Speaker 1: Thea Around the NFL podcast plays Hackey Sack in their
Speaker 1: Perkin stas. Welcome to another edition of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast not presented by New Arab. My name is
Speaker 1: Dan Handls, and I am joined on a field filled
Speaker 1: with heroes Mark Sesler, Chris Westling and Greg Rosa. It
Speaker 1: sounds weird to not be wearing a headset and then
Speaker 1: not being in a studio and be like, wow, you
Speaker 1: talk too loud. And my grandmother always used to say
Speaker 1: it's too loud, And now it's you know when you
Speaker 1: go to like Radio Row at the Super Bowl, or
Speaker 1: you go to any sort of NFL event and there's
Speaker 1: this lineup of radio show pros sitting at their tables.
Speaker 1: Now we very suddenly look exactly like that, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that's a positive or negative. It's a little
Speaker 1: more tense because we have, you know, our producer Tam
Speaker 1: Posey and and many others who have helped us with
Speaker 1: our interviews today at rams Camp, but especially Brassy has
Speaker 1: given me the side I because we decided to make
Speaker 1: a production decision that's going to delay her getting margarite
Speaker 1: as earlier in the day. So it's it's like I'm
Speaker 1: feeling that that vibe and it's it's messing with me
Speaker 1: a little bit, just a little peek behind the curtain.
Speaker 1: So we have um been granted access to the Rams practice.
Speaker 1: Fielder's staring out upon it right now at you see, Irvine.
Speaker 1: It's very cool. Uh, And thank you to the Rams
Speaker 1: for having us. We're gonna have some really cool interviews today,
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks, Marcus, Peter Peters to the big new arrivals
Speaker 1: for the team, Sean McVeigh, little coach, big fish, big fish, Uh,
Speaker 1: and West. I know you're excited about talking to Sean McVeigh.
Speaker 1: He's like your little man crush. He's the most fascinating
Speaker 1: person in the NFL, right, little Dominican Sue Action, potential
Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer. And Mark. I know you're not
Speaker 1: gonna spare any any details with him. You're gonna go
Speaker 1: after him hard. You're gonna say I have stuff to
Speaker 1: to bring up with you surface specifically about Thanksgiving incidents.
Speaker 1: I think that's where you're going in this interview. I'm
Speaker 1: going to go deep into the wormhole of his many
Speaker 1: issues on Thanksgiving, no doubt, what else would I do? Dan,
Speaker 1: you have a close relationship with his mom though, right,
Speaker 1: So that's I mean I spoke to her for ten
Speaker 1: minutes last March. Um so close is the word. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's very cool here is It is a little
Speaker 1: interesting because it just seems like it's the entire RAMS
Speaker 1: team and then just the podcast Bozos. That's basically it
Speaker 1: right now. It's kind of a it's kind of a
Speaker 1: cool vibe and uh, today's show where you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from uh those Rams uh players in the coach and
Speaker 1: then we're also gonna do the news and uh and yeah,
Speaker 1: Brassie is standing behind Mark right now, and you know
Speaker 1: she wants the she wants the mic shares to be
Speaker 1: on the show. In fact, she said she wanted on.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason I keep bringing her and the
Speaker 1: polarizing audience reaction to uh the SoundBite you played from Brassy.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to feel like this little camp fire part
Speaker 1: me that you guys had last weekend, there was just
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of chatter, a lot of
Speaker 1: trash talk, and I feel like there's a bit of
Speaker 1: a toxicity to it that maybe is filtering down it.
Speaker 1: I feel that too, Dan. I'm strongly with you on
Speaker 1: that viewpoint, it's all about the magic plan. That's how
Speaker 1: we roll Brassie and I. I also feel like Greg
Speaker 1: is trying to concoct some sort of deep relationship with
Speaker 1: Brassie that may not actually be there in real life.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting, interesting, and I did hear through the
Speaker 1: grape vine that Brassie had some very very not so
Speaker 1: nice things to say about David Eally. The perspective this
Speaker 1: is maybe we have to have at the end of
Speaker 1: the show. We'll see at the at the very end
Speaker 1: when we say carrot, dangle that carrot. Alright, so let's
Speaker 1: get into it um. Before we get to all the
Speaker 1: ramps players, Let's do some news because that's what we're
Speaker 1: here for. We're a news podcast. Tam Posey after and everybody, Hey,
Speaker 1: this one. I'm standing in a raid, drizzle and everything today.
Speaker 1: It's his heck here, we're sweating at everything. What a
Speaker 1: great time we had at the Jets practice today. Hey,
Speaker 1: here's the quarterbacks, Josh McCann. Exactly what you expected. The
Speaker 1: veteran guy knows where to throw with the ball leadership.
Speaker 1: You see you all that. God. I love Charlie Casserley.
Speaker 1: He's the best I mean, the man has charisma, football knowledge,
Speaker 1: super Bowl rings. That's the guy we gotta get on
Speaker 1: the show. Sort of the aura of an old school
Speaker 1: detective to him as well. I like everything about him.
Speaker 1: He's like a nineteen fifties television character. Absolutely, if we
Speaker 1: were playing the one word game with Charlie would be
Speaker 1: hard scrabble. All right. You see that most important persison
Speaker 1: in your organizations your quarterback, and the second most important
Speaker 1: person in your organization is your backup quarterback. And the
Speaker 1: third most important person in your organization is your quarterback coach.
Speaker 1: Greg's best impersonation is Charlie. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: the news. Uh, and we'll start on the Throne of
Speaker 1: Sleeves where the New England Patriots have signed Eric Decker
Speaker 1: to a one year deal. Decker, who's bounced around the
Speaker 1: league a little bit now it's started the Broncos one
Speaker 1: to the Jets, uh, last year with the Titans. Now
Speaker 1: a Patriot. He joins a depth chart that is dealing
Speaker 1: with some stuff. You have looming suspension for Julian Edelman,
Speaker 1: you have injuries, Kenny Britt has a hamstring, Malcolm Mitchell
Speaker 1: a knee issue, and of course Jordan Matthews. Uh. We
Speaker 1: talked about on our last show, cut Loose after suffering
Speaker 1: his own hamstring injury. So Eric Decker greg joins the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and why do I feel that this is going to
Speaker 1: work out gangbusters for the throne. I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily assume he's going to make the team
Speaker 1: at all, because the Patriots do this every year. This
Speaker 1: is one of their moves. They throw as many random
Speaker 1: wide receivers against the wall and see what sticks. Now,
Speaker 1: when they're loaded at the position, they don't necessarily do it,
Speaker 1: but there's been This has happened so many times over
Speaker 1: the years, and very often it's like a Reggie Wayne
Speaker 1: or certain parts of Dante Stalwar's career. It's like they
Speaker 1: don't even end up making the team. So we have
Speaker 1: to see. I would love it because they definitely need
Speaker 1: the help at wide receiver. It's amazing how quickly things
Speaker 1: change in the NFL. I logged in Tuesday and saw
Speaker 1: that Eric Dicker was Eric Decker was about to work
Speaker 1: out for the Patriots, and I thought they have one
Speaker 1: of the deepest wide receiver corps in the league. And
Speaker 1: then you think about edemand suspension Julia Matthew's tours hamstring,
Speaker 1: after that, Malcolm Mitchell's knee, Britt's got a hamstring or
Speaker 1: practicing they need some people. In two days, all that
Speaker 1: changed from a deep wide receiver corps to Philip Dorset's
Speaker 1: gonna start plus Kenny Britt is Kenny Britt, So let's
Speaker 1: start right there. But I would say, I mean it
Speaker 1: also talks about with the NFL it's relationships because Josh McDaniels,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned last show, he's the guy that drafted
Speaker 1: Eric Decker in Denver, and he must say to himself
Speaker 1: and must have told Belichick, look, this guy can They
Speaker 1: brought in guys like Ochilsinko, who notoriously struggled with the
Speaker 1: playbook even while he was on the field, that maybe
Speaker 1: they must feel Eric Decker, of all the guys that
Speaker 1: looked at he can help us. So random. They also
Speaker 1: have Cordorile Patterson, who's almost a lock to make the team.
Speaker 1: Like feels like you just like roll the dice on
Speaker 1: the every receiver in the league, and here's who the
Speaker 1: Patriots ended up. I really hope Kenny Britt makes a
Speaker 1: team and as a factor because I want to get
Speaker 1: a sponsored segment, Mark makes a derogatory remark about Kenny Britt, like,
Speaker 1: I think we can. We will every show like if
Speaker 1: it's not sponsored, at least have a sound drop for
Speaker 1: why isn't Kenny Britt's fault that the Browns were stupid
Speaker 1: enough to give him a huge, big money deal. That
Speaker 1: isn't their fault to what he did with it is
Speaker 1: his fault. I'm with I'm with you too, Mark, He's
Speaker 1: wrong guy to be going around defending in But I'm
Speaker 1: also with Danny Britt any guy that hangs out at
Speaker 1: Hoboken car washes. We're in the location where he crashed
Speaker 1: his his golf cart. You see Irvine before having a
Speaker 1: pretty good season. Um and just one more note on
Speaker 1: this sunning, which again I wanna be on the record
Speaker 1: and out in front of. This is going to be
Speaker 1: not only is he going to make the team, Wess,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be singing songs about what a big pick up.
