Million Dollaz Worth Of Game - MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME EPISODE 160: FEATURING AARON DONALD

Episode Date: April 3, 2022

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Hey, million dollars worth of game listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon music. Right. Hardo, Pittsburgh, Wilkesburg is going down, man. Bottom of the trap. Featured Vezzo, ESCG. We in Pittsburgh right now.

You see the back. You know what's going on. Come on, Harlow. Let's talk to him. Man, this rad-ass nink got whispers, told her no pictures. Whiskers. No, bitches. No, bitches.

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Talking to him. I got these bricks. I'm making it flood. Look at my wrists. I came from the mud. From the mud. I came from the club. I want him whack. I'm spinning a dog.

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icey, fuck, play hockey. Hey, yo, yo, yeah. I feel like shit up like talkies. Elman tight, no back and forth. And we're coming back and forth. Forties be in me crash the Porsche, Olympies game, I'll clap that tors. Why I can quake, my now's too short, I was running a pipe,

back and marks. Little day yacht, I'm seven, six dudes, back to back to back. Back the back, like I'm stacking Carter's. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Ardo killing this shit. Yes, he is. Come on, man. I speak the facts.

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Yeah. Listen, man. Listen, man, that song of the week, man. It's brought to you by Hardo. Pittsburgh. So we got Pittsburgh, we got Detroit, and we got Louisville. I think I said that right. Louisville. No, no, it ain't Louisville. E.S.T. Trove, he said, Louisville. Something like that. From Louisville. He's from the island.

Your country accent. It's cool, man. That was three states. They killed the bottom of the tracks. Song of the week, man. Listen, man, hard old Pittsburgh, man. It's going down, man. But right now you see what's going on. You're down tuned into me, me, me, me, me, me, me, million dollars worth a game. Uh-huh. Now, listen, man. We ain't got the, we ain't got the third best. We got the second best No No, no, no, no

We got Numero Uno L capitan And you know what's crazy man Huh This CC This episode is real personal to me Right

Because I've been watching this boy Since Penn Hill man Get to fucking out of it Back when he was You know back when he was Big Boom You know what I mean His mom used to call him head

Right This back in the day When his mom called him I've been rocking when I've been there since He was knee hot to butterfly So this was This is a real emotional moment

For me When they went I cried all night For no reason I just cried because this is my team. And if y'all don't know, all the Ram Nation out there, listen, I'm the head of the fan club. This is my team, man. I cried, man.

That shit hurt me, man. I was like, damn, man. It was just like I was on the field, man. I felt like I was there, man. But I've been with him since day one, man. A lot of y'all, y'all knew. Y'all knew when he was at pit and all, I was here, man. I was here, man.

Let me tell you, sir. What? You were lying about it. What I'm lying about? How did you find out of high school he went to you, Kukuk. No, I was, I've been on him. I've been on him, man. I'm from Pennsylvania, man.

I've been on him, man. What's what you're talking about? Hey, we got Aaron Donald in the build. We got the beast up in here, man. This boy right here, man. This boy, so, so you, so now we got the cheat code. For everybody out there, when he'd be going into the field, he'd be listening to Hardo from Pittsburgh. So you all know, take that a little greens.

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what's the feeling brother dream coming true you know so i've been saying anybody keep asking me it's hard to put it in words man because you know coming from we come from you know inner city of pittsburg you know you dream about stuff like this all the time so to be here right now and like really living in a moment it's like it's hard to pit certain things in words but it's like a dream man like you dream about things but i i passed anything i dreamed about and accomplished more than i ever thought i can accomplish from just putting a body at working so I'm going to be here right now, calling myself a world champion, you know, here right now on the show that I watch and I enjoy watching with you guys and dabbing with y'all, man.

This is dope, so I appreciate this, man, but ain't nothing like being a winner. Yeah. Well, you was always, because to my knowledge, I believe you was the only defensive player to be the top one, number one on the top 100, right? I think JJ Watt too. J.J. Y. Y. Well, shout out to J.J. Y. Y. But that's some extraordinary shit to pop up. number one in front of the quarterbacks.

