00:00Hey, Schefter. Were those emojis? Were you trying to tell us something there?
00:04I have no idea what y'all are talking about. I was just tweeting about myself.
00:08How fun was it to get that call Saturday that this is coming together?
00:13Where were you and what was your immediate reaction when you got off the phone?
00:17It was an exciting moment. Just knowing that I got my brother playing beside me.
00:23Done before and I get to do it again. I'm excited to have him in my room.
00:26Does it feel real? Is it surreal? Have you processed it? Have you let it set in at all yet?
00:31Yeah, I did the other day. I started yelling the other day,
00:34let's go, that we got a great player in our room, even a better human.
00:38He's a great friend of yours, but as you mentioned, he's a great player.
00:41This is a team that's ready to reopen a Super Bowl window.
00:45How much of a difference can he make to this team to get you guys back to where you want
00:49to be?
00:50I think he's going to make everybody's job easier, even easier.
00:54Mine, Allen's, the linebacker, safety cell. You love to have a guy like this in your room.
00:59What does he do well that makes him one of the best of what he does?
01:03Everything. You can't find one flaw in his game. He does everything well.
01:07How rare is he? Size, the ability to get pressure on the passer, stop the run, all of the above.
01:13He's a rare guy. A guy that's, like I said, you want in your room.
01:16You can rush a passer, stop the run, play physical.
01:20Whatever you need, that's the guy. He can do it. He doesn't do it at all.
01:23What does it mean to you, BJ, for the organization to step up and do what they've done the offseason,
01:28capped off by trading a first-round pick on Saturday night?
01:32You love seeing great players come in here and want to be here and want to play winning football.
01:37What was the vibe at dinner last night?
01:40He just mentioned it.
01:41Oh, yeah, great time. Vibes were high.
01:44Do you think he's your birthday present? Happy birthday, by the way.
01:48Well, thank you. I think it was a nice little gift from him to me to come here.
01:53But it's not just Dexter. I mean, you guys have added a lot of new pieces on defense.
01:56How different and how much better do you think this defense can be in 2026?
02:00I think we're going to have a good group, man. I'm excited.
02:05We've got Cook, Allen, Dex, a lot of new faces.
02:09But, like I said, they're great guys, too.
02:11Just getting to know them today, talking to them.
02:14They're excited to be here. They're excited to come here and win big games.
02:18Are you excited to see less double teams?
02:21People don't realize that, huh?
02:22Heck, yeah, I told them that.
02:24You're going to make my life way easier now. Thank you.
02:27Yeah, for sure.
02:28It's crazy to think you're hanging out with them on Friday,
02:31being on separate teams, and then the very next day, boom, there it is.
02:34Yeah, you probably see me and him together a lot.
02:37This whole season, we're always hanging out.
02:39He was at my house Friday, bringing bread with me and my family.
02:42I was celebrating my birthday before I left.
02:45Like I said, he's a great guy that you want in your room.
02:48And what you want to even have around your kids, your family, and stuff like that.
02:52Does this reinvigorate not only you, but everybody in this room,
02:55especially on the defensive side of the ball?
02:58Yeah, I think so.
02:58Like I said, he's going to make everybody's job way easier.
03:02You talk about him being a guy that you would want around your family and stuff.
03:05What makes him that guy?
03:07His heart.
03:09Just the way he is.
03:10Just the way he carries himself.
03:11He's the godfather of my kids.
03:14I've known him for a while now.
03:15Like, he's truly one of my best friends.
03:17What do you feel like this trade, what the message is to fans,
03:20and how excited should fans be for these new players?
03:24Super excited.
03:25To see them fly around today.
03:27Just have a conversation with them.
03:29Their goals and stuff like that.
03:31They should be very excited.
03:33AJ, when is the first time you said to him,
03:36man, we should play together?
03:38Like, we already played together.
03:40Again.
03:41Again.
03:41Oh, man.
03:45We talked about it.
03:46We had some talks before.
03:47Because you guys are, I mean, you guys are friends.
03:49So, there had to have been times over the last,
03:51however long he's going through what he's going through,
03:53you know what he would be,
03:55where you were like, man, let's, how do we do this?
03:57Do you guys have those conversations?
03:59Yeah, for sure.
03:59We always talk about, you know, playing together again,
04:03and just how it actually happened.
04:04So, like I said, I'm excited that he's here on our team.
04:07So, do you then say, you walk up to the,
04:10do you go upstairs and be like, look, I had a conversation.
04:13Right?
04:14Is that, like, how, are you playing a role in any way in this?
04:18You're a secret agent.
04:19I way built my pay grade, right?
04:21That don't got nothing to do with me.
04:23Well, I know a lot of times, they say,
04:25oftentimes when you're going to maybe acquire a player or whatever,
04:28they do ask you guys what you know.
04:30When did that happen?
04:32It was a lot of questions.
04:33He asked me a lot of questions about the organization, how it is,
04:36how's the coaches, how's Zach, you know, all that kind of stuff.
04:38So, I gave him my true answer, and we'll see why he's here.
04:42You guys were teammates in 2019, his rookie year.
04:44Did you see that potential when you were playing with him then?
04:48Oh, yeah.
04:49I've always seen it in him.
04:50The way he just practiced, the way he just carried himself,
04:52the way he watches film, the way he asks questions,
04:54like, you can see why he's so great.
04:57You mentioned.
04:58Go ahead.
04:58You mentioned how he's going to change your game, change everybody.
05:02Is he that true anchor that you can build this entire defense around?
05:07That's the question you should ask.
05:08You tell me.
05:09What do you think?
05:11You asked me.
05:12Yeah, what do you think?
05:13I don't think there are many 6'4", 340.
05:15Exactly, right?
05:16No.
05:17Bro, I'm telling you, he is one of a kind, like, truly one of a kind.
05:21Like I said, he's going to make everybody's job easier.
05:25And if you leave him one-on-one, good luck.
05:27If you double him, good luck.
05:28So, like, restring yourself in the foot, trying to block him.
05:31Good luck.
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