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00:00Meteoro right here in New Orleans, Super Bowl 59, the Philadelphia Eagles and the
00:03Kansas City Chiefs, Donnie Wrightside and Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, Warren Sapp.
00:08Hey, how's it going, baby? Doing good, man. We got a lot to go over and a lot to talk
00:12about because number one, I think you're the best defensive tackle that we've
00:16ever seen. Do you agree with that? I just like to be in the conversation because
00:20every year I get a grand opportunity to take a picture with Bob Lilly,
00:24Mr. Cowboy, me, Joe Green, and Randy White. There you go. And myself.
00:29That's four of the five and Merlin Olsen is the fifth. There's only five
00:33First Valley Hall of Famers ever. So, just to be in that conversation with Joe
00:38Green, Randy White, Bob Lilly, Mr. Cowboy, and Little House on the Prairie or Father
00:44Murphy. We know him from a show. Not playing, but if you ever
00:50watch him play, he was a monster. 14-time All-Pro. I mean, pro bowler. So, I mean,
00:55monster. I just want, I just like being in a conversation and then Aaron Donald's
00:58gonna join us and be the sixth. So, we got the new, the old, everything you want.
01:03Look, we talk about the old-school defensive tackle is fantastic, but for
01:06you, being a defensive tackle, able to absolutely wreck the pocket and be one of the
01:11best sackers, how did you do that? I made it sexy. Like, how did you do it, though? Yeah. I made it sexy. I used to hang out with
01:16Derrick Brooks and Lynch and, you know, Lawrence Taylor, you know, and all these guys that's on the end. Reggie White, Bruce Smith,
01:23they're my guys. It was just me and Johnny inside. Me and Johnny Randall. So, Johnny was up there
01:29spinning, doing his worldly, derby thing up there on that carpet. I had to get down and
01:32dirty with it, so I was playing chicken with a semi, you know. Hey, man. The big bears dancing, I like it. Now, the way you got to the NFL, I want to talk about high
01:42school. Did you know? No. I know you were a tight end in high school. Is that true? I'll show you a picture of me. I'm 225 pounds with a high top fade. Yeah. I ate a
01:51fourth grader on my way to Miami. Stood on a scale. I was 270. I'm like, where did this come from? Yeah. And then they put me on a 3,000 calorie a day diet. Beef it up. And I went from, no, 3,000
02:03calories a day. Oh, so you were slimming. I'm trying to get back to tight end. Wow. I go from 270 to 300. Yeah. It was just a
02:12natural progression, so. Yeah. I just went and played. When you went to Miami, recruited as a tight end? Yeah. How did they put that hand in the dirt? What'd they say to you? Bob
02:20Carmelowitz and the great Ed Ogeron from right here in New Orleans. Correct. Looked me in the face and said, son, what Bob Carmelowitz, God bless his soul, told me, I've seen
02:28Jerome, Cortez, and Russell. You can be better than all three of them. I said, come on, man. Don't blow smoke up my butt. Yeah. He said, son, you play every position on our scout
02:36team against the number one defense in America, and we have trouble stopping you. I need to put you on that defense, and you turn into the monster that I need. And I'm like, ah. Then I went and tried it.
02:46And they fooled me. Yeah. They only put me in pass rush drills. And none of the starters or any of the guys that were going to play would ever give me a rep. So I'm beating guys that would never play in the NFL. But I didn't know it at the time. Yeah. True. When doing them, I'm building my confidence in all hell. You know how that is.
03:02Warren, we talk about great defenses, and obviously being a great defense attacker yourself at Miami on great defenses, with Tampa Bay on great defenses. What's the fundamental of a great defense? What's the mindset?
03:1111. It requires all 11. Yeah. Because no man is insignificant in this defense. Yeah. No man is insignificant in our fit, how we rally to the ball, how we perform, how we pursue. It's got to be a mentality that you all live by. It's a pack of wild dogs. Yeah. And if it's a pack of wolves, the long wolf will die, right? Yeah. It's that pack. You got to live for that pack. And I truly believe the front and the back end must work together. Yeah, absolutely.