Oh, he was number one? Where was this? I thought you was up on him since high school. No, but I ain't know. So you mean to tell me he was number one more than A by in the NFL? Yes. Oh, hold up. Hold up.

See, I must have missed that. When was this? This was maybe 2018, 2019. So we always know, you know, everybody says, man, this is a team sport. You know that's politically correct. You've got to say that. But how do it feel to say? Ain't nobody in the NFL got shit on me.

I'm like, I'm that guy. I did feel like when you woke up in the morning. And I got voted that guy from everybody in the NFL. All the players voted. Oh, who's the best player in the NFL? I thought the media, so you mean to tell me the players in the NFL vote for who the best player? Yeah, for top 100. Top 100.

So somebody I'm tackling vote. Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy. Somebody slammed on his neck in the third quarter. He's the best. I didn't know that. Damn. How does that feel like amongst your peers?

Because to all the youngians out there, when you're a professional athlete, you're one of the greatest individuals in the world. It's only probably a few thousand, two thousand, fifteen hundred, something like that players in the league. You know what I mean? So for you to be selected, the best player in the NFL by your peers, like what did that, what type of drive did that bring to you? It's crazy.

It's motivation. that me personally, I can just only speak for myself that I accomplished. I'm not somebody that gets satisfied and feel like I arrived. I feel like you accomplished that. You got to do more because on top of making a name for yourself, now everybody knows who is, now everybody going to try to find

ways to slow you down. Teams are going to try to find ways to slow you down and take you out of the game. So I can't allow myself to slow down. I got to keep working. I got to find ways to get better. I got to make sure that I'm in top shape all the time all year around because my job gets harder. So I got to keep playing at high level. So because the game

a lot more fun when you're making plays, you know. Absolutely. And when you're losing. Yeah, yeah. I can tell you about that too. But, man, if it feel good, you know, anytime you accomplish good things, great things, and then, you know, you vote about your peers for something, man, it's a blessing to accomplish that for sure. So it's never, you know, my goal to accomplish something like that, but on the verge you're just

picking the work in and focus on what I'm trying to focus on, accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish. A lot of things come with that, so. Right. So if you had to pick the dream defense. line to play with you hear me

because you you one of them players you can rule so you can go a tackle you can go you can go so where we

putting you at three tag one three tech defensive tag defensive end that's the outside when you're rushing

oh DN I knew that so so if you were tackle this is your dream scenario you planning I tell you

okay who's on the rice D N we got Vaughn Miller out there Okay, so you're keeping your team. We got great game. That knows, Tucker. We got Flo outside.

Oh, we're already got the dream B-Lown. What you're talking about? What you're talking about? We're going. We're going. That was a good one. That was a good way to clean that shit. As the truth.

As a right now. He skipped over Reggie White. He skipped over Bruce Smith. They're right now. It's about now. It's about now. It's about now. I respect all the greats who did it.

But I'm talking about the guys that I just won a Super Bowl with and I've seen the way we worked, the way we played with each other. Ain't nothing like it. When Vaughn came in, what did he add to the team? His leadership role. For me personally, you know, talking with Vaughn, you know, me personally, I'm a guy that always want to find ways to get better. You know, on the field, you know, I can do some things.

But I think as far as the leadership role, being more of a vocal guy, he was a guy that talked to me a lot, like, you know, these guys got to hear your voice. You need to speak up a lot more. And I feel like he challenged me with that. And, you know, I stepped up to the plate and did that when we needed to. So I definitely, you know, show a lot of love to Vaughn, that's my guy. You know, we're trying to get them back. Hopefully he come back, run it back.

Well, what you're doing? You got to run it back. Mine, you got to run it back. But that's my guy, man. It's like the mob, you know, when you're beefing with your woman, you go, what are you doing, Tony? You got to go home, Tony. Go home, Tony. You got to go on.

