Micah Parsons & Trevon Diggs on Dak & Dallas' D Ready for NFC East Rival Eagles

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• 0:01Speaker 00

  Every game day, you show up for your team. Now, it's your time.

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• 0:30Micah Parsons?

  My girl, my girl Latina, she used to wear them same type of shits. I had to get on there. Are these nice, these six rings? I had to get on there. I said, "Don't you ever wear them shits again." Hey, where she, where she from, Micah? New York, from New York. She was wearing them same shit. I'm telling you, those are the Latina one of hers. But no, you about to say the same shits. These ain't shit. These are six ring Michael Jordans. Six rings! Where the six rings at?

• 0:56Micah Parsons?

  There ain't nothing about no six rings on there.

• 1:03Micah Parsons?

  You get beat up in these? Aw, man. You might not want to come back to school. I used to wear... Kill you! Hey, you, you... Hey! You can't come... You go to lunch, you can't win not one argument. What are those, are you here?

• 1:21Channing Crowder?

  So, it's better, but I wore Vias.

• 1:23Micah Parsons?

  I always said, "Your feet is better than your outfit."

• 1:26Channing Crowder?

  You had, you had to have a...

• 1:27Micah Parsons?

  What you got on your feet? It don't, like, I can have a plain white tee. If my feet is cold, who care?

• 1:33Channing Crowder?

  But what, but I used to wear a Vias to high school.

• 1:36Micah Parsons?

  I would have killed you. You would have made it. But we ain't had no money. Shit, we, we just got scammed or something. You might as well just came in slides. The Nike slides. You ain't never see all the hood dudes come in Nike slides to school all the time?

• 1:49Channing Crowder?

  Because they just...

• 1:50Micah Parsons?

  At least they toes hung out far out the front. They knew, like...

• 1:54Channing Crowder?

  You can't come in a Vias.

• 1:55Micah Parsons?

  You can't come in them. What up, though?

• 2:01Micah Parsons?

  I told you, you come fashion.

• 2:04Channing Crowder?

  Well, you know he gonna be clean, too.

• 2:05Micah Parsons?

  He ain't wear that at work. He looked at me and walked, dude. He said, "You wearing that?" I said, "Yeah." He said...

• 2:14Channing Crowder?

  You gotta, you gotta talk about.

• 2:17Ryan Clark?

  Trey, before we start though, what you think about Shannon's shoes?

• 2:21Channing Crowder?

  Why y'all doing that?

• 2:22Micah Parsons?

  Old school, man.

• 2:24Channing Crowder?

  Old school.

• 2:28Micah Parsons?

  When I was in like the third grade. Yeah, sixth grade.

• 2:31Channing Crowder?

  He said third grade?

• 2:32Micah Parsons?

  Yeah.

• 2:33Channing Crowder?

  Hey, so I shouldn't be wearing these.

• 2:34Micah Parsons?

  Hey, you know what's crazy? I don't know why, I had, I had these Brad Forrester's, right? And I had the real joints. And he said, and my joints was a little beat up, like you know Brad Forrester's having dropped them, he's like, why don't you just buy them, he killing me over my beat up Brad Forrester's, and he let him slide with them six ring? Why you didn't buy some more?

• 2:55Ryan Clark?

  Well, the thing is this, first off, when we did Leonard Fournette, Leonard went to his closet, bro, and gave Shannon shoes. He had on some Air Max joints, bro, and the, the knuckle of his big toe and the one next to it, it poke out the side of the shoe. And so Leonard, and so Leonard gave him some dunks, some, some Air Force Ones.

• 3:15Channing Crowder?

  Some big ass Prada boots.

• 3:16Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 3:16Channing Crowder?

  Yeah, so. Yeah, I, I like to wear the Prefontaine's, the Air Prefontaine's, y'all ain't never seen them?

• 3:22Ryan Clark?

  Uh huh.

• 3:22Channing Crowder?

  Thanks.

• 3:23Micah Parsons?

  Nineties?

• 3:24Channing Crowder?

  You should get you some, uh.

• 3:25Micah Parsons?

  I told him, he making way too much money off this podcast, he doing that.

• 3:28Channing Crowder?

  You should get you some, uh, Nigel Sylvester.

• 3:32Channing Crowder?

  I ain't gonna win no goddamn shoes this time, cause I, I, my feelings are hurt. You know, hurt my feelings, Mike, I ain't gonna lie to you. You hurt my feelings.

• 3:40Micah Parsons?

  Yo, you know what's crazy, like when I put on a fit, like, my girl would be like, where you going? Like, I know your girl be like smiling ear to ear like.

• 3:58Ryan Clark?

  I know that's very, very.

• 4:00Micah Parsons?

  Like, oh yeah, you look good. Like, yeah, you look good. I would do this show in my socks, man. Y'all hurt my feelings, man.

• 4:10Ryan Clark?

  They say you walk in the spot, no heads turned.

• 4:13Micah Parsons?

  No heads turned.

• 4:14Ryan Clark?

  That's what they say, man.

• 4:15Channing Crowder?

  He should be like, "You look good, baby, go ahead."

• 4:17Micah Parsons?

  Nah, she pushed me out the house. He good, where that?

• 4:20Ryan Clark?

  Yeah, she, she, that's so bad.

• 4:23Channing Crowder?

  She safe.

• 4:23Ryan Clark?

  She's super secure. And she's like, "Hey, man, stop, wait, Tomo, you know we can't act like this. You remember we got the pre-show notes?

• 4:32Micah Parsons?

  Okay."

• 4:33Ryan Clark?

  We got, bro, we, we've, we've done, this is probably like show 70, maybe?

• 4:37Channing Crowder?

  Eighty.

• 4:38Ryan Clark?

  It's 80?

• 4:38Channing Crowder?

  Eighty.

• 4:38Ryan Clark?

  Show 80, bro.

• 4:39Channing Crowder?

  Eighty.

• 4:40Ryan Clark?

  We've never gotten pre-show notes.

• 4:42Channing Crowder?

  Like orders, real?

• 4:43Ryan Clark?

  Like, this is like, we got a damn rundown, and sort of like, I pop up on my phone, and I was like, "Golly, you know, why we got a rundown?" Obviously, like, our producer, uh, producer, Alicia, is a huge Cowboys fan. Like, just, like, annoyingly so, like, the ones that Stephen A. talk about all the time, that think y'all gonna go to the Super Bowl every single year, like, that's just not...

• 5:07Channing Crowder?

  No matter what.

• 5:08Ryan Clark?

  Just no matter what. Like, y'all lose four of them hoes, and she like, "Shit, Trevon gonna get a pick."

• 5:13Micah Parsons?

  Hey, hey.

• 5:14Ryan Clark?

  How many picks he gonna get?

• 5:16Micah Parsons?

  We done seen, what was the Bengals' record? They was what, nine and eight?

• 5:20Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 5:21Micah Parsons?

  And still with the, eh, the record don't matter to me no more.

• 5:23Ryan Clark?

  Hey, so, hey, man.

• 5:25Micah Parsons?

  You play till, you fighting till you can't.

• 5:27Ryan Clark?

  Yeah, so what we figured out is, this is the biggest show we've done. At least our producer, for sure, says Kevin Hart. And what she was basically telling us was, what Kevin Hart told us when he sat down, which was?

• 5:39Channing Crowder?

  "Don't fuck this up."

• 5:40Ryan Clark?

  So...

• 5:42Channing Crowder?

  Our producer told us, "We got two dogs on the Cowboys' defense coming here. Don't fuck this up."

• 5:48Ryan Clark?

  That's basic.

• 6:12Ryan Clark?

  Well, welcome to the show. Um, I guess to whatever people who don't follow a ton of football, or who don't love America's team, we got Trevon Diggs, All-Pro corner, one of the best in the league, and two, let me say this. You're playing better this year than you ever have in your life. Like legitimately, man, like obviously you were all pro and you got the ball. What you're doing this year and how hard you've made it to catch footballs on you, that totally, we talked about that when we were sitting in Vegas, bro. It's been absolutely phenomenal. We got Michael Parsons.

• 6:47Micah Parsons?

  You're welcome, son.

• 6:48Ryan Clark?

  Right now. Oh, it's because you rush?

• 6:50Micah Parsons?

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 6:51Ryan Clark?

  Yeah?

• 6:54Micah Parsons?

  It's the mental, mental focus that we both tap into recently, like we've been.

• 6:58Ryan Clark?

  Tell us about it.

• 6:59Micah Parsons?

  It's just like, especially Rams week, like we make our own side bets, whatever, between me and him. And it's really just a mental thing, especially in the Rams week because they had Donald and Ramsey. And I told him before the game, there can only be one. Like there can only be one elite pass rusher, there can only be one elite corner. And this league, there's only one. Like that's the type of jump that we making. And whoever they top guys, I'm like, shit, I did heard it. He gonna have a field day on you. You know what I'm saying? Just challenging each other, pushing each other, like understanding his skill set, his potential, understanding mine. And we just like, we just locked in.

• 7:36Fred Taylor?

  What those side bets look like, because after this season right here, ain't no more rookie deal for them.

• 7:43Fred Taylor?

  You got a little minute.

• 7:44Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, he definitely tried to up it on me. I said, yo, like, you, you realize I'm sitting down for a minute.

