Green Light with Chris Long - Yaya Diaby's High Hopes For Rueben Bain, New Era In Tampa Bay + Bucs Training Camp Excitement

Episode Date: July 28, 2026

Preparing for his fourth NFL season, Yaya Diaby joins us just before heading to training camp with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yaya rolls through the excitement surrounding the Bucs defense with the additions of Alex Anzalone, Rueben Bain and A'Shawn Robinson. He also talks about Chris Godwin picking up the leadership mantle, Jalen McMillan and Emeka Egbuka's preparation for the season, Vita Vea and his early job as an airport transport assistant! (00:00) - Intro (01:25) - Training Camp Preparation (04:45) - Bucs Practice Layout (07:30) - Practicing Against Tristan Wirfs (10:30) - New Era in Tampa Bay (12:40) - Rueben Bain (15:35) - A'Shawn Robinson (18:45) - Pass Rush Techniques (24:15) - Wearing #0 (26:05) - Working At The Atlanta Airport (30:25) - Tampa Bay's 2025 Season & Facing Bryce Young 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 presented by Zone Nicotine and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open: ‪[phone]‬ With the return of the Layup Line, make sure to check out the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=YP1-ffQ3T_yUDRnJRhDtOw Check out Green Light's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, where you can catch all the latest GL action: 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

I want to talk about how you came to wearing zero because I think it actually was pretty sweet. Yeah, man, coming into Tampa, I won at six, but they just had signed Baker. So it was like, you got zero and you got eight. And then I kind of talked to my family about it, and they was like, yeah, man, it's zero would be perfect, you know, like your story. Like you was a zero star, you know, zero offers, you know, everybody counted you out. and now you're here. You got a new dude up front in Ruben Bain. And with him, it's like he's been,

dude got great been, and he's super hungry, and I can't wait to, you know, take the field with him. And then I come to find out, you had an interesting path, too. You were working at the airport. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was working at the airport. I did wheelchair assistant, man, and it was a lot. It was a lot, had a lot of grumpy, grumpy people.

that I was pushing, man. We like pass rushers. We know what time of year it is. It is, it's training camp Eve for veterans, at least Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think they're reporting tomorrow. So we are very lucky to be joined by

an absolute beast off the edge. Yaya Diabi. How's it going, dude? How you doing, guys? Thank you for having me. Of course, man. Happy to have you. We've enjoyed watching you play and all that.

So where's your head at, man? Do you report tomorrow? You're reporting in the morning? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We report in the morning, bright and early. How much water today? You said, how much water? How much water are you drinking?

Man, I just got an IV not too long ago. So I'm ready, I'm ready for the heat, man. Heck yeah, dude. Unbelievable. So this is what year four for you? Is this year four? Yes, sir, going into year four. So have you gotten pretty good at this training camp thing?

I remember back in the day, like year after year, building new habits being like, hey, I need to bring this thing to my dorm room the next year. I need to bring this thing to my hotel room or I have to have this. Have you found yourself kind of getting in a rhythm with this NFL training camp thing? Yeah, and I definitely figured it out. I got my Norma Tech charging as we speak right now. So don't bring all that to the hotel. I got my Theragun and little stuff like that. So I'm all ready. Are those the essentials for you, man, that you got the Norma Tech for people at home. Those are the boots you see guys getting the compression treatment.

And then you got the theragon, which is just like if something hurts, you just put that theregun on it, hope for the best. What else do you bring to camp that's an essential? Yeah, I also bring, it's this little stem that I also bring. If it's like anything that's like bothering me, like, tight muscles or anything, like I have some stem with me as well. So those three things are like my big go-to. I used to bring a hyperbaric chamber in the room.

One of those, one of those, yeah, dude. Wow. I don't think it worked that well, though, because I was still sore as hell. But, yeah, it was like one of those, like it kind of look, shoot, it's about 10 feet long, and it's a tube. So you climb in it and zip it up and you're supposed to sleep in it. But then you get in there, you're not comfortable. So what's the forecast looking like these first couple days, man? Give me the highs and the lows, man.

So the high, so the high right now is, it's about, it's going to be 90, 90, but we have chance to rain tomorrow. Yeah, really the whole week is chance to rain, but, you know, down here in Tampa, when it rains, when it stop raining, it get humid, like, real quick, and it gets, like, super, extremely hot. So the whole week, look about, look by the high will be 90. The high would be 90. And the low would be like 85.

