 Now, we're gonna say bye to you, but not before. Listen, you're mentioning all the stuff about Mahomes. A guy who has done really well against the Chiefs is on next, but a guy who's never sacked Patrick. And you cannot tell me that if Patrick isn't 100%, the DJ Reader is gonna get his hands on him and bring him down. I can't wait, right, DJ? Oh yeah, what's up, what's up, man, what's up, dude? How y'all doing? DJ, what's happening, man? Nothing much, man. Nothing much up at the facility, hanging out and getting the lift in. How y'all doing? Hey, doing good, man. I can't wait to see y'all get after once again this weekend, man. I'm excited about it. Y'all boys up there in front, hunt, man. 9192, 94, 98, all y'all boys get after, man. I can't wait to see y'all go to work this weekend. Hey, man, we're gonna get it after it. The guys will always go get it, man. Yes, sir. All right, Darius Butler, we appreciate you. We'll talk to you, and I can't wait for it to see you at Radio Row in a couple of weeks. DJ Reader won't be able to be on Radio Row Super Bowl because he'll be playing in the game and he's gonna stick around and tell you why. Next, don't miss it. Back to throw on second and five. Pumpfakes, now he's gonna launch a deep down field. Oh, excuse me. Really? Defensive tackle DJ Reader graded out as the highest among bangles in their crushing defeat of the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. You know, it was not surprised for me and we're lucky to have him right now joining us in his seventh NFL season. Third with the Cincinnati bangles. The should be all pro defensive tackle of my guy, Grave Digger, aka DJ Reader, hey. What's up, what's up, what's up, Kay? How you doing? DJ, I've had about four coffees here in New York this morning, but I do not need them. I am so excited for this game. You're lit. 100%, show me where you are. Are you at the facility? Yeah, I'm in the facility. I'm in one of our equipment guys in this little office. Sam, it's my guy right here. So he's got a cool little poster behind me. He's got like a little wall of fame door right here. Hopefully I never make that door. It's a couple of X names. So I don't ever want to be on there, but Sam's my guy. So he let me use his arm for the interview. Did you show up at the facility bright in the earliest morning to make sure that all those fans got their refunds yet? Oh, I don't know if they got the refunds, but I was here this morning ready to go, man, because I got another week. So hopefully they can exchange those tickets for something, though. I know they don't get back to processing fees, though. They be holding processing fees. That's on them. That's on them. That's such a good take. I love that. You took care of business against the bills. That's not even like the right thing to say. Y'all killed it, dominated. I was on a plane. I was the poor person next to me had to deal with me. I had champagne. I'm going crazy. Y'all are out there freezing your asses off out there. But everyone talks about offense. This was so defense. I scream Coach Lou's name all the time. I'm always talking about you, but to hold the bills, DJ, to 63 total rushing yards and only 10 points. Then they were running all over everybody all year. How were you guys able to do it? How did you do it? Man, you know, we got the mastermind Lou back there. So he's going to get us in comfortable calls, but it's just really a team effort with us. There's a bunch of guys who will do whatever the cost is every play to get it done, whether that's in the run game and guys on the back ain't got a fit. They going to come and tackle. And when it's in the pass game, we're going to do our job of clogging up the holes of getting pressure while also being decent at our rush lanes and being disciplined. And we know that game going to come sooner or later. But a lot of people just can't be disciplined and Lou, you know, it's something Lou preaches. So I really think that's what it is. Well, I want to talk about Coach Lou, but I don't know how I handle this because we want to give Coach Lou love, but we don't want to give him like too much love. So he leaves us. We don't want our secret to get out there too far, right? Well, hey, I know how you feel. It's, but that's one of those things of progression, man. And, you know, we got to give him all the love because he deserves it. He, I watched him work his ass off this year, not just the field wise, the mental, the he trained every day. Coach Lou and some of the best shape of his life right now. Like he trains, he works hard. And he tapped in with the guys, man. And as a, as a person who plays for him, I can't ask for more out of my D coordinator to really trust in us the way he do. And really, like it's the process he trusts. He don't come over to the sideline. He not yelling at us. He not honest like that. He, he talking us through everything. He a real teacher of the game and then, and being able to study under somebody like that, this is a true blessing for show. DJ, he's doing some special things over there. It's all of you are top five defense, three wins over Patrick Mahomes. Nope, who can say