Green Light with Chris Long - Lane Johnson on Saquon Barkley, The Eagles Offensive Line & Playing TJ Watt!

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

Chris Long and Lane Johnson get together to talk THE BIRDS! The Philadelphia Eagle right tackle, in the middle of an All-Pro season, joins Chris to talk about the battle agains the Pittsburgh Steelers and TJ Watt last week, the upcoming matchup against the Washington Commanders, the vibe in the Eagles locker room, Nick Sirianni's leadership and playing with Saquon Barkley. Lane also dishes on the offensive line stout play under OLine coach Jeff Stoutland, the emergence of Mekhi Becton, physicality of Landon Dickerson and the Eagles OLine's annual Christmas album. (00:00) - Intro (4:30) - Playing the Commanders in WK16 (8:20) - TJ Watt and the Steelers in WK15 (13:30) - Mekhi Becton's Emergence (16:02) - Nick Sirianni's Leadership (19:45) - Jalen Carter's Ascension (27:00) - Eagles Christmas Album (28:38) - Saquon Barkley (32:35) - Aliens in New Jersey Want your Green Light Merch so you can look exactly like Chris and the fellas? Hit the website below and get kitted! https://stores.kotisdesign.com/yotehouse/products Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open. Green Light Hotline: ‪[phone]‬ Send any Talent Search submissions to: [e-mail] Include any video of your talents, takes and bits as well as a little bit about yourself. Love hearing from the Green Light fans. Also, check out our paddling partners at Appomattox River Company to get your canoes, kayaks and paddleboards so you're set to hit the river this summer. https://paddleva.com/ Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42 Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxWFAA-wuB7osdiAJyLOcw 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And then you finish with one of those chokeout drives. And I wonder if you guys even have a name for those drives because you've had about four of them this year, it's got to be a point of pride. Yeah, I mean, it's, you know that when you get in those situations or in the fourth quarter that every possession's, you know, special. So I don't know, we got some momentum. It wasn't pretty.

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bonus bets that expire in seven days in partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. Don't forget, if you haven't signed up for BetMGM yet, use bonus code Greenlight and get your $1,500 first bet offer today. Welcome to the Greenlight podcast. A very special guest interview today. Chris talks to Lane Johnson, former teammate and currently one of the best tackles in the NFL. Lane talks about the Eagles locker room, the game against the Steelers last weekend, having to play TJ Watt. The Commanders this week, the Eagles O-Line, how it's being shaped by Jeff Stoutland, and the Eagles Christmas album.

A lot's covered. A great interview. Make sure you tune in for our Stanford Steve episode tomorrow. Catch you then. What's up, son? Well, I just got home from a crisp Thursday practice. Was it crisp? Yeah, it was crisp.

It was crisp out there. I felt like any time it started getting colder outside, I just not going to. our knuckles and feet just i don't know makes the days a lot longer when you're getting stomped on and fingers jammed that's that that's what i was going actually i had a question i was like thinking of a good land in dickerson mcky backed in question but it's like the question i'm really curious about is how many times are they stepped on you uh mackay some but i thought everybody has broken fingers on our yeah on our team yeah macky's got his whole he looks his left hand on film looks like he has a pigeon in it it's all casted up

And Landon's just, yeah, his wrist is messed up. But, yeah, it's funny. You know how it is towards the interview. You get, why are we doing this? Why are we doing that? But I enjoy it. I enjoy listening to it. Everything hurts a little more.

Everything hurts a little more, yeah. But it also hurts a little bit more for them, too. Yeah, that's the thing. It hurts for everybody. All the time. All right. Well, let me focus on the now, but there's a lot we got to catch up on. Dan Quinn, Joe Witt, Jr., this defense has done a really nice job this year,

the group you're going to face this weekend. What's the number one thing without giving up the secret sauce that you've got to worry about when you face a group like this? What do they make it hard on you in what area? Probably blitz a lot. So I think top three in NFL, as far as blitz percentage, number four, plays inside linebacker, and then he does a lot of stuff as a spinner. And so he has a lot of sacks, yeah.