Okay. Well, that's not too bad. But like you said, once that, once that rain settles, it turns into, it turns into humidity. And I kind of wonder, do you all try to get your work in in the morning? Does Todd try to get you guys in and out in the morning? Yeah. So practice start around 8.30. And it goes on to like 10, 1030.

So, yeah, he tried to get us in and out. But even around, even when it gets to 8.30, that's when it starts to really cook out there. So, you know, Tampa, he really don't know. He really don't know. It's hot regardless. So, but he try to get us in and out. You can't hide from the heat, man. It's all day.

I mean, and shoot, are you a morning person? because I kind of wonder some guys like it's a crazy deal because you try to sleep as much as you can. I used to try to sleep as much as I can because I think sleep is so important. And then if we were on the field at 8, you know, you got inside run at 815, 8.30 in the morning. You woke up two hours ago and now you're hitting somebody. Yeah. You know, what's that morning deal like for you? I'm a morning guy.

Like, so I'm Muslim. So I normally wake up and pray around like 5.30 every morning. And so fast I get that out the way I'm practically up. So that's how I go by every day and then go in the building and get situated, get in the tubs, get my body warmed up, get some breakfast, some food in my system. And then it's on and popping. Exactly. I mean, you put it, you said it. It's on and popping, dude.

The inside run period, we used to start first thing inside run. I don't know, or nine on seven. Do you guys start with the inside stuff or what do you guys usually do? Yeah, so we, um, he, co-be both, she's switching it up a little bit this year. So we go straight into teams. We normally used to do our special teams first. And, but now we go straight into team period. Um, and then we get into special teams toward the middle of the practice.

Isn't that it, it's a funny feeling like if you start. we like start with indie and you'd have to wait you'd have to wait almost an hour to get into team i kind of like to just get rolling are you kind of a guy that just wants to skip all the pleasantries and get down to it i mean sometimes sometimes i do like certain days like when you're feeling really good you're like okay let's go ahead and get it on and popping but then some days you're like ah i might need a little a little one um 30 minutes to get get warm so indy that's my when Indy comes in and then you get warm in India and then and then you get it on. Do you have a favorite drilling camp that you feel like you really get a lot of good work in,

favorite period or, you know, whether it's pass rush or some sort of thing? Yeah, I love third down, third down. It's just, it's normally, that would be Wednesday or Thursday, one of them. And that's like my go go day. Like, I'm like, I love, I love the run, the run days, but, pass rush day third down third down is my it's my go-to man and they're going to get a guy like tristan works who's going to get you better um every day so so it's um i look forward to third down day you're such a powerful rusher man i kind of wonder if rushing a guy like tristan helps because

he can actually anchor a little bit on you i mean i figure that's a tough guy to run through and that's not what you're probably used to does it give you a chance to work some other stuff yeah yeah definitely do. That's why I love a guy like Tristan because we always go back and forth, you know, asking each other like, like some days I'll be like, man, you got me, you got me this day. Like, he'll be like, okay, I feel like if you had got more inside of my peck, you probably would have worn that rep. So it's little stuff like that that we go, we go back and forth, bouncing, back and forward, trying to help each other out to be better. What is your plan? Like, when you play guy like Tristan who's got a really good set and he can beat you to the spot but he also can't

run through his inside shoulder super easy like what what's your change up you throw at him yeah that's a that's a guy that's a guy um you got to you got to get off before he do because um he has great lateral movement and great twitch and and he's super athletic so so you know sometimes sometimes you just got a you got to really like i say you got to get off the ball before he does and And sometimes that causes him to have a little problem. But, you know, and it's also using your hands, using your hands and using your eyes when it comes to Tristan, rushing against Tristan. So like I said, we go back and forth all camp, and it's always good going against them.

Yeah, shoot, I remember late in my career having to play Lane Johnson every day in camp. I mean, I was on the left and Lane right tackle. And it's just like some days you're like, man, give me a chance to work something else. You're so dominant, bro. Like, and it's not like you don't want the smoke. You're just like, hey, give me somebody else like maybe so I can work a chop club or work my spend. Exactly. Exactly.