You got to run it back. You have to. Bring the dream team back, man. Why not bring the whole team back? Absolutely. And shout out to your coach, man, because I didn't know if it was a good situation. or not because I had already seen y'all go to the Super Bowl with a quarterback so to not too many players teams even get a chance to go to the Super Bowl so for me to see y'all go

to the Super Bowl lose get rid of y'all quarterback bring another quarterback was kind of like but y'all pulled it off yeah yeah I heard you talking about that yeah y'all you pulled But I had the ex-jailing, you know? Yeah, yeah, I heard you talk about that. But y'all pulled it off. So shout out to your coach, you know, for understanding what he needed to get y'all there. I think that he did a good, well, you know, Sean, he's a genius when it comes to football. I know the exes and O's, he understand the game.

We understand certain things he need to, you know, get too over that hump, you know, and, you know, less did a great job to GM as far as making things happen and bringing them in. So I think it was an overall great, great job by the organization and also, you know, when them guys got there finding their little place where they needed to be and just molding in with everybody else and anything flowing how it did. I think him being a younger coach, I don't know, but from the outside looking in, it looks like he really connect with you. He really do.

Me personally, I got a close relationship with him. You know, just outside of football, too, when it comes to personal things with me and my life, I'm able to talk to him about it. So, you know, I got a lot of love. respect for Sean. He looked like a player's coach. He definitely looked like a player. Just from the outside looking in, you know, the way he'd be charged up,

he running down the sideline, he's celebrating with the players, you know, that really is not an NFL thing. Yeah. You know what I mean? The NFL was more like Bill Belichick, Bill Parcell's old school. No smiles. They score, you don't smile. You don't do nothing.

Only time you ever see Bill Belichick smile is when a confetti coming down, then he goes. Yeah, a little light one. You know what I mean? So for him, he, you know, he's coming in, he's young, he vibrant, he's changing the game, you know what I mean. And he's a genius as far as, you know, the offensive play, you know, that's what he do, right? But he's, but he knows the defense's schemes too, you know, that's a great thing. He's not just, obviously, he knows the offense side of the ball, but he makes sure that he know what we're doing on defense to the point to the call, to the checks. So he's in the mix of everything.

So, you know, he's just different. Best part about being a world champion. It's so much, man. I can't pick just one, you know, but it's just a lot to come with it, man. It's like, you know, you accomplish a lot of things, and it's a blessing and it's good, but being a world champion, it hit different. It's different. It's like, hey, my dog Vaughn kept saying, it's football heaven, fam.

He kept saying that. I just texted him a couple of days. I say, it's football heaven. Because the opportunities you get, certain places you're at, the people you get to meet and build relationships with. Opportunities. Opportunities that's big. used outside of football that's what it's about so um i can't complain about how do you how do you

keep your name clean because you know we live in the sports where's though it's so much going on and it's so much what you know once you go to the to the league the money hit yeah the cars come the jury come uh you got you got the fake people women men coming at you every which angle everybody got a business plan a business i need uh i'm going to do it is you got the club you go to club and shut it down the night or you can stay home how did how what kept you ground and say, you know what, I got to stay on my game. Well, one thing my dad told me, you know, getting drafted, he said always stay true to yourself, you know, so that's the main thing.

A lot of, because you, a lot of come with it, a lot of money, and it's easy to get, you know, swamping with everybody's telling you and get your headbed, but, you know, you stay focused on what you're trying to do, man, and you move how you got to move. And me personally, I got kids, you know, so I got my kids to worry about, and I got people that look up to me. And at the same time, I ain't moving around dumb. I stay with a small circle.

