Bobby Okereke says interim DC Charlie Bullen brings "great juice" to the defense

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00:00All right, it's your week 13, London, in the locker room with Captain Bobby, Bobby O, Bobby O'Carake here.

00:05We always start these segments off by asking you guys, you got to show us something in the locker that's a must-have,

00:12whether you're stunting on us or you're putting us on to some game. What do you have for us, sir?

00:16I'll put you on game a little bit. You know, we got some non-toxic lotions, so no parabens, no sulfates,

00:24cruelty-free, gluten-free, vegan, so, you know, you put lotion on your body every day,

00:28so keep those non-toxic chemicals off you.

00:31Parabens, sulfates, all those other toxins that I can't even pronounce right now,

00:36but it's all about looking clean, feeling clean, looking good.

00:39All right, obviously got to ask you about the elephant in the room.

00:43Shane Bowen, defense coordinator, was fired.

00:46Kind of what was your initial reaction, and what's the adjustment going to be like for you,

00:50the captain of this defense now working with Coach Bullen?

00:55Yeah, obviously all of us have an extreme amount of respect and appreciation for Coach Shane.

01:00Works extremely hard.

01:01One of the smartest defensive coordinators I've been around, so I learned a lot of ball from him

01:06and just understanding his scheme, but, you know, this is the nature of the beast,

01:10and this is the business we're in, so we adjust, and we look forward to this upcoming Monday night matchup

01:16against the Patriots, so working with Coach Chuck, Coach Charlie Bullen, he's got great energy, great juice.

01:22Obviously, you know, me and him are doing a lot of one-to-one communication on the mic,

01:25so just getting him comfortable with me, my process, and just letting him know that I'm here to serve him

01:31however I've got to communicate calls, however I've got to get the game day operation

01:35to make this thing work like a well-oiled machine.

01:37Well, take our fan base in a little bit deeper on that.

01:39Like, again, because Bobby is the mic linebacker.

01:43He's the one that's got the intercom system.

01:45He's your relaying and communicating with the defensive coordinator until it cuts off.

01:51So can you kind of take our fan base into what that communication is actually like on game day

01:57and how are you guys going about trying to get that right?

02:00Yeah, so obviously we've got people upstairs in the box.

02:04Shout out Grant.

02:05He does a great job, one of the assistant linebacker coaches.

02:07But he's relaying to Chuck on the sideline, the personnel situation of the game.

02:14And then Chuck is relaying into me.

02:16I only have a mic.

02:17I don't have – I mean, I only have a headset.

02:18I don't have a mic, so I'm not talking to him.

02:20He's talking to me.

02:21But he's telling me to call.

02:23He's telling me the personnel, and he's just giving me reminders,

02:26whether, you know, telling Drew to be aware of the slant based off the formation

02:30or telling Vaughn alert the zombie or telling Enns alert the kickout.

02:35So I'm relaying that coach communication to them

02:37and just making sure everybody's lined up so we can line up and play.

02:41What kind of difference or differences do you think we're going to see this week

02:45with him as making calls as opposed to with Shane Bowen?

02:50You know, we'll see.

02:51Obviously, it's a growing and growing process.

02:53We had a great Wednesday practice today.

02:55You know, worked very smooth.

02:57You know, Chuck's an outside linebacker coach,

02:58so he's going to have those guys, Burns and Abdul, fired up.

03:01And, yeah, we're going to hit him in the mouth and be ready to play.

03:04You've been in this business a long time.

03:06Like, obviously, we came into the season, we were looking at the defensive front

03:09and we looked at the defense this year.

03:11A lot of people thought it was going to be a top ten defense.

03:13Where has it gone wrong, Bobby?

03:15You know, we just have an opportunity to correct it.

03:18Obviously, our yards per carry and our run game is not great,

03:20but we just got to execute better.

03:23You know, Chuck talked about it today.

03:24Like, offense, first, second down, they have the schematic advantage.

03:28But on defense, our advantage is effort, violence, and physicality.

03:33So we're excited to put that on display on Monday night.

03:35Last but not least, you personally.

03:37How do you feel about your play this year?

03:39And, like, you know, not only your play, your leadership as well overall.

03:43Yeah, I feel like I'm doing a solid job.

03:45Always have room to improve.

03:47I'm sitting at 103 tackles right now with five more to go.

03:50So I've got to stay on pace, keep ramping it up,

03:52create some splash plays, some forced fumbles, some picks, some turnovers,

03:57get this team juiced up.

03:58All right, man, good luck on Monday night.

04:00Appreciate it.

04:00Thank you, brother.

04:01Much love.

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