And Bobby Wagner plugs a lot, too. But I think they do, they move well to second level. I think they try to confuse the center up with this points. Sometimes they rotate the safety down to be in the run box. Sometimes they don't. And so you have to be right with your points. I'll tell you, I've been impressed with Dorrance Armstrong. Yeah, I think, I think what makes him unique is that, you know, he's 6-2 or whatever,

but he has 35-inch arm. He's only 6-2. I don't know. You might be, what was he listening? He's long, like you said. You know, I didn't realize what you just pointed out, but he plays with length. Yeah, well, I thought he has, like, the arm length of, like, a 6-6 guy. I think he's like 6-3, maybe 6-4, but he naturally gets leverage, especially on taller guys like myself.

So, yeah, I think he's very underrated. I think Fowler's having a pretty good year. Fowler's playing really well. Yeah, I think he has, you know, around eight sacks. But he does a good job of going up the field. With his rip move, he'll throw an occasional spin in there to keep you honest. So, you know, he's pretty balanced. But yeah, I just like this unit, they play collectively pretty well together.

They do a good job running games. And they play hard. Like even, you know, our last game, it was, you know, down to the wire until the very end. No question. I mean, listen, there's scrappy bunch. You just played a scrappy bunch, Pittsburgh Steelers. I do want to ask you about T.J. Watt in a moment. but the first thing was, and it just hit me, dude.

If somebody was like, hey, how old is Lane? I would have said, you know what? I got to look that up. So I did. You were 34 years old. BG went down a couple weeks ago. You were the oldest active player on the Eagles. How do you feel about that?

I feel like I got my wisdom now, son, and now I can irrigate my team with it. No, it's definitely weird. It's weird being on the other side. of the coins. I remember when you were in the locker room, obviously had another bad story that were older and where y'all were at then. And so I can kind of resonate with, you know, how you were at that moment. But I think it's cool being around me in a bad mood.

Yeah, exactly. I used to, yeah, I used to mess for y'all. But now I just, I don't know, kind of sit back and just laugh at the young bunch. And we got a bunch of funny dudes on the team. Landon Digginson might be number one. Dude, he's hilarious. You know, I'm on his home. improvement Instagram channel kind of I haven't given him the follow yet I didn't know he had it he has a he has a home improvement channel oh yeah I did not know about this what the hell is he doing he's improving

his home who do you know he's pretty he's he's like a lawnmower guy isn't he yeah but he's I mean he's smart he's very smart oh I know yeah he likes to play doofy on you a little bit yeah he likes to joke around, but it's funny, but yeah, he's always thinking, or looking up car parts. Yeah, or with, damn, what's that? It's not clash of clams, but now, everybody's playing

this game. It's not Farmville, basically you can plant crops, you can exchange. Yeah, it's kind of like, it's not Oregon Trail, but it's pretty similar. Okay, well, uh, the thing I, the thing I liked watching this weekend was, it was landing on Cam Hayward, and you on T.J. Watt,

and my lot on Highsmith. I mean, not to leave out, Beckton, had to deal with some guys and Cam and those guys, but the matchups up and down the line. Would I be right in saying that's the best offensive line in the league playing against the best defensive line in the league? It sure felt like it. I mean, it felt, I mean, when you watch the game, it was like just so much purely dropped back.

They knew what was coming. Like, whenever, I guess you have, you know, the game's mixed up, you have some big runs. You have some big passes, but we were pretty much, you know, committed to throwing the ball. I was like, it's going to be a long day. Yeah. Because it's just like they get so many opportunities to kind of like try out their whole arsenal on you. And so when you have players that good, it's like you kind of see it all. But yeah, he's very smart, man. He means his athleticism, just his intelligence and what he can do with the line of scrimmage. It's probably the best I've seen. Definitely this year. He's just, he's very,

He's very unique. Do you notice, like, the intentionality with his rushes and what he's trying to do? Can you kind of feel what he's trying to set up as the game goes on? Or is he a spin-the-wheel guy? Can you tell? Well, I felt like he'll rush the edge a few times, do a ghost, do a ghost. He might hit you with power, and then he'll go up the field one or two steps and go hard inside move to kind of get you to drift or overset.

