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Broke off two sacks.

You know, I thought he was going to throw it after that.

But then, you know, Baker Magic kicked in.

Welcome back to the Richard Sherman podcast.

We got an incredible guest.

A good friend of mine, Levante, David, the veteran, never gets enough credit. How are you? I'm good, bro. Thank you for having as always, man. Good talking to you. Good talking to you, too. You're having another great season. You got 57 tackles, two and a half sacks in a book. How are your body feeling? Body feeling good, man, getting them back on track, you know, especially having this all week, off week, this past week during the middle of the season.

Perfect timing, man, you know, get a chance to kind of like unwind, get away from football a little bit, work on a little small thing as far as like body and getting some much needed rest for sure.

You know, the guy of my age, I need it off.

But definitely felt good, man. I my age, I need it off.

But definitely felt good, man.

I'm ready to get back to it.

You are one of the few players with 1,500 tackles, 35 plus sacks, and 10 plus interceptions.

How do you balance your run duty and all the responsibilities you have with that with your ability and coverage?

Man, it's a lot that goes into it.

You know, obviously, film study is the main thing and understanding your opponent.

And then understanding what you can do within the defense, you know what I'm saying,

understanding when you can be aggressive, understand when you can't be aggressive,

understanding when you can not kind of like jump routes and stuff like that, understanding when you can't jump routes and understanding who you're working with. You know, you got some guys and, you know, our back end who I'm pretty confident in. So they do give me an opportunity to be aggressive in coverage and also in the run game. You got a guy like Vita Vail, you know, who, you know, takes up multiple blocks and things like that, give you a chance to, you know, kind of run freely and shoot gaps. So definitely a chance, you know, times where you have to, you know, pull your trigger and then sometimes you have to hold back a little bit. But, you know what I'm saying? Never take that aggressiveness, aggressiveness away, you know, out your game. That's what I try to do. I want to talk about your relationship with Todd Bowles.

Yeah. Because I think that's one of the cooler relationships in the National Football League, at least when I was there for a little bit of, you know, a cup of coffee I was in Tampa. An incredibly smart coordinator, but just a good human being and a good leader of men. Yeah. Yeah, man. It's incredible. You know, usually out of chance to see what a lot of people don't see. You know, everybody always, you know, see him as this mild-mannered guy who don't, you know, get on people who just be quiet and everything, but it's the complete opposite.

You know what I'm saying?

When you got a divot's in mind the head coach sometimes and the divot is not working the way he ruins it, you would definitely see a different side of him. And we've seen it. We've seen it. I've seen it. You know what I'm saying? But he's one of those guys who's very open, man. Very open. jokes a lot I always happy to

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