Favorite QB To Sack, Top Current Players, & Biggest Inspirations | D-Line Round Table

[Applause] [Music] let's go I expect guys who like to talk a lot so I'm gonna have to wrangle them together but I expect a lot of respect for each other [Applause] Randy wife Jason Taylor how we long Bruce Smith and these are guys that I've never met it would be my friends I'm sitting with guys while I idolize growing up well idolized we got played against guys who encouraged me and I love being around these guys it's like being around family well you guys we're gonna talk about celebrating like the huh 100 NFL 100 years I'm curious all of us came from totally different backgrounds in places and college experiences but we all had our first day in the NFL and I want to ask you what is your first NFL memory who wants to go first you wouldn't deal Armand I know y'all like to talk so don't get shy you go on I got my first memory I got drafted by the Cowboys I was in the dorm they called me from the athletic department and I had a glue something like today I was a rotary phone yeah rotary phone and I thought I was going to the Baltimore Colts they kept they had the number one pick in the draft they kept saying with taking number one that night they trade Bartkowski so I end up going number two to the Cowboys Randy white defensive end Maryland so I'm on a plane going to Dallas Texas and I got the walking coach and Landry's office and meet Tom Landry and on the way home Gil Brandt our Scout general manager they sold course bear in first memory there of course bear back east was big yeah big and I brought two cases back to the dorm and I was a hero for about an hour my memory of coming into the league was my first mini cap you know this little kid from from Norfolk Virginia from the inner city but nevertheless my went to Buffalo I knew it was cold but I didn't know how cold and how long it stayed cold but it was the end of May it rained held and then snowed and then the Sun came back out in about 30 minutes I said what the hell have I gotten myself into I've never seen such extremes of weather like that before but that was a rude awakening how about Miami man you you you go right straight up to the warm weather yeah I got lucky yeah my first NFL memory obviously was the day I got called by Jimmie Johnson and unlike you guys I didn't know I was going to leak like I was a small guy coming out of hacker and 230 pounds that's when defensive ends were built like you guys you know they were 280 290 275 whatever 235 never haven't played the position didn't know it was coming and so I get that call from Jimmie Johnson asked when I was gonna play and he said you're gonna play football so he said just kind of put me out there and said chase the ball don't worry about where the lineup don't worry bunny blitz his coverage any of that stuff just go find a football but most important I had a coach that took a young guy and really believed it I mean it gave me that chance to just go go fail and we'll figure it out I sound like a dream come true to everybody else to add the day because that was not happening with that and how he Raiders what was your first memory you know much like Jason you're not quite sure a small school guy I think we played on TV once so I didn't know where I was going Raiders draft me I go from Villanova where there's a priest on every floor to the Oakland Raider locker room where there was there were the priests and my first memory just even try to fill out you belong cuz I texted southern right I come a little small school too but I remember going into the Giants locker room the first mini camp they bring the rookie then and they had the physicals and they brought the vets in to do their physicals but they came in later in the afternoon and I saw Eric Dorsey who was a big defensive enemy half first round pick out a University of Oklahoma he walked into that locker room he had on a full black bodysuit I mean no man should wear bodysuit but he had on the field a big body sitter and he had muscles coming out of muscles and I remember looking at him in my head thinking if I got a look like that I'll be playing in that field I ain't gonna make it I just will not make it I mean a guy that that was intimidating to me but that was my first memory and walking to that locker room and the fact that that phil simms looked at me and say hey michael and i was like oh he knows my name you know it is kind of like welcome welcome to the NFL moment but I think we all realized that once you get to that lock one it's not College anymore yeah because this is a job and all of us obviously have done our jobs really well we wouldn't be sitting here at this table so I'm curious what do you think is the key to your success as a football player don't be shy well call yourself me this is about bragging on yourself right now that's why we're doing this whole roundtable well I don't call it bragging I call it stating the facts I call it being free no I I call it stating the facts look everybody to sit at this table has a high football IQ that's that's not bragging the athletic ability that sets them apart from any other player that's not bragging now when you you you put those elements together with the desire to compete and the desire to win the desire to make the sacrifice to make sure when you walk out on that you are better prepared than your opponent that's what's going to carry them now that's what's gonna carry today you want to know the secret to success in this game is there are no secrets no it's called hard work it's called sacrifice it's called commitment and being a disciplined player and and that's what I thought that I brought to the table [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm curious who was the player to influence your game the most W Randy when I was a little kid I used to watch Ray Nitschke right because he bald-headed he had two black things and a big nose and he was mean and he was always hitting people and so I go to the Columbus cuts down Club when I'm a senior in college to get in the