• 7:53Ryan Clark?

  You weren't 10, I ain't trying to hurt you.

• 7:56Micah Parsons?

  He on a full 10, I said, hey, bro, like, let's be a little bit more realistic, like 500, 1,000 maybe, but. 10-4, I said, oh, no, I said, is it too big? Oh, way too big for me.

• 8:09Fred Taylor?

  Stay in that lane, baby.

• 8:10Ryan Clark?

  No, for sure.

• 8:11Fred Taylor?

  Somebody want to stay in that lane?

• 8:12Micah Parsons?

  That's all I do is stay in my lane. I don't come out nowhere and be somebody I'm not.

• 8:17Fred Taylor?

  See, but that's what Channing said. It's just crazy that you talked him out of his shoes. That's fucked up. He's so insecure about his six.

• 8:24Micah Parsons?

  No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You can afford a pair of real Jordans, bro. Those are real Jordans.

• 8:30Speaker 05

  They ain't real Jordans, they just ain't the Jordans, they ain't the ones.

• 8:33Micah Parsons?

  No, no.

• 8:34Speaker 05

  Chan, how you get them?

• 8:35Micah Parsons?

  All the threes?

• 8:35Speaker 05

  How did you buy it?

• 8:37Micah Parsons?

  That's, no, that was my Nike deal, when I played.

• 8:39Speaker 05

  When you played, when your last year?

• 8:40Micah Parsons?

  Uh, ten. I was thirteen years old, those are actually vintage.

• 8:45Speaker 05

  Exactly.

• 8:46Micah Parsons?

  Vintage, that was your young boys.

• 8:48Speaker 05

  They probably worth something, bro.

• 8:49Micah Parsons?

  No, no, when you grew up, you talking about air Jordan, air Jordan, like, air. Like, those is flight Jordan, like.

• 8:58Micah Parsons?

  I ain't know it was on flight. Y'all done ran me out my shoes. To that point, with y'all two, you know that there's a clock on the quarterback.

• 9:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:11Micah Parsons?

  And you know that he gonna be on his dude, which is more important, the rush or the coverage?

• 9:16Speaker 05

  The rush.

• 9:17Speaker 06

  The rush.

• 9:18Micah Parsons?

  The coverage.

• 9:19Speaker 05

  The rush.

• 9:20Micah Parsons?

  The coverage. Coverage, those is real. Hey, sometimes, I can't run off the ooh, ooh, like, off rip. Sometimes I need them to, oh, yeah.

• 9:32Speaker 05

  Take a, like, he bought a throw, but he ain't throw it?

• 9:36Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, the coverage.

• 9:37Speaker 05

  I had a couple of those, yeah.

• 9:38Micah Parsons?

  The coverage is more important, like, the rush ain't never gonna hit always on that first time clock, like, the, it says, like, the average play is like 2.3 second, like, the rush ain't always gonna get there in the first. Especially if you playing some elite guys, like. But then, you, you, you jump routes, bro. You, you undercut. Yes, you do, bro, you jump route, do you jump routes knowing that that ball gotta come out?

• 10:02Speaker 05

  I jump routes knowing that I know the receiver running.

• 10:06Speaker 05

  That's when I jump routes.

• 10:08Micah Parsons?

  Film study.

• 10:08Speaker 05

  Yeah. I'm smart, and I'm smart.

• 10:13Speaker 05

  Hey, like, we call a friend, no, we call a friend.

• 10:16Speaker 06

  Like, I'm smart, right?

• 10:17Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, the other day, he told me, like, when he was at school and stuff like that, I saw, I heard what school, I thought, oh, I said, so you just act dumb. And then today, he said some real smart shit, I was shocked.

• 10:29Ryan Clark?

  But you don't seem to talk a lot though either though.

• 10:31Speaker 05

  No, I only talk to like who people I'm cool with like, you know.

• 10:38Speaker 05

  Like it take me like my rookie year, yeah like my rookie year, I didn't talk to nobody on the team. I was real quiet and then like that next year following, started talking to people more, opening up more. And then that third year, like I talked to all my teammates, but it took me that far, that long to this open up, you know, and be myself with everybody.

• 10:57Ryan Clark?

  I like that you mentioned that. Right now, when you talk about the Dallas Cowboys, whenever we get an opportunity to speak about y'all on TV, whether it's because the quarterback's gone or it's because you guys are playing at an elite level, nobody scored 20 points, it's defense, defense, defense.

• 11:14Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:15Ryan Clark?

  You were here, bro, and Micah didn't get this, on a historically terrible defense.

• 11:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:21Ryan Clark?

  I mean legitimately, one of the worst defenses in the history of football, and you've gotten to see it grow as you've grown to what it is now, right? The reason y'all are winning games is because of you two and because of D-Law and because of Van der Esch and because of Dono and J-Ron and Hook, like all y'all boys ballin'. How does it feel now when you look back to where y'all came from?

• 11:47Speaker 05

  That first year was miserable. It was just like, I want to get the season over with, like throw that whole season in the trash, like I want to get the season over, like hurry up, man, it was COVID, we ain't had no fans. It was like we just was out there, like this was out there and then that next year, like when Q came and then Micah came, I was like, oh yeah, we got something.

• 12:08Ryan Clark?

  Right.

• 12:08Speaker 05

  Then they start, they bringing some guys, bringing JK, bringing Hook, um and just like it just started flowing like, it was like we was just missing something like, that's something that we was missing, honestly it was coaching, you know? We had, we had the lineman, you know, we had the rush, then we added some more rush. Now it's like, all right, we can put this together, like we have something, we just needed somebody to bring it together, you know? Like we got talent all over the field, safeties, linebackers, defensive line, outside, like everywhere. We got talent everywhere, so we just needed that person to just, how could you put us in the best position to make plays? And he did a, he does a great job of putting us in position to make plays, giving us calls that's to our strengths and not our weaknesses.

• 12:49Fred Taylor?

  So is there something you guys tell the offense before the game? You know, for example, you know, guys, just give us two touchdowns. We gonna do the rest. Because right now, you know, you guys are scoring about 18 points a game on offense. But you're managing, you're stopping the opponent, obviously less than that based on your record. So is it a certain mindset y'all go into that with when you talking to the offense?

• 13:15Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, but I think it's more like a joke when I said, bro, just give me the 21. 21 is a good like base, like, you know, give us some things like, but we could fight if you give us the 21. Like, it's kind of like a joking way, but sometimes if you do more, that's even better. Because at the same time, like, I think our defense is based off of like forcing teams to have to score. You know, once we're getting after the quarterback and we know the ball gotta come out, that's when we kind of like.

• 13:42Ryan Clark?

  That's our game. We want to play that game, like.

• 13:44Micah Parsons?

  Like, we practice two minutes, like, every day.

• 13:48Fred Taylor?

  So playing from ahead is your forte, that's what y'all looking for?

• 13:52Micah Parsons?

  Yeah.

• 13:53Speaker 05

  Yeah, but it's like, we not gonna let y'all just running up on us or just score easily, you know? Like, you might get down there, but we holding you to three points, you know? So we just, that's our emphasis, like, I feel like honestly, it's a standard that the defense has. Like, we don't even got to say nothing to the offense. Like, offense know that we gonna take care of business. You know, we make it known that we gonna take care of business. So every time we go out there, it's just like, that's the standard, that's just what it is. Like, we trying to score in defense too. Like, we just trying to win at the end of the day. And I feel like defense wins championships.

• 14:26Channing Crowder?

  Was there, was there any conversation when Dak went down? Because since Dak went down, y'all gave up 17, 16, 10 and 10. Like, that's choking, that's, that's 1984 football, 17, 16, 10 and 10.

• 14:39Ryan Clark?

  Or 2008 Pittsburgh Steeler.

• 14:42Channing Crowder?

  He goes with that Pittsburgh.

• 14:44Ryan Clark?

  But, but that was the year before, that was the year before. That was the year before. Well, people, the 13 points a game.

• 14:50Channing Crowder?

  For real talk, defensively, was there any conversation? Because it seems like, I ain't gonna, just watching from the outside looking in. When Dak went down, it seemed like y'all tightened up like hell.

• 15:02Micah Parsons?

  No, there is no, there is no conversation.

• 15:06Speaker 05

  The first game with Brady.

• 15:08Ryan Clark?

  Gave up 19?

• 15:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 15:10Micah Parsons?

  And we, and the year before, we lost D-Lo. Everybody was like, oh, Cowboys defense, the shambles.

• 15:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 15:16Micah Parsons?

  But I, like, like, that's just people talking like, shit, injury happens, bro, like, people want to go down, but at the end of the day, like, shit, it's a forty-eight roster for a reason, like, forty active players. One person don't, like, determine.

• 15:31Ryan Clark?

  Micah.

• 15:32Micah Parsons?

  Like.

• 15:32Ryan Clark?

  Micah, that sound, that sound good. Like, that's, I'm gonna tell you what, that sound good, right? And I played on a team back in the day where the head coach said the standard is the standard.

• 15:41Micah Parsons?

  Yeah.

• 15:41Ryan Clark?

  Right? And, and that makes sense. If Troy Palamalu went down, our team was different. If Ben Roethlisberger went down, our team was different, and we, we had to play.

• 15:55Micah Parsons?

  What's this?

