Green Light with Chris Long - Brandon Graham on Eagles Offseason Moves and Best Super Bowl LII Moments.

Episode Date: April 16, 2020

0:51 - Open. 2:36 - Chris and BG Catch up and talk BG Workout Regime. 10:49 - Eagles Offseason Moves and 2019 Eagles Season. 21:15 - Mailbag: Chris asks BG about "The Play", Favorite Jersey Trades, Twitter, and One Compliment for NFC East Quarterbacks. 40:00 - Quick Hitters. Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. 🌍🏀🏈SUBSCRIBE NOW ⚾🏒⛰️ http://bit.ly/chalknetwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, say, hey, Chris. What's you doing? Chris. What's you doing? What's you doing? Just doing the sunny day game. How many games are the Eagles going to win in 2020? How many games the Eagles going to win this year?

Two games. No, no, no. That ain't going to be a good year right there. That's stolen for material. That's all she's doing is she's trying to motivate you. Welcome to Greenlight Pod. I'm your host Chris Long, and the guy I've got on today does not need a lot of introduction. His name, Brandon Graham, if you like the Philadelphia Eagles, if you like the NFL, if you've watched any Super Bowls, if you'll remember a couple years ago, he's the guy that took the ball out of the goat's hands at the end of the game, strip sack, right off his hoof, onto the turf, into Derek Barnett's hands.

a couple possessions later. The rest is history. The Eagles are world champions. And he was one of the best players on that team. He's still one of the best players on that team. With all the turnover going on there, I'll ask him what's that like. I'll ask him if that play he made in the Super Bowl

versus the Patriots is indeed the most important in Philadelphia sports history. I'm biased. I got to believe it's up there because we weren't getting a lot of stops at that point. Somebody had to step up and make a play. And Brandon did, and that's the type of guy he was. And he's one of the most unselfish teammates I've ever had.

He has put together a hell of a career. He will go down as one of the most celebrated Eagles of all time just because of that play. But he has a nice body of work, first round pick out of Michigan, played in a couple systems for a couple coaches. And he has been a force in the run game. He's been a force rushing inside.

He's been a force rushing outside, 50 career sacks, and a number of big, big plays. So we'll catch up with BG and ask him a few questions. Welcome to the Greenlight Pod. Man, it barely needs an introduction. BG. What's up, man? What's up, Chris? What's up, bro?

Yeah, hey. Say what's up, man. Say what's up. This is what BG does best. I mean, BG's a tremendous football player, but he's probably a better dad, which is all day you're on the phone with these kids, man. Oh, man, you know, you remember, man,

it's still the same, you know, FaceTime. Any chance I get, you know, that instant, you know, picture of me just on the phone, you know. I'm no baby girl now. It's paid off for that because now our relationship. is really good. And baby boy, he's just a mama's boy. You better believe your relationship is good because right now it's all you're seeing as your kids. Ooh, I know. You ain't lying. So off season's been weird. You're sitting at home. But obviously something

even like way more serious than football has been happening in your family. You lost a couple relatives to COVID-19. Was it on your dad's side of the family? Is that what I read? Yeah. And man, I just found out yesterday that one on my mom. had just checked in. And so it's just, it's crazy, man. Like, I really, we really taking it serious, even though we was doing it before. It's like, you really, you know how I feel when it hit home.

You know, it's like, man, let me make sure I don't put myself and my family, you know, in danger by, you know, taking this thing lightly. How hard has it been, like, do that experience for your family and not be able to visit those folks who were dying? Yeah, man, it's a different experience, man, because, you know, I never, we never been through nothing like this, you know, where the city is shut down. And then on top of that, when they go into the hospital, it's not like we can go visit them.

You know, we got to drop them off and hope for the best, you know. And one of the aunties, you know, she went into a coma so we really couldn't talk to her after, you know, like the first day because, you know, it just happened so fast. And it's like, man, it's just you hoping that they're doing the best that they can for them. and you know, and you just putting your, you just putting in guys hand that, that. Your family's going a little bit, at least a little bit, right? With, in terms of aiding and the crisis in Philly,

you guys are doing more? Yeah, we gave away 300 cheese steaks to UPenn. The wife had came up with the idea of just trying to do something. And, you know, we figured we do something like that, you know, get the food, get the food, you know, to the hospitals, was because she has a friend that works there, and she was just asking how our things, and she was just talking about how hard it is to get food

and get those, like, you know, door dasing those guys to, you know, get the order, you know, and be able to do those big orders. So we reached out to gyms. His name Ken Silver, the owner, and that was my second time really talking to him, and, you know, he put it together for us, for us, delivered it, you know, and made it happen for us. So I was excited, man, because they really needed that. And everybody, you know, hit us up thanking us,

and now we want to do it in Michigan. Yeah, absolutely. Is it pretty widespread in Michigan right now? What's the time I'm going to share where you guys say? Well, this, man, it's even worse. They say the deaths here, you know, is more than California. So I know it's, you know, we're going through it right now, you know. And so we just try to make sure I do it.

all I can while I'm going through this right now. And, you know, after that, man, you know, I do it all I can, you know, and make sure that I take care of what I need to do. How do you train? Luckily, man, I got a gym in the house. So we do, we use this Zoom and we do the workout that the trainer, you know, tells us to do. And then with my wife being in there, you know, I can't look bad in there, so I got to go hard. Yeah, dude. Well, you listen, you never disappoint in the way room. What can you bench right now? What can you squat? What can you clean?