And then, I mean, along with the ghost, he'll do it. a lot of times I'm looking for like that lead arm to give it away. So yeah, with him, but basically I'm trying to set vertical. I'm not trying to get, I'm trying to gain a little bit of width, like I need some width in case he pushes the pocket some, but I don't want to create so much width where, you know, I'm worried about TE's, ET, you know, the games. So that's where the set lines are like when we talk about that stuff, that's what I'm talking about. So you'll notice like there's some lines or even like when Breeze is there, like what Tampa does, a lot of times they set pretty flat. They scatter.

They cast a wide net. We're more of like, we keep it firm in the middle. Both Jordan and I, we vertical set. If there is pressure, you know, he has, at the D.N. breaks containing, you know, Jalen can escape the pocket, which we kind of like. More of an invitation. Yeah. But there was sometimes where, you know, I jumped T.J.

I like the jump set for like a D. I noticed you were aggressive. Yeah, sometimes. I try to mix it out. It was just, there's nothing worse than just sitting back and just doing that thing the whole game. So I think it helps with the rhythm of it. But it was a long day for everybody because what I said, they knew it was the past was coming. And everybody's pretty much, you know, man on five down.

So good luck. Yeah, no question. I mean, you were out there on an island a lot and didn't give up much at all. I know you're not going to get into, you know, the stats, but I could give them to you. it was a good day at the office for you. And really for the whole group, man, I really did feel like just the way the game ended. You started with the past game, which was interesting, right?

You know, Egos fans are always like, hey, run the damn ball. We want to see that stuff. But I felt like there was a rhythm to it. And then you finished with one of those chokeout drives. And I wonder if you guys even have a name for those drives, because you've had about four of them this year, it's got to be a point of pride. Yeah.

I mean, it's, you know that when you get in those situations or in the fourth quarter that every possession's, you know, special. So I don't know. We got some momentum. It wasn't pretty. I remember being backed up in the end zone, a three-yard line. And we called Jet protection. I'm like, fuck. Get it out.

Get it out. But, but no, I mean, it was, fuck, there was a few drives in that game where it just, you know, we had a lot of plays. think there was like a 21 play drive one time. That might have been the final 10 minutes. But yeah, I mean, some games in like that. And yeah, I mean, we have a four minute, but, you know, that four minute turned into 10 minutes. Yeah, 10 minutes.

It was really like, I forget what the statistic was. I think it was like, what, 24 minutes of possession in the second time? Time of possession. Yeah. Is that, have you ever been a, I mean, have you guys ever been that high in possession? on one half? Not that I know of. Two possessions and a half

is the lowest since some point for the players. I think when we played Cincinnati, I felt like we didn't have a whole lot of snaps like the first half there. They had a whole lot of the clock. But yeah, I mean, it just, that's how it worked out. We had some plays. We had some penalties on that drive, too, so we'd make some big yards

come back. So we just, we say, you know, we fought, it wasn't pretty. But, you know, defense, like I said, all year, I felt like all the young players are now, you know, they've gotten some games on the other belt, and they just consistently just playing really well. What's the thing that shocked you most about Mackay Beckton, if there's anything that surprised you? I mean, I remember watching him at tackle,

so I knew he had really good feet for Big Man, but like when they're drafting guards, obviously they're looking for guys. They're like between 6-3 to maybe 6-6, 6, but usually a guy that's shorter, you know, has more natural leverage for the run block and stuff. But with his length inside, he really, I mean, when he puts his arms out on people, they're like shocked because he's on him quick. And I think he's adjusted well. You know, he started the year against Kenny Clark, had a really big game.