But it's a blessing. It's a gift to have a guy like that in front of you for sure. Yeah, yeah, it definitely is, man. And like I said, like you said, sometimes I'd be like, man, let me get somebody else in front of me so I could work some other movement. because Tristan, he also, he's a wide body type of guy. So he takes up a lot of space. So you really got to be on your P's and Q's going against him. From T shots to game winning goals and buzzer beating baskets,

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and you'll get up to a $1,500 new player offer on your first wager. BetMGM, make it legendary. What's it going to be like tomorrow you think walking into that team room? And I always think that first day is so interesting because you walk in and there's so many people in the room. It's so quiet. everybody's just waiting to hear Todd talk or whoever the headman is and you look around the room and you're like, damn, there's going to be a lot of people that aren't going to be here in a month. And it kind of adds to the whole thing. But I just figure for y'all walking in and not seeing Mike Evans, you know, or not seeing Levanti, you know, these are things. It's kind of like a new era a little bit. You know, what's that going to be like not having those guys? Those two guys, man, that's a huge loss because Levanti actually. sits right behind me. So there's going to be a huge loss. But at the end of the day, man,

it's the next guy. We got a great, a great addition with Alex, man. I feel like he's going to help out so much and bringing guys along like Savasier, man. I feel like with those two guys, you know, bumping heads and, you know, going off each other, I feel like it's going to be super special. And then having another rookie like Trout, um, helping him. him out as well. I feel like it's going to be an amazing addition. And then for guys like A Mecca, Jalen and

Chris, you know, Chris, Chris, he's the, he's the big guy in the room. But I feel like our receiver room is super special, man. Those guys in OTAs, man, they were doing a, they were doing really good, man. They were

catching everything and it looked like, it looked like Baker is super happy to have all those guys, you know, healthy and having them out there. So there's going to be a really good camp. That's going to be great, man. And Chris God, when just like you talk about like, where are your leaders at, that's one of the guys that have been there a long time, does the work. Same thing with, I think about Winfield and your, in your secondary, just like kind of standard setting kind of guys. So y'all got a great culture, man. You know, it's not every team has that. It's kind of cool that,

you know, two OG vets leave and you got guys that can just fill their spots. So the one thing that's going to be a little bit different for you is you got you got some new dude you got a new dude up front in reuben bain who i feel like now you're kind of a vet man like where you can you can kind of teach younger guys how to rush like he's a guy who's going to have to use leverage obviously you have longer arms longer levers but people made a big deal about his shorter arms i personally think he's he's going to be a dog no he is what's the give me the scouting report on what you've seen so far and i'll only get better with the pads on he's that he's that you're Yeah, and with him, it's like he's been, dude got great Ben. First of all, he has an amazing

Ben for his side. And him and Luke have been going back and forth. So I know they're super excited to put them paths on and we'll see more. But for now, man, I feel like he's taking the right steps and he's asking questions. And he's saying like, okay, if a guy's, um, jumpset and me like, what do you do like in play action, you know, most of the time in play action, the tackle would jump set you and little stuff like that. So he's asking the right questions and he's super hungry and I can't wait to, you know, take the field with him. Yeah, you said it, man, the bend. He's got that ankle flexion.

He's got that he can get his shin angled down. And that's the one thing. It's like, okay, well, he might not have the longest arms, but a lot of guys don't have that. And then I think, you know, some shorter-armed guys like Brandon Graham, a guy I play with, create a lot of mismatches and problems because, you know, they're into your body. You know, so I can't wait to see both y'all. And that's what I love about y'all's unit.

Y'all got a chance to have one of the best front fours in the league. But you two on the outside, power, power, you know, like, that's, do you guys take pride in being a physical group? Yeah, yeah, we sure do, man. And then adding a guy like Al-Qaeda Muhammad as well, like, man, like he's also a guy that's been helping out. You know, I've been asking him a lot of questions, you know, he's been in the lead for, I think he says this year 11 for him. Like, he's been in a lot of system and he has seen a lot of balls. So having a guy like that, it's going to help out a lot, man.

And then getting Kansy back healthy, he's got to be exciting as a lot. well. Oh, my God, man. That's, that's like my, that's my brother right there, man. It sucks. We came in, we came in real hot our rookie year, you know, and then, you know, he had his little, his little injury, injury problem. But he, he, he'll attack this offseason really good, man, with just taking care of his body the right way. And I feel like this year, he's definitely going be able to play all 17 games. That's great. And then I don't know if there's,

I'm pretty sure you guys signed this, dude, but can we get a birth certificate on Aishon Robinson? There's no way that my man is two, three years older than you, bro. Like, Hey, Hey, that man is humongous,

yo. That's a, I'm telling you, man, that's a, that's a guy that he's already, he's already talking junk. He's already talking back and forth with Baker, man.