Because you're doing all still. Well, yeah. I was hang cleaning yesterday. We did 335 yesterday for counts of five. I did three reps, three sets of those on the bench. I'm doing about right now about 365 for a set of four, but four sets of four, stuff like that. And we do like pushups in between, you know, something in between the burnout.

arms, you know, as you're doing them. So, yeah, man, I mean, squatting wise, I'm doing a bunch of, not, you know, free weights where, you know, it's on my neck, but I'm doing like dead lifts and, you know, jump squats and stuff like that. I'm not really going crazy, you know, we're just doing too much, too much squat right now. You just have always been a weight room beast, dude. I don't even know where you get it, but you got it and now you're in your home gym. power cleaning 335 or hang cleaning sorry yeah yeah power clean power clean i say about 275 right now because that's just me talking because i worked out today and i'm i'm a little tired

already you know but uh on a good day i probably do 315 uh probably not as many reps as far as like five but i probably do three and then we'll probably do four sets of that so as you're sitting around here at least you know the last couple weeks there were some eagles were making some moves right you know jenks gone down in New Orleans which is tough

it's another tough one to swallow you know him being gone because he was in that core group you know JP don't know what's happening there what do you what do you think about all the change I mean because you now are a guy that's been there about a decade

it's been a decade and you seen hundreds of players come and go, it feels like. The team's changed over through different regimes. It's like a second wave of players. What do you make of that? Well, you know, when I look at like guys that's been there with me for a long time, like JP, you know, that's going to be an adjustment, you know, because I'm so used to him being there.

Then you got Malcolm who's played with me six years now. And it's like, hey, you know, now that's going to be a big change. But I'm excited because I really feel like a lot of the, of people that some people are going to have to step up and you know I know for me it's going to be you know I don't put that much pressure on myself to be this big vocal leader but if I do feel something on my heart and I know that coach allows you know how we break it down in the end I'm always thinking of you know keeping it simple and just trying to you know just be direct you know with my message and so I always think about work man you know how I go you just got to come to work every

day, you know, and it depends on what's going on. You just kind of blurt it out. But I'm really excited for who is going to be the one to step up, even though we lost those guys. I know once we get into it, you kind of, you know, forget, you know, that they, that they are even gone because you kind of get used to the new team because you know how I go. People. Yeah, you always feel like, man, I could never imagine if this player was gone.

I could never. And just the show goes on. The show goes on, you know, like whether it's retirement or free agency, it just. They just replace you. But a guy like JP, who's been there for well over a decade, who's a Hall of Famer. Yep. What did JP bring to the table besides on the field greatness that you'll always remember? Well, you know what?

JP had an old soul, you know, so, man, just the music that he brought to the table. Just, you know, being honest with people, you know, he came to work every day. You know, it's a lot of stuff that, you know, I'm going to miss because, you know, a lot of this stuff we do in the building was I started with him. So with JP gone with Mount gone, who are you looking at coming in, the new crop of players? You know, you talk about you already know Slai. Got a guy coming in from Pittsburgh up front. Like, who are you looking forward to playing with the most?

You know what? I'm looking forward to playing with Slai because, you know, how it goes. Man, when you get you a corner, you know that. And, you know, I'm excited for that. It makes it better for us because he's going to slow the time up, you know, with, you know, the quarterback. So if anybody I'm excited for is him first. And then you got Hargraves, who's in the middle now with a Fletch, with Malik Jackson. I don't know how that's going to, how it's going to work as far as, you know, how we do it on third down.

You know how I go. But I think Malik might go to outside at end a little bit. You know, I just don't know, man. I'm excited for that, though. I'm excited for, you know, what we didn't have last year. Guys wasn't healthy. You know, we got Hargrave coming in that, from what I see already as a dog. Take me through last year.

It was like a gut check, including the year before. I mean, I wasn't there last year. I was there in 18. Obviously, it feels like it was just yesterday, but it's been two years since the Super Bowl plus. And, you know, 18 was, hey, no Super Bowl hangover. You guys don't get complaints. I thought we pulled together real good and we made it run and we damned into the whole thing I thought. Yeah.

It was a different year. Why was it different and what was the low point of that year? Well, you know, injuries, the injury bug got us that last year, you know, I was dealing with a knee. It was just a lot of guys just getting hurt at weird times, man. And, you know, just we was on our last. We was like when you, when you on E and, you know, you're just driving off the films, you know, you're just hoping and wishing, but I really do believe that our belief, you know, got it done because, you know, some of the guys made a name for themselves like Greg Ward, you know, you got a guy now,

what's the name, what's the running back while I can. Yeah, Boston. We never would have saw that coming. You know what I'm saying? Did anybody, did you see that coming? Well, I see them in, I know how he was in practice, you know what I'm saying, but they never gave him the opportunity because obviously the political part of, of this game, but man.

