Congrats to the new father Jahlani Tavai!
What does Barmore being back do for this defense? How can Tavai and the defense stop Stafford?
What does Barmore being back do for this defense? How can Tavai and the defense stop Stafford?
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00:00Hey Jelani, good morning. Good morning. How you guys doing? We're doing great. Congratulations on being a father. I
00:09Appreciate that. Thank you. How many diapers have you changed so far?
00:15About half, okay
00:19Yeah, I mean luckily
00:21I'm experienced in changing diapers since I had a lot of younger brothers and sisters
00:26Okay, was there ever a question that you weren't going to make the game last Sunday after it
00:30That's a quick turnaround for you to get on a flight get to Chicago and play there. I
00:36Mean if baby was born on on Sunday or Saturday, yeah, I probably would have missed it, but I was doing my best
00:43You know
00:45Get things rolling. I guess but you know, it's just as a blessing that I was able to
00:50You know be a part of both the win and and to see my daughter
00:55Be born well and glad you made it you got your first sack on on the season on Sunday. So congrats on that
01:03We'll say goodbye to the sleep
01:07Yeah, I'm learning that quickly, all right when you look at obviously I think the biggest thing we look at his fans
01:13You know, can you guys put another one back together? Can you put another win back-to-back?
01:19What's the my what's the mindset in that locker room of coming out and showing, you know
01:24Not just you obvious showing yourselves in that locker room that hey we can win
01:29Multiple games in a row coming out against a good Rams team this Sunday
01:36Well, that's been our focus
01:39Since the rips and since probably Wednesday, you know making sure that we stack stack our wins whether
01:45Whether it's just us being dialed in and focused and like preparing just as we did this past week
01:52But you know, it's really important to us because you know that that way we can I think once once you once you stack
01:59Like the next win and the next one it just it becomes like contagious and you just get that
02:06Adrenaline to want to win and you know, that's something that we have to learn to do
02:10Christian bar more back at practice yesterday night
02:14Yeah, it's great to have him back
02:18I don't know if you guys ever talked to him, but he's a character
02:22He's one of a kind and I'm yeah, like I said, I'm happy to have it back in there
02:27You've got a Rams team that's on a short week
02:29They've got to fly across the country to play you guys on Sunday
02:32But you also have a veteran quarterback in Matthew Stafford. How difficult will he be?
02:37When you face him
02:39You know, he still got it, you know, so our biggest job is to make sure that we
02:44Thank you as a defense. We got to communicate, you know
02:47He's gonna try and put them in the best situation possible for their offense
02:51and we just got to make sure that our communications on point with each other and that way there's no
02:57There's no hole shot for him to you know, threat the ball
03:01at the ball and so
03:03I know the D line gonna do their thing and
03:06But it's just we're just excited, you know, we're excited to get back out there
03:11Regardless who the opponent is but yeah
03:14Giovanni
03:16I love it. I love it. I love it. I love you. I love you
03:20I love you, man. I love you
03:23I love you
03:25excited you know we're excited to get back out there regardless who the opponent is but yeah.
03:32Jelani you guys did a tremendous job against Iran in the past you were physical defensively
03:38you got after the quarterback those were the expectations I think that a lot of us expected
03:45from this defense this season there's been a lot of inconsistency what do you think has been the
03:50biggest issue to you guys in the in the fact that you've been so inconsistent especially on defense
04:01oh I don't know maybe I wouldn't know I don't know it's it's more of just like
04:08you kind of took my answer right there we just we we show at times that we can do it
04:15it I'm not sure I think it's just I think when times get hard in games we have to fall back to
04:22our fundamentals and sometimes um you know we don't so I think that's one of the biggest things
04:29just relying on our fundamentals uh when when you know the games get longer Jelani uh our very own
04:36Courtney and others in Boston are talking about this playoff push for the New England Patriots
04:42only two games out of the wild card seven games to go you guys got you got a cowboy up here what
04:48do you have any uh like a tagline don't let us win today you guys have any of that as you uh
04:52look to win your third game in four tries this Sunday I mean our goal is to win regardless
04:59that's that's been that's been our north star you know like and we're going to focus on winning
05:04when we got a time and one day at a time really you know um and so far we've been doing well on
05:10our preparation for the Rams and uh yeah we can't really think that far we're we got to take this one
05:15game at a time well Jelani I'm all in because I'm buying what Keon White was selling when he was
05:20asked what was clicking for the defense last week and said you know this is a young team and we're
05:26figuring out how to play together and that's what you guys are seeing now do you co-sign that is
05:31that you guys just spending the first half of the season figuring each other out and now you feel
05:36like you've gotten there um I mean I can relate with that yeah definitely um he said a good point
05:42you know how many I'm gonna ask you guys of course how many of us are like returners like how many
05:49how many like on defense there's about what three of us you Duggar uh Dedric Wise I would say
05:59Gonzales Gonzales quality yeah yeah and but Gonzo played what five games last year yeah
06:06before he got hurt yeah yeah so exactly yeah Keon made a great point because it's when we're
06:13when we're all on the same page and that chemistry is like on point it's it's I mean we put it out
06:19there you know uh last week so um I know that was last week and this is a whole new week but we just
06:26that's something that we have to have as our standard you know and I know the guys um have
06:31it in the back of their mind that that's our standard now um and we got to beat that standard
06:35every week so um that's that's going to be a goal uh the whole defense will your daughter be there
06:42Sunday or too too soon to take her out of the out of the house man it's too cold out here now for
06:49no baby that's way too soon we're islanders man we we got soft skin we gotta toughen it up
06:59all right well uh go get them and I know you got a meeting to get to so we appreciate you
07:05taking the time on a Patriots Friday Jelani Jelani divides