And, you know, if there's been mistakes, I feel like he's learned very quickly and he's having fun, man. And he's a big guy. And like far as passing off games, just his wingspan from him to an eye. That helps out so much. But he's naturally got some quick feet for a guy his size. I mean, I don't know how big he was in the combine. He ran like a five flat at like 360 or whatever he was. So he's pretty good athlete, really good athlete.

Could you kind of see Stouts, you know, his influence effect in him as the year goes on, the confidence that he probably was starting to build? Yeah. I mean, you know, Stout, he has a unique way of coaching everybody. Sometimes he'll coach players through other players. And so, like, he does a good job of kind of passing around the O-Lyting room. But, yeah, I think he gave him confidence early on. And then as he started, like, getting games under his belt and getting more confidence, and we started to have more success, it's just snowballed.

Like I said, he has those traits that you, you know, he's probably got the longest arms on the team. Yeah. He's, you know, he's super long for a tackle. And him being there at guard makes stuff a lot easier. So is there, what's the weirdest or funniest shit that's happened on a touch push this year? And do guys, when y'all come up there at this point on the other team, have anything to say? I said a few lines last game.

I said, here comes. I mean, yeah, it's one of those plays that everybody's just kind of, it's funny. I just, when you get the bottom of a pile and you see guys like Landon's, his eyes are like lobster eyes at the bottom of his face is just like to pop out of his helmet. So you see that a lot. Yeah. Yeah. But those guys over there, man, they trade a lot of space, him and Jordan. I think Nick has done a really nice job, especially, and we don't have to get into all the noise because the point is the noise is just noise. But he did a great job last week. You could tell with the group and the performance you guys had in a game.

I mean, that's one of the best coaches in the league right there. You know, and I think at some point people, people look up and say, hey, this guy's putting together a hell of a resume. Nick's always been like a great communicator. And I think he's always been transparent. So like even when stuff's not going good or if there is stuff in the media, we do address it in like the team setting. And so with all that our deal, like apologies are made.

And it's like, you know, we spend so much time together that, you know, we face so much other stuff other than this. But to say, I think, yeah, there was some definitely some focus on this game. We wanted to play well. Right. And, yeah, I think that quiets the noise down more than anything. But the way I said, the way I put it, it's like, man,

brothers fight sometimes we have good days and bad days. And I don't think the public realize how many days are not so great. Yeah, yeah. I just don't get out there. And it's not always like. They only see Sunday. they had, uh,

if they had hard knocks come to Jeff Stoutland, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then yeah, you see it's, we've both seen some shit midweek that, yeah,

if it was out there, people would be like, that team has lost it. No doubt. Close. But, but, but when you,

when you spend that much time with each other, you build a trust to where you can actually fuck up the relationship for five minutes and then fix it. It's like, you can't do that with strangers because you don't have the cash a built up. You know, but when you can spend it every minute since August,

you can get into some shit on a Wednesday or Thursday or, you know, people get over it. We're adults. Yeah. I think that's what people realize. And they've been friends long before, you know, even before AJ really came here.

Yeah. So. I'm not even talking about them specifically because I don't want to give that any more gas. But I'm just saying we both seen a lot of instances that if they, if those things got out, people would panic. teams don't panic because, you know, brothers fight, as you put it. Yeah.

And, yeah, and there's ways to handle it and obviously not handle it. But, yeah. We're getting better at it. Hey, what do you think, what do you think Dom's doing on that headset? It's a good question. Does he have a notepad with him? Does he make the notes? I don't know, dude.