• 15:56Ryan Clark?

  It's a little happy dad, man.

• 15:57Speaker 05

  Happy dad.

• 15:58Ryan Clark?

  It's a little happy dad, man. So, so, so I'm saying though, so what, so what?

• 16:01Speaker 05

  You got a little alcohol in it now.

• 16:03Ryan Clark?

  So what we're asking, Micah, is this, though, when he, when he does go down, even if there isn't a conversation, is there the understanding that when you're going into weeks with Cooper Rush, it might be a week where Trevon Diggs gotta go score, Michael Parsons gotta create a sack fumble? Y'all beat, like, don't get it twisted, y'all beat the Rams because you got a sack fumble to start it, scoop and score, right? And then off of that, you block a punt, and then y'all lock down the rest of the game. So it has been this defense finding ways to score points and keep teams from scoring points.

• 16:39Speaker 05

  Well, I feel like that's what our standard is, like, that's what we're doing, we're trying to do that every week. We trying to score, we trying to get in a session, trying to get turnovers, trying to get sacks.

• 16:49Micah Parsons?

  In terms of leadership, like, I don't think, like, that's why we rotate so much, like, there is no drop off between, like,

• 16:55Speaker 05

  Yeah, we got him, definitely.

• 16:56Micah Parsons?

  Or a trade to J.K., or J.K. to Donald, like, like, when J.K. went down a Bucks week, Donald came in and started snapping, like, like, that's the standard, like, we got for everybody in the room, like, I don't, like, I feel like, if you hold one person up there, then it's just like, damn, like, what we got? But if you hold everybody to the same standard, it's like, we know what we got, like, it can't fall off. That means, like, next person, let's go, but.

• 17:21Fred Taylor?

  So that's good. This is a hell of an open, so we can go ahead and start the show. So, welcome to the Pivot. I'm doing our C's job. This is Ryan Clark. This is Tannen Crowder. I'm Freaky Freddie. I'm just Freddie. Michael Parsons and Trayvon Diggs. So DraftKings, y'all are our sponsors. Shout out to Happy Dad. This is the album. I'm just [__] around. No, seriously though, guys, what I wanted to say was, do you guys even know the magnitude of having a great defense?

• 17:50Micah Parsons?

  Nope.

• 17:51Fred Taylor?

  1985 Chicago Bears. They had Jim McMahon. They had some good offensive players. Obviously, they had Sweetness, one of the best backs in the league. But that defense was stellar. 2000 Baltimore Ravens. You know, they didn't have a high caliber offense.

• 18:05Micah Parsons?

  Trent Dilfer.

• 18:06Fred Taylor?

  That defense carried them. The 2002, 2003 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

• 18:12Speaker 05

  Brad Johnson.

• 18:13Fred Taylor?

  You feel me? So it's been some great defense that's been able to carry the entire team to win a championship. And it's cliche, but it's the truth. Defense does win championship unless you're the New England Patriots. But they had some solid defenses. They were safe. So you guys ready for that challenge? Do you look at those type of things?

• 18:33Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, I mean, when I honestly, I probably still got the messages because me and Q talk a lot. And I had saw a screenshot of defenses. And you look at those defenses of who had the minimum points, they, most of them was already champions. And I said, Q, like, this guy, yes, like, I told him, like, the Ravens had 13 points per game. Like, that's, that's sickening, like. I mean, you even look at last year with the Rams, their defense was sickening. Like, across the board, like, like, where do you even slide the protection? Like, you got Von, AD, and Floyd. Like, if they play on opposite sides, like, you literally can't leave Donovan 101. So that means you gotta match it with Von 101.

• 19:17Speaker 05

  Somebody got a 101.

• 19:19Micah Parsons?

  That's sickening, like. And then you still got a reliable Floyd. Like, those type of defenses, like, we are, we are well aware, like. I mean, people said it, like, what was it, two years ago?

• 19:30Micah Parsons?

  What was it? It was Brady versus the Rams, three years ago? And they, everyone said like, this is the most boring Super Bowl ever. I loved that Super Bowl. It was six points until like the last two minutes of the game. That was probably the best Super Bowl to me, like.

• 19:45Ryan Clark?

  Because of defense.

• 19:46Micah Parsons?

  It was defense.

• 19:46Fred Taylor?

  You know, that under was a lot.

• 19:48Micah Parsons?

  Yeah.

• 19:48Fred Taylor?

  I was in Vegas. I took the under. I definitely took the under.

• 19:52Ryan Clark?

  Y'all, um, y'all keep mentioning Q and, you know, a lot of people who are watching won't know that y'all talking about Dan Quinn.

• 19:59Fred Taylor?

  Yeah.

• 20:00Ryan Clark?

  Uh, who's your defensive coordinator? And I've watched the evolution of you guys as players, but also the evolution of the defense. Now you got Anthony Barr, so we can slide Micah down to, to defensive end. I watched there are games where you do match and then there are calls where you do match and then there are calls where you, you know, you'll play your side. With what Q's been able to, to do with y'all and the places and positions he's put y'all in. Is that something that gives you guys, or what sort of confidence does that give y'all going into the game? Like, if I go out and do me, I know he gonna put me in spots where I can be the best I can be.

• 20:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's just like, I know, like at this point, I know the system, you know, I know how he gonna use this. I know how during the week, how we gonna play. So like, it's never no surprise in the game when we get out there. So that's why I like, I feel like everything is just clean and we execute stuff because it's like, it's simple. Like, you know what we gonna do. You know how we going about the game, that game, you know?

• 21:01Channing Crowder?

  Like, you talking about the scheme?

• 21:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 21:03Channing Crowder?

  Do y'all ever feel disrespected? Like, if they slide away from you? Or if you one on one and the dude is targeted, you be like, oh, y'all don't respect my gangster?

• 21:13Micah Parsons?

  Nah, nah. The Rams, I was shocked. Like, I had way more one on ones than I had the past two weeks.

• 21:20Channing Crowder?

  Yeah.

• 21:20Micah Parsons?

  I was shocked. Like, I was like, I actually respect them because there's like, we not going to just chip the whole. Because I say, if y'all chipping. Two people every time and then like you can't win a game having three receivers down the field.

• 21:33Channing Crowder?

  Yeah.

• 21:34Micah Parsons?

  It's just like, like it just can't work every time. So when the Rams was giving up one on ones, I was like, in the first half, I wasn't rushing the same because I was so used to getting chips. So the chip playing, chip playing, they were talking about the chip. They were like, you know, you want to get chip, you know, you going to chip. So that second half, I was like, I ain't got no chips. Oh, yeah. I said, I know exactly what they do now. Like this is going back to the money downs.

• 21:54Channing Crowder?

  Yeah, leave money down.

• 21:55Micah Parsons?

  Yeah.

• 21:56Channing Crowder?

  And then you, but, but then you like,

• 21:58Micah Parsons?

  Yeah.

• 21:58Channing Crowder?

  If you start getting targeted, if your guy, whoever you're covering gets two, three balls thrown to him in the first quarter, are you like, oh, oh, y'all, y'all don't respect me like that. Like, how does, how was that from a cornerback perspective?

• 22:11Speaker 05

  Um, it depends who it is. Like, if it's somebody that I'm playing, I know, like, like he good, like he tough, like he going to get the ball. Like, when we played the Rams, like I knew Cut wouldn't get the ball almost every play. You know what I'm saying? So like, that's, it was just like, that's what it was going to be that game. Like him versus me, like when we going there, he's getting the ball, you know? But if it's just like anybody, like, I don't know, it hasn't happened yet.

• 22:37Fred Taylor?

  Mike. Week one.

• 22:40Channing Crowder?

  I knew that was coming.

• 22:41Fred Taylor?

  Week one, you talking about the chip. That's a running back's dream. Leonard put you on the highlight reel. How you feel about that?

• 22:49Micah Parsons?

  I was hot. I was so hot. Yeah, it's not so much as like, I'm not mad about the chip.

• 22:57Fred Taylor?

  Right.

• 22:58Micah Parsons?

  I was mad about the conversation after. Like, like you don't just hit me like that.

• 23:03Fred Taylor?

  Conversation between?

• 23:04Micah Parsons?

  Me and Leonard, like, I, I ain't say nothing. I, I feel like he just want to have beef with me. Like, most people want beef with me. Like, they want to get a reaction out of me because like, I'm a whoop your ass in silence. I ain't going to say shit all game.

• 23:14Fred Taylor?

  Right.

• 23:15Micah Parsons?

  And I was, I was having a good game, blah, blah. And then next you know, he just, I'm, I'm, I'm like engaged with the dude. And I just like get knocked over. I'm like, damn. And then he, he's, I'm not even going to say what he said after, but I was like, oh, he, he's fucked up.

• 23:33Micah Parsons?

  He got me so fucked up.

• 23:35Fred Taylor?

  I just saw a recent interview where he, he gave you credit. He's like, man, you gotta find a way to slow him down. The best way you can, and I agree with him, but I'm biased to the position. Cause you have to try to break a rib. Look at you, man. If you look at, you turn on the tape and look at yourself, bro, how we gonna slow you down? Engaged or not, as long as it's not, it's fair game.

• 23:57Micah Parsons?

  And this brings up my debate. We can't even tackle quarterbacks now, but we could just try to break a defender's rib though.