war well I saw his name on the thing and I said I want to meet ready Nitschke while I'm here so he said well make that happen so we go downstairs and there's Ray Nitschke sitting with art Donovan and Bobby Lane and I get to meet these three got me this isn't a big deal right and I just got arrested by the Cowboys they wouldn't make me a little linebacker menisci says hey okay come over here sit down let me give you a little advice when you go that Dallas team he says don't make any friends he says you knock the crap out of everybody you come up against you'll have all the friends you need I gotta say for me I'm sitting here at the table with with two other guys one bit Howie [Applause] and then of course watching Bruce I couldn't do what you did alright because you could turn a corner and be this high off the ground and get around the corner I don't know how you did without falling right so for me it was watching all of you guys and what you were doing it was it was a motivator for me it made me want to be great and I realize how hard you guys work to be great and I wanted to be in that class even though for me to sit here today with you guys it kind of blows me away because I don't see it never did see myself at the hall of famer I was some kid who stumbled in the football coming from Jeremy I'll pinch it because you are man it's funny how things kind of trickle down because you're you watch how where you watch Bruce me being the youngest guys the table you know being a baby I have two of these I have two of my dolls sitting at the table with me and guys that I've gotten to known over the years and it's and I always chase her it was Bruce and you and then really McGinnis was the third guy that I really looked at because like I said when I got in I had no idea what the hell that was doing at the end so as you already alluded so you're talking about Bruce and the way he leaned the corner so I watch it I break it down I slow it down I draw it up on paper I put coals out PVC pipes leaning sideways all those things something like if I can get my body at this angle it won't work like my ankle was gonna snap my knee was gonna give out so all right let me find something else about Bruce I could do because they say that's god-given yeah that wasn't gonna work for me so it was the same thing with straight yeah I watched so many so much tape for you of you and Bruce and it really make hit us and the things he was doing in New England cuz he was kind of the guy that Jimmy said you know a little bit more of an undersized guy so to speak he stand up he can be down the body for him yeah so watch everything McGinnis does you know for me when I first came into the league it was a guy by the name of Ben Williams and I was like a sponge I wanted to learn and and understand the game and pick up little tips from everyone and I would always notice he was always using his hands swiping his hands and this and that and he pulling this out one day and I said well why do you do all that he said because they can't grab you they can't hold you and then all of a sudden sudden this piece of the puzzle starting coming together and I started understanding that to be a great pass rusher and a great defensive player you had to create separation between you and that offensive lineman so we could use the best asset that we had in our given athletic ability and that's your ability to be able to run you create separation not allowing them to grab you and hold you you get your hip past their hip it's over what current player out there in the NFL or players that you looked at and think wow what a game I really I really like watching this guy play God plays the right way this guy Von Miller does things like a deviant ish it's like a blitzing DB be special but the ones just see fit to tackle wise Aaron Dom Aaron Donald you see anybody like him yeah but if you if you look at it the one common denominator that these guys for this is creating separation yes so they can run not only that endurance to separation and endurance these guys don't stop yeah but I'd say Khalil I'd say obviously JJ not just for the early part of his career but coming back from the injuries I agree with you with what the names you just you just mentioned Khalil Vaughn and and JJ's had a an incredible career yes as well those four names right there are the ones that are been most impressive over the last I'd say seven or eight years a lot of great players out here it is and but you know I think that the great thing about you know sitting here with you guys that um it's love and respect love and respect it's like that room in the hall of fame yeah you walk in every year and you say everyone in this room has a reason to feel pretty good about themselves but the respect in the room is everything to Michael Strahan again [Applause] one thing we didn't talk about we talked about it prior to the shoot quarterbacks who's your favorite quarterback the sack who the favorite quote we had this discussion before you guys started filming and none of us at this table like quarterbacks none none not even our own quarterback on ROG I loved you Kelly but I don't like quarterbacks it's just as simple as that I will tell you this Eli I love Eli Manning really was in love with the other quarterback seemed a nice guy cool but I never liked the quarterback on another team right I you know I in some of them we're friends now we're cool we hit them we didn't quit but we didn't communicate with them they were we didn't socialize there wasn't any social media weirdo offseason vacations together we're gonna get a bowl that crazy I can't do that I [Applause] couldn't do that why I'm gonna you know be vacationing with dude helping you are and only bother me even when I see it helping off the ground I let him use its own image you to get up that makes them more tired like a certain thing that do bother me well I quarterback that I love the sack first of all all of them all right that's for me NAB for me yeah I think was because just Philadelphia yeah I agree with you it's it's really