I'm going to stay with a lot of people that's around me that make sure I ain't going to do nothing hard headed. You know, I'm at a point in my life where, you know, I'm a little wise, so I know what to do what not to do. But at time, trouble can try and find you, but that's the whole point of having good people around you to be like, now we're going to leave this thing. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? And make sure that you're in the right place, man, because it's easy. It's easy to get yourself in trouble. It's easy to do some things that, you know, to blow up, all the hard work you put into this, but I work too hard to give it up, you know. from where I come from I ain't supposed to be where I met

but I work for this so I ain't let nobody take that from me or take that from my kids and my family because we're in a position where we're blessed and you know it's about building generational wealth you know so ain't nobody gonna take that from my family

now every time I see you most of the time it just seem like you don't do nothing but just work out like that's all you do you don't go to the movies you don't watch movies you don't go to restaurants you just work out how does your work out Because, you know, you got young kids in these high schools and these colleges looking at you, like, he's a beast. Like, what turned you up in the gym, man?

What made you really just be a gym head? Honestly, my dad, you know, my dad was a big strong guy that was working out all of his life. I started, he got me into working out when I was 12 years old, though. Oh, so you got it genetically, huh? Yeah, so, but I grew up, I was a little chubby kid. I was lazy, so the whole point of getting me out that lazy stage was getting me working out with him, and I kind of got addicted to. You know, you start working out a little bit. And then I start seeing a little change.

Oh, yeah, you see a little ab coming. I'm like, oh, oh, I'm all right. So I got addicted to working out and got into a work at the year. I think, like, I was in high school, waking up at 4.30 in the morning before school to work out with my dad before I went to school. So I was already getting ready to be a pro before I was a pro. And we didn't even know that. We were just working out.

Just, you know, just what we was doing. So my dad prepared me for a lot, you know, at the time. We didn't realize what it was for. It was just working out trying to, you know, book writing and be my dad. workout part and it and it blew bigger than what it was he created a monster man like it's just something that I love the whole time dad just wanted the workout part get up that that's why you do pushups with me it was it to the point when I started waking him up like we got to work out at 430 dad let's go what you doing man so it's just the work ethic that I got from my dad but I still have fun you know

I train a lot but you got to I train all year around so you got to think um Monday through Friday I'm training and Friday usually my days I can drink a little bit and have some fun Saturday they recover and then Sunday recover, but sometimes I might go with my speed trainer on Sunday, so really Sunday through Friday. So it's just a work of it, but I still have fun and enjoy myself. This is the game that I want you to get a youth.

Break out, break down to them, because if you want to be AD, you want to be great, you want to be a Super Bowl champion, you want to get paid for playing football, you might be at Michigan,

you might be at Nebraska, Iowa, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Jackson State, Jackson State. What's your workout regimen? Like, you wake up, you go to the gym, you come home, you sleep, you go back to the gym. Like, how do you do it? I'm just going to tell you what I did this week, because right now it's not, like, it's still a hard workout, but it's not amped up high school. Because it's off-season.

Yeah, like, no, not just because it's off-season because I just played like three weeks ago. Oh, okay, yeah, I forgot. You know, I'm still training all. You know, I took a week off and then I was back in the gym, but I ain't really start amped. Don't let it go over the head. He won the Super Bowl, took a week off. Now, that week he took off. That's because he was crying.

I can't believe it. Like a baby. I ain't going to lie like a baby. But after, he could have took the whole off season off. I've done it. I got, I'm at the top of the mountain, baby. I can chill. No, no, no, no, no.

He's never satisfied. you can't be satisfied with being great that basically means he's coming back i'm gonna tell y'all this workout plan so this so this week all i did was um so i wake up at six 30 i take my kids to school every morning eight o'clock i'm in the wait room i'm doing cardio doing my running i start my actual workout at 930 i'm probably around like 1145 12 o'clock come home relax for a minute they'll pick my kids up from school bring them back tuesday same thing, same concept. Then Wednesday is more as my speed training more on the field

doing my footwork, more acceleration things, and then come home, massage. By that time, I got this time to pick my kids up. And then, you know, Thursday and Friday, the same thing. So, you know, just working. And that's the light workout. That's the light week. When you all the way in.