• 24:04Fred Taylor?

  I don't have nothing to do with the quarterback.

• 24:06Micah Parsons?

  Nah, nah, I, I just want, like, you can't even hit somebody a certain way on offense nowadays. Because of fear of injury, but we could hit defenseless defenders. Like, but you're not protecting the defense. Like, I understand we don't get the same clout and whatever, like. You look at the best receiver, they got million, two million followers, like, they their guy. You know what I'm saying? Best defenders rebound 200, 300, whatever, depending on what team you at. But, like, the terms of protecting players, I feel like it's just not equally shit around, like, around the league.

• 24:40Fred Taylor?

  And this is just my stupid mind, the way I think. When you looked at when all those rules started to change before you guys got in the league, they, they took, took shape. The scores of the game used to be 24 to 10. That was a blowout. You know what I mean? Low score, the NFL was low scoring until they changed the CBA and they changed a lot of the rules. The rules are catered, in my opinion, they lean towards offensive production, right? That increases the scoring. How do we compete with college, with college, the excitement of the college game? You know, keep them in their seats, keep them blue there, keep the TV deals. That's how you guys get paid. All these TV streaming deals, all of that. People want to see scoring. They want to see action.

• 25:25Fred Taylor?

  So when you cater the rules to lean in the favor of the offense, you're gonna get the scoring. You guys, no matter how great you might be as a defense, these guys are gonna score points. You know what I'm saying? So, in that sense, or the way I think, I believe the rules were skewed a bit, and more weighted towards the offense for that particular reason, and it helps everybody eat at the end of the day. So y'all gotta deal with it. That's it. Y'all gotta deal with it.

• 25:50Ryan Clark?

  Mike, you mentioned the roughing the passer. When you look at what happened with Grady Jarrett, you also see what happened with Chris Jones, especially now with you being more involved in the pass rush, because you can play Anthony, and you can play Van Der Esch at the back, or allow you to get those one-on-ones. Does that change in any way the way you're gonna approach the quarterback? And how do you feel about the way that they are officiating that tackle?

• 26:18Micah Parsons?

  It makes me angry, just because like, people don't realize how hard it is to make those type of plays in a game. Like, to get a sack in the NFL is hard. Like, them things just don't come like...

• 26:32Channing Crowder?

  Sack's interception.

• 26:33Fred Taylor?

  Trey, it ain't that hard? No.

• 26:37Channing Crowder?

  Interception harder than a sack?

• 26:39Fred Taylor?

  Yes.

• 26:40Micah Parsons?

  I mean, yeah.

• 26:41Fred Taylor?

  Okay, cool. Yeah, Trey didn't say it was easy. He said you just go this way.

• 26:46Micah Parsons?

  But it's hard, though. Like, it's hard, though, like, especially when you're going against good quarterbacks. Let's put it like that. Because everything's timing. Like, they're not just holding the ball.

• 26:56Fred Taylor?

  Correct.

• 26:56Micah Parsons?

  And I was talking to him, I said, I said, you look at somebody, like, when we played Brady, everything was just... Everything was so precise, quick, quick. Like, it's hard to sack Brady. Like, he's one of the most unsackable quarterbacks. But then you face someone like, who's more younger, he's not gonna have the same, like, decisiveness. You know what I'm saying? On cue. You know, you gotta build that. That takes time, and a lot of time. But I just think it's like, tough, and then, especially Chris Jones, like, that's a game-changing play. And the Chiefs almost lost that. Man, I forgot they didn't, because they called Devante out. But that one play could have changed the whole momentum of the game. You know what I'm saying?

• 27:35Micah Parsons?

  Like defense is tough to make those type of like especially when you get in the ball turnovers turnovers like you can't call that and for one person to make that decision is real tough like.

• 27:45Channing Crowder?

  But now you're in it right now, Michael, like moving forward, you get back there, you get your move, your, your, your spin or whatever it is. If you grab that quarterback by the waist, do you not throw him down as hard like you have to adjust to these rules?

• 27:58Micah Parsons?

  I'm hitting that motherfucker.

• 28:01Channing Crowder?

  I know, but you have to adjust to these rules.

• 28:03Micah Parsons?

  I, I.

• 28:04Channing Crowder?

  You can't like the whole thing. I know you can't hit him in the head. You can't hit him below the knee.

• 28:08Micah Parsons?

  I, I ain't adjusted.

• 28:09Ryan Clark?

  Hold him up.

• 28:10Micah Parsons?

  I, I really get to the ground. That's how I get to the ground. I mean, I ain't never had one, but whatever gets to him ground.

• 28:17Channing Crowder?

  But you got a love on him a little bit.

• 28:19Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 28:19Channing Crowder?

  Love on him a little bit.

• 28:21Ryan Clark?

  Can't go in with still a sack.

• 28:22Fred Taylor?

  That Brady joke was so crazy.

• 28:25Micah Parsons?

  And, and, and he did hug him like he just.

• 28:27Channing Crowder?

  Rush his thing.

• 28:28Micah Parsons?

  Like, like.

• 28:29Ryan Clark?

  Tom Brady said it felt like a long hug. Like he laughed about it and he's like, I don't throw flags. He, he legitimately laughed about it, but you also got to realize Tom Brady played in the era as well. When he only, he played Buffalo, they almost killed him.

• 28:43Micah Parsons?

  Clemens.

• 28:43Ryan Clark?

  Trying to, yeah.

• 28:44Channing Crowder?

  Tom saw Drew, what, Tom saw Drew Blusso get hit by Mo Lewis.

• 28:50Ryan Clark?

  All his insiders too.

• 28:51Channing Crowder?

  Yeah, he, he's.

• 28:52Fred Taylor?

  To, to Michael's point, like he ain't thinking about that. The game is so fast. You just go. And speaking of that, you guys about to knuckle up with, you know, the, the, one of the best teams in the league. From an offensive standpoint led by Jalen Hurts and he's not an easy win. How you gonna get to him?

• 29:11Micah Parsons?

  Man, all of that is just like, you know, like I said, the coverage aspect and then we got to have a good plan. His ability just to extend plays just really cause like anytime you got a person to move that can move good.

• 29:27Fred Taylor?

  Right.

• 29:28Micah Parsons?

  You kind of, it's hard. He's harder to sack too, like.

• 29:31Fred Taylor?

  Yeah.

• 29:31Micah Parsons?

  Regardless of his O line, he's harder to sack because he can step up in the pocket. You know, he's not afraid to just say, you know, it's not there. Let me run like everything. It gotta be chess like. Whether I got a like for the first half, I might just go all speed rushes. You know what I'm saying? So that way from when we really need it, it set up, alright, let me go, let me go speed the power right here. Like, let me hit the inside move now, cause he think I'mma keep coming outside, like. It, it gotta be chess, like, people like that, eh, like, it's more momentary things, like. You really wanna catch somebody one time, that's all you need, one time. Like, I can't say I'mma get there every time, like, especially facing the guys I'm facing, like.

• 30:11Ryan Clark?

  Lane, yeah, good, good, uh, good old lineman, and for you, like, this is, you know, you mentioned it depends on who the guy is. They got a couple, right? AJ can obviously go, and then you got, uh, Devonte Smith, uh, Quez, uh, Dallas Goddard can play.

• 30:29Fred Taylor?

  Miles running the ball.

• 30:30Ryan Clark?

  Yeah, this is gonna be one of those games where for y'all, it's kinda, it's kinda that week where it say, okay, we've seen you play all these other teams and you've dominated. Now, this is the team, and you add on top of that, it's the NFC, what people before the season called an NFC least. This is the, the best, the best division in football right now. When you think about your matchup and what this game means, how are you preparing mentally for what you gotta do?

• 30:58Speaker 05

  Um, I'm preparing like any other game, like. I feel like every team got a good player, every team may have a couple of good players, like, like, it's like, there's eleven of us. You ain't just facing me, you ain't just facing him, it's like, uh, really a full eleven of us, so it's like.

• 31:17Speaker 05

  I feel like we the best defense, like, we can beat anybody, so we just keep playing how we playing. Sticking to the script, like, nobody should be able to beat us.

• 31:26Ryan Clark?

  Yeah, you mentioned stick to the script, it is hard to stick to the script here, bro. Like, this is the place, it's weird. Um, your owner, listen, I think he's, your owner is great for the NFL.

• 31:38Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 31:39Ryan Clark?

  Like Jerry Jones prints money. And if you're a new owner, you gotta, you gotta call Jerry Jones.

• 31:44Channing Crowder?

  Swag said something about playing for Jerry.

• 31:46Ryan Clark?

  Swag said, he's, Marcus Spears said he's extremely intrusive. And that it makes it hard for some of the players in the locker room. With you guys being stars, does Jerry's personality or the way he speaks coming out right away saying like, "Yeah, I want a quarterback competition, right? I want, I want Cooper," you know, he called him Cooper, he don't call him Cooper. He's like, "I want, I want Cooper to win 10 games." Do y'all feel that pressure playing for the Dallas Cowboys?

• 32:15Micah Parsons?

  Nah, I don't pay attention to it.

• 32:16Speaker 05

  I don't either.

• 32:17Micah Parsons?

  That's not my pay grade.