Speaker 1: Eric Decker was nine. No, I don't want to go
Speaker 1: that strong. I will give you UM and six this
Speaker 1: story rights last year. He's coming off major hip surgery.
Speaker 1: Different yeah, shoulder surgery. He wasn't ready to be like
Speaker 1: the old Eric Decker again. But you know, after a
Speaker 1: year and he was playing for Mike Malarkey. Now he's
Speaker 1: back to where he was. Came on a little bit
Speaker 1: at the end of the season one a playoff game.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is going to be in sync with him.
Speaker 1: It's just wave that the mascot rampage. By the way,
Speaker 1: it's every single Patriots fan who owned a Danny Ammon
Speaker 1: Dola jersey, like Tamposey, can now just buy the Eric
Speaker 1: Decker jersey if he makes the team. I can see
Speaker 1: the transition. And one vaguely unsettling tweet not wrong, One
Speaker 1: vaguely unsettling tweet from Adam Schefter of ESPN, who's there
Speaker 1: obviously chief information man, after reporting the news about three
Speaker 1: hours ago, added this rejoinder, and it's neither here, were there?
Speaker 1: But is there now a better looking QB wide receiver
Speaker 1: combo in the NFL? Then Tom Brady and Decker? Hey,
Speaker 1: how about Jimmy g to Greg Kittles, It's not a
Speaker 1: good sign when Dan is getting on you for saying
Speaker 1: guys are good looking? How about Sam Donald to anyone
Speaker 1: that Dood's hot? Moving on? The Bengals are moving on
Speaker 1: from veteran wide receiver Brandon LaFell UH. Mike Garafolo reported
Speaker 1: Thursday morning the team would cut the veteran la fell
Speaker 1: past spent the past two seasons as the number two
Speaker 1: guy in Cincinnati. UH compiled about four yards and ninety
Speaker 1: catches UH nine touchdowns. Obviously, Chris Westling. Cincinnati's offense has
Speaker 1: been No one's version of Studley UH in the last
Speaker 1: two seasons, and LaFell was just another guy in that unit. Well,
Speaker 1: the Bengals are doing him a solid here by releasing
Speaker 1: him early in camp so he can catch on with
Speaker 1: someone else. As you've pointed out before, Bill Parcels has
Speaker 1: talked about progress stoppers. Yes, an older player who was
Speaker 1: no longer in his prime is just good enough to
Speaker 1: go out there and give you acceptable play, and that's
Speaker 1: what Brandon LaFell is right now. But when you've got young,
Speaker 1: exciting guys like John Ross Uh Josh Malone who are
Speaker 1: all showing promise in camp, it just seemed like the
Speaker 1: writing was on the wall. Brandon lafel was not only
Speaker 1: not going to be in the rotation, but probably wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be on the team. And Bill Parcels guy
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick wave farewell to Brandon LaFell. A couple of
Speaker 1: seasons ago, I had nothing. It has made me more
Speaker 1: optimistic about the Bengals than this move, because it feels
Speaker 1: like here's the replacement level guy that they've just accepted
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, and instead they're making
Speaker 1: a move that's saying like switt sink or swim. Maybe
Speaker 1: these young guys don't work, but we gotta go for
Speaker 1: something because the six and ten, seven and nine Bengals
Speaker 1: from last couple of years aren't getting you. How quickly
Speaker 1: does he wind up on the Cowboys? He would, he
Speaker 1: would upgrade that team already. It wouldn't be a bad move.
Speaker 1: They've already got six Lafels exactly. Uh, why not seven?
Speaker 1: This will never happen. Uh. But I feel like Cincinnati's
Speaker 1: a dark horse team of a t L get behind
Speaker 1: somebody that no one else is talking about that could
Speaker 1: be due for a nice little bounce back campaign. But
Speaker 1: it's all on your shoulders, West. I believe in them,
Speaker 1: but I'm not like, no, I'm not getting behind the
Speaker 1: West always says he's agnostic, he doesn't have a team,
Speaker 1: but he does have a team. It's the team that's
Speaker 1: playing the Bengals. Maybe a little meta to pick the
Speaker 1: team of a t L with the Dalton Skill quarterback
Speaker 1: under center, that would be wild, just saying we might
Speaker 1: replace Mike Brown as the owners. Um moving on, We're
Speaker 1: following this because he's one of the better safeties of
Speaker 1: his generation. But it is a very familiar storyline. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep it. Everyone up to tabs on it,
Speaker 1: up to date on it. Earl Thomas uh wrote for
Speaker 1: The Player's Tribune, which is the Derek Jeter Gossip rag
Speaker 1: Uhie Peters, the assistant editor Copy Durant is like the
Speaker 1: executive editor, So like Jeter, he's more of like a
Speaker 1: big picture like Richard Sherman, like a section editor. Jorge
Speaker 1: Posada rights headlines. Anyway, So Earl Thomas uh Players Tribune
Speaker 1: elaborated on the demands that he posted on Instagram last month,
Speaker 1: in which he asked the Seahawks to either give him
Speaker 1: an extension or trade him. He wrote this, I'm asking
Speaker 1: the Seahawks to do one of two things. Offered me
Speaker 1: an extension or trade me to a team that wants
Speaker 1: me to be part of their future. And he went
Speaker 1: on and on and on. So it's very similar. You
Speaker 1: understand his frustration. You also understand where the Seahawks are
Speaker 1: as an organization and their unwillingness to give him money
Speaker 1: when they're in in a kind of a semi I
Speaker 1: don't say rebuild, but reworking of their roster. It's a
Speaker 1: tough situation. Was well. I feel like the Seahawks, according
Speaker 1: to what they've done so far, it would be in
Speaker 1: keeping with their approach just to have a one word
Speaker 1: response to Earl Thomas, No, we're not gonna pay you
Speaker 1: or trade you. We're just gonna let you dangle on
Speaker 1: the in for a while. I think they'll trade him
Speaker 1: if they can get a good offer, and it's not
Speaker 1: what they're waiting for. Now is not the time of
Speaker 1: year where you get a good offer, so they're just
Speaker 1: kind of sitting on it. You know, maybe you get
Speaker 1: it September one or even I don't know, during the season,
Speaker 1: if he's really willing to sit out times this is
Speaker 1: one feels like both sides are waiting for the other
Speaker 1: of the flinch. It just feels to me like from
Speaker 1: a from a football only angle, this is one of
Speaker 1: the messiest situations in the league right now, and it
Speaker 1: was two months ago and it's not gotten any better.
Speaker 1: It's one of those stories we've talked about so long
Speaker 1: that I know I had one take about it initially,
Speaker 1: and now I've like gone all the way to the
Speaker 1: other take, which is kind of like, well, he's only
Speaker 1: twenty nine years old and a Hall of Famer, Like
Speaker 1: maybe it's not that crazy to give him another contract.
Speaker 1: He's a pretty unique like person in the Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that's I still think that's where he
Speaker 1: will be in Big D I think come week one,
Speaker 1: that's that's what I feel. I'm still thinking about Jorge
Speaker 1: Posadas like slow march around third base, like going to home.
Speaker 1: There was no slower player than Jorg Beside, like if
Speaker 1: he writes headlines as slow as he ran around the
Speaker 1: faces different sets. I like Derek like poking his head
Speaker 1: out of these executive office be like whor hey, not
Speaker 1: enough s e oh okay, boss? Moving on. We don't
Speaker 1: usually get caught up with training camp practice stats, but
Speaker 1: let's check in on what's going on with the Chiefs. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's becoming a little bit of a story around that team.
Speaker 1: The Patrick Mahomes who was handed the keys to the
Speaker 1: franchise when the Chiefs traded Alex Smith to Washington earlier
Speaker 1: this year or um, what was it, yeah, earlier this year,
Speaker 1: and his start to training camp has been bumpy. How bumpy?
Speaker 1: Per ESPN dot Com, Mahomes has tossed seven interceptions in
Speaker 1: six practices. Uh. And here's what offensive coordinator And I
Speaker 1: did not know this, and I'm not ashamed that I
Speaker 1: need to be more plugged in. I didn't know. Eric
Speaker 1: b Enemy got the promotion. Great name names, a great
Speaker 1: kind of middle of the running back. I remember in
Speaker 1: the old days. He's the O C. Here's what he
Speaker 1: had to say about Mahomes is start to camp. He
Speaker 1: had a few hiccups today, But that's a part of
Speaker 1: the process. When you're young. You need those hiccups because
Speaker 1: they become valuable lessons in life. And so what we
Speaker 1: like From to be perfect? Yes, we like From have
Speaker 1: a the highest rating passive quarterback rategever. But he just
Speaker 1: needs to be poised under pressure. Anything to be worried about, Greg,
Speaker 1: I don't know these are one these that's just the answer.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of these stories. Like
Speaker 1: Mitchell Drabinsky, they've been saying is throwing up an interception?