That's, like, We were really going to be a real physical dominant D-Line this year, man, and also bringing in a guy like Nacho as well. He was with the team when they won the Super Bowl, bringing him back brings more juice to the D-line as well. I heard you talk about that 50-sac goal. That's the standard, huh?

That's the standard, man. With the guys we have now, all I'm praying for is everyone to stay healthy. man with a healthy D-line I feel like we can get to 50 and even surpass 50 and so I'm really really high on that and I stand on that I'm just telling people creatine has changed the game for me cognition is a big part of it too it's not just like hey you know getting jacked or that sort of thing we're all jacked you're jacked bro thank you I appreciate it say it back but I'm jacked you're jacked as well there it is next He said I'm jacked. He is jacked.

Yeah. He is more jack than almost anybody here. The guy lifts the most. But creatine, he looks like he's on a lot of creatine. A lot. You know, do you take creatine? How many grams do you take? I take seven.

I take seven grams a day. And they're good for your brain. I talked about the cognition, really important. Benefits for recovery strength. Cognition, staying active as you get older. I think everybody should try creatine. and you know i'm not a doctor but you don't need to be one to to be slang in creatine you got a doctor um you know why did i stop when i start taking it i really do honestly have a hard time keeping

my weight on i've always had a hard time keeping my weight on i just run i run like a machine that's like a ton of r p ms so i'm like always burning calories and shit um creatine helps me keep my muscle mass on which helps me stay in the gym stay strong into my 40s which is a whole you guys will see it fucking sucks. But creatine helps me there. And like even in the afternoon when I got some brain fog or whatever, I might take some creatine like half my dose. You know, and I really do

feel clear-headed after I take it. I have introduced people to creatine. Yeah, I've introduced, I try to get my wife to start taking creatine. She's taking some creatine. Healthy brain, cognitive benefits that get older and the muscle maintenance that, honestly, I wish I took creatine when I played. You didn't? That's a problem. I did not.

Because I was always worried about pulling muscles. that's kind of like what people talk about but you got to take a lot of it to really have tighter muscles um so yeah i mean like listen i'm a washed up NFL player now and it's kind of the key to me staying in shape enough so people aren't like what the fuck happened to you um create gummies man check them out they really do help i got to bring this up because i think you um i know you work with simeon rice and i want to ask you about that because he's a legend and you know is one of the best peer pass rushers of his generation. But I think you worked with my buddy Chris Pee's.

Yeah, man, I love Chris, man. I was so pissed off that he went to Vegas, man, that he was out there in Vegas. I wanted to go out there and work with him. But, man, Chris, man, I'm telling you from now, I feel like from now on to the rest of my career, I feel like Chris is going to be a guy that I'm going to look forward to working with because he can,

still do it. Like even with the, when he demonstrates stuff and he shows you what he, what he wants you to do. Like, he can, he can still do it. Like, it looked like he can't go out there and put tabs on it and rush. Like, like, the guy, the guy has it, man. And it was, it was really good, I'm learning from him. And, and I can't wait to, you know, the following years to keep working with him. I think he's going to be a great D-Line specialist, man. There's, there's a few of them in the league. There was always a couple, um, when I played, but it's not like, you know how the QBs have, everybody's got a guy, you know, but I think, you know,

D-Line, it's the one thing where it's hard to be a D-Line coach and coach everybody the same way in your room, because everybody's got different strengths and different talents. And everybody rushes different, so like finding a good fit for you. And the more stuff you can throw in your bag, the better. So, like, you got Chris and then Simeon Rice, like, he was a little bit different body type than you. Where did you guys find common ground where he could tell you things that you could put in your bag?

He was telling me never, never let a guy get his hands on you before you get your hands on him. And for me, like, I always self-evaluate and I always see, you know, watching myself on film. Like, sometimes I get a, I get a heavy wear guys get their hands on me before I can get to him. So, yeah, that's something that he told me. about and you know he he he also had really great great been you know uh russian so so we we seen out of eye on that as well man wouldn't it be nice to ben like that dude yeah great been like really great been like i was just i was watching his cut-ups and it was just like wow like dude and then he has he just has the real motor and and that's another thing we've seen out of eye man