• 32:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, like I just, like, how I go about it is like, this work, you know, I'm here to do my job, make my plays. And like all the other stuff outside, like I don't, leave that to them, you know, like that's up to them.

• 32:32Micah Parsons?

  Just another thing, just, just learning from like the old heads and, you know, I was big with Coop. He said, "Bro, regardless of what's going on around her, this," because you know, some of this is like more celebrity stuff and more like for none than this for you. Just stay in your lane and only do what you can do and control what you can control.

• 32:51Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 32:52Micah Parsons?

  And I didn't really understand that and then slowly I just see people just traded, released, like,

• 32:58Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 32:58Micah Parsons?

  Regardless of their impact or not, you know, and I was just like, damn, like shit. I just gotta focus on what I can do that's gonna take care of my family, like, I can't control that media stuff. That's for them, like that's what they, they get paid to, you know, get the fans going and all that other stuff. I get paid to get to the quarterback and tackle people, you know what I'm saying?

• 33:20Channing Crowder?

  Is it that same, uh, that same approach? Because I know the quarterback situation is crazy. I, I asked a question earlier about it.

• 33:26Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 33:27Channing Crowder?

  Where Dak, now Cooper comes in and now this man is winning games too, y'all are holding him. I'm gonna do my job. Is that's what y'all thought it is when everybody asked? I know people ask y'all about the quarterback situation.

• 33:37Speaker 05

  That's above my pay grade.

• 33:38Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, I just do my job.

• 33:40Channing Crowder?

  That's really what y'all say. It's above my pay grade.

• 33:41Speaker 05

  It is. It is though.

• 33:43Channing Crowder?

  Yeah.

• 33:44Speaker 05

  I cannot go in and like, alright, look, he playing quarterback. You ain't playing quarterback this week. I can't do that. So why am I worried about that?

• 33:52Channing Crowder?

  Yeah.

• 33:53Micah Parsons?

  Shit, because regardless of quarterback, we winning.

• 33:55Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:56Micah Parsons?

  We gotta do our job. Like, we expect to do our job regardless of quarterback.

• 33:59Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 34:00Micah Parsons?

  Shit, we can have Tom Brady. We can trade for Tom Brady tomorrow. We still gonna say, we ain't gonna say, oh, we don't gotta play defense no more.

• 34:06Channing Crowder?

  Yeah.

• 34:07Ryan Clark?

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• 34:24Fred Taylor?

  So this is for a shot at, I picked y'all to win the division, by the way. We had something. I picked, I think it was First Take I did, or something from Miami. I picked the Cowboys to win the division. He picked the Eagles. You know, just to let y'all know what y'all doing with it.

• 34:39Ryan Clark?

  Well, I tried to text Trevon like a couple of weeks ago. It was green. And so clearly I did the right thing.

• 34:45Micah Parsons?

  But it doesn't matter.

• 34:47Ryan Clark?

  I tried to text him, hey man, you ballin'. Like, I was trying to, you know. I texted him during camp. I'm like, I'm texting, nah, you ballin'.

• 34:54Micah Parsons?

  Yo, he got four phones. And one day, I get a text from a new number. He's like, yo, who's this? He's like, Trey New Number.

• 35:07Micah Parsons?

  At this point, I'm at Trey four.

• 35:11Micah Parsons?

  Like, I don't know what number he gonna hit me off of. He was like, got too hot. I said, say no more.

• 35:20Micah Parsons?

  You got it, I said.

• 35:21Fred Taylor?

  So, but going back to that though really quick, you guys pride yourself on defense. You know, you have an opportunity to match up against, you know, the number two ranked offense in the entire league. I think they're doing 430 yards a game. They're ranked number four in rushing and number seven in passing. You know, but this is for the division lead, right? Y'all ready for that? Are y'all ready for that?

• 35:48Micah Parsons?

  I mean.

• 35:48Ryan Clark?

  Trying to put pressure on it?

• 35:49Micah Parsons?

  No, no, no.

• 35:51Fred Taylor?

  I know what you should say.

• 35:52Micah Parsons?

  I'm just saying, shit, regardless if we ready or not, we got suited up someday.

• 35:57Ryan Clark?

  Yep.

• 35:57Fred Taylor?

  Right.

• 35:58Micah Parsons?

  Regardless, like, that's, that's how I'm built, like. I tell, like, Coach always asks me, he's like, "You good?" I said, "Coach, if I ain't dead, or something ain't broke, I'm good forever, like, I'm blessed, like, I'm hitting this field regardless, and I'm gonna go a hundred percent every time, like, that's just what it is, like.

• 36:14Ryan Clark?

  It don't matter what you got.

• 36:16Micah Parsons?

  If somebody next to me ain't ready, it ain't got nothing to do with me. I'll make sure we get ready, like. That's just like, it, it's just a, it's just a time thing, like.

• 36:24Fred Taylor?

  Mm-hmm.

• 36:24Micah Parsons?

  The game is just so fun, and if you, if you master the game, it's even more fun.

• 36:29Fred Taylor?

  Correct.

• 36:30Micah Parsons?

  Like, everything I do, I try to master it. Like, regardless of, like, you ready or not, like, I, I'm gonna do the same thing every time.

• 36:40Channing Crowder?

  We saw when I whooped you at Scrabble, last time we was at your house.

• 36:43Ryan Clark?

  No.

• 36:44Micah Parsons?

  I busted you.

• 36:45Channing Crowder?

  No, I whooped you at Scrabble.

• 36:47Micah Parsons?

  No, you didn't.

• 36:47Channing Crowder?

  Yes, I did. You didn't even know how to play.

• 36:50Ryan Clark?

  You were making up words.

• 36:52Micah Parsons?

  He ain't no player. He's like, "What I do with the large head?"

• 36:56Ryan Clark?

  Like, you know, when, we mentioned earlier, Cowboys fans.

• 37:00Fred Taylor?

  Yeah.

• 37:01Ryan Clark?

  And what happens when you play for organizations that are historically successful as yours, it's about Lombardi trophies, it's about Super Bowls. And also, when you play the game at a high level individually, you want those individual statistics, accolades, accomplishments, to equal team success. And y'all been, and I love the fact that as good as both of you guys are, y'all been talking about team since you been here. You mentioned, talking to Q about the teams, the defenses, that held teams and won Super Bowls. When y'all suit up and camp starts, do you guys ever, did you ever think about that, though? That, well, what we have, the people we have, the coaches we have,

• 37:43Ryan Clark?

  we can be one of those defenses that brings a Lombardi back to Dallas, and it's been a quarter.

• 37:48Micah Parsons?

  We talk about that more than anything.

• 37:50Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 37:51Micah Parsons?

  Like, the co, like, I love our team because Q don't gotta say nothing to us. Like, it don't gotta be me or Trey that say nothing to the team. It could, like, Malik Hooker, Giants week, when our offense, when our offense scored and tied the game. It was like, bro, it's on us now, like, they don't score no more, they don't get in the end zone no more. Like, let's lock in, let's own in on the details, and let's play good defense, like. It don't gotta be no elite guy, like, that's why I say the standard don't drop in the room, like.

• 38:20Speaker 05

  It's rare that, like, he was giving us speeches. You feel me, like, he's not giving us speeches or, like, trying to get us, you know, it's like, it's real simple.

• 38:31Micah Parsons?

  He don't even gotta motivate us, like, we self-motivated, like, that's been the difference between this year, like.

• 38:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 38:37Micah Parsons?

  We looked around our team, and we was like, in camp, and what we was doing in those joint practices, we was like, yo, like, we got something. Like, cause we got a great mixture of the young talent and the vet talent and experience, like. A B's been teaching me stuff like I ain't even know, like, last year.

• 38:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 38:54Micah Parsons?

  Like, that's been the difference.

• 38:55Micah Parsons?

  That's Anthony Barr, right? Yeah, yeah. Like, that's been like a huge difference, and like, because he's here, we, like you said, we've been able to expand, like, we got so much different talent.

• 39:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 39:05Micah Parsons?

  That we able to put people in better positions.

• 39:08Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 39:09Ryan Clark?

  You know, if you get to the Super Bowl, Trey, you know, y'all play around and y'all guard, guard each other at Pro Bowls. Y'all go through, uh, you know, y'all do, y'all have, I guess y'all have y'all fast, y'all have a damn fashion off every Sunday. You know what I'm saying, every, every Sunday, y'all bring out some gear that I'm too old to wear, you know what I mean, right now.

• 39:30Micah Parsons?

  Now, Ryan, now that's a game I'm gonna put ten thousand on.

• 39:36Micah Parsons?

  Say what I do. Now, that's a game I wanna put ten thousand on.

• 39:40Channing Crowder?

  Who gonna win the fashion off?

• 39:41Micah Parsons?

  No.

• 39:42Ryan Clark?

  Buffalo?

• 39:42Micah Parsons?

  No.

• 39:43Speaker 05

  Whatever it is.

• 39:43Micah Parsons?

  Stephon versus who?

• 39:45Channing Crowder?

  Who better?

• 39:46Micah Parsons?

  That's what I'm gonna bet on, I'm gonna bet on Stephon. Cause I want him to win that.

• 39:53Micah Parsons?

  And he gonna say, you know what?

• 39:54Channing Crowder?

  Bet.

• 39:54Micah Parsons?