Speaker 1: A day at least. And sometimes it is an indicator.
Speaker 1: It's like I went to Colts camp last year and
Speaker 1: they couldn't complete a pass. Not that I needed to
Speaker 1: see that to know Scott Tolzine was gonna struggle. But
Speaker 1: sometimes it is an indicator. But unless you're there, I
Speaker 1: just feel like it's one of those stories that it's
Speaker 1: hard to know what it means. Does anybody believe and
Speaker 1: I don't mean just in the podcast, does any football
Speaker 1: fan believe anything other than Patrick Mahomes will make the
Speaker 1: Chiefs more fun to watch. They'll probably rack up more
Speaker 1: yards and they'll have more losses because he turns the
Speaker 1: ball over. And then their MVP candidate last year, who
Speaker 1: was known for not turning the ball over. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think with with camp especially, we're like Greg, you said it,
Speaker 1: we're not there and we don't know what the situation is,
Speaker 1: but it is. I do find it interesting that when
Speaker 1: a player shines in camp, we're always saying, oh no,
Speaker 1: but listen, it's camp and it's against guys who aren't
Speaker 1: and pads or it's you know, seven on sevens. But
Speaker 1: when they struggle, we attribute all this stuff too, and
Speaker 1: it's it's the same thing. We it's they're both likely
Speaker 1: learning and it's meaningless, and let's get them into real
Speaker 1: games before we make a real judgment. Kevin King of
Speaker 1: the Packers had a good quote to their ESPN reporter
Speaker 1: just talking about how some players do get caught up
Speaker 1: that the reporters are keeping track of the completions and everything,
Speaker 1: and he's saying, in so many cases they're working on
Speaker 1: certain attributes of the game that are their weakest attributes.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, let's just work on that today. You're
Speaker 1: probably gonna get smoked by Aaron Rodgers, but that's what
Speaker 1: you're gonna work on today. And that's sort of there's
Speaker 1: no way to know that context unless you're there. And
Speaker 1: the other thing around the Chiefs right now is like
Speaker 1: the Chiefs can be a worst team this year. They
Speaker 1: could have a worst record and still have made the
Speaker 1: right decision to make Patrick Mahomes their quarterback. Absolutely, And
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why Mahomes is the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: and not Alex Smith is because they want a guy
Speaker 1: who's gonna pull the trigger on high risk, high reward throws,
Speaker 1: which results and more interceptions and more big player was
Speaker 1: a move for the future but what makes it especially
Speaker 1: exciting is that Mahomes has the potential to be great
Speaker 1: right now. So it's an exciting time for the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: But I think you have to have your eyes open
Speaker 1: as a Chiefs fan that this might be a step
Speaker 1: back and for a bigger stuff forward down the He's
Speaker 1: played one game, so you maybe in entering into his
Speaker 1: second game in the NFL, there's still something to work on.
Speaker 1: Work on there. Eric Enemy, by the way, that's my
Speaker 1: Eric B Enemy. Uh. One of the all time great
Speaker 1: Chris Burman nicknames sleeping with the enemy. I mean that
Speaker 1: might be number one. I think it is number one,
Speaker 1: being he's given you a lot to work with the
Speaker 1: last name to begin with. Gotta work on my um.
Speaker 1: Moving on the Tennessee Titans. Oh, the A c L
Speaker 1: bug has struck again. Jonathan Cyprian. They're starting strong. Safety
Speaker 1: is done for the year. Mike Rabel, the head coach,
Speaker 1: confirmed that Cyprian suffered uh a torn a c L
Speaker 1: and a non contact play during Wednesday's practice. Uh and
Speaker 1: that is a tough situation. Kenny Vaccaro, there's as we know,
Speaker 1: and there's an offseason subplot mark that there was a
Speaker 1: lot of safeties that could play that have not been
Speaker 1: able to find jobs. All of a sudden, a job
Speaker 1: opens up here. Kennycaro's coming for a visit, potentially Eric Reid,
Speaker 1: who else, Mike Mike Mitchell. So one of these out
Speaker 1: of work safeties is going to get a gig. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: it's at the expense of Jonathan Cyprian. Yeah, nobody wanted
Speaker 1: to pay these safeties three or four months ago, but
Speaker 1: now there's a critical need for them when you're starter
Speaker 1: goes down. Yeah, I'm not saying Jonathan Cyprian is is
Speaker 1: chopped deliver, but because of the way the free agent
Speaker 1: Margaret went there, there is a scenario where they sign
Speaker 1: a guy like kennycar when he comes in and plays
Speaker 1: better than take a bread over Cyprian in a second
Speaker 1: and to me, very similar strengths and assets, and he's
Speaker 1: younger and really played well at the end of last year.
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy to me, Eric read doesn't have a job.
Speaker 1: I know, there's it's partly, you know, maybe because he's
Speaker 1: suing the Bengals right now, hardly because of his injury
Speaker 1: history too. Partly, but if he didn't kneel with Colin
Speaker 1: kaepernickin wasn't so I'd spoken. There's no doubt in my
Speaker 1: mind he would have been signed right away. So it's
Speaker 1: a little crazy. Well, why why is Kenny of Acarro unsigned?
Speaker 1: He didn't car was hurt and Kenny macara was a
Speaker 1: mess last year. He was the second to lowest ranked
Speaker 1: safety in PFF and he's coming off an injury. Mark,
Speaker 1: can you hop out of that chair and go tell
Speaker 1: the man driving the Toro lowmower that the grass is
Speaker 1: about a tenth of an inch long and we don't
Speaker 1: need that background noise right now. We don't need that
Speaker 1: and a podcast, Sir, nobody on the show is more
Speaker 1: annoyed by general outside sounds than I am, so trust me,
Speaker 1: it's it's bugging me. There have been people driven out
Speaker 1: of our company for sitting close to Mark in the newsroom. Marts,
Speaker 1: I can like continue like had like Cold Wars to
Speaker 1: get certain people moved across the newsroom, and they usually were.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be affected cold wars. It's not
Speaker 1: a cold war because something effectively happens at the end
Speaker 1: of it. Um it does. There is a Victor brass
Speaker 1: Brassie looked up the second we were talking about this.
Speaker 1: We were. That's how Brassy got her name, and I
Speaker 1: gave it to her about five years ago because I
Speaker 1: worked these early Saturday shifts and it's about five fifteen
Speaker 1: in the morning, and the room is dark and silent,
Speaker 1: and there's one individual about thirty yards away from me
Speaker 1: speaking in a hyper loud Southern accent, and I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: who is this person? Who got to know where? She's
Speaker 1: a delight? But she still is named Brassi for a reason. Finally,
Speaker 1: in the news a little trop alert, Jordy Nelson is
Speaker 1: moving like he's quote in training camp for the Oakland
Speaker 1: Raiders and Earl Thomas get a contract at twenty nine.
Speaker 1: How old is I think is thirty three? Yeah, like
Speaker 1: twenty eight didn't even tell us. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: what that means. It's just important that you guys know
Speaker 1: that the Packers made a gargantin a lot of self
Speaker 1: fulfilling prophecies and in August where we like to tell
Speaker 1: you how great our own signing was. With these press
Speaker 1: people at Raiders camp, for what it's worth, have been
Speaker 1: talking up Jordy Nelson and a lot of people. It's
Speaker 1: it's reporters that are close to the Raiders, including some
Speaker 1: of you know, family members that work for NFL network. Like,
Speaker 1: but they were talking that Jordy Nelson is running by people,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. Let me give a little more context.
Speaker 1: That's Michael Gelkin, uh, the reporter for the Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Review Journal, and he admits it quote reads like training
Speaker 1: camp puff, but he is really looking good. Well, they're there,
Speaker 1: We're not there other year from he's there on the
Speaker 1: sideline watching and coaches are saying that, players are saying
Speaker 1: it's so benefit of the doubt. All right, that's what's
Speaker 1: happening in the news. Time to get to it. We
Speaker 1: have some great interviews set up with some big fish
Speaker 1: with the Rams. And why don't we start with the
Speaker 1: head coach, Sean McVeigh, entering his second season. The first
Speaker 1: season could not have gone better, So we get into
Speaker 1: that and more. Let's listen, all right, Today we get
Speaker 1: the chance to talk to Sean McVeigh, head coach of
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams, a guy who bursted onto the
Speaker 1: head coaching scene as a superstars and now you have
Speaker 1: to follow that up. And it's always hard to do,
Speaker 1: isn't it, Sean? It is? You know? But uh, I
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing is that you feel really confident
Speaker 1: with the players that we have, with the coaching staff
Speaker 1: that we're doing this with, and I think there's a
Speaker 1: humility that our team has. You know, there's a confidence,
Speaker 1: there's a swagger, but there's a humility understand that we
Speaker 1: got to earn it every single day and we're looking
Speaker 1: forward to getting going, but we understand that we kind
Speaker 1: of just have to be where our feet are planted,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, doing what we can control today.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Go ahead. It seems like the Patriots have
Speaker 1: an advantage on the entire league because one of the
Speaker 1: keys to championships is a quarterback with coach like powers
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. And you seem like you've
Speaker 1: taken like Malcolm glab Well's role and thrown it out
Speaker 1: the window with what you're doing at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage with Jared Goff, and you've downplayed that. I've heard
Speaker 1: defensive coordinators sometimes downplay how much of an advantage. Why
Speaker 1: should we believe that's not an advantage because it seems
Speaker 1: to me like the best innovation in the NFL right now.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of guys that utilize it.