What, you say there's politics in football? You know how it is, man. You know, you can have the best on the bench sometimes, but just because he ain't go first, second, or third, you know, sometimes he don't get the opportunity. So I was happy for them boys because I see him come to work. I didn't see Greg Ward, Moss, plenty of guys, and go out here and burn plenty of guys.

I don't think people understand Greg Ward gave us hell as a team back. What was up with this all or nothing or whatever it was called last year? I wish you was part of it, man. You would have been hype on there. Like, just seeing your dance, I was thinking about just a bunch of different snippets that they could have got to you, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, but you know what? I would have felt weird about it. I would have felt like a little bit like this is our space. Yeah, you know, Swartz was like that too. Swartz was like, y'all, I ain't talking to none of y'all, you know, don't put me on the show. And he was serious about that. And they ain't put him on the show. Who else?

Is there anybody else that really wasn't with it? I bet Fletch didn't like it a lot. You know how Fletch did, like, they wanted to sponsor. I mean, they wanted to feature Fletch, but Fletch would, you know, all right, I'll do this, but I ain't doing that. You know, and then it was just hard. Once you try to get them, you know, you got to catch him at a time when he ain't trying to go home. I felt like Fletch was a good sport about it, but he wasn't really feeling it either. Well, I mean, do you have, like, do you have ownership over the footage they have of you,

or do you sign a waiver and then, you know, like, anything today goes out? So the Eagles had control of everything that went out. So, you know, they're not going to try to make you look bad at all. So that was the whole deal. They came, and the Eagles say they don't like it, cut it. You know what I'm saying? And they cut it. And that's what I respected more because it's not like, I don't know how hard knocks work

because I ain't never did hard knocks, but they say it's different because we got all the control on what we put out there. And so they got the last year you have control while hard knocks is whatever. Yeah, hard knocks is like whatever. Like, you know, you better, you better not put no stuff out there. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That you don't want out there.

So it's just different. What did I miss? What else did I miss last year? What did I miss? Let me see. What was a new trend on the team of the locker? Well, you know, we were still, we all we got, we all we need. You know, that stayed, that stayed, that held true towards the end.

You know, everybody was together. I agree there, man. It was really impressive. I mean, shake together at the end. Especially how we lost the Dallas the first time. You know, when we got blew out by Dallas, man, that was a long ride home. Boy, I thought, who, I ain't know what was going to happen at that. point. And then we lost to Miami

too. Ooh! I think Miami was the worst. But the most embarrassed I was was Dallas because of all the stuff that we said before, even like they got coach saying, oh, you guarantee we're going to win. You know how they switch the words up. And so

yeah, man, it was a lot of stuff that we could have turned and went another way. I don't know that Miami was the worst team. Well, yeah, they were probably the worst team y'all lost to. But they ended up to their record. But they was a good team, though.

We knew they was a good team because they was well coached. They coach was good. But, you know how I go. It's like when you're going to a game feeling like, we got this one. And we got a pick on the first play, Darby. You know what I'm saying? So it was like we could score at will, but, man, we was just making too many mistakes on defense.

And then 50-50 balls, we wasn't coming down with them. They was just, man, Devonche Adams was having a day. Yeah, he was crushing, dude. Yeah, you know. He was crushing at home like. Even though even Diggs had a day against us and that started him because he wasn't having a good season up to that point when he played us. And then he had three touchdowns, same play, play action, deep ball.

Yeah. Now, you've gone up to Dallas loss, okay? That, to me, jumped off the page as probably the worst loss because the division rival it was a big game. It truly, every loss it felt like, hey, before the Dallas came, it was like, hey, this is a must win. If they don't win this one, they're out.

Yeah. It was like, well, that's it. New England. That's it. Seattle, that's it. It was never over. But the Dallas one stung, it was like a live watch,

you know, hang out with the fans. And by the first quarter, I was like, I need to get out of here, too. Yeah. Energy in this building is awful. Yeah. You've seen it at a level. I'd never seen it at a level.

seen it at. Like, you know, I've never been in the bar and just kind of seen, you know, what it's like during the game in Philly. You know what I'm saying? Other than just, I know what it feel like on the side of the field. You would rather be getting beat by the Cowboys than being treated. Straight up. So, yeah, man, I think, yeah, that was, that was, you're right, that was the worst loss because we was embarrassed and we took a, it was a blowout, you know what I'm saying and them boys was talking but the best the best game was when we came back and beat them boys that that was the best feeling because that was for everything and you know of course we got to win the other games going down but we knew that we was one game up on them you know what I'm saying

because of you know us beating them the second time around what about carson man carson was a big topic and I took a lot of hits in the media for standing up for him all the time because people like you're a homer I love carson I love nick they're both great players Well, Carson's the franchise quarterback. How unfair do you think the injury stuff was in that situation late in the year? Because it was a concussion. He has no control. Yeah.

And then I think, you know, it's Philly. You know, I know what it feels like for people to give up on you fast and we won't. We won a Super Bowl with Nick. And I know Nick, you know, it's great. You know what I'm saying? But this is who we got. And, you know, he's great too. Y'all will kill somebody confidence based off, you know, just the emotions that how people attack you

you know, on social media. You know what I'm saying? I just felt like Carson didn't get a fair trial coming back, you know. And then on top of that, injuries hurt him to where, you know, he can't be what he want to be. But I really do believe that, you know, with him not focusing on the injuries this offseason, he can focus on, you know, a little more than, you know, just his injuries he's been dealing with, coming in healthy.