  And, and that's when, when, when he say bet, I see a whole different focus at practice. Like, I be like, oh, yeah, he's locked in, like, he even say, he's like, he, he'll come and ask you, cause, you know, he's hard, Trey hard to read if you don't know him. So he be like, is Trey locked down? I was like, coach, he's locked in. Like, he good, like, he's like, all right, all right, I don't, I just don't know how to talk to him.

• 40:19Micah Parsons?

  So, but I know, I know how to get to him. Cause I know we gonna get that money right back. He like this.

• 40:24Channing Crowder?

  He gonna get it.

• 40:25Ryan Clark?

  You think, you think, do y'all, do your brother talk about that? Do you think, cause they're excellent. You guys are excellent. And it's almost like, you know, that could be something that you guys are on a collision course for. And playing in the Super Bowl, I couldn't imagine having my brother on the other sideline. And it's one of those, you don't really win or lose, right? Cause, cause that hug is gonna be bittersweet after the game either way. But do you think about that, man? Would that be a great moment?

• 40:53Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'll be fine. I, I do think about it and, you know, we gotta, we got a chance, you know? Like, we just gotta take one game at a time and then God put that together. It'll be special. It'll make it special.

• 41:07Channing Crowder?

  But, who's better? Who's gonna win? Like, you gonna win. But Stefan gonna say he gonna win.

• 41:17Speaker 05

  Yeah. I mean.

• 41:19Channing Crowder?

  Where, where, where, it has to break somewhere.

• 41:22Micah Parsons?

  They supposed to though.

• 41:23Channing Crowder?

  They supposed to.

• 41:24Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, they supposed to say they gonna win. And you a real competitor.

• 41:28Channing Crowder?

  Yeah, you gonna win. You know what? Do y'all, do y'all exchange notes? That's a better question.

• 41:33Speaker 05

  Like, pick each other?

• 41:34Channing Crowder?

  Do you, do you tell him his evaluation that you have? And does he tell you your evaluation that he broke you down in film? Y'all the brothers, but y'all can, y'all can analytically look at each other's weaknesses.

• 41:49Speaker 05

  Growing up, like, before I got here, like, probably like my first year, a little bit of my second year, like, high school, college, like, we always transferring information. Like, he always giving me information, always telling me everything, like, giving me all the game, how to get through college, how to get through everything, you know? Just giving me the blueprint. And then like, as I got older, like, I'm here now, like, I'm right there with you, you know? So it's like, you know, like, keep telling me what he do, you know? Like, you know, keep telling me, one day you gonna have to see me, you know? So, like, I just, I know what he gonna do every Sunday. And he know what I'm gonna do every Sunday. And I see his game. I'm the only one who really know his game though. That's why I'm gonna win. Cause I really know his game.

• 42:32Speaker 05

  Like, when we do one on ones and stuff, it's like.

• 42:37Speaker 05

  I just.

• 42:37Micah Parsons?

  He not giving you everything.

• 42:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 42:40Micah Parsons?

  He gonna hit you with something you ain't never seen before. It's like that old saying, what your dad say to you? He was like, you could try, but I say one left in the tank for you. Yeah, that's what they gonna pull it out for you.

• 42:53Speaker 05

  Yeah, nah, I'm not going for that.

• 42:55Micah Parsons?

  I said, I'm gonna fight for you. He's like, all right. He said, let me know when you wanna use it.

• 42:59Fred Taylor?

  You have, you have a million things that can motivate you. Playing for one of the best organizations in the history of football.

• 43:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:06Fred Taylor?

  You know, we kid, we talk about the obnoxious fans, but Jerry Jones has found a way to get it right.

• 43:11Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:11Fred Taylor?

  People actually, people love the Dallas Cowboys.

• 43:14Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:15Fred Taylor?

  And, um, you know, you have so much that you can motivate your, potentially your contract year. You know, you're, you're, you're looking at your older brother. I'm sure that's motivation in itself.

• 43:25Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:26Fred Taylor?

  You're one of the best cornerbacks in the game. How does Aiden motivate you?

• 43:30Speaker 05

  That's my why, like.

• 43:33Fred Taylor?

  Aiden is your son.

• 43:33Speaker 05

  Yeah. That's my why, like. Anything going wrong, like in my life, or like I'm having issues or any problems, like, I know where I'm gonna get pure, genuine love from. You know, he gonna call me and holler at me before the game, every game, every Sunday, he gonna tell me something. So, like, that's just enough for me, like, this my man, like, this my little youngin', you know? So, like, that's my why, like, that's really what I motivate, what motivation.

• 44:01Fred Taylor?

  Right. He's surrounded by so much love and so much football.

• 44:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 44:05Fred Taylor?

  He wanna play receiver or DB. He wanna be like uncle. Or like pop.

• 44:11Speaker 05

  He gonna do both.

• 44:12Fred Taylor?

  Right.

• 44:13Speaker 05

  And then, you pick what you wanna do. Yeah.

• 44:17Micah Parsons?

  Your little one too?

• 44:18Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 44:18Micah Parsons?

  I see you taking pictures with your baby, is that?

• 44:20Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 44:21Micah Parsons?

  Is that your motivation? Yeah. But, you know, besides that, like, it's just so much, especially because I come from a smaller city. You know, I just, I always, like, I, like, now, recently, and more like in the past two years of my life, I'm, I always look at the bigger picture, like, it's not just about my whys, it's about like my city whys, like where I'm coming from. Like, I'm just such a, like. Inspiration to such a lot of people. And it's almost not even like about me anymore. It's about like everybody that's involved and who helped bring me up. Right. Who, you know, kids who feel like it wasn't possible, now I see it's possible.

• 45:01Micah Parsons?

  You know, I just, I just realized playing here for America's team. Especially from being from P A, a lot of Philly fans, a lot of New York fans, even Steelers fans just realizing like. I put like a new light on like how to do things right. You know, so when I'm thinking like sometimes like obviously my son is a big reason why I do what I do. But a lot of the reason why I do what I do is because like my city where I'm from and I don't want to go back to where I'm from. Right. Like I don't ever want to go back. Like I don't see any cats who like dap me up and say how proud of me they are because they went back. And they hate themselves for it like.

• 45:43Micah Parsons?

  So I don't ever want to have that like regret or like feeling in my system like damn like why didn't I just do this? So to me, I be resenting people who don't want to work no more. Like if you don't want to grind for what's yours, like if you don't want to like. Take that step like even some of my homeboys like I like I give them like so many chances because I'm just like. You know, because for me, it's always about what change you make. Like what like if you say you want better, like what are you doing different every day? Like for me, it might just be me meeting with my coach at seven even when I don't got to like. It might be, you know, me just hiring somebody to take care of my body.

• 46:24Micah Parsons?

  Even though like you could just do whatever you want, like you can use your time however you want to. But like I try to make some change in my life where like I feel like this is the reason why I'm gonna go out here and have two sacks like. This is the reason why I'm gonna have the success I have like. So just for me and my mindset like that's just how I carry myself with it nowadays.

• 46:45Ryan Clark?

  You guys going into this weekend and Fred mentioned, you know, how big the game is. And this kind of takes us back. I was on TV Monday morning after the first game. And it wasn't anything to do with y'all. I watched an offense that had one of the highest paid quarterbacks in the league, a top 10 quarterback in the league. I watched that offense score three points. And I did watch you guys play well. And I listened to a ton of people write y'all off. And say, you know what? This team, this team can't compete for a championship. They lost their quarterback. It's no way they're gonna score enough points. I don't think myself, nor anybody else, realized how dominant this defense was going to be.

• 47:29Ryan Clark?

  As y'all move forward into this weekend and into the future of this season, what is it that's gonna keep y'all going to continue to perform like this?

• 47:42Speaker 05

  Take one game at a time. Like, simple as that, like, just take one game at a time. Stacking, stacking success, one game at a time, man. We're gonna get to where we trying to go.

• 47:52Micah Parsons?

  I talked to ET a lot. And just recently, you know, I listened to him a lot and he reached out to me and we started talking. He was like, yo, Mike, I hope you know they gonna game plan for you. He was like, even though you exceptional talent, like, you gotta understand that everything ain't gonna go your way. And I was like, man, I needed that, cuz I was getting mad at myself, like, if I had a game, like, ask him after the game, I'd be mad. I'd be like, I can't believe I just played like that. Even though if I don't have a bad game, but if I feel like I ain't make an impact, I get down on myself and I'm like, bro, I gotta, like, I gotta change all my shit up, like. I don't, they done shut me down, like, I gotta do something different, like, something gotta hit differently. And what he taught me was, he was like, that game is not the goal.

• 48:36Micah Parsons?

  Like, this game right here is not the goal. Like, this isn't our Super Bowl. The Super Bowl's, what, 15 weeks down the road? He's like, that's your goal. Like, this game is just part of the process. So you just gotta own in on the moment and take care of the process. And that's gonna get us to where we keep talking about the Lombardi Trophy. But this is just part of the process. And we just own in on the details and just take care of this process that we got in front of us. Then, you know, all that stuff's gonna happen.

• 49:05Fred Taylor?

  Are you your biggest critic?

• 49:07Micah Parsons?