03:38Either you got pressure on the quarterback or you got great coverage. And then if you ain't got great coverage, you got pressure on the quarterback. If you ain't got pressure on the quarterback, you're covering on the back end and getting the coverage sack. Absolutely. That's the thing. And then your linebackers must communicate and be the blood that runs through the defense. And that's what I've been very, very fortunate. I raised Ray Lewis and I had Derek Brooks. Yeah. Just great football players all the way through. The horrible linebackers to be around, right? Yeah, exactly. Teaching them the whole ropes here.
04:02No, I was learning from them because they were such attention to detail because the motion meant something to them. Yeah. I lived in a world where lineman didn't lie. True. If it was a snap of the ball and it was a scoop block, he scooped. Yeah. He reached, he double teamed, he pulled. There's no lying in the trenches. So I was taking off and they were reading. So it was a brilliant combination.
04:22Warren, when you came through Miami, it was obviously NFLU at that time. So you had that pedigree coming through. When you finally got to the NFL, what was your mindset when you got there? I'm here, I'm ready? Or was it still in that learning curve? No, no, no, no, no. No alpha dog right away? You running the men like Chris Hinton. Yeah. Who was in the trade for John Elway. Correct. In 1983. You're right about that. 1983. Yeah. I'm 10 years old. True.
04:48So I don't know who Chris Hinton is, but I know who Randall McDaniel is. Yeah. So now you got to choose between Randall McDaniel and Chris Hinton. Yeah. Who would you choose? Chris Hinton because you don't know who Chris Hinton is. Exactly. So I go over to Chris Hinton. He's 30 something years old right at the end of his career. I said, I'm going to run up this old man numbers.
05:05So he grabbed me, head butted me, don't come over here with that bull rush stuff today. I mean, he whacked me three times with his helmet after he stopped me with his hand and I'm dizzy. I said, I'm going to go over here with Randall. At least he ain't going to talk crazy to me. So when I got my game together the next year with Marinelli, I went to looking through rosters for Chris Hinton. I couldn't find him. He retired.
05:34Now, I said before we had a little bit of beef here. Why did you do this to me? Now, I'm going to give you the date. It was early 2003 in January. Veteran Stadium. Cold weather day. They were 19. Me? I'm sitting. They were 19? Yeah, I believe it was. You know what? I'm sitting in the 700 level. A friend of mine. Yeah. I was speaking to him about the Eagles coming to the Super Bowl again. And I'm like, if the Commanders beat y'all in this championship game.
06:04Will that be one of the worst loss in Philly history? He said, no, Tampa's the worst loss ever. I'm telling you, you might have ruined my life that day. We were going to the Super Bowl and you came in and stole it. You and Simeon Wright stole it. No, no. I almost wore my Rondé Barber hat. Oh, come on, man. I had Rondé. I still see him right now. Still running. Still running. Still running. Still running. No, my friends say Rondé's still running. Jerevich's is still running.
06:30You gotta love Philly fans. Y'all are the best. Y'all. Because I should have been there. Yeah. I should have been there. Yeah. But Mike Mammoula. I love Mike Mammoula. That's my guy. Got him on speed dial. I'm telling you. I'm telling you we wanted you in town. And then the next year you come back when we open the link. Now, you took it as disrespect. I know. Shut up. Shut up. And you were right. Shut up. You were supposed to get the home game. You beat us down in the game number one. Trust me. You were menacing me my whole life. Trust me. And my first game ever was the for who for what game with Ricky Waters. Ricky Waters. That was you. 21-6. Man, you are so enraged. That's my first game ever in NFL history. That's my first game ever in NFL history. That's my first game ever in NFL history. That's my first game ever
07:00at the vet, right? Yeah. Absolutely. Look at that. The for who for what game. Yeah. So we go. Oh, we go all the way back. You were breaking the backs of Philadelphia Eagles for a long time. Now, granted, we got you a couple years in the playoffs. No, no. Y'all broke my back. Yeah. Because I had to sit there for another hour and 45 minutes while we went pick 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. It's a lot of you looking at the paycheck like that. Some less money, less money, less money. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It was never my money to get. Yeah. You can't, you can't lose money that was never yours. That's true. And each team has a different, you know. Yeah. Thing they needed. Yeah. I think, well, Denny Green's dead now. God bless his soul. But
07:30I know Minnesota fans feel worse than y'all. I bet they do, man. By the way, one of the legendary
07:36players. But let's get through to what you're doing now. Oh, yeah. Because now you're in that
07:39next step of life where you can teach the youngsters how to get after. You're with Colorado.