Speaker 1: You know, and it's really you know, it's exclusive to
Speaker 1: just being able to talk to the quarterback. It's not
Speaker 1: necessarily getting the checks different things like that. Jared and
Speaker 1: really our quarterbacks as a whole, I have an ownership
Speaker 1: on what we're trying to do. And really it's at
Speaker 1: the discretion of the quarterback. You know, worked with different
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that like to be able to use all right,
Speaker 1: just give me some pointers and stuff all the way
Speaker 1: until fifteen and if I don't need it, I contunue out.
Speaker 1: And then there's some guys that say, give me the
Speaker 1: play and and then just let me go operate. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, I've I've worked with both. We have in
Speaker 1: the organ a situation where we're giving information and Jared,
Speaker 1: you know, he can tune me out a whole lot,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he does a lot. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're doing things that you know, really a lot
Speaker 1: of people around this league, you know, just talking to
Speaker 1: coaches do and that's if the quarterbacks like to be
Speaker 1: able to utilize that. But it's not exclusive to just
Speaker 1: given plays and different things like that. It's like that
Speaker 1: when they're substituting. Note, how how is that process for
Speaker 1: you when you're kind of watching who they're substituting and
Speaker 1: putting into the in onto the field, and then you're
Speaker 1: making the decision how you're gonna counter that before the
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds comes up. Well, really that's you know, if
Speaker 1: we're at the line of scrimmage, there are some different
Speaker 1: things that that we do greg but really, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of that comes from up top. You know,
Speaker 1: what are the personnel grouping, is that the defense is
Speaker 1: presenting based on what we're in offensively, what the situation
Speaker 1: might be if it's a third down, different things like that.
Speaker 1: So I think there was a lot made of it
Speaker 1: just because he was miked up and you heard some
Speaker 1: of the cool code words and different things like that.
Speaker 1: But it's a phase of our offense. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you've got sixty five to seventy snaps in a game,
Speaker 1: we might be at the line of scrimmage for anywhere
Speaker 1: between fifteen and twenty of those, and some of those
Speaker 1: might be getting some check with me things, but all
Speaker 1: those are things that the quarterback has command of and
Speaker 1: a lot of those decisions are being made really after
Speaker 1: fifteen if you kind of really watch, um, it just
Speaker 1: happens to be when the headset cuts off. But he's
Speaker 1: making a lot of decisions under that fifteen second timeline
Speaker 1: as well. A lot of people talk about how young
Speaker 1: you are and talk about the age and how you
Speaker 1: hit the scene, but with the football acumen and knowledge
Speaker 1: that kind of blowing people away. Your grandfather was a
Speaker 1: head coach back in the seventies. Did that impact How
Speaker 1: did that impact you? Imagine? It must have, Yeah, Mark,
Speaker 1: it really did. Just being around the game, you know,
Speaker 1: And I don't think I really realized how much you
Speaker 1: pick up on until you kind of look back on
Speaker 1: those times, and you know, just being around the game,
Speaker 1: being around the players, that competitive atmosphere that this league provides,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I feel feel so fortunate to
Speaker 1: have gotten the opportunities that I've gotten, really as a
Speaker 1: result of my grandfather's uh you know rate, you know,
Speaker 1: reputation that he's established in this league, getting a chance
Speaker 1: to work for great people with the Grooten family, working
Speaker 1: with the Shanahans and people that were willing to invest
Speaker 1: in mentor you and kind of try to help guide
Speaker 1: you along the way and know that, you know, it's
Speaker 1: all about the people that you're surrounded with. My grandfather
Speaker 1: just used to call me a meatball a lot, which
Speaker 1: is just it just heard and it sticks with me
Speaker 1: to this day. Um, this is all interesting stuff and
Speaker 1: the grandfather angle. But I also have been hearing John
Speaker 1: that there is an credible taco joints somewhere within the
Speaker 1: Irvine area. I was wondering, as you, as a head
Speaker 1: coach of the Rams, if you're plugged in on this
Speaker 1: and if you could tell us where it is. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if you're referring to
Speaker 1: a specific one. But we've been to Javy Years, which
Speaker 1: is a great Mexican restaurant around here. They took good
Speaker 1: care of our staff when we reported to camp. Lots
Speaker 1: of good drinks, lots of good food. You know, more
Speaker 1: more drinks we had than food. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can help me out there. People, Well that's good.
Speaker 1: They don't serve me baus typically Mexican Mexican restaurants. But
Speaker 1: the four of us we text NonStop January April. We've
Speaker 1: got thousands of texts. Do you have a text chain
Speaker 1: with a couple of head coaches that just go on
Speaker 1: throughout the year. I mean, I just wanted love to
Speaker 1: get in your phone and see what kind of conversation
Speaker 1: wants to be part of your group. I want to
Speaker 1: be part of in touch with those guys around the league.
Speaker 1: You know, you keep in touch with Jay Gruden. You know,
Speaker 1: you talk to some of these other you know, John
Speaker 1: when he gets back into it, and you know, some
Speaker 1: of the other coaches that you've gotten a chance to
Speaker 1: get to know over just really the last year and
Speaker 1: a half or so. And then, uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: always bothering our players with stuff too. They're probably you know,
Speaker 1: tired of hearing from me what you know, They're like,
Speaker 1: this guy needs to get a life, and you know,
Speaker 1: when it's time to have off, you know, stop thinking
Speaker 1: about football all the time we were talking, you know,
Speaker 1: before we started, and you're just kind of hoping that
Speaker 1: there's no injuries so far as six days in the camp,
Speaker 1: like things are going well. I wanted to ask kind
Speaker 1: of like why why is camp so important to you?
Speaker 1: Like quest is at the point, and I think this
Speaker 1: is more the coverage of training camp where he's kind
Speaker 1: of done with training camp, Like training camp is the
Speaker 1: worst month of coverage of the season. I understand the
Speaker 1: importance to a team. It's just as important as has
Speaker 1: been since the nineteen forties, but the media coverage has
Speaker 1: changed so much and we blow things entirely out of proportion,
Speaker 1: and training camp that means nothing once the season. Help us,
Speaker 1: help us cover I think really training camp provides a
Speaker 1: great opportunity to kind of established what you're going to
Speaker 1: be as a team, to come together to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, what are the nuances in terms of how
Speaker 1: you want to operate offensively, defensively, and on special teams.
Speaker 1: And really it gets a great opportunity to kind of
Speaker 1: figure out your personnel, whether they're spots where guys are
Speaker 1: competing for jobs, different things like that. And then you know,
Speaker 1: a big part of it for us, as you continue
Speaker 1: to kind of educate yourself on the sports science approach,
Speaker 1: has taken advantage of these walkthroughs where you get around
Speaker 1: our athletic trainer Reggie Scott and our our head strength
Speaker 1: coach Ted Wrath, and you understand that why you do
Speaker 1: want to push not at the expense of having guys
Speaker 1: susceptible to some injuries, and then also making sure there
Speaker 1: as fresh as possible for when these games really count.
Speaker 1: Starting in the you know, the first second week of September.
Speaker 1: Does it feel different? Um, Obviously you're in a different
Speaker 1: places a team last year coming off a tough season.
Speaker 1: This year, a lot of people are picking you as
Speaker 1: like a Super Bowl favorite. Does it feel different? Uh,
Speaker 1: in terms of your preparation, the coaching staff, where you're
Speaker 1: coming from. Personally, I think the only thing that feels
Speaker 1: different is really, you know, the comfort level with knowing
Speaker 1: the people that you're doing it with. You know, we
Speaker 1: know our players a lot better. There's some continuity on
Speaker 1: our offense, defensive and special team systems, and now we
Speaker 1: want to operate and really as a staff, we've got good,
Speaker 1: you know, cohesion in terms of what we want to
Speaker 1: get get done. And you know, we've had some guys
Speaker 1: that were elevated when we lost Matt Lafleur and Greg
Speaker 1: Olsen where they got Nator jobs. But I feel really
Speaker 1: fortunate to go to work with these players, these coaches. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think just the idea as far as knowing
Speaker 1: how we want to operate, we can do things a
Speaker 1: little bit more efficiently. There's a couple of things that
Speaker 1: I know I can do a much better job of
Speaker 1: in terms of the planning. But as far as the
Speaker 1: way that we go about practice different things like that.
Speaker 1: It's very much the same. You don't know about less sneed.