And, man, I'm just excited for him because, you know, like, this is one of them prove a year for him. Even though he got the deal already, you know, I'm sure he want to have a heck of a year and get back to that MVP, you know, quarterback, what at least status that he was at. Well, it was amazing the numbers he was able to put up with some of the players that we talked about. Nothing against those guys, but going in, I called him shadow picture guys. In the program, you look for their picture, it's a shadow, like, you know, like a guy

who doesn't have a team picture yet. So those type of guys, they turned out to be step up. up type guys and more power to them, but they weren't established guys. So, you know, it felt like anybody else in the league, if they were throwing to what he was throwing to, no disrespect those guys. Yeah. You know, that would have been a built-in excuse. But for some reason with Carson, nobody wanted to make that excuse for him.

He still played well. I can remember the Giants game, Week 17, that throw across the field to perk, you know, a number of those throws that were just, you were like, he's really doing this. He is doing it. He has never heard of. And that's not to discredit those guys. see them in practice. We know they're good players, but, you know, it's just not the same. But chemistry is everything. Chemistry is everything. And then he hasn't been able to, you know,

play with these boys all off-season. You know, he ain't been able to, you know, he had to learn the timing. He had to get all that stuff down. And like I said, man, like, that was a good point. It's like he didn't know what he was going to be dealing with. He didn't know, but he just adjusted and he played, you know, elite, you know, with the guys he had. Yeah. Okay, so I want to take you through the mailbag. This is the stuff to fans. sent in. There's some pretty good ones in here. Okay. And I had multiple people asked me this. As if you probably haven't,

as if you've never talked about this before. They want, they want you to take, or us to take, to take the fans through the play, the BG strip sack, okay? We were in hot left or hot right? We was in hot left because Fletch was getting the point.

Yeah. And we was to the field. Yeah, we was to the field. Yeah. So I ended up powering. And you ended up going, which was dumb. I should just go on speed, but, you know, Brady's drop targets a little shallower.

So take me through your entire thought process there. Do you remember what down and distance it was? Do you remember how much time was? It was second down and one, second and one. And are you thinking pass rush? I was thinking pass rush,

honestly, because of the, like, you know, the back. I felt like if anything, the back was up, and if the back, you know,

would have came across, you know what I'm saying, if it was a run play, you know, we would have, we would have been right there rushing anyway to cut, make a cut back. But I really, we ran a, we was in rush too. So I think, yeah, because. Yeah, so as soon as we hear rush, we're rushing. We rush.

So I'm in past rush mode. And so, you know, I've been just setting them up with speed. I mean, with power and I just been running into them. And, you know, I finally, you know, was like, you know what? I'm going to go outside. And I thought I was going outside hand swipe early. And, man, I got free. As soon as I got back, man, I just reached.

That ball hit the ground. DB picked it up. So after you take the ball out of Tom's hand, I'm on the ground. Are you on the ground? What? Right after you hit the ground? Yeah. No, I never hit the ground.

I never hit the grounds. I was like, I peaked and I looked, and then I just took off, and then I seen you run up. You know what I'm saying? Because I didn't see the play a lot of times. I seen you fall, but I didn't fall. DB hit the ground at D. Did he got the strip.

and then I just took off and then, you know, I did the dance or whatever and you ran up on me, Hamu ran up on me, and, you know, we celebrated on the Saturday. Because I closed my eyes as I was reaching and then next you know, you know, the ball on the ground

and then it bounced up, D.B. hands, and then I just took off running. Like, in my mind, I wasn't sure who picked it up. I just remember first hearing the crowd and being like, okay, I think we got it. Then seeing, like, afterwards, the fact that DB picked it up like scoop and score. Yeah, yeah.

That's the sketchiest part of that whole play for me. Man, it's crazy because I promise you, it was like bounce. Like the bounce was like, wow, like it was meant for us to win this game because the bounce, like it hit off his foot, it bounced up, and then, man, like it's like DB knew it was coming to him because, man. But if you were a coach, you'd be on the sideline like, yo, fall on the ball. bro. Yeah, yeah. You know, and it bounced right up to his hands. He grabbed it quick. I don't even think he's seen it. You know what I'm saying at first? And it just kind of popped in his hands.

And, man, I was so hype. I just, I really couldn't believe that it actually happened. Man, that was, man, that was the best moment, man, ever for all of us, man. You know what I'm saying? Do you remember on the sideline before that happened, Lane Johnson and the guys coming over and being Like, guys, can we get a stop? Yep, yeah. One stop. Like, come on, please. One stop.

And then when I seen the video of Nick Sands Strip him, he was talking to you, he was talking to, who else? He was talking to you. He talked to Fletch, but they got a video of that, you know, of people talking before to play. And I remember talking, we was all on the bench and we was talking about that, man, we got to get a stop. You know, because I remember Fletch saying to me, man, we in this same situation like

they was a year ago in the Super. and like man we ain't about to let that happen we got to go get a stop is it the play in philly sports history you know what i say yes only because we won we won the super bowl's king dude nobody yeah like listen the phillies are awesome like baseball is awesome basketball is great but the one championship i felt like that city you know was star for which it was was football And that was the play, among other plays. I always say, defense didn't really show up that day, but BG showed up for a play, and that was great.

