know, a special teams ace, you know who's
who's his main role of special teams, but he's gonna
you know, take the time to learn the defensive.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Checks and and and things like that for that week. Man.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
So really just guys owning their roles, but then the
plus owning the rules. Plus they understand, okay, this is
this is a violent game.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Guys may go down. So let me.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
They may not have had you know, a rep in
that defensive team period that week, you know, or that
Thursday practice, but they're watching the film and taking the
notes intently as if they're they're going to make that start,
which I think is dope.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
This has been great. It was great man, So Jacob.
One of the things we do with all the guests
to come on our shirt man. We asked you to
autograph our football man, and I appreciate you, appreciate you
joining us on the Players Club.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Thank you for your time. Man.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
All right for this edition another Players Club. We'll see
you next week.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
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