Speaker 1: He's been on this show before and he's a little
Speaker 1: he didn't want to talk too much about it, but
Speaker 1: we could not we need something that you don't know
Speaker 1: about less sneed. You know, I would say that, uh,
Speaker 1: one of the things that you don't know that you know,
Speaker 1: don't know about less need. He's a wine connoisseur, loves
Speaker 1: a nice class of wine. That's not but but that was,
Speaker 1: you know, we we when I first got hired last year,
Speaker 1: we would go and and uh, you know, have a
Speaker 1: little drink at the end of the night, and Kara
Speaker 1: would come and we would, uh, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: get to know each other a little bit, talk about
Speaker 1: the personnel, and you know, he'd still wake up the
Speaker 1: next morning with his teeth read. So I'm all right, Sean,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. If you want to join
Speaker 1: us for tacos, maybe that's that's an option. At times,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of time, Shan is gonna get
Speaker 1: after those margarita's. It's it's always a good time. There
Speaker 1: you go. Thanks, guys, appreciate a little bit braggy in
Speaker 1: my opinion, with knowing everyone's names, I just feel like
Speaker 1: on your radar very quick me because I could never
Speaker 1: do something like that. I barely remember you guys names.
Speaker 1: He gave you two names, Dan and Meatball. Whenever it's
Speaker 1: carrying on the legacy of my grandfather Baba. Whenever people
Speaker 1: do that, I think like, yeah, I could never do that,
Speaker 1: and like, oh, that's how he got into this position
Speaker 1: of leadership. That's what real men do. Greag. I've seen
Speaker 1: you forget somebody's name two seconds after you've met them.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I never pay attention the first time, like
Speaker 1: you have to. It's gonna be two to three times
Speaker 1: talking to them. They need to make an impression. It's
Speaker 1: actually a sign. I've heard about that because I'm a
Speaker 1: little self conscious about it, because people say it's like
Speaker 1: a sign of being just completely self obsessed to not
Speaker 1: be able to remember other people's names. It sounds about
Speaker 1: but it's just hard. No. But I think the first
Speaker 1: point is accurate, not that you're not that anyone's self obsessed,
Speaker 1: but it's that in that moment, you're only focused on
Speaker 1: how do I look, how do I sound? And then
Speaker 1: the four names have gone by and you have no
Speaker 1: concept to what's hey, or you're not in my case,
Speaker 1: you're not thinking about anything to do with that person
Speaker 1: or yourself. You're thinking about something so that that would
Speaker 1: be you're just maybe that's not how I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: what you want to say next? Um about lunch? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so McVeigh obviously exactly the guy Mark I said, you
Speaker 1: have to talk to the tour and it's the last
Speaker 1: time anyone here cut along. I want an honest answer.
Speaker 1: I cut along last summer my parents house. You have
Speaker 1: to be senior year of high school or the summer
Speaker 1: after that. Probably the summer after that. That That would be
Speaker 1: spent at least ten years. I was. I was gifted
Speaker 1: at it. In fact, I was known, uh here were
Speaker 1: family members as Danny double cut. Because some people, yes,
Speaker 1: some people will just go up and I'm sure that's
Speaker 1: what you guys did. We go up and down just
Speaker 1: one road at a time, uh, and just knock it
Speaker 1: at as fast as possible. I would always go up
Speaker 1: the row and then back down the road to make
Speaker 1: sure there was no mulch left behind, because if you
Speaker 1: leave behind molst, you're sloppy. I take a fence that
Speaker 1: I would circle first around the entire lawn twice, two
Speaker 1: or three times the perimeter, and then I'd go back
Speaker 1: and forth on the inside, then collect all the trimmings
Speaker 1: and then maybe go throw them in the forest so
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be seen from the house. I would combine
Speaker 1: it with wool gathering. Wol gathering, yeah, and just you know,
Speaker 1: make some designs in the grass. The first job I
Speaker 1: ever got fired from was was mowing the lawn when
Speaker 1: I was like eleven or twelve years old. Why did
Speaker 1: you get fired? I don't know. I must have done
Speaker 1: a terrible job. But McVeigh was more or less exactly um,
Speaker 1: kind of who I expect. He's super confident, obviously very sharp,
Speaker 1: he knows the names, and a man complete lee in
Speaker 1: control of his own destiny and he knows it. Also,
Speaker 1: still what I've noticed, still unwilling to say anything that
Speaker 1: will shine a positive light on himself. He's not willing
Speaker 1: to go there, and he's not willing to say anything
Speaker 1: that doesn't give his quarterback a ton of credit. It's
Speaker 1: good to be Sean McVeigh, by the way. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's great. Um. Alright, moving on, now, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into conversations with three this offseason. What took
Speaker 1: the hype to the next levels That the Rams did
Speaker 1: not stand pat and it was it's easy to respect
Speaker 1: that because they could have and instead they made some
Speaker 1: big moves. Uh. And we're gonna go talk to three
Speaker 1: guys that have joined the team and we expect to
Speaker 1: make a big impact. Let's start with new wide receiver
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks, and then you're gonna hear uh from the
Speaker 1: brand new cornerback Marcus Peters. Let's get to it now,
Speaker 1: joining us wide receiver of the Rams, Brandon Cooks. Last
Speaker 1: time we saw Brandon, he was on the field at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Now he's in l a Uh, playing
Speaker 1: for the most high profile team, arguably in the NFC.
Speaker 1: After time with the Patriot, It's so you're always in
Speaker 1: the mix. BRN. I guess so I like it. It's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it must be like playing we call it, or I
Speaker 1: call it on our podcast. The playing for the Patriots
Speaker 1: is the throne of ease because it just seems everything
Speaker 1: comes easily. That's just I'm a bitter jetsman. But with
Speaker 1: the Rams, with the Rams, it feels like everything is
Speaker 1: in such a good spot right now for success, and
Speaker 1: you feel like a missing piece or a final piece
Speaker 1: type guy for them. Um. You know, I think they
Speaker 1: were doing so many great things last year. Um, and
Speaker 1: what we're building so far is camp. Uh, it's been great.
Speaker 1: You know. The beautiful thing is we have such a
Speaker 1: long way to go. Um, a lot more practices left,
Speaker 1: you know, and just taking one day at a time,
Speaker 1: let everything else take care of. So I feel like
Speaker 1: playing for the Patriots the first like word that comes
Speaker 1: to mind, like would not be easy? No? Was that easy?
Speaker 1: Was that an easy experience? Oh? No, I don't think
Speaker 1: playing football is an easy experience in general. You know,
Speaker 1: playing for coach Belichick was great. Not an easy process,
Speaker 1: but definitely well worth it. You learn a lot when
Speaker 1: you're over there. Um, and so a ton of respect
Speaker 1: for what they got going well. There was kind of
Speaker 1: an off season trend to with certain guys dragging the Patriots,
Speaker 1: saying Belicheck and not fun to play for. That became
Speaker 1: kind of like a trend of this offseason. H you know,
Speaker 1: I mean everyone has their personal experience. You know, my
Speaker 1: experience was awesome. Um. You know, it's a special place.
Speaker 1: You know, I've got special people from the owner and
Speaker 1: to you know, to the coach's dad, to the players.
Speaker 1: So I had a wonderful time and there's nothing negative
Speaker 1: I can say coming out of it with Sean Payton
Speaker 1: and Phil Belichick and now you're with with with McVeigh.
Speaker 1: Is do you see any sort of share DNA between
Speaker 1: McVeigh and these other two coaches? I think just the
Speaker 1: hunger to put in the work on their end to
Speaker 1: be able to put us in our best uh position
Speaker 1: to win games. I see it from all three of
Speaker 1: these guys. Um, you know, coach McVeigh does it so well.
Speaker 1: He brings so much energy just like the other ones
Speaker 1: due uh, just in his own way, which I think
Speaker 1: is awesome. What about the two quarterbacks you've been with
Speaker 1: Breeze Brady and now you're with Jared Goff. Where is
Speaker 1: golf compared to those guys? You know, golf is I've
Speaker 1: see trending in that direction. Um, you know, he had
Speaker 1: an awesome year last year, and then what he's been
Speaker 1: doing out throughout this spring and throughout this training camp. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's doing great things. And with that being said,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't wait to be able to suit
Speaker 1: up on Sundays and get going with this guy. You
Speaker 1: bounced around the last three years to three different places.
Speaker 1: But to me, like it says something about you that
Speaker 1: three of the best minds in football want you on
Speaker 1: their team, like Sean Payton, you know, Belichick and Josh
Speaker 1: McDaniel is one of the best offensive coaches and now
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. Does it, Like do you feel good about that?