Man. We've got NFL fashion advice asked, should we bring back to Kelly Greens? Yes, I would love for them to bring that back. Man, I wore that my first game, my career, my rookie year against Green Bay, the year Green Bay won it all. We wore them out the throwbacks for the first game,

and then I ain't never seen them again, but man, them pants is so sweet. It's like a little cream with the green, then the helmet. Let me show you. Hold on. I got my jersey right here. So, yeah, this is my little shrine right here. Yeah, this is the 54. But this is the Super Bowl year right here.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, hold on. So, yeah, this is high school, college. What's your high school? Is that your, which one's your high school? That purple team? Yeah, purple gold. purple and teal. That is the ugliest combination of colors I've ever seen.

Oh, I know, because we was all purple too. Like, that's so funny. We had the pants with the black, black spot. Yeah, we had all that. What's your most proud jersey swap? My most proud jersey swap. You know what? I got to go with Benny Lowe. Because, uh, yeah, Benny Lowe, uh, he was in Kansas City, you know, me and him, we still talk and we still, you know, I'm saying, you know, root for each other, even though he retired and stuff. I'm a lot. happy that he made his transition over in LSU right now. Is there anybody whose jersey you want before you hang it up? You know what?

These was like Khalil Nimm, Kalil Magnum, they send me jerseys. You know what I'm saying? Ponsie brothers send me jerseys, but I didn't get them made out to me. You know, these was like not game war. And they were like, they regular like what we order, you know, jerseys and stuff. And so I felt like with the swap, I got Benny Lowe, I got Kurt Coleman, you know, who was there with us. And, you know, I got to say the message that I got, though,

the best message I got was King I Barron. And this one right here, I will always remember because... You wrote you a letter. Yeah, he wrote me a letter because, you know, it was crazy because when he got cut, the year we won the Super Bowl, and then he came back. Remember when Sproes got hurt, he came back. Yep.

But I was telling him before I left, So we had a talk because I seen him before he was leaving out. And we was talking. I was like, look, man, you don't know how God worked this thing. And you never know. You know what I'm saying? Or you might be back because we're making this run. You know, and I was talking to him.

And then when he came back, boy, he almost pried because he was like, man, I was going through it. But, you know, you helped me with your words. And, you know, I was, you know, it really hit me. And I was like, dang, you know, I was just kind of being. I felt at that time I just was just telling him, you know, not what he wanted to hear, but just telling him, like, giving him hope. And then, you know, he was saying that was a rough time because he ain't see that one coming. And, you know, when he went to the Chargers, of course, you know, that was cool.

But he knew what type of team we had. And when he came back, man, it was just like, that's, that was the best one. That was the best message I got, you know, from somebody. That's pretty cool. All right. Well, Jacob Haskey asked, which loss stung more? 2006, Ohio State 1 versus 2, or 2007, or the opener versus App State. Ooh, App State.

Dude, I remember where I was when that happened. I had no idea we'd be boys, but I remember watching that game and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. I'm not even a lot. Yep, yep. I know, man, because really them boys far hard. You know, like that game, the quarterback, they had. had this receiver number two. He ended up playing the league.

Both of them did. But the quarterback ended up going to receiver when he went to the league. But man, them boys ran quick slant, and that boy took off a couple times on us. I've never really had corners, man. Like every year out of play, you know, it's like, man, I ain't had no shutdown type corners, you know, to go ball.

You had to go fighting claw for everything you did. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I can't remember. I can't remember having too many shut. I don't want to forget somebody, but I'm not sure I've had a shut down corner either. You know, like even the year, because P. Robb was out here shutting down.

It was a nickel. Yeah, it was a nickel. You know, I had, you know, we had some, like, I ain't disheeing saying it in a bad way. I'm just saying, like, like, we, like a Ramsey. We never had a Pat Peterson. Yeah, we ain't never had a Pat Peterson. Like, you know.

Yeah, we'd have had 100 sacks by now. Oh, man. We need to be, you know, just thinking of the almost sacked because you're like right there and you're like, dang, you know, he got rid of it, you know. Could you imagine playing with like the no-fly zone corners or like Seattle or Seattle? That's why Mike B was out here, even though Mike B is good, but Mike B and them, them boys. That's a good place to be, dude. That was a good place to be. You're going to get your numbers. Very loyal to Michigan.

You are not afraid to back your alma mater. How many more years does Harbaugh have left? Where are we at with that? One to two more, depending on what he has, like what he do this year. You know, he can't keep losing. I know, you know, recruits keep leaving. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, it's just tough, man.

Oh, it's tough. But if anything, I say one to two years, depending on his seasons. If he have a good one this year, he extended a little bit, you know, but it's how much you get paid, I don't know. So if they beat Ohio State this year? If they beat Ohio State, yeah. I think, you know, they extend this contract. And they will beat Ohio State this year?