it's it's a kind of a faceless you know position just whoever the quarterback is but John Elway being in the division having to chase him around at that ski resort up there in Denver for myself yeah for me it was La Marina both of those guys were quick yeah bait well he had the quickest release in that era of football unbelievable it was just extraordinary you see the trend is we all picked the guy that kind of in our division we see the most but I mean so yeah Tom Brady was the guy I saw a lot sack the most of my career I always tell everybody they ask you that but they also like certain are not gonna like tonic it doesn't matter wait got take one story about Phil Simms okay Todd ones over standing there for the Super Bowl MVP thing right I'm standing talking to John Riggins and Phil Simms looks at me said I thought about you this morning Randy and what do you thinking about me for he said see this cut on my chin he had a big cut there on his scar on his chin he says you did that to me says every time I Nick it he says we're playing at one time and I remember to play when it happened cuz he was on the ground he was going I had some choice words watch a hey you big get up and he got up and he threw the football at me and he called me a bad word Phil is always like how's the game change now from what you knew from what you from what you experienced to what you watch now not to me the game is still who wins the line of scrimmage right you watch the football game I make big plays obviously play a play a part in it but the team that wins the game upfront usually wins the football game and that hasn't changed and forever now the rules are different yeah you know I watch a football game I know the referees name I don't like that I don't like knowing the referees name I want to know the football guy's name but you know that's changed the way that the way the rules you know guys get up off the ground looking thing how come I didn't get a penalty you know we never had that I think the game has changed there in nickel 70% of the time it's it's rushed to quarterback the run game is not quite as important and the situation substitutions I mean how many snaps you get in a year on average eight eight nine hundred yeah now it's probably way down yeah it's way down one of the things I always did was I was always gonna be in better shape there any death I was doing in better shape than the other guy I was gonna beat him with my mind I was gonna beat him mentally every day during the week so when that fourth quarter came around when everything counted he's gonna be tired and I'm gonna start beating him we may play even for three quarters but when that fourth quarter comer I'm winning the fourth quarter and now it's a philosophy I used and a model that I built and I plug that in for 14 years and it worked yeah the one thing I would never do makes trade was talking about doing you see you're at that point were you about to pass out and die but he was never gonna see that that's right like I was hurting I wanted to die my eyes were on the back of my head you can hear yourself breathing you know you get that loud breath in your in your ears like but he wouldn't know where to just stand there and stare at them yeah many times I'll fall on my face my kids say that but but you you 100% right about that I always thought to myself how can I be smaller than him that big 307 pound guy he's gonna get that blanket I laughter I knew from me as far as you talking about power and boomers I wasn't a big guy right I mean earlier my career was bigger but I was a manufactured big guy right if you have power in everything level and you understand the game you have leverage then you can work off of power if your finesse guy you just run around the edge you never display power one at some point you're gonna lose some speed and that guy's gonna beat you to that to that contract it catches up to you so that Springsteen song you ever seen a one trick pony when you see me yeah so you got to develop something out for power so my game was based on power just for that fact for the case of longevity but I used to just power to the point of where I just wanted to take your soul I wanted to take your will I wanted to look you in your eye and we've all been to that point where you're on a guy so bad you're looking and you realize he's peed in one beat it's still a game it's well the one common thread is I want to be in better shape than everybody and I want my 80th play to look like my first play and and that's when you're it's round 9 round 10 round 11 round 12 where you really make hay and that's where the games want and you got that film you got to watch that film in front of your teammates and that was always the thing that would always scare me to get in there and have them not see what what you wanted them to see in my fear I mean you've got about fear I mean that that motive they've made my whole career if not the fair when I'm scared I'm gonna run away fear if you embarrass yourself I'm going to let my coach down fear I'm going to let my teammates down I never wanted to go watch that film you know when they well that film I wanted them to see me going 110% yeah because coach Landry would make an example out of me and like Hal alluded to earlier you know what once you get there and then you gotta stay there you got it today that's twice as hard and your coach expects it of your teammates suspected of you you got to maintain that level of intensity for your whole career I mean you if you're gonna be a great football player and it's kind of a tortured existence from that standpoint I don't think you really enjoy your career no until after you're done very true fellows there's been an honor and a privilege to sit at this table with you NFL 100 100 years of great football I'm sitting at the table with legends who made it half within those 100 years all right you guys maybe we can do this next week in Montana and mano defensive lineman yeah Eli yeah

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Published: Thu Oct 10 2019