  I am, like, people don't even gotta say nothing to me. You can even ask my girl, like, I'll be after the game like mad, like, why y'all won? No, I didn't play to where I need to do. And then, nobody has to tell me, like, that's the thing. Like, I even had one bad practice, and Q would never tell me I played like shit, like. I went up to Q Persson and said, yo, I apologize, like, I'll never practice like that again, like. And the next day, I probably had the best practice of my life. He was like, I've never seen you practice like this in camp. Like, in camp, I was just going crazy, like, man. And I was like, bro, like, if I wanna go to like where I wanna go, like, you don't have to tell me at this point in my career, like, in my life, I know, like, what I can do.

• 49:49Fred Taylor?

  Cause you gotta look in the mirror, and what about you, Trey? You your biggest critic, or is it Aiden? Cause he is critical.

• 49:55Speaker 05

  Aiden first, and then it's me, like, he be on it, he be like, why you didn't get a pick? I mean, like, come on, I had picked everything, like, you didn't get a pick, you trash. I'm like, come on, bro.

• 50:08Fred Taylor?

  You're trash?

• 50:08Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 50:09Micah Parsons?

  You are trash.

• 50:13Speaker 05

  But then, like, then it's me, cause I feel the same way too, like, we could win a game, but if I ain't played to my standard, or how I play, like, it just don't sit right with me, you know, like, gotta be better, like, I have to. You know, practices, games, whatever. Like, if they don't sit right with me, like, I know, like, I'm grown enough to know, I've been around winning programs, I've been around success, you know, so I know what it look like, and I know what it feel like, and if I'm not giving that, or it didn't go my way that game, like, and we win or anything, like, I'm still gonna feel some type of way.

• 50:48Channing Crowder?

  For both of y'all to say that, is that the cheat code for young athletes that's gonna watch this? Is that the cheat code?

• 50:53Micah Parsons?

  Yeah.

• 50:54Channing Crowder?

  You gotta put a standard on yourself.

• 50:56Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, like, often, we allow other people to put their standard on us, and we allow that to...

• 51:03Speaker 05

  Dictate or change a narrative about how you go about your business, like, for example, like, last offseason, like, they was saying all this crazy stuff about me, like, I suck, like, I gave up this many yards, like, I did this, I did that, I'm like... I'm like, yeah, like, I don't listen to it, you know.

• 51:23Micah Parsons?

  Yeah.

• 51:23Speaker 05

  I know me, like, I know what I did. I know what I gotta get better at. I know my flaws. I know what I'm working on, but like, I'm gonna get there. Like, I'm gonna work to that. Like, I'm gonna make sure that, you know, I'm gonna put a stamp on it. So it's like, y'all can't say nothing else about me regardless. Even though y'all opinion don't matter, like, I'm know what I can do. I know my talent. I can go get the ball. Can't know where I get the ball, lighten, so.

• 51:45Micah Parsons?

  And then people, and people ask me about it. People ask me about, what do you think about Trevon? I be like, bro, I know what the dude can do. Like, I watched him in practice break down people, like. So I don't even like, if he lose, like, we can't win every rep. Just like the Leonard thing, when I gotta put him back, like, you, like, no matter how good you are.

• 52:05Speaker 05

  Football, it happens.

• 52:05Micah Parsons?

  This is the NFL, like, you gonna give up some good plays. Like, you playing with the best of the best, like, like.

• 52:12Speaker 05

  You gonna get got.

• 52:13Micah Parsons?

  You gonna get got, like, I got got.

• 52:15Speaker 05

  Say, I know I'm gonna get got.

• 52:17Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, like, you playing with the best people in the league. And then we let people who aren't playing in the best people in the league dictate how good you are. Which don't make sense.

• 52:28Speaker 05

  Right, it don't matter.

• 52:30Micah Parsons?

  So, so none of that matters, like, if you could look at yourself in the mirror, like you said, and say, this is what I gotta do, like, not what so and so gotta do or know what so. You know, even if Ryan's on Twitter saying I'm the best defensive player in the league, it don't matter if I don't believe I'm the best defensive player in the league.

• 52:48Speaker 05

  Right, yeah.

• 52:49Micah Parsons?

  Like, it don't matter what nobody think, if you don't believe it, like, I personally believe, like, I have to be the best, like. Like I said, there's only one.

• 52:58Micah Parsons?

  And like, even though I won Rookie of the Year, all I could do is remember watching TJ win that shit, like.

• 53:03Speaker 05

  Me too.

• 53:09Micah Parsons?

  Like, all I can remember is watching T, JJ come out, giving the award to his brother. That's all I can remember, like.

• 53:14Speaker 05

  Right.

• 53:15Micah Parsons?

  I ain't never sit in my own, like, sit in my own moment, like, hmm, this feel good, like. Let me just, I could chill now. Like, I, like, even when I won that award, I never said, like, hmm, like, this is it. Like, I was looking at. TJ is the worst set. No, that's it. That's the one. Yeah. That's the one and the Lombardi, the one. Yeah. That's the one too. Those is the one. That's what we want.

• 53:38Ryan Clark?

  Yeah, so for y'all, you know, y'all mentioned leadership and we put so much value on the quarterback position.

• 53:45Micah Parsons?

  Yeah.

• 53:45Ryan Clark?

  And you know, I've watched you guys ball and obviously the offense make enough plays and we've seen a quarterback who is down, who is waiting to get back and you hope that you're in position when he does. What has Dak's leadership been like since he's been sidelined and how much has he had to play a role or helped play a role in keeping everybody focused?

• 54:07Micah Parsons?

  I feel like this is gonna make Dak a 10 times better person and football player. Like his hunger is probably through the roof. He's probably looking at my team like, yo, like, I got some. But now, like, since Dak came in the league and this is the first time, like, he's never been like in the light.

• 54:32Micah Parsons?

  You know what I'm saying? Like somebody new in the light. So now I feel like, and now people was kinda like writing him off. And I know Dak's always had a chip on his shoulder, that's one thing I loved about him. But he's carried that chip and now like he has a chance to come back and like, yo, like, this is why I'm here, this is why I'm the highest paid. Like, he has a chance to do all of that, like, this coming up, like. This is like for me, like, this would be like, you know, his chance to shut everybody up. Yeah. You know? And what I respect about him is he's sitting with this hand injury and he has never broken not a smile. Like, he's never once, he come out to practice smiling. Yeah. He's getting his, his, his rehab done smiling, like.

• 55:18Micah Parsons?

  I've never seen Dak sad. Like, I've never seen him have a bad day. Facts. And he's always the first one in the building. Facts. Pre-injury and post-injury, still the first one in the building. There's like, I've never seen somebody like him. Leadership wise, like, it's, it's.

• 55:35Speaker 05

  Like you know, you know, he gonna bring the team together. I haven't seen no drop off from when he was like playing into now. Like he's still bringing everybody together. Like he's still like, he's still right there. He's still at all the practices. He's still right there. He's always talking. He's still, you know, like, he's still right there. Like his leadership skills is phenomenal.

• 55:55Micah Parsons?

  Like you often see like most players, they get their injury, they come in, do their rehab, and they leave. They out. That came to every practice. He stayed, did all the film with Coop. Like he broke every, like, you just don't find that type of genuine love for the game anymore.

• 56:11Speaker 05

  Especially not in no sport. Especially not no sport that's like, like we play the same position, you know? Like, it's a lot of stuff, you know, like in the league, like, people ain't giving that genuine, like, love. You know, it's really like everybody for their self. Like we grown men at the end of the day. You got a family, you got a family, I got a family. So it's really like about yourself, you know? He shows no selfishness. Like, he helping everybody.

• 56:35Micah Parsons?

  And he's still on the sideline clapping. He's on the sideline boosting defense, offense.

• 56:42Ryan Clark?

  We had Herb at your house. Uh, you know, he talked about that, you know, when guys go from, you said it as well, you know, when you start to create your legend.

• 56:50Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 56:50Ryan Clark?

  You know, and it seems like, you know, you guys are on your, your way to that and, and creating your own space. This is a tough organization to create their space in because they do have so much history, so many Hall of Famers. I say this, I haven't said this publicly, uh, even though every week I get on TV and say, I've never seen you play so well. Um, you earned so much respect for me. We were in Las Vegas, we were actually shooting shows and you walked up to me, you know, I walked up to you, I spoke to you, you came in, you sat down. And the first thing you said was, what can I get better at?

• 57:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:24Ryan Clark?

  And, uh, you know, people who don't know, my best friend is your coach.

• 57:27Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:28Ryan Clark?

  And I called him that day.

• 57:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:30Ryan Clark?

  I was like, you got one. And cause he's always telling me how talented you are, you know, how Joe is, ball skills, all this stuff. And he tells me, and he won't watch it hopefully, he tells me a lot more positive about you than I'm sure he tells you. Because we have those conversations.

• 57:45Micah Parsons?

  Facts.

• 57:46Ryan Clark?

  And then for you, he told me, he's like, I think he can start on every level. He said, I think he can start on D-line, I think he can start at linebacker, I think he can start in backfield, defensive backfield. And so you guys are starting to do that. What does it take for y'all to take that next step to where the Trevon Diggs and the Michael Parsons and your teams are mentioned with the Aikmans and the Stalbox and the Ervins and the Smiths?

• 58:13Micah Parsons?