that? Then you hold Josh Allen, like we were just talking about, to their lowest point total the entire season. So many other awesome, prolific, well-paid, big names, guys getting interviews, all this stuff. They've tried, they have tried and failed to contain these top curve backs in these big games. What is it? Give me like one thing that sets Coach Lou and his game plans apart. He got a lot of smart guys. We have a lot of smart guys in our defense and what he trusts us to do the different looks and disguises, I think he's went out there and really hand picked his defense the way he wanted it. And he got, he has exactly what he wants from his defense and he trusts that process. He makes sure we know we learn so much and understand how to get there, how to go about the game and never give up on it. He got the right group of coaches. He got guys who were like, every coach in our defensive staff cares. They presentations throughout the weeks are awesome. Like I take notes and all over the, I never get bored listening to any of them talk about the game because they study it so much. There's a lot of good people in this organization on our side, especially they really help us learn the game. You do a great job with that for sure. There's a lot of DCs or even offensive coordinators that are really good at that. But then when they make the head coaching thing, it doesn't work like they're just, it's okay to be a great defensive coordinator. It's a great to be a great offensive coordinator. How would, cause I like that you're talking about his leadership, how he is with you guys. Cause that's what matters as a head coach. How would coach Lou B as a head coach? I think he'd be awesome, man. You know, I wouldn't say that about a lot of DCs cause it's hard to, for some, the offensive guys to respond to defensive guys. I think Lou does a great job of just talking to players. Whether that be offensive defense, especially anything. I think he could be a great coach of men. So I think he'd be an awesome head coach. The way he lets his team hold leadership, but he holds you to that standard. He's not gonna let you get away with it. He's gonna teach you the right way and you gotta do his techniques, but he doesn't want you to be a robot. So I think that's huge when it comes to understanding coaching and with all players. I think he'd be an awesome head coach. I love to hear it. All right, let's go back to this game really quick. Cause I'm watching and I could not believe that I was hearing these bangles fans in the crowd. It does not happen in Buffalo. And then I could hear it. I know you could hear, but let's make sure everybody doesn't listen to this. Take a listen. It was like, it was crazy. I was like, I'm good. Hold on, there it is. I do think right now, the biggest difference is I heard it. You've got to get the ball out of his hand. You heard it. Talk me through this. What did this do to you? I went out there for the first drive and usually, you know, this silent went off as on the field. I went on the first drive and I can't hear the call from Logan. I'm like, I come out to the sideline after that three and I was like, it's kind of loud out there. And then my boy Josh looked at me and he goes, well, look at all the black jerseys on the black, black, black shirts in the stadium. We lived out here today. And I was like, oh man, it's up. We about to be on them. And then, you know, we went up 14-0 and I was like, you know, we come out of this drive where we want to. We can take it up from here. And we did, man. The guys really, we stayed on it all night. A lot of communication. But having that fan crowd, the way it was, it was so loud out there, Kay. Like it felt like the first playoff game here in the Ravens. As loud as it was usually as we on defense. But it was nowhere near as quiet for the office as it should be. Talk to them. Talk to this Bangles team that's booking flights to Buffalo that's probably come into burrow head. We'll get to that in a minute. Talk to these fans and how they show up for you. How much you need them. I appreciate who they nation, man. We appreciate, y'all keep turning us up because y'all give us life. Y'all give us so much life. And we playing for y'all. We not trying to let the city down, the who they nation down. So we out there playing for y'all. We appreciate y'all support all the way. That's from the heart. Y'all do everything for us. Y'all do us this energy to go out there and play every weekend for sure. We see y'all in the Twitter threads. We see y'all on the Twitter threads. We see y'all everywhere having our back. And we appreciate it. We got y'all back too. Let's talk about these Twitter threads because you are hilarious. But it's not even just you. And I don't even know. Like I don't know who's in charge of these guys y'all tweeting. Nobody has any notes for y'all. There's no class you took. I don't know what's happening here. But let's start with this. Zach Taylor, I thought it was super interesting in his press conference. He talked about how he's gonna scour every inch of the internet looking for motivation for you guys. And I would just like to know from you