He also talked about the motor. Like most of your sacks going to come off with just having that motor. And my outside linebacker's coach, he preached that all the time. Like sometimes everybody look at the fancy rush and everything. But some of the time, mostly probably five of your sacks going to be just being relentless. Yeah. And I always feel like some of your best rushes go pressures. you know you beat somebody clean with a spin that the sweetest move you you sink is never

going to be a sack you're going to just you're going to be in the room like hey did y'all see that like yeah but usually the sacks are like cleaning up somebody else's work or you know running the hump and you guys got some great guys inside that can affect drop targets exactly man big dude man that's a big dude man that's a big dude just watching i was just watching um our game against San Francisco and he gave the center and guards a long they had a long day going against him man that's it that's a I love I love rushing with beat it I think you had a pretty good rush that game you had a few good rushes but I think you got home that game did you and beating Trent is not a yeah that's one you got to hold on to remember that one yeah yeah definitely I got I got home

I got home twice twice that game man and one of them was just a one-on-one-one again It's Trent, man. Great, great tackle, man. He's giving me like a similar, like, Tristan. Like, they're so athletic and they give you that little hand jab that just kind of throw you off your rush. But, you know, sometimes you just got to stick to your plan and don't let them take you off your plan.

Well, it's funny because I feel like, you know, like playing Trent, I'd never felt like he's in a good way for him. He's not in a rhythm. He's not in a predictable rhythm. he changes his stuff up. Like you said, he changes. And his set looks, if his set looks different than anybody,

and then it's almost like when you play Trent, if you can get the long arm in there, what you did, it can work, but he's crafty. He's going to knock that thing down. He can knock that down, yeah,

and that was like, I've seen it like that was one of my rushes. Like, I got the long arm in, but he was also able to chop it down. So, yeah, he definitely gives you different looks. I bet a lot of people are trying to chop, chop the long arm down with you, huh?

Oh, yeah, man. The power, man. The power that comes with it, man. But it's all about leverage and, you know, having good balance. If your head is up, your body's going to stay up. You know, a lot of guys sink that long arm in there and they do this with their head. Exactly what they're looking down. Yep, yep.

But you know what you're, bro. I've seen you sink a lot of them already three years in, man. So I'm just super excited to see that unit rush. I want to talk about how you, how you came to wearing zero. Is it just a, because I think it actually looks pretty sweet, but yeah, man, the story behind it. So, Axon, I want it coming into Tampa, I wanted six, but they just had signed Baker. Yeah.

So, so that was out of, so that was out of the question. So they was like, it was like, you got zero and you got eight. And then I kind of talked to my, um, my family about it. And it was like, yeah, man, it's zero would be perfect, you know, like your story. Like you was a zero star, you know, zero offers, you know, everybody counted you out. And now you're here. So zero was just like the perfect number for me to choose out of zero eight. Dude, I didn't want to say, hey, was it because you were a zero star recruit, but reading about it, I thought maybe that was a little motivation.

And by the way, it looks cool as hell. But, I mean, that's a cool story, man. I mean, I looked up a picture of you in high school, bro. Like, they got, they fed you at, uh, at, uh, damn, dude. Oh, man, yeah, man. You were a kicker for people, or you would kick, like, you did other shit, but you would kick, too.

If you had to kick a field goal in an emergency right now for the fuck. I can, I can't do it. Like, looking at guys like Chase, man, him doing that every day consistently. Like, he's so super consistent. assistant man like i'll go out if they if they want me to practice it i'll go out there and practice and then do it in the game but if they just said oh who can kick a field goal i don't know if i go out there be some nerves yeah yeah be some nerve but nobody would expect you to make it so you kind of like nothing to lose no dude so it's so funny because the georgia military

thing right before you came on i asked my producers i said we had byron young on and it's the same place, isn't it? And Byron's story was crazy because I fucked him up with this. I pulled up his old LinkedIn. He had a LinkedIn where he was like working it maybe. I think it was Dollar General or...

Dollar General. Yeah. Yeah. And then I come to find out you had an interesting path too. You were working at the airport. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was working at the airport. I did wheelchair assistant, man. And it was, it was a lot. It was a lot. Had a lot of grumpy

grumpy people that I was pushing, man. Because, you know, a lot of people got connection flights and they'll be like super grumpy. They'll have like 30 minutes to make their flight. And they're like, dang, can you make it? I'm like, I'm going to try. Would you try? Because we got to, yeah, sometimes.

So sometimes you're looking at. Sometimes I'm holding their luggage and holding them and pushing and running. Because you know, you all, sometimes you also got to take the train. Yeah. So it's like if you're on a different concourse, you got to take a train. So I try to make it. And the worst thing would be, man, I would help them make their flight. And they would not tip me. I would be so upset. Oh, my God.