  One thing I realized, everything nowadays is only on like the principles, the details. Like not so much of like how much talent you got, but critiquing and fixing like the little things. Just like even like with the rush plan, if you know, and then like owning your role too. Like, everybody got a role on this team. Some is bigger, some is smaller, and I still talk to coach every day. He's like, you're so good, but you can be so much better. And that type of stuff like urges me to like.

• 58:44Ryan Clark?

  Yeah, it made me so mad. I hate that. Somebody be like, you know, do you know your potential?

• 58:49Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, I know my potential. Yeah, I know. I'm trying to get there. It's so frustrating because I love greatness so much. Like I love like people's success as much as my own. And when someone tells me that, it just, it gets me going. I'm like, bro, I'm trying. Like, because people don't realize like when you are good, you try so much harder to be great. Like, and it's such a, a big step that people don't realize, like the step is like this. And you gotta climb that step, that staircase to get to that step so like closely like. Like for me, it's like understanding why I'm rushing.

• 59:31Micah Parsons?

  Where's the line sliding to? Where's the back? Like, understanding the film, like, why am I can rush when I can make my move, when I can't make my move? Like, I'm still learning all the things because this is still new to me. Like, I still don't know how to rush yet with like my plan. Like, I'm just naturally rushing right now. He's like. He's like, you're not there yet, but you're gonna get there, it takes time, like, it takes understanding, like. He got me my own personal notebook for when I'm in the D-line room. Cause like before, they was just like, go in there, understand like what you gotta do for these blitzes. You gonna line up here and you just win. Like now, he's like, no, bro, like, I'll be selling you short if I just keep letting you do that, like. We're gonna have you come in here all day today, you gonna learn how to think like a defensive lineman now, like.

• 1:00:16Micah Parsons?

  You can't just keep saying you're a linebacker and you're a playmaker, he's like, no, you gotta be the best player. And I was like, damn, like, I really got some great guys around me, like, the coaching staff is great on all levels, like. I can have this level with AD, I can have this level with, they call my dad and his George. Cause I be trying to hang with the DBs and he be like, let's go. And I, and I, and I put my head down, walking in the film room, like, and you know, and I could talk, have it what I like. I don't think there's no drop off in respect that each player, like, we all communicate as one.

• 1:00:53Speaker 05

  That's what's like, great for the team, cause it's like, you don't have that, like, in program, like, and you don't have that. Like, bringing people together, like, that coaching and that, like, genuine love from coaches, like. This is a business at the end of the day, so it's like, rare, like, they could be here this year and be gone the next year, you know? But it's like, we don't ever feel that, you know, we all feel like, everybody hands on, everybody's getting, making everyone better, you know, so like. But to answer your question, I feel like, to get to where we trying to go, is just, it's a, it's a process, like. It's a process, and we keep stacking wins, stacking seasons, then stacking like, you know, it's gonna get there, it's gonna build, like LeBron.

• 1:01:38Speaker 05

  Every year, he's going crazy. He's been going crazy for a year, for twenty years, going crazy. Kobe was going crazy for a year. Jordan going crazy for years. And they are great. These are the greatest of all time. How did they get there? Keep stacking, keep stacking, keep stacking. So it's really just a process and we stick to the process. Do everything that we supposed to do, one, one thing at a time.

• 1:01:59Micah Parsons?

  And what's similar to all those guys, because I, I love those guys, I, I studied those guys. They all have adversity.

• 1:02:06Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:02:07Micah Parsons?

  Like, I'm so big on adversity nowadays, like, it's not even funny, like, I say I'm a own adversity. Like, I don't even, I like, I wanna say like, I don't even believe in it, because I know I'm gonna put my head down and just run right through it.

• 1:02:19Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:02:20Micah Parsons?

  Like, um, you just look at, shit, I watched Magic's documentary. If y'all didn't watch it, go watch it. That thing's dope.

• 1:02:28Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:02:29Micah Parsons?

  That thing's so dope, and it talks about his upbringing, his adversity, and his challenges and what he went through at the end of his career. But they all came with losses.

• 1:02:38Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:02:38Micah Parsons?

  That's why you can't get caught up in those losses. LeBron, you talk about his career, but people bring up the losses. Those losses build people. And you watch the documentary, The Redeemed Team, I hope y'all tapped into that, because that thing has some gems in it too.

• 1:02:55Micah Parsons?

  And you just learn about that selflessness that we keep talking about.

• 1:02:58Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:02:58Micah Parsons?

  And when you got something like, people are trying to prove something, like Wade said, like, when Wade hurt his shoulder and his knee, he said, they didn't think I belonged anymore, like, that drove me.

• 1:03:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:11Micah Parsons?

  So like, for him, when he was talking about it, like, that might have drove him this year. That's why he playing at such a elite level, like, sometimes, like, you know, we had lost last year, and I said to myself, like, I felt that, like, I feel like I ain't doing enough. Like, maybe I wasn't prepared enough, where I could have made a more effect on the defense, where I could have made a play and we could have won.

• 1:03:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:34Micah Parsons?

  Like, to blame losses on a particular individual is like tough. Because why didn't I make a play in that game? You know, I made a lot of tackles, but why couldn't I made an impact game? Alright. Now we got Dak in a better position to score, you know what I'm saying? So I had it, like, I feel like I'm big on purpose nowadays, like, everything happens for a reason. I had a purpose, like, I had to lose in that moment, so that way this year, we prepare for that moment again.

• 1:03:57Fred Taylor?

  Mike, you talk about greatness and purpose, and this is the last one for me. Somehow you found your way at the uh when Aaron Judge broke the home run. The Yankees home run.

• 1:04:09Micah Parsons?

  I tried it, Trey.

• 1:04:10Fred Taylor?

  He did.

• 1:04:12Fred Taylor?

  What was that moment like?

• 1:04:14Micah Parsons?

  Bro, it was so, it was so thrilling and cool for me. Cause he was talking about, once he hit the homer, I said, he gonna hit it today, like this is gonna be it. And I just had to be there and.

• 1:04:26Fred Taylor?

  You put it on your story, right?

• 1:04:27Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, I said, it's happening today. It's gonna happen today. And it was more of just, and people was like, and he was like, if you caught the ball, what would you do? I said, I wouldn't sell, I would keep that ball. That, that is like greatness of his own, like. And um, people was like, I don't understand why, like, he's like, cause you, you're rich already. I said, it has nothing to do with that. And if you understand that um greatness doesn't have value.

• 1:04:56Micah Parsons?

  Like greatness and it's priceless. Like, I said, I could be a low income dude working a nine to five and I still wanna sell it. Cause I understand that this ball has, like, money doesn't bring more life to you. But working to something and fulfilling it does.

• 1:05:11Fred Taylor?

  Correct.

• 1:05:12Micah Parsons?

  So every time I work to get something, I feel, feel like, yes, like I did it, what's next, like? And it's just common in all the players that I learned, like. Brady's like, I want a championship, now what's next? So when I got there, so when I got to, yeah, Kobe too, he's like, I want another one, like this isn't it. Like, it only lasts just for a second, you know what I'm saying? So money, I mean, I don't, I don't even spend money every day. Do you spend money every day? Yeah. You do? Oh, some do. No, I don't spend on some, sometimes if I don't gotta get gas, what do I spend it on, you know what I'm saying? Luckily, my mom cooked for me. She said, wine?

• 1:05:49Fred Taylor?

  Wine, you gotta get wine every day, don't you?

• 1:05:52Micah Parsons?

  I don't wanna know why you drinking that. I don't want to get you started. I don't want to get you started.

• 1:05:56Fred Taylor?

  You already know.

• 1:05:57Micah Parsons?

  Yeah, I already know what he said. I already know what he said. I done watched too much of this show. I already know what he said. He had to bring it in so high.

• 1:06:06Ryan Clark?

  Man, we appreciate y'all, boys, brother. We always say, man, we understand the stresses on the season and, you know, what it took for you guys to get here today and do this, man. It's huge for us. Before we get out, though, it is October Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We still have the Pivot to Pink merch on our website. Please go there. Please support. We're sponsoring a walk this Sunday. It's gonna be super dope. Our producer, Alyssa Zubikowski, was New York Citizen of the Month. She survived 100% of her worst days, and we know a lot of people who have done the same. So, we appreciate you, guys. You definitely need to go check that out. Buy all the merch, and we're very grateful. And to y'all, man, listen, it's obviously gonna be primetime.

• 1:06:46Ryan Clark?

  Everybody's gonna be locked in to what happens this weekend, and I think y'all don't need my advice on this, but this one game won't define you or the season, but it sure will feel good as hell to win it.

• 1:07:03Speaker 06

  I appreciate y'all, boys.

• 1:07:04Ryan Clark?

  Get you a Super Bowl. I got some vacations.

• 1:07:07Speaker 06

  Appreciate y'all. Thank you for coming through, man. I said, hey, let me check my dog's stuff.

• 1:07:14Speaker 06

  I went to hit him. I said, damn.

• 1:07:16Micah Parsons?

  Bruh, how y'all think I be feeling when he get a pick and he coming back there like, that's why you didn't get a sack? I be in there sick.

• 1:07:23Fred Taylor?

  You know what time it is, though, but y'all got that good vibe that, you know what I'm saying? You wanna see his success.

• 1:07:28Ryan Clark?

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• 1:08:54Speaker 00

  Every game day, you show up for your team. Now, it's your time.

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