what has been working? What has been motivating you? Just, I already know who I am as the person, the player, man. But it's just always funny. I read Twitter for comedy. I read Twitter all day. My girl would tell you, I used to dare to scroll through Twitter and just laugh all day. And they're like, because it's the funniest place in the world. You got no time for sensitivity on Twitter. They ain't caring. But I read through it and I find some motivation. I might stick with it for a week. I might hold that little piece of my heart for a week. Because I need it. I need that little extra push. Like I said on the tweet, motivation is already free. But it feels good when you see somebody going out there saying no chance. Like those aren't even takes you should have. Like I, as a person, I've never counted just everybody out. I've never even been that type of person. When I see those type of highlights, I'm like, oh man, that's a perfect one to hold on to right here. That's a good one. That's a good one to hold on to. And you know, it played in my favor. So that's really what it is. I go to see what they say about me sometime. So I'm going to say you're welcome because I handed you that NFL face to Eric Weddle, zero chance to win. You tweeted about it. But we, I think we have the tweet, which I loved seeing because it all makes sense. The motivation is working. I mean, I'm sure the handling of the playoff format also is motivating you guys even though it doesn't even matter anymore. But would you like to thank Eric Weddle right now? What would you like to say to Eric Weddle? Oh man, appreciate. Appreciate the just zero chance, Eric. I just appreciate that. The amazing player, amazing career. You know, you got us in a Super Bowl last year. I love watching you as a kid, especially with the no gloves was crazy to me. But okay, zero chance, bro. You know better than that. Come on man, zero, come on, dawg. We was just back here. What, what you, why would you even say that to us like that? You know those bad takes. You know that's bad locker room talk. You don't even go out like that. You smarter than that. You wouldn't do that as the head coach of your high school. I know that. Oh, oh, I love that. He'll be on our show. I'm very curious to see if he'll come and double down and pick the chiefs, which I would love nothing less. That's okay. He probably will, that's all you know. Listen, people are counting out this team. They did it. A ton of people did it last year. Y'all made it to the Super Bowl. This year, you know, it's a different team, different season. No two years are the same. I get that. Does this squad you have right now, does this squad pass the Super Bowl bound vibe check? Really think about it. Is it a better team than last year? Is there more chemistry? How does it feel compared to last year at this time? I think there's more chemistry in our team and everybody here, a lot of people here were on that Super Bowl run. I think there's more chemistry on our team than just in general, because everybody's more comfortable with what we have going on. So yeah, I think, you know, we do take care of business this weekend and you'll see some pressure on us. But I think it's a special team just because of the group. Everybody's gotten older. Leadership's gotten better. So like you said, there's just more of a bond. The locker room's different. Everybody's in there. You're not coming off that weird COVID year. It's not the first year football. It's expected and it's exciting. And everybody's new year to this fun. It's a fun team. I wish everybody could be in our locker room because people wouldn't talk the way they talk if they were in our locker room and saw us together, saw the guys, saw us at practice all the time, saw how we interact with each other, what we're like on a day to day. We don't get that type of coverage so people don't see that. But if they did see it, I think their opinions about us get a lot different. Do you think you have a better perspective because you spent time with the Texans and you came there now and then they embraced you? I mean, this Bangles team, and I remember when I met you, I said, what is happening? The Bangles don't make moves like this. The Bangles don't bust out the checkbook and wrap their arms around anybody and then you became the highest paid nose tackle at the time. So what is that locker room like? You're saying we never know. What is it like? What makes it unique based on what you had with the Texans? That's awesome. You know, being in Houston, it was a great experience for me and I learned from a lot of great guys, a lot of pros, man. I was blessed to be in a locker room that was kind of similar and especially on a defense side, we just had chemistry. Coming here the first year was the first year was really different for me. And so it was kind of like, oh man, then you kind of get into that next year and you just kind of see a brood. Guys in the locker room spending time, everybody's not rushing to get out of here. We're playing ping pong. And not just some people playing ping pong and you got quarterbacks on there, specialists on there, defense