So all the way in, I start back Sundays. Sunday with my speed guy on the field, training, bang, bang. Then Monday in a weight room, some cardio days, Tuesday with my speed. guy um Wednesday um weight room Thursday with my speed guy and then Friday working out finished that workout then Friday's my my out there I'm doing my workout day work that's my fun day and you uh you eat what you want no no I'm I'm a little I'm a little bit more strict what I eat because you know I like to look good so you know to keep my abs I got to eat right so right now I'm not eating no bread so no carbs and things like that but I usually I eat pretty

normal I just don't eat the snacks and all the fried food and stuff so okay that's the ham So you ain't go vegan on them, though? Nah, no. He said, no, I need a steak. He said, I need that steak burnt up. I'm still, I'm still a de-line, man. I still got to keep it up. But I just, you know, I like to look a certain way.

Absolutely. So, 20-23, because you jump past that question. Did he? He bounced. He bounced. Oh. He got, he died. He was, he shook around that.

Like a quarterback to see him coming. Hey, he died this shit like Barry singing this. Get out of it. You don't want to put it out there if you're coming back or not, huh? No, so I had conversations with the round. We talked. You got to come back. It's like the mob.

You got to go on. You got to go on. You got to come back for another one. We bring the guys back, certain guys back, and we got a real shot to repeat. And now that really winning Super Bowl, why not come back and play it? You know, that's all it's about. You know, I experienced this. It's like, I thought I would want to be done, but I got addicted to it.

It's like, I ain't said if I want to get it. more time. Yeah. But you know that one more time, turn it to tell. One more time. We're going to see. One more times. We're going to see after we get this second one.

That's what we're going to do. But I'm hungry. I'm hungry to try to get another one for sure. I can't lie about that. Yeah. I think the worst part about winning a Super Bowl is every time a team win a Super Bowl, here come all of the 30, 31 teams, they want to take your players. You're right.

Guys are getting paid. That's what it is. Yeah. And then for guys, they were like, okay, I won the Super Bowl. I got to go get my bag down. You got to respect. It's still a business. It's the day.

People got families to take care of. And, you know, it's easy for me to say because I experienced that big payday. And everybody ain't get that yet. So me personally understand, it's a payday. But, you know, guys that experienced this and it's really not about the money no more. It's more about, you know, this feeling of being a world champion is just different. what year did it not become about the money no more for me once i got that big chance but no honestly it was i never i never was a guy that played for money

yeah you played because we love the game no you know you grew up we played this game for free as kids but this is still a business so um you know i played the game that i just i just never worried about i got to do this to get paid i just i want to do this because i want to you know i want to be the best i want to be the best i want to be great and on the verge of just working my ass off and picking the work and all that's going to come with it. You just don't worry about it. When you tend to worry and think about stuff like that, I got to get paid. It's never going to come out you want it to come.

But when you just focus on what you need to focus on and really work, it's going to be so much to come with that, man. That's what I try to tell kids all the time. Like, don't worry about them. Don't worry about the money. Don't worry about the individual accolades. Really work to just be the best at what you do at a high level and really put the body at working. And I'm talking about the work you doing.

I ain't saying when your coach is telling you do the extra rep, I'm talking about when nobody's watching you, nobody's telling you to do it. You pit that extra weapon and you do the extra work on your own. That's when you're going to accomplish more than what you ever thought. I'm going to live in testimony of it, you know. So that's the best advice I can ever give a kid. It's just really work. And I mean, really put the time and the effort in.

And you ground for that, man. You won't believe the things you're accomplished and the things that come with it, man. It's truly a blessing. Now, this is the thing. I got to put some people out there. I got to put people, you know, it is what it is. When they see you breaking through, who had the most fear in the eyes when they seen you coming, man?

You got to give me the top five guys that thought death was near when they ain't seen you coming. They're like, oh shit, you just seen it. They was like, they were screaming. You just seen, they just were screaming inside. Go ahead throw it out there. He'll want to throw the offensive lobby under the bus. It ain't just office and line.