I think it's all up here, Pison. I don't know what he's doing. I guess he's probably seen. and the communication is going well. Yeah. I guess that's what it is. I mean, if you're studying OCs, D.Cs, and everybody in between, you're seeing what it's like, you know, in the game,

how are they making an adjustment? So I would sure love to listen to those recordings. I would love to listen to them, too, man. So, yeah, they see everything. That's the real game right there. All right, and somebody who was in the news this week, I have Clint Hurt. If Clint Hurt was a video game boss,

where would you attack him? it's like bowser whatever you're going for so he's going to fuck you up hey that dude is a mountain that's the biggest man maybe ever i saw ted washington now he's not ted washington's height but damn he's bad he's got a wide his back is fucking hey bro five foot at five foot across if you if he needs to tell me to stand in line or go to the back of the line or i can't get in no problem i don't even mask i just go yeah okay uh that's That dude is huge. But he's doing a great job with the D-Line,

and I wanted to ask you about how impressive Jalen Carter's ascension's been. Because I think we both know, and you're one of the first people that told me, you were like, this guy could be special. But I feel like he's putting it together a little bit this year. Yeah, I think he's realized, obviously, he's a prominent player, but I think he realizes that when people watch him play hard and play as many steps as he's playing, that it elevates everybody else. And so, you know, he's taking that challenge on, and he really is.

I mean, I've known he's been a monster for, you know, the past few years. You know, it started last year. People have really seen it on full display this year. I think he has the most snaps played at the position. And like I said, I think him playing his style, his effort level, every play is elevating everybody else. No question. I mean, he's playing a lot of snaps, and he's doing a great job

making the linebacker's jobs easier. and they're playing great themselves. And, you know, one guy who's improved a great deal is Nkobi Dean. I don't know if it's something that Vicks got him doing, but I just feel like on first and second down, especially, he's been so disruptive. Yeah, I feel like they're, you know, both those backers are good at shedding blocks

or guys get to the second level. They're really good with their hands, really good at getting under people's shoulders and avoiding blocks. Because obviously, Yeah, the deep, the deep tackles put a lot of pressure on those guys. But they, I thought they just play really well together. And, yeah, Big does have them dialed up.

There's some different packages, but it's like everybody collectively is playing really well. Nolan's really having a good year. You know, and he plays pretty physical, very physical in the run game. And that's led over to, you know, the pass rush. And so, yeah, and then the secondary, I think probably the most impressive is just how well the young players have started have played really with Q and Kooke. And yeah, it's just, it's fun to watch. Listen, Bond's been incredible.

I mean, everybody knows that. I just wanted to give Dean some love. And then I think one guy that I'm very happy for, because I like the guy, got to spend some time with him at camp and is Nolan. He's playing his ass off. I mean. Yeah, well, he's always done that.

Yeah, but, I mean, now it's like maybe he gains some weight or he's a little stronger, but the power he's playing with and the edges he sets, can you speak to kind of what he's been able to improve upon this year? Yeah, I mean, I think he had, you know, shoulder injury last year, maybe like an AC sprain so that helped or hurt him, you know, as far as some of the stuff set an edge and maybe transition to the bull rush. But he has, he's gotten a lot stronger. He's bulked up. And Like I said, I think the way he's wired, you know, he makes a lot of plays just by, he doesn't stop, but he's just, you know, he's a 4-3 guy.

He bends the edge well, and I feel like he's doing a great job of setting the edge. Like, guys do not want to go out there. He's buttoned presses. Doing a good job with shedding tackles. So he's a lot more violent this year than he was. I mean, it was his second year in it. Yeah. I think he's a rookie.

So, yeah, he's definitely come on. He's a freak. You're getting up there in years. You're like, I don't even know who the rookies are. I don't know what year of this. Yeah, Landon was like I'm in year four or five this year. I'm like, damn. Really?

Yeah. No, but the craziest thing about Nolan is one of those no-glove guys. I don't know why that is. Especially now. Yeah, he didn't need shit. I'm like, he didn't need any of his pants. How would you set? How would you say?

that Reggie White besides prey extra in the shower before the game. I'd have to go jump set him. And then I try to avoid that big ass club just helping me. I might have to just fucking duck that and double under. Unbelievable. They listed him. He had to, he looked like he was 320, 320 out there. He's not no 2A.