Speaker 1: Like there's so many smart coaches, Like what what you got?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I look at it and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm very thankful, and then that you know,
Speaker 1: so many people can take the negative from it. Uh,
Speaker 1: but I think there has been such a blessing to
Speaker 1: play with two great coaches and now playing for another third. Um,
Speaker 1: all that's doing is just helping my career and blessing
Speaker 1: making me become a better players walking. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: be the best teammate that I can be. Who's gonna
Speaker 1: had more yards this year? You were Robert, I don't
Speaker 1: get into that. We you were a routine guy. So
Speaker 1: you wanted to do this interview kind of right as
Speaker 1: you're coming off practice. I didn't want to do the interview,
Speaker 1: right you probably probably, So what does that mean to
Speaker 1: be a routine guy? And are you Are you upset
Speaker 1: with us for messing up? I'm not upset at all.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be able to improvise. So just
Speaker 1: for me, I just like to you know, a certain
Speaker 1: times I like to take care of my body, especially
Speaker 1: you know, before practice, I want to get food in me,
Speaker 1: you know, just little things like that, trying to be
Speaker 1: the best product I can be. Uh, so I can
Speaker 1: be healthy? Uh is it? Is it a career high
Speaker 1: point to be on this show? You've been in the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. I had a lot of great moments, but
Speaker 1: now you're here. I'm here. I'm uh that's up there.
Speaker 1: I will say that up there. Do you listen to podcasts? Yes?
Speaker 1: I do, besides ours, but usually I just more so
Speaker 1: listen to uh pastor Brian Leris. My faith is a
Speaker 1: lot to me. Um, everything to me. So I usually
Speaker 1: like driving in in the morning and listen to podcasts
Speaker 1: and get my day started positive messages. Last question, you know,
Speaker 1: more so going home from practice. Last question? Where can
Speaker 1: we get a good taco and irvan? You know, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but go to Nobu Malibu. They got
Speaker 1: some good You're not wrong about that little above our Sorry,
Speaker 1: we'll save up for you be able to do it.
Speaker 1: Brenda Cook's best of luck this. Thank you guys. Thanks.
Speaker 1: We have Marcus Peters, new cornerback for the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1: As you were coming to meet with us. A Chiefs
Speaker 1: fan behind the scenes, Ryan said, I can't believe we
Speaker 1: let Hall of Famer out the door. I'm gone now.
Speaker 1: So there's the there's what you're leaving behind, Kansas City.
Speaker 1: You don't seem too too sad about it now. I
Speaker 1: left with nineteen picks, a couple of forced fumbles, a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns, and we had a lot of out
Speaker 1: of fun out there. So it's time to move on.
Speaker 1: But you don't disagree with the Hall of Fame respect
Speaker 1: he's given you. Oh no, man, See, you gotta just
Speaker 1: keep working in and then all that stuff will come
Speaker 1: on down the line from my peers and stuff like
Speaker 1: my game and stuff. But as of right now, and
Speaker 1: just keep working. We keep running. You know, you lead
Speaker 1: the league and picks since you entered the league, and
Speaker 1: to keep to leave since he ended the league also
Speaker 1: enters picks. Is this the best cornerback duo in the NFL?
Speaker 1: Right now? We're gonna see, man, We're gonna as we
Speaker 1: we get into the what this week to a camp,
Speaker 1: and we just keep building and then by time we
Speaker 1: get ready to play the readers on September ten, Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football, we're gonna find out. What do you think
Speaker 1: about Wade Phillips? Yeah, O, g man, I keep saying
Speaker 1: that now, but it's really um, it's really true. Man.
Speaker 1: He's he's so laid back. He trust his players to
Speaker 1: go out there and do everything that he's asking for
Speaker 1: us to do. And let's play fast, play physical, and
Speaker 1: just do do do our job. You go from Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: who is one of the best offensive minds of the
Speaker 1: last two decades, to Sean McVeigh, who's already one of
Speaker 1: the best offensive minds in football. Do you see just
Speaker 1: in the short time you've been with Sean, like, do
Speaker 1: you see something that makes him special? Everything that he does,
Speaker 1: the way that he prepares, the way that he's so
Speaker 1: competitive on all on all tools of of of him
Speaker 1: wanting us to be on our toes of defense, of
Speaker 1: us to be uh sound on special teams, And then
Speaker 1: how are you coming out with it with all his
Speaker 1: unique looks and and his his unique snap counts and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. On offensive side, it's all unique. Man.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's he's he's gonna be a great coach
Speaker 1: in this league for a long time. How about just
Speaker 1: the difference like in vibe, But they're both great coaches.
Speaker 1: They both run their teams a certain way. Like what's
Speaker 1: the difference. It ain't nothing like California. So but no, man,
Speaker 1: Big Red kind of he kind of uh held us
Speaker 1: his his his ball club in the old school ways,
Speaker 1: I should say, of of how he was was getting
Speaker 1: down with things. But like I said, it's nothing like California. Man,
Speaker 1: I think a coach Sean he fits perfectly with the
Speaker 1: California weather, the California five. He's a young young coach man.
Speaker 1: You know what about his player ways? What about for you?
Speaker 1: I mean Kansas City and no disrespect Ryan, Uh seems
Speaker 1: like a nice place. But l A is a lot too.
Speaker 1: How how big was that like coming to l A
Speaker 1: and for you like changing that type of lifestyle like that,
Speaker 1: I'm fifty minutes away from home, want to flight five
Speaker 1: and a half? I would drive to go home. And
Speaker 1: it allows for my family to come see me play
Speaker 1: a lot more ball. You know we play against were
Speaker 1: still playing the bear, you know with me transferring from
Speaker 1: playing against Oakland every year I go within playing against
Speaker 1: Sepsis before the nine is now my family still get
Speaker 1: to come see me playing Santa Clair and just close
Speaker 1: to my family. And what's it like being the new guy?
Speaker 1: So you're obviously a high profile guy, But is it
Speaker 1: nerve wracking when and maybe you know a lot of
Speaker 1: players on the rams even before you got here, But
Speaker 1: what's it like being I don't feel like you get
Speaker 1: nerve wracked too often. I think the best thing, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think the best thing about this whole situation
Speaker 1: is that I came in the right when we was
Speaker 1: being ready for O T S and and and all
Speaker 1: those things. So it allowed for me to be around
Speaker 1: my teammates and stuff and just to to jail on
Speaker 1: them to see I'll play with Corey Littleton in college
Speaker 1: and stuff. Um I knew time for a little bit
Speaker 1: with over probos and just having conversations and stuff like
Speaker 1: that and everything else I know Jared from back at
Speaker 1: home and stuff and planning against them, but everything you
Speaker 1: just take it as a learning experience. You come in
Speaker 1: and just be yourself and then it's it's gonna all
Speaker 1: get to jail and as we go through these processes
Speaker 1: of oas mini camp and now training camp. You have
Speaker 1: to go back to almost the ninety four Niners to
Speaker 1: find the team that in the off season attacked free
Speaker 1: agency and trades to bring in players they brought in
Speaker 1: like Dion Sanders back then. And you, you guys, the
Speaker 1: Rams really are the team that did that. This offseason
Speaker 1: was a distinct difference than in some the ways some
Speaker 1: teams build. Is it really in houses? It's sort of
Speaker 1: super Bowl or bust for the Rams this season? No,
Speaker 1: I think it's is week to week busk. Yeah, We're
Speaker 1: gonna prepare a week to week and and see if
Speaker 1: we busted that week or not, and then we we
Speaker 1: can we continue to grow each week and and we
Speaker 1: see where we we fall at the end of the
Speaker 1: seventeen weeks of regular season, and then if we get
Speaker 1: to playoffs, we just keep playing our ball. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit different going from the Chiefs, where
Speaker 1: you were a perennial playoff contender but didn't get up
Speaker 1: as much like media attention or love to now everybody's
Speaker 1: picking you to do great things. What's the difference between
Speaker 1: like the high expectations now versus where the Chiefs. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see no difference because I think everybody there's
Speaker 1: only one champion this league right now, and that's the
Speaker 1: Philadelphi Eagles. You know, until we opened up week one,
Speaker 1: you know, and then once we opened up, we want
Speaker 1: everybody on a clean slate of us playing ball. And
Speaker 1: you go out there and you put your best foot
Speaker 1: for it each week, and then you see where you
Speaker 1: fall at the end of the season. Who talks more?
Speaker 1: You were a keep man? We kind of I don't know,
Speaker 1: we we we kind of we to be honest, I
Speaker 1: think we chill man. Okay, what about your wide receivers um,
Speaker 1: I think they'd chill to man with Cooper, Brandon and Rob.
Speaker 1: I think they all chill man. They also spoken and
Speaker 1: stuff and just I think they all just have the
Speaker 1: same mentality of let's just go in and work and
Speaker 1: see what we can fall at the end of this
Speaker 1: wave talks. But that's why I'm saying. He the o
Speaker 1: g man, so he didn't see a lot of games,
Speaker 1: and being coaching this game forty plus years now, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta listen. The fortnight shirt, is that a
Speaker 1: big thing with the team. Yeah, he said that his grandson.