It's a few people, but I ain't going to do that. He ain't going to do them dirty scene. He's sparing him, being nice. Those some names out there, Gil. All the left tankers. Wow. And the guards, suits they lined up. But the thing is, the thing is, what's so crazy is, they'll tell you that.

Like, when you watch, see, you don't watch top 100 players. When they're talking about them, they're like, it's going to be a long day to day. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, when I go to work and we got to play them, I know that it's going to be a long day to day. Gil once told me some stuff where he was talking to a player. And Gil said there's a million dollars a sack. Is that true? Yeah, you get some sacks.

You get paid a lot of money. As long as you can keep eight to eight sacks and up every single year consistently, you can stay alive in this league for a while. Damn, so a young player, all they got to do is come ahead of mind and say, I'm going there, I'm getting eight again. And don't tell them that, man. I'm getting eight. I don't care what I do.

I'm just getting eight. That's a lot, though. And the reality of it is, right? Because one of my business partners is Tom Bahali from the Kansas City Chief. Shout out to my brother. that's how he broke it down to me he said gilly you know what that was my team back in the day when the nigerian nightmare was on there christian decoy that was my team back then he told me you know basically if you were de lineman and d n you know he said it's almost like a sack is

a million dollars you get 10 you get 10 sacks a year you make 10 million dollars you get 15 sacks a year you make 15 million dollars it's going to be around that area he said so for But for the D-Limon, he said the tackles and everything, that's cool. That means something that, but them sacks, man. It's always going to go quarterback, and then the pass rusher, then you're going to get your left tackle that's going to be paid crazy. Right. And he also said, you know, it's not just the sacks, because y'all keep stats on how many

times you pressured the quarterback, and hits all that. And hits, and so he said when you add all of that. up if you get some sacks with all of that it's a million dollars a year that's a million dollars a sack but you got to do a consistent too because there's a lot of guys that can accomplish that in one year but you see what they do the second and third year but if you can do it consistently then you can last in this league and make yourself some money for sure right because there's always a guy or two that get a breakout 11 sacks season then they come back the next year

and they got two and a half yeah so you got to be you got to be consistent too you got a lot of people I had to play college sports right but they They never got a chance. Like him, he played for him, but he ain't have a chance. He was a bum. But Pennsylvania school, too, you know, Cabrini, nobody knew about it. Well, whatever the case. When did you know, going to pit?

Like, you knew, I'm going to the league. What year was it? When did you really know for sure, like, I'm going? After my junior year, I knew I had an opportunity. I thought about leaving early at the time because that's when my daughter was about to be born. So I thought about it. I set my grade in, and they gave me, like, a, um,

fifth or seventh grade pick or something, something last round. And I was like, you know, I'm going to come back another year, you know, trying to be an All-American. And, you know, my senior year ended up being like my best year. Some crazy stats end up getting four major awards as a defense alignment in college and the top player and ended up going first round. But I would say my senior year, once I started, you know, having some success to the point where I was like,

and I was more comfortable to the point where I know I can go to this league and dominate because I dominate at the college level. So it wasn't until your senior year that you knew? I knew my junior, I had an opportunity, but when I said, I knew my senior year I was going to get there and I was going to be fine when I got there. So my senior year, it's like, I could go. I can go, but am I really ready? I felt like I didn't really dominate enough at the college level how I wanted to. And my senior year just stamped that for me.

I was like, oh, yeah, I can do this. What was the hardest adjustment when you got to the league? I would say just meetings and things like that. It's a lot of meetings that go with a lot of film stuff. Obviously, I was already into the film studies, but just the meetings and the long days and stuff like that. So just adjusting to that was different, but I was good. Once I got there, I felt, you know, I had a coach by the name, Coach Mike Waffle, my first defensive line coach, and I got there. And I'm in there watching film one day.