07:44The experience there so far for you. Unbelievable. Yeah. Life-changing. Everything I could even think
07:51of and more. Yeah. I never thought I'd want to coach. Yeah. But the young. What made you want
07:57to get into the coaching? The young man infected me. Yeah. I went to go see Deion. Just visited him.
08:01And I had a hip. My hip was bothering me. And I went down to the training room and I was in the
08:04pool. Yeah. Deion tells his story so vividly because I really wasn't thinking about it. But
08:09all of a sudden I had almost a whole D-line on top of me asking me questions and they were just
08:14sucking it up. I mean, boom, boom. And I was like, yeah, yeah, I want this. Because I want to ask you
08:21something about that too because so many great players try to be coaches or try to level up and
08:26you just figure you are so good that you're teaching your technique to those kids that can't
08:30pick it up. Do you get frustrated at times or are you just like, you know what, I'm just gonna have
08:34to get through them one way or another? No, no, no. I got a perfect example. One of my kids there,
08:38I won't say his name, but he'll know it and I'll tell the story. He likes different pass rush moves
08:43and I'm like, listen, son, I got 102 and a half. They're all in the grave and not one of them with
08:47that move. Yeah. Not one of them with that move. So we going for a good month and a half, six weeks.
08:53I looked at him and I saw him. He looked uncomfortable in his stance and I pulled him
08:58over to the side. I said, what's my rule? He said, get comfortable. He said, but I can't
09:03get comfortable when I can't do my thing. Yeah. I said, you know what? My bad. It's your plate.
09:09Yeah. It better work. Yep. It better work. Yeah. It better. And off he went. I hear you on that.
09:16I said, you know what? Sometimes it ain't for him. And you can't cookie cut them. That's what
09:23he taught me. You can't cookie cut them. This is a nice of cookable dough. Some I'm going to make
09:31little patties. Some I'm going to make big cakes. Some I'm going to make cupcakes, but they're all
09:35delicious when you do it right. That's like, I love that. I love it. So you, Dion, hit it right
09:41away. Hit it off. Going to be back next year. Everything good to go? Listen, boss told me
09:44wherever he going, I'm at now. We all know we, we, we, we, we love where we're at. We love
09:50what we've, you know, the foundation we built. Now it's time to put the pillars up. Yeah.
09:55Absolutely. Now also we talked coaching Miami hurricanes, world champion, Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
10:01but you're promoting some pretty cool golf tournament there. Tell us a little bit about
10:04that. The James Hardy going to put a hall of famous together and we're going to go out there
10:08and for everybody that donated money for Habitat for Humanity. So we need the good golfers. Oh,
10:13no, we got some good golfers. Now we're going to be able to get some birdies. We're going to make
10:16sure they give up all a hundred thousand, a hundred thousand of this money for the charity,
10:20because that's what it's about. It's the charity and James Hardy being who they are with the
10:25fabricating and the brand they do. It's just a natural hand in hand. We come together, put the
10:29golf tournament together. People get what they need. And James Hardy coming in and put that
10:33sighting in there because it's the number one brand. Absolutely love it. That's Warren Sapp,
10:36NFL. Great Miami. Great all time. Great life. Great Warren Sapp right there. My guy. Thanks
10:41for joining us today. Philly fans are the best.