This guy was three, every bit 315. Yeah. I think, I think that was. something they fibbed about in the way they listed his weight. Well, Fletch used to get out there in Rusty Edge, man. That's what I'm saying. I don't like putting anybody in the same category. I don't either.

Because the two played in Philly and Fletch was a bad, bad man inside. He was a bad man outside, too. You were in a shitstorm with Fletch, bro. Because he was, yeah, I mean, you knew what he could do inside. But, I mean, he's a 4-7 guy at 300 pounds, and he gets out there and he's so strong. And he does, he's very violent with his club, with his hump move. So, you know, I got a bunch of good years of that in me as well.

Yeah, no question, man. He looks good too. He saw him a couple weeks ago. Seems happy. Yeah. Yeah, he does. He really does. I mean, you know.

I gave me the biggest hug when he came and visited him. It's like, they let you out. It's so good to see guys when they retire and come back, bro. Yes. Yeah. You get to see them in a. in a different light. How long until a different light for you, brother?

That's a good question. Because how far we go this year, what type of lights we're playing under. What's the most important thing? Is it playing a long time or leaving playing good? I think it's good if you're able to leave kind of on your own terms. Yes, I could probably stretch it out.

But I want to be like, be on a good team and still playing. well that makes sense. Yeah. So, but I don't know. As you know, when you get to like year nine, 10, you just take it year by year. One year at a time. Then we get in those years, you just take it day by day.

Day by day, by day. So right now, so right now I'm just like, hey, man, if I can, if I can get through this hard five, six months, whatever it is, you know. That's really how people think. That's how I think. Yeah. Yeah. No.

I mean, I wouldn't even like trying to try to catch you in an. answer there it's just July whatever reported July 23rd yeah whatever this thing's over with I remember I remember 2018 standing in line for the physical like get out of line you don't want to be here

and then it just the you know it just kept shrinking and I was like oh you coward all right you're back in for another year damn it is but you know what you just never know where each year lead you I mean fuck dude I

that's the thing when you're on a team like this. You never want to leave. Because you're afraid of what you might watch on TV. Yeah. But hey, as you know, everybody gets their belly full at some point. No question.

No question. But you go that. Man, the way you're playing still is just unbelievable. But the other thing I wanted to ask you about, man, was obviously your Philly special Christmas. What can we expect on this album? Anything different? Any new features on the album?

Stevie Nix is on it with Kels. I sing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, if you can believe that. I believe it. So yeah, I mean, we recorded everything in July. And, like, Stevie and them couldn't, like, really do anything until, like, during the season. So we just finished it up. But, yeah, probably my favorite song was Rudolph. I wonder, how many country songs do you all get to do on these albums?

Zero. is there a chance of you doing an O-line country album at any point? Maybe Christmas country. Yeah, I would have Jordan Milata and do like a feature on a couple of songs. Like, no my wheelhouse. Like I did the Christmas. Like the best part about this thing was doing the Operation Snowball, which was we went to, we delivered.

Oh, yeah. Thank all these 200, 300,000 toys to kids in Philly. CB told them. Yeah. So CB is the one. originally set all this stuff up. So obviously, Jordan's obviously talented.

Kelton and I love music and you love music, you know, how we just sit there in the locker room and listen to the whole stuff. And so Connor got his, wills as spinning. And we actually, we recorded all this stuff at Rob Hyman's studio in Cotcha Hawkins. So he wrote the song time after time,

the oldie. Oh, okay. He was part of the band The Hooters. So we were in his studio. So that was pretty cool. The experience, was fun. It was unique, but it would be like us going to, um, you know, bat in practice with the fucking the Oakland A's. I know. Yeah. Not a cup, wasn't a comfortable feeling. Yeah,

you don't want to mess it up. You don't want to mess it up. But it was fun. And I thought they did a good job of really capturing the songs and songs that, um, I guess were fitting for the the album. Dude, who's the most famous person that you've seen at a game or somewhere this year? Because I heard that, like, Pete Davidson was wearing, like, a Dom hoodie the other day. And he went to the- Yeah, Pete was in the locker room the other night. Like, after we won.