Speaker 1: He got a six year old grandson, so he said
Speaker 1: he watches his grandson played the game a lot. I
Speaker 1: act him, did he get down? But I don't know
Speaker 1: how to play Fortnight? So if he was getting down, man,
Speaker 1: that would be something the players in general. I think
Speaker 1: that's the new thing that's popping around the around the
Speaker 1: world right now is Fortnite. And you can do so much,
Speaker 1: you know, with all of the New age dance moves
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, you know, like Super Mario Brothers
Speaker 1: still there. I mean, I'm I stick to maddening stuff
Speaker 1: like that. You know. I played the regular games of
Speaker 1: of of what was what was the topical? Like where
Speaker 1: at U c Irvine? You're in the dorm room right now?
Speaker 1: Like what are you guys getting into in the I'm
Speaker 1: watching my computer on FaceTime with my son until I
Speaker 1: can come see him to day at practice and just
Speaker 1: enjoying my time here. There's no like raging kickers or anything. No, man, no,
Speaker 1: nothing like that. Man does way you ever talk about
Speaker 1: his dad tells stories about him. Um, not as much,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know it's all about he tells
Speaker 1: the stories about how how we grew for the love
Speaker 1: of football and and why he's been doing it for
Speaker 1: so long, and you can you can always relate to
Speaker 1: all those tools back to him, just his dad being
Speaker 1: a football coach and stuff. You can just see the similarities.
Speaker 1: The last question, Marcus, we're grinding here podcast dudes Grinding
Speaker 1: and the sun afterwards. We're looking for a good taco
Speaker 1: spot in Irvan. Do you have any knowledge in this.
Speaker 1: I haven't done to his taco spot out here. It's
Speaker 1: a great food place called Eurek over here. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have some great wings and some great hamburgers and stuff.
Speaker 1: You gonna kind of mixing, match it whatever you want,
Speaker 1: Marks the vegetarian, what about kind of stuff and then happen.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's the luck of season here for sure.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank thanksus, thanks thank you. Good to meet you.
Speaker 1: We cannot get a good taco read where are we
Speaker 1: gonna go get? You get the sense that they've really
Speaker 1: kept them be hemmed in on the campus. First is
Speaker 1: allowing them to flit her into the Los Angeles night
Speaker 1: till two or three in the morning during training camp.
Speaker 1: We can try years, we can. So you heard from
Speaker 1: both Cooks and Peters there, Marcus Peters that dude has
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence. By the way talk about Sean McVeigh.
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters is completely comfortable and he's I think, very
Speaker 1: happy to be playing in a new You get the
Speaker 1: sense that pro athletes in general are confidence the next level.
Speaker 1: The way he carries himself, he's he's the type of
Speaker 1: confidence where he doesn't even need to talk, as he said,
Speaker 1: he just the way that he kind of enters like
Speaker 1: everyone else. I did want to ask him why he
Speaker 1: threw his gloves into Jets game last year, uh and
Speaker 1: basically and then walked to the locker room and then
Speaker 1: came back with his shoes off. That was an incredible
Speaker 1: That's how interviews go south, but it would Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: probably moved on from that chapter of his career. All Right,
Speaker 1: Finally we're gonna hear from one of the most uh gifted,
Speaker 1: uh talented, notorious defenders of the last ten twelve years
Speaker 1: in the NFL. UH He is the new defensive tackle
Speaker 1: for the Rams and Dominicans sue Alright, a ton of
Speaker 1: hype around the Rams this year, and one of the
Speaker 1: reasons is the man sitting next to Mark Mark not
Speaker 1: quite as big as the man next year and Dominicans Sue,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Round the NFL podcast. You you spent
Speaker 1: so many years in Detroit then Miami maybe never got
Speaker 1: a deep January run during those years. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: now you have a real chance with a top NFC contender.
Speaker 1: How exciting is that I got a lot of talent
Speaker 1: on this team. Very excited one of the attributes of
Speaker 1: you wanted to come here a team that obviously showed
Speaker 1: a lot of promise in the previous year that they
Speaker 1: had uh and just coming back with a young group
Speaker 1: of young core guys, especially a quarterback that has grown
Speaker 1: tremendously under coach McVeigh and a strong offensive line that
Speaker 1: I wanted to practice against every single day. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited about it, but we've got a lot of work
Speaker 1: ahead of it. It's kind of like an iconic now
Speaker 1: ready or soon will be if the Rams go all
Speaker 1: the way and they do the Football Life Super Bowl Champion,
Speaker 1: the dinner at NOBU where you were wind and dying
Speaker 1: to be brought to l A. Was that a part
Speaker 1: of the conversation, Like, you're a guy that's a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame candidate type player that may be a deep
Speaker 1: playoff run. Is the last thing you need to kind
Speaker 1: of go over the top and have the gold jacket.
Speaker 1: I've said it before without question, the gold jacket is
Speaker 1: something that I aspire to have. I think all the
Speaker 1: greats and and the best. The special thing about it
Speaker 1: is being able to go with Charlie Sanders and see
Speaker 1: his bust before he unfortunately passed many a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago was special for me when I was in Detroite.
Speaker 1: So to be able to do that. He was a winner, uh,
Speaker 1: not only as a as a player, but as a
Speaker 1: coach and a mentor to me. Uh And and that's
Speaker 1: one thing that I want to accomplish, being able to
Speaker 1: do something specially as as a union, as a team
Speaker 1: and a defense. And that's obviously one of my big goals.
Speaker 1: You just came off the field practice, Irvine's son. How
Speaker 1: are you feeling about us keeping you in the sun?
Speaker 1: I don't mind. It can beat the Miami heat any day. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: because we're wis there was a out of like whenever
Speaker 1: we could take shade at all today and you're you're
Speaker 1: there with the full like uniform. How are you feeling
Speaker 1: after a couple of hours like that's not bad at all?
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, the winds blowing, it's only probably like
Speaker 1: eighty five degrees. I'm used to a hundred hundred five especially,
Speaker 1: so it's it's not bad, not like in the top
Speaker 1: ten most challenging days of my life. But you're also
Speaker 1: like pushing three hundred pound men, you know, play after play.
Speaker 1: I would think, I think I was definitely built for it.
Speaker 1: So I think I've blocked those things out. But now
Speaker 1: it's it's it's definitely a grueling and a grind. That's
Speaker 1: part of camp. We all understand that. So as as
Speaker 1: going into my ninth year, it's something that I don't
Speaker 1: really even focus on anymore. It's about getting better and
Speaker 1: trying to find things that I can craft and uh
Speaker 1: be prepared for the season. I had a chance last
Speaker 1: year for a Mother's Day piece to interview your mom, Bernadette,
Speaker 1: and I said, just described to me what nodalmi Ensoux
Speaker 1: was like as a challenge. He said it was a
Speaker 1: very cuddly boy who loved his legos. Is that's still
Speaker 1: the case, still very cuddly. I got away from the
Speaker 1: legos and connects as my mom, I begged her and
Speaker 1: begged her for Christmas gifts all the time with that stuff,
Speaker 1: but not without question that people see me on the
Speaker 1: football field and and think that's my personality offside outside
Speaker 1: when it's totally opposite. I love being around my friends
Speaker 1: and family, spending time having fun, laughing, uh, and just
Speaker 1: really enjoying life. Definitely in a special position to play
Speaker 1: the game that I love and in a sport that
Speaker 1: tremendously has a great platform, but you soak it up
Speaker 1: and have fun with your friends and family at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. I know that also, you were
Speaker 1: a shot but champion. I did shot foot in high school,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't even remember what the term
Speaker 1: was because I was not long for the team. But
Speaker 1: what I intimidate you if we were to line up
Speaker 1: out there and have a kind of a contest there,
Speaker 1: do you feel like you could take me? No doubt.
Speaker 1: I mean he's kind, but now you're getting too competitive stuff.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get my juices flowing. Marcus Peters earlier and
Speaker 1: we asked him about Wade Phillips and he said, he's
Speaker 1: the O g is he unlike any coach you've happy for.
Speaker 1: Without question, He's got a ton of experience and obviously
Speaker 1: it's a wealth of knowledge that I can grasp him
Speaker 1: many things from I mean the other day when were
Speaker 1: in O t A. S had the opportunity to talk
Speaker 1: with him, which is he's a man of many few words.
Speaker 1: So being able to sit down with him and have
Speaker 1: that conversation, especially around Reggie White, one of the greats
Speaker 1: to ever play the game, was something special for sure.
Speaker 1: Have you thought at all about Week three this season
Speaker 1: you might be going up against the Cardinals, Zam Bradford
Speaker 1: was the number one draft pick of your draft by
Speaker 1: by this team, Rams Like, would that be a special
Speaker 1: guy to go after? I always marked the calendar when
Speaker 1: I have saying Bradford on there, no matter no matter
Speaker 1: what when it was, whether it was when we're fre
Speaker 1: rookies and when he was in St. Louis or when
Speaker 1: he was any other place. I've always looked forward to
Speaker 1: going against him. And is that completely because of the
Speaker 1: one to no question, without question, if it was the
Speaker 1: other way around, all cool the quarterback at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. So I want to get after a
Speaker 1: quarterback no matter what. So you have you have you
Speaker 1: sacked him, had to have you gotten some hits on
Speaker 1: him over the years. Oh, Yeah, definitely. I've gotten to
Speaker 1: pick off of them, sacked him a couple of times,
Speaker 1: So I hope to just continue to win in the
Speaker 1: winning column. Do you like let them know a little
Speaker 1: extra that you would. I'm not much of a talker,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I'll definitely try and hit him artism
Speaker 1: because as I can. UM. We also, Uh, this has
Speaker 1: been an ongoing quest while we've been here on Irvine.