He comes in. He's like, writing on the board. He turned to me. He said, I'm going to be saying a lot of things in this meeting room, man. But I don't want you to listen to nothing I say. I just want you to go out there and play. You know, for me personally, for me being a rookie that didn't do nothing in this league yet for him to give me that

confidence to give me the green card to just play and just do me right away that was like that's all the confidence I need and that's when I was like you know it was time to go from there and then you know it plays your first game and you had made some big plays and I was like I can translate what I did in college to this league so when did you know I'm on a different like all right i didn't know i was going to be this strong but i'm strong strong like i'm strong than everybody else in the league i had a good i had a good rookie year um one defensive rookie to year um pro bowl year that's a rookie as a rookie talk to me um then my second year came back um was just one of like i'm gonna be the best defense alignment in the lead out of my mind said

the best de-tackle to play i'm gonna be the top guy And I'm being all pro pro bowler that year And then my third year was the year Where I started making some noise And it was like first my double-digit sack year You know, well Yeah, because I went nine Well, that was my second double-digit sack year

But it was my first year that I was like I felt like I was really dominating So you had double-digit sacks in your second year Yeah I think I had nine sacks I know I had nine sacks my first year As a rookie And then my second year

Yeah, I had 11 sacks my second year And then my third year was a good year. But that's when they started to talk about defensive player the year. I'm like, as a D-tack, I said, oh, well, that's a goal I want now. And then I came back my fourth year and I accomplished that. All hard work. But around my third year, I knew that I can do some. Well, you start throwing offensive linendale with one head.

They was coming in there testing you. Around that year, that's when I started getting a lot more double teams. And I was like, oh, yeah. They tested a lot more, too. That's so fucked up out the NFL. You come out, you pick a 300-pound man up, throw him down. They'd be testing you. Come on, buddy.

They tested me out to the Super Bowl. I'm like, no, dad, the season over. They said, you just do three niggas on the ground and pay the sack. We ain't seen that before. Come on, get in there, buddy. This episode of a million dollars worth a game is brought to you by SXM app. Subscribe now to get your first three months for free on the SXM app. Visit Sirius.

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apply. Right, right. Hey man, but listen though, I just want to, you know, we just want to give your flowers, man, because you know, you don't see you know, too many defensive players be on your level. You know, you... Next level. Just

to me, you know what I mean? I'm talking about the Lawrence Taylor's. I'm talking about the Bruce Smiths. I'm talking about the Reggie White, I'm talking about, that just dominate a game. Like, when you walk in the locker room, like, no, no, no, no, he's at the top of the board. No, no, no. We got to block him first. Fuck everything else.

Nothing else matter. We don't block this thing. He's going to change the game. So, man, I commend you, man, for just being the best player in the league as a defensive player. That's unheard of, man. I appreciate that. That's like, that's really unheard of. So for you and JJ Watt

To be able to make that happen You know That had to be the season He had like 22 sacks 20 and a half sacks Oh 20 years Yeah two years with 20 and a half sacks God damn

That's a lot That's a lot of sense Now Who in the league Pulled you to the side And sprinkled some game When you're somebody that you called You was able to call

Young coming up in the league That always gave you some good game man Um It was a bunch of guys I had guys like Chris Long that was there my rookie year Will Hayes

Eugene Sims Robert Quinn there was a bunch of guys man that you know that schooled me to some things let me know about some things always pushed me, always motivating me to like

telling me like man you're different bro you got it man you got it you can be one of the greats and at the time you hear it but you never know where they can really unfold and really grow into and just seeing everything come full circle to what we're at right now

in this point of time it's like surreal man because I always tell people I always dream real big I thought I dreamed big but I really surpassed anything that I thought was that I was possible

I promise you like I never would have told you like I couldn't tell you that I was going I ain't going to sit there to talk about accolades but the accolades I got I ain't think that I would get them how I got them and be where I'm at and be able to play at that level. But that all comes from just hard work. Absolutely.