I believe so. You know what I'm saying? Every year, every year from here on out, man, we about to go on this run. It don't stay the same. Believe that. Let me get 10 grand on Ohio State. Well, you know what? I ain't going to put my foot my arm, very.

I'm going to wait to see how. how the season going. Good, good, good, good. But I'm still give you the bet no matter what, but, you know, the number might not be as high. Okay, so, okay, so Daniel asks a sack celebration, where did it come from?

And I actually don't even know that. Yep, so in Detroit, you know, it was a rapper. He used to do it, and it was boss up and get his money. So every time we get a sack, we get money. So, you know, he used to throw his two hands up and throw it down. And so that's why I kind of took it

because it was Detroit. And, you know, people respected that dude, you know, coming up. And, you know, of course, people in the streets, you know, he ended up getting killed. But his son now is kind of, is a rapper too. And, you know, he got a lot of buzz too. And so I just try to keep it going because it's a Detroit thing. Well, you got a bunch of Caucasians in Philly doing the boss up and get this money. I know.

That is so funny, though, man, because people walk up on me and be hitting it. Yeah. It's all cool, though. Everybody knows it. Okay, this is from Zach Zaner. How did you handle being a first round pick and having early struggles and then becoming a beast? Well, you know, how I handled it early on was, you know, I thought I was doing good, you know, at first. But then adversity came, I got hurt.

And then that's when it was tough for me. Like, I didn't realize how stressed I was until I came out of it, you know, because I used to be into the social media, Twitter really. you know, during them times and, you know, people would, you know, say something. And then as soon as I say something back, that's when everybody would come out of nowhere. You know what I'm saying? And try to, and try to, you know, start attacking me. And so I used to fall into that, man, if they go back to my old tweets, why I used to be saying some stuff?

Because I had one time somebody called me a B word. And he was like, B grams, he put my at handle. And then he says, a B. And I was like, who. And then that was the last. time I got off Twitter like for a minute because of that situation because man it was a guy that you know obviously he comes to the stuff and you know after all what he said you know all these people start start coming at me and I was just going off on them and I remember Evan Matthews

came to me like hey man this dude he'd be he'd be coming up to like the signings and stuff I was like I don't care about that like that's his young me you know but we ended up passionate out. The guy really was just talking stuff. They always are, dude. Yeah, yeah. You know. Dude, here's the thing. I just explained this to somebody the other day. Like, I argued with people on Twitter

for most of my life. I stopped recently. Okay? I'll do it every once in a while when I'm just not in the mood. But it's not even an argument. It's just, I'm saying what the fuck I'm going to say. And then you can do whatever you want, but this isn't a discussion. Now, that's the way I carry things now.

Okay. If I go back and forth with somebody, I'm wasting my time because nobody on Twitter has ever changed anything but my mood about my life. Nothing. So that's a dynamite lead into John Rambo's question. Why do you block everyone on Twitter? Because, like you say, I ain't trying to go back and forth with you. You said what you said, and I don't want to even say what I'm going to say because I don't want to get you started. And then, because I ain't at that place yet, Chris, I ain't trying to go back and forth.

So I just block them. You know, and I feel much better because, you know, now I understand. Now I know that people really be caring about being blocked, so stop running that mouth. That's what they need. But people care about being blocked, but some people love getting blocked. If you block some people and then go look at their profile, they're bragging about getting blocked. So I carry it like, okay, so I discovered the mute button. It's a beautiful button.

Okay. You're effectively blocking them, but they don't know it. So they think they're getting ignored. I think that, like, you got to know the difference. at least the way I look at it, between people being a troll. Because if you block a troll, that's like a notch on their belt. They feel good about that. If somebody's just being an asshole, you could ignore them.

And then they get mad. And then if it's a celebrity or somebody with a blue check, then you block them. That's the system. That's what's on my big board right now. And so that's what I stick to. I had no idea you were blocking a lot of people. I had a few people asked me about blocking people. Oh, yeah, man.

So I had, man, I had over a couple thousand. and people blocked. You know, I wouldn't even go as far as this eye crazy was. Like, if you like something that I, that, that, uh, that somebody was talking stuff on, you blocked too. And people be like, I don't know why I was black. I never said anything. But I was like, yeah, you might have retweeted something. I used to do that. Yep. So, you know, if somebody responded to me with something stupid and there were 60 likes, I was blocking everybody that liked it. Every 60. And then some of them is people that asked me to follow them that I was following them. I unfollow them and block them. Be like, man, get your butt up out of here. I love it, dude. Yeah, I just don't see a lot.

Okay. Stag, man, asks, three teammates you want to be quarantined with and what restaurants do you miss? Well, you know, if Chris come out of retirement, we're in there together. Okay. Then I got, I got to go with Fletch because we have a good time. We'll figure out something. Plus, Flesh could go get us food, like Fletch could go kill us some food. Oh, yeah. Like if all else fails, we can definitely go kill some food. We have no, we got some hunters for sure. By we. Well, I hunt, but not like Fletch, okay?

Fletch, we might not see a lot. He might just be in the tree stand all day. He might be in the tree stand. And that's what I say, too, like with Benny Lowe too, Benny be out there too. They be out there mud and just going on the four-wheelers and going into mud and all that stuff. It seemed like it's real cool.