Speaker 1: We're trying to find a really good taco place. Anything.
Speaker 1: Can you share anything? I have not been off a campus,
Speaker 1: to be honest, I've been staying here on campus NonStop.
Speaker 1: And uh, I wish I knew. I I go check
Speaker 1: it out myself. If you had any suggestions, we do.
Speaker 1: We've heard these dorm rooms are pretty spartan. Yeah, college wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the best living situation, but like we said,
Speaker 1: it's a part of campus, part of the grind, and
Speaker 1: you get used to it. This is your first camp
Speaker 1: you've been in, like where you're in a do arm
Speaker 1: that sort of situation. Yeah, it is Detroit. We were
Speaker 1: at home or in a hotel nearby the facility that
Speaker 1: we stayed at UM And same thing with Miami, same situation,
Speaker 1: but Yeah, this was the first time coming to a dormitory,
Speaker 1: to say the least. It's not joke. You mentioned like
Speaker 1: you want you're looking for little things to improve? What
Speaker 1: what like? What are some of the things this year
Speaker 1: because you're in a little bit of a different role,
Speaker 1: Like what are those things you're looking for? It's it's
Speaker 1: a handful of things. Really was during OT as a
Speaker 1: mini camp was figuring out the defense and understanding where
Speaker 1: I was gonna be positioned in it, uh, and then
Speaker 1: kind of moving forward coming into camps, figuring out the
Speaker 1: nuances to play with Brockers and Smarty uh and all
Speaker 1: the other guys that are on the defensive line. So
Speaker 1: it's a matter of just coming together, as you know,
Speaker 1: to get in the field for each other. And over
Speaker 1: the last probably a couple of weeks now that we've
Speaker 1: been in here, we've been starting to just get a
Speaker 1: good flow, especially in the pastors game, which is a
Speaker 1: very important piece. We always gotta get the quarterback down.
Speaker 1: The last question you you've been in the leagual while
Speaker 1: now um become part of the reason you come here
Speaker 1: is to get over the hump win a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: Like do you see yourself playing in the league for
Speaker 1: many more years? Could you win a Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: walk away like, where are you in terms of where
Speaker 1: you see your career at this point? It's funny. John
Speaker 1: Sullivan actually asked me that earlier today. How many times?
Speaker 1: How many more years I figured to play? But I
Speaker 1: don't haven't really thought deeply about it. I think personally
Speaker 1: if I if I choose to, I can play another
Speaker 1: five six years. But ultimate goal is to win. Uh,
Speaker 1: and my goal was always to get to ten years.
Speaker 1: So it was this year in the following year and
Speaker 1: kind of go from there and make a decision. It's
Speaker 1: really about I want to have a family. So I
Speaker 1: got to look at those different those different pieces as well.
Speaker 1: Uh it's not easy to being in the league and
Speaker 1: having a girlfriend and managing the time because uh, as
Speaker 1: we know, all athletes are pretty much to some extent,
Speaker 1: so pater Masters, you play until you're like forty and
Speaker 1: then you settle down and so it's some decisions that
Speaker 1: are gonna come up over the next couple of years. Cool, excellent, well,
Speaker 1: best of lucky this season. Thank you, domin Suit, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. You know we heard that Dominican would be
Speaker 1: maybe quiet or we get clipped answers, but I found
Speaker 1: him engaging and wonderful. He seems like a thoughtful guy.
Speaker 1: I think that's a credit to UH, to our podcast
Speaker 1: in our ability to get athletes open up a little
Speaker 1: drill water from a stone. Also also a credit to
Speaker 1: the person that wiped off the sweat off of his
Speaker 1: chair after he got up, because that was it was
Speaker 1: like it was like a lake. There's a lot going on. Hey,
Speaker 1: he just got off the practice field, and that was
Speaker 1: the other thing I was nervous acould here he gives
Speaker 1: short answers. You the reputation coming off a practice field
Speaker 1: or he just practiced for three hours. No, he's all cool.
Speaker 1: Couldn't have been more genial, and he know he really
Speaker 1: I've always thought in people who have been around him
Speaker 1: that he's one of the more intelligent players. That's a
Speaker 1: big reason of why he's gotten to where he is
Speaker 1: is his smarts, and you can that came across. You
Speaker 1: can see and he did speak. He was speaking kind
Speaker 1: of passionately about how important it is I think to
Speaker 1: get to the next step in terms of being a
Speaker 1: championship player. I think I thought you're gonna say, I
Speaker 1: thought you gonna say he was speaking really passionately about
Speaker 1: how Batty wants to get the same brand. That's what
Speaker 1: I was thinking. That's what I was thinking. Maybe not
Speaker 1: as much as that. I'm totally locked into that Week
Speaker 1: three game now because I just want to see him
Speaker 1: like take Bradford's head off, like that would not be
Speaker 1: as genial as he was, like, is there any player
Speaker 1: you would want to like, you would want less after
Speaker 1: you than Dominan? I feel like Sam Bradford has been
Speaker 1: through a lot, alright, So that was fun. We should
Speaker 1: do this day And by the way, as you heard,
Speaker 1: failed time and time again to pump these players and
Speaker 1: the head coach for information on a good taco if
Speaker 1: you're in the O C. Orange County, Irvine, Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: Greg got a source, triple source possibly uh to go
Speaker 1: to a taco place. So we went to for lunch.
Speaker 1: A loyal listener in the show shout out to Adam.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Adam. A place called Puesto here in Irvine.
Speaker 1: Look it up and if you are ever in this area,
Speaker 1: you gotta go. What are the best tacos? If not
Speaker 1: the best taco I've ever had? I looked up at
Speaker 1: one point because you said, no, no, this is really
Speaker 1: emotional for me. But thank you, Adam. That was the
Speaker 1: best taco I've ever had. Think of imagine something being
Speaker 1: called the filet mignon taco and then it living up
Speaker 1: to the best possible reality of what it could be. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So what were your thoughts on it? What a delightful
Speaker 1: place too, Not that we imbibe too heavily. We're professionals.
Speaker 1: We do got it. I do want to go out.
Speaker 1: We gotta do this more. Jared Goff throws a pretty
Speaker 1: football like you can't. You can't get that from home.
Speaker 1: Greg's got the Jones again, that's pretty football Jones. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it is also a bit of a weird juxtaposition,
Speaker 1: first having in Dominican Sue and then later Andrew Whitworth,
Speaker 1: who will get to in a second, sitting next to
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler. Also weird to be having the greatest taco
Speaker 1: of my life next to a man on a full
Speaker 1: juice cleanse. Mark. Yeah, listen, I'm not pretending to be
Speaker 1: an NFL player in training camp right now. I'm just
Speaker 1: doing this job. That got you all right. Now, you
Speaker 1: heard from the players, the coaches, There's more that you
Speaker 1: will be able to see on social media on NFL
Speaker 1: dot com Slash a t N video. We had interviews
Speaker 1: also with star left tackle Andrew Whitworth and wide receiver
Speaker 1: Robert Woods, who was a big fan of Sour Patch kids.
Speaker 1: Always interested when grown men are super into candy um
Speaker 1: soar stuff. It seems yes, yes, and and I and
Speaker 1: I get that. But we'll be back on Monday, back
Speaker 1: in the studio. So it was great being here again.
Speaker 1: Thanks to the Rams for having us. They were more
Speaker 1: than accommodating. And uh, Brassie's she's we should get her.
Speaker 1: Come on, Brassey at least at least say hello to
Speaker 1: the listeners. This is your chance an day. Guys, you
Speaker 1: were brass. You were brassy at lunch, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, Greg's Gregg's got love for me now,
Speaker 1: so maybe I'll make more appearances. We we uh, we've
Speaker 1: been going. It's been along for a segment. We did,
Speaker 1: we did, we did just you know, surpriser here. You know,
Speaker 1: even even Dan's warming up to have me on. She
Speaker 1: had a theory that Dan was a little worried that
Speaker 1: she was gonna steal all this Dan shine and kind
Speaker 1: of steal the show, but it hasn't happened, so yeah,
Speaker 1: but I know there's gonna be someone back at the
Speaker 1: office really sour about this little eelie shop, potentially. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't send any names, alright, Brastie, thanks for your
Speaker 1: help as well a time and loose Cannon. I see
Speaker 1: you helping out Tim Posty long Day. We love you, Ryan,
Speaker 1: Bartlett and Bartlett, thank you, Thank you to everybody and
Speaker 1: thank you intern. Yes until Monday. This Dan Hansons signing
Speaker 1: off for Quiet Storm, the mail Man, the Old Boss.
Speaker 1: Oh h, loose Cannon on the field until Monday. S