I live off that. So it's just something that groomed into me that I try to instill into my kids. What I try to instill into, you know, players around me, young players around me, older players around me. Like, when you work for something, you can accomplish things that you can't even imagine. When you're playing, what quarterbacks talk the most trash to you?

I don't think no quarterbacks talk trash. Damn. They don't talk to you. They'll tell trash to you. I never heard a quarterback talk trash because we usually the ones trying to hit them. So I can't even off the top of my head. Philip Rivers? I played Rivers twice.

He never said nothing to me. He never said nothing to me. He never said nothing to me. So I don't know. Will players talk to Moose Trash? You got some offensive linemen, some offensive tackles. You know, it typically ain't the goers that's going to be saying because they over me. But you got offensive alignment.

It's a couple of tackles that might say something here. and there, you know, everybody trying to be tough. I'm just saying, did anybody ever come in? Like, I'm going to wear your ass out. You had to straighten them out? He said, no, he's in there. He's in there. He's never, you know, y'all know better the league.

You know, because I be getting in my little moods when I might be having a day, and I might get the little talking and they want to say something back, but it is what it is. Oh, so you, he, he, he's talking to, he be starting to shit. It's games, but I don't, I don't stop talking. I have to keep talking a little bit. Do that make you, that give you, because some players, like, like, like, Like Kevin Garnett, that got him going. Yeah.

You know, me talking, me, you know, some players, they can't play when they're quiet. It's just, oh, the game's just going by. They got to get themselves going like. Yeah, I ain't a guy that need to talk. It's just, if, like, we beating the team pretty bad, or if I'm in mode and having one of them days, you know, you got to bark a little. You got to let them know, like, come on, man. Y'all know, y'all can't block me on them. You know, you start talking a little trash, so that's just how it is, competition.

And that's interesting, though, that no quarterbacks, he said, no quarterbacks never talk. I don't think, I don't, I've never heard, you heard somebody say a quarterback was talking trash before? I know people say Rivers, we talk trash, but to a defense alignment guy that's trying to hit you every play, I don't think they're going to want that. No, they don't want that. That's just, not just me. What about the running backs? Well, we had, we just scared of you, man. We had, we had Freeman, Freeman tried to talk, he talked stuff before, tried to fight me before in the game, but I was.

That was about it pretty much, though. See how he tried. He tried to fight me. I just held it back. That's what he was in Atlanta. I think what year was that? Little Freeman, too. Yeah, Freeman, running back.

Because it's crazy, though, because when you watch it the game, y'all make a tackle, y'all get up, you see the helmets like, but you can't hear nothing. So it seems like y'all just be talking shit to each other all game. I can't even tell you, because sometimes I'd be blacked out. I can't even tell you half the things I say in how it be. You know, you'd be in a moment. It's just what it is, you know. Who the biggest trash talk were on the Rams?

Jelling. Yeah, Jerry, look, I'm like, hey, I need you. Walk in. The record like this, get him, man. I'm like, hey, come on, bro, I need you. Come on, bro. I got you, big, bro. That's just his game, though.

He's going crazy. I always get him to get people out of their game, though. He's different. He said, you see his face, like, you know who's talking about. You know, that's my dog. Sometimes you got a real jail. I got you got you because he'll block out on someone. I'm like, hey, bro, I need you.

Hey, they said that's the last one. I got you, big, bro. I got you. But that's the last one. But I see him get under people's skin until they point. They're trying to fight him. That's just how he do it, though. You know, he got planned keeping up dominating him.

Ah, man, you trash, you this, you that. Yeah, you can see him talking. That's just his game. You know, he's got the mouthpiece don't even wear it. You know what he's talking. Yeah. You don't wear no mouthpiece. No, he got, it just hanging the whole game.

He said, yeah, it do be hanging. I mean, dang, I'm like, what you got it for? I never understood that. I never understood. You see a cornerback out that he like this in his mouthpiece hanging. It's like, no, why you got the mouthpiece even if you ain't going to wear it? Like, shout out to jail and do it, man. That's my God, man.