Fletch that I was going to go out with him. So who's the third? Huh? Who's the third? Oh, yeah, you said third. So I was thinking three total people, like myself included. But the third one. That's a creative, man.

So you could, if you include yourself, that's very creative. So I was like, yeah, so three people, me, you, Fletch, and you know what, be Brooks. Brooks, man. Oh, Brooks. Yeah, Brooks. I got to get Brooks up in there, man. I love Brooks. man.

Security, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody's mess with our house, dude. Nobody mess with our house. And you're going to have some jokes, you know, all around. The physical presence. We get Fletch getting our food.

You and me, we just watch, well, we watch, we can't watch college football. We can't, we can't bet on college football. But, you know, we can talk about ball. We could talk about ball. We could talk ball. And you got to watch, because we got some hungry people. So Flet's going to have to kill a lot of, a lot of food for us, for real, because Brooks definitely going to.

pull it down. Flet's going to put it down, and I know I'm going to put it down. Can you imagine if Mike B was in the house with me, how much we'd argue all day? Oh, man. But it'll be a funny argument, though, because, like, I really didn't appreciate Mike as much as I should have, but Mike was funny, boy. Mike is hilarious. You know what I'm saying? In the moment sometimes you're like, dude, I do not want to talk about this right now. Yeah. You know, what's, but you know, you see, Little stuff about Mike, you know, we are selfish as some, but Mike, Mike don't care. Mike going to let you know how selfish he is.

He's like, man, hey, you take that over there. I'm going to go get the sack. How you like that? You're going to take them two out of him. If me and Mike were in a quarantine house together, we probably just kill each other. People used to say, Mike used to be like, yo, dude, I really, I'm going to hit my people up. We should go on naked and afraid. Like, I think it would be dope.

We'll go out there and, like, you know, kill some bugs and do the whole thing out there. I'm like, bro, I would kill you by the third day if we were on naked and afraid. I just couldn't take it anymore. I just want to like, hey, dude, shut up, dude. We can't. I don't know. We'd have to argue about something every day. All right, these are my quick hitters here.

A player you most want to play with that you never played with in your career, any team. You know what? If I got to go, Patrick Peterson. I always thought that we was going to go get them, you know. But, you know, I would love, I would have loved to play with him. And that was just me talking about corners. But I am happy with Slay. But Pat P, you know, because we got the same agent.

And, you know, I thought one day we would have played together. What makes the Eagles cafeteria so great? Man, we got so many chefs in there. And boy, Tim, cooking it up. Shout out to Tim. Oh, shout out to Tim. Man, that man be making me good breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a long time.

They're all the staff. I'll get them crispy boys, man. I'll get them crispy boys every now and again, man. I'm feeling good right now where I'm at. Not as many crispy boys. What's a crispy boy for the people listening? Crispy Boys is, you know, you put that butter on that grill,

you know, you put the pancake batter in there, you get them crispy edges. That's what we call them, the Krispy Boys. And you used to come every morning, 630 in the morning with the need for the Krispy boy. Oh, man. made me think about what I want the wife to cook tomorrow.

Just for my cheat meal. Shout out to Tim. Outside of Tim, who's the most underrated Eagle staffer that deserves credit? You know what? Troy, I like Troy a lot. You know, Troy is the janitor, you know, but he's been there for a long time. He just seen a lot of stuff. A lot of wisdom, you know, I always enjoy talking to him because, you know,

He just tell me about times about, you know, he know about a lot of players because, you know, he's the one that's kind of like the flyer on the wall. You know, you see him, but you kind of, you know, don't. Some people don't. Some people walk right past him. Don't even know he there. But he knows a lot that goes on. Roy sees everything. He sees everything.

You know what I'm saying. So it's lovely because he knows what the coach is like based off what they put in their garbage can. You know what I'm saying? If you really paid attention. You know what I'm saying? It is kind of crazy. I want to shout out Dom, of course. Dom,

Dom does get credit. I mean, but, you know, still Dom, my guy, Dom, boo. Oh, yeah, Dom. Oh, yeah. I mean, I can go on and on about the distance. Like, that's what make the organization great because we got a lot of people, you know, that, man, I can, you know, vouch for it for real. Like, you know, it's like, man, Dom is great.

I mean, Doug is great. I mean, you know, now me and Howie great because it ain't too much business no more. You got paid. Because we get older. You know what I'm saying? I didn't use me. I didn't use you. You know what I'm saying?

And we'd have made it together. I want to shout out Pat, video Pat, too. Oh, yeah. Pat Dolan. Yeah, man. That's the man. Man, that's the man.

Since you already shouted out Howie Roseman, who wins in a fight, Howie Roseman or Jake Elliott? Oh, man, I'm going with Jake. That boy, Jake is smooth and that boy. You see them trick shots he just did? I'm glad you said that. I do.

taking Jake too. Yeah, I like Jake. Jake could be creative on his hits on how he, how he hit him. Huh? He can kick. Yeah, he can kick. You know him.

I don't know that how he can kick or punch. I don't know. I don't even know if he can get out the way of it. Okay, who wins at all the Eagles coaches, who wins in a mortal combat situation? Ooh. Well, you know, Big Phil ain't there. I know.