What's the best tip you ever got? I'm not going to lie. My first, I don't know if it was like a beginner's luck thing. my first ever, um, um, um, push that I had, the dude just gave me $100 off of, yeah. I was like, I'm staying at this. Hey, yeah. I thought it was going to be a everyday thing. And then it started slowing down. I was like, oh, man. Damn, dude, though. But if you work, if you push wheelchairs at Jackson, you can, you can do anything. That's the biggest airport known to man. I feel like, every time I'm there, I'm like, damn, dude, how many trains are? I got to get on.

It's like a, if you had a fit bit, you probably, you were probably in great shape. No, no, facts. I was.

I bet you. Especially heading into, headed, um, to Georgia military for that trial. I was in perfect shape. They had a, they had like a gym.

They had a gym in the airport. So I used to go down there and, and work out after, after every shift and then go home. Stop it, dude. Yeah. Yeah.

And they, they'd let you, when your shift finished, they didn't kick you out. like you could stay there. No, they didn't. Yeah, like I would see a couple, couple people who worked there as well down there working out.

Whoa, man. Why do you mean I use that gym when I come through? You got to have a car. You got to work there. Because I always, I think this would be a good business. I think they should have gyms and airports for layovers. Dude, all I ever want to do is get a workout in. I don't want to say, you feel so tired and shit when you fly and all that stuff.

anyways when I get my ducks in a row after you're done playing maybe we'll start a business because this would be I think it would kill it dude it will kill it especially at Atlanta oh my God

you know how many people pass through that airport every day like that would be an amazing idea what's the best place to eat at Atlanta airport so I would say the end like the B concourse the B concourse is the

it was my that's that's why I used to sneak off and go go get some food Like they got everything on that concourse from Popeyes to Wendy's to sushi to they got it all on that concourse. That concourse is a hot commodity. So I always have this argument on the podcast. I would eat airport sushi. Some people don't eat airport sushi.

You've seen the, you've seen the product be delivered probably working in there. You're green light on that airport. I'm a green light, man. I used to go crazy because I used to, I never used to. to be a sushi guy until one day one of my coworkers, they were like, you ever had sushi. I'm like, nah, you never had sushi. So they would like, you might have tried it. I tried it.

And then it was really good. Hell yeah, dude. It's fresh. It comes right off the plane. That's what I would say. It comes right off the plane. Why would you wait until it gets a restaurant, eat it at the airport? All right.

So going back, I want to finish with just a little bit from 25. Had to be, and I'm not trying to bring up a bad memory, but it had to suck. watching that game, Week 18, powerlessly, watching the Saints and the, what was it, the Falcons play? The Falcons, yeah. And you're, because I was pulling for y'all at the time, and I think I was rooting for the Saints. Yeah. Yeah, I swear that made me, that made me hate the Saints even more, man. I was, I already, I already hated those guys, man.

And, man, they just did that, man. That's great. I feel like that game, it was, it was a lot of ups and down. I don't know what the rest had going on in that game, man. It was calling something. Man, I was like, dang, they don't want to see, they don't want to see us make the playoff, man. Here, I'll say it. I'll say it so you don't get fined.

They didn't want the bucks in the playoffs, man. That was, I was crazy. I was pulling for the Saints. But the guy that made it, Bryce Young, what's it like rushing him in a closing pocket with with his stature. Man, you just never know. Like, you would think, like, a guy like that, like, you can, you could just grab them and bring him down.

But some of that man, get a little shifty in that, in that pocket. I remember when we played them, when we went to Carolina, I missed, like, three sacks just because of him just being, being shifty in that pocket and getting outside of the pocket. you got you got kailer murray week three uh you that dude's i used to look at people like that and just be like well this week i'm just getting a bunch of pressures it looks like because there's no there's no way i'm getting this little dude down no man i was so funny because we had um cardinals on the um schedule last year and i was like this would be my

first time i ever playing against kyle murr but then he was he was injured so i was like so now now um i get to i get to play them this year and i was like year. That dude's a water bug, man. Well, I wish you luck every week rushing the passer, man. I'm looking forward to seeing you play this year. We love your game. And I know it's contract season, but like a true professional, I know somebody asked

you about that recently. You said, I want to see Baker get paid first. So I hope both things happen. And I hope you have a great year. And thanks for joining us, Yaya. Yes, sir. I appreciate you guys, man, for having me. Of course, man.

Have a great camp, man. Hydrate up, dude. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you.