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00:00I think you're the best defensive tackle that we've ever seen. Do you agree with that?
00:04I just like to be in the conversation because every year I get a grand opportunity to take a picture with Bob Lilly, Mr. Cowboy, me and Joe Green, and Randy White.
00:15There you go.
00:16And myself. That's four of the five. And Merlin Olsen is the fifth. There's only five First Valley Hall of Famers ever.
00:22So, just to be in that conversation with Joe Green, Randy White, Bob Lilly, Mr. Cowboy, Little House on the Prairie, or Father Murphy.
00:32There you go.
00:33We know him from a show. Not playing, but if you ever watch him play, he was a monster.
00:39Fourteen-time All-Pro. I mean, pro bowler. So, I mean, monster.
00:43I just like being in the conversation and then Aaron Donald's going to join us and be the sixth.
00:47So, we got the new, the old, everything you want.
00:50Look, we talk about the old school defensive tackle is fantastic, but for you, being a defensive tackle, able to absolutely wreck the pocket and be one of the best sackers.
00:58I made it sexy.
00:59How did you do that?
01:00I made it sexy.
01:01Like, how did you do it, though?
01:02I made it sexy. I used to hang out with Derrick Brooks and Lynch and, you know, Lawrence Taylor, you know, and all these guys that's on the end.
01:09Reggie White, Bruce Smith, them are my guys.
01:12It was just me and Johnny inside. Me and Johnny Randall.
01:14So, Johnny was up there spinning, doing his worldly, nervous thing up there on that carpet.
01:18Yeah.
01:19I had to get down and dirty with it, so I was playing chicken with a semi, you know.
01:22Hey, man, big dancing around, the big bears dancing. I like it.
01:25Now, the way you got to the NFL, I want to talk about high school.
01:29Did you know?
01:30No.
01:31Because I know you were a tight end in high school. Was that true?
01:33Yeah.
01:34I'll show you a picture of me. I'm 225 pounds with a high top fade.
01:37Yeah.
01:38I ate a fourth grader on my way to Miami, stood on a scale that was 270.
01:42I'm like, where did this come from?
01:43Yeah.
01:44And then they put me on a 3,000 calorie a day diet.
01:47Beef it up.
01:48And I went from, no, 3,000 calories a day.
01:51Oh, so you were slimming.
01:52I'm trying to get back to the tight end.
01:54Wow.
01:55I go from 270 to 300.
01:56Yeah.
01:57It was just a natural progression, so I just went and played.
02:01When you went to Miami, recruited as a tight end?
02:03Yeah.
02:04How did they put that hand in the dirt? What'd they say to you?
02:07Bob Carmelo and the great Ed O'Jerome from right here in New Orleans.
02:10Yes, correct.
02:11Looked me in the face and said, son, well, Bob Carmelo, God bless his soul, told me,
02:15I've seen Jerome, Cortez, and Russell.
02:17You can be better than all three of them.
02:18I said, come on, man.
02:19Don't blow smoke up my butt.
02:20He said, son, you play every position on our scout team
02:23against the number one defense in America, and we have trouble stopping you.
02:27I need to put you on that defense, and you turn into the monster that I need.
02:31I'm like, ah.
02:32Then I went and tried it, and they fooled me.
02:34They only put me in pass rush drills.
02:36And none of the starters or any of the guys that were going to play
02:40would ever give me a rep.
02:41So I'm beating guys that would never play in the NFL.
02:44I didn't know what I was talking about.
02:45Yeah, true.
02:46Wasn't doing nothing but building my confidence in all hell.
02:48You know how that is.
02:49Warren, we talk about great defenses, and obviously being a great defense attacker yourself
02:52at Miami on great defenses, with Tampa Bay on great defenses.
02:56What's the fundamental of a great defense?
02:58What's the mindset?
02:5911.
03:00All in one?
03:01It requires all 11.
03:02Yeah.
03:03Because no man is insignificant in this defense.
03:06Yeah.
03:07No man is insignificant in our fit, how we rally to the ball,
03:10how we perform, how we pursue.
03:12It's got to be a mentality that you all live by.
03:14It's a pack of wild dogs.
03:16And if it's a pack of wolves, the long wolf will die, right?
03:19Yeah.
03:20It's that pack.
03:21You've got to live for that pack.
03:22And I truly believe the front and the back end must work together.
03:24Yeah, absolutely.
03:25Either you've got pressure on the quarterback or you've got great coverage.
03:27And then if you ain't got great coverage, you've got pressure on the quarterback.
03:30If you ain't got pressure on the quarterback, you're covering on the back end
03:32and getting the coverage sack.
03:33Absolutely.
03:34That's the thing.
03:35And then your linebackers must communicate and be the blood that runs through the defense.
03:38And that's what I've been very, very fortunate.
03:41I raised Ray Lewis and I had Derrick Brooks.
03:42Yeah.