That was my first thought. The Phil was there. But let me see. If I had to, if I had to pick one, you know who I think is low-key, you know, nah, I ain't going to say that. Swartz. He tried to make it seem like, you know, he just tried to mind. He played mind games with you.

You know what? Flades. I think Flades. Young Flades. Young Flades. The people need to see. my tattoo. Yeah, man, people do. Like, you know, that that was, man, that's how much love I felt that jar, like, you know,

that you have for him because y'all made that bet and you actually carried out, you know, the bet. And I mean, you know, you're a man of your word anyway, but it's like, you ain't going to put yourself in a position to put, like, put yourself out there like that if you don't really, you know, care for something. I wouldn't have Schwartz. I'll put it that way. I wouldn't know. Right, right. You wouldn't have sports on your day, Flage, people have asked me, like, when are you going to pay up on that tattoo bed? I'm like, you have no idea. I've had it for two years now.

I just never posted. Nobody's seen it because, you know, it's actually kind of a big-ass tattoo on my rib cage. It's, like, too big. Hey, he got his whole face, man. That's what's so funny, man. You remember what it says under it? No, I forgot what it says. It says pay up.

That's what it says under it. Oh, it's a pay up. Yeah, pay up. Okay, sorry. I ain't going to forget that. Okay, so I know you don't forget that because I've taken a lot of money from you over the years. Trust me, man, you know, we still having our little stuff. I love it, though.

You got me, though, that last, the last year. Dang, you know. Okay, so you trolled Cowboys fans after you won the East this year. Oh, yeah, man, you know. With your boy D-gun. Yeah, they trolled me too the first game, so I had to get them back on the second. So is there one fan base besides the Cowboys that you would love to troll? You know what?

I ain't never think about that. Let me think about it. If I had to troll another fan base, it would be, you know, back at home because I know how much people love Detroit. Yeah, I know how much people love Detroit. And they're looking for their first one in a long time. And so I think, you know, it's just an organization thing, man. I mean, for people not to want to be there, that's bad. You know, I mean, and then your facility is not terrible.

But I don't know. It's just the way people run stuff, you know, it does matter how you run your operation. Okay, so last question, since it is a tough, stressful time for everybody out there, I want to spread some love here, dude. So give me one compliment for each NFC's quarterback. One compliment. Okay, I guess I go with the most hated already is with the Cowboys deck. He has all the weapons he need, you know, to be successful.

I can say that. Hey, top of it! Let me see. Who was, oh, Haskins is the quarterback, or no, Teddy Bridgewater now is the quarterback. Dude, you haven't been watching the news, man. Teddy Bridgewater is in Carolina. Oh, Carolina. I'm sorry.

No, that's what I meant. Kyle Allen. Huh? Kyle Allen went up there. Right, right. Okay, so, yeah, Haskins. Ohio State and a Washington Redskin, dude. I know, I know.

I was just about to say, man, it's tough to give him a compliment. I'm going to be real. He got a strong arm. Accuracy, not so great, but, you know, strong arm. Okay, all right. And give us a Danny. dime's compliment. I know.

Hey, well, something nice. You know, you can always say you got sacked by me, your rookie year. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, that is nice. That's nice. I think Dan will appreciate hearing that. Certain guys, certain guys, you'd be like, man, dang, what's the name got me? This guy, you know, you kind of joke about it, but, you know, really on the inside,

you're like, dang, that's cool. You know, you got your boy. You got, what's the name, he, a Hall of Famer, Aaron Donald, or somebody, or whoever, you know, hit him. I'm sure quarterbacks, you know, had a whole talk about, man, who hit you the hardest or who did what, who was your worst person you win against. So I hope that one day he will save me. I think he might. Is there anybody you love sacking that just feels right? Man, Dak. Oh, I love sacking, Dak. Man, you know, anytime you can get them, man, that's the best feeling because, you know, you helping the team win against the boys.

Okay, good. All right. And an expectation for this year, what should we look for for Eagles fans? You know what? We stay healthy, man. We can make it run, you know, and that's just not talk. I mean, I really believe on paper, you know, we got the team to do it, but we got to, obviously, you got to go out there and put the work in.

Once I feel the vibe of who we brought in and how it kind of jail together and how they like it, you know, what's going on, you know, because you got to like what's going on, you know, schedule and I believe they love Doug and his schedule and how we adjust. He's the man, dude. You know, he is the man, man. And every year has been better. Every year he's been, you know, giving a little more and doing different things.

But I do think that we can make a run and we could be right there, up there with the elite, you know, teams right now. I know. I heard Doug saved. I heard Doug saved all the good stuff for when I left, all the break. Oh, yeah, man. I know. Yeah, I'm like, that's why I was like, man, I hope you come on out. but I knew, you know, if they weren't giving you what you had at least, you know,

it was pointless to come back. And so, but we showed what it needed you this year. You would have been playing for show this year. That shit happens, dude. It's all good. Hey, it's all good. If three people fall down the stairs and twist their ankle, you can always call me, buddy. I got you, man.

I know I can get a couple plays about you. All right, bro. I appreciate you. All right.