Y'all are, like, a different kind of famous now where, I hate that I have to use Pete Davidson. Some people are like, oh, Pete Davidson. But, like, there's a lot of people coming around y'all's place. I got to look at the guy, probably the most excited I was this year. I forgot who we were playing. It was a home game. And the cross-eyed minebacker from the Waterboy.

He was in the stands. He was in the stands for a few games. So I didn't get to meet him. But did you tell him how much you liked the movie? I didn't get a chance to. He was in section of 2003. Are you talking about Lyle? You're talking about Lyle from.

Oh, my God, dude. What's his full name? Lyle from Water Boys. Let's see. Jonathan Logren Yeah Jonathan You said Logan Logan

Logan I don't know how to say his name dude but you know it's so funny As I asked you like who the most famous person is And you're like yeah Oh yeah yeah He's not the most famous but to me But to you That's what it makes it amazing

And I know that meant a lot to you to see him The whole Adam Sandler Just people he's had in his movies I want to beat the whole cast But he was there His eyes were crossed I still don't know if that's an actor, if that's how he really is.

He's really taking the act pretty far if his eyes were crossed at the Eagles game. Yeah, they were crossed, bro. He was on the jumbo tron, so I saw him. You know how when you're a kid, they said, if you cross your eyes, they'll stay that way? What if he, like, got it really into it for the role and they just didn't uncross?

You know what I mean? That's what it looks like, Chris. Well, now I'm starting to think he has crossed eyes. Well, he's sitting in the end zone. Like landed at the bottom of a damn tush push. Yeah. All right. Sequin Barclay.

Just the best guy ever or what? Yeah, he came in. He made an early impression. Just went golf with the bros, like his first day here. Yeah. I saw how serious he took that. But he takes it really serious. But he's a lot of fun to play with.

But yeah, I just think, yeah, I would expect him to be, I guess, one of the bros. But yeah, he fit in right from the get-go, like just a guy's guy. And, yeah, just the stuff he can do on the field, you know. I haven't seen some of the stuff. I mean, that's all the stuff shady used to do. But really, like, the first time we've had a guy, like, as dynamic, they can do this stuff he could do.

But, you know, just putting him out wide and seeing the way he can catch the ball, probably out of the backfield, has probably been one of the most oppressive things, you know, just me watching him. He just made so many plays all year. I mean, you've seen them. You know, the record's out there. Who knows, feel break it. We're going to try if he don't.

Cool. If he does, cool. But, you know, him coming in, you know, he's matched all the expectations. Yeah. But, yes, he's been a lot of fun, man. He elevates everybody just with how he is as a guy. And obviously, what he can do as a player. The best O line in the world, the best running back in the world.

This is what happens. Imagine that. The last question I have for you, Lane, is, are these aliens in New Jersey? You all talking about the drones and the, the, um, the orbs? I haven't seen them, but I'm looking for them. You just keep looking. Yeah, and you hear all this stuff. Some guy had his own drone and when they got close to him, the battery shut off.

I don't know. Who knows what it is? I think it's probably our own military and doing some test runs. Let's say they're aliens. Yeah. Who are you sending to meet the aliens from your football team? Britain Covey. Why, dude?

Because he's the purest soul that we have. All right, Lane. That's why. Thank you. I really appreciate that answer. I appreciate the time, brother. Yeah. Well, that's honest answer.

It'd probably do pretty well, too. But, yeah, thanks for having me. And go get us to please. We'll see again, yeah. I'll see you on Tuesday, one of these Tuesdays. Hey, how about these 17 games? Yo, how about it? How about, hey, how about I'm such a little punk bitch now.

I complain about it as a media member. Hey, when they go to 18 games, my eyes might be crossed by fucking, like Jonathan's. I'm telling you, bro. I don't know.