line, office line, everybody's playing cards together. It's not, nothing's divisive about it. You see guys hanging out with each other that you would never think hang out with each other. We're all in groups and cliques and group chats. We talk all the time. So it's just different and it's super competitive. We got a young team. So guys over here, I can beat you in flipping quarters. I can do anything. They're competitive about it all and it all starts from the top. Our quarterback's a dog. He's a dog back there. And so having that on offense with the weapons that he has and the guys and the guys he's able to lead the way they play together. And then what we bring on defense is just a special, just a special teammate. I'm happy to be a part of it. You saying he's a dog and y'all renamed, I don't know who it was. You can tell me who renamed Arrowhead or Burrowhead. I need to know who was it. I don't even know who said that. By that, I don't know who brought that one out. That's funny. All right, that's a good one. Okay, but you run things on the defensive side. What is the defense's relationship with Joe Burrow? You're saying he's a dog. We see that. He is a killer, cold-blooded to every defense. Does he go after you guys? Is he, how we see with you guys at practice? And do you like it? He played cards with us. We play pool. We play ping pong in there. We go in there. We shoot the basketball. We got a seminar. So Joe's always around. And he embraces the defense. He talked to us. We all talk all the time. It's not our locker room. Everybody can see each other. You can sit in our locker room. You can see a guy all the way in the corner. So it's not like you can avoid people. And he's got the first locker to the right when you walk in. So he talks to everybody. He says words you might see. It's so interesting. You might see a scout team guy during camp. Be over there. A guy who's a undrafted agent. Joe got a little chest thing set up in his locker. He might come over there and get beat. I don't see him lose too much in chess. He's super good at chess apparently. They all wasted their struggle with him. So he's really good. So they'll come over there and play with him. And he's just that type of person. He's very open. But he's serious about the work. And he got that attitude and that dog and that confidence in him that you love to see in a person. You're somebody you don't always ride with. Like if he'd leave me anywhere, I'd feel good with Joe Burrow in my corner. Yeah. I want to squeeze in a couple more questions. I want to get a couple in about this game. But since that locker room is so open, I got to ask you, have you heard the name Justin Reed come up this week? Nah, I ain't heard nothing this week. You know, J. Reed, my dog. He had another bad take. Can't get that type of bullshit board material, man. And then no right, not know the names and numbers. But J. Reed, my dog, man, he a great player. So we'll see him this weekend. I'm sure they're excited about this. I'm sure he's excited to see them too. I can't see any fouls from Chase. You've got to go talk to him in that locker. I don't want to see anything between Chase and Reed or whoever. No, no, no. He didn't cool down. Good. So listen, so we don't know about in the homes, right? And I'm sure you guys, I know you guys are preparing like he'll be 100%. But if he isn't, let's say if he's not 100% explain to me, help me understand like what does that mean for you going into this game? Man, don't change our game plan. Our game plan to go back there and get after them and you know, lock them up on the back end. That's the game plan. I hope they get changed as much as what we have going on. He's a dog, man. It can say whatever it's going to say. Patrick Mom's a dog. He's one of the best players in this league. And he going to do whatever he can do to get out there and play. And I think when you get out there, even if he not 100%, it's when I go home, he going to try to make the most plays out of everything. So I don't expect nothing different in R&D. DJ. No matter what. What's up? DJ, you're telling me, if he's not a half step slower, that you aren't going to get your hands on him? Oh, we're going to get after him for sure. That's not changed. That's going to change whether you dare or not. I don't think that that's going to change our game plan. He's amazing. You see some of the stuff, he's still going away with one leg. I seem to go back to him. He had to do a skip on the same leg to hand the ball off the other way. So I mean, is it going to change much of what he got going on? Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying. He's a ball player. He's a ball player. He a gamer. Well, you're a gamer, and I cannot wait to see you. I hopefully, maybe I'll show up at Borough Head this weekend. We don't know who called it that, but it wasn't you, and that's all that matters. We got to go, though. We got to go. We got to go. Our show's over. Our show's over. I'm getting in trouble. They're yelling at my ear. DJ, you're one of my favorites. You know that. We'll see you. I'll see you in Arizona, my friend. All right, OK. I'll see you. Bye.